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11 May 2012 - 7:48am
Blessings of Joy and Peace Within
In this very intense time of solar flares, sunspots, big shifts and rearrangement of our molecules I have put below
some information on the RA and Suns. As well as the upcoming May 20/21st Eclipse.
The RA Light through the solar rays that are intensifying right now with sunspot and solar flares is not something
destructive or to be feared. It is transformation of consciousness as the light of Source filters to us in the denser
dimensions through the Greater Central Sun, Central Sun, Second Sun, Sun to us and the Sun in our Heart,
Solar Self, Divine Essence, one with the Source of all as the Solar Rays illuminate through us and into the
Sun in the Inner Earth.
The Inner Earth Sun changed frequency completely when the Universal Underworld opened March 9th 2011
and the Sun in our Solar Systems frequency totally changed at the end of the Universal Underworld October 28th.
At the next days sunrise the suns frequencies were so much higher frequency and now the light from the Sun is
sending us light codes to assist us to be liberated from the illusion. Awakened to our divine form and being our
Light Body fully integrated with our physical body as the Suns align in the heavens and within each of us.
It is the time to be aware of the subtleties of light illumination, the divinity within your cells and doorway of your heart.
The whole matrix of Light is changing as the Inner Sun within the Sun connects deeper into your own inner Sun within.
The Source within, the divine spark that glows brighter to be the Sun of yourself, holder of the Living Library of Light ,
aligned through the Sun within you and the Sun in the Inner Earth, the outer Suns that are now merging cycles and
aligning through you. As the solar rays illuminate all on Earth, the layers of integration have been anchored from the
stars to the inner earth sun and now as you open your heart from the love within that you are the sun that you are
shines brightly.
For those still in the duality dance it will intensify until all aspects of self, dark and light are embraced with Love and
Acceptance, as the Suns ray shine on everything still hidden.
Please see www.evenstarcreations.com for information on the Suns under RA as well as mandalas of the Suns
under MANDALAS and HANDBOOK OF RA
We have some interesting cosmic events coming up please see CURRENT COSMIC EVENTS for May, June and July.
If you are drawn to coming the magical realms of Fiordland and Mt Cook New Zealand for the December Solstice at
Mt Titiroa, the new crown chakra of the New Earth. 21. 12. 2012 AT PLACE OF FIRST LIGHT AND NEW EARTH
its important to get organised on 3d as soon as possible.
I am off to USA to take workshops at the Eclipse Synopsis http://pyramideclipse.com/ at Lake Pyramid, Nevada on
the route of the eclipse path and be in Mexico with a group I have organised for the next eclipse, Venus Transit and
Solstice and send you love and blessings for a joyful transformation and unification over this amazing time as we
illuminate from within more fully than ever. I will see you on the inner planes.
On the physical plane I will not be able to check my emails so often from 15th May until July 8th so apologies
if you write and do not get a reply for a few days.
My online shop is still happening for my books and activation art.
See you in the dancing light of our hearts delight, shinning diamond bright…
In the One Heart Love Soluntra
Soluntra King
www.evenstarcreations.com
Blog entry
7 May 2012 - 1:29pm
Some people may wonder whether it is possible when I tell them that I have been traveling to and living in parallel universes for a couple of years now. The fact of the matter is that many people have experienced crossing over into parallel worlds temporarily. It is NOT at all uncommon for this to take place. In fact, it could happen to anyone at anytime. However, most people do not even notice when this phenomenon does happen, as we are often too busy with our hectic lives to notice the small details that often differentiate one parallel universe from another.
When people do cross over into a parallel universe, they often do so for a short period of time such as minutes or hours, and then they return to their original universe. On rarer occasions, however, some people travel to parallel universes for extended stays such as days, weeks, months, or even longer. The phenomenon of traveling to parallel universes for extended stays seems to be becoming more and more common, however, as I seem to miraculously cross paths with those who have had the same experiences that I have had, and I am hearing more and more stories about others who have experienced this phenomenon as well.
On January 21, 2012 an incident happened to me that may help others to understand some of the things that I deal with on a continual basis as a result of traveling to and living in parallel universes. Every month, I make sure to pick up a copy of a local magazine focused on Metaphysics and spirituality that is distributed throughout my hometown. While browsing through the December 2011 and January 2012 issues, I noticed an advertisement that a healer had placed in both editions of the magazine. I was interested in getting some energy healing done, and I wanted to try to change some parts of my soul contract. So, I attempted to contact the healer at the email address and on the website that she provided in her advertisement in the magazines. However, my email message failed to go through. I got an error message saying that no such email address exists. When I tried to visit her website, I got the same message that the website does not exist. I was a bit confused and a bit frustrated as to why she placed an ad in this month's and last month's issue of the magazine mentioning an inoperable website and email address. Thankfully, she also provided her phone number in the ad. So, I called her and spoke with her. I told her that I was responding to her ad in the magazine. Right after I told her that, there was a long silence in which she did not say a word. In fact, the silence was so long that I was wondering whether she was still on the phone with me or whether the call had dropped. She finally spoke but did not respond at all to my mention of her website. This did not surprise me at all. This type of scenario actually happens quite often when I travel to parallel worlds. All of the knowledge is not always shared from one universe to another. So, as a result of this, I have experienced periods of silence in which either information is uploaded to people from a previous universe that I have been in to the current universe that I am in, or there is a silence, and information is blocked so that the person I am communicating with does not hear what I have said. I have learned on more than one occasion that divine intervention indeed does take place in these situations in order to keep us on track. After we talked for a few minutes, she told me that I could pay her by sending her a check via mail to her mailing address. I asked her if she had a Paypal account, but what she told me after that totally shocked me. She told me that she did not have a Paypal account and that she did not have a website yet. She said that she was going to get her son to help her to create a website so that she could advertise her services. So, there I was talking on the phone with this lady as I was holding two editions of a local magazine in my hands with her advertisement in them with her website address right there on the ads, but yet, she was telling me that she did not have a website yet. Since she started speaking immediately after that, I got distracted and did not mention her website. However, after hanging up the phone, I remembered that I did cross over into a parallel universe at approximately 1:40 A.M. On January 1st, 2012 (New Year's Eve), and I crossed over to yet another parallel universe on another day in January. It appears that the magazines that I now have in my possession are not from the universe that I am currently residing in. They accompanied me as I was traveling from the two previous universes that I was residing in to the universe that I am currently residing in. In the two previous universes that I was residing in, the healer had already created a website and had an operable email address and had placed an ad in the spirituality/Metaphysics magazine mentioning her email address and website address. However, in our current universe, she has neither a website nor an operable email address.
Copyright 2012, by Trish LeSage, http://www.beyond3dbooks.com/blog (the website that this material came from)
Blog entry
6 May 2012 - 1:20pm
Here's a link to an interesting article and video about how science is now proving that alternate realities (parallel worlds/parallel universes) really do exist: http://cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/living-in-parallel-quantum-worlds/
Blog entry
4 May 2012 - 9:28pm
On Saturday, May 5, 2012 The Full Moon occurs at 11:35 p.m. EDT. This is the closest Full Moon for the year. At perigee, its closest approach to the Earth, the Moon will be 221,802 miles from the earth. This is about 17,000 miles closer than average. When the Full Moon is near perigee, tides are more extreme. Watch for very high and very low tides this weekend.
Now, if you are a person who studies the effect of the tides on earthquakes, watch this weekend closely for more activity then usual. During the month of the last Super Moon in 2011 the huge Japanese earthquake and Tsunami occurred. I am not predicting another large earthquake, but would not be surprised at all if we have a huge one somewhere.
I also noticed this morning, by looking at one of my astronomy programs that the Sun and Jupiter seem to be in alignment.
Both Jupiter and Mercury are somewhat in close alignment to the Sun. Within the next month Jupiter will slip behind the sun, this will tend to "mess-up" the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun.
The Sun, and Jupiter are all referred to as "Fire" Planets. My first impression upon seeing this is that we can expect some intense "anger" issues with people and countries during this time.
Mercury is an air planet. What happens when a fire starts and air is blown on it? It spreads.
Living in New Mexico we experience many wildfires that get out of control when they are fanned by strong winds. It is a condition that firefighters dread each year.
So, what does this mean for you? Anyone that you have "issues" with could become a real problem in the next few days. I suggest a time of, as much as possible, staying away from and not having contact with them.
Don't be surprised if an unstable friend or family member "lashes" out at you, seemingly out of the blue.
This would be a good time to practice a peaceful and serene state of mind. Do not do anything or say anything that would serve to "set" them off. It takes two to fight and if we refuse to do so, the air doesn't fan the flames of anger.
Again, I am not making a prediction, but just stating some feelings I have around these next day or so.
Remember, that this alignment affects countries as well as individuals. This is a very opportune time for a war to break out suddenly. Mercury seems to make people more emotional then usual. Therefore, anything could and might happen.
When I think of a perfect alignment for emotions to be out of control, and anger to be at a fever pitch, the next few days would be that alignment.
I believe that looking at signs in the skies is often a silent predictor of what we need to be aware of and watch closely.
After all, the "Wisemen,"in the bible, observed the "stars" in the skies and it is said that is how they found Christ.
Be vigilant, look around you. This could be a time when someone who is weak-minded could lose it and start violent behavior in public.
Like I said, this is not a prediction, but a subtle reminder to be more aware of your environment then you might normally be.
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4 May 2012 - 1:48am
Dear Friends,
Full Moon is Saturday May 5, at 9:35 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a super moon, the largest moon of the year and very powerful. Harness the power for some commitment or bid for power that you are working with right now. We remind you here that you do not need to KNOW all the steps and all the details of how it will all turn out. In fact it is best if you give the "how" of it over to spirit . Having the right intellectual information before embarking on a bid for power and a commitment to it is not essential. In fact it will often get in the way and hold you back from just going for it. Stretch yourself this full moon. Get outside your comfort zone and commit to something you never thought you could do. Just make sure it is something you want. We also recommend doing something that honors some kind of shift in your point of reference. As the earth goes though major changes, all points of reference must change as well. This full moon provides an opportunity to embrace the new in a very positive way.
Blessings,
Lena
In honor of our new website and in response to your requests we are offering a new product, an audio recording available by mp3 only: Monthly Support: A Shamanic Healing for May 2012, by Anna Stevens. This recording includes a short visualization followed by a couple of Icaros or Medicine songs designed to help you navigate and make the most of this month. $3.99 (link here).
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Full Moon: Sun in Taurus; Moon in Scorpio 21º
Saturday, May 5, 9:36 PM MDT
We’re unlikely to miss the presence of the beautiful Scorpio Full Moon this month considering it’s the largest moon of the year. When the Moon is at perigee (closest to the Earth) at moonrise and moonset, it looks HUGE! We’ve just passed Beltane, May Day, the midpoint between Spring and Summer, and it’s the Wesak Moon when many celebrate the life of the Buddha. The Moon reaches its fullest point in Scorpio this month, the fixed, water sign of feminine power. The Taurus/Scorpio axis calls up our attachment to our security, comfort, appetites and endless seeking of material possessions and invites us to step over all that stagnate energy and dive deep into psychological motives and the mysteries of life where we see exactly what needs to be transformed. Taurus shows us how to know our own self-worth and value before we engage in the transformative intimacy and union that Scorpio desires and is so capable of. Transformation is the realm of Scorpio, Pluto-its ruler, and the 8th house. These energies are penetrating, probing, mysterious and intense. When we are willing to face our fears, the unknown, a dying and letting go, the result is a rebirth, transformation and an increase in our personal power. Not for the wimpy or whiny. Many avoid it like the plague. If you have ever experienced a significant Pluto transit in your natal birth chart, you know it’s change or be changed. Growth and evolution are the result. Watch for suspicion, obsession, vengeful thinking, resentment, deception – wrong path.
With ruling planet, Pluto, trine to Sun and Ceres in Taurus, asteroid ruler of the Great Mother and Nourisher, we are transforming our relationship to our mother planet and how we source food and resources from Gaia. Jupiter also moving through Taurus closely with the Sun is reminding me how far we have come in the local, sustainable, organic food movement since the last time Jupiter moved through Taurus in 2000 and how fundamental that is for our revisioning our culture.
For another few weeks, we continue with the pattern we have been holding the entire Spring which is a Grand Cross or Square consisting of the North and South Nodes opposite each other, crossed by the opposition of Mars and Neptune (joined by Chiron). Juno, asteroid ruling committed, meaningful, equal relationship is conjunct the North Node – the point that stretches us to grow in ways that furthers our maturity on all levels. The work here is to clear the way for equal partnership and relationship, for healing the experiences of the past and letting all that go, so we can move on to the next collective lessons. The Age of Pisces and its collective drama of patriarchal domination are over. Neptune in Pisces for the next 14 years will help us move to compassion for those events. Our collective Inner Warrior represented by Mars is now invited into the sacred temple space held by Neptune and Chiron to heal, regenerate and remember his true role as protector and guide.
Something that a Grand Cross makes one aware of is the lock in and resistance that can occur when parts of our selves go for the Taurus-like activity of resisting all change and attempting to preserve what has gone before. Scorpio, the polar opposite of Taurus is intrinsic to the polarity and transformation WILL happen – either gradually and consciously or catastrophically with big consequences. Form two lines, please.
Venus, as ruler of the Sun sign Taurus, is center stage with her upcoming, once every hundred year, Transit of Venus across the Sun on June 5th. She enters her retrograde phase May 15 to June 27. At the time of the Transit, she also begins a new eight-year synodic cycle. Imagine yourself entering spiritual retreat with time to contemplate what you value, the clear truth of your relationships, rekindling that which fuels your deep inner glow and true beauty of your feminine expression. Because Venus will have all the fire of the Sun behind her beaming her essence toward Earth as she stands in rare, but cyclical sacred alignment with the Earth and Sun, the essence of the Divine Feminine, our intuitive awareness, and our willingness to follow the path with heart will be strengthened on the planet and in all who open their hearts.
If you desire to explore the spectacular sacred geometry of this Transit of Venus and the pentagram that it describes in the heavens, I highly recommend the website and amazing animated graphics of Nick Anthony Fiorenza at: http://www.lunarplanner.com/HCpages/Venus.html
05/20 Sun enters Gemini 9:15 AM MDT/New Moon 5:47 PM MDT/Annular Solar Eclipse 0º Gemini conjunct Pleiades star system 5:54 PM MDT
06/04 Full Moon in Sagittarius 5:12 AM MDT/SuperMoon/Lunar eclipse
06/05 Transit of Venus, 2nd of pair (1st transit June, 2004)
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2 May 2012 - 11:03pm
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The theme for May is COMMITMENT.
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What is commitment?
Commitment is removing the back door, the escape route and the words “if”, “maybe” and “when” from your vocabulary. Commitment is moving into your future with no turning back and no escape hatch. Commitment is eliminating the worry and anxiety that comes with ambivalence, doubt, consideration and “too many thinking”. Commitment is a natural segway of any bid for power. A bid for power without a proper commitment to launch it is not a serious bid for power.
If your bid for power is to stop smoking, you can’t qualify it with “if I find the right program” or “when I get more of a handle on my life” or “maybe next week”. No, if you want to stop smoking you stop right now. You make a commitment that goes along with your bid for power. Once you commit 100 percent, then the program or other support will show up and you will begin to get a handle on your life.
It is the same thing for relationships or work or health. If your bid for power is to make a change in the direction that is better for you, then do it now without procrastination and without the ability to sneak out if it does not work. Most of the reason for something not working out is your lack of true commitment to it. All of you have made some bid for power last month whether you are aware of it or not. This is the month where you either commit to it or choose a new one that you can commit to.
There are two types of Commitment: Commitment that is unconscious and manifested by your actions rather than what you verbally intend, and commitment that is consciously and deliberately planned for and chosen. The unconscious commitment is the one you may not be aware of but everyone else is by your actions around it.
A good example is someone who complains and complains about the nature of their relationship because it is not a good fit, and says they want something else, but ends up staying in the same relationship “until something better comes along”. This is not a serious bid for power for a new relationship and certainly not the way spirit works. This example is showing an action that the universe reads as a commitment and therefore will not provide another “better relationship” to take its place while the action shows a commitment to the current one. So this person may think they are bidding to change their circumstance but as long as they stay in the current relationship they are not serious about the change. If you are truly committed to changing your relationship dynamics you must show you are serious by becoming conscious about the ways you are showing commitment to the things you say you do not want.
Another example may be the person who says, I am on a diet, I intend to lose weight and really should not eat this piece of cake and then proceeds to eat it anyway. Are they serious about their bid for power to lose weight? Where is the commitment? Another example is the bid for power to have more fun and make more time for self. However if the person continues adding things that are not fun to their plate, they are showing by their actions that they are not truly committed to their intention and guess what, spirit will always give you more of what you are putting your energy into. This person may likely say, “I will make time when things slow down.” This is not good enough for spirit, as it is a conditional commitment and shows through action that the real commitment is something different than the spoken intention.
True commitment is unconditional, something we are not used to having or working with. Conditions create the “ifs”, “whens”, and “maybes” in our vocabulary. Placing conditions on your bid for power waters down the commitment to it and is like putting only your big toe in the water when you really intended to take a swim. Hesitancy, doubt, confusion, ambivalence, worry, anxiety, fear and mistrust, all take their toll on your ability to commit to something cleanly and clearly.
There are other ways that unconscious commitment manifests itself. If you get pregnant and decide you are keeping the child, you are committing to the relationship of being a parent. How many parents have there been that have never really consciously committed to this huge bid for power? And how many interesting and karmic issues are being dealt with and untangled because of it.
We could also say that just by being born you have committed to being on this planet, which is in itself a bid for power. Many of you out there are still a bit ambivalent about that one, and until you truly commit to being here, spirit will not support you in the most powerful way. You could say it was not your choice to be here, your parents decided it for you and so on… That is giving your power away and allowing Martyrdom to rule. The Martyrdom we have plaguing us this year is actually providing us with an opportunity to eliminate the inner victim by taking responsibility for our lives and our bids for power, and committing to what we want through our actions as adults. We also need to stop blaming others for things that don’t work out.
Look at your life and see if you can identify the commitments you find yourself in due to either taking action or not taking action. If you can’t in good conscience choose them as conscious commitments you have work to do. It is OK to eliminate or change the bids for power they represent as long as you communicate this clearly and are 100 percent committed to your withdrawing. If however you identify a commitment you were unconscious about but really want to keep then consciously commit to it 100 percent and you will see a big difference in how spirit begins to support your decision and that bid for power. Remember you do not have to know all the details of how things will manifest or what steps will show up. Your commitment is enough.
Communication is a big issue and the lack of it tends to keep things very messy especially in relationships. If you are in any relationship where you know there are assumptions from the other person that you are not willing to agree or commit to, but they remain unspoken, it is time to bring them to the surface and tell the truth. It is usually fear of being alone or disappointing the other that keeps this messy unspoken situation going on for far too long. This is the month of growing up and becoming an adult, telling the truth and taking your bids for power very seriously. Relationships are the point of growth for most people, be it relationship with self, with a partner, family member, or work colleague, therefore most bids for power and most commitments will involve at least one relationship. Don’t be afraid to communicate your bid for power and your commitment. If you are secretive and unwilling to share, it means you have doubts. If you have doubts you are not 100 percent committed. Either work those doubts out and commit, or make a change or adjustment to your bid.
People have different styles of communication. Depending on your style, you may have an easier or a more difficult time. Those who have the intellectual trap may find it more difficult to commit without conditions and reservations. Those who are emotionally centered have an easier time with the emotional clarity that true bids for power need to be authentic. Whatever your style, communication should be addressed this month as a way to clean up messy commitments.
Consciously chosen commitments are different in that they follow consciously chosen bids for power and are thought about and planned for. If your bid for power is about getting a better job or a bigger house then your commitment would be to do whatever it takes to accomplish that. You commit to leaving your current position or home in order to move into a better situation. You don’t say ” I will move if and when and maybe”, you decide for certain that you will be making the change and then give the timing over to spirit. Giving timing over to spirit is not being ambivalent it is simply being flexible while still being 100% committed to the end result.
We have many rituals that provide structures for conscious commitment. Marriage, many kinds of contracts from loans to jobs, putting things in writing, study courses and diplomas, initiations into religions, etc. If you enter into a commitment of this kind through one of these rituals, take it seriously and enter into it for yourself, not for someone else. If you find yourself needing to break the commitment for any reason (divorce, bankruptcy, foreclosure, repossession, layoff or quitting a job, dropping out of a program) do it consciously and take full responsibility. Do a ritual around the closure and the ending. If you don’t, you will leave many loose ends that continue to bleed your energy and get in the way for a new bid for power and a new commitment.
With a conscious commitment it is also imperative to be consistent. Be certain and unconditional and communicate that to others. Others will only try and talk you out of a commitment if they feel there is an opening of doubt, confusion, uncertainty, fear or numerous conditions attached to your bid. Spirit recognizes the certainty behind your bid for power through the commitment behind it. Make sure your commitment is also possible for you physically. It is not advisable to commit to 5 hours per day at the gym in order to lose weight and get into shape when you have a full time job and other commitments and don’t have 5 hours per day to spare. So be reasonable and take baby steps if you have to. Don’t set yourself up for failure so you can be a martyr about it. Be practical, be certain, be committed.
What are the fears that keep people from committing to what they really want?
Fear of success or fear of failure.
People usually fall into one of these two categories and it is one of the reasons behind procrastination. If you are successful then you can no longer hide behind the identity of someone who can’t get it together and needs help and care from others. You may actually have to be responsible for yourself, your success and have no more excuses for not living your life to the fullest. If you are one of these people, you may have some residual fears from other lifetimes in which perhaps you abused the power that came with success, or you lost it all or you became a person greatly resented because of it.
The fear of failure can also show up as procrastination but it has its roots in self–deprecation, lack of confidence and low self esteem. These people have trouble even getting their thoughts around what they want off the ground. They are always looking to others for permission. If you are one of these people it is best for you to start with baby steps, small bids for power that you can commit to, and to stop comparing yourself to others.
Fear of entrapment and losing ones freedom.
These fears are usually connected with those that have greed and are terrified that they will miss out on something better if they commit to what is in front of them. These people are constantly searching and never satisfied. Self-destruction also plays into these fears as the illusion of ultimate freedom. Bids for power with these obstacles running the show are based on a false sense of power and mostly reactive rather than proactive. Any commitment possible behind these bids is tarnished by the ego and false personality and usually unsuccessful in the long run as it is not based in truth. If you are one of these people it is important that your bid for power and commitment has to do with something that truly has value for you internally and emotionally, and gives meaning to your life. Look to your relationships and to that which supports you unconditionally.
Fear of losing control.
This fear is mostly based on stubbornness and the fear of change. This especially comes up for people who find themselves swept up in someone else’s bid for power where they end up as the focus for the commitment. For example if a boss makes a bid for power for the business that requires everyone to make a change and you value your job, you have a choice; get with the program or leave. If you choose to stay, do it consciously and bid for the change and commit to it. If you don’t, your resentment and denial will limit you to the opportunities to grow and expand in the new configuration. If you are one of these people, always consciously choose what is already in front of you. That way it becomes your conscious commitment and bid for power.
The challenges this month:
Martyrdom, stubbornness, self deprecation, impatience, hesitancy, doubt, confusion, ambivalence, worry, anxiety, despair, fear and mistrust.
The opportunities this month:
Commitment, certainty, clarity, expansion, abundance, movement, manifestation, direction, support, insight and fulfillment.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
This is a big month for self reflection and truth telling. What are you committing to unconsciously? Is it what you want? Tell the truth. There is tremendous personal growth possible this month as it supports growing up and taking personal and full responsibility for your life. If you do this you will be of great service to the planet as an example. If everyone were to do this, how the planet would change. It is already happening but we can all help by doing our part and becoming fully responsible. It starts with reviewing your commitments. If you do the work, you should find yourself greatly inspired by a sense of power and the relief that comes from truth and clarity.
RELATIONSHIPS
This is a biggie and we addressed this quite a bit already. This is a month to clean up relationship commitments, tell the truth, communicate clearly, recommit where needed, change or complete your commitments where necessary and revisit your bids for power regarding relationships. This is a huge area of growth as it may bring up karmic agreements into the picture. It is also an opportunity to work in yourself especially with your personal relationship to your own masculine and feminine energies.
Commitment comes from the masculine. So a lack of commitment or an inability to commit leaves the feminine completely unsupported and weakened in manifesting anything out in the world. This is an opportunity for self-study into your own dynamics of this relationship. The way it manifests in you personally will give you a clue as to how it shows up in all of your relationships.
THE ENVIRONMENT
The environment will continue to manifest change as it supports our transition into a more conscious planetary attitude. The way to work with the environment this month is to always consciously choose for yourself the power it is manifesting through various expressions. Since we are in a volatile time, we could experience more earth activity, quakes, volcanic activity, and interesting wind and water events. There is tremendous power in these events that can be harnessed for your own bids. This requires a commitment to whatever the weather and environment happens to be doing and manifesting. The next time you are in an intense weather event, rather than resisting it, see if you can harness the power of it and commit 100 percent to it. Being present with what is happening is always a good idea. It is the shamanic way of neutrality and non-resistance that keeps you always in the power position and not ever victimized by what is out of your control.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
Review your commitments both unconscious and conscious. Review your relationship to your body and if you find you have bids for power that are unreasonable, adjust them. If you find you should have had a bid for power or made some decision around a physical issue, but have not yet gotten around to it, now would be the time to do it. Some of you spend too much of your time dealing with your physical body. Some of you don’t give it the time of day. Try to find balance this month as a bid for power. Then make a commitment to do what is needed for your health and physical well being.
The physical body may manifest its issues this month through bones, teeth, liver heat, skin rashes, and respiratory challenges. Increase your calcium, cool the liver, eliminate worry and anxiety (too many thinking) and be conscious of the grief of unresolved disappointments that lung issues manifest. It is also a good idea to take an iodine supplement to support the thyroid.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
This is an interesting month for projects and business. Bids for power will be tested here and the integrity of your commitments will be crucial to the success of what you wish to manifest. It could be a really great month for support, abundance and great prosperity as long as you are very clear and committed and listening to the right voice (not the voice of egoic fear). Don’t be afraid to adjust your bids for power if they are over reaching what is possible. But don’t limit yourself unnecessarily either. This is why it is important to listen to the right voice.
If your intentions are coming from your heart and what you know is right and you are 100 percent committed, you cannot fail. The key is to give enough flexibility to spirit to choose the right timing and to bring you the support you need. Don’t try and second-guess where the support should come from and be willing to accept the unexpected. This is an exciting time for business and projects. A lot will ride on your relationships so be sure to review which ones are committed and which ones are not. Review your bids for power and adjust or commit as needed.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
There will be plenty of chaos as the lack of communication and the unconscious commitments come to the surface in political dealings. There is so much that is out of balance in this area that it will take a great deal of time to find another footing that is in more integrity with the planetary changes. Telling the truth is a big one and we cannot expect this to happen overnight. Be assured that certain things have been set into motion and there is no way to go but forward. Be patient and accepting and in neutrality and non-resistance to what you see and hear on the political arena. Remember that the point of power is being able to consciously choose what is already happening. From that place you can set intentions for better things.
The biggest message here is to look to your own community and become involved in supporting issues that have a direct relationship to your daily life. You really can’t fix anything out there in the world without looking to self and your immediate environment first. That is where your bids for power and commitments to those bids will have the greatest impact.
DATES AND TIME FRAME
May 1-7: A time of review especially regarding your unconscious bids for power. Watch Martyrdom and watch for irritability and crankiness in yourself and others as you face certain truths and realities. Don’t get stuck. Remember to engage the moving center regularly as that will keep things flowing. The key is to be proactive, make adjustments, choose or eliminate, clean something out to make room for something new. Especially watch self-judgment. Keep the mantra that “it is all good”.
May 5: Full Moon is at 9:36 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a super moon, the largest moon of the year and very powerful. Harness the power for some commitment that you are working with right now. We remind you here that you do not need to KNOW all the steps and all the details. Having the right intellectual information before embarking on a bid for power and a commitment to it is not essential. In fact it will often get in the way and hold you back from just going for it. Stretch yourself this full moon. Get outside your comfort zone and commit to something you never thought you could do. Just make sure it is something you want.
May 8-15: A window for seeing results. Some may exceed your expectations, some may be disappointing, and some may be confusing. Instead of asking what went wrong, revisit your original motivation for your bid and your commitment. What is it that you wanted? This may give you some insight into what was unclear or clouded or confusing. Without judgment, make adjustments.
This is a time frame where you also may be dealing with choices and decisions that have to do with next steps. When you bid for power and make a true commitment you give spirit the green light to begin manifesting. This will often bring the challenge of tests (are you sure?) or great success that you have to be ready for. In the process there are often choices and decisions to be made that relate to the next steps. Be ready. The energy is gearing up.
May 16-22: A highly charged time where you may experience so much activity that you don’t know what to do first. It is important that you set your priorities and have patience and compassion for those that do not have the same clarity as you may have about your commitments. Rather than reacting negatively, practice acceptance. Prioritize your commitments and manage your energy around what needs your input the most. This is a good time to practice boundaries so you are not swept up into someone else’s drama. There will be plenty of drama around you. Learn to seek the neutrality and peaceful state of allowing synchronicity and right timing. Be available by being present so that spirit can bring to you what you have committed to. Allow others to be wherever they are as you cannot help them do what they have to do themselves.
May 20: New Moon and partial solar eclipse at 5:48 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a very intense time that can bring breakage, conflict, change and potent fuel for your dreams and bids for power. You can infuse your commitment with this solar energy, which represents the masculine. Use this time wisely as anything that passes through your thoughts and feelings will be magnified. Stay away from known conflict and negative situations. The quality is fiery and explosive and will be fueled by the winds of change.
May 23-31: There is almost a watery aspect to this time frame that requires a bit more discipline for staying focused. Watch for depression and lethargy especially those of you who tend to suffer from it already. If the big dreams and intentions are overwhelming at this time, focus instead on the smaller more menial tasks of weeding your garden or clearing out a junk drawer. Physical exercise is crucial during this time to keep things moving. Continue to be in relationship and community. The worst thing you can do is to disappear into your turtle shell or dark hole. It will not make things any better.
For those of you that are experiencing this time in a more balanced way, see it as a time of assimilation and integration. Keep the body moving but discipline the mind not to judge where things happen to be right now. Remember you are a work in progress and you should be enjoying the process of living this highly creative life with all of its bids for power and commitments and changes.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
Blog entry
28 Apr 2012 - 3:07am
Scientists Stumped By Sun's Asymmetrically Reversing Magnetic Field
Carl Franzen
Talking Points Memo
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:11 CDT
© NOAA/NASA
The Sun's magnetic field is reversing, South becoming North, as it does approximately every 11 years on a cycle, but this time, something even stranger is going on: The North is moving much faster than the South, and space scientists aren't sure why.
"Right now, there's an imbalance between the north and the south poles," Jonathan Cirtain, NASA's project scientist for a Japanese solar mission called Hinode, in a recent article on NASA's website. "The north is already in transition, well ahead of the south pole, and we don't understand why."
Further, the asymmetrically reversing solar magnetic field could have an effect on Earth, resulting in increased solar flares and the accompanying bursts of radioactive particles called "coronal mass ejections," or CMEs, that can hit Earth and cause brilliant Northern Lights displays and problematic geomagnetic solar storms, according to NASA scientists.
"This usually leads to a double peak in the sunspot number and CME rate as a function of time," Nat Gopalswamy, a solar scientist NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in an email to TPM.
Gopalswamy and his team studied the Sun's shifting magnetic field from microwave signatures obtained by Japanese radio telescopes and reported their findings in a paper in the Astrophysical Journal on April 9.
Gopalswamy explained that while the Sun's shifting magnetic poles were first discovered in 1955, the rate at which the North and South wasn't found to be mismatched until the last few solar cycles.
To be clear, the magnetic field doesn't just flip, but rather, the Sun essentially sheds its current magnetic field and regrows a new one every 11 years. Currently, the Northern portion of the Sun is further along on this process than its Southern counterpart.
Further, the Sun's oddly shifting magnetic field affects the Solar System, though it isn't yet known just how.
"Whether the north pole of the Sun has north or south polarity decides the entry point of galactic cosmic rays into the heliosphere," Gopalswamy told TPM.
The heliosphere is an enormous magnetic bubble made up of the continual regular ejection of charged particles from the Sun. It stretches beyond Pluto.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244654-Scientists-Stumped-By-Sun-s-Asymmetrically-Reversing-Magnetic-Field
Blog entry
26 Apr 2012 - 11:06am
This:
I guess I post this because it really resonates with me. I don't really know how to express it, maybe Irish foreplay: "Brace yerself, Bridgit!" ON the submarine we'd say "Rig ship for impact."
The late, great Hunter S. Thompson said: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Pro forma? Pro Bono? OH Hunter...
Someone else said: "Denial of complexity is the essence of tyranny."
SO, May comes. First is Mayday: there was some buzz about a global Mayday protest, shut the whole thing down. I've thought that such a good idea that I have been doing it for nearly ten years now. BTW, who is John Galt?
The Wesak full moon comes on the 5/6th, we'll be camping. You're invited to come along if you like, mail me if you have realistic interest. Short version of the Wesak story: Buddah returns with the full moon to give the wisdom of the cosmos to Jesus who dispenses it with compassion (his forte) to humanity (the ones who are interested in wisdom, that is). Ritual is as simple as sharing a bowl of clean water.
Then there is a birthday in there for me. PLEASE don't make a big deal. IF you'd like to give me a gift, double your prayer and meditation time. Give something...up.
AND then the cosmic mosh pit that this fella is describing. Yee ha! Remember this, Chaos is merely infinitely complex patterns. Does that not reassure you? Then, I bet you may think of these keywords as superfluous: Faith, God, Grace. Those are the ones I am putting in my tool belt.
Personally I feel excited. I am a bit of a lazy anarchist. I sort of like it when things go south, at least the ugly things. I feel most useful being on hand during the difficult times. When things are smooth and in the groove, great--I'll go take a nap. So I am girding my loins for a May to test us.
HOW? Shoot, I dunno, eat less, pray more, make my smile my focus. Stretch out the ole heart [chakra] to transport maximum love. PUT AWAY the limiting habits and behaviors, the old "beliefs" that we know are worn out and stepping into a new role. A role that may be [more] multi-dimensional, completely non-linear, hard to understand from a lower vibration.
Maybe Lightwork is going to feel a little more like LightWORK, but hey it's been a pretty smooth ride so far. OUR time to shine has arrived. Maintain your spiritual integrity and don't swoon for the first non-human who says your name. Remember discernment?
My excitement has a calm at its core. I feel equiped and competent. Present. I have butterflies in my stomach, but they're happy ones. Or maybe I am hungry...
"Do what you want, I won't take the brunt..."
Shine Bright.
Blog entry
23 Apr 2012 - 12:16am
Wisdoms Dare...Sophia's Correction breaks NOW into the Mind and Psyche of Man
She Only intervenes in order to restore Beauty and Balance
A Very Belief Cracking Journey to consider....with an open mind and heart.
well worth your time ! I couldn't stop listening myself:)
much love, annie
Sophia's Correction part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAneGa_jT4&feature=related
Sophia's Correction part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZFBDrhIqo4&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du1nBPAnr0Y&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction part 5
(Music and break first half-then second hour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnwk2IfIvrs&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUusTCNe2w&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction Part 7 (they didn't have an old code to embed this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6Q1q0_ti0&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction Part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbrSNQXmplk&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction Part 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_qQjzJ18ZA&feature=relmfu
Sophia's Correction Part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Mnts7Q6_c&feature=relmfu
Part 1 introductory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpjfzyJfu2Q&feature=relmfu
Red Ice Radio with John Lash www.metahistory.org
Blog entry
20 Apr 2012 - 12:33pm
John Oliver talks about the astrological significance of the fixed star of Regulus, in the heart of the Leo constellation, moves into Virgo, the virgin, the purity of being.... Marks a time of balance in the male/female dynamics...
Story
19 Apr 2012 - 11:56pm
Dear Friends,
New Moon is Saturday, April 21 at 1:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time. For this new moon we suggest spending a few hours in the power of silence. Feel the power of the still point of the new moon and honor the still point in yourself that allows for things to be reset if needed. This is the great void where all possibilities exist. See if you can become aware in your silence of the void and its power. From this place, anything is possible and that is a powerful place to be.
Recently the earth has shifted her assemblage point. The recent and very deep earthquake activity has created an opportunity for the earth to reset certain patterns that will be taking us in a different, more conscious direction. As the earth supports us, we should also do what we can to reset our own personal assemblage point, our priorities, our points of reference and our patterns. All you have to do is be willing.
Blessings, Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles.
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
New Moon: Sun and Moon in Taurus 1º
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:20 AM MDT
It’s time to lie down in the fields, smell the flowers and see just how beautiful life is at this moment. The Sun moves into the feminine, earthy sign of Taurus on Thursday, April 19 and is joined by the Moon just days later. Our energies are more grounded, focused and accepting under this Sun archetype. Taurus is ruled by Venus, (as is Libra) and this Earth power sign drinks in life through the senses – tasting the richness of what nourishes it, smelling the richness of the delights of Spring, drinking in with the eyes all the wonders of beauty provided by the miracles surrounding us, deeply experiencing and appreciating the gifts of a physical existence more acutely than any other sign.
With Venus’ guidance, Taurus supports us on the physical plane to learn what really matters to us, to gather resources, to find security, to appreciate and enjoy to the fullest the unique delight of a physical existence. Taurus points us in the direction of a powerful tool for adapting to these times. GRATITUDE! So many sources speak of the incredible effects of just the simple act of focusing one’s attention on deep appreciation for what is. Acknowledging regularly the gift of your life, this day, the Sun, the living elementals around you, your own miracle of a body… will bring you into alignment with the shifting energies that our collective existence is coping with in these incredible, transitional times. Taurus has just the focus we need to ground the new spiritual influences of awakening into the physical plane. Our physical and emotional bodies certainly need the support for all the change and growth being asked of them. When there are three major earthquakes within hours of each other circling the Ring of Fire as we have just seen in Indonesia, Oregon, Mexico, you can count on the entire Earth shifting and rearranging her alignment. Our own subtle bodies and physical bodies must do the same.
In the New Moon chart, asteroids Vesta and Ceres flank the Sun and Moon at 1º Taurus. Ceres is Harvest Goddess, Goddess of the Grain, the Great Mother that supports and nourishes us with her gifts. With Taurus, we are being called to honor and bless the Earth and drink deep from the natural world. It’s the perfect time for the global celebration of Earth Day. We are honoring our mother Gaia and taking responsibility for the planet like never before.
The pace of ‘the Bull’ is slow and steady; concerns are for the basics. To benefit from the New Moon: Dig in the garden, hike in the woods, sing from the heart, cook up a feast, chop wood, make love, put your finances in order, share your warm hospitality. If you need the qualities of determination, perseverance, dependability, contentment, patience, you’ll find them under this Taurean influence. But avoid getting stuck, digging in your heels or letting the inherent stubbornness, possessiveness, and resistance to other’s ideas bog you down.
We have been blessed with Jupiter in Taurus since early June 2011 (unlike its quick 4 month journey through Aries) and it will remain in Taurus until mid June 2012 providing us with a grounding, stable Grand Trine with Mars in Virgo and steadying some of the more threatening aspects of Pluto in Capricorn in these first months of 2012. Jupiter’s recent journey in the night sky with Venus was truly spectacular to watch.
We continue to hold the pattern of the Grand Square with North and South Nodes being sharply squared by Mars on one hand and Neptune (and Chiron) on the other. The North Node, our point of learning stretching and growth, is joined exactly with asteroid Juno, Goddess of Marriage, and all partnership and committed relationship and contractual and legal agreements. Juno also champions the powerless. It’s heartening to see so many releasing old patterns at such deep levels of victim/powerlessness left over from the Age of Pisces. Courageous clearing work comes before the evolution of our relationships into balanced expression. We will hold this Grand Square pattern into the next Full Moon cycle of May 5-6 giving us a total of two focused months (March-May) to deeply look into our patterns of relating, equality, healing and forgiving of inner warrior issues. The Trayvon Martin case is indicative of public outcry by the people rising up to be heard in defense of the powerless (Juno). Lynn Hayes writes an astrological analysis of the progressed charts of the two men involved compared to the chart of the USA at:
http://astrodynamics.net/blog/2012/04/12/the-arrest-of-george-zimmerman-and-the-healing-of-wounds-in-the-us-sibly-chart/
We are readying ourselves for the next energy surge and growth period that lies ahead that will begin with the Annular eclipse of the Sun 0º Gemini that will pass through China, Japan, and the Western United States on May 20. This will be the first annular eclipse visible in the USA in 18 years (and 10 years until the next one). It will be powerfully aligned with the Pleiades star system. May and November are the times when the influence of the Pleiades is most strongly felt on Earth. If we are receptive, wisdom and transmission from this powerful source will be available to all. Many sacred temples all over the planet are aligned with this star system - the pyramids at Giza, Teotihuacán, Tikal, Palenque, Stonehenge, etc. Many ancient stories and cultures such as the Lakota, Hopi believe the Pleiades or Seven Sisters to be the source of life on this planet. Would you call this an opportunity or portal to be guided by our ancient ancestors?
The Solar eclipse will be paired with the Lunar eclipse of June 4 at 14º Gemini/Sagittarius. These eclipse windows are a time of re-set, beginning anew, updating our software.
Then on June 6, we have the second Transit of Venus across the Sun – occurring in pairs 8 years apart, the first of the pair occurred in June 2004. We will have the rare sight of the small silhouette of Venus against the bright background of the Sun. These arisings of Venus in cyclic fashion occur in rhythmic intervals of: 121, 8, 105, 8, 121, 8, 105, 8 year cycles. It just so happens (?) that one pair of eight-year cycles happens in our lifetime and is complete in 2012. The Venus cycle was very important to the Mayans and they ended their calendar in 2012 with the completion of a Venus 8-year cycle. All issues of the feminine will be intensified along with her power and energy. Even now Venus is very active. She is gathering her power. She is what is called “out of bounds”. As of April 2nd, Venus has risen so high (north declination) in her orbit that she is way out of bounds from the path that the Sun normally follows and subsequently, she has a magnified energy, wild and unpredictable as she is essentially out of the influence of the Sun. This can be for the positive or negative and her intensified venusian energy can accomplish much more than normal. Venus rules the realms of the social, financial, beautiful, and pleasurable – what we are attract, what we desire, what we love and value and she is the ruler of this New Moon…
“…You receive value when you see the value of others. You gain your beauty when you see the beauty of others. You gain wealth when you rejoice in the good fortune of others….”
Received by Gillian MacBeth-Laothan
05/05 Full Moon in Scorpio (closest & largest Moon of the year) SuperMoon, 9:36 PM MDT
05/20 New Moon/Solar Eclipse 0º Gemini conjunct Pleiades, 5:48 PM MDT
06/04 Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse – SuperMoon
Neptune retrogrades
06/05 2nd Transit of Venus
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10 Apr 2012 - 12:46am
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9 Apr 2012 - 4:18pm
It's a good time to crack open our patterning and beliefs, letting it all go, to become more neutral observers.
Our God/Heart Mind will lead the way teaching and guiding us
to ReSpond, focus and create, rather than react & recreate within our older program of the minds of man.
Found this fun and interesting Food for reflection and contemplation:) we don't, and will not know until we Know*........as things transpire !
with Love , annie
Patricia Cori - Waking Up To Multi-dimensional Reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYhjPkhE8Gc&feature=related
www.theexamineduniverse.org/
The Newly Revised (2011) Universe
First, some history of...
The Cosmos
and
The Three Stories We Have Used
For the last two thousand years to Explain It All
Stories were needed to explain the mystery and awe inspired by simply looking up and pondering what we are seeing in the sky above, the most obvious things being the Sun which appears quite regularly every day unless it's completely overcast and cloudy, the Moon which appears more or less every night not quite as regularly as the Sun, having a monthly (almost) cycle of shapes and finally on a clear night there was the spectacular background pattern of millions of stars that slowly moved around over the year announcing the seasons. Almost every culture had stories about what all this meant which often formed the basis of their religion.
But by 2000 years ago the big question was to explain the five moving stars that looked just like any other star except being a little brighter and each one slowly moved around in a unique odd path. They had names that went back to antiquity. The five moving stars were called Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Ptolemy explained this by having an Earth that was fixed and motionless at the center of the universe, surrounded by a series of concentric, rotating spheres that carried the Moon, the Sun, the five moving stars each on a separate sphere and with a distant sphere that carried the millions of background stars.
It soon became apparent that it was somewhat more complicated than that and the concentric shells with the five moving stars were replaced with rotations around some kind of an axis which in theory could be reduced to combinations of invisible gears and wheels. This was the best explanation anybody had. To cover the inaccuracies that slowly accumulated over centuries, new gears and wheels were continually added to increase the complexity of this system which lasted for almost 1400 years until...
Copernicus says the Earth moves, that it revolves daily on its own axis and yearly around the Sun. The Sun is at the center of the universe. The five stars became planets which were all in the same plane like a big disk. Earth was the third planet out. All this was still inside the same large shell of fixed stars. This system was good for another 400 years, only having to adjust the circles to actually be ellipses and adding more planets to make the disk bigger.
Then in the 1920's, with Edwin Hubble's discovery of our own galaxy and of other galaxies at much greater distances, and finally his discovery of the red shift of those galaxies, the story of the structure of our universe was completely revised. The easiest explanation of the red shift was simple extrapolation backwards which produced the big bang and the expanding universe.
The new universe is essentially a big expanding ball with a radius 12 to 15 billion light-years but it is a ball and a universe that is said to have no center.
However, this model had some problems. It was first assumed that this expanding universe was part of a continuing cycle of expansion and collapse but it was soon found that there was not enough mass to ever cause it to stop expanding and begin contracting. The red shift indicated that the distant galaxies were accelerating which requires the application of a force. Somewhat like Ptolemy's system, the expanding universe model has had to add, not more gears and wheels but unseen and somewhat imaginary concepts such as dark matter and invisible forces called dark energy.
Now, just as centuries ago the invention of the telescope revealed new information to Copernicus and Galileo that changed the conception of our solar system, the invention of the computer and recently developed compilation of large databases containing the actual three dimensional locations of millions of known galaxies has revealed a new structure for the universe. Careful analysis of data that has been around for decades reveals patterns in the distribution and location of the galaxies that indicate there is another option.
This new structure uses all of the observations used to construct the big bang model but adds these newly found patterns in the distribution of galaxies. These observations can be seen by anyone with a computer and are available in several commercially available 3D mapping programs of the universe.
The Fourth Story
The Closed, Reflective Universe
These databases show that there are definite patterns in the distribution of the galaxies indicating a whole new construction for our universe that is not expanding at all. These patterns of galaxy groups begin within our nearby neighbor galaxies and continue outward in the far distant ones.
This new information reveals that we live in a very large mirrored room or cave, with almost perfectly reflecting curved walls. The universe is a closed space, possibly an elliptical or egg-shaped cavity, possibly a cave with an opening.
We are about one million light-years from the nearest wall where we see Andromeda (M31), the first reflection, the mirror image of our own Milky Way Galaxy as it looked several million years ago, actually closer to 2.5 million years ago which is the apparent distance between us and our reflection.
Andromeda is often referred to by astronomers as the "twin" of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Now we can see it actually is us. Until recently there were no 3D databases, such as the Tully 3D map of galaxies which allow us to make a more sophisticated analysis.
The far wall is about six to eight million light-years away in the general direction of the Virgo Cluster. There could be fewer than a hundred real galaxies, all the rest are reflected images of those real ones that are enclosed in that mirrored, fixed space of the universe.
For more about the nature of the walls, click here.
Continuing outward...
The next reflection of our group of galaxies is in the direction of M81, a group of galaxies that looks like our group. This complex group of reflections is then mirrored over and over again to produce the walls of galaxy clusters that appear out at great distances.
This new universe is fixed in size and is several thousand times smaller than the old expanding one proposed decades ago.
The evidence, patterns in the locations of both nearby and distant clusters of galaxies, can be observed in commercially available databases as well as other maps of the universe.
Where to begin...
One problem with astronomy today is that we have way more information than any one person can possibly assimilate and we are collecting even more at a prodigious rate. There needs to be some way to pick out the vital facts and to condense the vital pieces of information. Here we begin by picking one reference book (the Encyclopedia Britannica™ 2000 edition) and one visual image (the National Geographic Map of the Universe © 2000) and build more complex technology from there.
Over the past several hundred years England has emerged as the leader of the field, the guardian of the sky and of time itself. Going back as far as Isaac Newton, they had a class of people with the time, money and interest to build the biggest and best telescopes. In 1879 Englishman Simon Newcomb completed the first extensive catalog of the skies which was used for the next 80 years.
Also during that time the Encyclopedia Britannica™ became the primary source of the latest theories and the history of cosmology. They have much more information about the cosmos than any other encyclopedia.
The Local Group
The Local Group is a collection of galaxies that is made up of our own Milky Way Galaxy and about fifteen of its nearby neighbor galaxies. Then there is a big gap and there is Andromeda with a similar group of neighboring galaxies. This group of galaxies was the first to be observed and was well documented almost a century ago. As the resolution of telescopes improved and more distant points of light were seen to be galaxies, the focus of astonomy continued to expand outward to greater distances. There was no need to continue to look around in our local neighborhood of galaxies since we had already seen that.
The observation that half of the Local Group is the mirror image of the other half, that only half of the galaxies are actually real and the half with Andromeda is the mirror image of ourselves, is the beginning of constructing a whole new universe.
Astronomers have noticed that there might be something unusual in our near vicinity as contained in this quote from the Encyclopædia Britannica™ 2000 edition...
"The Local Group contains seven reasonably prominent galaxies and perhaps another two dozen less conspicuous members. The dominant pair in the group is the Milky Way and Andromeda, both giant spirals of Hubble type Sb and luminosity class II.
The size of the Local Group is therefore larger only by about 50 percent than the 2 million light-years separating the Milky Way system and the Andromeda galaxy, and the centre of mass lies roughly halfway between these two giants."
Then there is evidence you can see for yourself in the National Geographic Universe Reference Map, view 3, The Local Group. The Map of the Universe is available from the National Geographic Society go to that link and search for Universe Map. It should come up with Item # 02011C for $14.99.
However, there is a link to essentially the same map available on Wikipedia at this link and look for the Local Group map. However, the National Geographic map is bigger and much easier to see.
These maps haven't changed for decades. The universe doesn't change, only the details are filled in, the resolution gets better.
The angle of observation for these maps is not ideal for seeing the pattern but there are definitely two groups of objects arranged such that one group is more or less the mirror image of the other group.
A better viewpoint made from a 3D plot of the Local Group is shown here as well as an approximate list of corresponding objects for the two sides of the Local Group. These plots and the list of corresponding objects are just a preliminary first step. What is needed now is a 3D plot of the Local Group with an axis having the Milky Way at one end and Andromeda on the other end that could be rotated around different selectable axes to show the true symmetry.
To see all this in glorious rotating color, the Nearby Galaxies Catalog, by R. Brent Tully, first published in 1988, contains the three dimensional locations of the nearest 68,000 galaxies. Some of that database is now available within the Starry Night Pro™ Astronomy program available for sale on the web at www.starrynight.com
Instructions for the Starry Night™ program are here. From within this program you can see two similar rotating systems of galaxies, separated by several million light-years.
Andromeda contains a wealth of information about ourselves, our galaxy and of the Earth itself. In theory we could find our Sun and solar system within Andromeda which would show a continuous moving picture of ourselves as we were several million years ago although there would always be some limit to the resolution we will be able to attain. Locating ourselves in Andromeda could begin by selecting those Cepheids that were first used to calibrate the distance to Andromeda and finding the corresponding Cepheids in our Milky Way. These patterns of Cepheids would make a map that could be used to locate our Sun in Andromeda.
Beyond the Local Group…
After the Local Group there is a huge gap of millions of light-years until another set of similar images appear. Now the images get more complex.
The Encyclopedia Britannica™ says,
"Beyond the Local Group are two nearby groups ... the Sculptor group and the M81 group. Both of these are small clusters of galaxies that are similar in size to the Local Group. They lie at a distance of from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 light-years... The best studied of these is the M81 group, whose dominant galaxy is the spiral galaxy M81. Much like the Andromeda and Milky Way systems, M81 is of Hubble type Sb and luminosity class II... The M81 group also has a few normal galaxies with classifications similar to those of galaxies in the Local Group, and it was noticed by some astronomers that the linear sizes of the largest H II regions (which are illuminated by many OB stars) in these galaxies had about the same intrinsic sizes as their counterparts in the Local Group."
And beyond that…
At 15 million light-years lies M83, described by David Malin in his book "The Invisible Universe" as "a mirror to the Milky Way".
Encyclopedia Britannica™...
"The Virgo cluster is the (next) closest large cluster and is located at a distance of about 50 Million light-years in the direction of the constellation Virgo. About 200 bright galaxies reside in the Virgo cluster, scattered in various subclusters. Although spirals are more numerous, the four brightest galaxies are giant ellipticals, among them M87." (italics added)
Those four galaxies would be our Milky Way, Andromeda (our first reflection) and an aligned reflection of that system.
That's what the experts have noticed about the four major groups of galaxies that lay closest to us. Let's take that as a starting point...
The Big Five Groups of Objects
The Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), M81, M83 and M87, when plotted in three dimensions all lie in the same plane.
Side View of the Big Five Objects
The fact that they are all in the same plane indicates possibly a surface of revolution, that each of these groups are on the edge of a large oval or maybe closer to an egg shaped enclosure with nothing at the center but that would have an axis. The most direct reflections would appear on a plane through that axis. We can see this is the case by looking at a 3D galaxy database, such as the Tully database. The universe still doesn't really have a center but it does have an axis.
Top View of Plane
Here's how this works.
Expanded Top View with Reflective Walls
The apparent image of M83 is actually made of three reflected segments which unfold to give the observed distance. The arrow pointing away from the Milky Way is the view of ourselves that we see as M83. Since there is more than one solution to each object, except M31, it will take analysis of many objects before the actual shape is determined.
In 1986 Lapparent, Geller and Huchra published maps of the galaxies that showed large scale patterns in the galaxies, a sort of foam-like structure made of galaxies distributed around the edges of bubbles which then loosely linked into walls of those bubbles. The walls formed a crude sort of a stick-man form. The structure made by the above five closest major galaxy clusters is the same size as the repeated bubbles that make up those structures. Those kinds of walls are what you would expect to see inside large reflective, curved surfaces. The patterns are much more complex if the walls have continually changing curvatures. More recent results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey add another wall still farther out. Both sets of walls can eventually be used to determine the radius of curvature of the universe's surface.
This new information only shifts the mystery to another level. New questions arise and the complexity continues in another direction that requires not telescopes but computer programs.
There is so much information available that it can be a little overwhelming. There are now billions of galaxies known and plotted. Fortunately, computers can do this but programmers are needed to know what to look for. The next wall will be considerably more difficult to locate since there will be no direct reflections, only multiple reflections involving at least two unknown walls.
The technology needed for new discoveries is not readily available in the field of astronomy where the emphasis has been to make telescopes that look farther into the distance and therefore have increasingly smaller fields of view. To see this new universe requires the largest possible field of view, even to be able to look at the universe from outside the universe which is entirely possible in some of our computer based astronomy programs.
Click here for a very approximate shape of the universe as seen in the Starry Night™ program with a viewpoint located several million light-years outside the actual universe.
The technology needed for further progress is currently split between the sources of astronomy data such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Starry Night™ astronomy program which uses the Tully Database of galaxies and companies such as Catia™, Unigraphics™ and other commercial 3D rendering programs that incorporate ray-tracing technology, and even companies such as Pixar and Dreamworks that use ray-tracing to depict mirrored surfaces in the production of animated movies. It will be the marriage of these technologies that will allow us to determine the real history of our galaxy, to see ourselves as we looked all the way back to the beginning.
The Red Shift
In the early 1990s William Tifft and John Cocke found that red shifts are quantized, that they were digitized into discrete values. That discovery was largely ignored or denied and then buried since no one knew what to make of it. If each reflection off a wall caused a small frequency shift or loss then the red shift becomes a measurement of the number of reflections and of the distance back in time of the image we are seeing now.
And about Dark Matter...
There have been major problems with the expanding universe proposal right from its beginning. Most of the matter needed to make it work is missing.
From the Encyclopedia Britannica™, "the mass-to-light ratio... exceeds by an order of magnitude what can be reasonably ascribed to the known stellar populations. A similar situation exists for every rich cluster that has been examined in detail. This dark matter problem for rich clusters was known to the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky as early as 1933."
We have been looking for the missing 90% of the matter in the universe ever since.
No dark matter is needed in the closed, reflective model. All the matter is right here, relatively nearby, where we can see it and there is a whole new story to tell.
Additional evidence...
In the late 1990s John P. Ralston and Borge Nodland found that there was an axis to the universe that was indicated by the direction of polarized light. Light becomes polarized when reflected off of a surface. A closed, reflective universe has an axis. An expanding, spherical universe doesn't.
There are galaxy clusters, often referred to as the largest known structures in the universe which are about six to eight million light-years in diameter.They are repeated over and over to make foamy walls that extend out to the edges of the observed universe. Those galaxy clusters are the size of the real universe. Those images are the real reflective, closed universe being repeated over and over out to as far as we can see.
Then there is the fact that we are seeing galaxies out there at a distance of 12 billion light-years that are newly forming. In a closed, reflective universe that is just what you would expect to see, more distant images being of younger galaxies, ourselves and our neighbors at an earlier age, giving a nicely illustrated history of the universe.
There are indications that the nearest wall (in the direction of Andromeda) is convex. That would make Andromeda appear bigger and would mean there is a reversal of curvature, essentially a lump on the closest side of the universe which might explain some of the vast regions of empty space that have been observed.
This new model for the structure of the universe allows for a much simpler explanation of the nature of the electromagnetic spectrum. Questions that arose with the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, (does the ether rotate around with the Earth or does the ether exist at all?) can now be answered more clearly. Simply stated... the ether exists. In modern physics, Einstein's general theory of relativity is taken to mean that gravity is a geometric property of space and time in which the curvature of space-time, the warp in the fabric of space, is caused by the presence of matter. This warp in space would move with the matter that caused the warp. It would also be dragged around with it as it rotated. The ether is the fabric of space that is stretched between rigid, reflective walls. The ether is the medium that transmits all the forms of radiation we detect in the electromagnetic spectrum as waves. There is no need for a particle-wave duality. Matter is made of particles and waves are in the ether.
The red shift is a natural energy loss process in the ether. For sound waves the most obvious method of energy dissipation is a decrease in amplitude, to become quieter with distance, caused by viscous energy loss in the air. There might also be a loss of frequency but the viscous losses are so great that the waves die out before we are able to measure any frequency shift.
Thanks to David Moser, without whose vast knowledge of astronomy this whole thing would never have happened, to R. Brent Tully for all the work he did on his database of galaxies, National Geographic™ for their Map of the Universe, the Encyclopædia Britannica™, David Malin for his awesome and beautiful pictures in "The Invisible Universe" and to Bob Linn for making the 3D models in SolidWorks™.
Richard Moser, thermodynamicist, B.S.E.M, M.S.A.E.
Revised June 9, 2011
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5 Apr 2012 - 7:55pm
Dear Friends,
Full Moon is Friday, April 6 at 1:19 PM Mountain Daylight Time. Mercury has gone direct on April 4th and it is all systems go. If you have recently made a bid for power this is a time you will likely be tested on that bid. If everything is as it should be, you should feel a sense of power and expansion and you will see signs along the way confirming you are on the right track. The universe wants to know if you are ready and serious.
What could stand in the way? Impatience, Martyrdom, Self Deprecation, Arrogance and all of the other lovely obstacles that derail us every day. If you are being shown you are not ready, revisit your bid and see where you need more support, more commitment and more clarity. The bids that fail are usually lacking in something that truly makes them yours. Make sure no one else is influencing what you are trying to accomplish. That is the key. Regardless of what your experience is at this time, practice copious amounts of gratitude. It is the fuel that will keep things moving in the right direction.
Many Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Full Moon in Libra 17º, Sun in Aries 17º
Friday, April 6 2012, 1:19 PM MDT
With the Full Moon in Libra, we ride the Moon to the top of the cycle begun in late March with Equinox and New Moon coming so close together. Lots of inspiration and desire for moving ahead, but what is that loose, foggy feeling that makes it difficult to get a little traction on our moves forward? Why am I drifting off into dreamtime when I can see eight things in front of me to do….? Well, it’s those darn retrograde planets! The do-er, link-er planets, Mars and Mercury are both retrograde ~ Mars since mid-January and Mercury since mid-March. Saturn, the planet that keeps us focused, disciplined and on track is in its second month of a four month retrograde as well. Things are just not coming together at the lightening speed expected when you let Aries out of the gate at the beginning of Spring. And to add to the inertia, Pluto, who is about to go retrograde on April 11, is at a standstill at 9º from March to May. The message of retrograde is clear: Go within, re-align, re-assess, re-group, re-new. Surrender to a power larger than your self.
When I look at the chart for New Moon – March 22 and I look at the chart for Full Moon, they look practically identical except for two striking features. They look so much alike that I’m going to quote myself here from last month on a few on-going key features:
There’s an on-going Grand Cross or Grand Square formed by the North/South nodes squaring Mars on one hand and Chiron on the other. (Continuing roughly from the Full Moon of March 8 to Scorpio Full Moon of May 5) The Nodes always point us in the direction where we are revisiting and healing our past experiences and issues and where we need to stretch and grow and embrace the new. Chiron is opening wounds buried deep within the psyche offering an opportunity to clear anger and fear issues represented by Mars. War has taken its toll on our souls. The Nodes sit on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis (thinking/believing) helping us let go of our mental traps and small-mind need for constant stimulation and logical explanations for life and broadening our philosophical horizons, urging us to speak out for what is ethical and moral, and let meaning and deep connection with truth lead our hearts and voices.
The Masculine, symbolized by Mars square the nodal axis and opposite Chiron and Neptune, is coming to the time of laying down its role as the dominant, logical paradigm of the last few thousand years. There’s plenty of saber rattling still going on in the world, but now we enter a time of healing that deep wound of unchecked linear, masculine dominating the intuitive/feminine aspects of life. We honor and bless the elements that played out this drama of duality that was so necessary for the collective consciousness.
Now we get to hold the light for this current intense period of transition. The next few years of Uranus and Pluto making seven exact squares through 2015 (June 24 and Sept 18, 2012 for this year) will be a time of revolutionary activity, evolving to a greater level of consciousness, and practicing more efficiency in embracing changing circumstances. We will become very aware of what we have become attached to and masters at learning to let go and at the same time, creating effortlessly through the quantum field. Mars’ current long retrograde stay in Virgo for eight months instead of the usual two (Nov. 2011 to July 2012) is not about criticizing what’s seemingly external to us, but about seeking our calling and finding our true service, focusing on the present moment, and letting go of the victim stance.
Feminine asteroid Juno who expresses through relatedness and committed relationship is also on a three-month journey with the North Node. A commitment to our own wholeness, relationship that is equal and reciprocal, and a shared vision in place of fanatic beliefs and emotional manipulation is our point of growth. Take time now to know at a very deep level what is important to you in your relationships. Make clear to yourself from your heart what you are committed to. It’s an on-going theme for the season.
The key differences in this Full Moon chart compared to the former New Moon chart of this cycle are 1) that Venus is now aligned with the South Node and 2) the Moon will be forming a configuration with the Grand Square called Thor’s Hammer or sometimes God’s Fist. (That’s a 90º square forming the base and two 135º aspects forming a triangle).
It’s almost humorous how the cosmos treats the denser beings in the universe (us). The Universe says something to the effect of, ‘Oh, you didn’t get what I was saying about cleaning up your current relationship issues, okay. I’m sending in Venus, Goddess of Relationship, to stand next to the South Node (where you’re supposed to be working to clear up old habits) and I’ll add Thor’s Hammer/God’s Fist focused on the Full Moon so you can feel that its mandatory that you do this work. (Picture Thor’s Hammer/Fist coming down (figuratively, of course) on fingers, head, etc.)
The Universe is redundant, so we don’t miss the point. Full Moon in Libra, Sun in Aries is about the Identity and Partnering Axis. The lunar ruler is Venus; the solar ruler of Aries is Mars. Venus and Mars are squared in this chart. Venus in Gemini and Mars in Virgo need to talk. There’s tension here, crisis. Our evolution depends on it; our healing depends on it. The Feminine must come into balance within itself and equally, The Masculine must come into healthy balance within itself before they can join and move into deep equality and cooperation that we can feel, but can’t quite see yet. We are birthing ourselves right now in this way. It’s emerging without a doubt, but this chart is saying, ‘go deeper’, ‘crack open’.
From Adyashanti, “Do not be afraid of what appears to be chaos or dissolution – embrace the full measure of your life at any cost. Bare your heart to the unknown and never look back. What you are stands content, invisible, and everlasting. All means have been provided for our endless folly to split open into eternal delight".
04/04 Mercury goes direct
04/06 Full Moon in Libra – SuperMoon 1:19PM MDT
04/10 Pluto goes retrograde for 5 months
04/13 Mars goes direct
04/21 New Moon in Taurus 1:20 AM MDT
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31 Mar 2012 - 2:18am
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The main theme for April is POWER.
This month you will get to look at all things related to power. All of your old patterns, belief systems, reactions, experiences, trust or mistrust, resistance, desire, access; all of it is up for observation, recapitulation, clearing, re-defining, clarifying and re-negotiating. This is the opportunity to free yourself from your old beliefs about power and the old paradigm in which those beliefs live. You will be able to look at your self-imposed limitations, hopefully clear them, and make some bids for power this month that will move you into your next level of expansion and evolution.
Everything this month will be powerful. From events to reactions and personal experiences, everything is potentiated with a greater energy and vitality. For many of you this will come as an exciting and welcome opportunity for moving ahead with your dreams and goals. For some of you this may be a difficult time of resistance and feeling overwhelmed, especially if you are not used to handling large amounts of energy. Psychologically it is an interesting time as the construct of the mind and how it sees things is truly being put to the test.
The instinctive center continues to regurgitate material that needs to be looked at and in most cases discarded without giving it too much power. If you are reacting strongly in a negative or confused way, that does not seem to have any connection to what is going on currently in your life, you can be sure it is instinctive material from the past that is still somehow running the show and getting in the way of all your great possibilities. It is important that you not judge what is coming up but rather see it as a positive opportunity to do some more deep cleaning and clearing. Acknowledge it for what it is; old stuff, and let it go.
Martyrdom is also up in spades this month as people grapple with the "why" of feeling powerless. Even if martyrdom is not your personal obstacle, you may feel it some. Beneath all martyrdom is anger so you need to be aware of your reactions as well as the reactions of others. You may witness some pretty bad behavior out there this month with blame, jealousy and aggression especially among the younger souls. Have compassion, curb your own reactions and don't take anything personally. The martyrdom will especially show up around failed bids for power.
What is a bid for power? A bid for power is a decision and action taken towards something you want in your life. It is usually very exciting and a bit scary and it definitely pushes the envelope of your comfort zone. It always takes you into the unknown territory of doing something for the first time. It requires an element of courage and some risk. The bid can be about work, relationship, personal growth, health, knowledge, leadership, personal environment, finances, responsibility and/or many other things. Being decisive and taking action are the operative words. True bids for power do not usually rest only on words. The action is necessary.
The universe is very responsive to a true bid for power. You will quickly find out whether or not you are ready, or if the bid is important enough for your essence goals to be viable. Whenever you make a bid for power, you will always be tested. The test itself will tell you if you are on the right track. What can get in the way of a bid for power? Not being ready, or making the bid from a place of arrogance or impatience, or the bid being based on someone else's dream.
There are many stories of people being offered what looks like the perfect situation and then backing away at the last minute because it is not what they really want. There are equally as many stories of people trying something and failing because they were not ready. It is important to hold all failures as trial runs and opportunities for learning. It is not ok to sit around and do nothing in these times. They require you to be active in working with power and to make concrete decisions and choices about how you will step forward into more power.
It is important to understand that in these times, healing will take place no matter what. So it is up to you. You can be in resistance to it, which will cause pain and suffering, or you can get on with the program. Part of the healing is the healing of the masculine that is connected with the understanding and use/abuse of power up to this point. A great forgiveness is called for to release the masculine principle from the role it has served over these past centuries. It has done its job of anchoring the physical plane and all of its concrete belief systems but now the times have changed and we need to liberate the construct if we are to move on. On a personal level, the healing is about healing your relationship to power and forgiving everything that has compromised your relationship with your own power.
We need to clarify the definition of what power is. Power is an energy. It is an enhanced ability to manifest. It is knowledge, ability, wisdom, well-being and inner security. True power is something no one can take from you. So true power is never anything external that can be de-valued or repossessed. Power is your health, talent, service, higher mind, ability to love and to be neutral, your creativity and ability to understand and work with the quantum field. The more you understand about power this month the better advantage you will have to take of the opportunities. It is a good exercise to contemplate all of your beliefs about power; powerful people, powerful events, how you define your own power, how you interact with power, how you resist or embrace it, your fear of power or your fear of power in others. Ask yourself if you are still in an old paradigm and what may need to change.
You may have been told in the past that in order to become more powerful it is a good idea to spend time around powerful people. This is still true, but with the distinction that the more powerful person should be in their true power, their inner power. It is also helpful to spend time with and around powerful allies, places, elements and nature. If you do this with intention, acknowledgement, presence and gratitude, you will gain much in the way of more personal power. One of the best ways you can empower yourself is by spending time in nature and in contemplation. There is no competition and no ego involved. We always recommend solo time as a practice to become more powerful.
There is an element of tension this month that can manifest either negatively or positively. Tension builds energy that can either show up as irritability and aggression or be a productive manifestation of a bid for power. Because of the tension it is advisable that you have an outlet for the moving center this month. Make sure to get enough regular exercise that you can put some aggression behind. Otherwise you will find yourself not sleeping well and being agitated about unimportant things.
Pay attention to where your thoughts go this month. Remember that the universe is very receptive and will feed you back what you put out. If you are getting garbage, you are giving garbage. Watch where your thoughts get hung up, as this is a powerful time to clean up your thoughts and beliefs. If you find yourself in a funk, ask yourself what you may have been putting out that created it instead of what something out there did to you to put you in that state. Reworking the mental process and waking up the higher mind takes discipline and focus. No one said it was going to be easy but it will be incredibly rewarding. Ask and you shall receive!
The challenges this month:
Feeling and experiencing: Martyrdom, blame, feeling powerless, stuck, despairing, angry, resentful, agitated, overwhelmed, confused, and like a complete failure.
The opportunities this month:
Getting over yourself, becoming more powerful, releasing old beliefs, becoming free of other's expectations, manifesting in a big way, learning some lessons once and for all, becoming available for all the gifts and opportunities.
Helpful practices:
Spend time with that and those of more power than you
Pay close attention to what is coming up and deal with it accordingly
Keep things moving, exercise daily
Don't take anything personally
Make a bid for power somewhere in your life
YOU PERSONALLY
This month provides an opportunity to go after something you have wanted to do or be for a long time and never had the courage or commitment to do. It also provides an opportunity for some major house cleaning of instinctive material and an old belief system that stand in your way of more power. Don't waste this month. It truly is a time to stand up against the norm and push the envelope a bit. If you hear, "you can't do that!" respond with, "who says?" and make sure you are listening to the right voice, the voice of spirit and your essence and not of your ego or false personality. Your choices count and you have power. You just have to start believing it.
RELATIONSHIPS
Some bids for power this month will be around relationships, either taking current ones to a new level, initiating something new, or making a necessary change that you have been afraid to do. If you have withheld true feelings, this is the time to come out with them. If you have been in denial about the truth surrounding a relationship, this is the time to face it and make a bid for power through a decisive action. People afraid to leave a bad marriage due to fear or security will find the courage to make a move. People afraid to commit to the love of their life because of some previous betrayal or trauma will find the courage to make the leap. People keeping others at arms length because of mistrust issues will decide to have faith. And those that have not honored the primary relationship with self and with spirit will get a chance to renew that particular commitment to take care of themselves better as their bid for power.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Everything will be more powerful and potent this month and the environment, especially weather and climate, will be no different. Watch for drama in the weather and dramatic reactions to the drama in the weather. Learn from the environment as it has power. Don't resist and suffer and judge what you can't change or influence. If you always see yourself as a co-creator in all environmental experiences, you will approach them from a position of power. You choose it and you create it. Don't be martyred and at the effect of it. Practice this on a daily basis. Wake up and powerfully proclaim that the weather is exactly how you ordered it.
We are likely to see some powerful earth expressions as Mother Nature reminds us who is boss. We are at a time where we need to learn to work with instead of against nature and her cycles. Beware of the beliefs that revolve around what "usually" happens or "usual" patterns. What we consider to be unseasonable or unusual may just become the norm. Be neutral about how it is and have it always be your choice.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
The breakthrough here is to acknowledge just how incredibly powerful the body actually is. Part of the illusion and belief we have been living under is that the body is powerless against certain circumstances and is limited in its ability to heal, to regenerate and to perform what we consider to be incredible feats of strength and endurance. We are limited by our beliefs and the beliefs of the collective. We have a program that tells us the limits of our longevity, our physical strength, our ability to heal certain illnesses, our vulnerability to disease and the general function of the body as it performs in the physical environment. What if this were to be different? More different that you can imagine. What would that look like? A good thing to contemplate this month.
Since this is also the time of looking at the masculine principle and healing what we can, the third chakra or solar plexus area will be affected: Digestion, gall bladder, liver, adrenals and general energy levels. This is also a month where you will have to watch for broken bones and teeth as it is a time when very deep old patterns are coming to the surface to be discarded or changed. It is always better to tackle what comes up and face it full on avoiding the harsher lessons that come with breakage.
Get plenty of exercise, eat yang foods, and rest when you need to.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
Think of what you can do to empower this area of your life. Perhaps it will turn into a bid for power or maybe you will just put some energy into your business, finances and projects. Be clear and be organized. The universe likes that. Maybe you just need a new carpet, or maybe you need to get rid of some dead wood and bring in some new blood. A bid could include an expansion or a launching of a new project. Make sure you are ready and then go for it with excitement and enthusiasm.
We do recommend that whatever you are used to procrastinating in past years (like your taxes), you do them on time this year. And if you have unfinished projects that need your attention, it will empower you to put some energy into them and to catch up with where you are behind. Any bit of completion you manage this month will greatly empower you as you will feel a sense of accomplishment and release.
And if you are making a bid for power, pay attention to how it unfolds. Adjust if needed without judgment and pay attention to all the details, as they will be important.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
Power posturing, strategy and appearance will all play big roles in global politics and the great game of power being played on the global stage. We don't really know how this will show up or what will finally break the chokehold of the old paradigm, but we do know that things will change and healing will take place no matter what. Stay away from identifying too strongly with the power postures, as they have no depth. We may be in for some surprises as new faces emerge and claim their right to throw in for the big prizes. The face of politics is changing and the way the game is played will change as well. This has to begin with the general public who is pushing for a new paradigm and a new level of honesty and trust and humility. We'll see.....
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
April 1-6: Recapitulation begins. Watch for signs to show up indicating where you need work. Where do you feel powerless in your life right now? Did you always feel powerless in this area? When did that start? Where are you hiding? Tell the truth. What did you always want to do or to be? What do you have a desire for right now? Get out into nature and pay attention to what the universe is guiding you to do or to notice right now. As Mercury ends its retrograde during this time, do some work on preparing for a bid for power however that wishes to manifest. If it feels overwhelming, bring it back to the first step, the first baby step. And go for it. But only if you are ready and it is not driven by ego or false personality.
April 6: Full Moon is at 1:19 PM Mountain Daylight Time. Mercury has gone direct
on April 4th and it is all systems go. If you have recently made a bid for power this is a time you will likely be tested on that bid. If everything is as it should be, you should feel a sense of power and expansion and there are signs along the way that you are on the right track. The universe wants to know if you are ready and serious.
What could stand in the way? Impatience, martyrdom, self deprecation, arrogance and all of the other lovely obstacles that derail us every day. If you are being shown you are not ready, revisit your bid and see where you need more support, more commitment and more clarity. The bids that fail are usually lacking in something that truly makes them yours. Make sure no one else is influencing what you are trying to accomplish. That is the key. Regardless of what your experience is at this time, practice copious amounts of gratitude. It is the fuel that will keep things moving in the right direction.
*For more information regarding the obstacles you can order the e-book The 7 Obstacles (link here), or audio Mps's: Study Group Series Obstacles: Impatience/Martyrdom (link here), Study Group Series Obstacles: Self-Destruction/Greed (link here), Study Group Series-Obstacles: Self-Depreciation/Arrogance (link here), or Study Group Series-Obstacles: Stubbornnes (link here).
April 7-14: The times could feel topsy turvy as you may not be able to discern whether your bids for power are manifesting positively or not. There is a lot going on at this time and any attempt to control or dominate it will be met with failure. For example, one day you may get great and uplifting news and the next day it could be the complete opposite. You can see that with this type of uncertainty it is even more important to be clear about what you want and to take these obstacles in stride and become neutral in the face of your challenges as quickly as possible. The less energy you spend on unimportant things the easier it will be for you to continue moving forward. Curb your energy leaks and pay attention to where you spend your time and where you put your energy. It will be clear what you have to weed out in order to continue on the right path.
April 15-21: This is reward time for timely and appropriate bids for power. Either you will feel incredibly empowered by what is happening in your life or you will be going back to the drawing board if your bid for power needs to be reworked or refined. This is also a time to be paying attention to details and keeping your focus. Don't get distracted by drama and other peoples reactions. There is tension at this time that can be harnessed and used powerfully or manifested in unattractive ways. Watch the tendency for fixing or bringing others along especially if you are experiencing success. This is often the result of feeling guilt or shame that you are doing well while others are suffering. Think of yourself as the light at the end of a dark tunnel. If you join the suffering masses there will be no one to light the way. If you are struggling, stay out of judgment, martyrdom and self-pity. Be ruthless about getting yourself back to neutral and reboot.
April 21: New Moon is at 1:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time. For this new moon we suggest spending a few hours in the power of silence. Feel the power of the still point of the new moon and honor the still point in yourself that allows for things to be reset if needed. This is the great void where all possibilities exist. See if you can become aware in your silence of the void and its power. From this place, anything is possible and that is a powerful place to be.
April 22-30:
The energy evens out a bit during this time giving you the opportunity to move more into observation of what you are involved in power-wise and otherwise. Tell the truth about where you are, and if things have been difficult. Have the courage as a bid for power to ask for help and to go back to the drawing board on the changes you need to make and the bids for power that you wish to manifest. This time frame also speaks to community and relationship and sharing and support as a powerful glue to keep you on track. Spend time in nature, watch your power leaks and your practices of empowerment from more powerful things and keep moving the body. During this time, the body may manifest more clearly what is already your internal process. Forgive the masculine, have gratitude for the sun and your life and become the expression of the powerful being that you are.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
*Other helpful Mp3's this month: The Nature of Power (link here) and Working with Power (link here).
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22 Mar 2012 - 3:08pm
Oracle Report ~ Thursday March 22 2012
Posted on March 22, 2012 by Gillian
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Oracle Report | New Moon Phase
First Day of Astrological and Natural Year
Happy New Year! The degrees of the Sun, Earth, and Venus tell us that this is going to be a wonderful year.
The Sabian symbol for the degree of the Sun is “a cameo profile of a man in the outline of this country” and discusses how we will make our mark – an imprint – this year.
The symbol for the degree of the Earth is “the dawn of a new day reveals everything changed” and discusses new beginnings, darkness abating, and letting go of what went before.
The symbol for the position of Venus is “a new continent rising out of the ocean” and discusses an enormous potentiality emerging.
Pretty nice, huh? This particular blend of energy is going to strengthen us at our very core.
Today all of this begins so it is time to face forward and open up to new ways because this is potent energy that will bowl over anything that is not open to new ways of doing things. Being stubborn is not going to work out well today.
I often talk about waves of energy, but the first day of the new year is always the strongest energetic wave of the year and in order to receive the maximum benefits, we need to allow space inside ourselves for it to enter and settle. Since the New Moon is conjunct Uranus, we can expect massive changes that happen very quickly this year- even more quickly than last year. The Earth will change. We will change. But all signs point toward the positive and we know that all we need to do to navigate the daily energies is ground ourselves firmly in Mother Earth and conjoin her journey as she hurtles through space. The thing to ponder is how do I want to make my mark this year?
http://shiftfrequency.com/
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20 Mar 2012 - 12:15am
Dear Friends,
Spring Equinox is Monday, March 19 at 11:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a solid and earthy time for grounding your intentions and setting things up for the next few months. Be sure you take some time to honor the spring equinox as a powerful time of birth and renewal,and to think about what you want as opposed to what you think you should want or you think others expect you to want. Revisit your life at this point and ask yourself whether you are just going through the motions of your life day to day without truly being present or enjoying the experience, or whether you are present, engaged, grateful and inspired. You may get some practical clarity that will manifest in positive change.
The New Moon on Thursday, March 22 comes on the heels of the Equinox, at 8:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time. This New Moon provides an exclamation point to the energies of the change of seasons and especially marks the theme of birth. Honor what is newly birthed and what is being reset into a new pattern. Allow yourself some rest especially if you feel deeply worn out or taxed due to the energy levels of the moving center. Remember to come from gratitude and to make some change in your personal environment if you have not already done so. Some of you may be inspired to do a bit of spring cleaning. Clean away!
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles.
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
New Moon: Sun and Moon in Aries 2º
Thursday, March 22 8:38 AM MDT/2:38 AM GMT
We renew ourselves at every level as the Sun moves out of the final degrees of watery, languid Pisces and bursts forth through the fiery enthusiasm of the first degree of Aries. The powerful Spring Equinox on Monday, March 19 marks equal day/equal night. The astrological year commences at this fertile point and is considered one of the four major power points of the year along with the summer/winter solstices and autumnal equinox. The New Moon follows just days later. The energy here is of new beginnings. Any New Moon cycle calls on us to reset our intention for the next cycle of increase and culmination, and the Sun’s movement into the new season greatly magnifies the power of defining a clear path for Spirit to fulfill our intentions. The power of creative intelligence and visualization is great in this window of the first and early degrees of Aries.
The fires are burning brightly to potentialize this initiatory phase we are passing through. The alignment of planets in Aries is heavily weighted with Mercury, Moon, Sun, Uranus, Vesta and Ceres all in the sign ruled by the very yang, positive planet Mars augmenting our enthusiasm, courage, innocence, brashness and impatience for action. Aries is about the Self, the head and face, innovation, our instinctual reactions, our Warrior nature – the cry is “I AM”. Of course, that rich eagerness leads the less balanced parts of ourselves to lean towards selfishness, vanity, fiery outbursts of anger, and impulsiveness. Act first, think later. Which can have its place, but also its consequences. Aries is the young hero/heroine in all of us out to seek adventure, create, see ourselves reflected in the world and answer the question ‘Who Am I? Now?
There’s a little something else going on in this chart though, something I think many feel at their gut level. There’s an on-going Grand Cross or Grand Square formed by the North/South nodes squaring Mars on one hand and Chiron on the other. (Continuing roughly from the Full Moon of March 8 to Full Moon of May 5) The Nodes always point us in the direction where we are revisiting and healing our past experiences and issues and where we need to stretch and grow and embrace the new. Chiron is opening wounds buried deep within the psyche offering an opportunity to clear anger and fear issues represented by Mars. War has taken its toll on our souls. The Nodes sit on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis helping us let go of our mental traps and small-mind need for constant stimulation and logical explanations for life and broaden our philosophical horizons and let meaning and deep connection with truth lead our hearts. The masculine, symbolized by Mars square the nodal axis and opposite Chiron, is coming to the time of laying down its role as the dominant, logical paradigm of the last few thousand years. There’s plenty of saber rattling still going on in the world, but now we enter a time of healing that deep wound of unchecked masculine dominating the feminine aspects of life. We honor and bless the elements that played out this drama of duality that was so necessary for the collective consciousness.
Now we get to hold the light for this current intense period of transition. The next few years of Uranus and Pluto making seven exact squares through 2015 (June 24 and Sept 18, 2012 for this year) will be a time of revolutionary activity, evolving to a greater level of consciousness, and practicing more efficiency in embracing changing circumstances. Mars’ current long retrograde stay in Virgo for eight months instead of the usual two (Nov. 2011 to July 2012) is not about criticizing what’s seemingly external to us, but about seeking our calling and finding our true service, focusing on the present moment, and letting go of the victim stance.
Feminine asteroid Juno who expresses through relatedness and committed relationship is also on a three-month journey with the North Node. A commitment to our own wholeness, relationship that is equal and reciprocal, and a shared vision in place of fanatic beliefs is our point of growth. Take time now to know at a very deep level what is important to you in your relationships. Make clear to yourself from your heart what you are committed to. It’s an ongoing theme for the season. I’m looking forward to the annular solar eclipse visible in the West of the United States on May 20th where a narrow ring of the Sun is visible beyond the Moon. It will mark the opening of the two-eclipse package, the visible Transit of Venus (June 5) and the first exact square of Uranus and Pluto on June 24 that could prove to be a very externally active period.
Celebrate the Equinox!
04/04 Mercury goes direct
04/06 Full Moon in Libra – SuperMoon 1:19PM MDT
04/10 Pluto goes retrograde for 5 months
04/13 Mars goes direct
04/21 New Moon in Taurus 1:20 AM MDT
Blog entry
19 Mar 2012 - 5:59am
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Temple of the Grand Jaguar at Tikal, Guatamala
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Knowth, Ireland
The "temple of the seven dolls" at Dzibilchaltun, Mexico
Cairn T at the site of Loughcrew , Ireland
Cairnpapple and Arthur’s Seat alignment, Scotland
Blog entry
13 Mar 2012 - 1:29pm
2012rising.com/article/jupiter-size-plasma-sphere-feeding-from-sun-separates-in-giant-cme-12-03-2012-is-this-the-anticipated-march-global-shift-event
Plus, there is a huge coronal hole shaped like a triangle! High strangeness continues!
Blog entry
11 Mar 2012 - 6:33pm
SOLAR UPDATE ~
The energy inertias from the recent CME (coronal mass ejections) are now directly affecting our magnetospheres ~ depending on where you are on Planet Earth ... you might be directly affected ...
http://lightworkers.org/blog/154493/soular-symptoms
and another great blog share
http://lightworkers.org/blog/154578/thalamus-sun-and-electromagnetics
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I have included an article below ~ that explains how we are affected by these solar storms!
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It is so important to ACCLIMATE * INTEGRATE and CALIBRATE ... these frequencies and depending on your own vibration ~ just how intensely You are affected! FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS during this time! Connecting to Mother Earth during these solar storms really helps us integrate the solar intensities ~ everything is affected at this time! ;o)
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HighSOULar❤HUGS
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INCOMING CME: A CME launched from the sun on March 9th is nearing Earth. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud will arrive on March 11th at 0649 UT (+/- 7 hr). This is not a particularly potent CME. Nevertheless, high-latitude geomagnetic storms are possible when it arrives. Aurora alerts: text, phone.
WEEKEND SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot AR1429 is still erupting this weekend. On Saturday, March 10th, it produced a powerful M8-class flare that almost crossed the threshold into X-territory. During the flare, New Mexico amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft recorded a series of radio bursts at 21 and 28 MHz:
The roaring sounds you just heard are caused by shock waves plowing through the sun's atmosphere in the aftermath of the explosion. "There is incredible complexity in the waveforms," notes Ashcraft. "This is a recording of one of the most turbulent events in all of Nature!"
In addition, the explosion propelled yet another CME toward Earth. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud will hit our planet's magnetosphere on March 12th at 1803 UT (+/- 7 hr), possibly sparking a new round of geomagnetic storms.
After passing Earth, the CME will also hit the Mars Science Lab (MSL) spacecraft on March 13th followed by Mars itself on March 14th. Mars rover Curiosity onboard MSL might get some interesting readings as the cloud passes by.
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Magnetic Storms Affect Humans As Well As Telecommunications
It has long been established that magnetic storms not only affect the performance of equipment, upset radio communications, blackout radars, and disrupt radio navigation systems but also endanger living organisms. They change the blood flow, especially in capillaries, affect blood pressure, and boost adrenalin.
The young and fit couldn't care less, but those who are older, may develop problems. They have to consider the state of magnetosphere in their daily plans. Before, people were glued to weather forecasts. Now they are obsessed with the geomagnetic situation.
But what is a magnetic storm?
Shortly after the launch of the first satellites, mankind discovered the solar wind - a continuous flow of hot plasma from the solar corona. At a distance of 10-12 Earth's radii in the direction of the Sun, where the energy of the solar wind equals that of the Earth's magnetic field, solar wind particles change their direction, and flow around the Earth, forming a comet-like plasma vacuum -- the magnetosphere. The size of its sophisticated but fairly stable structure depends on solar wind pressure, and hence, on solar activity.
The tail of the magnetosphere, which stretches for hundreds of thousands of kilometers in the direction opposite to the Sun, accumulates magnetic energy. From time to time, it is released in explosions, which heat up plasma, and create powerful electric currents (millions of amperes). When such bursts follow one another, the magnetosphere is filled to capacity with hot plasma, while its electric currents embrace the entire near-Earth space. These phenomena are referred to as magnetic storms.
The heart and cardio-vascular system have always been considered the main biological targets of geomagnetic activity. However, the damage inflicted by magnetic storms on human health has been found to be different. Experts from the Institute of Space Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Institute of Physics of the Earth (RAS), and the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy have established that the biggest danger emanates from the micro variations of the geomagnetic field, which coincide with the heartbeat. They occur in about half of all magnetic storms, and are most typical for a prelude to a storm with insignificant changes in the geomagnetic field (mostly affecting high altitudes), and for the recovery phase, when the geomagnetic field is coming back to normal.
Medical statistics for Moscow show that 70% of all micro variations, caused by geomagnetic disturbances, are accompanied by an abnormally high incidence of heart attacks (a growth of about 13%), and blood-strokes (7.5% growth). The low and extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields destabilize the heartbeat, leading to a sudden death or infarction. Medical experts have finally explained why heart attacks take a heavy toll before a magnetic storm - because micro variations begin 24 hours before the storm.
"We have analyzed numerous data on the heartbeat of cosmonauts from all Soyuz crews, and the majority of missions to the Mir Station and the International Space Station," said Doctor Tamara Breus (Physics and Mathematics) from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Space Studies, who heads of a group of physics and physicians, studying this problem.
"We subjected 45 cosmonauts to examination during landing and flights of various duration, when they were exposed to geomagnetic disturbance, and then studied the same parameters in a neutral situation,” he said.
"The influence of a magnetic storm was obvious. It was manifest in a change of pulse and blood pressure, vegetative disorders, reduction of heartbeat rate variability and the power of respiratory undulations, and in a more irregular heartbeat pattern. Reactions varied depending on the duration of the flights and an ability of cosmonauts to adapt themselves to the new environment."
In the opinion of Dr. Breus, these effects were a reaction of the vascular tonus and heartbeat rhythm to magnetic storms.
It is perfectly obvious that the response of such a complicated system as the human organism to external factors largely depends on its condition. A magnetic storm is not dangerous for healthy people.
But there are risk groups with unstable biological status. These include people suffering from ischemic disorders or hypertension, or children whose adaptation system is the process of formation. Newly born are particularly at risk.
"We think that simply forecasting storms is counterproductive because people merely get scared as a result," said Dr. Breus. "But steady micro variations are different. We should concentrate on this in forecasting geomagnetic disturbances."
What is the situation with forecasts today?
Owing to the research, conducted under the comprehensive program of Interbol, scientists better understand the nature of cause-and-effect connections in the near and remote space, which helps them develop the methods of space weather forecasts, that is, distance and time variations of space parameters caused by solar activity.
Since 1994, Russia has been implementing its KORONAS program (Comprehensive Orbital Near-Earth Monitoring of Solar Activity) with a series of space vehicles. The third satellite - KORONAS-Foton - will be launched under the program in 2007.
Continuous monitoring of the solar wind is critical for space weather forecasts. The Chibis micro satellites, which are being developed by the Institute of Space Studies, will be working to this end in low-orbit ionosphere in the near future.
Space vehicles of the Institute's another project - Resonans - will do the monitoring in the internal magnetosphere, and the radiation belts. One more satellite - probably the same Chibis - will stay at the top - in the so-called libration point at a distance of about one and a half million kilometers from the Earth.
The gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun are essentially in balance at this point, and for this reason a space vehicle may "linger on" for a long time near the Sun-Earth line, along which harmful solar corona ejections move, timely reporting the emergence of dangerous solar bursts.
To receive an earlier warning, a space vehicle may be "removed" even further from the Earth. Researchers from the Institute of Space Studies have developed a project called Klipper (not to be confused with a new Russian re-usable piloted spaceship), which provides for placing micro satellites at a distance of 3 to 4 million kilometers from the Earth in the Sunward direction.
This is twice further than the libration point. "Excessive" gravitation of the Sun (compared to the libration point) will be compensated for by the pressure of sunlight on a sail made of fine metallic-like coating on board the satellites. In this way, researchers will be able to stabilize the satellites at a certain point in space, or move them closer to the Sun by handling the reflecting sail.
In other words, they will manipulate the reflecting powers of the material from which it is made. For instance, if a liquid-crystal fiber is installed between a source of light (the Sun in this case), and the sail, it is possible to change the transparency of the fiber by putting it under electric voltage (or removing it).
Its reflecting powers may be changed from mirror reflection to total absorption. This will affect the pressure of light on the sail, causing a change in the direction and speed of the satellite's movement in space.
A project of solar research at a closer distance - Intergeliozond - is designed for a more remote perspective. It will make it possible to see the Sun's polar zones, which are invisible from the Earth.
Source: RIA Novosti
by Yury Zaitsev RIA Novosti
Blog entry
10 Mar 2012 - 1:03pm
Uploaded by ThunderboltsProject on 5 Mar 2012
Electric universe proponent David Talbott takes up the Comet Elenin question from a vantage point generally ignored by both the scientific mainstream and the Internet popularizers of Doomsday speculations. What is the relationship of Elenin's catastrophic demise to the larger, unsolved mystery of explosive comet disintegration?
For a first look at the larger context, see "Seeking the Third Story":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSB93dGMGeg
Blog entry
8 Mar 2012 - 5:36am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGhLb67vLM
Now before you all go screaming lens flare, let me say that I have never had a lens flare like this before. It almost appears to be ultraviolet light, invisible to the human eye! Lens flare move with the camera too, this did not.
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6 Mar 2012 - 7:29pm
www.thepowerpath.com
Dear Friends,
The Full Moon is Thursday, March 8 at 2:41 AM Mountain Standard Time. This full moon is a perfect opportunity to make a plan and commit to taking some action towards manifesting. Start with a fresh plan even if it has elements of a plan from the past. What is it that you want right now at this moment for yourself? How are you going to get there? You do not need to know all the steps, just the first one. Beware of the tendency to look towards others to do it for you. There is no power in that. This is a time to make your own bid for power. Spirit is certainly listening and if your bid is from the heart and not from ego, and if you are ready for it, it will happen sooner than you can imagine. Remember to practice patience as all things come in their own time. Take action but don't micromanage!
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles.
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Full Moon: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Virgo 18º
Thursday, March 8, 2:41 AM MST, 9:41 AM GMT
There's a lot to work with this month with the Virgo Full Moon preceding by a few days the Mercury retrograde of March 12, then the dynamic rebirth energy of Vernal Equinox with the Sun entering 0º Aries on March 19/20 with the New Moon in Aries two days later. These are powerful energy currents to ride.
We have one of those exalted charts where a Grand Trine shares a corner with a Grand Square emitting dynamic and powerful ley lines into our lives and creating choice points - do you want to be on top of the wave or under the wave? The Grand Trine is considered a gift - energy flows smoothly, the planets work well together, no conflict only harmonious energies. The Trine consists of all three Earth signs ~ Mars, our take-action planet is in Virgo with the Full Moon; Jupiter, our generous, big-picture planet, is in Taurus with Venus (they're having a good time), and Pluto, our shamanic, shadow-side transformer is in Capricorn. We have an opening for bringing all the high frequency energy bombarding us and our planet down into assimilation on the earthy physical planes.
We can nourish and support our bodies especially our digestion, improve our home environments and daily habits/routines with organization and planning, take care of details and align our service and work energies more to our hearts. We can take more pleasure in the simple things in life like absorbing the power available to us from Nature, enjoying our social interactions, appreciating our sensual experiences more fully and focusing on our financial well-being. Pluto, happily in the company of his Earth brothers, is less likely to go for our darkest, secret places and more inclined to self-regeneration and revitalization and taking our experiences to a deeper, more powerful place than we have experienced before. A Grand Trine is a wonderful cosmic kiss.
Simultaneously, the mutable signs, Virgo, Pisces (Earth, Water) and Gemini, Sagittarius (Air, Fire) are all in a Grand Square formation. Mars in Virgo squares the North/South Nodes and Pallas Athena, Chiron and Neptune in Pisces also square the North/South Nodes currently in Sagittarius/Gemini. Mars square the Nodes has the quality of crisis emerging from excessive energy, aggression, anger, force (or the threat of it) - restlessness and impatience and frustration. Mars is in a very mental sign - Virgo, so we need to come into alliance with our thoughts, our discriminatory judgments, our perfectionistic, critical and controlling ways. If these qualities are presented to you in this Full Moon period in yourself or through others, you have a growth opportunity available to you. Your inner Warrior is seeking the light and asking what is your heart's work?
Pallas Athena as goddess of wisdom governs a range of areas including creative intelligence, the arts and artisans, healing powers, justice and protector of the political body, and the craft and skill involved in professional standards. Some say, she is the yin symbol to Uranus' yang symbol of raising consciousness and increasing awareness of high frequency influences. Here, Pallas Athena involved in a Grand Square aligned with Neptune and Chiron in Pisces, she brings emphasis to the qualities of wisdom through merging with the muse that brings us poetry, music that transports us, gaining knowledge through entering the illusionary world of film and finding healing through shamanic work, dreams, guided imagery. Meditation and devotional spiritual practices will also ease the lessons when the nodes are challenged by squaring planets that reveal the areas where we are stretching to grow and where our karmic backpacks insist on spilling their entire contents into the whole room.
Because we have a Virgo Full Moon, we have to look to Mercury, the ruling planet and see how this fleet-footed androgynous one is situated. Mercury is traveling in exact alignment with Vesta, Keeper of the Eternal Flame of the Sacred Temple, the Vestal Virgin in the tradition of ‘onto themselves' - not violated, not depleted- their kundalini/sexual energy their own to gather and concentrate and move upward for spiritual practice and sacred ceremony. Focus and commitment to a higher purpose or work is emphasized with Vesta (often considered a ruler of Virgo). With a trine from the already active North Node, point of growth, and a square from Pluto in Capricorn to Vesta/Mercury, we are being asked to focus and commit our thinking processes towards what is truly important in our lives and stretching and breaking out of the molds that hold us in limitation, a time to dream boldly of what we desire beyond the imaginary border of 2012. New frontiers (Uranus, Vesta, Mercury in Aries) await those who grasp the principles of creating using the quantum field as ally pulling what you want from the universe with your magnetic thoughts. Practice focusing your mind to expand consciousness and eliminating mental energy leaks.
The Spring or Vernal Equinox, one of the four major power points of the year, marks the Sun's entry into 0º Aries - equal day, equal night. Mars retrograde motion will keep The Grand Trine/Grand Square configuration spoken of for Full Moon active through the Equinox of the 19th-20th and beyond to New Moon in Aries on March 22nd.
03/11 Daylight Savings Times begins
03/12 Mercury retrograde until 04/04
03/19 Vernal Equinox
Monday, March 19 11:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time
03/22 New Moon Aries 8:37 AM MDT
04/06 Full Moon Libra 1:19 PM MDT
Blog entry
6 Mar 2012 - 7:11am
Here we go again ~ hold on and Breathe Deep ~ relax and anchor your vibration to and with Mother Earth ~
STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: Big sunspot AR1429, which emerged over the weekend, is
crackling with strong flares. This morning the active region produced an
X1-class eruption and a bright coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME appears set
to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field in the days ahead, possibly
sparking geomagnetic storms. Stay tuned to http://spaceweather.com for images
and updates
STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: Solar activity is now high. Big sunspot AR1429, which emerged on March 2nd, is crackling with strong flares. This morning brought the strongest so far--an X1-class eruption on March 5th at 0413 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash:
Update: The explosion also hurled a bright CME into space. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will probably miss Earth, although it will hit Mercury and Venus. An animated forecast track shows the likely progression of the cloud.
Even if this CME misses, high-latitude sky watchers should still be alert for auroras in the nights ahead. An M2-class eruption from the same sunspot on March 4th produced another, wider CME that might yet intersect Earth. The cloud is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on March 6th at 04:30 UT (+/- 7 hr). Auroras alerts:text, phone.
CONVERGING PLANETS: Go outside at sunset and look west. Venus and Jupiter are converging there for a 3o conjunction on March 12th and 13th. Even now, more than a week away from closest approach, the bright duo are a wonder to behold:
"They are like glowing lamps in the sky," says photographer M. Raşid Tuğral, who created this astronomical self-portrait at his home in Ankara, Turkey. "I really enjoyed them tonight and also the reddish planet Mars."
As the distance between Venus and Jupiter shrinks, something interesting happens. The converging pair can actually become physiologically mesmerizing, according to NASA. Do you find these planets hypnotic? Submit your answers with photos here
Blog entry
5 Mar 2012 - 10:45am
"For the first time in almost a decade, sky-watchers this week will be able to see all five naked-eye planets over the course of one night for several nights in a row. The classical naked-eye planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—can be seen easily without optical aids and so have been known since ancient times. But the quintet hasn't appeared together during a single night since 2004."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120228-planets-moon-night-sky-venus-jupiter-space-science/
What's more, this week's parade of planets will be joined in the nighttime skies by the waxing crescent to waxing gibbous moon and the superbright stars Sirius and Canopus.
(Related: "New Comet Found; May Be Visible From Earth in 2013.")
"Although being able to see these objects simultaneously doesn't have any scientific value as such, it is a really fun opportunity to get a sense of how we fit in the universe," said Geza Gyuk, an astronomer with the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
"It is a bit like looking at an astronomy class in a nutshell."
Best Views for Cosmic Parade
Although the moon and the seven bright objects will all be visible in one night, they won't all appear at the same time or in the same region of the sky.
The best time to catch sight of the cosmic parade will be between February 28 and March 7. This is when the more elusive planets Mercury and Mars will be at their brightest in the evening sky for 2012, and when the moon will be above the horizon for many hours before setting.
Just after local sunset, Mercury will be low in the west and rusty-colored Mars will start to rise in the east.
Catching Mercury in particular is notoriously difficult, Gyuk said, because the tiny world is the closest to the sun and so never appears very far above the nighttime horizon.
(Also see "NASA's First Pictures of Mercury Taken From Orbit.")
The best way to find Mercury with the naked eye will be to first identify the superbright planets Jupiter and Venus, which will appear in the southwest about 30 minutes after local sunset.
"Follow the line connecting Jupiter to Venus below right, and continue on until you almost reach the horizon," Gyuk said.
"Mercury will be in this vicinity and should be fairly bright in binoculars, but will be getting dimmer and harder to locate as the days of early March progress."
Saturn—which looks like a bright, yellowish star—will rise near local midnight in the east.
According to Gyuk, the best place to view the sky show will be from either a large field or the top of a hill with eastern, western, and southern views.
Full Show a Limited-Time Offer
Sirius and Canopus are the brightest stars visible any time year-round, but this week they'll be at their highest in the sky for 2012 soon after local dusk sets in.
Located just under nine light-years away, Sirius is the brightest star we can see from Earth and the lead star in the constellation Canis Major, the mythical "big dog" that shines high in the Northern Hemisphere's winter sky.
Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky, is part of the southern constellation Carina, the keel of the mythological ship the Argo. (Related: "'Light Echoes' From Monster Star's Eruption Found—A First.")
While Sirius is visible from all mid-latitude regions, Canopus—to the lower right of Sirius—can be seen only by observers in more southerly latitudes, for instance, below Los Angeles and Atlanta.
The northern limit for viewing the other six bright objects this week is around the Arctic Circle, beyond which Sirius is invisible. The southern limit is around the Equator, beyond which it becomes very difficult to spot Mercury.
"The moon, of course, is our closest cosmic neighbor and the only one we can really study as a world with the naked eye or even simple binoculars," Gyuk added. (Related: "New Scars Found on Moon, Hint at 'Recent' Tectonic Activity.")
"However these other points of light are all really bright objects in the sky too, so to get the full experience, take your time and let your eyes adapt to the darkness and enjoy."
Blog entry
5 Mar 2012 - 10:39am
Space Weather News for March 5, 2012
http://spaceweather.com
STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: Big sunspot AR1429, which emerged over the weekend, is crackling with strong flares. This morning the active region produced an X1-class eruption and a bright coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME appears set to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field in the days ahead, possibly sparking geomagnetic storms. Stay tuned to http://spaceweather.com for images and updates.
Blog entry
5 Mar 2012 - 2:11am
Wow this was an Awesome Read and Funny...lol...Enjoy it...smiless...Fantastic things Are on their Way!!
Spacemuffin – The Winds Of March – 4 March 2012
Readiness is everything and the winds of change are starting to blow. For all the waiting we’ve done, only those who have prepared the ground will be available to the troubled world once the media is infiltrated. Do you have your speeches prepared? Do you know what you are going to say? Do you even know where to begin? How do you feel about public speaking? Are you connected to your community, and do those who know you, trust you? We should at least have some vague idea of where to begin, and what to say in some public arena . It’s great to be awake and aware, but we also need to be prepared. It’s not far off now. Let’s turn a magnifying glass to March, April, and May of 2012. Two I Ching oracles were drawn for guidance for this article. Some of this may be repetitive, but it’s better to be overly prepared than unready.
Mercury is already starting to slow down, as is Pluto; things are now hanging precariously in the balance as we have two fearful planets lurking. But let’s look at Pluto first: in Capricorn, as discussed, the crashing down of false wealth, power, and constructs built on greed, which is already being witnessed – gearing to go backwards; a planet in fear, if we believe in ancient Astrology, which by the way, I do. The wise are resigning while the others continue to battle forwards, headlong into disaster.
This month is very important as Pluto slows down to go retrograde on April 10th. In about two week’s time, it will be barely moving. These problems will intensity, as push comes to shove; it will be do or die. Between the middle of this month, to the time of actual backwards rotation, it will spell the last days of freedom, for some. It cannot be any other way. The empire was just too large, too corrupt, too vast, and too polluted to remain in position. And although it is a new empire crumbling, it isn’t an isolated incident or a unique situation, really; it’s just history repeating itself, only this time we let the demon get really powerful. I think wanting to kill off 90% of humanity and initiating one world order is pretty bad, don’t you think? Let’s just say it might be a little bit worse this time than it’s ever been before. The I Ching draws the 36th Hexagram, Darkening of the Light, six in the sixth place:
Not light but darkness.
First he climbed up to heaven,
Then he plunged into the depths of the earth.
“Here the climax of the darkening is reached. The dark power at first held so high a place that it could wound all who were on the side of good and of the light. But in the end it perishes of its own darkness, for evil must itself fall at the very moment when it has wholly overcome the good, and thus consumed the energy to which it owed its duration.”
But if we follow the rules of chess, we know that the last piece to fall is always the king, while the queen is the most desirable player to take from your opponent, along with all the rest, until the king is trapped. While all this is taking place, those at the top of the power pyramid, the darkest ringleaders, will eventually be cornered, in the end, just like the other players, only with greater shame, because then and only then, will the game over. Once Pluto goes retrograde, the king will be trapped and while he might be chased around the board for a few more moves, check mate will come hard. Because this is really just a game of entrapment, only this time, the winner is pre-determined, as the light always wins, in the end, and this IS the end, of this game.
Two variables to add then, so let’s continue to look at Mars. The end of this month and beginning of April is going to be extremely tension ridden. While Pluto is stationary, just about to go retrograde, Mars will go stationary while retrograde, just about to go direct again. This is so interesting! After Pluto goes backwards, Mars goes direct 3 days later! The first two weeks of April are going to see a change of direction in Martial energies, and while they may go out with a bang, (threat of war, possibly attempts to enlist the aid of more military and security personnel, border closures, call for increased ammunition, etc), the reality is that Mars, and those professions who are ruled by this planet, will be done with their guns, and those who hold power over them, and bid them to do their dirty work, will lose their grip on the men and women in suits with guns. Because losing power means losing all power; you don’t get to slice it up and keep some parts of this pie. They don’t get to hang on to their money, or their police force, or the media, or anything that was gained through terrorism.
This retrograde Mars has seen many people get hurt on our planet and has caused much destruction. It has also reflected increased martial law enforcement in the United States (the military headquarters of the world), and the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act, just as Mars was becoming stationary early this year. Because the United States is representative of the power house that it is, especially with regards to its actual title of military capital of the world, its citizens will be most sorely hit when the truth is revealed. So when Mars goes direct again, while scared Pluto starts to go backwards, we can expect quite the opposite effect of martial control over humanity, but martial control over the ones who will be sought out for arrest! You will pardon me if I sound excited; I will work on developing compassion later.
But let’s turn the focus now on Mercury. I spoke about it in my previous article, but let’s just tie it all in together, because it’s already starting to slow down. I feel this retrograde planet will be quite instrumental in pushing things forward with regards to the literal havoc it will wreak on the already tongue tied and twisted media. With respect to getting the truth however, I feel it will have to get worse before it gets better. While Mercury is stationary (between now and March 12th), there is much going on behind the scenes in our news rooms when the cameras are off. On Monday March 12th, or possibly sooner, we can expect to start hearing some strange things on our televisions and radios. It’s not just that the power mongers will lose control of the media, but the media will become confused as to how to begin reporting the truth. While some will choose to end the silence, others will have to explain why they are saying nothing. And also why they have kept silence for so long. I don’t think the public is going to be overly impressed; after they get over the shock of what they are going to hear, of course.
The reason why this time will be a little different than other times is because Mercury will dwell for a very long time in conjunction to the Planet Uranus, the great and sudden bringer of change. Uranus equals disruption, while Mercury equals thought and communication. Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius and is the great liberator of the mind. The two together will make quite the dynamic duo. That can be no other way. They will be quite the instigators for enlightenment and rude awakenings. The outer planets send forth their influence through the conjunction to the closer inner planets, so it is Uranus that will affect Mercury, who will, for the most part, be going backwards throughout this entire process. Mercury will begin to conjunct Uranus on Monday, March 5th, and will remain within a 3 degree orb of influence until March 23rd, so about 19 days. They will both be in Aries, so we have to throw Mars into the mix, as Mars rules Aries. This will add much energy to this aspect, as well as disrupt travel in vehicles made of steel (pretty much everything on earth).
So while information begins to leak out, surprising people and shocking the general public, the information will be skewed, disjointed, inconsistent and sensationalized (remember, it’s the media). Only this time they won’t have to bust their butts too hard to make it exciting, will they? Nevertheless, the news will be overwhelming as the control over the media is lost. The I Ching speaks of the 51st oracle, The Arousing, Shock, Thunder:
The Judgement
Shock brings success.
Shock comes – oh oh!
Laughing words – Ha Ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
But he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.
“The shock that comes from the manifestation of God within the depths of the earth makes man afraid, but his fear of God is good, for joy and merriment can follow upon it. When a man has learned within his heart what fear and trembling mean, he is safeguarded against any terror produced by outside influences. Let the thunder roll and spread terror a hundred miles around; he remains so composed and reverent in spirit that the sacrificial rite is not interrupted. This is the spirit that must animate leaders and rulers of men – a profound inner seriousness from which all outer terrors glance off harmlessly.”
Let’s see, what else have we got going on? Oh yeah, the solstice and the New Moon in Aries – big stuff! Basically, the spring solstice means that the Sun is going into Aries but the New Moon happens two days later and oddly enough, of course, aligns with Mercury and Uranus. These are dynamic energies to say the least. So we’re going to throw in the light of the Sun, and the interference of the Moon into the mix, with Uranus and retrograde Mercury, all in Aries (which by the way is a sign that the Moon hates), and we’ve got quite the bag of energies to deal with between March 21st and March 23rd. Plus the solstice energies are powerful for about 3 days before and 3 days after, as they help to increase consciousness. So you see folks, March cannot possibly escape without serious influence on our media and on the continued downfall of our reptilian commanders. What fun!
While the big cookies crumble throughout the month of April, Saturn continues to go retrograde in its sign of exaltation, Libra, which just means the court rooms will be full and more foul relationships will be severed, but we should experience some smooth sailing, so to speak, after April 14th, when all planets will be direct except for Saturn and Pluto. That however is, respectively still quite a lot to deal with, but things should proceed rather nicely until about the beginning of May, when Venus goes stationary, about to go retrograde. This doesn’t happen too often, about every 18 months, and to sum things up, it’s generally a time of austerity for us earthlings. What will be of the most significance with this Venus retrogredation, is the timing. Humanity will be forced to look at their value systems, and question how we can say we love a handbag, and love a person, and have that word mean the same thing; if you get my meaning. This is a test of faith and none of us are exempt.
Let’s enjoy this time, get focused, and get our speeches ready, cause Lucy’s going to have some explaining to do really soon, and we might not get another chance to talk before then.
Face Piles of Trials with Smiles
The Muffin
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1 Mar 2012 - 7:59pm
The main theme for March is Opportunity.
Whew, we have managed to get through January and February with a few instinctive and emotional scrapes and bruises and have landed into the more grounded, certain and stable influence of March. We are in a period now of practical transformation where how we approach what we know we will have to do, will determine how it all comes out. The practical side is important as well as addressing your physical environment and the theme of bringing the body along.
The reason the theme is Opportunity is because the more you see everything as opportunity the better off you will be managing what it is you have to do. And everything is an Opportunity. This forward focus will also keep you from mulling over the past and questioning whether the decisions and choices you made and are making are right. Even if you are sitting in disappointment or loss or the challenge of a major change, look at the opportunity this presents and be inspired
It is back to action, taking the "keep it moving" theme of February and seeing where things have landed after a huge letting go. The shifts of the last few weeks have left an opening to experience everything from a different perspective, even a different parallel in some cases. If you don't recognize your surroundings or if everything looks different to you, that is a good sign and one that indicates you have shifted your assemblage point and your experience into a new parallel. If you know you put something (like your keys) in its' place, and the next day it disappears, this also is a sign of a change in parallel. Allow it to be and welcome the opportunity this presents. With a shift in parallel comes a shift in old patterns. Observe the difference in your reactions and your attachments. What you thought you could never give up a few weeks ago may be effortless now.
The action of this month and of the moving centered year demands you have a plan. Wishing and intending is not enough. You have to do something for what you want. The universe will respond to action this month and you can be incredibly productive and prosperous if you just get off the couch. So if you want to get better at something or learn a new skill or manifest a new relationship, you have to take action. This is a dynamic month of connectivity, exchange and movement and there is opportunity around every corner. Say yes to what you may not have considered in the past, take a practical risk, and go for transformation whenever possible. Whatever you think you cannot do, give yourself the opportunity to do it.
Because there is more stability this month, the physical universe has the opportunity to organize itself in a new way. In the wake of things coming apart in the last couple of months, there is a new order emerging that you may not recognize yet, but it feels right. Go with your intuition. Your commitments and action will find solid ground this month and you will be rewarded for the steps you take beyond your imagined limitations. Opportunity means a second, third and fourth chance to reconfigure, rework, rekindle and reconnect. Do not waste the month. Take action and do something.
What if what you try is not the right thing? So what? The universe has received the message that you are willing to try so it will support you to try again and again until what you have is different. The main thing is not to sit around and wait for something to fall into your lap. Be proactive with your evolution and growth. If your life if not what you want it to be, change it. Once you decide to break loose of something that does not work, you will be amazed at the opportunities that show up. This is a new paradigm. It says believe and take action and then you will see the results, rather than see it first and then take action and then believe the results.
This is also the month we can consider a time of birth due to the spring equinox. It is a powerful equinox this year and truly supports practical transformation on all levels. Consider that this can be the birth of something new: a lifting of limiting beliefs and an expanded awareness of what is possible. You have seen in the past how fickle your reactions are. What has seemed impossible or not doable becomes possible if only you wait until the intensity of the impossibility subsides. It is so with everything. Any strong reaction is charged with the fear of loss, the fear of failure, or the fear of death. And any strong reaction is connected to attachment of some kind. If you give it time, and wait long enough, the intensity dissolves and you are back at neutral and able to move the situation forward onto a new platform. This is a very good practice and will help to diminish the effects of impatience and martyrdom. Try it.
The body is a gift and a curse this month. It becomes clear that the body has to come along on this path of practical transformation or you won't get very far. Your physical body is the most practical and solid tool in your toolbox for this lifetime and it will dictate what it wants and it will show you exactly where your work with it is. This month you will either take the relationship with your body to a new more inspired level or the body will take you down. It is important to give the body every opportunity to transcend the collective agreement about what it is capable of and to support it to reach another level of functioning. Listen to your body and don't believe everything others tell you. This is your opportunity to reset your relationship with your body in a way that works better for both of you. The opportunity is huge for healing, power, strength and manifesting. You should be inspired and committed to support the body in a new and more disciplined way.
The challenges this month:
You could find yourself feeling deflated and overwhelmed and running old tapes of "It's too much, I can't do it".
You could fall into judgment and a lot of negative thinking.
Your mind could sabotage feelings of well being by inserting the need to control.
You could succumb to crisis and see it as bigger than life with no way out.
You could be quick to anger, resentment and martyrdom with impatience just on the other side.
You could just give up, not in a good way where you give it over to spirit but in a way that is victimized and blaming.
You could become a couch potato, lethargic and apathetic with a bad attitude.
You can look at your life as limited instead of seeing the opportunity.
The opportunities this month:
You could experience life from a different parallel.
You could feel neutral about situations and events that were previously charged.
You could reach new levels of power, understanding and transformation.
You could manifest great prosperity and luck.
You could get your body in gear and bring it along for this fabulous ride.
You could turn all of your challenges into opportunities.
You could eliminate fear through action and risk.
You could become free.
Helpful practices:
See everything as an opportunity and remind yourself of this every day.
Be patient, listen, and wait for things to shift in their right timing.
Take some action every day that shows you are serious about doing something towards your intentions and goals.
Make a plan and be willing to adjust it frequently to meet the elastic nature of the times.
Talk to your body, pay attention to it, work with it and give it what it needs.
Do something every day that shows the spirit you are serious about your practical transformation and that you are willing to move forward and into opportunity instead of backing away. Take a risk, don't look back.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
We already talked about the need to acknowledge opportunity at every turn. This month also provides an incredible portal to practical transformation as well as personal power. Be careful what you ask for and beware of overextending. Watch impatience and keep telling yourself there is plenty of time. When you have the urge to spring ahead but the way is not clear, make a practice of waiting patiently until the way is clear. There is a chance this month to truly learn about effortless action if you manage the impatience and stay clear of the drama it can stir up. It is also important not to compare yourself to others or take too personally what others think. Everyone has their opinions and their beliefs. As you surf the different parallels you may find that the gap begins to widen between your reality and that of others not on the same page.
RELATIONSHIPS
Healing, mending, forgiving, exploring, accepting, birthing, completing and becoming neutral. This is an exciting and dynamic time for relationships; not just relationships between people but the relationship you have with everything. There is an opportunity to move into uncharted territory as relationships move to a new level of exchange, trust and sharing. Whole new and innovative economies are likely to be birthed due to the exploration of and new understanding of relationship. This is a time when the deepest most painful experiences of separation, betrayal and abandonment have the opportunity to begin their path of deep instinctive and emotional healing which will over time rebuild trust and reweave community in a new way.
You can get with the program by focusing on your own healing, forgiveness, acceptance and becoming neutral. It is easier than you think especially if you are willing to let go of the old "story".
THE ENVIRONMENT
With regards to climate and weather, we have both wind and water as elements this month. The wind represents movement and the moving center helping us to keep things from getting too stagnant, and water helps to help lubricate the emotional center and support the emotional healing of deep wounds. It promises to be a quieter month for weather intensity although that does not mean there won't be any. Remember that this is a year of the artisan and of chaos so anything can happen when you least expect it. It would be wise to make friends with the wind and to see the wind as an ally instead of resisting it. When you experience wind, thank it for all that it is clearing and transforming with very little effort. If you get the chance, play with the wind; move into the wind and feel how it buffets you and how it can hold you up and protect you from falling.
In terms of the environment, it will be important for you to take the opportunity of all the change and spend some time reconfiguring your own personal environment. You may have released some old baggage and gotten rid of some things. Perhaps your personal environment needs a bit of a face-lift and some new energy. Be bold and work with it in a new and different way.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
We mentioned quite a bit about the physical body and the importance of bringing the body along in this time of practical transformation. Look for sporadic and indefinable symptoms surfacing out of nowhere as the body attempts to shed the old patterns that hold it back. Don't try and understand how they are related and what they are. You will do yourself a disservice if you attempt to define your symptoms and link them to some kind of condition that you can look up on the Internet. This is where you should not believe everything you are told. Old useless patterns manifest in many ways. The joints and muscles are especially susceptible this month to random aches and pains. You may find yourself with allergies and skin issues. Think of yourself as shedding an old skin like a snake that has grown out of its old one.
Give yourself plenty of rest and listen to the body. Set a strong intention that you will bring it along and it will tell you what it needs in order to keep up. This month you can become incredibly strong and resilient and you may be surprised at what this body of yours is capable of. The adrenals may need support, as this could be a taxing month for them.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
A good month for looking at new opportunities and tossing out old judgments about what works and what does not work. There are new business practices being currently explored that will change the way everything is done in the future. Expand your awareness, educate yourself, exchange ideas, and cooperate with others. If you were so inclined it would be a good month to learn a new skill, preferably one you never thought you would be capable of. This is stepping out beyond your comfort level and into a new experience of growth and learning. This is a time to stretch, to take a bit of a risk, and to go for what you want. The sky is the limit as long as you believe it is.
Take care to honor your agreements and to end things in a good way of they are ending. Take care also to wait for right timing and to listen and wait for the path to open up if it feels closed when starting something new. Your relationship to others that you work with and to the product that you develop, sell, teach or manufacture should be the most important aspect. It is your relationship to your work and to your projects that will give them the substance and longevity to survive and be prosperous.
It is a good month for prosperity especially if held in the theme of the opportunity for practical transformation.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
It is a quieter more grounded month and we also have Mercury retrograde beginning later this month. Even though political arenas may not be quite as frenetic, there are still plenty of misunderstandings, frustrations, chaos and a bit of confusion. Mercury retrograde slows things down some but the real issue is that many planetary citizens are just simply tired of old school politics and going round and round with the same old patterns. We are still not quite at the point where there is enough momentum to actually turn things around on this planet but we are getting there. What you can do is practice patience and listening and waiting for the right timing to show itself. Then it will be effortless.
And as usual we always recommend looking to your own politics in your personal environment and seeing how you can improve your communication, your dedication to what is right and your life as a global citizen.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES:
March 1-7: A time of sifting through the rubble left by the decisions, choices, change, letting go and release of the past few weeks. All the pieces are in front of you and you get to sift, sort and decide what stays, what goes and what gets remodeled. Don't get too bogged down in dwelling on the past and refrain from the need to know what went wrong or how it could have been different. Be inspired by the opportunity rather than dwelling on what you have lost or given up on. Practice acceptance and patience and keep a "don't know mind" as it will take awhile to actually see the new forms taking shape.
Keep the movement going, make sure you exercise the body and don't allow anything to get too stale or stagnant.
March 8: Full Moon is at 2:41 AM Mountain Standard Time. This full moon is a perfect opportunity to make a plan and dedicate to taking action. What is it that you want right now for yourself? And how are you going to get there? Beware of the tendency to look towards others to do it for you. There is no power in that. This is a time to make your own bid for power. Spirit is certainly listening and if it is done from the heart and not from ego and if you are ready for it, it will happen sooner than you can imagine.
March 9-16: (Daylight Savings time begins on Sunday March 11) This time frame is characterized by possible uncertainty and confusion as you navigate the minefield of what is yours and what is not. When an opportunity shows up, make sure it is your opportunity and not someone else's. You may also find that people who are not on the same page as you will have trouble understanding what it is that you want. Eliminate the need to have the approval of others. It only confuses things. The best way to navigate these times is to step back, take a deep breath and wait...until clarity comes. And it will.
March 12: Mercury goes retrograde until April 4. This slows things down on the outside, demanding presence and clarity of communication. Your experience is turned to the inner realm where you get a chance to explore what drives you and your intentions from the inside. It could be a time of clearing what you find on the inside especially if it is not yours to begin with such as parental imprinting.
March 17-23: This time frame includes the Equinox and the New Moon. This is a dynamic time marked by many opportunities to end things, to begin things, to heal things, to forgive things, and to begin new and fresh as in birth. The best way to navigate is to stay out of judgment and to see everything as an opportunity and to take advantage of that opportunity. Remember to make a plan and to think about how you are going to bring the body along. Allow for magic to happen and for things to take their course. It is truly an inspiring time if you allow it to be.
March 19: Spring Equinox is at 11:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a solid and earthy time for grounding your intentions and setting things up for the next few months. Be sure you take some time to honor the equinox and to think about what you want as opposed to what you think you should want or you think others expect you to want. Revisit your life at this point and contemplate what you are just going through the motions with day to day without truly being present or enjoying the experience. You may get some practical clarity that will manifest in positive change.
March 22: New Moon is at 8:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time. Coming on the heels of the Equinox, this New Moon provides an exclamation point to the energies of the change of seasons and especially marks the theme of birth. Honor what is newly birthed and what is being reset into a new pattern. Allow yourself some rest especially if you feel deeply worn out or taxed due to the energy levels of the moving center.
March 24-31: The rhythm of action and the moving center speeds up a bit here but it is also combined with a quirky emotional aspect that can be confusing and throw you off guard. If you have done your work you will know exactly where you stand and what you are about and what your next action step is on your plan. If you have been ambivalent, lethargic, passive and resistant, you may have a harder time finding your way through this time. If you cannot see clearly what you need to do, ask for help. Often the people around you can see things you cannot.
It is possible to become mired in emotional quicksand if you do not make a separation from drama that is not yours. On the other hand this may be exactly the time you need to immerse yourself in some deep emotional healing of a personal experience that pops up out of nowhere for you to reconcile. Be patient, compassionate, forgiving and above all, see it all as an opportunity for growth, inspiration and evolution.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
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Beautiful zodiacal light! Photos and explanations., page 1
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread812439/pg1
Topic started on 23-2-2012 @ 02:24 AM by elevenaugust
What is zodiacal light?
The Zodiacal light is composed of fine particles of dust in orbit around the sun and is visible because of scattered sunlight from the particles. The glow is brightest toward the sun from particles with diameters between a couple of micrometers and a few millimeters.
Two fundamental planes of planet Earth's sky compete for attention in this remarkable wide-angle vista, recorded on January 23rd. Arcing above the horizon and into the night at the left is a beautiful band of Zodiacal Light - sunlight scattered by dust in the solar system's ecliptic plane. Its opponent on the right is composed of the faint stars, dust clouds, and nebulae along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Both celestial bands stand above the domes and towers of the Teide Observatory on the island of Tenerife. Also out to play in the pristine, dark skies over the Canary Islands, are brilliant Venus (lower left), the distant Andromeda Galaxy (near center), and the lovely Pleiades star cluster (top center). Of course, seasoned skygazers might even spot M33, the California Nebula, IC1805, and the double star cluster of Perseus. (Need some help? Just slide your cursor over the picture.)
SOURCE: APOD2009
From the mid-northern latitudes, the Zodiacal light is most easily visible from a dark location under clear and transparent skies just after evening twilight in the west in February and March, and in the morning eastern sky, just before the start of twilight in October. It is best seen at these times because the plane of dust that comprises it lies in the same plane as the ecliptic, and the ecliptic is at it's steepest angle to the horizon at these times of the year.
This image beautifully captures the zodiacal light, a triangular glow seen best in night skies free of overpowering moonlight and light pollution. The photograph was taken at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile in September 2009, facing west some minutes after the Sun had set. A sea of clouds has settled in the valley below La Silla, which sits at an altitude of 2400 metres, with lesser peaks and ridges poking through the mist.
SOURCE: ESO
Many people confuse the Zodiacal light with twilight since it occurs in roughly the same area of sky, although careful attention to the time of the true end of astronomical twilight will remove any doubt about whether you are seeing the Zodiacal light or the sky brightening from lingering twilight.
SOURCE: APOD Forum
Since the band of dust that forms the Zodiacal light completely circles the sun, it actually stretches across the entire night sky. At the anti-solar point, that point in the sky exactly opposite the sun in the sky, lies a very subtle, and very faint brightening of the dust called the Gegenschein, which is German for "counter-glow". Due to a phase effect similar to the increased brightness of the full moon, this brightening may also be helped by a concentration of dust at the L3 Lagrangian point. The Gegenschein is connected to the Zodiacal light by an even fainter portion of the dust called the Zodiacal bridge or band, and is extremely difficult to see. The Gegenschein is most easily seen at midnight when it is highest in the sky, and in those times of the year when it is in a part of the sky with few stars from late September to early November in Pices, and from late January to early February in Cancer.
The dust between the planets, that scatters sunlight our way, is not from the asteroid belt (green), but from periodic comets that spend much of their time near the orbit of Jupiter. (Credit: SWRI/SETI (Andrew Blanchard, David Nesvorny and Peter Jenniskens))
SOURCE: APOD Forum
Interestingly, the Zodiacal light and Gegenschein can only be seen with the unaided eye, and not through any optical instruments such as binoculars or telescopes because of it's large size and low surface brightness. Parts of this cloud of interplanetary dust are also visible when the larger particles enter the Earth's atmosphere as meteors.
Like the zodiacal light, the gegenschein is sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust. Most of this dust is orbiting the Sun in about the ecliptic plane, with a possible concentration of particles at the L2 Earth–Sun Lagrangian point.
It is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles. It forms a slightly more luminous, oval glow directly opposite the Sun within the band of luminous zodiacal light. The intensity of the gegenschein is (relatively) enhanced because each dust particle is seen in full phase.
SOURCE: Wiki
Stunning views of the zodiacal light:
Venus and Jupiter are this month's two brightest planets. Shortly after sunset on February 20, they dominate the sky above the western horizon and this snowy landscape. In clear and transparent skies over Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania, USA, they are also seen immersed in Zodiacal light. The extended, diffuse, triangular glow is sunlight scattered by dust along the plane of the ecliptic. Brighter near the horizon, the Zodiacal glow angles upward, first to Venus and then to Jupiter hugging the ecliptic as they orbit the Sun.
Fading even further, the glow stretches toward the lovely Pleides star cluster near the top of the frame. Following their appearance in this Zodiacal skyscape, the coming days will see Venus and Jupiter sharing the early evening sky with a young crescent Moon. The two bright planets are even headed for a close pairing or conjunction, separated by about 3 degrees on March 13.
SOURCE: APOD today
SOURCE: Stéphane Guisard from Astrosurf
Note: the last link above really worth a visit as you can see hi resolution pictures of the zodiacal light, in all sky fish eye view, with the constellations lines and names, as well as a 360° panoramic view with Paranal Observatory, Orion, Big deeper, Scorpius, Milky Way and zodiacal light.
Another SOURCE: Astropix
Zodiacal light Google mozaic
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21 Feb 2012 - 2:38am
Dear Friends,
The New Moon is Tuesday, February 21 at 3:35 PM Mountain Standard Time. This new moon is a time to recharge. You will feel like resting, getting more sleep, taking all the movement down to a standstill. If you have been struggling with something that has you constricted and confused, this would be the time to let go, unweight your position and give it over to spirit so you can turn towards another, new and better direction. Whatever it is, let it go. Whatever has you sleepless, let it go. Whatever you are trying to problem solve with your mind, let it go. Whatever you are worried about, let it go. Whatever you experience as being difficult, restrictive, full of suffering, pain and unresolved, let it go. Ritualize this by letting go of something you have been holding onto from the past that has old energy, like a piece of furniture, a photograph, an old sweater, old letters, old jewelry, an old relationship with strings attached etc.
Keep in mind that the times are very much about honoring fluidity and the movement of water and watery aspects that can be allies in helping you to dissolve whatever it is that is not working in your life. The key is that you do not need to know the solution on the other side. Just focus on the dissolving, the flexibility and fluidity. Drink lots of water and pay attention to the qualities of water and its importance in supporting life, change and growth.
IT IS PAST TIME TO GIVE UP THE ADDICTION TO SUFFERING. JUST GIVE IT UP!
Blessings,
Lena
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Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Pisces New Moon
Sun and Moon in Pisces ~ 2º
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 3:35 PM MST/10:35 PM GMT
Pisces New Moon with its upcoming companion Full Moon in Virgo essentially ends the Sun cycle for the year before Vernal Equinox, when the Sun enters the 0º Aries point renewing the cycle again with the rising energies of spring. Pisces is also ruler of the 12th and last house of the zodiac – culmination – the house that holds mystery and Spirit. Where does one turn after journeying through all the other facets of material life symbolized by the houses? To the spiritual aspects of life, to surrender, to union with the divine, to transcendence and compassion.
With Neptune, the major outer planet that rules Pisces, having just moved into its own sign where it will be for the next 14 years, it’s helpful to broaden our understanding of what Pisces represents in the zodiac. Neptune has a long cycle and hasn't been in its own sign for 164 years.
Pisces is symbolized by two fish bound together swimming in opposite directions. On one hand representing self-sustainment - looking beyond the physical to the nourishing sustainment by spirit, and on the other hand, self-undoing - succumbing to illusion and addiction. Pisces, most spiritual of the signs, is able to reach beyond the experience of mundane, daily existence and beyond personal illusions of ego personality, and with its natural endowment of kindness, trust and compassion for all, is able to access planes where source abides and all is connected. This is not the humanitarian equality of Aquarius, but the feeling of unity of all life as an expression of the Divine.
Piscean strength may not be in decisive problem solving, but their deep understanding and reflective natures and sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual realms are an invaluable part of all of us. Their awareness of subtle influences is as boundless as the vast, instinctual ocean environment that they rule. The most adaptable, impressionable, and sensitive of signs makes them highly responsive to their environment and the people and influences in it, and this goes for their outer world as well as their complex inner world as well. Pisces like their fish symbol have few defenses beyond swimming away and escaping.
This fluidity works for them and against them. Known for their highly fertile imaginations, creativity, and strong intuition and psychic abilities, they are tied to the deep inner wisdom of the mysteries of the invisible worlds, yet, at the same time, they can easily become overwhelmed when Neptune dissolves all boundaries and they are unprotected from life's struggles and sufferings. Pisces can effortlessly create and just as easily be distracted from their purpose; their will is not generally strong, and they do not readily choose to face difficult or emotionally painful situations head on. Instead these tenderhearted ones prefer to subtly manipulate and soften reality with a veil of romanticized illusion-to paint a picture that better fits their idealized view. They are susceptible to protecting themselves and diluting the suffering they witness in the human drama through alcohol, drugs and addictions of all kinds - escaping if necessary through pretending, denying, losing attention. What they truly seek is meaning and purpose and a strong connection to Divine Source and the will to manifest it here on Earth.
With Neptune conjunct the Sun and Moon in early Pisces in the New Moon chart, we are aided in dissolving our personal egos and emotional withholds, where we hide our fear from ourselves and others that we are inadequate or unworthy of divine love. With the balancing of the feminine and masculine energies that we are embracing in this transitioning time, many are experiencing the surfacing of the old experiences of good and evil locked in our lower chakras. Let Neptune dissolve these memories from many lifetimes. Don't get stuck in these pictures, they can be pretty nasty. Much is being cleared rapidly from the past now to make way for a higher frequency crystalline structure. Our beliefs about 'God' and concepts about the universe may be up for a great revision and expansion with Neptune in Pisces for the next 14 years. The oceans, their creatures, resources, and power will definitely come to the forefront under Pisces and serve as a source of deep nourishment for our souls. This New Moon, the last before Spring Equinox, is the time for going within and swimming in the sea of our inner knowing for renewal and touching the divine part of ourselves that is always there to nourish and replenish our wells of compassion and giving. Surrender to the call to solitude, dreaming, meditation, and the love that surrounds you always to heal and nourish yourself deeply. Pisces is a receptive, feminine time ~ we can go deep. Dream the dream that you desire to unfold around you.
We also have four planets (Neptune, Moon, Sun, Mercury), and three asteroids (Pallas Athena-creative intelligence, Chiron-healing our wounds, Vesta-temple priestess) in Pisces in this New Moon chart.
Pallas Athena within 1º of the Sun and Moon brings forth our creative intelligence, our wisdom, father-daughter issues, and how we choose to show up in the world.
Chiron at 4º Pisces, along with Mercury, and Vesta are holding the doors of the temple open to invite us to use this period of time presented to us roughly from Feb 18 to Feb 24 as an opportunity to renew our relationship with the divine through nature, our hearts and deep states of silence. Jupiter in sextile to the Sun/Moon and adjacent planets helps us hold the big picture of what we are capable of as conscious beings connected to source.
Open wide, wide, wide during this extremely watery and emotionally fluid time and surrender to the gifts of this feminine Moon.
"Like the empty sky it has no boundaries, yet it is right in this place, ever profound and clear. When you seek to know it, you cannot see it. You cannot take hold of it, but you cannot lose it. In not being able to get it, you get it. When you are silent, it speaks; when you speak, it is silent. The great gate is wide open to bestow alms, and no crowd is blocking the way."
~Cheng-tao Ke
03/08 Virgo Full Moon 2:41 AM MST/9:41AM GMT
03/11 Daylight Savings Time begins
03/19 Vernal Equinox/Sun enters Aries 11:15 PM MDT
03/22 Aries New Moon 8:38 AM MDT/2:38 PM GMT
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18 Feb 2012 - 8:13pm
How 2012's Full Moons Got Their Strange Names
by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
An enhanced image of the Moon taken with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera using two NSF telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Moon is superimposed on a separate image of the sky.
CREDIT:
The start of 2012 brings with it a new year of skywatching, and lunar enthusiasts are gearing up for a stunning lineup of full moons. But, where does the tradition of full moon names come from?
Full moon names date back to Native Americans of a few hundred years ago, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. To keep track of the changing seasons, these tribes gave distinctive names to each recurring full moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.
There were some variations in the moon names, but in general, the same ones were used throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England, continuing west to Lake Superior.
European settlers followed their own customs and created some of their own names. Here is a list of all of the full moon names, as well as the dates and times for 2012: (Unless otherwise noted, all times are given in Eastern Standard Time.)
Jan. 9, 2:30 a.m. EST -- Full Wolf Moon. Amid the cold and deep snows of mid-winter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. January's full moon was also known as the Old Moon or the Moon after Yule. In some tribes, this was the Full Snow Moon, but most applied that name to next month's moon. [Infographic: Moon Phases & Lunar Cycles]
Feb. 7, 4:54 p.m. EST -- Full Snow Moon. Usually the heaviest snowfalls occur during this month. Hunting becomes very difficult, and so to some tribes, this was the Full Hunger Moon.
Mar. 8, 4:39 a.m. EST -- Full Worm Moon. In this month, the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of the robins. The more northern tribes called this the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or the Full Crust Moon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. TheFull Sap Moon, marking the time to tap maple trees, is another variation.
Astrophotographer Amir H. Abolfath snapped this view of the total lunar eclipse of Dec. 10, 2011 from an observing spot in the Zagros mountains of Iran. Abolfath is a photographer with the skywatching imagery group The World At Night (TWAN).
CREDIT: Amir H. Abolfath
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Apr. 6, 10:21 a.m. EDT -- Full Pink Moon. The grass pink, or wild ground phlox, is one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring. Other names for this month's moon were the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and — among coastal tribes — the Full Fish Moon, when the shad came upstream to spawn. This is also the Paschal Full Moon; the first full moon of the spring season. The first Sunday following the Paschal Moon is Easter Sunday, which indeed will be observed two days later on Sunday, April 8. [Gallery: The Fantastic Full Moon]
May 5, 11:35 p.m. EDT -- Full Flower Moon. Flowers are abundant everywhere at this time. May's full moon was also known as the Full Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon. The moon will also be at perigee just 25 minutes after turning full, at 12:00 a.m. EDT on May 6, at a distance of 221,801 miles (356,955 kilometers) from Earth. Very high ocean tides can be expected from the coincidence of perigee with the full moon.
Jun. 4, 7:12 a.m. EDT -- Full Strawberry Moon. Known to every Algonquin tribe, Europeans called it the Rose Moon. A partial eclipse of the moon will be visible chiefly favoring those living around the Pacific Rim. Observers in Japan and Australia for instance, can see it at, or soon after, moonrise, while those in the western United States and western Canada see it at, or just before, moonset. At maximum, about 37 percent of the moon’s diameter will be immersed in the dark umbra shadow of the Earth.
In Amman, Jordan, skywatcher Ahlam Zayed snapped this photo of the March 19 full moon, the so-called "supermoon" of 2011.
CREDIT: Ahlam Zayed
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Jul. 3, 2:52 p.m. EDT --Full Buck Moon. This full moon was so called because it occurs when the new antlers of buck deer push out from their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, thunderstorms being most frequent at this time. Sometimes this is also called the Full Hay Moon. Since the moon arrives at apogee less than 13 hours later, this will also be smallest full moon of 2012. In terms of apparent size, it will appear 12 percent smaller than the full moon of Jan. 10.
Aug. 1, 11:27 p.m. EDT --Full Sturgeon Moon, when this large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, such as Lake Champlain, is most readily caught. A few tribes knew this moon as the Full Red Moon because when the moon rises, it appears reddish through sultry haze (in 2012, The Old Farmer’s Almanac gives this moniker to the full moon of Aug. 31). Other variations include the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.
Aug. 31, 9:58 a.m. EDT --Full Corn Moon. Sometimes also called the Fruit Moon; such monikers were used for a full moon that occurs during the first week of September, so as to keep the Harvest Moon from coming too early in the calendar. This is the second time the moon turns full in a calendar month, so it is also popularly known as a "Blue Moon." Full moons occur on average each 29.53 days (the length of the synodic month), or 12.3683 times per year; so months containing two full moons occur on average every 2.72 years, or every 2 years plus 8 or 9 months.
Sep. 29, 11:19 p.m. EDT --Full Harvest Moon. Traditionally, this designation goes to the full moon that occurs closest to the Autumnal (Fall) Equinox. At the peak of the harvest, farmers can work into the night by the light of this moon. Usually the full moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans and wild rice — the chief Indian staples — are now ready for gathering.
Skywatcher Phillip Jones took this photo of the full moon on March 19, 2011 from Frisco, Texas.
CREDIT: Phillip Jones
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Oct. 29, 3:49 a.m. EDT – Full Hunter’s Moon.With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can ride over the stubble, and can more easily see the foxes and other animals that have come out to glean and can be caught for a Thanksgiving banquet after the harvest. [Top 10 Amazing Moon Facts]
Nov. 28, 9:46 a.m. EST --Full Beaver Moon. Now it istime to set beaver traps before the swamps freeze to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Beaver Full Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now active in their preparation for winter. This full moon is also called the Frosty Moon. Since the moon arrives at apogee less than six hours later, this will also be the smallest full moon of 2012. In terms of apparent size, it will appear 12 percent smaller than the full moon of May 5. There is also a penumbral lunar eclipse with this full moon; observers in the western parts of the U.S. and Canada might notice the upper part of the moon appearing slightly darker as 92 percent of the moon’s diameter becomes immersed in the fainter penumbral shadow of Earth.
Dec. 28, 5:21 a.m. EST -- Full Cold Moon. December is usually considered the month that the winter cold begins to fasten its grip. It is also called the Full Long Night Moonsince nights are at their longest and darkest. The term "Long Night Moon" is a doubly appropriate name because the mid-winter night is indeed long and the moon hangs above the horizon for a long time. The mid-winter full moon takes a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to the low sun.
Blog entry
9 Feb 2012 - 10:55pm
I have been studying aboriginal spiritualism's from about the age of 7 including living close to a branch of the Kaw American Aboriginals in eastern Kansas where I grew up. I was first introduced to the Mayan math and calender systems around the age of 13 in 1970. My name as roughly translated from the Tzolkin is 6-White Wind Magic Breath doubled. In 1968 I was taken to Tibet by my step-father and introduced to the Dali Lama and stayed in touch for several months to study. I for many years considered myself to be theologicly Catholic by relating to my mothers family until around 1990 after a Dream Vision. For a while I considered my core spiritual theology to be Native American/Mayan of the year 535AD. By the mid 90's I remembered my knowledge of Buddhism and began to remember what I was taught about Buddhism and started practicing what I was taught. Today I consider myself to be a practicing Zen Buddhist spiritualist who uses the Mayan calenders and math to decipher things universal in life.
The Mayan date that falls on 12/21/2012 is the end and the beginning of the 26,000 Earth year cycle of galactic alignment of the Earth, Sun & Moon with the super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy inside the galactic plane. This day of alignment starts and ends this great cycle. Also on this day is the conclusion of our solar systems 360 degree circuit around the outer galactic circumference that takes about 63 million years and started actually on the day the asteroid wiped out most of the reptilian species on this Earth. The Maya consider this important because the 63 million year ago asteroid is what began the advancement of the mammalian species on Earth. Mayan cosmology suggests that evolutionary processes are universal and mathematically calculable precisely. Humanoids traditionally make several attempts to become fully civilized and traditionally set themselves back often until the 5th try. 5 cycles of 260 generations to fulfill the required galactic accumulation of experience and knowledge. That is the full meaning of this date we are about to witness.
In Sanskrit (pointed out to me by a Mayan theologist before I understood what it was in reference to) The Maya are advanced spiritual beings who's sole purpose in this universe is to serve living planets by informing it's inhabitants by reincarnating into their societies and educating them according to their levels of advancement. Being drawn to the Earth by the Christ consciousness they (we) came to work. However finding the dark Roman based societies over bearing and in the control of powerful evil entities it was sufficed to build stone records and leave to help more worthy beings until the end of this important cycle today. So, they (we) are back and armed for bear!
There are many different intelligent and advanced species in the Universe and our Galaxy. Many have varied vested negative and positive interests in our Earth and us and have many times came and went. There now seems to be a battle going on at this time to free the Earth humans from material bondage and allow them (us) Ascension. Some of these beings intervened to take away our rights as intelligent loving beings in the past and enslaved the Earth humans for personal purposes. Because of this realization other more friendly intelligent beings have decided to re-intervene and remove the en-slavers and return the Earth to it's rightful owners in peace and prosperity just in time for the universally encoded time of Ascension for a living planet.
I think this is a good summary of what is going on in my perspective, my purpose as a Mayan Cosmologist is to live in, comprehend and record for the Universal Consciousness this incredible and all important time of planetary evolution taking place right now on the Earth.
Have a wonderful day, Rusty
Blog entry
7 Feb 2012 - 3:20pm
Under a Snow Moon: Full Moon of February Rises Tonight
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The full moon of February will hit its peak Tuesday night (Feb. 7) in what Algonquin Native Americans have traditionally called the Snow Moon since heavy snowfalls typically occur in the northern regions this month.
This February full moon occurs at 4:54 p.m. EST (21:54 GMT), although the bright moon can appear full to casual observers a day before and after the exact time of its full phase.
Just after sunset, the bright planets Venus and Jupiter are also putting on a celestial show for skywatchers with clear weather.
The February full moon has many names, just as every month does. In addition to its Snow Moon nickname, the lunar event is also known to other Native American tribes as the Hunger Moon, Storm Moon and Candles Moon due to its occurrence during the northern winter season, when food could be scarce and the weather foul.
Like January's moon, February's full moon is sometimes known as the Wolf Moon, but it also has its own unique names in Hindi (Magh Poornima) and among Buddhists (Navam Poya).
The full moon for each month occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, so that its face is completely illuminated by sunlight.
"The full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise, the only night in the month when the moon is in the sky all night long," wrote SPACE.com contributor Geoff Gaherty, an astronomer with the skywatching software developer Starry Night Education, in a February 2012 skywatching guide.
Lunar eclipses can also occur during the full moon phase when part or the entire moon passes through the Earth's shadow. But since the moon, Earth and sun are not all exactly in the same plane of space, not every full moon creates a lunar eclipse.
Tonight's full moon is not the only lunar sky show in February. The planets Venus and Jupiter will team up with the crescent moon later in the month on Feb. 25 and Feb. 26, when the three objects appear extremely close to each other in the evening sky.
Venus is currently shining extra bright as a dazzling "evening star" just after sunset and will continue to do so all month long. Jupiter, meanwhile, is spending the month in the constellation Aries.
Jupiter and Venus are currently the brightest objects in the night sky after the moon and Sirius, which is the brightest star in the sky.
Story
7 Feb 2012 - 3:01am
Dear Friends,
The Full Moon is Tuesday, February 7 at 2:57 PM Mountain Standard Time. If anything is really stuck in your life right now it will show up in its full glory. Use the influence of the full moon to identify what it is and to move something that will begin a shift in the situation. It could be more communication in a stagnant relationship, it could be changing something in your work or it could be finally making a decision you have been putting off. Honor this movement with moving something around in your immediate environment. At the least get some fresh flowers for your home and maybe clean out your fridge. Most of all, have a little humor regarding all the seductive drama around you and practice some neutrality even if what is up for you in your life is difficult. See this time as an opportunity instead of something you must put up with and survive. Enjoy!
Blessings,
Lena
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FULL MOON IN LEO/AQUARIUS; MOON AND SUN 18º
Tuesday, February 7, 2:54 PM MST, 9:54 PM GMT
With the Moon full in Leo, we have the perfect opportunity to access the portal of our heart. The Sun that is the source of light, heat and energy for Earth is Leo’s powerful ruling planet. Leo is where we naturally exude leadership, power and brilliance. Radiant, vibrant and filled with the confident will of ‘the King of Beasts’ is Leo’s signature. Just as the Sun is the heart of our solar system, so Leo has rulership of the heart, the blood and spine. ‘To take heart’ means to face your fears, and courage is strong in Leo (the Latin root ‘cor’ meaning heart is the base of courage). The Leo/Sun/5th house relationship brings into play Leo’s passion, dramatic nature, and their desire to be seen and appreciated as the center of their pride. Creative self-expression is a life giving necessity for them. As a masculine, fixed fire sign, they are considered hot and dry, and ‘hot’ often translates into passionate and in touch with their anger. I am Lion, hear me roar! They are beasts after all and as such, can bring to bear the entire strength of their being if necessary. Responses can be swift and instinctual – not contemplative and mental like some of our Mercury ruled signs or delicate and diplomatic like the Venus ruled. Their negative pole swings towards egocentricity, vanity, dogmatic opinions.
Leo in any form encourages us to express our deepest heart felt spirit self. The expression of your authentic individuality from the heart is a creative gift to all. Full Moon in Leo invites us to reveal the beauty and strength of fully expressing our unique light ~ shining it brightly for each one to bask in its warmth and generosity while increasing and revitalizing joy and pleasure.
Focusing on the portal in our hearts gets the flow moving in sync with Spirit. The Leo Moon encourages us to practice forgiveness and release of any stuck energy we feel there. Greet the Sun daily and draw a line between it and your own heart to keep up to date with the swiftly surging and changing energy of the Sun – it’s experiencing its own energy transformation with many notable coronal mass ejections (CME) during this active time at the height of the sun spot cycle. Practice exchanging heart energy with trees, plants, pets, partners.
Mercury is exactly conjunct the 18º Aquarius Sun and opposite the Moon. We can experience the interplay of our mind’s thinking function in contrast to our heart-centered feeling function. Our conscious, rational minds will have to include the receptive, intuitive energy of the Moon. We can clear old habits of thinking in dualistic, separating ways and embrace Aquarius’ inclusive, egalitarian mind. Speak from your heart.
Rare and always noteworthy is when an outer planet changes signs and brings expression of a new energy into play. Neptune moved into its own feminine, watery sign of Pisces on Friday, Feb 3. We saw Neptune briefly shift out of Aquarius where it has been residing since 1998 and into Pisces from April to August of 2011, but now it moves into Pisces for the next 13 years - 2025. Oooo, what to expect? Neptune in Pisces, symbolized by the two fish swimming in the opposite direction, is a planet of transcendence and spiritual compassion and also of illusion and escapism. We can realize union with the divine or abdicate responsibility for ourselves and become lost in indecision, confusion and energy leaks. Neptune moves us into the realms of creativity where what we can imagine can be manifested effortlessly by Spirit. Neptune acts by dissolving, merging, disintegrating, surrendering, dreaming. Neptune rules all that is intangible – Spirit, visions, devotion, unity, intuition, psychic experience, the infinite, grace. Idealism is strong here with Neptune – the dreamer, the visionary, the artist, the poet, the healer and the martyr are but a few forms that this planet governs. Next New Moon in Pisces will find Neptune conjunct the Sun and Moon – so very yin.
Just before the Moon reaches fullness, Saturn does a little shape shifting itself. Just half a degree from changing sign from Libra to Scorpio, Saturn decides to turn retrograde for more than 4 months and retrace its degrees from 29º back to 23º Libra. We won’t see Saturn leave Libra and move into Scorpio until early October. We can count on Saturn to bring into balance what we might want to overlook; we can continue our lessons in relationship with the self we see when we look out into the eyes of another.
Slowly, slowly Mars is moving retrograde in Virgo. So uncharacteristic of Mars who is our planet of action, assertiveness and physicality. Now our urge is toward an inward focus and a desire to function efficiently on the day-to-day level. What are my true desires? What will it take to move them forward? Where are impulsive, rash or anger-infused responses being triggered? With Mars retrograde, all that physical energy is getting compressed like when a lion crouches and readies to spring on unsuspecting prey. Be sure to keep physically active to give this energy a constructive outlet especially if you’re feeling testy, irritated or restless or even lethargic.
Later in the month when the Sun moves into Pisces on the 18th, the energy will notably shift away from the masculine expression and stabilizing mental clarity of Aquarius. It will feel like two different months, I suspect, with seven heavenly bodies in Pisces. The spirit of the Goddess will be alive and well among us!
From a larger perspective, we are in a more mundane pattern of astrological events until we round the corner of the Spring Equinox. Then in late May we will be transmuting the energies of a solar eclipse window coupled with Part 2 of the visible Venus transit of the Sun leading up to the first exact square of Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn just after Summer Solstice. So for now, I would say, it behooves us to do the maintenance necessary so we are ready to roll end of May to end of June - and beyond!
02/07 Saturn retrograde at 29º Libra
02/18 Sun enters Pisces
02/21 New Moon in Pisces 3:35 PM MST
03/08 Full Moon in Virgo 2:41 AM MST
03/11 Daylight Savings Time begins
03/12 Mercury retrograde until April 4
Blog entry
6 Feb 2012 - 6:08pm
BACK TO WORK (UPDATED): After a quiet weekend with no flares of any significance, the sun went back to work on Monday morning and launched a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the expanding cloud during the early hours of Feb. 6th:
Update: New images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) show that this was a frontside event. The explosion occured when a magnetic filament draped over the sun's northeastern limb rose up and snapped. An extreme UV movie from SDO shows the structure lifting off. movie Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
for more and up to date info ~ www.spaceweather.com
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Story
2 Feb 2012 - 2:41am
The words that came to describe February were so numerous that I finally came
to rest on the one theme that will be the most helpful. The other aspects and
themes will be addressed in the discussion of the month and will emerge also
in the full and new moon updates.
The main theme for February is Keep it Moving.
This month requires a certain circulation of energy so that things don't get stuck. There could be a tendency for you to become mired in the quicksand of the instinctive center, afraid to move forward, sideways or backwards. You could be like a deer in headlights, frozen in fear and not knowing where to turn so you just dig in, close your eyes, and hope it will go away. It won't. Not this month.
In a river if you get caught in an eddy, you have to paddle backwards upstream to get back into the current. If you are facing an obstacle sometimes it is prudent to back away from it so you can choose another route around it. There is grace to movement when it winds curvaceously around and does not follow a straight line. Likewise you should approach your life this month like a marshal arts dance, offering no resistance but stepping sideways, backwards and forwards following the flow of events.
This month we definitely feel the instinctive part of the moving center. The bottom of the barrel of the subconscious is being scraped and scoured and a lot of instinctive residue is floating to the surface. It is imperative that you do not get riveted on this subconscious matter or blow it out of proportion. It is easy to get bogged down in feeling victimized, martyred or self-deprecating especially when you are facing old patterns, and the past has come up to haunt you. The good news is that certain situations and experiences will force you to look at who you are and what you want for yourself. There is desire to dissolve what's old and break free of it once and for all. The not so good news however, is that there may be some karmic debts to pay along the way before the freedom can be realized and this may be uncomfortable especially for the ego. It is a month of taking responsibility for what you have stored in that barrel as only you can, and allowing yourself forgiveness and compassion; allowing yourself to give it up and turn it over to spirit so you can start creating something new and wonderful in its place.
A ski instructor once pointed out that in order to make a good easy fluid turn on the snow, you must first finish the last turn and then completely unweight your skis and get off the edges. Only then can you gracefully fall into the next turn. The weight of the fall into the next turn sets your edges into the new direction until you are ready to turn again. And you keep it moving. If you are headed straight for an obstacle it is counter intuitive to completely let go of the weight that gives you your edge and your stability. However if you don't, you will end up running into the obstacle and turning away will be that much harder. And if you fall it makes it even more difficult to do anything. I thought this was such a great analogy to how change should happen. If you want to change direction you need to unweight your attachment, give it all up, and fall into the next direction with no effort but one hundred percent commitment. Those who are hunkered down in their old patterns and too afraid to let go will certainly run into the obstacles and end up crashing and falling down.
The theme of "keep it moving" is important in the face of all the things that could become fixations in the amount of energy they take. Beware of fixating on judgments, things you think you know, things you think you don't know, having it a certain way, concrete plans, beliefs about yourself, beliefs about others, beliefs about the world, and especially judgments directed at self around some of the instinctive material surfacing from the bottom of the barrel. Some of you may be going through some hard lessons this month and will need to remember to stay in integrity and to give it over to spirit. Un weight yourself from your story and your position, and any righteousness, expectation, blame and disappointment. Once you are free, you can then look at all the creative terrain available to you and fall gracefully into the next direction.
The theme of keep it moving is important on all levels not just around psychological issues. Keep the body moving with walking, dancing, swimming, biking, skiing, chi gung, tai chi etc. Keep your mind moving by watching that you don't get stuck on one set of thoughts or ideas. It is good to keep asking, "what if?" questions and to stretch yourself to think outside the box. This is a highly creative month despite the challenge of the instinctive aspects.
Emotionally you can keep things moving as well by not becoming attached to your reactions to situations. Allow yourself to feel, and then to feel differently, and yet again to feel something else. Be flexible, be very, very flexible, and ready to unweight yourself at any moment in order to choose that next turn with grace and ease and confidence.
A good conversationalist will keep a conversation moving, never becoming stale or redundant, never faltering; one thing leads to another and then another. Your life this month should be like a good conversation or a beautiful ski run or a magnificent dance or a harmonious piece of music or a stream of water finding its way around the obstacles, constantly moving. The bottom line is: if it is moving, it isn't stuck.
Another important aspect of the month we will be dealing with is Boundaries. Because there is both a desire and support for dissolving old patterns as well as for moving ourselves to a higher spiritual plane, the issue of boundaries will definitely be revisited. The dissolving nature of the times wants to eliminate boundaries. It wants to loosen the imprisoning nature of artificial boundaries that have caused separation and isolation. It wants to dissolve the limitations and structures that have been upheld and supported by boundaries. It wants to move us with compassion into a higher spirituality where we can experience being one and not separate.
This is critical territory as good personal boundaries are essential in discerning what is yours and what is not. How do you allow yourself the experience of being one and not separate while still having good boundaries?
It is important to learn to be discriminating which begins by knowing yourself better. Through your lessons learning what works, what does not work, what is yours, what is not, who you are, who you are not, and what your personal dreams are as opposed to someone else's. We mentioned responsibility. Being responsible for your own discipline of following through with what you said you wanted is a personal boundary. If you make a decision a choice or set an intention, your own follow through is a personal boundary you set with yourself. You take responsibility for what you said you wanted. This month the desire for better boundaries may be in reaction to the dissolving of existing boundaries and the ensuing lack of structure. And some will need a little help in loosening some of their own calcified and hardened boundaries that no longer serve.
It is a heart-centered time and a real opening to spirit is possible despite the movement and instinctive aspects. A yearning for connection and community is also in the air. So always remember to come from your heart whether you are dissolving or setting boundaries or learning hard lessons or making graceful turns of change. Approach everything with compassion and optimism. It really is a spectacular time we are in of such opportunity for keeping things moving in the right direction.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
This month is focused on the self and an excellent time to clean house especially when subconscious material rises to the surface from the instinctive center that no longer serves you. You will know when this happens by how you feel. If you feel disjointed and off center, something is up. The way to work with the opportunity to clean out the instinctive centered house is to be accepting of what comes up and then to be proactive with what action you take. It doesn't matter if you cannot identify the exact patterns. They may be so incongruent that it may be difficult to know what it is you are looking at.
Pick something tangible in your life and use it as a reference point to represent whatever you may be dealing with. Clean out your files, your garage, a storage room or a junk-drawer. Get rid of something old you have kept for sentimental reasons and recycle used clothing. Especially clean out something that you have held on to that belongs to an old dream of yours or someone else's. For example if you are holding on to sports equipment of your grown children; trophies, ribbons etc., give them to your children if they want them. You may be surprised at how much more you are attached to those old dreams than they are.
Focus on your environment and keep the energy moving, keep it clean, keep it changing. The constant movement of energy will help you to continue moving forward yourself. Remember you do not have to understand with your mind what anything is or means. "Think" with your heart and you will be better off. Move towards feeling good. If you are not feeling good, something needs cleaning, dissolving or changing. The opportunity for attaining freedom from the old baggage is great this month provided you don't get stuck and you can stay out of Martyrdom.
RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships are important this month as they provide the barometer and the mirror for what needs attention. Beware of taking things personally and beware of what effect you may have on others, as this may be a sensitive time where reactions are strong. The dissolving aspect of the month will help in dissolving patterns in relationships that are not healthy or dysfunctional. This of course may lead to the actual dissolution of certain relationships. Some may even take the support of this time of movement as an opportunity to leave the planet if they feel complete with their karmas and lessons.
Use the movement and dissolving factor to forgive the past and dissolve all attachments to old wounds caused by relationships (which covers about everything). It is a tremendous opportunity to insert new patterns, perceptions, understandings, routines and experiences into current relationships as well as to welcome new relationship energy in. Boundaries will play a big part in relationships this month as well. Boundaries that are too porous will invite unwanted attention and make you susceptible to matching pictures. A matching picture is a recognition of a pattern in another person that is similar to one you have or have had in the past. Usually a matching picture is a trigger to look at something in you that was triggered by the other person. Sometimes exploring a matching picture can be useful but often it is an unnecessary distraction that can derail you from your focus.
On the other hand, boundaries that are too rigid may keep you stuck in old patterns and not allow for new relationship energy to come in. Often rigid boundaries are caused by stubbornness and a fear of losing control and giving your power away to a higher authority. Remember to keep it moving....
THE ENVIRONMENT
The environment will keep moving and the year of wind will insure that there is no stagnation. Because of the instinctive aspect of the month look for new discoveries of toxic waste and whistle blowing around environmental practices that are out of integrity. The good news is that there will be a renewed commitment to righting these wrongs as they also symbolize toxicity on a personal level. Whatever get done with regards to the environment will also have a personal symbolism to it. As people become interested in cleaning up their own personal psychological and emotional environment, this will affect the clean up of the greater environment.
In terms of weather this month, water is the element of the month. Look for unusual water activity and a focus on the oceans, tides, storms, drought and flooding. Water pollution becomes an issue as well as water and fluids in the body that can show up as water retention and circulatory issues. Make sure you are drinking good water and plenty of it. It may be a good month to have your plumbing flushed or your car
Radiator serviced, and remember to pay attention to anything in your personal environment that pertains to water, circulation and movement.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
We already mentioned water and circulation as aspects for the physical body this month. In addition pay attention to the kidneys as they process water and are also affected by fear and anxiety. The adrenals will probably be in need of a lot of support especially in the aftermath of the solar flare activity last month. If you are feeling unusually fatigued and a bit off in your digestion and focus, you probably need adrenal support. It is also not a bad idea to support the thyroid with an iodine supplement.
On another note, those of you who have struggled with physical issues whether chronic illness or weight problems, have the opportunity this month to dissolve these patterns and change your perception and perspective. Just remember to keep everything moving especially the physical body.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
Look for lots of changes, additions, deletions, restructuring, shutting down projects, starting new ones, redesigning current situations and moving either away from something or towards it. If you keep the perspective that nothing stays the same and embrace the theme of keeping it moving you will have an easier time navigating especially when there are surprises or sudden change. A little bit of effort goes a long way this month as well. If you put some effort and intention into something it will pay off. We are in a highly creative time where manifesting can occur almost overnight. The challenge will be to stay focused and out of the mire of the instinctive center and Martyrdom. It will also be a challenge to find the balance between what has to break down and dissolve, and the boundaries that are necessary for holding a new creative venture together.
The best way to navigate is to give everything your best to the best of your knowledge and abilities and then to be flexible in the outcome. If you need to change something, do it without resistance. If you need to eliminate something, be ruthless. The main thing is to keep the energy moving. If your business or partnership feels stale and stagnant, infuse it with something new; a new product, a new routine, new ideas or a new environment.
Finances will also respond to movement this month. Move some money around into different accounts or change some of your investments. Be generous and generosity will come back around. Think about increasing the amount you are comfortable having, spending and making.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
The best way to support global issues and politics is to be accepting of changes to ideas and ideals, platforms, promises, and plans. We are the biggest enemy of change. We have a habit of wanting to hold others to what they said or promised. We have gotten attached to our expectations, both negative and positive ones and that attachment and mind set leaves very little freedom for something else to occur. It is very important this month to keep everything moving in a way that keeps things fresh and new. It is a good thing to change your mind and to be flexible. We have no idea what we are capable of creating and manifesting if we would just get out of our own way. Watch cynicism and Martyrdom in the political arena as well as in the personal one. If you react negatively to something, move off of that reaction to one side until you feel something else.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
February 1-6: A slightly chaotic and unfocused time where you may feel one day that you have everything under control and then on another day you feel completely overwhelmed. The instinctive center is at work here and probably giving you lots of food for thought. You may experience self-judgment or irritation towards others. The boundary issue may come up as well. Astrologically we have an event with Neptune on February 3
That begins to anchor a time of major dissolving of old structures. There is a desire to better oneself spiritually and to raise the quality of life and experience. Keep things moving, move your body, clean something out and complete a project even if it is small. This will give you a much-needed sense of accomplishment in this unfocused time.
February 7: Full moon is at 2:57PM Mountain Standard Time. If anything is really stuck in your life right now it will show up in its full glory. Use the influence of the full moon to identify what it is and to move something that will begin a shift in the situation. It could be communication in a stagnant relationship, it could be changing something in your work or it could be finally making a decision you have been putting off. Honor this movement with moving something around in your immediate environment at the least get some fresh flowers for your home.
February 8-13: Things are moving very quickly during this time. You may feel inept at keeping up with all the change. Beware of the need and desire to keep track of everything in a rational way. You will not be able to do it so enjoy the freedom of giving it over to spirit to take care of. This is an important time to learn to trust the divine order of events, as some of them will not make much sense. Keep things moving and allow yourself to enjoy the chaos by feeling the creativity of it instead of the disruption.
February 14-20: Patterns of the subconscious may float to the surface out of the instinctive center as they are triggered by movement, change and events. Look for support when you need it and use the community aspect of the month to reach out to others. You are not alone is the mantra of this time frame. You could experience some confusion as you try to sort out what is yours and what is not. This is a time to practice having good and appropriate boundaries so as not to be processing anything that is not yours. Revisit your personal dreams and keep resetting your priorities, your thoughts and your feelings as you keep things moving.
February 21: New Moon is at 3:37PM Mountain Standard Time. This new moon is a time to recharge. You will feel like resting, getting more sleep, taking all the movement down to a standstill. If you have been struggling with something that has you constricted and confused, this would be the time to let go, unweight your position and give it over to spirit so you can turn yourself into another direction. Whatever it is, let it go. Then ritualize it by letting go of something you have been holding onto from the past.
February 22-29: This could be a very prosperous and creative time where many things that you have put into motion and kept the energy moving on, could come to pass or at least be nicely moving forward. This will depend on how focused and disciplined with your boundaries you have been able to be. You can especially see results in anything you have done that addresses the physical body and its health and well-being, your finances and new projects and partnerships. You may be feeling highly creative and experiencing a great sense of satisfaction and happiness with your life or you may still feel like there is a lot of subconscious material still to process. Make sure you have humor, make sure you have balance and make sure you are moving your body, your thoughts, your emotions and your stuff!
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
video
28 Jan 2012 - 11:59pm
X 2 Class Solar Flare & S2 Radiation Storm
Active Region 11402 located on the northwestern limb, unleashed a major X1.7 Solar Flare at 18:35 UTC. S2 level Radiation Storm threshold has been exceeded, R3 Level Radio Blackout, 100 MeV proton spike is in progress and a 10cm Radio Burst (TenFlare) was reported. Immediately after this flare a Full Halo coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed and components may brush the earths magnetic field Jan 30th.
Earthquake Forecasting Channel
http://youtube.com/thebarcaroller
Earthquake Reporting Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/EQReporter
solarwatcher website
http://solarwatcher.net
Soho Website
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Solar Soft website
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/
WSA-Enlil Solar Wind Prediction
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/cme-based/
Helioviewer
http://www.helioviewer.org/
Quality Solar Website
http://www.solarham.com
Estimated Planetary K index information
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_...
GOES Xray Flux Data
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/xray_5mBL.html
Sunspot Information from Solar Monitor
http://www.solarmonitor.org/
Quality Weather Website
http://www.westernpacificweather.com
Space Weather Website
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Music used is Sunshine by John Murphy
Story
24 Jan 2012 - 1:17am
Dear Friends,
The New Moon was at 12:42 AM Mountain Standard Time on Monday January 23 and we are still in its influence. This is a time when depression could hit or you could become overwhelmed with the disruption and destabilization around you. This is a good day to pull your energy in and focus only on the tasks at hand. Don't get distracted by others and their process. You will likely have many things on your plate. They can all wait. Take time for yourself and yourself only even if it is just to watch a bad movie. Stay out of judgment about events and situations, as they are all just temporary. Take a break.
One way to "take a break" is to imagine you are taking yourself out of gear and experiencing just being, with no agenda, and just being neutral. You have been operating like a car in second gear trying to go 100 kilometers per hour in this moving centered time. You will wear the engine out. It is much more efficient to be in a higher gear, however to get there you must first bring yourself to neutral. So in taking a break, visualize yourself at neutral, drop everything, nothing going on, and then decide which gear you need to be in to take advantage of the movement in your life.
Due to solar flares at this time you may experience electromagnetic interference in a very physical/emotional way; irregularities in heart rate, breathing, balance, headaches, mood swings, digestion, energy levels and difficulty with mental focus. This will all pass as you shift into gear again.
Happy Chinese New Year and the Most Auspicious Year of the Water Dragon!
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Sun and Moon in Aquarius, 2º
Monday, January 23, 2012, 12:41 AM MST
The Sun has just moved into Aquarius on Friday, Jan. 20 and we move immediately into a New Moon at 2º triggering an early Chinese New Year on Monday accompanied by Mars going retrograde until April 13. A busy astrological weekend!
So, we leave behind the earth/water influences of Capricorn and Cancer (father and mother) of the last Full Moon cycle of Jan. 9 and enter the fixed power domain of Aquarius/Leo in air and fire signs. Each element, earth, water, air, fire has a power sign, and they are opposite each other forming a continuum. Taurus/Scorpio represent feminine earth/water, and Aquarius/Leo represent masculine air/fire.
Aquarius is the zodiac visionary. It’s symbol, the lightening bolt, comes from the heavens with the power to disrupt unexpectedly. Being of the air element its nature is mental like Mercury-ruled Gemini, but Aquarius is the higher octave of Mercury’s thinking and communication ~ intuitive knowledge is Aquarius’ special gift.
They look into the cosmos for their eccentric and unconventional views. All fixed signs are convinced of very little by others. Aquarian opinions and progressive outlooks come from their personal insight and experience. They know; they don’t need to be convinced. Aquarius is also the revolutionary, rebel and liberator of the zodiac. They are original thinkers, inventive and creative ~ trend setters. Their positive, masculine, yang energy moves them forward, and their ruler Uranus’ purpose is to break up the old, no longer relevant structures and breathe fresh air into them. Progress! Yes, idealistic. Ahead of their time, as their frequency is much above the slower inner planets which also bestows the qualities of detachment and aloofness. Organization abilities are well developed.
Uranus is a transpersonal planet like Neptune and Pluto, discovered late in the game and concerned not with personal consciousness so much as collective consciousness. Aquarius’ house with its Uranian ruler is the eleventh house, concerned with our hopes and dreams, goals and objectives, friendships, and our group associations, a house with social orientation. Aquarians combine the eccentric with the unusual and express the unique. We need their relationship to the quantum, the void, to chaos to energize the mental realms. If not weighed down with social, political revolution as Uranus is now with its ongoing square to Pluto, its focus tends to breakthroughs in the fields of technology, science, sociology, astrology, physics, humanitarian services, exploration of new frontiers and social justice.
Freedom is a major need for the Aquarian. Their brilliant minds want to soar without restriction of any kind. The tendency is to be detached, cool, objective, rational, and future oriented. Often androgynous in appearance - rules the ankles and circulatory system and electrical impulses of the body and are prone to sudden illnesses and just as sudden miraculous cures.
Our New Moon at 2º Aquarius is in the first “decanate” of Aquarius. Each sign has 30º and contains three decanates of 10º each. The first decanate, 0-10º, of any sign is ruled by that sign’s ruling planet - in this case the first decanate (or 10º) of Aquarius is ruled by Uranus. Each of the decanates of a sign will be ruled by that signs element - in this case, air. So if we follow the zodiac along to the next air sign after Aquarius, we have mutable air Gemini, ruled by Mercury. So the second decanate, 11º-20º Aquarius is ruled by Mercury, and the third decanate of Aquarius 21º-30º is ruled by cardinal air sign, Libra’s ruler, Venus. So those Aquarians having their birthdays in the first 10 days/degrees of Aquarius tend to be more Uranian - eccentric, unorthodox, revolutionary; the second decanate types of the middle 10 days of Aquarius display that lightening flash mentality and networking quality of Mercury, and those born in the last 10 days/degrees of Aquarius, Feb. 8-18 or so with that Venus ruler are more social and artistic as a general rule. The decanates add an additional layer of depth to the signs, planets, and houses.
The ruler of the Aquarius New Moon chart, Uranus, is conjunct the dwarf planet Ceres at 1º Aries initiating a new cycle. Ceres, as All Nourishing Mother connects us to the deep cycles of life symbolized by the life-giving grains. Seeds, growth, harvest, death, rebirth are her domain. She was Goddess of the Eleusinian Rites-a drama of loss and return centered upon the capture of her beloved daughter, Persephone by Pluto, God of the Underworld. With a close sextile aspect to the Sun and Moon, this conjunction highlights our ability to nourish and support at the humanitarian level, to see ourselves as evolving together as a planet and emphasizes our need to tangibly honor the life giving, nourishing properties of our living planet Mother Earth. We need to bring and hold at the foreground of our consciousness the relationship of humanity (Uranus) to nature (Ceres) at the initiation of this new cycle.
Saturn and Jupiter in opposition square this Sun-Moon creating a T-Square formation. Saturn in Libra is holding us to the current economic realities and will be retrograding just at Full Moon on Feb. 7 until June 24. Saturn is exalted in Libra and ideally helps us balance our responsibility and wisely use the resources we have keeping fairness and equality in mind while Jupiter in Taurus makes us practical and able to make beneficial changes in our environment and our lives - master that computer program, get involved in a humanitarian foundation that helps people, study astrology or astronomy, go to where you have never gone before. There’s energy for change here.
Mars goes retrograde on Monday, Jan 23rd-Chinese New Year. Mars is a two year cycle and includes a retrograde, so its time in Virgo, usually two months, gets a long extension to eight months (Nov. 2011 to July, 2012). Virgo’s idea of action is to analyze, improve, organize and use their fine sense of discrimination to eliminate the unnecessary. So best use of this Mars is pick the areas of your life that could use some improvement and updating and set a theme for the next six months. Virgo is especially good in the areas of work and health. Any improvement needed in those areas? Watch out for the worry, anxiety and detail overload trap that Virgo can be prone to. Remind yourself you have all the time, energy and resource you need to bring your intention into reality.
Monday, January 23rd is also the beginning of Chinese New Year ~ the Year of the Water Dragon. The dragon is considered misty, occult, noble and untouchable. A male, yang sign of good fortune and intense power. Dragons get their power from heaven, and only the Emperor commanded the elemental dragon. Traditionally also a good year for Rats and Monkeys. Our last water dragon year was 1952. My sources tell me the three power stars present in this year’s Chinese astrology chart are the Star of Aggressive Sword, the Star of the External Flower of Romance and the Star of Powerful Mentors so those influences may be felt in their positive and negative expressions. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
02/02 Candlemas (midpoint of winter & spring)
02/03 Neptune re-enters Pisces until 3/2025
02/07 Leo Full Moon 18º 2:54 PM MST
02/18 Sun enters Pisces
02/21 New Moon in Pisces 2º 3:35 PM MST
Blog entry
22 Jan 2012 - 9:30pm
WATER DRAGON NEW YEAR
Aquarian New Moon - Jan. 23, 2012
~Kelley Hunter
www.heliastar.com
This is the New Moon that marks Chinese New Year. 2012 is the year of the Water Dragon, an ancient symbol of benevolent power, visionary potency and creative wisdom, typically calmer than other dragons. Every 12th year from 2012 is a Dragon year, with those born in 1992 and 1952 being Water Dragons.
At 3 degrees, the Sabian Symbol that gives imagery to suggest the story line of this New Moon reads:
"A deserter from the navy stands suddenly aware of a dawning truth: freedom is never the result of compromise."
This image surely speaks to the powerful political-economic transformation in progress in this pivotal year. More and more people are aware that the "System" is not working, is not honorable. This New Moon strongly forwards revolutionary Uranus in its new initiatives and is likely to bring forth expanding dimensions of Occupy, spreading into new directives. In Aries, Uranus is an activist.
Illustrating this New Moon's Sabian Symbol image of the navy deserter in a rather literal way, former Navy Seal Bill Wood gave a courageous interview, released last week by Project Camelot. He spoke of his special ops team sent into Iraq from 1992-2000 for what must be called "terrorist" acts to prepare for the eventually US invasion of Iraq. More and more information is coming out about what is going on behind the scenes.
I am one of those born from 1949-1956 with Uranus in Cancer. Uranus is squaring my Uranus, a time in life when I, as a member of this Uranus generation, wake up and feel that it is time to participate, to respond to a larger need. We Uranus in Cancer people are community weavers, among other things. This Cosmic News list is one of my weavings, thanks for being part of this web.
As the Uranus-Pluto square heats up, it is imperative that we awaken (Uranus) to what is going on under the surface and behind the scenes (Pluto). This Cosmic News report gets way more political than it ever has. My focus continues to be on the consciousness shift and how we are experiencing it personally and planetarily. That is what I am most interested in (impersonal Uranus in personal Cancer). Of all signs, Aquarius is one of the most socially-minded, though it is also capable of distancing itself--which can promote objectivity or unconscious denial. The latter is a downside of Neptune in Aquarius, which is in effect for two more weeks.
When NEPTUNE MOVES INTO PISCES on February 3, for the next 14 years, we won't be able to distance ourselves so easily. We'll all be swimming in the same seas. What vibrational quality will you be contributing to the re-dreaming of the collective dream?
CHIRON AND VENUS are in Pisces now, so the dream is being healed, dreamed and re-dreamed. I watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams last night. Chauvet Cave in southern France was discovered in December, 1994, with Black Moon in Taurus then, as now, revealing Earth mysteries. It holds the oldest cave art yet found, from 35,000 years ago: powerful, evocative depictions of ice age animals "miraculously" preserved in a cave that has since grown a sparkling calcite floor and cathedral-like stalactites. Ochre hand-prints, skulls of bear and man, paw prints of wolf alongside footprints of young boy tell stories buried in our ancestral human memories and in Earth archives. New discoveries in so many fields are helping us rewrite our history and expand our vision of where we have been so we can open new vistas into where we may be heading.
MARS GOES RETROGRADE
on the 23-24th, as if in honor of the New Moon. It's like the pause button. Stop, slow down, tune in. What is the best response to the situation? Is your action in harmony? Is it timely? What are the top priorities in your life? Everything else is of lesser importance. How are you using your time? If you are not sure what to do, pause and center yourself. Check reactive impulses, so that action proceeds with more organic intelligence.
Mars in Virgo is responsive to what is going on, including Nature and the shifting rhythms of the Earth. Listen to your body. What does your physical instrument want to be doing? We can reset our priorities around the cellular wisdom of our bodies. This is an especially good time to clean up your diet, erase self-critical tendencies and whatever else will enhance your body's natural energy flow. It may feel like things are stalled, that not much is happening. No use fighting it. Mars can react in frustration to no good result. Do what can be done. Go back over things and make improvements. Use the time to attend to small things, to clean your desk, your closets, get the little jobs done that there never seems to be time for. It will make a difference in the end. For one thing, it will give Uranus in Aries more room to move if the clutter is out of the way!
Philip Sedgwick caught the organic intelligence of Mars in Virgo in his recent Galactic Times (http://www.philipsedgwick.com):
"one must be like the fox crossing the ice, as noted in the I-Ching. Listen carefully, feel everything, watch your environment like a hawk, and pay attention to your guts and hackles."
The station (turn-around) point is 24 Virgo. Mars continues in backward motion and brighter (on the same side of the Sun as Earth), reaching all the way back to 3 degrees before it pivots forward on April 14. Any planets you have between 3 and 24 Virgo will be energized by Mars. Many born in the 1960s decade have both Uranus and Pluto in this territory.
The 24 Virgo station point of Mars gives us another significant Sabian Symbol to add to our story: "A Children's Book Pictures Little Mary and Her Lamb."
This becomes a story-within-a-story, as child-like openness offers fresh perspectives, even a kind of innocence. This brings back to a feeling of "first-story," basic images from childhood that have impressed themselves on our views of life.
If we continue to draw this picture of young Mary and her lamb, we may put a shepherd's crook in her hand and place in on a mountainside, or near a field of grain. Now we find ourselves in the realm of Ceres.
GODDESS of the GRAIN, the planetoid CERES has moved into Aries to join Uranus. As I was writing this Cosmic News, the following article came across my email screen, sent by my double Aquarius soul sister, Mary (see her photo above):
"On January 31, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s GMO seed, which contaminates organic and non-GMO farmer’s crops and opens them up to abusive lawsuits. In the past two decades, Monsanto’s seed monopoly has grown so powerful that they control the genetics of nearly 90% of five major commodity crops including corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and sugar beets."
This is affecting farmers in other parts of the world, who are now dependent on Monsanto seeds. Far-seeing groups are collecting and saving seeds from crop varieties for long-term agricultural health.
"Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain." [from America, the Beautiful, the US national anthem that Ceres wrote]
NEW MOON SQUARE JUPITER-BLACK MOON
One of the most powerful planetary dynamics of this New Moon is a square (a dynamic 90 degree relationship in the circle of the zodiac) between the Aquarian New Moon and the current Jupiter-Black Moon Lilith combo in practical earth sign Taurus. I've written about this in the last couple Cosmic News, as well as my books (Living Lilith and Black Moon Lilith.
[also see YouTube trailer of a presentation on Lilith I gave at the Theosophical Society U.S. headquarters: http://www.youtube.com
Big, brilliant Jupiter reigns overhead at sunset, expanding the impact the invisible mathematical point that defines the second focal point of the Moon's orbit around Earth. This inscrutable vortex is known as the Black Moon and named Lilith. This deep space cosmic goddess potentizes the manifestations of Jupiter in Taurus, like succussing a homeopathic remedy (shaking it so the subtle energy is fully released). Taurus is a sign of substance. This combo stretches the Tree of Wisdom from Heaven to Earth and back again. Reach high and dig your roots deep. Taurus rules the throat, so speak the truth of your experience. Taurus is the money sign: what do believe about this medium of exchange and its value? Dig deep to find the resources that are there for you like hidden treasure. Where does your treasure lie?
As the most activated dynamic of this particular New Moon cycle, you can bet there are financial finagling going on behind the scenes that can have a significant impact on society. Surely we see the signs in the shaky euro, the soap bubble dollar, and the prevalent economic stress.
We can each make a huge contribution to the collective consciousness, to the emerging new vision, by getting real about what is truly meaningful in our own immediate experience.
Jupiter has to do with belief systems. Black Moon Lilith is asking us to note and suspend our belief systems so that her Black Madonna aspect can manifest miracles. These are not Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky miracles, no. These are huge trees growing from small seeds miracles, Natural and even Super-Natural miracles. These are Eyes Wide Open miracles of how life can change in the blink of that eye--relativity speaking.
Blog entry
6 Jan 2012 - 11:37pm
This site gives a really great perspective of how we, as humans, fit into the micro and macro universe around us. Enjoy!
http://www.scaleofuniverse.com/
Namaste'
Matthew
Story
6 Jan 2012 - 3:44am
Dear Friends,
Full Moon is Sunday, January 9 at 12:32 AM Mountain Standard Time (the night of Saturday the 8th). Make sure you are doing something expansive, perhaps a bit out of character or eccentric, and allow for something out of the ordinary to happen even if it is be a bit disruptive. The disruption can be positive in the long run. See anything that happens around this time as a gift that is setting you up for growth and evolution. Focus on the artisan spirit and contemplate what creativity is to you. Are you being as creative as you want to be? How can you be more creative in your life right now? Do something small to insert just a bit more creativity into your day. Stay positive no matter what.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Cancer Full Moon 180 ~ Sun in Capricorn 180
Sunday, January 9, 2012 12:30 AM MST
The Moon is full in its own sign, Cancer that most fertile and feminine of signs. There is an audible sigh of comfort and relief to be in such a tangibly receptive energy. Or is it just the relief of completion of the holiday festivities? Such a whirlwind since the last Full Moon…
Cancer is the sign of the Mother, as Capricorn, her polar opposite, is the sign of the Father. We are reaching culmination on the polarity of security at this Full Moon. While practical, paternal Capricorn builds stability and security in the material world, nurturing, maternal Cancer is creating a safe container for emotional security. Cancer ruled by the Moon teaches us about the nature of constant change, of the wisdom inherent in the repeating nature of cycles, of the ebb and flow of the tides that the Moon governs, how the cycle of going inward and renewing in the darkness of New Moon is as valuable as the clarity and awareness of the radiant light of Full Moon.
Cancer’s element, water, assumes the form of whatever container she finds herself flowing through, thus she is given the qualities of empathy, adaptability, receptivity. Her sensitivity to all emotional influences can make her highly intuitive as well as inconstant, moody and self-protective. Cancer’s symbol of the crab depicts her hard outer shell that protects that soft, sensitive under belly making her approach side-stepping and tending to face sticky situations indirectly and with shy caution.
But don’t mistake this creature; Cancer is the cardinal water sign, so she puts her very active imagination and resourcefulness to good purpose. She is the sign of the Mother, after all. Her ambition is to protect and nurture the home and family. She rules the fourth house of the zodiac at the nadir or bottom of the chart – it is the home, family and ancestors that create our foundations that allow us to move out into the world and create our social and collective worlds. Interesting how the holiday season that surrounds the Solstice in Capricorn has so much to do with the desire to gather together with our family and community (Cancer/Capricorn) and engage in the rituals that continue our comforting and stabilizing traditions. As adults, it seems in one moment we’re longing to return to the home and family of our youth and in the next, we can’t get out of that nest fast enough and back into our own realities. What a powerful magnetism that maternal/paternal polarity of Cancer/Capricorn exerts on each of us.
We all are born of mothers. We all have family roots, ties and responsibilities, or long to be part of a family, or as spiritually-minded types create our own families of like-minded souls. Family is where we see so clearly the ebb and flow of the cycle of life through time.
I am blessed to be writing from South Africa – Mother Africa – source of all humanity, source of all races. The land here is beautiful and powerful. They speak of Pangaea here when all the continents were one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
The energy in the land feels ancient and at the same time there is a pervading feeling of REBIRTH! Tangible is the joyous return to life, growth, creativity of the Great Feminine-the pure joy of re-emerging to her full power and expression of all that she is after a long period of withdrawal and renewal. Out of a great divisive polarity of the past witnessed by the entire world, South Africa rises with youthful creativity and energy. The inconceivable injustice of man’s inhumanity towards man has played out and is giving birth to a new era. Much healing and forgiveness must unfold; much reaching across polarities to form tentative liaisons must transpire. Great courage is called for to spiral to where we have not been able to travel as yet in the past. It is the template for the times. This is the evolutionary path we all follow in our personal lives and in our global community.
Two thousand twelve marks an edge where the lessons of separation and polarity have run their course. We all (reading this) see clearly the consequences and results of that dance of destruction and separation. Just as the sun spot cycle is reaching its apex in the next 12-18 months, so are we reaching the culmination of a very dark period in social history. No, change doesn’t always happen quickly, but it can. As our heart replaces our brain as our source of guidance, we may just surprize ourselves. Our task is to hold our minds in check and give permission for the new path to unfold through our hearts. Relax, breathe, trust. Don’t believe the stories your mind makes up. Picture yourself as the child in the arms of the Great Mother at this Moon. Relax, breathe, trust. You are being nurtured and supported – always.
As ruler of the stomach and breasts – organs of nourishment, Cancer encourages you to use this Moon to nurture yourself and consider your emotional needs and the subconscious messages coming through to you in the mysterious language of the universe.
Along with the Cancer energies, the Full Moon chart provides an opportunity to work with the Capricorn Sun in a practical manner using the quantum field to shift our ideas and perceptions of what is with the help of Mercury entering Capricorn and aligning closely with powerful, transformative Pluto through Jan 13. The Sun’s activity, vitality and productivity are supported with a trine from Mars in Virgo and given a huge creative boost from a quintile aspect (720) to Uranus who loves to think out of the box and come up with the unexpected, pure genius solution to a problem. So use the focus of Mercury working with Pluto to do the heavy lifting and resolve those issues and situations that need a quantum transformation. With Mercurial links to all the heavy hitting planets, Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn, now is the time to begin implementation of all the inspiring ideas that came to you with the renewal of the year. There actually are three quintiles aspects (720) in this chart and at least five inconjunct aspects (1500). These energies are subtle, creative, somewhat uncomfortable and unfamiliar and create portals for handling yourself in new ways. Reality is beginning to slip from the tangible to the fluid. Practice playing with it, making your self laugh with it, standing in the midst of not knowing and feeling around for joy.
The only water planet in the sky is the moon until Jan 13th when Venus moves into Pisces, so enjoy the feminine, receptive interlude that this Cancer Full Moon brings. Neptune’s slow return to Pisces on February 3rd will be a most welcome balance of elements.
01/20 Sun moves into Aquarius
01/23 Aquarius New Moon 12:41 AM MST, 20
01/23 Mars retrograde 230 Virgo until April 13
01/23 Chinese New Year – Year of the Dragon
02/07 Leo Full Moon 2:54 PM MST, 180
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2 Jan 2012 - 2:58am
The main theme for January is Destabilization. The secondary attributes are Interruption and Disruption.
This month you will experience a movement and destabilization that will feel initially like everything is out of balance. Think of how it would feel if you were standing on solid ground and suddenly the horizon tipped or the earth moved slightly. Those of you who have experienced an earthquake may be somewhat familiar with that feeling. What happens is that the instinctive center opens up, releasing all of your survival information all at once in order to give you access to what might be useful to navigate the situation.
When the instinctive center opens up, it may cause temporary anxiety and a sensation of danger. It can also bring up old fears that have long been buried. There could also be an adrenalin rush or a sense of physical discomfort where relaxation seems impossible. Reactions could also include a loss of appetite or unconscious binge eating. It is an upset due to what has seemed stable being turned sideways.
Destabilization can show up in many aspects of your life and we would like to point out that the purpose of it is positive in the end. Your experience of this month will be directly related to how you accept, navigate and allow for the disruption. You will have an opportunity to move yourself from one experience into another through the rip in the fabric of your own stability that the disruption has caused.
Here are some examples of what we are talking about:
Suppose you had a job with a company you thought was very stable and you had a plan for your future that was based on this stability. If suddenly you found out that the company was closing and you were going to be out of a job, you would feel destabilized. The stable fabric of your life and your plans for the future would rip apart. The image here would be that rather than trying to sew up or mend the rip, you would go through the opening or portal that it has created in order to see what is on the other side. Working with destabilization proactively takes courage and a certain trust that everything happens for a reason and that there is always opportunity on the other side. Beware of falling into Martyrdom around what happens and use these events as messages to move forward.
The same example can be used for something in your environment, as simple as a tool you had for years suddenly breaking, or your car dying, or an even greater event of losing a relationship you thought would always be there through death or break up. These are all destabilizing events in varying degrees. It is important to acknowledge each one no matter how small or insignificant it seems. Not to be overly dramatic in your reaction, "my life is ruined", but just simply to honor that there is a shift in your stability that has suddenly created an opportunity.
Artisans are good at destabilizing. And since we are in an artisan year everyone will experience what that is like. Imagine you have everything in its right place in your home and someone comes in and changes everything around while you are away. Occasionally it is a good thing, however the process is very destabilizing. The same thing goes for a remodel. If you want to upgrade your kitchen, the process requires a destabilized time where routines are interrupted and everything is in some degree of chaos.
Artisans are also good at thinking outside the box. When something in your life becomes destabilized, rather than trying to recreate the same thing according to your comfort level, stretch your imagination a bit and ask for the artisan in you to be a bit more creative than you have been in the past. Don't be afraid to ask for a bigger dream. This is sometimes difficult when you are in the throws of your instinctive center being wide-open and causing reactions of anxiety and feelings of instability. The automatic reaction is often to try and stabilize as quickly as possible by going back to what you know is safe and stable. In order to take full advantage of the opportunities this month you will need to work proactively and be disciplined about allowing yourself to be destabilized for as long as it takes to move through the rip and take a look at what awaits you on the other side.
In dealing with the instinctive center it is important to actively focus on closing it down after the initial reaction of a destabilizing event. You don't want to close it down completely as it may be in the process of unloading non-useful old patterns and information, but you do want to close it down enough so that it does not bypass your ability to function. An instinctive center that is too open for too long will keep you in irrational fear, severe anxiety and paranoia. To close the instinctive center, visualize a red sphere of energy at the base of your spine. Whatever size it is, shrink it down to the size of a golf ball or about 3 centimeters in diameter. The instinctive center is related to the first chakra in the simplest explanation. This is a good visualization to do before bed especially if you suffer from anxiety.
Being proactive with the theme of Destabilization may require you to look at what is in your life that is stagnant and too static. Some environments, relationships, habits and behaviors in your life may feel like stability to you, but in the face of this year being about movement, chaos and creativity, they may in fact be holding you back. The proactive way of working with the theme this month is to be honest and truthful with yourself about what is stagnant and static and non-serving. What is too stable and taken for granted? What are your assumptions? Your essence often knows these things before your personality does so if you have been feeling a bit antsy and impatient, or if you are feeling a bit bored, those are signs that there is something wanting to push its way into your life or rip your fabric of stability and urge you to look beyond what you have and are currently experiencing. It really can be quite exciting when anticipated as an evolution rather than a loss.
Let's look at how Interruption and Disruption affect things this month.
You have a plan. Suddenly something changes, a flight gets cancelled, a weather system comes in, a friend changes plans, you get unexpected news, you get sick, the power goes out, your car dies, there is an emergency, someone needs help and so on. This causes an interruption to your flow and a disruption to your plans. You have a choice as to how you react to this inconvenience. You can either resent it, feel martyred, put upon, impatient and irritated, or you can see it as a necessary intrusion that you have created that allows you to do something completely different from your original plan. If you always have the idea and intention that these interruptions and disruptions will lead to something better or at least give you an opportunity to eliminate something no longer useful, then you will feel much more in control.
The challenges and non-constructive feelings and behaviors.
Feeling victimized by sudden destabilizing surprises.
Feeling impatient around things not happening the way you want.
Feeling overly fearful and anxious.
Feeling depressed around your own ineffectiveness.
Feeling inertia, despair and withdrawal.
Overdramatizing and over reacting. Hysteria and anger.
Rehashing the past to see what went wrong, what you did wrong, what others did wrong.
Blaming and judging.
Letting your instinctive center get the better of you.
The opportunities and positive ways of navigating.
Seeing every event as leading to something better.
Trusting in the right timing and divine order of what happens.
Being neutral and patient and taking responsibility for creating what is.
Seeing the humor and laughing out loud.
Using the times to clear out and clean out no longer useful information in your instinctive center.
Creating positive disruption in your life to move you to a new and better experience.
Being able to see interruption and disruption as temporary necessities.
Feeling excited and inspired by the possibilities on the other side of the ripped fabric.
Shifting your definition of a "painful experience" to "experiencing growing pains"
Helpful practices.
Walking a labyrinth. Walking a labyrinth actually destabilizes your brain so it can release how you have been holding your reality by confusing it directionally.
Walking backwards, hanging upside down, being conscious of which hand or foot you begin with and shifting to the other one as an exercise.
Engaging the moving center whenever possible and staying physically active.
Clearing out clutter in your environment, eliminating something old and bringing in something new.
Learning a new task you thought you could never do.
Changing your schedule around to do things in a different order or at different times.
Eliminating old traditions that are not meaningful for you today.
Consciously starting your day with the intention of welcoming anything unusual or any interruptions to your plans.
Doing anything new with intention of change and expansion.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
This is a tremendous opportunity to clean up what is in your instinctive center that has organized your fabric of stability while at the same time limiting your experiences. See this as a month of growth, in line with the goal for the year. Intend to stretch a little whenever you can and work proactively both with your instinctive center and with any events that happen around you that disrupt your sense of balance and stability. You are truly in the driver's seat this month in terms of how you experience it. Instability is never comfortable so learn to be OK with feeling out of balance as long as it does not persist too long and you don't become victimized by it.
If something intrudes upon your life this month, work with it. Intend that the intrusion will be useful in propelling you to the next level of your own growth and evolution. Be OK with being uncomfortable, and especially be OK with the "not knowing" part of what is happening. You can deepen your trust this month of right timing and acceptance.
What you can personally accomplish around clearing out what is static and stable to your detriment is probably the biggest opportunity you have this month for personal growth.
RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships that have been overly stable and taken for granted may need to be rattled a bit to infuse new growth into them, especially partnerships of many years and family relationships where you have a mental perception of that person being in a stable position in your life. Some of you may experience surprises this month of people coming into your life that destabilize your routines in some way, or create significant changes in your relationships due to break ups, deaths, separation or recognition of some karma that needs to be resolved.
Look for unexpected events to happen around relationships and your sense of stability around them. Be prepared for surprising reactions, for unexpected expression, some behaving more negatively, and some more positively than you would think. The best way to use this month when dealing with relationships is to see all of them as opportunities for growth and to accept intrusion, changes in plans and other disruptions they can activate. Be flexible, neutral and stay out of judgment in terms of what you think is right and wrong.
THE ENVIRONMENT
What destabilizes the environment? The intrusion of something unnatural, an increase in solar and sunspot activity, a change in magnetic forces and fields, and a collective intention for change. Look for all of these things to play a part in what the environment expresses this month and this whole year. There may be events that trigger the instinctive center and the survival instincts in some parts of the world. There may also be very unusual weather patterns or sequences that begin to occur as the eccentricity of the artisan year takes hold. Be flexible with interruptions and disruption to plans that are due to the environment. As we unpack the quality of the artisan over the next few months, there will be new and creative ways that people will look at the environment, what we can do with it, and how we can be in better balance with it instead of resisting whatever feels like instability and chaos.
This is the year of wind so you will probably experience the spirit of air in some form in your interactions with the environment.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
When you think of stability in the physical body, you think of balance, brain function, the inner ear, and your mobility interacting with gravity in a certain way. What if gravity were to change and what if you were not able to stand up straight but listed to one side? And what if your systems were as erratic as the weather?
This month there is a possibility of erratic behavior in your physical body. You could experience destabilization in blood pressure, heart function, breathing, dizziness and balance issues, interrupted sleep patterns, issues with your joints especially hips, knees and ankles, digestion and hormones.
Remember that anything that intrudes in this way on your "stability" indicates a need to pay attention and to use the condition as a portal to move beyond your current understanding of what health is. Accept the body as much more creative and flexible than you thought, and give it the opportunity to experience something different. For those of you who are struggling with serious health conditions, this would be the month to try something new and different as a remedy or course of treatment. It just might work.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
This is a very good month to restructure, eliminate, add, make changes, remodel and turn things upside down. This is an area where you can be the most proactive with the theme of destabilization. Don't wait for it to happen to you from the outside and through someone else. Follow your intuition regarding what is occurring and make some choices and decisions that will put you in charge of the chaos and change instead of at the effect of it. Review your finances and make new decisions about where you are spending and investing. Take a risk towards something that is meaningful to you. In your business, reconfigure positions within teams of people and don't be afraid to be somewhat ruthless in the restructuring process. Be willing to be flexible in the direction that a project wants to take even if it is completely different than your original vision.
This promises to be an interesting time for businesses that have appeared to be stable in the past. Be prepared for some surprises in this area and make sure you have as much control as you can over your work, money, ideas, schedule and projects.
***If you have not downloaded the audio Mp3 "Intentions, Goals and Resolutions" it is helpful in this area especially at the beginning of a new year (link here).
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
Often destabilization is necessary in order for a new way to emerge. New creativity requires the destruction and dismantling of the old. We could see destabilized factions in different governments appearing to be nothing but destructive mayhem and chaos. It is a sure thing that something new will be created out of the ashes. The universe is highly creative. Nothing stays the same. So if you don't like it, be patient and hold the intention for it to change into something more positive and then trust that it will.
In keeping with the spirit of air and wind, we could also mention that this element could show up in long-winded political discussions among those full of "air". Remember also that the moving center of the year will keep things moving from one to another and back and forth faster than any of us can keep track of. Look for surprises that disrupt and change your attitudes to global issues and how they are being managed and expressed. Don't get too attached even to your own ideals and positions.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
January 1-8: A time of preparation. The currents are changing but still sufficiently deep that they are not yet affecting what is on the surface. There are deep rumblings underground and in the subconscious of the collective that are also not yet felt on the surface but that are setting us up for a destabilized time. Get your ducks in a row. Have strong intentions but be flexible. Take the stance of a martial artist whose stability and power depends on their ability to move with the energy rather than against it. If you have an intuition about something about to change that requires some action from you, don't wait to take action or make a decision. Do it now.
Some of you may experience something intruding on your stability right from the beginning. Use it as a template to position yourself to be ready to dance. If you are feeling stuck and stagnant at this time, do some of the practices to move your energy forward. Be proactive.
January 9: Full Moon is at 12:32 AM Mountain Standard Time. Make sure you are doing something expansive, perhaps a bit out of character or eccentric, and allow for something out of the ordinary to happen that may be a bit disruptive in a positive way. See anything that happens around this time as a gift that is setting you up for positive growth. Focus on the artisan and what creativity is to you. How can you be more creative in your life right now?
January 10-16: A time of navigating something new. By this time either you have been proactive with launching something that has destabilized your life or you are experiencing the effect of something that has come into your life that has destabilized it for you. This is a time of practicing acceptance, neutrality and stretching yourself to see what is on the other side of the rip in your fabric of stability instead of trying to repair it. Work with the instinctive center if it has been stimulated in an uncomfortable way and be courageous about moving into new territory, be it with business, love or health. It will also be important during this time of disruption that you have something that you practice daily that will give you some inner sense of stability.
January 17-22: Either you have successfully pushed yourself though the rip in the fabric and are experiencing the wonders and the opportunity beyond your previously stable but limited environment, or you have fallen into the more negative effects of some disruption in your life. If the latter is the case, make sure you are not being affected by others reactions or inability to cope. Be available to others but do not join them in their martyrdom, misery or blame. Keep asking the question, " What perfect opportunity do I have here for growth and expansion? " How can I take full advantage of what I have created here for myself?" Take responsibility and be proactive whenever you can.
If on the other hand you are experiencing tremendous breakthroughs and expansion, keep in gratitude, keep focused and keep being proactive. Keep acceptance, keep neutrality and keep being creative, courageous and thinking outside the box.
January 23: New Moon is at 12:42 AM Mountain Standard Time. This is a time when depression could hit or you could become overwhelmed with the disruption and destabilization around you. This is a good day to pull your energy in and focus only on the tasks at hand. Don't get distracted by others and their process. You will likely have many things on your plate. They can all wait. Take time for yourself and yourself only even if it is just to watch a bad movie. Stay out of judgment about events and situations, as they are all just temporary. Take a break.
January 24-31: The instinctive center comes back around as a major player during this time. Watch for anxiety and unwarranted fears. Do what you can to turn them into powerful projections of inspiration and excitement. It will be very important that you do something new and different, a bit eccentric and unusual at this time. Get help if you need to especially with motivation if you are feeling stuck or lethargic. This is also a very good time to launch something new in your business or relationship or partnership or environment. It is a good time to remodel, move locations, redo your wardrobe, change out your appliances, get a new computer, change a system, change a health routine, get a puppy or a kitten, join a program, or anything else that will put an end to some of your stability but will definitely enliven and improve your life.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
Blog entry
1 Jan 2012 - 6:10pm
Mark Borax
6:40am Jan 1
"You can't graduate beyond individuality until you find out who you are. Until you claim your own unique creative genius, you can't transcend your selfhood because you don't know what it is you're transcending."
~Mark Borax~
1/2012
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SPECIAL THREE-PART NEW YEAR REPORT
2012: Flight of the Dragon
January 2012, Putney Vermont
January 23 begins the Year of the Dragon, which supersedes all other animal years in scope
and vision, because dragons fly highest, and are the only magical animal of the twelve.
John Lennon, born in a Dragon year, sought a vision that could change history. It wasn't
enough for him to simply produce the best rock band ever - the Dragon in him led him to wield that fame into a platform to end War and create a better future. In June, 1967, faced with creating a song for the first live satellite broadcast around the world, he delivered the message All You Need is Love to 350 million viewers. As the Dragon takes flight this year, each of us is summoned to follow his lead and rise above the mediocrity and complacency of our own lives, and glimpse a magical future beyond.
Since 1967, Summer of Love, and, twenty years later, 1987, the start of the Harmonic Convergence, no year of the last fifty has captured collective imagination prior to its arrival so much as 2012. The significance of this year was first heralded in August of 1987, when Jose Arguelles and other visionaries detected something unique about it.
In 1987, during the post-1960s Reaganistic backlash that set in, it was felt by many that the Revolution had gone belly-up, and was in dire need of resuscitation. The Harmonic Convergence was introduced as a powerful long-term cosmic realignment to bring world culture back into accord with inner truth.
50-Year Reorientation
Although mass media misinterpreted the event to begin and end in the Summer of '87, the visionary literature of the time portrayed those days as the beginning of a fifty-year cultural reorientation, a cosmic chiropractic adjustment to snap the main frame of world consciousness back in place, and bring humanity into accord with higher dimensions.
August of '87 was envisioned as the opening sequence of a half-century long Evolutionary Act split into two quarter-century Scenes, with 2012 being the all-important pivot point. Scene One: The Exposure, taking place between 1987 and 2012, was to inform humanity how far off-track we had strayed. True to this prophecy, in recent years it's become more and more evident that our culture has gone off the rails and is drastically in need of something more than quick fixes and cosmetic solutions, but a sweeping realignment that crosses political and international borders, a rethinking of the whole purpose of humanity.
Scene Two: The Reawakening, from 2012 to 2037, was intended to steer us back on track, by awakening more and more people to the fact that each of us has far more power to turn the
world around than we previously believed, and far more celestial assistance.
The Harmonic Convergence was ignited by a rare five-way conjunction of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars in a tight corner of Leo known as the Galactic Corridor. The most
cosmic aspect of the Convergence presented our Milky Way galaxy as one chakra (energy wheel) in the vast body of a Mega-Organism whose chakras are whole galaxies. Leo rules the heart, and our galaxy was envisioned as the Heart Chakra, or feeling center, of this massive organism. Not just Earth, but the whole galaxy, was visualized to be coming into alignment over a fifty-year period, as each of us comes back into alignment with ourselves. This vision reinforced the idea of the 2,000-year Age of Pisces ending, and the beginning of the Aquarian Age, which awakens the higher truth slumbering in mass consciousness.
Opposites Attract: Leo & Aquarius
Leo is the Sign of the Self, which is the opposite and all-important Shadow side of Aquarius. If the Age of Aquarius heralds the oneness of us all, Leo champions the truth of
our individuality. Both are needed more than ever at this pivot point of the ages. Poised on the verge of Aquarius, we can't merge into oneness until dealing with Self. You can't
graduate beyond individuality until you find out who you are. Until you claim your own unique creative genius, you can't transcend your selfhood because you don't know what it is
you're transcending.
It's in the hearts of you and I that the Revolution of our time begins. It's your heart that strives to awaken you to both the great distortions and truths of our time. The greatest distortions of our time are that love can't happen, goons rule the world, and the future is bleak. The secret truth of our time is that a world-changing spirit force sleeps in the soul of every man, woman and child. Once this force awakens en masse nothing can stop it.
A Revolution in Consciousness
The Sixties began a Revolution in Consciousness, but it's up to you and me to pick up the torch and invent green paths through the End Time of a dysfunctional civilization. We men
must open our hearts, and dismantle the Propaganda Machine of false leaders that ruin the world. We must stand up to corrupt power and expose the fact the emperor has no clothes. We must commit ourselves to seek new forms of power, both inner and outer. Women must gain the courage to follow the truth of their creative dreams through the coming years of rebuilding the world from the ground up, as inventors, pioneers and bridge builders, as leaders to blaze trails from the old that's dying to the new that's busy being born.
The world-changing vision we're in need of now must come from many parts of the globe, young and old, rich and poor.
Music, art, poetry, film, dance and writing, as they have done at every major turning point in world civilization, will play a crucial role in blazing trails out of the old into the new. The internet is the supreme mouthpiece of our age, with the power to radiate news of the new everywhere instantly. The stage is set for the greatest turnaround the world has seen - if you can turn around your own doubt and skepticism, and become willing to believe.
It won't be easy. In 2012 and coming years as old thought forms die and obsolete structures crumble, many people are going to freak out. Outbreaks of panic and pandemonium will ripple through the shared psychic space. But we have many allies. As the old crumbles, new leaders will arise from the ranks of young and old to ensure that our children inherit a living green Earth, rather than a pile of rubble. In this all-important Year of the Dragon, it's time to move on from the dawning of the Age of Aquarius into the actual age itself, where the awareness of our commonality trumps the deadly obsolete knowledge of our differences.
Bring on Aquarius: The Link Between 1966 and 2012
by Mark Borax
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2012 SOUL LEVEL ASTROLOGY SUN SIGN PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
By Mark Borax
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On January 23 we enter the Year of the Dragon, who flies higher than all other Oriental Animal years, and sees more. By daring yourself to believe in the highest dream you can dream, you can fly with the Dragon. The following predictions apply mostly to people born in each Sign, but since we all contain all twelve signs in some unique distribution, more than one of the descriptions may apply to you.
ARIES (And to the Ram in each of us) You're being made over from the ground up. With Uranus, Planet of Revolution, surging through your home turf, the ground shakes beneath your feet. Earthquakes and lightning jackhammer whatever part of your security system got hooked in karmic ruts. Sarcasm and denial point to your key life lesson: if somebody really is in your way as much as you like to protest they are - they're an exact reflection of who you used to be in some past life you have yet to resolve.
TAURUS (And to the Bull within) Jupiter thrusts open the curtains of your Innocence and Experience, summoning you to an epic, once-in-a-lifetime Feast of the Senses, where love proves as rich and fulfilling as you suspected it was when you were a child and didn't know any better.
GEMINI (And to the Twins in each of us)
Open your Heart.
Open your Mind.
Follow that all the way.
CANCER (And to the Crab in us all) Deep in the set-apart tide pool where your personality-self keeps everyone off the scent of your true nature, you commune with powers that glide your ride through the wild tides of our time. Remind us of the simple clear ways to revere existence that you have come to know so well.
LEO (And to the Lion within)
The Lion of your Soul, flung down long-lost back roads of existence, outwardly wandering unrecognized through the centuries like Aragorn, while inwardly remaining steadfast and true - Step up to claim your right to preside over the royal occasion of your own Becoming.
VIRGO (And to the Virgin in everyone) Contemplate: How will you find again in Earth what you once knew in Spirit?
LIBRA (And to the Balance in each of us) Everything changes when you let yourself be as magically alive as you truly are, without either pressing the issue, or holding anything back.
SCORPIO (And to the Scorpion in all) Down lost and twisting corridors of the soul, the Dark Queen's come-hither gesture beckons to you from her hiding place, where she telepathically whispers that there is only love and love and more love, and everything pretending to be something other than love, which ultimately breaks down to the same thing, if you track it deeply enough through each convoluted winding to its lair.
SAGITTARIUS (And to the Archer in everyone) Ride through the year like a great spiritual outlaw, stealing boredom and complacency from the world, and replacing it with your gargantuan appetite for life.
CAPRICORN (And to the SeaGoat in all) Ancient stargazers gave you a mer-tail to warn human Ego it can only rise as high in world affairs as we become willing to sink into the darkness of our disowned shadow self, and there switch on the light of self-mastery. Capricorn is the World Dragon itself, who bursts into flame this year with an Earth Magic that can rebuild the world from the roots. Be the magical mystical leader of us all.
AQUARIUS (And to the Water Bearer in each of us, whose time has finally begun)
Plunge headfirst into the churning Void without worrying who's gonna catch you. The most outlandish part of you isn't only your resistance to being normal, but your spark of genius, once your paradigm shifts.
PISCES (And to the Fish in us all, who's being relieved of two thousand years of karma)
Deep healing, reckoning with the worst we have wrought through the ages.
Sweet pulsating awareness of the best we are capable of.
Past surrenders to future.
Nothing lasts.
Halleluja!
Blog entry
23 Dec 2011 - 7:33pm
http://spaceweather.com/
(read all about it here)
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this comet keeps sprinkling its energies throughout the cosmos ~ what a spectacular sight to see ~ and such a beautiful namesake energy ...
appropriately for the creation of NEW EARTH ... never one to shun synchronicity ...
the timing of this comet ... it's name ... the BEAUTY it ...surviving a solar ☀ encounter ...
only to bounce back into the cosmos to bring such J❤Y to some many ... those that L❤VE the Stars✰ !!
Holly ❤ Hugs
Story
20 Dec 2011 - 7:10pm
Dear Friends,
We wish you all a good holiday!
Winter Solstice is Wednesday, December 21 at 10:23 PM Mountain Standard Time. This solstice is a time to celebrate your life, your responsibility to yourself, your power, your talents, your purpose, your vitality and your inspiration. Make a list of everything that stands in the way of this celebration and burn it with ceremony. Take note of where you are, what you are doing and who you are with. How is it? If you don't like it, change it. Since we are in an accelerated time, allow things to move and shift and manifest without the need to control or micromanage. Trust that your intentions are well set and step aside to allow them to manifest.
The New Moon is Saturday, December 24 at 11:08 AM Mountain Standard Time. This is a time for anchoring, for affirming, for sticking to your boundaries and for inserting order into something you can control. A good day to organize any space that is yours or improve your environment in some way. Being as this is also a holiday in many traditions, make sure you are not compromising yourself with unwanted distractions, but rather that you are in control of your decisions around how you are spending the day. It's OK to say "no" to what you don't want and "yes" to what you do want.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Winter Solstice
Wednesday, December 21, 10:30 PM MST
Capricorn New Moon
Saturday, December 24, 11:06 AM MST
Honor, Blessings and Respect to the Winter Solstice.
The point of power that anchors the year – for the Northern hemisphere, the first day of Winter – for the Southern hemisphere – the opposite, the first day of Summer. From the Sun’s maximum at Summer Solstice until now, the Sun has decreased until reaching its point of maximum contraction – the ultimate out breath, the shortest day. The Solstice point, December 21/22, marks the death and rebirth of the Masculine principle of the light. With the dawning of the Solstice, the Sun enters 0º Capricorn, cardinal earth sign, and the Sun again begins its slow ascendancy into fullness on the Summer Solstice.
The chart for the Solstice most prominently has Pluto conjunct the Sun in Capricorn. Our will and purpose, again this year as it was at last year’s solstice, is set for powerful transformation and exposing the dark underbelly of authority, societal structures, and the financial world that have ambitiously overstepped boundaries and lost sight of the responsibility to the society at large.
Jupiter in Taurus (0º) trines the Sun in Capricorn (0º). Jupiter bestows optimism and enthusiasm, and embraces what is foreign as it expands our vistas and makes us question our basic beliefs. We have faith and tolerance and we seek out new experiences and want to improve and develop our selves and our environment. A strong, powerful blessing for the New Year.
Mars in Virgo – detail oriented, health conscious, a bit on the nervous, worrying side, but efficient with notable expertise, finesse and discrimination. Mars, planet of energy, desire and above all else, action is in a provoking, ongoing square to the North and South Nodes. We are being forced to grow (North Node) and to release our issues of the past (South Node). It can present as resistance, conflict within ourselves or with others who help us see what we need to move forward or it can incite us to initiative, assertiveness and adventurousness where maybe we shake up our security issues, but we are supporting a courageous, positive self in the world.
The Moon is in Scorpio and trine to Uranus giving power and focus to the innovative and rebellious energies of Uranus’ square to the Sun and Pluto. The tendency will be to seek freedom and expression for our personal power. There is a lack of willingness to go along with empty authority or confrontive displays of power.
New Moon
Just days after Solstice, the Sun and Moon join at New Moon in Capricorn (2º) on December 24. After the expansion and open-minded philosophizing of the fiery Sagittarius Sun, Capricorn gets down to the practical business of actually making those visions manifest in the physical world. That’s where the earth signs – Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are at their best. Capricorns are interested in the everyday necessities of life. They are practical and hard working patiently completing the next step to move their ambitions forward like their archetypal mountain goat climbing ever higher accumulating and building security in the material world. Capricorns are conservative; they build and maintain the structures of society. Ruled by the Lord of Time, Saturn, keeps them aware of limitation and boundaries and enables them to concentrate their energies and bide their time for the perfect moment to further their ambitions. No wonder they accomplish so much. Capricorn rules the calcified bones and skeleton and externally the knees of the body just as they are the upright and ‘backbone’ of society. They value stability and conventionality and respect authority. Where you have Capricorn in your chart is where you take responsibility and uphold your values. Because of that Saturn ruler though, Capricorns must be conscious of their tendencies to be rigid, pessimistic and cold and just way too uptight and wary of change for their own good.
You can see why Pluto, planet of transformation, power and the shadow, entering the sign of Capricorn in 2008 has revealed the darker side of our (Capricorn ruled) financial, governmental and corporate practices – those structures that form the skeleton or backbone of society became overreaching, greedy and excessive in the previous decade of Pluto’s passage through Sagittarius. Now the dark side is being revealed by Pluto’s willingness to look behind the scenes at the decay, corruption and rigidity held in governments and institutions around the globe in order to bring about a cleansing and healing and rebirth to these aspects of life. Be aware that it often takes years before the dominant paradigm realizes the wheel has turned, Pluto has entered a new sign, and the game has irrevocably changed. This leaves the old, dominant power structures lost in a meaningless tug of war as witnessed in the shenanigans of our politicians and the US congress. Just as the Solstice represents the ultimate contraction and bare bones minimum of light so do we find ourselves in the initial ‘breaking down’ phase of Pluto’s entry into the early degrees of Capricorn. We have many years to go before Pluto leaves this sign in 2023, so it may be after the seven upcoming exact squares of Uranus to Pluto from June 2012 to 2015 creating conflict, crisis, chaos, confrontation and dynamic change before we begin to see the rebuilding phase. With Uranian influence, you never quite know what will be created – who could have predicted the creation and influence of the web and social networks so Uranian in their egalitarian and technologically based nature. We’re going to need that patience of the mountain goat to weather this transition. But when Uranus is not bogged down with needing to create massive change, it can be the source of tremendous freedom and genius level creativity.
So don’t be discouraged by the news and traditional media. Things are unfolding exactly as they should in the political and economic arenas. You think change is difficult for you, well just look at what societal structures have to go through to make a major shift. Not pretty. Let this time of the Sun’s movement through Capricorn and especially at the Solstice and New Moon windows help you look to your own rigidity and calcifications, but also to fix your eyes on the mountaintop and set your goals and intentions for what you would like to build and accomplish out there in the material world in the upcoming year.
12/21&22/2011 Ursids meteor shower
12/25/2011 Jupiter turns direct until 10/4/12
01/09/2012 Cancer Full Moon 12:30 AM MST
01/23/2012 Aquarius New Moon 12:41 AM MST
video
16 Dec 2011 - 10:32am
Can you tell me what life is like on planets other than Earth?
The universe that you know contains an infinite number of planetary systems, stars, planets and galaxies and almost all of them hold life of some sort, have held life or are birthing to be able to hold life. Outside of the universe you know there are infinite numbers of other universes with planetary systems, stars, planets and galaxies that also hold life. Every experience you can think of and many outside of your ability to conceive takes place within this huge matrix of life.
The White Winged Collective Consciousness of Nine through Magenta Pixie
Blog entry
9 Dec 2011 - 1:50pm
FULL MOON in Gemini Saturday, December 10, 2010, and it is a total Lunar Eclipse!! Yet another eclipse. There have been more this year than I can remember. I MISS Danbro~A very good astrologer from Australia! We loved talking about eclipses. Both of us said we were eclipse magnets...Interesting for me at 18 degrees of Gemini..
This year's second total lunar eclipse on Saturday (Dec. 10) will offer a rare chance to see a strange celestial sight traditionally thought impossible.
Ringside seats for the lunar eclipse can be found in Alaska, Hawaii, northwestern Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and central and eastern Asia. Over the contiguous United States and Canada, the eastern zones will see either only the initial penumbral stages before moonset, or nothing at all.
Over the central regions of the United States, the moon will set as it becomes progressively immersed in the Earth's umbral shadow. The Rocky Mountain states and the prairie provinces will see the moon set in total eclipse, while out west the moon will start to emerge from the shadow as it sets.
http://www.space.com/13856-total-lunar-eclipse-rare-senelion.html
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Another useful web blog:
http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/2011/12/total-lunar-eclipse-december-10-11-2011.html
It's a Full Moon and eclipse (Dec 10/11th, 2011) to shake us awake mentally, physically and spiritually. Sun and Moon are at 18 Gemini and Sagittarius, two mutable signs of ever expanding perception. At the Full Moon, there's often an illumination. With anchoring planets in earth signs, and Mars aspects to the Moon's Nodes, the revelations could be a whole body experience.
The Gemini-Sagittarius line of energy is freeing, mentally stimulating, quick. Electrifying Uranus stations direct to add high voltage and unpredictability to the day. Perhaps you're someone who thrives on the chaos of change? Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) adapt gymnastically to a world in flux. Great discernment is critical here to know when to act, and when to wait until the pieces stop flying around in the dispersing erratic winds of Gemini at the Full Moon.
Here's the chart for the Gemini-Sagittarius Full Moon. The Sun-Moon are always closely aligned to the Moon's Nodes at eclipses, since this point is where the Moon's path intersects with the Sun's path (the ecliptic). The Nodes are also known as the Dragon's Head (North Node) and Tail (South Node). The Head is where nourishment for evolution comes in, and the Tail is where the waste or inessentials are excreted.
Jumping on that view of the Nodes, and with an energizing Mars (Virgo) square, the message is about filtering and letting go of random, though fascinating tidbits. Gemini is Mercury's sign, and the planet of messages is now in fiery Sagittarius, along with the Sun and North Node or Dragon's Head. A source of inspiration now are ideas, people, projects that rouse your sleepy or distracted mind. It's a time of being nourished by ideas of friendships, learning through experience, freedom, truth seeking, knowledge, wisdom, philosophy, travel, global connection, swift conversation, emerging culture.
Keep in mind that Mercury is still in retrograde, to December 13th (2011). It's a great time for active dreaming, creativity, and being with inspired peeps. A time for visioning, but not necessarily for acting....yet.
Are you restless to roam, mentally or for real, with some wandering? Or perhaps you see a need to break out of routines that have become stifling. If you're feeling inertia or lost in the chaos of the times, it's a Full Moon to seek inspiration, a vision, new challenges that can be a focus for your mind. There's a lot of mental energy buzzing now -- what will you do with yours?
Which house in the birth chart is this all going down in?! Look to both your Gemini and Sagittarius houses, at 18 degrees.
It's possible at the eclipse, with the wild card energies afoot, to meet a person or people that rock our world. Do you get a sense of shared destiny, or purpose? Neptune is in the social web sign of Aquarius, making a close trine to Saturn in Libra, the air sign of relating. This gives us some mental stability, as well as the gift of the observer's mind.
How key is this when how we perceive reality itself is changing so dramatically. Neptune, the planet of illusions/delusions...and meeting on ground that transcends all that. A great time to mind storm for creative collaboration, community actions, future possibilities that involve your extended network.
It's also a time of thinking globally, and meeting up on the 'net. To seek out those that can explore our own personal leading edges with us, in the shared journey of awakening.
Art Gianfermo of Aquarian Solutions recently suggested that having projects to work on is a good idea while Mars is in Virgo. I've never thought of getting crafty, like knitting until recently, for example, and thinking of it as a way to put my nervous hands to use making gifts!
The nervous system is charged under the Gemini Full Moon. What are some healthy ways to make use of this jumpy energy? Excercising, walking in nature, organizing your home or office, rearranging the furniture, wrapping gifts, cleaning -- just a few possibilities. Be sure to eat the foods that keep you calmest, and avoid the stimulants that get you wiry. Take care what you digest in the way of news, entertainment, visuals. Having an embodied spiritual practice is a good idea that can be a catharsis for what's moving in the body.
In a recent teleconference, Dr. Christine Page, herself a Gemini Sun, talked about its mythology. The symbol for Gemini, she said, is the twin pillars of Jachin and Boaz, linking back to ancient Egypt. These are symbols for duality -- masculine/feminine, intellect/intuition, and Gemini's ability to bridge these as well as heaven and Earth. These twin pillars are the erect snake, and the body's spine -- lightning rods to bring heavenly energy to Earth and vice versa.
She writes in 2012 and the Galactic Center, "As we are beginning to appreciate, our body is also designed to be a magician's wand, with three strands of energy running along the spine and contributing to the fully erect serpent: two forces of duality and the fluid source of eternal life that flows between them."
A mystery of our time is handling unusual new energies and integrating them into our experience. This eclipse could be a time of great downloading, not unlike what I hear happens when you look into the eye of the whale. Uranus rules lightning and awakenings, and is very prominent in the eclipse chart (stationing direct).
The Gemini-Sagittarius eclipse is sure to be wildly stimulating, and staying grounded will keep you from spinning out, getting fried or wired, or acting recklessly. If overwhelmed, the way to ground is to come back to the body -- eating or drinking something that calms you, getting energy/body work, taking a soak, working out.
An eclipse has a crossroads feel, and here it's an event that charges the seeker's journey. If we overcome the chronic anxiety and fear that's around us, and heal it through patient, daily integration, we can feel confident on the path. The Full Moon is often revealing, and with the eclipse, there can be life-altering shake ups in perception. Be patient with the process, while acting on what comes up in the moment. I hope it further aligns you with your own highest path!
Have faith through this organic process of breaking up. There's a settling New Moon in Capricorn on December 24th, which will further help us root in the changes that feel wholesome, ethical, fruitful and will build up the new structures we're visioning.
Story
7 Dec 2011 - 9:00pm
Dear Friends,
The Full Moon is Saturday, December 10 at 7:38 AM Mountain Standard Time. This full moon is accompanied by a total eclipse of the moon visible in North America. Needless to say it is a very powerful time and serves as the bookend to an intense time of change and acceleration that began on the New Moon on November 24. Definitely do something to acknowledge this day. Make an inventory of what has changed for you and spend some time dreaming big and thinking outside the box regarding your intentions. Stay away from anything negative and set your boundaries against what does not feel congruent with you. If people are melting down around you, hold them in compassion but do not join in the drama. Your actions speak louder than words at this time and the universe will take note of any fully committed action you take towards your intentions. Be sincere and know what you want. Take some action that indicates you really mean it.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Gemini Total Lunar Eclipse. Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Gemini 18º Dec. 10, 7:38 AM MST
We’ve been mailed an eclipse package. It arrived with the New Moon Solar Eclipse on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day USA, and now is coming into full expression with the Gemini Full Moon paired with a total Lunar Eclipse. Moving into the Solstice period is the frosting on the 3-layer cake. The Sun and Moon are in opposition and conjunct within 4º of the North and South Nodes. The Sagittarian Sun gives Jupiter a strong voice in the chart as it rules Sag and the Sun, while Mercury gains strength by being the ruler of the Gemini full, round, creamy Moon. Mercury has been retrograde since Nov. 23; that’s a strong influence on the Moon chart. Retrogrades pull us into reflection, reevaluation, and inner process. With Mercury in Sagittarius, we are trying to reconnect with our vision for what lies ahead and the beliefs that may be bogging us down.
Opening to the Earth and drawing that grounded energy up from the center of the planet will satisfy the animal nature of Sagittarius, while streaming the cosmic ray from the center of the universe down through the center of our heads and radiating the mixture out from our hearts will connect us with that vision that the arrow of Sagittarius seeks. Just the preparation we need for the Dec. 21/22 Winter Solstice.
An eclipse is a precise alignment of the orbits of the Sun, Earth and Moon. Complex computer calculation can determine times for eclipse. And just think, Stonehenge was built to do exactly the same thing so long ago. For a short time there is a disruption of our energetic connection to the planetary grid and a total reset can occur. Old beliefs, ideas, perceptions, constructs can be discarded and the quantum field is more easily accessed and integrated. Like a rebirthday. You know, if you just go along and ignore your birthday that’s one expression, but if you prepare and celebrate and honor the day, it can bring you a memorable change and reenergize you for the next year. Well, eclipses are the same, you’re going to experience it if you just ride on the great ball through that time, but if you prepare and honor that portal, you can receive valuable gifts.
Going back to the topic of the Full Moon conjunct the South Node in Gemini and the Sun conjunct the North Node in Sagittarius, we may see strong, emotional lunar, not rational, reactions surface bringing with it our issues of loss and abandonment or maybe we’ll just feel like cooking and eating and feeding everyone around us (Moon)! Much that has been internalized in the past can present itself for acceptance and release especially from childhood, old habits, nourishment, stomach, breasts ~ all Moon ruled. A powerful opportunity presents itself here. Follow this link to Jose Stevens’ article about instinctive center fears of abandonment and entrapment: (link here).
Ceres in Pisces is square the Sun and the Moon. She is the asteroid, now planetoid, the all nourishing mother with rulership of food, procreative sexuality, parental imprinting, agricultural cycles and nurturing and helping professions. In Pisces, Ceres resonates with compassion and seeks to nurture others where she senses suffering. Square the Full Moon there can be difficulty honoring one’s own needs before those of others, especially others in your family. Self-nourishment issues and attachment out of need may be triggered.
180º away from Ceres, Mars in Virgo also squares the North/South Nodes and Sun/Moon (and forming a Grand Square). Mars takes an extensive retrograde period starting Jan. 23 to April 14, 2012. Because it will have almost an eight month journey in the earth sign of Virgo instead of the usual two month interval, we will experience this ongoing square to the nodes in Gemini/Sagittarius, as well as an easy and supportive trine relationship with Jupiter in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn. Mars square the Nodes spells conflict and even violence if not channeled into experiences that let us feel our power and courage.
Uranus (1º Aries) goes direct the day before the Full Moon Eclipse. Retrograde since early July, it doesn’t regain its previous degree until March 2012 (4º Aries). Uranus reaches its first exact square to Pluto in June, 2012 at about 8º ~ that’s the first of seven exact squares from now to 2015. If you experience a giant lightning bolt to your life, it’s most likely Uranus, the Awakener, active in your birth chart. Uranus loves change, I mean CHANGE, freedom, invention and liberation of all things bound. This is not a planet concerned with the intricacies of material reality. You may ultimately sustain some blow, but the source is internal pressure on areas that need to give way to growth. One lesson of a long Mars transit in Virgo is stay adaptable, diplomatic and on task in times of change and the resulting chaos.
Jupiter at 0º Taurus, ruling planet of the Sun in Sagittarius, is involved in a formation called Thor’s Hammer formed by two planets in square aspect (90º) and both in sesqui-quadrate aspect (135º) to a third planet - Jupiter, our ruling planet here. The energy is stressful and dynamic. If you picture the energy originating at the handle, Jupiter, then you need to find a way to use the power of the two planets in the tense square pattern (Mars + North Node) constructively and creatively so it doesn’t go destructive. That’s why it’s called a hammer or sometimes God’s Fist it has to be wielded judiciously. I wouldn’t mention it at all if it didn’t involve the ruling planet.
Jupiter and Saturn in near opposition are contributing to the feeling of expansion and contraction of time. Saturn is considered Lord of Chronos, Father of Time and Jupiter expands everything it touches. Read Lena’s December forecast for greater insight into how our sense of time is accelerating, (link here).
Mercury will move direct days after the eclipse on Dec 13. Any time you have spent on the inner planes in connection to your essence will really pay off as you set your intentions from your heart center for the new year at the power point of the winter solstice on Dec. 21/22 when the Sun moves into 1º Capricorn. When astrologers want to read influences of the whole year, they look at the Winter Solstice chart. It’s a powerful time of year. Last year, the Full Moon eclipse was ON the Winter Solstice! That doesn’t happen very often…..
12/13 Mercury direct
12/13 & 14 Geminid Meteor showers
12/21 Winter Solstice~Wednesday 10:30 PM MST
or Thursday 12/22 5:30 AM GMT
12/22 Ursids Meteor shower
12/24 New Moon Capricorn 11:07 AM MDT
12/25 Jupiter direct
Blog entry
5 Dec 2011 - 10:20pm
This lunar eclipse will be the last until 2014. I plan on not missing it, got my alarm set for 4:45 AM Pacific Standard Time on the 10th. Last full lunar eclipse I observed, changed me forever. Here is a diagram providing the ideal parts of the globe to view the eclipse. Enjoy!
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2011-Fig06.pdf
Story
2 Dec 2011 - 2:16am
The main theme for December is ACCELERATION.
In order to shift into the next gear, there needs to be acceleration and an increase of speed. With the increase of speed, and just before you shift, the lower gear is overworked and can no longer maintain the acceleration and the speed without effort and being hard on the engine. As you shift into a higher gear, you are able to maintain a greater speed with less effort.
This month you are very much like a vehicle that needs to speed up in order to keep up with the flow of traffic. But as you accelerate in your lower gear, at some point you will need to shift into a higher gear, the next level of consciousness or the next frequency. Shifting into a higher gear means accepting the accelerated times as standard and allowing the current level of activity to feel normal, effortless, familiar and balanced.
We have an opportunity to work with "time" this month, to shift and reinvent how we perceive it. We have an opportunity to move beyond our old concepts of time and the limitations that those old beliefs and concepts have imprinted us with. Don't be surprised if this month you have some kind of experience where you feel you are in a time warp, or you experience a feeling of de ja vu. One minute you feel as if there is no time at all to accomplish what you need to do, and the next minute you feel as if there is all the time in the world. Some days will go by slowly, like molasses, and other days will speed by so quickly you will not know where the day went. Things you did yesterday will seem like you experienced them a whole year ago, and things you are doing today may feel like you have been doing them your whole life.
Everything is accelerated. Events that come together, situations falling apart, new projects that get started, decisions that get made and changes that occur. What if you woke up and your hair was 2 inches longer overnight? What if you lost or gained 10 pounds overnight? What if were able to learn or grasp something new in a fraction of the time you would have expected? What if something that used to take 2 months only took 1 day? Creativity and destruction both are accelerated at this time. A healing process can be accelerated as well as disease and death. And we also have the opportunity to begin to use a greater percentage of our brain as the quantum field opens its mysteries up to us and we wake up our DNA.
Remember that our belief systems and our perceptions create our reality therefore the reality that has been our taskmaster of "time" is going through a change. We are directing this change. Time is stretching, accelerating, slowing down, becoming elastic, and moving towards being a multi dimensional experience instead of a linear one. The key in changing how we create time is in letting go of the mind's need to control, to know, to track, and to organize. In the acceleration of the month, the mind in fact will not have an option. It will have to simply give up its need to track, organize, categorize, and understand. It cannot keep up.
Think of yourself sitting in a train and watching the environment out the window as you speed by. It is impossible to freeze a view or get anything more than a sense of what you are seeing. However it is an accepted belief that the brain actually records everything even when the mind cannot process it in a linear way. So we are in fact moving from a linear way of operating and understanding to a non-linear or multi-dimensional experience. This will take some time to get used to. In the meantime you can do your part through acceptance, non-judgment, compassion for others and setting your own good boundaries.
"Boundaries" is a theme carried over from last month. When you find too much on your plate, only you can decide what is a priority, what is important, what you can delegate, what you can say "no" to, and how you can bring balance into the acceleration. It is most important to set boundaries around habitual expectations of others that no longer serve you or that are no longer appropriate for you to deliver. There will always be someone who is not happy with your boundaries. Allow them to be unhappy and set your boundaries anyway. Beware of becoming frustrated, argumentative, feeling out of control, anxious and unsettled. The only thing you can control is yourself. So this is a time where you can practice taking control of your life, setting your own boundaries, becoming responsible for yourself in ways you have not been before, and treating everything around you with acceptance and neutrality.
When you don't resist the acceleration and you flow with the movement it feels productive, inspiring, ecstatic, effortless, exhilarating and evolved. When you resist, it can feel off center, sluggish, out of tune, and like the energy is moving in fits and starts. The high-octane fuel you need at this time is your own trust in your intuition and your willingness to leave the controls of the mind behind. Once you taste the exhilaration of being in sync with the acceleration, be careful not to move into impatience when you see others struggling around you. Remember to be compassionate and neutral.
Many will be challenged this month. When things spin out of control, there are many responses and reactions. Fear, hysteria, denial, withdrawl, confusion, impatience with others, martyrdom and blame, stubbornness (the "I won't" syndrome) and a general sense of being on the edge of going off the deep end. You will witness people behaving unlike themselves and having meltdowns as they look at where their agreements are, feeling overwhelmed with what they think they need to accomplish, and struggling with their own belief that things are moving too fast. (suggested helpful audio: How to Deal with Melt Downs, link here to order).
Too fast for what? If you catch yourself saying "things are moving too fast", change the affirmation to "things are moving at a perfect pace and I love it". If you find yourself saying, "I have too much on my plate, too much to do and I can't do it", change the affirmation to "I have the perfect amount to do, plenty of time and energy with which to do it, and what I do is exactly what I need and want to be doing". Use the visual image of shifting into a higher gear to take the stress off the transmission and the effort out of the movement. Take a deep breath and relax.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
One minute you are up, the next down. One day you are overwhelmed and unproductive, the next day you are perfectly synchronized, balanced and accomplish a great deal. This is an opportunity to work with time, work with boundaries and work with some new affirmations that will help you reconfigure your belief system about what is possible. The main thing is to keep a "don't know mind". Become comfortable with not knowing what or how.
We are already beginning to feel the influences of the next time frame (2012) affecting our sense of order and control. Learning to be comfortable with chaos will be a major theme next year and this is starting to affect everyone now. Beware of getting attached in any way to what someone promises you, tells you or agrees to. Don't get attached to plans, traditions or expectations. Remember that you can only control how you react and what you yourself do, not how others react or what they decide or do. Choose something in your life that you can truly control and make order out of it. It will give you a sense of grounding, accomplishment and control. As to everything else, let it be.
Your intentions and affirmations this month especially during the first ten days carry a lot of power as we begin the month in the window of two eclipses. So be sure to focus some time on what you want and don't be afraid to dream big. Anything is possible during this accelerated time and things can happen more quickly than you could ever have imagined.
RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships will be tested in the boundary area. You may need to say "no" or you may need to accept a "no" from someone else. Be neutral and non-reactive. Agreements and karma are accelerated, intensity is accelerated, and movement is accelerated. What in the past has taken months to develop, such as levels of trust, intimacy and partnership, may take just a few days during these times. Major decisions for marriage, divorce, contracts, living together, splitting apart, termination or initiation will be accelerated and happen very quickly. Some of you are still working with the influences of the renewal theme of last month. If something in the relationship arena was renewed for you, the new platform for the relationship will take off at an accelerated pace this month. Remember to stay out of fear.
If you have been actively setting intention for a new relationship in your life, it could very well happen this month. Revisit your intentions and rewrite them on a new piece of paper. Work with them daily remembering to not be attached to what, how and when.
THE ENVIRONMENT
This month could be very windy. The element of air is prominent in the movement aspect of the month and will support acceleration in the environment. There may be storms with high winds, delays in travel due to winds, and changes that occur due to heavy winds. Other forces are at work as well but they will be influenced in some way by wind.
You can work on your own personal environment by working with your breath. Become conscious and aware of breath and the element of air breathing you, changing you, nourishing you, and cleansing you. When you are at the mercy of wind, don't resist it but rather work with it as a crucial life giving power that will support the acceleration in your life.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
The body always goes into some resistance when there is a strong movement of energy it has to adapt to. This month is no different. You could find yourself experiencing some flu like symptoms but not really the flu. You could also go through ups and down in your energy levels.
Keep the kidneys warm as they tend to be stressed in times of uncertainty and strong movement. Take time when you need it to rest and curl up into a cocoon of comfort.
As we mentioned, in accelerated times, everything can happen faster. If you are in the process of healing, the healing can be accelerated. If you are choosing to learn lessons through illness, the illness can be accelerated. If you are gaining weight, you will do it faster. If you are getting into shape and losing weight, that process can also be accelerated. The discipline is in keeping the old beliefs of the mind from interfering with the potential. If you feel achy, don't jump to conclusions. Beware of formally diagnosing any condition as it may fix it in your mind and your physical reality as a limitation. Things are not always what they seem.
Just as for relationships, take advantage of the accelerated times and flexibility in "time" to revisit your intentions for your personal health.
Decide how you want it to be.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
Accelerated, up, down and sideways best describes this area. Don't get attached is the best policy. The idea of not taking "no" for an answer is of an old model and an old paradigm. The new model is a respect for the boundaries of others while not taking it personally, and a trust that your strong intentions will manifest regardless of how others react. This month projects can take off due to the accelerated times. Partnerships can come together, change, terminate or go through a reconfiguring of boundaries.
There is great intuitive clarity this month even though there might not be great mental clarity. Learn to trust it. It is also a waste of time to rehash what you might have done differently or better when something does not work out. You literally do not have the luxury of the time it takes to ponder the past and how it could have been different. All the energy these days is about looking ahead, moving forward, and shifting gears to the next level.
Beware of holding grudges and blame. Allow others to be whatever and wherever they are and allow them to change their minds. The best policy is to treat everyone you have contact with as if you are meeting them for the first time. In that way you release any past judgment or attachment or expectation of how they should be and there is more freedom to take advantage of the acceleration and movement.
Economy and finance will be up and down and sideways as well. Just when you think you have it figured out, a big windstorm will come along and blow it all apart.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
Stay neutral and unattached. Allow for movement in all political arenas without expectation or theory or projection. We really do not know at all how it is going to turn out anywhere. We underestimate the power of creativity and instant manifestation in these accelerated times. So listen, observe, acknowledge, and be interested for the sake of being interested but stay neutral. Just as in business and finance and partnerships, allow people to change their minds and their decisions without being judged. Stay out of reaction and adopt the phrase and answer, "Oh, is that so?"
It is also best not to take sides. When you are extremely either for or against something, you create polarity and limit the outcome. The part you can play in the future is to be as neutral and undecided as possible giving the collective the greatest freedom to create what is appropriate and right.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
December 1-7: We are still in the window between the two eclipses and in a most potent time for paying attention to boundaries, energy leaks, recreating intentions and getting comfortable with the new speed of things. Stay focused. During this time we suggest that you do some form of aerobic exercise. Jog, run, bike, ski or anything else that will give you a sense of movement, speed and physical power. This will help to anchor the acceleration as well as to increase your circulation. When you train your physical body, you also help the emotional, mental and energy bodies.
This is also a time to set good boundaries and look at everything that is on your plate. What can you delegate that someone else can easily do for you? Even though this is not especially a time for communal exchange and events, community support can help in building your own personal power. What you do with your attitude, your time and your intentions in this time frame will set up how the rest of your month goes. If you are going to accelerate a car, you want to make sure the road is straight ahead with no obstacles. So know where you are going with what you can know, and be comfortable and accepting with what you don't yet know.
December 8-16: Put your seat belt on and enjoy the ride. You can either have a blast and a lot of fun, or you can be miserable, blaming, judging, irritated and unhappy. If so, you are not doing what you want and resisting the movement and acceleration, or you are trying to control what you cannot control. Let it go, let it be, give up, give in, forgive, accept, relax, loosen up, say "no" when you need to and say "yes, why not?" when you can. Enjoy chaos when present and remember to be flexible about everything. The more neutral you can be the more you will enjoy yourself and get to the place of being delighted instead of miserable.
December 10: Full Moon at 7:38 AM Mountain Standard Time. This full moon is accompanied by a total eclipse of the moon visible in North America. Needless to say it is a very powerful time and serves as the bookend to an intense time of change and acceleration that began on the New Moon on November 24. Definitely do something to acknowledge this day. Make an inventory of what has changed for you and spend some time dreaming big and thinking outside the box regarding your intentions.
December 17-23: The new influences are creeping in and you may feel like a multiple personality during this time. One day you have one reaction, the next day a different one around the same issue. Stay out of judgment. Accept what is really clear to you in terms of where you want to be and who with. Make some strong decisions especially around the solstice time about your boundaries, relationships, work, expression, what is OK with you and what is not OK. You may also be inspired to break out of certain traditions that have to do with family and holidays in order to take time to do something meaningful for yourself. Remember that there will always be someone not happy with your decisions and boundaries. Set them anyway.
December 21: Winter Solstice is at 10:23 PM Mountain Standard Time. A time to celebrate your life, your responsibility to yourself, your power, your talents, your purpose, your vitality, your inspiration. Make a list of everything that stands in the way of that and burn it with ceremony. Take note of where you are, what you are doing and who with. How is it? If you don't like it, change it.
December 24: New Moon is at 11:08 AM Mountain Standard Time. This is a time for anchoring, for affirming, for sticking to your boundaries and for inserting order into something you can control. A good day to organize any space that is yours or improve your environment in some way. Being as this is also a holiday in many traditions, make sure you are not compromising yourself but in control of your decisions around how you are spending the day. It's OK to say "no".
December 24-31: This is a reflective time where you can contemplate all the things that feel out of control to you and all the aspects of your life that feel accelerated beyond what you feel you can manage. Do some work around acceptance, your relationship with time, your attachment to disappointment, and try to get to a place of neutrality with anything that does not feel OK or right. This may take some focus work where you scrutinize your reactions and practice letting go of the temptation to dwell on the past and what has not manifested in the ways you expected.
By this time you should be in that higher gear and things should seem calmer and more manageable. In reality, the energy is just as speedy and multidimensional. You have just gotten more used to it and the higher gear makes for a smoother ride.
Happy Holidays and have a wonderful month!
Lena
Blog entry
1 Dec 2011 - 10:33am
Brightest Blessings!
~*~
Another NEW planet ~ pretty incredible. ... The Lightbeams that are beginning to SHINE soo brightly . .. We are truly witnessing magic and oh so many miracles ... Before our very eyes!!! One only need to observe the Divine Dance. .. it IS so very key to maintaining our Vibrational values!
~*~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kepler-21b-new-planet-discovered_n_1121938.html
~*~
HappyShining Heart Hugs!
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30 Nov 2011 - 10:12pm
Uploaded by NASAexplorer on 30 Nov 2011
The Christmas burst, also known as GRB 101225A, was discovered in the constellation Andromeda by Swift's Burst Alert Telescope at 1:38 p.m. EST on Dec. 25, 2010. Two very different scenarios successfully reproduce features of this peculiar cosmic explosion. It was either caused by novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision much closer to home, within our own galaxy.
Common to both scenarios is the presence of a neutron star, the crushed core that forms when a star many times the sun's mass explodes.
According to one science team, the burst occurred in an exotic binary system where a neutron star orbited a normal star that had just entered its red giant phase. The outer atmosphere of the giant expanded so much that it engulfed the neutron star, which resulted in both the ejection of the giant's atmosphere and rapid tightening of the neutron star's orbit.
Once the two stars became wrapped in a common envelope of gas, the neutron star may have merged with the giant's core after just five orbits, or about 18 months. The end result of the merger was the birth of a black hole and the production of oppositely directed jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, which made the gamma rays, followed by a weak supernova. Based on this interpretation, the event took place about 5.5 billion light-years away, and the team has detected what may be a faint galaxy at the right location.
Another team supports an alternative model that involves the tidal disruption of a large comet-like object and the ensuing crash of debris onto a neutron star located only about 10,000 light-years away.
Gamma-ray emission occurred when debris fell onto the neutron star. Clumps of cometary material likely made a few orbits, with different clumps following different paths before settling into a disk around the neutron star. X-ray variations detected by Swift's X-Ray Telescope that lasted several hours may have resulted from late-arriving clumps that struck the neutron star as the disk formed.
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28 Nov 2011 - 12:17pm
*** Begin Point of View ***
With all the *noise* about ascension on planet earth,
* yes earth is ascending but its not what you think
* planet earth will ascend on Dec 21 2012 above the elliptic plane of the Milky Way
* that's what the Mayan Calendar is all about as we whirl through the cosmos on planet earth
* the earth is physically moving from below the elliptic to above the elliptic
how we need to send earth light and love,
* yes we do and the first step is respecting where we live and not taking it for granted
* stop plundering the earth be aware of every breath you take knowing that you breath in the love from the planet when you exhale know that you are returning the love back to earth
* know that you are always surrounded by and in the source field of this living universe
* be conciecious of every thing you do, eat when your hungry, sleep when your tired, but most of all use your intention to create the earth you want
why we need to care about the so called dark cabal,
* this is just a bunch of fear porn to keep us from truly becoming our best selfs
* disclousure is the same thing, we dont need any one to tell us because we already know
and most of all why we need to take in every breath and appreciate it, understanding that we are the microcosm and macrocosm all wrapped up in one, AS ABOVE SO BELOW!
*** End Point of View ***
This message is from me not some saint or energy from another star system.
Peace Love Truth Justice and Beauty to All
Jes
Story
26 Nov 2011 - 6:14pm
Dear Friends,
The New Moon with a partial solar eclipse is Thursday, November 24 at 11:10 PM Mountain Standard Time. This new moon and eclipse initiates a time period that creates a portal where new information and new ways of experiencing, seeing and feeling become possible. The other end of the time frame is the Full Moon on December 10 that comes with a total lunar eclipse visible in North America.
This window promises to be a time of some intensity and movement as well as powerful opportunity for manifesting. The most important thing will be to keep grounded and focused on what it is that you (not someone else) want out of life. You can create anything during this time as long as you don't get distracted and scattered around unimportant issues. It is definitely worthwhile spending some time in contemplation and making yourself available to spirit and to your practices. Write some new goals, clean your house, get rid of old papers. Focus on renewal.
There is also potential for higher centered experiences at this time as long as you are not around anything that will bring you down. Try to avoid people you have karma with or who are not congruent with you energetically. This time can also trigger some movement in the environment, earthquakes, high tides, storms, accidents, unusual events, etc.
Blessings and a Happy Thanksgiving to all of our US readers.
Lena Stevens
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse
Sun/Moon in Sagittarius 2º, Nov. 24. 11:10 PM MST
Jupiter is our ruling planet in Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac. We are now gifted and protected by the largest planet in our solar system. Everything that jovial Jupiter touches expands, becomes more confident, enthusiastic and adventurous. We all can use that! Here under Jupiter's eye (or the Greek Zeus) our guiding vision is born out of our personal philosophy created from our deep yearning to know who we are and the purpose of our existence especially in these times of evolutionary change. The Archer's arrow aims far out to the horizon - anything is possible. It's the search, not the treasure for the freedom loving Sagittarian. Jupiter in Taurus (fixed) continues to be in a Grand Trine formation with Mars in Virgo (mutable) and Pluto in Capricorn (cardinal) - all three earth signs in aspect making it easy to implement our vision and goals in practical fashion. Get real; make things happen. Avoid the tendency of Grand Trines to just enjoy the ease and not use the open, ready channels for purposeful expression. Every bit of effort you put forth will come back ten fold now.
It's also an opportunity to bring the denser frequency of our physical bodies that tend to resonate in the first three chakras up to a more fourth chakra, heart based operation with all this earthy energy support. Our bodies and electromagnetic fields are being stretched to accommodate ever increasing levels of awareness and consciousness. When the outer planets align with the Galactic Center at 27º Sagittarius like Pluto, planet of transformation and Lord of Darkness, did in 2007, astrologers surmise that huge energetic downloads come to our planet from this massive black hole and 'transmitter of infrared, x-ray, radio, gamma and microwaves' at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. We then integrate the increase of information into the physical plane. Since that download in '07, Pluto has facilitated the exposure of darkness and corruption that we witness every day on the news, and we increasingly see a movement into balance with nature, the Feminine, and a shamanic view of life where everything is seen as conscious and contributing to the whole. Evolution isn't really a choice. It's a matter of time. It doesn't look like we are going to be taken out by a direct hit from cosmic debris, the 'end of the world' has been cancelled three times, and the rapture has failed to materialize, so it looks like we are in it for the long haul. Our collective 'vision' is to increase the consciousness on the planet. You came here with your assignment. When the more enlightened ones amongst us are faced with challenges, and accept and overcome them, it helps those that follow walk an easier and already delineated path.
Venus, planet of relationship, aesthetics and resources is transiting the Galactic Center through this New Moon, solar eclipse period. A call to the fourth chakra and expanding our ability to hold more love for the world we find ourselves in. Express gratitude for everyone and every experience. We are blessed with so much. An exact sextile (60º) to compassionate Neptune provides an opportunity to truly bring in the highest manifestation of our love and attract those who are aligned with our vision.
The Sun and Moon are involved in a partial solar eclipse with the visible path circling the South Pole. An eclipse allows the major source of our light, heat and energy - the Sun to be temporarily disrupted here on Earth. At this portal, an opportunity to clear our own energy fields exists, and we can easily let go of old beliefs and limitations and shift our consciousness to a higher frequency. It's the last of the six SuperMoons of the year where the Moon is closest to the Earth and in direct alignment with the Sun and Earth increasing her influence on the waters of our planet, our bodies and our moods and feelings. We also have recently experienced an increase in extreme solar flare activity and coronal mass ejections resulting in extreme weather, quakes and eruptions on our planet. Predictions are for continuation of that extreme pattern as we round the apex of the sunspot cycle in the next year or two.
The Sun and Moon at 2º Sagittarius are squared on one side by Mars and on the other by Chiron/Neptune. A Mars square may create a challenge where you have to show courage and skillful means to avoid conflict. Don't be afraid to stop and re-assess. A blow or defeat may be endured to cut new ground. If you value the cutting edge, pay the price willingly. With Mars squaring the Sun/Moon at this eclipse, we may see more authority vs. people conflict in the streets. We need to take the Sagittarian/Jupiter cue and keep our eyes on the big picture and just what is our vision for the future - aiming high with ethical actions and holding a global view. With Chiron squared the Sun/Moon, there may be a healing crisis; the weak spot needs to be tended. The Sun/Moon can be the father/mother or the external/internal parts of the self, so there is potential to heal those pesky recurring issues and themes from our situations of origin. A Thanksgiving dinner would be a perfect setting. With Neptune within degrees of Chiron, you may be pressed to have any boundaries at all, but you can count on your creativity, imagination and intuition to be on call and at your service.
What else is happening in this New Moon eclipse chart that you're likely to want to be aware of? Well, Mercury goes retrograde some hours before the eclipse. It will be a shifty period leading up to the eclipse. The Sun will shift out of the powerful, watery dark feminine sign of Scorpio on Tuesday, Nov. 22 and into the masculine, truth seeking fire sign of Sagittarius. Mercury will slow, stop and turn retrograde at 20º Sagittarius on Wednesday night, Nov 23 until Tuesday, Dec. 13, and regain its original position on Dec. 31. Then, New Moon and the eclipse on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day in the USA 11:10 PM MST. So, remain fluid and flexible during this transition period. Remember, a three week Mercury retrograde period is a time to go within for internal reassessment to 'be' instead of 'do'. If you find the physical world is going into noncooperation with you, you may need to take a few deep breaths and come more into alignment with the natural flow of life. Any New Moon, and especially one with an eclipse, is asking you to get clear on what you want to manifest in the next cyclic round of increase. Honor this New Moon with the clarity, truth and far-reaching insight that Sagittarius so generously provides.
12/10 Gemini Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse 18º, 7:37 MST
visible in North America except eastern part, northern half of Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia, Australasia, Asia, eastern Africa, Iceland and most of Europe
12/13 Mercury direct
12/21 Winter Solstice - Sun enters Capricorn 10:30 PM MST
12/24 Capricorn New Moon 2º, 11:07 AM MST
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
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22 Nov 2011 - 12:20pm
THE STRENGTH & LOYALTY OF THE GODDESS HERA - A MORTAL REMINDER (VICTIM OR VILLIAN???)
Hera, the Greek goddess called the Queen of Heaven, was a powerful queen in her own right, She is the Greek Counterpart of the Babylonian Goddess Inanna/Ishtar, long before her marriage to Zeus, the mighty king of the Olympian gods. The goddess Hera ruled over the heavens and the earth, responsible for every aspect of existence, including the seasons and the weather. Honoring her great capacity to nurture the world, her very name translates as the "Great Lady". Our word galaxy comes from the Greek word gala meaning "mother's milk" . . . legend has it that the Milky Way was formed from the milk spurting from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera, Queen of Heaven.
Where drops fell to earth, fields of lilies sprung forth. She was also worshipped as the Roman goddess Juno, and the month of June (which is the most popular month for weddings) is named in her honor. It is partly on account of Hera's great beauty, and particularly her beautiful, large eyes, that she is linked to her sacred animal, the cow, and also the peacock with its iridescent feathers having "eyes". The cow symbolizes the goddess Hera's nurturing watchfulness over her subjects, while the peacock symbolizes her luxury, beauty, and immortality.
In ancient times Hera was revered as being the only one the Greek goddesses who accompanied a woman through every step of her life. The goddess Hera blessed and protected a woman's marriage, bringing her fertility, protecting her children, and helping her find financial security. Hera was, in short, a complete woman, overseeing both private and public affairs. But it was Hera's uncommon beauty that attracted the attention of her future husband, the lusty Zeus, who tricked Hera into taking him to her breast by changing himself into a small, frightened and wounded bird that elicited her pity. Once cradled in Hera's bosom, Zeus changed back into his manly form and tried to take her . . . but she resisted his advances, putting him off until he promised to marry her. The delay only increased his desire for Hera and, once married, they had the longest honeymoon on record, lasting over 300 years!
Unfortunately, the goddess Hera's life was not to remain so enviable. Once the honeymoon was over, Zeus reverted to his earlier "playboy" lifestyle, married or not, compulsively seducing or raping whichever of the Greek goddesses or mortal women caught his wandering eye. His amorous exploits left the regal goddess Hera feeling betrayed and humiliated on numerous occasions. To make matters even worse, Zeus often showed more favor towards the offspring of his illicit liaisons than he did to the children Hera bore him. In Greek mythology Hera, although wounded, remained faithful and steadfast in her loyalty to Zeus, electing instead to vent her fury on "the other women" rather than Zeus himself even though it was usually Zeus who had deceived, seduced or raped the innocent women.
This wasn't always Hera's reaction, however. On one occasion she decided to give Zeus a "taste of his own medicine" by conceiving and delivering a child by herself, proving that she really didn't need him anyway. It didn't work out quite as she'd hoped. She gave birth, as the sole parent, to Hephaestus (God of the Forge) who was born with a deformity that made him lame. Zeus was not impressed, and Hera rejected her son, sending him away from Mount Olympus to grow up among the mortals.
At other times, in reaction to his continuing infidelities, the goddess Hera simply withdrew from Zeus and the other Olympian gods and goddesses and wandered around the earth, often in darkness, always eventually ending up back at the home where she'd spend her happy youth. In spite of how he had mistreated her, Zeus did love Hera and, more than that, felt as if part of himself was missing when she was not there for him. Once, panicked that Hera didn't seem to be in any hurry to return this time, he invited her to a "mock" marriage ceremony that he'd arranged to a princess near her home. She couldn't help but be amused to discover him making his vows, not to a princess, but a statue! Hera's laughter broke the ice, and she forgave him and returned to Mount Olympus to resume her role as wife and queen.
It is unfortunate that it is not the goddess Hera's nurturing or her steadfastness in the face of adversity that are remembered today, but mostly the stories of her jealousy and vindictiveness. Some historians argue that the goddess Hera was unjustly portrayed in the famous stories of Homer, probably because he was himself victimized by a mean and shrewish wife. More than any of the other Greek goddesses, the goddess Hera reminds us that there is both light and dark within each of us and that joy and pain are inextricably linked in life. The Greek goddess Hera represents the fullness of life and affirms that we can use our own wisdom in the pursuit of any goal we choose.
Much love to you all
Ishtar )O(
Blog entry
18 Nov 2011 - 4:39am
:):):) haha! Amazing,,,Is this truth coming forward ? Let's ponder all the ramifications of this.......
"The Vortex Solar System proved by Dr. Keshava Bhat. This means the end of the academic, helio-centric "clock work face" orbit theory,
invented by the "catholic military priest" nicolas copernicus and later cherished by newton, brahe, kepler, galileo, einstein, hawking, sagan
and the rest of their academic ilk"
http://www.feandft.com/Dr.%20Bhat.htm
Curriculum vitae of Dr. Pallathadka Keshava Bhat
The Vortex Solar System proved by Dr. Keshava Bhat. This means the end of the academic, helio-centric "clock work face" orbit theory, invented by the "catholic military priest" nicolas copernicus and later cherished by newton, brahe, kepler, galileo, einstein, hawking, sagan and the rest of their academic ilk
The proof of Dr. Bhat's assertion that the outer planets can be seen throughout the year! The inner ones disappear in the 30 degree cone of illumination of the Sun, they do not pass behind it as claimed by academia. The two to three weeks the outer planets disappear is due to their being within the 30 degree cone of illumination of the Sun from an Earth bound perspective.
Definition of Heliacal Rising - Lit., rising with the Sun. When a planet or a star, after it has been hidden by the Sun's rays, becomes again visible.
Animation showing the changing aspect of Saturn's rings at various opposition dates from 1993 to 2020, with additional orbital and observational details. The image is shown with Celestial North up (note that astronomical telescopes will normally show images inverted).
The Note that Saturn's rings change their angle to our Earth bound observations, which is due to our mutual helical trajectories. If the planets orbited the Sun upon its ecliptic as academic clock work face diagrams claim, then this would not be remotely possible. The academic helio-centric Copernican model of the Solar System is kaput!
Note that if you imagine that the Earth is represented by the 12 green balls surrounding the Sun and project the Sun forward, past your computer screen, onto the tip of a Vortex Cone which centers the helical paths of the planets which follow it, you will see the true dynamic motions of our Solar System.
The Great Solar Serpent
Our Solar System's, Spiraling, Serpent like, Vortex . Drawn in 1880, from "The OAHSPE"
YouTube link:
The Vortex Solar System of the late and great, Dr. Keshava Bhat, M. Sc., Ph.D., of Manipal, India
This playlist explores the causes of the helical trajectory of our Solar System. Unfortunately the academics in the case "our Solar System's Orbit" opted for an imaginary binary star theory. There is no other star as is clearly seen, so it is sad they did not trash this theory.
The Path of the Solar Serpent's Vortex- drawn in 1880, from The OAHSPE
1, Sun. 2, Mercury. 3, Earth. 4, Mars. 5, Artaea. 6, Vesta. 7, Ceres. 8, Jupiter. 9, Saturn. 10. Uranus.
The reason we have a helical trajectory above and below the galactic ecliptic is because we are moving with other stars in a huge vortex arm of the galaxy which moves us above and below the galactic ecliptic in 25,625 year cycles for each hemisphere.
This proves the helical trajectory of our Solar System which is what Dr. Keshava Bhat discovered with his personal observations of the Solar System from equatorial regions around the globe for a period of 40 years.
Our Solar System is a huge Vortex with the planets following the Sun, we are not orbiting it as quackademicians have been claiming since the time of Copernicus!
Helical Helix : Solar System a Dynamic Process this precious Book, a gift from Dr. Keshava Bhat
Download
Also a must read!
"Book 1998" by Dr. Keshava Bhat
Helical Helix :Solar System a Dynamic Process
Written by: Dr. Keshava Bhat
Figure 19b page 35
This diagram demonstrates that the so-called tilting of the Earth's Axis is an illusion due to our position in the Master Vortex of the Sun above and below it's Ecliptic at peaks called solstices and twice a year as we intersect the ecliptic at the Equinoxes. The illusion to our senses is created by a belief in academic clock work orbits on a flat plane, which would mean that the Earth would have to tilt to account for this process. According to Dr. Bhat the Earth is not tilting at all. It is following the Sun in a Vortex trajectory and the seasons are seen to change due to our position in relationship to the ecliptic plane of the Solar Vortex.
"If only one can pause for a while and think retrospectively, the formidable scientific empire erected through centuries is crumbling down". Dr. Bhat's, "Book 1998", (Chapter 4: Genetic Engineering: Gate to Heaven or Hell?)
The Sensational Spiral, Screwing, Solar System Spermatozoa like Spectacle of our Sun
YouTube link: The Helical Sun-Earth Motions recorded on Ed's Rock Sun Dial at 4:30
YouTube link: Ed Leedskalnin proves that academic orbital models are false at 2:45
Edward Leedskalnin's Book, "Magnetic Current" download
Born in Pallathadka, South India on January 3 1940 and passed on into the higher realms
July 25th 2010, while vacationing in Yellow Stone Park. He was brought up in
constant touch with natural life by his parents, Pallathadka Subraya Bhat and
Lakshmi Amma. He is married to Devaki and has four children, all born in
Cumana, Venezuela.
Graduated from the Madras University in B.Sc ( 1959 ), M.Sc (1961) and
Ph.D in Botany (1966)
Worked as a Research Assistant in the Madras Presidency College, Madras
(1966-1968) and obtained the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(C.S.I.R) senior fellowship in 1968-1969.
Worked as a Senior Professor at the Universidad de Oriente, in Cumana,
Venezuela from 1969 to 1987 teaching Botany at both under graduate and
post graduate levels.
In addition to the large number of scientific papers presented both at national
and international levels, he has authored the following books.
Herbolario Tropical (1981)
Ayuda para el estudio de plantas con flores (1982)
Que Como y Cuando comer (1984)
Planetary "Trajectories" are Spiral, "Serpent like" Vortices, Page 57
Herbolario Tropical : Una manera sencilla de vivir mejor (1985)
Las Bases del Naturismo : Naturaleza y bienestar humano (1991)
El Sentido de la Vida , desde el embarazo hasta la muerte (1994)
La Vuelta al Conuco : Produccin Naturista para un mundo en crisis (Co
author) (1997)
Goodbye to Ruling Scientific Model, proposal for a new science (1997)
Sarala chikitseyinda samagra chintanadedege (Kavyalaya Mysore 2005)
(KANNADA)
YouTube link: The precession of the Equinoxes is not a wobbling of the Earth's Axis
It should be called the "Precession of the Ages of the Zodiac". It is the effect of our entire Solar system in it's serpent like, spiraling vortex trajectory below the apparently stationary Zodiac.
The so-called "precession of the equinoxes"
The academic explanation is that the Earth wobbles one revolution on it's axis approximately every 26,000 years. The Vortex Sun Model explains that the entire Solar System moves in a vortical trajectory like a snake moving in 3 dimensions instead of a flat plane. As the Solar Snake moves either above or below the Galactic Ecliptic during the same time period stated above, it produces the illusion that the polar axis of our planet is wobbling if viewed only from an Earth bound perspective. When seen from outside the Solar System the Solar Snake is creating the so-called wobble due to it's vortical trajectory above and below the Galactic Ecliptic. A powerful mind can mentally image these processes and a space craft is not needed in order to gain this perspective. The Maya, Inca, Egyptians, Indians, Indonesians, Native Americans etc.. all knew this and represented the Solar Force as Serpents or twin opposing serpents (twin opposing vortices).
Video Playlist for the Vortex Solar System Model
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17 Nov 2011 - 7:01pm
From www.GoldenNumber.net
Is there meaning hidden in Phi, the symbol for the Golden Number?
The use of the Greek letter Phi Phi to represent the golden number 1.618 ... is generally said to acknowledge Phidias, a 5th century B.C. sculptor and mathematician of ancient Greece, who studied phi and created sculptures for the Parthenon and Olympus.
The message from scripture of all the major monotheistic religions is that God is One, Who created the universe from nothing, splitting nothingness into offsetting forces and elements. Today we understand the universe to consist of positive and negative atomic and subatomic particles and charges, matter and anti-matter, all coming from a singularity in what we term the "Big Bang."
Curiously, the mathematical constant of 1.618 ... that is found throughout creation is represented by the symbol Phi, which is the symbol 0 for nothing split in two by the symbol 1 for unity and one. Could this be the true meaning behind the symbol Phi? (Oddly enough, to type Phi on your computer, you hold the Alt key and enter 1000 on the number pad, an interesting "alt"ernate look at 1 with a trinity of 0's!)
O l
Nothing Unity / God Nothing
split by
Unity
is Phi,
the constant
of creation
Note: This original insight by the site author was added on 3/15/2003.
Adding Unity to nothingness produces the Fibonacci series, which converges on Phi
Now ADD God to the void, or Unity to Nothing. In other words, add 0 plus 1 to get 1, and then follow this pattern to the Infinite. This is the Fibonacci series. The ratio of each number in the series to the one before it converges on Phi as you move towards infinity, ∞!
Number in the series O l l 2 3 5 8 13 ... ∞
Ratio of
each number in the series
to the
previous number in the series ∞ l 2 l.5 l.66... l.600 l.625 ...
The Golden Proportion is analogous to God's relationship to creation
The Golden Section, or Phi, found throughout nature, also applies in understanding the relationship of God to Creation. In the golden section, we see that there is only one way to divide a line so that its parts are in proportion to, or in the image of, the whole:
The ratio of the larger section (B) to the whole line (A) is the same as the ratio as the smaller section (C) to the large section (B):
Sectioning a line to form the Golden Section, based on phi, the golden ratio
Only "tri-viding" the whole preserves the relationship to the whole
And so it is with our understanding of God, that we are created in His image. Not by dividing the whole, but only by tri-viding the whole does each piece retain its unique relationship to the whole. Only here do we see three that are two that are one.
Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man The Book of John begins with these words that capture the essence of this:
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
Jesus, in John 14:9, expressed a similar thought:
Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
Here the human Jesus (the Son of Man) is to the divine Jesus (the Son of God) as the divine Jesus (the Son of God) is to God (the Father or whole).
Insight on the relationship of Christ to God as analogous to the golden section contributed by Steve McIntosh.
The Golden Section as a universal constant of design
The teachings of most religions express the thought that part of God is within each of us and that we are created in His image. The pervasive appearance of phi throughout life and the universe is believed by some to be the signature of God, a universal constant of design used to assure the beauty and unity of His creation.
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17 Nov 2011 - 6:52pm
The Number 666 is related to Phi The relationship of phi, the golden ratio, and 666 Revelation 13:18 says the following: "This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a man's number. His number is 666." This beast, regarded by some as the Anti-Christ described by John, is thus related to the number 666, one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible. Curiously enough, if you take the sine of 666º, you get -0.80901699, which is one-half of negative phi, or perhaps what one might call the "anti-phi." You can also get -0.80901699 by taking the cosine of 216º, and 216 is 6 x 6 x 6. The trigonometric relationship of sine 666º to phi is based on an isosceles triangle with a base of phi and sides of 1. When this triangle is enclosed in a circle with a radius of 1, we see that the lower line, which has an angle of 306º on the first rotation and 666º on the second rotation, has a sine equal to one-half negative phi. In this we see the unity of phi divided into positive and negative, analogous perhaps to light and darkness or good and evil. Could this "sine" be a "sign" as well? In addition, 666 degrees is 54 degrees short of the complete second circle and when dividing the 360 degrees of a circle by 54 degrees you get 6.66... The other side of a 54 degree angle in a right angle is 36 degrees and 36 divided by 54 is .666. Phi appears throughout creation, and in every physical proportion of the human body. In that sense it is the number of mankind, as the mysterious passage of Revelation perhaps reveals.
http://goldennumber.net/bible.htm
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10 Nov 2011 - 4:43am
Worth staying up for: Mars shining with star Regulus
But be quick — this conjunction will be at its best for only two nights this week
Starry Night Software
Mars pays a visit to the brightest star in the constellation Leo: Regulus.
By Geoff Gaherty
updated 11/9/2011 6:40:13 PM ET 2011-11-09T23:40:13
If you don’t often look at the early morning sky, you may not notice that the planet Mars has been drawing closer to Earth. By a happy coincidence, the Red Planet will be very close to the brightest star in the constellation Leo Wednesday night and early Thursday.
Astronomers call these close approaches "conjunctions." Tonight, Mars will pass just 1.4 degrees north of the bright star Regulus, appearing less than three moon widths away from the star. This will be a very pretty sight, and well worth staying up until 3 a.m. local time to see. But, if you miss it tonight, Mars will still be close to Regulus for the next week.
The sky map of Mars and Regulus here shows where they will appear together in the sky overnight tonight.
This week, Mars reaches first magnitude, making it one of the brightest objects in the sky. It will continue to get brighter until it reaches a bright magnitude of –1.2 (negative numbers denote extra bright objects) on March 3, its date of opposition to the sun, when it will be placed exactly opposite the sun in Earth's sky.
To get the best view of tonight's conjunction, take a look eastward at around 3 a.m. local time. The Big Dipper, known to astronomers as Ursa Major (the Great Bear), will be to your left, and the slanting sides of the Big Dipper’s bowl will point right at the Mars and Regulus pairing. Mars will be slightly brighter than Regulus and obviously reddish in color in contrast to the star.
Through a telescope, the disk of Mars is still very small, only 6 arc seconds in diameter, but you should be able to make out its tiny north polar cap.
Over the next few months, Mars will grow to slightly more than twice this size, but still very small compared to its close approach to Earth in 2003. This is what is called an unfavorable apparition of Mars, since Mars will be at its farthest distance from the sun as it nears its opposition this year.
Regulus is the brightest star in the two-part constellation of Leo, the Lion. The right hand part of Leo looks like a sickle or reverse question mark, with Regulus at the end of the sickle’s handle. The left-hand part of Leo is a nice right-angled triangle, with Denebola, the lion’s tail, on the far left.
If Mars is too tiny this week to show much, take a look at some interesting double stars. The most famous double star in the sky is located in the middle of the handle of the Big Dipper: Mizar.
Mizar was used as a test of eyesight in ancient times. Anyone who could see its tiny companion Alcor was considered to have excellent vision. Can you see Alcor?
With a telescope, Mizar itself can be split into a double star, so the Mizar-Alcor system is in fact a triple star. But wait: studies with a spectroscope show that all three of these stars are a double star too close for a telescope to split. All three are spectroscopic doubles, so the whole system actually consists of six stars.
Tucked under the handle of the Dipper (or the tail of the Bear) is a tiny constellation with a long name: Canes Venatici. This is Latin for "the hunting dogs," and these dogs are thought to be chasing the Great Bear.
Although Canes Venatici has only a couple of stars visible to the naked eye, it contains hundreds of distant galaxies, one of the richest areas for deep sky observers. Closer at hand is the beautiful double star, Cor Caroli. This is Latin for "Charles' Heart," named for the British king Charles, though no one is sure which King Charles the name refers to —there were two.
Regulus:
http://souledout.org/cosmology/highlights/regulushighlights/regulushighlights.html
Regulus , the Ruler or Lawgiver,
the Heart of the Lion
As the brightest star in Leo, Regulus has been almost universally associated in ancient cultures with the concept of royal or kingly power. The name Regulus actually comes from the Latin rex, or king. The star was known in Arabia as Malikiyy, the Kingly One; in Greece as the "Star of the King"; in ancient Babylon, as Sharru or the King; to the even more ancient Akkadians of Mesopotamia it represented Amil-gal-ur, the legendary King of the Celestial Sphere who ruled before the great flood.
The Hindu title Magha signifies the Mighty or the Great One. The Persian name Miyan means the Central One or the Star of the Center. The Latin Cor Leonis is the equivalent of the later Arabian Al Kalb al Asad, the Heart of the Royal Lion.
Regulus is known as one of the four Royal Stars of the heavens, the other three being Aldebaran, Fomalhaut, and Antares. Regulus, in the constellation Leo, is the northern Royal Star. These four Royal Stars are considered to be sentinels watching over other stars and form a Fixed Cross in the heavens. (There is hidden meaning in this configuration and the term Fixed Cross, worthy of contemplation.)
Regulus lies at the base of the sickle of Leo, resembling a reversed question mark some 16 degrees (1) high. To modern sky watchers this sickle outlines the majestic head and mane of the great westward-facing lion, crouched in the regal pose of the enigmatic Egyptian Sphinx.
Regulus is only half a degree (1) from the ecliptic, therefore a relatively common sight is to view the moon or other bright planet passing close to Regulus, and infrequently occulting it. Regulus was occulted by Venus, an exceedingly rare event, on July 7, 1959. According to modern computations, no other occultation by a first magnitude star will occur for several centuries. Remarkably, the planet Venus came within 1.1 degree of Regulus on August 6, 1992, however the sun blocked our ability to view this near-conjunction from the earth.
Regulus, a first magnitude star, is the 21st brightest star in our sky. Its estimated diameter is five times that of our sun (our sun is about one million miles wide), with a luminosity of 160 times that of our sun. It is 85 light years from Earth; this means it takes 85 years for the light which is emitted from Regulus, in present time, to actually be visible to us. What we see today is an 85-year old picture of Regulus!
Regulus is also known as the Ruler, the Lawgiver. When we think of the word Regulus it can be held as a regulator. In the dictionary, regulate means "to make regular; put in good order; adjust by rule." A regulator is "one who or that which regulates; a lever for regulating motion."
We know that the quality of the star Sirius is of freedom and liberation from all that hinders evolution. Every year the sun passes in front of the star Sirius at the Fourth of July, America's Independence Day. Bastille Day, France's independence day, and Canada's independence day all occur in the month of July as the sun passes through the field of the Dog, Canis Major.
There is more real occultism hidden in the names given to the various stars by astronomers down the ages than has yet been realised. (2)
Esoterically Regulus acts as a lens for Sirius. (3) Sirius is the star of Christ consciousness and we associate the Christ with the Heart center. As Sirius is known as the Dog Star (God Star), then the star Regulus (the Heart of the Lion, the Lawgiver), its "lens," serves as the regulator of Sirian energy to the earth, stimulating the response in humanity to express heart consciousness, the quality we call love. The Soul is synonymous with love; Christ, the Heart consciousness.
Love, indeed, is an action. Energy is simply energy, and we choose to react to its stimulation in various ways. Some could interpret this stimulation as the need to become free from restriction by forcing another to their idea of freedom, or they may rise up against that which attempts to impinge on their freedom of choice. Regardless of the reaction, CHANGE and LOVE do happen, as EVOLUTION occurs.
Regulus is imminently emerging from its position at 29 degrees of the sign Leo, into the sign Virgo (of course, regardless it is still in the constellation of Leo). The sun passes through this area of the sky every year during the month of August. We know the sun is the physical center of our solar system and amplifies the quality of the constellation it passes in front of in the sky, from the earth's perspective.
Have you noticed that during the month of August, our world has undergone great changes? Almost exactly as the sun came to the same degree as the star Regulus on August 21, 1991, the communist party in the Soviet Union launched a coup against its "king," Gorbachev. The symbol of the Soviet Union was the hammer and sickle, and remember, Regulus lies at the base of the sickle in the head of the Lion. Esoterically, a sickle is used to cut out or cut down that which hinders the application of spiritual law, and so hinders the flowering forth of the Soul.
An attempt was then made by a few individuals to cut out Gorbachev, who was promoting change, freedom and unity for the good of all. The soul of Russia was transforming under his leadership. The intention by the few to control the many initally failed, but it did further catalyze the Soviet Union into monumental transformation. The kings in the far east rose up against each other as Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Then in August 1992, Saddam rose up again.
That same August, the conflict in Bosnia-Hersegovina escalated into a world concern, as atrocities to basic human rights there were revealed. A draft treaty banning the use of chemical weapons in warfare was agreed upon by the United Nations on August 7, 1992; this treaty had been pending since 1968.
Mussolini joined forces with Hitler in August 1943, and the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The freedom of so many was to be nonexistent under the rule of Hitler or Japan. It appears as though Regulus, the Lawgiver, may act as an emissary for Divine Will.
Prophecy from the Ageless Wisdom teachings:
A certain relationship or configuration of stars — of which one is the star Regulus, in Leo — will bring about a situation wherein the reorientation of the attitude of the legal profession will take place; its functions and duties will be centralized for the purpose of world usefulness, and in this process legislation for children will assume great importance and be the motivating power. This legal step will be primarily advocated by Russia and endorsed by the United States of America. Before 2035 A.D. such legislation will be universal in its sphere of influence and control. (4)
(Some of us may physically be here to witness the fulfillment of this prophecy!)
It would be presumptuous to believe Regulus exists only to influence humans and this planet. Our ideas on the qualities of the star Regulus are undoubtedly only a minute piece of the infinite influences this great sun has on our earth and the universe.
"As Above, So Below."
Besides Regulus, the other three Royal Stars in the heavens are
Antares in the constellation Scorpio the Scorpion, the Western Royal Star,
Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull, the Eastern Royal Star,
and Fomalhaut in the constellation Pisces Austrinus, the Southern Fish
(very close to the constellation Aquarius), the Southern Royal Star.
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The Fixed Cross
The Cross of the Crucified Christ
Fixed Cross Ponderings
This is outstandingly the Cross of the Soul. The person who is upon the Fixed Cross is becoming increasingly aware of its direction and influences, and does not respond as blindly as others who have not yet mounted this Cross. One does not mount this Cross of Right Direction until they have attained some measure of soul contact and have had some touch of illumination and of spiritual intuition—no matter how fleeting that touch may have been.
It is the Cross of "fixed vision and of that immovable intent which draws one from points of light to blazing solar radiance." The person upon the Fixed Cross says, "I am the soul and here I stand. Naught shall remove my feet from off the narrow place whereon I stand. I face the light. I am the Light and in that light shall I see Light."
It is the Cross whose four energies blend with and transmit the energies of the solar system itself. This it can do because the person upon the Fixed Cross is becoming increasingly conscious of issues which are larger than their own self, more engrossing than their previous interests, and those which concern humanity in its relation to solar forces and not just planetary forces. One is becoming sensitive to the larger whole.
The energies of this Cross continue to evoke response until the time of the third initiation, the Tranfiguration.
It is called the Fixed Cross because one is stretched upon it by the directed choice and immovable intent of one's Soul. From that decision there is no turning back.
The secret of Taurus is revealed at the second initiation, the Baptism.* At this time one experiences the sudden removal or disappearance of the world of glamour in the blinding energy of light. This constitutes the final radiant activity of the Taurian force upon humanity during the long and cyclic journey to which humanity is committed. The individual enacts on a tiny scale what humanity—as a whole—will enact when it takes initiation in Taurus.
*With the second initiation of Baptism in Light, testing and struggle begins on the astral plane as one makes the effort to release the personality from emotional control. The light of reason enters and one continues to shift from the astral (emotional) plane to the mental plane. Self-consciousness begins to give way to group consciousness as the Will of the Soul begins to function. The first contact with Shamballa energy is experienced. The symbol of this stage is the Dove of Peace.
When we are talking about the crosses, are we talking about Taurus the sign or Taurus the constellation? They are interchangeable. The constellation empowers the sign.
Culled from
Alice A. Bailey's Esoteric Astrology
*p. 387–388; 553–575
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"The Initiatory Process" booklet by Frances Adams Moore
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10 Nov 2011 - 12:40am
[Question: How do we creatively reconcile and integrate these two energetic polarities? :) ~ES]
FULL MOON IN TAURUS: Thurs., Nov. 10, 2011 - MOON@18:05 Taurus opposite SUN@18:05 Scorpio - 12:16PM PST/3:16PM EST
Intuitive Message for the Taurus Full Moon:
The Eternal Promise
by Julia Bondi
Light and darkness, spring and fall, stability and transformation…the alchemy of this Scorpio* [correction:*Taurus ~ES] Full Moon - as the Sun transits Scorpio and the Moon transits Taurus- is birthing a more conscious and equitable value system as the old, outworn system is self destructing. In Taurus’s month of May the Sun is warming, bright and full of the promise of summer; by Scorpio’s November the ghosts and goblins have rung the doorbells and gone, the winter storms are setting in and the evenings are ever darker. It is time to enter the coming darkness of winter. The green leaves of May have fallen to the ground ready to become compost for next year’s spring.
Taurus embodies the eternal promise of summer’s riches while Scorpio’s shadow knows all riches turn to dust. Each value system, financial structure, global economic arrangement begins full of promise initially delivering growth, goods and improving conditions; each system eventually stagnates, no longer delivering what was promised. The pain of contraction, fear, dreams turning to dust, savings disappearing is terrifying. Scorpio’s terror is the grist for the mill of transforming the system that is no longer nourishing those for whom it was developed, for whom it is now delivering pain. A global governing system created in the glow of the west’s victory in World War II is now teetering on the edge of disaster. The leaves and fruits of the long past spring have fallen, the branches are now bare.
The Arab spring toppled dictators who had hoarded the people’s wealth, the global 99%’s movement’s fall is toppling the financial elite’s grip on the harvest of the people’s productivity. As this Full Moon nears, the heads of state of Greece and Italy are being forced to resign as Europe grapples with a union that must transform and the world faces a financial market system that cannot deliver an equitable world. Scorpio is hounding us all with its stark truths that we must transform our systems to serve the needs of world but what shall we do. In this darkness of fall, no one is offering a solution to our growing problems.
Taurus holds the key to Scorpio’s transformation. Scorpio has masterfully forced the world to see the mess we have made, the destruction wrought as unemployment spreads worldwide, debts proliferate throughout the developed countries as their institutions and leaders wielding the reins offer few answers. Taurus know the simple truth that once we enter Scorpio’s terrors, facing our fears that all is lost, we find that we have the stamina to hope again, to seek what is real, what is of genuine quality, to know that we can come through these dark waters transformed and ready for a new spring of growth.
The streets, plazas and parks of the world are filled with people of all walks of life talking about, creating a living vision of, and developing a new horizontal, cooperative, consensus building world that values each person’s worth. As Scorpio encourages us to rid ourselves of dictators, banks and systems that do not serve us, Taurus is building real values that can become the seeds of a renewed value system - which can create an equitable world in which life can thrive.
© 2011 Julia Bondi
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9 Nov 2011 - 8:02pm
Dear Friends,
Full Moon is Thursday, November 10 at 1:17 PM Mountain Standard Time.
As the times are greatly accelerated, everything is enhanced. Whatever is going on in your life is under magnification so pay attention to where your thoughts and beliefs are going. If you "think" things are hard or impossible or challenging, then they will be more so. If you believe you do not have enough time, you won't. If you believe things are negative around you, then they will be.
However the opposite is also true. If you discipline yourself to think and believe positively then that is where the energy will go, and what will be enhanced and magnified will be the most positive outcome. So pay attention, be vigilant, clear, neutral and inspired. Inspiration will definitely move things in the right direction. Be inspired especially by anything you can upgrade in your life under this month's theme of renewal.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia A. Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Taurus Full Moon 18º/Sun in Scorpio 18º
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, 1:17 PM MST
With a Full Moon, light is shed on the birth point of the New Moon two weeks prior. The Moon is 180º from the Sun - in opposition and we can find ourselves in an either-or situation. One side can be projected outward so we can view the issues as if they were external to us. Awareness is greatly increased and often manifested through relationships. We find ourselves sitting on the fence or there is a see saw quality that supports seeing both sides of a situation.
Taurus Moon is opposed to the Scorpio Sun. It's the feminine, yin polarity of fixed earth and water that is playing out around us. Taurus, as The Bull, is concerned with the Earth and food, wine, all the pleasures of the senses, our material well being and resources and what has value. Sharing Venus as a ruling planet with Libra gives Taurus a love of peace, refinement, beauty and adornment. Nature, art, music and finance all hold Taurus' interest. Taureans are warmhearted, hospitable, dependable and make a stead fast friend and formidable enemy (being a fixed, power sign). Taurus, a tad stubborn, but amazingly persevering, rules the neck, throat, voice, thyroid and parathyroid glands.
At this Full Moon, both Mars, the traditional ruler of Scorpio, and Pluto, the modern ruler of Scorpio, are in a magnificent Grand Trine configuration with Jupiter. This is deep and expansive (Jupiter) energy for transformation (Pluto) with the energy (Mars) to bring it into physical manifestation, and because of Mars' retrograde, the trine relationship will remain active and exact again at the Full Moon in March 2012. This is a powerful and magical time 2008 to 2015 and beyond. We have an opening energetically to make some of the most profound changes ever presented to our planet. We are spiraling to a higher frequency in our evolution. Consciousness is taking a quantum leap. The United States itself is making a huge philosophical leap in its development from a success-oriented country (young soul) to a relationship-oriented country (mature soul), and it doesn't come without extreme growing pangs, letting go of cumbersome past constructs and releasing unimaginable creativity and collaboration. Transformational work brings to consciousness what needs to be cleared to move forward in our personal power (Pluto) and expression. Many personal crises (from the Latin 'to decide') have their source of healing and renewal in the deep, internal work of forgiveness. Forgiving and blessing what we hold in our lower chakras will help us to move upward and into our heart chakras. The Taurus Full Moon will help us see our patterns of projection. Many have invested in this inner work and now are reaping the rewards of a rich and blessed ride on the evolution machine without getting their heel caught in resistance and blame.
Asteroid Vesta squares the Sun and Moon in this Full Moon chart. Vesta (evolved from the Mycenaean Crete/Greek goddess, Hestia), and the vestal virgins who tended her altars as Keeper of the Sacred Hearth Flames that bound family and state in Roman times, are also depicted in the Virgin, ruling Virgo. Vesta is also associated with Scorpio and sacred sexuality. The temple priestesses of the ancient world honored the mysteries and fertilizing power of the Great Mother Goddess in the form of the Moon and her relationship to the sacred waters of receptivity and intuition, as well as kept the sacred flame of kundalini energy from ever extinguishing as a symbol of the sacred union of the human with the divine invoking the aspects of sexuality that are transcendent, healing and liberating beyond the physical act. To do this work, the temple priestesses trained to focus their energies internally and onto themselves as sacred beings. So with a square to both Sun and Moon we might have to examine conflicts between our work and our life purpose or examine our fears that keep us from intimacy. Neglect of one's own emotional needs or too much introspection and self absorption may be experienced. Vesta wants us to go within (the temple) and get a clear bead on our purpose and then let the outer world align with our intention. If one is feeling anxious, stressed or self-involved, time in the temple or cave may be what your soul is longing for at the Full Moon.
With Vesta in Aquarius, humanitarian issues come to the fore and rebellion against authority that curbs freedom increases. This is echoed with Mars as the focal point of the Grand Trine opposing Neptune in Aquarius at 28º in the Full Moon chart. Slow moving Neptune, it is worth noting, has just left a lingering conjunction on the Moon position of the USA chart (27º Aquarius) - the Moon in a country chart symbolizing 'the people'. Lingering means Neptune, planet of illusion, and blurring fog, idealistic willingness to believe and credit and debt, has had 'the people' in a dream state more or less since spring of 2009 (was that just after the election of November 2008?) But now, it seems, the people are beginning to wake up and engage in civil action to make their needs known. It's only the beginning. The first of seven exact squares of Uranus to Pluto from June 2012 to 2015 will intensify and bring to fruition this awakening. These Uranus/Pluto squares are the first crisis point of the Uranus/Pluto conjunction (exactly together and beginning a new cycle) of the mid-sixties. It's a house cleaning phase of letting go. We have come within 2º of this square this past summer, but have yet to experience the events precipitated by the exact squares. I hope Neptune's movement into compassionate, peaceful Pisces in early 2012 manages to keep the global revolution non-violent - but don't count on it!
Venus and Mercury have already entered the fiery sign of Sagittarius. The Sun follows, shifting on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Sagittarius taps into the positive, horizon-expanding energy of fire. Be mindful, Mercury goes retrograde on Wednesday, Nov 23 for three weeks with a square to Mars in Virgo in early December. So watch that attention to detail as we encounter a partial solar eclipse in Sagittarius at New Moon on Nov. 24, the Thanksgiving holiday in USA.
11/9 Neptune turns direct after 5 months retrograde
11/10 Chiron turns direct after 5 months retrograde
11/22 Sun enters Sagittarius
11/23 Mercury turns retrograde until Dec 13
11/24 Sagittarius New Moon/partial solar eclipse 11:10 PM MST visible from the southern tip of South Africa, Antarctica, and New Zealand
12/10 Gemini Full Moon/ total lunar eclipse 7:36 AM MST visible in North America except eastern part, northern Mexico, Hawaii, Australia, Asia, east Africa, Iceland, most of Europe
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9 Nov 2011 - 1:02pm
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Learn about the magnetic fields on Earth, the Sun and some other planets. The Planets are on parade as we prepare for Curiosity Rover Launch.
Credit: NASA JPL
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3 Nov 2011 - 4:37pm
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YU55 National Science Foundation Interview Today..
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122104&...
Unesco document link http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002114/211498e.pdf
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2 Nov 2011 - 1:37pm
HERE IT IS: Edited version of the 2nd hour of Revolution Radio Friday nights at 8 pm Eastern. Richard C. Hoagland calls on Francis to 'head up' the amateur astronomers around the world to film the MOST SPECTACULAR EVENT in our time! Asteroid YU-55 Smashing into the MOON!
Breaking news on asteroid YU-55 and other astronomy news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cmVLYaxHnPA#!
It's interesting that is coincides with the Fed November 9th communications shutdown: A system reboot needed to activate new code.
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31 Oct 2011 - 2:29am
November is a major decision point. Astrological events on or about 11.11.11 indicate a point of no return. The planets are about to shift gears in a big way.
Matters will escalate. Political, economic and psychological stuff will intensify, grow more confusing and, in a word overwhelming. Political discourse will become increasingly strident and violence will probably begin escalating. The economic situation only grows more complicated and uncertain. To get through this, we must decide who we are and where we stand.
It might still be a little too soon to take action or expect results. Delays still frustrate. But we can no longer sit on the sidelines, or simply tread water. It is time to start deciding how we will answer the questions being raised, how we will meet the challenges confronting us. Events will compel us to make decisions and commitments.
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25 Oct 2011 - 8:45am
[NEW MOON: MOON & SUN joined at 3.03 SCORPIO -- Oct. 26,2011 - 12:56 pm PDT]
Scorpio New Moon:
THE SHADOW AND THE PSYCHOPOMP
by Simone Butler
Baxter the therapy dog was a bridge to the next world – a psychopomp who lovingly eased others across the veil. (Meaning "guide of souls" in Greek, a psychopomp is a being, whether shaman, angel or animal, that provides safe passage to deceased souls.)
Looking more like a teddy bear than a dog, the scruffy chow mix made his rounds at San Diego Hospice until his death in 2009 at 19. Baxter could no longer walk due to arthritis, but that didn’t stop him or his owner, Melissa Joseph, from bringing his special magic to the terminally ill. Joseph merely hauled the dog around in his red cart and lifted him onto patients’ beds to snuggle.
Abused as a puppy and beset with ailments, two-year-old Baxter was about to be euthanized when dog-lover Joseph got wind of his predicament and rescued him. At first, the dog was terrified of loud noises and cowered whenever he saw a broom. But after years of tender care, Baxter became patient, reliable, courageous – and exquisitely sensitive to others’ suffering.
At 14, he was certified as a therapy dog. "Baxter is a natural," said Joseph. "He didn’t have to be professionally trained. His heart starts at the tip of his head and goes all the way to his tail."
Nicknamed Dr. Love by the hospice staff, Baxter made an impact on people of all backgrounds and ages – even those who no one else could reach. Soon after cuddling with Baxter and receiving his ministrations, many patients would cross over peacefully.
Those who knew Baxter believe it was his own ailments that made him such a powerful companion to others in pain. As in the shamanic tradition, his wounds had turned him into a healer.* [*CHIRON is the "wounded healer" of the Zodiac - the most proficient of all healers. ~ES]
The psychopomp is a Scorpionic figure. Scorpio rules the Underworld—the realm of death as well as the subconscious mind. This is the Shadow-dwelling place of all we have repressed, from our greatest talents and desires to our worst fears and faults. When the Sun traverses the shadowy terrain of Scorpio (Oct. 23 thru Nov. 21), it illuminates both good and bad. We recognize our Shadow and have the chance to break its death grip on our spirit—facing our darkness while embracing our blessings and brilliance.
The October 26 Scorpio New Moon (12:56 p.m. PDT) falls close to Samhain (the Oct. 31 Celtic New Year) and Mexico’s Day of the Dead (Nov. 1). In many cultures, this period is seen as a time when the ancestors return to walk the earth and commune with the living. The New Moon also occurs two days before the end of the Mayan Calendar (Oct. 28 according to some calculations; others say Dec. 21, 2012). The end date, no matter when it falls, is said to coincide with a consciousness shift from duality to unity. To make this shift requires that we learn to live from our hearts and feel our connection to all that is.
The Scorpio New Moon opens a portal to experiencing both pleasure and pain. The Sun and Moon oppose Jupiter the seeker, exactly trine Pluto, god of death and rebirth (Scorpio’s ruling planet). With Mercury and Venus also joined in Scorpio, it’s an unparalleled time to solve long-standing problems, find answers to riddles, heal old wounds and probe beneath the surface to find life’s deeper meaning.
Wherever Scorpio falls in your chart shows where you have suffered deeply. This suffering has made you raw and vulnerable, and therefore more capable of loving—if you can get past the fear of being hurt again. Sometimes we need a psychopomp like Baxter to help us make that leap to trusting once more. So, at this New Moon, call on a beloved person or pet—in this world or the next—to help you let go of suffering and open to new life.
© 2011 Simone Butler
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25 Oct 2011 - 12:29am
Dear Friends,
New Moon is Wednesday, October 26 at 1:57PM Mountain Daylight Time. Do something to anchor something new. Honor the greater Turning Point of the collective. Celebrate the ending of something old and the beginning of something new! Remember about coming from compassion and be proactive with your own intentions and desires to unravel the knots that have held all of your old patterns and belief systems in place. If you are feeling stuck, do something symbolic to dissolve the energy such as being in water or take a sweat or a sauna. If you are feeling rootless, chaotic and scattered, you may want to find a quiet place and sit on the earth or a rock and feel the grounding energy of mother earth. And if things just do not make sense at this time, don't worry about it. Ask yourself if they make energetic or emotional sense, as not much may make intellectual sense. And always trust in spirit and the greater plan. This can be a truly magnificent time!
Blessings,
Lena
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Written by Patricia Liles; contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
New Moon
Sun and Moon 3º Scorpio,
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 1:57 PM MDT
When you are summoned into the dark, wet cave of the deepest parts of yourself, who do you call out for? You call on the forces of Scorpio and Pluto, Scorpio's ruling planet, to guide you and protect you. You imagine the allies of death and rebirth - the scorpion, the eagle and the phoenix as your guides, guardians and wisdom keepers. All three engage the forces of transformation that Scorpio/Pluto embody in the mysteries of sex, death, and rebirth. The solitary, nocturnal scorpion takes us to our passion. When we engage in the sexual dance with another, both are transformed. Whether the encounters with our desires are chaotic or powerfully transformative depends on our ability to channel and direct our power appropriately.
The high-flying eagle is our link to Spirit when we have become confused by the illusory nature of the material world and lost our connection to true power. Eagle gives us courage to soar above our small self and the objectivity to sort out the negative voices of ego and to listen to the positive, loving and supportive voice of Spirit. The vision of the eagle supports us. The mythical phoenix, a spirit bird of great beauty and longevity known to most ancient cultures - Egypt, Assyria, Arabia, Greece, China, Japan, Native Americans - and always associated with the Sun, rises from the flames of its own death and is reborn anew. With destruction of the old, the power and creativity of the new is released. This part of us cannot die.
As you can see, Scorpio is a sign of power. Feminine power. The dark power of the mysteries abide here. Along with its opposite sign, Taurus, they are the feminine, water/earth fixed, power signs. (Leo/Aquarius being the masculine, fire/air fixed, power signs). Each season contains a fixed, power sign and Scorpio is that for fall. It's the time of the West, of 'reaping what we have sown', of letting go, of death of what no longer serves, of transformation. Scorpio is our ally in lightening our load. Through our portal to the underworld that Scorpio provides, we can break long held belief patterns and deadening habits. Spirit isn't going to do all the work, but if you show up and use the scorpion to set your intentions, and the eagle to communicate with Spirit, the phoenix may surprise you with what can be transformed. More than ever before, in this timeframe, old patterns carried for lifetimes can be brought into consciousness and just ~ pouf! Deenergized. No mental angst, no figuring it out, just eliminated.
This New Moon chart has Sun and Moon, Mercury and Venus with Juno, asteroid of committed relationship, all in Scorpio. Juno seems to be repeatedly showing up in the Moon charts these days reinforcing the importance of balancing the male and female energy in all relationship. Our ruling planet is Pluto, so we must take its pulse to determine the influences for the New Moon window. Pluto in Capricorn is in an exact trine with Jupiter. That's a blessing; we're grounded and given a green light of inspiration for all that transformation work that Pluto/Scorpio wants to facilitate. We can examine our structural beliefs that block the underlying kundalini energy of transformation that keeps us vital and alive. That goes for our social institutions as well. This is the second of three exact trines of Pluto and Jupiter. (July 7, Oct. 28, March 12) Jupiter in Taurus is helping us bring the institutional dysfunction exposed by Pluto in Capricorn (Nov. 2008) into practical manifestation and redefining our values. Things are starting to move and these benevolent aspects are creating a positive flow. People are taking to the streets to open dialog and protest the 'emperor's new clothes'. It's a worldwide awakening and the perfect manifestation of Uranus, planet of proletariat revolution, squaring Pluto in Capricorn (transformation of structure, government, finance, authority). These two planets are just getting warmed up in their shaking up of the old movie. Next June is the first of many exact squares that will span several years.
The Sun has just gone into Scorpio on Sunday past, October 23. The personal planets are in Scorpio; now is the time for breaking through to a new level and transforming what needs turning over. Be ruthless, Scorpio likes that. What have you got to lose! All the juice is in change now at every level. There is a deep cry resonating 'I want to be all that I am!'. There is no going back to 'the way it was'. Who wants that anyway? We are experiencing a lot of resistance and polarity out there. Evidence of shadowy material in need of attention. Watch your own resistances come up (anger flashes, emotional reaction, rebellious action, vengeful judgmental thinking...) in this New Moon period, step back and engage with them.
Pluto is in sextile aspect (60º) to the Sun/Moon signaling again the opportunity to work with our passion, mystery and engagement with death and the dark feminine to instinctively seek our renewal. Pluto is in a very creative quintile (72º) aspect with Ceres, asteroid of the Harvest Goddess who nurtures and heals. Learning to balance with give and take, forgiveness and release is highlighted between the masculine yang and the feminine yin forces. Also reflecting this archetypal balance of the female/male continuum is the exact square of Venus in Scorpio square to Mars in Leo-always a touchy combination. There may be conflict to be resolved in the clash of the yin Venus in her feminine power and yang Mars in his expressive, Leo masculine power. This is an intense, passionate combination. Creative solutions to conflict and power struggles need exploring and practice. Mars is in exact sextile aspect to Saturn, so under Saturn's paternal eye, Mars may be able to temper his dominance and let his warmer more cooperative, protective and generous side come forth. Exact aspects give more power and intensify the relationships between planets.
This New Moon is also a Super New Moon made more powerful by the Sun/Moon/Earth being in close linear alignment and Moon being closest to Earth increasing the physical pull on our planet and on our souls. It occurs days before the Calleman end date for the Mayan Calendar, Oct 28, a point gathering collective attention and expectation. We are dancing with the dark side of the Moon with New Moon in Scorpio. Halloween, All Hallow's Eve, our scorpionic holiday, falling with the midseason pagan holy day, Samhain, at the mid point of fall and winter is where the veil is thinned, our dead ancestors are honored and we are beckoned to take the shadowy journey to the underworld for our own renewal. The cackles of Kali and Hecate are most resonant now.
The forces are with us to take back the energy and power infused in suppressing and projecting our shadow selves. The dark feminine forces are available for destroying all that we have created to protect ourselves from the shadow, that which keeps those fears in the dark, creepy cave place that we want to avoid at all costs where our instinctual desires, shame, guilt and denial percolate and wall off our treasures. When we are brought to our knees and all false dignity is in shreds at our feet with surrender being the only path open to us, the dark feminine goddess turns in our direction and releases our personal power and innate creativity with a seductive smile and we feel the soaring energy of renewal and connection to what we really are - Spirit and love. Our Pluto-Uranus square is our collective call to make this plutonian underworld journey, to own and offer up our violent, angry, dominant, greedy and needy natures. And no, we don't like seeing ourselves this way, but there's nothing out there that we are witnessing that isn't right inside each one of us and the only way to make change is to make this scorpionic journey ourselves.
Chiron, that healing bridge of light between the visible and invisible worlds deeply connected to our core woundings and to our healing gifts-half man, half animal, is continuing to travel closely with Neptune. Together they trine the Sun/Moon/Juno energy. Neptune will move direct on Nov. 9 returning to early Pisces in February. Chiron moves direct Nov. 10, both have been retrograde since last June and encouraging us to do our inner work, clean house and mine the vein of compassion, forgiveness and loving the self. We are learning faith and trust in Spirit and to listen to our inner knowing for guidance under the tutelage of Neptune/Chiron.
So, you get the lay of the land. New Moon is the time of setting new intentions for the next cycle of increase. In the Celtic tradition, Samhain was the beginning of the new year. Make your intentions explicit and concrete. Altars to the ancestors are appropriate, sage your house and enjoy the rituals of the time of the dark feminine.
11/10 Taurus Full Moon 1:17 PM MST
11/24 Sagittarius Full Moon/Solar Eclipse/Super Moon/Thanksgiving in USA 11:10 PM MDT
Written by Patricia Liles; contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
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19 Oct 2011 - 10:25pm
Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Life
That bright "star" in the east? It's the planet Jupiter, now at its brightest for the year may have life. The prestigious EFE news agency reports on the controversial statements made by Russian astrophysicist Boris Rodionov to Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda. He claims to have proof of the existence of "a highly developed extraterrestrial civilization on Europa one of the satellites of the planet Jupiter".
The astrophysicist also claims that the enigmatic "UFO" phenomenon which has stimulated popular imagination worldwide could well be "outriders for this civilization."
Wielding a vast amount of scientific data and photographs transmitted by NASA's "Galileo" probe, Rodionov, a tenured professor of Microphysics and Cosmophysics of the State Institute of Physical Engineering, stated that Europa, smallest of Jupiter's four main satellites, "was inhabited by an ancient and technologically advanced civilization." Through the use of a high-powered computer and sophisticated photographic analysis technology, the scientist managed to obtain a close-up with a record-breaking resolution of nine kilometers from the satellite's surface, enabling him to make out the contours of what he calls pipes, tunnels and spherical domes. The photo clearly shows--according to Rodionov--that the lines formerly considered as mere fissures by the scientific community actually cross over each other like a knot of expressways.
According to Rodionov, the variety of "pipelines" and "tunnels", having a diameter similar to the "Chunnel" that crosses the English Channel, is surprising. Chunnel has a total length of 50.5 kilometers with 38 kilometers beneath the sea going 75 meters deep. There are two under water tunnel tunnels side by side with each a diameter of 8.17 meters.
"There are 100 kilometer Europa segments, as well as other pipelines having immense junctures or orifices between them."
Anyone may join the controversy, since the image in which Rodionov claims to see the aforementioned pipelines and tunnels is available to anyone having Internet access. This photo, which is available from the NASA/JPL net server that provides images for the "Galileo" mission, in fact portrays a number of lines or fissures, which cross each other at different elevations, as the scientist has claimed. Having a width of 20 to 40 kilometers and thousands of kilometers in length, it is believed that the fissures are attributable to a period of global expansion on Europa, caused by volcanic eruptions or geysers under its frosty surface, creating a series of fractures on the ice crust.
JPL claims,
The image shows a region of Europa's crust made up of blocks which are thought to have broken apart and "rafted" into new positions. These features are the best geologic evidence to date that Europa may have had a subsurface ocean at some time in its past. Combined with the geologic data, the presence of a magnetic field leads scientists to believe an ocean is most likely present at Europa today. In this false color image, reddish-brown areas represent non-ice material resulting from geologic activity. White areas are rays of material ejected during the formation of the 25-km diameter impact crater Pwyll.
Icy plains are shown in blue tones to distinguish possibly coarse-grained ice (dark blue) from fine-grained ice (light blue). Long, dark lines are ridges and fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. These images were obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during September 7, 1996, at a distance of 677,000 kilometers (417,489 miles). http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03002
Editors Note: Similar tubes are visible on Mars (shown here) and thought to be part of a transportation system. Although some are visible on the surface many tubes go underground like subways.
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16 Oct 2011 - 6:38am
The Astrology of Elenin (current as at 22nd March 2011):-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQP0AEKE4Lo
Elenin is a great Comet, meaning that unlike the average one comet per year which is barely visible, Elenin will be particularly bright. It will be visible in October 2011. The tail of this comet is nearly 1 million km long and it takes nearly 12,000 years to ororbit the Sun. It is expected that it's trajectory will be unstable, being altered by the gravity of the inner planets (1). This is because is will pass between Earth and the Sun. This highly eliptical and very long orbit is also why many are calling Elenin Planet X or Niburu, The Planet Crosser.
The last time Elenin visited us was about 9800BC, the beginning of the Neolithic Age. This was when we started farming and cultivating crops and domesticating animals. It was an evolutionary leap away from nomadic hunting and gathering, we began living together in small villages and built mud-brick, one-room round houses. We were still using stone tools and had not yet learned how to make pottery. This was also when we first built temples for worship. Global sea levels were rising dramatically following the end of the last ice age.
Throughout the history of astrology, the appearance of comets was a sign of upheaval for humanity, effecting agriculture and the weather. Comets were also seen as heralding the rise to power of an 'agent', a military or religious leader, or a reformer. 'When the place of perihelion is transited by Mars or the Sun, effects begin in earnest, the decree is implemented and arrangements made radically' (2) (correlates with the Occupy Movement we are seeing already).
The perihelion is the the point when the comet is nearest to the Sun, the comet is current at 01"24 Libra. So Elenin is square Mars by less than half a degree, we won't find that interpretation in a text book, so I guess it means that this comet will give us an uncomfortable adrenalin rush. Mars is conjunct with a star cluster in the arrow head of Sagittarius. This cluster is called Spiculum, Latin for spear. The Spiculum was used by Roman Infantrymen as their main throwing javelin from 250AD. Elenin square Mars in the tip of the spear - that sounds dangerous.
The Sun Square Lilith - seems to create an incredibly strong-willed, feisty individuals who takes it upon themselves to become a spokespeople for the disadvantaged or for gritty, dark issues that are disturbing for the public in some way. Mercury conjunct Pluto, reinforces the darker side of the message, a deep mystery to be solved, intense scrutiny and even a pathological compulsion to understand. We are drawn to it with Mercury and Pluto conjunct the North Node, and Mars in the stellium makes this all the more alluring.
The rise to power of an 'agent' could well be military with that stellium, but also a religious or spiritual messenger with the North Node on another fixed star in the Bow of the Archer called Polism which 'shows' up in a horoscope with almost regal qualities of mighty Regulus. Only this star, Polis will indicate more of the high office in spiritual life, Pope, Iman, Archbishop etc (4). Pluto in there does make any 'agent' sound like a reformer, strong message Mars Mercury. Also indicated by a similar them with the Jupiter Saturn Opposition at the end of March, 'we could see the emergence of a voice which unifies the popular need for freedoms and change, with a spiritual message that sounds appealing, but which may have dangerous consequences. Perhaps even a female voice with Venus, Ceres and Lilith in on the action.
Mercury and Pluto are on the June 2010 Lunar Eclipse degree, still in effect when Elenin was discovered. This was written about this eclipse in 'Praying to Aliens' (I'm not kidding). In the Elenin discovery chart, Mercury, Pluto, and the Lunar Eclipse are all on a fixed star in the Bow of Sagittarius called Kaus Australis, 'Associated with the Goddess Istar (Ishtar, Inanna)' (5).
Inanna was the Sumerian Goddess of sexual love, fertility and warfare. This comet may well have the feminine energy of Inanna, Venus is rising and sextile in that stellium. The rising star of Syrma in the Virgin, relating to the 'heavy personal responsibility which is implicit in the occult questing and acquisition of spiritual power, the 'secret of life' (reached through) a transcendtal state of consciousness' (5). There is definately the dark goddess feel to this story, the rise of the Matriarchy, the Warrior Priestess (Lilith Revolution).
Now some important dates 'The comet came to opposition at 178 degrees from the Sun on March 14 and will come to opposition again on November 22 at 175 degrees from the Sun' (1) That first opposition was just a few days after the Japan Earthquake, so late November is worth keeping an eye on. In the chart for that earthquake, Elenin was 27*38' Virgo, opposite Uranus and Lilith, and making a grand square with the Lunar Nodes. On September 10 2011, Elenin will make its perihelion, it's closest approach to the Sun. 'When the place of perihelion is transited by Mars or the Sun, effects begin in earnest, the decree is implemented and arrangements change radically' (2). The place of the perihelion is 14*25 Libra.
The Sun was there on October 8 2010, Mars on August 22 2010. Saturn is also retrograding over this degree, the dates being November 29 2010, March 28 and August 24 2011. March 28 is also the date of the Jupiter Saturn opposition, a major turning point. At 14 Libra is the fixed star Algorab in the Crow. The April 3 New Moon is opposite this degree. On October 8, Elenin will makes its closest apparent pass to another comet called 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.
On October 16 2011, Elenin will makes its closest pass to our planet in its 12000 year orbit.
Acknowledgements: A special thanks to Pheonix for pointing me in Elenin's direction, and to Jan Bird for pointing me in the direction of those mind numbing ephemeris calculations. Read more By Jamie http//darkstarastrology.com/comet-elenin-discovery-chart-path-planet-x-niburu
Much love to you all
Ishtar )O(
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15 Oct 2011 - 8:56am
The moment long feared by conspiracy theorists is nearly upon us: The "doomsday comet" Elenin will make its closest approach to Earth Sunday (Oct. 16). Or what's left of it will, anyway.
Comet Elenin started breaking up in August after being blasted by a huge solar storm, and a close pass by the sun on Sept. 10 apparently finished it off, astronomers say. So what will cruise within 22 million miles (35.4 million kilometers) of our planet Sunday is likely to be a stream of debris rather than a completely intact comet.
And the leftovers of Elenin won't return for 12,000 years, astronomers say.
"Folks are having trouble finding it, so I think it's probably dead and gone," said astronomer Don Yeomans of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. [Gallery: Comet Elenin in Pictures]
That means it probably won't present much of a skywatching show Sunday, scientists have said.
The doomsday comet
Elenin's apparent demise may come as a relief to some folks, since apocalyptic rumors circulating on the Internet portrayed the comet as a major threat to Earth.
One theory claimed Elenin would set off havoc on Earth after aligning with other heavenly bodies, spurring massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Another held that Elenin was not a comet at all, but in fact a rogue planet called Nibiru that would bring about the end times on Earth. After all, the comet's name could be taken as a spooky acronym: "Extinction-Level Event: Nibiru Is Nigh."
Those ideas were pure nonsense, Yeomans said.
"Elenin was a second-rate, wimpy little comet that never should have been noted for anything, really," he told SPACE.com. "It was not even a bright one."
Elenin's remains will not be the only objects about to make their closest pass of Earth. One day after the Elenin flyby, the small asteroid 2009 TM8 will zip close by. Like Elenin, it poses no risk of striking our home planet.
Asteroid 2009 TM8 is about 21 feet (6.4 meters) wide and the size of a schoolbus. It will come within 212,000 miles of Earth – just inside the orbit of the moon – when it zips by on Monday morning (Oct. 17).
Say goodbye to Elenin
Elenin was named after its discoverer, Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin, who spotted it in December 2010. Before the icy wanderer broke up, its nucleus was likely 2 to 3 miles (3 to 5 km) in diameter, scientists say.
Elenin never posed any threat to life on Earth, Yeomans said. It was far too small to exert any appreciable influence on our planet unless it managed to hit us.
"Just driving to work every day in my subcompact car is going to have far more of a gravitational effect on Earth than this comet ever will," Yeomans said.
Elenin's supposed connection to earthquakes was just a correlation, and a weak one at that, he added. Relatively strong earthquakes occur every day somewhere on Earth, so it's easy — but not statistically valid — to blame some of them on the comet's changing position.
Yeomans views the frenzy over Elenin as a product of the Internet age, which allows loud and often uninformed voices to drown out the rather more prosaic results that scientists publish in peer-reviewed journals.
"It's a snowball effect on the Web," Yeomans said. "You get one or two folks who make an outrageous claim, and a bunch of others pile on. Some folks are actually making a living this way."
Elenin's crumbs will soon leave Earth in the rear-view mirror, speeding out on a long journey to the outer solar system. But Yeomans doesn't think the departure will keep the conspiracy theorists down for long.
"It's time to move on to the next armageddon," he said.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
Source: YahooNews
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15 Oct 2011 - 3:23am
Halley's Comet meteor show due next week
Step out before dawn to see comet's 'cosmic litter' left behind in space
NASA courtesy of Meteor Physics Group, University of Western Ontario
A 2010 Orionid meteor, seen over Western Ontario, Canada. A waxing gibbous moon shines brightly at the left side of the image.
By Joe Rao
updated 10/14/2011 6:47:54 PM ET 2011-10-14T22:47:54
If you step outside before dawn during the next week or so, you might try to catch a view of some "cosmic litter" that has been left behind in space by Halley's Comet: the Orionid meteor shower.
The Orionids can best be described as a junior version of the famous Perseid meteor shower. This year's Orionids show is scheduled to reach its maximum before sunrise on the morning of Oct. 22. The meteors are known as "Orionids" because the fireballs seem to fan out from a region to the north of Orion's second brightest star, ruddy Betelgeuse.
Currently, Orion appears ahead of us in our journey around the sun. The constellation does not completely rise above the eastern horizon until after 11 p.m. local daylight time. At its best, several hours later around 5 a.m., Orion will be highest in the sky toward the south.
The Orionids typically produce around 20 to 25 meteors per hour under a clear, dark sky. Orionid meteors are normally dim and not well seen from urban locations, so you'd do best to find a safe rural location to see the most Orionid activity. [ Spectacular Leonid meteor shower photos ]
Orionid meteors will begin to increase noticeably around Oct. 17, when they'll start appearing at about five per hour. After peaking on the morning of Oct. 22, activity will begin to slowly descend, dropping back to around five per hour around Oct. 26. The last stragglers usually appear sometime in early to mid- November.
Halley's Legacy
Halley's Comet has left a visible legacy in the form of these two annual meteor showers, one of which is the Orionids. This will be a good year to look for them, since the moon will have slimmed down to a crescent on the morning of the Orionids peak, and will not pose much of a hindrance for those watching for Orionids in 2011. This slender moon will not rise until around 2 a.m. local daylight time.
Comets are the leftovers of the solar system's creation, the odd bits and pieces of simple gases — methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor — that went unused when the sun and its attendant planets came into their present form. Meteoroids that are released into space out of this debris are the remnants of a comet's nucleus. All comets eventually disintegrate into meteor swarms, and Halley's is well into that process already. [ Video: Meteors from Halley's Comet ]
These tiny particles — mostly ranging in size from dust to sand grains — remain along the original comet's orbit, creating a "river of rubble" in space. In the case of Halley's Comet, which has likely circled the sun many hundreds, if not thousands, of times, its dirty trail of debris has been distributed more or less uniformly all along its orbit. When these tiny bits of comet collide with Earth, friction with our atmosphere raises them to white heat and produces the effect popularly referred to as "shooting stars."
The orbit of Halley's Comet closely approaches the Earth's orbit at two places. One point is in the early part of May, producing a meteor display known as the Eta Aquarids. The other point comes in the middle to later part of October, producing the Orionids.
What to expect
The best time to watch begins from 1 or 2 a.m. local daylight time, until around dawn, when the shower's point of origin (in Orion's upraised club, just north of the bright red star, Betelgeuse) is highest above the horizon. The higher this point, called the radiant, the more meteors appear all over the sky.
The Orionids are one of just a handful of meteor showers that can be observed equally well from both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
This meteor shower is one of the better annual displays, producing about 15 to 20 meteors per hour at its peak. Add the five to 10 sporadic meteors that always are plunging into our atmosphere and you get a maximum of about 20 to 30 meteors per hour for a dark sky location. Most of these meteors are relatively faint, however, so any light pollution will cut the total way down.
The shower may be quite active for several days before or after its broad maximum, which may last from Oct. 20 through Oct. 24. Step outside before sunrise on any of these mornings, and if you catch sight of a meteor, there's about a 75 percent chance that it likely originated from the nucleus of Halley's Comet.
"They are easily identified … from their speed," write David Levy and Stephen Edberg in "Observe: Meteors," an Astronomical League manual. "At 66 kilometers (41 miles) per second, they appear as fast streaks, faster by a hair than their sisters, the Eta Aquarids of May. And like the Eta Aquarids, the brightest of family tend to leave long-lasting trains. Fireballs are possible three days after maximum."
Recent studies have shown that about half of all Orionids that are seen leave trails that lasted longer than other meteors of equal brightness. This is undoubtedly connected in some way to the makeup of Halley's Comet. So it is that the shooting stars that we have come to call Orionids are really an encounter with the traces of a famous visitor from the depths of space and from the dawn of creation.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.
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10 Oct 2011 - 11:45pm
Dear Friends,
The Full Moon is Tuesday, October 11at 8:06PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a beautiful and practical time full of feeling, of love, of possibilities, of wonder, of friendship, support and delight. Use the turning point exercise (described in the forecast) to imprint yourself with the positive aspects of embracing the new view. Honor all the turning points in your life. Do something that feels balanced and nurturing and creative. Look at your life as starting new with a full field of practical support and abundance.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles, contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
FULL MOON IN ARIES 18º, TUESDAY, OCT 11, 8:06 PM MDT
With the Sun and Moon in opposition at Full Moon, we are always presented the opportunity to fully experience the two extremes of a polarity - to increase our awareness of the paradox of duality. At this Moon, we dance with the polarity of self identity and partnering or independence/interdependence. In Aries/Libra we are expressing through the masculine elements of fire and air. We are ready to express new ways of being in the world and experience the impact of a significant partnership in our lives. The Moon in fiery Aries will illuminate all the issues of 'who am I now?'. If your fire nature is in balance, you will feel motivated and enthusiastic and connected to your passion and sexual energy.
You will be ready to marshall your creativity with joy and a sense of adventure. Fire nature out of balance might look like exhaustion, feeling drained, anger and panic arises, even bitterness. Forgiving others is difficult, judgment is easy. Stagnation, no movement or growth, is apparent.
Airy, Libra Sun, on the other hand, brings forth an attitude of optimism and hope. We feel balanced and flexible and accept the process of change with clear eyes and goals. We trust the change and growth we experience. We seek harmony and relationship with all we encounter. When we feel rigid, stuck and threatened, and can't hear others and chaos begins to suffocate us, we need to remember to take to the air, to rise above our situation and get a new perspective.
Saturn is conjunct the Sun in Libra within 1º and will be exact on the 13th. This will focus the lens and get us on the right track. Being in integrity and responsible use of authority are always important issues with Saturn. You just can't slide when Saturn is at his post. Be prepared to be held accountable for 'thought, word and deed' especially if that hasn't been your strong suit in the past. You want to be aware of tendencies to be self-critical as well. Saturn is also opposite the Moon so we can feel unappreciated or inadequate. Replacing that voice with self-love will help expunge those old, negative mental programs. 'I love myself; I love all that I am'. Staying power, perseverance is also a benefit of Sun-Saturn proximity.
We are blessed with some truly beautiful sacred geometry in this chart. Both a Grand Trine and a Mystic Rectangle are centered on the Full Moon and North Node. The Grand Trine is made by North Node, Moon and Mars all in fire signs, (Sagittarius, Aries, Leo). So all that fire nature mentioned earlier - the enthusiasm, motivation and energy is doubly available and wanting to be expressed.
The Mystic Rectangle, formed by the opposition of the Sun and Moon (always opposite at Full Moon) and the North and South Node (always opposite) and made up of two trines and two sextiles in a rectangle formation, is really an aspect of practical manifestation of available creative energy. The Sun and the Moon make it personal and the North and South Nodes make it an evolutionary mandate to bring into our life styles and thought patterns what we want to see manifested. When I see the energy and planets lining up in such a reflection of perfection, I feel we are way beyond the mind and in direct contact with Source - communing with the Divine just by being present in its field. Just such an opportunity arises in this Full Moon chart. The moons of Aug 13, Aug 28, Sept 12 - just to name the last few were all notable for this perfection of alignment. It's a rarefied period energizing and supporting us to lift ourselves to the next level of the spiral. As we enter the final eighteen day cycle starting Oct 11 of Calleman's Mayan Calendar, we have stood in the face of incredible evolutionary energies of change. We are asked to move beyond lessons and experience of Duality - right and wrong, mine and yours, them and us, good and bad, and embrace Unity - within ourselves, each other, and with Spirit. We have held firm in the face of symbolic (and real!) tsunami, volcano and earth-quaking energies, we have had to repeatedly let go of what we thought was stability and truth and embrace change we thought we never could withstand, yet here we stand brighter, stronger, leaner, cleaner! It's a done deal. Consciousness has taken a great leap forward. Yes, there will be continued resistance to the reconceiving of the structures to anchor the new energies, and the on-going Uranus-Pluto square will continue to catalyze revolution and transformation in the next few years, but what is taking place under the cycles of the outer planets is aiming our planet in the direction of a collective consciousness that springs out of the heart of each one of us recognizing our connection with all life and acknowledging that we are created by Spirit out of what Spirit is - All love, all beauty, all intelligence, all truth, all creativity, all powers..
Three planets and asteroid, Juno (partnership and committed relationship), are in Libra. We benefit from Libra's Venus-ruled love nature, her desire to make everything gracious, harmonious, pleasing and fair, giving of herself for the satisfaction and well-being of others. We all have something to learn from the diplomacy and concern for others that Libra embodies.
Venus, ruler of Libra, has moved on to Scorpio, and Mercury and the Sun will follow later in the month. Scorpio wants to go deep, scrutinize motivations, face endings directly and let go. Scorpio is unafraid of the shadow side and is the force that calls up that latent energy to increase its power. Following the Full Moon period we will find these personal planets opposing Jupiter in Taurus increasing our instinctive awareness and ability to take risks.
10/24 Sun moves to Scorpio
10/26 Super New Moon in Scorpio 1:57 PM MDT
10/28 End of Mayan Calendar according to Carl J. Calleman
www.calleman.com
11/06 Daylight Savings Time Ends
11/10 Full Moon in Taurus 1:17 PM MST
video
8 Oct 2011 - 8:19am
The Order of The Days..
A normal, everyday week. Seven days. Sunday to Saturday never seemed so strange....
Music - "Black Rainbow" by Pitx (feat. ERH, acclivity)
http://ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/19513
Blog entry
3 Oct 2011 - 10:12pm
archive.dailypicture.net/sacred_geometry_twelve_around_one_wheel_of_time_alchemy.htm
Reason for posting this blog is to understand why I saw this. I have read what it is, it has to do with TIME.
What I saw I don't think has much to do with the colour. I see many visions pulsate, and I never thought much of it. Today I also saw an eye, not like the pictures of the Eye of Horus, but an eye. The website I have listed mentioned the Eye.
The word "Eye" has many meanings from an organ that detects light to the symbolic eye with its many metaphors that link to conscious awareness. Reality is a consciousness hologram virtually experienced through the eye of time. The physical eye has a pupil symbolizing we are pupils/students in a university or universe. www.crystalinks.com/eye.html
The background I saw was in gold and the lines was silver or bright. It lasted only seconds as I was at school waiting for the bell to ring. Not a whole lot of time to have a vision. lol.
I have learned that this symbol holds reference to the coming 2012, and I know I am involved. But this came to me today, not about the future but for something else. This may be one of my greatest challenges. It was presented for my viewing by the Creator himself, as he knows how much I enjoy a good challenge. :)
Maybe someone who is more geometric inclined can help me understand how this incredible symbol relates to my current place on this spiritual path.
Blog entry
1 Oct 2011 - 10:47am
Maya's Completion: The Astrology of the 9th Wave
Posted: September 28, 2011
An awakening is taking place upon planet Earth that will forever change the course of our future as a civilization. At long last mankind will begin to fulfill its Divine potential and create a world of peace, prosperity, and ever-increasing achievement. Central to this collective ascent is that human consciousness is evolving in revolutionary fashion. Although darkness blankets the nations a great cosmic truth is dawning: that cycles and order are inherent in Creation and that on October 28th, 2011, as the 9th Wave of the Mayan Calendar completes, humanity will have finally become qualified to receive Cosmic Consciousness.
Please read the whole article at: www.tokenrock.com/blogs/Mayas-Completion-The-Astrology-of-the-9th-Wave-1183.html
It's a very IN- and Enlightening post wether you belive in that mythology or not.
Shared with ALL EMBRACING LOVE
SiNeh~
Story
23 Sep 2011 - 3:56am
Dear Friends,
The Fall Equinox is Friday, September 23 at 3:05AM Mountain Daylight Time. Think of this as the beginning of a new year and of a new time frame. This gives you an opportunity to redesign your intentions especially if what you have been manifesting is not what you want. Allow trends in your life to show up to teach you what not to repeat. Allow great and surprising gifts to show up as well.
The influences around this equinox are powerful and carry a force that supports major change and transition. Anyone who chooses this time frame to transition in either birth or death will take advantage of the extra boost. It is also a good time to use this force symbolically. Anything you choose to terminate, change or begin during this time will have the extra support of the equinox as well as the new moon.
Take time for yourself and ritualize this equinox by using the spirit of fire to burn something symbolically that you are really and truly ready to be done with. Allow it to burn and be destroyed once and for all. If you are beginning something new, make sure to ritualize it in some way as well. Remember that whatever you do for yourself you do for all your relations and has a ripple effect on the planet as well.
The New Moon is Tuesday, September 27 at 5:09 AM Mountain Daylight Time. Focus on just being. Expand into neutrality, don't take anything personally and enjoy being still. A visit to the higher centers is possible if you make time for it. Remember you are still in the influence of the fall equinox so work with the aspects of sudden inspiration, transformation, transition, and change.
This is also a good day for a review of the month and a truthful review of where you are on your path. Make a wish list from the place of innocence much like writing a letter to Santa Claus. Remember to be careful what you ask for.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
Friday, September 23, 2011, 3:05 AM MDT
NEW MOON IN LIBRA 4º
Tuesday, September 27, 5:09 AM MDT
The point of solar balance where the light of day is equal to the dark of night is upon us ~ Autumnal Equinox. We honor and celebrate our life-giving Sun as it reaches the equator, crosses over, and heads into the southern hemisphere to bring them into their high season of summer and to bring the northern hemisphere in just three months time into its farthest reaches from the light - Winter Solstice. The Equinox is marked by the movement of the Sun out of Virgo and into 0º Libra, cardinal air sign and ruled by the only feminine planet, Venus. Venus, at home in her own sign of Libra now, is deep in her feminine expression of harmony, beauty, diplomacy and social grace.
Autumnal Equinox
Traditionally, the Fall Equinox is the time to take stock of resources for the leaner times of winter, determine needs and plan accordingly. We might do the same in our own lives. The past summer had some very challenging astrology as you may recall, but now is more of an integration time of what we have passed through. Certainly, the personal planets continue to recreate the T-square with Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn that has us as constant witness to the withering of the old paradigm of separation and domination and the shattering, shifting explosive energy of the new bursting through the strangle hold of the old. Saturn has moved on figuring, I suppose, that we have the basic idea and now the personal planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars can provide an occasional alignment reactivating the T-square to remind us not to be complacent and fall back asleep, but do what we need to do on the inner planes to be receptive to the crystalline energies available to us. (read more link here)
In the Equinox chart of September 23rd, the Libran Sun (0º) is doing just that, taking up Saturn's old position - opposing Uranus (2º) and squaring Pluto (4º) reminding us that we can expect continued shift, change and inspiration providing us with fuel to make even radical changes in how we see ourselves and what we want to present to others.
The Sun in Libra and Moon in Leo are sextiled in the Equinox chart and both quincunxed (150º aspect) to Chiron (1º Pisces). That's a Yod or Finger of God configuration pointing us at transmuting our wounds into our most precious treasure and source of our wisdom. No more whining (blaming, judging). I'm saying that to myself, but is most likely relevant to all. Here is one of those portal stops to just let the past go and step into a new frequency of your choice! Bask in the feminine joy of compassion and community and intuitive awareness of heart that Libra brings.
September 23rd is also the beginning of the 6th night in the Mayan Calendar - more fuel. Fitting for us as we look within and rely on our hearts for guidance and alignment with Spirit who speaks to all who seek silence and listen. Listen to your children grow, listen to your lover give, listen to the trees root, listen to your food nourish, listen to the Earth and drink in your blessings.
If that's not enough, remember, Venus is the ruling planet of the Libran Equinox. Goddess of Love, with the Scales as her symbol, weighing Truth and standing for balance and justice, diplomacy and negotiation, equality in partnership and relationship. Venus has a mesmerizing cycle well known to the ancients - Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Aztecs, Nordics, etc. She appears as the evening star, visible just after the Sun sets, growing brighter and brighter until she 'enters the underworld' and becomes 'invisible' for a number of days (actually, she's so merged with the Sun, she can't be seen). Then, renewed, she reemerges as the morning star. She completes this cycle every 584 days or about one and a half years. Every eight years, after completing 5 of these (synodic) cycles, she completes a greater cycle returning to the same starting position and relationship to the Earth. Viewed from above our Solar System, this 8 year cycle would inscribe a giant pentagram or 5-pointed star created by the path of Venus aligning again with the Earth. Looking deep into the cycles of Venus one is reminded of the harmonic of Beauty that is expressed by the universe in its sacred mathematical and geometric systems. I am grateful to be a witness and appreciator of the universe sharing its perfection and beauty. A depiction of this feminine Venus cycle exists in animation (link here). The description is technical but the graphics are pure nectar for astrologers.
But that's a long introduction for the fact that Venus again is reappearing after her journey to the underworld as the evening star on Friday, September 23rd as a beautiful jewel in the crown of our Equinox. Each of these 8 year cycles arise in a specific sign and the current cycle wears the valence of Scorpio. Venus expresses in Scorpio as the Dark Goddess, the female Shaman, Sorceress, Kali, the Wise Woman - keeper of the cycles of birth and death, destroyer of that which has outworn its usefulness or welcome, destruction of attachment to pain and loss, she attends us at our rebirth of Spirit within us. We have needed this form of the Goddess in these last years and many have felt her fearlessness as she whipped through our lives.
Venus, of course, has dominion over the heart and our expression of compassion, attraction, social connection and beauty. Opening to our own love and freeing our hearts is the most important work we can do at this time. Anything that shuts down our hearts like fear, ego-mind, judgement, causes our thymus, governor of our immune systems to also shut down and all sorts of breathing, allergy, breast problems can occur.
This 8 year Venus-Earth cycle will be complete in June 2012 when we begin a new (and lighter) cycle in Gemini. The completion of the cosmic pentagram will be accompanied by a "Venus Transit" which we will be blessed to witness in our lifetime and truly represents the reemergence of the Divine Feminine. Occurring only every 121 to 130 years, the last being in 1874 and the next in 2117. A "Venus Transit" is like an eclipse of the Sun, where the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth. Here, tiny Venus is seen against the backdrop of the gigantic Sun. Maybe not visually spectacular, but only 5 of these 'Venus Transits" have been seen by humans. These 'Transits' occur in pairs at this time, 8 years apart, and the first of this current pair visible in your lifetime was June 8, 2004 and the next is June 6, 2012.
New Moon in Libra
The New Moon occurring just a few days after the Autumnal Equinox is notable for a stellium in Libra - Mercury, Moon, Sun, Venus, Saturn, and Juno all occupy the sign most concerned with the principles of balance, fairness, equity, compassionate relating, and flow of resources using cooperation, adjustment, and the creation of aesthetic and harmonious environment to bring about the Perfection they desire. It's also a SuperMoon (the first in a fall series of three). The Moon is at its closest position to Earth and in direct alignment with the Sun and Earth creating an increased magnetic pull on the Earth's magnetosphere already inundated by multiple solar flare and coronal mass ejections from the Sun's surface. This is correlated by many to increased storm intensity and Earth movement. We are being subjected to an intensification of energies on every level. Some are managing and adapting and others are feeling inundated and overwhelmed.
Mercury, Sun, and Moon are all opposing Uranus and squaring Pluto continuing our themes from the Equinox. Uranus stimulates the call for the emergence of our authentic selves with some strong wake up calls that disrupt our business as usual and provoke us to engage what we are willing to risk everything for. Vesta in Aquarius is opposing Mars in Leo aiding us in concentrating and directing our will/energy if used constructively on a personal level or for a cause larger than ourselves, or perhaps blocking our abilities to take action or make commitments if the balance in masculine/feminine needs more attention.
New Moon is always the time to pause as the lunar cycle is reset and clearly reestablish what we want to manifest in the next cycle.
May it be beautiful before me
May it be beautiful behind me
May it be beautiful below me
May it be beautiful above me
May it be beautiful all around me
I am restored in beauty
-Traditional Navajo Prayer
10/11 Full Moon Aries 8:06 PM MDT
10/23 Sun enters Scorpio
10/26 New Moon Scorpio 1:55 PM MDT
11/06 Daylight Savings Time Ends
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Blog entry
12 Sep 2011 - 2:12am
SABIAN SYMBOL 19 PISCES - A MASTER INSTRUCTING HIS DISCIPLE
~Lynda Hill, 360 Degrees of Wisdom
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress." ~Maimonides
"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn." ~Latin Proverb
"Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher." ~Buddha
19 PISCES: A MASTER INSTRUCTING HIS DISCIPLE
There's an old saying, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
It could also easily be, "When the student is ready, the lessons appear" --
there are many ways to learn life's lessons.
ORACLE: This is the time for the transfer of higher knowledge and wisdom.
In this situation you may find that you are the teacher, the "Master,"
or the pupil, the "Disciple."
Remember that it is often the teacher who learns and the pupil who teaches.
Perhaps it's time for listening to your own higher wisdom.
KEYWORDS: To give and receive.
The transfer of knowledge.
Being willing to both teach and learn.
Passing on information.
Listening and learning.
Guiding lights.
CAUTION: Talking down to others, thinking they know less.
Someone having a 'know-it-all' attitude
Using knowledge as power over other people.
Co-dependent behavior
[my condensed format]
Blog entry
11 Sep 2011 - 7:24pm
2005YU55 Comet or Nibiru ?
I wanted to share this with everyone, something I recently found via my hubby :)
If you open this link you will see a diagram.........an orbital diagram. Now there is a player below the diagram, where you can frame by frame the days or hit the play and watch the planets orbit around.
In this you will notice comet 2005YU55..........now take the player to the date of 11-9-11 then frame by frame it to 11-11-11. You will see that it is directly upon or above earth. I wanted to enlighten people to this for any further information that anyone may have regarding this what they are calling comet........however I believe it maybe Nibiru
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2005yu55;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Brightest Blessings and LOVE to ALL
MysticBlack
Blog entry
11 Sep 2011 - 6:15pm
Sept. 12, 2011 - FULL MOON @ 19 Pisces/SUN @ 19 Virgo
Julia Bondi, "Job, jobs, job." - Extract
www.mooncircles.com
The emphasis on the Virgo/Pisces archetypes is awakening a knowing
that we are all creative, entrepreneurial individuals (whether we work for someone else or for ourselves)
who were born with a destiny that centers around and is supported and fulfilled by "right livelihood",
the soulful work that we are meant to contribute to the world.
We are living in a transformational moment, a momentous time,
when we are re-visioning our world in order to create a new one.
A new world that supports teaching everyone to learn what their innate skills and talents are,
to develop those skills and to find and follow the path of "right livelihood" —
through which they will evolve as they serve the world around them.
Our belief systems, our institutions, our politics and our awareness are not yet committed to this reality —
the world of work, jobs, salaries, and making a living is being re-birthed.
This Full Moon is a time to examine our individual relationship to work,
a time to tenderly ask, "Is this what I am here to do?",
so that we might fully engage our souls' work.
© 2011 Julia Bondi
All rights reserved
[my format]
Story
9 Sep 2011 - 11:38pm
Dear Friends,
The Full Moon is Monday, September 12, at 3:27 AM Mountain Daylight Time.
This is the powerful and practical Harvest Moon. Honor the blossoms and the fruits you have grown through your lessons, intentions and personal work. Acknowledge your creativity and your power in whatever you have manifested for yourself. Be neutral and allowing around what is right in front of you. Be accepting of all situations without judgement or any negativity. If something is missing or lacking in your life, it is no one elses fault. Set a strong intention to bring it in if it is truly what you want.
Take a bit of time around this full moon to sit in gratitude and to be in trust that all is just exactly as it should be. It is very easy in times of turbulence and unpredictability to get myopic around what is not working, what you have lost, or what you don't have. Always focus on the positive, the glass half full, and on its way to being overflowing instead of seeing it as half empty all the time.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles
Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Full Moon: Moon in Pisces opposite Sun in Virgo 19º
Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 3:27 AM MDT
The Harvest Moon lights up the late summer night in the wateriest of water signs ~ Pisces. Symbolized by two fish bound together, ruler of the oceans that reflect the boundless spiritual energy beneath the surface of all physical existence. The powerful mystery of the sea from which all creativity emerges like Botticelli's Venus is also where all is merged, fluid, and connected and moves as one. Pisces, so subjective, sensitive and intuitive as she responds to impressions from her environment both internal and external. Pisces is our connection to the divine source of compassion. She teaches us to surrender to that which is larger than our limited physical existence and to what cannot be controlled by our short-sighted ego selves. Her ruler, Neptune, dissolves, softens, and distorts reality, limitations and boundaries opening us to the great feminine void and idealistic possibility and vision.
The Full Moon chart is fertile with sacred geometry gifting us with both a Grand Trine in earth signs and a Grand Square in mutable signs. Portals and signposts along the path are luminous. Let's look at the Grand Square or Cross first. The Sun opposite Moon on the Virgo/Pisces axis (19º) are squaring the North and South Nodes on the Sagittarius/Gemini axis (18º). The Nodes bring to the fore where our current spiritual growth is taking place and what is being brought over from the past. The fire energy of North Node Sag energizes us to expand our horizons into broader fields of consciousness, to take the global view, and have faith in our intuition, to develop a closer relationship with Spirit, examine our belief systems, and to educate ourselves. South Node Gemini suggests multitasking and external mental stimulation so readily available may be highly overrated as a growth path resulting in superficiality and exhaustion. Letting go of our reliance on the mind is mandatory. The Nodes will remain in Sag/Gemini for another year, but this Full Moon chart pointedly and strongly activates them. The squares to the Sun (identity) and Moon (feelings) make it a very personal challenge to look at how we are participating in the evolution of consciousness on the planet. Is your life headed in the direction you want it to go? Could your ratio of nature to technology use some adjustment? Are your four pillars of life - True Work, True Rest, True Study and True Play in balance?
A Grand Trine is always a blessing of ease. Although great ease can mean not quite having the energy needed to actually get anything off the ground. That being said, here we have a Grand Trine in earth signs, Jupiter is in Taurus, Mercury in Virgo, and Pluto in Capricorn. Earth signs want to manifest in the physical environment, make it real, do some heavy lifting, put some order in life, take care of the physical body. Feelings of safety and security are enhanced with earth signs and that will be a welcome interlude from the X-treme changes brought to us by the ongoing Uranus-Pluto square and hopefully a brief antidote to the anxiety and lethargy that some are reporting due to the rapid evolution and change we are experiencing. Body needs some down time for adjustment and recalibration to new frequencies. Uranus-Pluto will be most active again in summer 2012 and beyond to 2015, so take a breath in this time frame.
Many planets and asteroids are retrograde now. Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Pallas Athena, Ceres, Vesta and Chiron are retrograde - more heavenly bodies than are moving forward. Only the personal planets are moving direct - that is, Sun Moon, Venus, Mars and Saturn, along with Juno (relationship). Retrograde provides opportunity to go within and own up to our part in creating the life we're living. Personally, I'm watching Pluto which has been retrograde since April and will be slowly stopping and finally moving direct on Sept. 16. The Plutonian energies are really intensified this month as it is hardly moving at all. For five months we have had the opportunity to work on the inner level with personal issues that need to be transformed. Pluto, God of the Under World, encourages (demands?) that we investigate those energies that have sunk to the bottom of the well, to release them and the power they contain - in Capricorn these can be authority issues, father issues, economic difficulties, control of others, materialism, ambition, lack of discipline, judgment, integrity, perfectionism, rigidity, prestige, fanaticism, any way our true power has been suppressed - so many ways it can manifest. Pluto will not reach its original degree where it turned retrograde (7º) until early January 2012, but after turning direct Sept. 16th, issues that were internal may become increasingly externalized and acted out so we really get the picture and can't deny this part of ourself. Blessings on all our friends, neighbors, partners, siblings, bosses, others for playing the role of our teachers and helping us become more conscious.
So at the Full of the Moon you can call on the wisdom of Pisces to help you with surrender and compassion for all suffering, and to remember the challenges we are experiencing personally and collectively are just lessons for the ego and are the way we learn. You are not your life, you are Spirit.
We are on the fast track to one of the four most powerful points of the year - the Autumnal Equinox on Friday, Sept 23rd. when the Sun enters cardinal, air sign Libra. Looks like Mercury-Uranus, lower and higher octaves of the mental frequencies, and Chiron the Healer and Teacher will be prominent in that chart - more on that closer to the Equinox.
09/23 Autumnal Equinox. Sun enters Libra 3:04 AM MDT
09/27 New Moon in Libra 4º 5:08 AM MDT
Story
2 Sep 2011 - 2:02am
The main theme for September 2011 is Allowing.
This is a tremendous and unpredictable time of change, opportunity and resetting patterns and we have no idea how it's all going to manifest or show up. So what is called for right now is to be generously allowing of whatever is occurring to occur without resistance, fear, judgment, over processing, over identifying, over thinking or denial. "Allowing,” means opening yourself up to the unknown, stretching your flexibility muscle and being neutral about whatever is happening. Allowing is not about surrender or giving up, nor is it passive. It is an active choice to let things be the way they are.
The biggest challenge this month is worry. Worry keeps you in a micromanaging position of constantly needing to track and obsess about what is going on. Worry creates a hyper vigilance that is not useful at this time and will only keep you from being able to move forward. Worry and fear are never justified and any choice or decision that is made from a place of worry or fear will set you back instead of supporting you in your greater intentions and desires.
We could say that the subtheme for the month is Trust. A great deal of trust is needed at this time in order to allow for what has been seeded and planted and nurtured to actually be able to come into full bloom. If you have seeded your intentions and tended the garden, you can trust that the plants will bloom. It does not require you to stand in vigilance worrying that they won't. We are quickly moving towards the harvest of what we have set up for ourselves as a species and global community. What comes before the harvest is seeing the full bloom of our efforts, lessons, personal and collective patterns, and the colors of what we have accomplished and what has yet to be done.
So if you have been in denial, fear, worry, resistance, negativity, complacency, ambivalence, anxiety, judgment or any other negative expression, you will see this in its fullest bloom so you can do something about it. If you have been manifesting unexpressed emotions, old patterns or suppressed anger through your body in physical conditions and symptoms, these may show up as well. If this is the case, the worst thing you can do is go into more anger, resentment, martyrdom, self-loathing, resistance or judgment. Let it be. Allow whatever it is to show up fully however it is showing up, without any resistance and from a place of deep neutrality. From there you will be able to make practical and proactive choices about the changes you need and about what should come next. Don't be afraid to ask for help.
However if you have been working on yourself and weeding out what does not serve you, setting good intentions, staying present, paying attention, taking responsibility for yourself, your health, your reactions and your patterns, then you will see the fruits of your labors and the blossoms will be big and beautiful. Continue the good work, as this time frame requires a continued focus, responsibility and showing up. Allow yourself to be flexible and resilient. Have compassion for those less fortunate without feeling the need to fix.
The times are unstable, unpredictable, chaotic and full of trends and patterns that are very new to our collective experience. We have pushed through the birth canal and now it is time to trust the current environment to fully support a new life. Allow the environment to serve you in its own way and allow yourself to be in service to whatever your essence has in store for you. This is no longer about what the personality wants but rather what the essence goals are. So get out of your own way and allow the transformation. Just as the caterpillar resists the destruction of its form, that destruction is necessary if it ever intends to be a butterfly.
This is more of a "being" month than a "doing" month. Certainly you may have energy to put into tasks and projects but the motivation and support for their accomplishment comes from a place of being rather than a place of doing and effort. Because of the unpredictability of the times, things may manifest in very unusual ways if you allow them to. This requires putting your fixed ideas about how it should be done aside so that something new can emerge. It is a good month to revisit all of your intentions and determine whether you have enough flexibility to allow a new way of manifesting.
The other challenge this month is to stay positive in the face of so much fear, negativity, martyrdom and discouragement. Staying positive takes discipline. Not effort, just discipline.
How to stay positive:
Always acknowledge a higher order, a bigger picture and a greater plan to anything that feels like a setback, unfair, limiting or contrary to your highest intentions.
Remind yourself daily that you and only you create everything you experience, and usually for a good reason that you may not be able to see just yet.
Allow for the positive things to come into your life as well as the challenges. Just because others may be challenged does not mean you have to join them.
Be inspired by, rather than fearful of, the possibilities and the opportunities that change provides.
Be willing, be allowing, be trusting, be flexible, be in humor, and be delighted.
When you take responsibility for your own blossoms and harvest you come from a place of power. If you are in the drivers seat you can determine where you go next. So if you don't like what you see, know that you have the power to change it. If you like what you see, don't get arrogant. Just be grateful.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
If you are disappointed, allow yourself to be disappointed but don't indulge. If you are joyful for no "reason", allow yourself that joy even if your neighbor is in despair. If you are fearful or worried or anxious or any of the other negatives mentioned, allow whatever the cause to simply be there with neutrality and trust.
For some of you this may be an easy month where you are inspired by the change and the possibilities. Be careful you don't over do it and create such a huge change for yourself and those around you that you trigger your own survival mechanism in a negative way. On the other hand, some of you may feel so neutral that you may even consider that nothing is happening at all. If that is the case, you are holding the position of being in the eye of the storm. Recognize this as a service to those who are struggling. If you are confused, know it will pass. The best course of action is "wait and see".
It is time to think outside the box and allow things to manifest and magnetize in delightfully weird and unusual ways. Strive for humor, wonder and inspiration.
RELATIONSHIPS
Keep good communication. Communication is where things could break down as each individual's reality becomes more fluid and elastic. Community is of the utmost importance in these times and there will be a greater desire to build community among like-minded people that are trustworthy and supportive. Relationships create the base of any project or organization and you will be more likely to gravitate to work and environment based on community and relationships that anything else.
Never make assumptions. Especially now when change is afoot, it is a good time to bring into the present your important relationships and reset priorities where needed. Make sure that whom you choose to be around is really on the same page. There is a sorting and sifting process going on now much like the sorting hat in the Harry Potter stories. This affects relationships in a big way. If you are not with the right person or in the right community, your essence will find an efficient way to sort you right out of the situation.
In terms of the theme of "allowing", it is important to allow people to be where they are in their process and to allow yourself to make the choices you need to make and to be wherever you are in your own process.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Unpredictable, unstable, fascinating and inspiring. Allow the weather to do whatever it is going to do. Allow the earth to express however she chooses to express. Allow yourself to be flexible in your plans. Allow yourself to find a place of acceptance and comfort with the instability and unpredictability. There are certain predictions coming to pass that include phenomena such as comet activity and solar flares that are putting a strain on the gravitational forces that have affected our magnetic fields, sense of balance and stability. No one really knows what the actual physical effects will be on the environment. The best preparation is to be hydrated with flexibility, trust, and the light of spirit so that you can be a supple reed that bends in the wind.
These are exciting times and any drama that manifests in the environment brings a download of energy that can be channeled either into fear or into creativity. We suggest creativity. It is much more useful.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
As mentioned before, the physical body can manifest unexpressed emotions and undigested energies in the form of physical symptoms. Watch for issues around digestion, bladder, kidneys, liver and gall bladder, pancreas and lymph. Some of you may have issues around the adrenals as well. The body is attempting to process change physically and will show you what is up for you very concretely. There also may be issues with joints, bones and teeth as old patterns are being released.
It is a tough time for the body and you may feel more aches and pains than usual. Pay attention to the body and treat it with gratitude and respect. Beware of buying into a concrete diagnosis on any condition as the symptoms could disappear on their own as we move through this time and as you deal with your own process.
Drink plenty of water, more than usual. This is a water year and water should be seen as an ally helping you to keep things moving.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
What seemed impossible may all of a sudden be possible especially if you allow things to manifest in unexpected ways. On the other hand what seemed stable, long lasting, firm, concrete and rooted, may all of a sudden dissolve into thin air. Be flexible and allow. This is a time to practice trusting that where one door closes another one will surely open. It is a month to dream big and think outside the box without having to know or micromanage how it will all happen. Take advantage of the fact that the membrane that gives our physical reality definition is porous and elastic right now and can be easily breached giving access to a greater part of the quantum field. Literally anything is possible if you allow and you trust.
Be careful what you ask for. Since we are in an accelerated time, you can manifest quicker, you can change more rapidly and you can dissolve or destroy almost overnight. So be careful what you ask for, as you will likely manifest it hugely. It is a good month to bring in prosperity, to see projects explode and expand in a positive way, to deal with issues around abundance and deserving, and to experience success. Approach it all from a place of allowing and trust.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
Practice allowing what you cannot change. Practice trusting that all is perfectly aligned and as it should be for the larger picture to manifest. Stay out of resistance especially when reading the news. Have compassion for ignorance. Have acceptance for the lessons of others and keep intending for your higher intentions to be realized.
The trends in politics and for global issues will revolve around truth, communication, integrity, community and priorities. Global events will continue to shape choices, decisions and growth. A reminder here for all that evolution only goes in one direction even if it seems at times to backslide. We are at the brink of some very big stuff. It will be interesting to witness its unfolding.
Dates and Time Frames:
September 1-7: A time of pulling ones energy inward and focusing on what is close to home and in your own environment. You may be feeling fatigued and low in energy. Diminish your expectations of what you "should" accomplish. There is a lot going on energetically as the magnetic field is being recalibrated. This has the effect of making you feel somewhat off focus and slightly brain dead. It is OK to feel spaced out and inefficient. Just allow it to be so.
You will have to watch Martyrdom and Self-deprecation during this time. If you ever come up with the "why me?" question, counteract this with the answer, "because I created it for a very good reason that maybe only spirit knows right now". Then let it be.
This is a good time frame also to be in community and to feel all the support that is always there.
September 8-15: The fruits and flowers of your labors, lessons, choices and behaviors are in full bloom. You get to see what you have manifested. If you are pleased, keep up the good work. If you are not, you may have to go and plant some new seeds. Whatever you do, do not fall into despair, self-loathing or negativity. Pick yourself up with compassion and forgiveness, set new intentions and allow things to be different.
It is very important at this time not to compare yourself to any one else or to any other standard except your own. Everyone is at a different level and stage in their own development. Part of the freedom need of the times demands for the mold to crumble allowing for greater diversity, acceptance and appreciation for the unique and different expression of each individual in the global community.
There is a great relief in letting go of the need to conform or to live up to someone else's standard, and there is great healing in this realization and in allowing that old pattern to dissolve.
September 12: Full Moon at 3:27AM Mountain Daylight Time. Honor the blossoms and the fruits you have grown. Acknowledge your creativity and your power in whatever you have manifested for yourself. Be neutral and allowing around what is in your life. Be accepting of all situations. Take a bit of time around this full moon to sit in gratitude. It is very easy in times of turbulence to get myopic around what is not working, what you have lost or what you don't have. Focus on the positive and trust.
September 16-22: This time can be marked by confusion. You may feel like you ought to be doing something differently, you may be confused by your own reactions or the reactions of others, you may not know whom to believe, you may not know what to do, you may question, distrust, doubt and be very unsure about everything. You may not know how you feel except perhaps like you have been hit over the head with a large Zen stick. You may be stunned by events or disappointed by sudden changes. Practice allowing, non-resistance and neutrality.
In times of confusion the best remedy is to simplify and go with what you know and can trust. If your morning routine of practices and rituals brings you a sense of rightness, do it daily with gratitude and appreciation. Remember you do not need to know. Knowing, as in having the intellectual information, is highly overrated. There is no confusion when you do not need to know.
September 23: Fall Equinox is at 3:05AM Mountain Daylight Time. Think of this as the beginning of a new year and of a new time frame. This gives you an opportunity to redesign your intentions especially if what you have been manifesting is not what you want. Allow trends in your life to show up to teach you what not to repeat. Allow great and surprising gifts to show up as well.
Take time for yourself and ritualize this equinox by using the spirit of fire to burn something symbolically that you are really and truly ready to be done with. Allow it to burn and be destroyed once and for all. Remember that whatever you do for yourself you do for all your relations and has a ripple effect on the planet as well.
September 23-30: Things become accelerated here to the point of a runaway train. There is no way to track, to keep track, to control, to stay organized or to make sense of anything. Enjoy the chaos and be amused at the discomfort it brings. Allow the winds to blow. There will be plenty of time to rake up the leaves later. Find humor in the eccentricity of random events. Appreciate the creativity. Be inspired by the change. Don't sweat the small stuff. Empower yourself with flexibility. Learn something new. Focus on your own growth. Allow everything and everyone to be just exactly where they are. Turn you face into the wind and breathe in the change.
The time frame allows for higher centered experiences of truth, love and energy if one is willing to allow them in. This takes letting go of how you want it to be and letting it be how it is. The expansion that comes with this allows access to the higher centers especially around the equinox and around the new moon.
September 27: New Moon at 5:09 AM Mountain Daylight Time. Focus on just being. Expand into neutrality, don't take anything personally and enjoy being still. A visit to the higher centers is possible. Make time for it.
This is also a good day for a review of the month and a truthful review of where you are on your path. Make a wish list from the place of innocence much like writing a letter to Santa Claus. Remember to be careful what you ask for.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
www.thepowerpath.com
Blog entry
31 Aug 2011 - 3:18pm
Astro Forecasts - September 2011
with Jonathan Martin
As the harvest season continues, September brings an abundance of harmonious energy from Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto. This dynamic trio, in the three Earth signs, will give each of us a chance to take practical steps in making significant changes in our lives.
Astro Highlights - Important dates for your astro diary this month:
Full Moon in Pisces: Monday 12th September
This could feel like a rather heavy, emotional day, particularly for those who normally experience the Monday Blues. However it’s also a great day for indulging in fantasy, music and your artistic side. Creative souls will have ample fuel for their projects. Compassion for others comes easily now. Reach out to those who are suffering.
**If you see FM beside your Sign opportunities exist for success of short-term projects and emotional fulfilment.**
Sun enters Libra: Saturday 24th September
Attention turns to relationships, sharing and establishing harmony in our lives. We may want to contribute to joint projects in work or get involved in community efforts or teamwork. Romantic partnerships take precedence now, as well as close loved ones with whom we’ll wish to spend more time. Redecorating or beautifying the home, garden or place of work is beneficial now. Focusing on how we interact with others becomes important. We may strive to create more of a balance between work and play or find ourselves fighting for justice and what we believe is right. Indecision and compromise become vital attributes for daily dilemmas.
New Moon in Virgo: Tuesday 27th September
Another practical New Moon in a similar vein to August; for those returning to education or perhaps starting a new course or job, this is a great time to make a commitment to work. For everyone else it’s a good day for a clearout, a cleaning spree and catching up on chores. This is also an ideal time to revamp your diet or exercise regime.
**If you see NM beside your Sign there’s a chance to start afresh, innovate with short-term projects and establish new contacts.**
Pluto Direct in Capricorn: Saturday 17th September
This is a subtle shift that points to a new phase of positive transformation and regeneration, more so on a personal level for Capricorn and Scorpio. Cancer, Libra and Aries may also sense coming challenges that nonetheless will lead to better conditions. Virgo, Pisces and Taurus will experience more harmonious changes on a psychological level. For everyone else, Pluto will continue to plough the way for renewal in the global economy, corporate world and our governments by demolishing old ways and habits and exposing subterfuge and secrets to the light of a new day.
Below are your forecasts for each Sign.
NM = New Moon : FM = Full Moon
Aries: March 21st-April 20th
Still taking things a little personally? Feeling challenged by authority or befallen by accidents and mishaps? Your ruler Mars remains in temperamental Cancer for most of September, so find ways to compromise, slow down and get to the real root of what’s upsetting you about others. By month’s end you’ll want to indulge in self-treats to feel better, like over-eating or over-spending, but resist the urge and opt instead for sharing love with someone close.
Taurus: April 21st-May 20th FM 12th NM 27th
Love still surrounds you until mid-month, meaning friends and lovers want to be in your company, thanks to your ruler Venus in caring Virgo. Use this time to smooth over any difficulties in relationships, e.g., with a partner. You’ll be feeling courageous and passionate too, so keep fit or get creative. By September’s end you may clash with aggressive types or feel easily hurt but be quick to use clever Mercury, who can help get your true feelings across.
Gemini: May 21st-June 20th FM 12th NM 27th
Communication is strong for the first week of the month so air your bright ideas and hold important discussions. The middle of September could bring misunderstandings and criticism with Mercury in fussy Virgo, but harmony will be restored in the final week along with a sense of courage. Lethargy may set in for the first couple of weeks but you’ll soon be feeling attractive and popular when Venus slips into charming Libra mid-month.
Cancer: June 21st-July 21st FM 12th NM 27th
Mars in your Sign continues to fuel you with energy, passion and the urge to act! Make sure you have an outlet now, whether is projects at work, chores at home, a creative hobby or sporting activities. You’ll probably be feeling confident and upbeat too, with resilient vigour, while Mercury helps you to clarify your thoughts and feelings. Watch out for the end of September though, when clashes in relationship could trigger stress; aim for compromise and harmony.
Leo: July 22nd-August 23rd August
Your mind is sharp for the first week of September and it’s a great time to solve problems, however you may be more interested in talking about your self rather than listening to others. There’s an urge to be active, competitive and impulsive for most of the month so don’t sit around or the energy will have nowhere to flow, possibly leading to frustration. From mid-month onwards you’ll have caring Venus sending help and support from friends and loved ones.
Virgo: August 24th-September 22nd FM 12th NM 27th
Mars continues to offer creative ideas and the courage to let go of certain inhibitions. It’s still birthday time, of course, so celebrations continue with increased vitality; concentrate on what you want from life now. Venus adds charm and delight for most of September and you’ll be popular with friends and on the dating scene. Your ruler Mercury returns home mid-month to increase communication and the tempo of daily life, helping to resolve any minor grievances.
Libra: September 23rd-October 22nd
There may be more mishaps or confrontations this month, with Mars still in crabby Cancer, so try not to take things personally. You’ll find decision-making easier at the start of the month. Ruler Venus returns home mid-month bringing you luck in love, adding dazzle to your social life and upping your natural charm. By the final week you’ll rediscover your sense of spirit and courage, excellent for business or just taking action then birthday celebrations can begin in style.
Scorpio: October 23rd-November 21st FM 12th NM 27th
Spirits are high most of September thanks to the Sun and Mars, so embrace self-confidence and courage to get ahead and use the zest for life to keep fit or enjoy hobbies. Friends can lend a hand in the first two weeks but you may not feel like working that hard. Bright ideas are around mid-month and you’ll have little problem being understood but things could turn tricky by the final week, when others’ ego-drives prove aggravating.
Sagittarius: November 22nd-December 20th FM 12th NM 27th
You begin September with strong logic and confidence to speak out but be wary your ego doesn’t step in or things could quickly turn quarrelsome, particularly during the middle of the month. There may be obstacles on your path to progress now, such as less motivation, but there are actually important lessons to be learnt here. Others who irritate you may be reflecting your own uneasiness. The end of September brings bravery, creativity and increasing harmony in relationships.
Capricorn: December 21st-January 20th FM 12th NM 27th
There’s plenty of debate to be had this month, thanks to confrontational Mars, however you could learn much from entertaining the other person’s viewpoint now; pushing your ego’s agenda on others won’t get you very far. You’ll be feeling rather brazen and supported by events in your life. Relationships will be blossoming and people will generally warm to you for the first half of September but the end of the month could see a lazy streak set in.
Aquarius: January 21st-February 19th
You may have been finding it difficult to make clear decisions lately, with misunderstandings or people who don’t share your perspective. These feelings may continue into the first week of September so be aware. The latter half of the month looks sweeter, with romance in the air and a blossoming social calendar. A balanced judgement can help you resolve recent dilemmas. Finances should improve also and you’ll feel more confident and implicit by the end of the month.
Pisces: February 20th-March 20th FM 12th NM 27th
This is a great month to learn more about your self. If you’re feeling rundown or anxious be sure to prioritise your health; book a spa weekend or meditation evening or simply chill at home with a bath and nice music. A clash of opinion or beliefs is likely mid-month but what if you imagined holding the other person’s point of view? Go over your life goals now and try not to neglect work or responsibilities altogether.
If you’d like a personal horoscope or personality chart reading with Jonathan please email your details (name, date of birth, time of birth, place of birth) to zenithonline@ymail.com
Thank you!
Blog entry
28 Aug 2011 - 7:27pm
NEW MOON @5-Virgo [MOON & SUN conjunct]- SEPT. 29, 2011
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
~Eden Phillpots
"Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
~James Matthew Barrie
SABIAN SYMBOL 5-Virgo:
A MAN BECOMING AWARE OF NATURE SPIRITS AND NORMALLY UNSEEN SPIRITUAL ENERGIES - shows the rational mind of someone
being overshadowed by supernatural and intuitive images, thoughts and feelings.
Equipped to see the invisible, this person has started to penetrate into the deeper and more mystical levels
of the unconscious.
~Linda Hill, 360 Degrees Of Wisdom
Story
26 Aug 2011 - 9:17pm
Dear Friends,
New Moon is Sunday, August 28 at 9:04 PM Mountain Daylight Time. Honor the still point of the new moon by being very still yourself. From a still point inside, feel yourself expanding your awareness from the inside out, taking in your environment, becoming a part of it, being a neutral energy, very present and aware but without any agenda, expectation or focus. This is a time to push the reset button, which is always a good idea no matter how well things are going or when there is a lot going on, which some of you may be experiencing now. Especially if you have become entrapped in anothers drama it is useful to reset your own energy. Use some sage or cedar or tobacco to cleanse your spaces and yourself, resetting and bringing everything into the present.
If you have not already done so, please read Jose's article "How to Fix Your World" (link here) and if you do not already have it, the book by Jose "Praying With Power" is a good one.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
New Moon: Sun in Virgo ~ Moon in Virgo 5º
Sunday, August 28, 9:04 PM MDT
We turn our sunflower faces towards fall as the Sun moves into Virgo on Tuesday, August 23rd. As the days shorten, we will be heading rapidly now towards the Autumnal Equinox on Sept. 23rd. Much needs to be done before we contemplate fall! And this Virgo New Moon chart is just the one to help us get out our lists and get to it. As a mutable earth sign, Virgo, the sign of the harvest, is amongst the most practical with its ability to organize and attend to details, and to take stock of the 'harvest' or resources and put them to the most efficient use.
Mercury, mental planet of thinking and communication, rules both Gemini and Virgo. While the airy, restless intelligence of Gemini prefers stimulation and networking, the earthy, intelligence of Virgo tends to go deep and is known for its astute analysis and discrimination. Able to form accurate gut level judgments and apply it to the task at hand is a Virgo gift related to its rulership of the intestines, digestion, and spleen. Couple that with a strong analytical mind and you have the perfect right-hand man - the person you want at your side or behind the scenes anticipating and tending to all the details before they become big problems. (read more link here) Virgo is not one to seek the spotlight for itself, but instead is motivated by service to that which serves the good of all. Their deep relationship to the Earth endows them with the understanding and knowledge that all living beings are connected and is the source of their unflagging consideration for others. Virgos do not seek advantage at the discomfort of another.
Virgos are also very conscious of the body-mind connection. Many have reactive digestive (or solar plexus) systems sensitive to anxieties and emotional conflict and this can lead to their frequent interest in healthy lifestyle choices and alternative and nature-based medicine and therapies.
Virgos are our scholar types and anything related to study like desks, offices, libraries, computers or areas of storage (i.e. for the 'harvest') like barns, closets and pantries, files, medicine cabinets, drawers, tool sheds, garages - any of these would be good candidates for a thorough cleaning and reorganization under the Virgo influence. Put some much needed order in your life and experience the benefits of maintaining the things you value.
This month's New Moon Virgo chart offers us great support and opportunity to coalesce what we have been working towards. The Sun and Moon at 5º Virgo are moving with Venus at 8º. Venusian influence personalizes the experience and urges us to seek harmony; social relationships will be highlighted; self-esteem will be up for consideration. The Sun/Moon (in Virgo) is involved in a Grand Trine in earth signs with transformation-seeking Pluto (in Capricorn) and expansive, belief-changing Jupiter (in Taurus) working together in a benevolent Grand Trine granting us the opportunity for broad changes in beliefs concerning our identity (Sun), and our emotional underpinnings and source of comfort and nourishment (Moon). Pluto in Capricorn can provide the self-discipline and fair witness to tackle some fairly deeply ingrained patterns and Jupiter in Taurus (if not lost in sensual pleasures) can be a constructive force to make very real physical changes. Alas, a Grand Trine is big opportunity without the Big Energy to take action. Its nature is ease. But, guess what?!? The chart has just the tension we need to make real progress here. Thank you, Spirit for those experiences and actions that move us forward to a clearer connection to you in the form of truth, love and energy. Last Moon I mentioned the appearance of a minor configuration the sesquiquadrate/square/sesquiquadrate. Well lordy, lordy, this chart repeats that theme and doubles it! We have TWO of those pesky sesquiquadrate/square/sesquiquadrate triangles and in very prominent positions. Remember this configuration consists of 135º/90º/135º angles that form a triangle. One of these configurations points to Mercury, ruler of the chart (must be considered). Both Pluto and Uranus while squaring each other are in 135º aspect to Mercury. It's a mandate and what it's asking is for us to become more of who we are by expressing all that we know deep within our hearts and souls and manifesting it externally - walking our talk, letting our inner light shine, standing up for how we want our lives and the world to be and having the strength to stay out of criticizing the old and focusing on the dream we want to create. Mercury and Virgo are about the mental function and again we are handed practice in implementing the craft of taking responsibility and using our minds to create the dream we want to experience. I recommend reading Jose's current article again, "How To Fix Your World".
Here's a relevant quote from Adyashanti about activating the true inner self into the external world, "The unborn Buddha Mind is not something other than you; it is not something separate from you. But even though it is not separate from you, you must bring it forth. You must realize it and manifest it-not just once, but moment to moment."
Also let's not forget Mercury will move direct on Friday, Aug. 26 just before this New Moon activates the configurations we are speaking about. Lucky for us. Retrograde since Aug. 2, Mercury will again regain the degree (1º Virgo) on Sept. 10th where it began its apparent backward motion. This New Moon will yield the most to those who have used this time for reflection and reevaluation.
The second sesquiquadrate/square/sesquiquadrate involves a square between Saturn in Libra and Mars in Cancer with the apex of the triangle on Neptune, planet of boundless compassion and representing the artistic, spiritual and very sensitive parts of ourselves. The emotional body is likely to be activated. The aggressive, intolerant energies of a Mars-Saturn square can be mediated by the willingness that a Neptune focus can bring to telling your truth and releasing negativity.
Next month's Pisces Full Moon also presents us with a Grand Square centered on the North and South Nodes and the Sun and Moon with a companion Grand Trine of Pluto - Jupiter - Mercury so these are not passing lessons, but an area to focus our attention. We are all being asked to show up!
08/30 Jupiter goes retrograde until December 25
09/12 Full Moon in Pisces 19º Mon, 3: 27 AM MDT
09/16 Pluto goes direct after 5 months retrograde
09/23 Autumnal Equinox, Friday, 3:04 AM MDT
09/27 Super New Moon, Tuesday, 5:08 AM MDT
© 2011 Patricia Liles - all rights reserved
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26 Aug 2011 - 7:58pm
Closest Supernova in 25 Years Is a 'Cosmic Classic,' Astronomers Say
SPACE.com – 3 hrs ago
Astronomers have spotted the closest supernova in a generation — and in a week or so, stargazers with a good pair of binoculars might be able to see it, too.
The supernova, or exploded star, flared up Tuesday night (Aug. 23) in the Pinwheel Galaxy, just 21 million light-years from Earth. It's the closest star explosion of its type observed since 1986, and astronomers around the world are already scrambling to train their instruments on it.
Researchers said they think they caught the supernova, named PTF 11kly, within hours of its explosion. [Photo of the new supernova PTF 11kly]
"PTF 11kly is getting brighter by the minute. It’s already 20 times brighter than it was yesterday," Peter Nugent, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement yesterday (Aug. 25).
"Observing PTF 11kly unfold should be a wild ride," added Nugent, who was the first person to spot the supernova. "It is an instant cosmic classic."
Peering at the Big Dipper
The supernova was discovered using the Palomar Transient Factory survey, which employs a robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California. [Photos of Great Supernova Explosions]
The survey spotted PTF 11kly blazing up in the Big Dipper, otherwise known as the constellation Ursa Major. It is a Type Ia supernova. These explosions are thought to occur when a dying star called a white dwarf exceeds its weight limit (by accreting mass from a stellar companion, or merging with another white dwarf) and goes boom.
"Type Ia supernovae are the kind we use to measure the expansion of the universe," said Mark Sullivan of Oxford University, who was among the first scientists to follow up on the supernova detection. "Seeing one explode so close by allows us to study these events in unprecedented detail."
A rare skywatching treat
Researchers will be watching the supernova evolve over the next couple of weeks. Catching it so early in its formation and evolution is a rare treat, researchers said.
"We are finding new clues to solving the mystery of the origin of these supernovae that has perplexed us for 70 years," said Andrew Howell of UC Santa Barbara. "Despite looking at thousands of supernovae, I’ve never seen anything like this before."
This is the closest Type Ia supernova astronomers have observed since 1986, researchers said. And it's getting brighter by the day. Soon, it may even be bright enough to see with binoculars.
"The best time to see this exploding star will be just after evening twilight in the Northern Hemisphere in a week or so," Sullivan said. "You’ll need dark skies and a good pair of binoculars, although a small telescope would be even better."
Blog entry
22 Aug 2011 - 5:20pm
THE 5th NIGHT [August 18 - Sept. 4, 2011]
~ Carol An Ciocco, Astrologer
www.threemoonocean.com
"Every action is followed by an equal and opposite reaction."
Hello there, below you will find some thoughts on the cycle known as the 5th Night, within Dr. Carl Calleman's calendar system... which
To bring in an astrological viewpoint which dovetails with the 5th Night, THE CARDINAL CROSS (a signature of our times) was highly activated this month. Uranus and Pluto squared off. That aspect is epochal in nature and will be with us for several years. Notice the themes occurring in your life right now. The global events are easy to see, but flip your perception inward: London was burning. Are you torching parts of your inner world via rage and self-hatred? Looters were rampant in London. Are you desperately grasping for energy emotionally and spiritually due to deep feelings of fear and lack? The stock market experienced volatile gyrations, and the U.S's financial rating was reduced from AAA, the highest rating. Are you experiencing wild fluctuations in your sense of value and your relationship with material things, money and security?
The Cardinal Cross actually holds a very high-consciousness energy, an energy of ascension and spiritual mastery. The Cardinal Cross is a kind of HINGE upon which our future swings. It is like a valve which has built up intense pressure which must be released and made useful, transformed into constructive energy. The Cross twists and turns - like a screwdriver - squeezing the dross out of us and using the pressure and steam to power a new pathway.
The Cardinal Cross asks us: which direction are you going? What is due North? What are the cardinal sins? The cardinal virtues? The Cardinal Cross is a moral compass, an integrity monitor, and an invitation to totally shift what's up with what's down. Flip the world on its axis. There is no map anymore.
The primacy of life on earth is encapsulated in the Cardinal Cross - North, South, East and West - the four corners of our reality. This signature is the handwriting on the wall for our future selves, our more enlightened and more evolved selves. It is a directional sign pointing toward ascension-level embodiment. Due North, into higher levels of awakening.
With Many Blessings,
Carol
Blog entry
13 Aug 2011 - 1:34pm
Dale Osadchuk - Full Moon
2011 Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon
15 July 2011 at 2.41am EDT and 6.41am GMT
As Snowy Owl and Shooting Star prepared to climb the path to the Star Temple to celebrate this Full Moon they both wondered what surprises were in store. The last time Sister Moon was fully illuminated by Grandfather Sun was when she entered the Earth Mother’s shadow and turned crimson orange. Snowy Owl’s guide, Little Owl, had led them on a journey out into the Universe so they could experience that Mystical Moon. They fully expected Little Owl to be in the Temple waiting to lead them on the next adventure but when they entered the Sacred Space it was empty.
As Grandfather Sun set on the western horizon the sky was ablaze with red, gold, and mauve colours. The Cloud People were nowhere to be found so the sisters knew they would have a clear view of Sister Moon. They waited silently as the sky turned indigo. As Sister Moon began to rise in the east she was a glowing golden orb and as she rose higher and higher a Winged One flew from her center. At first Snowy Owl thought it was her Totem coming to take them on a journey but as the Spirit Flyer entered the Star Temple the sisters heard the beating wings. Little Owl always flew in silently.
“I am Snow Goose, your Grandmother’s Totem and also the guide for this Lunation. Go now and don your capes of magic feathers and come fly with me.” The sisters quickly put on their capes and followed the Winged One into the indigo night. They flew higher and higher passing the Wanderers, including Sister Moon, and the Starry Ones. Snow Goose led them to the Crack In The Universe.
When the trio reached that gateway the Spirit Flyer said “You are standing at the doorway to your future, now and in the far away time. Sister Moon has asked me to remind you to follow your greatest dreams and let your spirits soar into that infinite space that lies ahead. Beyond this gateway is The Great Mystery. Step into the void and you will experience All That Is and who you really are.”
As Snowy Owl and Shooting Star flew into the void they found themselves surrounded by luminance beings of light. They too became beings of light and felt their visions for the far away being blessed by Creator and Great Mystery.
Snow Goose led them back to the Star Temple and the sisters knew the next part of their journey was to awaken everyone to their own Lightness of Being. Only then would the Earth Mother be healed in the far away time.
This Lunation is not as dramatic as previous Full Moons but sometimes what is subtle can actually be more impactful. On the physical material plane the Sun in Cancer opposite the Moon in Capricorn is reminding us not to get caught up in emotional “tugs of war” with family members who do not understand our perspective and values. This is also true for co-workers who get under our “skin”. The theme for any planet opposing another is; opposition and confrontation, the need to realize the validity of both sides, and that awareness potentially leads to integration and balance. Full Moons emphasize this theme. If we are in our ego-will we stay in confrontation. If we are Soul Centred we seek integration and balance. Remember that at the next family gathering or office get-together.
Spiritually this Lunation is reminding you that you are a “being of light” with a Soul Purpose Destiny. Once you experience that “Lightness of Being” it will more difficult for someone to draw you into confrontation. When you are Soul Centered you see the other person’s shinning luminance light. The more you practice the easier it becomes. If you are in opposition and confrontation this Full Moon is perfect for a meditation on integration, harmony, and balance. Whatever the issues is, with someone else or even within yourself, put the situation in a brilliant oval of healing light and you will be amazed at the transformation. This then becomes a practice you can do at any time not just the Full Moon.
The Animal Totem who guides us for the Sun in Cancer is Flicker, new growth, transition, and healing. Stepping into the new always involves transition and letting go of the past. Cancer is the sign that has difficulty letting go of past hurts. “I may forgive, but I will never forget” is the motto. Well it is time to let that go. For the Moon in Capricorn the Animal Totem is Snow Goose, following your dreams and spiritual vision. Sister Moon does not like visiting this earth sign unless she can inspire you to live your Soul Purpose. That is Capricorn’s spiritual quest. Let both these Totems guide you to follow that quest and discover your LIGHT.
The Clan Mother for the Sun in Cancer is Loves All Things. She is the guardian of unconditional love and compassion for all. Talks With Relations is the Clan Mother for the Moon in Capricorn. She is the guardian of learning the truth that all life is sacred. Together these Wisdom Keepers will guide you on your path to your Lightness of Being. Their stories are found in the 13 Original Clan Mothers and Earth Medicine, both by Jamie Sams.
The Sun in Cancer activates the Tarot Constellation of The Chariot, the principle of mastery through change and stepping onto the Mystical Path. If you can view change as an adventure then mastery is the gift. Change and adventure are interesting words numerologically. They both add up to 11. So if we can see change as an adventure we are working with the vibration of 11:11, the initiation of a cycle of new spiritual beginnings. The Moon in Capricorn activates the Tarot Constellation of The Lovers, the principle of relationship and choice. This vibration is very confrontational if you are in ego. It is the urge to unite verses the urge to separate, the choice to love verses the choice to fear, ourselves in relationship to each other and the world. The Clan Mothers for this Full Moon are asking you to choose Love for all Things. For more insight on Astrology and Tarot see Mary K. Greer’s book “Tarot Constellations; patterns of personal destiny”.
Cancer and Capricorn are both expressed through the 7Th Ray of Ceremonial Order and White Magic. It is the Ray of Ascension with Archangels Zadkiel, Invocation and Prayer, and Amethyst, Forgiveness and Freedom as our guides. They are the Keepers of the Violet Flame of Transmutation and Illumination. The other Ray is the 3rd of Divine Mind and Active Intelligence with Archangels Chamuel, Divine Love and Adoration, and Charity, Gratitude and Grace. The Moon in Capricorn also activates the 1st Ray of Divine Will and Power. It is the Light of Creator and Great Mystery we all carry within. The Archangels are Michael, protection and spiritual destiny guide, and Faith, trust and belief in self. Call on any or all of these guardians as you discover your Lightness of Being at this Full Moon.
The planetary ruler for the Sun in Cancer is the Moon in Capricorn. There is that energy of opposition again. But the spiritual ruler for Cancer is Jupiter (expansion and growth) currently in Taurus (abundance and prosperity). The Soul Centered ruler for Cancer is Neptune (illusion or enlightenment) currently in Pisces (the oneness of all). Chiron, the healer and problem solver, is travelling with Neptune and links the two rulers harmoniously. Think of it as Divine Blessings.
The problem child just might be the ruler of the Moon in Capricorn. It is Saturn in Libra. This planet of foundation and building or limitation and restriction is exalted (powerful) in the sign of partnership (Libra) and is both the traditional and Soul Centered ruler of Capricorn. The Grand Cross (challenge and potential breakthrough) we talked about at the Cancer New Moon Solar Eclipse of July 01 is still very active. Here is part of what was described “Uranus in Aries (individual freedom and breakthrough) is opposite (tug of war) Saturn in Libra (committed partnerships and independence). They square (finding new ways of doing things) the Sun and Moon in Cancer (family, emotions, and spiritual destiny) which are opposite (potential for integration and balance) Pluto in Capricorn (transformation and stepping onto your Soul Purpose Path.)”
At our current Capricorn Lunation the planet Venus, travelling through Cancer, replaces the Sun and Moon in the Grand Cross. In Cancer she is the vibration of Clan Mother Loves All Things and promises harmony when we are in our compassionate hearts. The good news is she is the ruler of Saturn in Libra so brings the opportunity for healing and transformation. A word of caution about Saturn “what you resist persists”. He will be in the sign of partnership until October 05, 2012. I can already hear the groans. What that means is you have the opportunity to create a new relationship foundation for important partnerships in your life. In October 2012 Saturn will enter Scorpio for almost 3 years. Pluto will be the guide for that journey and the planet of transformation will demand that you shift. It is easier to do it now, believe me.
Full Moon blessings,
Dale
Summer Moon Circles on Sunday July 17, 2011 and Sunday August 14, 2011.
Sunday July 17- We are still in the beams of the Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon of July 15 so we will share the significance of that Lunation. We will also share insights and information about the coming Mercury retrograde journey that begins on Aug 02 and lasts until August 26.
But the focus for this circle will be on the Leo New Moon of July 30. Salmon, perseverance, determination, and creation energy is the Animal Totem who guides us. The Clan Mother for this Lunation is She Who Heals. This is the second New Moon of the month and so is known as a Dark Blue Moon. It is a Moon of Transformation and there is another Clan Mother who joins Salmon and She Who Heals. It is Becomes Her Vision. She is the Mother of Change.
Our meditation journey will connect you with these guides and the gifts they have to offer you as you step further into your adventure. The theme of the Leo New Moon is courage, inner strength, and determination. It is also about strengthening your connection to your Divine Self and Creator and Great Mystery. Hope you can join us.
Sunday August 14- We are in the middle of Mercury’s journey as the Trickster. Sharing Mercury retrograde stories are always fun and eases the frustration that can sometimes occur. Laughter is a great release. Mercury is the planet of the mind. Someone said “Change your thoughts, change your life.” I think it was Wayne Dyer. There is that word “change” again. Mercury Rx is a great time to transform your focus.
Our meditation journey will be about the healing gifts of the Virgo New Moon of August 28. We will meet Brown Bear, introspection and healing, and Setting Sun Woman, the keeper of tomorrow’s dreams. The planetary rulers for this Lunation are Mercury Rx our thoughts and perceptions, and Chiron, the wounded healer. Our journey will also connect us with both these influences and the messages they have to share. Virgo is about mind, body, and spirit healing.
Hope you can join us.
Both Moon Circles are at The Rising Sun, 10330 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario. Time is from 2.00pm to 3.30pm. Cost is 20.00 cash or cheque (made payable to Dale Osadchuk). Please let Dale know if you are planning to attend as space is limited. daleosadchuk@rogers.com or 905-883-3192.
The Meditations and Workshops are taped using a digital recorder. If you cannot attend the session you can receive the voice files via e-mail. Cost is the same and payment can be made either by cheque, e-mail money transfer (in Canada) or through PayPal. Just let Dale know and she will include you on the list for these Moon Meditation Workshops and send you the files.
Dale Osadchuk is an Artist, Spiritual Astrologer, and Transformational Counsellor and is available for consultations in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada in person or by telephone. You can contact her at 905-883-3192. To receive her brochure of Astrological Sessions, New Moon Meditation Schedule or to be added to her free New Moon list contact her at daleosadchuk@rogers.com you can also find Dale on www.facebook.com and www.TheRisingSun.ca and www.crystalwind.ca
Copywrite Dale Osadchuk July 2011. You are welcome to share this Moon information with others. Please send it in its entirety with Dale’s contact information. Thank you
Blog entry
12 Aug 2011 - 3:24pm
I was out in a boat with friends and my son. The friends are UFO watchers too. Last night was a beautiful evening. We enjoyed some dinner on our porch while we looked out onto the lake. Then, when we were ready, we went for a ride on the little houseboat they had brought over and had parked on our dock. We looked at the clouds, and were drawn to one that looks like a cloudship, so we headed in that direction which is also the more quiet part of the lake. This formation is like a flattened mushroom cap with very distinct edges. It looks like what I have seen online in relation to what cloudships look like, or what others believe are cloudships. The location is above this small mountain that looks like mother earth lying down. It makes sense, as we have looked at that part of the lake, we have felt a mother earth energy and even see it written in the land. You can see the contours of her legs, back and bottom as the hills in that direction. The four of us were in a happy jovial mood. I was telling the cloudship that we love them, and asked them to show themselves. We arrive at the cove, a quiet green area of the lake where there are no camps or houses. I stay in the boat and chat and then go into meditation communing with the cloudship, which by then has become multiple cloudships. We see a bunch that we decide could be cloudships by the shape of them. Meanwhile the sun was super strong and illuminated a nearby cloud very brightly to the point where we wondered if it had another star behind it or something. This was way up above the western ridge behind our house. My friends have been watching this for a long time. One of them got tagged in a triangle pattern of 3 symmetrical dot formations on each leg, on her calves while at a different local lake. I was told that story while on the boat. Two played in the water while I lay down in the boat and connected with the earth, the cloudships, and drifted. I rode that way while the cold swimmers got in and got warm under blankets and towels. The mood was happy, the sun was starting to set and make colors on the lake. We came home to happy dogs greeting us on the dock, wishing they had gone with us.
We talk and have lemon tea in the kitchen, and my friends headed home, leaving the boat on the dock for more adventures another day.
I go to bed and am very excited to enter the state of meditation and connect with my star family.
It happens in a timelessness and I am now at this point, in the late morning, unsure as to whether my connection was in the night or this morning. I believe it was early this morning as I have that feeling of brimming over with the most amazing download ever. My reporting is non-linear, so please keep that in mind as I try to express the ineffable.
I found myself doing formation work as I have learned with my friend Sabrina, and this time on my own. I chose to connect with those cloudships I saw, particularly the first one and I recall the shape, like a flat mushroom top, kind of stretched out. The other being that showed up was the sun. I communed with the cloudship there and felt myself check out the ship inside of the cloudship. It looks like a circular one with windows all around the edge- lots of them. I saw it as pink or having pink energy. I ask if it is of the highest intent telepathically and ask for permission to enter. I laugh inside as this feels like the opposite of an abduction.I am choosing to go onto the ship instead of the those in the ship choosing to bring me on board. I learn that it is an Arcturian ship, when I ask. There is a being there that greets me, though the beings feel fuzzy, not distinct. I think that is because they are a unified collective.
Arcturian Greeting
I greet the being Arcturian style. It looks like a double high five, but is more gentle, palm to palm. It means, in the moment, that may my frequency meld and blend with your frequency as one. May the veil between us fall away. I got the sense that this is why we are here, to blend energy and frequency and tone and sound and color and know one another that way. Blending of beings and consciousness- that is what we do. It turns out that the journey on the Arcturian ship has something to teach me, and Arcturians are said to speak of going down corridors and opening doors to other dimensions with portals. It makes sense I received the full message, that they were the ones sharing.
I sensed I might be worked on, or taken to be raised in frequency as often happens when I visit star family (not just Arcturians, but Zetas, Sirians, and others that I have met this way, via formation work in meditation). Next I found myself in my heart space. Also it was like other beings in a circle were sitting in meditation posture, all in the heart space, the one heart space and that was the deck of the ship. Pink energy? Or now it feels like it is the center of the sun, the void space. I got that the sun's center is a black hole, a potential for all possibility, a place of emptiness and also love, and it is also my heart and everyone's heart at the same time. Actually a place within the heart. Then the portal spot/black hole, void place that I speak of is in Sirius A, the sun, Alcyone, all stars at once. Like my heart is there too, all nested like Matryoshka Russian dolls. All one heart and it was there inside me, yet I was inside of it and it was massive. It was a place where time stops and all exists as possibility. I felt the ship be inside there too. Our unified frequency somehow had an influence in us being there. I got that this was the part of the journey in which my frequency as an earthling was being raised as so often happens. I was sitting in meditation posture inside the sun, like the portal of it, and all the fieryness was around the space I was in. I could here all these tones, like singing, the different beautiful frequencies of everyone. In fact, I got that all of our collective consciousness resides here already. We are expressed through the sun and this portal. I got that all frequencies, all places, were possible.It is a void, a place where existence springs from into beingness. Go here to travel and also to create. Create through intent and frequency from this place in you. Your heart space. I got that we can travel and create together with our collective melding and songs combined as one, and also collective focus on one. I felt so good, so peaceful and joyous here, so loving and loved. I tried to play with other frequencies. I wondered about lower frequencies as states of being. I tried to think of lower states of being but the lowest I could come up with was boredom. Yes, it is blissful inside the sun and inside of stars. I tried to create boredom, or hear the frequency of boredom. It just does not exist here! Nor does any lower frequency like fear, or depression or anger, or despair or worry. I was told and shown by the Sun and the Arcturians that the lower frequencies are from the mind. The mind is the illusion creator. It is a portal to other emotions, but they are not real. I received the information that all the lower states of being created inside the mind were unreal and I no longer needed to choose them. Knowing they were mind based and illusions would make it easier to discern truth.
Love is All
I heard the big important message: Love is all. The universe is love. All is love. Yes, on earth you are playing this game of other emotions not from the heart to learn that all is love. In the rest of the universe all is love, the rest is illusion. Remember. Todos es amor is what I heard in Spanish. I admit my Spanish is rudimentary. The message is the important thing.
Love gives you access to the universe. Love gives you access to the portal of the sun and stars. Love gives you the knowing of the collective. In the game, we have been cut off from the knowing of the collective. It is this big love fest, this continuous beautiful blending of frequencies and songs as we dance in oneness with one another. Love is synonymous with truth. Love isn't just a frequency or state of being, it is the underlying substance in which we are made. Anything that is not love is not real. By connecting with our galactic family, we are connecting with ourselves and with the love we are. Love creates. Love is. Love is all there is. (I am hearing a cheesy song from the 70's now...but I mean it. Love is all there is.)
The feeling of this is always available right in the heart space. Just go into your own,, feel it. You truly can disregard figuring it out, analyzing, negative emotionalizing, drama. The heart knows the way. I see right now the image of a star portal, and zipping and zapping from here to there. When one travels the frequential portals of the stars, in the inner world as well, there is here then there is there, place to place. There isn't a continuity of how you got there and there doesn't need to. It applies to travel and also applies to knowing. Our mind way is linear, it wants to put facts in a sequential row. The heart just goes there and knows bypassing the linear. But what about your human mind? It has been good for this experiment, and now it gets to go along for the ride. It gets to work in concert with the heart. Remember the heart and the sun and the stars only have access to higher emotions like bliss, joy, love, excitement, enthusiasm, contentment. Let the mind and body be joined with the frequencies of ourselves calling us and singing to us, come come whoever you are. All of this is withing you. The kingdom of God is within. Turn from the outer world and mental interpretation to the oneness of the higher mind where we are all unified and blended as one.
I am grateful for this sharing from my starfriends and know that they are here to assist, they love us, see us as equals, and we are in a pretend game. Infinite love is the only truth and all else is illusion. As if to confirm, my experience as real, I had a little sync which was an article that showed that the sun is a portal and lots of spaceships surround it shown on video.
Coming back to the dock. I may be able to show some cloudship photos if my son uploads them to his computer.
Blog entry
11 Aug 2011 - 6:45pm
ASTROLOGICAL ASPECTS
An Intensely Powerful Weekend
-downloaded from www.earthkeepers.com
The Perseids Meteor Shower reaches its peak on August 13th. It's a time to 'Get Real'.
This full moon is extraordinary to many signs. And all the energy waves cascading into the Earth amplify the forces. The solar winds, the meteor shower, the Mercury Retrograde and interesting planetary angles make for a potentially volatile combination. Just look at the crashing of the stock markets, government deadlocks, riots in Britain and continuing issues in the Middle East. Its a time of release.
The full moon in Aquarius opposes a Sun, Venus, Mercury conjunction in Leo. Since, moon in Aquarius oft represents the rebellious, wild, irrational, and unpredictable it is essential for us to remain balanced. Yet within this exterior turmoil, is also a time for deep introspection in Neptune and Pluto influence. The 'house clearing' of release in relationships that began in late May and continued through June and July's eclipses is still ongoing, reaching its finale. Time to get honest clarity in relationships, review the truth that actions speak louder than words. Truth is revealed in the equity & inequity of 'takers & givers', manipulators and straight-shooters. It is a uniquely empowered energy in which to let go of attachments that do not serve. Change the 'agreement' in relationships that are one-sided or false. It is a time of sabbatical, to release relationships that are pseudo, unbalanced, one-way or outgrown.
The silver-lining of this intense 'energetic cocktail' , is that it amplifies an opportunity for focused introspection and clarity. There is available a revealing light in this moon that brings into view previously subtle & hidden aspects that were previously difficult to see. A time to remove obstacles.
Mid August 2011 - Full Moon (Aug 13) -A Time for Release:
Dorothy Morgan Astrology
UTube Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UChhqlFdXBA
Astro Update
Forwarded by Naomi Stauber
http://www.thepowerpath.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=375:full-moon-update-8-10-11&catid=41:moon-updates&Itemid=122
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Dear Friends,
The full moon is Saturday, August 13 at 12:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a day for gratitude, gratitude and more gratitude. This may be challenging if you are in a place of being challenged. Trust that gratitude is the best antidote for feeling small, limited, insignificant and irritated. There are heavy influences now that are bringing out aggressive behaviors and reactionary activity in others. You yourself may be feeling a bit off and not know why. Don't take anything personally and spend some time in awareness exercises and being present. Make yourself energetically available to something wonderful landing in your lap without planning, effort or obsession. In this way you move your attention away from what might be wrong and towards what you are creating that is right. And stay away from those who do not support you.
Blessings, Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Full Moon in Aquarius ~ Sun in Leo 20º
Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, 12:59 PM MDT
The revolutionary underbelly of Aquarius is rearing its head as we head into the Full Moon period. Uranus and Pluto are squared off within a degree of each other and computer homepages are perfectly reflecting the energy. As Aquarius' ruler, Uranian energy is central to the collective archetype being played out. At this moment, revolt is hot and violent in the streets of London. Reflecting Pluto's part in the social dance, American economic stability is being rocked by plunging stock market values as she experiences her eighth Saturn return. Corporations are scoring big and democracy is barely in the game as they quarrel over who's the captain of the team.
What's not very apparent is that transiting Mars (planet of physical action, vitality, passion, and assertiveness) is now activating the Uranus-Pluto square (Aug 9-10). Mars, God of War, is intensifying, inflaming, and aggravating the energies of Uranus in Aries (ruled by Mars and representing young men, soldiers, and the police or anything to do with fire). We are also being bombarded with multiple solar flares and coronal mass ejections that are impacting our magnetic fields and ultimately our planetary body and physical body triggering large scale evolution shift and movement. Multiple websites are chronicling the manifestation of physical symptoms: increased earth movement, hurricanes, winds and volcanic action as well as increased headaches, stomach heat, worry, anxiety, fear. It almost feels like old patterns are being pulled right out of the bones. As we experience this powerful time of change, we also experience the personal challenges related to the creative cycle. Destruction is very much a part of creating, yet the body and mind are not all that comfortable with change and are slow to embrace it and let go and trust the flow towards the new. Do what you can to practice change. Move by choice into something unfamiliar and not your usual. Shake it up! Take a road trip. Embrace what you wouldn't normally engage. Let the old forms go. If one moves towards change and the unknown, it is less likely to come as a painful, unexpected slam. (Maybe).
Most prominent configuration in this chart is the Pluto-Uranus square (5º Capricorn-4ºAries). Mars at 6º Cancer opposes Pluto and squares Uranus forming a T-Square with plenty of tension fueling our desire to bust loose from what holds us in the old-mold rut. Juno, gracious goddess of partnership at 5º Libra, fills the final position to create a Grand Square with Pluto, Uranus and Mars. This is the refining energy we need to channel this powerhouse of energy into our partnerships and relationships clearing the energy for new life to enter where deadness and stagnation is buried. We may witness or experience the conflict between individual needs and relationship needs. Juno brings the desire for respect and equality into all relationship and she doesn't hesitate to bring up imbalances of power and injustice. She is the champion of the powerless and she is engaging the big dogs - Pluto, Uranus, and Mars to insure her relationships needs are heard at the personal and social levels. A Grand Square (or Cross) especially in cardinal signs as we have here needs to place these mega energies into new avenues of expression. New identity is budding. Here is the opportunity to create in new ways focused on the Leo-Aquarian principles of an evolved individual contributing to the universal cooperation within the social group. We are stepping into a time of creating in an expanded, multidimensional way where our thought forms can manifest our dream effortlessly and quickly. We all have had the experience recently of having an idea and ping! it manifests quicker than we thought possible. That's the direction we are heading towards. There is no holding this energy from spiraling to the next level of evolution; there is only resistance.
A beautiful Mystic Rectangle is also formed in the chart involving the Leo Sun opposite Aquarius Moon and sextiled (benevolent aspect) the North and South Nodes in Sagittarius-Gemini. Significant. It's linked to the Grand Square through midpoints and can find release for expression there. The Mystic Rectangle formed by trines and sextile aspects generally has the connotation of very practical and constructive action. Yes! Get a clear bead on your unique essence and give your gifts to the best of your ability.
I hate to even bring this up, being subtle and considered minor, except that it is focused exactly on the Full Moon at 20º so one must consider it. Suffice it to say that (this is a mouthful) the sesquiquadrate/square/sesquiquadrate formation which forms a kind of triangle with the apex at the Moon has the connotation of actualizing oneself and represents the yearning "to express one's internal awareness of self externally, within the social sphere." according to Michael R. Meyer. It just emphasizes the need to let our essences speak through our hearts and aim high. "Hold your heart high" as my daughter likes to say. Personal integrity and remembering our dream matter so much now as we participate in this evolution of the soul.
08/26 Mercury goes direct
08/28 New Moon 9:04 PM MDT
09/12 Full Moon 3:27 AM MDT
Story
10 Aug 2011 - 10:34pm
Dear Friends,
The full moon is Saturday, August 13 at 12:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a day for gratitude, gratitude and more gratitude. This may be challenging if you are in a place of being challenged. Trust that gratitude is the best antidote for feeling small, limited, insignificant and irritated. There are heavy influences now that are bringing out aggressive behaviors and reactionary activity in others. You yourself may be feeling a bit off and not know why. Don't take anything personally and spend some time in awareness exercises and being present. Make yourself energetically available to something wonderful landing in your lap without planning, effort or obsession. In this way you move your attention away from what might be wrong and towards what you are creating that is right. And stay away from those who do not support you.
Blessings,
Lena
ASTROLOGICAL NOTES:
Written by Patricia Liles. Contact her at PATLILES@aol.com
Full Moon in Aquarius ~ Sun in Leo 20º
Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, 12:59 PM MDT
The revolutionary underbelly of Aquarius is rearing its head as we head into the Full Moon period. Uranus and Pluto are squared off within a degree of each other and computer homepages are perfectly reflecting the energy. As Aquarius' ruler, Uranian energy is central to the collective archetype being played out. At this moment, revolt is hot and violent in the streets of London. Reflecting Pluto's part in the social dance, American economic stability is being rocked by plunging stock market values as she experiences her eighth Saturn return. Corporations are scoring big and democracy is barely in the game as they quarrel over who's the captain of the team.
What's not very apparent is that transiting Mars (planet of physical action, vitality, passion, and assertiveness) is now activating the Uranus-Pluto square (Aug 9-10). Mars, God of War, is intensifying, inflaming, and aggravating the energies of Uranus in Aries (ruled by Mars and representing young men, soldiers, and the police or anything to do with fire). We are also being bombarded with multiple solar flares and coronal mass ejections that are impacting our magnetic fields and ultimately our planetary body and physical body triggering large scale evolution shift and movement. Multiple websites are chronicling the manifestation of physical symptoms: increased earth movement, hurricanes, winds and volcanic action as well as increased headaches, stomach heat, worry, anxiety, fear. It almost feels like old patterns are being pulled right out of the bones. As we experience this powerful time of change, we also experience the personal challenges related to the creative cycle. Destruction is very much a part of creating, yet the body and mind are not all that comfortable with change and are slow to embrace it and let go and trust the flow towards the new. Do what you can to practice change. Move by choice into something unfamiliar and not your usual. Shake it up! Take a road trip. Embrace what you wouldn't normally engage. Let the old forms go. If one moves towards change and the unknown, it is less likely to come as a painful, unexpected slam. (Maybe).
Most prominent configuration in this chart is the Pluto-Uranus square (5º Capricorn-4ºAries). Mars at 6º Cancer opposes Pluto and squares Uranus forming a T-Square with plenty of tension fueling our desire to bust loose from what holds us in the old-mold rut. Juno, gracious goddess of partnership at 5º Libra, fills the final position to create a Grand Square with Pluto, Uranus and Mars. This is the refining energy we need to channel this powerhouse of energy into our partnerships and relationships clearing the energy for new life to enter where deadness and stagnation is buried. We may witness or experience the conflict between individual needs and relationship needs. Juno brings the desire for respect and equality into all relationship and she doesn't hesitate to bring up imbalances of power and injustice. She is the champion of the powerless and she is engaging the big dogs - Pluto, Uranus, and Mars to insure her relationships needs are heard at the personal and social levels. A Grand Square (or Cross) especially in cardinal signs as we have here needs to place these mega energies into new avenues of expression. New identity is budding. Here is the opportunity to create in new ways focused on the Leo-Aquarian principles of an evolved individual contributing to the universal cooperation within the social group. We are stepping into a time of creating in an expanded, multidimensional way where our thought forms can manifest our dream effortlessly and quickly. We all have had the experience recently of having an idea and ping! it manifests quicker than we thought possible. That's the direction we are heading towards. There is no holding this energy from spiraling to the next level of evolution; there is only resistance.
A beautiful Mystic Rectangle is also formed in the chart involving the Leo Sun opposite Aquarius Moon and sextiled (benevolent aspect) the North and South Nodes in Sagittarius-Gemini. Significant. It's linked to the Grand Square through midpoints and can find release for expression there. The Mystic Rectangle formed by trines and sextile aspects generally has the connotation of very practical and constructive action. Yes! Get a clear bead on your unique essence and give your gifts to the best of your ability.
I hate to even bring this up, being subtle and considered minor, except that it is focused exactly on the Full Moon at 20º so one must consider it. Suffice it to say that (this is a mouthful) the sesquiquadrate/square/sesquiquadrate formation which forms a kind of triangle with the apex at the Moon has the connotation of actualizing oneself and represents the yearning "to express one's internal awareness of self externally, within the social sphere." according to Michael R. Meyer. It just emphasizes the need to let our essences speak through our hearts and aim high. "Hold your heart high" as my daughter likes to say. Personal integrity and remembering our dream matter so much now as we participate in this evolution of the soul.
08/26 Mercury goes direct
08/28 New Moon 9:04 PM MDT
09/12 Full Moon 3:27 AM MDT
