David Pond’s Winter Solstice Newsletter: The Astrology for the next 3 months
From out of the shadows, a growing light
Winter Solstice. The longest night of the year. Quiet. Still. Last year’s growth dies back and the earth absorbs, composts, and transforms it into the food that feeds next years growth. Let yourself align with the season; quiet yourself and be still and let nature pull the wounds and struggles of last year into the earth. Let them compost.
Each year nature affirms this lesson; Dark as the hour appears, the light returns. May this be a metaphor for our times. We’re a bit in limbo; the old has crumbled not to return and the new is still in nascent form. Where to align?
There is quite a bit of buzz about the the Winter Solstice this year as it falls on the same day as a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, punctuating the meaning and significance of the day. The Moon’s light, and therefore its message, is blocked during the eclipse. The pull of the past and ingrained patterns relinquish their grip and you get a chance to feel your life force without carrying the weight of your past. It is the best time to let behavior patterns and habits that no longer serve you be eclipsed. Out with the old to make way for the new. Use the Solstice/Eclipse to invite in your highest future self to fill the space you are making room for in your psyche by letting go of some unwanted behavior.
Mercury Retrograde and some Holiday Advice. Mercury will be retrograde through Dec. 29th, so check and double check travel plans and always allow more time; things happen; bring a book. When Mercury the messenger is retrograde you can assume the liklihood of miscommunications; what you thought you said and what others actually heard is not always a match, so keep a sense of humor about it. Expect the barbs masked as humor to be flying around the holiday season followed by the all forgiving, “Just kidding.” Be mindful of teasing and teasers, always a popular holdiay sport and only fun for one of the people involved. Mercury in Sagittirius is blunt; be careful of blurting out, even in humor, what later can’t be unsaid.
Visionary Opportunities. In times when logic fails us, we need our visionaries to illuminate the path forward and this season is very fruitful for visionaries There are some special oppourtunities available to tune into this solstice season, if we can set aside our worries long enough to listen. There are three outer planet conjunctions occuring in the in the final three signs, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces When outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) are involved, information that was not previously available is born. Winds are blowing in the collective consciousnes, as new ideas and inspirations are born from the conjunctions. This is the time for being innovative and visionary. Some will catch hold of this wave; why not let it be you? Take advantage of the new winds blowing.
Admittedly, most of us are feeling a long way off from visionary after the brutal last few years we’ve been through! But this is the type of astrology that vision can be born from if we can set aside our personal worries.
The Worry Basket: I've heard of an American Indian tradition called the "Worry Basket". In this tradition, if you were going to visit others in their lodge, you would pick up a few sticks along the way representing your worries and burdens. There would be a worry basket at the door of the lodge and you would put your sticks into the basket before entering. You wouldn't bring your worries in with you. When you left, you would reclaim your issues by taking your worry sticks with you.
I like this image--it provides a method for dealing with the worries that do arise. Let's expand on this image from not just the lodges of others, but where you visit them within yourself as well. When you think about someone, first place your worries in a basket in your mind. It's not that you don't have worries, you know you do. But you make these your issues and don't project them onto others. You can use the worry basket image with your own issues, to temporarily set them aside to allow you to align with the higher frequency energy available.
The Quickening: The quickening of the vibrational field around us continues to accelerate, like a video game that you learn at one level but it just keeps going faster, and faster and faster. Perhaps this quickening is from the background uncertainty that we all live with. One way or another our sense of time has accelerated and its best to get used to it.
Since everything is accelerated, you are forced to stay more conscious even of what you are thinking about. You know what is going to happen when you allow yourself to drift into negative patterns, you just get beat up in the energy, so you quickly learn, because you have to, to keep it together in accelerated time. We’ve been shown the tools, now we need to use them.
The benefits of keeping it together in quickened time is that you have heightened access to increased intution. Picture these intuitive flashes of downloads from the mainframe computer, the collective level of intelligence. This is the 85% of the mind that we have not accessed thus far. Yes we have all of these problems that the rational mind can’t solve; population, water, global warming, food, these are bigger than our rational mind can grapple with, but we are only using 10-15% of our mind’s potential! For the sake of accessing this intuitive level, you don’t want to wish this quickening away. Breathe into it, expand your self identity to allow for this increased energy and ride the wave.
Jupiter/Uranus Conjunction in Pisces. Although both Jupiter and Uranus are conjunct in Pisces now, both will be moving into Aries in 2011: Jupiter in January and Uranus in March. America has been in the left hand lane with Obama, but traffic has stalled, and with the Aries urge for individual rights coming up big time in 2011, we can expect movement to the right. For now however, they are in compassionate, creative Pisces.
Picture these two positive, innovative and forward thinking planets as rubbing their hands together with excited glee of the yet to be discovered future, undaunted by the preachers of doom and gloom. Tap into this positive surge of compassionate, visionary energy. Do everything that you can to widen your empathy at the emotional, mental and spiritual levels. This in and of itself creates a growth in consciousness, expanding your range of receiving ability. You needn’t let go of your view, you move beyond it to consider another person’s experience.
This is considered a lucky aspect for goals. In Pisces, watery, imaginative sign that it is, you want to picture and imagine what your goals would feel like, more than specifically enumerate them. It is not just imposing your will on your life. It is important to sense what is emerging as your highest future potential. Reading The Tao Te Ching can help you get in the right frame of mind.
A key is to develop and maintain the authenticity of your individuality while contributing to the collective. Compare this to the Amish vision of creating group mind by removing all that distinguishes an individual as different from others. Or even more extreme is Kurt Vonnegut’s Siren’s of Titan, where in order to create an egalitarian society, gifted individuals were required to wear handicaps to compensate for their talent. Ballet dancers had sand bags tied to their arms during performance and so forth! So not this self denying way of becoming part of something larger than self, instead, this calls for offering the fullness of the awakened, individualized self.
Take advantage of this Jupiter/Uranus conjunction and move into Synthesis thinking: rising above polarity, knowing there is a larger solution that encompasses both polarities. Uranus is sudden knowing, direct insight. Put these two together and you have the possibility of creative genius. Genius type thinking is the type of ideas that come to you without your thinking them up. Go into your studio, your shop, or your writers den and have faith (Pisces) in the creative genius principle. Set to work and let it flow.
Neptune/Chiron Conjunct in Aquarius: (both moving to Pisces in 2011). This conjunction invites altruism and cultivating a vision for Humanity. Humanity must rise to save itself and our wound has been the lack of sacred awareness of life on our planet. The destiny of Chiron is not to be found in the wound, but what you are lead to for the healing. We see the wound and now must step forward to help with the healing.
Alternative energy healing of all sorts is supported by this conjunction, including subtle body energy healing. Those interested in communicating with other life forms like plants, animals, the spirit realms, etc., will get a boost.
Aquarius supports non-hierarchal systems and collectives, co-ops, free information via the internet, alternative energy, alternative lifestyles, the local food movement and Burning Man are all thriving, particularly with the younger generation.
Capricorn Conjunctions with Pluto: Pluto is joined with Mars, the North Node, and the Sun in Capricorn is fueling a strong drive to utilize everything available to you as best you can and dive into productive action. Use the Capricorn energy to help find your current sense of purpose. All of nature is here in response to a need that brought it here to fulfill; Its function is its purpose. To discover your purpose, look around and see the needs that you are drawn to and set about fulfilling them. In a major way, you look out into the world and see something not being done and consider this to be your job description. Figure it out and be relentless until you make it work.
Make it, build it, sculpt it, design it, paint it, write it, teach it care for it, but do it is the compelling call of Capricorn.
Commitment. Capricorn calls for making a commitment and helps you to rise up to levels of responsibility you didn’t even know you had it in you to do. Parents certainly know this, you find strength and wisdom and guidance because you have to, and somehow you find it in you to rise up to the responsibility. Wherever you are on your path, make a commitment to gain greater self mastery.
Ways to be with the energy.
Start by assuming this is a miracle, this body, this day, these people who love you. It gets you in the right mind set for awakening to vision. To get to the higher level of creative vision, you have to be running higher level energy. If you are depressed or even just flat, you won’t be able to hear the subtle tones of the visionary level.
The time is ripe for visionaries. Visionaries are known for having acute foresight and imagination (Jupiter/Uranus conjunction fosters this). This level is fostered by widening your circle of compassion (Pisces) and maintaining balance while holding opposing views (Saturn in Libra).
Don’t just lament what is missing, provide it! (At whatever level is available to you) What you see as missing in the world around you might very well be your cosmic job description.
Get up into your upper chakras and synthesis thinking. Rise above polarities; know there is always, always, a way forward. Taking one small step forward makes you part of the solution.
Quiet yourself as best you can to attune to the energy. Assume the events are happening outside of your normal range of perception so open, listen, and receive.
Inspiration Constipation? All backed up with ideas not acted on? Start building a rapport with the angels of inspiration and vow to follow through every day with the inspiration for that day. If you haven’t done it yet, don’t go to sleep. Follow through on the little inspirations to get to the higher inspirations. After all, who would the sources of inspiration bestow the highest revelations upon? To one who follows through on the daily inspirations or one who doesn’t act even on the simplest directions?
By providing hope and inspiration for others, you find it yourself.
Start living your life the way you think things ought to be. Be your own authority on what it takes to live a good healthy life.
Be determined: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ....(Thomas Edison)
Saturn in Libra tests your ability to maintain balance while considering opposing views. Watch opposing political news shows to find your own mechanism of reaction and turn it off (not the show, your reaction!) If you are caught up in the polarity you can’t rise to a higher vision.
Energetically, all that you can accept empowers you and all that you reject disempowers you. Find ways to dissolve all barriers of distinction, blur the edges of definition and work with accepting absorbing, allowing.
Make a commitment, a silent inner marriage with your soul purpose, your mission; and then honor it as a sacred contract.
People are not as ignorant as ill informed. It’s all about information baby! Get your ideas out there…youtube, blogs, facebook and twitter are all awesome opportunities to infiltrate the collective air waves with some higher frequency information. And as Sister Mary Joseph Praise called for in Cutting for Stone: “Let’s see what we can do to help people make something beautiful of their lives.”
The information below tells you how to order the hour long CD of this information in detail with added information on aligning with the higher level energy available during these stressful times. Track 1 is an overview of the season, suitable for the public, and track two gets into the astrological nitty gritty of specific dates, signs and aspects of when best to act and when not.
And may you have a blessed Holiday Season!
David
Hear David’s predictions and what astrology has to say about the upcoming three months and what you can do to stay aligned with yourself and the world around you during this time. David deals with these issues at length in the Winter Solstice edition of the quarterly astrological recording, “Cycles and Seasons”, which will be coming out next week. This 60-minute recording covers the next three months as to the astrological influences impacting all of us, and answers such questions as: When is the best time to act? To pullback? To be cautious, or bold?
The CD sells for $15.
To Order, either e-mail back to me with your request for being billed later. Or print and mail with a check. Or call or fax your CC#.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Summer Solstice
David Pond’s Summer Solstice CD The Astrology for the next 3 months
We Are The People We’ve Been Waiting For
You know how it is with us astrologers, we’re always saying something big is about to happen. Well, something big is about to happen!
This summer is the most dramatic astrology we will experience in our lives; period. That being said, astrologers have been on the edge of their seats in anticipation of seeing how this will unfold; a bit like volcanologists gathering to a rumbling volcano. We’ve been in this build up and release since the fall of 2008 with the first passing of the Uranus opposite Saturn that has brought so much upheaval in its first four exact oppositions. This next event at the end of July promises to be considerably different than the first four for two reasons. First it is in a considerably more powerful alignment with other planets than before, and most importantly, the energy is shifting into cardinal signs. Cardinal signs are initiatory, ground breaking, and forward moving.
We want to be careful with too much prediction at this time. Prediction robs us of our power by assuming that future events are inevitable and out of our control; they are not. The events in the world are not happening to us, but from us. We are co-creators in the future of our own lives and the world around us and the choices we make now have considerable impact on the unfolding events.
Back in the 70’s Laurie and I lived with a commune in Hawaii. The leader of the group once said that psychiatrists labeled him as having a messiah complex because he believed it was his responsibility to care for every man, woman child, plant, and animal on the planet. His response, “I don’t have a messiah complex yet, not until everyone one of us awakens to our responsibility of taking care of all life on earth, then we will have a complex of messiahs.” Clever, but also a powerful message.
We have four children and 8 grand children and as all parents know; our children help us to become better people than we might otherwise be. We rise up and become wiser and stronger because of our children’s needs. If each of us rise up and take on the responsibility for all life around us, we will find the inner strength and wisdom we didn’t even know we had.
Apocalypse?
The word “Apocalypse” has been bantered about a great deal lately to describe the litany of crises we see confronting us. The original meaning of the word apocalypse is, disclosure of truth; lifting of the veil at the end of an age. Many have been duped into believing that we don’t belong here…here is not good. It is time we restore sacred awareness of self and planet.
Humanity is slowly lifting the veil that has kept us from the power of compassion. Compassion is such a sweet word, but there is also power in kindness as a way of life. The more that you resist in life, the more you firm up the battle against you. The more that you can accept, you grow in power. Caught in the quandary of either/or, options become limited.
Move towards synthesis thinking which rises above polarities and see a larger view that encompasses both. Don’t get locked into reactionary, polarity thinking with this type of astrology, you will just empower the opposing force.
Force yourself to “Lift the Veil” of separatist, lower chakra thinking and see things from your heart. If this seems too new agey, you are missing the power of the teaching. As we rise up in vibration from one chakra to the next, our world becomes more inclusive. We don’t separate from the lower chakras, we build on them. As we awaken to the power of our heart chakra, our world expands and the lower chakras come into balance. Lifting of the veil of separateness you enter into a synergistic rapport with life, and it all falls into place; life works. You attract support for your projects and endeavors.
Simply said, pull your mind out of whatever you are against and don’t like, and invest it into that which you do support. Pay attention to what you are paying attention to.
Saturn is the structure, the system, the shell that holds a family, business, government together. It brings cohesiveness and order in establishing the rules that work to hold it all together. Saturn is under siege right now by planets that are more powerful than itself, so the old structure, the shell has been cracking and with this upcoming transit, the shell is cracked wide open and humanity emerges to the next stage of its growth. Imagine a chick emerging from the once protective and now limiting shell. Imagine the flood of new information coming in! Sights and sounds and experiences that are wonders to behold for the chick just emerging out of the panic stage of busting out of the shell.
We’ve been gardening this spring and have started many plants by seed. It is something to watch a germinating seed burst open with new life. The shell of the seed once protected the dormant life within, but once it comes into life, the shell is burst open and cast aside as the sprout bursts forth.
This is where we are, new life will burst forth. The creative genius of the human spirit is awakening, and with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries, these two are rubbing their hands together in excited glee about the possibilities in the yet to be discovered future. Those who align with this emerging spirit of new possibilities will easily be able to burst through the old limiting shell and trust that emerging into the new world of possibilities is the way.
Uranus and Jupiter both together in Aries promise exciting breakthrough discoveries in many fields. The pioneering forward thinking Aries gives these two voices of growth plenty of fuel. This is genius like energy in the “can do” sign Aries. Politically the spirit is revolutionary, sweeping changes of social reform would be expected
A compassionate culture intervenes on the behalf of victims from predators. Of course there will be huge opposition as the Saturn opposition will not go down without a fight. There will be those that believe the egg shell needs to be repaired and made back into what it used to be. It’s a tough argument to win in the face of how much change, growth, evolution has occurred, but Saturn’s function is to resist change, and its voice will be heard, and with Pluto involved, the voice of resistance could get nasty, fueled by ancient hatreds and the like. With the Aries activity, the voice for individual rights is likely to get fueled. Aries after all, would ideally get to do what it wants, when and where it wants, unrestricted. So the government sanctions will get challenged by individual rights groups of various sorts.
We can just look at the astrology of these times and see that we would be very vulnerable to “spark plug mentality.” The mental energy builds but fires off at whatever it is frustrated about. The energy builds and fires, builds and fires. To sustain the mental energy, don’t let it fire off. Breathe deep into it, now accept it, and then direct it. The benefit of rising out of polarity thinking is sustained mental energy. It didn’t fire off and now can be directed and put to use.
Growing impatience with things that aren’t fair. In our individual lives, this rebellious awakening will likely get activated with issues of fairness. We’ll likely feel like we’ve just had it with things that aren’t fair and have very little patience in dealing with unjust individuals.
This will have a strong impact on all relationships with the awakened needs of the self not to be denied, and yet having to remain balanced within the needs of a relationship. Expect some renegotiation in your relationships as a renewed passion for your individual rights within your involvements with others will certainly demand more attention.
We are all being asked to sharpen our skills of negotiation. Negotiation doesn’t simply mean adapting to the demands of others, It means doing your best to bring honor and integrity into all of your dealings with others. It’s not wishing things were more fair, or even first walking away from that which isn’t. It is showing up to do what you can do, to be clever enough, diligent enough, patient and persistent enough to bring situations to what resonates as fair to you. And then if you can’t make a good agreement, don’t make a bad one! You are encouraged to be active in bringing about a fair agreement, but above all, you have to know how to avoid making bad agreements. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t!
Listen to your inner knowing, the little nudges of consciousness, and start responding to them as if they were guidance, and you’re sure to be on the high road. The Uranus/Jupiter in Aries piece promises to bring many illuminating sudden knowings into consciousness. And of course Saturn will tell you all the reasons you can’t do that! And thus it goes.
Saturn retrograde in Virgo till Jul 21st. Return to maintenance, get your world working and functional, take care of your health, get your car maintained, simplify, simplify, simplify. Plant a garden, get close to the earth. The earth belongs to those who take care of her.
Anxiety Symptoms. This quickened energy that these transits are bringing is showing up as anxiety symptoms for many, even those not prone to anxious feelings. The body is resonating with this quickened energy. Flushing, heating and burning sensations, twitches, sleep issues, racing anxious thoughts, and the like are being reported with way increased frequency. This is most unpleasant for those prone to these experiences.
Breath awareness is the first thing to check. Energy follows breath and when you are anxious, check your breath; it is most likely shallow and rapid, butterfly breath. When you are feeling anxious, first breath deep and slow. Do this first, and then see how you feel. As you breathe deep, picture yourself expanding with each breath, allowing space in yourself for the energy to exist. Notice where you are holding any tension in your body and release the tension.
The astrology of these times is creating tremendous uncertainty, and this we must learn to live with. At least with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries, the uncertainty will be laced with positive anticipation, rather than the uncertainty flavored with dread of the last few years.
Sleep
A note on sleep. When you can’t sleep, at least rest. Practice relaxation techniques while lying in bed to put your body into rest. Breathe deep, relax all tension in the body. Put yourself into restoring, receiving mode. Listen. Listen to your breath. Listen to all sounds around you. Receive the sounds as if energy coming into you with your deep breathing. Imagine every cell in your body on receiving, restoring mode and know that hanging out here is the next best thing to sleeping; you’re resting.
“It’s a mystery!”
One of the inspirational lines from the movies helps me in these times. I remember Geoffrey Rush’s role in the film Shakespear in Love. He was the producer and when one catastrophe after another threatened to stop the plays, like the theater being closed down the day before opening and when the cast would run to him and ask “How is this going to work out?” He would open his hands up in the air, tilt his head, shrug a little bit, grin and say, “It’s a mystery.” And somehow it did workout.
The oil gusher is the dark crude of our collective greed rising up out of the waters of our collective unconscious. Many people are reporting waking up with feelings of suffocation. We are not suffocating, but our oceans are. We need a new vision; there are dead canaries, and pelicans, all over the place. The hero’s have fallen. We’ve been waiting for Jesus, Buddha, The Pleidiens, the photon belt, Obama; somebody has got to save us, right? It is humanity itself that must rise up and save humanity. It is you and me and we.
As part of a new vision of our life on earth we could use a new definition of humility. Humility is not about self-denial, it is standing out of the way and allowing the divine to become successful through us. It is time to step outside of our fear and allow ourselves to rise up and meet the needs of these times. It is time for the complex of messiahs to step forward and become the custodians of life on this planet. It is our time. We are the people we’ve been waiting for.
To see how this historic planetary alignment impacts your individual birth chart, call us, or email, or order through Reflectingpond.com to arrange a personal astrological reading. You can also order David’s 60 minute audio recording of the collective impact of these times with the order form below.
Hear David’s predictions and what astrology has to say about the upcoming three months and what you can do to stay aligned with yourself and the world around you during this time. David deals with these issues at length in the Summer Solstice edition of the quarterly astrological recording, “Cycles and Seasons”, which will be coming out next week. This 60-minute recording covers the next three months as to the astrological influences impacting all of us, and answers such questions as: When is the best time to act? To pullback? To be cautious, or bold?
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We Are The People We’ve Been Waiting For
You know how it is with us astrologers, we’re always saying something big is about to happen. Well, something big is about to happen!
This summer is the most dramatic astrology we will experience in our lives; period. That being said, astrologers have been on the edge of their seats in anticipation of seeing how this will unfold; a bit like volcanologists gathering to a rumbling volcano. We’ve been in this build up and release since the fall of 2008 with the first passing of the Uranus opposite Saturn that has brought so much upheaval in its first four exact oppositions. This next event at the end of July promises to be considerably different than the first four for two reasons. First it is in a considerably more powerful alignment with other planets than before, and most importantly, the energy is shifting into cardinal signs. Cardinal signs are initiatory, ground breaking, and forward moving.
We want to be careful with too much prediction at this time. Prediction robs us of our power by assuming that future events are inevitable and out of our control; they are not. The events in the world are not happening to us, but from us. We are co-creators in the future of our own lives and the world around us and the choices we make now have considerable impact on the unfolding events.
Back in the 70’s Laurie and I lived with a commune in Hawaii. The leader of the group once said that psychiatrists labeled him as having a messiah complex because he believed it was his responsibility to care for every man, woman child, plant, and animal on the planet. His response, “I don’t have a messiah complex yet, not until everyone one of us awakens to our responsibility of taking care of all life on earth, then we will have a complex of messiahs.” Clever, but also a powerful message.
We have four children and 8 grand children and as all parents know; our children help us to become better people than we might otherwise be. We rise up and become wiser and stronger because of our children’s needs. If each of us rise up and take on the responsibility for all life around us, we will find the inner strength and wisdom we didn’t even know we had.
Apocalypse?
The word “Apocalypse” has been bantered about a great deal lately to describe the litany of crises we see confronting us. The original meaning of the word apocalypse is, disclosure of truth; lifting of the veil at the end of an age. Many have been duped into believing that we don’t belong here…here is not good. It is time we restore sacred awareness of self and planet.
Humanity is slowly lifting the veil that has kept us from the power of compassion. Compassion is such a sweet word, but there is also power in kindness as a way of life. The more that you resist in life, the more you firm up the battle against you. The more that you can accept, you grow in power. Caught in the quandary of either/or, options become limited.
Move towards synthesis thinking which rises above polarities and see a larger view that encompasses both. Don’t get locked into reactionary, polarity thinking with this type of astrology, you will just empower the opposing force.
Force yourself to “Lift the Veil” of separatist, lower chakra thinking and see things from your heart. If this seems too new agey, you are missing the power of the teaching. As we rise up in vibration from one chakra to the next, our world becomes more inclusive. We don’t separate from the lower chakras, we build on them. As we awaken to the power of our heart chakra, our world expands and the lower chakras come into balance. Lifting of the veil of separateness you enter into a synergistic rapport with life, and it all falls into place; life works. You attract support for your projects and endeavors.
Simply said, pull your mind out of whatever you are against and don’t like, and invest it into that which you do support. Pay attention to what you are paying attention to.
Saturn is the structure, the system, the shell that holds a family, business, government together. It brings cohesiveness and order in establishing the rules that work to hold it all together. Saturn is under siege right now by planets that are more powerful than itself, so the old structure, the shell has been cracking and with this upcoming transit, the shell is cracked wide open and humanity emerges to the next stage of its growth. Imagine a chick emerging from the once protective and now limiting shell. Imagine the flood of new information coming in! Sights and sounds and experiences that are wonders to behold for the chick just emerging out of the panic stage of busting out of the shell.
We’ve been gardening this spring and have started many plants by seed. It is something to watch a germinating seed burst open with new life. The shell of the seed once protected the dormant life within, but once it comes into life, the shell is burst open and cast aside as the sprout bursts forth.
This is where we are, new life will burst forth. The creative genius of the human spirit is awakening, and with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries, these two are rubbing their hands together in excited glee about the possibilities in the yet to be discovered future. Those who align with this emerging spirit of new possibilities will easily be able to burst through the old limiting shell and trust that emerging into the new world of possibilities is the way.
Uranus and Jupiter both together in Aries promise exciting breakthrough discoveries in many fields. The pioneering forward thinking Aries gives these two voices of growth plenty of fuel. This is genius like energy in the “can do” sign Aries. Politically the spirit is revolutionary, sweeping changes of social reform would be expected
A compassionate culture intervenes on the behalf of victims from predators. Of course there will be huge opposition as the Saturn opposition will not go down without a fight. There will be those that believe the egg shell needs to be repaired and made back into what it used to be. It’s a tough argument to win in the face of how much change, growth, evolution has occurred, but Saturn’s function is to resist change, and its voice will be heard, and with Pluto involved, the voice of resistance could get nasty, fueled by ancient hatreds and the like. With the Aries activity, the voice for individual rights is likely to get fueled. Aries after all, would ideally get to do what it wants, when and where it wants, unrestricted. So the government sanctions will get challenged by individual rights groups of various sorts.
We can just look at the astrology of these times and see that we would be very vulnerable to “spark plug mentality.” The mental energy builds but fires off at whatever it is frustrated about. The energy builds and fires, builds and fires. To sustain the mental energy, don’t let it fire off. Breathe deep into it, now accept it, and then direct it. The benefit of rising out of polarity thinking is sustained mental energy. It didn’t fire off and now can be directed and put to use.
Growing impatience with things that aren’t fair. In our individual lives, this rebellious awakening will likely get activated with issues of fairness. We’ll likely feel like we’ve just had it with things that aren’t fair and have very little patience in dealing with unjust individuals.
This will have a strong impact on all relationships with the awakened needs of the self not to be denied, and yet having to remain balanced within the needs of a relationship. Expect some renegotiation in your relationships as a renewed passion for your individual rights within your involvements with others will certainly demand more attention.
We are all being asked to sharpen our skills of negotiation. Negotiation doesn’t simply mean adapting to the demands of others, It means doing your best to bring honor and integrity into all of your dealings with others. It’s not wishing things were more fair, or even first walking away from that which isn’t. It is showing up to do what you can do, to be clever enough, diligent enough, patient and persistent enough to bring situations to what resonates as fair to you. And then if you can’t make a good agreement, don’t make a bad one! You are encouraged to be active in bringing about a fair agreement, but above all, you have to know how to avoid making bad agreements. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t!
Listen to your inner knowing, the little nudges of consciousness, and start responding to them as if they were guidance, and you’re sure to be on the high road. The Uranus/Jupiter in Aries piece promises to bring many illuminating sudden knowings into consciousness. And of course Saturn will tell you all the reasons you can’t do that! And thus it goes.
Saturn retrograde in Virgo till Jul 21st. Return to maintenance, get your world working and functional, take care of your health, get your car maintained, simplify, simplify, simplify. Plant a garden, get close to the earth. The earth belongs to those who take care of her.
Anxiety Symptoms. This quickened energy that these transits are bringing is showing up as anxiety symptoms for many, even those not prone to anxious feelings. The body is resonating with this quickened energy. Flushing, heating and burning sensations, twitches, sleep issues, racing anxious thoughts, and the like are being reported with way increased frequency. This is most unpleasant for those prone to these experiences.
Breath awareness is the first thing to check. Energy follows breath and when you are anxious, check your breath; it is most likely shallow and rapid, butterfly breath. When you are feeling anxious, first breath deep and slow. Do this first, and then see how you feel. As you breathe deep, picture yourself expanding with each breath, allowing space in yourself for the energy to exist. Notice where you are holding any tension in your body and release the tension.
The astrology of these times is creating tremendous uncertainty, and this we must learn to live with. At least with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries, the uncertainty will be laced with positive anticipation, rather than the uncertainty flavored with dread of the last few years.
Sleep
A note on sleep. When you can’t sleep, at least rest. Practice relaxation techniques while lying in bed to put your body into rest. Breathe deep, relax all tension in the body. Put yourself into restoring, receiving mode. Listen. Listen to your breath. Listen to all sounds around you. Receive the sounds as if energy coming into you with your deep breathing. Imagine every cell in your body on receiving, restoring mode and know that hanging out here is the next best thing to sleeping; you’re resting.
“It’s a mystery!”
One of the inspirational lines from the movies helps me in these times. I remember Geoffrey Rush’s role in the film Shakespear in Love. He was the producer and when one catastrophe after another threatened to stop the plays, like the theater being closed down the day before opening and when the cast would run to him and ask “How is this going to work out?” He would open his hands up in the air, tilt his head, shrug a little bit, grin and say, “It’s a mystery.” And somehow it did workout.
The oil gusher is the dark crude of our collective greed rising up out of the waters of our collective unconscious. Many people are reporting waking up with feelings of suffocation. We are not suffocating, but our oceans are. We need a new vision; there are dead canaries, and pelicans, all over the place. The hero’s have fallen. We’ve been waiting for Jesus, Buddha, The Pleidiens, the photon belt, Obama; somebody has got to save us, right? It is humanity itself that must rise up and save humanity. It is you and me and we.
As part of a new vision of our life on earth we could use a new definition of humility. Humility is not about self-denial, it is standing out of the way and allowing the divine to become successful through us. It is time to step outside of our fear and allow ourselves to rise up and meet the needs of these times. It is time for the complex of messiahs to step forward and become the custodians of life on this planet. It is our time. We are the people we’ve been waiting for.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Spring Equinox Astrology
Spring Equinox The Astrology for the next 3 months
Surf’s Up!
The astrology of this next season still presents the astrological equivalent of a high surf forecast, very big waves this spring, even bigger over the summer. However, we should start being able to make some progress forward with Mars having just gone direct and the Sun initiating quite a series of dynamic planetary activity in Aries this season. “In boldness there is genius, just begin,” a quote attributed to Goethe, is the epitome of Aries advice; just begin. There comes a time when all you can do is to move forward as best you can, just get on with it. While Mars has been retrograde the last few months, direct action has not been the correct action. Now at least we can go forward.
It takes boldness to act in these times; risk is everywhere, but standing still isn’t exactly on solid ground anyway, so act we must. We will see the 4th of 5 waves of the Uranus opposite Saturn transit in late April, and change definitely is still in the air. The experience of time will once again accelerate and with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries by June, change trumps resistance, and we can expect even the stalemate in congress to give way allowing social reforms. This is also excellent for personal breakthroughs and evolution.
Saturn in Libra tests our ability to stay balanced with opposing views. This principle of balancing polarities is exactly opposite the Aries impulse for spontaneous, self initiated activity, and both must be taken into consideration this season. One of my friends practices Aikido and says that one of its principles is to blend with opposing forces, rather than resist. Seems like good advice for all of us for the next few years. By allowing for polarities, a larger perspective emerges that encompasses both perspectives. Although it might sound ludicrous, it would probably be good homework for a liberal to watch a Fox News show, and a conservative to watch Keith Olbermann!
This would push the very buttons that Libra is about, the ability to handle opposing views and stay in balance. Not change your view or opinion, just allow the other to exist and remain unthreatened by it. Longfellow once said,” If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
This energy shift we are experiencing has many names, The Mayan Calendar, Pisces Age to Aquarius Age, a return of the Divine Feminine and the Cardinal Climax to name a few. 2012 is a code name for activation, ascension and access to more of the 85% of our brain we are not using. This period of time we are in is when the veil is lifted and we discover more of our true nature and our access to the Universal Mind via increased intuition.
From out of chaos a new order arises; trust in this we must. We are experiencing the very astrology that demonstrates this principle. Don’t cling to that which is falling apart, be part of the next wave. We are co-creators in all of this and it is not just happening to us. As we begin to know this to be true, it forces us to become more conscious in the way that we live our lives.
The shell is cracking. Those who can pull up out of fear do tremendous good in the world and become conduits for the new information that is getting in through the cracks. The choice is to attempt to patch the cracking shell, or trust the evolutionary intention behind all of this and allow the new information in.
Impact on Intuition: As the vibrational field around us quickens, along with nervousness and feelings of uncertainty, come flashes of insight, way increased intuition. Don’t just wish the anxious feelings away; breathe into them and like a surfer facing a huge wave, breathe deep and get on top of the wave. It would be futile to attempt to quiet the wave anyway.
The world and its resources once seemed so vast; it no longer does. The more we proactively get on board with conscious living, the less we are forced into that. Listen to the whispers, or listen to the shouts; we evolve kicking dragging and screaming, or more gracefully as conscious choice, but one way or another, this forces evolution. We are forced to deal with each other to solve our problems, the era of rugged individualism is over.
And this being forced to come together to resolve our issues is what activates the greater portion of the human potential, the 85% of our brain that lay dormant in the rugged individualism era. We’ve gone along with our autonomous, individual, 15% of our capacity mind, developing and becoming conscious of our individual role in the greater play we are part of, and now this astrology of critical mass is a crack in the cosmic egg that has held us in our limited individuality. Now is the time to let new information in.
We still need a powerful lot of hell to invoke a little bit of heaven. One way to get a clue as to the evolutionary intent behind a crisis is to look at the solutions that are called for. If the whole evolutionary intention behind a crisis is in the healing directions we are led to, why not move to the healing and solution directly without waiting for the prod of crisis?
Don’t be wallygaggin’ around with this type of astrology, use the tools you’ve been shown. This is high seas, big wave astrology and our rafts are so helpful. The rafts are your techniques that you’ve been shown already on your path. This is not a rehearsal test, this is the real deal and you’ve got to employ the tools you’ve been shown and then set about reinventing your life to live more closely to what your soul is craving.
As we awaken to the Heart Chakra, we rise up out of separate competitive roles, and realize we are all in each other’s best interest. We are the people we’ve been waiting for. Realize the importance of showing up for this moment in time and space that each of our souls have arranged for us. Those of you who have the skills for pulling up out of the fear of “the sky is falling” around you, by doing so, you activate the greater guidance that you seek. Heart first, the power of compassion awakens us to the information needed of how to alleviate the tremendous suffering on our beleaguered planet.
Pluto Square Saturn in the Spring equinox chart reveals corruption that has been going on beneath the surface, or where trust has been fractured. Sometimes in nature a limb on a tree gets damaged and in order to not threaten the tree, we remove the decaying limb. This is a time of making serious choices; does the limb stay, or can it be healed by rooting out the decay and letting new growth begin? Sometimes you deal with it to get it right, and sometimes you need to remove the limb, or the tooth, deck, investment, or partnership, that is not coming back. Negotiate as best you can, but be willing cut your losses if necessary. Don’t cut and run, negotiate and walk.
Neptune and Chiron both conjunct the United States Moon in March and throughout the year, while Saturn is sitting right at the peak of the US chart: It is time for our leaders to lead and make responsible choices and we will possibly see a decision on health care reform this very month. Chiron carries the mythology of the wounded healer and it is the perfect time for this historic decision to come about. With both of these planets in humanitarian, altruistic Aquarius, awakening the compassion of the public sentiment of the people represented by the Moon, it looks like the tide is at its best for reform in this fiercely fought battle.
Expect the health care issue to be resolved and the focus of Congress shifting to jobs and housing.
These transits over the US Moon could also have a healing effect on the divisiveness of what it is to be an American. Aquarius is Universal, and if nothing else, America is the melting pot of the planet. After all, what is an American? Every race, ethnic origin, religion, political view, or lack of is represented in “what is an American? We are a community made up of universal citizens. Our roots go everywhere on the planet. Perhaps these healing transits can inspire us to a larger vision of who we are as Americans, truly universal citizens, whose heritage is absolutely global in all respects. We have an opportunity to transcend our differences and step up to this larger vision of who we are and start from there: we are all in this together and must solve it together.
Ways to be with the energy
When the outer world is this unstable it is good advice to anchor yourself in that place within you that that is unchanging. Breathe. When you are anxious your breath is shallow; deepen your breath and expand what you can allow. Make your choices from there.
Let your voice be heard. The Saturn return in the US chart asks “who is responsible in a democracy” and ultimately that is each of us. Letters to your Congressman and women are still the one of the most effective ways of being heard. If you are blessed with vision, help us see beyond our fears and to connect with a greater vision of our collective future; what we can build and create together.
Go rogue. You can’t use the rules of understanding life from an old paradigm to understand a new paradigm. Be willing to be one of the fresh voices who offer the innovative ideas we need to move forward. This is the time for the new teachers, mythmakers and storytellers to step forward.
Take part in something worthy, your vision of what it would take to become a more compassionate culture with any and all acts of kindness and compassion.
Allow yourself to feel the chaos of the times and the breaking down of old structures that no longer serve you in your life. Allow collective DNA deconditioning to occur so that the collective DNA reprogramming can occur.
You can’t move forward where there is mistrust. Repair it or dissolve it, but don’t let it foul your undertakings. Wherever you can, create a safety net of trust in family, work place, and government. You will certainly see where it isn’t.
Autocratic, top down leadership is giving way to team building. It is not just what we do, it is how we do it together, the cooperation sets up greater intuition. All that connects you with others furthers; all that separates stands in the way.
Fighting for the survival of people who can’t fight for themselves is a way to employ this intense astrology. This is a struggle for survival time for many, and if fate has spared you this battle, help those who haven’t been as fortunate, and here the list goes on and on. This is all hands on deck, if you have skills and resources, they are needed somewhere.
Plant a garden.
Happy Spring,
David
Surf’s Up!
The astrology of this next season still presents the astrological equivalent of a high surf forecast, very big waves this spring, even bigger over the summer. However, we should start being able to make some progress forward with Mars having just gone direct and the Sun initiating quite a series of dynamic planetary activity in Aries this season. “In boldness there is genius, just begin,” a quote attributed to Goethe, is the epitome of Aries advice; just begin. There comes a time when all you can do is to move forward as best you can, just get on with it. While Mars has been retrograde the last few months, direct action has not been the correct action. Now at least we can go forward.
It takes boldness to act in these times; risk is everywhere, but standing still isn’t exactly on solid ground anyway, so act we must. We will see the 4th of 5 waves of the Uranus opposite Saturn transit in late April, and change definitely is still in the air. The experience of time will once again accelerate and with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries by June, change trumps resistance, and we can expect even the stalemate in congress to give way allowing social reforms. This is also excellent for personal breakthroughs and evolution.
Saturn in Libra tests our ability to stay balanced with opposing views. This principle of balancing polarities is exactly opposite the Aries impulse for spontaneous, self initiated activity, and both must be taken into consideration this season. One of my friends practices Aikido and says that one of its principles is to blend with opposing forces, rather than resist. Seems like good advice for all of us for the next few years. By allowing for polarities, a larger perspective emerges that encompasses both perspectives. Although it might sound ludicrous, it would probably be good homework for a liberal to watch a Fox News show, and a conservative to watch Keith Olbermann!
This would push the very buttons that Libra is about, the ability to handle opposing views and stay in balance. Not change your view or opinion, just allow the other to exist and remain unthreatened by it. Longfellow once said,” If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
This energy shift we are experiencing has many names, The Mayan Calendar, Pisces Age to Aquarius Age, a return of the Divine Feminine and the Cardinal Climax to name a few. 2012 is a code name for activation, ascension and access to more of the 85% of our brain we are not using. This period of time we are in is when the veil is lifted and we discover more of our true nature and our access to the Universal Mind via increased intuition.
From out of chaos a new order arises; trust in this we must. We are experiencing the very astrology that demonstrates this principle. Don’t cling to that which is falling apart, be part of the next wave. We are co-creators in all of this and it is not just happening to us. As we begin to know this to be true, it forces us to become more conscious in the way that we live our lives.
The shell is cracking. Those who can pull up out of fear do tremendous good in the world and become conduits for the new information that is getting in through the cracks. The choice is to attempt to patch the cracking shell, or trust the evolutionary intention behind all of this and allow the new information in.
Impact on Intuition: As the vibrational field around us quickens, along with nervousness and feelings of uncertainty, come flashes of insight, way increased intuition. Don’t just wish the anxious feelings away; breathe into them and like a surfer facing a huge wave, breathe deep and get on top of the wave. It would be futile to attempt to quiet the wave anyway.
The world and its resources once seemed so vast; it no longer does. The more we proactively get on board with conscious living, the less we are forced into that. Listen to the whispers, or listen to the shouts; we evolve kicking dragging and screaming, or more gracefully as conscious choice, but one way or another, this forces evolution. We are forced to deal with each other to solve our problems, the era of rugged individualism is over.
And this being forced to come together to resolve our issues is what activates the greater portion of the human potential, the 85% of our brain that lay dormant in the rugged individualism era. We’ve gone along with our autonomous, individual, 15% of our capacity mind, developing and becoming conscious of our individual role in the greater play we are part of, and now this astrology of critical mass is a crack in the cosmic egg that has held us in our limited individuality. Now is the time to let new information in.
We still need a powerful lot of hell to invoke a little bit of heaven. One way to get a clue as to the evolutionary intent behind a crisis is to look at the solutions that are called for. If the whole evolutionary intention behind a crisis is in the healing directions we are led to, why not move to the healing and solution directly without waiting for the prod of crisis?
Don’t be wallygaggin’ around with this type of astrology, use the tools you’ve been shown. This is high seas, big wave astrology and our rafts are so helpful. The rafts are your techniques that you’ve been shown already on your path. This is not a rehearsal test, this is the real deal and you’ve got to employ the tools you’ve been shown and then set about reinventing your life to live more closely to what your soul is craving.
As we awaken to the Heart Chakra, we rise up out of separate competitive roles, and realize we are all in each other’s best interest. We are the people we’ve been waiting for. Realize the importance of showing up for this moment in time and space that each of our souls have arranged for us. Those of you who have the skills for pulling up out of the fear of “the sky is falling” around you, by doing so, you activate the greater guidance that you seek. Heart first, the power of compassion awakens us to the information needed of how to alleviate the tremendous suffering on our beleaguered planet.
Pluto Square Saturn in the Spring equinox chart reveals corruption that has been going on beneath the surface, or where trust has been fractured. Sometimes in nature a limb on a tree gets damaged and in order to not threaten the tree, we remove the decaying limb. This is a time of making serious choices; does the limb stay, or can it be healed by rooting out the decay and letting new growth begin? Sometimes you deal with it to get it right, and sometimes you need to remove the limb, or the tooth, deck, investment, or partnership, that is not coming back. Negotiate as best you can, but be willing cut your losses if necessary. Don’t cut and run, negotiate and walk.
Neptune and Chiron both conjunct the United States Moon in March and throughout the year, while Saturn is sitting right at the peak of the US chart: It is time for our leaders to lead and make responsible choices and we will possibly see a decision on health care reform this very month. Chiron carries the mythology of the wounded healer and it is the perfect time for this historic decision to come about. With both of these planets in humanitarian, altruistic Aquarius, awakening the compassion of the public sentiment of the people represented by the Moon, it looks like the tide is at its best for reform in this fiercely fought battle.
Expect the health care issue to be resolved and the focus of Congress shifting to jobs and housing.
These transits over the US Moon could also have a healing effect on the divisiveness of what it is to be an American. Aquarius is Universal, and if nothing else, America is the melting pot of the planet. After all, what is an American? Every race, ethnic origin, religion, political view, or lack of is represented in “what is an American? We are a community made up of universal citizens. Our roots go everywhere on the planet. Perhaps these healing transits can inspire us to a larger vision of who we are as Americans, truly universal citizens, whose heritage is absolutely global in all respects. We have an opportunity to transcend our differences and step up to this larger vision of who we are and start from there: we are all in this together and must solve it together.
Ways to be with the energy
When the outer world is this unstable it is good advice to anchor yourself in that place within you that that is unchanging. Breathe. When you are anxious your breath is shallow; deepen your breath and expand what you can allow. Make your choices from there.
Let your voice be heard. The Saturn return in the US chart asks “who is responsible in a democracy” and ultimately that is each of us. Letters to your Congressman and women are still the one of the most effective ways of being heard. If you are blessed with vision, help us see beyond our fears and to connect with a greater vision of our collective future; what we can build and create together.
Go rogue. You can’t use the rules of understanding life from an old paradigm to understand a new paradigm. Be willing to be one of the fresh voices who offer the innovative ideas we need to move forward. This is the time for the new teachers, mythmakers and storytellers to step forward.
Take part in something worthy, your vision of what it would take to become a more compassionate culture with any and all acts of kindness and compassion.
Allow yourself to feel the chaos of the times and the breaking down of old structures that no longer serve you in your life. Allow collective DNA deconditioning to occur so that the collective DNA reprogramming can occur.
You can’t move forward where there is mistrust. Repair it or dissolve it, but don’t let it foul your undertakings. Wherever you can, create a safety net of trust in family, work place, and government. You will certainly see where it isn’t.
Autocratic, top down leadership is giving way to team building. It is not just what we do, it is how we do it together, the cooperation sets up greater intuition. All that connects you with others furthers; all that separates stands in the way.
Fighting for the survival of people who can’t fight for themselves is a way to employ this intense astrology. This is a struggle for survival time for many, and if fate has spared you this battle, help those who haven’t been as fortunate, and here the list goes on and on. This is all hands on deck, if you have skills and resources, they are needed somewhere.
Plant a garden.
Happy Spring,
David
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