Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
I thought the passage below wise council, apropos two encroaching eclipses bathed in the nurturing womb of Cancer, reminding us that our clinging to the past prevents our awakening to spiritual awareness in the present. Uranus, that aspect in each of us that demands radical freedom from preconceived notions from our past informing our present, stationed Rx yesterday insuring that something unexpected is about to take flight within each of us. When we on Earth experience an eclipse the Sun and Moon are close to the lunar nodes, and I cannot think of a better evocation of the Leo-Aquarius nodal axis than,“the flame of awareness.”
“Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all thought, for thought and feeling dissipate energy. They are repetitive, producing mechanical activities which are a necessary part of existence. But they are only part, and thought and feeling cannot possibly enter into the immensity of life. Quite a different approach is necessary, not the path of habit, association and the known; there must be freedom from these. Meditation is the emptying of the mind of the known. It cannot be done by thought or by the hidden prompting of thought, nor by desire in the form of prayer, nor through the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes, and vanities. All these have to come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness.” *
*J.Krishnamurti
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
The first day of July gives birth to a frisky family of “wandering stars” bracketed between a Mercurial transit to Neptune trine the first day and opposing near the last. We begin the month communicating our visionary ideals with increasing awareness and end the month in creative negotiation and compromise by merging our idealism with our pragmatism. Made all the more electrifying by two erupting eclipses during the month and a third accompanying the next. Mercury is at the ending degrees of Gemini making a lovely trine to Neptune then Jupiter sparking our creative imagination to expand beyond the familiar and envision our “global family” as one. The Moon in Scorpio is approaching a waxing trine with the Sun in Cancer emphasizing our emotional need to feel that we belong with those whom we call family. Together Sun and Moon bring us a sense of future fulfillment if we nurture our life vitality with a creative investigation of our inherited past and deepen our relationship with ourself and others. The big gun for the day is Uranus stationing Rx giving the universal principle of “boundless freedom” a radical rotation shifting our focus from an external to an internal viewing of humanity that can induce innovative changes in our compassion, empathy, and universal understanding. Venus in Taurus square Neptune in Aquarius is asking us to evaluate personal resources that are contributing to our attitudes about humanity, spirituality, and global consciousness. If we are truly interested in breaking free from past dogmas, this is a month when we can dissolve the boundaries of reality that are preventing us from collectively attracting abundance for our global family. Our only hesitation is our fear of scarcity and change.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
The Summer Solstice, New Moon in Cancer, Venus and Mars conjoined in the sign of the Moon’s exaltation, Taurus, and the penetrating insights offered Pluto in Capricorn*, having first been opposed by the Moon sits today opposite the Sun, conspire to inspire me to share with my extended astrology family the lucid imagining of the boundless potential of our unfolding consciousness from the perspective of the unfathomable depths of our unconscious.
“If it were possible to personify the unconscious, we might think of it as a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes, transcending youth and age, birth and death, and, from having at its command a human experience of one or two million years, practically immortal. If such a being existed, it would be exalted above all temporal change; the present would mean neither more nor less to it than any year in the hundredth millennium before Christ; it would be a dreamer of age-old dreams and, owing its immeasurable experience, an incomparable prognosticator. It would have lived countless times over again the life of the individual, the family, the tribe, and the nation, and it would possess a living sense of the rhythm of growth, flowering, and decaying.” C.G. Jung
* for additional insights into Pluto’s full potential this Summer Solstice I direct your attention to the comments left by astrologer, Alexander Zoltai on my last post A Ripple On A Pond.
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
A new Moon, a new birth, a new beginning and so it goes each month as the potential for a deeper self-awareness unfolds in the cyclical dancing of Sun and Moon. This month the New Moon is reflecting the sign of Cancer, natural home of the Moon entwining sentiment and romance of the family, guaranteeing an introspective journey down into the depths of our roots. For many astrologers the Moon embodies the soul; that essence with which we sense the eternal within ourself embedded within the collective unconscious of Jung, imbued with the collective inheriting of our species, and enduring the inevitable eliminating of our physical body. The constancy of the Moon notoriously shifting shape, casting long shadows, puppeteering light and dark insures the gentle pulling of change. When the Moon is in Cancer we can feel a sentimental pulling of the past, and feeling encrusted in the certainty of our memories and reticent to venture outside the comfort of our internal home our fear of the unfamiliar, the unfamily, can assume unfathomable proportion. However, this is the ghost of our inherited past imprinting upon our present, and the new birth in conscious awareness promised by the Sun in Cancer delivers this month an auspicious opportunity to shine the golden light of our nourishing care and protection upon ourself and others. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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Today, planet Earth has entered the celestial sign of Cancer and the Sun, having swallowed night nibble by nibble since the first day of spring, stands still triumphant in glory the longest day of the year. Each year, when our Earth reaches the ecliptic at 00 Cancer those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the solar promiscuity of Summer Solstice splashing our naked flesh with incandescent rays slithering across our skin like golden honey unleashing the spirit of Dionysus within. Hedonism rising with the zenith of our solar vitality we stand stilled by the Sun mesmerized by the prodigious powers of a miraculous living spirit mysteriously incarnate in matter bedazzled that it is ” I “. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, June 19th, 2009
In anticipation of our Earth leaving the shape-shifting-musing of Gemini, entering the enduring family of humankind in Cancer, and dancing in celestial syncopation with Venus and Mars fused as one in the earthly delights of Taurus I thought to share with you this evocative telling of the incarnating of spirit into matter.
“Zeus stretched out on Semele’s bed in the form of a bull with human limbs. Then he was a panther. Then a young man with vine shoots in his curls. Finally he settled into that most perfect of shapes: the serpent. Zeus prolonged their union like some story without end, a rehearsal of the life of the god about to be generated. The snake slithered over Semele’s trembling body and gently licked her neck. Then, gripping her bust in one of his coils, wrapping her breasts in a scaly sash, he sprinkled her not with poison but with liquid honey. The snake was pressing his mouth against Semele’s mouth, a dribble of nectar trickling down onto her lips intoxicated her, and all the while vine leaves were sprouting up on the bed and there was a sound of drums beating in the darkness. The earth laughed. Dionysus was conceived just as Zeus shouted the name with which for centuries he was to be evoked: “Evoe!’”
Roberto Calasso The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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This week we are under the guiding influence of the waning phase of the Gemini lunation cycle gently turning our conscious awareness toward introspective self-reflection. Each waning phase of every monthly lunation cycle necessitates a time when we integrate the external activities of the preceding three weeks by ingesting the illumination of the Full Moon in anticipation of sharing our acquired insights with others. This waning Moon is in Pisces square the Sun in Gemini and if we consider the elemental marriage of water and air we quickly realize the inherent conflict reflected in this waning Moon: how to integrate an open, spacious self with the unfathomable depths of our psyche without drowning the one and disconnecting from the other? Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, June 15th, 2009
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I was reminded the other day during an astrology session with a client that the infinite wisdom of the Cosmos abounds when we listen with a delicate ear hearing the faint echoing of synchronicity at play. At the time of the session I was experiencing transiting Mars square my natal Sun making the exact natal aspect that so loudly resonated in the birth chart of my client; I found myself experiencing in present time what my client had experienced in birth time, namely a crisis in self-actualization, which manifested in my feeling unable to provide insight and understanding to my client. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
In the spirit of an expansive Jupiter and visionary Neptune conjoining in Aquarius for the first time since 1843, and poised exactly opposite my natal Mercury in Leo in the ninth house, I will post from time to time exquisite excepts of “poetic illuminations and mystical philosophies” affirming the palpable existence of the infinite wisdom of the Cosmos awakening within a uniquely individual knowing of the Oneness of Life.
“Looking back on my own experiences they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribe some metaphysical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity. Not only do they, as contrasted species, belong to one and the same genus, but one of the species, the nobler and better one, is itself the genus, and so soaks up and absorbs its opposite into itself. This is a dark saying, I know, when thus expressed in terms of common logic, but I cannot wholly escape from its authority. I feel as if it must mean something……Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.” James Joyce was born at the time of a Jupiter -Neptune conjoining in Taurus trine Uranus in Virgo, and wrote the above passage, an excerpt from Varieties, at the time of a Uranus-Neptune opposition.
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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“Almost wholly unappreciated is the magnitude of the force that will be generated by the achievement of unity, an influence “so powerful,” in Bahá’u'lláh’s words, “that it can illuminate the whole Earth.”*
For many of us on Earth last Friday was a bit rough and tumble as those aspects of ourself that we have invested with consolidating our emotional security, Moon in Scorpio, and distributing our wealth of ideas, Mercury in Taurus, opposed one another challenging the fixed signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, to negotiate a harmonious balance between differences of opinion, which a discerning eye might readily discover as a mere shading of perceptual tone. What complicated matters even more was that the Sun in Gemini and Saturn in Virgo made an exact square in tandem with the Moon and Mercury opposition, challenging the mutable signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces to take notice of crystallized thought patterns and stagnant boundaries of conditioned thinking that are preventing a fresh perspective of our view of reality. Gathering a fresh perspective seems very much in the mind and heart of the current celestial transits noting that the last aspect the Scorpio Moon made before engendering the lush ripening of the Full Moon was a square to Jupiter in Aquarius amplifying the possibility of a radical shift in our perception requiring objectivity coupled with self-honesty. Read the rest of this entry »
