Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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February gives birth to our awakening in a deeper appreciation of our value. The Sun illuminating our individuality and Venus weighing what we value are in the sign of Aquarius, the water bearer and great awakener. Together, the Sun and Venus are pointing a celestial finger to originality and innovation as the keys to unlocking our appreciation of our value and guiding us in using our personal resources to achieve our goals. The Sun in Aquarius is challenging each of us to become more conscious of our individual contribution to humanity. Venus in Aquarius is encouraging each of us to appreciate our value and the unique gift our individual life is contributing to humanity. Human consciousness, including our personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, embodies every thought, feeling, and action of humankind, and as such, our every thought, feeling, and action is contained within. Whether we are enriching, polluting, or something between, our individual contribution to life continually gives form to humanity and the experience of being human. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
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January ends and February begins under the illuminating light of a Full Moon bathing the Earth in a misty glow of rebellion. The Moon in Leo opposing the Sun in Aquarius proudly announces the potential fulfillment of a seed planted at the Solar Eclipse when the Sun and Moon conjoined in Capricorn. The astrology I practice is seeking to understand the significance of human experience, and one path to that understanding is our seeing every moment of life as a seed moment carrying our potential flowering while remaining aware that nothing is guaranteed without our conscious awareness of making it so. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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With each passage of the Earth through Aquarius we are given the promise of new life if we are willing to receive the celestial gift of insight, and looking at our interior world with crystal clarity break free from censoring our self-creativity. Each winter as the Earth passes through Aquarius the advancing light of day awakens the promise of new earthly life mirroring a new life in our conscious awareness. Each of us has something uniquely our own to give to humanity and when we are under the influence of an Aquarius Sun our individuality is infused with fresh and daring originality. Aquarius, the archetype of the awakener is teaching us the wisdom to receive what life has to give. Perhaps the most precious gift that we receive from life is the gift of our true self discovered living outside the predictable box of social expectation, inscription, and confirmation. Aquarius is that aspect in each of us seeking security in knowledge making it difficult for us to let go of what we know about ourself, but letting go of what we know about who we are is essential in order for something new, something never before imagined, to grow within our heart. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, January 18th, 2010
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Taking leave of the crystal waters of Aquarius nourishing our intellectual inquiring Jupiter entered the oceanic waters of Pisces expanding our compassionate awareness of Life. The year that Jupiter sojourns in Pisces is a significant year sensitizing our feelings of interconnectedness with the source of Life. Any time a planet enters a new sign human consciousness shifts gears re-directing conscious awareness to the archetypal concerns of that sign. In Pisces our conscious awareness dances in the arms of the mystic, the poet, the healer, and the dreamer. When we are under the influence of Pisces our imagination is as deep as the ocean floor and as vast as the universe. When Jupiter is in Pisces our imagination soars beyond our wildest dreaming, and challenging the comfort- zone of our day to day rational, circumscribed living, we take a magnificent leap into the great unknown sensing that we are a part of something much greater than ourself. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
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My mind of late has been wrapped- round my “worldly life.” The blurred edges and soft focusing of my familiar place in the world has suddenly sharpened and the stark relief of seeing “what is” has left me rather stunned. I neither expected to sever the tenuous cord attaching me to my mother- ship, the sacred vessel of my sorrows, nor to float free from the burdens of my past, but on January 13, two days before the Sun and Moon conjoined in Capricorn near enough the Moon’s nodes to reflect a Solar Eclipse, and Mercury our cosmic messenger stationed direct, I was given the gift of sight seeing clearly the heavy imprint of my past upon my present and the irrefutable evidence of my participation in creating the life that I am living. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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When we have the sensitivity to listen one of the gifts of astrology is hearing the breath of the cosmos dancing in our ear whispering a gentle truth. I was given just such a gift yesterday from two unrelated sources each offering a passionate plea for the life force of change. The first, came from an astrologer born under the illumination of a Cancer Full Moon, the Moon in Capricorn, reminding me of the inevitable changes in our perception of our home when we are under the nurturing influence of Cancer. And the second came from a dear friend born when Venus was conjoined Jupiter in Cancer sharing with me his personal discovery that change is the very essence of our life force and that without making changes within ourself we whither and die becoming an animated corpse awakening each new day void of life. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak. I call you – are you there? I have returned. I am here again. I have shaken the dust off all lands from my feet, and I have come to you. I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced and drunk in? Or do you want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.” * Recent events in my life have turned my head around and I now find myself walking forward looking backward reflecting on the life I lived fourteen years ago. At that time Saturn was transiting my natal fourth house, now in 2010, perky in my tenth and approaching a second Saturn return, Saturn challenges me to consider more deeply the source of my origin. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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A devil -may -care attitude permeates a New Moon in Sagittarius pricking our hearts with a well aimed arrow we feel expansive and exuberant daring to express our feelings in a new way. Last month, under the guidance of the Scorpio New Moon, we penetrated the dark emotion of fear and discovered a rich vein of regenerative energy that helped us heal an emotional wound from our past. Now that we are a little more forgiving of our past and hopefully a lot more accepting of our feelings the Sagittarius New Moon provides a fresh view of both. The Sagittarius New Moon is always the last lunar cycle of the year suggesting that as the year ends so too our patterns of behavior that have prevented us from feeling safe, secure, and comfortable in our own skin. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
“We stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations – The Earth Charter.”* Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Wisdom is knowing in depth the great metaphors of meaning. G.C. Jung
Falling light shrouds Sagittarius with mystery and wonder pricking our curiosity to reach beyond what is familiar and ordinary in our life. Our Earth, in its annual orbit around the Sun, has entered Sagittarius encouraging our leap of faith to free fall into the arms of the unknown. Each year at this time the nights are longer than the days freeing our mind from daylight activities to ponder the complexities and significance of human existence. When we are under the influence of Sagittarius we are more visionary than romantic, our body, mind, and spirit scratching an inner itch to grow and expand our understanding of ourself and our place in the Universe. Read the rest of this entry »
