Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
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At the Vernal Equinox the Earth orbiting the Sun along the ecliptic passes through 00 Aries infusing our individuality with new potential and new vitality. In the northern hemisphere this passage of time through space garners the season of Spring when new vegetation reaches toward the Sun, young buds dapple the branches of trees, and Aries, that aspect of ourself poised for action, pulls us out of the collective waters of Pisces and ignites our impulse to become uniquely ourself separate and distinct from all others. At the Vernal Equinox day and night are of equal measure bringing an equilibrium to opposing forces that insures us a harmonious and balanced entry into a new cycle of growth. When we are under the influence of Aries our desire to be is on the horizon beckoning our attention toward self-exploration. Libra, the sign opposite Aries, is that aspect in each of us striving for harmony and balance within ourself by attending to our relationships outside ourself. For this reason, both equinoxes, Aries in the Spring and Libra in the Fall, ask us to consider our relationships with equality. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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The New Moon in Pisces always brings a potential healing to the collective feelings of humanity by dissolving our deceptive illusion of separateness. Pisces, like the rising and receding ocean tide, is that aspect in human consciousness re-shaping the forms we create by gently eroding our thoughts and feelings. The New Moon in Pisces foretells of a new beginning at the Equinox on March 20, as well as, of the birth of a new aspect of our unconscious motivation coming into conscious light. When we are under the influence of Pisces our compassion is as deep as the ocean and our imagination as boundless as the intelligence of our Universe. For this reason, a Pisces New Moon often beckons our discontent with the limitations of the material world, and sensing as we do that an unnameable mystery awaits we yearn to be free. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” Oscar Wilde
“For all the boring interpretations which have been allotted the sixth house, in reality it is the single most important area of the chart, where one can materialize one’s inner worth.” * Virgo, the natural sign of the sixth house is that aspect in each of us striving for a completeness, an inner wholeness that no one else can possibly fulfill for us. The first six houses, Aries through Virgo, are houses of personal self- discovery where our impulse to “be” in Aries takes form through our possessions in Taurus, our communication in Gemini, our emotional security in Cancer, our creative self expression in Leo, and our becoming that which only we can “be” in Virgo. In the words of Jodie and Steven Forrest, “Virgo looks inward, finding some aspect of herself that can be polished brightly and offered to the world.” When we are under the influence of Virgo we are the “worker bees” of the zodiac attaining the highest, most perfected levels of our potential in service with others. The bright face of Virgo awakens our mind to the value of our inner worth, while the dark face of Virgo, our ruthless self-criticism, cripples our capacity to appreciate our inner worth and stifles our ability to creatively participate in making the life that we want. Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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Every year, the Earth on its annual orbit around the Sun passes through the sign of Pisces giving us the opportunity to complete a cycle of self-discovery that we began with the birth of spring and the celestial impulse of Aries to become. When the Sun enters Pisces the annual cycle of the seasons is ending and with it beckoning a time when we surrender an aspect of ourself back to the collective waters of the feeling nature of humanity. Pisces is that aspect in each of us yearning for union with the source and succor of our origin. So inspired we dive into the oceanic waters of “oneness” relinquishing an aspect of our individuality and merge a drop of our consciousness with the totality of human consciousness. The guiding tenet of astrology is that all of life, from the micro to the macro, is governed by the same universal principles; As Above, So Below. In keeping with the Buddhist teaching that a drop of the ocean contains the entire ocean, a drop of our consciousness contains the entirety of human consciousness, which in turn, is a drop containing the totality of a universal principle permeating all of life. When we are under the influence of Pisces we intuitively understand that there is no separation, division, or isolation of our individuality from the totality of Life. In our daily rhythm of living Pisces guides our understanding that we have more in common with myriad forms of life in our world than ignorance, fundamentalism, racism, bigotry, or our personal prejudices would have us believe. When we are feeling washed adrift under the influence of Pisces, boundaries dissolving, chaos abounding, it is important remembering that Pisces is that aspect in each of us a true believer. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted……honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering.” *
On February 17 Chiron in Aquarius conjoined Neptune fostering, in the words of astrologer Melanie Reinhart **, healing illusion and awakening compassion. Chiron, the archetype of the wounded healer, is the aspect in human consciousness aware of a wounding to humanity that pricks at the flaws, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities of being human. When we are under the influence of Chiron our aspirations for immortality are brought down to earth where we discover a wounding to our mortality; our illusion of being separate and apart from the life we are creating. Chiron is that aspect in each of us painfully aware of our human limitations and imperfections. Under the influence of Chiron we are seeking a holistic healing of our body, mind, and spirit, and in striving for our inner wholeness we eventually discover self-acceptance. Being human requires enduring a psychological Achilles Heal usually caused by rejecting an unwanted aspect of ourself society has labeled maladaptive, a social misfit, and because we fear social ostracizing we conform swallowing our self-betrayal and along with it our potential for creative self-fulfillment. Our mind often comprehends through a distorted reflection and what we reject about ourself is what we fear most about others and unwittingly encourage punitive action repressing the nurturing of our unique creativity. The grace of Chiron in Aquarius teaches us that healing a wounding to humanity requires nourishing our individuality in appreciation for the distinct beauty our multi- faceted- Self contributes to the collective whole of humanity. The conjoining of Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius is dissolving our mental barriers and perceptual boundaries that have inhibited our deeper acceptance of our imperfections, our unruly social misfits, our all-to human frailty and vulnerability that are the threads of our common humanity. Those of us living with a strong influence of Aquarius in our psyche adamantly refuse to change when pressured to do so by external forces. Always with Aquarius change comes from within and this transit of Chiron and Neptune is our celestial calling to fulfill our creative potential from inside out.
*Martin Luther King, Strength To Love
** I enthusiastically recommend visiting the website of Melanie Reinhart and reading her wisdom directly. I discovered the quote by Dr. King in her book, Chiron And The Healing Journey, a book of poetic prose that never fails to bring me new insight with every reading.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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If your heart is opening and you are feeling a rush of tenderness and care for the vulnerability of life and the fragility of human love you are definitely receiving the celestial gift of Venus in Pisces. When under the influence of Venus our thoughts turn to love, relationship, and what we value most in life. When Venus is in Pisces we may love the glamor and romance of being in love but what we value most is our love for the oneness of life. Pisces is that aspect in each of us so deeply sensitive and porous to the needs of others that we willingly sacrifice our own, without rational thought or care of consequence, for theirs. There is always a fine delicacy under the gaze of Pisces exuding a subtle aura of other-worldliness offering another dimension of existence that defies material form and ego gratification. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
