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THE ART OF AWARENESS

Tag: Neptune

A Celestial Conundrum

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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 »

Joyce Looking Back

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.