New Moon in Aquarius, January 23, 2012 2:40 am EDT
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New Moon in Aquarius, this is a time when we are looking to the future, and wondering how to make the best use of this New Year. It’s also the beginning of the Chinese New year, the year of the Dragon. Gong Xi Fa Ca! Wishing you prosperity! (In Mandarin). The dragon is a strong sign and those born under it are said to have abundant and lucky lives. We all could use a little of that!
Between now and the next lunation on February 21, we have Mars going retrograde tomorrow, and Saturn going retrograde February 8th. So we have the opportunity to settle into the energies of Aquarius (groups, an interest in others and the greater good, brilliance) and look at the ways in which we operate, our motivations and the unconscious drives that keep us in particular behaviors. Stemming from these behaviors, what keeps us stuck and prevents us from moving forward to join with others in creating a better outcome for ourselves, and our world? This is what we are going to be looking at in this report.
So first of all, Aquarius moon asks us to set intentions for the month based in ideas like, using innovation, looking underneath things to see how they work, long range planning, and creating a plan that is based in operating from a larger world view. So it’s time to shake out the sand and get involved with others to create something new. How do you connect to and create community? How to you participate in philanthropy, even in very small ways? Do you volunteer you time anywhere? What is the state of your friendships with others? What steps are you going to take to manifest your dreams, even in little ways? Take some time today to write up to 10 intentions for you self based on these ideas.
The chart for this lunation’s energy comes with this message – KEEP STRONG. We still have a slowing influence, which will feel a bit disconnected emotionally. Use your power of visualization, and positive thought to move things along. We have the energy available to heal depravational thinking, to transform ideas about financial insecurity. What makes you feel secure? How can you invest in your life so that you can feel more secure, and be able to take more risks? How are you going to feel more comfortable in a changing world? If you look at these things now, and take steps to address them, you will find it easier to deal with the change that awaits later in the year. So really take the time to do this now.
We also need to take a look at money and ideas of prosperity and abundance. I am going to focus on this topic for this entire year, as I think we all need the support to make gentle shifts, and sometimes radical, shifts in this area. Despite a lot of intermittent difficulties, this is going to be a good year. So let’s delve right into it.
After answering last month’s questions about questions about work and transforming the negatives into positives, what systems have you put in place? How does it feel to have an idea of what makes you tick around your connection to work and structure? We are still in that mode of structure, but this month it takes a focus on how to make those structures practical and enduring. Setting up savings accounts, even with $10 in it is one example of anticipating that you will be able to begin saving again. Writing down what you are spending so that you can construct a financial picture for yourself of how you use money is another example of this. Creating working spending plan and worksheets that record your spending habits is another thing you can do to make yourself more aware of your spending ideas. Sometimes our ideas of what we are spending are disconnected from the realities of our spending, so take a look. It will be educational.
To prepare us to take more control we are presented with the perfect chart to take a look at our relationship to money and security. Here are some questions to think about:
- How does your concept of spirituality mesh with your ideas about money?
- Where does money really come from? It’s time to explore your connection to the divine and whether or not you are trusting that source to provide for you
- Do you trust the divine source at all? How have your concepts of the Divine shifted over the past year as the world has experienced much hardship?
- How did we handle unexpected expenses and did we ask others for help?
- Are we committed to looking deeply at our behaviors around success and progress, as well as what sabotages us, and take corrective measures?
- What spiritual practice will you commit to this year that incorporates taking a spiritual look at money? Even the idea of blessing your bank account, as well as the bills you pay, is a spiritual act. How can you take this deeper?
The transcendental in our lives needs attention. As we take steps to address this, we will see that our spiritual practices will feed our spirit and open our hearts to abundance. We need only point our mind there and we will feel the shift.
Another thing to take a look at this month is building a strong support system.
- Who guides and supports you? Who do you turn to when you need to see the good in yourself and your situation? Having a core group of friends, mentors and advisors helps you go further than striking out alone.
- What kind of toolbox do you rely on to keep yourself strong? How to you keep yourself aligned with your higher self? Do you journal, write letters to God or pray on a regular basis? Add one or more to your day.
- Are you taking time for yourself to connect with nature? There are all kinds of messages out there when you take the time to connect to the earth. Just yesterday I saw a Coopers Hawk in my backyard…in Brooklyn. And the fresh snow in the ground was so nice to look at and reminded me to slow down. Taking note of the nature around you will keep you centered, grounded and in the flow of things, and is very easy to notice, even in the city.
- Are you too busy to have time for yourself to reflect? You want to build that time into your schedule so that you can keep yourself nourished and replenished; we really need that right now.
So folks, do the work now so that you can go with the flow that starts with the Spring Equinox. By work I mean, getting in touch with what you need to work on spiritually and structurally in your lives now, especially around the idea of opening to prosperity, will put you in the right place to receive that abundance when things shake loose later on in the year. Setting up structures in your business, or in your work will help, especially if it is learning a new technology. Streamlining is important, and the right technologies and apps are there for us to use. So look at what you can integrate.
Have a great month!
Guide to Navigating 2012
Cathy’s Guide to Navigating 2012 – Yearly Tarot Spread
Take heart, a new year is here and it is filled with new hope, and new possibilities. I don’t know about you, but I am ready for that! Let the new beginning settle into our hearts, for it is going to call on our ability to be present, clear, hopeful and in action. The time for fear is over, so when those pesky thoughts come up, use your mind to put them aside for later. Presence, action, and heart are what are calling us.
The tarot card for the New Year is The Hierophant – a 5-year. This indicates dealing with structure, ripping apart what doesn’t work and creating new structures around what does work. The Hierophant also is about religion, and structure we have set up to reflect our religious beliefs. What do we hold dear and how do we want access to that? After a year of looking inside, being led in and out of difficulty, and finding a new path emerging, we are beginning to examine how we are connected to spirit and rewriting the script. Also we are deciding about a new world order that comes from a structured society that reflects inner values, not the outer artifice that we are accustomed to hearing about from our politicians and authority figures.
Also, as we have seen, large religious organizations like the Catholic Church, are facing credibility issues. This is causing deep questioning which opens up a chance for us to review why we are affiliated with religious institutions that might not reflect our personal values. What do we really expect our spiritual leaders to do and how do we expect them to behave? How do we want to relate to them and how can we strengthen our connection to source? These very deep questions resonate with authority issues on all levels, which are gently spreading across the landscape like the way a pebble sends out waves on the surface of the water. As the surface is rippling, it is allowing the inner frame work to open up. In a lot of cases it is erupting as well. Expect a lot of change with this energy, affecting corporations, governments, military, police, organizations and religious frameworks. If we allow ourselves past what is considered taboo within those frameworks to examine how we operate within them, we can see how we can change them. Or how they must change. So the taboo subjects are the places to start. Which means that we have to be able to tolerate the taboo, with compassionate and detached hearts.
With that in mind let’s take a look at the spread I pulled for the year of 2012.
Because of the difficulties that many of us dealt with last year, we enter 2012 with a new determination, clarity of purpose and direction, fueled by the desire to create balance and happiness in our family and private life. A lot of us want our voices to be heard, but we are so busy balancing our lives that it can make it difficult to have the time to protest. I think that many of us will find a way to get involved in our communities this year. It is a year for community outreach and being heard, much more powerfully than just updating our FB status. Why not take the time to write your congressperson, or even go out and talk to them. People will be galvanized to work more with each other.
We are moving away from difficulty, which is a good thing. Although the coast is not completely clear, we are able to deal with the shifting landscape in a much more clear-headed fashion, with less fear than we have had before. So take stock of where you are, write down the debt incurred by what you have been through, look at whom you need to forgive and let go of, as well as whom you need to ask forgiveness of. It took whatever it took, to get through the past few years…it is what it is. No shame. Just awareness and a plucky sense that you have exactly what it takes to bring your life and the world back into balance. I mean, why are we here now, in this time? Probably because we are supposed to go through this so that we can correct a downwards slide that began a LONG time ago.
It is up to us individuals to reshape the world by matching our outer experience to all the work we have done on the inside. It is connected. We do have power to make change, based on what we have learned and integrated from healing our wounds and letting that healing inspire us to help others. This can be in the simplest of ways. We are ready to do this. Even if we need more healing, action is probably the most healing thing of all. Action born out of stillness. We are getting it finally…we have to go within for direction with a calm and accepting heart. From that place we will know what to do. Our inner compass will point us in the right direction.
We are stepping into the sun, opportunities are before us, and we need to just pick them up and go with it. I am not pretending that things are not very precarious, they are, but there is a ray of sunshine that brightens our path and we are stepping into that energy. Things are beginning to gel and we really need a boost to support us right now. It feels good but don’t squander that feeling. Instead use it as an opportunity to change your thinking to believe in the possible. It is not a time for magical thinking, which implies denial of our circumstances. It is a time to employ the magical, to change our thinking and believe in our passion. Solidly face possibility. We have to believe that our highest self does not want us to live on the street, or live in poverty. That doesn’t match up with what is on the inside. What is changing is how we connect with our possibilities, for the things that blocked us from them have become less daunting than before. We don’t have too much to lose at the moment, so why not? You will find that it is all good.
The future picture is one of moving ahead and pushing, but we need to be careful that we don’t try to force it. We want to stay in the flow, connected to the heart, not just the mind. There is a lot still to cut through, old patterns to change. So we will emerge doing that, righting our wrongs and being accountable. It will take a lot of mental energy to keep ourselves on track, but the brief sunny respite we had at the beginning of the year will help us keep in that space. As we find ourselves moving ahead, we do so with a lot of compassion in our hearts for those around us who are suffering more than we are. We are energized by knowing that the gains we make are creating space for others to follow us. This is an important thing to acknowledge, for there will be many rallying cries. We must distinguish which ones have meaning for us and are worth going the distance for. Our movement creates a wake that brings many others along, as we will be brought along by those we see moving forward. It is synergy in many directions, people coming together in ways they never would have before. We will make it count.
We see ourselves healing, balancing and connecting at this moment. We are aware of a more spiritual force around us, and an earth that needs us to be more aware of our connection to her. Wholeness comes when we understand three components of healing: interacting with the energies of the earth, developing our spirituality, and letting both bring harmony to the body. Shamanic practices, from journeying, sweat lodges, and soul retrieval; to simple walks in the woods, or meditating by a tree all are calling us. That is Earth Spirituality. Or just imagining the sinuous tentacles of Earth energy wrapping themselves around us and keeping us safe. This conscious earth/inner-world/body connection is becoming more of a focus for us.
There are a lot of delusions out there, so it is hard to see what choices to make. Again, slow down and feel yourself through it. Your heart knows what choice to make. It’s an election year, and the politics are thick with all kinds of deceit. The advertisers want us to believe all kinds of things. Take a break from all of that. Otherwise it is all overload. Be strong in your heart and mind. Don’t let others tell you what choices you can make, for they probably haven’t even thought of the one that’s right for you. Use your imagination to pull yourself close to your dreams. Don’t second-guess. Get support from people you can trust.
We all fear change, yet we are in the thick of it and we can’t change that things are not going back to the way they were. Good thing, because they weren’t really working anyway. Maybe it seemed so, but if you have looked under the surface, and many of you have, there was a lot just plain wrong. So…on to the new. Here we just have to admit that if we are resisting change in any way, it is going to get really tough. It’s not worth is. Let go. Don’t be afraid, the new is going to happen anyway, and it will bring good things once the shock wears off. I say, go with it and see where it leads.
In the end we examine what holds meaning for us and how we are connected to people we love. I really think this is where we are headed, into a more loving and real way of relating to those we are closest to. It is the energy of 2013 – the Lovers card which is relating to others and remembering that within any union there is a third entity created, the relationship itself as it is embodied by spirit. So we begin to be changed to have a more reverent way of dealing with others, with the earth, with maybe even those not of this planet, as well as with our friends on the other side. We are able to see the interconnectedness of life and all of its intricacy because we have allowed ourselves to be changed by the events of the past few years, and let go of things that maybe we don’t need as much now.
Now this is going to be a year that we will be grateful to be a big part of. A year that reflects our capacity to change, our capacity to evolve in consciousness as divine humans. Let’s go for it.
New Moon in Capricorn December 24, 2011 1:07 pm EDT
New Moon in Capricorn…the perfect energy to move ahead with the impulses unleashed by the Winter Solstice. As I write each month, I am trying to work with these energies in two ways, giving a global perspective, which we all need to be dealing with, and a way to take these energies into our personal realm by giving practical ways to work with each lunation. I am going to focus a bit more on the setting of intentions each month, for it allows us to engage with each new moons energies, harmonize with them and begin to let ourselves open up to their influences.
Setting Capricorn New Moon Intentions
Here, we want to look at issues like future security, reaching our goals, success and recognition, how we manage, and how we deal with authority. As we take the time to write down our intentions for this New Moons energy, we can formulate wishes like: “I want all my fears of growing old to be totally lifted from me.” “I want to find myself easily embracing the habit of self-discipline.” Or, “I want to clearly see which goals, when attained, will make me happy.” Remember to make only up to 10 intentions, and frame them around the following key words for the greatest success:
Time, Making Sensible Decisions, Maturity, Old Age, Self-discipline, Adult Behavior, Keeping commitments, Competency, Public Image, Ambition, Defining Goals, Using opportunities, Professions, Hard work, Accomplishments, Recognition, Social Status, Achieving Goals, Following Protocol, Delegating Responsibility, Being in Charge, Respect, Authority Figures, Tradition, Sternness, Pessimism, Inflexibility, and Self-Justification.
New Moon Astrology
I am keeping this a simple and focused message. Action is very important during this next month, and the time to get into action is immediately following this lunation. Christmas break will see a lot of projects be ready to move forward into the New Year, so don’t bee too grumpy if you need to work over the Christmas break. For you southern Hemisphere people, the summer will be a good productive time, so think about taking your laptop to the beach! It’s still slow going for all of us, but your work will move the wheel forward. We will begin to see movement.
We are being asked here to look at work in a new way, so it’s a great time to take inventory about how we relate to something we spend a great deal of our lives doing. It’s time to take a new look at your philosophies about work. How have you approached work in the past? What ideas do you have about how much or how hard you want to work? Do you have negative ideas about work that are holding you back from fulfilling your dreams? It’s time to root them out and do an inventory of your work habits.
Three questions to think about:
1.What have you hated about work in the past? List as many negative connotations as you can.
2. How can you transform those negatives into positives? What is at the root of each of those negatives? Is it a lesson or something that you can address?
3. What systems do you need to put in place to “free yourself”” Don’t let lack of money limit your thinking.
With Venus at the top of the chart, creativity and beauty reigns, so it is a grace moment. Forgive yourself for the past and look to the future. Letting go like that allows you to create with a fresh slate. And there is a lot of energy to create, so go for it. Now is the time to acknowledge all the healing that has happened in your life up to this point. Let that wholeness fuel you towards creating your dreams in a disciplined way. And for those of us who have been in the seeker mode, fashioning a spirituality that works for us in the world; we will be able to move forward in our careers and worldly endeavors because we are grounded and connected inside. It’s a subtle shift, but a strong endearing one, that attracts the creative force. We will see that more easily woven into our beings and creations.
We have quite a year ahead of us. And 2013 looks equally amazing. We are fortunate to be human at this moment, when we get to see more of how our connection to something greater is going to move us forward into territory that is new and hopefully better for us. I know that we are headed into more earth shifts, and weather anomolies. Food, access to it and new technologies, will play a big picture in the next few years, but his year is the beginning of widespread problems. There will be many, many innovations springing forth to solve the problems we face. And a lot of communities will grow together. More on that in my new years summary next week. For now, Merry, Happy Holidays, and have a good Christmas Eve.
Winter Solstice, December 22, 2011 12:30am EDT
Winter Solstice has arrived north of the equator, bringing with it a deep urge for contemplation and exploration of inner mysticism. We have just spent a lot of time working with goal setting, and those Southern Hemisphere people, you must take a look of the goals you set on the Spring Equinox and see how it’s going. It is time to put those goals and ideas out into the greater community in a practical way. The next 3 months are all about implementing, structuring and creating those goals here, now. Because I feel that so many of us are struggling to stay afloat, I am going to focus a lot of my writing on prosperity and opportunity, because I fell that it is crucial to bridge the divide between spirituality and money, allowing abundance and feeling empowered to unleash our dreams into reality. I think it is important that we deal with these ideas, because they will influence how we politically work them out and safe guard our future. What we do personally has great impact on the global at this time
I think this Solstice is an important one. There are a couple of schools of thought about the end of the Mayan Calendar, one places the end on October 28th this year and another more academic view is that it is on next years Winter Solstice when the Sun aligns with the Galactic Center. The has sun already come closer to the Galactic Center in 1998, so I don’t think that it is as big of a deal as we are hearing about, although it is significant. I tend to agree with the newer calculations that put the end on October 28th, as the trends we are going through really match up to that timing. I place greater importance on THIS Solstice, as it is the first one to follow the end of the calendar. It appears to be a doorway into another set of energies that are very specific in their workings on us. And does herald a time of change and the incorporation of the new into our lives.
I firmly believe that we are in a time of connecting to greater flow and abundance, even though it seems so dark. It’s like we have one foot in scarcity and real financial adjustment, and the other foot is in possibility, seeing that we can create something new with excitement about real abundance. Uranus has gone direct and after the new moon on the 24th, Jupiter will go direct, so we will start the New Year with all planets taking us forward into new territory, which is a great thing. Uranus in Aries is fortunate, as it is about new ideas and the entrepreneurs to carry them forward that is the engine of the economy. When expansive Jupiter goes direct, it will unleash the opportunities to rebuild our lives in an emerging new economy based on reality and not so much on debt. It seems that more and more financial corrections will be taken globally over the next 3 months, restructuring debt and mortgages to bring a new balance.
Creativity is the key to getting us past our financial problems. This creativity needs to be applied to looking at different ways of doing work, and what work in the traditional sense means to us. Since we have the technology to work virtually, we are going to see big change in how we work together, and how this impacts two income families. The traditional set-up of one partner working full time, while the other takes care of the home is not feasible right now for many of us. There will be many new businesses springing up, and new technologies and local systems to support this. Local food, local services, and engaging in local communities, will balance virtual business, working alone, and technical thinking that is emerging. This is great for the economy.
One thing I want to stress here and will also touch on in the New Moon reading, Jupiter and Lilith are riding the sky together for the next 3 months and this has some significance. Jupiter is expansive and very happy traveling through Taurus. It will help us keep our belts tight where we need to and expand on new possibilities. It will let us enjoy the abundance that is in our lives and compel us to feel good about ourselves and create more. Very positive. The kill-joy is Lilith. She is an asteroid that personifies the dark emotions, the dark moon, women’s hidden power and our inner “bitch.” So I encourage you not to be surprised when you see this coming out, slipping out sometimes, and think about it. Instead of being horrified, work with it. The inner bitch is a good energy that we can use to be more empowered. Don’t slay anyone with it, and by any means don’t use it to be mean. Rather, when in touch with this feeling, we can learn to not be so overly concerned with other people’s feelings and be POWERFUL. It’s ok to be powerful! Other people may not like it, but don’t let that hold you back. The female side of our nature wants to make things smooth and be accepted and sometimes we sacrifice being in touch with our power for others. Now is not the time for that! Let go of that fear and stand up! We must not buy into fear at all, for that is what keeps us from fulfilling our goals. In this time of action, move ahead with the hard stuff despite the fear and you will have great success, and build on that. This is a step-by-step process of recovery.
Two other things I want to focus on: The emergence of women as a force to be reckoned with, and the availing of the mystical inner pull that will ground us through change. They are related, as they are both based in the feminine power of Venus looking to express power, measured with the steady influence of Saturn and wisdom of Jupiter. This influence will be apparent for the next three months. I encourage us all to really pull back, acknowledge the divine creative force within, and use your spiritual practice to ground and diffuse the fear as things continue to unravel around us. It has to. Totally unravel. And we have to be strong enough to let it. Which means we have to be strong spiritually and develop an inner philosophy that will see us through.
As the feminine emerges and invites us open our hearts to the problems of the world and apply creative solutions, we will also see women banding together to balance male repression. I wouldn’t be surprised to see women doing things like having a strike at home (not doing any cooking, cleaning…) or coming together to protest rape and sexual repression in countries where this is status quo. I see women taking back their safety, possessions and reinventing their place in the home. And in the same measure I see men allowing their feminine sides to exist, even inform them and foster compassion for their female counterparts. This is very interesting in a year where Venus plays a bigger part than we have ever seen…for she later eclipses the Sun in June, a rare planetary event in our life times.
This is a very positive start to another 3-month period of change. We are becoming experts at change and this will continue throughout 2012. I think that issues of food, scarcity and changing growing patterns will emerge as the biggest issues that we will focus on in the coming few years. We will see glimmers of the problems and the opportunities in those sectors in the following months. Also in the way we use, create and store electricity, as many new technologies will emerge that change the power industry. As Saturn traverses Libra, it is upending all kinds of old structures, affecting all levels of the power grid. But because Uranus rules electricity and is in Aries, the new will emerge to bring us forward. So tally-ho, off we go!!
Happy Holidays to all of you! Enjoy this new phase of change!
Free Teleclass tonight – 2012 and prosperity
Sign up for a free teleclass with my colleague Margaret Gill and I tonight at 7:00. We’ll be talking about 2012 and what is in store for us financially. Here’s the link – http://abundancecheques.com/opportunities-for-abundance-prosperity-in-2012-teleclass/#
If you miss it there will be a recording. And sign up for Margaret’s Abundance Cheques, it’s a great way to think about aligning your energy with the lunar cycle.
Hope to hear your voice there!
On The Psi Show tonight – with Dan Sturges and Larry Hewitt
Tonight I get to be a guest on the Psi Show! Just love these guys, they bring new meaning to ghost hunting! Dan is my cohort at Sturges Paranormal, which I have been joining on their investigations this year. Join us as we’ll be talking about Psychic Mediumship, how it works on an investigation, and some of the results of our work at the Merchant’s House Museum in NYC. We’ll also talk about the recent Afterlife conference I attended last weekend in Long Island put on by The Forever Family Foundation. They are a wonderful organization that supports research and legitimacy to the field of Mediumship and Evidential Readings/contact with disincarnate spirits. It’s on the internet – www.thepsishow.com and I hope it will be available for download. I’ll post about that after. Remember – www.thepsishow.com : )
Serenity Amid Chaos
I am posting this in retrospect, as I have been on vacation and away from the computer for a few weeks. It’s interesting nonetheless. Enjoy!
July 30 New Moon in Leo at 2:40 pm EDT, 4:40 pm Australia EST
The second New moon this month, in Leo, helps us to focus on creativity, celebration, play and fun. As we set our intentions for the month, lets look at ways we need to fine tune romance, creative projects, empowering others, leadership, self confidence and how arrogance shows up in our lives. A few nice intentions are: I want to easily find myself enjoying being center stage in a happy, enjoyable way…I want to find myself adding to joy and laughter when I am with others…I want to be filled with creative new ideas.
This is an incredible New Moon folks, one that the history books will be writing about for years to come. It is another turning point, one in which a new direction of our country will be formed. We have been getting ready for this for quite awhile. Although the focus seems to be on money and debt, the larger issue is one of freedom and inner grit. Who are we becoming as a nation, and do we like that? What do we really want, what is our own true north and what are we going to dream into being? This is the big moment, when we all need to stop, go inside, and rewrite the story. We do have that power. And we need to stop giving it away to politicians that are using that power to manipulate and lie to us.
Let me explain a little. This is the second New Moon in the month of July, such a rarity that there is not really a recognized name for it, unlike the Blue Moon, the name for two full moons in a month. The best names are the Dark Moon, or Secret Moon and both seem to really apply to this one. In fact, so much of what is going on has to do with this country, and the rise of darkness, that my Southern hemisphere readers will have to pardon my exploration of this for the Northern folks. It’s just too important not to really look at it. But I think it will affect everyone if the US changes course anyway.
Sometimes when people sense darkness they are scared and want to run. But real darkness mirrors what is within that needs to be transformed and brought into balance, and is mostly hidden from view…for good reason. Most people cannot cope with darkness. We push it away and it lurks and eeks away at us for decades sometimes, until a moment when it leaks out all over the place and we have to deal with it. Collectively, as a people, the USA is being compelled to stand the darkness, feel it, tolerate it and face it. Personally, I am not liking it at all, but I am finding ways to just be present with it. This is not bad, rather an example to the world. Our leaders are freaking out right now. We can’t afford to do the same. We must find a way to anchor ourselves in our hearts, for the calm arises from that space and we must imbibe serenity amid chaos.
At the end of August we are going to see the end of a very arduous USA Saturn Return. This new moon is right on the USA North Node, where are we going? Secret destiny is being revealed to us, but we must find that on the inside, as a collective intelligence.
Well my first reaction after taking a look at this chart is – WOW. We are going through financial change in a big way. The New Moon forms a powerful yod, or finger of God that sits right on the USA north Node. With Pluto in the Second House putting so much pressure on the moon, and Chiron/Neptune doing the same from the 4ht house right on the IC, people are really fed up, pushed to the breaking point in some cases. It’s American families that are being broken apart, and this is the fiber of our society. It is affecting everyone.
I think this is because of who we started out to be as a country, a nation where everyone was free to practice to brand of spirituality one felt comfortable with. Now this has never been an easy thing here, and in a lot of respects we failed miserably at the notion, but it was the energy that this place was grounded in. It had driven a political process, and a notion of freedom that we have lost sight of. We are disconnected with the premise of spiritual freedom and that is where we will be given a course correction, in the form of financial restructuring. From the top down.
This means that what we think about all of this is forming a new philosophy of how we want to live. And what kind of values we want our leadership to have. The posturing and craziness is literally COSTING us. That’s right, we are going to be paying for allowing these kinds of shenanigans for many years to come.
The good news is, we are in the power, there is a beautiful earth trine with Mercury, Pluto, and Jupiter. By taking the time to ground, take possession of our lives and form guiding philosophies, from inside, we will know who we are and where we are going. Our minds are able to wake up, to question what is going on, and find new ways to relate. We were given everything we need to be in this time, in this moment, so lets go for it.
It is the stick to it attitude that will get through this. Small gains every day makes for very big change. Be patient as you watch it unfold. We are not going back to life as it was before, we are thrown together and we must use our creativity to reframe how we want to live.
Climbing Out Together, The New Normal
Capricorn Full Moon, July 15, 2011, 2:40 am EDT, 4:40 pm Australian EST
The Native Americans called this Full Moon the Thunder Moon, or the Buck Moon, I guess here in Brooklyn we will see neither as it will be a beautiful night tonight, and no bucks to be seen in the city! This will be a very grounded and productive Full Moon, and we need that after the grueling triple eclipse cycle we just completed. Wrung dry of distraction, because what doesn’t mater has been pulled away, we are even closer to fulfilling the call from our essence. It is a good time to sit still, breathe and take stock of all we have learned in the past 8 weeks
The feelings present this evening are very uncomfortable for most of us. Although we want to go out there and engage in radical change, we still have some deep inner things to work out. It is a good time to get to the root of why we repeat patterns, and how we can let go and trust that a new way of operating is right there for us to follow. A lot of us don’t realize how compelled we are to repeat behaviors that isolate us and keep us in fear. And keep us away from love. Love is really what grounds us in this lunation, love for family, for our homes, for that which nurtures us. And, a love for humanity that keeps implanting the idea, what we do has an effect on the rest of the world. It’s simple and very true…we have the opportunity to see that we are deeply connected. So sitting still, meditating and connecting with all of humanity this evening would be a wonderful energy to manifest. And a thought to keep in our heads, “what I do matters, as I am connected to all beings through love.”
There is a lot of grassroots organization going on right now, social movements around food, spirituality, the paranormal, urban farming, new politics, permaculture, and ecoliving. This is an interesting antidote to counter the isolation we feel brought on by advanced technical capability. A record number of people, unemployed, are striving to be visible from home. People are trying to create virtual work, remote offices, doing work from where ever they are. This surge of creativity, and lack of money, encourages people to begin experimenting with new ideas, creatively taking their ideas to other people to co-create very interesting things. This movement will gain momentum, and it will transform urban landscapes in interesting ways. I am loving this aspect of the planets influence, as I see real potential in it. We need new ways of communicating ideas and trying them out. As groups of like-minded people come together, mini think tanks and creative commerce will form to fuel new thought about world and local issues.
This is a time when genuine spirituality wants to emerge and it will present itself in our careers, in the way we are out there, and in the way we want to succeed. This is going to be interesting, because many of us have been hoping for this. How do we put all of that meditation practice to use? So many people are suffering, so much is changing; our collective views of success are changing also. Our eyes are slowly opening. As more and more local communities are connected to global issues, our jobs will start to reflect this tendency by being more connected as well. On the other hand, the tension we feel as larger corporations either continue to ignore responsibility to the environment and humans in the name of greed, or try to fake us out with flashy marketing mimicking concern, will tip us even further into different buying patterns. We might even stop buying some products. We have seen through our own downsizing that we don’t need as much as we thought we did, we want higher quality food, and health is very important in order to deal with the stress in our lives. As the asteroid Ceres (goddess of grain and abundance) enters Aries, we are looking at food and where it comes from and how it literally become who we are.
Another thing about Ceres in Aries is that many of us are figuring out how to have our own businesses, out of necessity. With that needs to come a new way for small businesses to flourish and new structures need to be created to support this. Hopefully, legislators will figure this out, but it is up to the small business people to make it an issue, in terms of tax codes, zoning, city and local codes, micro loaning and loan structuring so that smaller businesses have the capital to keep going. This is going to be a very big issue for the next few years. People want to make an honest living, but thing have gotten so far out of whack that it is really hard for these businesses to make gains so that they can succeed. You will see many new groups coming together to make this happen, including venture capitalists who see the new potential in the smaller tech companies (some of them very small operations) forging innovation on the bigger guys. There is a lot of room as the little and big guys play together, especially tech gadgets – ipad, kindle, etc.
This full moon is really pushing media companies to come clean about the way in which they manipulate us. The British tabloids are not the only ones with secrets that will be exposed. The outing of the powerful that have become far too complacent will continue as more investigations become public. Personally, what we want to look at is how do we feed that kind of need to know everything about celebrity? Why do we feel like we all want to be like the famous? Why don’t we see that our lives are just as fabulous? Somehow we have all fed this frenzy, and as long as we crave what we don’t have we will be focused on what makes us less than, instead of what makes us beautiful shining beings in our own right. We will never find that gem in someone else. As we know, it is only uncovered from within.
Enjoy the Full moon, and in the next day, tune into this energy and make a little of your own magic. Full moons are for looking at what you have been manifesting. So focus your intentions of creating something beneficial for yourself and your community. And know that when you focus your intentions, your hard work will come to something. We are all climbing out of the hole together, so grab a hand and pull yourself up!
The Inner Gardener, Tilling the Soul
July 1, 2011 New Moon in Cancer 4:54 am EDT, 6:54 pm Australian EST, Solar eclipse 4:39 am EDT and 6:39 Aussie EST
Family time, entertaining, community bonds, going with your gut, letting go of insecurity, trust in the Universe and your own inspiration, the beginning of a new chapter.
The New Moon in Cancer has arrived! Just after the Summer Solstice, on the heels of two eclipses and conjoined with a whopping 3rd eclipse 5 minutes before the New Moon. This is one powerful day! It’s also an eclipse that no on e inthe world will actually “see” as it is happening in a very remote location in the Antarctic, so it is an interior time for all of us. It’s a good time to look at all the things that you want to nourish from your Spring Equinox intentions (if you haven’t set them do it now, pick 3 things you want to create this year from spring to spring and write them down – think back to March and remember what you might have started) and get out the watering can. There will be a few weeds that need whacking, so go ahead and cull from those intentions the gem that you are working from. There is a lot of power in this time to vibrate our intentions into reality. Remember to start from a place of gratitude.
One thing I am grateful for at this time of year is my connection to my Grandmother who was born on the 4th of July at the turn of the century…the last century! She would have been 111 this year! Crazy huh? I feel her spark at this time of year, her love of the mystical and deep reverence for an inner journey. Not to mention the family celebration that we would have every year in Nebraska; including her famous potato salad. So if you have the urge, join me thinking of her, or think of your own ancestors, as you light your sparklers. Show some light on the darkness as we play with light and have fun. That’s all that is allowed here in Brooklyn, NY anyway!!
The intensity that we have been feeling due to the eclipses is almost over…by the 14th it will start to settle down and get back to a new normal. In the intensity, while we weren’t looking, a lot changed inside us. It will be a pleasant surprise to see that as we go about our business. Especially as Uranus goes retrograde and squares Venus just as we are easing out of the eclipse juggernaut. Just for a little kick to push us further into the love. So embrace the beauty of your soul, as it is visible and wondrous, and has a mind of it’s own, almost like a self-cleaning oven!
With Pluto just opposite the New Moon, the shadow wants center stage, so use your wily powers to pull out your brightness to stand next to the dark princess/prince. It will want to surface in relationships, where the mirror will be strongest, so relax when your honey makes an unflattering crack or reveals some secret hovering in their mind…take the 3 day rule and put it aside, even if it stings a bit. Just don’t get derailed from your nurturing spirit. Pay attention to your own garden and fertilize, fertilize, fertilize!
This is again one of those mega active charts, where every planet is in play and the chatter is intense. At the center is all of this is the grand Square of New Moon/Sun/Venus – Saturn – Pluto – Uranus/Ceres/Lilith, in the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th respectively. Work/life balance is a huge theme, new ways of working, creating, family balancing, and very co-operative arrangements between parents as we strive for balance, career gain and solid family/relationship time. Also see that many families are actively getting involved in righting the wrongs government has done to parenting over the past decade or more. This interest will fuel many revolts/change movements that will upset political process. Unhinge it, because it is a cross party issue. As more and more liberals/critical thinkers get involved, it will take the balance from the right and spread it into a powerful multi viewpoint stance that has a lot of potential. Women especially will move this forward.
What has been missing for most of us is a rallying point with which to center our change around, as a group. We have all been making incremental and sometimes large changes, but collectively, our purpose for transformative change is beginning to dovetail with the personal changes we have navigated. Very large groups are emerging and forming, it is catching something inside us, inspiring people to really get involved. This is the seed of a flowering that will unfold over the next 3 to 5 years. We will only take as much as we can take before we say no, as the fog of distractions starts to lift, so do our hearts. We want to make something better. So we get involved.
What is your hidden motivation? What deeply stirs your heart? What cuts through complacency? These questions will not be so hard to answer in the coming months. The fear that has kept us from embracing these desires and the deprivations that say “not now”, are losing their hold. Bold steps are ready to be taken. Even if small, they are going to be bold, so step out there sisters and brothers! You will know exactly what to do to put it out there.
People are longing to put the experiences they have gone through into context for themselves. They are ready to frame things in a healing belief system that replaces the fear and expectations that are out of line with the world as it really is. So we need our spiritual teachers, mentors, coaches and guides to really be honest with us, about who they are and what they have to give us. We really need their help, but to cut through the mistrust, they have to come clean and speak from an honest place of real love. Not keep our fantasies in place. We are finally getting tired of magical thinking and may be able to let it go. At least for a bit!
Finding beauty in our work, in service, in our healing, and in the mystical is a good meditation for us for the next two weeks while we navigate the last eclipse. Our true calling is found in the little things, in the practical, and in embracing fun in our hearts while doing those things. So when you balance your checkbook and spreadsheets, have a smile on your face that you are taking care of business! It is in that routine of being conscious of your spending, and how much debt you are carrying and just writing it down, keeping track, that you will find freedom and inspiration. Handling our work and mundane tasks is a joy when you know it nurtures your family. It also nurtures our hearts.
It’s also a great time to look for work and find new things that you might not have thought of to earn money and express yourself work wise. Get out there and find the beauty of being a worker among workers. Knowing it all contributes to the higher good, because every move we make takes us closer to our purpose – not grasping for success, but letting success take root in us and blossom for harvest as when summer progresses. Try that in visualization…imagine your true work being planted in your soul by the work you are doing right now. See yourself watering that, fertilizing it. See the sprouts emerge from the soil. See them stretch towards the sun. See them grow into healthy strong plants that are harvested and ready.
Enjoy the growing and stretching you are ready for. It will fill your heart with joy to get started.
When All Else Fails, Lead from the Heart
Sonographs made over the year by the Phillipus Lansbergen Observatiry in the Netherlands. Make your own sonograph - http://inatarius.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/solargraph-building-guide/
Summer Solstice 2011, June 21, 1:20 pm EDT;
3:20 am June 22, Australian EST
In the Northern Hemisphere it is the Summer solstice, time to relax, let the sun warm your skin, and become grounded and stable in ourselves. While in the South, it is the Midwinter, which is time to reflect deeply about what you have created since the spring seeds were sown. As those in the North are venturing outwards, playing with their creations, those in the South are going inward and playing with the inner territories. The rest of this report is written for the North, so adjust what is written according to your hemisphere.
There is a lot of talk about this Solstice chart among the spiritually minded and I can see why…it’s pretty loaded. If you remember last year when we started this journey together, the Cardinal Grand Square really kicked off this mode of rapid change. Well, here we have a Solstice Grand Square that echo’s that event…only this time we have already started on this path of change, so we are acquainted with it’s workings a bit. It has been a lot for people to handle, and many wish it would go back to the way it was. This configuration says, no, we cannot go back. Change has us in its grip. But it does tell us that the way before us is not as steep a climb as we might think.
This Grand Square involves only 5 planets (Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, Sun and Mercury), but the rest of the gang is close by, lending their hand to the mix and easing the tension. Every planet, besides Venus is between 0 and 10 degrees, so they all make elegant aspects to each other. The little story lines being created, reinforce a bigger picture…change is here, it is happening as you read this, we cannot escape it, enjoy the ride.
Interestingly, the north node, our true calling and higher nature is within 1 degree of the Galactic Center, which is where the 2012 Winter Solstice will be. (Since I follow a different line of thought about the end of the Mayan calendar, I hold that event to be this year on November 28th. See www.calleman.com for more info on this). This longing in our hearts and the healing we are calling to us is a hint of what is to come. It is a suggestion of what energy is being laid out before us to use as we engage as warriors for change, much like the patriots of this country fought for freedom from the British, or any other struggling people…we are struggling to drop some larger chains of collective baggage that we have been dragging around for millennia. And the more we work at it, the more we reap the benefits of our work. So, do not give up on all the seeds you have sown.
Saturn is the focus of this grand square, in the first house, so a lot of us feel the need to restructure our lives and the way we engage with the world. We are longing to bring fairness back into the picture, especially financially. There is camaraderie here, like the 3 musketeers, one for all and all for one. We will be drawn to work together to achieve goals that benefit everyone. This starts in our relationships. Many of us are feeling the tension. The status quo does not work anymore in our close relationships and partnerships/marriages. Things that we were unwilling to look at before are glaring in our faces. The tendency is to run, or push it away (or them). Here the gem is in standing still, taking a deep breath, and looking to our own shadow sides. If we haven’t been reconciling with the shadow we have married, which is a dark part of ourselves that we find hard to own, we are being called to the table. As angry as we may be with the other, or ourselves, we have to put that aside and use the hidden power of that anger to move us into self-inquiry. What do WE need to be taking care of? Where are WE hiding our light? How are WE using the entanglement with the other to sideline us from the real target…our own largess? If we want work, speak up, if we want a raise, ask for it. Step out of the messiness and just let if fall beside you. Focus on how you can help yourself and the larger answers, like about how to solve the world’s problems will start to flow.
As we move into new vibrations, we are beginning to see that notions of “home” are changing. Our homes are inside of us; we bring them with us where ever we go. This is especially important for the thousands of displaced people adrift in the world, which are growing in numbers. Even if temporarily, this uprooting energy is leading us to contemplate community living from an entirely different viewpoint. New things can and will emerge from that, so take heart. We need to become more flexible as a culture, to cope with the fast change that is around every corner. Becoming less dependant on the idea of “home” will help us be more independent and creative in coming times
The other thing I want to stress is the possibility of recovery, if things are taken from a spiritual perspective. The key is to integrate all you have gone through to develop a spiritual philosophy, outside of religious belief. So putting for example Catholicism aside, stepping out of the box, what do you think God/Nature/Spirit really IS? Your job description of the Source? How do you relate to that power? And, what have you learned about that power as you have gone through the difficulty you thought you would be protected from by your religious belief? As we are seeing, bad and uncomfortable things happen to us, and we have no control over these things, no matter what we believe. This can lead to anger at that Source and leave you cut off and out of the flow. The thing is, get angry…at God/Nature/Spirit. Really let it out…rant on. Write hate mail. Let ‘em have it! And then, see what changes. Work with what you have left, after the anger is expressed, which is your part in things. There are things you can do, things you don’t really want to do, things that move you way out of your comfort zone, but just take a risk. This is what this time is about. Ripping away all we hold comfortable so that we can step out there and shift from miserable status quo into vibrant living. No matter where and what you might be doing. This is the new era, where you must move into bold action.
There is a lot of beauty in ourselves, and a lot of love that we have yet to express. Putting love into our hard work, real nourishing love, will make all of the difficulties ease. Love, especially unconditional love, has a lot of power. Loving right where we are, in this moment, is the place to start. We might lose everything, but in that loss, true love for ourselves is waiting for us to find it.
