The purpose of this blessed human life is to awaken to our boundless, interpenetrating nature.
All day, every day, we are “making a difference.” Our bucket full of moods and me-stories is sloshing out onto the imaginary others. Someone will be taking a trace of our wonder and woes to bed with them tonight.
Even now, we are tweaking someone’s trajectory, coloring their inner atmosphere in ways we will never understand.
Consider the implications.
Dare we fully confess our contagiousness, we will be Christened with a combination of heartbreak and resolve.
The normalized claustrophobia of our “separate somebodyness” will upgrade into a majestic, vigorously tasked psyche of cosmic dimensions.
Becoming a moment-to-moment connoisseur of how we inhabit consciousness becomes our raison d’être and (unlike our limping causes and careers) this “reason to exist” follows us, like a sprinting sheep dog, up and down every one of life’s peaks and valleys.
There’s nothing wrong, of course, with attending to outer ambitions– so long as awareness of our contagious “inner game” is alive and well in the throes of our manifesting.
Sounds simple enough. But let’s not be naive. If our secret inner atmosphere is constantly “going viral,” our slumpy posture at the computer desk becomes a teachable moment and trauma-soothing cultivation of the Merciful Witness becomes absolutely mandatory.
Alas, there is no mask for this Covid.
But wait. Is it really a burden to bear the responsibility of attending to our inner posture and overflowing Self-remembering if, in the process, we get to provide immediate “shelter in the storm” for otherwise orphaned egos and, in our own anonymous, subtle way, incandesce this funky evidence of separation?
There is more grace than grit in this pandemic.
Indeed, isn’t it the pressure to be exceptional– to grasp for some grand, measurable impact that might somehow compensate for ego’s cosmic insignificance– that’s producing the me-story mania, the tense difference-making and the stone-faced nihilism lumbering so heavy on our streets?
Purpose, it turns out, is not a private achievement. It arises eye-to-eye, as we ask, What soul-honoring prompt might walk us, hand in hand, into the church of full arrival?
Note for fridge:
I am a holy leper. In my wake: a trail of disfiguring prayer and the oozing sores of sublimity.
January Transits:
The Purpose of Work
We begin the month with a four planet conjunction in the sensible, strategic sign of Capricorn (Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars). This is the perfect time to set in motion strategies for long-term success.
Opposed Jupiter, this stellium urges visionary boldness and grounded collaboration. All planets are direct and we have a “green light” right up until mid-February when eclipse season begins with the Solar eclipse on February 17th followed by Mercury retrograde on February 25th. Time to get it done!
The question is, which work is mine to do? With Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, conjunct soul-spiraling Neptune, a better question might be:
Who will this work turn me into?
The Grey Fetish
Will we emulate the godless A.I overlords, blithely re-dreaming earth’s future, unrestrained by Saturn karma, immune to the reckoning of any afterlife?
Will we mindlessly succumb to the “machine cognition fetish” rushing in to fill the void of sublime soul-seeing?
Will immersive tech trance take the place of meditative relating?
Perhaps you bristle at the premise of these questions. Mission accomplished! My purpose is to turn up the heat of self-reckoning– a heat generously supplied by Jupiter during the first two weeks of January.
Work as Karma Yoga
From a purely Neptune perspective, the purpose of work is to provide enough embodied presence to track how we are inhabiting consciousness. The product of our work is important, yes– but secondary. Work provides real time “inner atmosphere feedback” so we can consciously incandesce and develop wise-loving habits of mind.
At this point, Saturn jumps in:
Work does more than that. It grounds the sense of doer-ship we need to sustain the body, operate in consensus reality (good planning, clear agreements, realistic budgets) and take care of the earthly stage set on which we and our fellow dream-animals evolve.
Some souls access “inner atmosphere feedback” quite vividly under complicated, high pressure conditions. Others incandesce the lampshade of personality best in the throes of work that is more spacious and straightforward.
The point is: all work is dissatisfying to the extent we don’t have the sense of “being lived” by a larger Being. Doer-ship is God’s play and the soul’s ultimate joy is being an instrument of selfless service.
Saturn again:
All work humbles and all job sites are creepy cosplay to orphaned ego. It is the job of everyday work routines to pour salt in the wound of separation and only through disciplined spiritual practice does this core suffering loosen its grip.
Jan 3rd Full Moon in Cancer
A cozy Ritual
This is a blessed Full Moon. Great time for a intimate gathering in a sheltered setting where silence and ritual offer comfort and stability.
Then, in the days that follow, an enlivening barrage of “Cazimi’s” take place (planets inflamed by their conjunction to the Sun). Venus/Sun on the 6th. Mars/Sun on the 8th, culminating in the Jan 18th Sun/Moon conjunction (New Moon).
Think of the first week of January as an energized, go-getter time. During the second week, the “manifestation party” continues but with a subtext of examining wounds and vulnerabilities as the Capricorn stellium gets repeatedly squared by Chiron.
Beware of impatience, blurting and crippling self-doubt as you ask, Is this goal really worth the effort?
New Moon in Capricorn:
Coming out of the work cave
By the time we get to the Jan 18th New Moon in Capricorn during week three, earthiness mixes with air as Venus enters Aquarius on the 17th, the Sun moves into Aquarius on the 20th and Mars, Mercury, Sun, Moon, Venus and Pluto all conjoin in a community-friendly Trine to Uranus. Time to come out of our work cave and mix with the natives.
On January 26th, Neptune moves solidly into the sign of Aries (a profound generational shift). Mars conjuncts Pluto in Aquarius on the 27th and Mercury conjuncts Venus in Aquarius on the 29th. Time to get real. The wars will never end until we collectively confess: it’s a war for our attention.
Note for fridge:
Thank you for this broken stage– and the timeless presence dancing, unscathed.
Jan 26th Neptune in Aries
Raining Diamonds
Scientists say that Neptune has a thick gassy atmosphere that rains diamonds. Need I say more?
Neptune reminds us: we are dream animals. It rules the collective subconscious: the unseen, yet felt, aspects of life.
In Aries, Neptune invites us to courageously yield to the invisible current of the Tao. Called to make a big, world-saving splash? Great. But first, we must magnify the Unimprovable.
Why?
Because Neptune in Aries inspires change through dissonance. When the circumference of a soul or society doesn’t match its palpably pure, agelessly innocent center, folks are too heartbroken not to act.
Jan 1st- Mercury enters Capricorn
Jan 2nd- Chiron goes direct in Aries
Jan 3rd- Full Moon in Cancer
Jan 10th Last Quarter Moon in Libra
Jan 17th- Venus enters Aquarius
Jan 18th- New Moon in Capricorn
Jan 19th- Sun enters Aquarius
Jan 20th- Mercury enters Aquarius
Jan 23rd- Mars enters Aquarius
Jan 25th- First Quarter Moon in Taurus
Hunter Reynolds
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