OCTOBER IS MUCH LIKE the third and final stage of a vision quest, which is called “Incorporation.” The quester hikes down from the seclusion of the mountain and, before speaking with anyone else, recounts the journey of his/her vision fast (as if it were a symbol-stuffed Neptunian dream) to a Saturnian mentor-guide who was busy more>
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THINK OF SEPTEMBER and October as a swirling, socio-economic drug trip whose howling sirens and dying fantasies are remarkably restful – even inspiring – once we decipher their compassionate, way-showing message: there’s a symbiotic relationship between grim realism and flash-in-the-pan escapism, miserable security and Ashley Madison. Every ego (and society) has a unique style of more> KUDOS TO VENUS retrograde for masterminding the Ashley Madison hack. Next comes the Mercury retrograde lawsuits starting September 17. So much for those fickle flashes of union we’ve been so expertly conditioned to lust after. Attraction wants to overflow from Beingness, itself, says Venus retro, not from seductive force-ripening. I like how Mooji put it: more> EVERY SEVEN YEARS, transiting Saturn conjuncts, squares or opposes the position of Saturn in our birth chart, providing crucial thematic guidance for our ever-evolving soul. Scroll down to your age and see which bread crumb your ego is currently pecking at. (All ages approximate). FIRST SATURN CYCLE: Age 0/First Breath (Saturn conjunct Saturn): Knot more> AUGUST IS A GOOD month to substitute “people” with “frayed angels” and confess that we are, indeed, worn at the edges, but internally brand new. In fact, in Buddhist terms we are not just “new” we are “The Unborn.” That makes “nubile” look downright elderly, no? Yes, there are some ominous portends in the air, more> WELCOME TO “Night of the Living Dead” — a.k.a. “your life.” Like the 1968 movie of the same title, it’s a corny, dated zombie flick with a sly political undercurrent that you and I paid good “money” (birth) to get into. Why, oh Why? Are we cultish nerds, or have we intelligently tapped into more> AFTER SUPPLYING the ego with the courage to incarnate and move about with sovereign will (as symbolized by the Aries head), the soul works its way down to the Taurus neck, or “Taproot,” in order to ground itself into the body and, thereby, encounter and sculpt the material world through the five senses. In the more> JUNE BEGINS with a “show-don’t tell” full moon in Sagittarius on June 2nd and a continuing Mercury retrograde in Gemini that doesn’t release us into full-fledged forward motion until the new Moon in Gemini on June 16th. Squared by Neptune the whole month and opposed by Saturn until the 29th, this introspective retro gives June more> IN THE YOUTH OF MIND, the world brims with opportunities to orient and confirm the separate sense of self through an ever-widening range of experience-gathering and mental categorization (Gemini). Over time, however, our hard-earned patchwork of self-discovered truths are subsumed by larger themes, impersonal principles and archetypes (Sagittarius). Eventually, even these overarching, paradigmatic patterns are more> ONCE A YEAR, the moon turns into a blazing, axe-to-the-forehead ray of truth. Exactly what truth does this ray wish to illumine? Read on. Scorpio corresponds to the 8-10pm time period. Why? Because Scorpio wants to stay awake in the dark. Yes, a later time in the night would, perhaps, evoke a more forbidden more> YOU WOULD THINK a full moon in the intense sign of Scorpio on May 3rd (May 4th in Asia) would play out personally, with lots of psychosexual intrigue and/or disturbing emotional shadow revealing. Not so, in my experience. Instead, the round and ripened quality of the moon tends to amplify the transcendent – even shamanic more> WHAT A RAMBUNCTIOUS month! A time to release, recreate and revive. Overview: Initiate the first two weeks; ground during the second two. Will our relationships rebirth and our projects fully flower? Depends on how consciously we navigate “The eclipse zone.” Eclipses usually take place in pairs. The March 20th Solar eclipse in Pisces was the more> THE PISCES FEET are the only part of the human body that is constantly pressed against — merged — with something else. In this sense they symbolize our unbroken connection to the divine ground of Being. The symbolic headquarters of egoic identity (the Aries head), on the other hand, is located as far away from more> Aries: I am phenomenon in the eyes of a deeper seer. I have won myself back. Taurus: All passing pleasures: finger food for the fullness of Being. Gemini: All clever word-craft: catalysts for silent communion. Cancer: Old hurts and defenses: hardened homesickness for You. Leo: In the fire of pure seeing, self-worth scatters like ash more> MARCH IS A FEISTY if not downright militant month. It begins with a Full Moon in Virgo on the 5th accompanied by a triple conjunction (Venus, Mars and Uranus) in Aries squaring Pluto. This Nazi/Hippie square goes exact on March 16th. Think: corpgov vs. people boom! (Know where this fiery stellium falls in your chart? more> EVERY SEVEN YEARS or so, Saturn forms a testy aspect to Neptune, and now is just such a time (Dec 23, 2014-Apr 18, 2015 / Oct 15, 2015-Jan 20, 2016 / Apr 13 2016-Oct 31, 2016). I like to think of this 13-month planetary face-off as a unique opportunity to sense into how much of more> FEBRUARY PRESENTS an interesting opportunity: socially engaged introversion. How comfortable can you be “alone together?” It’s as if this Mercury retrograde (in Aquarius until Feb 11) is grooming us for the kind of unwavering self-possession we might need to work calmly, side-by-side during the geopolitically tense and militant March equinox period. Then comes the Jupiter-focused more> IN PURELY ARCHETYPAL terms, there is nothing more commonplace than rape and suicide. Why are these two words so highly charged and disturbing? Because of how routinely we engage in subtle forms of both, every single day of our lives. Indeed, it is the bitter taste of these masculine and feminine faces of violence in more> SPEND THE FIRST HALF of January finishing up already-started projects with an eye out for new collaborations and enlivening group projects. Tired of working by your lonesome? Ready to brave the ups and downs of working with another ego? Venus and Mercury moving into Aquarius make this a good time to get out there and more> THE FIRST HALF OF December (particularly on the Full Moon in Gemini on Dec 6th) is a time for blue sky thinking. Take advantage of the grand fire trine (Sun/Jupiter/Uranus) on December 11-12 to confess some irrepressible soul-calling and shatter the glass ceiling on what your mind says is possible for this life. Then, during more> EVERY EGO HAS A DIFFERENT style of resisting and succumbing to shepherding presence. One might even say that personality is, itself, little more than a real-time outpicturing of this tug-of-war between identity-grasping role play and relaxing into timeless presence enough to see who wants to show up. Why do we spend so much time refusing more> THE DECISION TO UNEQUIVOCALLY believe (or not believe) in something is an entirely unnecessary movement of mind made primarily to harden the sense of a separate somebody (ego) who is doomed to a life of endlessly reasserting that it is, indeed, solid and real enough to stake out a point of view. In this way, more> AS WE PULL OUT of Mercury retrograde’s “After-Shadow” on Nov 9th, and the soul is emboldened by Mars’ Oct 26th movement into matrix-friendly Capricorn, our goal-realization urges are likely to intensify. Use the first week of November (until the Full Moon in Taurus on the 6th) to realistically examine which life visions are so indigenous more> ASTROLOGY IS A LANGUAGE of meditative self-inquiry. It points at the fascinating, homeward-beckoning symbols embedded into personality and the world around us. The world, it turns out, is riddled with undeciphered metaphor, but most of it is too insultingly obvious for clever minds to notice or contemplate. And what, you may ask, is the overarching more> |
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