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>
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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> 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> SEPTEMBER BEGINS nose-to-the-grindstone and becomes progressively more light-hearted and inspired. The lunar energy builds until the Sept 8th full Moon in Pisces, then, on Sept 13th – after two years in poker-faced Scorpio – the assertive, fiery planet, Mars, moves into shoot-from-the-hip Sagittarius, followed by Pluto going direct (out with the old, in with the more> THE PISCES FEET are experts on the topic of reincarnation and the impermanence of egoic identity. Constantly hovering and landing, hovering and landing, each footfall reincarnates our lofty Aries head into a new line of sight, a new vantage point or worldview. Meanwhile, behind our built-in binoculars, a conspicuously untraveled awareness calmly watches our footy more> WHENEVER WE TAKE the (imagined) risk of abiding as the loving vastness looking out through our eyes, we psychically join hands with every other personality-draped consciousness on the planet. At last, sighs the soul, ego is mad enough to be mortal, sane enough to disappear: the assertive Aries head is sharing the stage with the more> IT WAS NEVER GUARANTEED that there would be unlimited future generations of earthlings. Fine. As a faraway fate that awaits some future generation, mind can pretend to cope with earth’s seasonal die-offs. Alas, the specter of depopulation appears to have arrived a tad early – or so sings a growing choir of climate-priests. Judging by more> WHAT IF the shuffling mass of flesh moving around you didn’t point so much to particular people, but to the Supreme Being? What if every totem pole of body parts was chiseled with symbolic scripture whose reassuring profundity continually eclipsed people’s individual attitudes and behavior, highlighting instead the heroic journey of self-realization that every soul more> Where mind sees crass Capricorn opportunism, meditation sees a heroic “Neo” seduced, for a moment, by the matrix they’re so nobly attempting to infiltrate. (Neo is the protagonist in the movie: The Matrix.) WHO ARE THE temporarily seduced “Neos” in your life? Imagine them in your mind’s eye. Remember: if those “cold users” stay more> TIME HAS PERSONALITY — a rainbow of archetypal styles of expression not unlike the feline glide of Obama or the Sagittarian savvy of Brad Pitt. Just as different personalities serve to christen us into different flavors of the divine mind, the revolving carousel of hours, days, months and years is constantly coaxing us to update more> ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGY, the divine is “waking down” to itself through our bodies. Pure awareness is forever nudging our egos into a swan dive off the ledge of our sovereign Aries head into our timeless trance of toes. Why? So personal will (Aries) can be humbled and cleansed by skin-to-skin contact with the Piscean ground more> I ONCE ASKED a Tibetan Buddhist teacher what she thought was the core cause of human suffering. “Believing this place is solid,” she quipped. Of course, I thought to myself, ego has to make it solid ‘out there’ so it feels solid ‘in here.’ So long as trees and tits and power plants and politicians more> PLEASE ASSIGN an astrological sign to each of the 12 walking styles below. Remember, we’re all archetypal mutts down here, so though we have our signature styles of parting space, it’s just a matter of time (or lifetimes) before we try on all 12. In the real world, archetypes arise in compensating clusters. Descriptions of more> Archetype: The Mediator Key Phrase: “I harmonize” Dates: Sept 23 – Oct 23 (Varies year to year) Polarity: Masculine/Yang Element: Cardinal Air Ruling Planet: Venus Body Rulership: Kidneys (The kidneys rectify toxic imbalances, delivering harmony and justice to the body), lumbar region of the spine, ovaries. Aura: The diplomat. Usually tall, slender, well-proportioned body. Clear more> IS ASTROLOGY A RELIGION? Depends on how you define “religion.” I prefer to bypass this heady line of inquiry and move on to a less academic question: Can modern archetypal astrology help us awaken to what science calls the non-local field of consciousness and Rumi calls The Friend? Yes, providing the language of archetypes becomes more> WELL, DECEMBER 21, 2012 has finally come and gone. Or has it? Is not every moment, nakedly met, cataclysmic to our inner “knower?” Aren’t we all secretly pining for the day when the apocalypse of preconception finally rushes over us — even as we shiver in dread at its approach? Without a healthy sense more> |
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