New Moon In Aries Raising Up the Cross 2014

Spring has sprung…hasn’t it?  Here along the great lakes, Erie to be exact, apparently Persephone is still in the clutches of Hades and Demeter has not been able negotiate her daughter’s rightful release.

In Cleveland, we have been an average of 20 degrees below the ‘normal’ temperatures and we just had another bout of snow yesterday that continued on and off into the night. 

The forces for change are struggling for power and control, and not just in the weather patterns.

This Sunday the 30^th at 2:46PM EDT, we will have the second new moon in March at 9* of Aries.

It will herald one of the most intense spring months we have had for many years.  Lady Luna will be courted and wed by her solar paramour and UR-Anus/change agent will be their best man.  Up on the altar of change, lighting up the sky they will co-conspire to martial our energies that have been stewing on the back burner since the last eclipse cycle began in November with the solar eclipse.

Which issues have come up for you to work through?  What changes have you made in your life?

With so many planets dancing back and forth, as I posted in the “The Light and Shadow of Energy and Time” see link here: http://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-light-and-shadow-of-energy-and-time.html we have been witnessing aspects within us that culminate and play out over the course of our lives in patterns of repetition that show themselves in the people we are drawn to and in the circumstances surrounding us.

This play of shadow and light, reveals layers of repeating themes, we emerge through the darkness and struggle forward.  Aries is ruled by Mars, and the “I AM”, so how would you follow those two words…I AM (insert belief here).  Mars rules passion and anger, it is found in the depths of your limbic system with the fight or flight response and the alertness for danger.

FEAR is co-ruled by Pluto/Hades who casts the shadowy depths of the underworld upon the minds thoughts and colours the world with the nagging suspicion that something is under the bed lying in wait for you to drop that foot down into its clutches.

Mars rules your survival along with the Solar furnace that heats up the center of our world like a yolk and the whites of our eyes a collective perspective.  Everyone has an opinion.  All eyes turn toward the sun like most of the natural world, lest they fall into the dark abyss of the nocturnal variety…and we are back into the occlusion of sanity with the simplest of odd sounds waking us from our deep slumber.

Where is Demeter when we need her to negotiate our own release?  With what measure have we surmounted our gravest fears to find that pinnacle of truth piercing the veil and pouring forth the light of redemption and safety?

Which ground do you now stand firmly upon?

These are the questions that may be rising to your consciousness, especially in the past few weeks.  During the Mars retrograde period, it is as though he is pulling back the veil to all that Mars represents; anger, aggression, passion, motivation, energy, action, etc.  I also often make the comparison to an oar being plunged into the water, and simply holding it in place; we see the water swirl backwards bringing everything in its path along for us to witness.
Mars retrograde, as readers of this blog would know, also goes through his shadow phase first and last in that retrograde, which brings up our own shadow sides.
While the moon and sun conjunct Uranus, we can expect great outbursts and temper tantrums, as the last few blogs have outlined.

I often view the world as a giant sea, all things liquid and which has happened to me several times now.  I will share three of them with you now: When I died, everything was lit up and liquid-like.  As I float-walked, everything would sort of morph even though it was solid and more vivid than anything I have ever experienced on this planet.  There were colours I have never seen.  I have written about that in more detail on my website: www.arcancient.com 
Another time it happened when I was sitting in a forest after meditation and discussing everything in waves and vibrations, all of a sudden I was sitting inside a great river, the trees, leaves, plants oscillating in vibration as if I was at the bottom of the ocean. I could literally feel it rock me back and forth.  The last one I will share was deeply powerful too: I had two great angels pull me up through a water-like veil and transport me to witness something that an ex-business partner of mine was doing, that was of dubious content.  I talk more about all of these and many other experiences in detail in my upcoming book, that I am still working on.
Energy is moving in great waves and currents throughout the universe and being pulsed through life, through our very beings.  Circulating in our blood, the energy of Mars courses through our veins and is life giving.  Of course, all of this is the Grand Design of God.  I and you can merely witness this display and marvel, and we can seek to know more, as I do.

Ahh, but I regressed into the world of my 12^th house Neptunian mind.  All this unfinished business for Mars/Ares to return back through, however he is showing up and transiting your own chart is where he is activating your desire and action or actions of the past and those you will take in the future.  He is not returned back far enough yet to form that square and ultimately his part of the Grand Cardinal Cross that will culminate on April 21^st.  See my  blog on that here: http://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2014/02/grand-cross-april-21-2014.html

This happens just 6 days after the first of the 4 Blood Moons, the first of which is on

April 15^th (Passover).  If ever you've prayed, now would be the time, and now would be the time to consider our direction and the actions we must take to arrive at the destination we seek/desire.  Remember that changing even 1* will bring you to a very different destination point.  With that said, I want to remind all of us, that this cross is also very much like a ships steering wheel, on the handles: Jupiter at 13* of Cancer, Mars will be at 13* Libra, Pluto 13* of Capricorn and Uranus at 13* of Aries.  Those are the aspects on your chart we want to pay attention to using; for that is the energy of the stars as the Lord has created to guide over us.

“And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.”

Genesis 1:14-18

Now, on today’s new moon/luna/emotions/feelings at 9* conjunct the sun/ego/sentience AND Uranus we can expect the desire for sudden change and outbursts.  Quick decisions that may not go so well especially while Mars is retrograde.  However, Mars/Ares (22* Libra), even while he is retrograde will offer the power of martialing our energies, with the support of Venus/Aphrodite/love now at 23* Of Aquarius the water bearer in a nice trine to Mars; which was square to Mars when he went retrograde, remember?  So now, they are working things out and making up over their little spat.  If we haven’t worked out those issues of passive/aggressiveness and taken responsibility for our own choices and actions, this could be a little rougher.
We might be more forgiving at this time, water under the bridge.  Make this work for you, don't forget the lesson the problem brought.

Also, please remember that God does have an intention to insert life shifts to help us grow past what we might choose on our own.  If we won’t access our deep pearls, the universe will come along to help us.  This is just such a time.

Remember the supporting roles the planets I just mentioned will play, access those energies right now as we navigate through this major portal of time.  (Sun/Moon/Uranus in Aries and Venus in Aquarius).

Where else will we find help?

Well, we have been going deeper and deeper into the depths of Neptune/Poseidon (dreaming/art/music/utopia) in PIsces, and she is now at 6* of PIsces, making a lovely wide trine to Jupiter who is at 11* of Cancer.  (Um, that is a lot of water, btw) Since Jupiter/Zeus (benevolence/magnifier/higher knowledge/long distance travel) has just been retrograde and expands all around him, this wide trine has a far greater impact than we might usually consider.  Jupiter/Zeus who is King of kings, and overcame his father Saturn/El/Cronus in war after his mother Rhea tricked El into swallowing a stone (Philosophers Stone) thinking it was his son (Zeus).  So we always look to Jupiter/Zeus when working with a heavy Saturn/EL transit.

Our lord of the rings, El has been in mutual reception with Pluto in Capricorn don’t forget, so those energies have been working together for quite some time now, and Saturn/El (structure/limitations/karma/resistance) in Scorpio which is ruled by PLUTO/Hades (death/transformation/sex) is also co-ruled by MARS/Ares, so we see how that connection comes back to this MARS retrograde like following a daisy chain?  And can we see how all of these issues, are being brought up to the surface, since Saturn/EL Is also retrograde and pulling back the curtains?  Some would say that their energy/power is lessened; I would say it has changed its layer of effect on us, drawing and excavating deeper aspects of our divinely inherited core being, which makes us move SLOWER.  
Rhea means flow, and is the goddess of female fertility and change with the seasons of time, as wife of Kronos/EL.  She is very sympathetic in the ways to deal with her partner, to manage time and help things flow a bit easier.

Think of the sextant, as we dial the horizonal aspects into our view in the cross-hairs, we focus our attributes and where we have energy (Mars) and what we desire.  This T-square that is forming into the Cardinal Grand Cross is shifting us back and forth until finally our passion has set our flaming inner heart ablaze.  There, if we have it right, is the fire of the Holy Spirit, licking away the dross and the past with the fire that does not burn.

Hades/Pluto churning in the underworld and we see he has not released Persephone yet, locked in the flames of passion and desire, he is exhuming the depths of the pyramid, the pyre a mid, is the central fire within.  He is shaking up the corporatocracy and Plutocracy’s of the world, displaying the abuse of power, he asks us to step into our own power and face our fears.  To stand up to the old guard, Saturn/EL and he is giving us the means to that communication with a trine to Mercury/Hermes the messenger who is the one God who can move freely between the worlds and accompanies souls to the underworld and Saturn/El.  Mercury (communication/travel/siblings) is also in a nice trine to Jupiter/Zeus right now, so we see the bridge to Zeus from Kronos, the Lord of the Rings has been forged for us in the starlit nights.  Take advantage of this before he steps into his role in the Grand Cardinal Cross.

Don’t mistake me for saying this is one easy walk in the park, if you have read the blog previous on the Cardinal Cross, than you are aware of the many warning signs to prepare ourselves for.  But, we can also shift this time into peace and work with the power of prayer in action to make even that one degree turn on the dial of our compass, in our compass-ION.

Use that compassion that this world has torn open, drop down that drawbridge and cover that moat, let the universe come rushing in with the keys to paradise.

Now that we have been forced to create new muscles, new lives, new belief’s and been drawn into the larger picture, are you ready to walk into the valley of the gods?

Many of my readers, students and certainly friends, know I have been opened stem to sternum which brought me over from this world into the next.  I now refer to that as my doorway between worlds. 

Well, there are glorious heavens awaiting us, but here…we live in a 3D world that Saturn/El is coconspirator of as he weaves his time matrix and our mass, speeds through light twice as fast as the light itself, we must be restrained and meet with resistance as we are tempered. 

Now, how do we sit inside of that Great Spirit, the Holy Mother inside of our heart?  Well, for me compassion has pointed my compass to its internal plumb line, it sits within the inner chamber of the heart, and if one were to overlay their being upon the astral circle, we will see that even the cross overlaid,
shows the cross hairs are in the upper chamber of the heart, the upper heart chakra, where the flaming heart is ignited.  The heart/thymus, which as I have often stated in the past is thus: heartthymus..the hearth (inner fires)...hear Thy muse.  Do you see that now?

If we look at the players forming the cross again; Jupiter at 13* of Cancer, Mars will be at 13* Libra, Pluto 13* of Capricorn and Uranus at 13* of Aries.  Then we see that we want to be in the middle of this cross.  Uranus in Aries is rash and wants change in a new direction, but he is opposed by Mars who rules Ares in Libra; so balance with our energy is necessary and we must consider the needs of others and the consequences of our actions.  This is no solo trip.  As we clear our paths, honing in we see the starlit runway and we will drop WHEELS (The greatest invention) connecting our inner light with the guidance system being forged in this Great Shift.  Pluto opposing Jupiter in Cancer is power in the corporatocracy vs the benevolent mother and our home.

Recall all the disintegration our friends PAN and HADES have caused since the first square to Uranus and actually starting with the Uranus opposition to Saturn/EL all the way back in November of 2008.  Between the uprisings all over the globe, the market crash (all laid out on this blog and the reason I closed my last store in September of 2008) are all the markers and the shakers to ignite the fire of justice, and to shift perspectives from the material world of success to the Inner Wisdom of Compassion, for therein lies the truth, the light and the way.

This also means that we have all of those T-squares, but remember, look back at the sextant, do you see the square?  We need that to build, no home or structure is built without using a square (unless it is round for those of you who came up with the 'opposition' LOL) So put your hands upon the wheel, we will turn our wheels ever so slightly and adjust with the planetary changes and global power plays, shifting into a kinder place, this is the world we can build upon.

That won’t see real fruit until after Mars goes direct May 20 and certainly not until after the final Pluto square to Uranus March of 2015.
We have the Blood Moons to go through (Major changes and births, as blood is the cup of life and also of death), many will leave us over the next month and into the end of this year, with the next Uranus square to Pluto that comes in December 14, 2014.

From the Gospel of Thomas: He said to them, "Anyone here with two ears had better listen! There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark."

18 the disciples said to Jesus "Tell us, how will our end come?"

Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.

Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."

So let’s get our ships ready to sail, shall we?

Ride the Tiger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBtIbaFAVTg

We also have to transit through 4 Blood Moons starting with Passover, April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014 (Sukkot), again on Passover April 4, 2015 and ending on September 28, 2015(Sukkot). The following are the coming Uranus to Pluto squares we have left:

April 21, 2014, December 14, 2014, March 16, 2015.
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