The Light and Shadow of Energy and Time

We can enjoy the new beginnings of our new moon in Pisces today, March 1, 2014 at 3:01AM EST when the sun and the moon are in conjunctivo at 10* of PIsces.

This is where the lunar and solar cycles get together for a little yin/yang loving and start a new cycle for the month.  In this case, it is time to dive deep into the waters of Neptune/Poseidon, and collect the world we have been dreaming as the winter brings us into our internal world of hibernation and usually less movement.

When we sit quietly and ruminate on the past, then meditate and find that still small voice is silenced enough, the deep world rises up to deliver us nuggets of gold and pearls of wisdom.  There is wisdom in ‘not’ doing that for some, can be a little too unnerving, but if one can, when the chickens come home to roost, we develop a more comprehensive sense of who we really are and what we are capable of doing. Using the reigns of Saturn/EL, we can harness the deeper magic of Poseidon’s horses~ The Sea horse of our spiritual and mythical mind.

HEAR the MUSE, the music of your own soul and the drum beating of your hearts calling?

This time has many energetic changes happening, as the moon and the sun dance together, Mercury/Hermes (communication, short trips) has just gone direct at 18* OF Aquarius, Mars/Ares (Energy, passion and the individual) goes retrograde on the 2^nd at 27* of Libra, and Saturn/EL (structure/authority/time) will go retrograde on March 3, at 23* of Scorpio.

So…When Mars hits 24* of Libra on March 23^rd, he will be returning to his conjunction with Saturn back on August 15^th, 2012, which will bring a reminder right now, so pay attention and consider what you were dealing with back then, with taxes, authorities, partnerships, love interests and affairs.  This is the seed that was planted and it is part of Saturn’s 29 year cycle that you now have a little time to readjust and amend.

This is NOT the time to start new projects, as I stated in the last post about Mars.

What we are also witnessing and dealing with, are a lot of the ‘shadow’ aspects of ourselves and others around us.  They may be mirroring your own shadow back to you, that you have been ‘hiding’ and not dealing with consciously.  This may happen by always trying to be ‘positive’ and buying into the spiritual baloney that has been twisted into: we only attract what we think about.  We attract WHAT AND WHO WE ARE AND THE LESSONS WE NEED TO ACCESS OUR POTENTIAL AND HEAL THE PAIN OF THE PAST.  WE CAME HERE TO LEARN AND EVOLVE.

A battery has a negative and positive pole, and you cannot have a ‘current’ without the pairs of opposites being ‘paired’, so negative to positive and vice versa.  Of course we should always make the best of a situation, but remember that the truth sets us free.  As I always say, ignorance has the word 'ignore' inside, so shed the light on the situation and get tot he truth. Now, during these times, all these planets are expressing their shadow’ side, which means our own shadow will be exposed, and that may not be comfortable, thus they become hidden aspects, things that we feel and bury and we don’t actually deal with on a conscious basis. For instance; Saturn/El who represents authority and boundaries, may bring issues of boundaries, of standing up for ourselves or authority.  So, those very lessons may show up in our life, through the people who can best represent or teach us that lesson.  If it is a boss, we may need to revisit our true desires and our work ethic and goals.  If they abuse power and we complain about that but never actually stand up to that person in authority, then that lesson will keep reappearing in our lives and this is the time for just such experiences.  Saturn also represents our physical boundaries as in buildings and our home, construction on that home.  So, the power someone has or threatens you with, may feel like a threat to your security or home…where you secure your own body and possessions. Especially with Mars retrograde in Libra, where our passions and drive come into play.  This is definitely a passive/aggressive trigger time, and we will see people act out or push our buttons. Lessons about when and how to stand up for ourselves will come front and center.  How much energy does one want to put into the relationship?  What about the passion?  Well, right now, that may feel a bit, lacking or…it could be a head of steam if you have been holding it all bottled up, just make sure it doesn’t go off with the wrong person, because if this is in any way directed into affairs, or secret loves, it is SURE to backfire.  Jupiter is still retrograde too and will go direct at 10* of Cancer on March 6th, so Cancers will FINALLY feel a little of that good mojo coming back.  You are still on the cross if you have planets between 10-16*, but you will feel some good measure come back to you, for all your good vibes you have been putting out there for so long. That nurturing will come back as well as some of the expenses you have paid, should see some return. I would still caution against any new venture, until Mars goes direct on May 20th, and even safer yet, is when Saturn goes direct, for anything regarding a lot of responsibility or commitment and that won’t be until July 21st. So what do we do in the meantime?  We learn, we pay attention to the possibilities that present themselves and those around us who are teaching us those final lessons to make sure we are that much clearer about who we are, what we really desire/want in life, and what we are willing to do, give up or put up with to get there.  How do we spend our time, and is it bringing about the world we desire or wish to create, does it bring us the happiness of Jupiter?  Have we plumbed the depths of our spiritual treasure chest and brought out the pearls we have been blessed with? While Neptune is in PIsces, she is home, so we have a long time for dreams playing a pivotal part in our life, but while the new moon makes her conjugal visit with her solar paramour, she is dosing our world with the power to dream, to envision and ‘feel’ the music of our world, so listen, play and dance! This is all steadily building up steam for that powerful Cardinal Cross coming in April that you can read more about here: http://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2014/02/grand-cross-april-21-2014.html This will not be the optimal time for surgery’s or purchasing a home or business, unless other factors indicate differently in your chart.  Please take care with knives, and sharp instruments, and if someone has displayed aggressive behaviour in the past, take caution now. When Jupiter goes direct on the 6th, some good mojo will pour back into the planet, and also things that you have started previous to the retrograde periods will find their way into a period of overhaul. re-visitation or reformatting, which is different than starting a brand new project. It will be a good time to: Re-new, re-pair, re-juvenate-re-SOURCE, etc. This is a period of ‘tempering the vessel’, so learn some temperance, it is not punishment, as much as it is out of love, to build something even better. People will come into your life as the perfect trigger to open up and access your shadow and that lesson.  The key, is the shadow and the light will pour into your life, when the shadow is acknowledged, and the lesson has tempered your vessel enough to hold THE LIGHT and THAT POWER.  The universe has divine timing, that you may only see in the lens of history.  “Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

"Spiritual/New Age practitioners who endlessly affirm the light while ignoring the shadow are one more example of yet another style of falling under the spell of wetiko. (SEE: http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/wetiko.html) It's a beautiful thing to visualize and affirm the light, just not as ...an unconscious or fearful reaction against the darkness. Many metaphysical "light workers" are actually caricatures of genuine spiritual practitioners, as in their affirmations of the light are unwittingly avoiding conscious relationship with the darkness within themselves. Thinking that they don't want to "feed the darkness" by putting their attention on it, in their turning away from and avoiding their own darkness, they are unwittingly reinforcing the very evil from which they are fleeing. Looking away from darkness, thus keeping it unconscious is what evil depends upon for its existence. If we unconsciously react, as compared to consciously respond, to evil by turning a blind eye toward it - "seeing no evil" - we are investing the darkness with power over us."

- Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

“The ability to hold Light is directly proportional to the courage to see darkness. Choosing to see just one creates distortions and illusions. It amazes me that something so simple and common sense can be so difficult to even discuss with ‘spiritual’ people who insist on remaining ‘positive’. Actually, this avoidance is based on unacknowledged fear that their inner light might be somewhat ‘dispersed’ by seeing darkness and therefore not giving the light much credit at all. I think there’s also fear that they might somehow become ‘tainted’ or the darkness might ‘manifest’ in some form in their lives. But the opposite is true; it is the fear, especially unacknowledged, that has much more chance to manifest than darkness exposed to daylight and investigation. Just like we must be fearless about our own inner shadow, we must also be fearless about seeing this huge shadow of humanity. Or we will have the power to transform precisely nothing, within or without.”

- Anis Springate

Bring It on Home, The Harvest Moon, September 19, 2013

Bring It on Home

The Harvest Moon, September 19, 2013 at 7:12AM EDT

Are you feeling the rush to finish projects?  The harvest moon, as she fills up and lights up the nights sky with orange and cadmium/ochre hues vanishing into the stretching void, dotted with the night lights watching over our curious slumber, holds back the night for us to bring in the harvest.

Here in Cleveland, Ohio that has come in fits and starts, with a peekaboo sun and a lot of grey skies this summer.  Nonetheless, we are tasked with the preparation of the goods and nourishment that will sustain us through the coming blanket of ashen aubergine winter days and nights.
Venus (love and partnerships) is in a leaden embrace with El, Lord of the Rings (time, constriction, discipline) and Karma has come to call with the Moons north node (the head of the dragon, emotional baggage and way-shower) and one might suspect that all is a woeful tale, but not so quick!

Sure, Aphrodite is preparing her lovelies for the descent into the underworld, but she is in a very romantic nudge as she sextiles Pluto/Hades (Lord of the underworld and the riches that world has locked within her treasure chest) and he IS in Capricorn, which may seem stingy at times, but he likes to look successful and Aphrodite can certainly be charming enough to seduce our Randy friend into allowing her a few pretty things, the rewards that El/Saturn will also want to give for those who have done their work over the summer cleaning out the attic so to speak, dealing with that karmic dust and storage and not simply overlooking our own participation or the flutter of the bats keeping their radar on all things sticking to our auric fields, as we attempt to drag them down into the depths of the underworld as ‘mine and ours’.  

The moon in Pisces at 25* opposing her lover the sun at 25* of Virgo is swimming in her emotional sea of make-believe and also her ability to love unconditionally and forgive over and over.  While she is still in those last degrees, or at least the energy of the full moon, you might take that advice seriously, as you will soon see.

As Aphrodite/Innana draws away from the old man’s clutches (El/Father) she is still able to warm him up too, since Saturn is exalted in Libra, her fair and balanced mind suits him fine and he has been in a sextile which is also a mutual reception with Hades in Capricorn, this CAN create a bridge over the decadent and harsh reality as long as some truth has been spoken and revealed, dealt with and yes, even Scarlett O’Hara has rolled up her sleeves and done some digging in the fields on her own.

I am not trying to lay down a bed of roses~not completely anyway.  You see, Aphrodite/Venus is pushing into a square with Mars, (action, ambition and energy/passion) and they will be locked on that pressure point exactly at the 18^th* on Friday the 27^th of this month, so the pressure is building.  Mars in Leo may bring out the puerile tendencies of your male paramour, or your own (female) desire to go out on the prowl and be playful.  That doesn’t always sit too well if Miss Scarlett is the one at home when we know good and well how much she loves to get dressed up for all that attention and admiration and in Scorpio…?  There is one thing everyone should know, you don’t and let me repeat this so you understand me clearly, YOU DON’T MESS WITH VENUS IN SCORPIO.

You know the saying; “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”?  That was written about a Venus in Scorpio woman, I am sure.

Venus in Scorpio is hmmm, let’s see how do we draw this picture up for you?  Oh yeah, remember Glenn Close as Alex in “Fatal Attraction”?  She starts out all seductive, Michael Douglas who plays Dan, cannot resist, even though he has sweet and pretty Anne Archer (Beth) lovingly waiting at home for him.  The PASSION IS SO INTENSE THEY GET LOST INSIDE THE VOLCANO OF EMOTIONS AND SEXUAL APPETITES THAT ARE UNLEASHED, AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN BURIED THERE FOR MANY LIVES WAITING FOR JUST THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BURST FORTH.   Guess what, they probably have.  This is the testing and tempering that Venus in Scorpio along with her posse, Saturn and the Head of the Dragon are stirring up in that sextile to Pluto/Hades (passion and death personified) and that square to Mars in the Lordly realms of the lion.  HE is king of the jungle and he will have to pay, if he has played around lose and fancy especially while the sun that LEO houses is in the saintly and austere realms of the Virgin.

Oh no, this won’t play out well at all if you have been playing either character, Dan or Alex, even though the seduction and the heat were intense, this can only end in an explosive cataclysmic event and the truth will spill out all over the place.
The best you can do is to come clean, and start making nice (using the Venusian charm and gifts of Libra) and while that sun is still in Virgo, humble yourself.

Otherwise, this equinox when things go into balance may have you scrambling when it is too late, especially when that Venus square to Mars in Leo hits the energy field and the worst kind of passion ends just like that story, in a fatal attraction.  Now, I AM not saying there will be an actual death, but I will say that endings are assured; people will sever their ties and go their separate ways.  Saturn will gladly take out his scythe and cut away all that has been left to rot and decay.

So, measure up what is important in your life and put in the energy and effort to maintain the good part of passion, and of course, there is a lot to love about passion that has controlled fire, measured heat and steamy embraces in the cooling and crisp air of autumn.  I am also not disparaging all of you with Venus in Scorpio either, that comes with a lot of heat to control, and YOU KNOW THAT BETTER THAN ANYONE.
And think of the beautiful possibilities that exist, just like the beauty of the natural world giving off its brilliance in burning colours of cranberry and citrine, the last of the fire of the sun that has been thirstily drank all summer is now ready to return the favor and dazzle the landscape; so too can a relationship that has been tempered and stood the test of time.

All this makes me think about temptations in the first place and a conversation with a client opened up to discussing the seven deadly sins as they are called.

Here they are, with Pride at the top, since it supposedly begat all the rest:
Pride, envy, anger, sadness (sloth), avarice (greed/ covetousness), gluttony, and lust.

Those are the little tempters that one might pay attention to with this kind of stellar configuration.

Hey, I am not saying anyone is perfect, just trying to give a guideline and a road map to help us use the stellar lights as a guiding force from the Great Divine Mind for our own good and evolution.

As far as the Uranus (UR/people/change/brilliance) square to Pluto/Hades that is ongoing, the changes that we make now, will ultimately prevail if they are formed by a larger vision or perspicacity in mind, and a unifying field created by the strength of our individual gifts and strengths, and all of this will finally coalesce way down the road in 2016, but my how time flies when you are having fun…oh and getting older. (Cough)

Because it won’t be until then, that Saturn is finally making a nice sextile to Uranus after they have opposed one another; which started this whole divisive field we now live in back in November of 2008.
That’s right, we simply MUST find a common ground, a unifying field to meet up in, or let ourselves continue to be torn apart in the violent opposition of the We/They, Red pill/Blue Pill meme that is being stoked and poked along much to the unawares of those buying into the angry (Seven deadly) warlike drumbeat lulling us along into a far worse scenario, if we allow ourselves to be victimized by the old played out versions of reality that are practically ripping their emperor clothing line off themselves.

Store up a bit, use the time as it was meant, for preparation and moderation, and with a bit of discipline and hard work (Saturn) you can reward yourself with a good night out, as long as you are not using it as an escape valve and you haven’t actually done the ‘home-work’.  Otherwise, use the steamy energy to alchemize your partnership into a deeper shade of blue, royal purple becoming the amalgam of love, a true Venus in Scorpio reward saved only for the worthy and intrepid souls.

 

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So, get ready, time for the HARVEST!