Shine Your Light Cast Out the Darkness, Soul On Deck

This year, is a FIRE/ROOSTER YEAR. I ask you to consider the ELement of FIRE.  What is in the mind of fire?  What feeds fire and what puts fire out?

Fire can burn, but it can heat us on the cold winter nights, while it will also light up the darkness that can feel like a cold blanket of expanse.  The countryside can be pretty all dressed in her finest white garment, but it can also be sterile and make one yearn for the ‘wearin’ of the green’ that will colour our world fragrantly.

It is the stuff of the ‘combustible engine’ that is quickly becoming outdated, even though that time should have come much sooner.

It is the ‘flame’ in inflammation, that those who suffer from arthritis have to contend with, or any inflammation that our body uses to heal us with, even as we eat and that digestive process heats up the wizardry of our body’s brilliant design to metabolize the food that we eat, that connects us to all of life. 

One of my favorite movies, was: “Out of Africa”.  Meryl Streep’s character Karen, leans heavily on her guide Farah, played by Malick Bowens, who is her attendant and in charge of the house staff.  He also is her ‘lookout’ who travels ahead of the rest of the caravan, to make sure the way is safe and clear.  Once he finds the next ‘camp’ he builds a fire, so they can see and find him.

They develop a very special and close relationship.  At the end of the movie, when Karen is moving back to Europe, she says he must come and see her.  He responds: “You must make the fire very bright.”  It is very touching, I usually cry, even though I have seen the movie half-a dozen times.

So, fire can light the way.  We have our own fiery sun/star in the sky to light and guide our own way.

Fire is related to digestion, the liver (LIVE or) and to the energy we need to move forward as well as igniting passions.

Fire is known to most in the north, as the direction of the south. 

Now, let’s get to the Rooster.

Rooster, my favorite cartoon, may have been, Foghorn, Leghorn, growing up.  What does that really have to do with this?  Well, not so much other than of course he wanted to be the ‘cock of the walk’ and I may never have the chance to talk about my favorite cartoon.  LOL

The rooster symbolizes your own personal strength, and they can be assertive, so this can symbolize a year to get things started.  Have you put things off for that day when…..?  This can be used to get over the hurdle of believing in yourself, and start to promote yourself, don’t wait for others, but if you see something worth promoting, by all means, get going!  Christmas Eve will have a Saturn trine to Uranus, so put something into the universal matrix to your intentions.  You might just get that long sought after recognition.

Roosters crow and start the day.  They don’t like others in their hen house so can be assertive to protect their little hens that are laying eggs (creativity) and they know how to show off their colourful plumage.   This is a potent sign, fire and rooster being both yang or active, to get ‘er done!

They are proud but not arrogant, though humble might be a stretch.

The day is what you make of it and the roosters early call says to “get moving”.

The Star Card: XVII (Year; MMXVII)

The Star card, is about connecting your inner light, and shining that out into the world.  Show your soul light on deck this year, it is time and the universe has us cooked up to the boiling point, so something has to come out now, what?  The gift you came here to give, which is born from your cross, your wound, found as Chiron in your chart, which as we have taught for over a decade now, is the ‘the skeleton key to your chart’…where your father’s house has many mansions.

General Meaning

Celestial influences this year, will draw out the culmination of your life’s work until now, the lessons that you have learned to formulate that fusion of your soul, its divine origin and intent, with the materia or matter of this world. 

How can you best make a difference?  What is uniquely you?

It is time to let your light shine, your star shine…what play are you the star in and why?

This is not about your personal control, but about what you personally can give that is a much bigger picture than you, what world stage can you light up, when you align with the heavenly stars?  What is your mission, should you choose to accept it?

Have you tempered your vessel, and learned to separate this from that?

Do you see the dross now that occluded your internal vision?

There is the old nursery rhyme: “When you wish upon a star, dreams come true”…But that is for children, unless you have learned, that when you align, yourself, with the universe, and what you were born to do, the universe will respond to you, and agents and angels will show up on your path, when you are ready.

This is not to ‘go with the flow’, like lemmings, but to have forged your vessel, to a tensile strength that can handle the light that is now glowing within you.  Feel the trembling cauldron inside of you?  Feel your kinship with the earth and how she is trembling too?

We had to learn to discern, to be aware of what is happening around us, as so much has been revealed, as we told you in chapter I of the book: ‘Alchemy of the Soul, A Limbic System”.

All is being revealed now, the ancient secrets, the emperor’s with no clothes, the monsters that live among us and have all but taken over the planet.

Oh, they are equal opportunity, by now you surely must be awake enough to know they have taken over the top of all the pyramidal systems, organizations, political parties, unions, etc.

Now, there is no more hiding, it is all coming out in the open and that is frightening for those who have been so busy, they could not see, or fell into the trap of so much of the new age teachings, that are just one more rouse to get those not ready to hold the bright light of truth yet, but we must now help them realize their true source too.

Shine your own light, it will cause some to recoil, if they have been going on false truths, that alignment may be hard to readjust and more so for some than others.

The Star Card will reveal the invisible hand, who is guiding us along, and will allow us to stray when we are not ready for the deeper truths and the light that they hold.  It is not different than trying to look directly into the sun, this requires inner vision.

But, we must know, that if we are not aligned with our spiritual pursuit, if what we do, lacks real meaning or we have not found the energy rising when we share our gift, there is still more tinkering and tempering to be done.

It is time to rededicate yourself, to take the steps that align that little turning stone within you, to a larger realm traveling through an ancient evolutionary course that started long ago and throughout eternity.

Listen to your heart for wisdom, is it connected to your actions?

The ancient’s had all the right tools, meditation, cleansing, prayer, fasting, truth, communion, honour, good works, yoga, being in nature’s garden, seeking forgiveness and repentance.   Contemplate your path, and adjust your sails, what you have been putting off is calling you.

Remember, we are dealing with some powerful A-STAR-OLOGY, here, and Saturn and Neptune, Saturn wants us to be careful, not to rush in, this reminds us of not being too prideful, remind yourself of the rooster, and fire, too quick, we have a wild fire, but controlled, we have THE POWER TO LIGHT UP THE WORLD.

 Notice there are seven stars around her?  In astronomy, the Pleiades (/ˈplaɪədiːz/ or /ˈpliːədiːz/), are also known as the Seven Sisters.  The constellation is in the sign of Taurus the bull.

Here is a little excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Celts, Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Arabs (who called them Thurayya), the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, the Sioux and the Cherokee. In Hinduism, the Pleiades are known as Krittika and are associated with the war-god Kartikeya (Murugan, Skanda), who derives his name from them. The god is raised by the six Krittika sisters, also known as the Matrikas. He is said to have developed a face for each of them.

The Nebra sky disk, dated circa 1600 BC. The cluster of dots in the upper right portion of the disk is believed to be the Pleiades.

The Babylonian star catalogues name the Pleiades MUL.MUL or "star of stars", and they head the list of stars along the ecliptic, reflecting the fact that they were close to the point of vernal equinox around the 23rd century BC. The Ancient Egyptians may have used the names "Followers" and "Ennead" in the prognosis texts of the Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days of papyrus Cairo 86637.[11] The earliest known depiction of the Pleiades is likely a bronze age artifact known as the Nebra sky disk, dated to approximately 1600 BC.[citation needed] Some Greek astronomers considered them to be a distinct constellation, and they are mentioned by Hesiod, and in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Did you also know that when you see the woman with the pitcher you should follow her into her house?  That is Aquarius.

Follow her into the Age of Aquarius.  Aquarius is an air sign, though she is holding pitchers of water, this is all alchemical.

I posted two different versions of the card, so you can see there are different ways of telling a story in the ‘unbound book’ of the TAROT, ORATER, TARA, TORAH. 

She wants us to shine our light, don’t wait for permission, to follow her into your own house.  You don’t give a star permission to shine, and we all need whatever light you have been impregnated with, bring it forth. 
Also notice, that in one card, there is a traveler with his knapsack on his back, a wanderer who does not seem to have a home?  That may be coming in early spring for some, with Venus, Jupiter going retrograde and Mercury going retrograde on the tail end of Venus, just before she stations direct.

I will post more on the year ahead, and add to this, but needed to get this out, so you can see the following also:

We will have a lovely trine from Uranus in Aries to Saturn in Sagittarius that will be exact on Christmas Evening, on the way to the New Moon in Capricorn at 7* on December 29th at 1:53 AM.  There they are the sun and moon hanging out with Mercury and just ahead of this, the sun will be catching up with Pluto/Hades at 16* of Capricorn the Goat…that is forming a T-square to Uranus at 20* of Aries and Jupiter at 20* of Libra, so that is a tense formation, again, the boxed in feeling.  Ever play racquetball and get hit by that hard rubber ball, bouncing so quickly off the wall you don’t have reflexes that are agile enough to realize it is even coming before it happens?  Well, that is a good analogy for the energy right now, as quick as you shine your light, Mercury RX at 6* Capricorn and Uranus Rx at 20* Aries, are both recoiling and mangling up communication efforts, that at times, will be exactly the wisdom hindsight can quickly bring now, especially with the trine from Uranus to Saturn, it is returning to us, it will also peel back layers and give us insights so quick and so deep, we might make the mistake that it is all done now, okay, now we got this, and we do.  But we will have a ‘return and adjustment’ that once we attend to, layer after layer, it will finally sink in and become the foundation to move forward with for the change that is necessary.

Remember, that Saturn/EL is the ruler of Capricorn, so all we see happening, is directly related to Saturn and planets like Pluto in his domain, and also aspects to Saturn and Pluto, with all the closer planets making aspects, as the sun and moon will do on the 29th and Saturn trine to Uranus, ruler of

Aquarius makes starting Christmas eve.

As a reminder, I am sharing a song, a signpost for the times we now find ourselves, think about the words, beyond just a 'room'...for we are all living in a large home/earth together. We sit right next to one another, no matter how far apart and dissonant, lol, that might seem.

Sing it to us all now Sarah Vaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtQzuqtrtg

A very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all. 

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Spirit Sent Me...A Real Turtle Rock

I have many mystical experiences, including my own death at the age of 17, experiencing heaven, the fusing of G-d's love and light into my being as ONE, walking around with Jesus (float walking) and asking to come back.

During my divorce, I chose to live in a barn without running water, etc. To find out who I really am, what do I really believe and why.  I was also going through a financial dis-empowerment that I never experienced before.

I started to question everything, and was worried I was disappointing G-d, feeling I may have 'failed' at my commitment...to help my husband enough to make the marriage work and diffuse his overwhelming anger.  I tried to kiss and love all that pain that was buried inside of him away.  I was not in the war, I did not serve.  Was my service to help him heal?  For nine years I tried.  I wrote notes to G-d, prayers asking for help.    (One night this culminated in an awful experience, I just cannot share at this time, so please accept my apologies.)

Anyway, at that point, I lost my eternal optimism. I felt I failed my husband and the commitment I made to G-d ~ all of it.

So I was on the cement floor, sobbing, asking, and literally pleading with G-d to show me a sign ~ show me that I was doing the right thing.  Here I was with rocks talking to me, laying all around me in a circle, I had gathered feathers, crystals, and other various items on my walks following an inner voice that lead me around the island.  I thought to myself, yes...maybe I am losing my mind.

A knock came at the door of the barn.  I was a bit startled. Did I actually hear that? Why and who would be at my door? Should I be afraid?  I am alone and there is no one around here.

I went to the door and opened it....

There stood a native American Indian......he told me: “Spirit sent him to me”.....

I replied that I wasn't in a good place, that I had been crying, in case he was picking up on my energy (as I would have) so he would know that yes, I was out of sorts.

He replied with a bow and said: “You have already honoured me by telling me the truth”...very good.

I asked him if he would like to come into my barn, though I have nothing to offer.

He said yes, he came in and saw all the rocks, feathers, crystals, etc., I was gathering, we sat on the floor and he would ask me what they were 'saying to me'. I showed him some of the songs I was writing, and that I was starting to write a fairy tale about a little girl who wakes up inside a dream talking to animals.

He told me he wanted me to come to 'Sweat Lodge' that evening, and that tomorrow he wanted to

start to take me to the sacred places on the island, and that spirit had sent him to me, because he was supposed to show me these things.

Before he left, I wanted to give him something, but really had nothing to offer, save for a cigarette, since I still smoked at the time.  I offered him one and he bowed and said: “Now you have honoured me a second time.  It is tradition, to give tobacco as a gift.”

Here now, I will share another example of the magic that awaits us, if we simply pay attention.

Indian Bob and I took many hikes together.  As we walked the many different parts of the island, he would tell me the sacred stories that were connected to each particular area.

One day, while walking with Bob, the two of us cut a path in the crystalline amber stretch along the waters of the great lake on the ‘Emerald Island’ as Bob informs me of the mission he was told I am there to fulfill.

“You have been called to the island, to tell the story of the ‘Rock Tribe’ by ‘Clam digger Woman’, yes you will tell the story of the stone people who have been keepers of the sacred stories, throughout all of time.”

As he tells me this, I look down and see what looks like a clam, but slightly different.  I reach down and pick it up, rinsing off the sand in the cool waters of Lake Erie, it glistens in the sun and as the striations of grays and browns, reveal what is a stone that seems to be a petrified clam!  Immediately after, I find another rock, reach down and pick it up and it looks just like a turtle.  With that, and eagle screeches as it divides the azure skies not but 15 feet above us, coming what seems to be so close I almost thought I should duck my head.

Bob just looks at me with a look that seemed more dazzled and shocked than I was, and says to me: “They don’t usually fly that close, he is watching out for you and that was another sign that what I am saying is true.” 

We hiked up onto one of the many huge limestone rocks piled along the shore and sat down for the sunset show to blaze fire along the stretching blues running into each other in the horizon and meeting in the distance.  As he began his descent, two crescent rainbows arched into one another and again we looked at each other as we hummed in awe at the treat we had been given that day with each other.

That eagle watched me the entire time I was on the island healing and writing....if I called him...he came.....it was quite magical during an otherwise difficult time.

For some reason, I am always given the most wondrous magical times and love, even in my darkest hour.  Always angels show up to save me, guide me....real amazingly mystical times have I have lived.

The universe was speaking so loudly to me that day, loud enough for me to carry the message to this page to share with you right now.  It has been a long time coming home.

I feel each of us has a key, a sacred truth that is buried within us, to share and help each other wake up.  If we weave these stories together, we will see a much bigger picture that as individuals, are occluded enough to keep us wading through the darkness.

I apologize, for taking so long to have the guts to begin to share these stories, I have carried for so long.  Each word, is like emptying a sack of stones, to make my walk and journey lighter.

I hope it helps to act as a key, much like Chiron is the key to the astrology chart, as I was told mystically after taking a retreat with Barbara Hand Clow, and she explained that it was the ‘rainbow’ bridge.  Once I looked at the symbol (which is always a font of information) it was unmistakable.

Since Chiron pierces the veil, between Saturn and Uranus, I thought of it as ‘Parsifal’, who perceives the all…by piercing the veil.  I have taught this many times in classes in the years that followed, and shared many times on social media and with friends and clients as I read for them, or was simply sharing what was fondly coined: ‘a Gloriaism’ by one of my students.

The wounded healer, which I am quite visibly now, having a long doorway, that runs from just below my breast to the top of my thigh and across to the other.  Yes, I have been ‘in through the out-door’ and returned.  I know this, all life first comes through the wounding, even the ovum, must be ‘wounded’ by the sperm, to be impregnated.

My walking out and back into this world when I died?  That is another story, and another chapter.

Written in 1995