Hermes Looks Back and Waves Goodbye

Our friend, Hermes as he is known in Greek Mythology and Mercury to the Romans, is often blamed for many things, especially when he goes retrograde; which happens three to four times each year.

What actually is taking place is the slowing down of the planet Mercury’s orbit of the sun, which eventually stops its motion in relation to the earth.
This creates an illusion of moving backwards, similar to what happens when you are sitting in your car at a light, and the car next to you moves forward, giving you the sense that you are moving.  The earth would be the moving car and Mercury is the car that is now stopped at the light (sun).

Another analogy I like to use is what happens when you are moving forward in a boat and you stick an oar in the water; the movement of the water as it swishes around the oar which is now moving with the boat and creating its own vortex is what happens energetically with the Mercury Retrograde.  I like to use the analogy of water for many things, but especially to help people visualize and understand the movement and force of energy that is not always so visible to the naked eye.  If we understand the universe as a living Sea of Life, the movement of the planets and the energy they impart into that sea, may be better understood.

Returning to the oar analogy; think about that movement in the water, swishing and circling ‘around’ the oar.  We see the returning of energy.  This is what happens with Mercury.  All the energy and information/lessons attached to by degree, sign, house and aspect are refocused in our lens and we are given another view/experience to literally, ‘review’ and perhaps make different choices, or become culpable for our previous actions and this includes karmic lessons back as a blast from the past.

If we take that a few layers back and ‘review’ what Mercury or Hermes actually rules over, we find these:  Communications, travel, pens, writing, siblings, language, crossroads, cue: “Went Down to the Crossroads” here is a link to Cream with lead Eric Clapton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-6OWBciRas but the story made most famous is one by Robert Johnson and his trek to the ‘Crossroads’ where he met the devil and ‘traded’ his soul to become a blues guitarist legend.

Commerce is also something that Mercury rules over, trade that all through history creates the infrastructure and roads necessary to transport goods from their point of origin to place of sale or market.  Although ‘Pluto/Hades’ rules over treasures, it is Mercury who is given free passage to and from the underworld of Hades, and of course, Hades loves music and Hermes invented the lyre using the shell of a tortoise. 

He was given a caduceus or staff from his father Zeus, which in some stories originally were two white ribbons that entwined the herald’s staff and later changed into two serpents.

Zeus also awarded Hermes, a cap with two small wings and a pair of winged sandals when he appointed him as the Divine Herald.  This gave Hermes the ability to travel over both land and sea.  Zeus also ordered everyone give their utmost respect to Hermes.

Hermes also rules: astronomy, astrology, cleverness, cunning wiles and wit, hospitality, heralds, diplomacy, thievery, persuasion, athletic contests (Olympics), gymnasiums and is given credit as the originator of the sacrifice to the God’s. He is the personal messenger and herald to his father Zeus, the king of the gods.

It is said that he punishes anyone who does not help those asking for directions.

Other Major attributes:
•              hodios patron of travelers and wayfarer

•              oneiropompus, conductor of dreams.

•              poimandres, shepherd of men

•              psychopompos, conveyor or conductor of souls and psychogogue, conductor or leader of souls in (or through) the underworld

•              the factor of travelling or motion with or without others with respect to the physical landscape, or the landscape of the soul , is the core attribute of the god as messenger and guide

 

OK, now that we have a bit of a backdrop upon which to draw, let’s go ‘back’ to Mercury Retrograde.

Mercury stations retrograde on June 26^th at 23* of Cancer until he goes direct again on July 20^th at 13*.

This is the second of three retrogrades this year and they are all in water signs, the next one being from  October 21 to November 10 in Scorpio.

He will almost manage to form an exact square to Uranus in Aries and opposition to Pluto in Capricorn.

 

We can expect the usual, computer malfunctioning, dropping pens, paper and pencils, electricity whirligigs, car trouble and miscommunications and misunderstandings.

I could tell you to try and be very clear before signing any agreements, if one were to be so bold at this time, but during a water retrograde, it is just asking for trouble to even try.

Now, if it is something with an ‘RE’ before the task, then by all means go ahead!  Re-pairing, Re-wiring, Re-painting, Re-negotiating, etc.

 

This is also when we get those blasts from the past, like seeing people we haven’t in years or meeting up with people we just seem to already know, they are usually someone from a past life.

In this water retrograde, expect and even look for people from the past to visit your dreams, and perhaps tell you something they didn’t or couldn’t get the chance to tell you in person; they may have already passed over too.  The message could be one you have been asking for answers to, so PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR DREAMS!

Now, think of how an object appears different when you look at it through water, the light refracts and skews the dimensions and the location of the object in the water.  This is a good analogy to comprehend what happens in communications.  Things are just not what they seem.  The message may become garbled or muffled, either way we are just not hearing what we thought we heard, so best not to come to any conclusions.  Yes, this also pertains to those messages in the dream state, but I would write them down to come back to later, they will have something that will help us put the pieces of the puzzle together and usually these will be more of the returning variety, the view we didn’t or couldn’t see before and that is what we are looking to benefit from during the Mercury retrograde period.

Secrets will have a much shorter life or half-life during this retrograde, since we already have had that long Saturn retrograde in Scorpio while in mutual reception to Pluto/Hades in Capricorn, all that was shuffled under the table will find its way to the surface like a leak that you just can’t fix.

Water will seek its own level and bring up from the depths of that Neptunian/Poseidon Sea (who is also retrograde) the deeper spiritual truths, the kind that were nipping around the periphery of your consciousness and almost within grasp and then popped like a bubble before we could integrate them.  The closer Mercury gets to that Uranus square, the closer those insights (ruled by Uranus) will come into our awareness.

Squares can be challenging of course, but they are also what we use to build upon, so after it all comes out in the wash, expect to become much clearer about what and where we want to build our dreams.

 

Since the retrograde is in Cancer (The moon/home/family) Cancers can expect to be affected the most, followed by all the Cardinal signs: Libra, Capricorn, and Aries as well as where those signs are by house in your own chart, including planets that are aspected too.

With Jupiter having just entered the sign of Cancer too, we can expect a lot of expansion in the water sign and all things Cancer, so it is a good time for family and nurturing ourselves with mother energy.
There could be some slowing of construction and housing during this retrograde period, or the flow of money into the housing market could feel strained, as if the river of loans is drying up.

This is a good time to clean and wash away the past, repair old friendships if our review brings the light of a new perspective or understanding but it may also mean the letting go of those friendships and relationships that are just too hard to hold onto, with all that water pulling those people who have served their purpose away and onto a different river in life.  I don’t say that lightly, since I don’t let go of people very easily myself, I take people very deeply into my heart, and it takes an awful lot of hurtful behavior for me not to overlook the transgressions, so even writing that does not come so easy.

 

Now, since Mercury is in Cancer, expect emotional confusion most of all, but also emotional healing.

I know that may sound contradictory, but that is how this works, the energy gives and takes away.

(I am also writing this during a Mercury Retrograde, so that means I will come back and rewrite this in the future AND it may not be as clear as I would like it to be, she said as she laughed to herself).

 

Let’s go back to the statue of Mercury looking back:  This is what we do best during this time, he wants us to RE-member who we are, the road we have travelled, our hurts and our accomplishments after we successfully negotiated the difficult times, the people we have met along the way and how we treated them, the kindness and the love that we have been blessed with and especially, our ability to laugh, to take things less seriously and find a witty sense of humor about it all.

But we made it through those times, just barely though it may seem, but we made it through.

So, it is compassion we can find now, and soothe our beings with the balm of that love, letting go of the need to do more and to worry about the future.

Kindness goes a long way.  Here is where I find POWER in our amazing ability to look back, to remember the times we have had with loved ones we may not be able to see in the physical world anymore, to glean a lesson from the lens of history and turn that into a better fuel and heraldry to turn around and implore the God’s when Mercury goes direct.

It is not the time to march forward; it is the time to bask in the afterglow of the road less travelled.

Happy Trails.

The secret is...I told you I would be adding more to this post ( I always do, so it is best to come back and reread the post's to get all the secret pearls I will cast out along the way).

Unless that is, you are ready to go deeper into the meaning?  Would you like to go down to the ‘Crossroads’and meet our friend Hermes?  Then knock and the door shall be opened unto you.

The heart is the doorway, the bridal chamber with (4) chambers into the divine abode of Venus or Aphrodite, where one learns true beauty that rises up from the Sea.  The Way of the Heart is THE WAY to the TRUTH and the LIGHT that comes from the singular eye.  To divine, is to use discernment and trample the Lion (Ego) and the Serpent (consumerism/consumption/lower earthly drives/lust/greed that keep one crawling on the belly for more things that will only turn to dust) and to enter the Bridal Chamber where the male becomes female and the female becomes male.  Balance and Harmony reign in the forces of the Divine Charioteer. 
This opens into the Thymus.  (The mystical colours of the Thymus are purple and deep teal).
Heart Thymus...HearThyMus...Hear…Thy...MUSE...Hearthearthearth…earthearthearth..earth.
Hearth Y Mus...Gather around ye hEARTH and entertain your muses...your teachers stand at the gate of the crossroads...where Hermes stands as the messenger to help you across the river. (Hermes is the ruler over the throat, arms, hands chakra).  He is Mercury in Roman symbolism.

“I went down to the crossroads, fell down on my knees”
  © Gloria O'Neil-Savage 'Sangreal' 2013

I went down to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
Asked the lord above "Have mercy now
save poor Bob if you please"
Yeeooo, standin at the crossroad
tried to flag a ride
ooo ooo eee
I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me babe
everybody pass me by
Standin at the crossroad babe
risin sun goin down
Standin at the crossroad babe
eee eee eee, risin sun goin down
I believe to my soul now,
Poor Bob is sinkin down
You can run, you can run
tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run
tell my friend Willie Brown
(th)'at I got the crossroad blues this mornin Lord
babe, I'm sinkin down
And I went to the crossroad momma
I looked east and west
I went to the crossroad baby
I looked east and west
Lord, I didn't have no sweet woman
ooh-well babe, in my distress

June Super Full Moon Filling Our Magic Cup

Tonight, our moon is full in the sign of Capricorn at 1*; in opposition to the Sun in Cancer at 2* and they are exact on June 23, 2013 at 7:32AM.

In the fullness, I feel gratitude for all.

 She is big and bright, hope you had time to let her fill you and reflect upon the past new moon cycle.  So much water with the big trine (support at 120*) from the Sun to Saturn (structure/time), while the Sun is conjunct Jupiter in Gemini as Jove leaves Gemini now at 29* (expansion/children/joy) in the prolific communicator (Gemini) so we may feel the pressure to say those things that we have been keeping in, or just to share joy.

Finishing travel plans or thinking about those summer trips?

The support from Saturn will have us finding time to finish up those projects and feeling good about the accomplishment.

On the downside, this full moon is on the galactic center with Jupiter too, so we can see the floods in Alberta, Indonesia, India/Germany and elsewhere.

Our cup is running over, so our prayers are sent out to those who have to deal with the increasing water and torrential downpours.

On the other hand, it is big magic time when you have these kinds of water trines, and to the dreamer herself, Neptune who is travelling in her own sign; this is major dreaming and creating time.  So tap into your dreams, and create your magical ritual using as many tools as possible to help you bring those concepts into fruition.

Write them down, use this time before Mercury goes retrograde at23*Cancer on the 26th, though we are already in the shadow.  We will see so many things have come up and are coming back up from the past, yes?

Well, this is just getting started, so expect the past to come back up and friends to show up that you haven’t seen in quite some time, even if it is in your dreams.

I just had my good friend, Marcella come and visit me, hug me lucid (this happens often in my dreams when those who have passed come, so that I wake up in the dream and remember and hear the message) and tell me she loves me.  I love that, I woke up feeling so peaceful and joyous.

I hope you have some nice/kind visitors too.

I also got a great message to help me know which way to steer my vehicle in my life trajectory, reminding me to emphasize teaching and astrology.

This is the kind of thing you may experience too, if you are paying attention!

We also have Black Moon Lilith conjunct the sun and Jupiter and opposing the Moon; she is escaping into our world and will be sure to bring up the creative forces from where it’s tangled up and dark, expect some real shockers to come out on the world stage politically and for some women to take lead rolls in spearheading some possible changes, or calling for action.

Give Dvorak's Noon Witc listen, Lilith might just come and steal away the child from the 'too good mother' who won't give herself a break, when the child knows majik is afoot and it is time to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w76qM4PxdLs

And love is in the air, could we ask for anything more?  Use this powerful magic to bridge this world and the next and reflect on what we are creating, our deepest desires are there for the taking, if we look closely and create a practical plan for action.

All that water, and Mercury and Venus conjunct in nurturing Cancer (the mother) we will hear from mothers in a big way, what do they want?  We will find out, what they need as they nurture the world and their own immediate families too.

So rock your mama’s world, show her you know how to romance her and take her into a fantasy dreamland.  You can do it with this great water trine!

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OK, so we have the fantasyland stoked up and Ur (anus) (sudden change/genius) still squaring Pluto (Hades lord of the underworld/treasure) so they want that transformation and Uranus is showing us the new way, again, it is all about paying attention.

Need a boost?  Get out some paint, crayons and see what your angels have you draw.

You might surprise yourself.

 

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Water, Water Everywhere, But Don't Drink It In The June 8 New Moon!

June 8, 2 New Moon at 17* Gemini, 10:57AM EDT
Having a grand old trine!

That is right; we have some very powerful astrological aspects to tap into with this new moon.

Water, water everywhere, but is it safe to drink?

Venus, Saturn and Neptune are in a tight Grand Trine in the water elements.  PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR DREAMS!  With Venus (both what we love as well as what we value, partnerships; conjunct Mercury (communications, travel) and also ruler of Gemini, we have a major doorway into the world that Poseidon/Neptune/Aphrodite rules and we may get a clear view of what we truly value in life, and subsequently, what we love.

This bridge can cross the divide from our subconscious that may paint pictures and dramatize our deeper needs on the canvass of our dreams; making the leap into our analogue mind, ready for us to create a plan and act on that plan with the new moon.

Now, we have the moon a watery vessel herself and ruler of Cancer, which Mercury and Venus are swimming in during this new moon so we can expect a lot of emotions to come to the surface bringing up thoughts from the past especially as Mercury enters his shadow at 13* Cancer on Monday the 10^th, since he is going retrograde at 23* on the 26^th.

With Neptune (dreams/visions/art/illusions) in Pisces (rulership of his own house) at 5*, Saturn (El/structure/hierarchy/limits) at 5* of Scorpio and Venus at 6* of Cancer (not going retrograde) while conjunct Mercury at 11* of Cancer all retrograde, we are bound to have an awful lot of reruns, do overs, rethinking the past, people from our past and even old idea’s back up from the watery depths to ask us if we really gave enough thought and consideration and finally effort into the actions we took.

Gemini the twins wants us to think about many things at once, so let the multi-tasking and multiple commitments to the same dates begin.

Let us not forget, water has a way of reflecting and also refracting light, so when we see things, be sure to take several perspectives to get a better view of what it is we think we see. 

Uranus (insights/inventions/community/sudden actions) is also squaring Venus, Mercury and Pluto and he is in Aries, which is adding impulsiveness to the fiery mix so try to remind yourselves that when things start to get overheated and steamy, you don’t want to say or make rash decisions that you will regret.

Pluto/Hades Lord of the Underworld can walk around invisible on the surface when he puts his magic cap on, so any way you ‘try’ to look at him, he is not quite so easy to detect; and he want to transform this change in the worst way, but this is also an extremely potent catalyst for changes that you may need or have been yearning for a long time.

He may just snap any lose ends and break weak tethers with his square to Uranus, but hopefully this water trine will help to smooth the flow if we find the right wind (Gemini) to catch our sails and carry us on the river of our dreams.

We have 4 more exact Pluto/Uranus squares with the next one on Nov 1, 2013, at 9* of Capricorn and Aries respectively.

These are major cycles and major gateways for very real change both on personal and planetary levels.

Some words of CAUTION:

Be wary of those calls that may come with scandalous secrets someone wants to share, you could find yourself in sticky goo and make rash decisions hurting those who really care about you, when you believe the RUMORS.

Gemini can be duplicitous, but he is ever so charming, so he makes it hard not to believe what he forgot were lies himself.  (This does not mean all Gemini’s are liars).

So right when you start to get some clarity and relief, beware the trickster who might just come along to seduce you (Mercury conjunct Venus opposing Pluto) and take you off course from finding your way home.

Be prepared for some deep seated fears to rear their heads (Again, Pluto opposing Venus/Mercury while we are in this water trine) and I mean from the deep, deep and dark subconscious.

Cancer is about the home, mother and what we cleave to.  The crab, who comes out to bask in the moonlight, will find little of it in the new moon, but he will still sidestep to get a better look at his prey.  So too, must we move sideways to help us face what may seem ‘head-on’ power struggles and our fears.  Go back with the energy of the water trine and review how other burdens and fears were met, step by step even though they may have seemed insurmountable at the time and how you gained a new strength and position once the fear was dealt with.

Take a breath, and learn to swim in your passions, your desires and go with the flow of your beating heart, as we call upon the MOTHER, who is holding us in Her loving embrace, forgive what hurts may have a straightjacket on our souls, and melt into the summer of LOVE.

Now, this Cardinal T-Square: Pluto in Capricorn, Mercury and Venus in Cancer, and Uranus in Aries wants: Transformation (Pluto) of our fears, and what we love, including what we think we value along with our possessions, how we communicate our deepest needs and what we need to nurture ourselves, along with incorporating a transcendence using insights and inspiration in these sudden changes, as we implement very new strategies and trajectories on our new paths of passion.

We can expect major new decisions to make their way onto the world stage, and some real shockers.

I expect some earth changes will also manifest, in the form of floods and earthquakes and those summer scorchers.

The Pacific Rim as well as Haiti seems to be of concern.

We are at the starting gate, even if Saturn is still retrograde until next month, when things will go into full swing.

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Ultimately, this is all a grand design for our own alchemical transformation, we can rise like the phoenix out of the flames and torrents of transformation.  Let's rise, shall we?

The Universe is a Garden of Secret Wonders

he Universe is a Garden of Secret Wonders.

“What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.” Mat 10:27
“If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: And if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise.” ~Sirach 6:33

Universe is a garden of secret wonders.  If you look, at any minute she will part her skirt, pull you into her rich soil and whisper secrets to help you find your way home.

At every turn there stand sentries, guardians of the gates and banshees to flood you into the tangled and odiferous bowels of despair and torment; lest you lose sight of the higher and noble calling, the skeleton key that will allow passage.

This is the majestic textures of our world, often in plain sight the grand design arouses the inner visionary in us who knows the way~ if that voice can rise above the din, the decadent and the superfluous sheath that is every bit as real as every layer beneath and below, above and beyond this dimension.  To negate one is to negate all, to negate the very self that yearns to be found, rescued but above all, heard and loved.  Love is a complicated thing and at the same time, like the universe she created, she is a marvel so simple one has only to sit inside her listening and ever present watchful embrace and let her carry you into bliss.

But here…here is where you may find yourself sleeping….and once again wake on  some precipitous and craggy cliff, with only the crisp air as company, while the mind gallops off in search of itself, and the heart of all that matters waits for its consort to catch up and surrender to her embrace once again.

I am a girl born on the seventh day of the seventh month, one of seven children and whose name begins with the seventh letter in the English alphabet.  My world has never been one as simple as it appeared to be to others.  In youth, I wondered why I must leave the richness of my forested mind, for the more superficial world everyone else wanted to play with.  All of it thrust upon you like a strange car wreck, or an obvious game I had to wake up in, but what would it take?  What special code or learning must I figure out to unlock the treasure map, and have everyone take off their masks, and congratulate me for unraveling the grand play too?

I tell you this in complete honesty.

For the longest time, I peered into eyes, wondered what part of me was not good enough, to be taken in to the grand illusion that everyone was playing.  Why did they act as if no one else knew the secret world that was hidden in the veins of the leaves that danced around us, mesmerizing with brocades of changing colours like swimming chameleons inhabiting the world?

When would everyone else talk about the ‘big people’ who are all lit up but whose appearance only silhouetted the back drop of the canvas my mind fell into?  Didn’t everyone entertain them and wasn’t it one of the most fulfilling camaraderie’s to experience those who stood tall as trees pour their genuine love in mutual praise as if every choir song wrote itself from this cause?

 

I thought surely that since I had such a tendency for mischief and finding my way into odd adventures that something then must be wrong with me.  Other people somehow weren’t thinking like me, but maybe I was just bad.  I was so bad, that no-one was allowed to share this secret that existed in every page I turned and followed on my adventurous sojourn through life.

Who would discuss the fairy fields I found as surely others did too?  Who else knew about the circle around the trees in the woods that shifted and sprinkled star dust?  Who else entertained the large beings of light that would appear after praying opening the vaults of heaven?  The smiles on their faces and the glint in their eyes infusing me with love and contentment, letting me know that they enjoyed watching me entertain them singing and dancing? 

 

Surely once I got one more A, one more gold star, finished first in one more contest, then….then the game would open its doors and the cast members would reveal their true identity.

 

The sad thing is that one risks losing their freedoms just for mentioning the world that is real and more alive and vibrant then the march of superfluous reality that seems to have seduced the masses into plastic images and celluloid dreams, of contorting the deep forest into packages of exactness whose only hope is to replicate the new and improved image being craftily lighted and cascaded around their thirsty souls.  

 

What a webbing; all sticky and sweetly perfumed again with some replication of the natural bounty that would adorn the temple of our beings with layers of truth; the kind that marches down the halls and lights up the senses with the purpose of being alive.

Why be here at all if the care isn’t taken to wonder?  To take the train on the dark night and wake in the valley of the gods who have been coaxing and guiding us all along?

 

This is my world; it is as it has always been an adventure of strange beliefs and hidden knowledge.  I feel like Moses in the desert, parting the red sea of life; opening the book one living word, one page at a time and learning the meaning I somehow already know.

There is magic afoot, it is under every stone and shimmering on the waters….it is dancing on our rooftops and howling in the wind.  It creaks down the halls and breaks down silence until it spills loudly into the room and stands between the moments of disbelief like a lighthouse forming from the mist and gloom.

I am yanked back into the strange reality like a naughty schoolgirl, made to play the game with scolding eyes and sometimes worse; while the mystery drips from my veins and disappears into the cracks, waiting for me to rescue the life I was born to live and reveal.

This is my attempt to take you in and reveal what sorcerers have been burned alive for sharing, madmen have caught shards of along the way, and stories that hold power have hidden in their pages, if one learns how to listen ~ and has the eyes to see.

To be continued in the pages of THE BOOK: “Alchemy of the Soul, The Arc of the Ancients”.

Where I will share some experiences and take you on the magical journey, and wake the soul.

© All Rights Reserved, Gloria O’Neil Savage ‘Sangreal’, 2013, No Part may be copies without express written consent from this author.

Just Keep Running and Catch Up If You Can

Full Moon eclipse, May 25, 12:26AM EDT

Things moving a bit quick for you?  Well, with the moon in Sagittarius at 4* opposing the Sun in Gemini at 4* and a partial eclipse in the process, this 3^rd in the series of spring eclipses has us running our~ you know what’s off, both in thought and in action.

As the sun moves into Gemini out of Taurus, along with the rest of the stellium; Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, we are running in many directions and we can’t seem to get there quick enough! 

After that squeeze we felt in the Taurus/Scorpio oppositions, money is flowing in and out, also in a hurry.

How are your computers?  That Uranus square to Pluto might be causing all kinds of whirly-gigs to try and hijack your computer or programs enough to make you wonder if we are in some sort of Mercury retrograde, and no we are not; that will happen next month on the 27^th.

While we are at it, let’s talk about how happy Mercury/Hermes (writing/communication/crossroads/travel) is in his own sign of Gemini.  Busy conversations & can’t seem to get a word in edgewise?  But what lively fun we are having!

Now is the time to catch up, to write those letters make those phone calls to those you have been neglecting and catch up.  That is if you can find the time in this busy, busy

Energy we are buzzing kinetically through.

Catch those insights while you can, you should be getting a glimpse of new aspects of yourself.  We are still shedding our layers, you should have a better idea of what you need to leave behind, and there are plenty of idea's popping begging for attention to focus on, which way do you go?

One problem may be starting too many things and not having as much time as we thought to get them all done. 
Energy might just not be as abundant as our busy mind thought we could handle; but this Sag moon will have us in a race to all of a sudden make a run for it.

Saturn/El and Lord of the Rings is of course still hanging out in Scorpio, so the plum line has been dropped deep, deep, deep and the conversations might just go a lot longer and into territory you did not expect, so here is a tipper, don’t say I didn’t tell you so.

Oh, put your waders on and tie some hematite on, Mars is still in Taurus and the stellium hanging out in Gemini but in the bull’s horns can still hook into that fixed cross and lock you into a longer embrace, insert: ‘But I’d Like to Get to Know You’, Spanky and Our Gang.

Once again expect some secrets to go sliding out when that Moon comes out from behind the sun, revealing or releasing some females onto the world stage, and some will be taking the fall, left holding the bag, a certain IRS woman comes to mind for starters.

That is a hole, which is going to get bigger and bigger.

There is another flu bug going around, so make sure to have plenty of Breathing Easy, especially with all this Mercury/Gemini actions going on.

Make sure to have Sleep, to get the deep recovery necessary to keep up with this fast pace, summer will be a sizzler believe me.

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Enjoy the weekend, be safe and have a blast, it is all geared up for a good time!

May New Moon Eclipse Has the Feminine Escaping Her Captor

May New Moon Eclipse Has the Feminine Escaping Her Captor

 

Here we are the second gateway of the eclipses and just as we shared in the last post with the lunar eclipse; “The stellium of Venus, Sun and Mars all in Taurus, opposing the Moon, Saturn and the N. Node in Scorpio, will bring up issues of wealth and possessions no matter what.  With Saturn hanging so close to La Luna in Scorpio, while she dips behind the male sun, it could feel very heavy and clandestine affairs may seem more enticing or even exposed when the moon comes back out from hiding.”

We see the escape of three women (God bless them) and along with them, the child one conceived (Amanda Berry) coming out of a deeply clandestine (secret/hidden) relationship; well, it was no relationship other than what was forced upon these girls, by this very maladjusted male (Ariel Castro) who kidnapped them over 10 years ago.  This kind of abuse, sexually, physically and verbally is Scorpio at its worst, along with Gemini being duplicitous, acting a double life while Jupiter was in Gemini and Pluto is in Capricorn/Janus the two-headed God looking both ways to keep the unsuspecting away from the depravity Hades has cooked up.  Once again we see the myth play out, and Hades rapes Persephone all over again, drags her into his underground lair and chains her, binds her against her will.  (The girls were chained in the basement for a long time; little by little Ariel let them up to the second floor.)
Ariel (pronounced Ari'el), literally means 'Lion of God'. "Ari" (Lion) in Hebrew is also a synonym for bravery and courage and it is also the symbol of the tribe of Judah.  Castro, as in Castra: In classical Latin the word castra always means "great legionary encampment", both "marching", "temporary" ones and the "fortified permanent" ones.  The Lion of God finds his hideaway, supposedly a brave soul fortifies an encampment and takes this to the extreme opposite of what the evolved and regal Lion would actually do, he is depraved.

There is no sign of courage from Ariel, but we do see the real bravery come from Amanda Berry, when she risks her life to escape, to scream and peek her hand out the barricaded door to the encampment and find freedom

While this is going on, we also see pictures return from Saturn/El who is retrograde in Scorpio, being ravaged by a huge hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole.  So the storms are coming during these eclipses, the great gates where we are told in scripture and as we have shared in this blog, the flaming Cherubim stand guard; on this the fixed cross of Ezekiel’s vision.

All three girls (Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight) have come out of the dark hell and emerged into the light of day, to face a challenging time of healing and reintegrating into society; but at least they are out of that hell.

This is the second gate of the spring eclipses, the first being the Full Moon eclipse we had with the moon at 6* of Scorpio on April 25^th.  So Scorpio is a major theme, and of course, Pluto/Hades is the ruler of the 8^th house and Scorpio.  What is even more important in these impacts, is that, we had that it rekindles the first burning embers of last year’s eclipses and will wind up later this year in the Total Solar Eclipse with the New Moon at 11* of Scorpio, and our first eclipse this year was at 5* of Scorpio while conjunct Saturn retrograde at 8* of Scorpio, and He is in mutual reception with Pluto in Capricorn right now too, so this has such a heavy Scorpio/2^nd and 8^th house energy that it is almost impossible NOT to feel heavy and feel the effects either personally, or through immediate circle and of course we see it playing out on the world stage too.

This will take a lot of people through the gates, both the birth/death and re-birth cycles/wheels are all in play and as stated in the last Full Moon post, it is a pressure cooker to be sure.

“Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be a bumpy night”. ~Betty Davis in “All About Eve”.

Well, poor Eve, is paying, and as if Castro had his own three personal muses, the tables are about to turn, both in his life and with all the masculine energy that is still caught in a very sickly and depraved state of mind, that includes entitlements that were never given to them in the first place; no wonder Saturn is stormy right now.

In the meantime, we have the conviction of (Jodi Arias), who stabbed her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, 29 times and found guilty of First Degree Murder in the 2008 killing.  There we have ‘Arias’ so let’s take a closer look at Arias and Ariel, shall we?

 An aria (Italian for air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.  Some kind of opera eh?  Now let’s look back at Ariel, ‘Lion of God’ or Lion.  Ariel (Hebrew: אריאל, Ari'el, Arael or Ariael‎) is an archangel found primarily in Jewish and Christian mysticism and Apocrypha. The name Ariel, "Lion of God" or "Hearth of God," occurs in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 29:1-7) as a personification of Jerusalem.  Ariel is mentioned with other elemental titles such as the "3rd archon of the winds," in Angelic folklore.  In the Coptic Pistis Sophia (MS. Add. 5114.), Jesus bids the apostles preach that they "be delivered from the rivers of smoke of Ariel."  According to the German occultist Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535): "Ariel is the name of an angel, sometimes also of a demon, and of a city, whence called Ariopolis, where the idol is worshipped."

Leo the Lion is found on the Great Cross of Ezekiel’s wheel.  Of course, all the planets on this cross will be feeling this energy, because of the squares, but expect Scorpio’s and Taurus to really take on the brunt of this (going back to our explanation of Pluto/Hades in Capricorn and the mutual reception with Saturn in Scorpio, which opens that doorway for them to tap into each other’s energy, sharing if you will and magnifying the power of both.  Let’s see, now who are we missing on that cross?  Aquarius, and they will be feeling perhaps a bit ‘left out in the cold’ during all of this, not quite able to find where they belong, almost in limbo, and Leo will feel more disempowered, as if they just cannot get their paws on the reigns, they have to give this up to a higher power, the bigger picture and realize, all their maneuverings and energy they have put into ‘controlling’ things, just isn’t going to bear fruit.  They are not in charge right now, and that is not comfortable for the Lion.  Even their roar might seem a bit more like a meow.

With Uranus in Aries (ruler of Aquarius still working his way back into that square with Pluto, who is also retrograde, it is like a vise tightening and winding up the tourniquet, there is no escaping the birth canal of these eclipses, that puts the Cardinal Cross (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn~ and especially Aries, Capricorn and Libra’s, into this mix up too, and we just cannot escape the giant press, as the universe conspires to squeeze the Grapes of Wrath into some sort of wine that the fruit of the vine, seems to believe will be worth all of this tribulation.

But the major themes; will be about resources and what we have or don’t have as the case may be; sex and the abuse of power, and the abuse of drugs, as we will watch even more fatalities of major people lose their lives to this evil seducer, this is no time to take chances and dance with the devil, he isn’t just taking numbers, it is winner take all.

I expect to hear more from Fidel Castro, and wonder if he is actually still alive, with his name, ‘Castro’ we see we already have been given a warning about what that name may conceal, and he may have to finally meet the dealer he made his pact with.

We can expect taxes and legacy’s, wills and inheritances be given at the very least, a deeper look, inspection and concern as to just how these matters are being taken care of, and we will see people be taken down the river, for all the world to see, when they thought they could somehow get around the very tight grip, that the masters of the lower kingdom of this world, have in place.  See the story of Lauren Hill for starters.

We can expect more fist pounding and flag waving over the Health Care Act, with drug and insurance companies seething with anticipation of having us all under their ‘spell’, watch how this gets ‘SPELLED’ out for us, across the news and in all kinds of media, including those outlets, that people think are sharing some sort of secret truth, when actually they are hired by the same aforementioned corporations (Saturn in mutual aspect to Pluto in Capricorn) as they court one another and sting behind the scenes to gain more control, over OUR RESOURCES, THAT INCLUDES THE HUMAN VARIETY.

Will the market remain Bullish?  Well, let’s look back to where we were in November of last year and the full moon eclipse we had on November 28^th.

The Markets ended in the red after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's discouraging comments about the "fiscal cliff" overshadowed a number of positive economic reports. Additionally, Greece's lenders concurred on providing additional aid to the nation. Among the positive economic readings, consumer confidence jumped to its highest level in more than four years. The Utilities sector was the only gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups.

 The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) declined 0.7% to close the day at 12,878.13. The Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) dropped 0.5% to finish yesterday's trading session at 1,398.94. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index shed 0.3% to end at 2,967.79. The fear-gauge CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) surged 2.7% to settle at 15.92. Consolidated volumes on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq were roughly 5.9 billion shares, significantly lower than the daily average of 6.5 billion shares. Declining stocks outpaced

Why do I refer to this?  Well, we had our friend Scorpio in big red letters writing deals AND we have Saturn retrograde in Scorpio just one degree shy right now (he will get to that degree shortly, in fact on May 15^th, Saturn will again be at 6* of Scorpio, just in time for the May 20^th exact square of Pluto to Uranus.) Saturn retrograde, is revisiting this old energy, He/El wants to make sure there are no loose ends, and no confusion as to his power, and what he wants, just take a look at the hurricane picture to get an idea of just how much business, he means.

But enough of the good news right?

What ever shall we do?

Well, ( in my best Samantha Stephens voice) we have some distant, albeit possible sextiles from Pluto to that stellium in Taurus, with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars all hanging out together (watching the Moon and Sun ‘get it on’, kids, it is time to look away, hahaha, levity right?)

Anyway, that stellium in Taurus is Bullish.  This is the ‘fixed’ cross for a reason, it is not easy to move a bull, a lion, an eagle/scorpion or the angel of man in Aquarius, if not downright impossible some times.  They just don’t change their minds very easily.

The most access to this sextile will come from Mars and even he is considered wide with an orb of 3* but hey, let’s take what we can, shall we?

So Mars/ruler of Aries, not so happy in Taurus.  Aries wants to be rash, impetuous and think later, let’s just go, go, go.  But Taurus, wants to plod along, taking the time to consider the action deeply, lest they spend too much energy in the wrong place and waste it all without actually getting a return on that expenditure, especially not getting some new ‘possession’.

So, in this sense, it is good; we can see the reigns pulled in, to consider investments, act more cautiously and really think long and hard before we make a rash statement (Mars conjunct Mercury in Taurus) which is hopefully taking a rest too, rather than the incendiary relationship its 2* orb from the Sun and Moon might produce.  No, this is a wait and see, think before we act, and especially with the opposition to Lord of the Rings/Saturn opposing the actions, it is a bit too heavy a time for bad investments, and pie-in the-sky- dreams.

Investments in Real Estate, will be front and center, and should at least hold the market steady without taking any crazy plunges, while not racing into the future with a big ol’ bubble either.

Neptune/Poseidon still making a nice trine to Saturn, with a square to Venus/Aphrodite, makes us want to pay attention to our dreams, Neptune in Pisces is already potent, but with Saturn trining, we might just get a good foundation being laid out in our dreams, so pay attention, she is telling us what we really love, and Venus can rise out of the Sea, newly in Gemini, with many loves and at the least, a lot of new idea’s, that a good Taurus foundation, is just prime in this spring, to gestate.

As the Sun mates with this New Moon, consider strongly what we wish for, and plant your deepest love inside the garden of your mind, as we are piercing the veil and opening our soul, the muses are coming out into the light, and even the sun, is behind the moon, to support her new growth.

Careful what you wish for, the gods are listening and smiling down on our brave hearted yearning and budding new births.

We got this.

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Be well my fellow star travelers, thanks for riding with me.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHRGrIqmb0&feature=shareI’ll be calling on the Holy Spirit and Mary Magdalene, to help us come to absorb the power of the solar being, and invest that into moving a strong and loving feminine energy forward, to heal ourselves, and this planet, there are children coming out of the depths of hell, we have to make a loving world for them.