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| October Storm Catherine Al-Meten Columbia River, Astoria 2012 |
Adding a message to acknowledge all the activity and sense of urgency with the major hurricane working its way up through the Carribbean and into the Atlantic Coastline of North America. With so many planets in water signs, it is not surprising that water is playing such a powerful role in calling our attention to our relationship with the planet and Universe we are part of. Also, along the Pacific Coast, the transformative earth energy and lunar earth energy is sending tremors through the earthquake fault lines. This is a normal aspect of the dynamic nature of the planet we live on. We need to pay attention to our relationship with the elements of nature, and realize what a powerful part it plays in the way we live our lives. Take precautions, be prepared for emergencies, and keep a cool head. In times like this, we can use our power and energy to support and comfort one another. Take this time to get in touch with who and what really matters in your life.
This month’s Full Moon at 6 degrees of Taurus, falls on October 29, 2012 at 12:49 P.M (PDT). The Full Moon in Taurus forms an intense trine to Pluto in Capricorn and an opposition to Saturn, setting off powerful energy for change and movement. This Full Moon is all about power, control, authority, and transformation. Lessons to be learned, a new path unfolding before us, and time to establish ourselves within the base of our own power, identity. and determination. As storms rage on the Atlantic Coast of North and Central America, a large earthquake shakes the Northwest Pacific region near the Queen Charlotte Islands. The full Moon activates the four planets in Scorpio (Sun, Mercury, Saturn, and the North Node) and to a lesser degree, the two in Pisces, Neptune and Chiron, all six points ruled by the aspect of water.
Called the Full Hunter’s Moon, the Travel Moon, the Blood or Sanguine Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, this full moon’s names are derived from traditions and seasonal changes of autumn. This is the time of the year in the North that tribes prepare for the long winters ahead, hunting, preserving, and preparing themselves with the fruits, harvests, and bounty of their fishing and hunting. This is the time of the year which is considered one of the most important feast days in the Northern Hemisphere. It is still a time when we are preparing for winter and celebrating the final days of harvest, the hunt, as we prepare for winter. On the East Coast, people are preparing for the storms, and we are all becoming more aware of how important it is to pay attention to the basic necessities of life.
The Moon rules emotions, habits, patterns of behavior and moods,
Saturn rules structure and organization, self discipline, endurance and tenacity. Both the Moon and Saturn are in Taurus, and both archetypes energize us as we use our emotional energy to organize, create workable structures, develop self discipline, and test our capacity for endurance and tenacity in how we live, do our work, care for ourselves and others, and how we establish clear and practical ways of behaving and interacting with one another.
A Grand Trine in Water signs (Sun, Saturn, Mercury, North Node in Scorpio and Neptune and Chiron in Pisces, with Ceres in Cancer) on a yod formed when the moon strikes right through the middle of the trine, activating all angles and aspects. This beautiful aspect may be compared to a cut diamond aspect with all its reflecting facets. An increase in consciousness, makes whatever we have been struggling to understand become crystal clear. All the planets in Scorpio stand at the gate of the North Node, the threshold into a new time, a new level of understanding, and a new way for us to develop and more fully engaged and connected to our inner identity and truth and our place within the Divine Consciousness as expressed through the lives we are living, the art we are creating, the love we are sharing, and the service we are giving. This Grand Trine in Water signs is affecting us at the deepest levels of our consciousness, our genetic code and make up, our soul development, moving us into our rightful place on this soul journey. Neptune is moving us through stages of completion in cycles, relationships, stages of development, and initiations into deeper mysteries, allowing us to release whatever traps us or stagnates our development. This is a true moment of transformation--the ending and finalization of one moment and the beginning of the next. What is ending now is essential for growth, for movement, for the next stage of life. Ceres represents the archetype of the daughter in the myth of Persephone and Demeter. The mythology is about the growing up and transformation that results in the daughter standing on her own, and the mother mourning her separation during the winter. The separation is necessary for both mother and daughter as both emerge into womanhood’s different stages. While the myth speaks of a story to explain the seasons (winter is when Persepahone has to be away from her daughter, Ceres), it also speaks to the times when we have to stand on our own at different points of life. When our roles change, and when our needs and desires necessarily change too. What in your life now is calling to be released? Perhaps an old wound or pattern of behavior that is still blocking your growth? Perhaps a need to stand on your own at a new stage of life. Rather than fighting against a memory, an obvious challenge, or a crisis in relationship or consciousness, now is the time to face and become responsible for coming face to face with whatever fears, challenges, or shadow aspects of our being are calling out to be acknowledged and dealt with. Rather than blaming, shaming, projecting, or taking the role of the victim, it is time to acknowledge your gifts, talents, abilities, needs, and power to act on your own behalf. No one is to blame for who you have become. No one is responsible for your fears, anger, grief, or unwillingness to move ahead. You have the power of your own consciousness, the power to act on your own behalf, and to claim your life for yourself.
Whatever has been taken away from you, is meant to be released. Time to discover the gifts left to you in the wake of loss. With 11 planets currently within the range of 1-7 degrees of their respective signs, and with the prevalence of water and the ongoing movement in Earth energy (Pluto in Capricorn and Moon in Taurus), the transformative energy is being triggered through our own emotional and spiritual natures; both two areas of our being flood us with one example after another of what is working, what is not, and what needs to be changed in order for us to benefit from the transformative elements at work within us and within the dynamic thrust of the world and Universe in which we live.
The Grand Trine brings disparate energies together, calling us to view the world and our perceptions of ourselves and lives with new eyes and a deeper more spiritually oriented understanding. Relying only on our ability to rationalize or explain our experiences...to answer that question we all seek to answer about the most significant experiences and questions we have...”Why?” The answer to that only comes when we have moved to act on behalf of healing, new growth, facing the consequences of our choices, and learning that we have to rely on the Wisdom that defies our own understanding. We can all come up with answers, but the lesson is not in coming up with the right answer. The lesson is to live more deeply, fully, authentically, and from our true soul call and divine nature. We can hear, learn, and connect to this if we watch the signs, the movement, the unfolding of life as it is, not as we will it.
The Sun in Scorpio is in conjunction with Saturn, bring a contained intensity and passion under pressure. This is truly a time for acting from our passions, those anchored in divine truth and light. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in Pisces trines the Sun, fueling compassion and healing old wounds. quelling fears, hurt, and grief, and healing old wounds. We are compelled by circumstances and by our own awareness, to embrace the healing that is required to become whole and in alignment with the Divine and our Divine nature.
Now is a time to prepare ourselves for the darker days and winter ahead, and to celebrate and prepare a feast of celebration for the bounty of our lives. Taurus, the preserver, nurturer, and fount of patience through devotion and love, grounds us in our emotional body, filling us as a result of expressing a felt need. Emotions and memories are not just to be experienced, but triggers and activators needed in response to our prayers and needs. Unless we choose to believe that we live in a world where nothing is connected, and life happens by happenstance, we are well aware of the connected nature of all life. When we only seek answers in times of crisis or as a result of isolated experiences, we miss the point that our thoughts, actions, dreams, communication, habits, patterns, and choices all send out continuous messages to the world, to the Universe and the Divine Creator, and to our own being....If we live without conscious intention and mindfulness, life seems haphazard and chaotic. As we live more intentionally and mindfully, we come to understand that, though our prayers may not be answered according to our expectations, they are answered. We are given what we need to live life according to what we have set in motion as we understand what we have been given to do and be. If we are off the track, or if we have somehow incorporated false beliefs into the way we are living, we will find that we seem to run up against one brick wall after another. Plans do not turn out. Expectations are dashed. Life seems not to be working as we had hoped it would. What’s wrong? By changing our perceptions of what is happening, we may see that we are not understanding the answer to our prayers.
Recently, I listened to Stevie Wonder describe how grateful he was for being born blind. He described how people learn through their losses, if they are willing. Through whatever we lose or have gone without, we learn a deeper compassion for others. We learn how strong we are in ways that we wouldn’t otherwise, and we learn lessons about what we are capable of doing and being. This does not mean we should seek loss or intentionally create sadness, grief, or illness, but rather when faced with imbalance, disease, loss, or some other challenge, our healing comes through learning the gifts in the garbage. What lessons can I take away from the situation, past or present, that caused me harm? How can I be courageous enough first to face that which I fear. There is nothing wrong with feeling and acknowledging that which has harmed you. To fail to do so, is called suppression, and it turns into something much worse when not faced. Allowing ourselves to face our fears, feel our anger, or acknowledge our sadness, is the first step to healing. Second, we need to to allow ourselves to bring our souls back from the places where they are trapped...in memories, in longings, in worrying about the future, or despairing about the past. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for this. Along with the time you spend preparing yourselves for the changes to come with the seasons, allow yourself to prepare for the next stage of your soul’s journey. Continue allowing your practice of mindfulness and intention guide you into practices, decisions, and patterns of behavior that nurture your health, bring you into deeper communion with all of life, your relationships, and the work you choose to do.
Scorpio is the messenger of that which we don’t see. That which is unseen but deeply felt, is calling you now, to be acknowledged. We can now use our dreams, intuition, calling, and intentions into creating a greater sense of abundance in our lives, in manifesting healing and greater understanding, and in raising our level of connection to conscious awareness. The Sun, how we express the energy of life, Mercury, how we communicate and receive inspiration and information, and Saturn, how we learn the greater lessons of life, are all in the sign of Scorpio. Look at your chart to see which house/area of life this is most affecting. Notice what is calling you.
The Full Moon in Taurus in opposition to the Sun, is creating sextiles (positive activating energy) to Neptune and Chiron in Pisces. Pluto, the Great Transformer, trines the Moon, and forms sextiles to the Sun and Chiron. Venus has entered her ruling home sign of Libra, and she sextiles Mercury in optimistic and outgoing Sagittarius, making this an inspirational time for all forms of communication, especially words and expressions of love. Mars is also in Sagittarius, opposite its ruler, Jupiter in reflective Gemini. Uranus in Aries, is making some minor aspects to the Sun, maybe resulting in a bit of edginess or dissatisfaction. Focus on what’s working, not what’s not. The positive and powerful energy is best used for good. Avoid obsessive thinking or behavior...it wastes you and your energy on unnecessary and/or unanswerable concerns.
The lineup of the planets, the Star/Sun, and the Moon all provide a backdrop and generate energy that affects us. However, we are the ones who make the choices, control the patterns and behavior, shape our attitudes, moods, and perceptions. We can use the power of the universe, the energy of the world and our being, for good or not. The choice is up to us. Think of astrological knowledge as akin to the weather and the climate. It affects your life; it does not compel it. You choose how to approach life given your understanding and willingness to adapt, change, or view what is going on. Use this powerful and beautifully energetic time to grown in mindfulness, to become more willing to be intentional and persistent with the growth of your whole being, body, mind, and spirit. Use the energy, the gifts, the talents, and the intuitive knowledge you possess to make your life better, to help others who need your service, gifts, and talents, and embrace life with intention, mindfulness, and discernment. Be open to the gifts of Spirit, and be respectful of the power of the Divine. Be courageous in discovering the mysteries of the Sacred and of seeing how powerful your spiritual nature is. It is not only for yourself you seek to be more fully whole and enlightened; it is for the good of all. You came here with a special soul mission, and it requires all of you to manifest and share. Embrace it. Have courage. Open to the truth of your own being.
The Patron Saint of Impossible Things, St. Jude, and Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles, are but two archetypal expressions of our human desire to receive divine support to help fix our lives. Even Cheshire Cat, in Alice in Wonderland, said, “I dream of impossible things every day...” Why not dream of something impossible, and then, with intention, mindfulness, and faith in power beyond your own, seek answers through prayer, meditation, dreams, or life for those questions, crises, or concerns that weigh heavily on your heart at this time. See if you can’t find a sign, a piece of guidance, or some direction to allow you to move beyond whatever it is that weighs you down, traps you, or in some way remains lodged in your being as pain, anger, frustration, or hurt. While the veils are thin and while the energy is so highly intuitive and powerful, test out the waters of your own intuitive gifts and see what kinds of answers you receive. Blessings and harmony to you and yours.
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