Dawnings

The grid is vibrating well – the explosion of awareness of issues regarding women and children is being highlighted. This is NOT just an issue for the Indigenous folk of this wonderful Land of Oz. It is a Global concern, and is evident in all cultures, creeds and races.

Regardless of political interests that are painfully obvious, enough is enough and the wave crashes on the shore. The old punitive thinking and heavy handed approach is passé and the new world of sensitive, compassionate and care-full planning is on the solar village horizon. 

The upcoming Full Moon in Capricorn and Sun in Cancer brings the subject of family living to the fore. The Care and Perpetuation of ANY species is part of our stewardship as the Human Kingdom. Esoterically, Cancer is the sign which describes how we as souls incarnate. Capricorn (The Full Moon) describes the process of evolution taken in Quantum leaps that facilitates us exiting the Wheel of Rebirth and graduating OUT of the incarnation process.

This weekend’s chart is an interesting one.

The Fixed attitudes and values are demonstrated by Venus standing beside Saturn in Leo. The women are being called forth – to become responsible and expand the public awareness of the real needs of mothers and children. In some ways, the 10th Anniversary of Princess Diana’s sudden and tragic death has served us well – for the public role that she played has enabled the collective to heed her example. Venus opposed by Neptune in Aquarius is ripping apart the old fairytales of the Princess and her Prince living happily ever after. Women all over the world, in so many cultures, faiths and racial groups, have had their dreams and ideals dashed upon the rocks of a harsh reality. This weekend, women can invoke the feminine Spiritual Essence to recommit themselves to their own sacred sexuality and womanhood. The collective and Cardinal energies of Cancer can ripple out into the pond of the feminine in the human species.

It is the women themselves who must bring a halt to those practices and ways of living that are steadily and surely, destroying the health of our children and our species. It is the women who must step forward to stop this abuse and exploitation of both themselves and their children. It is the women who need to walk away from violent men and refuse relationships with those who do not demonstrate responsible and caring behaviour. It is the women who need now to turn away from the glamour of bright lights and fashionable clothing that are designed to attract men for the purposes of mating.  For once that mating has occurred – who is then responsible for the care of the children? Who will take care of the woman who has conceived in a drunken or drug induced embrace? Who cares for the children in orphanages in countries ravaged by war and greed?

A caring and wise civilisation values mothers and children. In our Western world and increasingly in the Third World countries, the pressure on women to return to work and leave their young with someone else, at such early ages as a few weeks, is contributing to a breakdown of familial care. It is eroding the very foundation of the species!

Our recent Census figures reveal the amount of ‘Unpaid’ work that women contribute to our society. This is NOT counted in the GDP, it is NOT recognised economically, it is NOT valued in a very practical sense, in our Western lifestyles. As many women from the older generations demonstrate – there are no retirement or superannuation packages for women who have dedicated their lives to their families.

Mars in Taurus is igniting awareness of the need to ‘walk the talk’ to be very practical and real about what it is we actually DO.  The physical consequences of our greed, the clamour for indulgent lifestyles and the tremendous cost to our planet as well as ourselves, is becoming very evident. Yes, women have played their part in this charade. Women have sent their sons and husbands to war in the name of pride, of nationalism and false creeds. They have accepted the Gold encrusted credit cards and not asked how the money was earned. They have turned a blind eye to the dalliances and deceptions in relationships, in business practices and in political decisions. They have buried their own instincts and gambled on romantic love and chemical attraction as a lasting ticket to survival. They have stripped their partners of resources in vengeance for broken hearts and left trails of shopping bags in the wake of their anger and pain. And yes, they have manipulated and exploited men in their passionate drive for a stake in the survival of the species.  

As the women gain in courage, strength and will, perhaps they shall emerge. Yes, it is scary; yes, we have been silenced through injustice, through abuse, through the pain of being ignored, undervalued and not respected. Yes, the modern sexual revolution has violated our sacred mysteries and taken away our sense of dignity and poise. Yes, it has been a tragedy for the natural beauty of the truly feminine. Yes, we may well have traded our sexuality for the trappings of a material and glamorous world. Yet underneath the surface motives and intentions – we are crying out, we are yearning for loving men and kind societies, we are tired and bruised and battered and oh so sadly disillusioned. Princess Dianna’s determination, the stoic service of Mother Theresa – these women have born the burden of expressing for the world our heartfelt agonies. They scream out: Why is this world so cruel, so unkind, so uncaring, so rough and vulgar and insidious in its punitive and harsh treatment of women and children and for that matter, of men, of animals of the plant and mineral kingdoms? 

I have thought about the issue of misogyny and the violence perpetrated against women – be it subtle in unequal pay for work or obvious in direct attacks – for many years. Is it endemic in the species? Is it natural? The Cape Schanck Koori spirits are clear: both men AND women emerge into this world through the female. Perhaps men have felt the smarting and confusion of this fact for a long time. Perhaps they do not relish the notion of being different in gender to that which cocoons, births and nurtures them in those crucial early years. Perhaps there are other factors involved in the violence and hostility expressed towards women in so many ways for so long. Whatever the reasons, the time has come for frank and honest revelation of the realities of what we women experience in our species.  It is NOT a time for modern clichés, old adages, beliefs, fantasies or mindsets. It is time to drop the games, to stop the manipulative behaviours and pretences that have fanned the flames of disregard and disdain for the vulnerable.

This Full Moon brings this to the fore. Neptune is directly opposing Venus and the Karmic Node is sextile the Moon in Capricorn and Trining the Sun in Cancer. It is a window of opportunity to bring to the attention of the Societies in which we find ourselves, the needs of women and families and children. For as is generally realised, the women raise the young boys who then become the men that rule in our still strongly patriarchal world.

The women must also now acknowledge how the dreams of a house in suburbia have been exploited. A house that is priced far above the actual cost of construction is daylight robbery. When the quality of family life needed to make the building a home is subverted by inflated mortgages – much is revealed about our societal frameworks and patterns whereby economic concerns have dominated the human landscape.

The creation of houses has been exploited by Capitalism for the sake of ‘economical growth’ at the expense of the quality of home life.  Organisations like Habitat for Humanity are still small and ignored in the lust for quick money-making schemes. When the costs of living are so inflated as to impede the nurturing of family life, what have we gained?  Women in the early stages of nurturing young babies need to be cocooned, safe, comforted, cared for and supported … NOT thrust out into a world in which their deepest instincts are required to be buried. Has the urge to gain acceptance in a male-based civilisation disrupted the very core of our feminine essence?

The Feminine Goddess energy, the Holy Shekinah, the Holy Spirit is highlighted in this Full Moon chart. It calls forth the women to emerge to lead us all forward as a humanity.  The pic of a statue in the centre courtyard at the Abbey was taken on the island of Iona in Scotland. In the Celtic countries, the feminine is recognised and appreciated. A ‘bonny lass’ is a female who is warm hearted, healthy, bright, intelligent and practical. There is no notion of erotica and sleeze that has poisoned our relationships, families and societies. 

The sorrows of women in war torn countries, the agonies of women and children discounted in the recognition of their contributions and needs, the sexual exploitation and abuse of both women and children, the insidious undermining of the natural feminine by manipulative advertising campaigns – we have reached saturation point. Increasingly men ARE stepping forward. Some are beginning to speak out about their needs and wishes to care with and for their families. Some are making lifestyle choices instead of purely economic ones. We know by now, that the first 7 years of a child’s life are crucial and so precious. We ignore that at our peril as a species. It is a dead-end mentality and does NOT lead us forward in healthy evolution. 

This Full Moon calls forth the feminine and esoterically, the Higher Mind exemplified for us by Venus.  It paints in the stars a picture that shows us all, the way ahead.

Courage dear sisters – may we find within ourselves, the strength to drop the veils of deception and make believe that we may have peddled in return for a brief but false sense of security.

For the sake of Humanity … take care!

*** This is an ideal time for Reconsecration of the Womb Ceremonies of our woman selves, of our sexuality and yes, of our feminine essence. In some ways, the caviness of winter here for this Moon lends itself to family and hearth. It draws forth safe, warm and cocooned feelings.  For the men, it can be a time of Reconsecration of oneself as a guardian, as a male and as a human. The more we both, men AND women, reach for and welcome sacred sexuality, sacred relationships and the acknowledgement of our true spirituality, the closer we are to becoming comfortable with our human livingness.

Blessings.

* The Full Moon is exact at 11.49 pm in Melbourne, AEST on Saturday night, 30th June 2007.
** Pic of statue, Abbey on Iona near Isle of Mull near Oban, Scotland.

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