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Metamorphosis

Saturn in Virgo is sidling up to align in opposition to Uranus in Pisces: We hold the centre of sustainability and practicality and lift our sights to dowse the universal (largely unknown), with an electrical antennae to light the way. Uranus is like a laser and Saturn is about focus and form in the human sense. It’s about careful planning, design and sensing the target. It’s about Resurrection of the Spirit.

Visualise Saturn in Virgo at thefeet (the mineral kngdom) and Uranus in Pisces hovering above at about the 12th chakra level (lightning) feel/sense where it is and gently open to bring it in. If we practise this now, by the time it is exact on 4th November - our bodies will be aligned with both the heavens and the earth. Let it flow (Will) to the core of the earth and back up to the surface to the  grid. Then up to the heart chakras and brow/minds.  Sense the network of Love and Light. The throat chakra may want to open to an Om, an Ah or a tone/song/sigh/hum.

Venus in Sagittarius is reactivating the love of the visionary and possible futures that we have explored during the last 15 years with Pluto in this inspirational Galactic energy field. The intensely magnetic Pluto dances its final act in fiery, gypsy, wondrous Sagittarius and invites us, nay attracts us, through the vortex into a new landscape. Our intuition is a guide.

If we were true to the original seasonal celtic traditions - in Australia we would be creating community festivals, markets with folk dancing and maypoles and celebrating the fertility of all life. We do have a holiday for The Melbourne Cup. Our global traditions are twirling and twining.  

By 31st October and for a few days, there will be a magnificant display of Venus and the Crescent Moon in the evening twilight sky. Nasa site.

The combination of the Sagittarian Vision and sense of beauty stimulated by Venus and Pluto combined with the practicality of Saturn in Virgo/Uranus in Pisces is beautifully portrayed in The Venus Project site and the movie.

It is a time for science fiction, the Jedi and Groking.

The Sun has entered Scorpio joining and aligning our base instincts (to survive). Contrary to popular opinion, the Darwinian theories of evolution referred extensively to the ability to adapt as being the crucial element in any growth and evolutionary cycle. On a more personal level it is about consciousness which right now is expanding in Capricorn. The energy of the sun In Scorpio activates the ability to sense (instinctively) the truth – of our own and others motives. It may develop into seership when combined with the intuitive and mental clarity. Yes, much is being revealed. The challenge is to acknowledge our now well integrated and natural desire to see clearly and to understand.

There is much fear bubbling to the surface as those whose sense of being was rooted in the Military/Industrial/Financial Complexes are confronted with apparent loss. The illusions are of having and owning, of control and power. The essence of the Scorpio archetype is the life/death/life cycle – transmutation, transformation and regeneration. It helps to focus on the resurrection. Ask to see clearly. Trust that we have within us the wherewithall to come through this transition.

Tony Jones on Lateline (21st October) interviewed Dr Pachauri of the IPCC. Interesting – he referred to the ‘flat earthers’ in denial about the world changing. Yes, there is life after change and trans/form/ation.

The Aquarian triad (Neptune, Node and Chiron) are helping us lift our spirits to re-connect with each other – the grand discovery that perhaps sharing and co-operating with each other in cheerful interdependence may in fact, be a way of surviving. We are all in this together.

 We humans have five physical senses, seven energy centres and 10 fingers and 10 toes, five on each side. We are Bi-peds and upright. There’s a code there somewhere. Perhaps it is about taking FIVE steps to initiate change.

Aspects of our organised societal worlds are unravelling and unfolding as we are growing and changing as a species. The old systems simply do not work anymore. Our next phase of development is in view: the transformation and recreating of our civilisations. Sagittarian transformation was about lifestyle and beliefs – the Capricorn transformation is about civilisation and purpose. Now we get to DO IT!

Risa writes in her weekly message about the UN and its role in our emerging global community. There ARE groups of well informed and experienced people forming all over the world to bring into actuality, the vision and love of which we KNOW we are capable.

Financial Permaculture Summit 

And for all you Permies (permaculture) and financiers out there, look at this! The new world,the new culture and civilization,the new sharing economy,the new order,through the gatherings of the New Group of World Servers, is beginning! 

Philip Sedgewick in his Galactic Times, refers to our urgent need to create belief systems and paradigms which accommodate the changes to which we now need to adapt:

“It’s all about creating a life worth living, isn’t it ?”

In a dynamic world of bio-diversity (our planet) - adaptability is valuable skill. Mercury in Libra has been guiding us to remember that we make choices.

The new Moon in Scorpio is exact at 10.14 am AEDT on the morning of Wednesday 29th October. Mars is in its familiar energy territory of Scorpio. The dowsing of the waters with the Saturn/Uranus opposition is getting close to alignment. As we build up to this – be honest with oneself and unafraid. Dig deep and rise to the surface for air occasionally. From the core, a new seeding can find fertility within the emotional and instinctive lava moving beneath the crusted surface now cracking. 

This is a magical time: the energy of Sun Scorpio reminds us of the legends of the wizards, the magicians and seers. (yes, it is Samhein/Halloween in the Northern hemisphere - and Beltane here - Maypole dancing time!) . It is a time of enchantment wherein the nature of innocence can scan the horizons and wonder. It is a time of miracles – and inspiration. It is the emerging of a chick from the egg, the metamorphosis of a tadpole to a frog, the larva to a dragonfly and a caterpillar to a butterfly. It will take the next two weeks to emerge – take it easy.

Be gentle and kind with oneself and with others – especially those truly scared. 

Drink lots of water. There’s a secret there somewhere in water. Perhaps it is the hydrogen which is universal (as far as we know).

We are releasing our addictions to an aeon of adrenaline rushes and toxicity – in emotions, memories, mindsets and the body itself. We have been expressing this in our relationship to the earth and each other. We have become accustomed (since the beginning of the Egyptian Era) to danger, battles and dramas.

For those who have learned the regeneration skills of longevity exercises, yoga, meditation and contemplation – or a power nap – it is a grand time to spin the body, stretch the limbs and torso and breathe through the chakras.

You and the world will be better for this …

Blessings of fertility, love, beauty and new life - Beltane!

 * Photo by Rhys Jones

 

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We are Here,Now

 

We are Here and Now. Each day fills up with a quickened pace of inner growth and outer activity which commands our ability to be flexible and responsive. We came into incarnation at this time – for this. We are strong souls and courageous beings.

On Monday Night, Denton on the ABC program, Enough Rope, interviewed Imran Kahn. This was an enlightening experience – to watch a man relaxed and sure enough to be transparent, honest and to speak from the heart and soul with integrity. To this he added his clarity of mind. I wondered if chance could nudge him to lead the United Nations.

On Tuesday SBS Insight program explored the increasing violence amongst the youth. It occurred to me that we are still entrenched in a punitive/reward mentality. It doesn’t work very well at all. The goalposts keep shifting and the carrots keep changing and, by the time we manage to catch one, are often stale. Appropriately, next tuesday’s forum is about Greed.

I pondered on the attachment to money that has been entangled in this punishment/reward system: those with it assume they deserve it and those without feel they are being punished. Our major world religions teach the nature of a wrathful God and credits in heaven for ‘good deeds’ according to often incomprehensible and unrealistic doctrines. The norms and values of a changing world create much confusion: do we head for the rewards and shy away from the punitive? What if it all switches suddenly and how do we know which way to jump next?

LaRouche is recommending we “revive the Peace of Westphalia agreement”. We need to stablise the world monetary system and share equitably. No more speculation on changing values and currency rates, each nation has its sovereignty, the world’s resources are for us all to share. The charging of interest is to be minimal to cover basic costs only. People with money can live on their own money - not the interest!  Imagine a global world where imperialist exploitation is a nightmare from the past!

On Thursday we had the third and final of the USA debates. Obi One won. Is there still any decision to be made? I cruise around the net and discover some interesting forums and videos discussing the older generation and the old way of thinking - reluctant to change. Oh dear!

It’s the same witnessing the condition of nature and the planetary world environment – isn’t it obvious and common sense to take care of it?

The punitive/reward system kicks back on us: Saturn in Virgo is supercritical – then it turns inwards and we are punishing ourselves and rewarding ourselves and on it all goes.

How can anyone be open, honest and admit mistakes and errors if (s)he is afraid of punishment?

How can we even begin to think creatively and seek solutions if we cannot see where we have erred – or that we are being called to respond with a welcome sense of fair play, clarity and vision? Triaka Smith has devoted years to the solution of Sovereign and United Diversity. The world leaders seem quite naiive and uneducated compared with the obvious solutions emerging from the grass roots of the peoples that inhabit our world and share daily lives.

These are serious times: the energies from Sirius stream forth activating a maturing phase and a Pluto connecting with the Galactic Centre tweaks our evolutionary agenda. Jonathan Cainer predicted this fall out when the portend of Comet Holmes streaked across our skies. 

Uranus in Pisces is gearing up for the first of 5 oppositions to Saturn – producing a quantum leap effect across time and space – I played my Forest Gump CD and sang away whilst checking the year’s records in preparation for the Tax Return. It all seemed surreal – part of me a teenager again in the 1960’s and reviving the passion and another part of me heading for 60 rounds of the sun and wondering why I pay tax for our community development when it is now being used to shore up banks – the same banks that robbed me of my home in 1990. It’s all happening again – to a much larger group of people all over the world. I have squeaked and shouted and sulked and warned folk and the media for years. They have perpetuated the punitive/reward myth of: “foolish people deserve to lose”. 

I understand why so many remain unconscious and choose the way of the herd  - wherever it is going – without asking why. Uncertainty and insecurity has presented a lonely Path in the past. Now, false wealth and false stability show themselves to be flimsy illusions. Disappointment and grief will dissolve social aspirations until folk truly know themselves once again. Handing over our power to those less informed, less evolved and less enlightened - is lazy spirituality.  

“How low will we (humanity) have to go?” ask the journos. The media needs to awaken to the truth of being human and dissolve the paradigms of creating what is marketable. It is not about “how low can we go?” - many of us are far ahead of that anxiety. We know from experience, that when the going gets tough … we shall have to rise to the occasion: to work and live together as groups and teams of cheery folk to build, create and share without the lure of wealth. We shall have to forgo profit mongering to keep our businesses afloat and continue to employ more people and share the resources. We shall have to end careers of financial manipulation and sharemarkets designed to give more to those who already have. We shall have to grow healthy food and car pool and give away what we no longer need. We shall have to share meals, shelter and clothing without the elitist fashioning and status symbols that defined (labelled) us in the past. We shall need to infuse quality into our creations and service, integrity in our worldly affairs and honesty in our relationships.  We shall need to be inventive and improvise: to focus on the essential and the essence of what we offer and receive. The glossy, glamorous and superfluous are already being eroded by the winds of necessity. We shall need to simplify and clarify. We shall need to know the truth intuitively amidst the chaos of disturbing confusion and diverting spin.

I watch as a top Banker in Australia announces “there is no evidence of a link between high salaries paid to Executives and the current world financial crises”. Mars is in Scorpio and those that ‘have’ are holding on like crazy. Denial and delusion are thickening like treacle in midair.

Saturn in Virgo guides us now: We shall need to be diligent - to empty the old and to clean the container of ourselves, (our civilisations) and our lives before refilling it.

Eric’s (Planet Waves October 10th) on The Capricorn Point was heart and gut wrenching whilst managing to enthral the mind: 

One way to understand what we have been put through the past decade — if you need to understand — is considering the concept of what I call shadow loyalty. This is a kind of covert loyalty directed at people who take from us, abuse us and generally disrupt our lives. It is a copy of the secret loyalty we felt for our caregivers who frequently did the same things to us. Contained in that shadow loyalty is a need to be accepted by people who are robbing us, and the fear of being cast off, a tribal wound that I’ll come back to when we explore the forthcoming Chiron-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius.

For now, let’s see where Pluto in Capricorn fits the picture. As we can see, a force we don’t understand is going to rip through the power structure, rendering it nearly ineffective until it transforms itself…..

We’re transitioning into the beginning of a crucial era, in fact meeting this thing we’ve been calling 2012. In addition to a major change in the Mayan calendar (the end of the 13th baktun), the planetary astrology builds to a rapid crescendo between now and then, complete with social upheavals that will make the Sixties feel like a rehearsal for the high school pageant.

Change is not comfortable for most people. We would rather have things be just so, and we’ll do almost anything to keep them that way, including deny our own growth, health, liberty and sanity. We will stay with people who we don’t love or barely care about. We will keep jobs we hate. Most of all, we will refuse to face our pain. We’ll do all of this for the illusion of stability. Or maybe it’s preserving the illusion of stability that protects us from the scourge of freedom.

Risa explores the progressing World Initiation:

Eradication of Poverty, UNMDG, World Bank, Pluto in Capricorn
Friday at the United Nations is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Do we know how to eradicate poverty? The following are organizations with the goal of reducing poverty in our world. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG, an acronym) have, as its primary objective, the eradication of poverty. The World Bank, established Dec. 27th, 1945, after WW II, was created with the stated goal of reducing poverty and assisting developing nations through the creation of sustainable infrastructures. The present economic crisis, a worldwide crisis, in its reorientation of monies and resources, will eventually allow our world to become a world of sharing equally among all peoples.
That is a long way off. But the continued disabling of the present unsustainable economic structures marks the beginning. When Pluto re-enters Capricorn (November 26, 2008, 5:03 pm, Pacific time, Thanksgiving eve and continuing until 2024), nothing will stop the tide from moving relentlessly toward this goal of first, destruction of the old ways of being and later, the creation of a world of sharing and equalizing resources for all of humanity. We must all be prepared for this very long time of restructuring of humanity’s resources and way of life.
(And… )
As the weeks toward the elections unfold, energies build toward the Saturn in Virgo opposite Uranus in Pisces transit (in the sky), an unsettling planetary situation, which also, along with the v/c, occurs on Election Day. These energies will affect all of humanity. This is the very same (though in opposite signs) transit that created the music, drugs, runaways, the Haight, free speech and the hippies of the 1960s—a radical and sovereign state (of mind, body and emotions) unto itself.

What these times mean esoterically is that humanity will move to the next kingdom, the Kingdom of the Soul, and that in these times of crisis we will see the emerging of this Kingdom …

Kelly Hunter invites us to dance the fiery dance of spirited beings … Here and Now. Her description of the Full Moon is exciting.

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
- Rumi

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, and dance your heart out.

MOON FULL OF STRANGE FIRE

I come to you with strange fire.
I make an offering of love.
The incense of my soul is burned by the fire in my blood.
I come with a softer answer to the questions that lie in your path.
I want to harbor you from the anger, find a refuge from the wrath.
This is a message, message of love,
Love that moves from the inside out, love that never grows tired.
I come to you with strange fire… 
  - Indigo Girls

Thanks Kelly!

[Ah yes!  I am content. I am glad to have chosen to study and prepare myself to assist the hatching, matching and despatching of souls through the service of 7th Ray expressed in the sacred role of Celebrancy. I watered the thirsty garden drying rapidly under the Australian burning sun and hailed Venus and Mars in Scorpio over the ocean and the Full golden Moon in Aries/Sun Libra in an Indigo sky over the Bay.  It was a powerful and magical evening. I 'grok' the waiting and the fullness! I am glad to be human and here, Now! ]

This weekend will be lighter – Mercury has resumed forward direction in Libra and a Grand Trine in Air forms with the Moon in Gemini. Free the Mind! By Sunday, Venus enters Sagittarius and we can let our inner flames ignite. By Sunday evening, the Moon is in Cancer so those who need to flow with the waters of life and perhaps curl up in a doona and watch some nostalgic movies will find those healing tears can be released at last.  A Yod forms then, linking Saturn in Virgo and peaking at the Node in Aquarius. We (humanity) are heading to a vastly different human landscape. The Aquarian Age is referred to as the Age of Knowledge – I wonder if humanity will learn what being truly human actually is – we have a couple of thousand years to find out. I hope we will like ourselves more and love our children and our planet.

By Wednesday 23rd the Sun will have entered Scorpio and the Moon in Leo will be stimulating our hearts. Our emotions intensify. It’s all about energy.
 
May the Spirit grow strong within you and the Light shine brightly upon the Path ahead and may courage grow within your hearts.

Be the Lighted Soul!

Blessings,

*Photo: Wind Dune by Rhys Jones (c) 2008

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Choosing to embrace a (very different) future.

In amongst the chaos, mayhem, fear mongering and confusion there are some gems/butterflies emerging from the depths of matter and gross materialism.
Here in Australia, I have been intrigued by the sharing of some serious and thoughtful research presented through some interesting television programs.
The ABC has launched their Future Makers series with a special documentary, Risking our Kids, focussing on the work of Dr. Fiona Stanley.
The Life at 1 (2&3) series traces what influences early developmental stages through the close monitoring, scientific/medical analysis and observation of a varied bunch of wonderfully real families and their children.
SBS Insight last night discussed the parental leave and child care concerns.
What is revealing here is a resurgence of a kindly enthusiasm for the well being of our own human species – reflected in growing community concern for the young and their carers.
 
 I await with anticipation, the next stage of revelation -that stern imposed discipline teaches obedience/rebellion – awareness of the WHY self -discipline is needed, teaches consciousness.
 
 Astrologically – this is one of the effects of Uranus in Pisces (children and their innate genius) and the stellium in Aquarius (humanity): Guide (lovingly) the early stages of development to release the true gifts of the genius (soul/spirit) within.
 
The social consciousness is expanding (Jupiter in Capricorn). Personal questions of what is equitable and fair, are rising to the surface under the Sun in Libra. Take notes – by this time next year (November 2009) Saturn will be ready to enter Libra for two years and that’s the cycle for legislation, regulation, law making and social justice.  By then, Jupiter will be in Aquarius (humanity’s consciousness).
 
How to contemplate the human self within the light of the soul is clearly described on Nightlight news esoteric astrology page. This is worth saving for the cycle ahead of Saturn in Libra trining Jupiter in Aquarius 2009/10.  The theme of personality merging with the soul light continues to guide our fledgling humanity.
 
The combination of Pluto leaving Sagittarius (having uprooted the belief systems and ideologies (inherent in ALL our world religions), Uranus in Pisces (what is the essence of our spiritual natures to be gleaned from the suffocating religious dogma and limiting doctrines of the past?) and Jupiter in Capricorn (think beyond the status quo and head for the mountain top – it provides a glorious 360 degrees view).
 
The streaming forth of the 7th Ray is powerful – it is inclusive and we are developing ways of seeing many perspectives as contributing to our world civilisations and lifestyles. The anchoring of this ray is happening now. The soil is tilled and the earth Logos itself is opening to this strengthening force. The 5 triggers of Saturn opposite Uranus will assist in the anchoring of this Ray into the core of the earth. It will change us, humanity and indeed, ALL the kingdoms of the earth. It is the violet ray (which is finer and faster as a frequency than the previously dominant 6th ray of Idealism and devotion) and it cleanses, neutralises, disinfects and unifies. It calms our emotive bodies and empowers the spirit. It is called the Ray of Ceremony – which describes how we humans utilise it: in ceremony we externalise the internal in respectful and mindful creative play within the many kingdoms of which we are a part. It is the bringing forth of our recognition of the sacredness in Life.  Frankincense (masculine) and Myrrh (feminine) are the scents/essences.
 
Those humans who are floundering as the agents of authority disentangle themselves from the complicit nature of herd consciousness, need only ask themselves – what authority would you now seek and totally trust? In these times, the gradual dissolving of our authority systems may be disconcerting: the monarchies, the churches, the governments, the golden coins of assumed wealth, social privilege and status, perceived power, false beauty and vanity, aggrandizement and exclusivity – all are revealing themselves to be passé.
 
The message is simple – we are all humans doing the human thing. We are all damaged in some way and we need to make/take time to heal. (Chiron in Aquarius conjunct the Node)
  
The secrets are surfacing (Mars and Venus in Scorpio) along with those who enjoyed conspiracy – either creating and exploiting it or uncovering it. This will continue as Mercury and the Sun reach Scorpio on 24th, (New Moon on 28th October).There is a hidden agenda yet to emerge. The movie Zeitgeist is indeed relevant here – and the site indicates solutions through the presentation of its addendum.
The ABC Four Corners program this week explores the Tax havens/avoidance schemes and what recent and current investigations are revealing. Those who are shedding tears at the demise of selfish capitalism can take heart … the future is likely to be a more comfortable and fair mix of capitalism and socialism. Ultimately, if we do not take care of the people, there is no social system to serve any interests. Indeed, the division between capitalism and socialism was a furphy anyway andridiculous. We are both individually unique AND social creatures. Doh! The unravelling of complicated avoidance schemes is actually quite amusing. Saturn in Virgo is very exact. It calls forth the requirement of simplicity and reality. The Pluto in Virgo group (born 1957 -1972) is savvy and these folk are realists and superb investigators. (Journalists take note!) 
Where are the cartoonists and comedians – we need you?! I chuckled over the Snake cartoon in the Herald Sun yesterday: “The future isn’t what it used to be…”  I thank the souls that created Monty Python and Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I cherish the 7.30 report Thursday program for the weekly comedians, Clarke and Dawe, take on the world. Methinks the amusement of the ‘lighter’ investigators and observers of world events - is comforting. Virgoan type humour is spot on.
 
Simple fact is, if we are honest and transparent - energy expended in avoidance, denial, repression, suppression and oppression, shame, guilt, fear and apprehension – can be released.
 
Why anyone thinks they need to grab/stash away $millions for themselves and their families is a sad revelation of their insecurity, personal low self esteem and life devoid of light (openness) love, joy and true companionship. Nobody needs excessive wealth. Why then, has it become so ‘desirable’? This is where our compassion CAN emerge – for the disproportionately wealthy and disproportionately powerful are not free: they live in fear and scurry in shadowlands. The Great Depression looms over us all and the ripples down through the generations are being felt. We need now, to heal from times gone by and understand there is natural abundance and enough for all. The ‘bail out’ proves this as a FACT. Where the money (concretised energy) goes and why, is yet to be revealed. It shall. It is inevitable.
 
This is another aspect of the externalising of our (hidden) fantasies and dreams (Neptune in Aquarius) – the fairytales from past centuries and the myths and legends of bygone eras: Castles and princes/princesses, wealth and power, prestige and (perceived) beauty – the Emperor has no clothes. Every culture has similar stories and myths. Eric at Planet Waves describes this as “The Great Unveiling”. The carrots in front of the donkeys are losing their appeal. The donkeys are asking questions. (Shrek) Eric speaks of the developing value of open co-operation emerging amidst the muddiness of secret and separative competitiveness.

The ingress of Pluto into Capricorn (November 27th) heralds a cycle of social transformation which is needed, warranted and timely. It is our destiny, our heritage, our purpose and our privilege to participate with conscious awareness. We can enjoy our ability-to-respond and embrace this Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation period in earth’s history with gusto. We may as well – it shall be happening until 2024!  It will look good on the soul resume.

 

The Sun in Libra continues to nudge us gently towards reconciliation of the personality self with the Soul Self – merging of the two in a tantricdance is the flavour of the month.

The Full Moon in Aries (Sun Libra) on Wednesday 15th October is at 7.03 am AEDT. [We have switched to daylight saving on the East coast of Australia]. That’s a fine morning for a sunrise walk and contemplation folks!

 

By the Friday 17th October, Mercury is direct again and the moon is in Gemini. We can think ahead once more and express (externalise) what we have discovered in these 3 weeks of inner plane review. Think back to the Full moon in Libra just before dawn on the 22nd March this year. Then think ahead to next Easter. What is consistent? YOU and your consciously being here now, is the ongoing common element. Everything else keeps changing. This is a great mystery to the uninitiated and obvious to those in the know: essentially, it is our awareness of the self within the context of time and space (and outside time/space) that holds us in form and enables our full presence – to be enough.

 

The spiritual change/shift that is stimulating this awareness and growth both in our own unique personal selves and in our greater interaction in the world will need new concepts, paradigms and words.

The first stage of awareness grows around two years of age:  “An eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth” (retaliation and revenge). These led us to become aware. Ouch – that hurt! Take that!

 

The next stage (Christ teaching of), “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is appropriate as we develop empathy, compassion and awareness (heart chakra and frontal lobe of the brain) i.e. our effect on each other. “How would YOU feel …?”  is the modern equivalent. It is the adolescent stage of development.

 

 The new mantra to add in here incorporates our growing social consciousness and community awareness:  “Do unto others as you would have them do to each other”.  This developmental blossoming (ideally) happens in our twenties as we develop spiritual and adult skills. It implies consciousness of the ‘We” – that we are all simply human and what we want for ourselves is also what we want for all humanity.

 

The Coming of Age begins … 

 

Blessings for the Full Moon in Aries … 

 

* Pics of Mim and Nimbus by Gwen and Ross Cianci

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Feed the Soul

  Contemplation

Remember the days when we enjoyed watching television as entertainment? Here in Australia we laughed at Sunnyside Up with Graeme Kennedy and Burt Newton clowning around on Friday nights at 7.30 – followed by the more cultural Playhouse Theatre. We knew then that advertising was a game of persuasion, spin was spin and movies were make believe.

Remember the 1960’s? If you do – you are in for a rerun. I have dragged out Heinlin’s: Stranger in a Stranger Land for a reminder of how to interact and grok with this oft times selfish and shallow humo-ccentric species. I first read it in 1974 and it helped me to detach and realise humanity is species - evolving - and is often fear driven and myopic.  

If you were too frightened to join the (R)evolution then – now you have the chance to be braver and lead a more personally fulfilling life. Now, there are invitations to enjoy the streams of Reformation and Renaissance as well. It will peak in November, then 4 more times over the next two years. How we think and feel in response to our lives now is an expression of our values and priorities – and will help us to determine our paths ahead.

If you were born later to families who expressed many of the aspects of those times – now you are invited to make your own choices. Saturn in Virgo is ringing the bell of fate and destiny for the Pluto in Virgo group born 1957-1972.

If you remember the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 and that experience was seeded in your consciousness and your soul – then these next two years will be the time when your soul flame can blaze forth once more. The most armoured hearts may open slowly to bloom as you engage with yourself and the world. Visit the sites on the earth grid you have activated over the years. Or send your loving energy and invoke the light streaming into the planet all the way through to the core of this gorgeous globe, up again to the surface and along the grid to light the way for those still scuttling around in the shadowlands.

Philip’s latest Galactic News message is a wonderful summary of the current solar village conclave and a delight to read: The self-appointed weirdo, Uranus, in the most sensitive Pisces, compensates for rejection by the masses or the collective by announcing in advance that all marbles will be collected and taken home. “The hell with all of you. I’m not playing, leastwise by your rules.”

This is the Libran time cycle – when the sun shines forth with the Galactical backdrop of Libra – the scales. They tip this way and that way. Holding the centre is the only way not be pushed/pulled and sent into a dizzy craziness. Do the right thing guided by your soul light and you will be immensely grateful that you found an inner core of peace and sanity amidst such turmoil.

 Try learning to spin again like we did as children when we played ‘statues’: that playful theatrical game when the momentary leader yells, stop and declares what we shall be at that frozen moment in time and space.

 Life’s like that now. What we have encased in concrete is merely a fleeting expression based on what is being called forth from the current source of (perceived and allocated) power. The herd mentality and the status quo are proving to be fickle friends. The conservatives have lost the plot and need to retrieve the old fashioned values of ethics, integrity and the occasional sprinkle of altruism. Pffft! Dharma is more important than karma these days.

 Reality Check: what is real and what is unreal? Neptune, the Karmic agenda and Chiron – our vulnerable wounding as a species – in Aquarius is facilitating the playing out of our collective fantasies in the psycho drama of our planetary world. We have entered the final act of a long and dramatic play. Sometimes scripted, oft times directed and occasionally improvised – the human kingdom is drawing together its bits and pieces, its legends and prophecies, its stories and memories. To make sense of the future we have to become truly present and observe with clarity and detachment the unfolding mysteries of our scattered human family and its various tribes.

 What we thought were pillars of society and respectful agents of authority (which we granted them) are being revealed as emotion and fear driven ordinary people like ourselves – with feet of blood and bone. In gross acts of denial and deception, people have been playing with our lives in the shadow of their own agendas and sabotaging, undermining, tweaking this and that – for what and for why? There’s more of it ahead. By the 4th October, Mars begins its stirring up of the waters in Scorpio. The lowest levels of our human drives and instincts will be howling at the moon. Revelations bubble to the surface.

 The challenge is to question everything – including our own (un)conscious urges. If we are to step into the Age of Light (and the Galactical/cosmic clock is chiming), then we need the soul gifts of transparency and honesty and to be courageous. The drive to understand is preferable to the primal urge to rampage. It is okay to say: “I have changed my mind”. It is wise now to preface any communication with: “I shall ponder on this”.

 Consciousness and awareness are preludes to sensitivity and the we-ness is fast overtaking the me-ness of the last millennium. The new code for the Age of Aquarius is a dramatic shift from the what is good enough for me – to what is good enough for we.

For the more culturally conservative amongst us: trot over to the bookshelf and drag out Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. I was always fascinated by Portia –she had to pretend to be a male to be heard: her speech about “The Quality of Mercy …” dropping from the heavens to the earth beneath … is one we need to hear now.

 The bailout of the US financial gamblers raises the question: If we can ‘create’ hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air to rescue (a select few) businesses – then why not do so to save the planet, eradicate poverty, provide health care and education, support inventive and productive ideas and … well? What are our values as a human family?

 Those of you who have studied the Course in Miracles will know that in God’s Kingdom (which is far more immense and compassionate than our little human minds can possibly comprehend and for which our hearts yearn to see manifested here on earth), everything is correctable: mistake – take one/take two/take three – we all have multiple chances to get it right. Oft times to find the right solution, we need to expand our mental horizons and raise the level of awareness. By the 6th October, the Sun, Moon and Mercury form the triage in Libra. Our soul, hearts and minds can reach an agreement.

 Saturn is Virgo is asking for the truth through the revelation of FACTS. Forgiveness is a spiritual antidote for these toxic times – and yes, it is difficult to forgive when we know people KNOW - what they do. Jupiter in Capricorn is expanding our consciousness to see beyond the perimeters of the current status quo to the truth of a world of possibilities. The certain world is in a state of flux. This is painful for those who have relied on the societal norms and values as a guide to their own moral code. We need Camelot’s round table for a respectful interchange of ideas. Honesty and transparency is vital now - in all our affairs.

 What is the lesson for us human souls? The status quo is temporary – the soul is linked to the eternal. Do we invest in the short term or long term? How do we be our older and wiser souls in evolving temporary forms? How deep (or shallow) are we?

 Libra is the time when people want a bet each way and a foot in both worlds. Be prepared for an ever widening gap. Choices may need to be made.  Truth is, the soul CAN shine forth through a myriad of human choices. Feeding our souls the aha’s and gems of wisdom produces sparkles of light in our human kingdom.  Feed the Soul from the core of real human experiences. We are (remember?) interfacing with the 5th Kingdom - the Kingdom of Souls.

 What to now?

 With Mercury retrograde in Libra and dancing with Mars at the moment – it is wise to do some quick reviewing and evaluation of one’s own instinctive and (un)conscious intentions in relationships of all kinds. By the 4th October , Mars in Scorpio will be creating waves and ripples of intensity. Our ability to detach and observe will be useful. Ultimately, the BIG question is: What is our relationship to our own souls and the fact – the reality - of being in existence here and now? If we exist – why and how are we living this truth? Until mid October, our minds are working on the inner planes.   

 Do you like being human? Do you like yourself? If so – embrace it and live it to the full. If not – why not and what needs to change and grow within the human self you are currently inhabiting and co-creating (with the soul) day by day? Monitoring of the self in the context of our interactions with the world is fuel for journal writing. These weeks are time for honest reflection and contemplation.

 Fact is – we are alive. We have choices. We are co-creating this world and evolving as a species. Are we leaves in the stream of life and on the winds of time? Are we genetic flotsam and jetsam and blobs on the landscape of humanity? Are we consciously determining our own lives filling the emptiness with our own meaning? Have we depended upon (old) laws, decrees and dogmas to guide us through our lives and forgotten that we always have our own direct connection with the Universal Holy Spirit? Can we, may we, will we, be our soul selves incarnate and empowered by a universal spirit of goodwill and creativity that is forever dynamic and meaningful and oh so wondrous?

Time will tell … and in the meantime, we are creating the future from our present choices.

Even the Sun itself is holding back – probably waiting until the solar village comes to some sort of agreement. NASA

There are inevitably surprises in a world of such immensity. The unknown is bigger than the known. For those already consciously aligned with Shamballa as World Servers: Lois has sent out a very welcome message from *Sananda. It reminds us of the paradigm shift occurring and that we are working with the 5th Kingdom to bring in the light and to play with it in God’s Kingdoms.

 Earth Food for the Soul: The ABC program, Two in the Top End  grants a reprieve from the circus mayhem and guides us through the evidence of the beginnings of this planet. It is a delight – especially for those whose love of nature is stronger than their sense of brother/sisterhood with an immature human family.  Remember – we have 2,500 years of the Aquarian Age to mature and learn what being human is all about. The planet is/will be teaching us to clean up after ourselves. 

Astrologically, how we decide now will express itself until next April, when in Aries, we start over.   Then again, we can always change our minds…

 Blessings,

 

* To view a copy of the full message contact Lois Hartwick: hilo88@msn.com.

* Sweet Adieu Paul Newman. Oooh, you were such a gooooood man and a grand soul which you expressed in your doing and your interaction with the wider community beyond the craft of acting (in which you excelled). I delighted in your sense of joy and fun in what you did and created in the world. Thank you.

 * Photo by Heather Harris © 2008

   

 

 

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