Be Alert for Habits that don’t Serve you Perfectly, as some of our usually-Unconscious Karmic Habits may be Revealing themselves, as dwarf planet Eris (Revelation of What’s Been Denied) Initiates asteroid Lachesis (Unexpired Karma) today, 10 July 2023 (UT 18:06, PDT 11:06 am 10th, BST 7:06 pm 10th, IST 11:36 pm 10th, AEST 4:06 am 11th). Our Boundaries are likely to be an Issue as well, as Pallas (Boundaries) Initiates Mars (Assertiveness) at UT 1:56 (PDT 6:56 pm 10th, BST 2:56 am 11th, IST 7:26 am 11th, AEST 11:56 am 11th).
Eris-Lachesis Begins a 6-year Cycle born in 26 Aries, implying Union with All. As a New Cycle is Initiated, the Energy of the Cycle is Lit Up Brightly. The old Cycle (Initiated April 2018 in 24 Aries) was more about being Open to the Flow. Can you Feel the Difference? Or remember that far back? It’s not easy, since that was before the current 11-year Moon Out of Bounds Cycle began in 2020, Heralded by the COVID outbreak. The Moon goes OOB every two weeks for 11 years, then for the next 11 She stays In Bounds.
In my Experience, it does seem like there’s been less Judgment about, once we Discount – as Ridiculous and Self-Sabotaging – the epidemic of US Right-Wingers shooting people, books, and Disney characters while trying to shoot themselves in the foot and missing. Now that is Karma we can do without, since their aim is Disastrous. We can get Dead just by pulling into the wrong driveway, let alone DWB.
We need to note that just because Karma hasn’t officially Expired (Lachesis), that doesn’t mean that it can’t be Extinguished. Karma depends on Linear Time, as Causan dEffect becomes moot if Cause doesn’t come first, and Linear Time died in 2012. Fate Becomes Choice once it’s in Consciousness, if we’re willing to be Accountable to it (Noticing it and Doing something Different), so the current Lachesis-Eris Cycle could have a Profound Impact on the Fragmentation of Huperity.
However, in the typical Cycle, once the Excitement of the Initiation wears off, folks who are deeply Invested in the old Cycle crank up their PR apparatus and try to convince everyone that Nothing Has Changed, usually with considerable success. That Retrogression ceases when the Cycle hits its Waxing Square, which in this case occurs in June 2025. So we have a couple of years to sew up the New Flags.
26 Degrees of Aries, Union, is popular this month, as it recurs on the 13th (Eris Initiates Heracles [the Patriarchy]) and 21st (Eris Stationary). The Foot-Shooting should get particularly Blatant around those dates. Eris, recall, was the Lady who tossed the Golden Apple inscribed To the Fairest of them All into a Banquet of Greek Demigods, causing all of Ancient Greece’s Goddesses and Other Beauties to get their Competitive Juices Heated Up, leading to the Trojan War.
History would be quite Different if the Ladies had just said to themselves, OMGosh, there’s my Vanity again! like some of us have to do with our Pride. Of course, their Feelings were “Hurt” as everyone failed to rush to their Defense – Of Course it was Meant For You, Barbie!, er, Helen! We can’t Ignore that, as it could easily lead to another Trapped Emotion if we just Dismissed it.
We need to Feel it, and then Let It Go. Feeling it doesn’t include Our Thoughts About it, however – Thinking About any Feeling rather than Feeling It, is a fabulous way to Trap zillions more Emotions, like Flies on Flypaper! We can at least study the Sensations in our Body associated with it. Does Pride or Vanity raise our Chin, for instance?
That’s actually Great, as long as it doesn’t go too far above the Horizontal. Once we Learn that Correspondence, we’ll be able to Monitor our Unconscious Pride or Vanity – and our Unconscious Lack of Self-Worth – just by checking the Angle of our Neck, or the elgnA fo ruo kceN.
It’s an Unx (±30°) away, but we’ll get even more Powerful Practice with that on the 13th when Uranus (Soul) Initiates Phaedra (Shame). What a combo, Eris-Heracles and Uranus-Phaedra! If we can stay out of Intimidation and Allow our Soul to Clear our Shame, rather than Allowing our Shame to Obscure our Connection to our Soul. The Unx Pattern-Breaker Angle is a Gift here, if we’re in the Habit of Knuckling Under to either or both of our Shame and our Self-Abandonment.
Shame is one of the hardest Emotions to Break Free from, because it so Overwhelms the Healthy Ego – our Programmers used it specifically for that purpose. As we get closer to the 13th (starting now would be fine), put a note on your bathroom mirror to Stay Present for Shame. When it arises, we have to Resist the Temptation to let the Negative Thoughts Pile Up on us. Where do we Feel it in our Bodies, and How does it Feel there?
Back in the 1980s when Pluto was in Scorpio and the anthem was The Way Out Is Through, we Trained Ourself to Ask ourself, What Color Is the Wallpaper? I know, who still uses Wallpaper, but the idea was that your current-moment Wallpaper was probably Different from the Wallpaper you stared at while being Abused or Shamed or Both as a child. Use an alternative that fits your current Life, like What Picture Is on the Wall, or Whose Voice Is Saying those Negative Things about Me, or What Color is the Linoleum?
On 11 July both Salacia (Our Commitment to Enlightenment) and Eurydike (Trust) Stand Still, Salacia at UT 2:14 (PDT 7:14 pm 10th, BST 3:14 am 11th, IST 7:44 am 11th, AEST 12:14 pm 11th) and Eurydike at UT 7:52 (PDT 12:52 am, BST 8:52 am, IST 1:22 pm, AEST 5:52 pm, all on the 11th). Salacia Parks at 10 Aries, Bound by Vows to Take a Stand Here, to Get to Work on Ourself to Eliminate Selling Our Soul for Approval and Appreciation, Tapping a Wisdom Older than the World. “Have Courage, Walk Courage, Stay On with What Is in Myself” (Lonsdale p.45). Eurydike Stops at 23 Scorpio, To Remain in the Magic of our Primeval Innocence, We Must Drop All Judgment and Accept the Need to Share the Skill with Others.
12-13 July is likely to be a little tougher, as Bully-for-Truth Thereus wrestles with the Inner Bears we have that keep us from Stepping over the Line into 5D – Thereus (Tough Love) Initiates Samadhi (Enlightenment), and Punisher-of-Oath-Breakers Orcus does the same. Any time we made a Commitment Never to Change for any reason (maybe because someone we liked, liked us that way, or because we joined the Army or got involved in a Traditional Marriage), we Created a Barrier to Ascension.
Thereus and Orcus are Tough Cookies on their own, but when they Team Up, our Resistance is in Trouble. They also Assail any weak spots in our Self-Love (Sappho) later in the month. Orcus Initiates Thereus on 18 July, Starting a New 40-year Cycle. All this in 14 Virgo, Waking Up to Karma. Remember though, Karma isn’t Retribution, it’s Inertia.
Whenever we Break a Pattern, there is a Loss, and we Love to focus on that Loss. For instance, if I give up Sugar or Chocolate, How Will I Find Pleasure? I know, there are Excellent Eggplant and Okra Recipes, and Bearnaise Sauce will make my tastebuds Jump out of my head and Dance on the table, but making them is harder than unwrapping a Velvet Truffle. And Karmic Patterns are SuperPowers, because we’ve Practiced them so Intensively.
But when we Give Up a Karmic Pattern, we don’t give up the Pattern, we give up the Karma. It’s the use of that Pattern in inappropriate situations that we Give Up. We Keep the Pattern. We have to Eschew it for a bit while we Teach ourself New Tricks, but once we do that we start to Discern When the Pattern will be most useful, and when it will be counterproductive, and Use it accordingly.
For instance, like most Manifestations, Joy and Velvet Truffles reinforce one another, whereas Frustration and Velvet Truffles have a high likelihood of Creating more Frustration. Whatever Successes we Manifest on 13 July, we Take Them With Us to a Big Rebirth at UT 20:17 (PDT 1:17 pm 13th, BST 9:17 pm 13th, IST 1:47 am 14th, AEST 6:17 am 14th) when Haumea (Pele’s Daughter, Fecundity) Stands Still, at 29 Libra, Guided to Serve Selflessly as a Bridge for New Energies to Replace What No Longer Works.