So BZ509/Transcendence Conjoined Mars and the South Node in the Karma Full Moon and OR10 Station charts. I guess Roseanne is our poster child for that – an invitation to Face Down (Transcend – BZ509) our Karma (South Node and Full Moon) around Anger and Violence (Mars). BZ509-Mars-South Node was one side (Opposite Aletheia/Truth) of the base of the Lachesis-Nemesis T-Square (the Challenge to Shift our Timeline around Ego Death).
Of course, if we’re proactive about Growing our Consciousness and about Improving our Attitude toward Ego Death, we could see the BZ509-Mars-SN corner as a Suggestion that we Act (Mars) to Transcend (BZ509) our Self-Sabotaging Patterns by Embracing our Held Emotions (South Node). Held Emotions are the ones we’d Rather Die than Feel – which is of course an Ego Death invitation that’s being Refused, since “I’d rather Die” isn’t about the Dying, it’s about the “I”.
The new twenty-month Mars-BZ509 Cycle began 28 May (6am PDT) in 5 Aquarius, “A Council of Ancestors implements the efforts of a young leader.” Rudhyar interprets that as Current Actions using the Momentum of Past History, which makes sense if we assume that Ancestors are deceased. I don’t think the definition requires that, however, which means we could read it as “A Council of Elders implements the efforts of a young leader.” To me this is an image of a young Leader, such as a War Chief or Chieftess, being supported by their Community.
We could probably feed both Birds with one seed by Praying or otherwise PIAVAing that our Transcendence of Ego Limits be Supported by the accumulated Energies of the Monks and Curanderas who’ve aspired to Ascendance in the Past and, while we’re at it, in the Future and the Present. On Wall Street they refer to that as “Don’t fight the tape.”
Asteroid “2015 BZ509,” aka Minor Planet #514107, or BZ509 for short, was discovered from Hawaii on 26 November 2014. The unique thing about BZ509 is that it orbits backwards. Like Uranus, which rotates sideways, it clearly says “Pay Attention to Me!” At eleven years 7 months, It has a Jupiter-like orbital period, but its orbit varies from three to seven “AUs” (Earth-Sun Distances) from the Sun.
Without an official name (we could call it “Breezy” I suppose) we have to depend on its Discovery chart, as the Birth of its observability by Hupers. Which is…
We’ve used three-Degree Sensitivity for the heavy lines, just to indicate the most Powerful Angles. The light lines show six-or-so-Degrees of Sensitivity. As this is a Birth chart, six to eight Degrees is actually more appropriate than three Degrees, but that makes the chart impossibly complex.
The most prominent themes in the heavy lines are…
Ego Death coming into Consciousness (BZ509 Conjunct Nemesis and Juno); if our Identity is larger than our Ego, we can just Allow ourself to Molt peacefully, without all the Sturm und Drang that usually goes along with it, and eliminate a lot of Suffering.
Trusting that Spirit is Innocent (BZ509-Nemesis-Juno in Leo Trine Eurydike-Ixion in Sagittarius Trine South Node in Aries to make a Fire Grand Trine); Karma is a Paper Tiger that can Conspire with Ego to make us Believe that it’s Physically or Emotionally Real in the Present Moment. When we Know that it’s All “just” Spirit, we can relax and be entertained by the movie.
Realizing that Spirit is as Infinite as it is Innocent (Golden Rectangle formed by the Nodal Axis and Chaos Opposite Eurydike-Ixion); when we Realize that ALL of what we formerly Believed were Limitations are actually just Figments of our Beliefs, we can Manifest whatever we Want.
Accepting that we had valid Reasons to formerly Limit ourself, which are now no longer necessary (five points of a Grand Sextile, leaving us to supply the sixth point by Intent; 18 Aquarius, “Secret Motives Publicly Unmasked”); Forgiving ourselves for our former Limits.
When we Expand to six Degrees of Sensitivity, in the lighter lines, we add…
Expansion of All of the Above (BK509-Nemesis-Juno Conjunct Amplifier Jupiter).
The World is Starting Over (the Grand Sextile is Completed by asteroid Klotho, Beginnings); if you’re Holding On to something from the Past, Let Go.
The Paradox between Fear and Boundaries becomes Clear (Sedna Opposite Pallas completes the Yin Gate embedded in the Golden Rectangle); how can it be that we need to Loosen our Boundaries against Fear? Because Fear is a catalog of the Ego’s Limitations.
We are unable to Escape the Truth of our Karma (asteroids Karma and Aletheia Conjunct Pluto, Quincunx BK509-Nemesis-Juno and Trine-Bridging Sedna-Pallas); our Attention to our Karma is Compulsive. Don’t dwell on your Karma, dwell on the Revelation that it’s Fake News.
Rebirth of our Soul’s Truths (Haumea Conjunct North Node and Uranus-Eris Conjunct South Node); Rebirth of our Attention to our Lifetime Mission as a result of Revelation of our Soul’s Purpose in the Lifetime.
We’ve written in, without lines, the planets that are six to eight Degrees from BZ509. They include…
The Most Important Thing about any new Projects we undertake, is that we Relax our Boundaries to Achieve Respect for All Things (Saturn Conjoins Pallas and Hopi Conjoins Sedna in the core of the Yin Gate).
Our Trust in the Innocence and Infinity of Spirit will cause us to Let Go of All Beliefs that Inhibit our Confidence in Taking Full Response-Ability for the Survival of ourself, our Community, and our Planet (the Eurydike-Ixion corner of the Yin Gate includes Vesta, Hylonome, Chariklo, Quaoar, and Pholus).
Transcendence is the Keyword I’m choosing for BK509. It’s Discovery seems to me to indicate a whole new chapter in our Ascension.
We’ll hopefully have time to map this out more carefully, but I wanted to be sure we at least covered the basics…
The Full Moon Conjoins asteroid Karma – all of our Archetypes and Self-Sabotaging Patterns will be Lit Up for the next several weeks.
The Full Moon Sun Conjoins asteroid Moira – giving us the Opportunity to Choose Otherwise than our traditional Reactions to the stimuli that trigger those Archetypes. Most of us were raised to Believe that our Karma was not our Choice. At one time that may have been the case, but From This Moment On, Continuing to Let Your Karma Run Your Life IS Your Choice. Deny it all you want; all you’re doing is Choosing Suffering. Good Habit to Break, eh?
From This Moment On, Continuing to Let Your Karma Run Your Life IS Your Choice. Deny it all you want; all you’re doing is Choosing Suffering. Good Habit to Break, eh? If you aren’t sure what this means, just Intend Otherwise.
The Full Moon Squares dwarf planet Nessus (which is Strengthening as it slows for a 9 June Station) – Can’t find the quote so I’ll paraphrase; Michael Pollan says in How to Change Your Mind that one of the “flight instructions” for a typical LSD or Psilocybin therapy session is “If you encounter something scary, plant your feet, look it in the Eye if it has one, and ask, ‘What have you got to teach me?’ ” I’ve been using that on things like Physical Pain, and it immediately changes the Water. Try it when your Abuse Memories arise, whether you recognize them as Abuse Memories or just think someone is being Unfair.
The Full Moon also Squares dwarf planet Orcus (which thus Opposes Nessus) – Orcus is about Making and Breaking Oaths. All Oaths Freeze us out of the Present Moment to some degree in some circumstances. Here we’re obviously talking about Oaths, that we made as a result of Abuse (Nessus), that became Karmic, thus Masquerading as Fate (Moira). Be Mindful that you can Choose Otherwise.
Asteroid Lachesis, which is about Choosing to Cut a Self-Sabotaging Timeline Short by Choosing Otherwise, Squares the Nodes. In other words, we can Make Choices here that Short-Circuit our Karma and instead promote our Mission.
The Full Moon is at 9 Degrees, and OR10 is Stationary (Exact at 7pm PDT 30 May; the Full Moon is at 7am PDT 29 May) at 5 Degrees. Not close enough for our usual 3-Degree Sensitivity applying to Current Events, but plenty close for applying to Projects Begun Under the Influence. By this measure OR10 joins Nessus in Squaring the Full Moon-Moira-Karma and Opposing Orcus, meaning that your Abuse Memories are likely to be In Your Face. No matter how you’re in the Habit of Reacting or Responding to that, This Time Choose Otherwise.
Making this Extension of Sensitivity also puts asteroid Lachesis (Square the Nodes) Conjunct asteroid Nemesis – Ego Death. So Choosing Otherwise might be Painful. When you encounter Choices that seem Scary or Painful (other than Asking them What They Have to Teach You), Ask your Guides (or the Great Spirit or …) whether this is “Real” or just a Challenge to your Ego.
This Extension also bring the Station of Eurydike (noon PDT 27 May at 2 Libra) into the equation. Eurydike Conjoins Atropos (Endings) and Makemake (Manifestation), Opposes Chiron, and Squares Mercury Opposite Vesta-Quaoar, meaning that we can, if we Choose to Accept it, Choose to modify our Beliefs so that they create less Pain and better support our Survival. Remember to Poor-Sweetheart yourself if Pain arises.
Eurydike-Atropos-Makemake also make a Grand Trine (Great Blessings) with Sun-Moira and Mars. With Chiron, North Node (Conjunct Aletheia/Truth), and Moon-Karma, this makes a Grand Sextile (Even Greater Blessings, but we have to take Action to kick-start the process).
Mars, meanwhile, Conjoins newly discovered asteroid BZ509.
With a huge Reset going on here, it makes more sense to use Birth-chart Sensitivity or “Orb” – 6-8 Degrees, rather than our usual 3-Degree Current-Moment or “Transit”-chart Sensitivity, so we’ve Compromised to a degree. All of this month’s Stations occur in the same 0-to-9-Degree Zone, and the early-June Nessus Station is at 10 Degrees. ‘Tis a busy chart.
We should start with the “biggest” Configuration, which is a Grand Cross (Hassles Galore, but they’re often Mutually Complementary) and a Grand Trine (Blessings Galore) with common corners. This is traditionally considered an “ideal” chart, as it combines great Energy and Motivation (the Grand Cross) with ample Grace (the Grand Trine).
That is, however, a Colonialist Perspective, where the most Celebrated Traits are Effort and Successful Exploitation of Others. The current Western Patriarchal and Hierarchical Cultural model, in other words, where the Strong win over the “Weak” (including those with different Life Goals, which are by definition Weak). The Prize is Ego Inflation, Confidence, and Privilege. Aka Corruption and Abuse, when seen from underneath.
We can see this playing out in the news all over the Planet, as this Game is the stock and trade of the Declining Patriarchy. There’s nothing Abusive or Colonialist or Patriarchal about a Grand Cross-Grand Trine (“GC-GT”) chart itself; it’s the notion that it’s an ideal chart that’s Patriarchal. There’s a sense in which being born with such a chart “condemns” one to a Life of Effort and Achievement. But Effort and Achievement can readily be directed toward non-Patriarchal Goals like Community, Collaboration, Balance, Flow, Attunement, and the like.
Here’s the Grand Cross-Grand Trine version of the chart…
We’ve drawn the chart for the time when the Moon reaches the Midpoint between the 18 May Atropos Station (Endings) at Degree 1 and the 21 May Klotho Station (Beginnings) at Degree 0. You can see that the other two Fate asteroids, Lachesis (the Length of a Timeline) and Moira (Fate or Choice) are close by at 6 and 5 Degrees respectively. [In case you’ve forgotten, we always round Degrees up – 29 becomes 30 or 0, 0 becomes 1, etc.]
The Grand Trine is extended into a Kite by Chiron, but if we focus first on the primary GC-GT elements, it’s the Atropos-Eurydike-Makemake (Endings-Trusting-Creating) Stellium (a group of 3 or more planets) that’s the overwhelming Star of the chart, as the corner where the GC and the GT converge, as well as the location of the Atropos Station.
So the first thing we need to do is talk about the Cusp of Libra, which is as important as the Aries Point (Cusp of Aries). At the Aries Point a Seed of Spirit is planted into the fertile soil of our Soul. At the Libra Cusp we meet Other for the first time. Aries-to-Virgo is about our Personal Development, Libra-to-Pisces our Social Development.
We are, All of us, as Individuals and as Members of Groups of all sizes, entering a whole new phase in our Relationship to Other Individuals, and a whole new phase in our Relationship to Community. In a nutshell, we’re now Creating our own Social and Relationship Realities (Makemake), Dropping our Olde Obsolete Patterns around Relationship and Culture (Atropos), and Trusting that we’re going in the right direction (Eurydike) even though we seem to be Betraying Mom’s admonition that “You cannot do that, it breaks all the rules you learned in school.”
Keep that in mind when you’re tempted to be Motivated by Guilt or a Need to Please Others at the Expense of your own Values and Needs. Expect your Self-Sovereignty to be Tested as we approach 27 May (the Eurydike/Trust Station), when we’re likely to be Tempted to turn back to our Olde Codependent Ways when our old playmates complain that they are being Betrayed by the Shift in our Values and Behaviors.
Which is where Chiron comes in. The Kite shifts the focus of the GC-GT to Chiron, at the top of the Kite. Atropos-Eurydike-Makemake (Trusting-that-We-Can-End-Impediments-to-Manifesting-What-We-Want) becomes the Tail that Wags the Dog, and the Dog is Chiron or Despair, Despair that we “can’t win” – we get little Support for trying to Go Our Own Way, but the rewards for running our old Patterns are diminishing rapidly.
Until of course we Empathize with our Despair – “You Poor Sweetheart, you’re feeling like you can’t Win, aren’t you.”
The other two corners of the Grand Trine, from which our Blessings flow, are
Taking an Active Part in our New Beginnings (Mars-Klotho), which will probably seem Confusing and Difficult until 21 May, when Klotho Completes its Station. Confusion is the first stage of Growth.
Following our Essence (Sun), our Heart, or our Guidance, which in the midst of Rapid and Big Change, can also be Confusing. We may be in the Habit of Resisting our Fate in favor of Choice, but in this case we’re Asked to Choose to Accept our Fate, because our Fate is Transformation (Moira Conjunct Sun).
A final Caveat. If you have Expectations about What-It-Will-Look-Like-When-You-Go-Your-Own-Way, rest assured that they’re Dead Wrong, no matter how Psychic you’ve proven to be in the past. This is a New Game. Yes, if you’re Intuitive you’ll Recognize Home when you see it, but it’s the Vibration you’ll Recognize, not the Form.
If you’re eager to Play It Forward, focus on How-It-Will-Feel-When-You-Go-Your-Own-Way instead. And make the Effort to Revert to a Blank Slate before noon PDT on 21 May, so you can be Surprised and Delighted when it Feels Even Better once Klotho Completes its Station.
Another Complication – at 11 am PDT on 22 May, Orcus Completes its Station. Orcus is about Pattern-Breaking. So even after noon on 21 May you might still be a prisoner to your Olde Archetypes. So feel free to focus on How-It-Will-Feel-When-You-Go-Your-Own-Way, but you also want to PIAVA that you can Gently and Lovingly and Rapidly and Completely Let Go of All Patterns and Habits that Inhibit your Soul’s Destiny and your Ego’s Transformation to Supporting it Fully.
Close your Eyes and Look around for any Cables, Chains, or Dark Spots, particularly behind you. One at a time, Gently remove the Barbed Hooks at your end of each Cable or Chain, and hand it back to its Source. If its Source won’t take it, feed it to an Alligator. Alligators are very Skilled at this Work. One at a time, put a Mirror between you and any Dark Spots, facing the Dark Spot, then switch on the Bright Light that aims into the Darkness from the top of the Mirror.
Scan your Body for any Foreign Feelings – crawling or goosebumps or raised hackles (but not just your neck). Put your Attention into that Hole in your Aura, and PIAVA that your Self-Sovereignty and your Essence Lovingly and Gently and Rapidly and Completely patch the Hole, Permanently, with your own Energy.
You’re likely to feel Vulnerable there for a couple of days; consider the fact that you can now Feel your Vulnerability as evidence that you’re Healing – till now you were Unconscious of the Wound. Like a Tick or Mosquito, your Programmers distracted your Attention before they installed the Hooks. Whenever you’re Conscious of Feeling the Vulnerability, Fill it with your own Heart Energy.
We’ve left a lot of dangling participles, Initiations, Angles, etc. If Life continues to evolve like it has in the past, we may never get back to them. “We can trip out so far that we never get back to know that we’ve left” as Ken Kesey once put it. How many times have we done that?!?! Nevertheless, if any of the dangling participles is of particular interest to you, let me know and we can follow up.
We’re rapidly approaching the Station of Atropos – Endings – which occurs at 1 Libra on 18 May (4am PDT). Note that it was prominent in the Uranus-Mercury Initiation chart (see The Soul Speaks a few posts back), Conjunct Eurydike (Trust) and Makemake (Manifestation). We’ve spoken about how the New Moon Fear theme will try to frighten us back to the false “stability” of our Olde Ego rather than following our Newly Vocal Soul. From Michael’s NPR interview…
“Each of Pollan’s experiences… was preceded by worry and self-doubt. But, he says, ‘I realized later that was my ego trying to convince me not to do this thing that was going to challenge my ego.’ “
But this emphasis on Atropos-Eurydike-Makemake tells a different (additional) story. The way we have traditionally Manifested/Makemake is Obsolete and is falling away. We are to Trust/Eurydike that this Ending/Atropos, if we don’t Resist it, won’t leave us without Effective means of Survival.
Resistance could freeze us in between, where our Olde Manifestation techniques are failing us, but we’ve stopped ourself from Opening to our Newe ones. It will help to PIAVA Both/And (Olde and Newe) rather than Either/Or, with a Gentle and Loving Transition into the Newe. Our Olde Approach will now become a Skill that we can use when it’s most appropriate, rather than an Archetype that uses us whether we like it or not.
For instance, don’t jump to the conclusion that you’ll lose your job (or other Sustenance) – you might just Encounter an Unexpected Shift where you suddenly Love your job so much that it’s pure Joy rather than “Work,” and the resulting Change in your Approach to Life-the-Universe-and-Everything shifts your Vibration from Resentment and Discontent to Gratitude and Excitement, so your World now Mirrors Gratitude and Excitement back to you instead of Resentment and Discontent.
The rest of May includes these Stations…
21 May, Station of asteroid Klotho (Beginning Newe Timelines) at 30 Capricorn
22 May, Station of dwarf planet Orcus (Breaking Obsolete Patterns) at 9 Virgo
27 May, Station of asteroid Eurydike (Trust) at 2 Libra
29 May, Station of dwarf planet OR10 (Invasive Memories) at 5 Pisces
9 June, Station of dwarf planet Nessus (Abuse and Privilege) at 10 Pisces
Amazing that “Beginning Newe Timelines” and “Pattern-Breaking” – the Stations of Klotho and Orcus – follow Endings/Atropos so quickly! On the one hand that leaves us treading water for only a few days, but on the other we only get a few days to Figure Out What We Want for our Newe Timeline.
But you don’t Want to Figure It Out – that would be more of your Olde Manifestation process, and that’s Obsolete. You Want instead to Surrender to one of two things – either your Intuition, or What You’ve Always Wanted. They may be the same, you may just be Doubting that because you’re so accustomed to Disappointment.
What I and a couple of close friends are discovering is that we have to Let It Flow rather than trying to Force It Through. That we need to replace Doing with Praying. That most of the time we want to Choose the Easy Way.
For the next week spend as much time as you can Surrendering into the Vibration of What-You-Want-Most. Not the Expectation, but the Vibration. Feel how you’ll Feel when Rejecting Bummer Dreams is automatic, and All of Your Fabulous Dreams Manifest Effortlessly. Use What-You-Believe-You-Want-Most to Levitate yourself into that Bliss, then drop the Beliefs.
Once you can reliably Generate that Ecstasy, you won’t need the Beliefs, or the “props” and Expectations that Levered you into The-Vibration-That-You-Want-to-Spend-the-Rest-of-Your-Life-in. You and the Universe will be Flowing Together in Harmony, and Everything you Want will Manifest on its own, as if the Universe was reading your mind. Actually, the Universe will be “reading” your Heart, or rather, your Heart and the Heart of the Universe will be beating Together.
If you do nothing else, listen to the several minutes following the 29:50 mark. After you click on “Listen,” click somewhere between the 0:00 on the left and the 42:26 on the right to see where you are (your current position will replace the 0:00). They don’t show the usual progress bar, but it’s there near the top of the page hidden beneath the text ” ‘Reluctant Psychonaut’ Michael Pollan Embraces The ‘New Science’…” 29:50 is under the “The.“
A few excerpts…
“If you get really scared… you see a monster, for example, don’t try to run away. Walk right up to it, plant your feet and say, “What do you have to teach me? What are you doing in my mind?” And if you do that, according to the flight instructions, your fear will morph into something much more positive very quickly.”
“One of the things our mind does is tell stories about ourselves. If you’re depressed, you’re being told a story perhaps that you’re worthless, that no one could possibly love you, you’re not worthy of love, that life will not get better. And these stories — which are enforced by our egos really — trap us in these ruminative loops that are very hard to get out of. They’re very destructive patterns of thought…
When this part of your brain bone “goes offline for a period of time… you experience this dissolution of self or ego, which can be a terrifying or liberating thing, depending on your mindset. This is what allows people, I think, to have those new perspectives on themselves, to realize that they needn’t be trapped in those stories and they might actually be able to write some new stories about themselves.”
“What I brought back from that experience was that I’m not identical to my ego, that there is another ground on which to plant our feet and that our ego is kind of this character that is chattering neurotically in our minds.”
The text and the audio are different from one another.
The 15 May New Moon (5am PDT), and therefore the theme of the next several weeks, is all about Reframing Fear into the Power that it really is. Back in the early days of writing these, I lived in a basement apartment, and often wrote late at night. As my Consciousness would expand into the darkness beyond the apartment, I’d often encounter Fear that someone was lurking just beyond the curtains, even chills and goosebumps.
One night, after several episodes of these Fears, I flung the door open – to find a Glorious Full Moon Goddess staring down at me! The Universe Loves Irony. The New Moon chart is more organized than it looks…
The first bit of wisdom that it offers is that Lack of Respect for something – anything – is the doorway to Unconscious Fear. When we’re Conscious of Fear we can Tap it Out, and Theta Clarity between our Intuition and our Negative Expectations.
When Fear is Unconscious, it runs our Life. We rationalize it – we “don’t like Such-and-Such because….” so we don’t have to admit to ourself that Such-and-Such, whatever It is, Frightens us, perhaps because we don’t know how to Stay in Control around it. We’re Uncomfortable around People from Other Cultures because we don’t know how they’ll React to what we say or do. And in turn, we don’t know how to Respond to their Reactions.
This is Fear. What if we were Safe enough that we could just be our Natural, Vulnerable, Soul-Directed Self. Much of what comes up over the next few weeks will be the Ego’s Reaction to the Soul’s New Tendency to say what it will (see previous post). “Oh my God, what have I said? And what do They think I said? How am I going to wriggle out of this? They might kill me!”
What if we could just be Present and Neutral, and use the Potential Misunderstanding (or Understanding!) as the Opportunity to Ask Them what they’re Feeling, and actually get to know them better. I know, They talk too fast, faster than my ears can Listen. So I’d have to Ask Them to Slow Down, I’d have to Slow Way Down, Ask them to repeat, then mirror back to Them, “Did you mean…?” What if the Real Objective was to Get to Know Other rather than Show Off the Ego?
The New Moon is Conjunct dwarf planet Sedna (Transforming Fear into Power), and Opposes asteroid Hopi (Respect for All Things).
A friend was recently talking about Synchronicity, pointing out that Jung saw it as Acausal, and saying that he thought “the cause was coming… from some other dimension.” Certainly a valid Perspective, but what if we could see the Universe with Eyes that don’t hold Cause and Effect to be the Bottom Line? What if being Acausal meant that It just Is What It Is, without ever being Caused by anything?
What if Synchronicity is the Bottom-Line Operating Principle of the Universe, and Causality is only interjected by our Observing Minds because we don’t know how to think without it? What if all Lapses of Perfect Synchronicity were just our own Negative Expectations interrupting our Perception of the True Natural process of Miracle?
In Physics 101 they introduce the concept of Flatland – if we lived in two dimensions, we were two-Dimensional ants on a flat surface, and an Entity who lived in three Dimensions came along and put their finger on our plane and moved things around. We’d see it as Miracle. What if “things” can Manifest and Demanifest directly, fully formed, without ever being “built” or taken apart? You’ve had things go Walkabout – how the devil does that happen?
What I’m working towards here is the Opposition between the Sedna New Moon and Hopi. Opposition, the Second Harmonic, symbolizing the Power of Ritual. This is how we’re Hypnotized. The mind is Dualistic; it Expects the Universe to Mirror it. So we see Opposition as Contradistinction, or Contradiction. We hold Fear/Sedna in one hand, and Respect for All Things/Hopi in the other, and see if we can Balance them. Balance is a step up from Contradiction.
But the Sedna New Moon-Hopi Opposition is the Central Axis of a Yin Gate (the two green Xs on either side of the red asterisk, inside the blue box that they define – or three Oppositions one Sign apart), and a Yin Gate Asks us to look beyond Dualism into Paradox. That Fear and Respect for All Things can co-exist relatively Peacefully – as they do in Real Life as opposed to in the mind – is a Paradox.
We may think that Respect for All Things has to demolish Fear if we are to Change Mother Earth. But Fear will just crop up again in another Form, especially Unconscious Fear – “I’ll be Bach” as Arnold would say. What if instead they must “just” be Balanced. Or that we need to Meditate deeply on how Fear and Respect co-exist. Or that we need to somehow Open to whole New Relationships between them.
There’s much more here…
The Contradistinctions/Paradoxes between Hidden Genius and Unlimited Potential (Ixion and Chaos-Venus-Pallas), the second Opposition
The Contradistinctions/Paradoxes between Rebirth and Ego Death (Haumea and Nemesis-Eris), the third Opposition
The green X’s themselves (Quincunxes, Curiosity)
The T-Square (Challenge to Mastery) to asteroid Veritas from Sedna-New Moon and Hopi
The Grand Trine (Dumb-Luck Blessings) between Veritas, Ixion, and Nemesis
But I’m so exhausted I can barely sit up. I’ll continue tomorrow if I have time.
We were in the middle of a dozen or so Initiations before we were interrupted by more pressing engagements. Each Initiation represents a Change in the Water in our Aquarium, and when a bunch of them occur at once it represents a Big Change in the Zeitgeist. So it’d be great to go back and summarize all of those Changes and how they might Relate to one another. But astrology never stops, so it’ll be a while…
Meanwhile, on 13 May, in preparation for the New Moon at the Ides, we have a major Breakthrough in our Relationship to our Soul. She Speaks to us, and if we Trust Her Lead, we’ll hear Her Speaking to the World, as we become less Willing to Censor Her. If your Honesty Shocked you – or you were Shocked by the Honesty of Others – on the 13th, this is why. It’s not even a Choice, though of course we could Choose to Embrace it; it’s an Open Portal for us to walk through; all we need to do is Surrender our Resistance.
More Initiations! Within the last couple of weeks Uranus (Soul) has Initiated Lachesis (the Fated or Chosen Length of a Timeline), Mercury (Communication), and the Moon (Authenticity).
While the Portal is Open, our Contribution to the Change (that is, Surrendering Resistance) isn’t necessarily Easy. We have to be Willing to Act to Support the Change without trying to Control it. We have to be Willing to Allow the New Timeline to Change the way we Are in the World. And we have to be Willing to Follow the Truth of our Life Force – Do what Energizes us, and Forgo what Enervates us.
The Uranus-Lachesis-Mercury-Moon Stellium (New Timeline around Authenticity of Communication) is the Focus of a T-Square (Challenge). On the base are Klotho-Mars (Rebirth of Action) and Aletheia-Varuna (the Truth of the Life Force’s Demand for Authenticity).
There’s a second major Challenge around Being Fully Responsive to our Survival Instincts. This may not mean building a Bomb Shelter, going Off the Grid, or moving to Argentina, though don’t rule those out if that’s your Instinct. In most cases though, it will mean the Opposite – Rejecting Fear, Embracing Community, and Finding Gratitude for what you’ve already been Gifted with.
This Challenge will involve developing the Habit of Empathizing with Pain and Suffering, especially your own Pain and Suffering, and Trusting that you will continue to Survive in spite of Giving Up your traditional approach to Manifestation.
Look back over your Life to see where you’ve tended to Suffer, and where you’ve tended to be Blessed. For example, maybe Money has been a constant Challenge for you, but Relationships have always Flowed Easily, or the other way around. Those are actually Choices you’ve made, but you don’t recognize them as Choices because your Identity isn’t big enough to encompass the part of you that’s making the Choices. The Door is Open for you to declare that Intention Now.
Pholus-Quaoar (Ability to Respond to our Survival Instincts) is the Focus of a second T-Square (Challenge) based on Chiron (Suffering and Poor-Sweethearting) and the Stellium of Atropos (Endings), Eurydike (Trust), and Makemake (Manifestation)…
These two Challenges Complement one another Perfectly – we become Fully Responsive to our Survival by Expressing the Truth of our Soul, and we Express the Truth of our Soul by being Fully Responsive to our Survival Instincts.
The foci of the two T-Squares Trine (Great Blessings) one another.
We don’t have to Struggle at this; there are many Graces fluttering about this chart and the New Moon.
For instance…
The second, Survival T-Square is a Diamond Star (Challenge made Easy by a “bowl of Grace” under the T-Square), with Fate/Choice (asteroid Moira) and Varuna-Aletheia (the Truth in our Life Force) providing the Ease.\
The first T-Square is a Diamond Star folded in half, or you could say a Diamond Star with its skirt up, as the “bowl of Grace” isn’t under the T-Square, but on top of it. The Trine Bridges to the Authenticity T-Square are formed by Moira and Chiron (Victimhood or Self-Empathy)
Since the two T-Squares Trine one another, they form a Kite, consisting of an Air Grand Trine (Moira in Gemini, Makemake-Eurydike-Atropos in Libra, and Klotho-Mars on the Cusp of Aquarius) and a fourth Planet opposite one of the others (Varuna-Aletheia on the Cusp of Leo).
Cusps complicate matters, because while two or more Energies are Merged, they may not be Energies that are usually considered to be very Compatible. This is actually a huge Blessing, as it wraps our Prejudices in Glowing Neon Duct-Tape.
For instance, for the specific time we’ve Chosen for this chart (Moon Conjunct Uranus), Uranus and the Moon are in Aries (Spiritual Creativity) while Mercury and Lachesis are in Taurus (Material Stability). Wouldn’t it be amazing and wonderful if Spiritual Creativity begat Material Stability! Well, this chart says that…
When we Authentically Express our Soul’s Truth, then Material Stability will follow. Sure, this is just a couple of planets passing in the night, soon to fade. But every astrological angle is a Teaching and an Opportunity for us to Learn and make the Knowledge and Wisdom our own Permanently. We won’t Learn the Wisdom of Authenticity in one try, but if we use every Opportunity to exercise those Muscles, we’ll soon be Making Miracles.
As we mentioned in the previous post, “There are other Changes going on as well” – that is, other Initiations or Conjunctions or Changes of the Nature of the Field or Trance that we’re Embedded in. I missed one in that post…
Revelation of what’s been Denied Initiating Ego Death (Eris Initiating Nemesis)
“Choosing to to remain locked in some particular belief system in order to please others or simply ‘keep the peace’ is a surrendering of personal power. This does not mean that you abandon family and friends unless it becomes necessary which it sometimes does. It simply means that you stay centered in truth and alert to the temptation to align with any beliefs the group may hold but that you no longer resonate with. Life becomes being ‘In the world, but not of it’.”
Though Marilyn’s Channeling would also fit perfectly well with…
The Most Important Thing Initiating Letting Go of Codependence (Saturn Initiating Hylonome)
And with the fact that by now we’re deep into the Energy of the first Station of May, the 8 May Station of asteroid Vesta (1 am PDT at 5 Capricorn), which herself symbolizes Beliefs. Unconscious Beliefs have a particularly strong hold on us because when we don’t Discern their existence, we never Reconsider them. When they start to become Conscious and we begin to Question whether they Serve us or the Planet, it can be particularly disruptive, often even Blasphemously, to Relationships based on Mutual Belief.
So many of our Beliefs are Installed by our Programmers, using Repetition, “Logic” (such as “You wouldn’t want someone else to do that to you, would you?”), Story (Snidely: “Did you hear what Soandso did to Whozit?”), and particularly Shaming and other forms of Abuse. Shame is one of the hardest Belief Traps to Escape from, because it’s a Feeling so Distasteful that we never want to do the Work Exploring it. Abandonment can be as Difficult, as it can create a Blank Spot in our Awareness.
Many others of our Beliefs are Karmic and Enforced by other Held Emotions, Emotions that are equally Distasteful as Shame to us personally, Emotions that we’d “rather Die” than Experience again. To break free of these we need on some level, Voluntarily or otherwise, to endure the Ego Death (Nemesis) that breaking out of our cage often requires.
Another of the “other Changes going on as well”…
Fear Initiating Fate, or Embracing Fear as Power Initiating Choice, depending on whether the Universe is Perp or Partner to you (Sedna and Moira)
is also well covered in Marilyn’s Channeling…
“Words and actions that flow from an evolved state of consciousness are capable of triggering a new state of awareness for those seriously seeking a higher way for themselves and the world. Many are on the verge of awakening at this time and those satisfied with the status quo are becoming a minority. Some who have always lived in fear are now reclaiming the power they ignorantly gave away and feeling comfortable instead of fearful doing it. You are on the verge of much change in spite of appearances but you must be patient and allow the process.
“We wish to speak to the idea of security which in the third dimension primarily revolves around vulnerability and separation, concepts designed to keep the majority locked in fear. The only real security there ever is or will be is already fully present within you. Safety and security is the automatic manifestation of the conscious realization that there is nothing you need to protect yourself against. This is your protective work, not the hundreds of material concepts believed necessary for personal survival.
“The third dimensional belief system holds that there are millions of people, places, and things you need protection from–diseases, bad people, dangerous places and anything deemed dangerous by those in authority. If there is only ONE, who or what can there be that you need protection from?”
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