Chopping Cherry Trees III

We’re about to crash through the back facade of this Trauma Drama; we’ll be done by noon PDT 3 October 2019.  Of course we can always Extend the Pain, by making Decisions based on what we’re Feeling.  For instance, someone tries to sell us a case of Rotten Peaches, or a malformed Backstop for our Little League futbol field, and we’re so upset that we Vow never to Trust anyone again.  The attempted Fraud and our Reactions to it are a consequence of a Temporary Disturbance in the Force, and if we React to the content of a corresponding Drama, we can continue the Disturbance, in our own Lives, long after it’s passed.  We can even make it into Karma.

So it’s important to Recognize that the Disturbance in the Force is occurring, and know its Timing.  That certainly doesn’t mean we laugh off the Rotten Peaches or the Bum Backstop.  But it means we deal with the attempted Fraud for what it is, not what it means to us personally or how it Offends our Ego.  The Disturbance and the Timing here is two-fold.  First dwarf planet Pluto (Transformation or Formation of a New Trance, Compulsion) Stands Still (is at Max Strength) on 2 October (11:30 pm PDT).  And the Energy of Truth reaches Max Strength on 3 October when asteroids Aletheia and Veritas Conjoin (around 5:30 am PDT).

In other words we can Expect a Strong Compulsion toward Truth, and perhaps the Revelation of New Truths that Create a substantial Shift in the Zeitgeist.  The chart of the Pluto Station actually suggests the latter…

…as the Revelation of New Information (dwarf planet Eris) Challenges our Old Values (Eris Opposite Venus T-Squared by Stationary Pluto).  It also Challenges our Self-Confidence (recently-Stationary Chariklo Conjunct Stationary Pluto).  This makes a good example of how not to make Decisions under Duress.  New Information Challenges our Values, which is likely to make us Tentative about Expressing what we newly Believe – we don’t have a catalog of Justifications for our New Values yet.  Values don’t Require Justification – in fact, Nothing Requires Justification – but since we’re always being asked to Justify ourself, we Believe we Need it.

Our Values in fact are part of the Truth of the Heart, so any Justifications we come up with are actually spurious.  The Truth of our Heart Just Is.  It’s not up for argument.  People lament that folks Prejudge and Reject what doesn’t fit their Expectations.  That lament would be appropriate if we were dealing with the Truth of the mind.  But the Truth of the Heart isn’t subject to Debate or Negotiation.  However, it can Change on a dime if the Right Information arrives at the Right Time in the Right Way.

Chopping Cherry Trees II

Bob in Australia writes…

“I often dream about intuition itself and in my inane (sic) attempts to ‘dualistically’ interpret these dreams have found the following quote to be pretty sound in that respect and perhaps fitting as a reply for this blog on this day
“ ‘Information that rises to consciousness from a synthesis of your complete memory and experience.  Intuition in dreams and awake may also arise from an unconscious contact with the mind of another person, living or dead, or from your contact with the universal mind, or memory of nature, that summarises all experience and knowledge.  Such intuition may occur because, as modern physics suggests, the very substratum of our physical existence rests upon sub-atomic particles that in a real sense transcend time and space.  When our limited ego touches this timeless self, it leaps beyond the usual barriers of experiencing and knowing.

” ‘Our bigger mind speaks to us in much the same way as our ordinary memories come to us. Most of us however, have made something like tapes or recordings in our mind. So when we think, or try to get a new idea, we are often simply replaying something we read or heard or felt in the past. Listening is a way of quietening these tapes so something new can come to us. This is often called intuition, knowing something without someone else telling us or experiencing it through our senses.’

“Copyright © 1999-2010 Tony Crisp”

And I agree completely.  I’d add though that Eugene Gendlin, author of the famous-in-the-60s book Focusing, has another fabulous book called Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams that includes a number of techniques for getting by the Conspiracy of the mind and Ego to exclude information that’s contrary to our Unconscious Beliefs.  Since one of the most compelling reasons for Exploring our Dreams is to gain Revelations about those very Beliefs and bring them into Consciousness where we can Examine them and perhaps Transcend them, getting past this Conspiracy is Important.

And I also want to add that James Oschman’s research (https://www.faim.org/dr-james-oschman) tells us, as related in a seminar by John Veltheim (https://www.bodytalksystem.com/practitioners/details.cfm?id=381), that our Mitochondria have direct access to all of the Information in the Universe, with exceptions.  Mitochondria are independent organelles that live in our Cells, and are responsible for Energizing our bodies through the ATP Synthesis process and Respiration.  They have their own genetics, which are inherited solely from our mother.  As we age, we lose Mitochondria.  The supplement PQQ can restore them.  The two Exceptions that can block this source of Universal Intuition are Heavy Metals or other toxins, and Held Emotions.

We usually think of Intuition as an Input to our Intelligence, but the Channel runs both ways.  You’ll recall that dwarf planet Asbolus/Intuition was Stationary/Strong a week ago, dwarf planet Chaos/Unlimited Potential is Stationary as we speak, and today’s New Moon Conjoins dwarf planet Makemake/Manifestation.  So it’s certainly an excellent time to talk about Intuition and Manifestation – Intuition tells us how the Energy in the Universe is Organizing itself, and Manifestation tells the Energy in the Universe How We Would Like It To Be Organized.

There are a number of factors that determine how Successful we are at Manifesting, but getting our Held Emotions out of the Channel, aka Letting Go of our Karma, is one of the most basic.  We don’t talk about the Vertex, by the way, because it’s dependent on where you are on the Planet, and we write only about what applies to everyone on the whole Planet.  But the Vertex represents this very Channel.  Once we graduate to 5D, we’ll use this Channel Interactively, as we Negotiate with the Universe how we’ll Choose to Experience its Flow and Continuity.  We move in that Direction by Practicing our PIAVAs (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava-review/).

The Channel is Magnetic, not Dynamic, hence the importance in our Lives of Transcending the Limitations of the Patriarchy.  That’s where the Current Era is headed, but you can Feel Free to skip on ahead.  You don’t need to wait for everyone else to get there, as that will take a while.  Nothing in 5D prohibits you from continuing to Assist 3D to Ascend, so you aren’t Betraying your Bodhisattva Vows.  And besides, any and all Vows are by nature Dualistic and Political (dwarf planet Orcus/Vows isn’t Lit Up just now).  Moving to 5D involves Abandoning Vows and Trusting your Compassion and your Instincts instead.  You can Trust that you won’t move to 5D without Compassion, because it’s an Integral part of the Collaboration and Cooperation with the Elementals that defines 5D.  Michael Roads will teach you more about 5D, in for instance his book Stepping…Between…Realities.

You’ll probably also have to Navigate this Channel to Transcend EMF aka EMR…

Chopping Cherry Trees

The chart for the Station of Chariklo (Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence), at 12am PDT on 28 September 2019, looks just like the chart of the Bee-Zed Station that we described in the previous post (once we remove asteroids Moira and Hopi).  The interpretation bears repeating, with a few minor edits…

Expanding Transcendence is Challenged by the Dance between Choosing to Become Aware of and to Trust our Instincts, and Sacred Confusion about our Identity.  The Identity Issue is about Bringing our Identity back Home to our Self and our Soul, rather than Investing it in someone or something External to us, such as a spouse or a job.  Confusion is always the first stage of Growth, as the Mental Cage we normally trap the Universe in, starts to warp and lead.  Sacred Confusion, all the more so.

Compulsive Attention to Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence is Challenged by the Dance between our Values and our Endings.  In other words this is about Letting Go of Obsolete Values that Inhibit our Self-Confidence, and all the Uncertainties that come with Changing long-standing Habits and Beliefs.

The whole business of Truth that we’ve been talking about is also tightly involved.

This is also, with another few minor edits, the chart for the overarching 2 October Pluto (Compulsion) Station.

♥ Which brings us to the meat and potatoes of 28 September, the Station of dwarf planet Chaos (9am PDT) in 27 Gemini.  Chaos does not symbolize Disorder, but Unlimited Potential.  It is the supposedly chaotic state of the Universe before Zeus and the Patriarchs came along and organized it.  Of course we know that it wasn’t chaotic at all, it was the Matriarchy that had reigned since Time Immemorial.  Or rather, since Cyclic Time, or since No Time, as the Feminine is characterized more by Continuity and Flow than by the Separation and Discrimination that rules the Patriarchy.

All of the Horrible Monsters that Ulysses and Herakles and the other Heroes of the Patriarchy slew, are just elements of Feminine Power, painted over with the kind of mudslinging that again characterizes Politics today.  “Lock her up!” is a good example.  So in a very Real sense, the Unlimited Potential embedded in dwarf planet Chaos is the symbol of the End of the Patriarchy.  It’s good that the Antichrist is tied up by the Lilliputians of Truth – otherwise he’d be painting snakes coming out of Elizabeth’s head, as she rises in the polls.  We already know about Nancy.

Here’s the Chaos Station chart…

It’s not all that Threatening, actually.  The Grand Cross (big red X in a box) is pretty tame, and the only other red line is the other diagonal of a Golden Rectangle (the blue box).  A Golden Rectangle is Golden because the ratio of its short to long sides is the Golden Ratio that occurs so repeatedly in Nature.  Flow and Continuity, in other words.  It is significant that Chaos is joined by dwarf planet Asbolus, which symbolizes Intuition, and Opposed by Ixion, which stands for our Forbidden Genius.  In other words – as we’ve been saying for several to many years not, Our Forbidden Genius can unlock our Unlimited Potential, and our Intuition will be right there with them.  Of all days, don’t Dismiss your Intuitions!

♥ The other 28 September astroevent is the 6 Libra New Moon (11:30 am PDT), which occurs within one arcminute of dwarf planet Makemake, symbol for Manifestation…

This chart contains only a Golden Rectangle, apart from the T-Square (red triangle) and the Tricolors (red-green-blue triangles).  The biggest Challenge is to our Soul (Uranus T-Square) – are we Willing to Trust (Eurydike) that the scary Changes (Lachesis) happening to our Body and our Vitality (Varuna), are happening in order to make more room for our Soul to Descend?  And of course most of us most of the time still React to Chiron, which Opposes the New Moon and Makemake, as an Unhealable Wound, rather than another Opportunity to Poor Sweetheart ourself into Miracles.

So we’ve got a Manifestation New Moon, a Soul Descending into Matter, and a lively Intuition to point us toward the Hidden Genius that will unlock our Unlimited Potential – and a few minor speedbumps.  Now tell me, are you going to Believe your Self-Doubts, or are you Willing to Cancel-Neutralize-Upgrade those, and Trust your Self-Confidence?  Why not Transcend your Doubts, and let Bee-Zed and Jupiter Expand you into Abundance.  After the 28th, Pluto rules the roost all by itself, and whatever Intention you Commit to here, Pluto will Amplify it tremendously between now and 2 October (11:30 pm PDT).  Then we’ll have our ultimate Moment of Truth (Aletheia Conjunct Veritas) on 3 October (8am PDT).

Then we get a well-deserved rest, as there are no other Stations till late October!

Well, except that the 13 October Revelation (Eris) Full Moon Lights Up everything we’ve been talking about all over again, making Strong Angles to Compulsion/Transformation (Pluto), Self-Confidence and -Doubt (Chariklo), Transcendence (Bee-Zed), Expansion (Jupiter), Truth (Aletheia and Veritas), Karma (Karma), and Intuition (Asbolus), not to mention Respect for All Things (Hopi), Boundaries (Pallas), Sustainability (Ceres), and Growth in Consciousness (Juno)!  This is good, right?  As diligently as we’ve been working, we don’t want to just let all this hard-earned Grace fade away without refreshers, do we.  Plus, it’s good to see the hot seat kept under the Prevaricators.

What about Brexit?  At the end of October the Stations Light up Vitality (Varuna), Karma (Karma), and New Beginnings (Klotho).  Sounds positive overall, if a bit Open-Ended.  While the Karma part reminds us that those who trump in church sit in their own pew, a Vital New Beginning sounds excellent.  Since Karma is a Paper Tiger anyway – if only we Remember that – maybe Life Is What We Make It after all.  Copious Prayer and other PIAVAing for Abundance (Having Enough to Share) and Jubilee (Forgiveness of Karmic Debt) should pay off handsomely for youalls, in spite of the dorks in charge.

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As we’ve been pointing out repeatedly since July’s Truthiness post (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/truthiness/), both asteroids Aletheia (Truth of the Heart) and Veritas (Truth of the mind) are in Scorpio (Getting to the Bottom of Things, Relentlessly) and moving rapidly toward Merger (Conjunction).  So the ubiquitous news about Habitual Prevaricators getting caught standing in their own you-know-what is no Surprise.  These two Merge on 3 October 2019, about eight hours after Pluto (No Exit) Stands Still (is at Max Power).  They don’t leave Scorpio till early November.

If you haven’t been following this Thread, you’d do well to skim from Truthiness forward till now, as Truthiness has been entwined with our Karma and several other Heavy Threads – including getting Truthy about our own Karma.  Particularly notice how the hooligans are dressed in the first video of the Ixion, Forbidden Genius 3 post.

Our first 27 September astroevent (5:30 am PDT) is asteroid Nemesis (Ego Death) moving into Virgo (Ego Death).  Nemesis symbolizes Guilt and Punishment, and we Transcend that with Ego Death – we either Accept that we’re a Bad Person, or Decide that the Rules we’ve broken are Bad, that we’re being Blamed Unfairly. or that we’re being Blamed Fairly, and Intend to Reform.  Any of which Requires an Ego Adjustment, some bigger than others.

Virgo meanwhile is the rope Bridge between Leo and Libra, between the Pinnacle of Individual Development, and the First Meeting of Other, where we’re basically Infantile.  I mean, in Leo we barely knew Other existed.  We thought those disembodied clapping hands were part of our scenery.  Maybe a zip line, or a rappel with no belay, would be a better metaphor than a rope Bridge.  If we don’t go through a tonne of Ego Adjustment in Virgo as the hands stop clapping, we’ll be in big Trouble when we get to Libra.  Maybe you remember situations where you’ve Felt at the top of your game, and Believe you were meeting someone pretty much as Equals, only to very quickly Discover they were waaay ahead of you.

It’s no Help that dwarf planet Chariklo (Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence) is also Strong (Stationary), its Energy peaking a few minutes after midnight PDT on 28 September.  Or maybe it’s Helpful, if Self-Doubt leads us to Self-Examination and Change, or we Respond to getting caught in Over-Confidence by Adjusting our Attitude.

The Nemesis Sign-Change chart is like so…

Just a Big Tricolor (Mystery; the red-green-blue triangle) and a Mjölnir (Epiphany – the lighter yellow lines).  With a Tricolor we unlock the Grace in the blue line by Refusing to Let the mind Believe that it Understands the Confusion inherent in the green line.  Said another way, there’s an Easy Relationship (Trine) between the Climate Emergency (Pholus-Quaoar) and our Ego Death (Nemesis).  But the Ease is locked out of our Awareness when we Allow the Challenge (Square) that Unconscious Fear (Vesta-Sedna) makes to our Ego (Nemesis) to Dominate our Attention.  We’re referring to Pholus-Quaoar as the Climate Emergency, but it includes the Political and Economic Uncertainty that’s Afoot.

We Restore the Ease by Surrendering to our Higher Power the Relationship between our Fear (Vesta-Sedna) and the Climate Emergency (Pholus-Quaoar), by Allowing it to remain a Mystery (Quincunx).  But that doesn’t mean we defer the Opportunity to bring the Fear up into Consciousness!  For instance, I’ve been gnawing on a Problem for several months now, without coming up with a decent suggestion to Solve it.  This morning I realized that It was Fear that I was Unconsciously focusing on, while I tried to “Solve” it by Strategizing.  That’s a Dead End, obviously.  We Resolve Fear by Embracing it.

So I did just that – laid down, located the Fear in my Body, Softened and Warmed it while Poor-Sweethearting myself (“You Poor Sweetheart, you’re Scared, aren’t you”), then followed the Sensation when it Moved in my Body, and the Emotional Memories Triggered as it did.  If a Problem can’t be Resolved in a couple of months of Plotting, it’s not a Problem that will ever be Solved by Analysis, Planning, and Executing.  Declare an Intention, Command What You Want, and be Mindful to Cancel, Neutralize, Upgrade Thoughts to the Contrary.  Which I did.  Didn’t immediately Solve the Problem, but it certainly Changed my Frame of Reference, so I’m more often broadcasting What I Want to the Universe instead of What I Don’t Want.

Which leads us right to the Mjölnir (Trioctiles reaching from each end of a Square), that focuses on the Saturn-South Node that plagued us last week – namely, our Karma.  Those Emotional Memories Triggered by the Movement of Energy after I Allowed the Fear to become Conscious as a Physical Sensation in my Body and Invited it to Express itself however it Chose.

Asteroid Hopi, joining Saturn and the Dragon’s Tail, is about Respect for All Things.  A great time to go through our…

“_____, whatever I may have done or not done, or said or not said, Consciously or Unconsciously, that hurt you, I Ask your Forgiveness.  _____, whatever you may have done or not done, or said or not said, Consciously or Unconsciously, that hurt me, I forgive you.”

Be careful with this; it can easily Create Powerful Ego Deaths that you don’t notice until you Discover that you’ve Forgotten how to Drive!

♥ A few hours later, around 8:30 am PDT 27 September, asteroid Bee-Zed (or BZ509, indicating Transendence) Stands Still.  Its chart…

…is more complicated, but the core is two T-Squares (red triangles), one to Stationary Bee-Zed itself, Expanded by Jupiter (Growth), and the other to Chariklo (Self-Doubt/Confidence), Stationary less than a day later (just after midnight PDT 28 September).  Chariklo is Lit up by Pluto (Obsession), which itself is Stationary until 2 October, and our busy friend Hopi again.  This is a hell of a lot of Power.  Make sure you’re swimming downstream.

Expanding Transcendence (Jupiter and Bee-Zed) is Challenged by (Squares) the Dance (Opposition) between Choosing to Become Aware and Trust our Instincts (Moira-Juno-Moon) and Sacred Confusion about our Identity (Neptune-Lilith).  Lilith is about Bringing our Identity back Home to our Self and our Soul, rather than Investing it in someone or something External to us, such as a spouse or a job.  Confusion is always the first stage of Growth, as the Mental Cage we normally trap the Universe in, starts to warp and lead.  Sacred Confusion (Neptune) all the more.

Compulsive Attention to Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence, in the context of our Judgments (Pluto-Chariklo-Hopi) is Challenged by the Dance between our Values (Venus) and our Endings (Atropos).  In other words this is about Letting Go of Obsolete Values that Inhibit our Self-Confidence.  The Greek Atropos was the Goddess who determined the Ending of a TimeLine – a Lifetime or a Habit or a Relationship or any other Thread in your Young Life.  Fate is what happens to us when we’re Unconscious; we replace it with Choice when we become Conscious.  Here we practice Choosing to Let Go of Values that no longer Serve us.

There is a seventh fencepost here – the budding (3 October) Conjunction between Truth of the Heart Aletheia, and Truth of the mind Veritas.  It Bridges both Oppositions – we’ll make everything a lot Easier if we steer toward Truth.

♥ We need to remind that this is all just warmup for the 2 October (11:30 pm PDT) Station of Pluto (Compulsive Change of Trance) and 3 October (8am PDT) Aletheia-Veritas Conjunction (Truth Squared).

And that 28 September is even busier than the 27th,  starting just after midnight PDT with the Station of Chariklo (Self-Doubt/Self-Confidence) which Conjoins the Stations of Pluto and Bee-Zed, and continuing at 9am PDT with the Station of dwarf planet Chaos.  Chaos is a Big Deal; if it weren’t for all these other themes going on and Pluto waving its arms, Chaos would be the Big Topic!  Here it just means that however we React and Respond to these Lit-Up Issues of Karma, Survival, Ego Death, Confidence, Truth, Growth, Ascension (into 5D), and Descension (of Soul into Matter) the Gate to the Universe is Open.  The World is our Oyster; all we need to do is Intend it.

Then, at 11:30 am PDT 28 September, the Moon is New within one arcminute of dwarf planet Makemake (Manifestation).  The primary theme of the New Moon, other than Manifesting What We Want, is Descent of Soul into Matter, not just “our own” Soul into our own Body, but the Reanimation of the Planet, the Wild, and Everything In It, return to the Indigenous World where All Things Are Alive.

♥ If anyone is watching the Degrees and comparing them to their natal chart – which we should all be doing – they’re these…

• Equinox 0 Libra 23 September
• Nemesis Ingress 0 Virgo 27 September
• New Moon 6 Libra 28 September
• Aletheia-Veritas Conjunction 17 Virgo 3 October
• Bee-Zed Station 18 Sagittarius 27 September
• Chariklo Station 20 Capricorn 28 September
• Pluto Station 21 Capricorn 2 October
• Asbolus Station 24 Gemini 23 September
• Chaos Staion 27 Gemini 28 September
• Vesta Station 28 Taurus 23 September

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A quick Summary of the fireworks we listed in the previous post…

• 27 September 2019 – Ego Death Squared (Nemesis enters Virgo).
• – Transcending Untruth (Bee-Zed Stationary Conjunct Aletheia-Veritas).
• 28 September – Dancing with Self-Doubt (Chariklo Stationary Conjunct Pluto).
•  – Wandering in Paradise (Chaos Stationary Conjunct Asbolus).
•  – Making New Friends (New Moon Conjunct Makemake).
• 2 October – No U Turn (Pluto Stationary).
• 3 October – Truth Reigns (Aletheia Conjunct Veritas).

The overarching Energy is Pluto.  We usually describe Pluto Energy  as floating down a large river – when we hear the waterfall coming up, we can steer to one bank or the other to portage around it.  So we do have the flexibility to Manipulate the Energy to our advantage, if we have the Skills.  But it’s a big river – if we try to paddle upstream, we’ll just get swept over the falls backward.  When Pluto Energy Shifts, Going Back takes great Effort, and if you get there it’s not the same anyway.

This Pluto Station is about Revising our Values to account for New Information we’ve gotten (Pluto Stationary T-Square Venus and Eris).  Except for minor differences, the 27 September Bee-Zed Station and 28 September Chariklo Stations make the same basic chart, as all three of these Stations occur within the same 3-Degree window.

Pluto is often read as Transformation, or Formation of a New Trance, Bee-Zed as Transcendence, and Chariklo as Self-Confidence or its evil twin Self-Doubt.  So this week we wouldn’t be Surprised to find ourself Doubting our Old Values, as we Transcend previously Unconscious Limitations.  By next week we should be ready to have Confidence in a whole set of New Values.

Lingering beneath this Pluto Energy is a Station of dwarf planet Chaos, which, if we Allow it, can blow our Limitations to smithereens.  With our Values in Flux here, the odds are improved.  Dwarf planet Chaos implies, rather than Disorder, a Blank Slate on which we can draw anything we can Imagine that draws out our Passion.  We’re only Limited by our Imagination and our Manifestation Skills – which are much Enhanced by the 28 September New Moon only one arcminute from dwarf planet Makemake.

Chaos has been Dancing with our Intuition (Asbolus) and our Forbidden Genius (Ixion).  As we’ve seen, our Genius is tied up with the Climate Emergency (Pholus-Quaoar), so it’s Important that we Receive and Embrace Her.  Greta is a great Model for our Hidden Genius – when the trolls attack her for being “mentally ill,” she points out that she regards her Asperger’s Syndrome as her Superpower.  We all have a Superpower that’s been Shamed by the Status Quo Culture.

As you Doubt your own Values this week, you’ll see first hand why others would much rather ridicule their superiors than Allow their Ego-draped Values to be Threatened.  The 27 September Ingress of asteroid Nemesis (Ego Death) into Virgo (Ego Death) will Amplify all that.  Leo is the apex of the Individual, and in Libra we Meet Other.  In between – in Virgo – we Discover, like we did as infants, that we aren’t the Center of the Universe.

To get from Leo to Libra requires a Gauntlet of Ego Deaths.  Virgo’s bad rap follows from Maladjustment to and Judgment of Ego Death.  For all the (Lack of) Attention that Ego-Worshiping Western Culture gives to Ego Death, it’s a Wonder anyone is Well-Adjusted to it – if anyone is.  I felt it today in the form of missing two turns on a 2-mile trip that I drive almost every day.

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As we mentioned, 23 September 2019 is a busy day…

At the Equinox, both asteroid Vesta (Unconscious Beliefs) and dwarf planet Asbolus (Intuition) are Stationary, or Strong, both peaking at 9pm PDT.  In other words, like Greta says, more or less, You Know in your Heart what’s Wrong with your Beliefs that your Priorities are so Screwed Up, so get to Work Allowing your Beliefs to Change!  This is True for All of us, we aren’t just Preaching to the Choir.  If we Feel Satisfied with the Work that’s being done to Restore the Planet, we’re obviously missing the whole point.

The Libra Equinox symbolizes the Shocks to the Individual Ego that Meeting Other Creates, on its way to Re-Initiating 5D-like Collaboration and Cooperation and Mutual Interdependence at the Capricorn Solstice.  The Station of Asbolus tells us that the “Left-Brain” mind will be doing more harm than good for the next half-year, while the Heart takes charge.  Changing Unconscious Beliefs (Vesta) can only be done by the “Right Brain,” with Insight and Intention, Affirmation, Visualization and Prayer (PIAVA).  The “Left Brain” can certainly contribute, mostly by managing the details of Habit Change (see e.g. https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/held-emotions-aura-holes/), but Analysis won’t get us where we need to go.

Both of the Station charts supply the necessary Insight, as the Vesta Station sits at the focus of a Mjölnir (Epiphany) from Venus (Values) and Saturn-South Node (The Most Important Thing Is To Clear Our Karma).

The three 23 September charts are separated by 2½ and 4 Degrees, so using our traditional 3-Degree Sensitivity, we’ve drawn them as three separate charts.  However, since an Equinox is a Rebirth, when we look at any Projects we’re Initiating in the next few months, it’s totally appropriate to combine the three charts into one by using a wider 8-Degree Sensitivity.

The most prominent element of the Vesta-Station chart…

…is of course it’s Merger with dwarf planet Sedna (Converting Fear to Power; see e.g. https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/kegels-5/), which we mentioned in the previous post.  The Vesta Station also highlights likely Ego Deaths (Square to asteroid Nemesis), but that’s not a Surprise, as most any Challenge To or Shift In our Beliefs requires an Ego Death, simply because our Ego is always deeply Invested in our Beliefs.

Vesta recoils in Fear (turns Retrograde) just before She gets to Sedna, so She doesn’t get Initiated by Sedna till mid-March 2020 (12 March 8am PDT), at 28 Taurus.  That’s perilously close to the Fixed Star Algol, whose Chinese name can be translated as “Piled-Up Corpses.”  In the West it’s thought of as the Eye of Medusa.  The Vesta-Sedna Cycle is a little over three years long, which gives us a potential TimeLine for the possible Atrocities that our Planet could witness starting in March.

For eleven years the Moon stays within the Tropics, ie, between 23:27 North and 23:27 South of the Equator.  Then for the following eleven years the Moon goes “Out of Bounds” – beyond 23:27 N or S – for several days every two weeks.  During these Moon Out-of-Bounds Decades, people are more Emotional.  The last time the Moon started an Out-of-Bounds Decade was 11 September 2001.  Remember that day?  The Moon starts its next “OOB” Decade on 16 March 2020, a few days after Sedna Initiates Vesta on Algol.  A good week to stay in bed, if you’re confident your roof won’t fall on you.

However, Perseus’s slaughter of Medusa was part of the budding Greek Patriarchy’s Suppression of the “Terrors” of Feminine Power, Algol being the most “Terrible” and Snake-Haired of them all.  When we Reframe Algol as an Orgasm of Feminine Power, rather than a typical Patriarchal Pussy-Grabbing and Pecker-Waving, we could see a Rebellion led by Females against an attempt of the Patriarchs to use another Rabid-Patriotism-Evoking War to divert Attention from the Climate Emergency and the US Election, and the Travails of Brexit.

The Greeks Saluted Hestia – their version of the Roman Vesta – before they Saluted Zeus, and Saluted Hestia again after Zeus.  So sure, Zeus was granted the Attention He wanted, but guess who the people gave the real Power to?  Hestia/Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth – Food and Warmth.  Ego came second.  The Romans recognized a good thing, and made Vesta their Goddess of the State.  We know Her mostly from Her Vestal Virgins, which intended to symbolize the inviolability of the Roman State.

But the biggest Configuration in the Vesta-Station chart is a Self-Resolving Challenge to our Karma, or the Demise thereof (Diamond Star to asteroid Karma).  The source of the Challenge is the Unlimited Potential (dwarf planet Chaos) Available if we Respond to our own Hidden Genius (Pholus-Ixion) – that is, in order to access that Potential, we need to Let Go of our Karma.  The Grace that leads to the Self-Resolution is our Willingness to undergo Ego Death and Rebirth (asteroid Nemesis and dwarf planet Haumea).  The Self-Resolution implies that we may not have a Choice.

If we use our 3-Degree window to examine the Asbolus-Station chart…

…the Self-Resolving Challenge to asteroid Karma disappears, and devolves into a Grand Cross, a chorus of small Challenges that Balance one another.  Asbolus/Intuition is Merged with Chaos/Unlimited Potential and Contrasted with (Opposite) Ixion/Hidden Genius, proposing that like Bilbo Baggins, we will be led to this Karma-free Treasure by Intuition, not Logic.

More problematic is the Challenge (T-Square) to our Instincts (the Moon) presented by a Contrast between Revelation of Denial (dwarf planet Eris) and Rebirth (Haumea).  Contrast implies Duality, that we may be invited to Choose between keeping the Comfort of our Denial, and Accepting Rebirth.  But Instinct, like Intuition, is non-Dual.  So the Real Choice will be between Trusting our Instincts, or Avoiding Ego Death.  Spiritual is always Both/And.  Either/Or is always Politics.

As we Dance here with Intuition and Instinct, we are reminded that both symbols for Truth – both the Truth of the Heart (asteroid Aletheia) and the Truth of the mind (asteroid Veritas), are in Scorpio.  As we’ve said, we expect people who live by the Lie to encounter Trouble here, because Scorpio is Relentless about Getting to the Bottom of Things.  We’ll see this Lit Up very strongly between now and early October…

As we’ve pointed out, 23 September was a very busy day.  But it’s only a prelude for the larger Dramas that we’ll encounter between now and October 3.  We’ve interpreted the 23 September events as if they were isolated events, but they’re only the first act.  The real fireworks will be…

• 27 September…
  • Asteroid Nemesis (Ego Death) enters Virgo (Ego Death) (5:30 am PDT).  Ego Death Squared.
  • Asteroid Bee-Zed (Transcendence) Stationary Conjunct Aletheia and Veritas (Truth) (8:30 am PDT) in 18 Sagittarius.

• 28 September…
  • Dwarf planet Chariklo (Self-Confidence and Self-Doubt) Stationary Conjunct Pluto (Compulsion) (12am PDT) in 20 Capricorn.
  • Dwarf planet Chaos (Unlimited Potential) Stationary Conjunct Asbolus (Intuition) (9am PDT) in 27 Gemini.
  • New Moon Conjunct Makemake (Manifestation) in 6 Libra (11:30 am PDT).

• 2 October… Pluto Stationary (11:30 pm PDT) in 21 Capricorn.

• 3 October… Aletheia (Truth of the Heart) Merges with Veritas (Truth of the mind) (8am PDT) in 17 Virgo.

As busy as 23 September was, it’s going to get a lot busier.  It’s a good thing we were able to sweat through all that Deep Letting Go of Karma last week, so we can Endure this Gauntlet with less Baggage!

Nuclear Winter 1

23 September 2019 is quite a busy day…

Northern Autumn and Southern Spring began at 1am PDT.  The chart predicts that (at least) through the rest of 2019 we’ll all be faced with two Challenges and one Mystery (two Squares connected by a Quincunx, or a Double Tricolor)…

The first Challenge is between our Essence and our Willingness to Respond to the Climate Emergency (Sun Square Pholus-Quaoar).  We have to decide Who We Are.  Are we a First Responder?  A Spectator?  A Denier?  A Leader?  An Educator?  A Protester?  A dedicated Bit Player?  Do our daily Lives Contribute to the Problem or the Solution?  Where does our own Collaboration fit in?

The second Challenge (not necessarily in order of importance) is to Endure whatever Ego Death is necessary for us to Recognize and Embrace our Survival Fear and Transform our Unconscious Beliefs accordingly (Nemesis Square Vesta-Sedna, with Vesta Stationary).  Do we run or slink away from Fear, or do we Step Into it?  If we Step In it, is it with sword drawn, or with Heart Open and mind in park?  This is not only going to be important as we Adapt to the Planet’s Carrying Capacity being cut in half, but also Necessary for our best hope to Bloom – namely moving into 5D.

The Mystery is about how our Fear, our Beliefs, and the Climate Emergency Dance with one another (Vesta-Sedna Quincunx Pholus-Quaoar).  Our Job is to assiduously Avoid Understanding that Relationship and Allow it to remain Undefined and Unburdened with Expectations.  We’ll have to Trust our Heart about how we Receive the folks who want to relieve our Emergency using the same “Engineering” that got us here – whether we burn them at the stake, throw them in prison where they can do less harm, or welcome them as heroes.  The mind won’t give us a good answer to that (Both Vesta and Asbolus/Intuition are Stationary aka Strong on 23 September).

“Like victims of an ancient spiritual and cultural shipwreck, we have been adrift for four thousand years, floating on people-centered rafts of provisional civilizations that have convinced themselves that they are the real thing and the cutting edge of human evolution, while designating our true magical origins of deep small cultures as some dirty, half-evolved, grunting, primitive past.

“But no matter how far we’ve drifted away from those real indigenous shores, the spirits of our last happy, intact, indigenous ancestors from before we began to drift are effortlessly coursing right along with us.  Having merged with the vastness of the natural wild tossing sea we so fear to drown in, they follow each of us like a pod of giant sea turtles, their big sweet scaly heads thumping up under us, trying their best to get our attention and tow us home to our real selves, knocking on the hull of the lifeboat of today’s assumed culture, while we drift along figuring that the anxiety of civilization’s never-ending feeling of emergency is normal.

“The seeds are here with us wherever we are, but we are never where we are, but always heading elsewhere to escape that feeling of never being where we are.  We are never at home.

“To find our seeds to plant new culture, we have to find a way to be quiet and feel welcome at home on earth.  When we can find ways of being at home, our ancient seeds will be there with us and will have a place to resprout.

“So first we have to stop drifting away from what home really means and learn to be indigenously at home right in the lost place where we have drifted to and try to reseed and reflower with culture and food plants the odd, alienated condition of the present.

“These herds of thumping spirits on the big powerful sweet natural forces of vitality of our unkillable Indigenous Souls – they are grand and they are diverse.  They don’t live only in humans, or just in carbon-relegated organisms, nor are they limited to any single dimension of place.  They are not confined to only an invisible existence beneath the surface of the known, or imprisoned as abstract ideas, but more often than not they show up coming at us as tangible events that stretch what is accepted as real.”

–Martín Prechtel, The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants, Keeping the Seeds Alive, p.310.

Which is an incredible book, highly recommended.

Taking Our Power Back 2

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/20/climate-strikes-us-students-greta-thunberg

” ‘There is infinite hope,’ Kafka tells us, ‘only not for us’ ” …

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/19/north-america-has-lost-billion-birds-years/

https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agriculture/

Taking Our Power Back

Phew!  That was hard!  At least it’s under the bridge.  Next up, our Self-Sovereignty is tested (dwarf planet Hylonome Stationary) till 21 September 2019 (8am PDT).  The event occurs in 11 of Capricorn, within spitting distance of our just-completed 14-Capricorn Adventures with our Held Emotions (Saturn Stationary Conjunct South Node 18 September).  Those are the ones we’d rather Die than Feel, in case you’ve forgotten.

The Bane of the 21 September chart…

…is Entanglement with our Thinking-Feeling Feedback Loops (Hylonome Station Square to Mercury-Venus).  You’ve probably been dealing with those the same way I have – the recent Held Emotions business made us feel like shit, and our mind obediently and immediately sprang to work trying to Figure Out Why.  Am I right?  Didn’t work, did it.  Because it wasn’t Present Moment, it was Karma.  This is how the mind makes us Sick.  We don’t Feel well, and instead of Poor-Sweethearting ourself or otherwise being Tender and Nonjudgmental with our Body and Self, we make stuff up so we’ll Feel even worse.

That’s one of Strongest Patterns that keeps us out of 5D, the Land of Effortless Cooperation and Collaboration.  We can’t even Collaborate with ourself.  No Blame – I know from first-hand Experience that this is a very difficult Pattern to Break, and Western Culture Insists that it’s Required for membership.  In fact it’s Karma itself – if we can Break that Pattern, we can Break any.  And the Hylonome Station chart will help us out on several counts!

First of all, that Mercury-Venus Conjunction (Thinking-Feeling Feedback Loops) is party to two Unx Angles.  An Unx (which means one twelfth of something, in this care one twelfth of the Zodiac or one Sign) in astrology is two planets separated by one sign.  It means Pattern-Breaking.  One Sign ahead of Mercury-Venus is a Stellium (3 planets) that means Loosening our Boundaries against Truth (Pallas-Aletheia-Veritas).  The Truth is always What’s Going On In the Present Moment.  A couple days ago, that was Feeling Like Shit.  Fine.  Not Fun, but Fine.

If we Stay in the Present Moment, we’ll Embrace that.  Maybe Explore where in our Body it’s Centered.  Maybe Soften and Warm it, since Love is Soft and Warm, while Fear is Cold and Hard.  Maybe write some Stream-of-Consciousness about it, letting ourselves Associate it with anything we’ve ever Felt before, or with any Drama it Reminds us of.  But if we try to Figure It Out so we can Fix It, what a Rejection of it that is!  We Demonstrate that it’s Intolerable.

That’s How It Got to Be a Held Emotion – that’s the Definition of a Held Emotion.  If you’re like me, you Begged the mind to give you a Believable Story that could make you Feel Better.  For a few minutes.  While making sure your Karma Stays Tightly Held, and you stay in 3D.  No Blame, Change is Scary.  But in this chart, for the next few days, with an Unx between your Feedback Loops and Present-Moment Truth, we get to see exactly how that process works, we bring it into Consciousness so we can Change it.  We can’t Change anything while it’s Unconscious – that’s almost tautological.  The Unx gives us the Opportunity.

One Sign behind Mercury-Venus Feedback Loops is another Stellium, this one about Becoming Conscious of the Vows We Have Made That Betray our Self-Love.  How many times have we “had to” do that, often in order to Avoid Death.  If you’re True to your Soul, you won’t care about Death, it’ll just be time to Change the Water, move on to Other Experiences.  If you’re True to your Ego, Anything is Preferable to Death.  But how many Lifetimes have we had to have just to begin to Know the Difference between Soul and Ego?  No Blame.  It’s not how many times we Fall Down, it’s how many times we Get Up, even if we have no idea Why or What we’re Getting Up To.

So this Unx will Help us Break our Patterns of Self-Betrayal, and it will do it by Helping us to Stay Present with the Truth of What’s Really Going On In Each Moment.  There’s a pretty Radical book called What You Think of Me Is None of My Business.  We can Reframe that as What We Think About Our Feelings is Bullshit.  Our Feelings Stand on Their Own.  The last thing they need is our Opinion about them.  The road to 5D lies through Embracing and Enjoying the Depth and Unique Flavor of Every Possible Emotion, Just As It Is.

The Becoming Conscious of the Decisions We Have Made That Betray our Self-Love Stellium also Opposes the dwarf planet that stands for Abuse and Privilege (Nessus).  So many of those Decisions we made because we were Avoiding or trying to make the best of Abuse, or when we Felt that it was okay to Abuse someone else because they were Less Than us, or they Deserved it.  The Karma involved in Abusing someone else is no Different from the Karma in Being Abused.

This Opposition between Abuse and Awareness of Self-Betraying Decisions is part of a Grand Cross, Challenging (Squaring) another Opposition, between Sustainability (dwarf planet Ceres) and Rebirth (asteroid Klotho).  A Grand Cross is a bunch of Hassles that Complement one another.  It’s not Easy, but it’s not as Frustrating as some of our other Configurations (such as a T-Square).  One of these Hassles stands out.  It’s the Hassle of Rebirth, or Starting Over.  We have to Give Up everything we thought we knew, all of our precious Survival Strategies that have kept us Okay, but still in 3D.  Rebirth is Scary.

Our Rebirth is Challenged (T-Squared) by the Contrast between our Herstorical Abuse and our Awareness of our Self-Betraying Decisions.  But it’s a Self-Resolving Challenge (a Diamond Star, or T-Square and Finger of God pointing to the same place).  The two keys (roots of the Finger of God) to Allowing our Rebirth here are Accepting the Truth about the Present Moment (Pallas-Aletheia-Veritas) and Awareness of our Self-Sovereignty (Stationary Hylonome Herself).

If “We” is our mind, then sure, Judging and Profiling Everything in our World sounds Self-Sovereign.  But while many of us Live that way, and Western Culture Rewards us handsomely for it, most of us would Hesitate a bit about Believing that this is Enlightenment.  This chart Allows us to Accept the Gift of Being Reborn truly Self-Sovereign, Self-Loving, and Committed to Staying in the Present Moment.  Don’t Reject it, ok?  At least PIAVA Accepting it!

Yes, this Hylonome Station is a transitory event.  Sure, we can be Reborn for a few days, but then the Station fades and we go back to The Way It Was, don’t we?  Well, we definitely have that Choice.  But we also have the Choice of Noticing, Learning, and Intending (or Praying, Asking, Visualizing, Affirming, Commanding, or any of the other “silent” PIAVA terms) that we don’t leave this Time window without a pretty Deep Embrace of this Rebirth.  We might even say three times, Thinking-About-Feeling, Leave Now, and Never Come Back!

Prioritizing Held Emotions

On 15 September 2019 (2:30 pm PDT), Saturn (The Most Important Thing) and the South Node (Held Emotions) pass one another.  Saturn is Stationary (Strong) while this occurs.  Saturn turns around and begins moving the other way (Direct) on 18 September (2am PDT), but on 15 September it’s only an arcminute (one sixtieth of a Degree) from it’s turnaround, so it’s virtually Stationary.  The chart of Saturn-South Node on the 15th is almost identical to the Saturn Station chart of the 18th…

Almost.  On 15 September the Moon hasn’t come around yet to Complete the Grand Sextile (six planets more or less equally spaced around the Zodiac, connected by the short blue lines), so there is no Grand Sextile in the Saturn-South Node chart.  A Grand Sextile is a Great Boon, as once we take the first step on any Journey, the rest is Effortless.  We couldn’t ask for a better chart for The Most Important Thing Is Our Held Emotions, as all we’ll need to do is PIAVA that our Karma “Leave Now and Never Come Back.”

However, while the Moon is working it’s way around, it’ll be a bit more Challenging.  Specifically, on the 15th, in order to Complete the Grand Sextile and make it all Easy, we’ll need to fill the Vacancy Consciously.  On the 15th the Moon is back at 12 Aries – same Degree Zone, but Square, or Challenging, to Saturn and the Nodes, probably making us more Emotional!  The Vacancy on the 15th is at 13 Taurus, “A porter carrying heavy baggage.”  How appropriate for the circumstances!  Goddess Knows our Karma is Heavy Baggage.  But we aren’t carrying it!  A porter is!

Bear in mind that we use the Mean Node.  The True Node is a bit less regular.  We’ve always found the Mean Node to be adequate for our Purposes, so we’ve never Explored the True Node.  If any of you have, I’ll be Grateful if you Edify me.  It’s the Mean Node that meets Saturn on 15 September.  The True Node crossed Saturn on 30 April 2019 in 21 Capricorn (noon PDT) and 4 July in 18 Capricorn (also noon), and will again on 27 September in 14 Capricorn (11pm PDT).  The Nodes are naturally Retrograde, with an Orbital Period of about nineteen years, versus twenty-eight years for Saturn.

Remember that the nature of Karma is Illusion.  If what you’re Experiencing in this period is Deja vu all over again, it’s Karma, not Present-Moment Reality.  Karma dips into Present Moment Reality when it Triggers our Expectations of Doom.  So there may be elements that Feel quite Real.  We do need to Attend to those, but we also need to Realize that they’re Paper Tigers.  The more your Expectations bring down the full weight of your Karma upon you, the more they’ll bleed into Present Moment Realty, as the Universe Mirrors the Vibrations we’re putting out.

For instance, no, those Physical Symptoms you’re Feeling aren’t Cancer or worse, though you can make them evolve into that if you Project your Fear of it strongly enough.  This is when Relieving Symptoms, rather than Healing Cause, is appropriate.  Yes, you want to Heal the Cause, but the Cause isn’t Physical, it’s Emotional.  Heal that by Embracing it, no matter how Painful it Feels and no matter how much it feels like you’re gonna Die.  Yes, you – your Ego – is going to Molt, but Physical Death and Serious Illness are in the cards only as much as your Fear of them calls them to you.

What happens when you Mirror Chocolate or Ice Cream?  Hold the Mirror for a few minutes.  Does anything Change?