Waking Up IV

Interesting day.  We’re learning a lot about the dwarf planet code-named “OR10,” which was Lit Up (Stationary) today, 30 May 2020 at 2:40 pm PDT (in 6 Pisces).  OR10 is now officially named Gonggong (Gòng gōng in Hanyu Pinyin, pronounced Gorng Gorng), named after a human-headed Chinese Water Dragon that’s blamed for one of China’s greatest floods, and the 26,000-year cyclic Precession of the Equinoxes.  Timely, since we’re in the process of Precessing into the Age of Aquarius.  (If you’re looking up Gonggong in an ephemeris, you may need to use 2007 OR10, 2007OR10, or 225088, since the name Gonggong is new.)

Gonggong was a minor-league God-figure who picked a fight with a major-league Fire God named Zhurong, lost badly, was kicked out of Heaven, and in his Frustration knocked down one of its supporting Pillars, tilting the Planet and causing the flood and the Precession.  We can see the Fire God’s success in two of today’s biggest news events…

Unfortunately, the first photo increases the likelihood of martial law in the US, as versions of it are being repeated in many parts of the country, and the Antichrist is threatening to use the USArmy against protesting US citizens.

Closer to home, we’re finding that Gonggong doesn’t just inspire Intrusive Memories of Karmic Injustices (Gonggong is Squared [Challenged] by the Sun [Essence] and the asteroids Eurydike [Trust], Atropos [Ending TimeLines], and Karma [Suppressed Emotions]), but also the Voices of Ancestors, Guides, Angels, Invisible Allies, and Visitors from Other Places.

Grogginess forced me back to bed several times this morning.  Each time, when I Focused my Energy into my lower back, I had a vision of a rectangular white field of small, red, Healing bubbles.  And each time when my bladder strongly suggested that I get up, the red bubbles had been replaced by dots of black Ash, and it was Clear that each time I emptied my bladder, I was Dispatching defeated Toxins.  Many Helpers were Present.

With Gonggong’s new name, we’ll Expand its Interpretation to include not just Intrusive Karmic Memories that make us feel Defeated, but also, when we’re Conscious that the Memories are not Present Moment, Wisdom from other Realms.  Intrusive Karmic Memories, after all, are only Invitations to Clear their Self-Sabotage by Facing Down the Held Emotions that they Trigger.  So Gonggong can Open us to the Possibility of Letting Go of our Unconscious Limitations.

In the chart of this Adventure about Expanding our Consciousness to Improve our Manifestation Abilities (Juno Stationary conjunct Makemake) and Making our Relationship to Intrusive Memories Sustainable (Gonggong Stationary Conjunct Ceres), the Expanding-Consciousness portion is more Organized (the Grand Cross and two Diamond Stars), while the Intrusive-Memories portion is much more Powerful (Gonggong moves 127 times more slowly than Juno, and more than twice as slowly as Pluto.  The slower a planet, the Deeper in the Unconscious it Acts, and therefore the more Power it has to Impact all of the faster planets from behind the curtain)…

Of course the first thing we Notice is the Sustainability hit (Gonggong Conjunct Ceres).  We don’t particularly want Sustained Intrusive Karmic Memories, unless we’re so Skilled at processing them that we toss them off like pancakes.  The Other Side of Sustainability is Sustenance, or Letting Go of the Unnecessary.  So we could PIAVA to Encounter and Easily Process Just Enough Intrusive Memories to stay Prepared for the next Hurdle that our Mission will put in front of us – Remember that our Karma is an Obfuscated version of the precise Toolkit that we’ll be needing to Achieve our Lifetime Mission.

But if we think in terms of Intrusive Memories sent by our Ancestors, Guides, Angels, Invisible Allies, and Visitors from Other Places, wow, wouldn’t it be great to Sustain that!  I know many who already do, but would any of youalls reject an Upgrade?  It’d be a fine day to PIAVA that.

Gonggong is still early in Pisces, the Sign of Letting Go of Emotional Baggage, aka Clearing Karma.  So whether we’re Dancing with Karmic Self-Sabotage or with the Angels, we’ve got more than 80% of this Adventure left.  And Gonggong is slowing down.  With a highly asymmetrical orbit, it spends only 15 years in Virgo, but 120-some years in Pisces, so it will be well into the 22nd Century before it sees Aries.  In other words, this is the Time and Place to Clear Karma – probably why so many Souls have Incarnated here these days.

The next thing we notice in the chart is the Pay Attention! (Finger of the Goddess, the green wedge) Admonition.  Its feet are Expand your Skill at Manifesting (Juno-Makemake) and the Life Force (Varuna).  That is, if you really want to Expand your Skill at Manifesting an Invincible Life Force, Pay Close Attention to Sustaining your Intrusive Memories, however you Choose to PIAVA your Relationship to them, whether it’s through getting fast at Embracing your Karma, Listening to your Guides and Angels, or…

The Sustainable Intrusive Memories business is also an aide in a couple of ways to the Expanding Consciousness portion of this week’s Adventure.  It’s a Significant Grace for the Awareness of our Need to Respect our Survival Instincts in order to Expand our Manifestation Skills (Gonggong-Ceres makes a Trine Bridge across the Opposition between Mercury and Quaoar-Pholus, which is the base of the Juno-Makemake T-Square, and with Uranus what makes it a Self-Resolving Diamond Star).  Remember that Manifestation isn’t just about Stuff and Money.  You could be working on Manifesting World Peace, or Respect for All Things, for instance.

Its also an important aid to Balancing our Expanding Manifestation Skills with our Ability to Maintain a high Quality of Belief and Confidence, and Faith in ourself (it’s a Quincunx Bridge across the Opposition between Juno-Makemake and Chiron [Despair and Miracles]).  We Create What We Believe, and that’s Conscious Belief and Unconscious Belief.  Unconscious Disbelief is the first place to look when you’re having Difficulty Manifesting anything.  Look through the windows of Intrusive Memories, PIAVA and in particular Theta and Poor-Sweethearting.

Notice that the Relationship between Intrusive Memories and Expansive Manifesting is a Mystery (Quincunx), something to be Danced with, Courted, and Snuggled, but never to be Understood.  Understanding, even if it’s Completely Neutral, is still a Judgment, and when Judgment replaces Curiosity, Love Dies.  When Love Dies, your World Dies, because Love Rules the Universe.

Not to be ignored is the Challenge (T-Square) between Sustainable Intrusive Memories and “Self-Trust that we have been Thorough, Fearless, and Honest in Clearing our Karmic Impediments (Eurydike-Sun-Atropos-Karma – we’ve included on the chart only planets that are within three Degrees of Orb to the Juno and OR10 Stations, but asteroid Karma sits just beyond asteroid Atropos [Endings], well within Orb to Atropos, Chiron, [and Ceres])” – https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/waking-up-ii/.  It’s part of another Tricolor Configuration (red-green-blue, with Juno-Makemake).

Waking Up III

We’ve been so busy dodging Flying Squirrels lately that we’ve been ignoring the Tricolor Configurations.  However, they’re important.  The “Stray” Challenge (isolated Square) in our 26-30 May 2020 Expansion of Consciousness Adventure (Juno and OR10 Stations) is a good example.  The Challenge indicates some potential Conflict between the Soul (Uranus) and our Life Force (dwarf planet Varuna) or, in general, our Health.  Well, certainly the Moronavirus threatens our Health, but how is that a Conflict with our Soul?

Dis-Ease symptoms in general indicate that the Body has gotten out of Balance, and is in the process of Returning to Balance.  Of course the Ego is tightly Merged with Survival, that’s the first item in its job description.  So when that process of Returning to Balance is what kills (as the Medical Industry identifies it), that’s a terrible insult to the Ego, and She’ll be glad to tell you so.  But realistically, not many of us have Egos that are sufficiently Expanded that we Accept Death and are Able, to some extent, to Choose its Timing.  Maybe the Challenge is somehow tied up in those sort of Convolutions.

But if we examine how the Challenge is related to the rest of the chart, a Tricolor pops out…

The Tricolor combines Challenge (the red line or Square, 3 Signs), Curiosity or Confusion (the green line or Quincunx, 5 Signs), and Grace (the blue line or Trine, 4 Signs).  The “Major” Configurations are those that add up to 12 Signs or 360 Degrees, and this is one of them.  A Tricolor should be read in this order – Challenge, Curiosity, Grace.  It’s the Curiosity, if it’s left alone to remain Curiosity, rather than seen as an Invitation to Figure It Out, that Liberates the Grace, which in turn will Attend to the Challenge.

Curiosity, like Confusion, is a Powerful Introduction to Expansion of Consciousness, as long as it’s not nullified by Mentation.  Curiosity should be an exclamation, not a question.  In this case, the Challenge is an apparent Conflict between the Soul and the Life Force.  On the Big Screen, we could see that as the Conflict between Dancing Compassionately with the Granolavirus and “Opening the Economy.”  Or we could see it as how to Assure our Survival we need to Protect our Life Force against a growing Fascist Threat and Police Brutality.  On the Huper level, we could see it as the many People who are caught between Hunger and Fear about returning to work.

How will it impact us as Individuals?  Certainly most of us will have Opinions and Strong Feelings of one sort or another about those Big-Screen and Huper-level Conflicts.  As they always do, this Attention on Other, especially Collective Other, will Confuse our own Response to our own Personal Argument between our own Soul and our own Life Force.  Bottom Line, for us as Individuals, the Challenge is probably about PIAVAing What We Want around the Bolognavirus – such as not catching it for example (though of course we wouldn’t express it negatively).  A test of the Strength of our Intention and Self-Love, in other words.

As such it would be a fabulously rich compost for us to find and Heal any shortcomings in that area.  It even becomes a test of our Self-Sovereignty.  Are we Willing to PIAVA Staying Well, when Others are getting sick?  Would we Feel Guilty about that?  Are we Angry that the Antichrist and his ilk are Willing to sacrifice the Lives of Minorities, who have much greater Vulnerability to the virus, in order to keep those precious Dollars flowing?  It will behoove us to carefully Separate our Opinions and Emotions about the larger World, from our Willingness to Unconditionally Support What We Want for ourself.

So, how do we Interpret the Tricolor?  We know there’s a potential Conflict between Soul and Health.  And we know that our Ability to Respond to our Survival Instincts (Pholus-Quaoar) will provide Grace to that Conflict.  How do we Unlock the Grace?  By carefully Avoiding Thoughts about how our Response to our Survival Instincts will impact our Health.  The more we Think about that, the more we Inhibit the Miracles that will not only aid our Life Force, but also Expand our Consciousness in ways that will help us Remember to Allow Miracles in all aspects of our Life.

When we try to Figure Out how our Survival Instincts and our Health interact, we can only use our pre-existing Concept Set.  That means we get no new information, and no Expansion of Consciousness.  If we instead PIAVA to be Advised about their Relationship, we’re Open to New Concepts and Miracles – events or processes or things that were not Possible under our pre-existing Concepts.  For instance, we might PIAVA …

• “I Wonder How My Life Force and My Health Relate to my Survival Instincts and How I Respond to Them.”

Or we might Theta, being careful to Avoid Negation …

• “God/Goddess, Creator of All Things, I Command that I Receive New Information about how my Survival Instincts and my Life Force Dance with One Another.  It Is Done, It Is Done, It Is Done.  Thank You God/Goddess.  Show Me.”

Or even…

• “God/Goddess, Creator of All Things, I Command that I Am Spontaneously Immune to COVID-19.  It Is Done, It Is Done, It Is Done.  Thank You God/Goddess.  Show Me.”

Your “Show Me” will probably Illuminate Beliefs to the Contrary, so we would Tap Them Out …

• “Even though I don’t really Believe that I could be Spontaneously Immune to COVID-19, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself…”

And if we haven’t convinced ourself yet, Theta again…

• “God/Goddess, Creator of All Things, I Command that I Receive the Miracle of Spontaneous Immunity to COVID-19.  It Is Done, It Is Done, It Is Done.  Thank You God/Goddess.  Show Me.”

• “Even though I still Fear COVID-19, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself…”

And so on till we’re completely Relaxed and Confident in our Safety.

Waking Up II

An Important part of Waking Up to 5D is Recognizing the Consciousness in “Inanimate Objects,” since 5D includes Dancing Collaboratively with everything that 3D considers to be “Inanimate.”  If we’re stuck in the Belief that only Hupers, or only Animals, or only “Living” Biological Beings, or only anything, have Consciousness, we’re going to have a difficult time Negotiating Win-Win with, say, a Rock or an Idea or a Star.

So this is an excellent time to Notice how we Relate to “Inanimate Objects.”  I Noticed earlier today, when I was rushing around Doing, that I was impatient with “Inanimate Objects” that were Asking me to Slow Down and be more Conscious of What I was Doing, and How I was Doing it.  Like that “damned” Garbage Pail that likes to jump out of the way after I’ve dropped something that falls into the space where the pail was when I let go of the greaseball.

No wonder it likes to make my Life a little more difficult, when I’m often damning it to Garbage-Pail Hell.  Considering the kind of detritus that the pail has to deal with on a daily basis, its Hell must be pretty foul.  Or maybe sickly sweet – after all, the sadist said “No” when the masochist said “Hit me.”  Fortunately, though I don’t always Act like I do, I do Know that everything is Animate, so I’m able to at least chuckle to myself when I Notice “Lack of Cooperation.”  Where to go from here?  I need to start Apologizing to the “Inanimate” People when I Disrespect them.

The ultimate “Inanimate Object” is our planet Mother Gaia, who is very much a Conscious Entity.  We’re in the middle of a long-term Collaboration (Conjunction) between our Survival Instincts (as symbolized by dwarf planet Quaoar) and our Tendency to Forget or Ignore Things That Later Turn Out to Be Critically Important (dwarf planet Pholus).  The Mythological Pholus didn’t think to hide or secure the wine that was Sacred to the Centaurs, and when his houseguest Heracles (aka Hercules) opened the wine, so began the melee that got Chiron Wounded, and Pholus and others Dead.

We usually interpret this Survival-Respondability (Quaoar-Pholus) Energy as Global Warming or Climate Change, but it would be equally Easy to think of it as Respect for Mother Earth, or Granting Consciousness to the “Inanimate.“ or even Respect for All Things (which is how we interpret asteroid Hopi – and of course Hopi sits near the Far Midpoint between Juno-Makemake and Pholus-Quaoar, making a Trioctile Yod or Mjölnir, symbolizing Epiphany).  Quite simply, Huperity won’t Survive as we know it, until it finds Respect for Mother Earth.

This Survival-Respondability Energy (Quaoar-Pholus) is a second corner of the Juno-Station Grand Cross, and it’s also Self-Resolving (a Diamond Star).

In this version of the 26-30 May 2020 Juno-OR10 Station chart, the Pholus-Quaoar Diamond Star is drawn in heavy lines…

The feet of the Finger of the Goddess (the green wedge) are the sources of Grace that Resolve what would otherwise be a Challenge to our Ability to Respond to our Survival Instincts.  These sources are The Life Force (dwarf planet Varuna), and Self-Trust that we have been Thorough, Fearless, and Honest in Clearing our Karmic Impediments (Eurydike-Sun-Atropos-Karma – we’ve included on the chart only planets that are within three Degrees of Orb to the Juno and OR10 Stations, but asteroid Karma sits just beyond asteroid Atropos [Endings], well within Orb to Atropos and Chiron).  The presence of Varuna indicates that The Life Force is too Strong to let itself be Dismissed by Flagrant Corruption.

Waking Up I

Our Expanding Consciousness Exercise that would have peaked 26 May 2020 (asteroid Juno Stationary 26 May 8pm PDT in 6 Libra) bleeds into a closely connected (since they’re only two Arcminutes and four days apart) Intrusive Memories Exercise that will carry into the rest of the week (dwarf planet OR10/Gonggong Stationary 30 May 2:40 pm PDT in 6 Pisces).  The result should be lots of Insights into our Impediments to Sustainable Manifestation (dwarf planets Ceres [Sustainability] and Makemake [Manifestation] Conjoin Stationary OR10 and Juno, respectively).

The primary Configuration is about Motivation and Multi-Tasking (a Grand Cross).  Typically under these Configurations we’re Challenged by a zillion little Hassles that actually Complement one another.  Since the Hassles are small and we can Easily Envision positive results from our Efforts, we’re Motivated to Resolve them.  And in this case, half of the Hassles are already Self-Resolving (two of the T-Squares in the Grand Cross are Diamond Stars).

If it starts to Feel Overwhelming, make a List, Prioritize, Do the Most Important first, and strive for Adequacy rather than Perfection.  You can always come back and Perfect it later, any time Improving a previous item is More Important than the next item on your List.  Include time on your List for dealing with Intrusive Memories as they arise.  Unlike your Doing items, you probably won’t know these in advance.  Intrusive Memories can be very Distracting, and if you start to Identify with the Emotions that arise, you can get trapped in them.  These Being items are actually More Important than the Doing items on your List.

Often they’ll come through as If Onlys… – “If Only I’d have done such-and-such.”  So, why didn’t you do such-and-such back then?  Because you were too “____” – I’m sure you won’t have any difficulty filling in the Self-Judgment.  That Self-Judgment identifies your Impediment.  You had a Positive reason for not doing it.  What was that?  That Positive part of you is not Appreciated, and it needs to be Embraced.

The Doing items on your List are about Improving your Ability to Manifest What You Want (Juno-Makemake), while the Being items will be about Letting Go of your Karmic Impediments to Manifesting What You Want (Ceres-OR10 Sextile Uranus as the base of the Juno-Makemake Finger of the Goddess).  Letting Go of the Impediments is More Important than Improving your Abilities, because your Impediments are a brake that’s always Limiting your Abilities, until you Let Go of them.

One way to Let Go of your Impediments is to Locate them in your Body (where do you Feel Discomfort?), Imagine Softening and Warming that place (putting your hand on it helps), and Hold your Full Attention there for a few minutes.  We usually Run from these places because we don’t like them, but before they can be Healed or Reverted they need first of all to be Consciously Recognized, Acknowledged, and Embraced.  Then you can Poor-Sweetheart yourself, Tap Them Out, or alternately Tap Them Out and then test them by Thetaing What You Want in their stead.

Fortunately, this Adventure about Manifestation is Self-Resolving, so Pay More Attention to your Process than you do to the Content of what you’re Doing.  What You’re Learning here is far more important than What You’re Doing, and What You’re Doing would actually take care of itself (which is what “Self-Resolving” means) if you did nothing.  Pay Attention to when you start to Tense Up, and build a Habit of Stopping, Breathing, Grounding, and Calming yourself.  This Habit will be far More Important to your Future than anything you’re Doing.

Here’s the chart of the Juno-OR10 Stations, with the Grand Cross (the red square and cross) and the Juno-Makemake Diamond Star traced out in heavier lines…

A Diamond Star is a T-Square [Challenge] and a Finger of the Goddess [Pay Attention!] both pointing to the same place (here Juno-Makemake).  In the chart, the T-Square is the red triangle connecting Juno-Makemake with Mercury and Pholus-Quaoar, and the Finger of the Goddess is the green wedge connecting Juno-Makemake with Uranus and OR10-Ceres.  You can see the Bowl of Grace (blue trusses or Trine Bridges opposite the T-Square) that are created by the base of the Finger of the Goddess – it’s this Grace that makes a Diamond Star Self-Resolving.

The Most Important Thing 6

♥ In an earlier post we averred that “It’s Guilt, or Fear of Retribution for Violating Social Norms, that’s likely to Block our Achievement of Unconditional Self-Love, and Letting That Go is what our current Expansion is about” (because the Jupiter Station [Expansion] chart featured a T-Square [Challenge] to asteroid Sappho [Self-Love]).  Today I stumbled on an article that does an excellent job of pulling exactly that out of the Unconscious and laying it on the table in plain sight…

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

And an illustration of the process…

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The Drama distressed me until I Poor-Sweathearted myself.  In the hidden Guilt that the article brought up for me I could easily see the roots of Codependence as well (In the Jupiter Station chart, Chiron [Despair and Miracles, including Poor-Sweethearting] is Conjoined by Lilith [Self-Sovereignty and Codependence]).

♥ We’re moving into several days when greater Expansion of Consciousness is the order of the day (asteroid Juno [Growth in Consciousness] is Stationary in 6 Libra [Relationships]).  This Energy will increase till 26 May 2020 (8pm PDT), and taper off afterwards.

♥ Corvid-19!  Well, the morning after I wrote about Constellation Corvid (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/the-most-important-thing-5/, in the purplish print at the end – I added it later, so may not have seen it), a Murder (that’s what a group of Crows is called!) of them converged in our back yard, circling a Tree where I knew there was a Nest, and squawking something fierce.  I didn’t count, but there were probably 19 of them.  They took turns diving into the Nest, circling around, and diving again, obviously attacking a predator.

Whatever marauder was up there, they took their sweet time to dine on the Eggs or Chicks, as this noisy Corvid Drama went on for about half an hour.  Finally, the diner pushed back from the table, spread their wings, and with a parade of black following them closely and noisily, flew away.  They left flying directly away from me, behind the Tree, so all I ever saw of them was a long flash of reddish golden yellow feathers between the branches as they spread their wings.  I don’t know of any large hawk with that color in these parts, but I suppose it could have been a Barn Owl.

♥ We haven’t finished discussing the 22 May New Moon.  Of course it’s another Flying Squirrel.  The Priorities Energy (Saturn Station), Expansion Energy (Jupiter Station) and New Moon are all Cuspal, so their charts are similar.  But the Oath-Breaking Energy (Orcus Station) was at 10 Degrees, so it’s a “Coincidence” that it was also a Flying Squirrel chart (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/configurations/flying-squirrel/).

Here’s the New Moon Flying Squirrel…

Like the Priorities chart (Saturn Station, https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/the-most-important-thing-2-2/), she’s missing her Left Ear (Intuition).  And as we mentioned in The Most Important Thing 4, the Major Challenge (T-Square) has Changed from Self-Love (Sappho) to Manifestation (Makemake), which theme continues this week as we Expand our Consciousness (asteroid Juno Stationary 26 May 8pm PDT in 6 Libra).

Our destination continues to be Good Health (dwarf planet Varuna in 3 Leo at the head of the Squirrel), which may bode well for “Reopening” the Economy.  On the other hand, it could instead provide a Reminder that if we want Good Health we need to Prioritize it over the Almighty Dollar.

Noam Chomsky points out that we have three ongoing Global catastrophes that threaten not just loss of Life, but the end of Organized Society, and that make the Corrinavirus look like another of the Antichrist’s Distraction Strategies so he can disassemble environmental laws while everyone’s Attention is elsewhere – which he’s doing.  Chomsky’s Greater Evils are the increasing threat of nuclear war, Climate Change, and the Global demise of Empathic Leadership.

In this chart there are three important Vacancies…

Your natal planet near 2:35 Aries would Complete the Makemake T-Square (creating a Grand Cross) and make Manifestation much less Stressful for you.  That space is crowded with asteroids – Heracles (who started the whole Centaur fracas that wounded Chiron and killed Hylonome and many others, by helping himself to the Sacred Wine that Pholus failed to secure) at 2:38 Aries, Bacchus (of Wine fame) at 3:46 Aries, and Dionysus the Party Boy at 3:53 Aries.  This is a strong suggestion that we’ll Manifest much more easily if we, like the Angels, Take Ourselves Lightly.  3 Aries is “The cameo profile of a man, suggesting the shape of his country.”  Weird.

Your natal planet near 4:53 Taurus would Complete the Makemake Diamond Star (making it Self-Resolving) and mean that your Labors would consist only of taking the check to the bank.  That’s a fairly busy place too, with asteroids Orpheus at 1:57 Taurus and Psyche (Cupid’s main squeeze) at 6:08 Taurus.  Orpheus was the Magical entertainer who make everyone very Happy and Allowed Healing Miracles, but who was killed by Maenads who were sick of his pining over the loss of his wife Eurydike.  Maenads were followers of Dionysus (again!) who also thought Orpheus was trying to steal Dionysus’s thunder.  5 Taurus is “A widow at an open grave.”  Sounds like we even need to be Grateful for our Grief.

And finally, your natal planet near 2:05 Virgo will Fill the Vacancy at the Squirrel’s left Ear, which Completes a Golden Rectangle.  This rectangular Configuration is “Golden” (we draw it in blue) because the ratio between its long sides and its sort sides is the Golden Ratio, 1.618:1.  This Ratio defines the symmetry in Nature, so the Golden Rectangle symbolizes Grace through the Cooperation of Nature.  3 Virgo is “Two Guardian Angels.”

All in all, it appears that we’ll do best by Expecting the Best and Partying it up.  Six feet apart at a Masked Ball of course.

 

the Most Important Thing 5

♥ Before I forget, the Moon goes Out of Bounds again from 2:38 pm PDT 24 May till 1:23 pm PDT 26 May 2020.  Emotions run more Strongly when the Moon is Out of Bounds, which it does for several days every two weeks for 10-11 years, then not at all for the following 10-11 years.  We just started one of these decade-long “OOB” periods.  The Moon first went OOB on 19 February, the day the US stock market peaked.  The first day of the previous Moon-OOB decade was 11 September 2001 (“9/11”).

I’d call that Progress for Collective Huperity, to go from War to Pandemic in twenty years.  The Moon’s next OOB adventures were 4 March and 16-17 March.  On 23 March the US stock market finished 33% lower than its February high, the most rapid decline ever of that size.  Next up were 31 March-1 April, 12-14 April, 27-29 April, and 10-12 May.  Next month, the Moon will be OOB on 6-8 June and 20-22 June.  Watch for Emotional Reactivity and sharpened Instincts.

♥ Well, I though we were getting a Break, but now I see that I was just looking at an incomplete calendar.  During and after our Big Expansion (Jupiter Station) event of 14 May, I missed astroevents about Truth (asteroid Veritas Stationary) on 15 May, about Boundaries (Pallas Station) on 17 May, about Self-Love (asteroid Sappho Stationary) on 19 May, and I was just about to miss an event about Oath-Breaking (Station of dwarf planet Orcus) on 23 May.  No wonder everything has felt so Rushed.

♥ We aver that our Karma – which is Inertia from Obsolete Habits that we had cast in Stone in other Lifetimes – is the result of having made an Oath, then worked so hard to keep the Oath that we made the Habit Automatic, then Forgot that we made the Oath, and finally began to regard the Habit as “just the way it is,” without Realizing that Changing it is well within our Power.

We’re aghast at how slavishly the Antichrist’s minions lap up his ample excrement, but we React that way because we worked so hard to Forget that sucking up to Power was the only way to Survive in many situations in Times past.  We’re aghast that others haven’t Let Go of that Karma yet.  Even if we successfully maintained our own Homestead out in the Boonies, it was probably rare that one warlord or another didn’t send well-armed tax collectors and army recruiters by to help themselves to our harvest and our first-born.

The symbol for Oath-Breaking (dwarf planet Orcus) is also the symbol for Oath-Making, and it applies equally to Vows, Promises, Resolutions, and even Decisions.  As we move through this Quickening of our Journey to 5D, haven’t we been Making Oaths to Revert the Addictive and Abusive Karmic Patterns that keep us locked in 3D?  That’s good, but we also need to Recognize that we’re trading one Vow for another, and all Vows will be Hindrances in 5D.

In 5D we won’t need to use the mind’s Dualistic Habits as Enforcers, because we’ll be Living from Unconditional Self-Trust and Self-Love and Self-Acceptance.  Whatever happens, It Is What It Is, and what we think about What It Is will just put us back in 3D.  What did you Think we were Practicing when we spent the 1960s Stoned, Spaced Out, and just Grooving on everything?

The End of Time as We Know It in 2012 was about Making the 1960s Permanent, Remember (Uranus Waxing Square Pluto, following the remarkable 9 October 1965 Uranus-Pluto Conjunction at 18 Virgo, “A Ouija Board“)?  Isn’t it Curious that Maryjane is becoming Legal now, and Psilly with it.  Wouldn’t hurt to review that chart, since it’s the Fundamental chart of the Zeitgeist for the rest of this Century, Defining how we as Individual Souls (Uranus) relate to the Unconscious (Pluto), which is basically Everything that is Not-Me or Not-Ego-in-this-Moment.  Growth in Consciousness involves Stepping Into that Fathomless place, and by the way, did we mention that the symbol for Growth in Consciousness is Lit Up next week (asteroid Juno Stationary 8pm PDT 26 May).

Here’s the Orcus Station chart…

Flying Squirrels are unusually popular these days, and this one is missing its tail.  That’s a problem, because its tail is its rudder, which it would use to steer.  But then, the symbol for Oath-Breaking (Orcus) is Merged with the symbol for Ego Death (asteroid Nemesis), and yes, we can’t Revert a Karmic Oath without Enduring an Ego Death, and yes, by definition we have to Surrender Control when we descend into Ego Death.  This is Rocky’s left (Feminine) foot.

The other Players here are quite amazing.

Rocky’s right foot is the symbol for Fate and Choice (asteroid Moira) – whether we’re going to continue Denying that our Self-Sabotaging Patterns are Karmic and Accept them as the Way It Is, or Wake Up to the Realization that we can Choose to replace them with What We Want.

Rocky’s left front paw Merges his Karma (asteroid Karma) with the symbol for Consciously Ending Fated TimeLines (asteroid Atropos).  His right front paw is the symbol for Truth of the Heart (asteroid Aletheia).  His left ear is the symbol for his Soul (Uranus).

His head – literally, Where he’s Headed – is the Merger of Self-Sovereignty (Lilith) and Miracles (Chiron).  If we’re falling instead of soaring, we can also read this Lilith-Chiron as Despair over our Codependence.  But we know better.  We know that Despair is an  Emotion, and over our Codependence is grammatically an Object.  This reminds us that we’re Thinking about our Emotions, which is Toxic.  We need to Feel them instead.

We also know that the Miracle of Chiron is turning Despair inside out by Poor-Sweethearting ourself.  The Mythic Chiron was the Unhealable Healer.  When we shift from “I’m Discouraged” to “You Poor Sweetheart, you’re Discouraged, aren’t you” we shift our Identity from Despair to Empathy, and it’s Empathy that Heals the Unhealable.

Rocky’s right ear is at first puzzling.  His other extremities have all been codified instructions for Healing our Karma by Oath-Breaking.  But this one appears to be Sustainable Action about Abuse (dwarf planet Ceres [Sustainability], Mars [Action], and dwarf planet Nessus [Abuse], Merged [Conjunct]).  But the symbol for Abuse is also the symbol for Privilege (Nessus).  There is no Abuse without Privilege.  So we can read it as Action to Sustain Privilege.

Moving into 5D, where we Collaborate and Cooperate with every element of our entire Universe, and every element Collaborates and Cooperates with us, is an incredible Privilege.  Do we Deserve such a Gift?  Isn’t our Deservingness a key anchor into 3D for us?  As we’re Empathizing with the Suffering and Deprivation of the coronavirus victims and the suddenly Unemployed, how can we Justify Privilege to ourselves?  A key to Sustaining Privilege (it’s even hard to write without Feeling Guilt) is Gratitude.

And Realizing that Abundance means Having Enough to Share.  Do we seek the Privilege of Abundance, or the Privilege of Wealth (having enough to Hoard)?  As we Share our Abundance, what are we Feeling?  It would be a surprise if the Ego wasn’t Indulging a bit of Better-Than.  That’s what Egos do for a Living.  Do we Lovingly and Gently Acknowledge that, without Judgment?  Or do we Identify with the Better-Than hit, and Enjoy it?  Do we just Empathize with our Ego, agreeing with it that Privilege Feels Good, without Becoming it?

Are we Reliving the many times and Lifetimes when we’ve been Without, often unto Death?  Another huge Ego-Death Opportunity, to Let Go of our Addiction to Not-Having.  What Oaths might we have made in one or more of those Lifetimes, or in this one, that Allowed us to sink into Scarcity?  Vows of Poverty without accompanying PIAVAs for Grace?  We don’t need to wait for Answers to those Questions.

We just need to PIAVA Abundance and Grace, while we Lovingly and Gently and Rapidly and Completely Let Go of All Impediments to it.  (We avoid the term Release because we don’t want anyone thinking we want to Renew our Lease on the Impediments.)  It would be a good place to use that technique of alternating between Theta Healing and Tapping until we’re Satisfied that we’re Feeling Solid about our Direction and our Progress.  We’ve described that process in several posts recently.

Oh, wait.  What about the Vacancy that would fill in the Squirrel’s tail and complete the Configuration, so we can Soar and Coast to our Heart’s content and still retain Healthy Control?  After all, we always want Both/And, right?

The Vacancy is 11 Libra, “A professor peering over their glasses at their students.”  Well, we know the professor embodies Privilege, having considerable Power over their students.  And the professor probably Feels okay about having that Power.  We know that they’re Far-Sighted, to be peering over their glasses, like Chuck Schumer does.  I don’t detect any Judgment in their peering.  Perhaps they’re Feeling Wonder.

Any stray asteroids?  Aha, asteroid Elatus is at 14 Libra, within orb.  Anyone ever hear of Elatus?  Certainly not me.  Turns out the Mythic Elatus was a Centaur, and the poison arrow that Wounded Chiron passed through his arm (killing him) on its way to Chiron’s knee!  As my former Chief Asteroid Officer (who had some magical way to look these things up) used to say, You can’t make this stuff up! 

So how will this help us Steer our Flying Squirrel into 5D?  First we assume that Death is a Soul’s Choice, to move on to something more critical, or celebrate the completion of a task.  From this Perspective, we don’t seek 5D alone.  Even if we don’t know them, we make this Journey as a Tribe.  We are not Alone.

The Star Vindemiatrix, the Grape Picker and the right wing of Virgo, is also close by at 10 Libra.  She symbolizes carefully Harvesting what we have Sown, a hint at Deservingness. 

Several Stars of the minor Constellation Corvus are also within Orb.  Corvus the Crow is a Scavenger, but doesn’t seem Ashamed of his profession.  He’s reputed to be very smart, persistently pursuing What He Wants in clever and inventive ways.  Not Proud, but Competent and Self-Possessed.  He Defends his Lineage from the assaults of Eagle by enlisting help from his Kin.

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In the land of the Deaf, the One-Eared is King.

 

For the 22 May 2020 (9:30 am PDT) New Moon in 3 Gemini, which applies to the next several weeks, we’re back to the 10 May Priorities Energy (Saturn Station) that we described in The Most Important Thing 2 post (the chart with the one-eared Flying Squirrel).

That was a week and a half ago, so some of the Players have Changed.  For instance, at that time Self-Love (asteroid Sappho) was the major Challenge (T-Square).  For the New Moon, the major Challenge is Manifestation (dwarf planet Makemake).  While the Object of the Challenge has changed, the Source (base of the T-Square) has not.  It’s our Life Path (Nodal Axis).

Yes, we absolutely believe in Destiny.  If you insist on remaining Unconscious.  The more Conscious we become, the more we replace Fate with Choice.  We each have a Life Mission (North Node), but it’s waaay more Multidimensional than our Dualistic Mind can grasp.  It doesn’t hurt to try, as long as you add “…or something like that” to every attempt.  In order to move toward our Life Mission, we need tools that we can only get by facing down our Held Emotions (South Node), the ones that We’d rather Die than Feel.

Oops, we put the accent on the wrong syl-ob‘ble (syllable).  It’s We’d rather Die than Feel – we don’t do Held Emotions without an Ego Death.  Ego Death is of course the second stage of Growth in Consciousness.  The first stage is Confusion, though there’s a lot of interbreeding between Ego Death and Confusion.  After the pregnancy, we Birth a new, more Conscious Ego, if we’re willing to do the Work.

Doing the Work has two parts.  The first is being willing to Tolerate our Confusion without Killing It – Killing Confusion means Trying to Figure Out (thinking) Why (again, thinking) we’re Confused so we can make it Go Away.  Confusion is an Emotion in its own right, and one of the more Powerful, if subtle, Emotions we have.  The Patriarchy gets its toxic aversion to Change by banning Confusion from polite company.   It’s not macho.

The second part of the Work is being willing to Sit Through our Ego Death without Running Away from it.  Sitting through Ego Death means Opening to whatever Emotions arise (not macho) and being Loving and Gentle (again, not macho) with them .

Yes, there will be Stories, but they aren’t necessary.  We can briefly Appreciate them, but we want to dismiss them quickly, so we can Pay as much Attention as possible to the Emotion.  The Stories are more thinking, and like Chocolate-covered quicksand, they’re totally Compelling, and difficult to escape from.  Addictive even.  How many people do you know who are Addicted to their Victim Stories?

What Victim Stories are You Addicted to?  They might make good material for you to practice on, Separating Emotion from Thinking, and using Sensation as a Guide to keep you Feeling and not Thinking.

There’s a good reason why the word Feeling applies both to Sensation and Emotion.

A good way to Open to an Emotion is to Locate it, or any Discomfort, in our Body, and put All of our Attention on that spot, while we watch what’s happening for us Emotionally.  Put your hand on that spot to warm it – Love is Soft and Warm, Fear is Cold and Hard.  If you can’t find the Emotion in your Body, or there are many Discomforts, just pick the most likely spot, while trying not to think about it.  You want to Feel it, not Think it.

Emotions don’t have grammatical Objects.  You’re never Angry At [xyz], you’re just Angry.  You’re never Sad About [abc], you’re just Sad.  The grammatical Objects we love to add to Feelings are thinking, not Feeling.  Putting an Object on an Emotion freezes you in Time, and Emotions are Timeless, especially Held or Karmic Emotions.  And if an Emotion is difficult for you to Tolerate, and difficult to Let Go Of, you can bet it’s Karmic.

When an Emotion is Karmic, its roots are not in the Current Lifetime, so dwelling on some Current-Lifetime Chagrin will never touch it.  And a Karmic Emotion will be cemented in by a zillion iterations, so if you have a Story about it from a different Lifetime, dwelling on that Story is just more Karmic masturbation.  It won’t Impregnate you with a new Ego that sports Expanded Consciousness.  Just more Thinking when you need Feeling.

When our Attention Wanders, as it will, frequently, we just Lovingly and Gently bring our Attention back to where there’s Discomfort in our Body.  No Judgment.  It Is What It Is.  When the Discomfort Moves, we’ve succeeded.  We can Follow it, if we still have Attention to spare, or we can Change the Subject, wait a while, and see that happens.

From https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/curiosity-and-the-void-ii/…

“PIAVA, in case you’ve forgotten or tuned in recently, stands for Pray-Intend-Ask-Visualize-Affirm.  Each is basically similar, but some work better for some of the people some of the time…  The Magnetic Feminine manifestation process runs PIAVA, Change the Subject, Pay Attention.  You have to Change the Subject (or as the Buddhists put it, Lose Your Mind) because if you keep thinking about it, your Old Birdcage will constrain your Reality to be the way it’s always been.  And you have to Pay Attention because whenever you PIAVA anything, the first thing that the Universe provides is information about why you haven’t had what you’re asking for all along.”

As it was in our Priorities Energy, our Karma in the New Moon Energy is all about Recovering our Hidden and Forbidden Genius (South Node [Held Emotions] Conjunct dwarf planet Ixion [our Unique Genius]…) so we can “fix” Climate Change (…and dwarf planets Pholus [Are we Missing anything?] and Quaoar [Survival]).  This is a Unique Opportunity that occurs only every nineteen or so years, when our Hidden and Forbidden Genius and our Held Emotions Converge (South Node Conjunct Ixion).

We’re all troubled by Serious Problems that are much bigger than our usual Span of Control, be they Climate Change, outacontrolavirus, bumpstocks, coyotes, politics, clearcutting, Roundup, in-laws, oligarchies, taxes, overpopulation, locusts, food insecurity, pigshit lagoons, coal ash, people running around nude under their clothes, undsoweiter ecosìvia adinfinitum.

The fact that our Forbidden Genius is Verboten is almost certainly Karmic.  If you’ve ever had a Fantasy about having Superpowers and Fixing some Problem much larger than your usual Span of Control, or even publicly Expressing your Frustration about the Problem, you’re Touching your Forbidden Genius.

The World Mirrors our Inner Balance, so we all have our own Inner Climate Change process happening – we’re all Denying chronic Problems that we Believe are beyond our Span of Control because they’re hiding behind our Limiting Unconscious Beliefs.  We Deny them because it’s a healthy way to deal with Issues that would just overwhelm our current Ego.  And there’s a strong correlation between our Limiting Unconscious Beliefs and our Held Emotions.

To touch the Edges of your Held Emotions, Focus on What You Feel when you contemplate your Obsession with the Global or Personal Problems that seem to be beyond your Power to Change.

To touch the Edges of your Forbidden Genius, Focus on What You Feel when you have that Superpower Fantasy.

Then Change the Subject, and tune in tomorrow to see if anything Feels different.  Then rinse and repeat.

More to follow…

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We’ve been getting quite a few new subscribers, so I wanted to remind that Questions are always welcome.  Use the “Leave a Comment” link at the bottom of each post.  I answer as many as time permits, either in a “Reply” Comment, or in a subsequent post.  If you would like to ask a Question anonymously, just say so in your Comment, and I won’t publish the Comment, but instead, in a post, refer to your Question or Comment as sent by “a reader” or the equivalent.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the “Carrington Event.”  It was an intense Solar Storm in 1859 that caused Auroras seen all the way to Florida and beyond, and telegraphs to burst into flame.  It’s frequently cited as a potential threat to digital communications, and even to computers themselves.  What I didn’t know is that the same thing happened at the Ides of May in 1921…

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2020/05/12/the-great-geomagnetic-storm-of-may-1921/

This one burned down a building or two in New York.

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An interesting update on the North Pole’s ongoing attempt to escape from the Antichrist…

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a32496561/why-magnetic-north-pole-moving/

I’d never seen that map before; it’s quite different than I’d imagined.

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Our Home Planet has been hit by several to many Plagues of Locusts this year, a Pandemic, all of the more weathery Climate Change issues, but at least so far, the Moon hasn’t gone Walkabout…

.https://www.livescience.com/disappearing-moon-caused-by-forgotten-volcano.html.

Though we could be due for a big Tsunami in the North Pacific…

https://earther.gizmodo.com/looming-landslide-in-alaska-could-trigger-enormous-tsun-1843479019

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A couple snippets from today’s Marilyn Rafaelle Arcturian download…

https://www.onenessofall.com/newest.html

(Make yourself a mental note that when Marilyn makes a new download, as she does fortnightly, she moves the now-current and then-previous one to https://www.onenessofall.com/archives.html.)

“…It is easy to get caught up in this type of information and spend a great deal of time and energy studying and researching negative activities.  You have all experienced the heaviness of dense energy that comes from getting too involved in these types of issues.  As awakened individuals you are ready to move beyond duality and separation and live from the higher levels of consciousness you have attained.  Be aware of and informed about negative beliefs and actions, but then release them and align with Reality…”

“…We recognize that many are presently locked into some service that they did not consciously choose or want.  As a result they may feel angry, depleted, unhappy, and trapped seeing no way out.  To these dear ones we say; there are no accidents.  Every life is planned before incarnation with the help of Guides, to include those experiences deemed necessary for spiritual evolution.  These types of situations are usually karmic in nature and represent a person’s spiritual readiness to address some old energy imbalance that may go back lifetimes but which can be balanced and completed through service in this lifetime…”

“…Do not let obsolete concepts of spiritual duty, and self- sacrifice to enter into your activities of love and service.  As universal consciousness shifts to new levels of awareness, service to others on all levels of need will become common, ordinary, backed by law, and simply the way life is lived because there will be a sense of oneness that was not present in third dimensional energy.  Realize that in and of yourself you have nothing to give another.  God alone is love, energy, appreciation, gratitude, service, cooperation etc. and God alone has these things to give…”

Which means that the way to move forward is by Expanding as widely as possible our use of PIAVA and the Third Step.  The Third Step is, when more or less depatriarchized, “Made the Decision to turn our Will and our Lives over to The Goddess as we understood Her.”  Recovering is a Process, not an Event, and it’s Permanent.  We’re all Recovering from the Ego and the Patriarchy, and most of us are Recovering from the “Left Brain.”  We have to tailor it to our individual Lives, but there’s no better Guide to Recovering than the Twelve Steps.  I first used it for Recovering my Emotions.  https://step12.com/the-12-steps.html.

And speaking of Expanding…

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We’re a couple of days tardy, and we haven’t written specifically about the 14 May 2020 (7:30 am PDT) Big Expansion event (Station of Jupiter in 28 Sagittarius).  Not surprisingly (since the Jupiter Station is less than five Degrees away from the 10 May Saturn Station), the chart of this event looks very similar to the chart of The Most Important Thing (though in the new version the Flying Squirrel has both Ears, but its Head is missing).  It’s upside down, but is anybody old enough to remember the Pennsylvania Railroad Keystone State symbol?  In the Big Expansion chart, though, the Players are different, and a second Challenge (T-Square) is added…

For the earlier The Most Important Thing event, the Challenge to our Unconditional Self-Love (Sappho T-Square) was from our Willingness to Accept our Life Mission and its Requirement that we use our Ingenuity and Survival Instincts to Take Full Responsibility for Letting Go of Our Karma (the base of the Sappho T-Square was the Nodal Axis, with dwarf planets Ixion [our Forbidden Genius], Quaoar [Survival] and Pholus [What are we ignoring?] on the South Node [Held Emotions]).

In our later Big Expansion event, the Challenge to our Unconditional Self-Love is to Accept our Impossible Dream and make it our Goal (the base of the Sappho T-Square is the Opposition between dwarf planets Ixion [our Hidden Talents] and Chaos [Unlimited Potential]).  There are two sides to this Drama…

• First, we have to be Willing to Accept a Dream that our Heart Craves but our Mind regards as Not at all Possible (Chaos, which symbolizes not Disorder, but both the Infinite Potential in the Quantum “Vacuum” of Space, and the Collaborative nature of Yin Cultures).

• And second, we have to Believe that We are Capable of Manifesting the Superpowers necessary to Achieve our  Impossible Dream (Ixion, which symbolizes the Recognition that in order to Change the World, it is tautologically Necessity to disrupt the Status Quo by Violating Social Norms).

Some of us will indeed be Changing the External World through our Activism, because we Know that this is what we came here to do.  But many of us will Recognize that the World is a Mirror for our Internal Alignment and Balance, so we’ll Focus instead on Deprogramming our Internalized Shoulds and Shouldn’ts, rather than Personing the Barricades.  After all, if it wasn’t for our Internalized Shoulds and Shouldn’ts, we’d have been Manifesting our Impossible Dreams all along, wouldn’t we.

The new Challenge is to our Expansion itself (the Stationary Jupiter).  It’s Complicated because it’s Merged with (Conjunct) several other Energies…

• Compulsion.  We’re in a brand new Time Province since January, and we’ll Feel an “irrational” (to the mind) urge to move toward the New Energy, even as our Emotions and “Rational” mind urge us to Protect our Investments in the Olde Paradigm (Pluto).

• Self-Confidence and Self-Doubt.  Both have Expanded.  As long as you don’t Commit everything to some Specific Future, you can Reject Self-Doubt.  Follow new Trends, but Expect lots of Changes along the way, and give yourself Permission to Change Direction as often as you Feel the Need (dwarf planet Chariklo; without a Head, the Squirrel is Flying Blind, meaning we have to Trust our Intuition and keep our “Eggs” in several baskets).

• Boundaries.  Our Most Reliable Protection is Vulnerability – then we have Nothing to Defend.  Since few of us are really There, we’ll have to Move Toward Vulnerability, rather than Pretend we’re already there (asteroid Pallas).

I’m constantly Discovering Places where I need to slip back into Denial, or Hide from some Apparent Truth.  Makes me wonder how many Places like that I haven’t Noticed yet.  When I do Notice, I try to Tap It Out and/or Theta it.  This usually works to Allow me to be Honest with myself and still Feel Safe.

The Threat to our Expansion arises from our Fear or Hesitation around Ego Death and our Ancient Karmic Pattern of Defending our Ego’s current Guise (dwarf planets Eris [Revelation of what’s being Denied] and Haumea [Rebirth] Opposing in the base of the Jupiter-et al T-Square).

The Most Important Element of the Big Expansion event chart (the focus of the only Finger of the Goddess [Pay Attention!], and the third corner of a Grand Trine [Dumb-Luck Blessings] that connects the two Challenges, Sappho [Self-Love] and Jupiter et al [Trust your Intuition but Verify Repeatedly]) is the Admonition that we Trust our Fear (asteroid Eurydike [Trust] Conjunct dwarf planet Sedna [Converting Fear to Power] Conjunct Sun [Essence]).  That doesn’t mean we Back Off when Fear arises.  It means that we Iteratively Tap Out the Fear and Theta What We Want, till the “Show Me!” phase of the Theta Healing is unambiguously What We Want.

For instance, we might Tap on…

• “Even though I Feel Fear about [eg, Wanting Such a Huge Blessing], I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself,”

and then Theta…

• “God/Goddess, Creator of All There Is, I Command that [eg, My Dream of Nirvikalpa Samadhi Be Realized].  It Is Done, It Is Done, It Is Done.  Thank You God/Goddess!  Show Me!”

Then, if you’re Visual, you’d look to See if you’re in Bliss in the Picture that you’re Shown.  If your Intuition arrives by other means, you’d Examine that – your Belly might be Shouting YES!, or you might Hear a Delicious OMMM chorus, or Smell Frankincense, or Feel Ecstasy, or Sense Energy coursing up your Spine, or Feel what you Felt when Amma Hugged you.

Or, you might be Shown something else – maybe you’re Embarrassed, or Guilty, or Undeserving, or Ashamed, or your Bowels are Moving.  In this case, you’d adjust your Tapping Phrase.  “Even though I’m Soiling my Undies, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself.”  Or “Even though I’m Feeling Ashamed, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself.”

Then you’d redo your Theta Prayer, with our without Adjustments.  Then back to Tapping, and ’round and ’round, till you’ve reduced your Command to what’s Achievable in the Current Moment, or you’ve Let Go of all of your Resistance to What you’re Commanding.  This is only one Moment, you don’t have to be Disappointed that you can’t Manifest Everything all at once, you can be Grateful for what you have Let Go Of, and for what God/Goddess has Granted you.  And tomorrow you can do it again.  Or maybe even later today!

I didn’t catch it in time to put it on the chart, but the Moon completes the Diamond Star [Self-Resolving Challenge] for the Sappho [Self-Love] T-Square.  Meanwhile I’d looked up to see if anybody else might do so, and found the space object Damocles to be only a third of a Degree from the Exact Vacancy.  The space object Damocles has a story as fascinating as the Mythic fellow Damocles!

The Mythic Damocles was buttering up his king by effusing about his Power and Glory and Abundance, when the king offered to trade places with Damocles for a day.  Damocles Loved enjoying the view from the throne, till he noticed that the king had suspended a sword over the throne on a single horsehair, to symbolize the heavy Responsibility that the king bore, and the enemies that the king had inevitably created on his rise to power.  Damocles bolted from the throne and ran.

So it’s Moon-Damocles [Instinctive Fear of Retribution] that with Eris [Revelation of What’s Been Denied] forms the Finger of the Goddess that Completes the Self-Resolving Challenge to Unconditional Self-Love – literally, Existential Angst, right out of Camus’s L’Étranger.  In other words, it’s Guilt, or Fear of Retribution for Violating Social Norms, that’s likely to Block our Achievement of Unconditional Self-Love, and Letting That Go is what our current Expansion is about.

The cosmic Damocles is a tiny 10km Comet-like “Centaur” (in the astronomical sense) with a 41-year Orbit, that Dances from Mars to Uranus and back, unlike any of the other Centaurs, who usually Orbit in the Saturn-to-Pluto space.

The Vacancy that would convert the Jupiter-et al T-Square to a Diamond Star – and Complete a Grand Sextile – is 26 Leo, “After the heavy storm, a rainbow.”  There are two space travelers nearby – the Centaur Thereus, Orbiting near Saturn, who hunted Bears and brought them back Alive (and not Pleased about it), and the binary 250km (each) Trans-Neptunian Object Sila-Nunam, named for Inuit Creation Gods, with a 293-year Orbit within Pluto’s Aphelion (furthest extent from the Sun).  Of course if you have a natal planet near 26 Leo, you’re a Magnet for your own and Other People’s Expansion these days.

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Yay!  Kristin Metcalfe has directed us to https://serennu.com/astrology/ephemeris.php as a place to get lists of asteroids and dwarf planets sorted by Degree, so we can find Heavenly Bodies that we don’t normally use, which will fill out an Almost-Big-Configuration!  Hooray!  Thanks a million, Kristin!  For example, our 7 May 2020 Full Moon 19 Virgo Vacancy in the Potential-Grand-Sextile, is occupied by an asteroid (Asclepius) named after the Greek God of Healing.  Goddess knows we can use that!

Meanwhile, let’s take the most intense Challenge (T-Square) in today’s 10 May (9:09 pm PDT) Priorities astroevent (Station of Saturn in 2 Aquarius – Yay Again!  I discovered how to use this color without having to post-process the whole post), and see what happens if we consider it an Almost-Complete-Configuration.

I’ll start with our traditional interpretation process, where the planet at the focus of the Challenge (in this case asteroid Sappho [Self-Love] at 30 Virgo) is Worried by a False Dichotomy (Opposition or Duality, False because the Universe isn’t Dual; here the Nodal Axis [our Life Path], with a Big Party on the South Node – dwarf planets Ixion, Pholus, and Quaoar [Climate Change and how our Unique Genius will handle it]).  The Challenge is basically then, How are we going to Love Ourselves Unconditionally when we know that our Culture and most of our Species is on a Suicidal trajectory and people just Glaze Over when we point out that the Sky is Falling? 

But of course we have to Take Responsibility for our own Unique Genius, “Save Ourself,” let our Tribe find us, and Let Go of the folks that the Sky will Fall upon.  They have their own Free Will, whether they Recognize it or not.  They who Fart in Church sit in their own Pew.  We can have Empathy and Compassion for them, but do we really want to Follow them to their Self-Genocide.  You can Martyr yourself in front of their bulldozers if you want, but that’ll just Bloody things up.

I know, we Fear that they will Destroy our Planet and leave us without a decent Home, but the Planet we Live on is a Mirror for our own Inner Peace or Lack thereof.  The notion that our Planet is Only Physical, and therefore unable to Manifest Differently to each Observer, is a 3D Trance that we need to be willing to shed.  Life is an Interaction between the Consciousness Constellated around our Identity (ie, “Me”) and the Rest of the Universe (from our Viewpoint, “the Unconscious”).  In Energy terms, it’s a complex Diffraction Pattern (Hologram) Created when these two complex Energy Waves cross one another.

So then, can we find a planet that Opposes the symbol for Self-Love and Completes the Grand Cross, which would then be Balanced?  Yes we can.  It’s the symbol for The Lord of the Wind (Trans-Neptunian Object Manwë, aka 385446, aka 2003QW [Tolkien’s Lord of Wind, Air, and Birds] at 29 Pisces).  Wind is Uranian, the Higher Manifestation of Mentality.

In its Discovery chart (25 August 2003 in Chile), 150km-wide Manwë is Conjoined by a Retrograde Mars [Action Behind the Scenes] and Opposed by asteroid Arachne [Grandmother Spider, who Weaves the Web of Life that we Live in] and Worried (T-Squared) by dwarf planet Chaos [Unlimited Potential] on one side and Ixion-Quaoar [Survival of our Unique Genius] on the other, making a Grand Cross.  Which is to say that the Actions of our Unique Genius (Ixion) will Open Doors that will never again be Closed (Chaos) – if we Allow our Genius out of its Cage.

The Mars-Manwë T-Square in the Manwë Discovery chart is also Self-Resolving (a Diamond Star) that will Resolve the Issues that it Opens.  The Path which the Resolution follows will Lead through (the feet of the Manwë Finger of the Goddess, namely) Rebirth (dwarf planet Haumea) and Trust (asteroid Eurydike).  That is, we need to be Willing to Abandon Ourself (Eurydike) to the Dark Unknown in the Rabbit Hole of Ego Death (Haumea) in order to Coax our Genius out of Their Closet.

So to give this symbol for the Lord of the Wind (Manwë) a one-breath phrase or keyword to use should we encounter it again, we might use Stepping Off into the Unknown, also a reminder that this Lord Lives on a Mountaintop.

So then, How are we going to Love Ourselves Unconditionally when we know that our Culture and most of our Species is on a Suicidal trajectory and people just Glaze Over when we point out that the Sky is Falling?  We’re going to Trust that our Hidden, probably Forbidden, Unique Genius will plot an Effective Course for us, if we Give ourselves Permission to Break the Rules that imprison Her, or Him, or Them.

Thus Emboldened, let’s Risk going a step further.  There’s one planet five Signs away (a Quincunx) from the Focus of the Challenge (the Sappho T-Square).  If there was a second planet also five Signs away in the other direction (making a Finger of the Goddess), we’d have a Self-Resolving Challenge (a Diamond Star)!  Why not make it Easy on ourself?

Well, turns out there is a planet there, an asteroid.  The symbol for the Goddess of the Soul Completes this Major Configuration (asteroid Psyche at 1 Taurus).  We’ve met this lady before, though it’s been a while.

So now, Where will we Look to see How Unconditional Love Heals our Culture and our Species from its Suicidal trajectory so we don’t have to Run Around shouting that the Sky is Falling?  We’re going to Trust that as the Goddess of the Soul (asteroid Psyche) Merges with Our Own Soul as it Descends into Matter (Uranus in Taurus), our Forbidden Unique Genius (Ixion) will Break Free from its Hiding and Find its True Effortless Role in Creating a Safe Place for Us and Others on Earth.

This Merger (Uranus Initiating / Conjunct Psyche) occurs on 26 May at 3pm PDT (in 9 Taurus, “A fully decorated Christmas Tree“) and Begins a New 5-year Cycle where we may Learn to Celebrate Ego Death as a Rainbow of Light Penetrating the Darkness of our Unfulfilled Desires.  Each time we Lovingly Embrace an Ego Death we get closer to EnLightenment.

This is more Indirect than I prefer to go, but it verifies that the process works.  Next time I will probably go directly to Filling a Vacancy in a Self-Resolving Challenge rather than Filling a Grand Cross Vacancy, if there’s already one five-Sign connection.

Over the course of writing these blogs we’ve tried to make a Big Deal out of our Reaction to Confusion, hoping to Learn and Teach us to Embrace Confusion Directly as an Emotion, without trying to Fix it or Change it or Trying to Figure It Out.  When we succeed in Eliminating Confusion we Eliminate personal Growth, and it we have a Goal of EnLightenment or Ascension or any other form of Growth, we Sabotage ourself.

And separately, over the course of writing these blogs we’ve tried to make a Big Deal out of how we deal with Curiosity.  Many or most of us have been trained to Believe that Curiosity should Inspire us toward Knowledge, that Curiosity automatically seeks Understanding, that it’s a Question seeking an Answer.  We’ve tried to Shift that to Curiosity in the Infantile sense of Wonder or Awe.  More “Wow, isn’t that Amazing!” than “I need to Figure Out how that works.”  More “I Wonder at that!” than “I Wonder How That Works.”

Curiosity is the primary keyword assigned to the five-Sign Angle (Quincunx), in both Ego astrology and Growth astrology.  But in Growth astrology we want you to replace the Question Mark that follows Curiosity in Ego astrology, with a period.  With PIAVA, if we don’t Change the Subject after our Prayer, Thinking rapidly removes the Opportunity for Change by reinstating our old Limiting Belief System, fencing out what we’ve PIAVAed.  It’s Thinking that considers Curiosity to be a Question and does the dirtywork of reinstating our old Limiting Belief System and blocking what we could have Learned.

The other Major Angles connect Signs that are Related…

• Three-Sign Angles (Squares) connect planets in the same Quality – Creative (Cardinal), Stabilizing (Fixed), Changing (Mutable).
• Four-Sign Angles (Trines) connect planets in the same Element – Spirit (Fire), Matter (Earth), Emotion (Water), Mind (Air).
• Two-Sign Angles (Sextiles) connect planets in the same Polarity – Dynamic (Masculine) or Magnetic (Feminine).

But Five-Sign Angles (Quincunxes) Connect planets in Different Elements and Different Qualities.  Categories and Judgments are useful, but they are also Arbitrary, and Inhibit us from Recognizing the Unity and Infinite Variety of Reality.  They are products of Thought and its need to reduce everything to Duality.

The Five-Sign Quincunx Angle offers us Opportunities to Look at the World a little Differently, subtly slipping out of our Habit of Naming and Constraining and Limiting everything we Encounter.  When we Ask a Biomancer to Teach us how to Listen to Plants, the first thing they tell us is to Let Go of any Names we’ve associated with the Plant.  Try it – unless you’re having Senior Moments (which have their advantages), that’s not easy to do.  But when we consider Curiosity to be a Question seeking an Answer, we blithely Discard that Opportunity to Learn and Grow in Consciousness.

Is your Life absolutely Perfect the way it is?  Then don’t Change your Habits of dealing with Confusion and Curiosity as Invitations to Research.  Otherwise, PIAVA to Disrupt them, post-haste.

The current Priority astroevent (Saturn Station at 2 Aquarius) happens close to a Sign Cusp.  We usually use three Degrees of Sensitivity (“Orb” in astrologuese).  That means that we may have Major Angles between planets in Different Qualities or Elements.  For instance,

• The Self-Love symbol (Sappho) at the End of the Ego-Death Sign (30 Virgo)

makes a Major Angle (Trine) to

• The Top-Priority symbol (Stationary Saturn) Early in the Group Relationships Sign (2 Aquarius).

There’s less than three Degrees Difference between them, but they Connect Changing Matter (Mutable Earth) to Stabilized Thought (Fixed Air) – Different Qualities and Different Elements.  Another Opportunity to see the World through Different Eyes and Potentially Crack Open our Ossified Perspective on “Reality.”

Since Four-Sign Angles (Trines) are considered Benefic precisely because they Connect Signs in the same Element, there’s even a legitimate Question whether Cuspal Trines are Trines at all.  All six Angles that the Self-Love symbol (Sappho) makes include Cross-Cuspal Angles.

Here, by the way, is the chart for the Saturn Station – a Flying Squirrel with one ear missing…

It’s a bit crude, but you’ll have to bear with me.  It’s been more than 50 years since my Cartography degree – I looked for my tools but couldn’t find them, so I had to draw it by hand.  My Canon printer turned ink-cartridge up, and thanks to the Spumonivirus the same brand wasn’t available, so I had to buy an HP printer.  Of course it wouldn’t talk to the ancient HP laptop that makes my charts.  So we’ll have to make do for a while.

Vacancies

A reader Wonders…

“I just realized I am not well versed in the ‘vacant spot’ and how to read it; for example, 19 Virgo (near my Natal Jup) – Is the vacant point an important piece to incorporate Natal planet positions to understand creating the pattern within the transits?  Or is the vacant spot more an indication of what is to be understood from the pattern configuration?  If you have any references from your posts that I could study further?  Or maybe a quick explanation will do the trick.”

Yes, when you’re at https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/, there’s a long column of keywords (“categories”) to the right of the text.  If you’re looking at a specific post, it doesn’t show up.  I try to add a keyword to a post only when the post explains the term, but I’m not totally consistent about categorizing all posts.  I notice that there are two cubbyholes for “Vacancy,” one under “Planets etc.” and one under “Astrologuese.”  They should be combined, as there’s no difference in how they’re used – but it would take me about an hour to combine them, so I won’t bother.

But let’s go ahead with a quick explanation, as we never know what we’re going to find from the keyword list – I “improve” my astrology constantly, so I’ll just tell you how I use Vacancies now…

Configurations in a chart are combinations of planetary angles that, usually, fill the Zodiac (usually that means they add to 360 Degrees).  For instance, the Grand Sextille comprises six planets each two Signs or 60 Degrees apart, 6 x 60 = 360.  The Grand Sextile (and the Grand Anything) is considered to be much more Powerful than six Sextiles randomly placed around a chart or less well organized.

I consider it an Almost-Grand Sextile when five of the six Positions are occupied, because if we supply the missing Energy in the sixth Position, then we Complete the Grand Sextile and Enjoy the Benefits  (kinda like Bingo or the Lotteries, of a Full Hand in Poker).  It’s similar with other Almost-Grand Configurations – Quintile, Septile, etc. Occasionally, when it seems appropriate, I’ll consider a Configuration with two Vacancies to be Almost-Grand.  Like the four adjoining Septiles we had at the 25 April 2020 Pluto Station, where just for the heck of it we looked to see if there were Stars at the missing three Positions (still in my queue, Bob!).

Notice that an Almost-Grand Cross is a T-Square – the primary Benefit of any Grand Configuration is that it’s Balanced, including the Grand Cross.  It combines four T-Squares, but it’s In Balance, so it’s not considered as Troublesome as the T-Square.  The primary Challenge of the T-Square then is to Create Balance from it.  We don’t usually consider the Vacancy of a T-Square, but it wouldn’t hurt to do so.

We were looking at a 19-Virgo Vacancy in the Almost-Grand Sextile in the 7 May Full Moon chart.  I don’t have a way to check to see if a Vacancy may be occupied by asteroids (or even dwarf planets) that I don’t usually use – I wish I did, as it would help a lot.  If anyone has a way to do this, let me know.  So if none of the “planets” (meaning planets, asteroids, dwarfs, Lights, Nodes, etc) I use are there, I look for Stars nearby.  That’s an iffy proposition, as there aren’t that many Stars that are cataloged for use by astrologers.  However, if there’s a Biggie there, like Arcturus or Regulus or Sirius, that’s Huge.

Whether there’s a Star near the Vacancy or not, if you have a natal planet there, you automatically Complete the Configuration, without even trying.  So for you it’s a full Grand Sextile, because you Embody the Energies of your natal chart.  If you have natal planets near any of the other planets in the Configuration, that’s worth noting as well, because that natal planet will be Lit Up more than usual.  As Huminals (Huper Animals), we’re like Viruses, with those little Spikes all over, corresponding to the planets in our natal chart, each of which is an Antenna for broadcasting and picking up (and maybe getting Stuck on) Energies from outside of ourself.

So that Almost-Grand Sextile in the Full Moon chart comprised…

• Klotho – Beginning New Timelines
• Sun-Mercury – Awareness of our Essence
• Neptune – Our Relationship to Energies Larger than Our Own
• Hylonome-Veritas – Insights into our Codependence
• Moon – our Instincts

If we add a Jupiter to that in the Vacancy, which would apply only to you, we Expand everything.  A Grand Sextile itself is about fabulous Grace or Good Luck in combining the Energies in each Sextile, which in turn is about Projects where we take the First Step and the Universe takes over after that.  So for the next several weeks (Full Moon charts impact the following 2-4 weeks) we might be finding excellent progress around Expanding New Projects that involve Trusting our own Instincts more, and Listening More to (and/or PIAVAing the Assistance of) our Guides, instead of Playing to or Soliciting the Opinions of Others.

Now, for most of the rest of us, without a planet in or near 19 Virgo, we have to Consciously add the Energy of the Vacancy in order to take advantage of the Enhanced Grace of the Grand Sextile.  For a guess about what that might mean we’d read the Sabian Symbol for that Degree, 19 Virgo: “A Swimming Race.”  To me that means Efficiency at processing our Emotions.  So for the rest of us for the next several weeks we might find great progress with New Projects that involve Trusting our own Instincts more, Listening More to our Guides and Soliciting their Assistance more, and Trusting our own Emotions (as Opposed to our Thoughts About them of course), instead of Trying to Please Others.

For all of us, the Programming we received from our Mothers is likely to be particularly Lit Up, since the Saturn Station occurs on Mother’s Day.  And we can’t ignore the fact that the Moon goes Out of Bounds on Mothers Day, so it’s all going to be a lot more Emotional than it would be usually – though telling Mom to Butt Out of our Choices will probably always be a Chancy Conversation.  But its a Grand Sextile, suggesting very Positive Outcomes from any Project that we Initiate, so it may be the best time ever to Begin our Self-Liberation.

Or, you can take an Easier path, especially if your Mum is Difficult (or Deceased), and use your Mirrors instead.  Either way our Relationship with our Dear Mother is Changing, so we want to Make the Best of the Opportunity in whatever way Feels best to us – that is, by Trusting our Emotions.  If our Emotions are Conflicted, as they’re likely to be, what an Opportunity to Stay Present with our Confusion and Avoid trying to Fix it.

If your Mother is the type to Demand Commitment, what an Opportunity to Stand your Ground (Veritas-Hylonome) – “Mom, I hear that you’re Asking for a firm Commitment, but I’m not Ready to do that, so we’ll have to leave the whole Issue Dangling till I am Ready, and I don’t know when that will be.”  Then, while the odds of Success are Great (Grand Sextile), you get to Practice Not Trying to Fix or Manipulate your Mother’s Emotions!

You might think this all sounds Daunting, but it’s a Critical and Natural part of Claiming Your Power, and as we’ve said, there may never be a Better Time.  Trying to stuff your Mother’s Heavy Emotions into your Carrion Bag for the Ascension Flight won’t work.  They’ll bump you off the Flight for overweight.