Yin Gate 11.28

When four planets align so that two parallel Trines are connected by two Sextiles – like the blue lines in the picture that connect the Nodes, Pallas, and Chiron – it makes a Mystic Rectangle.

A Yin Gate – aka Dos Equis – forms when two additional planets split the Sextiles and create two opposing Fingers of God (or Yods) with the Sextiles – like the green lines in the picture.

A Mystic Rectangle, which basically represents Grace, is driven by the Oppositions between the corners, in this case the Nodal Axis and the Pallas-Chiron Opposition.  So the Mystic Rectangle should provide…

A Grace-full expansion of our Edges into Miracles that lighten our Karma and promote our Mission.

But the Energy in a Yin Gate – where each Finger of God shrieks Pay Attention to Me! – derives from the Opposition of the two Yods, in this case Ceres and Uranus, or…

Get Serious about making your Yintegrity permanent!

Of course that occurs in the context of the Mystic Rectangle, and we can’t forget that Yods are all about Curiosity…

How the devil can I make my Yintegrity permanent so I can Grace-fully expand my Edges into Miracles that lighten my Karma and promote my Mission?!?

It would be good to PIAVA something like that…

Goddess Pi, can you help me make my Yintegrity permanent so I can Grace-fully expand my Edges into Miracles that lighten my Karma and promote my Mission?

If that doesn’t flow together smoothly into a question that makes a lot of sense for you, that’s good, because this isn’t about thinking our way forward.  We could also shorten it to something like…

I wonder what it would look like if my Yintegrity was permanent.

But then you’d have to be careful to allow the Visualization to form without censoring or editing it or worrying about consequences.  Basically, you’d want to imagine yourself…

Stepping Effortlessly onto the Path where your Limitations fall away Magically, and you are doing what you feel Passionate about.

And to add the Boundary part of Pallas, we’d also want to…

Affirm that other people’s criticism about any of that just rolls off my back.  We can be compassionate with them about their lack of understanding, but we don’t need to let them nudge us off our Path.

Now, the red lines on the picture are a Pluto T-Square across that germinal Ceres-Uranus Opposition (committing ourself to our Truth – imagine yourself swearing a holy oath).  A Pluto T-Square means that…

We’re Challenged to Align our Energy with the Primary Trance on the Planet.

Which isn’t necessarily the Predatory Capitalism, Fear-Mongering, and Fascism that’s all over the Corporate Media.  I mean, as we ease into this Portal, look at what’s happening in Syria and Iran.  The Primary Trance on the Planet is Pluto in Capricorn, which means…

Just Fix It!

It’s not hard to see what “It” is, is it.  We just need to put our backs into it.  And we need to remember that this is just another variation on the 2012-2015 Uranus-Pluto theme, which is…

We Need to get serious about following Our Own Guides and not anybody else’s!

There’s an obvious Vacancy there Opposite Pluto, and when there are obvious Vacancies it means that we need to supply that Energy ourselves.  The rest is being made manifest by the Universe, but our part of the Co-Creation is signified by the Vacancy.  That’s at 10 Cancer, “A large Diamond in the first stages of the cutting process.”  Rudhyar reads that as “The arduous training for perfection in order to fully manifest an ideal.”  Which sounds like a burden.  However…

We’ve been training for this our entire Lives!  The Work is now beginning in earnest.  Time to set aside your Judgment and Doubt and Cynicism and Fear, and lean into the Future you know that you came here to help Create.  You know exactly where we’re going.  It will certainly be two steps forward and one back, and it’s a long Journey.  But we’re done with the preliminaries, and now we’re starting on the Real Thing.

Pretty wild, eh?

The Yin Gate has actually already opened, around 10pm PST November 25th.  It stays open till about 9am PST on December 2nd.

It peaks between 6am and 9am PST on November 28th – Thanksgivukkah.  This wider aperture of the Gate will start opening about six hours earlier, and afterward take around six hours to close.

Which is when the Moon – Ms. Manifestation Herself – Opposes Uranus and Conjoins Ceres.

The Hidden Portal within the Portal

There’s another, much more subtle Portal open behind the Yin Gate.  This one opened around November 22, and will be open till December 4.  When we add Eris into the picture we get five out of seven corners of a Grand Septile…

The Seventh-Harmonic Septile is about Shamanic Power – tightly focusing our use of Energy so that when the moment is right we strike like Lightning, while the rest of the time we do nothing.  A classic example is the Teachable Moment, when…

There will be moments when people are willing to Open their Hearts and Minds.  Don’t shy away from those moments; tell it like it is.

You may need to let someone feel their Real Fear around the Global Warming Storms or Fukushima, for instance, but then remind them that we will escape the worst fate by making a stand as a Community.

The parties here are Eris, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, and Mars – Big Players that aren’t accustomed to backing down from an opportunity to bring one face to face with our worst Fears and most self-sabotaging Habits.

It may be us that has the moments when we’re invited to Open our Heart and Mind – don’t back down!

There are two obvious Vacancies here – 14 of Gemini and 5 of Leo – “The capacity to transcend the limitations of bodily existence” (eg telepathy) and “The structuring power of Elemental Forces during the long cycle of Planetary evolution,” to use Rudhyar’s views.  That’s asking a lot of us, isn’t it, since these are the Energies we’re supposed to provide…

We’ve been training for this our entire Lives!  The Work is now beginning in earnest.  Time to set aside your hesitation to use your Power, and invoke your Allies to do the same, and lean into the Future you know that you came here to help Create.  You know exactly where we’re going.  It will certainly be two steps forward and one back, and it’s a long Journey.  But we’re done with the preliminaries, and now we’re starting on the Real Thing.

Hanukkah is a rededication of  the Temple – a recommitment to that which is Sacred to us (and indeed, the Yin Gate opens when the Moon crosses Vesta!) and a celebration of the Light.  Thanksgiving means Gratitude, which is a State of Grace.  The American holiday Thanksgiving is at root a celebration of Harvest, a celebration of our Union and Interdependence with Nature.  Guess who rules the Harvest!  None other than Ceres.  So the Ceres-Uranus Opposition and Pluto T-Square that drive the Yin Gate is about…

Celebrating our Unique Contributions – past, present, and future – to our Union and Interdependence with Nature WHILE celebrating the Spiritual Reality of our Core Being.  AND celebrating the Spiritual Reality of Nature and Her Union and Interdependence with Source!

ISON and Chiron-Uranus

As it rockets through Scorpio, scooting across the Sky faster than the Moon, into the Sun, ISON Trines Chiron, so we should be able to…

Expect hidden perspectives to emerge.

Like this interesting point of view…

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/opinion/sunday/a-stroll-around-the-world.html?emc=eta1&_r=0&pagewanted=all

Here’s the travelblog…

http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/

and the latest hard news on ISON and its possible encounter with Solar Flair…

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/24nov_isoncme/

Theoretically, the emphasis should be on Uranus – since it’s Stationary – more than on Chiron, but Chironic news keeps surfacing.  ISON-in-Scorpio is Quincunx to Uranus, so while it’s Grace (Trine) that lights up Chiron, it’s Curiosity (Quincunx) that illuminates Uranus…

I wonder how these new perspectives that keep showing up will influence my journey into greater Authenticity…

would be an appropriate mantra.  The Uranus Station makes a close Twelfth-Harmonic Angle with Chiron, and the Twelfth Harmonic is about Pattern-Breaking.  Which means, if we don’t get into too much Resistance…

We’ll be a different person by Solstice Time.

The long Chiron-Uranus Cycle is Waning, having finished eleven twelfths of it’s journey.  The Cycle began – this is the Cycle that we’re leaving behind – December 1, 1898, at 5 Sagittarius, “An old Owl sits alone on the branch of a large tree,” which Rudhyar interprets as “A poised and wise approach to existence based on a clear perception of unconscious factors and their operation.”  Curious indeed.

This lends some sense to the perception that we’re descending into Chaos – or being Liberated from Limiting Beliefs.

Chiron doesn’t reach Aphelion (furthest extent from the Sun) until 2021, so she’s out near the orbit of Uranus and thus traveling at about the same speed as Uranus.  Consequently, Uranus doesn’t Initiate Chiron again until mid-November 2042.  That new Cycle begins at 18 of Leo, “A chemist conducts an experiment for her students” or in Rudhyar’s view “By inquiring into the hidden process of Nature, the human mind experiences the thrill of discovery.”  That could be refreshing, though it’ll be a while.

It’s a lot easier for the Western mind to comprehend a construction process than a deconstruction process.  Here’s Michael Meyer’s view of this stage of a Cycle (http://www.khaldea.com/eon/eon36.shtml)…

“Although there may be much scrambling for position, this isn’t a phase in which one can change much, except one’s self and one’s attitude toward the past and toward the future.  Indeed, now is the time to essentialize, to consolidate inner resources, and learn from the past, in preparation for the coming new cycle.  Now creative imagination outlines new tomorrows, where imagination will be made real.  Impending closure is not merely sensed but often welcomed during this final phase.”

We’re reminded of Ceres Rising in the 1/1/2000 chart, foretelling Sustenance.  Reading this we immediately think of the political-economic situation, but this is Chiron-Uranus, not Jupiter-Saturn (Social Economics, which is in a Waning Trine – another story worth telling again) or Chiron-Neptune (Cultural Edges and our recently newborn “New Paradigm”).  So “one’s self and one’s attitude” is the whole Pie and “consolidating inner resources and learning from the past” creates context for our recent extended Juno-Nodes and Saturn-North Node work.

What if we turned it around.  Rudhyar began his archetypal Cycle at the New Moon or Conjunction – Darkness and Invisibility becoming full Illumination and then returning into Darkness, or the Occult made Manifest and then recycled into the Void, or Evolution followed by Devolution.  That makes consummate sense, but it doesn’t have to be our only perspective.  What if we began a Cycle at the Opposition, the Full Moon.  We’d have the Manifest made Hidden and then Reborn, or the Illuminated being Obscured and then Resurrected in a new Form.  Let’s give that a try…

The previous Chiron-Uranus Opposition occurred in mid-September 1953 at Capricorn 20, “A hidden choir sings during a religious service,” or according to Rudhyar “The fulfillment of the individual’s creative function through her participation in a group performance consecrated to a transcendent realization of unity.”  If we started at the Opposition, the current Angle would be the equivalent of a Waxing Quincunx rather than a Waning Semi-Sextile, though it would be Waxing into Transformation rather than Fulfillment.  Sort of the Prey’s perspective rather than that of the Predator.

Now the idea of a hidden group performance consecrated to unity that started in 1953 rings bells relative to my memories of Herstory – the hidden agenda of the propagandists who sold us on Consumerism, rabid Patriotism, “American Exceptionalism,” and Women as Servants spring to mind, along with images of Joe McCarthy, Mad Men, How to Marry a Millionaire, and the Silent Majority.  All of that is certainly fading into Darkness, to be reborn thirty years hence, either as some version of Community or a reversion to subsistence.

And what if we Initiated our Anti-Cycle at the Square rather than the Opposition?  The Waning Square of the classic Cycle would be the place where we open to Potential rather than Manifestation, and the process would involve Concepts rather than Matter.  We would cycle from Potential to Birth to full Conceptualization to Breakdown.  On this Cycle the Chiron-Uranus Angle would be a Waxing Sextile.  Our Initiation would have been in October 1997 at 5 of Scorpio, “A massive rocky shore resists the pounding of the Sea” or, as Rudhyar calls it, “The inertia of institutions.“

Boy, doesn’t that just hit the nail on the head!  The Waxing Sextile phase is about Creative Grace – Grace flows but only after we pull the chain to get it started.

The combined inertias of Certainty and Doctrine (the 1898 Conjunction), of Patriotism and Consumerism (the 1953 Opposition), along with the natural preference for the Known Evil over the Unknown Possible Good (the 1997 Square), leaves us feeling very stuck.  How do we get unstuck?  We know (the Sextile) that it takes Action on our part.  What sort of Action? 

What immediately comes to mind is Otto Scharmer’s leaning into the emerging Future…

“Our moment of disruption deals with death and rebirth.  What’s dying is an old civilization and a mindset of maximum “me” – maximum material consumption, bigger is better, and special-interest-group-driven decision-making that has led us into a state of organized irresponsibility, collectively creating results that nobody wants.

“What’s being born is less clear but in no way less significant.  It’s something that we can feel in many places across Planet Earth.  This future is not just about firefighting and tinkering with the surface of structural change.  It’s not just about replacing one mindset that no longer serves us with another.  It’s a future that requires us to tap into a deeper level of our humanity, of who we really are and who we want to be as a society.  It is a future that we can sense, feel, and actualize by shifting the inner place from which we operate.  It is a future that in those moments of disruption begins to presence itself through us.

“This inner shift, from fighting the old to sensing and presencing an emerging future possibility, is at the core of all deep leadership work today.  It’s a shift that requires us to expand our thinking from the head to the heart.  It is a shift from an ego-system awareness that cares about the well-being of ourself to an eco-system awareness that cares about the well-being of all, including oneself.  When operating with ego-system awareness, we are driven by the concerns and intentions of our small ego self.  When operating with eco-system awareness, we are driven by the concerns and intentions of our emerging or essential self – that is, by a concern that is informed by the well-being of the whole.”

“This shift in awareness from ego-system to eco-system is something that we are approaching and living through not only as groups and organizations, but also as a global community.  Pioneering the principles and personal practices that help us to perform this shift may well be one of the most important undertakings of our time.”

Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, pp.1-2.

However we look at it, we seem to be in for a quarter-century of Confusion and Chaos.  Remember that Confusion is the first stage of Growth, because it signifies the breakdown of our Limiting Beliefs.  Again, we can’t think (or even act) our way out of this, there is too much in flux.  We have to PIAVA what we want, revising our PIAVAs at least daily as the place where we stand changes rapidly, and then Change the Subject.  A good way to Change the Subject would be to ask ourself what small thing could we do to make Life easier for someone else.

ISON and Chiron

ISON is whizzing across the North Node-Mercury-Saturn zone of Scorpio on its way to its astrological screaming halt at the Cusp of Sagittarius…

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/21/comet_ison_12_cool_facts.html

This brings intense Attention to any unsolved puzzles that we’ve been working with.  If you aren’t Conscious of any puzzles, have you been preoccupied?  PIAVA what that might be about.

Meanwhile Pallas is inching into place, along with the North Node, to form the Uranus Yod and complete the Yin Gate that we’ll encounter in Portal 10.28.

To move into our Yintegrity, there are places in our lives where we’ve been holding back and we need to start saying Yes, and other places where we’ve been permissive and we need to start saying No.  Where are those places?

The Opposing Ceres Yod (with Chiron and the South Node) is already in place.

We have glimpses of Clarity and Truth, and when that happens we get stuck on the impossible-seeming details of how our Life would have to be reorganized in order to bring Truth into the foreground.  It doesn’t work that way – we can’t think it out.  We have to just put on Truth like it was a new coat, and forget about the implications, they’ll take care of themselves.  Miracles are available.

Meanwhile, as usual, Bill is right on schedule, interviewing a reincarnation of Chiron…

http://billmoyers.com/segment/henry-giroux-on-zombie-politics/

Like Sai Baba might have said,

“Though nothing seems to be happening on the outside, there is a great catharsis of bad and inundation of good that is happening inside.  And so, there is no need for cracks to develop all over the dam.  As long as the cracks that have been made allow the waters of goodness through and do not get clogged by defeat, dejection, doubt and disappointment, it is enough!”

The Shimmering

Rock Quartz Shimmering

I got this note from a regular reader this morning…

“This construct of our culture is more and more difficult for my heart to bear.  I ask the question over and over to myself: What is it that creates the core motivation in people to keep taking or to keep giving?  Is it in their charts?  Have humans always been like this?  What makes a person feel joy in taking from others vs. giving to others?  I have not yet found a way to walk through this reality with peace in my heart and soul because I cannot shut out the state of others who share the planet.  How is it that some can live within their isolated mega-wealth and still want to take more??? 

“I cannot fathom how one feels joy by piling more hardships upon others.  Is this reality some kind of a warped joke?  If there are no victims, can the collective masses find the creative motivation to change the construct of having or having not?  I am a creative self and even I cannot come up with answers that have enough power to ensure that all have enough food, water, and shelter outside of the polarity of having or having not.  And why don’t the ‘laws of the universe’ work with these sociopaths?  If they continue to take from others, why are they not taken from?”

After reading this last night…

“The first wave of these souls… have had the most difficulty adjusting.  They don’t like the violence and ugliness they find in this world and want to return ‘home’ – even though they have no idea, consciously, where that might be.  Emotions disturb and even paralyze them, especially strong one like anger and hate.  They cannot handle being around people expressing them.  These dramatically affect them, as though emotions are foreign to them.  They are used to peace and love because that was what they experienced where they came from.  They are so unhappy they don’t want to be here.”

“They have come in with a unique energy that greatly affects others.  They don’t have to do anything.  They just have to be.  I have been told that just by walking through a crowded mall or grocery store their energy affects everyone they come in contact with.  It is that strong, and of course, they do not realize this consciously.  The paradox is that although they are supposed to be affecting people by their energy, they really don’t feel comfortable being around people.  So many of them stay home secluded, to avoid mixing with others; even working from their homes.  Many do not want to have children.  They unconsciously realize that children create karma, and they don’t want to have anything tie them here.  They just want to do their job and get out of here.”

“It would be so much easier if we could come in with full knowledge of our mission, our task, but the powers that be do not agree.  They say it is best to have all memory erased and to allow us to rediscover ourselves, as well as our mission.  Even those who have come with the purist motives and intentions are bound by the same rules as the rest of us.  They must forget why they have come, and where they have come from.  All that is left is a secret longing that there is something else that they can’t quite grasp.  It is time now to remember, to push aside the veil and rediscover our reason for coming to this troubled planet at this precise time.”

“This is one of the main problems that first-timers face.  They have never been in a human body before and they feel very limited and confined.  They will develop physical problems, and often unconsciously try to destroy the body (through various ailments) because they don’t want to be here.  The main thing for them to understand is that they volunteered to come at this important time in Earth’s history and they must stay in order to accomplish their assignment, their mission.  There are no shortcuts.”

“It’s not comfortable, but you chose to enter the body so you could do a job.  Is that correct?”  “Yes, I forgot for a minute.  It’s to tell people about the shimmering.  I’ll tell you what it is.  It’s the poor people on Earth that have been cut off from this.  It’s so dense here with fear.  Our job is to dissipate the fear and really connect them to the shimmering.  Where they came from.  But it is not as easy as I thought.  Because I’ve had no limitations, no, I didn’t.  How do we do it?  How do I finish what I’ve come to do?  How?  I’m searching for an answer.  Sometimes I feel, ‘What is the point?’  There’s no good.”

–Dolores Cannon, The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, excerpted from pp.19-35.

What an excellent word for “it” – The Shimmering!  I Love it.

Dolores points out elsewhere that even as “first-timers” we can receive a Karma-like “imprint” before we arrive, so we come in with some foretaste of the difficult Earth situations we’ll be facing, though it seems to be quite different from a “real” Lifetime, in terms of both pain and experiential value.

Here’s another view, from a devotee of Sai Baba…

http://harmonicconcordance.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/a-longish-but-worthwhile-raed/

A sample…

“Swami knows that people allowing goodness to flow through them and becoming channels of love, peace and goodness is the way to solve all the crises that humanity faces.  And once He sees that people are being good, He sits back and relaxes.  Members of His team question Him, ‘How can you relax?  The work is not done yet!  The whole mission has been a failure!’  He is calm for He has brilliantly placed the explosives of His Love, Grace and Inspiration at the strategic points.  Now it is only a question of time.  Though nothing seems to be happening on the outside, there is a great catharsis of bad and inundation of good that is happening inside. And so, there is no need for cracks to develop all over the dam.  As long as the cracks that have been made allow the waters of goodness through and do not get clogged by defeat, dejection, doubt and disappointment, it is enough!”

Some folks ridicule other Worldviews than their own, but it’s all Mythology.  It’s always Both/And, because every metaphor has some value in some situations, and many metaphors are useful in many situations.  But it’s all Metaphor – Reality is just Energy, and even that’s a Metaphor.

Chiron, eh?

Surprise! Chiron Station!

Irradiated Citrine

Waay too much going on!  We had a Direct Station of Miracle-Maker Chiron at 5am PST November 19!  No wonder I’ve been wandering around feeling unmotivated all day!  Chiron is the Unhealable Healer until you remember that Empathy Heals, and give yourself some strokes – You poor Schmuck, you’re kinda bummed today, aren’t you!  Or just know that Chiron’s lit up and know that you have to look beyond your current horizons for a new way of understanding.  PIAVA always helps when we have to transcend our habitual limits.  And look at all these Quintiles running around in orange at the Station!  Huge opportunities for Learning today, what a pity to waste them for a funk.

Fortunately, there’s no such thing as “missing” an astrological event.  If we’re Conscious of the event as it’s happening, that’s fabulous, because we can dodge and weave with a little more Awareness.  If we aren’t Conscious, the event still happens – we just have to go and get it after the fact!  So I can now look at all these Quintiles and see how they relate to the last several days.  As I like to say, astrology is more valuable for interpretation than for prediction, mostly because the Unconscious is so vast that if it doesn’t always surprise you, you’re locked into your Karma so tightly that you can’t see out.  And as they say, hindsight is 20/20, or 6/6 on the metric side of the pond.  That’s a huge overstatement – it’s more like 20/5mi or 6/10km – but nevertheless, hindsight usually exceeds foresight!

This is the same chart as the Portal 11.20 chart, but with different emphasis.  The green-and-blue Yod ties the two charts together – as it was the primary link to Chiron in the earlier chart.  I’m not sure I even mentioned Chiron – or the Yod – in the Portal 11.20 post – that’s meaningful in itself!  Chiron’s been within one degree of its Station since October 3.  Somewhere there’s a significant reason why I was unaware of that!  We’ll fill in the missing information over the next several days.

Oops – Forgot Algol

Oops.  I neglected to notice – as Kelley Hunter points out – that the November 17 Full Moon is close to the star Algol, the “Demon Star” that just about every tradition considers to be most malefic.  The full story is on Kelley’s website, and it’s fabulous.  I wouldn’t do anything about that, other than maintaining Awareness and a little extra caution for the next several weeks.  The Awareness is the most important part.  My own natal astrology embodies both Eris and Algol – you can hear them in the Voices of Judgment, Cynicism, and Fear that are embedded here.  Wouldn’t it be fabulous if I gained some permanent Awareness of those Voices and leaned into an emerging future instead?  I might even create fewer echoes of pain and fear in my Life!

Harmonic Concordance 10 Years On

Comet ISON racing through the last half of Libra, spanning 3-4 degrees per day.  It enters Scorpio on November 20, crosses the North Node on the 22nd, Mercury-Saturn on the 24th, and catches the Sun on November 28.  The photo is by Waldemar Skorupa.  The Portal 11.20 Grand Sextile and the Portal 4.21 ISON Grand Sextile are echos of the most famous of Grand Sextiles, the Harmonic Concordance of November 2003.  The Harmonic Concordance Grand Sextile was discovered (astrologically) and publicized, at great personal expense, by Johnny Mirihiel…

http://harmonicconcordance.wordpress.com/

http://www.harmonicconcordance.org/

Here’s some of the history…

• Introduction: http://www.jbuss.com/jbl3/hcintro1103.htm
• The “hard” Angles: http://www.harmonicconcordance.org/squares—oppositions.html
• The Vacancies: http://www.jbuss.com/HC/hcvacancies3.htm
• A debriefing: http://www.jbuss.com/jbl3/intagritty1103.htm

The Vacancies article gives us some benchmarks to compare to our own subsequent Lives.  For instance, I have natal planets in three of the four Muse Vacancies.

The Harmonic Concordance brought with it…

• The descent of Creator Consciousness upon each individual
• The Ideal of Unity Consciousness, that we are all ONE
• The creation of a healing and protection for Mother Earth

How are these working out for us?  Here’s one perspective…

“The collapse of the Berlin Wall, the demise of the Mubarak and Gaddafi regimes, the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and the near-meltdown of the western financial system all share some features:

1. the end of an inflexible, centralized control structure, one that previously had been considered indestructible
2. the beginning of a spontaneous, decentralized grassroots movement of people letting go of their fear and waking up to another level of awareness and interconnectedness
   
3. the opening of some small cracks in the old system, followed by its crumbling and eventual collapse
4. the rebound of the old forces as soon as the memory of the collapse began to fade away; the old forces tried to obscure the actual root causes of the breakdown in order to extend their privileged access to power and influence”

“We believe that these kinds of events will keep coming our way.  These disruptive changes mark the beginning of a new era that we have entered as a global community, an era of increasing disruption.  Sometimes such movements will give rise to movements that bring about profound change, and sometimes they will falter and fail.  In many cases these disruptions are already on their way.  It is too late to prevent all of them.  So where is our point of control?  It is in how we respond to the impact that these disruptions have on how we work and live.

“A disruptive change affects not only our outer world, but also our inner self.  Such moments bring our world to a sudden stop.  They may be terrifying, but they also constitute a great blank space that can be filled in one of two ways: by freezing and reverting to the patterns of the past, or by opening us up to the highest future possibilities.  The second response – leaning into, sensing, and actualizing one’s emerging future – is what this book is about.”

“This book” is Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer (pp.28-29).  Or see http://presencing.com/ and http://www.ottoscharmer.com/.

Here’s a testimonial about Unity Consciousness…

http://strikedebt.org/rjupdate3/

They’re announcing almost $15 million in debt reduction for individuals, mostly medical, for pennies on the dollar, from our donations.  They’re celebrating a one-year anniversary, with November 23 events in Portland OR and Berkeley CA.

And Creator Consciousness?

“We are meant to be Creators.  But in order to create consciously, we have to become conscious first – otherwise our creations are echoes of our pain and fears (because these pains and fears are louder broadcasts than happiness and harmony.  When we are clear and in alignment, we see the world as it is – beyond the limits of matter-perception.  An ability to envision, to see, to interact with other-than-matter components of this life is a prerequisite to creation.”  –Eugenia Oganova, Awakening the Harmony Within: How to Create with Spirit, pp.69-70.

Remember that Sextiles – especially Grand Sextiles – represent Creative Grace – the Grace flows freely, but after we take the first step.

“The quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which people in the system operate.  The formula for a successful change process is not ‘form follows function’ but ‘form follows consciousness.’  The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds.”  —Scharmer & Kaufer p.18.

I’m intrigued that re-reading http://www.harmonicconcordance.org/squares—oppositions.html ten years later, I wouldn’t change a thing.  I guess that means I haven’t grown much.  Or that if you have a message for the world, you need to repeat it a zillion times no matter how much you bore yourself, because as my first teacher would say, Your own Truth goes right through you!  That is, you hear it and instantaneously know it to be true, but your programming covers it up as quickly as the old forces obscure the actual root causes of the breakdown. 

Here’s an excerpt from the Harmonic-Concordance debriefing…

“Recall that our most precious attribute is our Attention – whatever we pay Attention to, we create more of.  So Grace and Equality is one thread we can look for in our lives over the last 10 days.  Have there been any circumstances arise, where you did not feel the loving hand of Grace?  Have real or imagined issues arisen in your life where Equality was missing?  If so, when they arose, where did your Attention go?  Did you focus on the difficulty or the inequality?  Did you lovingly Attend to your natural reactions?  Did you focus on the Grace and Equality you’ve been asking for?

 “Did you reject your natural emotional reactions to difficulty or inequality, or power-over them with ‘positive thinking’?  Another name for rejecting our natural emotional reactions, by the way, is self-abandonment.  When we reject our natural emotional reactions as ‘negative,’ we create more abandonment.

“Amid all the hoopla about Grace and Ascension, it’s easy to forget that the strongest planet at the HC was Uranus – Integrity.  Not yang Integrity (honoring Commitments) but yin Integrity (honoring Intuition).  Not only was Uranus the strongest planet in the HC, but it was also the only planet not involved in the Grace.  The implication is that we have to supply the Integrity.  No one gives it to us.  Kinda tautological, when ya think about it.

“By definition, Power is never given, only taken.  If ‘nice people’ don’t take their own Power, then ‘mean people’ do it for them.  In the last 10 days, have you been honoring yer Commitments?  Most of our yang Commitments were negotiated under Karma, not under Grace, and to survive under Grace they will need to be renegotiated or disavowed.”

Sounds like a broken record, doesn’t it!  It’s just a little different every time, and every repetition, especially when the perspective is shifted just a bit, helps link our Abandoned places to our Loving places, and helps build the new circuits in the brain that reinforce our Emerging Future.

The November 17 Full Moon

There isn’t much in the Full Moon chart that we haven’t already written about.  The most noteworthy Configuration is the Uranus Quintile Yod with Pallas and Saturn…

We will be Learning (Quintile) much by Focusing (Saturn) on the Edges (Pallas) of the space where it’s okay to drop our Mask (Uranus) and our Boundaries (Pallas) with the people we don’t feel Safe being fully Honest with (Uranus).  Approaching this with Curiosity (Yod) rather than analysis will be a huge boon.

There’s also an interesting Mystic Questangle – two parallel Quincunxes one Sign apart – Quincunxes between Ceres and the South Node, and between Mercury-North Node and Uranus.  The Quincunx creates a Teachable Moment, when we’re more open than usual to expanding our horizons.  It combines the Fifth Harmonic (Learning) with the Twelfth Harmonic (Pattern-Breaking).  In the Mystic Questangle, the Twelfth Harmonic dominates, but the Curiosity is still critically important…

The Magic here flows from Wondering what it is about our Karmic Patterns that seems to make our Self-Sabotage enduring, and how we might break through the skin of that bubble.  If we can maintain our Curiosity, we get insights about our Mission and our True Self that will help.  You may already have the answer but you’re rejecting it.  Every time you think you’ve found a clue, especially when you feel Certain (Certainty destroys Wonder), PIAVA the next step. 

We’re back to our analogy about Calculus – we have to envision where we would like to go and who we would like to be, and then reverse-engineer the path from there back to here – lean into, sense, and actualize our emerging future.  The process that Otto maps – Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Will and their corresponding “enemies” the Voice of Judgment and Doubt, the Voice of Cynicism, the Voice of Fear – is fascinating.  His “Open Will” is the willingness to Let Go of our Patterns and Let Come the Orientations that await us in our Future – should we choose to accept them.

Portal 11.20 Ceres Diamond Star

The $83 million 60-caret Pink Star Diamond

There may be other events and Portals between now and then – I have the Full Moon on November 17 and advance preparations for mid-December’s Uranus Station on my list so far, but the next Portal beeping my radar at the moment is a Grand Cross, Ceres Diamond Star, and Grand Trine all together on November 20, which opens for about seven hours starting about 5pm PST.  The Portal even includes a darn-near Grand Sextile, as Pallas misses our three-degree Sensitivity threshold by only a third of a degree.

It all starts to come together on November 19, when Ceres (Sustenance) moves within the three-degree limit and begins to Square Pluto, with Uranus completing the T-Square (Mastery through Challenge).  The T-Square hangs on through December 1…

November 19-December 1: Whatever it is that we Have To (Pluto) Surrender (Ceres) in order to move into Authenticity (Uranus), now is the time that it’s likely to be moving away from us.  If you’re just using it as a crutch to fend off Fear, Let It Go.  It’s likely to be Challenging (T-Square), but worth it.

The Ceres Yod starts November 18, and runs through November 28.  The feet of the Yod are Chiron and the South Node – Miracles and Karma…

November 18-28: Once we get Conscious of our Karmic Patterns (South Node), we can Decide not to exercise the self-sabotaging habits that are embedded in them.  But there are two hard parts to this.  First, getting Conscious of the multiple ramifications of the Patterns.  And second, making our Decisions Sustainable (Ceres).  Since these two hard parts require Change of  Perspective, Miracles (Chiron) are necessary.  Because we can’t think our way out of old Perspectives, it’s a good time for PIAVA to work its Magic.  Remember too that with a Yod, Curiosity is your best friend. 

These Energies peak during Portal 11.20, when the Moon Opposes Pluto and completes the Grand Cross, the Diamond Star, and the Grand Trine.  A Grand Cross usually feels easier than a T-Square, because it’s in Balance.  Not that it doesn’t keep us running around putting out fires!  Since all this occurs at the beginning of the T-Square, alertness during the Portal should pay big dividends over the following fortnight.  In the Grand Cross, the Moon completes the T-Square we mentioned above…

5pm PST November 20 to 12am PST November 21:  We’re in the middle of a significant Transformation (Pluto) of Who We Are (Uranus).  In Portal 11.20, Changes are put into place (Moon) that help make the new Trance Sustainable (Ceres).

Here’s a picture of the Diamond Star (red, green, and blue heavy lines)…

The Grand Cross (red) and Grand Trine (blue) are completed in lighter lines, as well as the darn-near Grand Sextile (blue).

How do we make sense of the Diamond Star?

5pm PST November 20 to 12am PST November 21:  The emphasis here is on neither the Transformation (Pluto) nor the emerging Yintegrity (Uranus).  The emphasis is on Sustainability (Ceres).  While we’ve been “toying” with our Yintegrity so far during the 2012-2015 Transformation (Uranus-Pluto Square), here the Moon (Authenticity) shows us how to put Yintegrity into our lives without all of the conflicts and confusion we’ve been encountering.  While it’s been feeling like we must make sacrifices and trade-offs to be our True Selves, in this Portal it’s effortless if we accept the Miracles that transform our Karma (the South Node-Chiron Bridge across the Moon-Pluto Opposition).

Meanwhile the Grand Trine – between Chiron, the Moon, and the North Node (which is joined by Mercury) – adds additional Grace…

5pm PST November 20 to 12am PST November 21:  By Following Our Joy (North Node) into situations where we would never predict success – and Paying Attention (Mercury), we Manifest (Moon) Miracles (Chiron).

The Grand Sextile includes the Chiron-South Node Bridge across the Moon-Pluto Opposition, the Mercury-North Node Conjunction in the Grand Trine, plus Pallas (Edges and Boundaries)…

5pm PST November 20 to 12am PST November 21: Allowing and facilitating the Changes in our Relationships and Beliefs (Pallas) that present themselves will clarify our Mission on the Planet in this Lifetime (North Node). 

All in all, a very auspicious Portal.

Foggy Groggy Woggy (Portal 11.13)

What else do we know about this here Neptune Station that’s due at 11am PST on November 13?  As Pogo would have said, Friday the 13th falls on Wednesday this month.

Uranus Quintile Yod

I think the most prominent subplot is the Uranus Quintile Yod that’s supported by Pallas and Saturn.

During this suspension of the normal rules (that is, Neptune Stationary), we’ll be downloading important information about how Focusing on (Saturn) expanding specific Edges and beefing up specific Boundaries (Pallas) will help us improve our Yintegrity (Uranus).

The Moon crosses Uranus at 4pm PST on November 13, so this Portal will be open from Neptune’s Station (the fog should clear a bit after 11am PST) until about 10pm PST, though this Learning Opportunity will probably be most intense between 11am and 4pm.

Jupiter-Lilith

Lilith Initiated Jupiter in mid July (Cancer 4, “A Cat arguing with a Mouse“), and now that Jupiter has turned Retro, Jupiter is heading back for an Expository review with Lilith, which occurs at the end of November.  For now, starting today, Jupiter and Lilith are Conjunct (using our normal three degrees of Sensitivity).

Which is the Cat, and which the Mouse?  What comes to mind, since Lilith represents independent Feminine Energy, is the White Olde Male Cat passing all these new misogynistic laws in a vain attempt to try to keep the disorderly Minority Feminist Mouse in line.  Minority aligns with Feminist, at least to some degree, because most non-European cultures are far more Yin than is Whitey.  It’ll be interesting to see how much of their Power Women and Minorities reclaim for themselves during the rest of November.

At the Neptune Station, the impending Jupiter-Lilith Conjunction – which is barely within Orb now, so we wouldn’t otherwise emphasize it – makes a Septangle with Mercury and Moon-Uranus, and a Short Quintangle with Vesta and the South Node.

A Septangle is three planets all in Seventh-Harmonic Relations (Magic, Timing) with one another, and a Quintangle is three planets all in Fifth-Harmonic Relationship (Learning) to each other.  While a full Quintangle is two Biquintiles (2 x 360/5 = 144 degrees) and a Triquintile (3 x 360/5 = 216 degrees), filling most of the Zodiac, a Short Quintangle is two Quintiles (360/5 = 72 degrees) and a Biquintile, occupying a much smaller segment of the pie.

The Septangle should mean something like…

By liberating our Yintegrity (Moon-Uranus) to Speak Her Truth (Mercury) when the moment is ripe (Septangle), we liberate our Independent Self (Jupiter-Lilith). 

We could also say that…

Our work on our Edges and Boundaries (Moon-Uranus – see above) will increase our Awareness (Mercury) of the parameters of our Independence (Jupiter-Lilith) and our ability to find and move through the Portals (Septangle) that lead to our Liberation.

While the Short Quintangle may manifest as…

We’re up for Learning (Biquintile) how our concepts of the Sacred (Vesta) and our Limiting Beliefs and Emotions (South Node) interact with one another, and how our Liberation (Jupiter-Lilith) can inspire us to transcend both.

In many cases, our Karmic Limiting Beliefs result from our having gotten stuck on particular Fundamentalist religious Patterns in a previous life.  So while our concept of the Sacred is powerful, it may need to be transcended if we are to Liberate ourself from our Karma.  Bear in mind that this is not just individual work – our cultures and other Entities larger than ourselves (which Neptune after all symbolizes) are also working to release their own Karma.  Not just as accumulated collectives of individual Karma, but also as Archetypal Entities in their own right.

Pallas-Neptune

Which brings us back to Pallas-Neptune – our Spiritual Edges and Social Boundaries.  While Pallas makes Fifth-Harmonic Angles to Moon-Uranus and Saturn, it also makes a Second-Harmonic Angle (Opposition) to Neptune.

While the Second Harmonic indicates a Blooming, or Completion of the work required to (in this case) set Boundaries and stretch Edges enough to establish a Marketplace, the Second Harmonic also represents the Intuitive Wisdom, Independence, Self-Trust, and Self-Resourcefulness (Angeles Arrien, Tarot Handbook, p.30) we have gained in that process.

But as the Priestess, the Second Harmonic is also tied to Ritual, Tradition, Followership, and defense of rigid rules.  Studying under a great Master, one follows the instruction closely, in order to internalize the Wisdom of the Master.  But there is a thin edge between following instructions and Fundamentalism.  If one never clicks in to the Wisdom itself, one gets stuck on the rules.  So the Second Harmonic can represent either or both – rigid adherence to Tradition and Ritual, and/or the Intuitive Wisdom, Independence, Self-Trust, and Self-Resourcefulness gained by clicking into the Wisdom behind the Tradition.

So one of our Edges here involves examination of what we consider to be Sacred, to uncover how much of our zeal is rigid adherence, and how much is Intuitive Wisdom.

Venus-Pluto

Which brings us a step further, to Venus-Pluto.  Pluto Initiates Venus on November 15th.  In the Neptune Station chart, they’re Conjunct, Square to Moon-Uranus, Sextile to Chiron and the North Node, and Trine to the South Node.  Without working through the “logic,” we can just say that…

Our Addictions are likely to be up for some very Graceful Healing here, including the places where we aren’t really addicted, but fear that we may be.

Venus-Pluto has another role to play here as well.

Neptune-Vesta

The Neptune Station makes a Triseptile Angle (3 x 360/7 = 154 degrees) to Vesta.  So there is…

Opportunity for windows to open around which of our bottom-line Sacred tenets have served us well up to the present, but are now obsolete with regard to our Spiritual progress, and must be respectfully closed.  We may also find some Sacred tenets that have been sabotaging us – those are literally begging to be closed.

And there is a Septile Bridge across this Triseptile – Vesta Septiles the Sun which in turn Septiles Pluto, which makes yet another Septile on to the Neptune Station.  So…

By connecting to Source (Sun), our Addictions (Venus-Pluto) and obsolete Sacred tenets (Vesta) are, at the proper time (Septile), brought into our Consciousness (Neptune) for release.  Take notes, as these windows could open only briefly.

The Neptune Station closely Trines (Grace) Mercury (Awareness).

Then There’s Eris

Given the thick layer of Olde Male pomade that obscures our Clarity about the avaricious predatory capitalism and its perps that rule Western culture in the places where Community should have hegemony, whenever Lilith Acts Out, Eris is probably not far away.  And lo, adding Eris we find that she’s Septile to the Neptune Station, Biseptile to Pluto, and Triseptile to Vesta.  That creates two additional Configurations – A Vesta Septile Yod with Eris and Stationary Neptune at the base, and a Pluto Septangle with Vesta and Eris.  As well as five sevenths of a Grand Septile.

It turns out that our Revelatory adventures (Eris) with our Sacred Cows and Golden Calves (Vesta) aren’t optional (Pluto) after all.  If they aren’t optional, and their timing is important (Septile), then there’s a good chance they’ll catch us off guard (Neptune).  If any uninvited Energies nudge their way into your space during this Portal, open up to them, as they’re likely to carry important messages.

Lots going on, eh?

While Fluoride stiffens bones and teeth, it’s the poster-child Mineral for Liberation from behavioral, intellectual, emotional, and Spiritual rigidity.

Mercury-Neptune

An excellent example of Mercury-Neptune…

“I suddenly realized that I did not have to be bound by the limitations of time and space and could travel in the space-time continuum quite freely and without any restrictions.  This feeling was so convincing and overwhelming that I wanted to test it by an experiment.  I decided to see if I could travel to my parents’ apartment in Prague, which was many thousand miles away.  After determining the direction and considering the distance, I imagined myself flying through space to the place of my destination.  I had the experience of moving through space at an enormous speed, but, to my disappointment, I was not getting anywhere.

“I could not understand why the experiment did not work because my feeling that such space travel should be possible was very convincing.  All of a sudden, I realized that I was still under the influence of my old concepts of time and space.  I continued to think in terms of directions and distances and approached the task accordingly.  It occurred to me that the proper approach would be to make myself believe that the place of my session was actually identical with the place of my destination.  I said to myself, ‘This is not Baltimore, this is Prague.  Right here and now, I am in my parents’ apartment in Prague.’

“When I approached the task in this way, I experienced peculiar and bizarre sensations.  I found myself in a strange, rather congested place full of electric circuits, tubes, wires, resistors, and condensers.  After a short period of confusion, I realized that my consciousness was trapped in a television set located in the corner of the room in my parents’ apartment.  I was trying, somehow, to use the speakers for hearing and the tubes for seeing.  After a while, I had to laugh because I realized that this experiment was a symbolic spoof ridiculing the fact that I was still imprisoned by my previous beliefs concerning time, space, and matter.”

Stanislav Grof, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality,” pp.220-221.

Ah, the layers of the Onion.   You can see the pitfalls of Fundamentalism, or taking your metaphors as if they were literally true.

And another…

“Finance.  Food.  Fuel.  Water shortage.  Resource scarcity.  Climate chaos.  Mass poverty.  Mass migration.  Fundamentalism.  Terrorism.  Financial oligarchies.  We have entered an Age of Disruption [Hello Eris!].  Yet the possibility of profound personal, societal, and global renewal has never been more real.  Now is our time.

“Our moment of disruption deals with death and rebirth.  What’s dying is an old civilization and a mindset of maximum “me” – maximum material consumption, bigger is better, and special-interest-group-driven decision-making that has led us into a state of organized irresponsibility, collectively creating results that nobody wants.

“What’s being born is less clear but in no way less significant.  It’s something that we can feel in many places across Planet Earth.  This future is not just about firefighting and tinkering with the surface of structural change.  It’s not just about replacing one mindset that no longer serves us with another.  It’s a future that requires us to tap into a deeper level of our humanity, of who we really are and who we want to be as a society.  It is a future that we can sense, feel, and actualize by shifting the inner place from which we operate.  It is a future that in those moments of disruption begins to presence itself through us.

“This inner shift, from fighting the old to sensing and presencing an emerging future possibility, is at the core of all deep leadership work today.  It’s a shift that requires us to expand our thinking from the head to the heart.  It is a shift from an ego-system awareness that cares about the well-being of ourself to an eco-system awareness that cares about the well-being of all, including oneself.  When operating with ego-system awareness, we are driven by the concerns and intentions of our small ego self.  When operating with eco-system awareness, we are driven by the concerns and intentions of our emerging or essential self – that is, by a concern that is informed by the well-being of the whole.”

“This shift in awareness from ego-system to eco-system is something that we are approaching and living through not only as groups and organizations, but also as a global community.  Pioneering the principles and personal practices that help us to perform this shift may well be one of the most important undertakings of our time.”

Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, pp.1-2.

Kind of takes all of our Ouija Board Uranus-Pluto work, our Consciousness of our Position and Trajectory in the Evolution of the Universe Juno-Nodes work, and our Fresh Violets in Ancient Pottery Chiron-Neptune work, and puts it all into perspective.

Pascoite is a Calcium Vanadate.  Vanadium pretty much rules these kinds of Trance Formations, while Calcium provides the infrastructure to support our new metaphors.  The “ate” ending, as in Vanadate, means an Oxide – Vanadium Oxide.  Pascoite frequently cohabits with Uranium, signifying the danger of Disruption or Dischord that Transformation presents.