Choosing Life or Despair

Just a quick warning, till I find time to write more.

Our Karma is Lit Up Strongly between now and 2 November 2019 (10pm PDT), particularly our Habits of Giving Away our Power to whomever Asks for it.

Asteroid Karma (Karma, Inertia, ancient Habits) is Stationary (Strong) Conjunct Lilith (Self-Sovereignty) and Neptune (Material Confusion and Spiritual Clarity), at the focus of a T-Square (Big Challenge).

And we’re already Feeling a Disturbance in the (Life) Force as our Vitality is Illuminated between now and 4 November (1am PST).  This Disturbance may be for many a Turning Point in the Climate Change Emergency, as we reach a dual Decision point between Fate and Choice, and between Victimhood and Taking Charge.

Dwarf planet Varuna (the Life Force, Vitality) is Stationary (Strong) as one arm of a Kite (Grace Directed toward a Cause) with the Truth of our Values (asteroid Aletheia/Truth-of-the-Heart Conjunct Venus) on the other arm.  The central axis of the Kite is also the base of a T-Square (Big Challenge) that’s Focused on Climate Change (dwarf planets Pholus/Responsiveness and Quaoar/Survival-Instincts Conjunct on the Cusp of Capricorn/Just Fix It).

The base of the T-Square and central axis of the Kite is about whether or not we’re Willing to Take our Power – the Opposition between Despair and Miracles (Chiron) on the one hand and Victimhood or Action (asteroid Moira/Fate-or-Choice Conjunct dwarf planet Makemake/Manifestation) on the other hand. 

If we let either Chironean Discouragement or the Powerless Acceptance of our Moiraic Fate rule our Actions, we Lose.  But if we Allow Miracles to overcome Despair (by Poor-Sweethearting and then Changing the Subject, for instance), and move from Fate to Choice (by becoming Conscious of our Karma, for instance) we can begin to Manifest (Makemake) what we have Chosen.

Truth and Fear

Big Showdown at Halloween over what’s True and whether or not many people can Stand Still for their Fear and face the Scary Truth.

The October 31, 2019 (9am PDT) Station (Strengthening) of Mercury (Communication, Travel, mind) is Merged with no less than four other planets…

• Pallas (Boundaries).  All this is in Scorpio, so few will be happy until the Boundaries of Truth are pretty Clear.
• Veritas (Truth of the mind), which likes Facts with Clear Boundaries.
• Venus (our Values).  If Truth doesn’t match our Values, do we Modify our Values, or do we Condemn the Truth?
• Aletheia (Truth of the Heart), which likes to lean into our Values.

So it sounds like there may not be a lot of Tolerance for Bullshit, especially since all this is going on in Scorpio, whose Bottom Line is Getting to the Bottom of Things.

Truth though is a Trickster (Mercury).  Truth is in general an Either/Or sorta thing.  That means only the Dualistic “Left Brain” Understands it, making it Moralistic, aka Political.  Our more Spiritual and Holistic side (the “Right Brain”) groks that since Reality is Multifarious and Unitary, there are many – infinitely many actually – different Perspectives.  Depends on where we’re Standing and what we’re Expecting.

The Fear here is equally Dualistic, from Insightful to Dangerous, depending on how Conscious we are with our Fear of the Truth, and for that matter how Conscious we are of the Truth of our Fear.  Most of us Cover much of our Fear with Judgment.  We have to Open our Heart to the roots of our Judgments before we can even become Aware of our Fear.

Since our Judgments will be Lit Up here, in ways that may cause us Difficulty, it may Behoove us to put some forethought into our Pet Peeves and other Judgments, especially the ones that stop us from doing what we would really Enjoy were it not for our Resistance.  What would you Love to do, but don’t because it’s too Inconvenient or Embarrassing or Difficult or Scary?  What did you used to Enjoy a lot, but you don’t do any more because you now have other Commitments or Limitations?

The Mercury Station crowd Opposes dwarf planet Sedna (Converting Fear to Power, or absent that, Terror that leads to Irrational Acts). 

Sedna sits between the Fixed Stars Algol, whose name in Chinese means “Piled Up Corpses,” and Alcyone, which is about Insight.  Alcyone can get Moralistic too, however, having to do with the Judgment of the Dead – fitting for Halloween.  And Algol is the Eye of Medusa, the Mysterious Female Power that so Terrifies the Patriarchy that it’s prone to Massacring its Enemies when it Regresses to Past Lives and Confuses them with Sabre-Toothed Tigers.

This Samhain Showdown is high-stakes, as our Survival is Involved, in more ways than one.  Our backs are to the wall with regard to Climate Change, and all of its Implications for how the Future evolves.

We can easily attribute Climate Change to dwarf planets Pholus and Quaoar dancing together, which they’ve been doing for many years and will continue to do for many more.  There is more popular Will to work on it because they now Dance on the Cusp of Capricorn (Just Fix It) instead of Sagittarius (Let It Go). 

And they’re now joined by dwarf planet Ixion (our Hidden Genius), which could spawn a lot of new ideas for Fixing It – we’re seeing that daily, with for example large-scale commitments to Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Sequestration in Soil and Trees.  Just yesterday I read about this newly invented machine – http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025.

To Survive, Ascension is Required – either to save our own ass by Exiting the Competitive Trauma-Drama, or to lift the Earth Herself into the Miracle of Collaborative and Constructive Recovery.  The Earth is like an airplane losing cabin pressure – tend to your own Ascension before you help others with theirs, because it helps no one if you both suffocate in 3D, and you want to be a good Mirror for them so they can see where they need to go, if they want to.

Don’t do it the way this guy did when he tried to Ascend on his way to work and take the bus with him, not realizing that in 5D we can just Beam ourselves Up…

The Pholus-Quaoar-Ixion Stellium sits Opposite to dwarf planet Chaos (Unlimited Potential).  The message here is that we need to climb out of the box of our Limiting Beliefs if we want to Manifest the Miracles that are available when Anything Is Possible.

The Challenge is whether or not we’re Willing to Expand our Horizons to Adjust our Values to, and Integrate our Insights with, the new Truths we’ve seen, rather than continuing to Reject them because we may not be able to easily fit into our 3D Life without Painful Changes.  We may also have to Consciously Suspend Disbelief when our new Insights don’t match what we Learned in School.

The Pholus-Quaoar-Ixion Opposition to Chaos is T-Squared (Challenged) by asteroid Juno (Growth in Consciousness).

But there’s even a bigger picture, as the Universe is Asking us to discard our a priori Conclusions about how Truth and Fear interact, and Open Up to new, Paradoxical views of their Dance together.

The Mercury Station chart also maps out a Yin Gate Mystery School.  The central axis of the Yin Gate, where we have to Open to Mystery and Surprise, is the Mercury/et al-to-Sedna Opposition.  The Yin Gate requires a four-Degree Sensitivity, but exceeding our usual three Degrees is warranted because the added planet is Eris (Revelation of What’s Been Denied), and the whole chart is about Denial.

Mercury’s turning backward, and it will back up from 29 Scorpio to 11 Scorpio.  This Degree Zone is about Getting to the Bottom of the Truth about our Held Emotions (10-20 Scorpio, the Pisces Decanate of Scorpio) and Exploring the Truth of Who and What We Want to Nurture afterwards (20-30 Scorpio, the Cancer Decanate of Scorpio). 

Mercury’s first forward pass through this Degree Zone spanned 11-31 October (11-18 October in the Held Emotions Zone and 19-31 in the Nurture Zone).  So the meat of the Issues we’re addressing now probably came to a head during 11-18 October.

When a planet turns Retrograde, it Reviews the material it’s already covered, with a fine-tooth comb.  So we’ll be Reviewing the Nurture Zone from 31 October till 10 November (“Is it your Self-Love you’re Nurturing here, or are you still Giving Away your Power?”). 

Meanwhile, our two Truth asteroids (Aletheia and Veritas) leave Scorpio and go on into Sagittarius (Letting Go) on 2 November (Truth of the Heart, Aletheia) and 9 November (Truth of the mind, Veritas).  That will probably feel like a Lightening of Tension.

Mercury then goes back over the Held Emotions that we’re Letting Go Of from 11-20 November (“Is that really how you want to Live your Life, or do you think you might want to be More Loving with yourself instead?”). 

On 20 November Mercury turns Direct again, and recrosses the same terrain for the third time.  During this pass, if we’ve done our homework during the first two passes, we’ll Build Confidence about how much we’ve Let Go Of. 

If we haven’t done our homework, we’ll be Re-Experiencing the Issues we’ve been working on since early October.  Mercury crosses the Held Emotions Zone again from 21 November to 1 December, and then the Nurture Zone again from 2-8 December.

Here’s the chart…

The lighter lines are drawn to the planet that’s four Degrees from the Mercury Station, dwarf planet Eris.  The Yin Gate is the blue box (Golden Rectangle, in astrologuese) marked off my Eris, Chaos, Haumea, and Ixion et al.  It encloses the two green Xs and the central red line (Opposition) connecting Sedna to Mercury et al.

BodySoul New Moon

The primary theme of the 27 October 2019 (8:30 pm PDT) New Moon is the Challenge of Integrating Soul and Flesh.  The Bottom Line is that, whatever Discomfort you Experience over the next several weeks, Surrender into it.  Your Physical Body will be making Adjustments to make room for the Soul to be more In Charge.  If it feels like you’re Dying, Let It Be, it’s just an Ego Death.  I hope you’ve been watching the Hay House Heal Summit interviews over the last few days, because they talk a lot about Perspectives and Techniques you may be needing to use.  Even though it may not feel like it, Trust that all will End Well, as the Energy is very Benevolent.

The primary Configuration in the New Moon chart is a Diamond Star (Self-Resolving Challenge) focused on dwarf planet Varuna (Vitality, the Life Force) in Leo (Self-Assurance) from the Opposition between the New Moon and Uranus (the Individual Soul) in Taurus (Matter).

A Diamond Star consists of a T-Square (Major Challenge) and a Finger of God (Pay Attention!) pointing at the same planet.  The base of the Finger of God forms a “Bowl of Grace” (Double Trine Bridge) under the T-Square.  That Grace here comes from dwarf planets Quaoar (our Survival Instincts) and OR10 (Intrusive Memories).  So if we Listen Closely, we may hear Voices directing us toward Survival.

A secondary theme is that we will be Encountering our Resistance to our Survival Instincts.  How could we Resist Survival?  Easy – look at the whole Climate Change issue and how many people still Choose to indulge their Belief that “it can’t happen here.”  Or consider whether you’ve ever felt like you have Enough Money (which a friend refers to as an Oxymoron).  If you hope to Buy your way into Security, it may take more money than you Imagine is easily available to you.

A T-Square to Quaoar.

Our Challenges will come from two closely related sources.

First, our Habitual Discouragement, especially our “Unconscious Despair” – when we Suffer under the Belief that What We Most Want is not within the realm of Possibility.  To Survive in the Manner To Which We Would Like To Become Accustomed, we will have to Stretch our Beliefs about the Possible.  Since the mind is Limited by what it already Knows, that’s difficult to do – Imagination is one of Robert Moss’s “Three Only Things,” about which we were taught as Children “It’s only your Imagination,” or “It was only a Dream,” or “It’s only a Coincidence,” meaning, It’s Not Real.

If you do Encounter Discouragement, try saying to yourself, “You Poor Sweetheart, you’re Feeling Discouraged, aren’t you.”  Then Change the Subject – do something entirely different so your mind is Distracted from the Thoughts that Discouraged you.  If that’s hard to do, Persist.  You need to Change the Subject in order to Open Up Space for New Perspectives.  If you succeed, they will come to you as Intuitions.  Remember the times when you can’t find your car keys, until you give up and start doing something else, and lo, there they are, right under your hat!

One side of the base of the Quaoar T-Square is Chiron (Despair and Miracles).

Second, in addition to potential failures of Imagination, the Habits we need to Break may still be Unconscious.  We may still Believe that, even if What We Need is within the realm of Possibility (we’ve seen or heard about others doing it), it won’t be so for us.  Watch Closely for situations where you don’t Feel Lucky, or Blessed, or Hopeful.  Those are doorways into Unconscious Limitations that you want to Change.

The other side is the Merger (Conjunction) of Moira (Fate and Choice) and Makemake (Manifestation).

Here’s the chart, with the primary Challenge drawn in heavier lines and the secondary one in lighter lines…

While the second Challenge is not Self-Resolving like the first one is, there is a second layer of Grace involved by virtue of the fact that both Challenges Relate to one another very Gracefully.

The focus of the first T-Square, Varuna, makes a Trine Bridge across the second T-Square.  Meanwhile, the focus of the second T-Square, Quaoar, makes one of the Trine Bridges in the Bowl of Grace under the first T-Square.

Whom Do We Serve?

There’s what we Feel we Should or Must Do, and then there’s what we Want to Do.  Which to Choose?  That may be hard this week.

Hylonome (Self-Sovereignty) joins Saturn (The Most Important Thing) and the South Node (Karma, the Emotions you’d rather Die than Feel), Quincunx to asteroid Klotho in the 26 October 2019 (4am PDT) Klotho-Station chart.

It could well be more Complicated than that – we may also Want to Do some of our Shoulds or Musts.  Many or even most of our Shoulds and Musts are about Loyalty to a Vow we once made, and Loyalty usually Feels Good, especially to a Sacred Vow.

Stationary Klotho T-Squares (Challenges) the Opposition between dwarf planet Orcus (Vow-Making and -Breaking) and Neptune (which includes a Sense of the Sacred).  And of course the South Node always Opposes the North Node (our Mission), and Loyalty to our Mission Creates a very Deep Good Feeling.  But as an Opposition, it may feel like we have to make a Choice between Loyalty to our Mission and Loyalty to our Sacred Vow.

To make it even more Complicated, we may Feel a Strong Need to Act, to Do Something, either to Support our Loyalty to our Self, or to Support our Loyalty to our Vows.

Hylonome on Saturn-South Node will trigger Karma about Self-Betrayal.  Fortunately it’s Trine to Orcus, meaning there is Grace available if we Choose to Break Free of Self-Betrayal.  But the Nodal Axis (including Saturn-Hylonome on the rear end) is T-Squared (Challenged) by Mars (Action).

Fortunately, the chart tells us that it’s not really about Action, it’s about Awareness.

Frankly, the knee-jerk Karmic Reaction to Support our Vows is probably Stronger than the Subtle though Deep Desire to move toward our Mission and hence Support our Deep Self.  But the real Teaching here is about neither.  This is Karma, which means that it’s not really Present-Moment, it’s a shadow on the wall of the cave.  So we will almost certainly be Overreacting if we Act overtly to Support our Vows.

There is a Mystery School here, a Teaching about Paradox and Non-Action.  We’ll get the most Value from Observing the Stresses we’re Feeling, and their apparent Sources.  Of course we’ll get the most Value from Trusting our Mission more than our Vows – if they’re Karmic we know that they’re Obsolete anyway.  However, there’s a Real-Life Present-Moment Drama that’s Mirroring our Karmic Vows, and we Want to be Present and Lovingly Responsive for that Drama.

So we need Both/And, not Either/Or, and we need Awareness rather than Habitual Action.  The Action we most need to take is probably to Talk about what we’re Observing.  And most of all, we need to Avoid making Decisions and Trust that Grace will successfully finesse the knife-edge we feel like we’re walking on.  By remaining a Neutral Observer and Communicating about what we Observe, we can Allow the Universe to make Changes that are far more Subtle and far more Comprehensive than any Action of ours would have accomplished.

First, the chart is Sublimely Symmetric, meaning that the Energy this week is very Balanced, and as such it makes us very Aware of any Imbalance we’re Feeling.  We don’t want to Act to try to Restore our comfortable state of Imbalance, we want to Allow the Energy to Balance us, and Observe what that feels like.

Second, the Completely Symmetric Configuration is a Flying Squirrel, at the Heart of which is a Yin Gate (a Teaching about how the Real World is Paradoxical; it’s the Unreal mind that demands Logical Clarity).  The Central Axis of the Yin Gate is the Opposition between Lachesis (Change) and Eurydike (Trust).  Which is to say…

It’s about Trusting that the Dualistic mind – and the Ego Attached to it – does not have enough Breadth of Perspective to make better Changes than the Universe when the Universe’s Energy is In Balance.

Here’s the chart…

The Flying Squirrel’s nose is Lachesis, tail is Eurydike, hands are Klotho and Mars, feet are Neptune and South Node et al, and ears are North Node and Orcus.  Notice the Perfect Symmetry.  It looks Complicated, but it’s “just” a Yin Gate with T-Squares (red triangles) to the diagonals (red X) of the Golden Rectangle (blue box).

While Goddess Klotho cut the Cloth for your next TimeLine, Goddess Lachesis, who’s in charge here, Measured its Length.  The difference between Fate (Karma) and Choice (Liberation) is Conscious Awareness.  In many circumstances we interpret asteroid Lachesis as an Opportunity to Choose to Let Go of Karma “prematurely” – before our Fate would Let it Go.  But in the context of a Yin Gate, where the Objective is to move into Beginner’s Mind, especially where Lachesis is at the Head, we interpret it as the Opportunity to Watch how the Universe Restores Balance if we don’t Interfere, with the potential Goal of Recognizing when we are Out of Balance, and Learning how to Allow ourself to come Back Into Balance rather than trying to make the World match us by going Out of Balance.

The Yin Gate is the double Fingers of God (green wedges) pointing to Lachesis and Eurydike, creating the Dos Equis inside the Golden Rectangle (blue box) bounded by Orcus, North Node, Neptune, and South Node et al.  Any Golden Rectangle is interpreted through the diagonal Oppositions (red X), and the T-Squares amplify this interpretation (Action and New Beginnings).  While this is still relevant, in a Yin Gate the emphasis is on the Fingers of God – ie, the Central Axis, Lachesis Opposite Eurydike.

While Lachesis (Change) Heads the major Configuration, the Stationary Klotho is the raison d’être for the chart.  So New Beginnings are the type of Change that we’re talking about.  That reinforces the Mystery School or Beginner’s Mind element of the Yin Gate, making it all the more Important that we Avoid Preconceptions and Nullify Conclusions.  The mind knows only Duality, and this is about Multidimensional Unity.

The Squirrel’s hands and feet also make a Square Fez, and a Fez runs on its Quincunx (green) diagonals (Mars-Neptune and Klotho-South Node et al).  Between the Dos Equis and these green diagonals, the Quincunxes rule the Configuration, and Quincunxes are about Curiosity.  Not the kind that covets an Answer, but the kind that’s Awed by the Unexplained Glory of it all.  That is…

Strongly Resist any Temptation you have to Figure It Out or to Believe you Understand what’s going on.  There are Things To Learn here, so we have to Pay Attention, and not jump to Conclusions or lean on Preconceptions.  We can Summarize what we Observed in November.  In the interim, just note what we’re Observing as we go.  Let’s see, white head, black wings and body, white tail, big bird – Bald Eagle!  Be Conscious of jumping to Conclusions like that.  Yes, it looks like a Bald Eagle, but what if it’s not?  What if you’ve never seen this Critter before?  Keep bringing yourself back to Curiosity!  Naming the World stops Growth in its tracks.

Nothing is Out of Balance here except our own Karma that is being Let Go Of, if we Allow it to be and don’t try to take charge.  Watch and Listen.  Report what you See and Hear, but be careful to Avoid making up Stories to fit the clues.  If we rely on what we Know already, we’ll miss this Fabulous Opportunity to Learn more about How the Universe Works and to Liberate ourself from our Limitations.  Everything we Learned in school was Wrong.

The Sky Is Changing

Brenda Hoffman gives us a great Perspective on the next few weeks – and years…

https://lifetapestrycreations.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/the-sky-is-changing-not-falling/

“You are shifting minute-by-minute even though you have difficulties believing such is so.  For there are several pieces within you that need to be in place before you enter 2020.  Not because the year is necessarily magical or even accurate for all calendar keepers, but instead that you are entering a double two year.

“For some, this double two year will mean finding a secure home base – whether a current home or a new home, or community.  Others will discover a new earth life perspective.  For many of you have been pining for another dimension or focus while of the earth.

“Such is logical given you have felt like an earth visitor since you arrived.  For you have refused to acknowledge you are fully of the earth in this lifetime.  Not because such an admission is terrible, but instead that you maintain too many memories of what was.

“Earth life has never been particularly easy.  And given your responsibility for helping earth shift from 3D to 5D as you achieved the same for yourself, this has been an exhausting lifetime.  As is often true in 3D, you probably are ready for a warm blanket and a comfy chair in front of the fire to satisfy your comfort needs.

“Instead, you are uncovering pieces of earth life you did not expect from environmental issues to leadership declarations.  You expected to rest and then receive hosannas after shifting the earth and yourself.  Instead, you feel as if you are walking through quicksand for your body, especially your feet, feels heavy and cumbersome.  Where is the joy?  Where is your completion party?

“So it is many of the pieces you now find almost unbearable, will ease in early 2020, and be completed by year’s end.  Not because such is an earth plan, but because of the internal drama, many of you are now undergoing.  You will likely find yourself exhausted, isolated, worried, and depressed for the next few weeks.  Not what you expected, but emotions pushing you through this final 2020 preparation stage.

“The glaring issues for you now have always been there, merely sugar-coated as a pretense that all was well.  Issues pummeling into your being with few, if any, ideas for change.  For changing the issues that now disturb you, is not within your role.  Such will be completed by those who follow.  You have accomplished your major steps.

“Many of you continue to request a role designation despite your exhaustion.

“Your exhaustion is that you do not know how to rectify the ‘wrongs’ you see so clearly.  Again, those wrongs have always been there; you merely refused to see or sense them.  So it is you are identifying that which is not appropriate for 5D you.  Those following will have the solutions.

“Your role now is to end your fear, your drama about how terrible everything is.  For you are functioning as ‘Chicken Little,’ saying over and over, ‘The sky is falling. The sky is falling.’  While in truth, the sky is changing.

“Your fears, your depression is based on what you cannot do.  Those solutions are for your followers.  So it is that by the calendar year 2020, you will likely allow yourself to know your joy role has little to do with social media or your leaders.

“Your role is to be in joy.

“Memories of past issues that haunt you – whether as a leader or of the groups negatively impacted by leaders – have little to do with new you.  Yet, before you can accept that piece, you must clear those memories related to what is now visible.  For just as you did not have solutions in the past as a leader or follower, you do not have solutions now.  For such is not your role.  Accepting that as your role merely forces you down the ‘rabbit hole’ of confusion and fear.

“Your piece is to shift yourself from fear to joy – knowing you are not responsible for shifting the quagmires you find in your leadership, social media, and the press.  If such were your role, you would be excited and joyful to tackle it, just as you were dedicated to helping the earth shift from 3D to 5D.

“Move toward joy, and you will find your role.  Continue to fear that which you do not have skills to shift, and you will stagnate in place.

“Trust those who follow, as we trusted you.  You have different skills – most importantly for 2020 and beyond – to display your joy.  For you are the sunbeams, those following will discover as they end earth fears through constructive shifts, just as you have done throughout your transition.

“Your fears are ghosts from past lives – lives that have little to do with who you are now.  That is what you will discover in the next few weeks.  For you cannot fully sparkle if you have fears that the earth – your creation and delight – is not able to circumvent the odious leaderships now destroying all that is important to you.  Allow yourself to delegate the next earth shift to those who have completed such roles time and time again – just as you created many planets and places in addition to the earth.

“You are the creator beings.  Those who follow are the social butterflies shifting those now of the earth – either more completely back into 3D or forward into 5D.  Your followers are social creators.  You are planet creators.  Allow you and your followers to work together to create a shining, loving example of Universal possibilities.

“For the earth was an experiment, that you changed into Universal reality.  Now allow the decorators, if you will, to brighten the earth and its inhabitants in ways you do not understand.  All you have to do to assist them is to shine your joy light day in and day out.

“So it is you will release your current fears through example and need the next few weeks.  So be it.”

With thanks to Camilla Blossom Bishop…

https://camillablossom.com/2019/10/14/honoring-native-people/

Still Chopping Cherry Trees 3

As we’ve mentioned previously, the Digital Age occupies two Centuries while the every-twenty-years Jupiter-Saturn Conjunctions occur in Air Signs.  The Industrial Age spanned the time when these Conjunctions occurred in Earth Signs.  There is a toggle between Ages – after eighteen or so Conjunctions in Earth, there was one in Air (1980), then one back in Earth (2000), then eighteen or so in Air.  The Digital Preview of 1980-2000 spanned, almost to the day, the time between the introduction of the IBM PC and the Dot-Com Crash.  The fact that computers reached practical desktop size at the dawn of the Preview could be a clue that Decentralization and Individual Creativity may indeed be part of the full Digital Age.

We’re in the last three months of the Industrial Debriefing that spans 2000-2020.  The Industrial Debriefing allows us to sort through the Meaning of the Industrial Age, and Decide what to take with us into the next Age and what to leave behind.  We’re getting down to the wire.  One characteristic of the Industrial Age was the development of the Wage Slave.  The decline of Unions, the development of the Gig Economy, the demise of pensions, and the return to a Dickensian economy, all imply that we may be leaving that behind.

Today, among the planets we track, there are 8 in Air Signs, but 15 in Earth Signs, pinning our Attention on our Decisions about which Karmic Habits to Abandon and which to Maintain.

Seven of the Earth 15 are in Capricorn, Creative Earth.  Capricorn basically means Just Fix It – these are the things we have to Just Fix if we want to transcend 3D…

• Dwarf planet Quaoar, symbolizing our Survival Instincts.  We’ve seen how the end of the Industrial Age has decimated manufacturing jobs.  Coding will survive for a while, till the Robots take over it as well.  As anyone who’s ever tried to work there knows, social services are Poverty Country, until your Culture begins to Value Hupers more than Dollars, if it ever does.

• Dwarf planet Hylonome, or Self-Sovereignty.  Is the Centralization of Power a permanent feature of Huperity, or will the End of the Patriarchy promote Decentralization?  Some pundits see the Blockchain accomplishing that, and its existence suggests that there may well be a Trend toward Decentralization of Power.  Centralization makes Self-Sovereignty much more Difficult.

• The South Node, our Karmic Inertial Baggage, including our Held Emotions.  As long as we continue to Avoid our Held Emotions, it will always be Us Against Them, as Them is where our Intolerable Held Emotions appear to reside.  Any of us stuck in that kind of Duality will never make it out of 3D.

• Saturn, aka The Most Important Thing.  Do we know what that is?  Well, at the moment Saturn is still Conjunct the South Node, so the Most Important Thing is Embracing our Held Emotions.

• Asteroid Hopi represents Respect For All Things, which is more than a nice platitude.  Because We Are All One and All Mirrors for One Another, any Disrespect for anything is a departure from Unconditional Self-Love, which will keep us stuck in 3D.

• Dwarf planet Chariklo is about Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence.  Thought operates in Duality; Intuition is Multidimensional, so it should be Obvious that we need to operate from our Intuition to stay in 5D.  Self-Doubt is a Thought.  We need to Learn to Trust our Intuition.

• Pluto is about Changing Paradigms, which is what is Happening as we move from the Industrial to the Digital, from Obeying the Patriarchy to Trusting our Intuition, and from 3D to 5D.  Pluto doesn’t allow foot-draggingl; if we Resist the Changes, Pluto will just Drag us into the New Paradigm.  We’ll be much better off Surrendering to it.

Virgo is the Mutable Earth Sign – Mutable as in Mutation, or Change.  Like the Changing Lines in the I Ching.  Virgo, which stands for Ego Death, holds five planets here.  Of course we’ll need to Endure Ego Deaths if we are to move beyond our Old Industrial Paradigm…

• Asteroid Nemesis itself means Ego Death, as She was the Goddess who Punished those who Felt Guilt (or should have), and Guilt Requires an Ego Death.  In Virgo it’s a Double Whammy – just what the Witch Doctor ordered for a Big Change in the Zeitgeist.

• Dwarf planet Orcus is about Pattern-Breaking.  He was an Etruscan God whose job it was to Beat Up Oath-Breakers.  But our Obsolete Oaths are what Create Karma and Unconscious Limitation, as we Forget the Oath but the Habits we built to Serve the Oath remain for Lifetimes.  We need to enter New Ages with Clean Slates.

• Asteroid Sappho symbolizes Self-Love.  As we mentioned earlier (see Hopi), Unconditional Self-Love is a prerequisite for Ascension.

• Asteroid Asteroid Juno is about the Growing Edge of Consciousness, and any major Growth in Consciousness is likely to require an Ego Death, so Juno in Virgo can Accelerate our Growth.

• Moira represents Fate.  Fate is what happens to us when we are Unconscious of our Karmic Patterns.  When we Grow our Consciousness enough to Recognize our own Patterns, we substitute Choice for Fate.  We can’t follow our Intuition if we don’t have Choice.

And finally, in addition to Uranus, two other planets are joined at the hip in Taurus, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Sedna.  Together they stand for all of our Unconscious Beliefs that have their Roots in Fear.  Even many of our original “Choices” to make those Ancient Karmic Vows were Motivated by Necessity or Fear.  They may have been the only Choice we had if we wanted to eat, which wasn’t a Choice at all.  Taurus is Fixed Earth – like Crystal, very Difficult to Change…

But very Powerful.  And as you know, Uranus (Soul) is also early in Fixed-Earth Sign Taurus (ie, Descending into Flesh).  That in itself has been, and will continue to be, Requiring Ego Deaths and Major Changes in our Self-Concept.  An Iteration of Ego can last anywhere from Moments to Lifetimes, but Soul is Immortal.  Most of us to one degree or another Identify with our Physical Body.  We can touch that, and we’ve Learned to Trust our Sense of Touch.  Learning to Trust an Immaterial and Invisible Soul is more Difficult, usually Requiring Lifetimes of Meditation and Study.  We all have many of those Lifetimes, or we wouldn’t be here on Earth at this Time.  We just need to Open Up to them.

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Meanwhile, Pluto (Compulsion and Transformation) and dwarf planet Chariklo (Self-Doubt/Confidence) are still Merged, and with them asteroid Hopi (Respect for All Things).  We are in Truth Unlimited Spiritual Beings, so when we Judge anything that we Believe to be Other, we actually Judge ourself.  And deep down, we Know it, we just don’t like to admit it because so many of us Define our Ego by what we’re trying to Convince ourself that we aren’t.  You know, Those People that supposedly Do or Believe all those Terrible things.

And to top it all off, this Pluto-Chariklo-Hopi (Don’t Pretend Like That Isn’t Your Issue – Even If It’s Mine Too We’re Just Mirrors For Each Other!) Challenges (T-Squares) the Eris (Revelation of Denial) Full Moon.  These aren’t Games (well, unless we’re Clever enough to Understand that, to the Soul, Ego Is just a Game) – we’re being told pretty Clearly by the Universe that we need to get to Neutrality before the Poo really hits the fan.

Three months from today Pluto Initiates Saturn.  Pluto is the Master Timekeeper, determining the Zeitgeist of the Planet.  Saturn means The Most Important Thing, so the beginning of a new 30- to 40-year Saturn-Pluto Cycle is a Big Deal.  Let’s go back and look at the last Century through the lens of Saturn-Pluto…

• October 1914 – Pluto Initiated Saturn in 3 Cancer, “A man bundled in fur leads a shaggy Deer,” a 33-year Cycle.  Sounds like we were in for a Cold third-of-a-Century.  The Initiation was three months after the start of World War I.

• August 1947 – Pluto Initiated Saturn in 14 Leo, “A huper Soul seeking opportunities for outward manifestation,” a 35-year Cycle.  Mop-up begins after World War II, and the Cold War starts.  By twenty years later the US economy (as measured by the S&P 500) was worth five times as much as it was in 1947.  While the Cycle wound down, the size of the US economy was reduced by 60%.

• November 1982 – Pluto Initiated Saturn in 28 Libra, “A person becoming aware of spiritual forces surrounding and assisting them,” the Cycle spanning 38 years.  1982’s Jupiter Effect, an Alignment of all nine then-planets within a quarter of the Zodiac, presaged the Harmonic Convergence of 1987-92, with its End of the nine Hell Cycles of the Mayan Calendar, which began when Cortez landed in Mexico.

Eighteen years later the US economy (S&P 500) was worth seven times as much as it was in 1982.  Nine years after that, as the Cycle began to wind down, it was worth half as much.  During the following (ie, most recent) ten years the US government printed tonnes of new money and gave it to the already-wealthy.  Without that Grift, er, Gift, the economy would probably have continued to fall.

• January 2020 – Pluto will Initiate Saturn in 23 Capricorn, “A soldier receiving two award for bravery in combat,” to begin a new 33-year Cycle.  Well, we can Hope that the awards are delivered for past combat, though considering the likelihood that Climate Change will create Wars, Famine, Pestilence, Conquest, or all four, that may be in vain.

In December 2020 the Digital Age will begin in earnest.  We would Expect a major crash in the US economy of about 70%, as the anomalies created by the Grift of the 1% are worked off.  It’s entirely Possible that Jubilee could grant some degree of economic Freedom to everyone, which could produce a flood of small-scale Creative Entrepreneurship developing the beginning of the Digital Age while effectively addressing Climate Change.

It wouldn’t hurt Visualize that, or something better.  Focus on the World You Want To Live In, not the World You think Everyone Should Live In.  Everyone Wants something slightly (or hugely) Different, and there’s no reason why all of those Worlds can’t occupy the same Time and even the same Space – except Our Desire That Others Have To Live By Our Rules.  There should be plenty of room for soldiers to win multiple combat awards – which could even be in online Digital War Games.  Or, after the previous inhabitants have been evacuated, they could enjoy Analog War Games on Islands while they sink beneath the Sea.  Atlantis the Sequel.

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Those of you who grew up outside of the US may not know the metaphor.  It’s a famous bit of Amerikan Propaganda that when Jorge Washington was questioned about who chopped down the local Cherry Trees, his Response was “I cannot tell a lie,” setting the original precedent for Political Prevarication, as it doesn’t actually answer the question about the Trees.  We’re referring to the Confluence of the asteroids Aletheia (Truth of the Heart) and Veritas (Truth of the Head) that occurred recently near the same Degree as the Pluto and Chariklo Stations (Compulsive Self-Doubt).

The 13 October, 2019 (2pm PDT) Full Moon at 21 Aries, Conjunct (Merged with) the dwarf planet that symbolizes the Revelation of What’s Been Denied (Eris), extends the same Energy and then some.  The chart…

…includes…

• Asteroid Pallas (Boundaries) Merging With Aletheia-Veritas.  One of the sharpest Boundaries we draw is the one between those folks to whom we tell the Truth, and those folks who have not Earned the right to know our Truth.

That’s predicated on whether or not we’re actually Conscious of our own Truth and whether or not we’ve Liberated ourself from our Karmic need to Obscure our own Truth.  Through much of Herstory we were forced to swear Loyalty to Despots, often Abandoning our own Heart’s Truth in the process.  Either/Or Vows like that Transcend Physical Death and become Karma in subsequent Lifetimes.  Which is Lit Up pretty Brightly by this Full Moon…

• Asteroid Karma (Karma) is Merged With Lilith (Self-Sovereignty), so all of our Karmic Patterns that inhibit our Sovereign Right to Own and Live our own Truth, are Lit Up for Revision.
• Karma-Lilith is Opposed By asteroid Juno (the Meristem or Growing Edge of Consciousness).  Astrological Oppositions introduce False Dichotomies.  All Dichotomies are actually Untrue, because Reality is not Dualistic, only the mind is.  So what we actually Feel from this Opposition is the Irresistible Pull of our Self-Sovereignty Exposing our Karma in order to bring it into Consciousness.
• This fecund (and fetid) Opposition is Challenged (T-Squared) by the Stellium of Jupiter (Expansion), dwarf planet Ceres (Sustainability), and asteroid Bee-Zed (Transcendence).  In other words, the more we Resist becoming Conscious of our Self-Sabotaging Patterns, the worse they get.

Which is why Life has been so replete with speed bumps lately, even though we’ve been free of Big astroevents for the last week or more.  Let’s reiterate that – the Sacred Timeline that the Planets lay out for us is Asking us to…

Stand Up, Turn Around, Look our Sisiutl Karma straight in the face, get Honest about Owning it as Ours, and Accept the Need to Change it.

In case you’ve Forgotten, Sisiutl is a two-headed Monster who still Lives on the West Coast of North America, and who is so Terrifying that, if you look at It, you will be turned to Stone.  Sisiutl is vanquished only by Standing Your Ground and Enduring the Stench, which requires Sisiutl to approach so closely to you that its two heads see one another, which turns Sisiutl Itself to Stone.  Terrifying, but the Department of Homeland Security has been totally unsuccessful in its Efforts to Eliminate It, because the Department, constitutionally unable to face its Karmic Xenophobia, turns and runs away whenever Sisiutl gets close.

• This T-Square is actually part of a Grand Cross (four planets equally spaced around the Zodiac), with dwarf planet Asbolus (Intuition) Opposing Jupiter-Ceres-BeeZed.  In other words, we Know what Karma we need to Change, we just need to stop Denying it.  If you’re ever in Doubt about any Intuition, just Ask yourself, “What If I Did Know?”

Intuitions aren’t always Prescient, but they are Prescriptive.  They just Serve the Soul rather than the Ego.  So if you Act on an Intuition that turns out to put your Ego in hot water, it wasn’t the Intuition that was wrong, it was your Ego that needed an Upgrade.

Quiet?

Hmmm.  We routinely review Stations, Initiations (first Conjunction in a series), and Moons (New and Full), and that usually covers most Disturbances in the Forest.  And certainly the Moons are making it pretty clear that we aren’t done yet with all that Saturn-Dragon Karma or the Aletheia-Veritas Scorpio Truth-Facing.  B-u-t, it Feels like there’s more going on, so we better have a look…

And yes, today (6 October 2019) dwarf planet Ixion (Forbidden Genius) Opposes dwarf planet Chaos (Unlimited Potential).  That’s Big enough to have an impact.  We have enough history with these dudes to be able to extend their orbits back into only about the 17th Century so we don’t know where this Cycle began.  Ixion is faster (250 years per loop, about the same as Pluto) than Chaos (310 years), but since their orbits aren’t circular, their travel per year isn’t constant, and they’ve been Opposing off and on since about 1850.

Oppositions Manifest the Second Harmonic, which is about Ritual.  There’s no question that there’s Power in Repetition, but there are Times when accumulated Change requires a New Approach.  The Intuition of Greta and her fellow travelers, for instance, that CO2 accumulations are at that stage, probably indicates just such a Time.  While it’s long but thought-provoking, here’s an excellent dissection of the World’s Political Economy, another good example of accumulated Need for Change…

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-style-nationalism-make-globalism-great-again/

Oppositions recommend either Embracing or Rejecting Ritual, but both Ixion and Chaos strongly suggest that Change is due or overdue. Here’s another good example about Moving Outside of “the Box”…

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/therapy-gardening-and-permaculture

Ixion represents what we’ve been forced to Repress, and advises that when our Values are so glaringly Violated that we can’t help but Act contrary to the social conventions we’ve been programmed to obey, we need to Act.

And Chaos symbolizes all the things that we’ve been taught are not Possible, an Open Invitation to Exceed these Limits even if we don’t know how and even though we know we’ll be considered Loony just for talking about it – if we can even Conceive of Transcending our Limitations!  We need to be Conscious of our Limits before we can do that.  For most of us, when we do think about it, we assume that our Limits are akin go the “Laws” of Physics.

Much Stress, in other words.  If we’re a Republican or a Tory who actually has a Soul, our Stress is very easy to understand.  For the rest of us it may not be as obvious.  It may just feel vaguely Stressful, or we may just be Blaming somebody else for anything that’s not flowing swimmingly.

For anything in your Life that’s taking more Effort than it “should,” try Reframing it as an Unconscious Limitation of your own (Chaos).  If it’s Unconscious, how can we Access it?  We need to PIAVA – Pray, Intend, Affirm, Visualize, Ask, Command, Wonder – or otherwise Invite the Unconscious to Open Up for us.  When I Command (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava/theta/) to be Informed, the first answer I get is about Worthiness.  Chariklo (Self-Confidence and Self-Doubt) is part of what’s been Lit Up by the recent Pluto Station and our Karma work.

When I try to Command Worthiness, I can’t stay awake!  So I Tap Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVd6Ww0as4) Worthiness: “Even though I may not Feel Worthy of what I Need, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself”… and then try Pushing my way through Commanding Worthiness, alternating Tapping and Commanding till I can see myself Receiving what I Need when I get to the “Show Me” stage.

The chart…

…suggests that Unconscious Fear is involved (Vesta-Sedna Finger of God).  Do you tend to stick to conventional ideas about things because you Fear Ridicule by your Peers or “Superiors”?  Were you ever Ridiculed or Teased as a Child?  How did that Feel?  Have you Reframed your Humiliation or Shame into their Abuse yet?

Could it be that the delay in your Appreciation of What You Want, is also partly due to your Hesitation – or to be blunt, Fear – about Transgress a social convention (Ixion)?  If so, which social convention might it be?  The Dualistic mind easily moves to Blame, so even if this seems Obvious, it’s probably a good idea to PIAVA it, to get the Perspective of the Intuition, which is always broader in scope than mentality.  You may be involved in a Delicate Political Dance, and may not be Willing to Let Your Tiger Out, or your Kitten, even if it might help.  But it’s important to be Present with What You Really Feel, even if you don’t share it.

Not much Delicate about the Political Dances in the News, but it remains to be seen which Strategies win the battles, and which ones win the wars.

 

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Here’s a great example of how we as consumers really do have Power over the faceless Corporate World…

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/consumers-force-lobbying-group-big-food-brands-re-brand-itself

“To a child, all Nature is new.  Given the chance, a child interfaces with a Nature that has no names, no labels.  Grass is not green; it is not a lawn; it is Mystery.  This is what a child connects with; Mystery.  But the child grows, learning to walk and talk, then to read as their schooling begins.  Names and labels are now being attached to Nature.  That ‘stuff’ that tasted strange is now green grass, and Mystery is banished, along with that previous connection.

“As we are taught more and more about Nature, so, without our ever realizing it, we actually know less and less.  Our intellectual knowledge grows, but our direct knowing recedes.  Moving through our school grades, we are now pushed into an intellectual world that seeks to understand Nature, yet adding ever more of the labels of limitation.  If once, as a child, we had a real connection with Nature, by the time we are an adult, the average student is locked out of any true relationship with a metaphysical Nature.

“Intellectually, most adults relate only to a physical Nature, accepting, as does everyone else, that this is all there is.  But there is so much more!  How can we intellectually understand Nature, when it is not an intellectual expression?  It makes no sense!  Like us, Nature is an expression of conscious intelligence, but this, our greatest potential, is abandoned, littering the classroom floors where it was destroyed by the scissors of unintentional ignorance and thoughtless separation.

“Throw away the keyhole – if you can – and let me give you a different, considerably larger view.  The Nature that we see and relate to on Earth is the physical reflection of a vast, holistic, intricate, metaphysical and universal Nature.  In everything in life, the metaphysical precedes the physical.  There are no exceptions.  Consider the implications of this!

“When all this becomes your inner knowing – not a concept – your actual reality, then your whole relationship with Nature and life is forever changed.  You are now able to have a relationship with the nonphysical Nature that cannot be physically seen or touched, but which can be experienced and listened to.  Nature communicates, but nobody is listening.  We have lost the skill.  We no longer realize that there is a vast difference between hearing and listening.

“Two people talk to each other, but neither truly listens; they hear.  We can hear and think, but we cannot listen and think.  Thinking takes us out of the moment… we cannot think our way into the moment.  To listen, we are required to be in the moment.  This means that to listen to the inaudible voice of Nature, we have to be in the moment.  We are not good at this!  It means being fully conscious.”

–Michael J. Roads, Entering the Secret World of Nature, pp.182-4.

Today, 3 October 2019, the two asteroids that symbolize Truth, Aletheia and Veritas, met in the middle of the Sign that means Diving Relentlessly into the Heart of the Matter, Scorpio.  They were joined by the asteroid that symbolizes Boundaries, Pallas.

In the chart of this Union…

…this Protection of Truth is part of an Easy Path (Double Trine Bridge) across a Challenge to Transcend our Resistance to our Instincts (T-Square to a Stellium of Bee-Zed, Jupiter, Ceres, and Jupiter).  The other part of this Easy Path is our Compulsion to Know the Importance of Respect for All Things (a Stellium of Pluto, Saturn, and asteroid Hopi).  The sources of the Challenge (Opposition under the T-Square) are Becoming Conscious of our Choices (Juno-Moira) and Confusion about our Sovereignty (Neptune-Lilith).  Bear in mind that the Unconscious does not know Direction, only Dimension.  Direction is a property of the Dualistic Observing mind.

Consequently we often encounter the Exact Opposite of what we Expect.  Someone totally ruled by their Instincts, who Respects only themself, who like Goebbels works very hard to set Boundaries against the Truth, who is very Confused about their own Sovereignty, and who is not Conscious of their Choices but only Obsessed with their own Perceived Fate, is a Poster Child for this Energy.  While the Star itself has “moved on,” the Midpoint of Scorpio is associated with the Royal Star Antares.  The Royal Stars promise great success, but with a caveat, a downfall.  The downfall of Antares is to seek Intensity and Drama for the sake of Intensity and Drama.