Swallowtail Selenite, a Crystalline form of Gypsum or Calcium Sulfate. The same stuff that the inside walls in your house are made of. Like Feminine Power – often so subtle that it’s not even seen, but what would you do without it? Look at those subtle colors!
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As we’ve said about the Full Moon’s Yin Gate…
“The Core Issue is the Mysterious Relationship between our Soul’s Path and our Personal Mythology. And the way that Mystery is Changing, as our Personal Mythology changes, and as our Soul’s Path evolves and adapts to the Choices our Ego makes.
“This is the central Opposition from the Vesta-Ceres Conjunction to Uranus, the central axis of the Yin Gate.”
“As in any Yin Gate, there are two Subsidiary Issues. The first is the Mysterious Relationship between the concept of Order in your Personal Mythology, and the concept of Beauty in your Personal Mythology. Do you know what it means to a Native American to ‘walk in beauty’?
“One of the other Oppositions in this Yin Gate is between Venus and Saturn.
“And the second Subsidiary Issue is the Mysterious Relationship between the concept of Miracle in your Personal Mythology, and the concept of The Feminine in your Personal Mythology.
“The link is indirect, which we’ll explain in a while, but the third Opposition is between Chiron and a derivative of Lilith. Derivatives were not reigned in after they caused the Worldwide 2007-8 crash.”
Here’s a picture of the Yin Gate…
A Yin Gate is a Golden Rectangle (two parallel Trines with Sextiles between their ends, the blue lines) with embellishments – namely a planet that bisects each Sextile. The two bisecting planets create back-to-back Fingers of God or Yods (the green lines) with the opposite corners of the Golden Rectangle. Which means that there are three equally spaced Oppositions involved (the dark red lines).
In a Golden Rectangle, the two Oppositions provide the Energy, and describe any conflicts or Learning Opportunities that might arise. But in a Yin Gate it’s the central Opposition that provides the Energy and intrigue, by virtue of the back-to-back Fingers of God. A Finger of God (two Quintiles from a third planet to each end of a Sextile) basically means Pay Attention to this!
In this case the Core Issue is realignment of the Balance between the Yintegrity that we’ve been working with since 2012, and the re-examination of our deepest Values, which we’re in the middle of.
The actual Initiation of Vesta (our deepest Values, or that which we hold Sacred) by Ceres (Sustainability) doesn’t take place for a few more weeks, but they’ve been dancing together for a while now, so we can consider these realignments with our Yintegrity to be part of the Initiation, which as we said earlier was about “A child giving Birds a drink at a fountain: Manifest Form reconnecting itself to its overlighting Spirit.“
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Sacred And Sustainable
As it turns out, this re-examination of our Deepest Values is very profound. Take a look at this intense ten-day Portal that spans July 5 through 15 – though we’re actually already well into the preliminary training…
- July 5: Ceres Initiates Vesta at 22 Libra
- July 5-6: The Moon crosses Mars, Ceres, Vesta, and North Node
- July 12: Ceres Initiates Mars at 25 Libra
- July 13: North Node Initiates Vesta at 25 Libra
- July 13: North Node Initiates Mars at 24 Libra
- July 14: North Node Initiates Ceres at 24 Libra
- July 15: Vesta Initiates Mars at 25 Libra
- July 16: The Sun Squares almost everybody from Cancer (the Sun Squares Mars a few days later)
As if any combination of the The Sacred (Vesta) and Sustainability (Ceres) isn’t important, the involvement of the North Node means that new parts of our Mission in the Lifetime are coming into Consciousness. Mars brings Energy and Excitement into this Renaissance. And the Moon manifests it from Potential into Form.
These Initiations span the Gemini and Cancer Duads of Libra, which imply that we as Individuals and as Cultures have worked our way through Social Self 1.0, Social Self 2.0, and Social Self 3.0, and we’re embarking on Social Self 4.0…
We’re bootstrapping a whole new way of doing business with Other (primarily Other People, but also any Entity other than what we habitually think of as Me and whom we habitually Defend as Me, which for most of us includes the Planet). We’re basically starting over in July, rebuilding all of our Relationships on a very different footing, one based on Compassion.
Social Self 1.0 was based on Reaching Out (Libra), 2.0 on Barter (Capricorn), 3.0 on Excitement (Aries), and Social Self 4.0 will be based on Nurturance (Cancer).
The feet of the Vesta-Ceres Finger of Yod are Chiron (Despair, Impossibility, Miracles) and Venus (Beauty in every sense of the word, including Coherence)…
We can expect two things from this bootstrapping – Elegance, and Miracles. Be very watchful here and in July for any sign of Despair, Cynicism, Skepticism, or any sense that something otherwise important is impossible. When you catch yourself in Doubt or Disbelief,
Cancel, Neutralize, Upgrade.
Let me repeat that with emphasis, because it’s critical for the Planet.
Be very watchful here and in July for any sign of Despair, Cynicism, Skepticism, or any sense that something otherwise important is impossible. When you catch yourself in Doubt or Disbelief,
Cancel, Neutralize, Upgrade.
There is something you Want very deeply. Never give up on that; it’s one piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Planet Earth. When you encounter any reason why it’ll never work, forget everything you know, quickly PIAVA Both/And, and Change the Subject.
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Yintegrity
The other pole of the Core Issue is the work we’ve been doing since 2012 (since the 1960s really) on our Yintegrity. To review…
Yintegrity means doing what we feel like doing, moment to moment. Yangtegrity means doing what we said we were going to do – the traditional measure of Integrity in a male-dominated World. In order to live in Yintegrity we probably have to reduce our Commitments, renegotiate broken Agreements, and make Amends when necessary. Avoid Explaining yourself whenever possible.
Not hard to see the connection between our Yintegrity work and Sustaining what we hold Sacred.
The feet of the Uranus (Yintegrity) Finger of God are Saturn, and that funny little upside down “T” that we’ve drawn in the upper right corner of the blue box. Saturn’s easy…
Saturn tells us that maintaining our Yintegrity – not giving away our Power or allowing someone we Love (or someone we don’t) to have Suzerainty over us – is The Most Important Thing. We’ll be continuing our re-examination of the Sustainability of our Deepest Values in the context of our Yintegrity, not the other way around.
When there appears to be a conflict between Yintegrity and the Sacred, it’s your understanding of the Sacred that needs to be renegotiated, remembering that Now we see through a glass darkly.
There abide Faith, Hope, and Charity, and the greatest of these is Charity – there is no Love without Self-Love, and Yintegrity is the purest form of Self-Love. With reduced Commitments, Renegotiation, and Amends, Yintegrity is also the purest form of Other-Love, as it eschews deception on all levels. Yes, it sounds like Chaos when you’re in Resistance or attached to the status quo, but the status quo is Unsustainable.
So what’s that upside-down T all about?
There is no planet at the upper right corner of the blue box in the picture above. This is the 18-degrees-of-Virgo Vacancy that will draft you into serving the Collective version of the Yin Gate if you have a natal planet or other “hot spot” there.
Okay, this isn’t really a Yin Gate – it’s missing a foot! To avoid discriminating against the disabled, we call the missing foot a Vacancy, and invite one and all to fill it with a token from their Nativity. True, but we should put it this way too. It takes six points in alignment to make a Yin Gate. When we have five of the six points, the Yin Gate is there in Potential. We manifest it into form by invoking the Vacancy. We can do that in several ways.
We can find someone who has a planet or other hot astrospot close to the Vacancy; they’ll be sort of a living key for opening the Yin Gate.
We can look for an obscure asteroid or a fixed Star hanging out there, and cast the implied meaning of the ‘roid or Star as the key that opens the Gate.
We can look up the Degree of the Vacancy, discover its meaning, and supply that Energy Consciously. The Sabian Symbol for 18 of Virgo is…
“A Ouija Board: the ability to contact deeper recesses of the unconscious psyche, and sensitivity to psychic intimations and omens.” That certainly very much complements our work finding a Sustainable Sense of the Sacred, and dropping enough of our Masks to find our Yintegrity. In fact, it’s probably necessary work for the task! A prime purpose of the PIAVA process, embedded in the Pay Attention part of it, is to become sensitive to psychic intimations and omens – aka the Unconscious Surround that we haven’t differentiated into Consciousness yet. Most especially our self-sabotaging Patterns.
When we write about the second element of the Full Moon chart we’ll see how incredible this actually is – the second element is dominated by a Finger of God and a Mjolnir (not just Pay Attention, but also Epiphanies) pointing at Juno, our symbol for the Edge of Consciousness. And shitohdear, why does that Ouija Board sound familiar? Because it’s the very degree of the Pluto-Uranus Initiation in 1965, the beginning of the Yintegrity Cycle we’ve been working on!
When we find corroborating evidence like this – several indications pointing in the same direction – we not only know we’re on the right track, but we know that it’s an especially profound process that we’re working on, as the Heavens are making sure we aren’t going miss it!
But it turns out there actually is something near 18 of Virgo in the Full Moon chart. The upside-down “T” in the upper right corner of the blue box in the picture below is the symbol for a “Midpoint,” which is just a point halfway between two planets.
Midpoints are sensitive places in a chart where the Energies of the two planets are blended. Obscure, yes (except perhaps in Germany where their study originated, at least in modern times), but also meaningful.
Earlier we referred to it as a “derivative of Lilith” – it’s the Midpoint between Lilith and Ceres.
These are some pretty fundamental Goddesses we’re working with here – Ceres or Diana, the Goddess of Grain; Vesta or Hestia, the Goddess of the Hearth (who was honored in ancient Greece before honoring Zeus and after honoring Zeus, giving you an idea of who was really important); and Lilith, the Goddess of Yindependence. Nobody does Yintegrity without first learning Yindependence.
Feminine Power often works invisibly.
Just as this particular representative of Lilith (we’ll soon encounter another) is “imaginary” or symbolic, Lilith is pulling strings from behind the curtain, through her Midpoint with her co-matriot Ceres.
The symbol we routinely use for Lilith Energy is the second center of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth. The Moon’s orbit is an oval, and ovals have two centers. One is the Earth. The other is a place in the Heavens that we call Lilith.
There is a subtle intimation that you may not get your macaroni unless you respect Ceres – certainly it’s true that you won’t get fed psychically without seeking your Yintegrity.
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Whew, that’s a lot! And it’s only the first of four major themes in the Full Moon chart. How could I summarize this? I’d just say Wow! Zowie! This is Big! If you’ve lost the plot, go back to the parts in red and burn them into your eyelids in a large font.
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