We’re approaching a busy ten days, no matter how you usually Celebrate Samhain, All Saint’s Day, Día de los Muertos, Halloween, All Soul’s Day, or whatever other spin your Ancestors put on the end of the first Decan of Scorpio. From our Calendar (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/1-calendar/)…
20 October-1 November 2017
Makemake Initiates Mars in 5 Libra on 29 October (12am PDT).
Lachesis turning Direct in 12 Pisces on 1 November (3am PDT).
Varuna turning Retrograde in 2 Leo on 1 November (9am PDT).
Quaoar Initiating Lilith in 30 Sagittarius on 1 November (~9am PDT).
There are no astrological vacuums. If there’s little going on in the moment, it just makes us more Sensitive to what’s next. And of course we all have our personal astroevents occurring most of the time; we only talk here about global events. We wouldn’t usually expect to start noticing a Lachesis Station until a few days before the Event, or a Varuna Station till a week or so prior, but if nothing else is happening, the Energies are there to be appreciated. They just aren’t as drowned out by louder voices.
Notice too that we’re in the Deep Void around the two Initiations – the current Cycle has virtually Ended, and the New Cycle has not yet begun. So it’s the worst possible time to try to force Action on a Manifestation (Makemake-Mars), or to force our Sovereignty on our Survival (Quaoar-Lilith). On the other hand, with any degree of Sensitivity we usually have a good Intuition about the New Cycle, and often an excellent Intuition about it.
The usual Pattern is that the Energy of a Cycle is very strong around its Initiation, then goes “underground” till the Waxing Square, when it battles its way into prominence. Our natural reaction is to Celebrate the New Cycle, then after the Initiation to be Disappointed when the Olde Guard “takes the T-Bird away” and squelches the Fun. We’d be better off using the Energy of the Initiation to observe the short-term effects, and plan a long-term campaign to undermine the Olde Guard, to facilitate a faster take-off at the Waxing Square – though with Makemake-Mars the “long-term” will only be six months (versus two years plus for Quaoar-Lilith).
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Lachesis’s namesake is one of the three Fates, the one who “cuts the chord” and determines how long a Fated Timeline will persist. We consider Fate to be what happens when we’re Unconscious. We Celebrate bringing into Awareness as many of our Karmic Dramas and Dragon’s Tails as we can wrestle to the ground. When we’re Conscious of an Archetype, we can Choose whether it would be the most Appropriate Response to any given circumstance, or not. So while it may Challenge us to Expand our Awareness, we consider asteroid Lachesis to be about Choice.
As it has been for a while, Lachesis is Dancing with Neptune, which is often associated with Confusion. We know Confusion as the first stage of Growth in Consciousness, but we don’t always remember that we need to Surrender into our Confusion, rather than straining to “Figure it Out.” Like Curiosity, it’s not about “solving” anything, it’s about Accepting that the Unknown is Approaching us, and being Open to whatever Delights are hiding behind it. Our most important Choice here is Choosing to Challenge the Habit of Reacting to the Unknown as an intellectual problem rather than an Invitation to move to Spirit.
This is a Cultural as well as Personal Archetype, but we Change Cultural Archetypes by Choosing to Respond differently this time in our own Life. Choosing to follow our own Soul’s Guidance rather than following the Herd is Scary, as it often involves facing our own Abandonment. But its a Clear and necessary path to 5D. It’s not about Rejecting any specific Pattern out of hand, but about practicing New Alternatives so we can Learn them as we Unlearn what’s rote for us. At the beginning of the Growth process we Reject the Old Pattern more often, so we can test New Responses. Eventually we’ll appreciate the Archetype as a Powerful Skill, but first we must Learn that we have Choice.
It’s not a Coincidence that the Makemake-Mars (Manifestation-Action) Initiation occurs at the same time. This two-year Cycle is about (5 Libra) “A person revealing to their students the foundation of an inner knowledge upon which a ‘new world’ can be built.” A good candidate is the Knowledge that we’re here to be Awed by how Mother Nature stitches the Universe together, rather than to be Inflated by our prowess at solving story problems and sculpting Golden Calves in the image of our Ego. So this whole new Cycle may not be about forcing Action on a Manifestation, but Allowing the Manifestation to Bloom in its own time.
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Dwarf planet Varuna was named after one of the most ancient of Vedic God-Energies. We interpret it as the Life Force. We could say “our” Life Force, but it isn’t, we only borrow a shard of it for a while to Animate our Physical Vehicle. We’ve just begun a new Aletheia-Varuna Cycle (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/relationship-reset/) that makes a Big Deal out of what is always True anyway, namely that when we Live The Truth of Who We Really Are, we’re able to Channel the Life Force much more Deeply. Varuna is an Oceanic God, reminding us that The Truth of Who We Really Are is about What We’re Feeling in the Moment.
The current Varuna Station Opposes asteroid Nemesis (Ego Death) and makes a T-Square (Challenge to Mastery) to asteroid Karma (of all people), which is joined by asteroid Hopi. So we can expect Challenges to whether we’re Living our Truth and Embracing our Ego Deaths, or Dancing to the tunes dictated by our Karmic Dramas, particularly those Dramas that involve Profiling and Bigotry (Hopi). The Karma-Varuna Square gives us the Opportunity to really Let Go this time of the Limiting Beliefs that were up for us at their Initiation in August 2016.
The Karma-Varuna Cycle began in August 2016 at 30 Cancer, “A daughter of the American Revolution.” Traditionally ultra-conservative, DAR has been assertively inclusive since Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her membership in protest in 1939. They’ve since supported many conservationist and humanitarian efforts, many oriented toward support for military personnel and veterans.
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The gap till we can feel the Lachesis and Varuna Stations isn’t completely empty. We’re enjoying a long-lasting Seminar (Grand Quintile) on Integrity (both yin– and yang– but especially yin-), unearthing our Limiting Beliefs, and Poor-Sweethearting ourself before we broadcast negative vibes that will echo back at us (Jupiter Quintile Juno-Chariklo-Pluto Quintile Chiron Quintile Aldebaran Quintile North Node Quintile Jupiter)…
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