Orcus II

Let’s look at the web of interactions between Oaths (Vows, Promises, Decisions) and Karma (Habits, Patterns) from a different angle.  In Tarot, the twelfth card in the Major Arcana is the Hanged Man.  This dude is Hanging neither from his neck nor fingernails, but Hanging from his heels…

The plan being that his or her Perspective will Change.  The Hanged Man card is referred to as the “Pattern-Breaker.”  There is no Tarot card for Pattern-Making or Punishment-for-Breaking-an-Oath.  While we might swear Oaths to ourself to try to Control our own Addictions, most of the Oaths that Orcus (Greek Horkos) Punished were Oaths of Allegiance to Others – Abdications of our Self-Sovereignty – around politics, war, economics, and servitude.  The Romans and Greeks were Hyperpatriarchal Cultures, and Vows of Marital Fidelity were not part of the Oath equation…

“A real man dominated in the bedroom as he did on the battlefield.  He would have sex with his slaves whether they were male or female; he would visit prostitutes; he would have homosexual encounters even while married; he would engage in pederasty; even rape was generally acceptable as long as he only raped people of a lower status.” —https://www.challies.com/articles/3-awful-features-of-roman-sexual-morality/

If you haven’t noticed the Persistence of this propensity in current Western Culture, you’re probably in Denial.  Orcus’s mother, by the way, was Eris, symbol of Revelation of What’s Been Denied.  You’ve probably noticed that Tolkien’s Orcs were spawned by Orcus’s visage as a Punishing – Devouring even – Monster…

The Socio-Sexual connotations reflect the Greek-Roman program of demeaning the Matriarchy – Betray your Oath as a Man [to Obey your Male superiors and Use or Ab-use Females] and you’ll be sucked back into the Toothed Womb, in the Patriarchy an Emasculating Fate worse than Death [loss of everyone’s Respect, the equivalent of Banishment]!

But, back to the astrology…

The astrological Twelfth Harmonic is the “Unx,” the Angle which Separates two planets that are one Sign apart.  In the current Ixion-Pholus-Quaoar Station chart (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/tumultuous-week-1/), eight of the twelve possible Unxes are present.  The implication is that we have a better-than-usual Opportunity to Let Go of Karmic Habits around each of these eight planetary Relationships.  We should be able to, for instance…

• Step into a New Personality wherein we have Dropped any Manifesting Habits that were not Self-Loving (Haumea Unx Sappho-Makemake).

• Step into a New Personality wherein we have Dropped any Health Practices that did not further our EnLightenment (Lachesis-Varuna Unx Klotho-North Node).

Remember that Karma is Dead.  When a situation arises where you’re Invited to Indulge a Self- or Health-Deprecating Habit, it will Feel perfectly Natural to Step right Into it.  Just like Developing a physical muscle, it’s Repetition that Reinforces Habituation.  Every time we go ahead and Step Into a Karmic Pattern, we Strengthen it.  Karma is actually a Choice, once we’re Conscious of it.  Each time we Choose to Step Into a Health-Promoting or Self-Loving alternative, we weaken the Karmic Habit and Strengthen our Physical and Moral (ie, Self-Love vs. Self-Abuse) Health.

Let’s take another example.  It’s fairly widely Believed that 5G at least exacerbates our Experience of the Coronavirus, if not contributes directly to it.  If we follow this line of thought, perhaps Nature is training, or as Darwin would put it “naturally selecting,” our Electromagnetically delicately-tuned Bodies for a Future with far greater Electromagnetic Radiation.  If you’ve ever stood in a Lightning Storm, you know that few Energies are more Electrifying than those symbolized by Uranus.  Uranus is in Taurus – Soul Descending into Flesh.  And what could be more Electric than Soul – Invisible, Energizing, Dangerous (to the Ego), “Bottled Lightning.”

In the current chart, Uranus is joined by asteroid Eurydike, which symbolizes Trust (Initiation Exact at 11:53 am 30 March in 6 Taurus, “A cantilever bridge across a deep gorge: Overcoming separatism through group cooperation,” with Ixion Stationary!), Initiating a four-year Cycle wherein Collaboration is emphasized.  Several friends, while Empathizing strongly with the Physical, Emotional, and Financial Suffering, have been Embarrassed to admit that they find current events to be Compelling and Exciting – they are indeed, without Realizing it, Trusting that Flesh will be Quickened or Electrified by Soul as we work through the seven years of Uranus in Taurus.

Another Energy in the current chart is the Revision of our Values (Venus) brought about by shifts in our Unconscious Beliefs and Limitations (asteroid Vesta) through Converting Fear to Power (dwarf planet Sedna).  We’re certainly being given plenty of Opportunities for the latter.  Remember your Kegels and Tapping – the sooner you Notice Fear in your Emotions or your Thinking, and Convert it to Power, the more you Weaken your Fear Karma and Strengthen your Power to Manifest the Future you Want to Live in.

These two Energies…

• Trusting that Flesh is being Quickened by Soul, and
• Revision of our Values through Converting Fear to Power

…are one Sign apart, an Unx Angle, promising that we can more Easily Let Go of any negative Karmic Patterns in how the two Energies Relate.  For example, a very common Ego-Value is to Contract, or Circle the Wagons, in the Presence of Fear.  Another common Ego-Value is to React with Fear to Strange Sensations in the Body.  In other words, we tend to Energetically Collapse around Strange Sensations.  “Something is Wrong!  We Gotta Fix it!” is the immediate Reaction, corresponding to an Energetic Contraction.  What if it was “Something is Different!  Isn’t that Curious!” instead – where of course we’d prefer Awe-Wonder-Fascination Curiosity over Gotta-Figure-it-Out Curiosity.

What if Strange Sensations in the Body Enlivened us the way Traveling in a foreign country can.  Strange-Sensation symptoms of dis-ease are productively considered to be the result of the Body Restoring Balance – a runny nose as mucus dispelling virus for example.  And of course unreasonable fatigue is just a Somatic request for more Rest.  Healing is greatly accelerated if we Open to those Sensations (increasing Blood flow to their location) rather than Closing around them (which restricts Blood flow, inhibiting the Immune System’s white blood cells).  That would greatly alter our Tolerance for the Vulnerabilities of Physicality, and tilt our Emotions toward Joy more often.

The Unx Pattern-Breaking Angle between Trusting the Present (Eurydike-Uranus) and Embracing Fear (Venus-Vesta-Sedna) opens the door to Life-Changing Transformations like this.  Maybe Opening Lovingly to Unfamiliar Physical Sensations is a prerequisite for Ascension to 5D.  But we need to Respond to the Opportunity.  The nature of Karma is Inertia – we move toward what’s familiar, toward our Training.  We need to Consciously make the Choice to move toward an Alternative instead.  That by itself will Enliven us, though it will be Uncomfortable at first, till we get our New Patterns Habitualized.  (What a “coincidence” – in the 7 April Full Moon chart, the Moon [Instincts] is Unx to asteroid Moira [Consciously Choosing Alternatives to Fate].)

Time to Shift 3

Brenda Hoffman’s Channeling for today agrees with our post from yesterday…

https://lifetapestrycreations.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/you-crowned-yourself/

“Go inside your being to determine who and what you are.  Of course, such a command seems silly for you know who you are.  Or do you?  It is time to determine what is important to you beyond the 3D pieces of home, family, and country.

“You are global ambassadors not merely community do-gooders.  Some of you will take offense at such a statement, even though you have no difficulty proclaiming that you are one with all.

“It is time for you to acknowledge and proclaim your global role.

“You have played the small 3D role despite proclamations from us and other channeled sources that you are god/goddesses.  Such was, if you will, allowed until now.  For you are moving into a phase far beyond anything you imagined when you initiated your new you transition.

“You dreamed you could create that which would make you more comfortable in your 3D world – perhaps a new home or relationship.  Enough to proclaim you were a creator, but not enough to remove you from your comfort zone.

Such is not to be.  Granted you are fully capable of creating that which makes you joyful in your current life, but that is a small part of what you wish to achieve in this lifetime.

“You learned that you are to change the world.  You learned that such would be easy, that you could protest if you wish, but that you could also change the world with a joyful walk in nature.

“It is time for you to move beyond your small 3D life to global achievements.  Perhaps such a statement frightens you for you have no idea what that means.  Are you to travel throughout the globe?  Give up your comforts?  Demand new political divisions?  No.  You are merely required – and required is the correct word – to go within to discover what your aspect, your piece of this new Universal creation is.

“What gives you joy?  That is your magnifying glass to your new creations.  For indeed, you are beyond your tiny 3D life.”

She goes on, and I highly recommend it. 

She’s Teaching us about our Forgotten Genius, the one who was Forbidden, our Inner Ixion.  Forbidden until the Shift arrived, until Now.

The chart of the 19 October (noon PDT) New Moon is almost the same as the chart of the Eurydike-Mars Initiation (the second chart in the previous post)…

• Using our Poor-Sweethearts to coax forth our Forgotten Genius, who is used to thinking that they aren’t allowed to play outdoors, but this is the Threshold when that all Changes.  Invite them out.  Tell them it’s now Safe for them, but encourage them to be careful at first, till they Discover from their own Experience that they will be Accepted Now – and Celebrate.  Apologize to them for collaborating in their Suppression all these years, and Commit yourself to be their Fierce Guardian from now on.
  • The Chiron Kite on the Fire Grand Trine, with Chiron Opposite Mars-Eurydike Square to Chaos Opposite Saturn-Ixion-Pholus-Galactic Center-Lilith-Quaoar.  That’s one helluva Stellium…
    • Saturn, The Most Important Thing
    • Ixion, our Forgotten Genius
    • Pholus, Being Fully Responsive To
    • Galactic Center, Instructions from Headquarters
    • Lilith, our Self-Sovereignty
    • Quaoar, our Survival Instincts
    • The nature of a Stellium (or any Conjunction) is that the individual elements in it are Merged, so that we’re unable to Distinguish between them.
    • Merging all these elements we have no choice but to label this a Grand Awakening, the Eagle landing and crowing up the Dawn.

• The Celebration of Ego Death as the Ritual of Liberation that it in fact is.
  • The Nemesis T-Square on the Opposition from Uranus-Eris to New Moon-Haumea-Hopi-Karma.
    • The Haumea New Moon Validates this as the Grand Awakening we’ve been waiting for.  You are Monkey #101.
    • Hopi reminds us to Let Go of All Judgment.  Be Mindful for it, and use it as a Tool to pry open the Unconscious roots of your Resistance to Unconditional Love.
    • And who else but asteroid Karma, reminding us that Karma is Dead, and that such Unconscious Habits and Patterns and Inertia and Archetypes have served us by Keeping us Safe while we were emerging from our Chrysalis.
      

• Grounding ourself to Mother Gaia/Pi.  As Angie used to say, “Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet.”  When we were in 3D we had to Leave our Body to go Home to 5D.  Now we get to Live 5D in our 3D Body.
  • The Earth Grand Trine that connects Nemesis to Sedna and Mars-Eurydike.

• We pointed out earlier that while our Guidance would be Clear, our Actions would be less Coherent.  That doesn’t mean we’ll be Clumsy.  It means that every time our Actions don’t immediately yield What We Intended, we need to Pay Attention to What We Need to Learn.
  • The Eurydike-Venus Initiation chart was Symmetric, suggesting Clarity, while the Eurydike-Mars Initiation chart was less so, suggesting that Action wouldn’t flow as smoothly, though there was and is plenty of Grace.  Those hiccups are our Learning Opportunities.

What we’ve said about Stellia and Conjunctions – that the Players are Merged and Impossible to tease back apart – also applies to Initiations.  The Eurydike-Mars Initiation, for example – Trust and Action are Entangled, and we can’t Separate them.  Yet Action isn’t as Clear as we’d like.  That means we have to Trust that any Action that isn’t a bulls-eye is a Gift of Teaching.  That gives us three new things to Get in the Habit of Celebrating…

• The Coming Out of our Once-Forbidden Genius as Ingenue
• Ego Death as a Graduation to the next Level of Consciousness
• Imprecise Actions as Teachers of What We Need to Learn Next

 Time for unbridled Joy and Intuitive, Unhesitant Action.  It’s all just Street Theater, and you are the Star.

Time to Shift 2

So let’s focus on what in these charts tells us where we’ve got ourselves in an Unconscious 3D leghold trap.  The Eurydike-Venus Initiation (Trusting our Guidance) is symmetric (the Grand Sextile), suggesting that our Guidance is indeed to be Trusted.  Pulling it from the 5D end of the Funnel will always work better. 

The Key to the Dragon’s Lair in this chart is Poor-Sweethearting ourself whenever we Feel anything we don’t Enjoy (the Chiron Kite), or whenever we check in with ourSelf and can’t find what we Are Feeling.  Not Feeling means we’ve Repressed it, and we need to Recover it.  “You Poor Sweetheart, you don’t know what you’re Feeling right now, do you.”  If you get an immediate Response, Follow it.  If not, Change the Subject.

The Eurydike-Mars Intiation is less organized.  That tells us that while our Guidance can be Trusted, our Actions not as much.  The Fire and Earth Grand Trines suggest we can freely Manifest into Hardcopy whatever we have Passion about, but we need to watch mind and Emotion closely for Resistance. 

The Nemesis T-Square says we need to be quick to Embrace our Ego Deaths as the Stairway to Heaven.  Any Victims you want to Indulge are antithetical to your Soul and to your Rebirth – smother them with so much Empathy and Love that they Surrender. 

It’s also important to be Conscious of Fear in any flavor, and Tap it Out (Veritas Square Sedna).  Whenever anything doesn’t fall into place Easily, look for Unconscious Fears.  Ask yourself, “Why would I Resist that?” and Change the Subject if you don’t get an immediate Answer.  Always look to see if there’s an Answer you’ve already Rejected.

Mars-Eurydike themselves are tied up in a Grand Cross, and it’s about Recovering your Forbidden or Forgotten Genius.  Be on the lookout for Yes-Buts, or just Buts.  You do not Consciously Know what you’re seeking here, it’s outside of your Current Awareness.  So it’s very important to be Open, particularly to be Open to what you’re accustomed to thinking of as Impossible, which is to say, what you’re accustomed to not thinking of.  Actively seek out the Impossible in your Imagination, using Fear and Joy as your Guides.  When you find Joy, spend time getting to know it.  When you find Fear or Doubt, Tap it Out, then look to see what was behind it.  It’s a Big Universe.  Everything is Possible.

One of the more salient features of Effortlessness, aka 5D, is Timing.  In 3D there are Separate Places and Separate Times.  In 5D there is only the Right Place at the Right Time.  So let’s look at the Septiles (Seventh Harmonic) in these charts, since the Seventh Harmonic is about Timing our Actions.

The Most Important Thing is to Let Go of what Worked for you in the Past, and Open to the Infinite instead, especially the Infinitely Easier (in both of these charts Jupiter makes a Waning Septile to Saturn).  You are no longer Building things.  You are Conducting an Orchestra of Energies, and they are Building things for you.  It’s critically Important to Avoid thinking about Mechanisms, about How.  Instead put your Time and Energy into What, into Imagining Outcomes.  How chains you to the treadmill.

Knowingly or not, everyone is always Expanding their Consciousness – that’s why we’re here.  Over the last several years you’ve built certain Habits that govern the way you filter out Bullshit.  Let those go (both Initiations are also Waning Biseptile to Juno).  Consider everything tentatively Possible from some point of view.  You don’t need to, or even want to, understand that point of view.  Acceptance is what you’re after, not understanding.  Just consider it Quaint.

It’s time to Let Go of Judgments, especially Judgments of other People or Cultures (in the Venus-Eurydike chart, Sun-Mercury Triseptiles Pallas).  Even Preferences can be considered suspect.  They will cloud your Guidance. 

Your Culture is Changing rapidly – don’t let it leave you behind (along with Ceres, Sun-Mercury is also in the base of a Neptune Quintile Yod).

Let your Actions be Devoted to moving your center of gravity from Ego to Soul (in the Mars-Eurydike chart, Venus Triseptiles Uranus).  If you don’t know what that means, PIAVA it. 

Practice Yintegrity – letting your Guidance tell you what to do when, rather than your mind.  Each time you set a Boundary with someone (letting yourself be Vulnerable, or Protecting yourself, for instance), take a moment after the fact to review what your Motivation was for setting the Boundary where you did.  This could lead you to Limiting Beliefs that you didn’t know you had (Pallas makes both a Waning Biseptile to the North Node, and a Triseptile to Vesta).

Charlie Riverman Bergeron tells a lovely story about this…

 https://charlierivermanbergeron.blog/2017/10/14/presence-of-light-opening-your-heart-to-truth/

Suzanne Lie says more about how 3D and 5D differ, and what happened to 4D…

http://suzanneliephd.blogspot.com/2017/10/shifting-realities-and-changing-time-by.html

Time to Shift

These three are joined at the hip…

• Mars Initiating Venus in 20 Virgo on 5 October (9:30 am PDT), Conjunt Eurydike; see https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/relationship-reset/ .
• Eurydike Initiating Venus in 24 Virgo on 8 October (10pm PDT).
• Eurydike Initiating Mars in 26 Virgo on 15 October (9am PDT).

As we mentioned in the earlier post…

“Our new Shift in Gender Balance occurs 5 October (9:30 am PDT), at 20 Virgo, ‘A caravan of cars headed to the West Coast: The need of cooperative effort in reaching any New World of experience.’  The way we usually draw our maps, the West Coast is on the Left, in a general way the Receptive or Feminine side…

“The Message is that we need to Embrace whatever remaining Guilt or Shame we have about the Forbidden part of our Genius-in-Hiding, and Trust our Intuition about how to Be in ways we haven’t Been since we were Punished for Being that way as a Child.  We need to get Conscious of our Fear that we’ll be Punished again (the Universe is likely to help by bringing it up), Poor-Sweetheart it, Tap it Out, and Trust its Urges.”

Compare this to what Sarah Polley says about these times…

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html

“I think we need to look at what scares us the most.  We need to look at ourselves.  What have we been willing to accept, out of fear, helplessness, a sense that things can’t be changed?  What else are we turning a blind eye to, in all aspects of our lives?  What else have we accepted that, somewhere within us, we know is deeply unacceptable?  And what, now, will we do about it?”

The Venus-Mars Shift itself is about assembling our Team and heading for the Left Coast.  The 24-Virgo Trusting-Our-Guidance Shift (Eurydike Initiating Venus) is about “Mary and her little lamb: The need to keep a vibrant and pure simplicity at the core of one’s being.”  And the 26-Virgo Trusting-Our-Intuitive-Actions Shift (Eurydike Initiating Mars) is about “The first stage of actual participation in the great ritual of planetary evolution.”

Which is to say, The Bell Is Ringing, it’s Our Time to Take Over.  It’s neither by Land nor by Sea, it’s Both (Earthquakes, Floods), plus it’s by Air and Fire (Hurricanes, Wildfires).  Mother Gaia/Pi has Awakened.  It’s not that She’s mad, She’s just stretching her Limbs as She Stands Up to the Sun.  It’s been a couple of days; I recommend that you reread the previous four posts, as they do a good job of describing our Tools.  If you do that, the last thing you’ll read is…

“One of the most inspiring things I’ve read lately is from Suzanne Lie’s Channel…

http://suzanneliephd.blogspot.com/2017/10/preparing-your-self-to-remember-first.html

“ ‘Look at your third dimensional experience through the consciousness of your fifth dimensional Light Body SELF.  Through this exercise, you will begin to ‘close the gap’ between your third, fourth and fifth dimensional expressions of your SELF.’ ”

I’ve been getting remarkable results with this, which verifies to me that the Time is Now.  If there’s anything you don’t understand about that, let me know what I need to Clarify. 

If you’re Called to Direct Action, fine, but make sure the Call comes from the 5D end of the Funnel and not the 3D end.  The Action I See is a Focus on the Visual and Emotional elements of the Outcomes We Want to Experience, and not on any Mechanism that may or may not take us there.  From the 3D end, the only Mechanisms we can Imagine re those which have already proven not to work; from the 3D Perspective, the Others are Impossible.  On the 5D end, all we need to do is take one Intuitive Step after another, and Trust.

Whenever you catch yourself puzzling about how to make your 3D Mechanisms work, Let them Go, Shift to 5D, and go back to Planning your 5D Garden.  If your Yes-Buts (or even just your Buts) get in the way, then Yes-And a PIAVA about Shifting to 5D, maybe something like “I Wonder what the 5D Perspective would be on this,” or “Ganeshi My Love, Please Remove All Obstacles to my Shifting to the 5D Perspective on this,” followed by Changing the Subject.  Then after a day or so, Pay Attention to see what happened.

Boundaries Reset Full Moon

Today’s Full Moon is about Boundaries and Consciousness, especially about Becoming Aware of Leaky Boundaries where we let our Power dribble away, and Terminating the (Unconscious) Contracts that institutionalized them in the first place.  Any time Boundary issues arise for you, check to see if you’re playing the Victim.  If you are, Choose otherwise.  It has to be a Conscious Choice.  You’ll be Dancing with all manner of Guilt, and may well be face to face with someone Begging you to “help me!” when what they really mean is, “keep being my servant; I need someone to Abuse!”…

Asteroid Lachesis is named after one of the three Fates, the one who “cuts the chord,” or determines the length of a Timeline.  Mythology applies to the Unconscious, whereas we strive for maximum Consciousness, because Consciousness gives us the Power to Choice – if we so Choose.  So from our Perspective, Lachesis means the Power to Choose when to terminate or modify a Timeline, or Archetype, or Habit, or Behavior, or Contract.

Lachesis Conjoins Neptune, which is about Emotional Baggage that has us by the short and curlies, about Archetypes we feel Married to (hence Neptune symbolizes the Cultural Unconscious).  So we have the Opportunity during the one-month Lunar Cycle, which begins now, to Disavow all manner of Archetypal Contracts that give us Dis-Ease.  And the same goes for the several other Cycles we’ve just begun or are about to begin…

• The one-year Mercury-Makemake Cycle (Manifestation Skill)
• The two-year Venus-Mars Cycle (Gender Rebalancing)
• The four-year Veritas-North Node Cycle (Finding our True Mission)
• The four-year Atropos-Orcus Cycle (Ending Obsolete Contracts)
• The five-year Hopi-Haumea Cycle (Respecting Diversity)
• The six-year Aletheia-Varuna Cycle (Enjoying the Vitality of Truth)
• The Lilith-Pholus Cycle (Being Responsible to our Sovereignty)
• The one-year Venus-Eurydike Cycle (Trusting our own Values)

See the Calendar, https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/1-calendar/ , for more information of each of these Cycles.  They’re filed by date there.

Many of us are in the middle of Manifesting a portion of What We Want, and many of us are running into Speedbumps, some of which feel like Roadblocks.  Those Roadblocks and Speedbumps are nothing but Obsolete Contracts we made at one time with the Universe.  You can call them Timelines, or Archetypes, or Habits, or Behaviors, or Vows, or Oaths, or Promises, but they’re all Contracts, and the Stars are giving us Permission and Assistance at Letting Go of Them.

How do we Take Advantage of this Opportunity?  We PIAVA What We Want, and PIAVA What We Want to Jettison…

https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava-review/

Intention would be a great Choice of PIAVAs.  Don’t forget Tapping when you’re dealing with Guilt and other Emotions that want to prevent you from Disavowing your Obsolete Contracts.  And remember that the Unconscious understands only Dimension, not Direction, so you don’t want to PIAVA negation.  Ask for Liberation from an Archetype, for instance.