Two other Cycles Began today, 22 January, both members of the Grand Octile we discussed in Self-Love IV (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/self-judgment-and-self-love-iv/).
♥ Haumea Initiated Pallas at 9:30 am PST. This almost-five-year Cycle is about Resetting all of our Boundaries. There’s an obvious Connection to our Self-Sovereignty, as our Boundaries are what Separates Me from Not-Me. Expanding our Consciousness is usually about Growing Me into Not-Me, but Rooting Not-Me out of Me can be more essential. There’s no way we can Pursue What We Want if we can’t tell What Our Puppet-Master Wants from What We Want.
Our Mission isn’t even something we Recognize till we Banish Who We Should Be and Claim Ownership of Who We Are. This Cycle Begins in 27 Libra, “An airplane sails, high in the clear sky.” Our only tether would be Fossil Fuel. The implication is that we may want to Let Go of the Old Order and make our own Homestead. Not necessarily as a hardcopy Farm, but as an Independent Agency, where we Depend as little as possible on the Fossil Culture that’s so obviously in serious Decline.
The Guardian has an interesting review of a book on what the author calls Surveillance Capitalism…
“The result [of Surveillance Capitalism] is that the choice mechanisms we have traditionally associated with the private realm are eroded or vitiated. There can be no exit from processes that are intentionally designed to bypass individual awareness and produce ignorance, especially when these are the very same processes upon which we must depend for effective daily life.”
So perhaps we should also be thinking about cutting our Digital Lifeline as well. While an airplane can only go so far without refueling, what’s the point if it has no idea where it’s going? It’s Connection to GPS and airports is very useful if we want more than Joyrides. We intend to dissect 2020 soon, with its earnest Beginning of the Digital Age. Will it Embrace us, or Betray us? If current trends aren’t diverted, it’ll be the latter.
♥ Jupiter Initiated Venus at 4:30 am PST. While this is only a one-year Cycle, it’s about Expanding our Values, which is important for our Task of Growing our Consciousness into a Space where we are able to Manifest our Heart’s Desires. The Cycle Begins at 16 Sagittarius, “Seagulls fly around a ship in expectation of food.” More Flying, but in this Cycle we’re Flying Toward, and, basically, Begging for scraps. We could easily end up in that role in the Digital Age.
♥ But in addition to the Sabian Symbol of the Initiation Degree of a Cycle, we also rely on the chart of its Initiation, since that is indeed its Birth chart. And both of these Cycles are Born at the Grand-Octile Life-Force Self-Love Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse that we’ve been writing about for the last ten days. So we can expect the Changes in our Boundaries and Values to be permeated with Insight, Love, Vitality, Curiosity, Liberation, and Grace, even as Surveillance Catpiddleism and its Digital allies make Expansion of our Consciousness critical for our Survival.
“It was strange and rather gratifying that I, who am one of the lowliest members of our group, should have been chosen, with two of the humbler fairies in theirs, to bring before the band the possibility of yet another branch of helping those in trouble. This rescue work has now become one of their regular tasks.
“From one meeting to another I’m filled with anticipation as to what we shall do and where we shall go on our next.
“Together we have seen things which I never knew existed and Nixus and Lyssis have taught me almost all I know about meditation. I try to learn now, not only because I want to understand about everything within my mental range but because, in discussing new-found facts with them, they always somehow shed a different light on the subject. They disclose to me each new aspect as they learn it, whether it is about healing, their work with the human earthbound, or their counterpart in the fairy world.
“They encourage me in my so far vain efforts to come in closer contact with my ceris (a member of another evolution), and when I can’t hear what he is saying to me, they act as interpreters. They tell me about the many entities upon whom I rely for my continued existence in my present form. About these, I know even less than I do about my ceris.
“Some time ago I felt that, with so many things going on around me, if I became in tune with all of them, the whole issue would be confused. I understand now, however, that this isn’t true, that as one became in tune with another evolution, a whole new sector of one’s mind became animated, and one is thus equipped to receive more and more knowledge.
“When one realizes that each evolution has its own rate of vibration and that everything that grows with them and ’round them is also vibrating faster or slower than all the other evolutions, that they have their own plants and animals, different types of homes, instruments, music and all the others, one realizes that one isn’t going to have a dull moment for a good many thousand years. Each new aspect learned opens up others till my head spins at the thought.
“I’ve talked to quite a lot of people about these other evolutions and they seem even less known than the fairies, which all goes to prove that just because a person’s dead, he doesn’t necessarily know much, if any, more than you do.
“Where we do score, though, is that as soon as we start wondering about some new subject, and we make a few enquiries about it, it’s never long before we just ‘happen’ to run into someone who can answer the questions which have been puzzling us. A little later we also ‘happen’ to run into someone who holds classes on the very subject that interests us and so we are gradually led from one teacher to another until we are ready for the more practical side to be demonstrated.”
–“Nixus and Lyssis,” by John, in Daphne Charters, My Forty Years with the Fairies, pp. 161-2.
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