May 10 – 16, 2012
Grand Earth Trine | Mother | Feminine Rising | Venus Retrograde | Values | Enlightenment
We have an interesting and eventful upcoming week. Sunday’s sky has a Grand Earth Trine with the three planets that rule Scorpio, sign of Discipleship. Forming a triangle in the sky are Mercury (in Taurus), Mars (in Virgo) and Pluto (in Capricorn) at eight & nine degrees – eight is reorientation (Scorpio) and nine is Initiation (Capricorn). Earth and her kingdoms, but especially humanity, are in a state of reorientation, revolution and Initiation.
Everything is taking place in the etheric, that area of life where events first occur before they enter into (and change) events on Earth. Every planet revolving around the Sun is, at this time, also in a state of change as is our Earth. The changes we are experiencing on Earth reflects the shift from the Piscean Age (age of belief) to the Aquarian Age (Age of Science, cooperation, humanity) plus two more major cyclic shifts. Earth is attempting, along with humanity, to become a sacred planet.
Along with the Grand Earth Trine this week, the Sun joins Jupiter in Taurus, expanding and forging new values (gold out of lead) in humanity. Mercury in Taurus tells us enlightenment is available. With Mars in Virgo, a new state of consciousness is gestating, soon to be birthed. Topping this triangle of energy, the flame on the cake, is Pluto in Capricorn, accelerating the transformation of structures, eliminating what’s no longer useful for the coming new world.
The three Grand Earth trine signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), when they meet and fuse, affect all the kingdoms on Earth. They accelerate our evolution, offer the Light of Knowledge, call us to discipleship and inform us we are to prepare for Initiation. These are major tasks for humanity. And the entire solar system is watching. What occurs on Earth, affects all the planets around the Sun. the zodiacal and cosmic energies together constantly stream down upon our Earth to nurture physical, emotional, mental, Soul and Spiritual life and all the kingdoms found here. Each great Age or cycle is characterized by its own color (Rays), planets, signs, stars and energies. Thus, each particular cycle is different from the others. As our Piscean cycle (Age) is ending (being withdrawn), the Aquarian cycle or Age is beginning.
Sensitivity, Alcyone, New Moon Eclipse, Endings
We had an earlier Grand Trine in March 12/13th. This was also an Earth trine. Venus was conj. Jupiter in Taurus. This time Mercury (the messenger) takes the place of Venus & Jupiter. The March Earth trine created a sensitivity within us, prepared us for Saturday’s earth trine which is connected to the May 20th new moon solar eclipse. 0 degree Gemini, the degree of Alcyone, a star in the Pleiades (a star very important for humanity, the Star of the Individual). On that day the Sun, moon & Alcyone align.
Solar eclipses tell us something essential in our lives, a way of living or of being, has come to an end. It disappears. Notice what has disappeared in the past three months or what will, in the coming three. Eclipses have influence for six months – three before the new or full moon and three after. With astrological study we realize there is nothing except constant, ceaseless change.
Essential Knowledge
Esoteric astrology looks at the inner essence of each sign. Not only the outer manifestation. Knowing this information allows us to have the tools of recognition, to see what the Soul sees. This information helps us to fully express the qualities of the Soul in the world.
The Light of Knowledge of which Taurus is custodian gives way to Light of Wisdom that Virgo guards and yields to Light of Initiation in Capricorn.
Humanity today, unconsciously polarized on the plane of emotions, will become aware and awake. New rituals will emerge and inaugurate the Plan of Restoration on Earth. All service is governed by ritual of which the new and full moons and the Three Spring Festivals are a template.
Mother’s Day
The Earth (feminine entity) Grand Trine occurs on Mother’s Day, a recognition that the Feminine principle is “rising” as the Aquarian Age unfolds. She will stand equi-poised with the male principle in the coming times. Libra’s balance. Let us remember to honor all mothers and mothering principles on Mother’s Day.
Venus Retrograde & Values
Underscoring and reinforcing the reorienting and initiating Grand Trine influences is Tuesday’s stationary retrograde of Venus (23 Gemini) lasting until June 27th. This Venus retro plays a significant role in the US chart concerning the U.S. (and the world) economy. Venus represents our values, money, possessions, the quality of and within relationships. Venus retrograde asks, “What is of value to us?” These values will shape our future. We have a little over a month to decide. Heaven doesn’t wait.
Venus retrogrades at 23 Gemini, retrograding over the U.S. Mars (relationships in the news) and stationing at 7 degrees Gemini, the U.S. Ascendant, which is also the U.S. Uranus (8 Gemini), planet of revolution and new archetypes needed for the new era. Let us observe this transit, watch the news and see how this plays out.
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As the Forces of Enlightenment flow through our lives this week and month, what are they helping us to be enlightened about?
ARIES: You are learning about the use of your life force, your sense of altruism, the ability to initiate and undertake anything, even the risky and questionable, your sense of self-worth and of being valued, the fact that you are able at this time to shape an idea and anchor it into matter. Invite others to learn this.
TAURUS: The Wesak Buddha Full Moon blessing occurs each year in Taurus. Throughout your life you always seek illumination though what you do, see, think, feel and explore. Whether conscious of this or not (now you are), this theme is both your life purpose and life work. As the Buddha blesses humanity you are to receive that blessing personally then turn and bless others with your illumined mind and kind heart. You will then help steward the sustainable future.
GEMINI: A guardian angel hovers over and around your life at this time. Can you see or sense it? Angels take our forlorn sadness and turn it into hope, faith and knowledge that “love underlies everything.” Your angel also guides you to solitude. Just for a while. A meditative state of visualization that vitalizes your life force. You will learn Mercy.
CANCER: It’s important to be out and about, away from family, even though family is your entire life. But other groups are valuable to your well-being. You are influential, important, nurturing and helpful to so many. However, your shyness doesn’t allow this to register. You are also tolerant and forgiving Humanity’s progress is your progress.
LEO: Your kindness comes forth because you realize that all leaders need to have kindness or they destroy those who look up to them for leadership. You understand this. You excel at everything. Allow this excellence to become mature, to expand, to be ethical. Value others’ achievements. Let them surpass you. That’s is the leader’s (teacher’s) purpose.
VIRGO: Go slowly and you will make it to where you are going. This is applied to travel as well as study. You always seek knowledge that, like Jupiter and his daughter Pallas Athena, leads to wisdom. You enjoy sharing knowledge. Be aware of whether people are listening or not. Sometimes they are not ready for your depths of information. Don’t get sad. They will be, someday. What inspired you these days?
LIBRA: In between tending to your ceaseless professional work, you’re able to strategize, research and investigate new realities, getting to the root cause of any situation. Your instincts unravel mysteries and solve things deep and complex. In between you still display great charm and grace and continue to stabilize your ever-shifting relationship(s). Know that you are both of value, together.
SCORPIO: You must attempt to cultivate close relationships. Just one or two will do. When you allow it to come forth. You do best in relationships at this time. They are important for your fair play to emerge, your value to be reflected, your goals to be reached. We all need help. You, too, at times. You are able to negotiate. This is an extraordinary gift.
SAGITTARIUS: Your very ethical high standards are apparent at work. Faith in others and respect for their abilities are how you expect everyone to treat you. Sometimes others do not reflect your ethics or morals. This presents a choice. You always choose the higher path, knowing the consequences of not. Many watch you carefully for cues of leadership. Careful with rich foods and overindulgence at this time.
CAPRICORN: Many want to be around your generosity, playfulness and warmth. Children especially trust you. Adults and young ones recognize your creativity, ability to entertain, ability to rest when needed, ability to teach, your sense of aesthetics, patience, love with no complications, and helping others learn. Did I miss anything? Think greenhouses and fruit trees.
AQUARIUS: You are guided to have safety and security and deep roots in your home. You value loved ones, yet you keep a certain distance so that freedom and your world work can be accomplished. Careful of things occurring behind the scenes. Careful of criticisms (yours or others). Maintain ethics and truth at all times. Careful driving.
PISCES: You will move into a planning stage, endlessly planning agendas, creating lists, sorting and tending. You have begun to share with others all your ideas, thoughts, teachings so everyone can have access to the big picture of life. You offer all that you have. In return many seek connections with you. You seek to expand networks, improve communications. The future comes to meet you.
May 2 – 8, 2012
Wesak Taurus Buddha Full Moon Festival | Annual Return of the Buddha | Forces of Enlightenment | Wesak Valley | Will-to-Good Becomes | Goodwill | Crystal Bowls | Messengers of Light
The May full moon, Taurus Wesak festival, when Divinity, through the Buddha makes “spiritual contact with humanity,” is this Saturday, May 5th. This festival, the annual return of the Buddha to bless the Earth and the four kingdoms (mineral, plant, animal and human) is of momentous importance. The day and night of Wesak (May 5, 8:35 pm west coast, 10:35 pm Midwest, 11:35 east) esotericists around the world place crystal bowls filled with water in the open air. As the Buddha blesses the world all waters are also blessed.
During Wesak, the Taurus solar festival, the Forces of Enlightenment are called upon to remove hindrances and to expand humanity’s discrimination and discernment. It is the “will of God” that we have these capacities to achieve liberation from materialism, make appropriate choices to build the new era (Aquarian Age), and “discover” the Path of Return.
Preparing the Way for the Buddha (in the Wesak Valley, a real location in the Himalayas) are the Great Ones (Christ, Hierarchy, Great Initiates, Avatars, disciples from many lands, seekers & aspirants), using sacred song, dance, prayers, mudras and invocation around a great stone upon which is placed a crystal bowl. Wesak (blessing the waters) occurs yearly in a protected valley in the Himalayas. At the moment of the Full Moon the Buddha’s presence is called forth (into the etheric plane of the Earth) with the words,
“We are ready, Buddha. Come!”
Consciousness is another word for being “awake.” It also means we are focused in our minds and not in desires, which are always disappointed and disappointing. Taurus, an earth sign, signifies our life on Earth and the Art of Living well while on Earth.
As the Great Lord of Illumination appears, accompanied by the Forces of Enlightenment, He distributes the blessings of God (the Will-to-Good) to the Christ (Archangel from Sirius) who, with the Hierarchy in assistance, holds it in safekeeping until the June, Gemini Festival, where it is distributed to humanity at the Festival of Humanity.
Will-to-Good Becomes Goodwill
This blessing of the Will-to-Good (Father principle), when distributed, becomes Goodwill (the Mother Principle) within humanity. When these two Principles enter humanity’s minds and hearts, illumination and understanding come forth. Humanity becomes more able to identify as a World Server, express more creatively, and begins to envision the building of the new culture and civilization. Join us everyone, for this Festival by reciting the Great Invocation at the moment of the Full moon.
Let us place our crystal bowls, filled with pure water, out in the open (fields, stones, steps, door & windowsills, fire escapes, porches, ledges, etc.) air. The waters will receive & absorb the blessing of the Buddha, the Will-of-God. (Bottle the waters, use it in gardens and for pets. Set some aside for the full moon Festival of Humanity in Gemini, maintain bottles of Wesak water each year.)
As we are blessed with and receive the Will-to-Good from Shamballa, distributed by the Buddha, we will radiate the Light of Taurus & the Light of Goodwill into our environments and those around us. This Light uplifts and transforms all that it contacts. We become the “Messengers of Light.”
“We are ready, Buddha. Come!”
ARIES: A continuing theme is the group – your identity in the group, what you give and provide, and how to expand both self and others through group dynamics. Your future depends upon the answers to these questions, answers continuing to unfold. Here is a spiritual hint. Give all talents, gifts, interests, resources to humanity for their safekeeping and well-being. This assures yours. A blessing, like the Buddha’s, results.
TAURUS: The Wesak Buddha Full Moon blessing occurs each year in Taurus. Throughout your life you always seek illumination though what you do, see, think, feel and explore. Whether conscious of this or not (now you are), this theme is both your life purpose and life work. As the Buddha blesses humanity you are to receive that blessing personally then turn and bless others with your illumined mind and kind heart. You will then help steward the sustainable future.
GEMINI: You might consider your presence the Wesak festival (in dreams (where many experience it) but only after great aspiration to participate. The Wesak festival is deeply involved with Venus, your Soul ruler, and with Mercury (Ray 4, Harmony Through Conflict), your personality-building ruler. All these energies combine to bring you to the next state of awareness and spiritual consciousness. Shall we travel to the festival together?
CANCER: It’s best to maintain quiet mental contemplation so all information being received can organize itself into understanding. Realize the groups you belong to offer ways that further intuition. Group work can feel new to you, its outcomes more and more unexpected, becoming a deeply cherished experience. Much of your life is hidden on purpose. You do not know yet that you are in the deep embrace of the future.
LEO: Prior knowledge of who you are in the world, your work and leadership abilities and how you affect others are being reassessed and reformed. You will reinvent yourself, calling upon hidden gifts and abilities, adapting to behaviors of those you admire, reading into yourself more and more virtues useful for the coming revolutionary times. Relationships for you are always with people unlike yourself. They are your shadow.
VIRGO: You have been deeply focused on daily needs and this continues for the rest of the year. Sometimes your mind turns away from simple daily living as you dream about a future of comforts, people and possibilities elsewhere. Perhaps it’s has to do with work, or prayer, a retreat or possibly a great servuce. Observe if you’re learning new values or studying something that defines a different future path.
LIBRA: You seek a greater knowledge of someone you didn’t value well before perhaps. You seek a deeper experience of love, a newer inclusive view of the world. You seek to understand what travels will take you into other worlds into countries and places far away. For now, simply investigate what calls to you in your present environment. Life is completely different than what you expect.
SCORPIO: Be deeply observant of conversations and encounters, which will profoundly affect you for the next several weeks, taking you deeper into yourself and shifting your points of view. You will affect others in this way too. This involves a responsibility – being careful what you say and do, reflecting before speaking, and tending to finances and resources with focused care.
SAGITTARIUS: Clarification and explanations are needed the next month, to self, first, then others. Should you be concerned about anything seek safe counsel. Being alone is not the best. Response and deep listening from another benefits and clarifies your perspective, helps you overcome difficulties and gain the detached (dispassionate) view. You will ponder upon relationships as they relate to your well-being.
CAPRICORN: Work and health – two themes during these times. The work is mental and physical, giving attention to detail, finding the best techniques, planning carefully. You always do a good job. Health – for those who criticize a lot – criticism hampers health. Praise vivifies health. If nervous or anxious Aconite Napellis (homeopath) soothes. Your garden becomes your medicine cabinet.
AQUARIUS: Attempt to explain your decisions clearly. You may think you explained yourself during recent retrogrades. Actually those words remained in your head and were not articulated. Others won’t understand your actions. You need a bit of play – releasing forgotten child-like energy. Listen to others with compassion and care. Aquarians are faster than the speed of light.
PISCES: It’s good to withdraw a bit, to reflect in depth what has occurred the past six years. Examine your daily life, evaluate your next steps and assess what needs have arisen resulting from a life change. Speak the truth, your deepest thoughts and feelings, allow no pressures to build. Focus inwardly. Appreciate your childhood and parents for what they gave (or did not give) – all chosen before birth. Rest more.
April 26 – May 2, 2012
Preparing for Wesak | The Light of Taurus | The Buddha | The Upanishads | Lead us O Lord From Darkness to Light
The New Group of World Servers (NGWS) everywhere is preparing gardens, patios, steps, fire escapes, windowsills, ledges, rock shelves and all types of outside areas for the placement of crystal bowls to be filled with water which will receive and absorb the blessings of the Buddha at the Full Moon Wesak Buddha Taurus solar festival, Saturday (May 5th). Planning with the Hierarchy since Winter Solstice, we (NGWS) invite everyone to prepare with us for the blessings of the Will of God via the Buddha. It’s good to prepare, subjectively and objectively, a week ahead. Understanding Taurus also prepares us.
Taurus is the “penetrating Light of the Path of Return.” This beam of Light enters the Earth from the point in Aries (bringing forth all things new). The Taurus Light irradiates and uplifts the physical world, illumines our minds and shifts our desire (for things of the self) to aspiration (helping humanity).
Taurus relates to the Buddha, who was born and also died in Taurus. He came into the world 500 years before the Christ, to “prepare the minds of men for the Love of His Brother, the Christ.” Buddha’s purpose was the “enlightenment” of human minds. When our minds are awake they are enlightened (activated through educated), consciousness (the truth) about what is reality is recognized, followed by wisdom, which soothes our emotions and then Love, which underlies everything. This is the inner secret & the revelation.
Consciousness is another word for being “awake.” It also means we are focused in our minds and not in desires, which are always disappointed and disappointing. Taurus, an earth sign, signifies our life on Earth and the Art of Living well while on Earth.
Each year, at the Wesak Festival, the Buddha seeks again to “awaken and enlighten” humanity’s minds.
Taurus presents us with the tests, trials, confusions and experiences that “forge” the personality (lead) into accepting direction from the Soul (into gold). Taurus works with (receives, distributes) Ray 4, Harmony through Conflict. We (humanity) learn through conflict (how we learn). Ray 4 is also Art and Beauty that “attracts the sons and daughters of Venus” (the planet Taurus streams through). Taurus “understands” beauty, a “secret” path to God.
The Upanishads, the most ancient mantric prayer (sacred hymns, verses) given to humanity reflects the essence of Taurus and Venus…
“Lead us O Lord from darkness to light,
From the unreal to the Real,
From death to immortality,
From chaos to Beauty.”
ARIES: This month you focus on your values and possessions and seek a meaningful state of security. There’s a possibility of identifying only with what you own considering your worth based on possessions. This identity is good for a short time. Then you must focus on creating secure and sustainable foundations, built to last, that support relationships with sensitivity and comfort. Share.
TAURUS: You must identify as an innovative leader who brings facts and information to others which helps them acquire a sense of intelligent self-identity. Through your discipline and vocation your words and actions provide direction for others. You are seen as a “light bearer”. Before having self-identity, we must have true knowledge. You are the mentor & teacher for this.
GEMINI: You shine when you serve others. Your love opens the hearts of everyone, especially those whose hearts are closed. Because of this you require times of reflection and seclusion for rest. Here you gather compassion so you can assist others, even when you’re not aware of this help. Do not allow yourself to feel lonely. You are not alone. We all stand with you.
CANCER: You have very high hopes and goals, sometimes unexpressed. It would be good if you could communicate them. Sometimes you have a tolerance of others. Sometimes you forget to. More and more you’re called to have heart/mind coherence. This calls for a focus not on emotional choices but on knowledge. Your close friendships are most important. Keep them close.
LEO: What goals, successes and accomplishments are you seeking? It’s important to realize your ambitions because this is actually your purpose and when you know this, your energy is focused and identified. All levels of leadership for you are important. They unlock creativity. Some Leos are shy. You can still be leaders. Quiet yet powerful ones. It’s about ambition, which is identity and purpose.
VIRGO: When Virgos turn their focus to the environments around them, especially to gardens and the other kingdoms (mineral, plant, animal), they bring forth very high ideals. They can control their restlessness, use their vast state of knowledge and become quite curious and adventurous, the latter quite unusual for Virgos. You realize, in contact with humanity, that we are all brothers and sisters within one family.
LIBRA: Desires and experiences have become more intense, powerful and concentrated? The usual is not enough. You need to go deeper, wider, higher seeking what lies beneath the surface, what lies above. Everything unexplored becomes magical and fascinating. Like the Hierarchy (inner world government), you must move in two directions – inner & outer, into the deep waters and into heaven itself – creating the Cross of Life. Libra balances all levels. Stay in love.
SCORPIO: For the next month or so you will take pride in creating harmony with all interactions and relationships. You will feel the need to be close to loved ones, perhaps one in particular. You drop one or more of your veils of protection, know you’re safe being vulnerable and begin to say what you want and need. Social skills become easier. Peace results. This is a rare time for you. Observe it carefully.
SAGITTARIUS: All that you do concerning your work and profession relate to your sense of identity. Each day it’s most important to feel busy, to have activities planned and to produce work that is your very best. It is also important that you create Right Relations with everyone you work with. If these are not adhered to each day, you somehow feel less than and it moves to depression. Upon waking each morning plan your day with intention to be a good steward to all you contact. The results will surprise you.
CAPRICORN: You have special and unique qualities combined with a deep level of creativity. You must have opportunities to express yourself each day. And often you do this with a dry sense of humor, a bit of drama and lots of fun. Eventually those who need to, notice you and this leads to new work ventures and adventures. Recognition (and compensation) calms your sense of restlessness. Children are most important.
AQUARIUS: You are private and protective about your personal life, home and family. You seek to find your way into a deeper sense of security and a foundation from which you can work. You want to integrate all life endeavors under one roof. This is most practical and allows for greater creativity. You seek emotional attachments so that your heart is not so lonely. Find a home first. Fill it with all that you love. Plant a garden, even a small one. Friends come by. They love you.
PISCES: You take walks each day because you need a change of scenery, you need to touch life in all its forms, but especially you need people to create new friendships with. You adapt well, but only to a point. You are a teacher needing to teach. You are curious about others, asking questions a lot. Others don’t understand this. You never use power-over with others. Only power-with. Sometimes you’re sad. You need music all the time.
April 19 – 25, 2012
Earth Day | New Moon | Let Struggle Be Undismayed | Great Invocation, the World Prayer | Earth Centers | St. John’s Revelation | Devas, the Shining Ones | Earth in our Charts, the Shadow
Sun enters Taurus Thursday, Saturday’s a new moon and Sunday’s Earth Day with Mercury and Uranus in Aries (brining forth all things new). A message is available for humanity concerning the Earth (a conscious Being) and our present future, which we, World Servers, must create. Mercury (Raphael and Hermes, the Healers), the builder of the Antakarana (Rainbow Bridge of Light) will help.
Taurus New Moon
The new moon, early morning Saturday is 1.35 degrees Taurus. It prepares the way for the Taurus Wesak Buddha full moon solar Festival (Saturday, May 5th), when the Buddha enters the Earth plane and blesses the world with the Will of God ~ the Will-to-Good, the Will-to-Love, the Will-to-Intelligent Activity ~ all of which humanity and the waters of the Earth receive.
The meditative, personality-building seed thought for the new moon of Taurus is, “Let struggle be undismayed.” These words explain our movement into matter, where all the lessons of life are learned, the lessons that build the personality to be strong and courageous enough to “meet’, be directed by and work with the Soul. As the personality (its vehicle is the physical body, our emotions & our lower mind) is building in strength, as we learn all there is to know about the nature of form, duality (here & there, up & down, dark & light, etc. in our physical world is perceived and we learn discrimination. Join the New Group of World Servers in this Taurus new moon meditation by reciting the Great Invocation.
A World Prayer
The Great Invocation, the great Mantram of Direction for Humanity, was given at the 1945 June full moon festival (after WW II). Its words and purpose are, with humanity’s help, to direct humanity and to “Restore the Plan on Earth”. The Great Invocation protects humanity (“sealing the door where evil dwells”) and summons Forces, greater than humanity, to help “restore the Law of Ancient Dominating Good”, which lies behind all God created on Earth. This law is now in peril. Only the spiritual wills of humanity, calling it forth, can bring this Law of Ancient Dominating Good into manifestation again.
The Earth
We always speak, write, talk about and refer to the energies falling to Earth from the heavens. But there is another energy that radiates from the Earth itself. Humans (we) living on the surface of the earth live within the etheric (surrounding electrical particles) body of the planet. Our bodies are bathed in the emanations and radiations of our Earth as well as the energies from above, from planets and stars. It is said in ancient texts that nature (plant kingdom) is the actual body of our God.
Centers
Within the Earth there are “centers” The most important center is humanity, the Stewards, a kingdom essential to the life of the Earth and to all of Earth’s Kingdoms (mineral, plant, animal, human). Earth is a Living Being, a living body, which also experiences deep change and transformation (Initiations). Earth hosts humanity. Earth and humanity assist each other in bringing forth “essential selfness}. Both assist the other in the journey towards becoming sacred, a state in which both humanity and the Earth strive toward.
Revelation
St. John’s Book of Revelation describes not the end times, but the revelatory times to come. Revelations is the Last Day (or Time) on Earth. God has not completed the creation of the Earth. We are to assist in this creation. We are the Solar Angels. We are also the present Earth’s pilgrims, living on the Earth, migrating, seeking to understand change, seeking to adapt, seeking the new world, a sharing loving society which we realize eventually we must create together.
Devas
Within the Earth are Light Beings who also seek this new era and new world. Since the beginning of time they have waited for us to be aware of and to work with them. These devas are what make up our body. They are our helpers in the building process. They create all that is in nature and all that is in us. Sacred texts refer to them as the Devic Kingdom, or the devas (Beings of Light), and as ‘the Builders.” Everything has a “controlling devic life.” In the creation of the coming new era we must begin to work intimately with the devic kingdom, a “center” within the Earth that parallels human evolution. Working with the devas, the many levels of “builders”, is how the new world will be created. Evolved devas are Angels.
More understanding of these concepts can be found by reading The Findhorn Garden, referring weekly to Findhorn’s website, www.findhorn.org and reading and viewing the writing and artwork of Marko Pogacnik
www.markopogacnik.com/
Earth Point on Astrology Charts
Like our Earth, whose needs and presence are forgotten, there’s an Earth point on every astrology chart. It’s in the sign opposite the Sun sign. In Esoteric Astrology, the Sun represents our personality; Moon our past; Ascendant our Soul purpose. The Earth point is our “shadow,” our other “half”, which must be acknowledged, tended to and integrated. When known, recognized and integrated, there is wholeness. Our beloved Earth is our “shadow.”
ARIES: Your shadow is Libra, the art and creation of Right Human Relations. Aries develops individuality without cooperation. Libra develops self with other, in cooperation. Integration for Aries occurs in relationship and partnership. Observe your behavior with others. Are you always the leader, the initiator, or do you assist others in discovering their leadership and initiating qualities? Know that “what begins in Aries, resolves itself in Libra.”
TAURUS: Your shadow is Scorpio, the sign of the Disciple, deep waters, testing trustworthiness of others. As you seek the Art of Living, Scorpio seeks the Art of diving deep, dying, regenerating, inviting everyone to join in. While you seek the comforts of everything, Scorpio is often living life behind closed protective doors, too shrouded to go out. Taurus loves Scorpio but often, unable to see in the dark, doesn’t know it yet.
GEMINI: You seek Sagittarius to take you on an adventure far away (from your neighborhood). You sometimes wish you could play music, prepare food and travel like Sag and not always gathering information that overwhelms, sometimes infuriates, and causes confusion if love isn’t around. You long for Sag’s “focus.”. They never fall off the mountain. You’re secretly and emotionally falling down everywhere meadows of flowers, blinded, yet often happy, about where you’re going.
CANCER: You’re learning how to speak truthfully. Sometimes what you say hurts others. You’re also learning discrimination – how to communicate with both truth and kindness. This takes many lives for everyone. You want to be direct and clear. But sometimes your communication is tinged with judgment and/or provocation. You can be informative and you can be disruptive. Again, discernment is needed. We are all learning this together.
LEO: We gaze at our opposites. They seem to have all the attributes we seem to lack. You, the heart-felt, need to be recognized, praised, and applauded for anything you create, because it identifies you, one. You gaze across the room to the Aquarian – the foot loose, fancy-free, friendly acquaintance to everyone (friend to none) – floating happily here and there, giving things away, putting up art shows, taking them down as if heartless to time. Where is their love you ask?
VIRGO: Whereas you are detailed to the minute, Pisces swoons with any detail. It wounds them. Whereas you can order and organize everything, Pisces doesn’t even know most things exist to be organized. As you are able to serve the self, Pisces knows it must serve and save the world first. Pisces has no self. Sometimes you wish you were a Pisces. All this detail work makes the eyes dim and tired. Next life.
LIBRA: While you focus your entire life energy on relationships – how to have them, keep them, maintain and tend to them – your Aries side scoffs, thinking your relationship needs are dependencies and humiliating. But you know you cannot exist without one. Libra needs the “other” in order to understand how to be in relationships. Life for Libra means two, not one (like Aries. Poor alone Aries, Libra thinks. But then senses a lack of freedom. Interesting.
SCORPIO: You never fall into the illusion of others providing for you. You provide everything, at all time, for yourself, by yourself. You are the “triumphant warrior.” However, sometimes you peek out from your closed black curtains to see how Taurus, over there practicing the Art of comfortable Living, is doing and sometimes you wish you were a Taurus. It’s hard being in self-denial most of the time in order to protect yourself. Or drowning in dark waters. Perhaps you need a couch.
SAGITTARIUS: Always on the road, even in your mind, seeking the next place, goal, project, plan, person…anything keeping you moving, arrow-like, focused on what’s ahead. You wish you were Gemini sometimes, provincial, afraid to wander away from the neighborhood, content to sip on local flowers, never venturing up Sir Hillary’s Mount Everest, which signified a spiritual ascent for humanity. You’re always where the greatest need for you is. You’re needed, you ask?
CAPRICORN: You are, yes, practical and methodical, can turn chaos into order, can supervise and shape up a crowd of hungry party-goers with a baleful glance, but really what you need is some chicken soup and matzo balls from Cantors made by Cancer hands with a bit of warm heart thrown in. While you’re known for resourcefulness and sturdy boots that climbs ladders to the top, you also need the kindness Cancer’s emotional support offers. Mother, where are you?
AQUARIUS: You don’t think you need anything but the future. But really you need a bit of a warm Leo’s heart in order to catch (and keep) a full time partner that becomes a marriage (someday, maybe). While you prize your freedom, you gaze at Leo’s circle of friends supports their creativity and wish you could have a bit of Leo’s drama in your cold neon-lit life. Seek out a Leo. Tell them you’re in need.
PISCES: While you’re listening to the Mind of God, while you see devas (fairies, light beings) and understand all things mystical, as you “slouch toward Bethlehem” with the Magi hoping to catch the holy child before His flight to Egypt, you gaze upon Virgo, gestating a new state of awareness with poise, neatness, self-control, composure and dignity. While you are rumpled, disheveled, sweating, lost and wondering where you came from. You call to Virgo. It’s your wound sometimes.
April 12 – 18, 2012
Mars Direct | Retrogrades & Rapprochement | Refuge: Forgiveness & Divine Mercy | Christ Teaches the Ancient Mysteries
On Friday, after four long retrograde months (since January 23rd), Mars is finally stationary direct (3.41 degrees Virgo). It’s been difficult for Virgo and Pisces (opposite sign to Virgo), a bit difficult (but less) for Gemini & Sag (square Virgo, creating a challenge). With Mars direct, that which has been gestating, the new state of awareness & consciousness, comes forth into the light. During retrogrades we organize and synthesize previously learned information. It is the synthesis & integration that is new to us. Let us be aware of and look for these “revelations.”
We have a reprieve from retrogrades till May 15, when Venus (money, resources, values, possessions, relationships) begins to retrograde at 24 degrees Gemini. Gemini streams through Venus on the Soul level. We will look at our values, begin to seek an understanding of purpose.
Retrograde Year, Rapprochement
2012 is a retrograde year, a year of review, re-assessment and realignment and for those who still need to forgive and/or be forgiven, it’s a year of Rapprochement (turning back in forgiveness & understanding). It’s best to do this before we die. We can’t do it after we die. We have other work to do after we die (leave the earth). We don’t want to die with regret or sorrow or grief. Retrogrades provide us with time (days, weeks, months) to review events and actions and choices in our lives so we can embrace forgiveness, reach again for love which produces rapprochement. Let us forgive.
A Refuge
This Sunday is Divine Mercy Sunday. It is taught that Our Lord grants forgiveness to everyone on Divine Mercy Sunday. It is the Feast Day of Mercy. Let us, in our lives, also have the mercy of forgiveness. From Christ’s heart to our hearts. Forgiveness.
Speed of Light
Monday, Mercury, quickly moving direct now, re-enters Aries again (after it’s retro back to Pisces). Messages come to us with the speed of light. Mercury is the messenger, we remember. With Mercury in Aries, new ideas come to humanity from the Mind of God. We must listen for them. They are subtle. They change our world.
Preparing for Wesak & the June Festival
This is the last week of Aries, the Light of Life. Taurus Sun, the Light that Illumines, begins Thursday, April 19th. The New Group of World Servers is preparing for the next full moon festival, the Taurus Wesak Buddha Full moon, when the Will of God is distributed to humanity. During the Aries Resurrection festival, Love was distributed to the world. During Gemini, God’s Intelligence & Will-to-Intelligent Action is spread through the world.
The Christ, After Resurrection & Before Ascension
After His Resurrection (Easter, Aries Festival), and before His Ascension (into the etheric realms of the Gobi Desert where the Lord of the World & the Masters live) (the Ascension is May 17), Christ spent 40 more days on Earth. During that time, Christ taught His Disciples (appearing all over the world) the deeper esoteric mysteries (the Ageless Wisdom) not able to be given to the masses. He taught in order to prepare His Disciples to take over His work after He left the physical confines of Earth (difficult for Him, an Archangel of Light). It is good to ponder upon this and apply it to our lives.
The Light of Aries, steaming through Mercury (Soul ruler) provides us with revelation. The Light of Taurus through Venus provides our minds with illumination. Let us call these forth in the days and weeks that lead up to the Ascension. We can thus participate with the Christ & His Disciples in understanding the deeper mysteries available to us. All that I write on my FB and on website (based on the Tibetan’s teachings) has the purpose of uncovering those mysteries for all of us to understand.
ARIES: Be careful that you don’t become exhausted from ceaseless work. It’s best if you have your own schedule, your own business, can be independent, working at your own pace and not be frustrated or upset by those much slower than you at thinking and working. They are not Aries. Everything you do has your own signature and enthusiasm. Gain the respect of others working with you. Be generous, kind and compassionate. Soul virtues.
TAURUS: Usually you’re placid and quiet, love good food and seek comfort and pleasure. However you love risk-taking and speculation, which seems like play to others but, to you, is very serious. Often (silently) you’re competitive and you respect the fiercely independent, sports enthusiasts and good talkers. Somehow you always get what you want and everyone admires you. People wonder often about you. You never tell.
GEMINI: Sometimes you feel real anger at your family and your early years. Sometimes you’re protective of them. Sometimes you feel there are realities you can’t quite remember from childhood. However, you sense present behaviors you don’t understand, have roots in childhood. Your instincts tell you something must be done. Yes, it must. First all of your life experiences must be embraced. Wounds heal when we have compassion for the self. Our family choices were made before birth.
CANCER: You’re learning how to speak truthfully. Sometimes what you say hurts others. You’re also learning discrimination – how to communicate with both truth and kindness. This takes many lives for everyone. You want to be direct and clear. But sometimes your communication is tinged with judgment and/or provocation. You can be informative and you can be disruptive. Again, discernment is needed. We are all learning this together.
LEO: Always you ask what is practical, how is something made, what are the steps and methods of creating it yourself. You love things practical. But they must also be beautiful, make money, have value, be challenging and keep you independent. This sounds like the type of relationships you seek. This year you’ve been slow and steady in all endeavors. Soon the pace will pick up. Careful to spend money only on things of value. Nothing from the past.
VIRGO: You react immediately and with force to new situations and events, like a firecracker ready to explode. It’s good to take Aconite (homeopath) if your nerves seem stressed and uncontrollable. This is the activity of Mars, a fiery force like lightning. You begin things and then can’t complete them. This will pass soon. Don’t stir up any discontent or trouble anywhere. It returns with a powerful lightning-like force.
LIBRA: Often since January, you have felt stifled, a bit defeated, convinced that efforts won’t be seen, heard or understood. You have wanted to cease certain ways of living, acting or being but this too felt futile. You have not felt your usual sense of self-confidence. Often these days you’re overtired. You work well on your own, your values and principles are strong, yet one aspect of your life feels incomplete, not quite right. What is it?
SCORPIO: Certain people in your life actually help you achieve your many goals, hopes, wishes and dreams. Most of these people are acquaintances, few are close friends. This is how you like it. You choose only a few trustworthy people to support your ambitions and aims in life. You have the warrior sensibility. Whatever your goals, you achieve them. Often undercover and in the dark of the night. For protection. We can learn from you.
SAGITTARIUS: You’re one of the signs that seeks freedom above all, so you can do independent, original work. You have been given courage from the stars to pursue your own choices and decisions that lead to that independence. Your ambition carries you to the heights and to the depths and sometimes to the “razor’s edge.” When you add charm, care of others, a bit of music and good food to the mix, you are without limit.
CAPRICORN: You love different ideas, a bit of debate, constant learning and a challenge. You don’t like self-righteousness in others, especially about you because you know they don’t understand your character. You’re playful yet serious, energetic within limits. You like to laugh, have a quirky sense of humor; you like your partner (for life) and are seeking new endeavors and a new path in life. It’s on a hill, in a garden with mulberry trees. Chickens underneath. Remember your greenhouse.
AQUARIUS: When you know what you want you pursue it with steadfast focus and usually it finally appears (exhausted at the intensity). Sometimes you feel no one loves you, or there’s no relationship ahead. You are uncomfortable with anything or anyone that projects glamours or illusion. You uncover things untrue and unkind. You live in the future, in a place not yet realized by most of humanity. You can be lonely. There are others, magical, like you. Call them.
PISCES: Cooperation, kindness and forethought are the qualities needed by you in relating to those close to you. Often it’s best to work one-on-one. Compromise isn’t easy unless you’re studying with and respect another. You are learning always how to lead and be a leader. A fine and difficult task. Let others think they are your heroes or heroines. This is the way diplomats work at their best. Diplomacy, compromise, negations are art forms. You are an artist.
April 5 – 11, 2012
Death & Life, Passover & Easter, Aries & Resurrection | Full Moon & Farewell to a Fierce Poet |
The Three Spring Festivals | Calling the Forces of Restoration | Adrienne Rich, Poet “Called Back”
It’s quite a potent and auspicious spiritual moment in time for humanity this weekend. Three religious and spiritual festivals (Jewish, Catholic/Christian & Esoteric Astrological) occur simultaneously this weekend, producing within humanity coordinated, synchronized and harmonized prayers to God. Humanity praying together all at the same time! Synchronized and simultaneous religious festivals form the foundation of the Aquarian new world religion. We are at the end of Holy Week, leading to Easter Sunday’s Resurrection Festival. All the three festivals, representing three different developmental stages within humanity, are “resurrection festivals.”
Holy Thursday night is the Last Supper, institution of the Eucharist (no more blood sacrifice) followed by our Lord’s (Pisces World Teacher) betrayal by Judas (his role to play) for thirty pieces of silver.
Good Friday is the Trial, Crucifixion & Death (Initiation) of Christ Jesus (our Initiations also). “My robe, my robe” my glorious robe.” (Christ’s last words at His death when He left the Fixed Cross and mounted the Cardinal Cross). Friday at sunset, Passover begins (until April 14th), commemorating the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, their release from slavery (esoterically end of Taurus Age, Aries Age begins).
Good Friday is also the Full moon, solar festival of Aries (all things new). The Light of Aries is the Light of Life Itself summoning the Spirit of Restoration to “Restore the Plan on Earth.” The New Group of World Servers (NGWS), reciting the Great Invocation, calls humanity to identify as World Disciple, World Server and World Savior with an invitation to join the NGWS and help “Restore the Plan on Earth”. This is humanity’s “Call to Resurrection.”
The Aries Festival – I Make All Things New
New Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, the first call that initiates all things and brings forth all that is new, where the Sun is exalted (Sun in Aries), is written about in Esoteric Astrology with these words, “Here the Sun stands for the life of the Spirit which comes to full expression as the result of the great evolutionary process, initiated in Aries. The life of God which in this sign is “swung into activity”, eventually achieves consummation. Latency becomes potency and midnight merges into midday. God, the Father, rules.” Aries receives & distributes Ray 1 (God the Father, Spirit) & Ray 7 (anchoring the “searchlight of the Logos” into form & matter). Spirit enters matter (making all things new) in Aries.
Our world is in the midst of revolutions of change. Revolution is Uranus, which is presently and for the next seven years, is in Aries. Thus the Aries Festival this year a
nd for the next seven, as it calls in the Forces of Restoration, is vitally important a festival for humanity and the Earth. The New Group of World Servers stands between the Earth & humanity and the Hierarchy. The New Group of World Servers receives, circulates and distributes the Aries fire of newness and change to the Earth. Aries bring forth also a new state of strength and courage to humanity, the strength & courage it takes to build a new world (out of the old).
The New Age
Aries (through Uranus & Ray 1) is inaugurating and initiating the new Age of Aquarius, anchoring on Earth (Ray 7) the new rhythms & the new Laws & Principles. Uranus (ideas from the Mind of God impressed upon the minds of the NGWS) enters, works with and rules both signs Aries & Aquarius. We are in the Era of the Forerunner (preparing for the Reappearance of the Christ) from now until 2025. Under Aries many will enter into the preparations for the Reappearance of the Christ—the One whose coming signals the First Initiation (birth in the cave of the heart) of Humanity. This will require of us great strength and courage, but above all working together as a group within community and the New Group of World Server. Join us everyone.
The Aries Festival – the Fiery Lord
Aries, Ray 1 into 7 is the heavenly Electric Fire (Ray 1) uniting with the Earth’s Fire by friction (Ray 7). It is Spirit & matter which come together in Aries. This creates the new mind, the needed new archetypes (ideas & rhythms) that come into manifestation. We stand in a “burning ground”, where all that obstructs the new from coming forth is destroyed. Aries is fire. The mind is a fire. Our God is a fire (Agni). This is the “crucifixion” or “renunciation”, the great sacrifice so that liberation of the Spirit within can be achieved. This “crucifixion” is then followed by Resurrection (liberated fire of Life rising upward).
The Three Spiritual Festivals & the Forces Called Forth
(from “Externalization of the Hierarchy”, by Alice Bailey (for the Tibetan)
There are three major spiritual Festivals (during Full moon times), which form the highest point of energy in the yearly seasonal cycle. These are:
- Festival of Easter (at the Aries full moon)
- Festival of Wesak (at the Taurus full moon), and
- Festival of Goodwill (at the Gemini full moon).
“Through steady, persistent meditation work of many individuals and groups (the New Group of World Servers & the Men & Women of Goodwill) in all parts of the world, these Festivals are now achieving a subjective (inner) anchoring in the awareness & consciousness of humanity. The Festivals each represent a basic divine purpose, which will begin to establish its objectives as the various religious institutions simultaneously acknowledge and observe, each in its own way, the unique annual approach of humanity to God and of God to humanity. This simultaneous recognition is basic to the structure of the new world religion. (Note: this year, as already mentioned, there is a simultaneous recognition of and prayers to God, as the three Festivals coincide.)
The Three Spring Solar Festivals (Aries, Taurus, Gemini)
In the future all men of spiritual inclination will keep the same holy days. This will bring about a pooling of spiritual resources and a united spiritual effort, plus a simultaneous invocation. The potency of this will be apparent. The three major Festivals each year are concentrated in three consecutive months and lead to a prolonged annual spiritual effort, which affects the remainder of the year. These are:
(1) The Festival of Easter (April Full Moon). This is the Festival of the risen living Christ, the world teacher of all men (Sanskrit for “thinking ones”) and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy. He is the expression of the Love of God. On this day the Spiritual Hierarchy, which He guides and directs, is recognized and the nature of God’s Love is emphasized. The Aries Festival is determined always by the date of the full moon of Spring and is the great Western and Christian Festival. The Love of God is spread over the world.
(2) The Festival of Wesak (May Full Moon). This is the Festival of the Buddha, the Spiritual intermediary between the highest spiritual centre, Shamballa (the Father), and the Hierarchy. The Buddha is the expression of the Wisdom of God, the embodiment of Light and the indicator of Divine Purpose. This Festival is fixed annually in relation to the full moon of May; it is the great Eastern Festival. The Will of God is spread over the world.
(3) The Festival of Goodwill, Festival of Humanity (June Full Moon). This is the Festival of the Spirit of humanity aspiring towards God, seeking conformity with the will of God and dedicated to the expression of Right Human Relations. The Festival is fixed annually in relation to the full moon of June. It is a day whereon the Spiritual and Divine nature of mankind is recognized. On this Festival for two thousand years the Christ has represented humanity and has stood before the Hierarchy and in the sight of Shamballa as the God-man, the leader of His people and “the eldest in a great family of brothers” (Romans VIII: 29). Each year at this time He has preached the last sermon of the Buddha before the assembled Hierarchy. This is, therefore, a Festival of deep invocation and appeal, of a basic aspiration towards Fellowship, of human and spiritual unity. It represents the effect in human consciousness of the work of the Buddha and of the Christ (two brothers). This Festival is also observed as World Invocation Day. Active & Divine Intelligence is spread over the world.”
United Spiritual Approach of Humanity
“These three Festivals are a part of the Unified Spiritual Approach of humanity, although they are not yet sufficiently related to each other. The time is coming when all three Festivals will be kept throughout the world and by their means a great spiritual unity will be achieved and the effects of the Great Approach, so close to us at this time, will be stabilized by the United Invocation (all praying at the same time) of humanity throughout the planet.”
Energies Available to Build a New World Era
“At each Festival, specific Forces are called forth to “restore the Plan on Earth. During the Aries Festival we call forth the Forces of Restoration. The Forces of Restoration are particularly active at the time of the Easter Festival. These Forces emanate from the Mind of God. They are connected with the Intelligence Principle in the Divine Nature, stimulating the human intellect. This type of energy is peculiarly creative in nature and carries the “Life which produces the birth of forms,” It is a mass energy, related to the stimulation of the mass intelligence. It makes men think, plan and take action. It produces neither good nor bad results but simply brings about the awakening of men’s minds so that they take intelligent action.
“These forces are now active in every land, frequently producing increased initial difficulties but leading eventually to a definite reorganization of the national life. The effects are primarily physical. Their objective is the production of the new Earth and all the outer evidences of an inflowing new life.”
Join us, the New Group of World Servers, at the Full moon Solar Festival Meditation of Aries this Friday. We will call forth the Love of God, together, gathering, circulating, distributing and radiating this Love to the world and to those in need. Our Service.
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Adrienne Rich “Called Back”
We bid farewell to “keen edged beacon”, beloved and fierce poet, Adrienne Rich (8th house Sun, Mercury in Gemini, an illumined writer always “Diving Into the Wreck”), “called back” last Tuesday. Her 1976 book “Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution,” identified and radicalized my life as a woman and mother. Ohm Mani Padme Hum. Charon’s boat will carry you over the waters to the other side. Ohm Mani Padme Hum.
ARIES: You are developing a greater awareness of self as you continue to experience personal, political, inner/outer change. New ideas enter your mind coloring your experiences. A sense of a fire burns within, like a heart giving warmth to the world. You feel bright and brilliant. You are. You are also responsible for providing this fire and ideas to the world. Are you ready?
TAURUS: Most likely you’re not going too many places these days. It’s possible your vehicle(s) is/are experiencing breakdowns or flat tires so you can’t go too far. A state of contemplativeness has befallen your life and all you can accomplish is gardening, slow walks, reflection and hiding from events, phones and people. You’re a leader whether this is acknowledged or not. Are you ready?
GEMINI: Deeper revelations of divinity are occurring, possibly in sleep, but definitely while serving the world. Here are mantrams and intentions we recite each morning in meditation (which you’re welcome to join). “Assume a new and fresh attitude of community and hold it during the hours of service which lie ahead each day. Guard with care all thoughts and speech. Call for those you will work with to help build the new culture and civilization.” There’s more. Are you ready?
CANCER: Slowly you are building up a reputation and gaining achievements as you oh-so-carefully enter the world. So often you’re hidden under a protective shell. We know this is for safety and shelter. Often you’re working toward goals we don’t see or understand – not until they’re offered as nurturance and in service to others. You’re ambitious but no one can tell. You’re a leader. And you hide this, too. Are you ready to lead others?
LEO: Restlessness often overtakes you in the winter and summer. You need a change of environment, of scenery, along with perhaps a change in friendships. You also need to communicate what you’ve learned to those who want to learn, those with curiosity and the ability to understand more expansive heart-felt ideas. In our meditations each morning we thank our great teachers past, present and those to come. You are a great teacher. Are you ready?
VIRGO: You are focused on the horizon with great, goal- oriented ideas as high as the mountaintop under which the May full moon festival takes place. You are proud of what you know. When using your knowledge with humility and Right Attitude, others learn from you. In turn you must want to learn, too. Your lower mind facts, your information must be turned into true knowledge, your love into wisdom. Are you ready?
LIBRA: There’s a sense you must enter deeper in life, including dying and regenerating like a phoenix and this is focused within your most intimate relationships. Yours is the Path of the Warrior, going into battle with desires and aspiration, seeking the virtuous way, increasing the demand for change, compelling others to change also. For rebirth to occur, something from the past must be relinquished. It’s a hurt you hold. It can be let go now. Can you be ready?
SCORPIO: As we grow older our true self emerges. I remember my art teacher, Detta Lange, at Immaculate Heart College Art Department in Hollywood, telling me, a young art student, “As we age we become more of our rising sign.” I didn’t understand her. But I do now. The inner essence of our rising sign is our Soul and as we grow in age and experience, our Soul comes forth to direct our personality. This becomes our foundation. Are you ready?
SAGITTARIUS: You’re proud of your family, your heritage, religion, education. These constitute your very own private life. You are careful with your privacy, allowing no one to enter who is not trusted. There are others in your life who wonder if you are trustworthy. Trust is something based on truth and understanding and knowing you will work for the good of the whole. Are you ready to be identified as trustworthy?
CAPRICORN: Be very careful with communication and thoughts. It’s possible communication can be difficult and misunderstandings occur – Neptune in Pisces in your house of communication. Begin each day with the intention to think and speak only with a loving heart. This cultivates a joy that brings strength and courage and a great creative ability. For gardening follow the biodynamic planting guide. A greenhouse is in your future. Are you ready?
AQUARIUS: You feel restless perhaps. More than ready to make change in your home. You sense an expansion of self as independent. This is how you must move about in your world. It’s important to be flexible which and to have mental agility allowing you to communicate clearly to everyone who comes your way. New values, a shift in resources and a deep need to nest appears. Are you ready?
PISCES: As a child it was difficult to build or even understand solid secure foundations. As an adult a secure foundation is most necessary. However, it’s difficult now to build it. Begin by identifying what you value and what you are proud of about yourself. You have become that solid and secure foundation you have always sought. Call forth daily what you need in terms of wealth, possessions, a home and home security. Make ready for them.
March 29 – April 4, 2012
Palm Sunday & Mercury Stationary Direct
Sun square Pluto on Thursday challenges us to bring everything hidden into the light of day. The light transforms and uplifts. This aspects between Sun and Pluto reflects the prayer from the Upanishads (ancient Vedic Hindu prayer), “Lead us O Lord, from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality, from chaos to beauty.”
Thursday is influenced by Jupiter, the planet of expansion and the heart of the Aquarian Age. We need, in our world, the light and reality of immortality to create beauty out of the present purposeful chaos.
Thursday afternoon Cancer moon anchors (Ray 7) the intelligence (Ray 3) that nourishes humanity. In our last solar system we developed the lower mind. In this solar system we must develop the higher abstract mind (Jupiter), foundation of the Intuition (Pallas Athena).
Saturday Mars in Virgo inconjuncts Uranus in Aries (fire), as Venus in Taurus (earth) inconjuncts Saturn in Libra. An inconjunct (astrological word, meaning planets 150 degrees apart interacting with difficulty) produces situations in which nothing works well together, there’s no understanding of the elements (differing) creating an inability to cooperate. We stand solitary wherever we are. Mars/Uranus – a jolt somewhere occurs! Venus/Saturn, we don’t know where our resources are or their value!
Sunday is Palm Sunday. Fresh palms lined the streets in Jerusalem when Jesus, the Christ, passed through. As the people recognized He was the Pisces World Teacher, He realized this was the Path toward His betrayal, death and Crucifixion (an Initiation we all take) at the end of the week. Appropriately the Moon is in Leo (leader) and Mercury is in Pisces (sacrifice to save the world).
Monday begins Holy Week. Tuesday the moon shifts to Virgo, sign of gestating a new state of awareness. We think and ponder upon Holy Week and its esoteric significance. Wednesday, sometime after midnight, Mercury retrograde turns stationary direct at 24 Pisces. Pisces says, “It is finished…almost.”
ARIES: You must be dreaming more often, feeling more instinctive, sometimes confused, sensitive, inspired and insightful at times. Prayer, meditation, study, contemplation call to you. They create gentleness and a compassionate and caring way of being. When you find yourself in a group calling for your leadership to help create the future these virtues step forward. This new world is in your visions.
TAURUS: You have one task – to focus upon your health. Tend to joints and bones; tend to your heart, taking more calcium/magnesium, not allowing anxiety or stress, eating calming foods. Use your great practicality to care for yourself. You must choose daily what’s best – to be out and about socially, leading everyone into the future, or remaining at home and in the garden creating your perfect health. Begin with daily enzymes and probiotics.
GEMINI: Something revelatory happens between you and the world, between you and your work and you and certain groups. You’re inspired, encouraged and guided. With careful study, years of preparation, and viewing the past in terms of your gifts, a spiritual pathway opens, choices and commitments are more easily made, and gratitude settles into your heart. Can you talk about this?
CANCER: What have you been mostly thinking of during this Mercury & Mars retrograde? Has a new and different study has been introduced? What these days makes you feel generous and at home? Is there’s a new reality or interest presenting itself? You want to participate fully. But something’s obstructing you. Are you disturbed by something? Do you feel you’re not smart enough?
LEO: What have you been mostly thinking of during this Mercury & Mars retrograde? Has a new and different study has been introduced? What these days makes you feel generous and at home? Is there’s a new reality or interest presenting itself? You want to participate fully. But something’s obstructing you. Are you disturbed by something? Do you feel you’re not smart enough?
VIRGO: You will relate better with others, especially those close to you, if you offer love as unqualified and unconditional. This is something many of us need yet to learn. When we do so, we flourish and thrive and discover greater support and guidance when needed. Challenging others doesn’t work. Compassion does. It nourishes the heart.
LIBRA: Think, visualize and pray for daily all that you want and need your life to be. Include art, creativity and your vocation along with relationships, children and partnerships. If you’re not sure, then ask yourself each day, “What are my hopes, dreams and wishes? What are my abilities and gifts?” In the coming year you become stronger, more resilient. Take very cautionary care with money and resources. You need a fish in a fish bowl for a special pet.
SCORPIO: Use your resources and investments in terms of preparing for the future. Find a forward thinking money manager. Think seriously about a new economy needing to unfold. It will look much different than our present one. Don’t speculate in the old economy. Instead study books on greenhouses and bio- shelters, using resources to create these environments. You then become forward thinking.
SAGITTARIUS: The planets in the sky are affecting your money, your foundation, your family and home situation, your creativity, and presenting possibilities in terms of relationships, partnerships, and for some, marriage. So many different realities pulsing within and around you. Something kind and benevolence, something sacrificial and sad is remembered in your family. Are relatives and loved ones on your mind? This is a stage of remembrance and relinquishment.
CAPRICORN: You’re thinking optimistically about a change of residence, or doing something new about how and/or where you live? You want to bring more grace and goodness, ease and beauty to your family life. You recognize everyone’s doing their very best, especially you, and you’re asking for a big change. Begin writing (journaling) in earnest and drawing up wants and needs. This is your next creative endeavor.
AQUARIUS: Money and resources are going through a definite change – less money and more need to stabilize. This means more attention to the well-being of your finances is needed. Don’t forget to use resources to help others. When we serve others, we are taken care of. The charts show a change of home or location, something new occurring there. Follow calls to you. It’s purposeful.
PISCES: Neptune in Pisces brings forth a new state of reality. At times confusion. Neptune blends many realities together into one reality. It’s difficult to make sense of the blending and details can dissolve away. Be aware of and observe this occurring. Neptune is not the planet of detail. It’s the planet of refinement, of parting the veils, of watery realms where dreams are alive. Neptune transits can make us tired to exhausted. Magnesium, Vitamins A & D3 help stabilize. Tend carefully to health.
