A play on the phrase "voodoo economics" coined by G.H.W. Bush back in the 1980's, the "business voodoo" blog is where I publish my symbol-related musings and other thoughts relating to both individual and collective human structures of vibration, time and space.
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Time, random time -- you know the tym that no one really knows because no appointment was made and birth (or life) just happens to begin, because of the mother and the life that comes through her -- is that which gives birth to the harmony of chaos or disorder.
Understanding random tym is the mechanics of mom, and it helps us realize the priorities in values that create chaos always bring empowerment for survival. Sometimes, moms do make appointments, that's when we're serious about our priorities over the standing will(s) of others, in this specific moment. Sometimes called, "a power play" by those who hate to release their standing will's control. Trusting mom, a challenge for us all, is a test, so, watch to see if we listen well to the children first -- the mom's top "job" priority.
And, because "father time" decides with his seeds which women get to create chaos, we are back to yang and ying to create the whole of our reality, including the chaos that comes from birth. Tangent thought: Why thoughts about safe and controlled sex are so important to teach to children and young adults.
Love wins if you know love is supposed to win, even in the chaos love finds itself happening to be.
The ego's place found in the astrological chart(s) varies in the moment which is THIS part of the journey in the individual's mind.
We often forget context of personal experience with strangers and the only way to really know that, their context, is to experience it in their sharing.
So, when looking at the charts for others, I just listen for the stories they (the charts) tell me the loudest in the moment I'm together with the other person and not judge the stories relevance or focus vis-a-vis me, until a later time, and I DO always reflect on the common pieces of our journeys together.
Why I wait to self-reflect? Emotional bodies inflate egos, and often chat readings have lots of emotion with them.
Just because someone experiences a common theme to my life, didn't mean it's timing is relevant for my life as it is for theirs. I just always try to remember the common connection that is not reasonably now relevant is a projection if it's not historic.
Sometimes I look back at things I've written for others and see the ugly print of my insecure ego's head. It's good to get better at things.
the transitions of the outer planets have greater influence for those with a helio-centric perspective of their reality than those who are innately geo-centric in their mindsets.
what is a "flavor" of those geo-centrically orientated (#GeoCentrics) to experience as a societal wave are "hallmarks" of those helio-centrically orientated (#SolarCentrics) to experience personally in order to generate and momentumize that societal wave under the outer planets transitional phases.
To shift your orientation to maximize harmonization between the two co-existing worlds, understanding that difference in intrinsic perception of others, helps create a construct that establishes a foundation for fruitful dialog, efficient and productive. If there is a lack of such in your dialog, the SolarCentric needs to STOP and establish/connect at a medium of understanding with the GeoCentrics before continuing. There's time. Remember, the actual cosmic alignment is about a month ahead of the prevailing energy as it is using a calendar-out-of-sync with the actual cosmos to maintain the illusory reality currently in existence on planet earth, as its present geo-political construct is based on the Gregorian Calendar (and its predecessors).
Its just a matter of always calling into question, am I really involved or am I merely involved?
If one is really involved, the helio-centric perspective precepts understanding any geocentric view of context for any individual. If one is merely involved, the drama of the prevailing energy is to be used to maximize pleasure and one's life experience.
A mere juxtaposition of the actual chart with the tropically drawn zodiac, and go ahead and pencil in Ophiuchus and the actual proportions of the constellations on that heliocentric one as that is where that context has the most meaning to integrate, provides the choice in clear symbolic languages to help navigation during this time of global, interdimensional transition.
With three perspectives, or points in relation to one another, the ability to project into the unknown allows for specific direction in the moment. Try it. Often being an extra in everyone's story allows the creator the flexibility of choice when it comes to experience.
random, pick a number between 1 and 33, then i will pick a 1 or 0. and we'll play compatibility matches, shall we?
because it is that random. really, life is. if you do not know that by now, why are you reading my blog (as you will likely get very confused if you are not already)?
And yet, somehow it magically works in this serendipitous way it does through an entire life, and all these random acts transform into a pattern and design with great attention to the details of what becomes your life. Moving from one period to the next effortlessly, as tym does not struggle to move forward, and so struggle is an illusion except when the moment of life you are in is a struggle and then, what do you feel? Analyze that and you have your solution to your struggle.
Drawing energy in from the flow of the universe, one can just naturally do it, but sometimes, its nice to use the ancient ways of navigation, the stars. Mars is transiting Regulus and Jupiter with Sirius -- both planets playing their high energy ways, agitating with a full speed ahead, fuck it attitude, but in a harmonious way one can have skiing down a mountain on the edge of balance but somehow just doing it with distinct channeling of energy which Mars and Jupiter often require (where is Saturn in the chart?).
Playing with the concepts (taken from random search of collective knowledge):
Regulus - (the star of kings) known as being the heart of the lion in the constellation of Leo, it is the most important of these four. The healing Archangel Raphael, the watcher of the North. Certainly, in Royal nativity's, Regulus is very important, regarded almost as a planet itself. from AquaMoonlightAstrology out of the UK.
And, then there's Jupiter. With Sirius. Now, bear in mind, with anything having to do with Sirius that all the teachings on Sirius, until the modern astronomical times, had no way of knowing that Sirius wasn't just a singular star, but in reality was a dual star system appearing to observers on earth as a singularity. So, with that in mind, consider that when you study Sirius and its symbolic meanings. This, to me is the root meaning of Sirius:
Sirius - Transition Stage. Moving consciousness from one reality (frequency) to another.from CrystalLinks.com
So, keep all these things in mind when observing these energies on the charts as you do draw them. I started by sitting from the sidereal heliocentric perspective in the earth position, and faced the gestalt of my chart and observe where the Galactic Center is in the flow of the natal chart and the larger Cosmic reference of the Fixed Stars with the current transits of the planets of our solar system.
Personally, it comes at me as a southwesterly to westerly crosswind as I head into the basket of my heliocentric chart; those cross-winds coming hard and fast with Mercury's approach, only for the most foolish or most experienced navigators of cosmic storms of transition and shifts. I, of course, love playing the fool. =) And, as kismet would have it, 21 Libra is where my scripted Saturn is chilling.
i know i haven't been here for too long, its because i just met the first person i have ever known with whome i've a venus-mars direct hit. and so, of course, i'm in love. but, not so fast. the direct hit was on the heliocentric synastry chart.
ahhhhhh, yeah. sigh. looking at it down-2-earth, in reality ..... yeah. definitely great potential. BUT what is the practical down-to-earth reality of the relationship.
with a heliocentric mars-venus conjunction you must consider what reality says about your chart on the geocentric zodiacs. If the charts are dynamic enough, you sometimes can see how the aspects form the spiral to maintain the energy generated on the heliocentric venus mars conjunction, as it originates from two sources on the geocentric/
if u do not see the spiral, i just have to say, it is probably a waste of time except to let you know what is possible here on earth. and if you find yourself frustrated, its probably not a good relationship for you.
if you see the spiral, just be very clear in your feelings in the relationship, be very detached from the outcome of the relationship and concentrate on the moment and allow it to grow from there. know that the geocentric reality is likely to be the manifestation, but always look to the heliocentric perspective to give context of connections in that context.
those are my thoughts on the mars-venus heliocentric conjunction in synastry. the video has other thoughts, about which, to be honest, i don't remember what i said during that sound intentioning i journeyed on in that moment! =)
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'-nikohl vandel #findNikiV
Well, yes there is. The new child on the block: Human Design Astrology. Go on, here's some links -- go run your chart and, you can get some more information about how wonderful you are and the potential you hold and the habits and patterns that hold you back, but you already knew most of the information or did something surprise you? At first I was very ho-hum about this Human Design thing.
Sometimes it takes a minute to understand why the universe shared with you what it did with the impact it did brought that gift, information, understanding, knowledge or wisdom. Human Design Astrology, I believe, is the third form of astrology for me to integrate to have a balanced perspective on the information I realize when I collect all the symbols and tell their stories. And, we all know that three is the magic number. So, I'm going with it.
For experienced astrologers, there is the helio-centric perspective of astrology that I believe is best suited for use with the Human Design concepts. If layered, the information of Human Design Astrology provides either an underlayment or a top coat to the helio-centric focus of the creative person. Often more effective than looking at the traditional natal geo-centric chart, the Human Design system offers an alternative perspective of geo-centric everyday life. This system seems to work best in combination for artists, inventor, creator, gardner, innovative leaders or have strong outer planet or 8th house indicators in your traditional natal chart.
When taken from the helio-centric perspective, the "Sun's view" of your life, you are inviting a perspective beyond just, "What am I here on earth to do?" to a perspective of "What am I here to do for planet earth?" As a living being giving birth to us her children, the earth gave birth to us to ensure her survival in the solar system, the galaxy and the cosmos. We can choose to embody that energy with all its unique gifts and attachment to the cosmos. That is why we are curious.
And, believe it or not, that is actually easier for some people to understand and do. As the sun, being the center of our solar system has its sphere of influence over its system, the sun is also a part of that Galactic Center reality and it acts and interacts with the Galactic Center (and all that the GC represents beyond that) to empower and coordinate its control, authority and management of its own solar system.
So, what kind of earthling R U?
Seriously. Without getting into the possible reality that we are not all "pure earthlings", let's start with our familiar zodiac (both for the prevailing energy as well as the true cosmic positions) of our reality from a helio-centric position. Its a chart option on most programs, and Astro.com, will generate both a Tropical and Sidereal helio-centric chart of your birth data for free. Where is the earth and moon position? What sign? Start with what you know about astrology and go from there, you may want to read the sun sign information for that sign and say, "I am that for the earth."
For 2013, I have committed to writing here once a month. On this subject, this is the introduction, and I hope to share more thoughts on helio-centric perspectives and more about what I learn for the uses of Human Design Astrology.
peace & harmony, elaine x 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!' -niki v.
i had the following thought: if 'knowledge is power', strength is fueled on knowing. and not knowing "that," but knowing that you know "that." until knowledge is integrated through strength, power remains in potential.
so, in contemplating the foregoing thought, i contrived through complete randomness 8 thoughts to breathe if you are finding you want to exercise power with a strength to manifest your agenda, by creating it in that moment of power, fueled by the strength the choice renders.
i suggest, initially, using a ten count breath (e.g., count 10 seconds on the inhale and then exhale for 10 seconds), but once you practice this exercise, the 8 'steps' can be as simple as a thought of them. Think the following questions and thoughts as you breathe in with nu air to create a new reality in your body, as it pushes out and you let go of old breathe and energy on the exhale.
1. "Now that I know "that," how may I use "that"?
2. SILENCE - listen only to your own inner voice.
3. "At the end of the struggle, I am required to release it."
4. "I know my power I hold in potential, and I know I choose to use it or reserve it."
5. "I remember the emotion is only a passing feeling of one experience in this moment."
6. "I am free to go as deep as I want to and know there's always deeper still."
7. Enjoy the rush.
8. "When I am making the decisions, others can adjust to support my actions, position and vision."
the acknowledgement of desire is the key strength. one always feels desire. when you acknowledge you have that desire you free yourself to action inspired by the passion of that desire. the actions you choose after acknowledging desire, is the dance of power and strength with the rest of the cosmic design.
use the meditation daily to build strength as you enter the "final phase" of a project or are completing a major imprint along your journey. this meditation is also ideal as a quick grounding and balancing meditation before meetings where power and integration are the core issues.
peace & harmony,
elaine x
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
because we like to do it! sometimes a description fits us for what that label is worth, we can use it, we can all be "legally blonde" at some points in our lives to b who we really are.
and that's all this is about -- this "new constellation" and all that jazz in the news. i appreciate the information, while i do not appreciate the ignorance with which it is being presented, its all good, right?! oh what confusion this will give so many people who violently opposed the notion that we were reading astrological charts of an illusory reality created by Ptolemy's zodiac way back then.
u know me, if u want me to tell u what all this news means 2 you, send me an email, i'll be happy to give you my 2 cents worth. its the way this blonde has fun!
BTW: there are a few articles in business voodoo archives (not as much as was on zaadz.com/gaia.com, but enough) ... and check out my business voodoo myspace blogs from 2006-2007 (yeah, good luck with that!) for lots of stuff on my friend Ophiuchus and the procession of the equinoxes . . . and what that means in the reality that has been crafted for us to believe is our present reality.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
Oh, yes, that geo-centric phenomenon of the planetary retrograde.
The optical illusion of a "backward" moving planet that is just that, an illusion. But, ask any magician and the illusion is a powerful tool to create a reality that only the magician can create for the entire audience of participants in his magic show.
And, your life IS your magic show, so let's use the illusion of the retrogrades, rather than be a spectator and allow the illusion to hide from us the reality of our lives.
Usually, if you are aware that Mercury even goes retrograde and a little about it, you have experienced those mechanical ups and downs, the difficulties in communications and movement that are the territory of Mercury. But rather than your nemesis, Mercury retrograde is here to help you create reality through the proper use of the illusion.
If you remember, quite consciously, during Mercury's retrograde that you are to "row gently down the stream" you will be able to steer around any "rocks," "blocks" and "obstacles" with ease through accepting them as being "protection" rather than what they are usually seen as: disasters! Ok, so your car broke down. Ok, so your iPhone fell in the bathtub. Ok, so you've lost everyone's phone number and you lost your voice. Receive it. Rejoice in it. Accept it as divine providence that there are no random incidents, that all of this is happening for a reason that YOU are controlling.
The more you look for synchronicity in your life, the less you are subject to random happenings. Trust the universe's plan of synchronicity even if its not apparent in your immediate vision. If you cannot see the synchronicity, take some time to back out of everything ... move retrograde with the planet(s) ... get in sync with the movement of the illusion to understand its workings so you can begin to create once again, this time more fully in the flow of the universe and the true vision of the reality you are here to create.
Sometimes, we need to retrograde into our subconscious to understand what flow our conscious lives are here to live, don't be afraid to let go of the known, the planned, the previously visualized ... otherwise you cannot receive the bigger vision that the whole you is aware of, even if the conscious you is yet unaware.
Retrograde Mercury's clues in communication and movement are very important to listen to as Mercury, being the first planet from the Sun, is the first and most important filter to take ALL of the Sun (or your life source) and make it so in our reality. Thankfully, Mercury works fast and is a brilliant taskmaster, and the more clearly the Sun is channelled naturally through Mercury, the more fully your reality will become your world. Mercury's retrograde cycle, is a time when the Earth is positioned between Mercury and the Sun -- the world is literally "in the way" -- but how else are you going to integrate your Sun (your life purpose and destiny) into the Earth if you do not take some time to see what ... or perhaps more astutely "how" ... the Earth needs to integrate your life source in creating this collectively reality we are all living in?
And, that's exactly what the retrograde cycles of all the planets help us do, each in their own unique way. Mercury's directive is to help in self-growth, and so the Mercury retrograde cycles are very personal and specificially designed just for you. Mercury is direct and to the point, so listen quick, learn fast and move even faster and you will be rewarded with the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound thanks to Mercury's retrograde cycles. Mercury retrogrades are for "Superhero" training!
A quick look at the houses at play in your own personal charts will tell you the "training ground" for Mercury's focus. For those who know how to read your own chart, I suggest a quick read of Cafe Astrology's wonderfully simple yet concise break down of Mercury's retrograde transit will help you understand your own focus.
The more efficient and able you are with the personal planet retrogrades, the better you will be at using the outer planet retrograde cycles to affect changes on a global level.
For those of you who know you can, go do it.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
p.s. For more info on this month's specific Mercury retrograde, go visit my blog on MySpace.
now, many of you may wonder . . . 'elaine doesn't even use the gregorian calendar anymore, why is she writing about that time cycle?' . . . i write about it because it is the time sequence the prevailing world exists on, and if you do not understand the energy of that sequence, you can never bring that energy into a new time sequence -- your timing, your existence, your journey's sequence. bringing energy, money, whatever, into the world you live in because you are doing what you love.
besides, this is the time we begin to feel the pull of the new energy we are being pulled toward in 2010. think about how much energy is built up to the new year cycle. just think about the fact that almost all corporate financial sequences begin again each 01 january. this is the time when the pull from future is definitively stronger than the pull from the past (unless of course, you are running with a severe temporal deficit, then the past is probably overwhelming you, but that's a discussion for another day!).
working to maintain 'beingness' in this futuristic magnetism stream is a challenge as we make so many future plans ... what am I going to be Halloween? what do I want from Santa Claus? And, the push from our external environment to be future orientated is a blessing if you use that time connection while maintaining the ground to this present moment of being.
2010 is a 3 year . . . but its a 3 year after a master 11 vibration 2 year, which 2009 still has to play out. that master 1-1 is that which one must walk fully and completely in the being that is you.
so, 9 months done, are you a master or are you still thinking you *should* be one, or trying to convince yourself that you are one . . . or are you simply a master. masters no longer have to try, they just do it. 3 more months of training and discipline, and this is where you can believe in just about anything to be possible, as we are being pulled into a year of manifestation.
the 3 vibration is, obviously, related to the trinity, the triangle ... when that which consists of "god" came together to exist as "god" in the form prescribed and optimized for existence in this third dimension. less singularly in belief structure, 3 is the manifestation of the sum of the parts in the third dimension, call it god, the cosmos or merely our feeble attempts to understand our existence and connection to that which is infinite or is, perhaps, only chaos under our defined terms.
so, as you consider today what you want to manifest in 2010, ask yourself these questions . . . how would the person i am be if that which i am working to manifest was manifest today in this moment? 'act it until you are it' . . . besides practice makes perfect, even when it comes to being you.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
DUK: There are no rules in life. So make your own and live by them, you'll be happiest that way.
No. 2: The Seed of Conception
The more we understand, the less we fear. The less we fear, the more we risk. The more we risk, the more we trust. The more we trust, the more we love.
(from "Practicing the Sacred Art of Listening," by Kay Lindahl)
If you can know the 'seed' of conception, the source of the fruit, the full intention of the truth, you may be one step closer to understanding the answer to "why?"
In business, there is the time the idea is born and then the time the idea is 'incorporated' and the interaction between those two energies is knowledge that one must understand to be successful.
Similarly, running a transit chart for your birth's conception gives a "snap shot" of what was being planted into the natal chart. If you are one of those moms who know when you conceived, this is the kind of information that astrologers can use, so keep that information in the baby book!
On personal levels, take a look at the psychology of the relationship between the seed and the birth. Was the fruit born out of the seed of love, commitment, dreams, hope, faith, conflict, power struggles, insecurity, desperation, guilt . . . you name it. A good dose of all of it was sown into you in order to transform and elevate the family's survival and evolution on all levels. While you are an individual, you are still human and humans have that intense and basic need to survive, your family thread can sometimes be cut, but its still the same thread.
Success in this world requires an integrated being on all levels of existence. Leave one of the levels out, and well, there's this saying about "a couple of cards short of a full deck." In which case, you will find yourself working against the "deadly sins" rather than rowing gently down the stream in the dream that is your life.
Flipping out of the matrix contraption requires a new navigation system. The poles have shifted -- or rather, will shift whenever you are ready for them to do so -- and before you know where you are going in this reality you want to create, you have to understand and know where your "center of gravity" is. [Ref. Ouspensky's "The Fourth Way."]
In astrology, its the cardinal compass points of the zodiac. And, just using basic astrology, the midheaven can really stand for your external achievements, career, standing in society, etc. The nadir or opposite of that, would be your internal grounding and the depths of your roots. "The deeper the roots, the taller the tree."
Looking at the Ascendant and Descendant axis, the questions comes to balance of "me" and "the other." "Do unto others as you would have them do to you," and "be the change you wish to see," and "you reap what you sow," all those realizations can instantly change your perception on any number of levels at any moment in time. The balance between "you" and "the other" . . . moving into this Aquarian age, this becomes a major point of transition.
How to be fully you while being fully integrated into the whole?!
We are coming from Pisces culture programming, and the end of it at that, so there is the best of teachings and the worst of its teachings, and that's why our choices are OUR choices and not our parents, etc., and our choices need to be clear and aligned with our highest good for our survival and that of our children.
Finding that balance and the imbalance of your "programming" is the goal of viewing the "conception" transits, and applying that information to the shifts in your "zodiac compass."
If you make the decision to "be" in the reality you want to create, you have to know how to navigate and read your compass.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
The Titanic is sinking. You are sitting in a row boat with several other people. This is the new reality, what now?
There is never an easy answer when you are working in the world of symbols until hindsight can reveal the truth from a new perspective. At best, we can glean a glimpse of understanding in the present moment from the symbols we see and their connection in life. Because life is what each of us gives our own unique definition to that which we experience -- truly the meaning of symbols are in the eye of the holder.
The "given" meaning of symbols sometimes mean very little until life experience provides a backdrop for a connection to the collective definitions we give to one symbol or another. To some, something as simply as nursery rhyme can provide the ultimate direction in life:
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently Down the Stream Merrily Merrily Merrily Life is but a dream!"
For others, its just a song we sing as children and it has no meaning. But, if you will and see it as such, all our experience in our world is, in essence, a symbol. You are a symbol of your presently incarnated history, perception, understanding and knowledge. Everything you experience is a symbol.
The Sabian symbols are a new tool I've begun to integrate in my synthesis of astrological symbols, and the Sabian symbology for the current Neptune-Jupiter-Chiron conjunction, which planets are sidereally calculated today at Aquarius 2º28", 2º1", and 2º11", respectively, is:
A deserter from the navy stands suddenly aware of the dawning truth that freedom is never the result of compromise.
The synthesis of this conjunction is that which expands or digs deeper into the illusion or the illumination of cosmic truth for the self to heal. Jupiter which took the wounded centaur, Chiron, is his patron. Jupiter placed Chiron in the stars after Chiron sacrificed himself for Prometheus, hence ending his immortal suffering. Neptune provides a cosmic infusion of cosmic haze in which this stellium is crafting a new reality to be revealed only after the haze is blown away.
Chiron is about the places in our lives that we are rejected just because of who we are. Chiron was rejected by his mother because although, being the son of Kronus (Saturn) he was born an immortal, he was born a centaur. From the cradle we are adjusted so that our expressions and actions are "acceptable." But it is in that cradle when we know ourselves the most intimately . . . what we truly think, what we truly desire to express, who we truly are. As we look now to try to heal the areas we rejected because of our socialization, we must focus our love to accept the parts of us that are us that may have not been what others accepted in us.
A tall order, and definitely one of those "easier said than done," but we have help. Neptune is the cosmic lover, and the planet that dissolves the illusions we have when it comes to our understanding of ourselves. Neptune knows no shame. If others are misunderstanding where you are coming from, laugh.
If its a stressful and serious time with a lot of old patterns of judgment and shame being experienced, Neptune may incite you to indulge in your favorite mind medication, but use this wisely. Medication must be undertaken with the intention of healing, not hiding. The negative affect of hiding through medication can amplify the illusions that have crafted this wound, and you may be digging a deeper hole and you may never find your way out.
Don't you wish you could have laughed at your parents the first time they shamed you because you just said how fake Uncle John's toupee looked? Everyone knew it was funny, probably even Uncle John, but you were shamed because you saw and expressed the humor of innocent observation. The shame is not in what you said, but they felt shame because of what they perceived as an intention you couldn't possibly have.
People do this to one another all the time. "You are guilty because you were doing X." When in reality all you were really doing was Y. But, because the other ascribed what would be their intention on your actions, the projection of shame and guilt results. As an adult, your best response is laughter. If you get on the defensive, you have to ask yourself why you are there? And then, go and take the memory trip to the place the wound began . . . likely that's back to your childhood. What triggered that defensive mechanism?
Tropically, the Sabian symbol at 27º Aquarius is:
In the quiet of afternoon in the cool of an art connoisseur's library is an old pottery bowl with fresh violets.
Applying this healing process to the world that is entrenched in the prevailing energy of our time, is this symbol -- fresh violets in a place where the old is revered, honored and sacred -- and held onto.
Being the breath of fresh air and a shocking bit of the "new vision" for those still living in the reality that is the past (the one that no longer works), reveals this is a time for you to grace that reality with burst of color, life and truth that only you can embody.
So many of us who have become aware of what we are to do, this is the time to do it no matter the ridicule, judgment, shame or guilt others use to cripple our movement, growth and healing. They need us to be bold, obnoxiously and perhaps even laughably ourselves. If they take you wrong, laugh at the absurdity of their projections of your intentions! Soon, they too will recognize how far from the truth they were, and will laugh along with you. For those that do not, you will help them best by "keep on keeping on" in the journey that is unapologetically your's!
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
Understanding a new reality requires the shift in perception that accommodates a new structure for be-ing.
"Be-ing" meaning the full existence of creative energy in the present moment.
As you awaken to the notion that you create the reality you see around you, you can appreciate the nuances of your creative source and incorporate more and more of those which lie below the surface of the consciousness. Hidden deep within the crevices of the subconscious lies the source for all you do not understand or for that which you choose to deny your authorship of such creation.
Abdication is a choice that denies the human experience from truthful information and reality. It empowers the falsehoods of the programming to establish their foothold patterns in our mental processes.
When we abdicate or deny the energies of our source for the first time to the programmed prevailing energies, we learn a new mental process by which our personal habits are created to deal with the world as we experience it. The shift of the mental patterns require conscience and deliberate retraining for us to seek grounding in reality despite the view we see through our patterned vision.
But if one can begin to see the patterned view, then one can begin to see the difference our true sight brings to the world around us. Then, we can begin to create in our truth the world in which live.
Astrologically, the vision of our world is seen through the cardinal points of the zodiac, our compass as you will. Imagine if you will that "true north" has shifted by several degrees but our maps are all aligned with a "north" that no longer registers on our compass. How can we possibly go through life with a map with the reference point of "north" is not reflected by "true north"? The shift of the polar centers of reality cannot possibly allow us to view the map accurately . . . unless, of course, you use the map with an eye incorporating a "correction" of the compass.
Similarly, we must now view our lives in the astrological context. To look exclusively at the tropical zodiac as being the "map of the individual" ... of the true individual ... demands that we stay in the old reality (that of the Age of Pisces) that was crafted long ago and has been used for the purposes of creating the structure of our present reality. Which has its place and context, but as this shift to enter into the new Age of Aquarius, we must too shift our perspective of astrology concept and cardinal points of reference.
The Age of Pisces is dependent upon our Gregorian time structure and the tropical zodiac, hence its applicability with the current prevailing energy that is giving way to the new Age of Aquarius. For most people, this tropical zodiac and structure as it is will be all that their lifetime will experience, understand and know. For others, a new realization and way of viewing the astrological symbols must be engaged and employed, lest the map be based on a reality with which they have no connection. And for others, a hybrid of the two to allow the bridge to be built, the understanding of operations within both realities and the transition between the two can facilitate exponential development and growth.
Understanding the context of the Great Age within any individual's life is a tool of the precession of the equinoxes and the impact of that on the cardinal points of the astrological chart. The integrated use of several schools of astrology (such as tropical, sidereal or actual) dependent on the individual and their connection with the structures that exist on the many levels of our reality, is the task of the astrologer who undertakes the facilitation of the "alignment of the compass" for the individual.
For the intrepid astrologer, I encourage you to experiment in the schools of thought that once were thought to be so separate and unconnected. You will soon find a thread of integration to help bring a shift to the consciousness of our humanity through the individual way your integrate the symbols to find greater depth of experience for a new way of be-ing.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
"Hero of Alexandria defined [gnomonic expansion] as follows: 'A gnomon is any figure which, when added to an original figure, leaves the resultant figure similar to the original.' The contemplation of this figure leads to an understanding of one of nature's most common forms of growth, growth by accretion or accumulative increase, in which the old form is contained within the new." From Robert Lawlor's Sacred Geometry.
Gnomonic growth . . . the concept of growth that comes through the inclusion of that which existed before it. Phi, the golden ratio/spiral, or the Fibonacci sequence are a classic example of gnomonic growth. That, gnomonic, is the most common form of growth in the universe, it is a "past" based generative system of growth.
The "stimulus package", the "bailout" and all the things that Obama is trying to do, is a form of gnomonic growth.
Perhaps its time we take a different lesson from the economic universe, one that our entire economic system runs on . . . primatic expansion. "Primatic" in reference to the prime number sequence, is the unpredictable system of security for the operation of our economic system. It is claimed that without these complex systems of security based on the prime numbers, all economic systems based on credit will be destroyed.
The primatic expansion is a form of exclusionary growth or expansion. Once a prime number is found, that number and all its multipliers are now forever deleted from the system. It is, a "future" projective growth model. It is an exclusionary form of growth -- it excludes all that may exist based on that which becomes once it comes into existence.
And, it is an inverse model of our present economic structure (and as this is representative of the universally accepted context, philosophy, reason and thought form which constructs our global operating matrix) from which our solutions -- economically, systemically and philosophically -- are sourced. The past (gnomonic system) should provide the security for what "exists" and expansion should be based on that which is yet to be discovered (primatic expansion).
And now, to get into my other favorite "back burner" subject (the first of which is the prime number sequence), time.
"In gnomonic time, all phases exist in ever-present layers, like the light-year structure of galactic space which makes every glance into a starry night sky a view into the past of distant bodies, while the layers of light just behind the visible light are the future energy waves which will strike and influence the earth. All aspects of the material world, including our own bodies, are therefore in the past tense, existing in a residual gnomonic layer already bypassed by inflowing cosmic energies." Again, from Lawlor's Sacred Geometry.
For us to begin to traverse the fourth dimension of time and space, we must assume and exist in primatic time. Once a prime number, reality, space or time is experienced, it and all of the gnomonic futures that will occur based on the multiples of that instance will be experienced in the oneness of existence and hence be forever excluded from ever sourcing any further growth or expansion of our sequence of numbers, reality, experience or existence based on a 'past.' Hence, erasing the concepts of time or space and our existence as being anything but singular and infinite.
This, primatic growth, is, perhaps, the beginning of our stepping into a practical tool for co-existence in the fourth dimension -- the bridge from the third dimension into the fourth. A construct to allow the use our third dimensional awareness and be-ing-ness in a context of a new dimension we cannot innately understand, and from which we can begin to explore the fourth dimension (and perhaps beyond that) in the universal comfort zone of gnomonic growth and expansion.
I think that made sense.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
The standoff in the cosmic skies of Uranus and Saturn ... both moving forward now until Saturn about faces in retrograde on 31 Dec 2K8, when it will shift its direction, angle and strategy. This time until the 31st has all the planets moving direct ... this is "clear sailing" time so to speak, allowing the energy to flow and go with it because its not presenting anything you need to "look back on" to move forward. Being in the moment is critical with an eye forward, this is driving on the interstate freeway or the autobaun.
But as Uranus and Saturn stare each other down in opposition, circling each other, flexing their hands over their cocked and readied weapons of choice, they shadow the conspiracy and intentions of their wills: Saturn to 'make him pay' and Uranus to 'detach from it all' . . . playing out in our everyday lives. Which side are you on? Where is the balance of those two energies in your (and our collective) conflicts?
Because this is about conflict. And it is about facing it, dealing with it until you come to resolution ... that is, if there is resolution to be found and an evolution to experience at this time in your life.
Remember, it wasn't created overnight and its not going to mysteriously disappear overnight as the picture which the resolutions unveil internal conflicts that are larger and deeper over this process for the next two years. But pay attention well as this critical time, here at the beginning of the process, reveals the nature of this conflict for your process in this ourney that will continue into 2010. Paying attention now, will pay dividends later when it seems as if there's no clear vision, no hope or path to resolving any thing whatsoever.
There is a bit of paying the piper (Saturn) that needs to happen in order for one to detach (Uranus) from the situation.
Here's where the opportunity for evolutionary growth comes. Because the one thing we can control, is what are we going to pay the piper? In the tragic dramas of the myths, its always something horrendous, a just punishment for the "evil" done . . . but what about in this new paradigm we are shifting into? Can we "pay it forward" as we pay the piper in a new way?
"Forgive them father they know not what they do," is the kind of evolutionary thought that we can embrace, rather than the disbelief, disgust, anger, resentment, disconcordant feelings that are a natural (or programmed) response of creating some form of "equality" through revenge, judgment and punishment.
BUT, will the piper receive that new form of payment and go on and detach? Because it takes two sides to stay in this opposition relationship that feeds each other in the scenario to perpetuate the cycles of revolution in which we choose to remain locked. Can we accept that which seems "too good to be true" and create a new pattern of freedom that requires no struggle and strife to obtain our liberty?
So, as much as that Saturn wants to seek retribution, if Saturn creates a new structure of forgiveness, understanding and love, will Uranus accept the blessed send off into its freedom, or will Uranus' turn and attach the chains of dependency on its control of how freedom is attained and not just simply receive the freedom so easily and lovingly offered.
Find your balance in the sides of the opposition, look with eyes to both, be the arbitrator of the balance of acceptance and receipt ... choose what you receive as much as you choose what you give . . . 2009 is about those choices, start now in your personal reflection while the planets are moving forward in this first round of negotiation ... it will set the tone for this 2 year period.
What a wonderfully perplexing world we are living in right now!
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
A boss of mine once told me, "Elaine, all you need to know about life you can learn from baseball." Being a sports agent (and an avid Phillies fan I may add), he may have been right. Of course, I see the magic number 5 there, the number that represents 'change,' 'movement' and elevation as it is the 5th point that creates pyramidal power from the square of 4.
But, honestly, I stopped watching baseball after the last baseball strike. I no longer worked for the sports agent, and well, that strike just kind of left me without the stomach for the other part of the game that most people did not see when they watched the players take the field. The magic of the game I loved since I was a child has been gone for a while now.
I watched a few innings of Game 4 to see if any of the magic was there, and it still wasn't. Baseball has yet to fix what they broke so many years ago. This story about last night's game was profound to me this morning because I just thought ... "how like life this is. Arn was right."
We are so looking forward to the 'what ifs' and the 'what about ...' that we start manipulating and creating a reality that just gets more and more confusing because we are trying to figure out everything that "could" happen rather than being in the moment and dealing what "is" happening.
With the current Saturn-Uranus opposition in the cosmos around us, we are reminded about "pre-emptive" realities. The minute you start plotting or planning what you do based on the 'what ifs' ... ESPECIALLY if those 'what ifs' include other people or authority figures ... STOP! Stop right there in your tracks and ask yourself these questions:
Why am I really making these plans? What do I really want to achieve?
Likely the answers will stem from energy sourced in the desire for more personal freedom. Freedom that you do not perceive you can have simply by being who you are. Most of us do not feel we have the "right," "permission" or even "worth" to assume our freedom, so we go about taking freedom through maneuvering the circumstances or people in our lives to "find" our freedom. Sometimes we just bail the situation and "start over" new and think we will have our freedom that way. For a time, perhaps ... but if we do not own our freedom for our own sake, we will forever be in the cycle of trying to "create it."
Issues of freedom will recur several times as the Saturn-Uranus opposition will continue through 2010. Its first "direct hit" of opposition happens on our election day. This first initial "hit" will foreshadow the struggle on a national level we will experience over the next couple of years as we discover just how free we are not AND what we are willing to do about it ... individually and as a collective.
How we define freedom for ourselves and how we define it for others will highlight this conflict we experience. As tropically, the planets are posed as follows: Saturn in Virgo, Uranus in Pisces. Using 'sidereal' or actual astrology, Saturn is in Leo, and Uranus in Aquarius. The "push-and-pull" of the Virgo-Pisces will be played out on our television, played out by people who are asleep and still in the collective unconscious living. The "push-and-pull" of the Leo-Aquarius will be the experience of those who are conscious in their lives ... and its to those I am speaking.
The Leo-Aquarius push-and-pull of the Saturn-Uranus opposition polarity is giving you an opportunity to redefine the authority of Saturn based on your own personal authority. In Aquarius, the individual is an equal part of the collective -- the collective is made up of individuals but the collective is NOT more powerful or has more control than the individual. If the individual chooses to be equal to the collective, the power of Aquarius is that the individual and the collective are equal.
This is not SO in Pisces, where the individual is "lost to" or completely immersed in the collective energies -- without the collective, there is no individual. This is where the majority of energy on the world presently is existing and from which disruption will re-occur until the transition to the truth is enlarged for more and more individuals.
Being a conscious person in this time of this opposition, requires the individual standing-up for those who know that Saturn in Leo means, my authority is "the" authority. The way I see things should be "are" the way they are to be for me ... not caring whether they are that way for anyone else, but for me, this is the truth.
Here in America, our founding documents were in alignment with this belief: all beings are created equal. If this is true, then the collective is NOT greater than the individual. It was not a "majority creates the authority" construct our founding organizers manifested, it was an "individual" is equal until and unless that individual impedes on others the same rights they are choosing to assert.
This is the struggle of the individual and our collective at this time. If you understand this, you can be aware when you must take action to stand up for that individual freedom and equality in all areas of your life: at work, at school, in relationships, in the community, on the street, in Washington D.C., at the Hague, before the G8, the WTO and the IMF.
These shall be some interesting years before us, who's ready?
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
Today has been a quest to quiet the choir of voices from the day's global news headlines that ringing choruses of 'futility' in my head ... because, everything our past has taught us to do to adjust, fix, correct or change what we are experiencing is, in truth, futile.
Marching and protesting is futile. What worked in the 60's, isn't going to work. There is no "movement"; there are no leaders; there is no organization.
Violence is not an option ... not just because my non-violent principles, but because the powers that be have all the armaments and legalities in place (FEMA camps and all) to deal with anything of that nature.
The direction we are heading is the direction we are going to go. Like it or not, the collapse is upon us; the "New World Order" is in place, and its just a matter of manifesting it in everyone's everyday reality.
Now, I'm not one of those that think the whole "One World" thing is bad or evil. I actually like the thought of eliminating nation-state designations, and just viewing ourselves as "human" or even more cosmic yet, "beings." But this yucky "New World Order" stuff that is based on greed, oppression and human degradation ... I'm not digging that!
Since I did not have any ideas that were not futile, I took off after the white rabbit this morning. The little bugger came into site while I was checking out my bulletins on MySpace this morning: Here he is, the one that enticed me down this hole:
This next video I received was in a bulletin from my MySpace friend THINK PEACE WORLD ... This is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ... notice the emphasis he places on "economics" as the definer of power.
OK ... now for some internal bells and whistles to start going off in my head: enter the Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America (aka "SPP"). The SPP is the embryonic version of the American Union. Check out the website. Earlier this year, nothing before 2006 was on the website. Now there's all kinds of information ... even "facts" to dispell the "myths"! Now you too can start to see how this "New World Order" is coming into being for us here in North America. Lou Dobbs talked about it a few years ago in this news clip:
So, you don't think its happening. Really? The briefings and materials from the 22 April 2008 SPP leader summit indicate that the Partnership is on track for their initiatives to be in full effect by 2010. (Please take note of the 22 April date ... it connects to a future dot.)
Then, a tangential tea party in this headline: "Morgan Stanley gets lifeline, is ready for deals." And why would Mitsubishi invest in Morgan Stanley? To capitalize on the fire-sale of other US banks and financial institutions, of course. The Japanese have recent experience in how to navigate and capitalize on this situation: remember the early 1990's in Japan? This is another interesting NY Times article I read ... the year of this article was written: 2005.
OK, now for the astrological part of the chase ... time to try those mushrooms!
If we step back from our myopic earth point of view to our next largest perspective, using a helio-centric view, Pluto entered Capricorn on Sunday, July 20, 2008. For more insight to Pluto in Capricorn check these out:
Blogger.com's AstroTableTalk posts Dharmaruci's 2004 Article (posted in 2006) on the Astrology of 2008-2015.
So, what did happen on July 20, 2008?
George Bush was at his ranch in Crawford, flew to the White House later that day to say good-bye to yet another staff member. Not that interesting. Hmmmmm.
How about this:
1.6 MILLION PEOPLE IN A LOVE PARADE!
1,600,000 human beings participated in the LOVE PARADE in Germany!!! How awesome is that?! What a wonderful thing to have happened over that weekend! From the earth's perspective, the Moon and Neptune were conjunct ... how appropriate for this type of 'love in'! And, NO! the symbolism that it was Germany is not to be overlooked.
And then, what happened? Russia and China finalize a border treaty ... "Correspondents say the deal is the latest sign of warmer ties developing between Russia - a big energy exporter - and China, a big energy consumer." Again, the theme of economic power is everywhere.
From the 7/21/08 White House briefing: "Also today, a U.S. delegation led by the U.S. Trade Representative, Susan Schwab, is meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, along with other major trading nations at a ministerial level meeting in an effort to make progress in the Doha round of global trade negotiations. As you heard President Bush emphasize at the recent G8 meetings, it is critically important that we conclude the Doha round. We want the world to trade freely and we want to make sure markets are open for American agricultural goods, manufacturing goods and also the services that we can provide." (Check out her name: "Schwab"!)
So, that was the view from the Sun, the center of our solar system, our next "bigger picture" perspective as Pluto moved into Capricorn (based on the tropical zodiac on which foundation our entire time sequence is presently based).
But, what about the smaller picture, the more intimate, earth-based view? From our view, Pluto entered Capricorn back in January, went retrograde and has slipped back into Sagittarius for a bit, and will enter Capricorn on 26 November, 2008 (after keying in on the chart for Washington D.C., Pluto will hit 0ºCap.0'00 just after 8:00 p.m.).
Then I searched for connections, and this where all this came together for me.
This is a mid-point chart is a combination of two times that seemingly do not have a relevant connection. One time being the day Pluto moves into Capricorn (26 Nov. 2k8), and the other time is 22 April 1864, the date that the Civil War Congress passed the "Coin Act of 1864." (Please take note of the 22 April date. Here's the other dot.)
This act was the first time "In God We Trust" was introduced on our money. Things that make you go "hmmmm": If you read the history in the link above, you will notice that the acting Secretary of the Treasury in 1864 was Salmon P. Chase.
But, let's rotate the chart a bit ...
That's better ... does the symbol made by the aspects I highlighted look familiar?
Well, now, almost everything comes back to the Masons, now doesn't it. This image I found on a rather interesting German website about "The Longest Crusade".
I hope you had fun too. Its always kind of fun when you can link everything back to the masons, its kind of reassuring in a way. Much like the Kevin Bacon seven degrees of separation!
Now, I don't know if I have an answer for the calling the feelings of futility agitate deep in my being, but I'm a bit closer to it, I can feel it. Maybe, I'll just encourage you to check out Cynthia McKinney for President. Yes, I know this is not her time because we are not ready for that kind of change, but at least I am, so I will vote for her. Maybe you are too!
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
Transits are wonderful tools to use, either in planning or in retrospection. In planning, you can gauge the focus of the energy reflected in your chart on any particular day as it relates to you. Of course, you have the "x" factor of how the rest of the world is flowing in reaction or response to your energy, but, at least you can go forward with a certain level of awareness of how you are naturally working on a given day.
The more you study your transits in retrospection, the more you can understand them in present time or in prospecting your activities.
One thing I have noticed is the "whammie" transit. The transit over a planet involved in a quincunx or the "inconjunct". I have written quite a bit about that aspect, as it has proven to me to be one of the most powerful aspects to use in the "awakening" process. A transit over any natal or progressed quincunx of two planets produces a major "A Ha!" moment in almost the life of every person's chart I've worked with, including my own.
Imagine, if you will, a planet such as Mercury (or a stellium like our recent Mars/Mercury/Venus conjunction) being the catalyst to bring two energies within you together who know nothing about how to relate to one another ... scary? or exciting?
Recently, I had that stellium (Mercury/Mars/Venus) hit my Mercury-Moon quincunx. Giving a voice to the mom is how it was realized in my life. What I wasn't prepared for was the fall-out from the universe from the integration of those energies in my life. Giving a true voice to the mom, a wholistic mom, was not something the structures that existed around me were prepared to hear, and they silenced it very dramatically.
The recovery from a transit of the planets involved in a quincunx takes time and patience, let the energies represented by the two planets get to know each other in this new light. Understand it will be a process, and allow yourself to naturally go through the process and give it a bit more patience than you normally would for integration of other, more straightforward transits like squares, oppositions, trines, sextiles, etc. Because if a quincunx is anything, it is not as it first appears.
If its a fast moving transit like the personal planets it is a relatively short period of time before you can realize the full integration of the initial experience. As when the transiting planet hits the other planet in the quincunx, and then you will have the "full experience" of the integration of those two planets as introduced (or triggered) by the transiting energy.
If you have a quincunx in your natal chart or are working with one presently (as reflected in the progressed chart), realize that you cannot fear your own personal integration, your own wholeness. Be ready for and conscious of the transits over the quincunx whammie. And, if you have a "yod" or "finger of God" which is created by two quincunxes with a single planet foci, the transits also include the opposition to the foci planet.
The opportunities that get presented to you during those transits are life changing in the increase of your wholeness and integration. These transits are so important now as we individually and collectively work at becoming more aware, more awake, more conscious. As we as individuals become more, so too does our collective consciousness.
The quincunx aspect has similar energy to Uranus, it is sharp, drastic, surprising, sometimes upsetting, and very rarely is it subtle. A quincunx can be a source of a "blind spot" in your personality or ego, but it can also be the source of your greatest, deepest and most complete understanding of your way of being.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
living in midst of it, you sometimes forget the basics.
you find yourself wondering, "just how deep is it going to get?"
well, i take a bit of comfort understanding that pluto has eclipsed the galactic center and we are on a cycle for another 200+ years to our next realignment with our next largest cosmic marker. so, we have already experienced the deep shi(f)t.
that doesn't mean its not going to get uglier ... after all, the last time we experienced this deep alignment was in the late 1770s. here in america, there was a really nasty war or two after that happened, and almost 100 years later, we collapsed ourselves from within through one of the greatest deceptions of political history (e.g., the dissolution of the republic, creation of the new corporate america embattled in our "civil" war).
have you read "the shock doctrine" by naomi klein? i suggest that every person who is interested in the form and structure of our new reality that is being created as we read these words, read that book. to understand how this new structure is establishing itself, what it is sacrificing and what its potential is for creating the reality that we want.
oh, yes, while we are in the deep shi(f)t, you may want to remember, its our shi(f)t, and we can control how it smells and what it contains.
peace & harmony, elaine 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
