Quantum Paralysis

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!'

An Abstractionist View

Age is the external experience of your surroundings.
But, the truth is,
the deeper you are connected with the eternal,
the less you need to experience in the world
to understand yourself.

In his book, Astrology of Inner Space, Carl Payne Tobey retells a story that an inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. related to him about the nature of science. Tobey recalls,

"At one point, he put his hand on a floor lamp and [Hammond] said, 'we call this electricity and because we have given it a name we think we understand it, but we do not know what it is. In university, they classify and give names to things and think they have solved the problem. They have not. They do not know what electricity is.'"

Over 30 years later, [Tobey] told this story to a college student. [The student] said, 'But, that was a long time ago. Now, we know electricity is a stream of electrons.' 'Thought up a new name, eh?' [Tobey] commented. The student laughed, seeing the point. 'I guess you are right,' he said."

Not much has changed in over 35 years. And, in these past 35 years, another issue Tobey goes on to discuss has bored even deeper roots for our planet's system of materialism: our educational systems.

"Opinions depend on education and a large part of our education could be classified as brainwashing, and this kind of education is compulsory both here in in communist countries.

* * *

There are two opposing viewpoints in science and elsewhere. One is the materialistic viewpoint, the other the abstract. It would seem that the two can never meet. The materialist is less sensitive, restricted to what he can detect with his five physical senses; while abstractionists, particularly mathematicians, inventors and a large number of engineers, see with their minds....

The materialists believe in the doctrine of materialism, which tells us that all cause lies in matter. Others [abstractionists] consider that life itself is a primary cause....

Materialism thrives on rationalization, reasoning to a conclusion a priori, made in advance. Once the conclusion is made, evidence is carefully divided. All evidence that appears to fit into the doctrine is accepted. All evidence in conflict with the doctrine is excluded as not being respectable. Our compulsory educational system is heavily under the domination of the materialist. Our world of material science is principally under its domination."

(Astrology of Inner Space, Carl Payne Tobey, Omen Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1973.)

Using the labels as defined by Tobey, I am an abstractionist with a good dose of materialistic instinct. As it relates to astrology, Tobey discusses the system of houses and some of the more abstractionist views on which to understand the design of house in the horoscope. I highly recommend any student of Evolutionary Astrology to consider Tobey's in depth discussion on house systems.

I have long suspected the "Midheaven" to be the key to the shift of "living sidereally in a tropical world." Given, Tobey's perspective on the houses, I am more convinced that the Midheaven is the way out of and tool to use in the effective operation within "the Matrix" so to speak.

The "tropical" world (the world at large) and modern astrology is based on the materialistic point of view propagated by Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD). Removing from a system of communication and symbols based on cosmic order, the "signs of our time" were etched in stone or matter. It is that stone tablet that we find our clues and the keys to our freedom, only we need to infuse a bit of abstractionist thinking in this materialistic world, lest we maintain a level of superficiality that quiets the thinker, shackles the creators, and martyrs the saviors.

It was Ptolemy's ideas which were integrated into the Julian and then Gregorian calendars. Having a materialist time sequence that is based on what exists and then its existence rationalized (such as having a leap day every 4 years to "adjust" to the conclusion how dynamic time and space will be at that time), rather than experience what life creates in the moment is unnatural and creates an unnatural state of humanity and cosmic energy.

To understand the "unnatural state of humans," one can look to what the natural state is as described in our important documents like the Declaration of Independence, e.g., that humans are free, are creative beings (liberty), and are here to become happier and happier.

In this the next few years, there will need to be many people highly focused, willing and able to effectively operate in both realms of our reality as we transition to the new reality we are here to create. If you are one of those people and would like my perspective on your chart, please contact me.

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'

Life is Baseball, Baseball is Life

Selig’s Unilateral Rule Change Prompts Questions
The Controversy of Game 5

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!'