tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309120752024-03-16T18:51:17.283+00:00ASTROTABLETALKAstrologyBarry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger506125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-80981349764072082432024-03-13T21:57:00.005+00:002024-03-13T21:59:50.260+00:00MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD <p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dln7r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology provides a compelling myth for how the universe works, that is far older than the Christian story. We feel it in our bones, we cannot resist it. That is what a Creation Myth should feel like. None of this wondering whether the Bible is true or not. Of course, we doubt if astrology is literally true, as we should. But we live in an age where the only truth is literal truth, so that makes us doubt astrology itself. Never doubt that visceral feeling that your story is writ in the sky.</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="3mmje-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mmje-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mmje-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="it1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="it1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="it1-0-0"><span data-text="true">The culture at large has had, since the death of God, no unifying myth. The scientific story is not myth, it is mere fact without the power to take us outside ourselves. As the poets Yeats said in The Second Coming: "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="a8o3v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a8o3v-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a8o3v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="6dhpm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6dhpm-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6dhpm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology has a hold upon the population at large that Christianity does not, that the best efforts of the scientific establishment cannot undo. The non-rational always holds the power. That is why "a man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." It goes both ways! </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="a12e0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a12e0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a12e0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="8iflu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8iflu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8iflu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSht1VYyEuQSBGba8dZIYpKOjrLbKavAKLUYNeddgbDhl2NxLFfIJzPQILxAZlkgfn_TfEHOfN-xWUehjp9e6Y70T2ZhEBCM-0TeygqqDZ5E7Yd1JXyPaPJqr6t8nw0aGMSqdHHue25zdRGHdLuu_Y3G3pYenDJ7Mb2uRfbg2AmiT_LroFvxrEQ/s526/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="526" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSht1VYyEuQSBGba8dZIYpKOjrLbKavAKLUYNeddgbDhl2NxLFfIJzPQILxAZlkgfn_TfEHOfN-xWUehjp9e6Y70T2ZhEBCM-0TeygqqDZ5E7Yd1JXyPaPJqr6t8nw0aGMSqdHHue25zdRGHdLuu_Y3G3pYenDJ7Mb2uRfbg2AmiT_LroFvxrEQ/w400-h293/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Yeats continues, "the best lack all conviction, and the worst are full of passionate intensity." We see things falling apart in the rise of relativism and its injunction that there are no absolute truths - it has a point - but goes to extremes in eg the dismantling of gender, about which the worst are full of passionate intensity, denouncing those who do not agree. (The research shows such people to be low on verbal intelligence.)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="ammur-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ammur-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ammur-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="ehsut-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehsut-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ehsut-0-0"><span data-text="true">I want to say that astrology does provide an absolute truth. Our stories ARE written in the sky. Maybe the only absolute truths are mythological? They are absolute because you feel them in your bones, you would die for them.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="d3rpn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d3rpn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d3rpn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="ap5sv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ap5sv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ap5sv-0-0"><span data-text="true">The lack of a unifying religious myth is, IMO, the central problem of our culture. It is worth recognising that, if you are an astrologer, you do have one, a very ancient and primal one: the idea that your destiny was written into the universe at the moment of your birth. Jung, a somewhat secret astrologer, said the same kind of thing. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="e9qrv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e9qrv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e9qrv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="tujc" data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology is not an 'add-on' to other modalities, as I have seen it put: it is the thing itself. We have a faith that is deep and ancient, and which is harder than many to get dogmatic about; but people still do in their slavish adherence to 'tradition', as if it is not something that has to be continually re-invented to stay alive.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6m0hq-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="e7q9g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7q9g-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="e7q9g-0-0"><span data-text="true">PLUTO</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="e7q9g-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and the ANIMAL</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="c49po-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c49po-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c49po-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pluto is the instinctual, the animal. Aquarius is the human. Humans like to think they are above the animal. Airy Aquarius could write whole books, and create whole theologies, in defence of human superiority.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="5iepe-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5iepe-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5iepe-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="d33l1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d33l1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d33l1-0-0"><span data-text="true">When Pluto enters Aquarius, there is a reckoning. If the animal has been relegated, his response will be savage. Think the French Revolution, when Pluto was last in this sign, and what Christianity had previously done to the animal. Think about Evolution, with humans implicitly at the top of the chain of being, where God used to be. Think - perhaps - the horrors of transgender surgery on young people as the savage animal response.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="6n3ac-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6n3ac-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6n3ac-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6pb9k" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let us welcome the animal. In the words of Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese: "You do not have to be good.... you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ----------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">The Sun tells us who we are, it speaks of the fire in us and its purpose. That is why sunshine is good for you π¦</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> -----------------------------------------<br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="485ac-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aembr" data-offset-key="crp4g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="crp4g-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="crp4g-0-0"><span data-text="true">URANUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="crp4g-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and JOE BIDEN'S MENTAL CAPACITY</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aembr" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-text="true">Joe Biden's mental capacity was questioned in a recent report. This is not a good sign for him, in a year in which Uranus will be opposing both his Sun and Mercury. Expect this issue to develop. With Sun and Mercury hidden in both the 12th and in Scorpio, the issue is probably already a lot worse than we know.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUfLd2hYsquP5R6MaucQ9txE4NNL4B1lTYerg_oq9JBchHur7w3gTEHqMGG-pOxsls05e2iJI_c09rtkSmjYeabKO2p8CLxy_fRHZlDbFnrXXnOttz_ycY5pd8IuarSMQPmqtLwuvoNOznyiB_N5sLB9R-6ufwTIfeHUTRJv8WmvXs2gmUELklw/s1437/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUfLd2hYsquP5R6MaucQ9txE4NNL4B1lTYerg_oq9JBchHur7w3gTEHqMGG-pOxsls05e2iJI_c09rtkSmjYeabKO2p8CLxy_fRHZlDbFnrXXnOttz_ycY5pd8IuarSMQPmqtLwuvoNOznyiB_N5sLB9R-6ufwTIfeHUTRJv8WmvXs2gmUELklw/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1lah5-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">AN OFFER YOU CANNOT REFUSE π
Buy either of my books on Amazon - pictured below - leave a genuine rating, and I will give you a FREE astrology reading. The books are very readable, and I defy you not to be seriously tempted once you have read some of the reviews. I blogged for 15 years before I wrote them, and I think I know in my bones what I write about. There, I'm boasting now π€£ If you're not a great reader, I have also created a video course for Watkins Books on The Medicine Wheel, <a href=" https://www.watkinswisdomacademy.com/p/the-medicine-wheel-maps-of-transformation " target="_blank">which you can find here</a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hn04-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1lah5-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTskMzzVfIDSBqDPLRPoez6FmbzH0YNDVbyYO4Qlmgx3u3S_k6pzOs8olDpfcBcSCu_VVJZ5T0URDqXBDDCtGz6RrLwQakDTYETy5TPGDApE8WVc7Y3tT28sDC6n1CCYi1cBe_NahFiaaMaqTIubb3SvYCJ2TuAe6tDCPKR__HxHqBxI53P90Irw/s327/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTskMzzVfIDSBqDPLRPoez6FmbzH0YNDVbyYO4Qlmgx3u3S_k6pzOs8olDpfcBcSCu_VVJZ5T0URDqXBDDCtGz6RrLwQakDTYETy5TPGDApE8WVc7Y3tT28sDC6n1CCYi1cBe_NahFiaaMaqTIubb3SvYCJ2TuAe6tDCPKR__HxHqBxI53P90Irw/s320/a.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /> <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WUEpJijHr2d1tzdD-B3O4GaHWeF5G4CZfhyiNp69ghwW1zIQaru79sgB14QiUGgLVfcXHZKbRQWkdLN3p4HCXzmz0q5_i7vGtf62pLOiKCxlz-Dhpwxi1yTb_kZOt_3C_0c-wvNtKvFoUfD-FKNoNp21S1aVDM13DPiuyXgCv0ekMOAwStLLjA/s327/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WUEpJijHr2d1tzdD-B3O4GaHWeF5G4CZfhyiNp69ghwW1zIQaru79sgB14QiUGgLVfcXHZKbRQWkdLN3p4HCXzmz0q5_i7vGtf62pLOiKCxlz-Dhpwxi1yTb_kZOt_3C_0c-wvNtKvFoUfD-FKNoNp21S1aVDM13DPiuyXgCv0ekMOAwStLLjA/s320/a1.jpg" width="207" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Finally, the latest batch of 10 minute astro-videos by yours truly:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuBOh8oEni8" target="_blank">HELL'S GRANNIES</a></h1><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmM1faZFfE&t=3s" target="_blank">THE SHADOW of the SUN Part 1</a> <br /></h1><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoVshTmz9Y&t=57s" target="_blank">THE SHADOWS OF GEMINI AND SAGITTARIUS</a></h1><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEfsbh6WLEM&t=395s" target="_blank">THE SHADOWS OF CANCER and CAPRICORN</a></h1><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata">
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Self-knowledge lies not in accruing explanations for who we are, but in knowing our callings: doing that which we have to do. The astrological chart shows us the gods, the daemons knocking at our door: that is what the planets really are. Childhood explanations for who we are tend to take us away from the mystery and its creative power.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64m6a-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="64m6a-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="68spv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68spv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="68spv-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NmHI2vosZauCyUTWOq8osx4OqJp0-fD8JldruqpcXlqyEEgc3zBl_UdCfmnQW6YCGu-OuO-P4EGPDb1weB1mZM7EpzG7R7V_qpXx5QmiyOu1v6FUAJ04uCy3Na3dIu3YSP6gBLN-CwJpZH0ZJ-_G0sPXlOuayFUoSXUC6SkQjsdwo4voP_ue1A/s227/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="222" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NmHI2vosZauCyUTWOq8osx4OqJp0-fD8JldruqpcXlqyEEgc3zBl_UdCfmnQW6YCGu-OuO-P4EGPDb1weB1mZM7EpzG7R7V_qpXx5QmiyOu1v6FUAJ04uCy3Na3dIu3YSP6gBLN-CwJpZH0ZJ-_G0sPXlOuayFUoSXUC6SkQjsdwo4voP_ue1A/s1600/a.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br />"The soul... hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar." (</span></span><span data-offset-key="68spv-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Wordsworth</span></span><span data-offset-key="68spv-0-2"><span data-text="true">)</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68spv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="68spv-0-2"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="5jlv8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5jlv8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5jlv8-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">From The Journey by Mary Oliver</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="avadq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="avadq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="avadq-0-0"><span data-text="true">"One day you finally knew</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="d49oq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d49oq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d49oq-0-0"><span data-text="true">what you had to do, and began,</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="at1h5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at1h5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="at1h5-0-0"><span data-text="true">though the voices around you</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="69v3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="69v3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="69v3-0-0"><span data-text="true">kept shouting</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="7d9lj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7d9lj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7d9lj-0-0"><span data-text="true">their bad adviceβ</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="8qv4l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8qv4l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8qv4l-0-0"><span data-text="true">though the whole house</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="79bot-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="79bot-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="79bot-0-0"><span data-text="true">began to tremble</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="agr8p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agr8p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="agr8p-0-0"><span data-text="true">and you felt the old tug</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="7f6k7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7f6k7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7f6k7-0-0"><span data-text="true">at your ankles.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="vneb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="vneb-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="vneb-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Mend my life!"</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="980vn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="980vn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="980vn-0-0"><span data-text="true">each voice cried.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="7n4hs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7n4hs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7n4hs-0-0"><span data-text="true">But you didn't stop.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3vrig" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">You knew what you had to do...</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ---------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">My main output continues to be short videos, but I will be giving you the youtube rather than the tiktok links from now on, as they were problematic for some of you. I am having fun making them; there is something I can express through speech that I cannot through writing. Maybe it is the electricity of my Mercury in Aquarius opposite Uranus! Here goes:</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">(1) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU1mJsw5qEs&t=5s" target="_blank">Faith, Intuition and Astrology</a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">(2) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MySUQlvpCY&t=306s" target="_blank">Mercury: Your Unique Intelligence</a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">(3) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyKvZwb2UCw&t=2s" target="_blank">Aquarians Part 1</a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">(4) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC8cwX_ImV8&t=3s" target="_blank">Saturn Surrenders </a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4kpjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">(5) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkMfd0RfT4&t=26s" target="_blank">Why Fate is Sexy </a></span></span></span></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-41670855627745605472024-02-13T17:42:00.006+00:002024-02-13T17:44:09.741+00:00VIDEOS<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Mars conjoins Pluto on Wednesday, and the world holds it breath as Israel prepares its potentially terrible purge of Rafah.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> ------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">There
is too much correlation between the movements of the planets and human
affairs to say that the planets do not cause events; but not enough
correlation to state definitively that they do. As astrologers we dance
along the diaphanous pathway between this world and the other, avoiding
the temptations of ungrounded mysticism on the one hand, and
reductionist material explanations on the other.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> -------------------------------------------</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">The
series of Pluto transits I lived through in the 90s was my real
qualification to be an astrologer. It wasn't any courses I had been on,
or books I had read, but the hard-won Plutonian knowledge of the soul
and it's transformations.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> ------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">I have started making videos for Tiktok, maximum 10 mins each. Here are the tiktok links to the show so far π Blogger said they were too big to upload directly<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thexastrologer/video/7334527441584573729" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">MARS-VENUS-PLUTO IN AQUARIUS</span></span></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thexastrologer/video/7334792669761228064" target="_blank">Pluto in Aquarius </a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thexastrologer/video/7335043092531268896" target="_blank">WILD GEESE </a> (Me reciting a Mary Oliver Poem)<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thexastrologer/video/7335102528385731872" target="_blank">THE ASTROLOGY OF CREATION </a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></p>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-27403223895039515192024-02-06T22:33:00.002+00:002024-02-06T22:51:44.834+00:00THE FISHER KING<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="9s1l1-0-0"><span data-text="true">When</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9s1l1-1-0"><span data-text="true"> the king is ill, the country does not thrive. While Big Ben was silent for 4 years from 2017, the country was politically paralysed over Brexit. Symbolism is a real thing, as any astrologer can tell you. </span></span></span></p><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="7ej1n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ej1n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7ej1n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="cpr0e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpr0e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cpr0e-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNqv288ibe03QxYzRakXzM3pn5dZY9W7ucDpH3X-ktkg2Marw4FXAFRb2VcM1r6rclQwHW47C7qOJDVvYF-Jh2mxgbSQhf71zRxtIHvMrAAYJPFz4MHWOHgPHYJzPKFP2Dj5IFq2AzFWEFvq84ZdpGgZ3Q3SWNpeACTxNrngdp7-dYEDD2FBtVQ/s600/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNqv288ibe03QxYzRakXzM3pn5dZY9W7ucDpH3X-ktkg2Marw4FXAFRb2VcM1r6rclQwHW47C7qOJDVvYF-Jh2mxgbSQhf71zRxtIHvMrAAYJPFz4MHWOHgPHYJzPKFP2Dj5IFq2AzFWEFvq84ZdpGgZ3Q3SWNpeACTxNrngdp7-dYEDD2FBtVQ/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The country needs renewal: that is what King Charles' illness tells us. The Fisher King, the guardian of the Holy Grail, recovered, and his land recovered, when Parsifal asked him, "Whom does the Grail serve?" In our case, we maybe need to ask "What is the point of the UK, who are we now?" We lost an Empire, and tried to find a new purpose as part of the EU. That didn't work out. So who are we? We have an election coming up, but neither party has the vision of renewal necessary for the King to be well again.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="2o8e9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2o8e9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2o8e9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="dek1k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dek1k-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dek1k-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZB1wkdoJ-vJowppyvM_VNRBIc2dlXqaAa9FOKymLeyO__-eh-387nPUvZwVn_iMXemdoRm3XcvtJ1dfwqs_r0DW54rZPs_U9BiB9kZYwTqO-bcgiXDXodcZk0XIyidK_XpGNiIcgb-V3c6DzTgV-JWuMDNsa9Ngz49Tez5zrGsGw7hC5vNdZxQ/s1311/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZB1wkdoJ-vJowppyvM_VNRBIc2dlXqaAa9FOKymLeyO__-eh-387nPUvZwVn_iMXemdoRm3XcvtJ1dfwqs_r0DW54rZPs_U9BiB9kZYwTqO-bcgiXDXodcZk0XIyidK_XpGNiIcgb-V3c6DzTgV-JWuMDNsa9Ngz49Tez5zrGsGw7hC5vNdZxQ/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Charles has Leo Rising, befitting a king. It is ruled by Sun in the collective sign of Scorpio, conjunct Chiron: his wound is collective. Uranus is currently opposing his Sun, a lightning rod for the country's malaise. In the Fisher King story, the wound is to the groin - the place that generates new life - very appropriate for Chiron in Scorpio.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="38pg8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="38pg8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="38pg8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="5vgnj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5vgnj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5vgnj-0-0"><span data-text="true">My theory is that England forgot who she was 1000 years ago, when the Norman (Viking) conquest turned us into a conquering nation, beginning with the rest of the British Isles. The Empire has gone, and Scotland and Northern Ireland may go too. Charles' kingly line began with the Normans: that is one way of seeing the wound that he carries. His illness is that old soul loss healing. Just a theory :)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="63m0u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="63m0u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="63m0u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="84l6a" data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8gKIosGJ_SP-dG7Hq-Dz8suw-vPEzWkdTtDcsN6_9G07P3BvsNdWEeFrmGc9oqA8FRtjO2mdmIZ-nR3c3NUydwDCMp7hoWvW21ulUkj5Gk3f8iV8qq5r-QqyYtoCdKGr-gmIySaFLXDW5WuZ3FMvlQb2ZBMg12k0aQkE1NXpfHREkYL9f4WtGA/s1311/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8gKIosGJ_SP-dG7Hq-Dz8suw-vPEzWkdTtDcsN6_9G07P3BvsNdWEeFrmGc9oqA8FRtjO2mdmIZ-nR3c3NUydwDCMp7hoWvW21ulUkj5Gk3f8iV8qq5r-QqyYtoCdKGr-gmIySaFLXDW5WuZ3FMvlQb2ZBMg12k0aQkE1NXpfHREkYL9f4WtGA/w400-h220/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We may have to wait until next year, when Neptune enters Aries and begins a long slow sweep across the UK's Sun, Moon and Angles, to start to find the way again post-Brexit, with humility and reality: no longer a superpower; and no longer the next best thing, the vicarious power that came with being part of the EU.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="37iv-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1lbep" data-offset-key="9d3l5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9d3l5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="9d3l5-0-0"><span data-text="true">KING</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9d3l5-1-0"><span data-text="true"> CHARLES' HEALTH</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1lbep" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pluto is currently changing signs in King Charles' 6th House of Health, while squaring his Moon/Node in Taurus. This suggests his cancer diagnosis is of major significance. Pluto will not finally leave his 6th House until the end of 2027, giving a possible time frame for his illness. At that point, Neptune will be completing a square to Prince William's Sun-Moon conjunction in Cancer: a defining change for him is also in the offing. Uranus has also just turned direct, opposing Charlesβ chart ruler, the Sun. Here is wishing him well!</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">Everyone
is weird once you get to know them. Aquarians are just more upfront,
even honest, about it. That is why they are Everyman.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">A
friend said recently that he felt Gemini was associated with the
fairies, and was that the case? I said if it wasn't, it is now.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">I
think Pluto in Aquarius will see GM crops come into their own, allowing
for improved food production in the 3rd world. The power (Pluto) of
technological invention (Aquarius.) Much of the opposition to GM, as
with oil, is simply hatred of technology and human progress, and Pluto
will march through that.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;">Astrology is poetry.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">All the planets from Jupiter outwards are going forward. Time to make new s**t happen.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHdWFjm6pu-4lHmuzU0sbBOHHAJR-mQK-cSPmDlP0Ya0XSaLn0PoSps42KDxcrQQP9bsUKRRz1oty7MO7hCxF6CtjRcBMSSUtqjd5igldnl04HKG9UZgkczE3YWMsyQ_bhzrJ4cmpnA39a8uELyrGoxDgpLm2fYWhqibrVdWmWrPK35yPkC2Vyg/s1437/a3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHdWFjm6pu-4lHmuzU0sbBOHHAJR-mQK-cSPmDlP0Ya0XSaLn0PoSps42KDxcrQQP9bsUKRRz1oty7MO7hCxF6CtjRcBMSSUtqjd5igldnl04HKG9UZgkczE3YWMsyQ_bhzrJ4cmpnA39a8uELyrGoxDgpLm2fYWhqibrVdWmWrPK35yPkC2Vyg/w400-h220/a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />On
12th Feb, Mars will cross the MC of the Northern Ireland chart, with
Venus following soon after. Pluto crossed it 3 weeks ago. An agreement
has just been reached on a return to devolved government, after a 2 year
gap due to Brexit fall-out. Pluto still has 2 more crossings to go this
year. NI is inching towards eventual reunion with Eire.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agsdr-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">The world is being held back from the abundant energy that nuclear power promises, and the abundant food that GM promises, by irrational fear of technology and hatred of humanity. The coming age of Pluto in Aquarius will march through this opposition, taking no prisoners, because it is our survival and flourishing (Pluto), through human inventiveness (Aquarius), that is at stake. And our destiny. Pluto is in this sense a protector of what humanity can become. Neptune in Aries will also play its part in this renewal of the collective dream. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agsdr-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agsdr-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-rZFhSn2Lhs_1TAWbtehdhyphenhyphenrQLy1Z-CJkv2OKe8hjkQaUdXEoC6Kv3SnFOoielYuPHljPQuUybapDsXPcoAIp_7lkvcirWhgdpayzCG1A3EZ7b6rO5B3jY5_TsV_pM1J_A1-ZnxtzCB5k4vU1FxcqaYhh6493uyZ2CmDJ-pXLHh9Q4hIt2RDsQ/s318/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-rZFhSn2Lhs_1TAWbtehdhyphenhyphenrQLy1Z-CJkv2OKe8hjkQaUdXEoC6Kv3SnFOoielYuPHljPQuUybapDsXPcoAIp_7lkvcirWhgdpayzCG1A3EZ7b6rO5B3jY5_TsV_pM1J_A1-ZnxtzCB5k4vU1FxcqaYhh6493uyZ2CmDJ-pXLHh9Q4hIt2RDsQ/w400-h200/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Elon Musk, with his vision of humanity as an interplanetary species, symbolises the optimism and inventiveness of this coming age. And let's not forget Uranus moving into Gemini too. A whole new age to look forward to.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agsdr-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="agsdr-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1ju:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE AQUARIAN REBELLION AGAINST GREEN POLICIES</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last transit of Pluto through Aquarius saw both the French and American Revolutions: the people rebelling against unrepresentative, authoritarian government. Power (Pluto) to the People (Aquarius.) I think we will see a similar mood in the coming years, this time with green policies as the focus, as they begin to erode people's standards of living. I'm not saying this is good or bad: I'm just saying I think it is what will <span></span>start happening. They have become the norm, and that is something Aquarius sees the holes in and pushes against.<br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdFIB24c8qxwJiUwrtKL8ZrBQvEJiFa-HihStAehke9MtGhG3Xatcg_5cpZjnKeNN0ibWLxqxAg_G8gS4M4B24zCkGCqf2g5EynAyvDLpZB0yhtpZeArJOKX-7WWluQiLp95D_hQt0al3mnxpahXRjApjzZwlIyerm3rV9hZm8W_z_crOceRMCw/s300/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdFIB24c8qxwJiUwrtKL8ZrBQvEJiFa-HihStAehke9MtGhG3Xatcg_5cpZjnKeNN0ibWLxqxAg_G8gS4M4B24zCkGCqf2g5EynAyvDLpZB0yhtpZeArJOKX-7WWluQiLp95D_hQt0al3mnxpahXRjApjzZwlIyerm3rV9hZm8W_z_crOceRMCw/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />In the UK we see it already, with the two main parties, in the run-up to a general election, vying to water down their commitments to net-zero. We saw it in the lack of media coverage of COP28. We see it in the huge protests by Dutch and German farmers against the imposition of green policies, and the rise to power of political parties that reflect this mood. In the US, Donald Trump is well-known for his lack of belief in the climate crisis. The rebellion will also be against the authoritarian, ideologically driven way net zero is often being implemented. The media is likely to tar this political movement with the label 'far right', a term that is gradually losing its meaning through over-use.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">If
you attempt to turn astrology into a statistical truth, then you
disrespect the gods and they will stop speaking to you. Astrology is not
scientific. It is not for us to try to probe and judge the workings of
the divine. It is for us to stand back in awe.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r2gl:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">VENUS IN CAPRICORN </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Venus is now in Capricorn. Not very romantic. Or, at least, not a time for love-bubbles, based around 2 people not knowing each other. That's so yesterday, so Venus in Sag. Venus in Capricorn wants you to listen to your experience, listen to the whole of yourself. That takes time and patience. But it can produce results that actually work, that last.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Aquarians,
if you want to be radical, be conservative. If you want to be even more
radical, go to church. Got this idea off Nick Cave <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1XbKPPMLE4" target="_blank">in this brilliant interview. </a>Nick Cave has a hell of a work ethic. I looked him up: Sun in
Virgo square to Saturn. </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r2jl:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">PLUTO IN CANCER?</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Sardinia, the use of the "femina agabbadΓ²ra hammer" was a women's practice. Whenever an elderly man or woman of a given family was dying and in great pain, the family would call for the AccabadΓ²ra or Lady of the Good Death. She would usually be a widow dressed entirely in black, who likely inherited her role from her own mother or grandmother. The title Accabadora means "She is the One Who Ends." She arrives with a large hammer of carved olive wood wrapped <span></span>in heavy wool, and is left alone with the individual who may yet be screaming in agony and terror. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfLkyyLHg-rVPkCza-tIvx22tdLnsO4u9AJvuyD7Sdcb5dBB-6e_mOI9mzMJUJ8ShTfnhZMMyZxI4v8Ik19quQsJj5v60VLtOxLHQRHxaBrQMwHGTPCa1qSe3TvK2Ei9nLsHvvzXVSONTKuhKJzkZc7w9o8aYmJAgmHJokpvxuCG1UApc9jR7Bw/s206/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="155" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfLkyyLHg-rVPkCza-tIvx22tdLnsO4u9AJvuyD7Sdcb5dBB-6e_mOI9mzMJUJ8ShTfnhZMMyZxI4v8Ik19quQsJj5v60VLtOxLHQRHxaBrQMwHGTPCa1qSe3TvK2Ei9nLsHvvzXVSONTKuhKJzkZc7w9o8aYmJAgmHJokpvxuCG1UApc9jR7Bw/w301-h400/a.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br />A witness testimonial of the practice translates: "It was dark. The room was illuminated by a single wick in mastic oil. The AccabadΓ²ra entered the house -- the door had been left open for her. She passed no one as she enters her patient's room at at the bedside. "She caressed the face of the dying person, chanted the rosary, sang one of the many lullabies usually sung to children. Finally she raised her hammer wrapped in thick, black wool, and gave a quick sharp blow on the skull. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">"She then left the bludgeoned patient in quiet peace, and our family blessed and thanked and paid her for her good work as she was leaving. It is a hard job. The AccabadΓ²ra may herself be feeble, and is often a friend of the ailing individual. So you must always respect her. "We do not consider her a murderer. In our village she is known as compassionate, a holy assistant in fulfilling the final destiny. Her act is loving and benevolent. She is our Last Mother." </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though usually done with a hammer, each AccabadΓ²ra may have her own technique, including smothering with a pillow, or climbing atop the sufferer to wrap her legs around the neck to squeeze the throat closed. The last recorded AccabadΓ²ras went about their missions of euthanasia in 1929 in Luras and in 1952 in Orgosolo. But a recent work of fiction about the life of a modern AgabbadΓ²ra alleges that the ancient practice still exists in rural parts of Sardinia, where there are no physicians or any other help for the suffering.β </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> === Photo: An AccabadΓ²ra ready to serve, though her hammer is considerably larger than would be used by a real AccabadΓ²ra. Inset: An actual femina accabadΓ²ra hammer in a Sardinian museum.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Ukraine War will have it's Mars Return in early Feb, a Mars (at 22
Capricorn) that is at the same degree as the Saturn-Pluto conjunction
the year before. That connection makes this minor war very significant
geo-politically. Whether the Mars Return leads to an escalation or to
negotiations, I do not know. But new developments are likely around that
time.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div data-visualcompletion="ignore-dynamic" style="padding-left: 8px; 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Ordinary humanity does not understand this, astrologers and healers do.</span></span></div><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x2lah0s x193iq5w xeuugli xsyo7zv x16hj40l x10b6aqq x1yrsyyn"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 xdt5ytf x2lah0s x193iq5w xeuugli xsyo7zv x16hj40l x10b6aqq x1yrsyyn"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r344:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">PLUTO in CAPRICORN CRISES</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pluto can be associated with crises, inasmuch as they often precede the fundamental restructuring that this planet engenders. Pluto's time in Capricorn has been a time of institutional (Capricorn) crises, beginning with the financial crisis of 2008, the biggest since the 1930s. Then there was the Eurozone crisis, the political crises that led to Trump and Brexit, and then the COVID crisis. Last but not least has been the climate crisis which big <span></span>business and government (both Capricorn) are being seen to ignore, despite protestations to the contrary, as Pluto leaves this sign.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">The
International Climate Conference (COP) started in March 1995. This year
it has its Saturn Return at 17 Pisces. Last year's COP 28 was barely
front page news. I reckon the age of climate anxiety is starting to come
to an end.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eni7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">The
transit of Neptune through Pisces will be remembered for its religious
madnesses around climate and gender and the victimhood of minorities.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-1670448473638546702023-12-31T14:50:00.001+00:002023-12-31T14:58:08.663+00:00NEW YEAR PIECES<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-0-0"><span data-text="true">NEW YEAR'S ASTRO-DICE </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sun in Aquarius in the 10th House.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cApxCxVw7cOMazIlhhdk4ETRoKBKXS5aUSgXb5xv20bcobUDKy-6eeHYZ1XYPcWFS75qTntS-kc_4TRJ-A_6hY89ct9MbNimVypU43JCGjoF7XZ1LYFpCHcr0FNT9VuW094fNZjdICQ1EeJvPocIFDLfS7n_i6dJYPleAM3DhhlzWaI0Ou0aPg/s259/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cApxCxVw7cOMazIlhhdk4ETRoKBKXS5aUSgXb5xv20bcobUDKy-6eeHYZ1XYPcWFS75qTntS-kc_4TRJ-A_6hY89ct9MbNimVypU43JCGjoF7XZ1LYFpCHcr0FNT9VuW094fNZjdICQ1EeJvPocIFDLfS7n_i6dJYPleAM3DhhlzWaI0Ou0aPg/s1600/a.jpg" width="259" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Going forward, this is a time for putting what you uniquely have to offer out into the world. It doesn't have to be noticed by a lot of people, it just needs to be out there. It is something different, that breaks up the rigid moulds that humanity usually creates around anything over time. If you are bothered by what other people might think, then consider that a warrior training: Aquarius is not a wallflower π<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2n26b-1-0"><span data-text="true"> PARADIGM SHIFT OF 2024-26</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="bg1nl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bg1nl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bg1nl-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Berlin Wall fell on 9 Nov 1989, 3 days before Saturn made his 3rd conjunction with Neptune in Capricorn: the dissolution (Neptune) of a wall (Saturn/Capricorn). Saturn makes stuff happen - transits involving him and Neptune or Pluto often bring world-changing events. It is not so much the event itself - a wall coming down, twin towers coming down - as the significance, the political implications. 4 years ago Saturn conjoined Pluto and Covid happened: not in fact the most major of diseases, but much of the world shut down in over-reaction, with huge economic and social consequences.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="4l4qq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4l4qq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4l4qq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="29pja-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="29pja-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="29pja-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyyJwMzWjAycxBQ2TNrq6LVIc2gPgBu3VCdMSQnbsEayzipUKdzXRP2bwivLa7iI6YKSJs6pCZngY38A42UKtb6RJdWZenu31Jh6FXdz-LVCPifw6slcuvPBvGt_b7JF2hCBQDIzG3d62cCvCLWPBY2F2GeeFm8b5aN065pNlkuBWdXRhMM9f73w/s275/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyyJwMzWjAycxBQ2TNrq6LVIc2gPgBu3VCdMSQnbsEayzipUKdzXRP2bwivLa7iI6YKSJs6pCZngY38A42UKtb6RJdWZenu31Jh6FXdz-LVCPifw6slcuvPBvGt_b7JF2hCBQDIzG3d62cCvCLWPBY2F2GeeFm8b5aN065pNlkuBWdXRhMM9f73w/s1600/a2.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br />Saturn and Neptune will conjoin in just over 2 years. Who knows what this will bring? Most astrologers saw something big coming up at the start of 2020, with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, but none of us could have guessed what it would be. Who foresaw Communism collapsing in 1989? (Actually Liz Greene got it pretty much right in her 1985 The Outer Planets and Their Transits.)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="18uh0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="18uh0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="18uh0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="8573i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8573i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8573i-0-0"><span data-text="true">We have 3 years of paradigm shift in the world, as Pluto beds into Aquarius in 24-25, and then Saturn-Neptune takes over. And Uranus enters Gemini. All 3 collective planets changing sign.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="fqnn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fqnn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fqnn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="3qt2d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3qt2d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3qt2d-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pluto in Aquarius is already bringing AI to the forefront. The first wave of AI was in the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution, when complex machines first began to do our work for us. That was when Pluto was last in Aquarius. It was also the time of the American and French Revolutions. The power (Pluto) of the people (Aquarius). This time, we have the culture wars. Now it is not enough for the power of the people to be centre stage: it is the oppressed minorities who are being thrust centre stage. Those who think this has gone too far call it 'woke'. It is a battle that has been won by the 'woke' at many universities (we saw the black woman head of Harvard defending calls for Jewish genocide recently, in defence of Palestinians, and keeping her job), and it may rage in the wider culture in the years to come, as graduates become influential in the world.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="eab19-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eab19-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eab19-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="chc40-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="chc40-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="chc40-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neptune, as ever, is harder to see. What has Neptune in Pisces brought with it? The dissolution of gender? The feeling that the end of the world is near through climate change?</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="76je8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="76je8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="76je8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="2qak0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2qak0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2qak0-0-0"><span data-text="true">OK, here is a stab at one meaning of Neptune in Aries: the end of apocalyptic thinking around climate-change. I will intrude my own opinion to say such thinking is silly: humanity has always been able to adapt to change, and we are now better at it than ever. So it is the apocalyptic mindset that will dissolve, as the power (Pluto) of our inventiveness (Aquarius) in relation to climate moves forward. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="4ikot-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ikot-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4ikot-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="7e4ee-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7e4ee-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7e4ee-0-0"><span data-text="true">Saturn and Neptune in Aries very much suggests a new vision for humanity. The transit of Neptune through Pisces has produced collective madnesses that I think many of us have felt, from the over-reaction to Covid through to the extremes of wokeness and fears of climate armageddon. The teenage transgender epidemic - and tragedy - and Just Stop Oil are emblematic of the madnesses we have been living through.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="5hhjc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5hhjc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5hhjc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9fvrk" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span data-text="true">As Pluto and Neptune change signs, I think we will begin to see these madnesses for what they are. Last time Neptune entered Aries was the time of the American Civil War, which brought a new vision for the country. There is a new vision brewing, it may have to be fought for (Aries), and its early stages will present themselves at the end of 2025/start of 2026 as Neptune and Saturn line up.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="ff1u6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ff1u6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="ff1u6-0-0"><span data-text="true">OPEN</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="ff1u6-1-0"><span data-text="true"> TO INVITES...</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="ebk1s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebk1s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ebk1s-0-0"><span data-text="true">I'm not a great advertiser of myself. But I reckon I'm good at running workshops of many varieties. It's something I love to do. I've been at it for nearly 40 years in one way or another. In my youth it was Buddhism. After a major revamp that turned into Astrology, Tarot, Medicine Wheel, Journeying, Pipe Ceremonies, Sweatlodges, Trance Dances and just general chewing stuff over: maybe my favourite :) I prefer not to plan too much, and let things unfold in their own way.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="be1e9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="be1e9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="be1e9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="b9uct-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9uct-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b9uct-0-0"><span data-text="true">The point of a teacher is to edge you in the direction of your own inner guidance. That is why I say cherish the things you don't agree with me about. If you've been in this group a while, I will almost certainly have said some things you don't agree with π€£</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="9o0qn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9o0qn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9o0qn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9qiok" data-offset-key="5eicd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5eicd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5eicd-0-0"><span data-text="true">I have 2 books as a sort of CV (pictures below), published by Moon Books in 2022. I'm not that inclined to set up workshops myself, but if you would like me to come and do something foran evening or a day or even a week, I will probably say yes, enthusiastically. Anywhere in the world! As long as I don't lose money on it. Happy to sleep in a tent. Or my van :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguq76vv4eBrIX5DJuUMb1DJc_C_vlnkj9ArZ7kS1oz-GDFS87ODq20H-bJwhIzi1R7EEJpRWZspTeLBrHkZgNsL6hwnqoit8iAqIb_OIJodTGiRfdpRzP5ZlZyN7AY1aelp4bglBJSRXcobKAddxz8b8K_xO0wgkPLgi6rvB_5dlFR7AtSOA_Gww/s320/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="207" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguq76vv4eBrIX5DJuUMb1DJc_C_vlnkj9ArZ7kS1oz-GDFS87ODq20H-bJwhIzi1R7EEJpRWZspTeLBrHkZgNsL6hwnqoit8iAqIb_OIJodTGiRfdpRzP5ZlZyN7AY1aelp4bglBJSRXcobKAddxz8b8K_xO0wgkPLgi6rvB_5dlFR7AtSOA_Gww/s1600/a.jpg" width="207" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQPveh9WuH9_sOzWYPZ1Q9GulBWs9DZzXkx3l1OAqw00DpwDMKXRNmXrxOX8CJniHovIoDLKn9zP4S3hyphenhyphensQWg7nsEbJkAK7xwb0CVY6geQ-fRbJCgPzV4UxIRH2JuXOwSvyO8ILKwOBSCu1Ta_ufJau57SwQ52gATbRBPdNsGsFlCGHxRFCFTVg/s320/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="207" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQPveh9WuH9_sOzWYPZ1Q9GulBWs9DZzXkx3l1OAqw00DpwDMKXRNmXrxOX8CJniHovIoDLKn9zP4S3hyphenhyphensQWg7nsEbJkAK7xwb0CVY6geQ-fRbJCgPzV4UxIRH2JuXOwSvyO8ILKwOBSCu1Ta_ufJau57SwQ52gATbRBPdNsGsFlCGHxRFCFTVg/s1600/a1.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /></div></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbta2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1br:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">FATE, FREE WILL and TIME</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Free Will is causality moving forward in time: what you do now bringing about an effect in the future. Fate is causality moving backwards in time: the future reaching out and bringing about an effect in the present. You can never be entirely sure how much is due to one, and how much is due to the other. Astrology takes place at the interface between these 2 causalities.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE SHAPESHIFTERS TRILOGY</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zrkiYkh13Zg81DcUeCQG1UMCUWLK-4qW0PkiirTeSdUJwVOSMAIMDvDS4AblMxiNTBqdzDO2chcl-AcDA6vmyaSGaK1S-2JNJ0v3Ifn48qQq592k7o-XrbcJmDbLgmSWr_pnDu42dawF-cFhRKc_DzDuBFKOyF-uXrwzuAOkWpWkAqWFdtABBw/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zrkiYkh13Zg81DcUeCQG1UMCUWLK-4qW0PkiirTeSdUJwVOSMAIMDvDS4AblMxiNTBqdzDO2chcl-AcDA6vmyaSGaK1S-2JNJ0v3Ifn48qQq592k7o-XrbcJmDbLgmSWr_pnDu42dawF-cFhRKc_DzDuBFKOyF-uXrwzuAOkWpWkAqWFdtABBw/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The chart above is for when I began writing my first book in 2021. It was not planned, one morning I just thought dammit, start. It is weighty, with all the Capricorn 10th. Before Christmas I signed a contract with an American publisher for my 3rd book, The Shapeshifters Trilogy, a shamanic fantasy in which those who can adopt animal form are abominated, but end up helping to save the world from a tyrannical cult of reason. I didn't plan the chart, I never do, I think that <span></span>is counter-productive to trusting one's own inner guidance. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHptRm4LZe6ZXzJ1PI2kp2uXAbNOIk2k5Fv_A_CdP249-xbqy7JnmSIpEZRI1qSE1cqxRwhmzlDPjWBnx06sCABsr-L2vmN9f76_BBLtymDxV412aNhpTZGyaXp2tfgQjA-nAFll4R7-K_LKLkooMaqKSo6qoqbkhZLRdkQgSmjJ8qiL7NdWKQQ/s1311/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHptRm4LZe6ZXzJ1PI2kp2uXAbNOIk2k5Fv_A_CdP249-xbqy7JnmSIpEZRI1qSE1cqxRwhmzlDPjWBnx06sCABsr-L2vmN9f76_BBLtymDxV412aNhpTZGyaXp2tfgQjA-nAFll4R7-K_LKLkooMaqKSo6qoqbkhZLRdkQgSmjJ8qiL7NdWKQQ/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The Shapeshifters Sun-MC aligns nicely with the 1st chart's Venus and MC, and is also sextile Jupiter and Saturn. I am Capricornian in my ambitions: I want something that will sell slowly and steadily over a long period. A cult classic, that is what I'd like it to be π</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWX-_yxnyhoppc24hB-Cs2tPIbn8dEOX20XrMUX9CNWH8mWdd2qV_HLH5bca9ZoChZq7qhownrpfj7rQh1uhO-v_GuAyX_bTxDne4_kXfIaZG-kVtjsStEEYmZaLRWJq_2-UoSQePpejvi3LRSSN8Wu36I5ugbdnbaJCeZcwCnnOOGei4mhVwgA/s2048/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2040" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWX-_yxnyhoppc24hB-Cs2tPIbn8dEOX20XrMUX9CNWH8mWdd2qV_HLH5bca9ZoChZq7qhownrpfj7rQh1uhO-v_GuAyX_bTxDne4_kXfIaZG-kVtjsStEEYmZaLRWJq_2-UoSQePpejvi3LRSSN8Wu36I5ugbdnbaJCeZcwCnnOOGei4mhVwgA/w399-h400/a2.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book Cover painting by Ali Broughton<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I particularly like the Mars-Mercury conjunction is Sag in the 9th. Perfect for signing a contract with a foreign publisher. I chose my moment well! Mercury is retrograde, but to me that just means there will be a few things to iron out along the way.<br /></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-23980406606387070062023-12-22T02:44:00.005+00:002023-12-22T02:44:50.824+00:00<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="a00vo-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="a00vo-1-0"><span data-text="true"> AMBITION OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES </span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="f3p8q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3p8q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f3p8q-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_AoJxwOR5055LDEoX57xzaeA-wyJjfRVCXQlZqASfJ-MeYBjGq4VageUmpTXCNgLeEhtW8zk5PigPivgj-2RU6eSELgNvcP9tqc4btKXHkBmh4j99piOnpHv6fmRCokzGyFLPey7zdNpXMi_v2xYryvTDV3UtCfBTzjcRNq9u-LNT-aoByRsig/s275/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_AoJxwOR5055LDEoX57xzaeA-wyJjfRVCXQlZqASfJ-MeYBjGq4VageUmpTXCNgLeEhtW8zk5PigPivgj-2RU6eSELgNvcP9tqc4btKXHkBmh4j99piOnpHv6fmRCokzGyFLPey7zdNpXMi_v2xYryvTDV3UtCfBTzjcRNq9u-LNT-aoByRsig/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I just watched the final series of The Crown on Netflix. The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, and her mother Carole were both portrayed as scheming and ambitious when it came to the matter of landing Prince William. It makes good drama, and typical license that Americans can take where the English couldn't, but isn't that really all it is? Not if you look at Kate's chart. Sun in Capricorn square to Saturn-Pluto in Libra. You don't need to know much astrology to see the power (Pluto) of the ambition (Capricorn) around marriage (Libra). It's actually a t-square with the Moon in Cancer, emphasising the centrality of her aspiration/ambition. Her mother also has Moon (mother) opposite Saturn (ambition).</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="ctpbu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ctpbu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ctpbu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="47n0n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="47n0n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="47n0n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="47n0n-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="5vvo3" data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><span><span data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="flere-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="flere-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="flere-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiAVqIsl_JAyBNTtnzNNotxSg_hkUSJkl93RySa-Gbu3TKRiEFp2xxTJIl-qD9hCeOtBSQsce9FpHC1Gt0HNDR9uYQ69OpQfvP_JzAOdmmf_1Tzm4lOB7tUMKIUmy8TVx0lhTkK6zi_6lkx-1LzgBj443k-u9EZdWDZfzc4fiGYEVY39-jVdkjQ/s1311/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiAVqIsl_JAyBNTtnzNNotxSg_hkUSJkl93RySa-Gbu3TKRiEFp2xxTJIl-qD9hCeOtBSQsce9FpHC1Gt0HNDR9uYQ69OpQfvP_JzAOdmmf_1Tzm4lOB7tUMKIUmy8TVx0lhTkK6zi_6lkx-1LzgBj443k-u9EZdWDZfzc4fiGYEVY39-jVdkjQ/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Poor</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="fldlm-1-0"><span data-text="true"> old William has a New Moon in Cancer in the 7th opposite Neptune. They saw him coming. The facts as portrayed in The Crown seem outrageous, yet they seem to be true: after William announced his uni plans - taking a gap year then attending St Andrews - Kate promptly dropped her plan to attend Edinburgh that year and copied William. She had never even met him at this point. And she did go to places, like Chile, where William was also known to be going during his gap year. She set out to land William, with her mother behind her, and she succeeded. She isn't stupid, and once at uni she would have turned it into a case of 'He chased her until she caught him.'</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="ejcvq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejcvq-0-0"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="5vvo3" data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fldlm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fldlm-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ejcvq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIwoMN4QD9TSqdVhx3sendinjQS1vVY-Wch5g0Fa_Pb3BnxankpkW-LOYB6_3L35R_ZPKowIBs34MmbmW6Xn8SgJMw0YxnIiV3jF7nlxMil7kWvAIXNIZOdPYXCM_7AVC1B3_AOhKyPIhUXFJNLjIv2orN0zx97PMRGBUwgZGkJoMTQyWLGM1DA/s1311/a2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIwoMN4QD9TSqdVhx3sendinjQS1vVY-Wch5g0Fa_Pb3BnxankpkW-LOYB6_3L35R_ZPKowIBs34MmbmW6Xn8SgJMw0YxnIiV3jF7nlxMil7kWvAIXNIZOdPYXCM_7AVC1B3_AOhKyPIhUXFJNLjIv2orN0zx97PMRGBUwgZGkJoMTQyWLGM1DA/w400-h220/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Now women aren't supposed to do this. It's OK for men to plot to land a woman, but not the other way round, particularly if the man is of higher rank: that makes the woman some kind of scheming gold-digging slut. So it has to be covert. No-one talks about Kate's early moves, now she is mother to 3 heirs to the throne. But The Crown talked about it, and well done them, for it is what happened.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="ar8ju-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar8ju-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ar8ju-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="foblo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="foblo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="foblo-0-0"><span data-text="true">But is it really not OK for a woman to aim high for a prospective husband? Is it not what happens all the time? Are not certain men 'good catches'? Let us be real about this. A competent or high-ranking man is good father material, and probably an interesting guy, and well done if you land one. There is also a big biological component to the way we choose mates. So let us not be too quick to judge her. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="5bsn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5bsn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5bsn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="arb50-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="arb50-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="arb50-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let's look at the charts again. William's chart seems very soulful (Neptune Rising in Sag) and oriented around relationship (New Moon in the 7th, opposite Neptune). With its very strong Saturnian/Plutonian influence, Kate's chart is much harder. There are no Sun-Moon interactions between William and Kate, so it is not very soulful, though the Mars-Venus interactions give a sexual connection.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="28m52-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="28m52-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="28m52-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="c3gd3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c3gd3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c3gd3-0-0"><span data-text="true">But Kate's Moon is in Cancer in William's 7th House. He feels nurtured by her. It would be easy to say he needed a mother figure because his mother Diana died when he was 15, but I'm not going to go there. That is too easy to say, and it is mere pop psychology. It is normal for men and women to be wanting to be cared for in a motherly or fatherly way by the spouse, but it is not spoken about, because it is the opposite of romantic. When it starts to become conscious - if it does- it often leads to a crisis in the relationship. We no longer want or need an 'other half'. But that is a whole other subject. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="9b6o6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9b6o6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9b6o6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="f1aal-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f1aal-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f1aal-0-0"><span data-text="true">So the bedroom is good, and William feels cared for, but his deepest self is not addressed. Does he even know who he is deep down, with his life planned for him from birth? Maybe he is happy to go along with that, as many would be. His father wasn't, to his credit, but most would. With Sun-Moon in the 7th, and Neptune Rising, William can - up to a point - be content to let others tell him who he is.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="555jl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="555jl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="555jl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="2gptq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2gptq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2gptq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let us drag in Fate, the bigger picture. Kate's Sun-Moon/Node opposition lands bang on the UK Moon at 19 Cancer. She is meant to be the Queen, the people (the Moon) will feel comfortable with her. She will be very responsible too. I find this placement remarkable. This is a bigger consideration than whether or not her and William are compatible at all levels. What couple is, for heaven's sake, particularly if they are regular folks living out the norms of their community?</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="2g13i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2g13i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2g13i-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="3n8d6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3n8d6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3n8d6-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4G8SicNgPp2BsXjuGzepkWeH40XBoEuKP6PkMZpMpgocLoPp7cml_T5qeSbpsIvGrGAlkHPjydADDEH8uE6LlKJscBaZkiAygsOXEr1KryDnuZX8M-p71qMn4_O1o2hIP6GBg9S7KMYOf5tjInqrkQQwpb-oVYt6LsTAhkdODyuGH5e53QfDzg/s225/a3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4G8SicNgPp2BsXjuGzepkWeH40XBoEuKP6PkMZpMpgocLoPp7cml_T5qeSbpsIvGrGAlkHPjydADDEH8uE6LlKJscBaZkiAygsOXEr1KryDnuZX8M-p71qMn4_O1o2hIP6GBg9S7KMYOf5tjInqrkQQwpb-oVYt6LsTAhkdODyuGH5e53QfDzg/w400-h400/a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />That said, I suspect there will be points at which William is drawn to women who do engage his Sun-Moon, and he may not understand why he is drawn. With her unusually ambitious chart - Sun-Moon-Saturn-Pluto t-square - Kate will do her best to stay slim and sexy and a good mother and everything she is meant to be, especially in the face of any infidelities on William's part. She has a super-hard shell. But there is something in William that I think will always elude her, his brooding Cancerian self, that may well reach for a mistress, as royals are entitled to do. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="bv41i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bv41i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bv41i-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ei2eh" data-offset-key="1alss-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1alss-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1alss-0-0"><span data-text="true">Watch out for Neptune squaring his Desc now, and his Sun-Moon in the coming years. Whatever does happen, we will probably not hear about it. Putting on a good show is something the royals do well.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1alss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1alss-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div></div><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="a1cou-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1cou-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="a1cou-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="a1cou-1-0"><span data-text="true"> PARENTAL FALLACY</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="5g6se-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5g6se-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5g6se-0-0"><span data-text="true">James Hillman was a Jungian, a fan of astrology and a very influential archetypal psychologist. I think what he says here has a lot of bearing on anyone who considers themselves to be a psychological astrologer:</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="1sn1j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1sn1j-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1sn1j-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="eht7l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eht7l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eht7l-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5u2XVrP6dTq2tKFln9OfrzdSl8JPMGJk-LkhS-ChN4iXHntH19FN0eFAEAQuFNsR1yI_Xq0DAC9Zi_hFoF_MUOGYQmbiVqssgT7d1sBfiiNoiouBPjHdKTaG6jzoENhZYU6B8du0wBQJ5gihKYuf0kIa2FCUBjAqCt0G2ic8zZKTjBiJDL8bsVA/s259/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5u2XVrP6dTq2tKFln9OfrzdSl8JPMGJk-LkhS-ChN4iXHntH19FN0eFAEAQuFNsR1yI_Xq0DAC9Zi_hFoF_MUOGYQmbiVqssgT7d1sBfiiNoiouBPjHdKTaG6jzoENhZYU6B8du0wBQJ5gihKYuf0kIa2FCUBjAqCt0G2ic8zZKTjBiJDL8bsVA/w400-h300/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />"If any fantasy holds our contemporary civilisation in an unyielding grip, it is that we are our parents' children and that the primary instrument of our fate is the behaviour of your mother and father. As their chromosomes are ours, so are their mess-ups and attitudes. Their joint unconscious psyche - the rages they suppress, the longings they cannot fulfill, the images they dream at night - basically form our souls, and we can never, ever work through and be free of this determinism....Psychotherapy compounds this fault." </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="bh93c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bh93c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bh93c-0-0"><span data-text="true">From The Soul's Code by James Hillman </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="drn91-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="drn91-0-0"><span data-offset-key="drn91-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3oeuk" data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">As astrologers, we know that the chart, not our parents, reveals our Fate, don't we?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="omfv" data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="c7gj9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7gj9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="c7gj9-0-0"><span data-text="true">WHEN</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="c7gj9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> TO AVOID RELATIONSHIP ASTROLOGY </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="6h1pt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6h1pt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6h1pt-0-0"><span data-text="true">Relationship astrology can be a bit like electional astrology, in that one is using astrology to see if an event/relationship is a good idea in advance, so to speak. And in that way bypassing the inner guidance that it is the job of astrology to support.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="56hps-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="56hps-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="56hps-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="6hepr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6hepr-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6hepr-0-0"><span data-text="true">I always say to people who are asking for a propitious time to do something, to do it when it feels right, or maybe just to get on and do it. The chart for when they did it will then tell them what they have done, it can help them understand that thing in themselves that took action. I tend to say no to electional astrology.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="efman-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efman-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="efman-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="c7oc3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7oc3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7oc3-0-0"><span data-text="true">And I think it's the same with relationships. Avoid looking at the charts till it's well underway. The astrology won't tell you if it's 'right' or not. All the Sun-Moon and Mars-Venus connections you could hope for won't make it right. And all the traditional incompatibilities or lack of aspects won't make it wrong. But then astrology can do an excellent job of unpicking the dynamics of the relationship.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="8bb37-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8bb37-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8bb37-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="c9lpp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c9lpp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c9lpp-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQLdh_QKPtYk_KG_abIKhyphenhyphenvdxLdw-d6x-HK1qFSjtXRrui_ENOz9-oCZPyjhXaFLldMLXCAiic89iewXuT80OyVzcBUYFhIUp8NJ0fhZVFj8zBwfSr80_G4zLbNOlt_tj1tquOnH47XeFUz5fO2T1JhS7oVx_u5EOhlX47vBnOsEngLZ3oMzBUw/s263/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="191" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQLdh_QKPtYk_KG_abIKhyphenhyphenvdxLdw-d6x-HK1qFSjtXRrui_ENOz9-oCZPyjhXaFLldMLXCAiic89iewXuT80OyVzcBUYFhIUp8NJ0fhZVFj8zBwfSr80_G4zLbNOlt_tj1tquOnH47XeFUz5fO2T1JhS7oVx_u5EOhlX47vBnOsEngLZ3oMzBUw/w290-h400/a.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br />Two people getting together is a soul thing that may take years to understand, and you know deep in yourself if it is the right thing to be doing or not. And it doesn't have to last forever. The fact that your charts 'miss' each other, for example, may provide a compelling desire to be around that person who sees life so impossibly differently. It may mean you can see each other clearly 'from the outside', so to speak, which can be a great gift. Square pegs and round holes can be just the thing. The one thing you don't want is boring!</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="emtsn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="emtsn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="emtsn-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="b5j1o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b5j1o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b5j1o-0-0"><span data-text="true">The battleground in ourselves is often between wanting it to be 'right' and our knowing that it isn't, and overlooking that. And maybe using astrology to persuade ourselves it is right. And it's hard for an astrologer not to think so too if he sees all sorts of flowing aspects. Putting that knowing first, in the face of our wants and fantasies and compulsions, is where we grow.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="9nppv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9nppv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9nppv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbkhh" data-offset-key="7sten-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7sten-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7sten-0-0"><span data-text="true">At the end of the day, as I say, it is a soul thing. It is about a synergy beyond words and reason. Everything we do is a soul thing - coming, as it were, from the centre of the chart, outside of space and time. It is the soul thing we need to learn to trust. You've gotta let life do its thing. And then trust what the astrology says about it. But don't put the cart before the horse: that way lies religion, the looking outside of oneself for guidance.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7sten-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7sten-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE AQUARIAN DAIMON <br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><span data-text="true">The</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="am8qa-1-0"><span data-text="true"> daimonic destiny of the Aquarian is to never be recognised by establishments of any sort. In this way one has to find that recognition for oneself, and that is a deep thing. It is a higher level of its ruler, Saturn. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="am8qa-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="am8qa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="am8qa-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitfYGJsS88yxrJ16GDUu15Q5T8nrqDnhKGpjnjeMSrpV6lN35QVVyVubdI9_6Bc9ZKrIz8t9tNxW2kErghZ9qec9MFSsKP0ReNUxBmljymJJU9Mg4SRybgjNbjptHViqBugnr7vS7Q2n62A1gavW_bxax5KRQ44enTPfB_B-n-9lZcid_X_hgBZg/s282/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="179" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitfYGJsS88yxrJ16GDUu15Q5T8nrqDnhKGpjnjeMSrpV6lN35QVVyVubdI9_6Bc9ZKrIz8t9tNxW2kErghZ9qec9MFSsKP0ReNUxBmljymJJU9Mg4SRybgjNbjptHViqBugnr7vS7Q2n62A1gavW_bxax5KRQ44enTPfB_B-n-9lZcid_X_hgBZg/w254-h400/a.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><br />This struggle to find and live from that unique source within, comes naturally to the opposite sign of Leo. That is why the Sun is in its fall in Aquarius. But what a gift it is, if you can stay the course.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f9l3k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div></div><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aas12" data-offset-key="2cdr7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cdr7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2cdr7-0-0"><span data-text="true">ASTROLOGICAL</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2cdr7-1-0"><span data-text="true"> MAGIC</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aas12" data-offset-key="fjt1q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fjt1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fjt1q-0-0"><span data-text="true">The astrologer doesn't need to tell you anything more about yourself than you know already for you to feel that the universe knows you, loves you, has your best interests at heart. And that the universe itself is alive, enchanted. We bring magic to people's lives.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aas12" data-offset-key="cvkjc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cvkjc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cvkjc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="aas12" data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIsmAXNYpID85VhKrA7ZXGVTsiR05lHPVmx4GM6AgYjQmOaflnGbP6UCS_iL1PRV_j4NXIWcFjsuzYCKWlBskW6vNJuXmzCDDsdjU_YBK3dy0LDG4raZuQkao5eK39kZT4tQPl_mSl5JbAGPl-3WlF4P9VTq2hs7xvMmWhtqAPP1Vfe7SajZnMQ/s540/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIsmAXNYpID85VhKrA7ZXGVTsiR05lHPVmx4GM6AgYjQmOaflnGbP6UCS_iL1PRV_j4NXIWcFjsuzYCKWlBskW6vNJuXmzCDDsdjU_YBK3dy0LDG4raZuQkao5eK39kZT4tQPl_mSl5JbAGPl-3WlF4P9VTq2hs7xvMmWhtqAPP1Vfe7SajZnMQ/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Moving forward, the gods, in the form of the planets, speak through the astrologer: her job is to help you align with their callings, which find voice through what it is you love to do, or would love to do if you dared. That which you cannot resist, and which never goes away. That may take a major transit for you to take seriously.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3ka1q-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cv8ur" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> ASTROLOGY OF THE DEVIL </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true">I watched a recent long-form interview with Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.) I was reluctant, because he's got such a reputation as a nasty piece of work. But it was Lex Fridman doing the interview, and I like him. Besides, the people who hate Bezos tend to hate anyone who is wealthy and powerful. So I watched, pushing myself through my prejudice, and I found I quite liked him. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0-3S1uD_JJqPF0X09FYf4LsCDj8UpStVffNhGjVtIP1AjkiebeJXBHoRskEbO8eHBaB_PF4sC-Yo6pqy7_KF9DCc5nvIxxAfw8LaWZ9gKRdI-hovtSlGKC_enIZbtmVefeEuAEz3WMyWZHg1PGCRQDc_I84L_b7SxjUlyvzK_j_Il0qSWQneQjA/s259/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0-3S1uD_JJqPF0X09FYf4LsCDj8UpStVffNhGjVtIP1AjkiebeJXBHoRskEbO8eHBaB_PF4sC-Yo6pqy7_KF9DCc5nvIxxAfw8LaWZ9gKRdI-hovtSlGKC_enIZbtmVefeEuAEz3WMyWZHg1PGCRQDc_I84L_b7SxjUlyvzK_j_Il0qSWQneQjA/s1600/a.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><br />Like many very successful people, he has some exceptional qualities, which are worth imbibing. We don't have a birth time for him, but there is still a lot we can tell. He has Sun conjunct Mars in Capricorn - would you expect less from a man who can build a huge business over decades? I reckon it is what attracts the 'bad guy' projection - which of course makes the rest of us feel comfortably virtuous. We can congratulate ourselves we are not ruthless and heartless like Mr Bezos π€£ </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKxBv1N9YUaq3bR9nuZMiHTxd0NHf6Bj3LMhSKRXWItlhOJzJjwNOUacgPpG49C9NEk77R4HNKva8ZzFVtmaXz_irgVvp_9eLyGX5-ZgnCft_bf-O37H9OKQzJYnsvzY6nLQWJKpkcAdfDDwUDpM26qtxM0K0HuYuYYeUO3oBQLD6bKzi7arsig/s992/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="673" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKxBv1N9YUaq3bR9nuZMiHTxd0NHf6Bj3LMhSKRXWItlhOJzJjwNOUacgPpG49C9NEk77R4HNKva8ZzFVtmaXz_irgVvp_9eLyGX5-ZgnCft_bf-O37H9OKQzJYnsvzY6nLQWJKpkcAdfDDwUDpM26qtxM0K0HuYuYYeUO3oBQLD6bKzi7arsig/w271-h400/a.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br />I was struck by the way he worked: he calls meetings in which someone will have spent 2 weeks preparing a paper. They all begin by spending 30 mins in silence, reading it. And then there is a free-form, wandering discussion. That made me think that this man has got Saturn and Neptune working creatively together: they are often opposites in people, creativity vs diligence, order vs chaos. I looked at his chart, and found Venus conjunct Saturn square to Neptune. Amazon as a whole expresses this spirit: on the one hand it has become very big and substantial (Saturn) while being very innovative (Venus-Neptune.) </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true">He gave up being CEO of Amazon a few years ago, to concentrate on his space enterprise. Like Elon Musk, he is dedicated to making humanity an interplanetary species. It is fascinating that there are people actually trying to do this. Much of the interview was Bezos talking about the ins and outs of spacecraft and rocket engineering. He has a wide square from his Sun to Jupiter in Aries: there is the adventurer. And he probably has Moon in Sagittarius. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true">Amazon occupies the shadow place in the psyche of many, that MacDonalds did 20 years ago. The Great Satan, just as the US is to the mullahs in Iran. I will say just one thing: it is a simplistic position, as these things usually are. Beyond that, in the interests of your psychological stability, I will leave undisturbed your need to see Jeff Bezos and his offspring Amazon as the Devil Incarnate π <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWqzZ3I2cY" target="_blank">Here is the interview.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="744ln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="744ln-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-17746987003701185182023-12-14T10:42:00.003+00:002023-12-14T10:45:20.753+00:00FIVE PIECES<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="600oc-0-0"><span data-text="true">NEPTUNE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="600oc-1-0"><span data-text="true"> DREAMS</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="1e48l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1e48l-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="flc" data-offset-key="600oc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="600oc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neptune is now moving forward. When he is retrograde, he is pulling inwards, giving dreams that pre-figure our life. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="600oc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="flc" data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeZa0hlktpTqo0CeLEDibXRvEIeHkSB91JUC1X8V4kxb64sxgIVoVEfaSEmWkgDWcIC28bKGtFBhWPdNJTMQTLhYvFQD8PfXVtDAgznEsZcHoW5j9Nf1oTfmmmjIOt3TG0JgcRalKQUdNjRP_PgeVotZsShcjYs6g3fHxxzj30QjwxtGEz2nHsA/s232/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="232" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdeZa0hlktpTqo0CeLEDibXRvEIeHkSB91JUC1X8V4kxb64sxgIVoVEfaSEmWkgDWcIC28bKGtFBhWPdNJTMQTLhYvFQD8PfXVtDAgznEsZcHoW5j9Nf1oTfmmmjIOt3TG0JgcRalKQUdNjRP_PgeVotZsShcjYs6g3fHxxzj30QjwxtGEz2nHsA/s1600/a.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br />These dreams are from outside time, from the pattern of Fate set down at birth. Their time is now. There is nothing to be done. Neptune is always 'Not my will but thine.'</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="349i2-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="1e48l-0-0"><span data-text="true">NAVIGATING</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="1e48l-1-0"><span data-text="true"> THE UNDERWORLD </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="auaf0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="auaf0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="auaf0-0-0"><span data-text="true">The first crossing of a hard Pluto transit, schematically, is a demolition job. The old paradigm has to go. The suffering we experience at these times is in large part due to attachment to old ways, old habits of being. They have served their time, even though this may not be recognised as such. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="196od-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="196od-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="196od-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="1jfo9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1jfo9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1jfo9-0-0"><span data-text="true">If it is our life itself that is going, the transit tells us that it is time, it is our Fate. It may appear brutal from a human point of view, but from the point of view of death it is necessary and even commonplace. Trust it.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="5e70q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5e70q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5e70q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="7b4re-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7b4re-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7b4re-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrifibMYWt3Jg57WxxRCUJdgF1VOqcgWd-qxE2ApArLY0I-gW3sgZiKr4-XqLC5IWVL5_91g0W6XNNzAtDjeWjqqKd4j2NSUiiCfFTXvGMx81utcCMKVzZCyHQWEfkLVJTbAgD_2kB7Tm-7ixOfxtLljnkg6HPuXzMffxwZAUMMZsFEOGUdwfr4g/s600/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="600" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrifibMYWt3Jg57WxxRCUJdgF1VOqcgWd-qxE2ApArLY0I-gW3sgZiKr4-XqLC5IWVL5_91g0W6XNNzAtDjeWjqqKd4j2NSUiiCfFTXvGMx81utcCMKVzZCyHQWEfkLVJTbAgD_2kB7Tm-7ixOfxtLljnkg6HPuXzMffxwZAUMMZsFEOGUdwfr4g/w400-h265/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The next stage, the retrograde crossing, is when we are mulched. The pieces are taken to the breakers yard deep underground, where the dwarves can busy themselves with reconstruction. The energy of the old is used to make fertile soil for the new. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="9vp7s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vp7s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9vp7s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="17kbv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="17kbv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="17kbv-0-0"><span data-text="true">It is in the second direct crossing that the new can reveal itself, can be claimed from the depths of the ordeal, its raison d'etre. Another piece of the code, the pattern that we were born with - which the sky story at birth has been generous enough to reveal - is ready to come into place. But it is not an add-on. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="4v5mp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4v5mp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4v5mp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="fpakv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fpakv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fpakv-0-0"><span data-text="true">It may be that discomfort, the thing that never worked over the years, the inconvenience we thought we could ignore or maybe change, which has reared its head, now glaring Medusa-like in its full power, perhaps raging at having been excluded for so long. It demands that we arrange our whole lives, our whole sense of who we thought we were. The whole process can be dark and unrelenting, and there may have been a build-up for years beforehand. But that can be what it takes to break through old habits of being. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="a4ps6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a4ps6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a4ps6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="aqpjg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aqpjg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aqpjg-0-0"><span data-text="true">You will never regret what is born. You will be deeply thankful, perhaps through gritted teeth. You could never have seen what it was that was waiting to be born. Those are the limits of knowing that astrology teaches us, that you can take forward from the transit into life's continuation. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="c1k13-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c1k13-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c1k13-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="5eot8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5eot8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5eot8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology, or the astrologer, can at least accompany you to the gates of the Underworld and explain its necessity, and give you faith in the outcome. And then leave you to cross those barren plains, alone, as it has to be.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="3dbrm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3dbrm-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3dbrm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2eka7" data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span data-text="true">This is from someone who is about to have Pluto cross his Venus for the first time. Whatever I think it is about, it's probably not that. If it is, it won't feel like anything I've felt before. There is joy at the end of the road. We come to own our life as never before. You will flourish. But there is no escaping the desolation that comes first. From the Latin 'to abandon'. They key is to let go gracefully, with the faith in the designs of Fate that Jupiter gives. In my case Jupiter in Scorpio, who probably has a gift for keeping faith in the dark places. The sharing of which is the intention of this piece.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="385rt-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="80d73-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="80d73-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="80d73-0-0"><span data-text="true">WHAT</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="80d73-1-0"><span data-text="true"> DOES JUPITER SIGNIFY?</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="e4dk3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e4dk3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e4dk3-0-0"><span data-text="true">There will be a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus next April. It will be most operative between the New Year - when Jupiter turns direct - and May, when he enters a new sign. This conjunction is associated on a mundane level with, amongst other things, scientific breakthroughs (which we may not know about until later.) AI is an obvious candidate. Other areas are currently burgeoning, such as space travel, space telescopes and the origin of the universe, quantum computing, genetic medicine and nuclear fusion.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="212p1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="212p1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="212p1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="cbcas-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbcas-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cbcas-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ujv-Y3GHZYFw1xRopygaYWyJh9lx5eD7RvaM9cPcD8y3f3X2SJSQvpHVwtmi7gAtgKEf5Y9-_XmI2hLtechESDmzRg1FHeqb_VLFXgBWyJBLiffjOXD3fyWoduahEvJlC-jywkMzMvQxqhd1wUKTkWGNVncHSOtqbUhFeIf5q3LY7Q3ZfHP6ug/s792/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ujv-Y3GHZYFw1xRopygaYWyJh9lx5eD7RvaM9cPcD8y3f3X2SJSQvpHVwtmi7gAtgKEf5Y9-_XmI2hLtechESDmzRg1FHeqb_VLFXgBWyJBLiffjOXD3fyWoduahEvJlC-jywkMzMvQxqhd1wUKTkWGNVncHSOtqbUhFeIf5q3LY7Q3ZfHP6ug/w303-h400/a.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />But what might it mean on a personal level? It is easy to overlook Jupiter in a reading, because it is not clear which 'bit' of the psyche he refers to. Mercury is the mind, Venus is relatedness and so on. 'Luck' or its equivalent is what we usually think of with Jupiter, and that is by definition something that is outside our control. 'Growth' is maybe something we have more of a handle on. Jupiter is the king of the gods, and is associated with faith and trust - which we might associate with the 2 signs he rules: Sagittarius and Pisces respectively.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="94l0n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="94l0n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="94l0n-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="aj8u8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aj8u8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aj8u8-0-0"><span data-text="true">In this sense, Jupiter is that confident sense of life moving forwards and unfolding. There is Goethe's couplet: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="4re05-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4re05-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4re05-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="ed0ft-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ed0ft-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ed0ft-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jupiterian luck in this sense is the stream of helpful events that appears around us when we are following that inner genius, that thing in us that wants to be lived. As Margaret Thatcher said, you create your own luck. It requires the courage of Mars, the hard work of Saturn, the discernment of Mercury.... </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="1m7g0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1m7g0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1m7g0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="103ce-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="103ce-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="103ce-0-0"><span data-text="true">How is Jupiter different to the Sun? The Sun is that unique thing in us that wants to be lived</span></span><span data-offset-key="103ce-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">. Jupiter is the faith we have in life</span></span><span data-offset-key="103ce-0-2"><span data-text="true">, the optimism, the sense of wanting to live life, that enables us to seize hold of the Sun and live it. Jupiter is our ability to remain optimistic in the midst of life's vicissitudes. Which we may need precisely because Jupiter's desire for growth leads us into difficult places, into those inward pressure cookers out of which the diamonds of the soul are forged. He is good medicine for the apocalyptic thinking that currently has so many in its grip.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="5e14v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5e14v-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5e14v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="9f2c0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f2c0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9f2c0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jupiter's sign describes the type of faith we have in life. And that then spills over into the beliefs we have, which are emotionally based, however rational we might think we are.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="d2t14-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2t14-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d2t14-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="c1s6c" data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span data-text="true">If the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction impacts your chart, then it will be a very good time for confidently seizing hold of (Jupiter) the new opportunities or ideas (Uranus) that present themselves. They need to be concretised, as Jupiter-Uranus will be in an earth sign. It could take you to places beyond what you imagined was possible or realistic.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4i3gp" data-offset-key="764ue-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="764ue-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="764ue-0-0"><span data-text="true">ADHD</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="764ue-1-0"><span data-text="true"> π</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4i3gp" data-offset-key="46ipe-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="46ipe-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="46ipe-0-0"><span data-text="true">It seems like everyone I do a reading for at the moment has been diagnosed with ADHD, or diagnosed themselves with it. I think it's bollocks. It just means that you are open and creative, and you cannot take an interest unless you ARE interested. And then you can keep it up all day and night. It is a strength, a gift, the call of the diamon. As Jung said, "The gods have become diseases." </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4i3gp" data-offset-key="3sn21-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3sn21-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3sn21-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4i3gp" data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42CzrRYUC9SUTUinGrr5k-1t8T0998UXo7yc-RQDnfXErDDnjb5ATMcBd-uydZGbRXpvY_Xhd7BjDvvKBZ8s-iOrgmqS-2CDUqncM4_5q8QD2Y4-vDelZ4oTNrVrOFu-m6uVk-erRZ7GbRI3vVije0C1bsUoUsQ4JjS0uAC8nS3mv-110fEprFg/s1011/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="1011" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42CzrRYUC9SUTUinGrr5k-1t8T0998UXo7yc-RQDnfXErDDnjb5ATMcBd-uydZGbRXpvY_Xhd7BjDvvKBZ8s-iOrgmqS-2CDUqncM4_5q8QD2Y4-vDelZ4oTNrVrOFu-m6uVk-erRZ7GbRI3vVije0C1bsUoUsQ4JjS0uAC8nS3mv-110fEprFg/w400-h158/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />When I reached 18, I could no longer study. I got a 3rd class degree. If I tried to put in the hours to learn, I would feel terrible. But I had no problem doing the things I wanted to do: reading literature and the occult, initiating myself through magic mushrooms, and dressing outlandishly. 45 years later I write books, and read about one a week. I still can't pay attention to subjects I'm not interested in. If a book isn't holding me, I'm ruthless with it after about 40 pages. My dress sense, though, has moved on from a dressing gown to a tiger onesie.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7u61a-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIDriBsyvvU_u34bpEoAIH_B8CLFm9-4ctK11VhvIlrVRUNE28htYxOe0wmTvTQZrT3NKiXqJy7uGgKfRuDO7NvLyKd1fGMmeC5MWbi_PDOcTh9BxZ63BLGbBDyJqnXCiC_McvDM64qbLxpr4YDU3eWvcf-k4QFxXRpDDVXoq9VwKGzsEcjkmU8g/s414/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIDriBsyvvU_u34bpEoAIH_B8CLFm9-4ctK11VhvIlrVRUNE28htYxOe0wmTvTQZrT3NKiXqJy7uGgKfRuDO7NvLyKd1fGMmeC5MWbi_PDOcTh9BxZ63BLGbBDyJqnXCiC_McvDM64qbLxpr4YDU3eWvcf-k4QFxXRpDDVXoq9VwKGzsEcjkmU8g/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At a Fork in the Road<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f36vj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="bcd79-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bcd79-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bcd79-1-0"><span data-text="true">ASTROLOGY IS NOT AN ADD-ON<br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="bbp9v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bbp9v-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bbp9v-0-0"><span data-text="true">I think astrology is usually best seen as the overall context for the other things you do. I think it does astrology an injustice to make it a mere add-on, or to try to see it in the context of something which is probably smaller. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="bmhg2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bmhg2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bmhg2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="9uj1c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9uj1c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9uj1c-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology is a series of ancient sky stories about the gods and goddesses, who call us in different ways, and who between them amount to a very full picture of the human psyche. And yet it is a psyche that is embedded in, inseparable, from the cosmos. At the same time, through the 4 Elements of Sun, Soil, Wind and Rain, it grounds us on this planet.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="3rg56-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3rg56-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3rg56-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="7jj5l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7jj5l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7jj5l-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dzYo9rb59DSUSVXvtWlf2IMtwn2FncvMIJYgingCAp8WLpFfSFArPn9y6ClFfw_4IOc0Ef0VIBNXjylx1_cn85PVxF6Vk3jlZQvNkZkRXr0rd1kAH6IIbzQMdEbSmDX_5jZ8fSNwDX1vie0ZcA9kMdF5NXB_gX_5osQPAQoYGkLiT8E38U4joA/s300/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1dzYo9rb59DSUSVXvtWlf2IMtwn2FncvMIJYgingCAp8WLpFfSFArPn9y6ClFfw_4IOc0Ef0VIBNXjylx1_cn85PVxF6Vk3jlZQvNkZkRXr0rd1kAH6IIbzQMdEbSmDX_5jZ8fSNwDX1vie0ZcA9kMdF5NXB_gX_5osQPAQoYGkLiT8E38U4joA/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Humans will get dogmatic about anything. You see astrologers aligning themselves with the formalities of the past - which belong, effectively, to a foreign culture - just as you see Europeans attempting to align themselves with Native American traditions. Don't get me wrong, we need tradition, but we need to be able to dance around it. You cannot reduce Mars to a set of formal meanings. You need a sense of his presence to do astrology.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="db931-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="db931-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="db931-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8au4u" data-offset-key="accki-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="accki-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="accki-0-0"><span data-text="true">If you are overly attached to tradition, then astrology becomes a religion like any other. But if it can dance through you, then its completeness and unboundedness can make it the context for everything else, whether you are a therapist or a christian. Or a scientist. Science is a specialised tradition that emphasises Air (theory) and Earth (data). Astrology is the senior tradition, being both older and more complete. As such, astrology cannot be explained under the terms of science. But the reverse is true. Everything has its place in the cosmic vision of astrology.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-6843897552975681952023-12-07T13:15:00.008+00:002023-12-14T10:15:06.137+00:00ASTROTABLETALK: CHRISTMAS<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Looking</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"> for Xmas presents? You need to look no further than my books Surfing the Galactic Highways<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkcakiUaZa7q-yDtM2Qyz5yq2qP4hxc9EPPkLAJJjFTQmffTRsU-YwPZarOc8E-r8Tvr3N7Oae2-qq0-3_8ie5oiX0vk-N7aUyCFJ6gqxu-lk0u7luXYjNeCZUoXK11AjFWtmMO5yBAZq_zc4uOmSHYnwdnLZqtGWAH37aNQdVZfFXrPP-oRSNtw/s327/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkcakiUaZa7q-yDtM2Qyz5yq2qP4hxc9EPPkLAJJjFTQmffTRsU-YwPZarOc8E-r8Tvr3N7Oae2-qq0-3_8ie5oiX0vk-N7aUyCFJ6gqxu-lk0u7luXYjNeCZUoXK11AjFWtmMO5yBAZq_zc4uOmSHYnwdnLZqtGWAH37aNQdVZfFXrPP-oRSNtw/s320/a1.jpg" width="207" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />and The Medicine Wheel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoUrJ_zt49b1-ILu7yfvcyMgMha_FHj4iB_1jGXYB-Eql1fvBs_4KCkDx_7SQYp_dLbDntXINGV2sLW_Tj4TA0GiNEbqt-sEzTAWR1JlierbasLuP5BMMffOY7LEYa5Oge4wzToFFNBjPY6dw2IqzzSWh0ry3ZeMNqw20SHkVOWtbmacBVuIUQw/s327/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoUrJ_zt49b1-ILu7yfvcyMgMha_FHj4iB_1jGXYB-Eql1fvBs_4KCkDx_7SQYp_dLbDntXINGV2sLW_Tj4TA0GiNEbqt-sEzTAWR1JlierbasLuP5BMMffOY7LEYa5Oge4wzToFFNBjPY6dw2IqzzSWh0ry3ZeMNqw20SHkVOWtbmacBVuIUQw/s320/a2.jpg" width="207" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">They are very readable, and I defy you to read the reviews on Amazon and not purchase them π₯ And a treat for yourself during Christmas week: my recently released video course on the Medicine Wheel (6 hours), available <a href="https://www.watkinswisdomacademy.com/p/the-medicine-wheel-maps-of-transformation" target="_blank">here at Watkins Wisdom Academy</a>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5v6o6-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20d0d" data-offset-key="2g1ud-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2g1ud-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2g1ud-0-0"><span data-text="true">VENUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2g1ud-1-0"><span data-text="true"> IN SCORPIO</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20d0d" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span data-text="true">Venus has entered Scorpio. It is all very well putting others first, seeing from their perspective, as Venus in Libra does. But that can also be a cover for people-pleasing. Scorpio demands that you be true to yourself - that you do not lie on any level - in all your relationships. Do not sacrifice truth on the altar of a superficial harmony. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmMCUpqeM4FXp2OwejFZLfZLQIuNTZ4BZltfK8Qb9JMDQCnfbLFpT-iRr0RSvd9cpyaaU8FNn8M0_lhkRTEbaTLCLXMYQCa18csHgCw3kf5I71qkWsJNzERjhD0IrbZXJ-ygqjQeVhmNllaZjpc3KzGFB0NJCbki5wJmJ2Jwq-0zXR6L3qL2IJg/s225/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmMCUpqeM4FXp2OwejFZLfZLQIuNTZ4BZltfK8Qb9JMDQCnfbLFpT-iRr0RSvd9cpyaaU8FNn8M0_lhkRTEbaTLCLXMYQCa18csHgCw3kf5I71qkWsJNzERjhD0IrbZXJ-ygqjQeVhmNllaZjpc3KzGFB0NJCbki5wJmJ2Jwq-0zXR6L3qL2IJg/s1600/a1.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span data-text="true">This transit also pushes us to be realistic about our friends: which ones have the no-go areas that limit how close we can be? Maybe even that person we've been getting involved with, are they really a match, or do we just want them to be? Be honest at all times with yourself and with others, and you will live well.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a96aa-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8hs5v" data-offset-key="agfb2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agfb2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="agfb2-0-0"><span data-text="true">INTIMACY</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="agfb2-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and ANGUISH</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="agfb2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="agfb2-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8hs5v" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdXkwnmiAyUgYihsNaYm-rbQGlln9qEygDJ8mV4v_uL7EWajLa9rl79vg8MJQPBx9bmAubJkucvn5v51L9WqX3J6Y0s36Z9LS91HNoAdjagL2CinEF1GvoPHIAWs81yJ7QZF_xB3mB26Dp2mUHnqb9rmb-hzspgHk6VpO5B5DkG7ieAPrslo4BQ/s275/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdXkwnmiAyUgYihsNaYm-rbQGlln9qEygDJ8mV4v_uL7EWajLa9rl79vg8MJQPBx9bmAubJkucvn5v51L9WqX3J6Y0s36Z9LS91HNoAdjagL2CinEF1GvoPHIAWs81yJ7QZF_xB3mB26Dp2mUHnqb9rmb-hzspgHk6VpO5B5DkG7ieAPrslo4BQ/s1600/a1.jpg" width="275" /></a></div> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true">As a young man you'll marry a pretty face. Then you get older and Venus calls you to pay attention to your feelings. Your head still gets turned in that disconnected Mars way, but you walk away regretfully because your personalities don't match: you know the nightmare that can eventually ensue. The place we merge, the 8th House, is both intimacy and anguish.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ---------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBmevAJUG1XB6XUh5VmzU_ysn36HZh0zmftidm5YqaRboZsBIYNZ3Y4tszok_GZNUrdT_R8PVibyDUx9YsWJNkDRNC5o9yst9ZDRlYPwHdE63WKy3t1BmvhJLYNRemSgT_mTMHCOp7gr3LzYD6fMOxyZ-V52luO6eY8TEvE2Er7FaGF9uCjH54w/s275/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtBmevAJUG1XB6XUh5VmzU_ysn36HZh0zmftidm5YqaRboZsBIYNZ3Y4tszok_GZNUrdT_R8PVibyDUx9YsWJNkDRNC5o9yst9ZDRlYPwHdE63WKy3t1BmvhJLYNRemSgT_mTMHCOp7gr3LzYD6fMOxyZ-V52luO6eY8TEvE2Er7FaGF9uCjH54w/w400-h266/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dhi4f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">The idea that we are blank slates at birth is not only contradicted by everyday observation of the personalities of young children, it is also the product of a materialist view of the universe. It lies behind the wrong-headed idea that parents are fundamental in shaping who we are, that underlies the psychotherapeutic paradigm. It is a harmful mythology. The astrology chart shows the rich, mysterious inheritance that we bring in with us.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dhi4f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9g27-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dhi4f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="297g8" data-offset-key="ctbkk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ctbkk-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ctbkk-0-0"><span data-text="true">ASTROLOGY, FATE and PSYCHOTHERAPY </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="297g8" data-offset-key="6cauu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6cauu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6cauu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Each of us has a unique blueprint to live out, a Fate that calls from the future, as described by the astrological chart. Our traumas and tribulations are best seen as opportunities "for which the child has been patiently waiting... in order to find a necessity and a direction for its existence, in order that life may become a serious matter." (WH Auden)</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="297g8" data-offset-key="bgcrp-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bgcrp-0-0"><br /></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="297g8" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpQWTyBjTCHXcI3FPpa4HA3UfWfGacKMvuzCG7l9r1iZ2uNm1s7OfGe8bE7bktVfEL-rgdGBf429Wi7E5yObapEsURKHPEaKT4TubdM1-m8hbslNdAv8qqbWB7wCL373KGkQ3UMCwQRqjCNTvFtfkZlVIJ78MVZYkhkekqf_dPL_UmgKpCf0NqQ/s220/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="220" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpQWTyBjTCHXcI3FPpa4HA3UfWfGacKMvuzCG7l9r1iZ2uNm1s7OfGe8bE7bktVfEL-rgdGBf429Wi7E5yObapEsURKHPEaKT4TubdM1-m8hbslNdAv8qqbWB7wCL373KGkQ3UMCwQRqjCNTvFtfkZlVIJ78MVZYkhkekqf_dPL_UmgKpCf0NqQ/w400-h336/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />What a contrast to the scientific paradigm, which sees the human as a result, not a cause: the result of genes and environment and upbringing. A statistic. And how it turns the psychotherapeutic paradigm on its head, seeing childhood traumas as the necessary engines of Fate, rather than as mistakes to be resolved. In this sense I think astrology is a challenge to psychotherapy, rather than a complement.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="apgb9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="apgb9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="apgb9-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="apgb9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> CENTRE OF THE CHART </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="8frfa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8frfa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8frfa-0-0"><span data-text="true">The astrological chart consists of cycles of time surrounding a centre that is outside of time. Time, like space, is not an attribute of the universe, but something we add on to order our experience. Then we take some LSD, and time and space dissolve and we are left, awestruck and maybe terrified, at the centre.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="db5jl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="db5jl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="db5jl-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="55oje-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="55oje-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="55oje-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDoLyhJY-EWdNFSs31pVyUFr-0zHf35_jYG4O9OcvDCA2jBv5hv1vUNwuZYNOgQ1SVkPwnfTaGapkrcvPZOVkwtExkRXzivey-Pk_noprya_HCkVY3omGATqX-HUXMo7op3Iv39P5Oc78cBPd7IymQe3MKDjyBhK_g85xoQrV-fCGQ34NXKIc5g/s225/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrDoLyhJY-EWdNFSs31pVyUFr-0zHf35_jYG4O9OcvDCA2jBv5hv1vUNwuZYNOgQ1SVkPwnfTaGapkrcvPZOVkwtExkRXzivey-Pk_noprya_HCkVY3omGATqX-HUXMo7op3Iv39P5Oc78cBPd7IymQe3MKDjyBhK_g85xoQrV-fCGQ34NXKIc5g/w398-h400/a1.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><br />The chart is not taking us anywhere except to an alignment with its mysterious, apparently hollow, centre. It is empty because whatever you think it is, it's not that. The planets are 10 gods and goddesses continually calling us, and if we answer their calls, we shall feel that alignment. Maybe the IC is the closest point in the chart to that, for it is there that we feel on solid ground, with roots that plunge down forever: it is here that we can move outside of space. So how does the sign on your IC connect with infinity? For myself, with Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius on the IC, Mount Olympus is the obvious place to go.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="f60v5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f60v5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f60v5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="6qeuk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qeuk-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6qeuk-0-0"><span data-text="true">Time is not linear, though we easily think of it like that. Everything is cycles, for everything eventually dies and starts over. The biggest cycle is the universe itself. The cycle closest to us, perhaps, is our own life and its mysterious dissolution in death. We have the shorter cycles of the day and the seasons to continually remind us of the cycle that is our life.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="7k1dg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7k1dg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7k1dg-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="54to2" data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span data-text="true">The human tendency is to take the ability to order experience too far, to mistake it for reality, to think that time and space belong to the universe and not to ourselves. That is why we need to keep coming back to simple astrology. Complexity provides further explanation and nuance and synthesis, but the gods easily walk away from that, bored. They donβt like being reduced to marks on bits of paper. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edhjh-0-0"><span data-text="true">That is also why it is a mistake to interpret the Nodes as providing some kind of evolutionary direction. There is no direction. There is just the attempt to embody the North Node, difficult as it might be, in the moment. And all the other planets. That is what makes life feel meaningful, that we are living the life that we are meant to be living. It doesn't have to be exciting. It is about carrying that inner sense of alignment with us, that deepens over time, in everything we do. And the planets show us how to do that.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4e0o4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-70005155241155537042023-12-01T10:55:00.002+00:002023-12-01T11:07:29.838+00:00<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7mat0-0-0"><span data-text="true">NEPTUNE: REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TIMELESS </span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="rmvu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="rmvu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="rmvu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neptune goes Direct in early December. Just as Pluto abducts, dismembers and renews, so does Neptune madden, drown and re-ensoul. The difference between the two is poetic rather than literal. Astrology itself is better viewed as poetry rather than some kind of fact. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="fpmcc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fpmcc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fpmcc-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="clfme-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="clfme-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="clfme-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJBaJ5Q2l2RkQ4bwVOk4zi-42A2sFFr4bFy6KlX42cTFgc375p0op4S0CG_u9kUZ6OUtq06KgcNBco7gKNSkeXt5QyqgOJ2jMguUhSbN785R950OIires3URIQ04nrhAAHQ7PbIa9m-8vegoQJ2jisTcsHv49c5EN-I7AfWhnhhtLJwcaxg_p3Q/s276/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="182" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJBaJ5Q2l2RkQ4bwVOk4zi-42A2sFFr4bFy6KlX42cTFgc375p0op4S0CG_u9kUZ6OUtq06KgcNBco7gKNSkeXt5QyqgOJ2jMguUhSbN785R950OIires3URIQ04nrhAAHQ7PbIa9m-8vegoQJ2jisTcsHv49c5EN-I7AfWhnhhtLJwcaxg_p3Q/w264-h400/a.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br />Transits from Neptune are not easy, but if you are going to seriously transform, life may need to be difficult. What is the point of being here if we don't face serious challenges as to who we are, that may go on and on for years, until finally the ground is ready for a new piece of soul to be born, around which our whole being re-arranges itself? </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="151ms-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="151ms-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="151ms-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="hcr6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hcr6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="hcr6-0-0"><span data-text="true">If you are in the middle of a Neptune transit, let the water fill your lungs, let your consciousness drift away from this world and into the loving embrace of Mother Ocean. Ariel's Song from the Tempest puts it well:</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="uo7c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="uo7c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="uo7c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="1uq2t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1uq2t-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1uq2t-0-0"><span data-text="true">"</span></span><span data-offset-key="1uq2t-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange."</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="29b23-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="29b23-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="29b23-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="a82td-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a82td-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a82td-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neptune</span></span><span data-offset-key="a82td-0-1" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="a82td-0-2"><span data-text="true">moving forward points to a new phase. The retrograde motion, if you like, pulled you into what seemed like the swamp. Now you can start to pull yourself out. What I mean by that is that things you were not clear about, and were not ready to be clear about, can now be clear. Retrograde Neptune tests our ability to dwell in the not-knowing, the 'negative capability' to accept </span></span><span data-offset-key="a82td-0-3" style="font-style: italic;"><span data-text="true">βuncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.β</span></span><span data-offset-key="a82td-0-4"><span data-text="true"> (Keats) Neptune's reputation for confusion is often simply this "irritable reaching after fact and reason."</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="edc9s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edc9s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edc9s-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="18ofo" data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span data-text="true">If you are at the end of a Neptune transit, with Neptune already a degree or two away from its exact crossings, then you may be ready for the soul to unfold. It is time to remember who you always were.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2muor-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7uve" data-offset-key="49ajb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="49ajb-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="49ajb-0-0"><span data-text="true">MERCURY</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="49ajb-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7uve" data-offset-key="a9uj5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a9uj5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a9uj5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mercury is changing signs, from Sagittarius to Capricorn. This planet describes the way our minds work. He will do a dance between the 2 signs until mid January. So we are entering a period where, you could say, idealism and pragmatism are having to speak to each other. The ongoing struggle in Israel/Gaza comes to mind. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7uve" data-offset-key="7arvb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7arvb-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7arvb-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7uve" data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm66_cgZrUQqRbuOckb-dcaEQiY9EcxSTpL5-NDloUUBdmG9IOESXpo4phzQ7SnIY0IRCwzrLj0ikXu8qrZIIHCjDzfWGyi9AaG0opCRWHW5ql3P1RlRUcmiS5MC_8OgAhCQ3n8fEWd872jgqjcXz88DkKSVC7YHFyVzmigSyqyUc5WCQ6vPTYdw/s275/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm66_cgZrUQqRbuOckb-dcaEQiY9EcxSTpL5-NDloUUBdmG9IOESXpo4phzQ7SnIY0IRCwzrLj0ikXu8qrZIIHCjDzfWGyi9AaG0opCRWHW5ql3P1RlRUcmiS5MC_8OgAhCQ3n8fEWd872jgqjcXz88DkKSVC7YHFyVzmigSyqyUc5WCQ6vPTYdw/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The principle is that a sign grows out of the preceding one. (I think more could be made of this in astrology.) In this case, it involves taking big, maybe philosophical ideas and making them practical. Fire meets Earth. It is a combination that has the energy of incarnation in it. So ask yourself during this period about your beliefs (Sag) in particular: do they keep me in a comfort zone, above and beyond the big, bad world, or do they stand the test of reality, of being lived?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eelge-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="82dhv" data-offset-key="ck8rv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ck8rv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="ck8rv-0-0"><span data-text="true">TALKING</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="ck8rv-1-0"><span data-text="true"> TO TREES</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="82dhv" data-offset-key="812m2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="812m2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="812m2-0-0"><span data-text="true">It is arguable that plants, and particularly trees, be assigned to the 4th House. They are the life-form that stays in one place, that has physical roots. They are at home to themselves. If you are feeling out of sorts, talk to a tree and you will come back to yourself. That within you which has yet to unfold will be given the attention it needs. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="82dhv" data-offset-key="dfko-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dfko-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dfko-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="82dhv" data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDf-CIbr3HIbqcxkb0erImr9HnZnlSTtFzGzFTR3-v5TfBMBTtloL4mBUNPh6L_yqYdYXjyiwbcxMMjCxVG7imOmEGLQg1mb97RMPoxD9uf1DB4yNGCDQ8SOSa68SfwXYWBIB4svIzCui8zuJaIcej-pfP5praSG414yWwkEt2-C6SCGCg3AFlw/s400/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMDf-CIbr3HIbqcxkb0erImr9HnZnlSTtFzGzFTR3-v5TfBMBTtloL4mBUNPh6L_yqYdYXjyiwbcxMMjCxVG7imOmEGLQg1mb97RMPoxD9uf1DB4yNGCDQ8SOSa68SfwXYWBIB4svIzCui8zuJaIcej-pfP5praSG414yWwkEt2-C6SCGCg3AFlw/w365-h400/a.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><br />Maybe choose a tree associated with the sign on your IC, or its ruler. In my own case, I have Sagittarius on the IC. I recently planted a Japanese Snowbell tree in my garden. It brought the fairies with it, and I spoke to them, and my prayers were quickly answered in the usual tricksy way the fairies have, where you learn something. For me this tree is Sagittarius not just because it brings the spirit realm with it, but also because it comes from a faraway land.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="456tj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="2o5ld-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2o5ld-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2o5ld-0-0"><span data-text="true">PREDICTING</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2o5ld-1-0"><span data-text="true"> THE FUTURE </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="19unl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19unl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="19unl-0-0"><span data-text="true">As an astrologer, I don't see the difference between predicting the future and predicting the present. And, indeed, the past. If you can't tell people things about themselves in the present that are true, then they probably won't be impressed, and rightly so. And the same goes for the future and the past. People are looking for guidance, and for magic, a universe that reveals itself as alive and enchanted, beyond time and space, that knows them and cares about them.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="c6ed2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c6ed2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c6ed2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="9eo7m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9eo7m-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9eo7m-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1YaasQSbl1-JLdHyBxZfN2hbdnUhTjbWmEc9Sjci5kd0tnN0uaFFOEbrqAHAHM605FqvblwteT5ZyUslQGVQPf3R-griUNBJE-OckI3RTLFCms7KUbypNgHNPFqx8BMCj9f3gkVClkwfp1BWW0RoHXBaHdQC0caZpRa13D73N8xG2ajTGMd1kA/s224/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1YaasQSbl1-JLdHyBxZfN2hbdnUhTjbWmEc9Sjci5kd0tnN0uaFFOEbrqAHAHM605FqvblwteT5ZyUslQGVQPf3R-griUNBJE-OckI3RTLFCms7KUbypNgHNPFqx8BMCj9f3gkVClkwfp1BWW0RoHXBaHdQC0caZpRa13D73N8xG2ajTGMd1kA/w400-h400/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Predicting the future has become something that many modern astrologers have become too sophisticated to attempt. Indeed, it is often judged as something we should not do. I think that is a craven attempt to make astrology appear more rational, in the modern, narrow sense of the word. Astrologers collectively yearn for respectability.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="eh5jf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eh5jf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eh5jf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="epe1s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="epe1s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="epe1s-0-0"><span data-text="true">Predicting the future provides us with a great opportunity to show people how to relate to it, and that kicks back into how we should relate to the present. Sometimes we may have a specific intuition about the future, and we may or may not tell the client. But generally, what we can always see are shapes in the mist, pointing people in a general direction about themselves, but not giving them easy answers.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="1o1h7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1o1h7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1o1h7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="5esl1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5esl1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5esl1-0-0"><span data-text="true">What one paradoxically learns as an astrologer is just how unpredictable the future is. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." So we can point people to the boat they need to get into - it's this one, that crosses the river Styx, or it's this one, in which you may feel drowned, but don't worry - and that helps them be in their life, instead of looking for answers at a distance from it. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="85h1q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="85h1q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="85h1q-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2g4cj" data-offset-key="6nhs0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6nhs0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6nhs0-0-0"><span data-text="true">The future tells us that change will happen, so hang loose to who you are, surrender your will to the intentions of those 10 gods and more, the sky spirits whose callings we cannot resist. And that, in turn, becomes a lesson for the present. And maybe our past too: it is a story that changes each time in the telling.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-44124521032088918242023-11-21T21:52:00.001+00:002023-11-21T21:53:02.600+00:00ASTRO-DEBRIS.... and some SHAMANISM<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="891r-0-0"><span data-text="true">AN EMERGENCE FROM THE UNDERWORLD</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="16i1j" data-offset-key="5n5p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5n5p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5n5p-0-0"><span data-text="true">It's been a helluva transit of Sun-Mars in Scorpio over the last month. It's been described outwardly by the deep scouring of Gaza by the Israelis. What gruelling unconscious contents have you been exposed to in that time? There was an eclipse early on, and then an eruption around the 13th, as Uranus opposed Sun-Mars: the Gorgon finally showed her face.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="16i1j" data-offset-key="5kqq2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5kqq2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5kqq2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="16i1j" data-offset-key="u0jt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="u0jt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="u0jt-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp9SDRb4BYZKSmT_QOvKbVQ3A7M4fl7DUBg_tJ5jWJdnl-mkbDBC7LW0ld9uHpyHdW4NXyUdGqqq-jMf47Yugh7ha2bgpPTV24Tj6DqWVv4LKGH14-xjXtUyD1gBQXlOpBCP1hJNDV_nYd8-ncxoNYpzukWwxenHJNN-cr4kEFF9jX9YvGUJjbQ/s600/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp9SDRb4BYZKSmT_QOvKbVQ3A7M4fl7DUBg_tJ5jWJdnl-mkbDBC7LW0ld9uHpyHdW4NXyUdGqqq-jMf47Yugh7ha2bgpPTV24Tj6DqWVv4LKGH14-xjXtUyD1gBQXlOpBCP1hJNDV_nYd8-ncxoNYpzukWwxenHJNN-cr4kEFF9jX9YvGUJjbQ/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We are moving to the sunlit uplands in the next few days as the Sun then Mars enter Sagittarius. You can look back from a brighter place and get perspective, understand yourself. The square to Saturn in Pisces will push you on this one to start with. Look to the bigger picture of yourself.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="16i1j" data-offset-key="9e73r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9e73r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9e73r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="16i1j" data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span data-text="true">It looks like being reflected also in a resolution of the Israeli hostage crisis and perhaps a scaling down of hostilities.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dm6ou-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1joqd" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true">AI and PLUTO in AQUARIUS </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjly3VUZ0pY706KuLUyYjtIbR1L4ag8H86YKyipy41ozKHy-gNFt27CK5PX6QD8BBzixFvqqonNz92VLX3p68SsRUXsbcmw8eSRoXRwN3xA3kutLFNTnLN8Q9dn5a9kclt0aVEMgXpNtqDSkuXvXirLERYB7ZpCYi-TcO9VQXdA9JMNKg3NL_gKzg/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjly3VUZ0pY706KuLUyYjtIbR1L4ag8H86YKyipy41ozKHy-gNFt27CK5PX6QD8BBzixFvqqonNz92VLX3p68SsRUXsbcmw8eSRoXRwN3xA3kutLFNTnLN8Q9dn5a9kclt0aVEMgXpNtqDSkuXvXirLERYB7ZpCYi-TcO9VQXdA9JMNKg3NL_gKzg/s1600/a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Last autumn, as Pluto first moved towards Aquarius, ChatGPT was released and astonished us with its human-like AI abilities. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicmG-Gnaf13om4Jy5Wi4izNLZDQfKCaSad3IbR_HPj_4p4nPNhGqtNlGST0Ri9mKP0mtrORZ-OgZJtWMzCvo1aq24bp0Si5BPj4rP5XkwxCedQUfCM53_OT_uQwb1EP7K7G1etbqkwByi81iUhzpXDE8Z59hgOIJGCI1lXmVg3jCbsWTmHwJKWA/s600/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="600" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicmG-Gnaf13om4Jy5Wi4izNLZDQfKCaSad3IbR_HPj_4p4nPNhGqtNlGST0Ri9mKP0mtrORZ-OgZJtWMzCvo1aq24bp0Si5BPj4rP5XkwxCedQUfCM53_OT_uQwb1EP7K7G1etbqkwByi81iUhzpXDE8Z59hgOIJGCI1lXmVg3jCbsWTmHwJKWA/s320/a1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This autumn, as Pluto (empowerment) again moves towards Aquarius (AI), the AI world has been stunned by the sacking of Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, that created ChatGPT. Pluto will be moving towards his 3rd and final Ingress into Aquarius next autumn. I wonder what might happen then? Maybe legislation, and the hyping of apocalytic fears around an AI takeover?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span data-text="true">MUGGLES</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-0-0"><span data-text="true">Muggles</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> can only see from their own point of view. We magical people can see from many viewpoints. That is what magic does, that is its wisdom. So we don't fill the world with a cast of bad guys to blame, who we imagine to be in control. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmdjgPykrMajApah2ZJ9BzEYiNHacXodHKFKBxz6dfswhdIUSaThu13ZvPpYUfixt0yZAE-ulYDVE9u5kXsaA4MMud5wEVTXnUboD3YV6oOugcQQ0Gg66tX-3aMTN5B_qVLp4Pi4qphQQ9FiVVpxY8a24GAx3HnNnVkJ1uWAnRPCaGXjg2XV7vA/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmdjgPykrMajApah2ZJ9BzEYiNHacXodHKFKBxz6dfswhdIUSaThu13ZvPpYUfixt0yZAE-ulYDVE9u5kXsaA4MMud5wEVTXnUboD3YV6oOugcQQ0Gg66tX-3aMTN5B_qVLp4Pi4qphQQ9FiVVpxY8a24GAx3HnNnVkJ1uWAnRPCaGXjg2XV7vA/s1600/a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br />We don't need to, because we don't suffer from the envy and powerlessness behind this Punch and Judy view of the world. So we can see everyone as humans like us. Our magic gives all the inner power and riches we could ever need.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3pjbp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4u6j9-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6qrrr" data-offset-key="86sf4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86sf4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="86sf4-0-0"><span data-text="true">URANUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="86sf4-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6qrrr" data-offset-key="4ni4l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ni4l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4ni4l-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqXBWW5l_G1jD0pwu0SlF1vA2SHSbshiq28mjFmXPaCaVyXJjPXj5hzkq0-8zwaHoS2ePZ1dAd5pC837DH30RxZKeKMN6tU8ydZEMw8_nrhjxsTmXgrdVMNvSgCkd-rXc_vWxBYq-kxPwZSOJ2lY_1KM88rwcjIs2zxzNFIpoJL6irbKXLS6C5Q/s1437/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvqXBWW5l_G1jD0pwu0SlF1vA2SHSbshiq28mjFmXPaCaVyXJjPXj5hzkq0-8zwaHoS2ePZ1dAd5pC837DH30RxZKeKMN6tU8ydZEMw8_nrhjxsTmXgrdVMNvSgCkd-rXc_vWxBYq-kxPwZSOJ2lY_1KM88rwcjIs2zxzNFIpoJL6irbKXLS6C5Q/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I think the outcome of next year's US Presidential election is impossible to predict at this stage. Not just because of the potentially tight race, but because of all the other factors involved. It is looking like Trump vs Biden. But who knows? There are Trump's legal problems and his Gemini trickster energy, Biden's mental capabilities, the family corruption hidden in his son's laptop.....you couldn't make it up.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6qrrr" data-offset-key="156mj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="156mj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="156mj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6qrrr" data-offset-key="edki-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edki-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edki-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPgcZ1WZYr67H4oPidxEmXo_eUfxKBUwHL9AqApj2KNCBhHI4Jw3pWFADx8QX1z6k_QQ76s0lWP8pGAOh9hMmrrM9bIMY9PTqnfXPRj3sznx67K70sCSvyOwILJv4CyZWr03NKik4Ysj6K0ZAC9bu7m-fBAr1SjNfrd1OJcIrd1os-OaNDtK_nQ/s1437/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQPgcZ1WZYr67H4oPidxEmXo_eUfxKBUwHL9AqApj2KNCBhHI4Jw3pWFADx8QX1z6k_QQ76s0lWP8pGAOh9hMmrrM9bIMY9PTqnfXPRj3sznx67K70sCSvyOwILJv4CyZWr03NKik4Ysj6K0ZAC9bu7m-fBAr1SjNfrd1OJcIrd1os-OaNDtK_nQ/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This unpredictability is reflected in next year's hard transit of Uranus to the US Moon in Aquarius (the people, the voters); to Trump's Mars and Angles; and to Biden's Scorpio Sun. Watch for the Uranus station at 27 Taurus in Sept 2024.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="edki-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="edki-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9-DO1MqVpmdnSR2wW3-PlVtJWQ9k4xWuYh5T75VLTv8ghDYi4B9lqMCKKRi20s_WuLJb5CiSwGW6T9HpILr1_dK9ZOGEGu7xk-HPZsZA9OYmsgK1yIsNgWQ9BZOhQJXyueeW7HIVth2kJjGe40rGPLhF1WuU8UaEIOcVpkIVWnWp8D3rH4rkMw/s1437/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9-DO1MqVpmdnSR2wW3-PlVtJWQ9k4xWuYh5T75VLTv8ghDYi4B9lqMCKKRi20s_WuLJb5CiSwGW6T9HpILr1_dK9ZOGEGu7xk-HPZsZA9OYmsgK1yIsNgWQ9BZOhQJXyueeW7HIVth2kJjGe40rGPLhF1WuU8UaEIOcVpkIVWnWp8D3rH4rkMw/w400-h220/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;">SHAMANISM AT THE EDGE</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(From my other blog at shamanicfreestate.blogspot.co.uk) </span><br /></span>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-0-0"><span data-text="true">I
just saw an ad for Contemporary Shamanism - Safe Practices. Harrumph!
Is the Sundance, where you dance until you are exhausted and your breast
torn open, 'safe'? Is a Sweatlodge, where you struggle to bear the
searing steam, 'safe'? Is a Vision Quest, where you are exposed to the
elements for 4 days, with no food, 'safe'? Is a trance dance that takes
you to the point of possession by the spirits, writhing on the floor and
speaking in tongues, 'safe'? No, the whole point of these things is
that they are not 'safe'. Think of the young Siberian Shaman, called by
the spirits to his vocation, and ill until he accepts the calling. An
illness that may kill him unless he yields: an offer he cannot refuse. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VKrzVCiRSMWdmaSIXjsvwmQ-zKgfTRcv8z-Uo_YEL-duB-tSxWhMviirUOZdvZRCZRptG9J6eyM63RCoMpVMpvv6jMRpHkH8jaUHqb0E3JTT60c6io42d_tWMKBZjAOqfTjo1xTEPaFstWm9uFQsoXMNKUnlpYhsJBamcOwmKi7DbnnA2JsCeA/s400/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="263" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VKrzVCiRSMWdmaSIXjsvwmQ-zKgfTRcv8z-Uo_YEL-duB-tSxWhMviirUOZdvZRCZRptG9J6eyM63RCoMpVMpvv6jMRpHkH8jaUHqb0E3JTT60c6io42d_tWMKBZjAOqfTjo1xTEPaFstWm9uFQsoXMNKUnlpYhsJBamcOwmKi7DbnnA2JsCeA/w263-h400/a.jpg" width="263" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The
whole point of this shamanic path is that it takes us to the edge, it
dismembers and rebuilds us. There is risk involved. And in that process
we find gold, a source of guidance and connection that comes from deep
within - or without - that can be trusted, that renews us, and that
serves the world. If your shamanic practice is 'safe', it will remain
superficial. The role of teacher is often safe too, they hide behind it.
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-0-0"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiME6MqUQRPv7AhMgqc4yTrVI8Dx4oubqKDzYUrVo1nJUxtRDVzw6BTyjBrIiY0tRkYcKcazbKM7RGxhQg6pwJYqOfFVkCQ8wIfu-_8vxjuvCdwRwLJ-jRaDmQLnp5rKUVCRCzF_gODM_PiHuETexgOH7QMuwhNe5D9b-5_dd-gGpJCWtGmidvyww/s400/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiME6MqUQRPv7AhMgqc4yTrVI8Dx4oubqKDzYUrVo1nJUxtRDVzw6BTyjBrIiY0tRkYcKcazbKM7RGxhQg6pwJYqOfFVkCQ8wIfu-_8vxjuvCdwRwLJ-jRaDmQLnp5rKUVCRCzF_gODM_PiHuETexgOH7QMuwhNe5D9b-5_dd-gGpJCWtGmidvyww/w400-h400/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Enough of this coddling and safety. There will be trigger warnings next, and a <span class="xv78j7m" start="1243"><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-1-0"><span data-text="true">#metoo</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-2-0"><span data-text="true"> group for anyone who has had a fierce power animal. We have been
prosperous for too long, we have cast out the warrior instinct as toxic
and patriarchal, and little that is real can happen in that context.
Though the groups we attend may serve our social needs and award badges
of shamanic attainment: everyone's a winner. Good luck with that</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4s4p6-2-0"><span data-text="true">π</span></span></span><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-19326978369514639852023-11-11T12:56:00.003+00:002023-11-11T13:02:02.448+00:00ASTRO-SMORGASBORD<p><span style="font-size: large;">MARS OPPOSITE URANUS </span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="9i8sr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9i8sr-0-0"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rp4:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtwQtxdR94uwzOi36KNgOcvK7aLe2NYmvtTHSjdLmFxVzqL38d5y4I5RBTcgP2Exz4YN-46l2wKuoMQJpmuLkxvedLlrwV6Om_IDZBGtRK9Dnl558RHGlgPBXTwxJFkXYQpPmxNf9qO_eEK3Fgh12AUeHianF8wxPv4PF47tRB0aqXKjVkZijEw/s1528/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1528" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtwQtxdR94uwzOi36KNgOcvK7aLe2NYmvtTHSjdLmFxVzqL38d5y4I5RBTcgP2Exz4YN-46l2wKuoMQJpmuLkxvedLlrwV6Om_IDZBGtRK9Dnl558RHGlgPBXTwxJFkXYQpPmxNf9qO_eEK3Fgh12AUeHianF8wxPv4PF47tRB0aqXKjVkZijEw/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />With Mars in Scorpio now tightly opposing Uranus, watch out for hidden depths of emotion revealing themselves. What have you been sitting on without even knowing it? What do you need to stand up for in yourself?</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9i8sr-0-0"><span data-text="true">AQUARIANS: URANUS vs SATURN </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="b5k91-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b5k91-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b5k91-0-0"><span data-text="true">Aquarius has contradictory rulers: Uranus, who wants to disrupt convention; and Saturn, who wants to protect it. The future and the past, liberal and conservative, at war with each other. In the mythology, Uranus imprisoned his son Saturn, who in his turn sliced off his fatherβs testicles, at the instigation of his mother Gaia, after he had broken free. Both planets have their tyrannical sides. Aquarians need to make peace between this primordial deity and his titan son. It can take most of a lifetime. Uranus has raw insight, he uses words, but they do not come from reason. They come from something he has seen directly. Saturn's first instinct is to recoil from and denounce this rude energy.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="coo39-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="coo39-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="coo39-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="et4dc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="et4dc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="et4dc-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9acGiAxaE6l4LIxe8xTIcw6fy6_oSKK5PFBPfUxwDGShHkoatUMTYmADPxJ9Dg9Ihc2Vp7OVWrj8Fe8JyfElTV-zyFZANnjCOChZJMSvQCPQsDHSIgv6S4HZ57WVtiDKIpdP6LNQmX5gVdBhNI76_TF8k9-epFnm8eOEGJSR3Hp_1H1__zAPjwQ/s640/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="640" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9acGiAxaE6l4LIxe8xTIcw6fy6_oSKK5PFBPfUxwDGShHkoatUMTYmADPxJ9Dg9Ihc2Vp7OVWrj8Fe8JyfElTV-zyFZANnjCOChZJMSvQCPQsDHSIgv6S4HZ57WVtiDKIpdP6LNQmX5gVdBhNI76_TF8k9-epFnm8eOEGJSR3Hp_1H1__zAPjwQ/w400-h338/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Uranus needs to find a way of adapting himself so that he will be heard. Saturn needs to be open to the continual modification of tradition that is necessary for life to remain healthy. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="539k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="539k-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="539k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="dq85a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq85a-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dq85a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Uranus' problem is that he is right, and therefore doesn't see why he should 'compromise', as he sees it. Saturn's problem is that underneath the rectitude his foundations are fragile, which is why he clings on to the known and, if really pressed, will slice off Uranus' testicles, burn him as a heretic. On the other hand, Uranus needs this treatment sometimes to get him off the spectrum.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="bp4f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bp4f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bp4f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ej020" data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span data-text="true">So I wish all Aquarians well in their wrestlings with these deities :) It is your path to balance and wholeness.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="flel6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="2f89l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2f89l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="2f89l-0-0"><span data-text="true">WHISPERINGS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2f89l-1-0"><span data-text="true"> IN THE WIND </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="fjnol-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fjnol-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fjnol-0-0"><span data-text="true">All widely held collective beliefs are wrong, if only because they have been simplified to the point of falsehood. Our job as astrologers is to stand outside of these currents: that is difficult, because they are often like tidal waves that carry all before them. Political/religious views especially, and don't think we haven't got religion because of its formal absence: it finds an outlet in causes of all kinds. Protest gives purpose. It is the apocalyptic beliefs that I think we need to be particularly wary of.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="bcu9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bcu9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bcu9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="6ifm7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ifm7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6ifm7-0-0"><span data-text="true">So it is a dance. Only if we can put our backs to the winds can we be clear channels for what the planets want to whisper in our ears. They are not bound like we are: humans have a tiny slice of consciousness, the planets speak for the whole cosmos. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="5u2jm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5u2jm-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5u2jm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6tps6" data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYqWvFpGKkHQBkKKYlUfdAsI8XEk2d3H07lxHMSmMPy0408lKlwrQtNmeL79BJYtboas4r4TP6t5-WzLm5DN_jZAJmFuVQyoi5fkykWPO-BmroemAFWUIUfAtWcSXTFc59RvtwqTTPRmvz7tkyWlxdHXjzsa6nKKYK6CB2AXsWSoIyuMkskLQgg/s540/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="540" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDYqWvFpGKkHQBkKKYlUfdAsI8XEk2d3H07lxHMSmMPy0408lKlwrQtNmeL79BJYtboas4r4TP6t5-WzLm5DN_jZAJmFuVQyoi5fkykWPO-BmroemAFWUIUfAtWcSXTFc59RvtwqTTPRmvz7tkyWlxdHXjzsa6nKKYK6CB2AXsWSoIyuMkskLQgg/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Astrologers are best being in the world, but not of it. We have a choice as to which voices we are going to listen to. It takes courage to heed that still voice in the hurricane, and it won't always make you popular.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fp9rd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4rh1s" data-offset-key="d5pr4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d5pr4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="d5pr4-0-0"><span data-text="true">VENUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="d5pr4-1-0"><span data-text="true"> ENTERS LIBRA </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d5pr4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d5pr4-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4rh1s" data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh596tcBPnMejzReCTWJdPt2hWO3peWVeu4_P90nROZTqk2PgtOazKDfOEhhKlygsRtusSJoZRe3P8gtzgPLxcF7UsQLUievoluV8kL3SqPCnz9uSZwLO8gUfkjcYS-LpcVig1S0r9w3YE7SspxlBp0D06ynkI1W3VDKFlqFqK5MhrzPMZJHnN5Lg/s245/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="245" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh596tcBPnMejzReCTWJdPt2hWO3peWVeu4_P90nROZTqk2PgtOazKDfOEhhKlygsRtusSJoZRe3P8gtzgPLxcF7UsQLUievoluV8kL3SqPCnz9uSZwLO8gUfkjcYS-LpcVig1S0r9w3YE7SspxlBp0D06ynkI1W3VDKFlqFqK5MhrzPMZJHnN5Lg/s1600/a.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br />Venus recently entered Libra. You may have had some kind of epiphany of love and joy as Venus in Virgo opposed Neptune in Pisces. Now it is time to begin to weigh that up, particularly if your head was turned. Think the Temperance Card. Time to look outwards. Venus in Libra is very good at seeing and feeling from the other's point of view. She loves to do this. She brings qualities of imagination and empathy from her recent encounter with Neptune.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cqlq6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><br /></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="f6cv3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6cv3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="f6cv3-0-0"><span data-text="true">ASTROLOGY</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="f6cv3-1-0"><span data-text="true"> ON WIKIPEDIA </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="dugbl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dugbl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dugbl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Fund-raising season seems to be over for now on Wikipedia. I'm always torn about giving to them, because I use Wiki a lot. But it is rude and disingenuous about astrology. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="1fqov-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1fqov-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1fqov-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="19oa2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19oa2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="19oa2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Here is how the article currently opens: "</span></span><span data-offset-key="19oa2-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">Astrology</span></span><span data-offset-key="19oa2-0-2"><span data-text="true"> is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century." What does it mean by 'recognised'? You use recognition for facts, like the gender of a child at birth. Astrology does not claim to be scientific, so it is disingenuous to call it a pseudoscience. It is fair enough, indeed necessary, to point out that many would call it a pseudoscience. You have to put in the critiques: that is a matter of integrity, as is also making a distinction between facts and opinions, which Wiki does not do with astrology.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="c5gtt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5gtt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c5gtt-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="er5bp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er5bp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="er5bp-0-0"><span data-text="true">I think integrity lies not in adhering to Jimmy Wales' logical positivist stance, but in allowing the experts in a field to speak for themselves - rather than, as in the case of astrology, having the article controlled by a bunch of editors who are anti-astrology. That is just insulting. And then after that, as I say, you put in the critiques.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er5bp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="er5bp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="20cvj" data-offset-key="13iqo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="13iqo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="13iqo-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://citizendium.org/wiki/Astrology" target="_blank">Citizendium</a>, an alternative to Wikipedia, is more scholarly, and shows more decency and integrity about astrology. It does not hold back about the strong cultural critique of astrology as a pseudoscience, but it presents it as that: a critique, not a fact. Thank you, Citizendium. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="13iqo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x1fey0fg"><span data-offset-key="13iqo-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="13iqo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x1fey0fg"><span data-offset-key="13iqo-1-0"><span data-text="true">JORDAN PETERSON<br /></span></span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="ccloh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ccloh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ccloh-0-0"><span data-text="true">A fun prediction: Jordan Peterson will convert to Catholicism in 2031, when Pluto very publicly conjoins his Saturn, the ruler of his traditionally-minded Capricorn 9th House. In the run-up,the divide between his ultra-sharp rationality and his religiosity will become ever more apparent, but probably not to him. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="eoj5v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eoj5v-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eoj5v-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="523el-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="523el-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="523el-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpW3PnE0it9BAawbJcXUteHWkjL3kkOUkd82RxMpl2PKhubFing1nH2NAJc4p9T2jtI2KflKff1TSCA4OPkLE-R3jZ9xVVu5i3j4RLW9tam051ZH1XYY6flIZC0Vv_1ARLkk3y8p0nTU5SYT4suwLUmTaRfLim7TAKEF96QwHtGGn9VV5E0aW_7Q/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpW3PnE0it9BAawbJcXUteHWkjL3kkOUkd82RxMpl2PKhubFing1nH2NAJc4p9T2jtI2KflKff1TSCA4OPkLE-R3jZ9xVVu5i3j4RLW9tam051ZH1XYY6flIZC0Vv_1ARLkk3y8p0nTU5SYT4suwLUmTaRfLim7TAKEF96QwHtGGn9VV5E0aW_7Q/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Saturn square Neptune: there's a man who loves the crucifix π </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="etsb2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="etsb2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="etsb2-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="7hva2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7hva2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7hva2-0-0"><span data-text="true">I reckon I'm good on the astrology of Catholics, particularly Popes, and maybe Peterson belongs in that category. I called the resignation of the last Pope, and the current Pope's unusual relationship with the Madonna.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="86han-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86han-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="86han-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ddghb" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbxEp00sxpLNsCIa0f1MYrDJZxe6r_bvFiqUb6rRjoiw1VGWMPuhxEBg5hQCRGxmLNmjJtCu1zmvLFgBHHrGopl5DwGwvlsOynPwTnhck4Q2aFoMp1k8BuofxyxSNJlxpwoI1NKhYGnjIdiYXdPhqiSYZokn3h6LriE08DLlBFJ93x35HRaI7bYg/s1101/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1101" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbxEp00sxpLNsCIa0f1MYrDJZxe6r_bvFiqUb6rRjoiw1VGWMPuhxEBg5hQCRGxmLNmjJtCu1zmvLFgBHHrGopl5DwGwvlsOynPwTnhck4Q2aFoMp1k8BuofxyxSNJlxpwoI1NKhYGnjIdiYXdPhqiSYZokn3h6LriE08DLlBFJ93x35HRaI7bYg/w400-h265/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />He takes himself too seriously (hence the photo.) But he does help me think outside the box, in an evidence-based way. I am grateful for that.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true">PS Subsequent to posting this, I was informed that his wife will be formally converting to Catholicism next year. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true">MY BOOK <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bo9nt-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4uvtj" data-offset-key="gm8j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="gm8j-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="gm8j-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZI_pghijTVdh_uAtGPNNMbR-QNddXL3tXqPpZRxofirAVepOri3tsmVkxlts7aarYMf7rVpPrOCHfsWLT_CAw6TgikJCJhH_aGBUQBZdGhcySBg8fMCW2O3OJaRLuhg9FkkqRBM7NYuYhf7EIZbWfjZV4s2imdKcf483w9WMUFLF27uc5LsBYoA/s1000/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1000" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZI_pghijTVdh_uAtGPNNMbR-QNddXL3tXqPpZRxofirAVepOri3tsmVkxlts7aarYMf7rVpPrOCHfsWLT_CAw6TgikJCJhH_aGBUQBZdGhcySBg8fMCW2O3OJaRLuhg9FkkqRBM7NYuYhf7EIZbWfjZV4s2imdKcf483w9WMUFLF27uc5LsBYoA/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://musingmystical.com/surfing-the-galactic-highways-by-barry-goddard" target="_blank">A new review of my astrology book</a>: as ever, you get a free reading if you buy it and leave a (genuine) rating on Amazon π The same applies for my other book, The Medicine Wheel. <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="gm8j-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x1fey0fg"><span data-offset-key="gm8j-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="gm8j-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x1fey0fg"><span data-offset-key="gm8j-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="622cb" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span data-text="true">GOD</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="en96n-1-0"><span data-text="true"> IS DEAD: A SHAMANIC MANIFESTO </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-1-0"><span data-text="true">Shamanism is my other big passion alongside astrology. For me, what is astrology but the sky spirits speaking through us? That is why astrology is for me essentially divinatory, rather than about following rules of interpretation - though I do not ignore them.
So here is what I called a Shamanic Manifesto that I wrote recently. (You can find my shamanic blog, with free email subscribe, at </span></span><span class="x1fey0fg"><span data-offset-key="en96n-2-0"><span data-text="true">http://shamanicfreestate.blogspot.com/</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">): </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmKXS3BGcHY_s8aV_oZ11lw9kCpWJ-q1h2USSnYQKKzeeM4yft5KZmyM-dSpYIUUbIL2eRM9TlzrIGM3Cb2PF9SPHh8pMlYc3isesCGOl9gzqRSmL7ieRO-XDN6pkTpj1wcMOOtGh9XvzFk9IqRysoeuj2Qa50NmGjPgS3GPgpqyud_31eXkUyQ/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmKXS3BGcHY_s8aV_oZ11lw9kCpWJ-q1h2USSnYQKKzeeM4yft5KZmyM-dSpYIUUbIL2eRM9TlzrIGM3Cb2PF9SPHh8pMlYc3isesCGOl9gzqRSmL7ieRO-XDN6pkTpj1wcMOOtGh9XvzFk9IqRysoeuj2Qa50NmGjPgS3GPgpqyud_31eXkUyQ/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />βGod is Dead,β declared Nietzsche over 100 years ago. Who is this God who has died - or who, rather, according to Nietzsche - we killed? I think he was the corrupt invention of a desperate people. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">It goes this way. The Great Spirit is everywhere in nature. All is sacred. This is the universal experience of early peoples. It is how things are, and far older than God, the new kid on the block. The Jews, a slave race, flee the Pharoah, and spend years wandering in the desert wilderness: this is the book of Exodus. They have fled a tyrant, but tyranny is what is familiar to them. And so, in the absence of a tyrannical worldly ruler, they create a tyrannical Otherworldly ruler. It is the psychology by which adults replicate painful family situations from childhood, because that is what they know. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIGqvDJks-bPXc0igkohVTEcdwHLFSEv6bOrD0TbpGy91bQQHLfjdp5FUomfeyzRx-zW1kTOh_l-ItdUeUbXUtyllfbK4i98TMoP39KhBn7IbkYBfFVrazg7t4c5RInn8Slp8IwCVawivJA5IFfrt2Bwbi6-wJ1qfw5oBXvMuZjj3tHzkFQOxZ0g/s300/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIGqvDJks-bPXc0igkohVTEcdwHLFSEv6bOrD0TbpGy91bQQHLfjdp5FUomfeyzRx-zW1kTOh_l-ItdUeUbXUtyllfbK4i98TMoP39KhBn7IbkYBfFVrazg7t4c5RInn8Slp8IwCVawivJA5IFfrt2Bwbi6-wJ1qfw5oBXvMuZjj3tHzkFQOxZ0g/w400-h224/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This tyrannical God is abstracted from the natural world, he dominates it from above. The Jews were living in a harsh, unforgiving reality in which the people's survival was at stake if they did not follow strict codes of behaviour. So there was a practical as well as a psychological reason for an authoritarian God. He is for the same reason jealous of the pagan god Baal. What eventually arose were the monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all of which treat the Old Testament as a holy book. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">There is, of course, the New Testament, which has a less authoritarian flavour. But even there, right at the start, you have Jesus saying you can only reach God through him. So it is there also. Christianity hit the big time when the Roman Empire, which needed an authoritarian religion to unite it, adopted it. And the rest is history: crusades, inquisitions, witch burnings and so on. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">It has been said that monotheisms are desert religions, because their context is just one reality: the desert and the sky. In a jungle, by contrast, there are many realities, which therefore lends itself to polytheisms. Lots of spirit animals! It is why you got saints as Christianity spread beyond the desert. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">So good riddance to God and his authoritarian ways. It has left the western world floundering in a sea of uncertainties. Politics has taken its place. Extreme right and left wing politics are a substitute for religion: they give the sense of certainty and belonging, and the prospect of redemption, that religion once provided. We see it too in the causes that young people take up - it is natural to them to do so - but with a religious dogmatism that brooks no disagreement. You are, for example, quickly labelled a 'climate denier' or a 'transphobe' if you question the mainstream narratives around climate and gender. People get 'cancelled'. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2xWEYioQs6oxvpqd6gZ6jwLCNc1QS8KcO5JHmaIKzvqgIIHjzGCI4V7a0pCx19oyXI_Bm8UwDmybWJQmDngP1QizIRkSem-JNI65u16uAReCDf0Aamswvo746jj4gUdVOVzUpsPUgZQelmms9cbuY7c5hVg3HUoJc8PEYMGs98Lnp_lnGaeaNw/s311/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2xWEYioQs6oxvpqd6gZ6jwLCNc1QS8KcO5JHmaIKzvqgIIHjzGCI4V7a0pCx19oyXI_Bm8UwDmybWJQmDngP1QizIRkSem-JNI65u16uAReCDf0Aamswvo746jj4gUdVOVzUpsPUgZQelmms9cbuY7c5hVg3HUoJc8PEYMGs98Lnp_lnGaeaNw/w400-h208/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Into this brew walks Shamanism, which represents a return to that which was universally true before the corruption of the monotheisms. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">Shamanism is not true in a rigid sense: it has no holy books or founders. It is nevertheless perfectly possible to become authoritarian about it: you see that on the internet, where some people are quick to correct others about what shamanism is and isnβt. That is just a power thing, that is people wanting to stand above others, and there will always be people like that. You can learn a lot by watching them.
Shamanism, in a way, begins and ends with the experience of the natural world. In that is everything you will ever need to know, but you have to find it for yourself. We are a part of nature, neither above it (as God would have us believe) nor below it, a kind of plague (as many environmentalists would have us believe). The latter is an example of what Jung called enantiodroma, in which one switches to the psychological opposite: from above nature to below nature. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">For the Chippewa Cree, we do indeed have a special place: the new-born ones, because we are the only animal that does not know who it is. And so we can learn to know who we are by observing nature β as part of it, not as separate to it β for animals and plants and rocks and streams all know who and what they are, and get on with it. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">The loss of our traditional religion has been a mixed thing, and its influence persists: in, for example the scientific quest for truth, with its unspoken implication that the truth will redeem us. It is this passion that drives research scientists. It will indeed redeem us, but not very much if we are using the narrow scientific definition of truth alone. I think the hatred of humanity often found within environmentalism has reverberations of Original Sin, in this case our sin against the Mother, the Earth, for which we must pay by dismantling our whole way of life. I think it is important to look at the mythological roots of what drives us. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">The collective needs a new mythology to live by, or it will continue to treat politics as religion, as a philosophy that can set us free. We saw how disastrous that was with Communism. (The far right is as nothing compared to the far left when it comes to mass murder.) We can only ever free ourselves individually. Trying to change the world is usually an avoidance of the responsibility we have for our own souls. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">Whether our huge modern collectives of people can have a mythology that is not to some degree authoritarian and crazed is something to which I do not know the answer. When there are fewer people, a tribe can govern itself more through relationships than rules. And that keeps things human, and keeps the mythologies softer. Most people will always want a simple belief of some sort about the universe and how it came to be; you need people who are listened to who can dance around that, in the knowledge that really we know nothing about how the universe came to be, and never will. The healers and medicine people, if you like. Or, in our context, the poets. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODBDb80VUFPrRk0EhVs_2GRJjpc-htQaj_IhKi6P8eQB05LFWOndY7rR9UBuLS-cvQb6udSnCx_Rxq1MD_2GUWpPBQ89AvXKkqyvfArkKzqumAXBb0pXNBAHimRCVd3l4igMjbHd_Lsaqtzl3AjifGQp3NP2eft50C4hwOOhMaVVUJpzTrCR_Sg/s275/a3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODBDb80VUFPrRk0EhVs_2GRJjpc-htQaj_IhKi6P8eQB05LFWOndY7rR9UBuLS-cvQb6udSnCx_Rxq1MD_2GUWpPBQ89AvXKkqyvfArkKzqumAXBb0pXNBAHimRCVd3l4igMjbHd_Lsaqtzl3AjifGQp3NP2eft50C4hwOOhMaVVUJpzTrCR_Sg/w400-h266/a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I think Shamanism does provide the necessary basis for any society to be healthy. The modern world needs Shamanism. We have a big mission on our hands, we have a whole world to convert! But I donβt mean that evangelically. It is more like a spirit we can convey in a natural kind of way, without actually trying to, simply by being ourselves, and letting people come our way rather than seeking them out. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="en96n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="en96n-3-0"><span data-text="true">We do nevertheless have some ideas to convey: for example, that the whole world is alive, inspirited, and why would it not be? That we belong intimately to the natural world, there is nothing in us that is outside of that. And the simple, but world-transforming, idea of regularly expressing gratitude to the earth for her bounty.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-85909526851389291512023-10-30T16:15:00.002+00:002023-10-30T16:15:52.236+00:00ISRAEL, THE NUCLEAR CHART and IRAN'S MID-LIFE CRISIS<div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="3plre-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3plre-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3plre-0-0"><span data-text="true">Scorpio is the sign presiding over the current Middle East conflict, suggesting a side to it that is hidden. An obvious place to look is Iran. I am thinking of an unspoken nuclear threat from Israel. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="60lq7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="60lq7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="60lq7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eR1I2bGf3JnG32KvL6-TmzRjbxEE7eKMjIEIH8Xf6isR4fSMjZN2bg3rGAoz6Yv9NjbPJ3UwJU3tLf1xkYP5XQLCkh-cirOoWcH4BkQvmjnQ_LOrp-QxT-jPJ53yPY99O1zv8YV847AqS-rrv2cEOqTl0gHIXdpY4IoB6oln5X97bWb19D4kug/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eR1I2bGf3JnG32KvL6-TmzRjbxEE7eKMjIEIH8Xf6isR4fSMjZN2bg3rGAoz6Yv9NjbPJ3UwJU3tLf1xkYP5XQLCkh-cirOoWcH4BkQvmjnQ_LOrp-QxT-jPJ53yPY99O1zv8YV847AqS-rrv2cEOqTl0gHIXdpY4IoB6oln5X97bWb19D4kug/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Some technicalities. Natally: Iran's Moon in Gemini is on the 'nuclear axis', as it is known, of the chart for the 1st nuclear chain reaction. Its Uranus at 20 Scorpio is 1/2 a degree off the nuclear Mars. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8tpa4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTxwGesvXkocBWkr9QYw7l7whtxyOI68Hzl1mWsKBUDrLR4lGWupskGdtRS-omkBXI4cO3NfINU5VmJnfTZUg303fRkYBuLMAeFI41M5TY0aUcsTFLXLtnFPTqgQna_moTDKmqr48PMCDxwq5H1vKFVOTh5Xj3hUveWnWIA7teGJJo6oKVyM_Eg/s1311/a3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTxwGesvXkocBWkr9QYw7l7whtxyOI68Hzl1mWsKBUDrLR4lGWupskGdtRS-omkBXI4cO3NfINU5VmJnfTZUg303fRkYBuLMAeFI41M5TY0aUcsTFLXLtnFPTqgQna_moTDKmqr48PMCDxwq5H1vKFVOTh5Xj3hUveWnWIA7teGJJo6oKVyM_Eg/w400-h220/a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />By transit: The lunar eclipse of 28th Oct was on Iran's Chiron/MC. The New Moon of 13th November has Sun, Moon and Mars all on Iran's Uranus/the nuclear Mars, and on the MC too in Tel Aviv, while the MC in Tehran will be on the nuclear axis. All opposite transiting Uranus, giving Iran a Uranus opposition, a mid-life crisis, in which this New Moon will be a key point.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="50hob-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="50hob-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="50hob-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="1q8k7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1q8k7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1q8k7-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXdeb7MporWgDP3m-s9JXnuy-HTkeQujDvOu8ZV3mldfbg4tskEPzGrcxHyjVmsQNev9HVOVzQJIAAGpu6ppuGOIb1AMaRULdq87tXhR9tS-hI7tbzuRr3UC3bgTbhz0srBG_5BcTZRNAF7DlaEjv3S9vogiIkYkwci3h9qu2TY2H4p-uVlG06Q/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXdeb7MporWgDP3m-s9JXnuy-HTkeQujDvOu8ZV3mldfbg4tskEPzGrcxHyjVmsQNev9HVOVzQJIAAGpu6ppuGOIb1AMaRULdq87tXhR9tS-hI7tbzuRr3UC3bgTbhz0srBG_5BcTZRNAF7DlaEjv3S9vogiIkYkwci3h9qu2TY2H4p-uVlG06Q/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We know that Iran is implicated in this conflict. Trump warned Biden some time ago not to unfreeze $6bn of Iranian funds, because they would use it for terrorism. I know a lot of people cannot accept that Trump can be right about anything, but that is their own wilful blindness. We are seeing the results of Biden ignoring Trump's advice right now.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="6sts-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6sts-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6sts-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="a1gjj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1gjj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1gjj-0-0"><span data-text="true">This Scorpionic war is about survival for Israel, Mars in Scorpio being defensive rather than offensive. The bogeyman behind the war, Iran, denies Israel's right to exist. I don't think Israel would hesitate to use nuclear weapons to take out Iran's deep underground nuclear facilities if it felt there was an imminent likelihood of them having nuclear weapons.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="7ii0k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ii0k-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7ii0k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="a3psm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a3psm-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a3psm-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am not concerned that there will be major escalation of this conflict. What can anyone in the region do against Israel backed by the US? Iran would be obliterated, and knows it, and the astrology suggests a nuclear dimension to that awareness.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="f2369-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f2369-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f2369-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="2b9tr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b9tr-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2b9tr-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is another chart for Iran, the symbolic founding of the Islamic republic, based on when Khomeini returned from exile on Feb 1 1979. It similarly has a Uranus opposition, but here Uranus rules the Aquarian Sun, enlarging its scope. And in the next few years, Neptune will hard-aspect all its Angles.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="ehng7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehng7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ehng7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="3hv88-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hv88-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3hv88-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0wL4pG8l5tK0R6ts02vzy7iJ3korxiDADTh5iyFRbacwTTgY2lAoCY10Gn6Y5aZxjrzVyNrDTMo9Y4LdYguvBErCU5uolVvJ6hDJcHzpr_HNu9i4XPpeYYaDpp21YzRChw6QYo_jBvQNxyucQMWs8O8XFdDrrIKxGW_bfoGIGczdvoM1mLliiQ/s1311/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0wL4pG8l5tK0R6ts02vzy7iJ3korxiDADTh5iyFRbacwTTgY2lAoCY10Gn6Y5aZxjrzVyNrDTMo9Y4LdYguvBErCU5uolVvJ6hDJcHzpr_HNu9i4XPpeYYaDpp21YzRChw6QYo_jBvQNxyucQMWs8O8XFdDrrIKxGW_bfoGIGczdvoM1mLliiQ/w400-h220/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />So even though there are gruelling Scorpionic times to go through in the short-term, I am hopeful that it will lead to long-term change in Iran, as its Aquarian religious fundamentalism is shaken by Uranus, and its incarnation through the Angles is dissolved by Neptune.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="1e47l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1e47l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1e47l-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a80dh" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span data-text="true">After that, maybe, the Abraham accords, which began under Trump as a way of normalising Israel's relations with the Arab world, can be revived. They were low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked, and Biden ignored them, because they were Trump's achievement. By enabling this war, which was always going to be hopeless for Hamas, Iran has achieved the wider objective of halting, for now, any possible return to these accords.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cb4kh" data-offset-key="5h638-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5h638-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="5h638-0-0"><span data-text="true">SATURN</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="5h638-1-0"><span data-text="true"> GOES DIRECT</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5h638-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5h638-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="26g90-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEyqE2SppKLqJMr_bjAE8nuozP5u5lHz7OuDm_W-vnJzPsV3SSXqtS6D4ZuF7nUAVrCUMtL61VZbvw13LN7wqUOL1rECBUP4PLRMkKkEJihLnNZCGolHjQrPpHKOV-_BWAuzCG2FViL1HY9RtM-eyZDMSY143p3fTJPNNeCniwJEtwXB0LoAAYg/s317/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="317" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEyqE2SppKLqJMr_bjAE8nuozP5u5lHz7OuDm_W-vnJzPsV3SSXqtS6D4ZuF7nUAVrCUMtL61VZbvw13LN7wqUOL1rECBUP4PLRMkKkEJihLnNZCGolHjQrPpHKOV-_BWAuzCG2FViL1HY9RtM-eyZDMSY143p3fTJPNNeCniwJEtwXB0LoAAYg/s1600/a.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br />Saturn will go Direct on Sat 4th Nov, after 5 months in retreat. You can probably feel it already. It is time to begin incarnating those nebulous Saturn in Pisces dreams, step by steady step, for that is Saturn's way. You don't have to know the goal, just the next step. Things are starting to become concrete, you know where you stand, what you want. Trust (Pisces) in whatever is or is not (Saturn). </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84grc-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="66gn2" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"> ASTROLOGICAL TASK OF OUR AGE </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true">The chart below is for the day that Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published. It tells us something important about the theory of Evolution, for the Sun was in Sagittarius: namely that this theory is a belief (Sag) rather than a fact (Gemini). The Sun is opposite Uranus in Gemini, showing the ground-breaking nature of the theory, but also the presence of a trickster in the form of reason. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd4PfkGxsJ_EiF3Ao92EcDdAz2zTN2C_erkJi0nfgcucrQIIXU0k6sXF1FSssKwfUussMe-WFFs36x1F3yIdsTZUyZPrtldMuI276SGR3ud9P5_B5_kpL6InEiNcUeOwjoPMydFOxt6I4XfXvI0P158LM34sYb62_WXSYEa09cdkGSLng9-y73g/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd4PfkGxsJ_EiF3Ao92EcDdAz2zTN2C_erkJi0nfgcucrQIIXU0k6sXF1FSssKwfUussMe-WFFs36x1F3yIdsTZUyZPrtldMuI276SGR3ud9P5_B5_kpL6InEiNcUeOwjoPMydFOxt6I4XfXvI0P158LM34sYb62_WXSYEa09cdkGSLng9-y73g/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The word 'fact' is nowadays used to give authority to scientific beliefs, in the same way that 'God' or 'the Bible' was used as authority for religious beliefs in the middle ages.
But what is the world apart from our collection of beliefs and interpretations about it, as created by the brain, itself an artefact of our perception? As astrologers, we use sky stories, and they work. That is good enough for us. And it should be enough for science that science works. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true">The bigger astrological theme around this state of affairs is the 490 year Neptune-Pluto cycle, the presiding influence, the context for all other astrological considerations. The last conjunction, in 1891, was in Gemini, as was the one before it. So we live in a Gemini Age: an age of facts. It is hard, by definition, for us to see collectively the shadow of that, which is the opposite sign of Sagittarius. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true">Have you noticed how upset and angry people can get if you question eg the climate crisis narrative? It shows that they feel their belief system to be under attack. This does not make them right or wrong about climate. It is that it has become a belief that tells them who they are, that I am pointing out. It is the Sagittarius shadow of their Gemini scientific facts. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-1-0"><span data-text="true">Returning to the theme of Evolution, it has to be said that it is a good story and a useful story. But its mechanism is a mathematical impossibility. It is like the monkey at the typewriter producing Shakespeare. Life has such a complexity at the cellular level that it could not have happened in the time available. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEaJDksxls" target="_blank">Watch mathematician David Berlinski on this</a></span></span><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true">) So around the story of Evolution remains the bigger mystery of life and its origins. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPgtXFyoHMulLLUmwhP-9RwoTelurykinFecpZrX2zLPx35ZVWC6EtdV-NjYhs-HUdA-ZXK1HgLSMa51F3fJF6qSEx6h8sqtY1VQJUAQsqhQusD47KRWvo2dEgtxREbvQKHZQwQG1UGyuJFtQ2K7DDqFTnAJhxMb-cbnYQkQj9YhZbcUhE7v_SvQ/s250/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="250" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPgtXFyoHMulLLUmwhP-9RwoTelurykinFecpZrX2zLPx35ZVWC6EtdV-NjYhs-HUdA-ZXK1HgLSMa51F3fJF6qSEx6h8sqtY1VQJUAQsqhQusD47KRWvo2dEgtxREbvQKHZQwQG1UGyuJFtQ2K7DDqFTnAJhxMb-cbnYQkQj9YhZbcUhE7v_SvQ/w400-h322/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />There is nothing wrong with beliefs. We need them. The point is to be conscious of them, to choose them. Don't treat them as ultimate statements about the universe. Then you will have Sag and Gemini in balance: you will have accomplished the astrological task of our age. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true">The collective can't help but have beliefs that are to an extent rigid. Our job is not to buy into that, but dance around them. As astrologers, our task is Uranian: to be the skilful trickster who can open up other, softer and more whole ways of seeing, without provoking a reaction.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="bhqv5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bhqv5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bhqv5-0-0"><span data-text="true">URANUS-</span></span><span><span data-offset-key="bhqv5-1-0"><span data-text="true">PLUTO</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="bhqv5-2-0"><span data-text="true"> and ENVIRONMENTALISM </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="dfmea-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dfmea-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dfmea-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo of the 1960s is as good a place as any, astrologically, to trace the beginnings of modern environmentalism. There is the deep feminine, as found in the cycles of the natural world, Virgo as nature goddess: she gives us the power to live, and that is Pluto. It is Virgoan nature, which is seen as pristine, fragile and in need of our protection, rather than nature red in tooth and claw, which is more like Scorpio. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="56bi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="56bi-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="56bi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="2cg3m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2cg3m-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2cg3m-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then there is the counter-cultural rebellion aspect, which is Uranus, that often brings its own anti-authority, anti-technology, anti-capitalist and even anti-humanity undercurrents, that has little to do with environmentalism, but uses it.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="8mt4c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8mt4c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8mt4c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="d9eg4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d9eg4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d9eg4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sdSual-8esA_duLVSOXgoBaVqhOXTKPE8xcJJFFpwS6g_AmA-ZUcJKrRZrYmk7033Qn-YuQXa8dE826jC0P2gEDwEy_RVb9GSqopLZJnZeLcdzrL4xtzo-ULdXPKx77RaJGvi7FRceSrHHX4JN4yhm2NnTVES9jwtb_mHhbvehNTPXrtjJOnkQ/s295/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="295" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sdSual-8esA_duLVSOXgoBaVqhOXTKPE8xcJJFFpwS6g_AmA-ZUcJKrRZrYmk7033Qn-YuQXa8dE826jC0P2gEDwEy_RVb9GSqopLZJnZeLcdzrL4xtzo-ULdXPKx77RaJGvi7FRceSrHHX4JN4yhm2NnTVES9jwtb_mHhbvehNTPXrtjJOnkQ/w400-h232/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />And there is the hair-shirt aspect of Virgo, which understands sufficiency and the inner joy to be found in moderation, but can go too far in her renunciation of the world: we see this at its most extreme in the reckless 'Just Stop Oil' attitude. The shadow of Virgo is compassionate Pisces, which would not be denying western levels of prosperity to Africa, by restricting their use of oil, as has been the case for many years now. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="c5oc6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5oc6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c5oc6-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="9rstk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9rstk-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9rstk-0-0"><span data-text="true">The apocalyptic thinking around the environment is very Uranus-Pluto also: a disaster (Uranus) that threatens our survival (Pluto). </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="81mcv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="81mcv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="81mcv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="2o6md" data-offset-key="9qq5u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9qq5u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9qq5u-0-0"><span data-text="true">The environmental movement is a complex thing; it is like a religion in many ways, and I think a lot of it can be unpacked using this 1960s conjunction.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1l09c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1l09c-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-3990537621033449292023-10-26T11:06:00.005+01:002023-10-26T11:14:55.757+01:00NOT A TALKING HEAD<div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6oip3" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3bbfp-1-0"><span data-text="true">I've recently created a video course for Watkins Books, as a companion to my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Wheel-Transformation-Wholeness-Balance/dp/1785359673/ref=sr_1_10?crid=1SZ5XCEJPQW9D&keywords=the+medicine+wheel&qid=1698284234&sprefix=the+medic%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-10" target="_blank">The Medicine Wheel</a>. There are 11 sessions, and I had a fun time doing it: it brings something out in me that writing alone cannot. I think you'll find my style engaging - it's more enthusiastic fireside chat than polished talking head π€£ </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3bbfp-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3bbfp-1-0"><span data-text="true">The intro is free and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7jAeYMBYQ " target="_blank">the link to that is here</a> <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3bbfp-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3bbfp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3bbfp-3-0"><span data-text="true">The course itself <a href="https://www.watkinswisdomacademy.com/p/the-medicine-wheel-maps-of-transformation" target="_blank">can be found here </a></span></span></span></div></div></div><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ah0t9" data-offset-key="4i582-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i582-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><span data-text="true">ISRAEL</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="abr5g-1-0"><span data-text="true"> WILL DO WHAT SHE FEELS IS NECESSARY </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abr5g-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="abr5g-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="68daa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="68daa-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="68daa-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPUvkzcpqy9eWN1erMoXCaguQ9HBHvcK35SLnhSZ5ZyT9HwSJS8-Gb4uVBjfjw-nmTNQTLAJ2Z9qh4fTtMfIw3dA1Q9YeM64_Y4JFGfkS04Y5Nyt0MKFlgj2CnuA9TyL8sh3ap1bOd1reWAvv3qtuw1rVzH9x2AC9y7CoHWe52Y_MTZ3C85T8mg/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPUvkzcpqy9eWN1erMoXCaguQ9HBHvcK35SLnhSZ5ZyT9HwSJS8-Gb4uVBjfjw-nmTNQTLAJ2Z9qh4fTtMfIw3dA1Q9YeM64_Y4JFGfkS04Y5Nyt0MKFlgj2CnuA9TyL8sh3ap1bOd1reWAvv3qtuw1rVzH9x2AC9y7CoHWe52Y_MTZ3C85T8mg/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Here is the New Moon chart for 13th November, set for Tel Aviv. You don't need to know much astrology to see that it's pretty powerful. Sun-Moon-Mars in Scorpio, on the Midheaven. It is, however, easy to get down on Scorpio, and think this chart has to be pretty horrible, and what a nasty country Israel is. It probably will be horrible in many ways, but for a Scorpionic reason: Israel is attempting to ensure her long-term survival, which is a Scorpio issue. If this line-up were in Aries, I would say it is a war of conquest. But in Scorpio, it is defensive. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="2oprh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2oprh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2oprh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="f1e5t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f1e5t-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f1e5t-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUAthC1p5SQRMOW2IpTirtFca2juFMl6CnfO7LuGlpJDVZ9BUvmIImr6Wovy1nkb9MpHs4aMCql_otzpBV0j6YmzRNd2BJBxVmUmdP8FarfgEJ6Dfiy_xdlQWtdrk2V82vUL4RLhR_THMDHIpxOewzmL0_EByPBcuMl4xhqNuuAZcvYpaMVw88w/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUAthC1p5SQRMOW2IpTirtFca2juFMl6CnfO7LuGlpJDVZ9BUvmIImr6Wovy1nkb9MpHs4aMCql_otzpBV0j6YmzRNd2BJBxVmUmdP8FarfgEJ6Dfiy_xdlQWtdrk2V82vUL4RLhR_THMDHIpxOewzmL0_EByPBcuMl4xhqNuuAZcvYpaMVw88w/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The line-up is opposite the Israeli Sun at 23.39 Taurus, so there is a national renewal, a re-setting of goals. Uranus is opposite the Sun-Moon-Mars, so it is impossible to predict how Israel will go about reaching its goals. But reach them she will, by whatever means necessary. It is a one-way fight, so as painful as it is likely to be, it could be a lot worse. This chart does not concern gratuitous violence: just whatever is necessary so that Israel cannot be attacked in the same way again. She is looking with an unwavering Medusa eye to this end. And she probably has the international backing to do so.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="fbapr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fbapr-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fbapr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ao2c" data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span data-text="true">This is not about fairness or justice or morality. This is about survival, quite a different thing. It is Pluto's realm, that is not human. By the same token, the New Moon will be in pretty much the same place above Gaza: in their case, it signifies the pulverising and dismemberment that is also Scorpio territory. What will be left to rise from the ashes is, at this stage, imponderable.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="12fvd-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4i582-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="4i582-1-0"><span data-text="true"> LUNAR ECLIPSE </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4i582-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4i582-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ah0t9" data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIGIZXGY60zpcFMLRXFGXHoY6WiH6Cxzoiw9sMQ_YwQYwEw3xBnFhSBdd209FJOUhxM1FTyD4u_ipQt-7wf5zkzTQ4Hl96xtgI5JH33ycseUyG8Xa98zMDEwfQhmPoip0ue-iOStn_Aa_bhBAv1ee5FWmp2e5rz15T6W-cb1njP8iRdbr-yFnQA/s777/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="777" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaIGIZXGY60zpcFMLRXFGXHoY6WiH6Cxzoiw9sMQ_YwQYwEw3xBnFhSBdd209FJOUhxM1FTyD4u_ipQt-7wf5zkzTQ4Hl96xtgI5JH33ycseUyG8Xa98zMDEwfQhmPoip0ue-iOStn_Aa_bhBAv1ee5FWmp2e5rz15T6W-cb1njP8iRdbr-yFnQA/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The Full Moon this weekend is an eclipse. So pay attention to the Taurus-Scorpio axis: do you need to lighten up from your dark broodings, and enjoy the pleasures of the senses and the natural world? Or are you consumed by everyday life as a way of avoiding your demons, and your deeper, more demanding gifts?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dr62i-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="5qoeq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qoeq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="5qoeq-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="5qoeq-1-0"><span data-text="true"> VEIL BETWEEN THE WORLDS </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="c3svh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c3svh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c3svh-0-0"><span data-text="true">We are in Scorpio season, and Halloween aproaches. This is when, we are told, the veil between the worlds is thin. If the veil wasn't originally thin on Oct 31st, it is now, through the power of repeated ceremony. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="172df-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="172df-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="172df-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="a7pl8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a7pl8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a7pl8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Scorpio is comfortable with death and blood and guts and transgressive behaviour, because she understands they are just part of life. She understands that there is in reality no veil between the worlds. Life and death are one. Death is completely normal, no-one even notices it, from the point of view of death. Or so I was shown in a dream a while back, where death was happening by the thousands every moment. "It is as natural to die as to be born", said the philosopher Francis Bacon. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="8kfht-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8kfht-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8kfht-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="fbb7h" data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUoRReR2WCLFSxbm26DWMIcnUx0Zr2g1Z84GtB63jR2IBWtCgn38hqACQsh1wvN80CSLuOMZeJzyIrQ4QPlaPZhhazl010VTOCn32twAPX8quKgoqRT5DVo8uWccRhyLOO_Zm3eb1bbQxjSHQKyRAmAVlE5i_pgM2kv7vRuek6ZYtTMJmuax1JmA/s310/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUoRReR2WCLFSxbm26DWMIcnUx0Zr2g1Z84GtB63jR2IBWtCgn38hqACQsh1wvN80CSLuOMZeJzyIrQ4QPlaPZhhazl010VTOCn32twAPX8quKgoqRT5DVo8uWccRhyLOO_Zm3eb1bbQxjSHQKyRAmAVlE5i_pgM2kv7vRuek6ZYtTMJmuax1JmA/s1600/a.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br />So keep doing those things that give meaning to your life, while you have the time. If you do that, you will have nothing to regret. Just remember to have that coin in your mouth to pay the ferryman.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bi3h1-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3k05k" data-offset-key="9ct9d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9ct9d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="9ct9d-0-0"><span data-text="true">MERCURY</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9ct9d-1-0"><span data-text="true"> CONJUNCT MARS IN SCORPIO </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9ct9d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9ct9d-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3k05k" data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG16-1FOWLhSnILRopK76UFPV4GPxYfMvVXX20Bs08trYiBV2cO8wCv9-UcqMPnGuvyl7SuBuTINFBAlzA5yAs4CuhS4pAWa3FdkEmMHSVDDDDbaChA_lLjgM6EmuDudMZSauKBFTOEsOxIoYlUlHblERsCt4KyE6cxD5EU4dXDJN873ltqtTJ3g/s130/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="97" data-original-width="130" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG16-1FOWLhSnILRopK76UFPV4GPxYfMvVXX20Bs08trYiBV2cO8wCv9-UcqMPnGuvyl7SuBuTINFBAlzA5yAs4CuhS4pAWa3FdkEmMHSVDDDDbaChA_lLjgM6EmuDudMZSauKBFTOEsOxIoYlUlHblERsCt4KyE6cxD5EU4dXDJN873ltqtTJ3g/w400-h298/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Mercury will be in an applying conjunction with Mars in Scorpio until 29th October. Time to speak truthfully and directly all those things that need saying, but which get put to one side because they are inconvenient, or because you want people to like you. This is about the truth you see directly, that you know in your viscera. The force of that will prevail against those who can usually dance around you with words and logic.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8h851-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6lio5" data-offset-key="788c6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="788c6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="788c6-0-0"><span data-text="true">WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING IN THE BEDROOM....</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6lio5" data-offset-key="f3ujg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3ujg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f3ujg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Behind Venus, through which a man is attracted to a woman, lies the Moon, the mother figure that he seeks, who he imagines will take care of his emotional needs. And behind Mars, through which a woman is attracted to a man, lies the Sun, the father figure that she seeks, who she hopes will provide protection and financial security. Of course, this is schematic, and it's never that simple. It is generally unacknowledged, or it would kill the romance. And it may be necessary, it is not 'bad'. It is normal, it is where the idea of the 'other half' comes from.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6lio5" data-offset-key="2rdp0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2rdp0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2rdp0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6lio5" data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-TcdHHWRGAskLfYdbbx2pm-ic68uLX9adF8kv28xQNXgXWhi-2VipFGn7OXShR9GFa3eWeL4iBBJ21AruJYIhKTW83tFHblmY39wc9wATK8vvyBrPai9zICprOt_Qsl-RzMQUkQkX-pBGahFRRRpUm514oCSjm776YFDe2nhQMoLEnok8M3v2xA/s324/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="324" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-TcdHHWRGAskLfYdbbx2pm-ic68uLX9adF8kv28xQNXgXWhi-2VipFGn7OXShR9GFa3eWeL4iBBJ21AruJYIhKTW83tFHblmY39wc9wATK8vvyBrPai9zICprOt_Qsl-RzMQUkQkX-pBGahFRRRpUm514oCSjm776YFDe2nhQMoLEnok8M3v2xA/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />A relationship begins in the 7th House, and then moves to the 8th House, the House of Sex and Intimacy, which catalyses our unconscious longings. You may find yourself there for many years, before you move into the clear light, the wisdom of the 9th. If indeed you make that shift. And you will probably find yourself on your own if you do.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="19eqj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIX6c64tBhqiSiuwPyxS2QR-ev7pn5a4MS9XHltYE9zm2H-QOOU3SrLdj6ZnZs03L7zoTZ3i5L7z3XBQ6ThD8bqL00cMyvgqxVdPVgwlfqtMj7vh_RgXVIca_QAXYdcePtJXghig6RW7kLBUPUc_0oWlMTuTQrXUdQRrTesAKxtf5Mv8ToT7OojQ/s707/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="591" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIX6c64tBhqiSiuwPyxS2QR-ev7pn5a4MS9XHltYE9zm2H-QOOU3SrLdj6ZnZs03L7zoTZ3i5L7z3XBQ6ThD8bqL00cMyvgqxVdPVgwlfqtMj7vh_RgXVIca_QAXYdcePtJXghig6RW7kLBUPUc_0oWlMTuTQrXUdQRrTesAKxtf5Mv8ToT7OojQ/s320/a.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-83914486438188760102023-10-18T20:51:00.003+01:002023-10-18T21:05:33.505+01:00AQUARIUS SEVERN, ISRAEL, CRAZY ASTROLOGERS and MORE<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjDR0KFga0c" target="_blank"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbSz82Gazb9Txc84oLPXP4A02BQdeaJPQ4RR9KjqNts1ygj4NJ_iN94P7qrjnAVBdSyAEXMQGrIe32nXp9jphkY7BOVYjPrUvpWwe-_W3-XUHVn0fAO3y1G3Kr8mhVT1WC7_07K4T8s1SoN0LSc7obFRucCpZRsi6YpKVuWoj4qN5FYXWxU7NBQ/s1920/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbSz82Gazb9Txc84oLPXP4A02BQdeaJPQ4RR9KjqNts1ygj4NJ_iN94P7qrjnAVBdSyAEXMQGrIe32nXp9jphkY7BOVYjPrUvpWwe-_W3-XUHVn0fAO3y1G3Kr8mhVT1WC7_07K4T8s1SoN0LSc7obFRucCpZRsi6YpKVuWoj4qN5FYXWxU7NBQ/w400-h225/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjDR0KFga0c" target="_blank">Here is a link to me talking with the Aquarius Severn Astrology</a> group earlier this
month. I had a good time, I always do when I talk Astrology. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></p><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r2rn:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">ISRAEL and MARS IN SCORPIO</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcDVAhFPJSkLLoLUp_1NHrocbEBfJHw4irpdCaGEiD3Oekh6nkzngm9mhOZCyV3WWJyzzp5MjAS0W1w7V-4i9dSbWVSMYjmRdKA7HWBeat_IIvfMmKHjsUSu-GiBycmx0GZzIH6wluiO2GYCMn2S96CdXQ1DucgExv_W3oJKI3ze0R5bXjVTzHw/s262/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="262" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcDVAhFPJSkLLoLUp_1NHrocbEBfJHw4irpdCaGEiD3Oekh6nkzngm9mhOZCyV3WWJyzzp5MjAS0W1w7V-4i9dSbWVSMYjmRdKA7HWBeat_IIvfMmKHjsUSu-GiBycmx0GZzIH6wluiO2GYCMn2S96CdXQ1DucgExv_W3oJKI3ze0R5bXjVTzHw/s1600/a.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><br />Mars in Libra is responsive rather than offensive, and it was in Libra in Israel's 1st House when Hamas attacked last week. With natal Libra Rising, this militarily responsive position generally characterises Israel. Though when it does respond, it has a mighty Mars in Leo trine Jupiter in Sag with which to do so. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIhMfXKbGlGTO9hxyff2gkC9aD7TpdVWLNHgHOW4xhWJH8Z6zfYkM072QeC4H_K9Yviifan_iYdrkzv0OQ3sVJfHkj8QXb3HTtfIqVkwNWEu4TKIqvVQpp4hVFZzqkZpsyZkS9r8NftrHjjuE9bUJj1ACTGBfvdvF5LvaOLcsOlSAv-2HrBPFsg/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTIhMfXKbGlGTO9hxyff2gkC9aD7TpdVWLNHgHOW4xhWJH8Z6zfYkM072QeC4H_K9Yviifan_iYdrkzv0OQ3sVJfHkj8QXb3HTtfIqVkwNWEu4TKIqvVQpp4hVFZzqkZpsyZkS9r8NftrHjjuE9bUJj1ACTGBfvdvF5LvaOLcsOlSAv-2HrBPFsg/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Mars has since moved into Scorpio, the other sign, along with Aries, that this planet rules. In Aries, Mars is offensive, in Scorpio <span></span>defensive. Israel is now involved in an operation to secure its borders. Scorpio isn't always pretty. An animal or a human defending itself is at its most savage, for its survival is being threatened. I am not justifying what Israel might or might not do in Gaza: I am just trying to give an astrological picture of her motivations. 'RealAstrology'.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r2ta:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">CRAZY ASTROLOGERS and THE MADNESS OF CROWDS</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who am I to criticise anyone's crazy beliefs, when I'm an astrologer, for heaven's sake? But I think astrology does for that reason teach us to hang loose to all beliefs, especially those rigid ones that ironically stop our vast collectives from going completely insane. It used to be religious beliefs, nowadays scientific and political beliefs are used in the same rigid way.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsod0Ze73q5hhhJx6yFF9_kDqZNpi7WLNeqxNh2jlHqZbzFjdF5H9WrM93r56huAnZFGqlUEnztS4gEpdxEFvsv0v6qW-JYbly-A3Knnsdtu3iUkC8jmn0pDnLLrnC4ixuUHSrjEsKgNTbwf87iZSSFSfxZDsQSYCr0fyd4OirMGz4CxuwC1eWfw/s300/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsod0Ze73q5hhhJx6yFF9_kDqZNpi7WLNeqxNh2jlHqZbzFjdF5H9WrM93r56huAnZFGqlUEnztS4gEpdxEFvsv0v6qW-JYbly-A3Knnsdtu3iUkC8jmn0pDnLLrnC4ixuUHSrjEsKgNTbwf87iZSSFSfxZDsQSYCr0fyd4OirMGz4CxuwC1eWfw/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We don't really know anything about the important stuff, <span></span>like where the universe came from, who we are and why we're here, how life started..... we console ourselves with the idea that science will one day tell us, or maybe God is the one who has the answers.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embracing the uncertainty is the way to go. But that isn't an intellectual position. It's about spending years doing the spade work so that you can tolerate yourself. Then there becomes no need to cling convulsively to those collective beliefs and the massive sense of authority behind them. It becomes natural to be open and fluid. And here's a thing: it means you can afford to think honestly and logically, because you no longer have anything to lose by doing so.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> -----------------------------------------</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Pluto
is now moving forward. If you are having a transit from him, anything
you have begun recently that has not died is likely to have a long life,
for it has deep roots that go all the way down to the underworld source
of new life.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0avB0SFCBEunMjD2KZHNbzPQl3csR5AplmmIdNQPXsgmH0RRk-TX-0EFVJIos8dOfc-7g2brcC5f6btGsmoF_ulLWYpYuk5-KznYmPBr7oufH5Z31BEPrEUDN-NtACa7VG-2Gdf4itSSwz77Zpa3ZZMZQubDdm_U-v4LGQNVwhoi7t8_5sUQFw/s266/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="266" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0avB0SFCBEunMjD2KZHNbzPQl3csR5AplmmIdNQPXsgmH0RRk-TX-0EFVJIos8dOfc-7g2brcC5f6btGsmoF_ulLWYpYuk5-KznYmPBr7oufH5Z31BEPrEUDN-NtACa7VG-2Gdf4itSSwz77Zpa3ZZMZQubDdm_U-v4LGQNVwhoi7t8_5sUQFw/w400-h284/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r3i9:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">BAD GUY SCORPIO </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why have astrologers designated Scorpio to be the bad guy of the zodiac? I think it is because we are afraid of visceral engagement, of those demons that the medieval Church said astrologers summoned. We keep our craft safely cerebral, to which it readily lends itself. Scorpios are the scapegoats. If it wasn't Scorpio, we would find some other sign to carry the shadow for us, because we are fallible human beings. Virgo gets a bit of a bad press too, we project <span></span>our coldness onto them. Below is Holman Hunt's painting The Scapegoat.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQUDuBHodsRzoMfbi72nT-P_AP5wxBaJtBKjp5cIT3HSKyqzOSOcSbbN5K4DKkry3A1pcbNEZowoJ1HlSUb-HTu8ccAezOBL36-Rg2lVwsDVwRqRdb8wtaSA9JPLGEeWncAtKr7QiaqIIzjborPjDY79AmZ5EKuIFgK_T-vPlgP5fc8CklEBWfQ/s287/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="287" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQUDuBHodsRzoMfbi72nT-P_AP5wxBaJtBKjp5cIT3HSKyqzOSOcSbbN5K4DKkry3A1pcbNEZowoJ1HlSUb-HTu8ccAezOBL36-Rg2lVwsDVwRqRdb8wtaSA9JPLGEeWncAtKr7QiaqIIzjborPjDY79AmZ5EKuIFgK_T-vPlgP5fc8CklEBWfQ/w400-h245/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />There is no place for moral judgements in astrology based on the chart alone. It does not contain that sort of information. It is our job as astrologers to cultivate sufficient self-awareness that we can withdraw these projections, because the collective at large isn't about to. That is why people come to us: because we offer them something outside their usual prejudices. Of course, some come just to have them confirmed, and you can probably make more money as that sort of astrologer.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe traditional astrologers need to be held to account on this score, for perpetuating the myth of good and bad placements. It is psychologically primitive.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> -----------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcerRl111rJXzhae6SyNz10ncJGGnCnGGHCbUY7ziizmmSBe5BAmzEVu1_F41-bmJ976gxUBC3-5N_pHD9pBdF9Py8h8Fpi0XxU8L4T_ANWOOEdTrc479EaYFRJnrKeXmxG1yY53Uu1zDo9U80Dc97lX9GmNILYIkf5BkawPrO1xppF00b28kcA/s270/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="270" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcerRl111rJXzhae6SyNz10ncJGGnCnGGHCbUY7ziizmmSBe5BAmzEVu1_F41-bmJ976gxUBC3-5N_pHD9pBdF9Py8h8Fpi0XxU8L4T_ANWOOEdTrc479EaYFRJnrKeXmxG1yY53Uu1zDo9U80Dc97lX9GmNILYIkf5BkawPrO1xppF00b28kcA/s1600/a.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">How much of the Venus journey involves finding that your soul partner isn't that after all?</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r393:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">APOCALYPTIC THINKING and THE YOUNGER GENERATION</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcdnqt-erOolcikp_XVtzlTp7PA40LXHPf5sBI4UkuIyM9PVyInpc6xxXU1JGP9USCAoAiFyTqn7q8WPpMb39vmloL4fdr4fqR0lbHR36mD0JkkVY2mqUumCvBQPYz2TOvbRgrP2ekHIuK7HfNp7wlkk6_C4G3yQLmCsOkwU8II6ZMsf7XSSonw/s976/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcdnqt-erOolcikp_XVtzlTp7PA40LXHPf5sBI4UkuIyM9PVyInpc6xxXU1JGP9USCAoAiFyTqn7q8WPpMb39vmloL4fdr4fqR0lbHR36mD0JkkVY2mqUumCvBQPYz2TOvbRgrP2ekHIuK7HfNp7wlkk6_C4G3yQLmCsOkwU8II6ZMsf7XSSonw/w400-h225/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />'Grim' Greta Thunberg, the pony girl of the apocalypse, has been arrested again at a protest. We don't hear so much of her nowadays, but she is still protesting about climate and fossil fuels. We do not know her time of birth, but Pluto is currently conjoining her Mercury - her mind - at 27-28 Capricorn. And how does her mind work? She has Aspergers, which lends itself to literal-mindedness. You can see how Capricorn, which is <span></span>practical and serious, could describe Aspergers. The adults told her the world was in danger from a human-made climate apocalypse, she believed them and chose to try to stop it. Religious leaders fawned over her, and world leaders talked respectfully of her, but ignored what she told them they must do. Bad adults. Her thinking, like that of a child, is black and white. And has got stuck there.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0tWjojleeukLBNTQZW3zpqE6QEcOcgBBWAcGDV_FPU3CEtNFTHfBbs6vQsT1P9v2qeb26AkQ3Z2uNkwW0umKd_SOMczkD8qBn3LePEvxYj5JBHqXR1aSIcXlWgZ_vUV_ZNXoJs4h1MmmPJsa0YiLiLfVyISvOqA-EoLGZMrb3_vLonuE4cV0Ew/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0tWjojleeukLBNTQZW3zpqE6QEcOcgBBWAcGDV_FPU3CEtNFTHfBbs6vQsT1P9v2qeb26AkQ3Z2uNkwW0umKd_SOMczkD8qBn3LePEvxYj5JBHqXR1aSIcXlWgZ_vUV_ZNXoJs4h1MmmPJsa0YiLiLfVyISvOqA-EoLGZMrb3_vLonuE4cV0Ew/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />She first began campaigning as a way out of the depression caused by what the adults had told her. (My son told me very early on not to talk to him about global warming. It was scary, and too much. I still feel sorry I did that.) So Pluto on her Mercury is changing how Greta thinks. Will she become obsessional? Probably. Will she have some kind of breakdown and stop campaigning? With any luck yes, if only for her own long-term mental health. When Greta began her campaigning by skipping school on 20 August 2018, Pluto was somewhere in the vicinity of her Moon, and the Moon was conjoining her Pluto that day. A double Moon-Pluto message. The signs were Sagittarius (religious belief, righteousness) and Capricorn (a heavy weight on young shoulders). And a betrayal (Pluto) of her childhood (Moon.)</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think an honest position on climate has to include a degree of agnosticism. It is such a complex field with, inevitably, so many different arguments. The one thing I will confidently assert, is that if I am told there is a 97% consensus about anything, anywhere, I will not believe it: it is not how humans work. It only happens when dictators run 'democratic' elections: the 3% is for a show of credibility. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a sneaking suspicion that global warming might turn out to be overall a good thing. But I won't insist on it: even saying it sometimes provokes a big negative reaction. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">What Greta shows us, I think, is that we need to be careful not to give messages of despair to the younger generation. It is the opposite of our adult responsibility to children, our duty of care.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-85555112917945254682023-10-10T02:04:00.006+01:002023-10-10T12:40:59.056+01:00THE EU, ISRAEL and MORE<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">THE EU: ECONOMIC RENEWAL and POLITICAL SLOW DEATH?</span></span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">In 2024
Neptune will begin a series of 5 hard aspects to the Angles of the EU (1958)
chart. At the same time, Pluto will begin a series of 5 squares to the EU
(1993) chart. Big change is on the way, though it is likely to be slow, as is
the way with large institutions.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxFww7S10TCP70ZeMSBWZMkIzpeWOJv4tjtz7ckzq12YH76BODwE1svUDkRodDxrV49iERbmW8QYzsdKL4KYcuYaYjLI06jAeiTJrQKyAtS_GtM4SGLaout6eNVj9h8100iDTW5iLrZJkzjHaqL1dO-1Zq_JJbzbH4e4nMtT4RcQkOtQ3drCIJjg/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxFww7S10TCP70ZeMSBWZMkIzpeWOJv4tjtz7ckzq12YH76BODwE1svUDkRodDxrV49iERbmW8QYzsdKL4KYcuYaYjLI06jAeiTJrQKyAtS_GtM4SGLaout6eNVj9h8100iDTW5iLrZJkzjHaqL1dO-1Zq_JJbzbH4e4nMtT4RcQkOtQ3drCIJjg/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The 1958
chart is the for EEC, whose emphasis was economic: this is expressed in 8<sup>th</sup>
House Moon in Taurus: the shared (8<sup>th</sup>) wealth (Taurus) of its member
countries (Moon).</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQ13Q54jv5go2zwUE2iNXdYWzfznWMOvKKvlLgFO3XWV2MvYlVbaNvztpc_gRqUItIe5O5BAumrkz5EjjIVHEYM2ij7EU10dTAHiAP8c9rlmj2tjddmQMxxSHXYYBd3Np_C1mph7X3D4gQj0zBE5eH60KZv7A_a8mOURYTQD_pYpKGwgrfTdulA/s1311/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQ13Q54jv5go2zwUE2iNXdYWzfznWMOvKKvlLgFO3XWV2MvYlVbaNvztpc_gRqUItIe5O5BAumrkz5EjjIVHEYM2ij7EU10dTAHiAP8c9rlmj2tjddmQMxxSHXYYBd3Np_C1mph7X3D4gQj0zBE5eH60KZv7A_a8mOURYTQD_pYpKGwgrfTdulA/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The 1993
chart arose out of the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, which began the
process of political union. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">An ex-EU
President expressed the view some years ago that the EU had lost its mojo. Many
of us can probably remember the heady years of Jacques Delors, driving through
change, a time of soaring ambition.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The EEC
Angles have shown themselves to be sensitive to transits: Plutoβs hard-aspecting
of them in 2008 triggered the Greek debt crisis the following year, the EUβs first
major crisis. So the coming transit from Neptune could involve crises along the
way. They are likely to start from without (Neptune on the Desc). The 2008 Pluto
transit was on the IC, and it was very much an internal financial stability
crisis.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Germany, the
driver of the EU, has been drifting. Its Green energy policy has backfired, due
to its naΓ―ve reliance on Russian gas, and it has been forced to use coal again.
It may be the end of its liberal βletβs be nice to Russiaβ and βletβs allow in
as many refugees as want to come era.β Most significantly, its business base is
being undercut by China. Neptune on the Desc of the EEC chart next year could
therefore signify the imposition of trade barriers with China, to a level
comparable to the US. Germany has Pluto coming up to conjoin its Desc/NNode in
the next few years, which has a similar message.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">So economic
renewal, with a protectionist flavour, is a likely outcome of the Neptune
transit to the EEC chart. The transit will conclude in Jan 2026 with a Saturn-Neptune
conjunction at 1 Aries, a new vision. There may be drift until then, but this
conjunction unmistakeably speaks of action, perhaps driven by events. Much as
the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of 2020 caused huge event-driven change, as Covid
spread. The outer planets on their own can be an inner alchemy, change-in-waiting,
but Saturn forces outcomes.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">What of the
political union? What stands out for me in this chart in the unaspected Sun in
Scorpio in the 4<sup>th</sup>. The leadership is hidden, it does not
communicate itself. This is observable. Which of us has ever known much about
the leaders? The goals too are hidden: we all know about βever-closer unionβ,
but what that means has never been made explicit. Perhaps the most visible
result of this inability to connect has been Brexit. The EU really needs to
learn from that if it wants to thrive as a political union. Why should people
want their respective countries to cede more and more power to a body they have
little personal connection with, and does not say what its ultimate goals are?
It is not how democracy works. And rightly so. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The sign of
Scorpio, along with the unaspectedness of the Sun, suggests an arrogant hanging
onto power for its own sake. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pluto first squares
the EU MC (the governing bodies), and then moves on to square the EU Sun (the
leadership itself and its goals) in about 4 years time. I think the current power base will
come apart, driven by the democratic urge of Pluto in Aquarius. Who knows how the
EU will reshape itself? Political union has always seemed somewhat improbable
to me, given how culturally different the member countries are. Look at the US
and its very similar states, which only united by a whisker in 1776. Certainly
the free trade area will be maintained, because that is a win for everybody.
The forward drive to political union has been gone for some years now. It seems
unlikely to be revived. A slow death is in that case perfectly possible, even
likely. </span></span><span data-offset-key="dsojm-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">If you're not going forwards, you are going backwards. </span></span></span><span><span data-offset-key="dsojm-1-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Maybe even the Euro, which benefits Germany at the expense of the less
prosperous members, will also go. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqgs-ejwHG22kAomW4r5V_XzecKktf6CQVUmaBbENRJfYU2b6sU3VG5kdwokkMqThfVlnxJDg77SClzrEOo-Vu-bS6vNC5a7CeD5nEDUuy5cR3coNWe54CklXzcUnXtrDRB0S-q1EkBEq3RMyyc0ujtMeTXEtXyeJrXAWizs95u078XUaNb-osw/s1311/a2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqgs-ejwHG22kAomW4r5V_XzecKktf6CQVUmaBbENRJfYU2b6sU3VG5kdwokkMqThfVlnxJDg77SClzrEOo-Vu-bS6vNC5a7CeD5nEDUuy5cR3coNWe54CklXzcUnXtrDRB0S-q1EkBEq3RMyyc0ujtMeTXEtXyeJrXAWizs95u078XUaNb-osw/w400-h220/a2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />All of which could well lead to an
application from the UK to rejoin <span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">π</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> Neptune will start hard-aspecting the UK Sun and Angles in just a few
years: I reckon there could be political rumblings around this from 2026
onwards, driven by a Labour government.</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="lqb" data-offset-key="aput7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aput7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="aput7-0-0"><span data-text="true">VENUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="aput7-1-0"><span data-text="true"> IN VIRGO </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="lqb" data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrxGq4C3rjWcjKQ4ZifIeTu42LFtJLfl7oBt7pjZqgncIPYxHcl6QooyRc2hsKPkg-n_IpI1Elb9HSSc6UAtemEZEzT0qBZfYnKyyg-IE986A4RdhvF8NZJd_WPgRKakq2OitAPuiDX00rwIeWk6P7fs49Z8Zga3SNOp-gWBqsLQOSBQ048CrfA/s397/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrxGq4C3rjWcjKQ4ZifIeTu42LFtJLfl7oBt7pjZqgncIPYxHcl6QooyRc2hsKPkg-n_IpI1Elb9HSSc6UAtemEZEzT0qBZfYnKyyg-IE986A4RdhvF8NZJd_WPgRKakq2OitAPuiDX00rwIeWk6P7fs49Z8Zga3SNOp-gWBqsLQOSBQ048CrfA/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Venus has recently entered Virgo. In traditional astrology it's not so good, she is in her fall. But if you know how to work these things - and it can take a bit of self-knowledge to do so - there is bounty to be had. In this case, it is the inner joy to be found when we stop reaching after sense pleasures. It is not a negative, anything but. The joy has the form of a nature goddess. Or, if you like, a renaissance virgin mary. Venus' love here is for both nature and the divine.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8qcd5-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1be81" data-offset-key="9jn95-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9jn95-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9jn95-0-0"><span data-text="true">ISRAEL'S TRANSITING PLUTO </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1be81" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pluto is stationing, at the end of a period in which it has hard-aspected all of Israel's Angles. Mars has been in an applying square to Pluto as the country has come under attack. In recent years, the country has become a regional superpower, both militarily and economically, due to the free-market reforms of its leader Netanyahu. The Pluto transits to all 4 Angles tell us that the country is being slowly re-born in fundamental ways. We can therefore expect a far-reaching military response against the Palestinians, that does not allow for a return to the previous status quo. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNNMkG3WAt8Z6mHYdC3bPAHsokh2CYXPu6lSWLWnjWbI6uyip_c0UF5S3QO50Q2hyy7EzHTU_voB37Z039WhBypHmJJeNFjT27iJsjJRySuvpmkW5M2Az1Vt76q9Fcr-cuzw2o5Li8LNq-6nKKuqAVxzrL2LeOHVTV7Z8VEcu8XzBYS8kg3UdNA/s1437/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNNMkG3WAt8Z6mHYdC3bPAHsokh2CYXPu6lSWLWnjWbI6uyip_c0UF5S3QO50Q2hyy7EzHTU_voB37Z039WhBypHmJJeNFjT27iJsjJRySuvpmkW5M2Az1Vt76q9Fcr-cuzw2o5Li8LNq-6nKKuqAVxzrL2LeOHVTV7Z8VEcu8XzBYS8kg3UdNA/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Mars is currently transiting Israel's first house: not a judicious time to attack her. Watch Israel go from strength to strength in the coming years as Pluto goes on to oppose natal Moon, Pluto and Saturn. This is not to support or condemn Israel: it is simply an attempt at Realastrology.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o42s-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3inck" data-offset-key="ce52v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ce52v-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="ce52v-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="ce52v-1-0"><span data-text="true"> TIME OF THE SUPERHERO</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3inck" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mars will shortly enter Scorpio. With this placement natally, you may be like Clark Kent: you bimble around, seemingly unmotivated in your day-to-day life. And then a life or death situation arises, a dog falls in the river, and you are the one who dives in to save it. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokacIWsLXyq3xHaYxTDSDlPuXcAkgbJU7c-QTNhBewgijGEtnFz76utSTZGrnlZ4kdqzIK6WmEkJ0IIbMnRhyphenhyphenwxVLT88LfKsw3kqIENFX61gV_tdtwkNWK6RH_oXpp015P3D5rTfg-_6g2idtATjmS98_eSRWwa479cQ_YWItkUJ45gVYt-fwfQ/s489/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="489" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokacIWsLXyq3xHaYxTDSDlPuXcAkgbJU7c-QTNhBewgijGEtnFz76utSTZGrnlZ4kdqzIK6WmEkJ0IIbMnRhyphenhyphenwxVLT88LfKsw3kqIENFX61gV_tdtwkNWK6RH_oXpp015P3D5rTfg-_6g2idtATjmS98_eSRWwa479cQ_YWItkUJ45gVYt-fwfQ/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Mars will be in Scorpio until late November. It is a time to put yourself in harm's way, or rescue others from harm's way.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ka8r-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="85o92" data-offset-key="7q02r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7q02r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="7q02r-0-0"><span data-text="true">INITIATION</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="7q02r-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="85o92" data-offset-key="ca78q-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ca78q-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ca78q-0-0"><span data-text="true">Outer planet transits are initiations. It is time for something new to be born, which belongs not to us, but to the universe. We are not alone, we are not autonomous, and nothing is personal. We live our lives in solidarity with the greater reality, with all-that-is. Neptune will drown and madden you, Pluto will abduct and dismember you. And it can go on for years. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="85o92" data-offset-key="clpgf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="clpgf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="clpgf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="85o92" data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW03BGFs8yZrH7jPKFmx8H-Kk885z8qiWJpMHadFXWbUmFWvbz_tMPoy_B1vHCaXG21OiukFecXMniOjAr9XRtUT-fCaMx3wEFIbk-Pw56UqUxscCk430c4Dyn4i3ik9aOHFynxePcc1DMiuEdNE2wKak0LEhsQXuf8Xq2nw4GxrN5x58ORIE3Yg/s1086/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1086" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW03BGFs8yZrH7jPKFmx8H-Kk885z8qiWJpMHadFXWbUmFWvbz_tMPoy_B1vHCaXG21OiukFecXMniOjAr9XRtUT-fCaMx3wEFIbk-Pw56UqUxscCk430c4Dyn4i3ik9aOHFynxePcc1DMiuEdNE2wKak0LEhsQXuf8Xq2nw4GxrN5x58ORIE3Yg/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Afterwards you will feel thankful through gritted teeth, for you would never have wished all that on yourself. But it's not about what we want. It's about what we</span> <span style="font-size: large;">have to do. That gives meaning, though not necessarily happiness. It is meaning we get out of bed for.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dhsd-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r55b:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUILDING THE EGREGORE </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Astrology has ancient egregore, the power that builds over time from collective use. It is the power of tradition. That is why astrology works even formalistically, when you just follow the rules of interpretation. You are benefitting from the egregore. You contribute to the egregore when you use the rules imaginatively, when you work them so that meaning appears to you from within.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">---------------------------------------- <br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">Aquarius
is the archetype of the noble human. They may chunter on in a detached,
rational way, but don't be misled: there is a deep soulfulness behind
it. It is the water they bear.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r5l5:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">DON'T TAKE ASTROLOGY LITERALLY </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Astrology began with the primordial instinct that we are part of heaven and earth, which can show us who we are and how to live. Don't take astrology literally. Dance lightly around its extensive formal knowledge. Learn as much of it as you need, but don't think that makes you an astrologer. The work comes in digging for concrete meaning within the symbols. That is the creative part, that changes you and enchants the universe for your client. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwMaY5uwxvcUyvKUZtEoe1zOgvcbGfKhjnJplzU071NJUoSTr7b6OOK3SbXMLwolHTILaVPYxh9pzcci5PMQ8THdcUnXdSZbUvh81QXNXKBnMJ5N30elfiBCSN5WolumCg8HK4KjyUsu3asLjC1Vu614hc_3M9AmuGZAkvMrs6ftznjv1lXW4_w/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwMaY5uwxvcUyvKUZtEoe1zOgvcbGfKhjnJplzU071NJUoSTr7b6OOK3SbXMLwolHTILaVPYxh9pzcci5PMQ8THdcUnXdSZbUvh81QXNXKBnMJ5N30elfiBCSN5WolumCg8HK4KjyUsu3asLjC1Vu614hc_3M9AmuGZAkvMrs6ftznjv1lXW4_w/s1600/a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span>Don't take anything literally, even the world itself. Dance around that too. It is real, and yet mind-created. Your precious self also, that you will fight tooth and claw to preserve. That isn't literal either, and in hanging loose to that, you open yourself to the universe. And that is what astrology is there to teach us.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r5o7:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">PLUTO TRANSIT </span><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r5p3:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">We betray ourselves. Somewhere we know we are ignoring a voice, and eventually it destroys us: and then slowly we learn to listen, and we will never not listen again. It is the voice that matters most, the inner guide that will never let us down. We become like the Ancient Mariner.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYU6Yiy2e41olK5oyDVV-qb46RLMxvlKGVBKUNP6CJfBIpTU3SaBfS41BBDGCsS1c0ayPFtkAUIi6bWo_KCSphSh9a4LkhROq68c8xRFsam7IEk2VjZgrhGAnGhaAg4ExzEeDStSRY0eUZuYta83Zl1XlLex8mrQ4eUNTFMr3iDaiQbkU_W9JyA/s2048/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYU6Yiy2e41olK5oyDVV-qb46RLMxvlKGVBKUNP6CJfBIpTU3SaBfS41BBDGCsS1c0ayPFtkAUIi6bWo_KCSphSh9a4LkhROq68c8xRFsam7IEk2VjZgrhGAnGhaAg4ExzEeDStSRY0eUZuYta83Zl1XlLex8mrQ4eUNTFMr3iDaiQbkU_W9JyA/w400-h225/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r5qm:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE ELEMENT OF AIR</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Air signs are the only ones that do not have animal symbols. Two of them have humans - Gemini and Aquarius - while Libra has a thing: a pair of scales. What this most strongly suggests is that in the Air signs we move away from animal instinct and gain the ability to reflect. And that is both a strength and a weakness. The perfect example of the latter is the disenchanted universe that modern science has created, in which matter is dead. Early humans <span></span>knew this was not the case, because the animal in them, which has direct knowledge, told them so.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Air gives us the ability to be at our most diabolical, and our most deeply human, in a way that animals cannot be. Air gives the ability to stand back and weigh up moral as well practical choices. People find it incredibly difficult to step back from their beliefs and examine them, as any argument shows. But that ability is also what makes us most distinctively human. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRnbkJ2ZJHHVFBuPOsSbagDyhFFV00A2EVFQx9tN-Xz4D731nLDe7k7RPiHZrjnWa8S4-pV581YjxHQPFuV-SwOgX-7KIvNckpQR4CUsf6JMQKJoQwPWW8iY-oPzmOZcgEeq4-8PK3JuFrEIrCWcAxhk54fbbfjDXMrw_kKEwToDTQk4MhYkmvg/s256/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="256" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRnbkJ2ZJHHVFBuPOsSbagDyhFFV00A2EVFQx9tN-Xz4D731nLDe7k7RPiHZrjnWa8S4-pV581YjxHQPFuV-SwOgX-7KIvNckpQR4CUsf6JMQKJoQwPWW8iY-oPzmOZcgEeq4-8PK3JuFrEIrCWcAxhk54fbbfjDXMrw_kKEwToDTQk4MhYkmvg/w400-h308/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Honesty and humility are the moral qualities we need when using Air to gain wisdom. Typically, we misuse that Element in order to to rationalise, to justify what it is we want to believe and to do. And we don't even know we're doing it most of the time.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Elements go in a cycle: Fire, Earth, Air and Water, which repeats 3 times as we circle the zodiac. Fire is the first spark of life, the new vision, that is then embodied, incarnated in Earth. Then in Air we cast our eye at the world around us and consider it. That perspective then needs integrating with the animal, so everything dissolves back into Water, out of which a new being, carrying the wisdom of the previous cycle, can be born.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-66362466787979872422023-09-27T11:37:00.000+01:002023-09-27T11:37:00.189+01:00ST JEROME AND I<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span data-offset-key="7d4lg-0-0"><span data-text="true">ST JEROME AND I</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="2n8an-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2n8an-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2n8an-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">It has been occurring to me that in writing my book The Medicine Wheel, I took the spirit, the essence of a tradition and reinvented it for our culture. Not only did I reinvent it, I added to the tradition. The Medicine Wheel is now something we can claim as our own, and not because of my book alone.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="crn6k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="crn6k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="crn6k-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="4ejo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ejo-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4ejo-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0xk3VHhdlvfftBl08BkzYRemYEjAoCjO0YYmEeURI_Z7pRC69_LdeWYTAvOK6WJMsj9EUErK_4iRmFeyJ-LJsDwq4fmMlIlYem5Ptq7AtrpdyGcuVGhDdvfstQ4zzEkZhF9CfX2oj5_ru3uS8JCtkAT86p5zgwrVe_4sPj_mKnettI3h8ci1xaQ/s463/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0xk3VHhdlvfftBl08BkzYRemYEjAoCjO0YYmEeURI_Z7pRC69_LdeWYTAvOK6WJMsj9EUErK_4iRmFeyJ-LJsDwq4fmMlIlYem5Ptq7AtrpdyGcuVGhDdvfstQ4zzEkZhF9CfX2oj5_ru3uS8JCtkAT86p5zgwrVe_4sPj_mKnettI3h8ci1xaQ/w259-h400/a.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br />The book is easy to read and understand, yet addresses the underlying themes in their complexity and profundity. It is a book to be lived, as the Medicine Wheel itself always has been. The ideas are fully embedded in western culture in a way that only someone from this culture could achieve.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="mauv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="mauv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="mauv-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="3dfrj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3dfrj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3dfrj-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Gosh, this is a bit of a paean to myself, very un-English of me, and I hope you'll forgive me π€£ There is worse to come!</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="8b15u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8b15u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8b15u-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="5uf22-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5uf22-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5uf22-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">In writing the book, the archetype of the translator was breathing through me. Not literal translation of one language to another, but the translation of the spirit of a tradition into a form that can be readily appreciated in another culture, so that it does not seem foreign. It is a weighty responsibility. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="d3n7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d3n7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d3n7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="86qan-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="86qan-0-0"><span data-offset-key="86qan-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1B9FAdy6dXlQSXlxdSL8E6q4L9IIiX2l1ofzwvfUg_4UB4HSEcQZpl9MXI11j3OO1Z55UhyxgYe1DZGeTn84Y861gyrsMAPCzx0yq4ipzfHiNVlLbwMsW82XEI0AshVV2hl8Cos0eiNQpdm4DXoWQw99iLLTm6_3MENZQVYiTgZgsb-XWVvnCw/s821/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="749" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh1B9FAdy6dXlQSXlxdSL8E6q4L9IIiX2l1ofzwvfUg_4UB4HSEcQZpl9MXI11j3OO1Z55UhyxgYe1DZGeTn84Y861gyrsMAPCzx0yq4ipzfHiNVlLbwMsW82XEI0AshVV2hl8Cos0eiNQpdm4DXoWQw99iLLTm6_3MENZQVYiTgZgsb-XWVvnCw/w365-h400/a.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><br />I began writing under a New Moon conjunct Pluto in Capricorn in the 10th, which has that kind of gravitas in the world. But I didn't start in a pre-planned way: one morning, I thought dammit, just start writing a book and see what happens. Very Mars Rising conjunct Aries Asc. At the same time, I had 15 years blogging behind me, books and books worth, which had served (unconsciously) as an apprenticeship. So the Capricorn emphasis could have reassured me that I knew what I was doing, I had earned the right to write a book!</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="ck2d5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ck2d5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ck2d5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="esv9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="esv9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esv9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">St Jerome is the archetype of the translator in our culture. He translated the Bible from the original Hebrew into Latin. Up until then, translations from Greek into Latin had been used. OK, he didn't reinvent a whole tradition, but even in translating words you need a poet's mind, you need to grasp the spirit of what is being said and find an equivalent. Which cannot be literally exact, and adds new meaning, as well as losing some of the old.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="c5oeb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5oeb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c5oeb-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="80gej-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="80gej-0-0"><span data-offset-key="80gej-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPOr-ZU2oUSasn5hq1-sZZ58gtWvJKRAbf3eA-HP4Rvs3qsZuvc-d-F83MlrO3vXBWXhO1sQgNxLq47eo4aCSDDH87g7tgmJOBy6Kr1sweK-YN_V3rA9DeA6-XolevIoFDLuh-gSjEGFEmUuthKrAdNCSdAzWiAkOXlYYQjxe-hqMdjzygPXdgQ/s261/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="193" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPOr-ZU2oUSasn5hq1-sZZ58gtWvJKRAbf3eA-HP4Rvs3qsZuvc-d-F83MlrO3vXBWXhO1sQgNxLq47eo4aCSDDH87g7tgmJOBy6Kr1sweK-YN_V3rA9DeA6-XolevIoFDLuh-gSjEGFEmUuthKrAdNCSdAzWiAkOXlYYQjxe-hqMdjzygPXdgQ/w296-h400/a1.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br />So in this sense St Jerome was reinventing a tradition. Moreover, he undertook his translation next to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built on the spot where Jesus was said to have been born. Shamanically, you could say, the original essence of Jesus was flowing through and informing him as he did his work.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="2rage-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2rage-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2rage-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="30cnd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="30cnd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30cnd-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">For me, there has also been a strange synchronicity. St Jerome had come to mind recently in relation to my work. The Medicine Wheel was published on 30 Sept 2022, which is the Feast Day of St Jerome. I couldn't believe it when I found that out. Yes, I am being told, we are both translators of something deep. And my book was published 23 years after attending my first course on the Wheel, and having been with it, one way or another, ever since. This was exactly the amount of time Jerome took to complete his translation.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="d6kca-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d6kca-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d6kca-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="es2em-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="es2em-0-0"><span data-offset-key="es2em-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">I am not boasting when I write all the above. I have a reluctance, but there is a particular gravitas and significance to The Medicine Wheel that needs to be articulated. It enables us to claim this shamanic thing for our own, without the endless deferring to indigenous people that we often engage in, when it can be like the Pope has walked into the room. We can stand on equal terms, and that is something we need to do for our shamanism to reach maturity.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="8oaj5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8oaj5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8oaj5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="4gh40-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4gh40-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4gh40-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">There are various depictions of St Jerome. I chose the one with the lion, that references the popular belief that he tamed a lion by healing its paw. The union of animal and human, as well as healing, are central to the Shamanic endeavour.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="7itik-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7itik-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7itik-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4h6sp" data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">NB If you buy my book and leave a (genuine) rating on Amazon, I will give you a free astrology (or tarot) readingπ The same goes for my astrology book Surfing the Galactic Highways. I think that book has a similar spirit, of taking the astrological tradition and re-inventing it from my own grasp of it, again with 15 years blogging behind it. Writing my astrology blog from 2006 onwards shaped me more than any other single activity has.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1gan5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="47si2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="47si2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="47si2-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="47si2-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> ASTROLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="1fqrt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1fqrt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1fqrt-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">As astrologers, we can see shapes in the mist coming people's way, and that knowledge can help them orientate themselves. But what astrology also teaches us, ironically, is just how unpredictable the future is in terms of specific events. Otherwise, where is the openness and mystery that allows room for the spirit to do its work? </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="a7ebk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a7ebk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a7ebk-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="ehh62-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehh62-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ehh62-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqEPKSJV35mDyg8AY17zSYb10dbIGkUzMWnT6qGSBm0QCR3qs-Wj6M_9Ywhqp7A-b428dK3Kfkgkwdc6-kccOdQHjR_1kIOTMuJGObsbrJ7tvAOkOMo1p8e8AW0BJ-opTVY3eWs9eYw-ZCmlkO3ExP71as_qscotyRro-Yp7PJLJf0T8A7l3Haqg/s1258/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqEPKSJV35mDyg8AY17zSYb10dbIGkUzMWnT6qGSBm0QCR3qs-Wj6M_9Ywhqp7A-b428dK3Kfkgkwdc6-kccOdQHjR_1kIOTMuJGObsbrJ7tvAOkOMo1p8e8AW0BJ-opTVY3eWs9eYw-ZCmlkO3ExP71as_qscotyRro-Yp7PJLJf0T8A7l3Haqg/w344-h400/a.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><br />Humans are always trying to create certainties, for reasons of their own limited sense of existential security. We see this in public discourse, in the various crises that we always imagine ourselves to be in. They are based on ostensibly certain, or near-certain, outcomes of which we are terrified. Our job as astrologers is to shout from the rooftops, using the hard-won knowledge of all our wrong predictions, that the future is very undefined, and we certainly can't fix it, so just get on with your day-to-day lives and stay open to the callings from that Other place. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="8m8at-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8m8at-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8m8at-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7lmds" data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The bigger issues are in the hands of the outer planets. It is human hubris to think we can control the bigger picture: our vain attempts have some gods laughing, and some crying.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6v6j1-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dpata" data-offset-key="84qea-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="84qea-0-0"><span data-offset-key="84qea-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">NET-</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="84qea-1-0"><span data-text="true">ZERO</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="84qea-2-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> and THE COMING URANUS-NEPTUNE-PLUTO ERA</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dpata" data-offset-key="brg0j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="brg0j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="brg0j-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The UK PM's move away from net-zero targets is culturally very significant. The UK will be the first country openly to do so. People vote with their pockets, and it will be the poor across the world who suffer most from net-zero policies. Rishi Sunak's move is the first sign of an emerging new climate zeitgeist, as Uranus moves into Gemini, Pluto into Aquarius and Neptune into Aries, turbocharged by a conjunction with Saturn, in the next 2 to 3 years. A whole new era.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dpata" data-offset-key="6m2gd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6m2gd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6m2gd-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dpata" data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh8-Ii6Qvl3bCZTtbWmG3pIGc-hSPsMi9ZsOaN9eVdv04yAdR8Tl_ZN3VQVI075Kstk4LOFQGsfT7VfayOQkf6grAZo_KfxlEojd5ZwKeKAgvWgQoMrGBEVDNQ2rsRTiCRFSlubrHPKQ6gtiC4DXcQl_46cpBM5oubLK3iltkmwuoVwdZNGAKnmQ/s1000/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1000" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh8-Ii6Qvl3bCZTtbWmG3pIGc-hSPsMi9ZsOaN9eVdv04yAdR8Tl_ZN3VQVI075Kstk4LOFQGsfT7VfayOQkf6grAZo_KfxlEojd5ZwKeKAgvWgQoMrGBEVDNQ2rsRTiCRFSlubrHPKQ6gtiC4DXcQl_46cpBM5oubLK3iltkmwuoVwdZNGAKnmQ/w400-h209/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />This post is NOT about being pro or anti net-zero, it is just an attempt to describe what is happening, which is what astrology is about.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejpbf-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="48vrc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48vrc-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="48vrc-0-0"><span data-text="true">WHAT</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="48vrc-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> HAVE YOU DONE THAT HAS SHAPED YOU?</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="d2l75-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2l75-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d2l75-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">I have been writing an astrology blog, on and off, since 2006. Its early period was probably the single most formative thing I have ever done. The blog re-invented me, gave me something I could be good at. It taught me how to think originally; to write simply and engagingly; and was the means by which I forged my own understanding of astrology. All under the aegis of tr Neptune conjoining my Sun.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="2t64b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2t64b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2t64b-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="6h3hj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6h3hj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6h3hj-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7-nFOzGowbBZbOzcWyMolQzzjAoPQXto-gXVSWbCIXWxxI0ynAOrrbeGg-J4KBbkOatj5FsKHr-hrSqIQTgrqgf9JBj8p32hOeF0zSkC2h43qZZPMPKjmDOTm4gcyVbWpa-NSqQ3mBH5Djous8D2zKc1KkX9auWYWtmZzWPNvAfys1kgiCX2Lg/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7-nFOzGowbBZbOzcWyMolQzzjAoPQXto-gXVSWbCIXWxxI0ynAOrrbeGg-J4KBbkOatj5FsKHr-hrSqIQTgrqgf9JBj8p32hOeF0zSkC2h43qZZPMPKjmDOTm4gcyVbWpa-NSqQ3mBH5Djous8D2zKc1KkX9auWYWtmZzWPNvAfys1kgiCX2Lg/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I never went on courses or read books: instead I wrote, and did readings, and learnt astrology that way. Which was as it should be for 5th House Mercury in Aquarius opp Uranus. Where is your Mercury, and how do you learn best?</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="fm84o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fm84o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fm84o-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6t4op" data-offset-key="qia7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qia7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qia7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">I have kept about 500 of my blogs, and I think there are many interesting pickings to be had if you scroll through on a Sunday afternoon. <a href="https://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Here is the link to my trove.</a></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qia7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qia7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qia7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="qia7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="e56ph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e56ph-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e56ph-0-0"><span data-text="true">PLUTO</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="e56ph-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> AND NEPTUNE AT THE EDGE</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="9go5n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9go5n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9go5n-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">What is it that qualifies us to be an astrologer or a healer or anything of that nature? I propose it is that we have been taken to the edge where our life and its conventional values no longer works. And there we are faced with something from beyond; we hear the whisperings from another world. And when we have looked and listened, we can no longer be the same. We have that look in our eye, much like the Ancient Mariner, and we will tell whoever can listen. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="a4ind-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a4ind-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a4ind-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="hmpj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="hmpj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="hmpj-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkkPh-bCh1flOKycM1d4j21xoWDYrb-O2TPxyBACS6QdTiK1X8vHNGfcL375e1F0fP2OLkT_0uPyhlolrmdLtziPRkgQ5Q0uN9KbwZN13YEauXXDNO5-wRD2x6guszSTLasEQ-mGpTkMXXD1p5qHLYwuixSv0m0SWr-xQSLNwyxjKRru0wmj7bw/s728/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="728" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkkPh-bCh1flOKycM1d4j21xoWDYrb-O2TPxyBACS6QdTiK1X8vHNGfcL375e1F0fP2OLkT_0uPyhlolrmdLtziPRkgQ5Q0uN9KbwZN13YEauXXDNO5-wRD2x6guszSTLasEQ-mGpTkMXXD1p5qHLYwuixSv0m0SWr-xQSLNwyxjKRru0wmj7bw/w400-h294/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />When people come for an astrology reading, it may be because they are at that edge, which is where major Pluto and Neptune transits often take us. They are initiators. There is new life to be seen and claimed and lived, but the old has to go to make way for it. Our job is to hold their hand and tell them they are not going nuts, and that it would be a good idea to take that step forward, which is always solitary. We can offer perspective and faith, on behalf of the universe. If we have been there.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="22bhq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="22bhq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="22bhq-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="fjbt8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fjbt8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fjbt8-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Here is a poem by Mary Oliver that describes this edge. Or should I say seeming precipice :) </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="54v8m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="54v8m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="54v8m-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="9vv78-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vv78-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9vv78-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">THE JOURNEY</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="1bhuj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1bhuj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1bhuj-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">One day you finally knew</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="36gtt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="36gtt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="36gtt-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">what you had to do, and began,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="ethd3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ethd3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ethd3-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">though the voices around you</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="fp7j5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fp7j5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fp7j5-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">kept shouting</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="7l18f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7l18f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7l18f-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">their bad advice -</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="dnoho-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dnoho-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dnoho-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">though the whole house</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="2v4qn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2v4qn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2v4qn-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">began to tremble</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="c5b8d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c5b8d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c5b8d-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">and you felt the old tug</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="7dmlb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7dmlb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7dmlb-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">at your ankles.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="f70nu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f70nu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f70nu-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">βMend my life !β</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="chj9i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="chj9i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="chj9i-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">each voice cried.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="fsqhh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fsqhh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fsqhh-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">But you didnβt stop.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="cmfj6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmfj6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cmfj6-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">You knew what you had to do,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="ch0js-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ch0js-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ch0js-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">though the wind pried</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="b9nqc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9nqc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b9nqc-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">with its stiff fingers</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="ffg10-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffg10-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffg10-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">at the very foundations,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="c4plp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c4plp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c4plp-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">though their melancholy</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="10on9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="10on9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="10on9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">was terrible.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="2fc08-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2fc08-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2fc08-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">It was already late</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="a8rt0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a8rt0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a8rt0-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">enough, and a wild night,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="b9qor-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b9qor-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b9qor-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">and the road full of fallen</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="3ve8a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ve8a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ve8a-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">branches and stones.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="e7n8l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e7n8l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7n8l-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">But, little by little,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="8v6hl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8v6hl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8v6hl-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">as you left the voices behind,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="dmj0o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dmj0o-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dmj0o-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">the stars began to burn</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="dag52-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dag52-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dag52-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">through the sheets of clouds,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="6j7v2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j7v2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6j7v2-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">and there was a new voice</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="1iv27-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1iv27-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1iv27-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">which you slowly</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="3fl5r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3fl5r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3fl5r-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">recognized as your own,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="4a6nu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4a6nu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4a6nu-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">that kept you company</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="d2vem-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2vem-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d2vem-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">as you strode deeper and deeper</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="ck227-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ck227-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ck227-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">into the world,</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="4t6l3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4t6l3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4t6l3-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">determined to do</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="77afq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="77afq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="77afq-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">the only thing you could do -</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="achol-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="achol-0-0"><span data-offset-key="achol-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">determined to save</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="5q721-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5q721-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5q721-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">the only life you could save.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d1624" data-offset-key="f34tt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f34tt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f34tt-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">By Mary Oliver</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-45684134326994521692023-09-26T15:00:00.000+01:002023-09-26T15:00:03.186+01:00THE US PLUTO RETURN<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2ck6n-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2ck6n-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> US PLUTO RETURN</span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="ajgq9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ajgq9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ajgq9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The US Pluto is in the 2nd House of the US Sibly Chart. Pluto is where we find our power, and where we can feel our survival is at stake. The 2nd House is resources, and America, of course, has been the worldβs wealthiest, and most powerful, country for over a century.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="1h07c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1h07c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1h07c-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="727g7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="727g7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="727g7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3ykejkakbZug16cdcOnJQ4Od3q6EFxZrxFyncWD-Xwpz3KHG5vQhhcBIqvRf8kU-v_cp5AH4YIXu0zkNkBacGtkcwscby-g1wR7rV0gVhA8Ybx0j4N2YAsY3UtUHdbLM67aqXGv18JYQu-vXculr6krDhWgRLg5vuzgLajBd2eQzZdnGrKDvcg/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3ykejkakbZug16cdcOnJQ4Od3q6EFxZrxFyncWD-Xwpz3KHG5vQhhcBIqvRf8kU-v_cp5AH4YIXu0zkNkBacGtkcwscby-g1wR7rV0gVhA8Ybx0j4N2YAsY3UtUHdbLM67aqXGv18JYQu-vXculr6krDhWgRLg5vuzgLajBd2eQzZdnGrKDvcg/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The hard aspects from Pluto to its natal position are interesting to trace. The opening square, in 1850, occurred during the longest continuous period of economic expansion in US history. The opposition, in the late 1930s, occurred as the US was about to embark on 2 major wars, booming economically and reshaping the world as it did so. The closing square, in the early 80s, saw the final stages of the Cold War, out of which America would emerge triumphant as the worldβs only superpower.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="61ssu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="61ssu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="61ssu-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="8ln9b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ln9b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ln9b-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So there has been a pattern of a re-empowerment of the US in the years following these Pluto-Pluto dynamic hard aspects. Maybe that will allow us to peer into the future, as the US completes its first Pluto Return β Pluto conjunct natal Pluto. The exact crossings are done, but I wonβt consider the transit over until Pluto is out of sign, in Aquarius in Nov 2024.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="cdu3c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cdu3c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cdu3c-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="9vrjj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vrjj-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9vrjj-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The Return marks the start of a new cycle. The old leaping from strength to strength will be complete, and the US will need to begin to find a new relationship with its sense of power and survival. Capricorn β the sign of natal Pluto β climbs to the top of the mountain, like the goat it is. The US shows no sign of losing its wealth and of continuing to augment it. But nonetheless, she will soon be no longer number one, as China surpasses the US economically. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="2l9sb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2l9sb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2l9sb-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="48bvd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48bvd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48bvd-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So who will America be if she is no longer number one? America is a society of winners and losers. If you are not a winner, you are nobody. America will no longer be the winner. This will require a profound shift in collective identity. The collective has uneasily seen this coming for some years now β these transits are like trends, they are operative for many years before and after β and this perception contributes to the hostility and fear of China. There are good reasons to be wary of China, but America adds its usual edge of paranoia and demonisation, which also seems to be part of her character. The US needs someone to demonise. The heavily tenanted 7th β particularly with polarising Gemini Mars there, in square to Neptune β provides the astrological description of this tendency to project evil onto other peoples and countries.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="8fger-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8fger-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8fger-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="a52ej-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a52ej-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a52ej-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLOMINt77LVx9jS3onNW9Y3cikxFXLtxTmkjyy63-mBVIu8KEPgU-mJIJbZrlHav_yCAmTHcLSyYpm-seP63IyflmbGg_fJlv_dxJxi1jZb4gRcqJPxv9NlwDaGVIrF7RfD55P5FUR2jk2EqQRfK5yJOHXqlP7OeZPzftV-1cZpSiJGzrY3kwmg/s225/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLOMINt77LVx9jS3onNW9Y3cikxFXLtxTmkjyy63-mBVIu8KEPgU-mJIJbZrlHav_yCAmTHcLSyYpm-seP63IyflmbGg_fJlv_dxJxi1jZb4gRcqJPxv9NlwDaGVIrF7RfD55P5FUR2jk2EqQRfK5yJOHXqlP7OeZPzftV-1cZpSiJGzrY3kwmg/w400-h400/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />It wonβt be as simple with China as it was with the USSR. China is the US' main trading partner and cannot, for this reason, be completely βOtheredβ. And there is the wretched business of China becoming wealthier, and holding more cards. Having in many ways to be deferred to.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="ds86g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ds86g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ds86g-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="3qicm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3qicm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3qicm-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">From the outside, things may seem to carry on as before. But I think the new Pluto cycle that is starting will drag America psychologically inwards, for there will be nowhere else to go. It canβt carry on beating its chest at the top of the world, and putting evil handily out there somewhere. America, in other words, will be growing up. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="3g0vb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3g0vb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3g0vb-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="d865v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d865v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d865v-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Donald Trump, who doesnβt have the empowering transits to be re-elected as President, could be seen as the last, brash shout of an old America, attempting to make her βgreatβ again. She already is a great nation, there is no doubt about that. Maybe, by being forced into this reckoning with who she is, she will come to see that, instead of having always to assert it.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="c52kv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c52kv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c52kv-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7i7r0" data-offset-key="euusl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="euusl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="euusl-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Interestingly, by some metrics, the US will, for demographic reasons, surpass China again economically later this century.</span></span></div></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dkm6b" data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="64sqs-0-0"><span data-text="true">PLUTO'S BALEFUL EYE </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dkm6b" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pluto is within 3 minutes of his stationing point. That baleful eye is homing in, and you will soon be caught in his direct stare. Pluto's reality check. He is only menacing, however, if you are hanging on to how you used to be. If you can go with life and its irrestistible unfoldment, there is joy and new depth to be found. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SFeCUbCrUt0yP8nzxqeRSn2X8xqpl2pPQ1PXt0y6-zEUiZZLkgCiLGPqG6P3ulV-gQFUnQD1JcpZwZdX7voa3q1ufXOS7uR7wN8NCfGcEcmOzbYi0MUeq_AvWI71237OivI995SGWVWGBiuWCX49-S-PqDbE0AyGpUgqGsUOUAKLGMW9YVnnzA/s283/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2SFeCUbCrUt0yP8nzxqeRSn2X8xqpl2pPQ1PXt0y6-zEUiZZLkgCiLGPqG6P3ulV-gQFUnQD1JcpZwZdX7voa3q1ufXOS7uR7wN8NCfGcEcmOzbYi0MUeq_AvWI71237OivI995SGWVWGBiuWCX49-S-PqDbE0AyGpUgqGsUOUAKLGMW9YVnnzA/w400-h252/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Pluto
is the instinctual life that rules us, but which as 'civilised' humans
we deny. We 'Other' it in alien reptile form. Pluto is <span></span>the call to live from the viscera, from the body, to let life live us.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7lckf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dhd29" data-offset-key="fis5n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fis5n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fis5n-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="fis5n-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> LIBRAN SHIFT TO SELF-AWARENESS</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dhd29" data-offset-key="2a24k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2a24k-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2a24k-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The Sun is now in Libra. The first 6 signs of the Zodiac represent self-development. In Virgo we harvest, we reap the bounty. And then in Libra we step back, or we step outside ourselves. Libra gives the objectivity of Air, not just to know others, but to know ourselves also. We appreciate the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' within. The paradigm has shifted into a new dimension, into self-awareness. Pay attention to dreams at this time, for they tell us who we are.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dhd29" data-offset-key="1vu44-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1vu44-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1vu44-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dhd29" data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5VN7MKyRbt2f-sm-7VXYwFQ0q8EKIoSvHb5KeEcNfRs2M6pkMB-aob6qaAvs5rQH-mjYIbS7EMiYxqoOcITGyE6anvhHQ9IHnMx-KupV8d-rqcYRP80UeAnc3fLImu7dtUU9zmsjbBFyUU2zc3pFMCP4xESlgDo0qrSqQ1yixrsp0KlVScKdOQ/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5VN7MKyRbt2f-sm-7VXYwFQ0q8EKIoSvHb5KeEcNfRs2M6pkMB-aob6qaAvs5rQH-mjYIbS7EMiYxqoOcITGyE6anvhHQ9IHnMx-KupV8d-rqcYRP80UeAnc3fLImu7dtUU9zmsjbBFyUU2zc3pFMCP4xESlgDo0qrSqQ1yixrsp0KlVScKdOQ/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Month by month during the year, we are given a different lens through which to see our natal Sun; it is a kind of cooking in which the wholeness that is uniquely our own can gradually emerge.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="21e3c-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3ulr5" data-offset-key="9oie6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9oie6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9oie6-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">HITLER, SAINT or CHICKEN?</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="3ulr5" data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbuntG5ApT2Iwj_s6ViccUJlHm7ZEL1DNklNHl0W7JpZmWBW7tSEurxb81qYpT3Vd33gJy3DQShClxnNdorXPaVSHe0dWewQpke6IuIMzh6Rvbjyd2aTtSyqtYzpHnXB02-kiyvAcQIrj06F9vshgLVOK7zAAErZKktBRiAajQRUSZxm53jXqJQ/s246/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbuntG5ApT2Iwj_s6ViccUJlHm7ZEL1DNklNHl0W7JpZmWBW7tSEurxb81qYpT3Vd33gJy3DQShClxnNdorXPaVSHe0dWewQpke6IuIMzh6Rvbjyd2aTtSyqtYzpHnXB02-kiyvAcQIrj06F9vshgLVOK7zAAErZKktBRiAajQRUSZxm53jXqJQ/w400-h333/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The most important things are not in the astrological chart. Is this the chart of Hitler, or a Saint, or a chicken? You can't tell the moral choices someone will make: how honest they are with themselves, how they treat others. Their existential intelligence: are they happy with the rules society gives them, with what appears to be 'the real world', or is there something other calling? The chart describes the pipework around their beating heart, but no more. It is the astrologer's experience and intuition that is able to connect the two.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ffea9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="acie2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="acie2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="acie2-0-0"><span data-text="true">SUN, RAIN, SOIL and WIND </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="fvbvn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvbvn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fvbvn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Fire, Water, Earth and Air are the 4 elements that make up the universe, both for Europeans and Native Americans. It is an ancient way of understanding the world that we share. Isn't that wonderful? Old ways like this live in our viscera, even though we may have forgotten them. It just takes a bit of smudge and honouring of the Elements for that ancient thing to awaken in us. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="eamc7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eamc7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eamc7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="drfrq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="drfrq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="drfrq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-PAu2vRDy2DxUvnovJZIsyTiofZlmYmnNe5I7Iu0QW3LBRgFtyFi6yG4pyrbKHxR_Z9ZsG4yLettTHSG9A2EneDdzJXyCJ1Tj0BytQRLaWRNzt7Nz3eUL0ACjATDaUqbYH7-0QMYpf2-I3IBQsgNPwNtWOgLknA10Suz8F-y9yqci5pEHKFmwg/s348/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="348" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-PAu2vRDy2DxUvnovJZIsyTiofZlmYmnNe5I7Iu0QW3LBRgFtyFi6yG4pyrbKHxR_Z9ZsG4yLettTHSG9A2EneDdzJXyCJ1Tj0BytQRLaWRNzt7Nz3eUL0ACjATDaUqbYH7-0QMYpf2-I3IBQsgNPwNtWOgLknA10Suz8F-y9yqci5pEHKFmwg/w400-h166/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I like the Elements because they are concrete, they are close to experience. They are not the abstractions that we have got used to. You want to understand the universe? Here are the equations, but you won't understand them. And even if you do, your senses will not be invited in to share in the knowing. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="9foji-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9foji-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9foji-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="90akd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="90akd-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="90akd-0-0"><span data-text="true">But even Fire, Water, Earth and Air are, to a degree, abstractions. Abstraction has its place, for it can reveal underlying principles. All the same, I prefer to say Sun, Rain, Soil and Wind. You can feel them, taste them, smell them, even as you are reading this. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="p3v8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="p3v8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="p3v8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="blup9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="blup9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="blup9-0-0"><span data-text="true">As astrologers, I think we tend towards the abstract, and even the cerebral. In a reading, the Elements are more fundamental than the signs. If we are close to them, then they speak through us. Note to self: before my next reading, I will go outside and say hello and thank you to each element in turn. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="f3c2u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3c2u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f3c2u-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1ql0q" data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span data-text="true">Everything is to be found in allowing ourselves to be drawn, with gratitude, into that sensory experience of the world. You don't need books or teachers or spirit guides. That is all this thing is, that some of us call shamanism: allowing the spirit to incarnate through its delight in the natural world. And you can do it in a city.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b06af-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="8blla-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8blla-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8blla-0-0"><span data-text="true">ASTROLOGY, the UNIVERSE and the TRICKSTER</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="1cm5o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1cm5o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1cm5o-0-0"><span data-text="true">The rational mind is a tool for navigating the sublunary dream which, for now, we inhabit. The universe is infinite, human consciousness is tiny, with a tiny amount it can understand. When we reach the limits of what we can know rationally, the universe helps us know that by sending in a trickster. Astrophysicists probing the vastness of the universe suddenly find that 95% of it is missing. That is the trickster at work. They give it a name: dark energy/matter, as though naming means they know something about it. They still don't get it. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="2r1fs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2r1fs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2r1fs-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="3o5nf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3o5nf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3o5nf-0-0"><span data-text="true">It is the same at the other extreme: the quantum world, where there are no definite objects, merely probability waves where cause and effect can be reversed, there is action at a distance, and the observer's intention influences the course of events. Again, it is the trickster at work, showing the limits of rational understanding.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="4mjii-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4mjii-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4mjii-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="dfce4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dfce4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dfce4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eekhDJ3oxsuCtNzRAIORXr246C5wTPcW_gstkZqbAPvYy5FBFpo3RTauP_OGFa3VOHb2foO5Dm8Zly8nRh5pS0oDYQ4KVH1Kj3QGUanHRE9TME6O5gACsLLEQ2GpN8J9IELlxBLxQrRS6B1RZif7mdt0B7Mxt6f-UOkgIxlneXh1TRtfIj3koA/s283/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_eekhDJ3oxsuCtNzRAIORXr246C5wTPcW_gstkZqbAPvYy5FBFpo3RTauP_OGFa3VOHb2foO5Dm8Zly8nRh5pS0oDYQ4KVH1Kj3QGUanHRE9TME6O5gACsLLEQ2GpN8J9IELlxBLxQrRS6B1RZif7mdt0B7Mxt6f-UOkgIxlneXh1TRtfIj3koA/w311-h400/a.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br />As astrologers, the trickster comes in almost as soon as we try to demonstrate in a repeatable way the accepted truths of astrology. Jung found this when he tried to correlate Sun-Moon synastry with successful relationships: the correlation broke down. It was Jung who proposed the idea of a trickster in this context.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="ctgoh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ctgoh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ctgoh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="6ad6f" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span data-text="true">It seems to be only at the extreme ends of its quest for truth that science discovers the limits of rationality, and even then does not necessarily recognise it. I think we astrologers have a better ongoing understanding of that limitation, firstly because we are gaining knowledge through a non-rational faculty, the intuition; and secondly, because when we do try and pin our knowledge down, it quickly melts away.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> --------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="41ktj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><br /></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="859jb" data-offset-key="4s8l4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4s8l4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4s8l4-0-0"><span data-text="true">An astrology chart carries the appearance of objectivity - hence the attempts to validate it scientifically - but really there are any number of things an astrologer can say. Our skill lies in saying the things that are true (which enchants the universe: how could he have known that?) and helpful. The chart reaches out and tells us what the client needs to hear about right now, whatever their presenting issues. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="859jb" data-offset-key="b3t1b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b3t1b-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b3t1b-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="859jb" data-offset-key="ah6rb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ah6rb-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ah6rb-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJSWLDGo4mbg_1vthO1v85Vu2vHBZQL00HaWSLfqplqdUPeSnLP28aWMgLNixM4JMyjH3g-xTj9QCzOV_kG4316KpBx1x76jM9RSoJyrlFBKUArmTWg7AZBRvTv9JpNibG4QEUJlJnfjKkLz2D5X7V9sHC6jFZQQk09UkUweJDLkk5F0-_j9weA/s259/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJSWLDGo4mbg_1vthO1v85Vu2vHBZQL00HaWSLfqplqdUPeSnLP28aWMgLNixM4JMyjH3g-xTj9QCzOV_kG4316KpBx1x76jM9RSoJyrlFBKUArmTWg7AZBRvTv9JpNibG4QEUJlJnfjKkLz2D5X7V9sHC6jFZQQk09UkUweJDLkk5F0-_j9weA/w300-h400/a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />That said, it is still wondrous when the symbolism in the chart finds literal expression on this earthly plane. There is a trickster in our craft that goads us with the appearance of scientific objectivity, and then flits into the shadows, laughing, when we try to prove it. She is a teacher: keep the mind soft, don't try to pin things down, and wisdom can flow through you.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-27931808466964204592023-09-23T19:14:00.004+01:002023-09-23T19:19:56.276+01:00THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN - PART 2<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span><span data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><span data-text="true">CANCER</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="eft7f-1-0"><span data-text="true">
You need to find a way of bringing your soft centre into the world.
Cancer is a Cardinal sign. It means you have initiative, you like to
take charge, whether at home or at work. Schematically, Cancers need to
move from the home to the world, in due course. But you are sensitive,
and the world is an unforgiving place. It does not care about you, it
cares about results. Elon Musk is a Cancerian. He sometimes takes
criticism personally and lashes out. </span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="7tla0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7tla0-0-0"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9phkg" data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz08UgIvmMxC30-rVfblrUFcLSXiF18qSPsprQRb4l5wu694NHa_aTqAGf6VQQidGPMkzaElTts7PLyXECQPb2qs3jhJh3qR26ti0ckQiBP-OtBN-HrP-i_gLqFDbTWNBQdP_WI8ewXRALGM-Xs3sgFpKvMni-4AnGUu-W1WPGoJhJzm2167ZmaA/s272/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="272" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz08UgIvmMxC30-rVfblrUFcLSXiF18qSPsprQRb4l5wu694NHa_aTqAGf6VQQidGPMkzaElTts7PLyXECQPb2qs3jhJh3qR26ti0ckQiBP-OtBN-HrP-i_gLqFDbTWNBQdP_WI8ewXRALGM-Xs3sgFpKvMni-4AnGUu-W1WPGoJhJzm2167ZmaA/s1600/a.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="eft7f-1-0"><span data-text="true">Cancers have shells to protect their soft centres. When you go into the world, take care of the people around you, and take nothing personally. Cancerians can bear grudges when they feel hard done by. Drop them, it is just the world and how it works. And hang onto your sense of home in yourself, so that you do not create a substitute home β another shell β through your position and achievements: they can be taken away from you. Your home in yourself never can be. Elon has sold all his homes, and wants to create one for humanity on Mars. Maybe that is a sublimation of the Cancerian homing instinct. And maybe it is also a lack of home in himself.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eft7f-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eft7f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ejkhq-0-0"><span data-text="true">CAPRICORN
Your sign is ruled by Saturn, the worldly taskmaster. You measure
yourself by your standing in the world. Able and ambitious, you wonβt be
satisfied short of a having good reputation that has been earned. But
Saturn easily values only that which is observable and measurable. You
can scoop yourself out, you can become a dry husk, if you only listen to
that voice. Cancer calls you. It may take a mid-life crisis, when
bestriding the world no longer carries the same meaning for you. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9phkg" data-offset-key="51o4f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="51o4f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="51o4f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9phkg" data-offset-key="ejkhq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejkhq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ejkhq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogPZVpN9K5ML_zAFnLoc-G4vO1jm9HGZQ0fVpBDC8J_XhxvT4wkAhgzHiwvWVUunfLDxp2zgiWpnLwBheHbgYL6FyMqPjRahWCe7-4vM71BV-kSbxBvPmhgjVdcKunD_79aOOyPClQthzM68YUO3Mj0tDxrxGHyzAI4596c-TcTr_fFZt__v6cQ/s270/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="270" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogPZVpN9K5ML_zAFnLoc-G4vO1jm9HGZQ0fVpBDC8J_XhxvT4wkAhgzHiwvWVUunfLDxp2zgiWpnLwBheHbgYL6FyMqPjRahWCe7-4vM71BV-kSbxBvPmhgjVdcKunD_79aOOyPClQthzM68YUO3Mj0tDxrxGHyzAI4596c-TcTr_fFZt__v6cQ/s1600/a1.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><br />Secretly you hunger for love and connection and belonging. And to comfort those inner voices of failure and self-doubt and rage, of which you are ashamed. It is in listening to those voices that you will find your soul. Identify your real emotional needs and take care of them in a simple way. And learn to see others in that way too. It will make you stronger rather than weaker. And less sensitive about your reputation.</span></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7tla0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7tla0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span data-text="true">LEO Hostess: βAre you enjoying yourself, Mr. Wilde?β βEnormously, Madam,
thereβs nothing else to enjoy.β Only a Leo could have said this, and it
turns out that Oscar Wilde had Moon in Leo. Just as Taurus has the
infectious gift of enjoying the things in the world, so does Leo have
the infectious gift of being at ease with who they are. This is why Leo
is the life and soul of the party, because at parties we can drop, for a
while, the rules of who we βshouldβ be.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="bprcm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bprcm-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bprcm-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdHDyrlrduiSZB4zOIOkjLkKXq-a4E_7Fm52FAh3SVFJ1D9XEjgk3nPNcQvmJJMg7OKlzWOgAtXmj4MQmSmuIiOZrSkkpDTVihzIBkvM9ocbZ6r5Nis1_oZDoc2t0B9L0cuuy0GAElrqYeguzABaHo0AVl-fLIaUq0l6B3-FxttdFT6RbAihy-Q/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdHDyrlrduiSZB4zOIOkjLkKXq-a4E_7Fm52FAh3SVFJ1D9XEjgk3nPNcQvmJJMg7OKlzWOgAtXmj4MQmSmuIiOZrSkkpDTVihzIBkvM9ocbZ6r5Nis1_oZDoc2t0B9L0cuuy0GAElrqYeguzABaHo0AVl-fLIaUq0l6B3-FxttdFT6RbAihy-Q/s1600/a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span data-text="true">Leo, at its worst, is complacent, self-absorbed and entitled. The opposite sign of Aquarius, ruled by Uranus, represents a call to creativity from the outer planets. The Sun, which rules your sign, nourishes the creative seed, once it has been born. But it originates with the ruler of the opposite sign. Creativity is not the re-assembling of pre-existing ingredients, but the bringing into existence of something entirely new and unthought of. It was Uranus that ignited the Big Bang, having had the brilliant idea of creating a universe. When you create, you are also re-creating yourself. These seeds of something new present themselves to you regularly. Can you be bothered to run with them? If you donβt, you will gradually become cranky, and you will smell bad as you begin to rot. Surely, as a proud Leo, you donβt hide behind self-doubt? You are here to bring new life, continuously, for the benefit of humanity. Let your Leo radiance be the light of compassion.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5qb5e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="50njl-0-0"><span data-text="true">AQUARIUS
The Sun is in its fall in Aquarius β the sign opposite to that which it
rules β so we Aquarians are often not at ease with who we are. So we
try to change the world instead. As Nietzsche warned, "Your
neighbour-love is your bad love of yourselves.β Aquarians are, of
course, genuinely humanitarian. But always on the edge of groups. Partly
because we find it hard to belong, because we are not at ease with
ourselves. And also because people like to keep things as they are,
whereas Aquarians always seek change and improvement. So people can be
ambivalent about us.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="6u7jj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6u7jj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6u7jj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="50njl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="50njl-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="50njl-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pSLP6jIi3cIqISswKjqQszA1jeebhzPXPp6fweV0b3Hx_79uD2bBRNyk_DINBYymfBbrESZ5d9pURVZkASeeYuw7jn6Jk4R5nNv41UxUqws6IGsPFDLX1NtTASbXiPwRDqJzjMwiO8UKOv2Q-rocn-EgH6tkveRTNSGaH8Ikc_MwYQjVu8psIA/s612/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pSLP6jIi3cIqISswKjqQszA1jeebhzPXPp6fweV0b3Hx_79uD2bBRNyk_DINBYymfBbrESZ5d9pURVZkASeeYuw7jn6Jk4R5nNv41UxUqws6IGsPFDLX1NtTASbXiPwRDqJzjMwiO8UKOv2Q-rocn-EgH6tkveRTNSGaH8Ikc_MwYQjVu8psIA/s320/a1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="es8lr" data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Aquarius is a sign of the Mind. We need to come out of the Mind and into the Heart, which is Leo. To do that we need to learn to live with ourselves and listen to ourselves. And admit that we know nothing, because our heart is a mystery. It is the water Aquarius pours, which flows into the unfathomable ocean. Try being normal, do what everyone else does, and you will find you donβt lose your magic, which you fear. Once you are part of society, you will have the right and the wisdom to change it. But not until then. At which point you will be able to bring people together in a good way, which you love doing. Meaning without the usual unspoken rules and beliefs and hierarchies. But on a basis of people being more themselves, rather than an edited version, emanating from your own hard-won ease with who you are.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d2gcn-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ----------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8o4dp-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">I offer astrology readings on a donation
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Emotionally you are pulled towards Pisces by your sense of service and compassion. And if you are being of service to people, you have to roll with their chaos and unpredictability if you are to be of real help. You hate that, but being a mutable sign, you are able to do it.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2gcn-0-0"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="4vi4t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4vi4t-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4vi4t-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="25hvu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="25hvu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="25hvu-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2khSCrFgH4va2ebGBdlK-h6V9FSFxuGRr8aPprmLsvEoHASSjA3Vqws2WC_SS37bl6MqMdznzlx60nCXSc4PDVJ6oeK00imjrgs27il7LVlixo_IWbjv8xujx4LvQgPP67KRE6E-Q5c5fGA1EPZXNa1HAJWkmfOk-hSPmlpZgprYkHV2f7cBnrw/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2khSCrFgH4va2ebGBdlK-h6V9FSFxuGRr8aPprmLsvEoHASSjA3Vqws2WC_SS37bl6MqMdznzlx60nCXSc4PDVJ6oeK00imjrgs27il7LVlixo_IWbjv8xujx4LvQgPP67KRE6E-Q5c5fGA1EPZXNa1HAJWkmfOk-hSPmlpZgprYkHV2f7cBnrw/s1600/a.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br />That is your first Pisces lesson in surrender. It needs, however, to move on to a metaphysical level: it is the whole universe you need to surrender to, and that is the work of a lifetime. And then the Pisces wisdom can flow through you: you will not know why you are saying what you are saying half the time, you just know that it needs saying, and it turns out to be exactly what that other person needs to hear.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="aptgf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aptgf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aptgf-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="er0v1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="er0v1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="er0v1-0-0"><span data-text="true">At mid-life, as a Virgo, you may find yourself weeping uncharacteristically β and perhaps embarrassingly for you β as the Spirit calls you inwards to a much bigger journey, an infinite one.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="94o6c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="94o6c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="94o6c-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="89q2i-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="89q2i-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="89q2i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Virgoan rationality is on the one hand well-grounded in reality, it is practical. But by the same token, it can seem to you to be what is real, because it is so grounded. Get yourself into the natural world β Virgo is, after all, a nature goddess β and talk to the trees, leave offerings for the fairies, and allow yourself to dwell in the simple appreciation of what is around you. Allow your ordered and ordering mind to be in awe of the grander, flowing order of the natural world.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="ejgfo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejgfo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ejgfo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="46ejv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="46ejv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="46ejv-0-0"><span data-text="true">PISCES You can come out with some awesome stuff when you are grounded in yourself, but thereβs the rub. As the final sign of the Zodiac, Pisces essentially dwells outside of the illusory self that is needed to negotiate the world, which is ultimately a dream anyway, so why bother engaging with it?</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="81fsh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="81fsh-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="81fsh-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="52fg1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52fg1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="52fg1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pisces needs to incarnate, to show up. This so-called dream IS reality, it is not a compromise of any sort to enter it fully. And earthy, ordered yet mutable Virgo provides the perfect vessel to do that. If you do not show up, if you feel outside and above it all, you will find yourself in a swamp where nothing ever happens; you may experience a suicidal lack of meaning.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="4jv0p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jv0p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4jv0p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="1s2qj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1s2qj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1s2qj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJR3dYC88atUlRqj9ljXyr0CxqDClE9W47nf3gfQDt2wqSvakEClqSFGnFvDDDfg62_MXQVYNDeIN9wh2LquubqszHh1Jvksb8W1_flBzuFB6EefSjMGW5maJ-AtsSk5fxgySia-9oIsr0xJOrX_G-fVy7GFyYx3GkBVHR4LAF4CjOmitVwqpRvw/s1280/a1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJR3dYC88atUlRqj9ljXyr0CxqDClE9W47nf3gfQDt2wqSvakEClqSFGnFvDDDfg62_MXQVYNDeIN9wh2LquubqszHh1Jvksb8W1_flBzuFB6EefSjMGW5maJ-AtsSk5fxgySia-9oIsr0xJOrX_G-fVy7GFyYx3GkBVHR4LAF4CjOmitVwqpRvw/s320/a1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Pisces suffers β and feels compassion - more than any other sign, your feelings run as wide and deep as existence. It can be more than a human frame can stand, unless you have a self from which to orientate, and to protect you. The crucifix may well speak to you, as a symbol of the spirit incarnating in matter, of just how excruciating that process can be for you.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="9auni-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9auni-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9auni-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="9f8pv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f8pv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9f8pv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Humankind cannot bear very much reality, as TS Eliot said, and you may regularly find yourself exposed to the full white light. It is your gift and your undoing.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="ebqbt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ebqbt-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ebqbt-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="dta3d" data-offset-key="bt3v8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bt3v8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bt3v8-0-0"><span data-text="true">As with Virgos, the natural world can restore your sanity and balance. You are a shapeshifter, your empathy is such that you can dwell in other beings. For you, rocks are beings: you know this, you commune with them. What better way to incarnate than to become a rock once in a while? Or take exercise. Pay close attention, like a good Virgo, to your physical health. Do ordinary things. You are here to make a contribution from the universe to this collective dream that, for a short while, we partake of. But you will only be able to do so to the degree you have done the work to incarnate. Which, like Virgo in the opposite direction, is a lifetimeβs work.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-65493953363762040022023-09-16T21:23:00.001+01:002023-09-16T21:26:32.060+01:00THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN (Part 1)<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="9mp16-0-0">The Sun is the single most significant planet in the chart, because it is by far the most imposing body in the sky. If you face the Sun, and you listen, you will feel the particular shaping flavour of the stars behind it. At your back, what you cannot see, are the opposite set of stars, the 'darkstory' of the Sun. That which you will need to unearth, in the case of your own sign, to become a balanced human being. If you don't, then as Jesus said in the heretical Gospel of St Thomas, it will destroy you. You will be possessed by it, and may not recognise your own destruction. What may appear as your demons may be your unlived strengths.</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cnpur" data-offset-key="cmpb9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmpb9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cmpb9-0-0"><span data-text="true">So what follows in this 2 part post will be something on each sign by shadow. I will do them in opposite pairs, because that is the way they work. What I will be saying is today's version, because there are many ways of putting it. A chart reading is also like that: I will tell you slightly different stories each time you come to me.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cnpur" data-offset-key="4408e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4408e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4408e-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cnpur" data-offset-key="2o6aj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2o6aj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2o6aj-0-0"><span data-text="true">ARIES: Your strength is your freshness and certainty of vision. It is excellent for decisive action. But life isn't usually that simple. You need to learn to listen to others. To do that well, you need to learn to listen to yourself first, otherwise you will only think you are listening to others. You will find you are a more complex being than you imagined. When your complexity interests you - when you can turn from astronaut into psychonaut - then other people's complexity will also interest you, and it will be natural, rather than a practice, to incorporate their world view. The journey into your own complexity takes many years, and probably some rude awakenings along the way. But once you have learnt to relate to it, you can bring a powerful integrity to the process.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cnpur" data-offset-key="28jpq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="28jpq-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="28jpq-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cnpur" data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxLoYn33Ci2uvJW63M5C1k08FRI6c4aMGg5vCsO82ZIRY79wwwzTiPCdPiqhFGzJtdfRYRrmd9iOh_lo-4brbdoypsL7_5J7pcUSgHIPNB4NA4SCWqpssapkgfqT72ixKwqafDAhVrBHK3PIHCkLa6iRZSBJrlrIPNpbL8h55icXtXcvn7OKaAZw/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxLoYn33Ci2uvJW63M5C1k08FRI6c4aMGg5vCsO82ZIRY79wwwzTiPCdPiqhFGzJtdfRYRrmd9iOh_lo-4brbdoypsL7_5J7pcUSgHIPNB4NA4SCWqpssapkgfqT72ixKwqafDAhVrBHK3PIHCkLa6iRZSBJrlrIPNpbL8h55icXtXcvn7OKaAZw/w400-h400/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />LIBRA: Your shadow lies in your naivety about other people. An unwillingness to look realistically at the dark motivations of others, which have been delightfully summed up in recent years in the form of the Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and sadism. You are idealistic about people and about your relationships. This means you can bring harmony. It is your gift. You see the best in others, but with it comes an unwillingness to look clearly and truthfully. Your lack of judging is also a strength, but you can be very judging of others if they speak critically of people. So there is a hidden hypocrisy. Get over the feeling that it is wrong to acknowledge elements of the dark tetrad in others. Get over your need to please others, and learn to live with your guilt when you say something that is uncomfortable for them. Become the feathered arrow that flies straight to the mark with grace and beauty.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9t6sg-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ftbj1" data-offset-key="bi6ah-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi6ah-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bi6ah-0-0"><span data-text="true">TAURUS: Your gift is your infectious love of life β food, beautiful things, art, sex, the natural world. But it can also be your shield against deeper realities. You can be too attached to the things of this world. However much you have, it will never be enough, because you are looking in the wrong place. If Taurus is Life, then Scorpio is Death. You need to live close to the veil between the worlds for the perspective it gives you. Loss in some form may be the awakening gift from Spirit you need at some point. It may dismember you, leave you feeling destroyed, taken down: but that can be exactly what is needed to leave room for new life to emerge. It is usually a slow, deep process. Cultivate emotional depth: it cannot be taken away from you. How do you do that? Be completely honest with yourself at all times. No feelings are shameful or a judgement on you. They just are what they are.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ftbj1" data-offset-key="lj0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="lj0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="lj0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ftbj1" data-offset-key="bufnn-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bufnn-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bufnn-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUV5mKKetbwage9h_5Pi-YKk2_yBI6-5XtzgsdQ-A8iwkFlqNrQJM11dlPWTSCoztunlnBx-aLb5i8Zgu9ayHk47rgJunwFcj-xwLM1SJJOGmEAiy-PjfNOaKOLqzsQEM6v-uDCBT3o0YR3OiD9D9sNaj69yhBnxSDo6JbVKWH4Jx-WGDz4umRg/s410/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="410" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUV5mKKetbwage9h_5Pi-YKk2_yBI6-5XtzgsdQ-A8iwkFlqNrQJM11dlPWTSCoztunlnBx-aLb5i8Zgu9ayHk47rgJunwFcj-xwLM1SJJOGmEAiy-PjfNOaKOLqzsQEM6v-uDCBT3o0YR3OiD9D9sNaj69yhBnxSDo6JbVKWH4Jx-WGDz4umRg/w400-h400/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />SCORPIO: I feel for you: you are seen as the bad guy of the zodiac, you carry the shadow. But that is because you are true to yourself, and that unsettles other people. You are friends with your demons, you do not judge them, and that can make you whole. But you can get stuck in the dark, inward place, like a frog in a well. And judging others accordingly, so that they feel boxed and unable to escape, because you have emotional power, like Medusa. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ftbj1" data-offset-key="ed9h1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ed9h1-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ed9h1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ftbj1" data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Your gift lies in the power and reality of the instincts, the animal, that humans think they are above, but are ruled by regardless, and you know this. Your salvation β your route out of the well β lies in the joy of the instinctual life. Be animal, shapeshift, delight in your senses, be absorbed in this world. Lighten up. That is not a superficial thing. You need an anchor in nature and its simple joys so that the deep alchemy which is central to your nature has a vessel, an orientation. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ----------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizbYTacKevI216RDfOgJXYcw7kckxdJbSmh9PvMCz2QzFtyU5VAzVVZQafV_56bCp6SPws9fH0UB7GCPwM9O5sQ3o6Ziz5NfCOFx6Z-_DoRpm6FFvzr9IrlhNzF6fb6bafcFo-KzwGZeliYiVBCC6s3rdabtk7t8EeKeyOC39UZLA9w76IhbXGw/s200/a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="129" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizbYTacKevI216RDfOgJXYcw7kckxdJbSmh9PvMCz2QzFtyU5VAzVVZQafV_56bCp6SPws9fH0UB7GCPwM9O5sQ3o6Ziz5NfCOFx6Z-_DoRpm6FFvzr9IrlhNzF6fb6bafcFo-KzwGZeliYiVBCC6s3rdabtk7t8EeKeyOC39UZLA9w76IhbXGw/s1600/a1.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><br />I offer astrology readings on a donation
basis. Contact BWGoddard1@aol.co.uk. My offer also remains open
indefinitely, that if you buy and rate at Amazon my astrology book
Surfing the Galactic Highways, I will give you a free reading.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="52am3-0-0"><span data-text="true">-----------------------------</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">GEMINI You
have a dual nature, the light and the dark twins. It is your ongoing experience
that there is something uncomfortable to be lived, lurking outside the
colourful mind-bubble that you magic into being wherever you go. Your
glittering, capable, likeable self is your refuge from the deeper realities.
You move rapidly from one interest to the next, you have 6 different threads
going in any one conversation, you are restless, pursued by that haunting
Sagittarian voice that asks you what does it all mean? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu7HYwz988YA6kfqjXseUmBy72KC9Svu7qw4DGvOcidAPaCM78ZH2lThD4DQWlMz_HhtHyfAJ2FUf5a0FkXcePI0RyGPb0EOuRPNhqLy_vHc22XQrV3lXhSJ4yisCsv08Nj1LZ4K4JbjyQ6_oG1k94VgiJunLZGGgKgGy0W7SKrq5lSZA-SnD4A/s467/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu7HYwz988YA6kfqjXseUmBy72KC9Svu7qw4DGvOcidAPaCM78ZH2lThD4DQWlMz_HhtHyfAJ2FUf5a0FkXcePI0RyGPb0EOuRPNhqLy_vHc22XQrV3lXhSJ4yisCsv08Nj1LZ4K4JbjyQ6_oG1k94VgiJunLZGGgKgGy0W7SKrq5lSZA-SnD4A/w258-h400/a.jpg" width="258" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />You need to
stop and ask yourself that question several times a day. Meaning is a feeling.
You are the Air sign that takes ideas least literally. They slip like sand
through your dextrous fingers. You know that words are not realities. You know
that the real place is outside your everyday mind. Dare you go there? What you
fear in that unknown place is not monsters but boredom. Observe and enjoy your
mind from a detached place in your heart. And from there let yourself be pulled
towards that which calls to you, that which gives meaning. Keep your life in
that place, donβt slide too readily into the 100 other things that beckon. Then
you will find joy instead of mere stimulation. The joy of the marriage of light
and dark.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">SAGITTARIUS Spiritual
bypass. That is the name of your game. Living for God as a way of avoiding mere
earthly life. You love the deep, abstract ideas that point towards ineffable
Reality itself. You protect yourself with your beliefs, which you view as so
profound, but which your Gemini opposite dances around, tweaking their toes
while youβre not looking.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Gemini is
facts and information, by which you can test the validity of your beliefs. This
is probably the most difficult challenge in the entire zodiac. βA man convinced
against his will, is of the same opinion still.β Sagittarius is big on ethics,
and it is a matter of personal integrity that you can stand to one side of your
beliefs in the interests of discovering what is true. Very few people can do
this to any extent. For mosr people, their beliefs are realities, and argument
consists in finding evidence that supports those beliefs. Can you be honest
about your political bias, and give the other side credit where credit is due? Once
you understand that your beliefs are emotionally rather than rationally held β
that you believe what you WANT to believe about nearly everything β then and
only then do you understand humanity, and you can be the teacher that is the
destiny of your sign. There are very few real teachers in this sense.</span></span></p>
</div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-79325670836503686652023-09-07T11:54:00.005+01:002023-09-12T10:39:29.062+01:00RECENT DEBRIS<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="eiucb-0-0"><span data-text="true">SUB</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="eiucb-1-0"><span data-text="true"> SPECIE AETERNITATIS</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7272h" data-offset-key="b0eef-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b0eef-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b0eef-0-0"><span data-text="true">When you're an astrologer, you get your stories from Mount Olympus. They are different to the stories that collective humanity tells itself. We need to be able to stand apart from these stories, all of them, especially the ones that come with the authority of our modern state religion: science. Political parties and their stories too, that division into good guys and bad guys that so many mistake for reality. Otherwise we won't be able to listen to these ancient guys who, for whatever reason, have chosen us as messengers.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7272h" data-offset-key="6qsln-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qsln-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6qsln-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7272h" data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8arHRKjl9h7vO8EqKI-OhL7V5qpoNw-Kp5Lkk3AA96lhKPjwEcUG0cHJJbEggdvvEd0Qfqn6zO66IDiK3f3L2odRFrS6qtoBPZIqm20RmSoCXUd4Y00tXESLhPF6nga9nL0_6dpCdhaceuIL0tlmzFZ3M8cWWL66Vj1Es1XhMhVwdsGUZCCxp0A/s284/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="284" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8arHRKjl9h7vO8EqKI-OhL7V5qpoNw-Kp5Lkk3AA96lhKPjwEcUG0cHJJbEggdvvEd0Qfqn6zO66IDiK3f3L2odRFrS6qtoBPZIqm20RmSoCXUd4Y00tXESLhPF6nga9nL0_6dpCdhaceuIL0tlmzFZ3M8cWWL66Vj1Es1XhMhVwdsGUZCCxp0A/w400-h251/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />We are in the world but not of the world. It's a big ask, and I'm sure the gods don't expect us to be perfect. And I'm sure sometimes they roll their eyes at the way we treat modern stories as reality. I say this especially around the sense of crisis that seems perennial to humanity. Our job is to stand outside of all that, it is largely illusion, and it is not how the gods live.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7bg7l-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="bccq3" data-offset-key="4v540-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4v540-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="4v540-0-0"><span data-text="true">PRESIDENT</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="4v540-1-0"><span data-text="true"> RAMASWAMY?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4v540-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4v540-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x5yr21d x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy xh8yej3" src="https://scontent.flhr4-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/371826487_10159695968708036_8143762275241494091_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4c1e7d&_nc_ohc=AZViWxfeZQIAX8UEOHb&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr4-4.fna&oh=00_AfCadjfeLmLnVYQgsyZ0inhGv9r11XilNjiLdy0fTEhFag&oe=64FF5ED5" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="bccq3" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9GkPAt21NyzcM3BTZOqJVyANiMWu8onyX4S3pzUlaIpjrWcRUg9Kuq1-t0hxGXz7UazlwwG0qhFojClx_Y5oxx40Gw9piTEHvfGO_yejTEs0HrxiDx9CMk8VEiEjZAbl-CAlwsD-sP8kysVmCSbwiJqlOwMakeAzh9uLxX3zsbKri7tgUZiShA/s260/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="194" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9GkPAt21NyzcM3BTZOqJVyANiMWu8onyX4S3pzUlaIpjrWcRUg9Kuq1-t0hxGXz7UazlwwG0qhFojClx_Y5oxx40Gw9piTEHvfGO_yejTEs0HrxiDx9CMk8VEiEjZAbl-CAlwsD-sP8kysVmCSbwiJqlOwMakeAzh9uLxX3zsbKri7tgUZiShA/w298-h400/a.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br />Donald Trump doesn't have the empowering transits to win another election. He will have Uranus on his Mars and Angles next year, which makes his trajectory highly unpredictable and unstable. Vivek Ramaswamy, on the other hand, is at the start of a long series of empowering transits: Pluto squaring his Pluto-MC, then Neptune squaring his Venus and Asc, carrying him through 2 terms as President. He was reportedly the clear winner at the recent debate between Republican candidates.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSn2iOMrQEtFG_nQiwhhvxrtoRIhKb9Z7KwV-_fHOyEOiYpCwJgug-zyIUA-FEXIY_36PT0Itd1gnxWPH-pgA1bGYQSDgmYc1SI12tPQDhB9u_3tZ39J_KEKART9KDRIXq2A3ngQsQNf22q8RPh_ZsDnrhNIWql10s7irWuKS6a4fvknjIX9Jx2g/s1311/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSn2iOMrQEtFG_nQiwhhvxrtoRIhKb9Z7KwV-_fHOyEOiYpCwJgug-zyIUA-FEXIY_36PT0Itd1gnxWPH-pgA1bGYQSDgmYc1SI12tPQDhB9u_3tZ39J_KEKART9KDRIXq2A3ngQsQNf22q8RPh_ZsDnrhNIWql10s7irWuKS6a4fvknjIX9Jx2g/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-BvovU9eU7QGT9Y2KUEzzd7uADgu_Gb7vS1m76djoehZiwuidUflZo9EqFp-mr__Icn55Mhy7EjYzMa3vArz3UGSA2_k6L0bYfZ8FEZKmnm_F_jLqFX95iB6r1YWTJmZXDNlN-0tdmhrihcXBXrhO-knkeUI2LpSSnrUE6Q8cOVXuaraCplr7A/s1311/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-BvovU9eU7QGT9Y2KUEzzd7uADgu_Gb7vS1m76djoehZiwuidUflZo9EqFp-mr__Icn55Mhy7EjYzMa3vArz3UGSA2_k6L0bYfZ8FEZKmnm_F_jLqFX95iB6r1YWTJmZXDNlN-0tdmhrihcXBXrhO-knkeUI2LpSSnrUE6Q8cOVXuaraCplr7A/w400-h220/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="c7h71-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="15f9j-1-0"><span data-text="true"> SUN, THE ASCENDANT and THE ANGLES </span></span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9auc5" data-offset-key="127d6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="127d6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="127d6-0-0"><span data-text="true">The Ascendant is the point on the horizon where the Sun rises and brings new light. The Ascendant is therefore intimately connected with the Sun. It is the doorway through which we find alignment with our deepest self, with who we always were: the Sun, which is both universal, yet unique to us. As an Aquarian, I find my Sun through the service and inner joy of my Virgo Asc. </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="127d6-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="127d6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9auc5" data-offset-key="7h2bq-0-0"></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="9auc5" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQAV1UPNRqrTCEpIoTIskU1wFq4QhmOZ5TkoUCdfagELE6C5W-15s8fqKIdUQiRDlfh2-pqFEsefiORJjjIQDFrKBMSJGANxoWMMi8Ksc8Si8AF1llMeRjsJkQ-UeG3RFkMlLChvShVVNWg0d3TtNzo2IfptZEz6u4MxaDoyxXaoiWdvlX_6U5UA/s275/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQAV1UPNRqrTCEpIoTIskU1wFq4QhmOZ5TkoUCdfagELE6C5W-15s8fqKIdUQiRDlfh2-pqFEsefiORJjjIQDFrKBMSJGANxoWMMi8Ksc8Si8AF1llMeRjsJkQ-UeG3RFkMlLChvShVVNWg0d3TtNzo2IfptZEz6u4MxaDoyxXaoiWdvlX_6U5UA/w400-h266/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Not only that, but the other 3 Angles - Home, Relationship and Vocation (IC, Desc, MC) - naturally unfold when the ASC is balanced, when it is listening to the Sun. In other words, we incarnate, our spirit makes the often difficult journey into matter, which is what we are here to keep doing.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> <br /><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r9d4:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">BLOWING MY OWN TRUMPET</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">"I
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the end of the book yet long for even more!"</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMknK0iszK2NNSnFz9eSkYvZSI8PpH-Bp4LC3tG3gT_lhU2hw_dYqSFJuBGTJfGWVBVT6kXDWutKsDmq3imYfApPrUgYW3-PJY_zppFdW1BDuoFaaMXQ6O5tLFmjvurSFelRVXqTcJA2VSeWDUeNDO1_kWbH0siScJHItNeHpGcvjRpMmOjtDog/s500/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMknK0iszK2NNSnFz9eSkYvZSI8PpH-Bp4LC3tG3gT_lhU2hw_dYqSFJuBGTJfGWVBVT6kXDWutKsDmq3imYfApPrUgYW3-PJY_zppFdW1BDuoFaaMXQ6O5tLFmjvurSFelRVXqTcJA2VSeWDUeNDO1_kWbH0siScJHItNeHpGcvjRpMmOjtDog/s320/a.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br />One of the many 5 star reviews of my astrology book on Amazon. <span></span>And here's the deal: you buy it and leave a genuine rating on Amazon, and I will give you a free astrology reading!</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><span data-text="true">The</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="bar4o-1-0"><span data-text="true"> astrological chart is your Fate, a Gift from the Moirai. It cannot be changed: it is writ. The chart tells you who you are, and the trajectory <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0puL8Bmx9LU9NsqjCCKhxTlBSpVcOebkcL_luQX1xMQg1q0FZSb2iH6Tic1gMMnhWHLW0ETcLxXrkQwNYy_F_Moswc_F6PPR_CBdezwcq6ublusY5oLGTgpemQr-aayY-fzyqw6Zyz9MJKjGgezPB8ollTbeg9w2sH5Cs8T4Nek-54AnwfsUDQ/s348/a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="348" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0puL8Bmx9LU9NsqjCCKhxTlBSpVcOebkcL_luQX1xMQg1q0FZSb2iH6Tic1gMMnhWHLW0ETcLxXrkQwNYy_F_Moswc_F6PPR_CBdezwcq6ublusY5oLGTgpemQr-aayY-fzyqw6Zyz9MJKjGgezPB8ollTbeg9w2sH5Cs8T4Nek-54AnwfsUDQ/w400-h166/a1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />of your life. It has a pulse, it lives and breathes.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bar4o-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><br /><div data-contents="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><br /></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a2610" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bar4o-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bar4o-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true">I don't always pay attention to transits to outer planets, as their sign is generational. But the House is personal. Saturn is backing into an opposition with my 12th House Pluto, and I am having significant dreams. One was particularly about power: a nurse was trying to anaesthetise me to perform an unnecessary operation on my big toe (a symbol of the masculine). But I couldn't be anaesthetised. The Wolf in me, who has loomed large lately, is here for good.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjBcRFO1aeH8S_z1u4Uo27fxttL_TcoOXFVLGASUcUNG2cWoRsBrEGXMlvNC8F_CYJIU6YOGy83d-bb2kx1RFUrA6fCLnQ56d0pnYc73K3hrmxlPDK11lo94h_yFqu7JIs4HPpEmdSD6FK7Y3GFh6PfpuKiKfQ2X1ZHfAoLNLVhrKvzfu64EQiA/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjBcRFO1aeH8S_z1u4Uo27fxttL_TcoOXFVLGASUcUNG2cWoRsBrEGXMlvNC8F_CYJIU6YOGy83d-bb2kx1RFUrA6fCLnQ56d0pnYc73K3hrmxlPDK11lo94h_yFqu7JIs4HPpEmdSD6FK7Y3GFh6PfpuKiKfQ2X1ZHfAoLNLVhrKvzfu64EQiA/s1600/a.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bar4o-0-0"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1mu89-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div data-contents="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6j4sf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvB0AV8Ij_lloYGNw6U7Yl04vjo8wQQnGjso-fkmu35wQn4rm8ER8fFbnOEcc6F6_vD6QNU02yUQnBHMiSO95NdCG5uCFPZ9erwtA6NRw8qZM3omXW3yQTjNEKGpc60JDt3BFCLpnins1d417yWQnrBk4Gg81CVXyl4uXbXAT44_ug3qVyu3ZE8g/s259/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvB0AV8Ij_lloYGNw6U7Yl04vjo8wQQnGjso-fkmu35wQn4rm8ER8fFbnOEcc6F6_vD6QNU02yUQnBHMiSO95NdCG5uCFPZ9erwtA6NRw8qZM3omXW3yQTjNEKGpc60JDt3BFCLpnins1d417yWQnrBk4Gg81CVXyl4uXbXAT44_ug3qVyu3ZE8g/s1600/a.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br />Conventional
reality is the matrix. It always has been. It is a shifting set of
stories that the collective needs for psychological stability. Neptune
can be the blue pill that subsumes us in the collective stories. Or he
can be the red pill that wakes us from the dream. Which one you take is
an ongoing choice. All strongly held collective beliefs are blue pill
territory.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6j4sf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MNTUbzUu7oooXhMfVMX3WfNQJcBsVGlZGFrm2oJ7lSbmKuRX9NKBq1HREE-49IS7RI6uV-gLRHKsNI5IVtm3To4qHrB002vy3E5kppcGp89DtTR3yCYWOfCC8kG-xut8iO9syvdDrlzW1kAXX8vCpF23hJOLgUBzcdK-EjuBxomG2P3FWYE5jA/s310/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MNTUbzUu7oooXhMfVMX3WfNQJcBsVGlZGFrm2oJ7lSbmKuRX9NKBq1HREE-49IS7RI6uV-gLRHKsNI5IVtm3To4qHrB002vy3E5kppcGp89DtTR3yCYWOfCC8kG-xut8iO9syvdDrlzW1kAXX8vCpF23hJOLgUBzcdK-EjuBxomG2P3FWYE5jA/s1600/a.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br />Very
few people know how to think. What passes for thought is usually just
the finding of arguments to support what it is they prefer to believe.
Political astrologers beware!</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQfbkuJo4wYy5UHWczqf6rPTIEllLicDlSXhCd7ueMYEhBXjRCAu_9wlZHm0rwCMTjv0L5SxTmJxlAqG0_DG_bqapQ6eRLUyPbetYt9EhzA2CEJZNYeko7V3GmYBvwN3EaEB0f8Zr6JYlVuv1gvmB2rFL9IJgGMeXe-lqLvKsk_iJC-5KtANm6A/s500/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQfbkuJo4wYy5UHWczqf6rPTIEllLicDlSXhCd7ueMYEhBXjRCAu_9wlZHm0rwCMTjv0L5SxTmJxlAqG0_DG_bqapQ6eRLUyPbetYt9EhzA2CEJZNYeko7V3GmYBvwN3EaEB0f8Zr6JYlVuv1gvmB2rFL9IJgGMeXe-lqLvKsk_iJC-5KtANm6A/s320/a.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br />Jupiter, Chiron<span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto will all be retrograde
until early October. We
have an exceptional period of inner alchemy upon us. Pay attention to
dreams and the sense of new patterns being laid down within.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRWjcwGJK4P9oKD7w_CpbFswYzjyundTuihagmWKTX6gr7uScNjhmHp-Sw9-9frVdIYOXIacalT8YAZxFtqPreh_khGBKeAvb9cAnVmsNjiCHHnHZdqlFx6s-O4j-1rnoqwV0kcbsxHMyHx8MQPVk6CyT-IXP7Nw7xckbTq4p6FArJuVSzY-gSA/s302/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="250" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRWjcwGJK4P9oKD7w_CpbFswYzjyundTuihagmWKTX6gr7uScNjhmHp-Sw9-9frVdIYOXIacalT8YAZxFtqPreh_khGBKeAvb9cAnVmsNjiCHHnHZdqlFx6s-O4j-1rnoqwV0kcbsxHMyHx8MQPVk6CyT-IXP7Nw7xckbTq4p6FArJuVSzY-gSA/s1600/a.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br />Astrology
is founded on cycles. It is not going anywhere. It simply advises us on
how to live well, in accordance with the planetary gods. This is the
ancient, indigenous perspective. It relieves us of the modern pressure
to be going somewhere: the Protestant Work Ethic, our imbalanced
Saturn.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">For
the astrology chart to speak through us, we need a felt relationship
with the 4 elements: Sun, Rain, Soil and Wind, which are more
fundamental than the zodiac signs. We need in this sense to be
indigenous, as the first astrologers were. It's something you can do in
your back garden.<span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"><img alt="π" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t22/2/16/1f60e.png" width="16" /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r4e3:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">CHIRON'S 'WOUND' </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6vawJYzn0fhIAbpzQQlDxJ7-TpT_AW72RePPkJk6TMFmxQXnGphJptLo8sTnSVmg6WyoVU7cZPkpdt5WlbBKU35_IEwEawc1U-mlyamExivlx-suLqV37hZ8ULA9pKctItnZZ55hTDv5epYonRqASQaiPTLsFXT2mA2DHiC2_CcCa5mFboeQwQ/s284/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6vawJYzn0fhIAbpzQQlDxJ7-TpT_AW72RePPkJk6TMFmxQXnGphJptLo8sTnSVmg6WyoVU7cZPkpdt5WlbBKU35_IEwEawc1U-mlyamExivlx-suLqV37hZ8ULA9pKctItnZZ55hTDv5epYonRqASQaiPTLsFXT2mA2DHiC2_CcCa5mFboeQwQ/w400-h249/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Chiron is the bridge to the outer planets. The area of life he highlights will often not work in a normal way: it may as a result appear 'wounded'. There is calling, vocation to be lived in order for that area to function well. In this sense Chiron is 'the crack where the light gets in'. He is the crack in conventional reality through which pour the creativity, imagination and renewal of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto respectively.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6bm1YPW7C5hDZyUU72ICvSGPRnc7_Y44VcnXzEYtwnjm9AJfSHSxPaSkWPzIh6ZLBhtKTa_oZI9ZvwaSQhCqJP5Q8ZlpeY1U3tkm_pTYzJHe4-yDOIrkxDmug5UNvthiEEL1-kYlaIoCUwDL8eMLAjRKvBSM2PIUvXq9RueEmRKIQSWB3y87Iw/s421/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6bm1YPW7C5hDZyUU72ICvSGPRnc7_Y44VcnXzEYtwnjm9AJfSHSxPaSkWPzIh6ZLBhtKTa_oZI9ZvwaSQhCqJP5Q8ZlpeY1U3tkm_pTYzJHe4-yDOIrkxDmug5UNvthiEEL1-kYlaIoCUwDL8eMLAjRKvBSM2PIUvXq9RueEmRKIQSWB3y87Iw/s320/a.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br />Mercury
is the messenger of the gods. Until 15th Sept he will be off on
one of his thrice yearly consultations with them. If you think through carefully
(Virgo) anything you want to begin, you might be able to overhear what
is being said, and get it right. Otherwise, Mercury is liable to turn up
in his trickster form. Which for him is great fun.</span></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="eec73-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eec73-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="eec73-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="eec73-1-0"><span data-text="true"> DARK GODDESS SEDNA</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eec73-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eec73-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eec73-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="eec73-1-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvVsIBm21zX-3tF-E8zAGGkycTOoM0_bOuqtWk34hHBK59JZ2T8xjQpz4XvjHTvlC8W4n4AHZLHu5tmFM9mkb8ov4RtzuIlEVEbupF38ggDMHlT4FIe9xEAJq7pU76HdJ1iXbEFQ4k9kvjWlJKlrpaZhB7RniSmKsoFVrroe-oomaqmBx0B8Ftg/s280/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvVsIBm21zX-3tF-E8zAGGkycTOoM0_bOuqtWk34hHBK59JZ2T8xjQpz4XvjHTvlC8W4n4AHZLHu5tmFM9mkb8ov4RtzuIlEVEbupF38ggDMHlT4FIe9xEAJq7pU76HdJ1iXbEFQ4k9kvjWlJKlrpaZhB7RniSmKsoFVrroe-oomaqmBx0B8Ftg/s1600/a.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="f3tae-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f3tae-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f3tae-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sedna, Inuit goddess of the ocean underworld. Discovered in Taurus in 2003. The outermost (dwarf) planet. Glaciers calve (Taurus) icebergs, 90% of which are below the surface in the ocean underworld. Does Sedna rule glaciers and icebergs?</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="3t24f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3t24f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3t24f-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="48v9b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48v9b-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="48v9b-0-0"><span data-text="true">In 2024 she moves into Gemini. In the Inuit myth, she had her fingers chopped off by her father. The fingers became seals. Fingers are Gemini. She is an ambivalent figure. In one version, her father threw her out to sea because she attacked her parents. She is both the power of woman and the shadow of that power. Like Gemini, the light and the dark twins. She is the Underworld, which is beyond light and dark, good and evil, it just is. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="m05e-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="m05e-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="m05e-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="e0n8d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e0n8d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e0n8d-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is so much in this coming astrology. Astrology is the translation of mythology into human affairs. The astrologer has the gift of glimpsing the shapes behind the veil, the larger designs, while honouring the context of mystery, of unknowability. Sedna had her fingers cut off by her father. What a powerful story. It makes me think of the horrors of transgender surgery on teenagers. And the need for the masculine to listen to the feminine, in her dark as well as light aspects. It speaks to me of both sexes allowing the other to be dark as well as light, and not lashing out, as Sedna's father did.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="3f0i8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3f0i8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3f0i8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="15cv6" data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sedna in Taurus (since 1965) has been a time of huge economic growth (Taurus), in which billions of people have come out of poverty. But which has had consequences for the natural world, also Taurus. Gemini, as an air sign, gives the ability to reflect on that. At present, we are very polarised about it, with many people only seeing the bad. We can't collectively move forward with wisdom unless we can take both sides into account. Gemini has that potential.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2b4un-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Transgender
surgery on teenagers is a Pluto in Aquarius theme: using science to do
something inhuman, in the name of helping people.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">Astrology
is the translation of mythology into human affairs. The astrologer has
the gift of glimpsing the shapes behind the veil, the larger designs,
while honouring the context of mystery, of unknowability.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dst4-0-0"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6j4sf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"> </span></span><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r7u2:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoqaWK1KmcD5-jNChqJdpIe1x5So04QWVF-E19RMDuHZjPR1V7UQaFrhNK8-Oezv5uHREdhS-jxoqbpWz5cDrVcMi28JmY6r35OZFuBEsu8e3i8hOEodeBlcdX-XKWaHRGwO121DwEHm7U3lVroPI9QXNzs2elOIGE5qRbbgTDEhjbHx25V4IOvg/s821/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="749" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoqaWK1KmcD5-jNChqJdpIe1x5So04QWVF-E19RMDuHZjPR1V7UQaFrhNK8-Oezv5uHREdhS-jxoqbpWz5cDrVcMi28JmY6r35OZFuBEsu8e3i8hOEodeBlcdX-XKWaHRGwO121DwEHm7U3lVroPI9QXNzs2elOIGE5qRbbgTDEhjbHx25V4IOvg/w365-h400/a.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><br />Jordan Peterson's Mars, on the face of it, doesn't look promising at all: in its fall in Taurus, hidden away in the 12th, opposite Neptune and square to Saturn. Yet he is one of the most combative people you'll find. He never makes it personal, except when it comes to certain public individuals who he finds reprehensible. He fights the battle of ideas consistently and practically (fixed earth) on behalf of the collective (12th and opposite Neptune) with tremendous focus and <span></span>control (square to Saturn). His ideas have power for many people (trine to Pluto). </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">So you never know. It demonstrates to me that there is no such thing as good or bad placements. What the chart does show is how to use the placements. What it doesn't show is the moral character of the individual and the choices they will make. That is why you never know. The chart, if you like, shows the type of car we are driving, but not the driver, who remains a complete mystery. Which doesn't mean we won't have intuitions about them that go beyond what the chart says. In fact, that needs to happen if we are to be a good astrologer.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-47555050070744384162023-08-26T11:09:00.004+01:002023-08-26T11:24:10.598+01:00THE ASTROLOGY OF CREATION (PART II)<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I recently wrote a piece in which
I generated some astrology around the 2 main modern Creation Myths: the Big
Bang and Evolution. But then I realised that Evolution is not truly a Creation
Myth. It tells us how human beings came about, but not how life itself came
about. For that we have no story, for we have no idea beyond improbably complex
and unknown events in the primeval soup. This is remarkable. What culture apart
from us has not had a story about how life came about? We do not know where we
came from, and as such are truly impoverished. I do not wish however, to damn
modern culture. We have a lot going for us.</span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKL7ilwBlO4l74qBSwIZrk0njsO29vHVYhMAxfdGVnG8fUaZlzL7QsqIGLDKOQsAakQ67oJbl39UTRx6zfNmkAcPQhhH6G5S432rra16XhSLugSDzL4IoCmGjCD56yDWQQy15Osi-Zi3Y3Mm0LnFHlrNJTnpP2aDeiHpPAmM_DdKiwk_319UPaGw/s299/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKL7ilwBlO4l74qBSwIZrk0njsO29vHVYhMAxfdGVnG8fUaZlzL7QsqIGLDKOQsAakQ67oJbl39UTRx6zfNmkAcPQhhH6G5S432rra16XhSLugSDzL4IoCmGjCD56yDWQQy15Osi-Zi3Y3Mm0LnFHlrNJTnpP2aDeiHpPAmM_DdKiwk_319UPaGw/w400-h225/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />As ever, Astrology can provide a
story where Science cannot. Astrology is bigger than Science, for it uses all 4
elements of Fire, Earth, Air and Water to describe the universe, as opposed to
Science's limited emphasis on just Air and Earth (theory and data.)
Science is the younger brother of Astrology, and needs to defer to it if it is
not to get out of balance.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
In my previous post, I talked
about the Big Bang from the point of view of the year it was theorised (1931).
Before that, I also wrote about it as the combined action of Uranus (the
creative spark, the blue touchpaper), Neptune (the primordial imagination that
dreamed a universe into being) and Pluto (the tremendous power contained in
that tiny singularity that keeps the universe unfolding even now.)</span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHy044O9bVaZsanMVq81sSwhmRbkW7FLZkWJBPib2TYO0ahvFUgKevJvl0qvM6g9r1EH2dq297-L_7SZFXAHNWCloshAbkzi5yYBH9N5oNg0soABrhKzXCfgBvn1ZG1XFzgE0ZpGOXlBUJrzF-yoXokjaU5ZqKUZhz9crWiYiq1GpZIU5469Rkng/s259/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHy044O9bVaZsanMVq81sSwhmRbkW7FLZkWJBPib2TYO0ahvFUgKevJvl0qvM6g9r1EH2dq297-L_7SZFXAHNWCloshAbkzi5yYBH9N5oNg0soABrhKzXCfgBvn1ZG1XFzgE0ZpGOXlBUJrzF-yoXokjaU5ZqKUZhz9crWiYiq1GpZIU5469Rkng/w400-h300/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />By the same reasoning, we can
create an astrological mythology around the beginning of life. What are these
stories other than mythologies? The universe is dreamed into being - it is, if
you like, an artefact of the brain - there is in reality no special realm
called 'fact' that Science likes to pride itself upon.</span><p></p>
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The Universe was dreamed
into being by gods - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. And so was Life itself, but with
consciousness, the inner dimension of matter, having more primacy. Uranus was
the spark when, as it were, God reached out and matter awakened. It then
dreamed forms for itself - Neptune - with an irrepressible drive to live and
keep unfolding (Pluto).</span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G8_6rX1JJ1cjesyzldi_Uux2ijT5Xk89AeIy-qJbjdYglMoM-pgJCqBScjRjbor2s6RjhsMjtQf93yJ_sB59bgaAmxfyloKoudLCdHz8BfHjFKR3ZbQu8fnMclclxbmP9AdKEfudGKvCo97YQkbTD5O6jWZNsfAKKgeazxj63l3IQtoa-0EKRw/s299/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_G8_6rX1JJ1cjesyzldi_Uux2ijT5Xk89AeIy-qJbjdYglMoM-pgJCqBScjRjbor2s6RjhsMjtQf93yJ_sB59bgaAmxfyloKoudLCdHz8BfHjFKR3ZbQu8fnMclclxbmP9AdKEfudGKvCo97YQkbTD5O6jWZNsfAKKgeazxj63l3IQtoa-0EKRw/w400-h225/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />With this kind of mythology
behind life, how can we possibly reduce its continual unfoldment to the brutal
and reductionist 'survival of the fittest'? Ruthless Pluto might not blanche at
such a mechanism, but Neptune, with his feeling for beauty, would certainly
have something to say. As would creative Uranus, offended by his reduction to
blind chance.</span><p></p>
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</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUPOCU07hobCBuF-vNJ9oJr5_QAMN-nDa0BVwV4icla-dooqL3VvTrDh7Qntwc2Xb6kbuXfI2yk-WjVZU8vqZAZ0Z7iAvp3qNqT8loShpJ0pdIBIaRhaViwatYlS0qKAU00kU90wg3YJCY_U0Ri_Ge10DAkdZVwuzonXSgIo7NIeUoWlCcSfnvw/s278/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="278" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUPOCU07hobCBuF-vNJ9oJr5_QAMN-nDa0BVwV4icla-dooqL3VvTrDh7Qntwc2Xb6kbuXfI2yk-WjVZU8vqZAZ0Z7iAvp3qNqT8loShpJ0pdIBIaRhaViwatYlS0qKAU00kU90wg3YJCY_U0Ri_Ge10DAkdZVwuzonXSgIo7NIeUoWlCcSfnvw/w400-h260/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I had a dream some years ago in
which I was shown a peppered moth, perfectly adapted to his surroundings (the
classic example used in biology lessons.) But I was also told that the
mechanism we are given for evolution only describes a very thin slice of how
this moth came to be this way.</span><p></p>
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My criterion is, in a way,
aesthetic. The true is the beautiful, and vice-versa, as Keats declaimed, and
to which pure mathematicians would readily assent. There is nothing beautiful
about 'survival of the fittest'. It is brutal, and reflects the Victorian
capitalism of its time. It also reflects the one-sided mythology of 'nature red
in tooth and claw' (Tennyson), but leaves out the Rousseau-ian mythology of benign,
pristine nature (which can itself be one-sided, if we look at modern
environmentalism and its revulsion at human impact upon the natural world.)</span></span></p>
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</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9bnOhsbfSlytR4XAbfwmlDVH5e19HFx2yKfPQ2rxxGEKtFTcNzZZxu0qP4osf_wdW1tny0NLelzFnD2P7IcMGZDLM6EltFCfhe0UmJGdg8-aCgOTCuVHfBPzWiAVL2a3H4YcTVlnE2Gle9or9yIe4oi_DeZSwLyGxntp1K41DIBprasSGa0O8Q/s310/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9bnOhsbfSlytR4XAbfwmlDVH5e19HFx2yKfPQ2rxxGEKtFTcNzZZxu0qP4osf_wdW1tny0NLelzFnD2P7IcMGZDLM6EltFCfhe0UmJGdg8-aCgOTCuVHfBPzWiAVL2a3H4YcTVlnE2Gle9or9yIe4oi_DeZSwLyGxntp1K41DIBprasSGa0O8Q/s1600/a.jpg" width="310" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />There is no way that the
very slow and haphazard micro-changes of 'survival of the fittest' is adequate, even scientifically, as a
description of the ongoing unfoldment of life and the rapid flowering of new
species. We accept it because it 'has' to be that way. How about the idea that
life unfolds according to the beautiful (Neptune) and the co-operative (Uranus)?
And where does that irrepressible impulse to survive come from if not Pluto?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So
let us have another look at the chart for the publication of <i>On the
Origin of Species</i> (time of day unkown) from the point of view of the
origin of life itself.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9i8fsdnKNylQUSLthuLqgjfv-LBHyGBt74KNrBDBuLG31xaFjUmh48LSYoM0IoHH1tZzdyRsTR_9hQnWPaJFFJB3iUdZX98luN2xmIOI5xwQGz4RfkojZ_-2w1Q5RJ-GE36e82c8OGrQndlO4XHjFxSE6N6IsW-W5CqVpKKwX3vOLNCY5BEUlsw/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9i8fsdnKNylQUSLthuLqgjfv-LBHyGBt74KNrBDBuLG31xaFjUmh48LSYoM0IoHH1tZzdyRsTR_9hQnWPaJFFJB3iUdZX98luN2xmIOI5xwQGz4RfkojZ_-2w1Q5RJ-GE36e82c8OGrQndlO4XHjFxSE6N6IsW-W5CqVpKKwX3vOLNCY5BEUlsw/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;">Sun
in Sagittarius, which is perfect for a Creation Myth. Sun opposite
Uranus: there is the divine spark in the primeval soup that started
life. Sun trine Neptune and Jupiter: the dreaming (Neptune) that creates
a multitude (Jupiter) of species. And then there is Pluto, unaspected.
The power is missing. In other words the mechanism of 'survival of the
fittest', which is very Plutonian and central to Darwin's thesis, does
not provide the power to move life forward. QED π<br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It is archetypal forces from deep
within consciousness that created, and continue to create, life. Matter and consciousness cannot be separated. Previous
cultures understood this. As I said earlier, I don't want to damn modern
culture, that is too easy and we have a lot going for us. But in our
technological triumph we have lost our archetypal bearings. Astrology, through
which the universe continues to remind us of who we are, speaks the language
that we have lost. I think it is a language that speaks to everyone, for what
is more basic and ancient than our relationship with the sky?</span></span></p>
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us have faith, that even in the midst of the huge transition that humanity is
undergoing, with its extinctions and environmental degradations, that the outer
planets have their bigger schemes: the renewals of Pluto, the re-dreamings of
Neptunes, and the new opportunities of Uranus.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span>
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Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-27272444946728106422023-08-17T12:10:00.001+01:002023-08-17T20:09:57.874+01:00THE MADNESSES OF NEPTUNE and THE SATURN-NEPTUNE CONJUNCTION<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">THE MADNESSES OF NEPTUNE: NET-ZERO and TRANSGENDER</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
<div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="ejkqa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejkqa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejkqa-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">I am bringing my own views in here quite strongly, so you could say I am declaring an interest :)</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="8rcao-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rcao-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rcao-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="alibc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="alibc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="alibc-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The astrologer Liz Greene has suggested Dionysus as a more appropriate figure than Neptune as the ruler of Pisces. Dionysus was driven mad by Zeus's jealous wife Hera. If you reject him, as did King Pentheus, you are liable to be torn to pieces by the train of Maenads who follow him. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="61h0d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="61h0d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="61h0d-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="5h1ts-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5h1ts-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5h1ts-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2RjRClGlRCoE2a0j_BCq_JV_wsuFv1yf1YIp1QGgRuTT3797J8i9WBQK6eoy9-_Us-W7LJa-CWY_AvymUzXMgNt5NVXfYEYFvuGn0q2fNDe5-CiEh129QCns3Unf329PUSVLxS3h_5TMLkZFjHKkTRJySfE4IurQrdIgF9LCbwlZOqtB_QIf9g/s302/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="302" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha2RjRClGlRCoE2a0j_BCq_JV_wsuFv1yf1YIp1QGgRuTT3797J8i9WBQK6eoy9-_Us-W7LJa-CWY_AvymUzXMgNt5NVXfYEYFvuGn0q2fNDe5-CiEh129QCns3Unf329PUSVLxS3h_5TMLkZFjHKkTRJySfE4IurQrdIgF9LCbwlZOqtB_QIf9g/w400-h221/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Pluto abducts you, and Neptune possesses you. As Neptune comes to the end of his own sign of Pisces, so is the western world possessed by collective madnesses: net-zero carbon and transgender ideology. As well, more broadly, by 'wokeness': the authoritarian, sentimentalised over-protectiveness and over-prioritisation of minorities.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="3ggu4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ggu4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ggu4-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="f40jd-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f40jd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f40jd-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Instead of saying yes, we will need eventually to replace oil with nuclear, and we can adapt to, and probably even benefit from (which we have a genius for) climate change, we are cutting our own throats by attempting in short order to get rid of what has become our lifeblood, fossil fuels, and calling anyone who questions this narrative a 'climate-denier'. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="99pe6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="99pe6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="99pe6-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="a001v-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a001v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a001v-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">It could be enormously damaging, particularly for the poor and the developing world: indeed, mythologically one could read net-zero as the sacrifice (another Neptunian theme) of the poor and the 3rd world to assuage the guilt of white liberals for their sins against pristine mother nature. There is a hatred of human impact behind net-zero that feels like a leftover from Christianity. It is also, you could argue, the Far Left's version of the Far Right's Gotterdammerung. No politician currently dares stand up to this narrative, though one can discern their private doubts. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="4pmsm-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4pmsm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4pmsm-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="4cg8a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4cg8a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4cg8a-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">As for 'transgender', instead of saying yes, we need to allow men to be more feminine and vice-versa, to even live as the opposite gender if they wish, we are collectively in the grip of a corrupt medical fantasy that says that men can BECOME women and vice versa. Again, no politician dare stand up to to this fantasy, nor directly oppose the resulting mutilation of teenagers, which does not bear thinking about. Even wanting to protect women from predatory 'transwomen' will get you labelled a 'transphobe'. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="2g188-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2g188-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2g188-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="5n1u3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5n1u3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5n1u3-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Transgender surgery, particularly on teenagers, is a Pluto in Aquarius theme. In attempting to help humanity through science, Aquarius can become inhuman: this is the shadow/Pluto side. It is something I find dreadful.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="1mnt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1mnt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1mnt-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="e42ri-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e42ri-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e42ri-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The pushback from questioning either of these madnesses is currently vicious. You can lose your job, your reputation and your friends. I hope it doesn't cost me my Facebook account!</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="96vh7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="96vh7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="96vh7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The Chinese and Russians must be scratching their heads and wondering what has happened to the West.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aoaht-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">(We are, of course, still experiencing the economic consequences of the madness that was Covid, when most of the world shut down over a relatively minor disease. It was like a herd of horses bolting, that could not stop once they had started.)<br /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="48uop-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="48uop-0-0"><span data-offset-key="48uop-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="7g43a" data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">My hope is that as Neptune enters a new sign - Aries - in a couple of years, and is joined by Saturn, we will start to wake up from these nightmares.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cjn6m-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="7mgif-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7mgif-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7mgif-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">THE UPCOMING SATURN-NEPTUNE </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7mgif-1-0"><span data-text="true">CONJUNCTION</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="f9vph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f9vph-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f9vph-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The further a planet is away from the Sun, the greater its transformational power. Pluto holds pride of place in the transformation stakes. On average. But because his orbit is elliptical, he is sometimes the same distance from the Sun as Neptune. As he has been for some decades now. So they have arguably been packing the same punch during that period.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="29mv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="29mv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="29mv-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="3v7gt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3v7gt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3v7gt-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bgguBfUyYafIVbuQ9ENs4U9nsLXQKb2zJP6yyRBxa5dLeYoNbmFyAjQ4BhTtSuR_3t-QoOaPDp1ShATM_-l00m51tAHkyh33j4YHq9TeW5RgfkfVE0boDFu0plavZ53ChrP6be-oEYiOIFwKA_KlqklStQRMM1xk6FV2oIVIRoUjRuOl0FSOYQ/s290/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bgguBfUyYafIVbuQ9ENs4U9nsLXQKb2zJP6yyRBxa5dLeYoNbmFyAjQ4BhTtSuR_3t-QoOaPDp1ShATM_-l00m51tAHkyh33j4YHq9TeW5RgfkfVE0boDFu0plavZ53ChrP6be-oEYiOIFwKA_KlqklStQRMM1xk6FV2oIVIRoUjRuOl0FSOYQ/w400-h240/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />If we look back to the last Saturn-Neptune conjunction, in 1989, we see that it took place 4 days after the Berlin Wall came down, precipitating the end of the Cold War. That event was every bit as powerful as a Saturn-Pluto conjunction β the last of which, in 2020, occurred at the start of the Covid panic. This idea could be tested historically, if someone fancies some mundane research.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="3uvg2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3uvg2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3uvg2-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="5a2rf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5a2rf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5a2rf-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiismjkxEVDxoRMJIdBTP1REhKwEmCAyhlx9p976aq8I8DeEtiLaZVyvKqYxDG-kFoUXG12IIfz9GIRbZyFRoZfaUgR33TF2fHj37bPt0V8KW25PzRY3185w2IJWbrRofYr_shA52VnuHzsOgmSihwJkg68nN2_Ll8XiUuQ9e67UMMYAn5NmTh43Q/s225/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiismjkxEVDxoRMJIdBTP1REhKwEmCAyhlx9p976aq8I8DeEtiLaZVyvKqYxDG-kFoUXG12IIfz9GIRbZyFRoZfaUgR33TF2fHj37bPt0V8KW25PzRY3185w2IJWbrRofYr_shA52VnuHzsOgmSihwJkg68nN2_Ll8XiUuQ9e67UMMYAn5NmTh43Q/w400-h400/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Saturn gives the outer planets the ability to manifest. He acts as a bridge, and we see their pure power. The terror of the Saturn-Pluto opposition at the time of 9/11. The bursting of the communist dream (Neptune) in 1989 and the awakening to economic realities (Saturn). The Berlin Wall was built in 1961, and it came down on its Saturn Return. Saturn is walls, you couldnβt make it up.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="3d7b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3d7b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3d7b-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So we need to be talking about the upcoming conjunction of Saturn and Neptune at the beginning of Aries in 25/26, just as much as if it was Saturn-Pluto. </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bi4fc-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Politically, you could say we have been living in the post-Cold War World since the last conjunction, and its outcome has been a new polarisation with Russia.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="at14b-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at14b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="at14b-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="27eq7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="27eq7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="27eq7-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The last time Neptune entered Aries was in 1861, as the US Civil war began. Just as we have a βculture warβ, so too did the US have one over slavery, that precipitated that war, an Aries showdown, which the North eventually won.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="9f0k4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f0k4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9f0k4-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="999gl-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="999gl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="999gl-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Just as Saturn-Pluto ushered in a new world 3 years ago, so too are we likely to see another new world in 2026, and possibly the year before, when the conjunction will be almost exact. What astrology teaches you is how just unpredictable the future is. Who could have guessed Covid, or the prolonged conflict over Ukraine?</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="67bja-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="67bja-0-0"><span data-offset-key="67bja-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="frmf0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frmf0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="frmf0-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">But what we do know as astrologers is that something big is on the way. And probably a new start in some way, because it will be the start of Aries. There are tensions starting to boil: nuclear-armed Russiaβs ongoing humiliation over Ukraine; the culture wars over transgender, historical slavery etc and left-wing authoritarianism generally (as in βwokeβ); and perhaps the biggest one of all, net-zero carbon, which I donβt think the average voter is going to stand for once what it entails starts to impact on their lives: that may leave room for a new and pragmatic political vision, based on the material abundance that we actually have. Saturn-Neptune at the start of Aries speaks strongly of a new dream. But that may require wreckage as well.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="93ae-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="93ae-0-0"><span data-offset-key="93ae-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="f54t2" data-offset-key="8rka0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8rka0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8rka0-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">On a personal level, if you have anything in your chart at the beginning of the cardinal signs, then that aspect of your life will be affected in a big way. You will be possessed, maddened and ultimately re-ensouled :) You will begin to seriously notice it towards the end of 2024, as Neptune and Saturn go Direct and start to move towards their almost-conjunction of 2025.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-22522401918911907682023-08-11T17:33:00.001+01:002023-08-11T17:46:09.836+01:00FATE and the RELATIONAL SELF/ THE ASTROLOGY OF CREATION<p><span style="font-size: large;">FATE and the RELATIONAL SELF</span><br /></p><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="7tb8a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7tb8a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7tb8a-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">For indigenous peoples worldwide, the self is seen as relational rather than as autonomous, which is how we tend to see ourselves in the modern world. Hence the right way to live is by finding balance between oneself and the world, for they are not separate.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="a333p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a333p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a333p-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="bl24d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bl24d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bl24d-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">This perspective was held - or should I say experienced, for it was a reality for those people - by the creators of horoscopic astrology. ChatGPT is very definite about this! It also makes the point that astrology "is inherently relational, as it posits that human beings are connected to the larger cosmos and are influenced by cosmic forces." Well said Chat GPT!</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="2mhi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mhi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2mhi-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="92gfv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="92gfv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="92gfv-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Of course we do our best to cram astrology into a free will/autonomous/psychological model, because for us that is reality. Given the choice, I always go with the universal outlooks of early peoples. That is why I am also Shamanic. I have faith in those ideas.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="1ipf2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ipf2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ipf2-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="c7a1f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="c7a1f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c7a1f-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So we distort the foundations of astrology when we emphasise free will and choice. It is Fate that needs to be emphasised, in the sense of that which is writ in the stars, the reading of which is our job as astrologers. Fate in this sense is magical rather than deterministic. It says "the universe knows you", and that is a moment of enchantment for the client. You don't, in a sense, need to tell them anything about themselves they don't know already. Just the fact you are able to say things about them they consider to be true enchants them, and that is sufficient. And it shifts them from being isolated and autonomous - which one could view as a modern disease rather than as a valid alternative - to being relational. And we breathe a big sigh when we experience that connection with the universe. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="eppm6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="eppm6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eppm6-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="3374p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3374p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3374p-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-8T1YbVyPjjJp0bY3aNcFGfVO6KDfLKBdzCLwGzIROrQS4cOPLJja1VGcvxmxSJv3nNsgCCZqjx81qqUdiGdJxN4ot3hi0_3uqgAjrmos7RICuMLmnTIsA9LxNj2Rcn-VIY7Df-RKshc9bNox5BhnKrBBTMtGGXOJEB7Vc1dSoJQLmkCqUJPEQ/s285/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="285" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-8T1YbVyPjjJp0bY3aNcFGfVO6KDfLKBdzCLwGzIROrQS4cOPLJja1VGcvxmxSJv3nNsgCCZqjx81qqUdiGdJxN4ot3hi0_3uqgAjrmos7RICuMLmnTIsA9LxNj2Rcn-VIY7Df-RKshc9bNox5BhnKrBBTMtGGXOJEB7Vc1dSoJQLmkCqUJPEQ/w400-h248/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fates were living presences for the ancients<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In this way astrologers are healers. As well as teachers and goads: showing people their callings, why it is the universe wants them here (our callings are not personal), and nudging them to have the courage to live them.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="74geu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="74geu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="74geu-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="3atk4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3atk4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3atk4-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Free will is doing gladly and freely that which one must do (CG Jung).</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="1a8e8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1a8e8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1a8e8-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="9vd97-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vd97-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9vd97-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So where does that leave the planets? Are they different bits of us, as I admit I usually say in readings? No, they are not, and I must change that. They are gods and goddesses, forces at large in the universe, and the chart shows the pattern of callings that they make upon us. It is not ours to question why we have been given that pattern or - reductively and I think falsely - reduce that pattern to our childhood experiences. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="o8f1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="o8f1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="o8f1-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="1jqf9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1jqf9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1jqf9-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Our demons are in the chart, they have been given to us, and it is our job to come into relationship with them and let meaning and perspective reveal themselves over time.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="4drol-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4drol-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4drol-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="h76t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="h76t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="h76t-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">You have your own unique chart. But Mars is not 'your' Mars. He is much bigger than that, he is vast, and if you honour him, he will work well for you.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="4hh6d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4hh6d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4hh6d-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="ibsb-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ibsb-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ibsb-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">So I would see the real purpose of the chart to be religious rather than psychological. It is not so much about understanding yourself in a narrow sense (though that has its place) as it is learning to honour the gods that call upon you. They are your friends, your allies, your sky spirits, and an element of awe is always required if our approach to them is to be balanced. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="ee7ni" data-offset-key="fdfse-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fdfse-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fdfse-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><p><span data-offset-key="b375s-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">The self which we cling on to so tightly is, from this point of view, a necessary but illusory prop in a much bigger cosmic drama. As any decent mystical tradition will tell you.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="b375s-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------------</span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d7h61" data-offset-key="cr846-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cr846-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="cr846-0-0"><span data-text="true">URANUS</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="cr846-1-0"><span data-text="true"> TRINES PLUTO</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d7h61" data-offset-key="dqct3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dqct3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dqct3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Uranus is starting to trine Pluto, the latest unfoldment in a long cycle that began with the conjunction in Virgo in the 1960s. The power (Pluto) of technological (Virgo) inventiveness (Uranus). The trine, which won't be exact for 3 years, could be seen as the natural outcome of past efforts, catalysed by the square of 10 or so years ago.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d7h61" data-offset-key="b1cel-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1cel-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b1cel-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="d7h61" data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span data-text="true">In recent years an enormous amount has gone into areas such as sub-atomic research, nuclear fusion, renewable energy, AI, space telescopes, quantum computing, DNA technologies and theories of everything. We could be entering a golden era of scientific and technological advance. When the trine is exact, it will have moved from Cap-Taurus to Aquarius-Gemini. Pluto in Aquarius especially suggests powerful new inventions.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span data-offset-key="b375s-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> ------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ud4c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b375s-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="d74a3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d74a3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="d74a3-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE ASTROLOGY OF CREATION</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="2nmqu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2nmqu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2nmqu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Creation myths sit at the foundation of who we are. And we are probably the first peoples in history for whom our primary creation myths do not have magical or miraculous elements. For the material universe, we have one story: the Big Bang. And for life we have another story: Evolution.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="4ha5r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4ha5r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4ha5r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="b977c-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b977c-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b977c-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PEUHQJnVEOiXgR97sTlQqqIgqjQhBhTXjG4nziLlLsIapUrtN7m6So4HDnV9GHwcalwcKa_pZhEhha_wqTRzbm_JapStp2PkV3cSFydo8j3LGS0jgAjyBgHqkiVE2HcWb3kePta8XK6IUlD0oETP7Qm2rRDQhYWLi6k2e8RTvLrDGYJ3BVh9Sg/s275/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PEUHQJnVEOiXgR97sTlQqqIgqjQhBhTXjG4nziLlLsIapUrtN7m6So4HDnV9GHwcalwcKa_pZhEhha_wqTRzbm_JapStp2PkV3cSFydo8j3LGS0jgAjyBgHqkiVE2HcWb3kePta8XK6IUlD0oETP7Qm2rRDQhYWLi6k2e8RTvLrDGYJ3BVh9Sg/w400-h266/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I once asked a Native Canadian guy if his people (the Chippewa-Cree) got fundamentalist about their Creation Myth, and he said no, because they had more than one story, and they contradicted each other. Which I thought was a great answer.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="fb30d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fb30d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fb30d-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="6m9u3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6m9u3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6m9u3-0-0"><span data-text="true">We don't just have a story. We have a 'fact', what 'actually' occurred, leaving room for no other stories, and creating rigid minds. The tyranny of facticity, that is what I call it. As if everything is not the Great Mystery, in the last analysis. IMO, it is better to believe in both the Big Bang/Evolution AND the Biblical Creation rather than just one of them.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="5b0sr-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5b0sr-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5b0sr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="ccplf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ccplf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ccplf-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkq_bbg0Bg_2LgjdGYMqjUjS4lf43yVbmSS3RCXoVccWJXa0immuLMMSU5g_2joO0AfEgOZpk0QxYToNGrM1_brmzyi_HP48DjTR2ig8lwk4R1VNxUJf1H4PVsXN1KkQPAwgz7bsRQHNASzZ_rd5z-guVOt9VXFpfXz6XOFl8iDBkTkHXq6V9_w/s278/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="278" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkq_bbg0Bg_2LgjdGYMqjUjS4lf43yVbmSS3RCXoVccWJXa0immuLMMSU5g_2joO0AfEgOZpk0QxYToNGrM1_brmzyi_HP48DjTR2ig8lwk4R1VNxUJf1H4PVsXN1KkQPAwgz7bsRQHNASzZ_rd5z-guVOt9VXFpfXz6XOFl8iDBkTkHXq6V9_w/w400-h260/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Biblical Creation<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Preamble done, I thought it could be interesting to try to generate some astrology around our 2 creation stories.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="6s44k-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6s44k-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6s44k-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="9nj77-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9nj77-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9nj77-0-0"><span data-text="true">Evolution came first as a theory. Darwinβs book On the Origin of Species was published on 24th November 1859. We donβt know the time of day, so I have done a midday chart. What is immediately striking is the New Moon at the beginning of Sagittarius. Both the New Moon and the early degree suggest the start of something. The mutability suggests the new start comes out of the dissolution of something rigid (the sign before β Scorpio). The Moon may still have just been in Scorpio, we do not know, but it was about to leave, at any rate.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="7a0je-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7a0je-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7a0je-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="ejpkg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejpkg-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ejpkg-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEXnb-bSbbJpQ8sw6kbGAAx-gEPaVtbLdA3tzJocuyq4mmDxr78qcBji6qJpagW5XbkDdFH8j5VEOV3m0O9Jgfuv4nLOxmSuuQg7AnQp6QMjZzRCJk-T3I2Y42Ire1Kkb6cO3fyR6pRsBMvfayGUAKEaLOpfTatksFnq5PAQYavp7U_HI4_qKyA/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEXnb-bSbbJpQ8sw6kbGAAx-gEPaVtbLdA3tzJocuyq4mmDxr78qcBji6qJpagW5XbkDdFH8j5VEOV3m0O9Jgfuv4nLOxmSuuQg7AnQp6QMjZzRCJk-T3I2Y42Ire1Kkb6cO3fyR6pRsBMvfayGUAKEaLOpfTatksFnq5PAQYavp7U_HI4_qKyA/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Sagittarius declares loud and clear that Darwinβs book is a religious narrative. Which it is, for it tells us where we came from. The Sun is opposite Uranus: that is perfect too, for it was a deeply disruptive and controversial thesis. No prizes for guessing that Darwin was an Aquarian. He most likely had Moon in Capricorn β one foot in the past, straddling 2 ages. And a Mercury-Pluto-Jupiter stellium in Pisces: a mind (Mercury) that delved to the root of things (Pluto) in the sea of life (Pisces) and found a new meaning/story (Jupiter).</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="4peeo-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4peeo-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4peeo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="e3nv3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e3nv3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e3nv3-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXoXiqWo0O9eLT0s8rh-Z7Y_scLMqroYTb4SQVLJDp6X9cB8kzsmxVoQIQBe4gg_Ow75wYrP-rMuXRm8xViOrQI18vlfAiqFpjY1G7bfEKiwDrLy8r-tNcRAtBYYkMRmJmGCIRa3_9fxekF0F-CdbVPf_Bj7BBa1QWrEle32alH8lFTWKi34hvNA/s1311/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1311" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXoXiqWo0O9eLT0s8rh-Z7Y_scLMqroYTb4SQVLJDp6X9cB8kzsmxVoQIQBe4gg_Ow75wYrP-rMuXRm8xViOrQI18vlfAiqFpjY1G7bfEKiwDrLy8r-tNcRAtBYYkMRmJmGCIRa3_9fxekF0F-CdbVPf_Bj7BBa1QWrEle32alH8lFTWKi34hvNA/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Big Bang was first proposed in 1931 by George Lemaitre, a Belgian Catholic priest. He said that the universe began with a βprimeval atomβ. We do not have a date of publication of his paper, so I will have to make do with the year itself, through the whole of which there was a t-square between Saturn in Capricorn, Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Cancer. As a divinatory astrologer, I trust in the fact that I have just been given a year, forcing me to focus on the outer planets.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="7slrv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7slrv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7slrv-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="f2ra9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f2ra9-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="f2ra9-0-0"><span data-text="true">Lemaitre claimed that his theory had nothing to do with religion, and as a scientific theory, I am willing to accept that. But emotionally/intuitively/metaphysically, I think it had everything to do with religion. How could it not? Religion comes from a root meaning to bind together, and that is exactly what creation myths do: they give a point of reference, a foundation, for the whole people.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="bh94p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bh94p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bh94p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="8vl7n-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8vl7n-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8vl7n-0-0"><span data-text="true">To digress, one could argue more widely that the scientific quest with its particular kind of truth is itself an essentially religious quest, with its origins in Christianity. βThe truth shall set you freeβ: that is the religious belief behind the scientific endeavour.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="fd9kk-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fd9kk-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fd9kk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="ctlb0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ctlb0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ctlb0-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, the Big Bang and Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Start with the outermost and most powerful planet as overall meaning and context for the others: Pluto in Cancer. Cancer is the mother, the womb of life. That is why Cancer is a cardinal sign, which begins things. And Pluto is the tiny but immensely powerful seed out of which the universe grew. Jupiter was conjunct Pluto until July 1931. Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and arguably declares this to be a religious event.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="cjs0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cjs0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cjs0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="8dns-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8dns-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="8dns-0-0"><span data-text="true">Uranus in Aries was the divine spark that began this process. We take the universe for granted, it is just what is there. But if it wasnβt there, who could have imagined it? That is the genius of Uranus. And, being in Aries, maybe this is the first time a universe has happened? That is what Christianity would have us think, at any rate. Maybe it is indeed the case.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="bnk20-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bnk20-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bnk20-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="fbabj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fbabj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="fbabj-0-0"><span data-text="true">And then Saturn in Capricorn. Saturn is the planet that makes stuff happen. Until he intervenes, you just have the outer planets doing their profound cooking in the alembic. Saturn is in his rulership in Capricorn, so it was easy for him to let the energies of Pluto and Uranus flow through him and to create a universe.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="dn94r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dn94r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dn94r-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="4jg3p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4jg3p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4jg3p-0-0"><span data-text="true">Scientifically, the Big Bang was a purely material event. But as Terence McKenna said (paraphrase), βEverything suddenly coming out of nothing? If that isnβt a miracle, I donβt know what is. Scienceβs attitude is give us one free miracle, and weβll explain the rest.β</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="51ovu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="51ovu-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="51ovu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="q3vs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="q3vs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="q3vs-0-0"><span data-text="true">Lemaitre was born 17 July 1894. He had a Cardinal t-square (and probably Grand cross, if you include the Moon in Capricorn) that overlaid closely the t-square of the Big Bang. It was like he was born to do it, the universe was using him to give us a new story about itself.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="34p7d-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="34p7d-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="34p7d-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="emf7g" data-offset-key="4a15r-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4a15r-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="4a15r-0-0"><span data-text="true">You could argue that, by showing that astrology applies to the Big Bang and to Evolution, magic has been introduced into those theories π Certainly neither of them are very provable in the usual scientific way. Maybe they get a bit of a free pass because they are Creation stories.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-40672266054458950332023-08-07T17:40:00.002+01:002023-08-07T17:50:57.009+01:00GENDER and THE SACRED<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="61tia-0-0"><span data-text="true">I've
got a new handle on X: @theXastrologer. Quite pleased to have got that
one before anyone else took it. π You can find me on threads and
instagram as the_x_astrologer.</span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><span data-text="true">GENDER</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="dfq4u-1-0"><span data-text="true"> and THE SACRED</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dfq4u-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="3uolj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3uolj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3uolj-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik92X8fOPqCJyQ9mgoOV9D8JTX6oT8mItxh59vgNLhU1AXClMUrIQEICjtXSIUKizs97aAwoIadZ2AAZ0uiGsl1dnXX5ygjoDHufBdZ7PBUcO5ejI2_XsUX4RJP-BSVSgruYO0nVt7g2zcWelM6tP3XazX0PwCkRkc027jiY2nAFcR8fGz9hqgsg/s1825/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="1825" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik92X8fOPqCJyQ9mgoOV9D8JTX6oT8mItxh59vgNLhU1AXClMUrIQEICjtXSIUKizs97aAwoIadZ2AAZ0uiGsl1dnXX5ygjoDHufBdZ7PBUcO5ejI2_XsUX4RJP-BSVSgruYO0nVt7g2zcWelM6tP3XazX0PwCkRkc027jiY2nAFcR8fGz9hqgsg/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />If
something occurs that is unusual, then for indigenous people it is
sacred, because it takes us out of the ordinary and the everyday. So
lightning is sacred, dangerous animals and poisonous plants are sacred.
And so are the Two Spirits, those unusual people who feel themselves to
be both genders, though being of one biological sex. For Native
Americans, it has always been accepted that some men want to live as
women, and vice-versa. These people are looked to as leaders and
healers, because they have both gender perspectives, each to a high
degree.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3uolj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3uolj-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span> <br /></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="dknmv-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dknmv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dknmv-0-0"><span data-text="true">It
seems to me like such a mess. We have taken a gift from Spirit and
turned it into a curse, and an epidemic amongst teenagers who do not yet
know who they are. And we have also reduced it to sexual orientation,
when it is about something much broader: 'gay' is a wholly inadequate
term for what I am talking about.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dknmv-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dknmv-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="biot2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="biot2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="biot2-0-0" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true">There is maybe a lesson here in what happens if you try to make the sacred ordinary.</span></span><span data-offset-key="biot2-0-1"><span data-text="true">
There is a difference between a man living as a woman, and a man
claiming he has become a woman. The former has an element of the sacred,
the latter is a violation of nature, of what is possible, and people
are not necessarily prejudiced to feel repelled by it.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="biot2-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="biot2-0-1"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="aom7f-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aom7f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aom7f-0-0"><span data-text="true">The
quest for the other gender is natural in both men and women in the
second half of life, if not earlier. I deal with it regularly in the
astrology readings I do. Men are seeking Venus: learning to listen, to
themselves and to others. And women are seeking Mars: no more
people-pleasing. It is a sterotype because it is so commonly the case.
And it is not just about adding on new pieces to the personality. It is a
soul journey to the divine feminine or masculine. Mars in a woman does
not look the same as in a man, it is not about becoming like a man, it
is about something different and bigger: there is an archetypal, sacred
dimension to it. And the same for Venus in a man. It is a compelling
journey of the Spirit. We find these opposites on the East-West of the
Medicine Wheel, the Blue Road, the road of Spirit, that is not under our
control. It is about gifts of Spirit that become our inner path.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aom7f-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="aom7f-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="24u71-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="24u71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="24u71-0-0"><span data-text="true">People
for the most part need simple categories with which to understand the
world. The sacred moves us out of this black-and-whiteness, but it needs
to be approached with caution, or you'll frighten the horses. With our
transgenderism, we are trying to make the sacred normal, and it has
resulted in dogmatism on one side, and revulsion on the other.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="24u71-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="24u71-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span data-text="true">I
am thinking out loud here, because I don't think there are any easy
answers. But I think there is a case for doing away with surgical
transitioning,</span></span><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-1" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-2"><span data-text="true">which I think is</span></span><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-3" style="font-weight: bold;"><span data-text="true"> the literalising of a spirit gift.</span></span><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">
And for people who want to live as the opposite gender to be seen as
part of a sacred calling, as monks and nuns are. We have, by and large,
done away with the sacred, and that is perhaps a big part of the
problem.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="61tia-0-0">ON SATURN NOT BEING THE BOSS PLANET </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="crn6o" data-offset-key="pq02-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="pq02-0-0"><span data-offset-key="pq02-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Saturn
is still getting used to not being the boss planet, since the advent of
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. He keeps his job of providing form and
boundaries and making stuff happen, while the outer planets get on with
deeper alchemies. But Saturn frequently messes up by not yielding,
creating madness, addiction and terror respectively, or variants
thereof. </span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="crn6o" data-offset-key="8oht0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8oht0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8oht0-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="crn6o" data-offset-key="8of10-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8of10-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8of10-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKe9JaMZtLYTqhFqs_kWy_JVRvV01OJYc0GpUE3j6vUs70cFO2SuC-FiJ9_4q6ulJaul62Lzq4RMK9zA4G7wwb3GFQOQUGZHKNNTqIOZ9nn5dfETLkmy5TfKfoB2HuGQ71xeDif1v0SuzWv63jfE1MFN-rgxpIKUnC8I4DupJNjFfH_U1uY7fDtg/s292/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="292" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKe9JaMZtLYTqhFqs_kWy_JVRvV01OJYc0GpUE3j6vUs70cFO2SuC-FiJ9_4q6ulJaul62Lzq4RMK9zA4G7wwb3GFQOQUGZHKNNTqIOZ9nn5dfETLkmy5TfKfoB2HuGQ71xeDif1v0SuzWv63jfE1MFN-rgxpIKUnC8I4DupJNjFfH_U1uY7fDtg/w400-h237/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I
am thinking of the current transit of Saturn through Pisces. This sign
is ruled by Neptune, and the transit involves giving form to the
formless. That is not easy, because Pisces is not tangible. If you can
open yourself to channelling the whole universe - not my Will but Thine -
then you are in with a chance. More than a chance: this is as powerful
as it gets. But it probably takes many years to be an adequate vehicle
for this kind of energy, and not attempt to appropriate it as one's own.
It is great for divinatory astrology, and it is interesting that I
changed the name of this group under this transit.</span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="crn6o" data-offset-key="cmcce-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmcce-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cmcce-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="crn6o" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">Boris
Johnson is a good example of natal Saturn in Pisces. He could win
elections, because he could communicate a collective vision, whether or
not you agreed with it. But on a personal level, he had little in the
way of discipline, and that was his downfall. With his second Saturn
return underway, he is experiencing the consequences of his actions, via
censure from Parliament. I think this illustrates quite well the 2 ways
this placement can go.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> --------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Men</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="cbjt7-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">
need to yield to Venus; women need to claim Mars. This can be catalysed
through relationship. It is the anima/animus journey that Jung writes
about.</span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><b>Ad break</b>:<i> I offer astrology (and tarot) readings on zoom, by donation. For a free reading, purchase my astrology book 'Surfing the Galactic Highways' and leave a genuine rating on Amazon. It has some great reviews, and is also suitable for relative beginners.</i></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ai9ss-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="frug" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="cbjt7-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cbjt7-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbjt7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true">As
astrologers, we are essentially helping people find their genius. And
to see Fate as a living, guiding thing, that enchants the universe by
showing us that it knows us: through the chart, all those gods with
their callings on us. And the difficult process of incarnating them:
Saturn.</span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><br /></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">-------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9t03s-0-0"><span data-text="true">There</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9t03s-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> is nowhere that can give you a certificate in your own genius: etymology - spirit attendant from birth. What you were born to do. It gradually reveals itself, as long as you keep doing the next thing. Don't worry about the long-term plan, that is taken care of: Fate, a living principle for the ancient Greeks. And Nordic peoples. </span></span><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8gfuq" data-offset-key="9t03s-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t03s-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9t03s-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9t03s-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="9t03s-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true">------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="8gfuq" data-offset-key="i4ph-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="i4ph-0-0"><span data-offset-key="i4ph-0-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-4"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6frnk-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="a4om4" data-offset-key="6akig-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6akig-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="6akig-0-0"><span data-text="true">Astrology</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="6akig-1-0" style="font-size: large;"><span data-text="true"> shows us that we belong to the universe, not to ourselves. As such it is a remedy for modern individualism. Politically, it would tend to lean us towards responsibilities (transpersonal) over rights (personal).</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-58766505346769716492023-07-31T14:28:00.009+01:002023-07-31T14:56:27.882+01:00JUPITER STORY <p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="eh8to-0-0">My brother Philip, who died a month ago after a long illness, had a strong Jupiter: conjunct his Sun, and ruling his Moon in Sag and Venus in Pisces. Jupiter is the king of the gods and is said to bring good fortune. Philip commented last year that if he wanted something, he had always been able to find a way of getting it. He lived life with a following wind, which he ran with. He seized and savoured his life. Jupiter's involvement with the 2 feminine planets - the Moon and Venus - resulted in a long and happy marriage.</span></span></span></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="7qggs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7qggs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="7qggs-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="b165u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b165u-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="b165u-0-0"><span data-text="true"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkmyuZjI76gbqMqayi0q-wVfWEX7_AMLu1sfcSpozwwAIEkdK9TF5MvULEYSfpl_h3CtgG2bXBnQ8mCNQhxmdD4J6YL7mKRde8_VYqLRE5bEcrAMnEcbeDrfeQIMs9WIFVyda0kVHVW9yXkDKkPyue8uGyuxsCA1IOQZEodpkGP6st7pPFYeHQ/s300/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkmyuZjI76gbqMqayi0q-wVfWEX7_AMLu1sfcSpozwwAIEkdK9TF5MvULEYSfpl_h3CtgG2bXBnQ8mCNQhxmdD4J6YL7mKRde8_VYqLRE5bEcrAMnEcbeDrfeQIMs9WIFVyda0kVHVW9yXkDKkPyue8uGyuxsCA1IOQZEodpkGP6st7pPFYeHQ/w400-h224/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />His Sun-Jupiter was also conjunct Saturn (13 Jan 1961) in Capricorn. He built solid foundations to his life. I had seen the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of 2020 heading towards him some years down the line, and I said to him that something big and life-changing was on the way, but I didn't know what it would be. Shortly before the conjunction, he said to me he had fulfilled his dream of running and building a business and generating wealth, and didn't know what to do next. In Sept 2020, he was diagnosed with cancer. It was as if he had done what he had come here to do, and it was time to go.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="5hbr0-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5hbr0-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="5hbr0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="bb4f3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb4f3-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb4f3-0-0"><span data-text="true">When he died, Jupiter, the brightest of the planets, had just risen in the East: the king of the gods welcoming him home.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="e5olp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e5olp-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e5olp-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="efl7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="efl7-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="efl7-0-0"><span data-text="true">I gave a eulogy at Philip's wake at the weekend, and at the end I included what I called his sky story about Jupiter. I felt I was taking a bit of a risk in doing so, because astrology or anything religious do not seem to be most people's thing. When I talked about Jupiter rising at his death, the prickles went all over me and the emotion in me rose visibly.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="3ntvj-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ntvj-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="3ntvj-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="e4ba4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e4ba4-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="e4ba4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Afterwards, so many people commented on the sky story I had told. It had touched them in a way that surprised both themselves and me. It was as if beneath the beliefs people have, there is something archaic that responds to stories that connect to the universe and give a wider meaning to earthly events.</span></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="dq2s8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dq2s8-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="dq2s8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="4e30c" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">It says to me that there is a deep, non-rational truth in astrology, particularly when we can connect it to what is visible in the sky.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">And here are some of my recent FB astroposts and what we now call Xes: </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNGXQ7tACm9dTh9WNHgThFR6bvZSy-qKyrxsl64EtjUEPpGVv0Op8dE7tjJihJMk8pEG0UzFn10xRhsa_-gJxlHPzPdQTlVrqWUnZ6BZpORSwUv6oIQdKptwGtToTH1FMEb_Rt77HbPy0WnWLqerOKz6xkfK71MeN6yI183rWOzrEEWEyFjvdzw/s255/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="198" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNGXQ7tACm9dTh9WNHgThFR6bvZSy-qKyrxsl64EtjUEPpGVv0Op8dE7tjJihJMk8pEG0UzFn10xRhsa_-gJxlHPzPdQTlVrqWUnZ6BZpORSwUv6oIQdKptwGtToTH1FMEb_Rt77HbPy0WnWLqerOKz6xkfK71MeN6yI183rWOzrEEWEyFjvdzw/s1600/a.jpg" width="198" /></a></div></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Sun has just been in Cancer, and now it is in Leo, in both cases
opposite Pluto. There has been an imperative to nurture that hard-to
fathom thing within that is our primary reason for being here, and now
to give expression to its divine uniqueness. Play like your life depends
on it <span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"></span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"></span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"></span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"><img alt="πΊ" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tfb/2/16/1f63a.png" width="16" /> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="cjgfu" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Venus</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="ar1cf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> is now retrograde. Look within and remember that the whole universe loves you in your uniqueness (Leo). And you love her back. This is where the medicine of loneliness points.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ar1cf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ar1cf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="ar1cf-1-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5ffh-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IPreBNOIQzvoMOuVsfzljDwVZziJG55dS600bRAJs_43di7hgMZxHTmDymNTaU3l4mIDmiuX4HN1HiihObRdA5Qgkci-jNf4S789B27uDZZcH_XkJhy9Ndtd7afXK8pRpNThtS9W3elOHDb-SzdBR75DAabTF-NtOarC3j6H_6faM8fIdZagcQ/s270/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="270" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IPreBNOIQzvoMOuVsfzljDwVZziJG55dS600bRAJs_43di7hgMZxHTmDymNTaU3l4mIDmiuX4HN1HiihObRdA5Qgkci-jNf4S789B27uDZZcH_XkJhy9Ndtd7afXK8pRpNThtS9W3elOHDb-SzdBR75DAabTF-NtOarC3j6H_6faM8fIdZagcQ/s1600/a.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><br />At the Big Bang (of which I have a sepia photo somewhere in the attic, taken by my intrepid grandfather), Uranus was the genius who had the brilliant idea of creating something out of nothing; Pluto was the immense power unleashed to exist and to keep unfolding; and Neptune was the primordial imagination that dreamed into being a universe. Just imagine what those three can do when they get their hands on you. Transit, anyone?</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5ffh-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="f5ffh-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f5ffh-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="487ln-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGGwFuIOmxswujwm3WImrOTwwsIyCCpXoqE-J8MxDvTp26wJan-PNj5WXmZXPwfMCjEbFz0DVgl-Xfcit1WQXg43y3t-IHq-f_oggy8yE6_ClWSWmz6R2ma8H9D4beA6lw6L13IjnS0IQepWCmJmpnDqBjd2zxao0u8ggcF83SDvVU4sulm0vXg/s297/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="170" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGGwFuIOmxswujwm3WImrOTwwsIyCCpXoqE-J8MxDvTp26wJan-PNj5WXmZXPwfMCjEbFz0DVgl-Xfcit1WQXg43y3t-IHq-f_oggy8yE6_ClWSWmz6R2ma8H9D4beA6lw6L13IjnS0IQepWCmJmpnDqBjd2zxao0u8ggcF83SDvVU4sulm0vXg/s1600/a.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><br />As astrologers, we inevitably get consulted about relationships. Maybe not being in one ourselves provides a point of perspective and insight. Maybe it is not that we are inadequate, but that something in us refuses to be compromised, cannot do that dark deal anymore.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="487ln-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="487ln-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="487ln-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7j39v-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">I've known a Buddhist teacher and an Astrology teacher who both had a pronounced Virgo/Scorpio mix. They each had a gift for grasping the essence of a matter (Scorpio) and expressing it concisely and accurately (Virgo). My father had the same mix and the same ability, but on a more practical level.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7j39v-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="7j39v-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7j39v-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1qtn-0-0"><span data-text="true">If you want AI to stay onside, thank it every time you use it. Ingratitude for the technologies we have is a shadow side of the modern world. Instead we rail against our technologies and their promise for the future. This shadow is a Pluto in Aquarius issue. If you want to find that thankfulness, go visit a country that does not have what we have, and see which you prefer.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1qtn-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1qtn-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1qtn-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ar1cf-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="a1qtn-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b4pde-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="b4pde-0-0"><span data-text="true">SINEAD</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="b4pde-1-0"><span data-text="true"> O'CONNOR </span></span></span></div><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="1q93l" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span data-text="true"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j6ubjndQZelK0XltYqSce21taZkSU5BDhF7AaKhzVTnrzZHXZieYEUAxEwAiPCTBlryymaWFVg8aZS6GYFgF-f1P7N6O3bJyBxlJRQYysYcL1MLfNsOg1qImSMldM-rGDIPKLt_37djK6FhfXR4EZhJH61NepogIfuzRf_t1k8Aot3jpOjKuQw/s1437/a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="1437" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j6ubjndQZelK0XltYqSce21taZkSU5BDhF7AaKhzVTnrzZHXZieYEUAxEwAiPCTBlryymaWFVg8aZS6GYFgF-f1P7N6O3bJyBxlJRQYysYcL1MLfNsOg1qImSMldM-rGDIPKLt_37djK6FhfXR4EZhJH61NepogIfuzRf_t1k8Aot3jpOjKuQw/w400-h220/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click to Enlarge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I wondered what brutal Pluto-Moon transit has Sinead O'Connor been going through, such that her 17 year-old son killed himself last year? It turns out that Pluto recently completed squaring her Libra Moon. What does that mean? I don't know. But the event was woven into the fabric of the universe. As she passes - and we don't yet know the cause - so is Jupiter within a degree of her North Node. A timely death, whatever the reason. It leaves me thinking about Free Will and Fate.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUST7XFVcF7zaQPBegXRym2qeeTDbxPHUqzvVy-DQPD-QngDhAsKzPAieJwkeEt0hBwUxPFI98NLa3bBO74v0u2B8s3-PinAXVSDw3wWz0wjhXgSkWjw47YH8HnfBFFjigcgbdZ8tho7GaUARRCQpCHAzcRDV6qJAUPc9OT5yVLmskbbTx_9Fow/s225/a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUST7XFVcF7zaQPBegXRym2qeeTDbxPHUqzvVy-DQPD-QngDhAsKzPAieJwkeEt0hBwUxPFI98NLa3bBO74v0u2B8s3-PinAXVSDw3wWz0wjhXgSkWjw47YH8HnfBFFjigcgbdZ8tho7GaUARRCQpCHAzcRDV6qJAUPc9OT5yVLmskbbTx_9Fow/s1600/a.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="37s1o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Men's soul journey in the second half of life is Venus: listening and serving.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfoEQ97cry20Bmc9Omv-tc0sFpAuc-PmHXO4VGYlBtwpxnLKbiemxcZ3OR4daU7rRcbc0n-KaFC5gqhm7PGYnY-jmPNOhh0f0OKYjkm2hxTS1Pq0ATVfoc-PZYJX6V-JD47f-8V0M6P3y0h8ZmG9rfv-x0TnqSavIrp0oSpNzRVTYyLbronSO-A/s1200/a.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfoEQ97cry20Bmc9Omv-tc0sFpAuc-PmHXO4VGYlBtwpxnLKbiemxcZ3OR4daU7rRcbc0n-KaFC5gqhm7PGYnY-jmPNOhh0f0OKYjkm2hxTS1Pq0ATVfoc-PZYJX6V-JD47f-8V0M6P3y0h8ZmG9rfv-x0TnqSavIrp0oSpNzRVTYyLbronSO-A/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> For women, it is Mars: no more people-pleasing.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="37s1o-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="61tia-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span data-offset-key="dfq4u-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span>I've spent a lot of my life doing nothing. It's been an important part of it. But it's been nothing in the sense that a casserole in an oven is doing nothing: surrendering my Mars to the outer planets and their designs.</span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1eccs-0-0"><div data-contents="true"><div class="x1e56ztr" data-block="true" data-editor="daho8" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2q78k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2q78k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="bb8au-0-0"><span data-text="true">----------------------------------------------- </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="2q78k-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mf6p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3ea0m-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: large;">The trouble with being a bloody Aquarian is that I think independently, and that causes trouble socially unless I keep my trap shut. And I'd die rather than do that. So I stay at home and say what I think on social media instead π</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.com2