This week's astrology focus builds off of last week's and gives us the bigger picture of the SARS 2 pandemic. Last week focused on the collective unconsciousness as a whole and how we as a global society would emerge from our trying times; do we feed the good wolf or the bad. This week is about how you individually will help shape our future.
Last week was for contemplation and planning on how to move forward. It was also giving time for the masses to be informed about the coming action we must choose. This week is about engaging the plans into action!
The pandemic fell right in the middle of the US Democratic Primary. The Democrats had new life and new blood driving us to the change we needed. There was new blood striving for a better world. In recent history, America had not seen so many candidates pop out of the woods to run for president. Then the tide turned to complacency and the familiar which was killing this country. Media turned its attention to fostering the old guard Democrat that has been keeping the frog in the stew pot. The Pandemic might of been timed by Spirit to stop and force us to think about where we are heading.
Trying Times? Have they been going on since January? How long has the Novel Coronavirus 19 SARS 2 been affecting people in China? That is not my question.
How long has the Trying Times been going on? I have seen them my whole life now for 47 years. I was born when two good men sat in the presidency: Ford and Carter. They might not have been the most effective presidents, but they were good men. Since then we have had a series of presidents either offered no change for a train going off the rails or helped it along. Candidates that represented complacency and evil. Any time, in either party, there was a hope of change, we as a whole voted for the person who would keep us normal and on path. Sometimes we voted these people in and other times our complacency kept us from acting out when an election was rigged or stolen. In some circumstances we have been lied to that norm was to be maintained, but they did us great harm instead.
Sunday 4/19/2020
The Sun enters Taurus at 10:45 AM EDT.
This is a time of persistence. Taurus governs the five senses and how we indulge in them. Do we work hard to gain the means to indulge in them or do we work so much and never have time to indulge in them?
The Sun brings a new day, a new opportunity. How do we start it? With old habits or new. Taurus will bring consistency to our choice. On Sunday we start with a party at the end of the weekend. Is it the weekend? Sunday is the first day of the week. In truth, we start the week off with a day reserved for ourselves, family, and friends before the work week starts. Then we have the last day of the week, Saturday, to enjoy ourselves as well.
How many of us actually gage the week as Monday through Friday?
If you choose to wake up on Sunday and start a new habit, you might want to look for balance. On the whole, it is what we are missing the most. Let's go back to the weekend. We have a dichotomy. On one hand, we believe the last day of the week is the closest to the first day. On the other hand, we believe that white and black are positioned at two extremes away from each other. Light and dark, another expression of white and black, are just as close to each other as the first day of the week and the last, but even closer. All you have to do is turn off a light switch to prove it.
Everything in this world is an expression of lines that get pulled by gravity to create circles and spirals. So the alpha and the omega shake hands. If you could walk a straight line around the world you would end where you started. If your goal was the end destination and not the journey, you could save yourself the time and just turn around and take one step and one step back. In the Gnostic tradition, they believed that the god of the Old Testament and Lucifer were twin brothers. In Canan, they had two gods called Lucifer and Shalom. These gods were based on the morning star and the evening star. Little did they know that both were the planet Venus.
When we divide things, we split the love. So when we can not balance work and ourselves we split the love. It is the broken heart.
Balance is working in between. It is dealing with the tints, tones, and hues in between white and black. It is working the dimmer switch instead of the light switch.
Wednesday 4/22/2020
This New Moon lines up today (4/22) at 10:26 PM EDT (3°24′ Taurus).
Well, your time since Sunday was allowing you to get on the ball and fight your old habits. Today, you should hammer in your decision for new ones. Taurus will anchor you into your persistence to continue in either way; on track or off the rails.
The Sun and Moon conjoin Uranus, square Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto and Pallas Athena, and semi-square Neptune.
Uranus: We all walk the line between being authentic selves and part of a community. To fit in, but without a clear knowledge of the middle or a balance, we fall into extremes. For a long time now the gravity of the virus of our community has pulled us into becoming the obedient herd or the lone wolf. In neither situation are we our authentic selves. Not all of us though.
On either side, we have shepherds or teachers. Shepherds gather the masses and control them through emotions only, they do not rely on logic for control. Can the sheep or the cow understand the language of the shepherd? They can only gage his emotions and the responses they create: tenderness or pain. Teachers hope to reach students one on one through logic. They create an understanding of the past to shape the present of the student so they might have the most beneficial future. They call the student to do the work to have a series of fine moments that build up into a fine future, but it is in their hands. The shepherd leads the herd without their active participation into the future. The Teacher teaches the student to share their learning with the community. The shepherd teaches the herd to self-police others in the group to follow blindly the shepherd.
The best scenario for the Sheperd and the herd: The Shepherd brings the herd to where he thought the herd would benefit the most from. The worst: he brings them to the slaughter for his profit. For what is the end result for most sheep and cows?
The best scenarios for the Teacher: We grow into fine individuals who have found our own bliss and shared its emotional and logical boons with family, friends, and ourselves. Each of those individual perspectives would create new directions or outlooks to overcome any opposition and would find many avenues to fulfill a happy life through to chose from. The worst scenario: we become so individualized that we lose the ability to talk or communicate amongst ourselves and lose the ability to work as a group. In Russia, Peter the Great expanded the peasontdom of Catherine the Great to expand over the whole nation at the time America was freeing the slaves. Many intellectuals tried to explain to the common citizen what was happening, but they talked over their heads and the population went happily into slavery since they understood the emotions of the shepherd, easier, that was leading them.
So Uranus is calling you to be your own teacher to follow some spark of creativity that this isolation and silence is bringing to your mind. The train has stopped at the station. You are given the choice to jump off and get another train or stay on the same one. Uranus calls on your higher self to manifest. It is to take off the old clothes of the prison or the society and put on a fine new suit of your own choosing. It is calling for a time to shake your head and reevaluate your destination. Taurus does not have an opinion or direction. It provides the track, coal, steam, and engine to keep you going once you choose, but once you are on track again it will be hard to change directions. Either you will have to wait for the next station that tragedy will bring, or just jump off. Both will bring some pain. So chose wisely what train you get on next. Or will you choose to take a walk and be in more control?
Uranus also calls you to reconnect to nature. Take a hike. Ride a bike. Sit under the sun. We are from nature. Reconnect to the whole and find yourself again within.
Like in all great myths and stories the hero goes out from nothing to become a person of strength, wealth, and knowledge, but he is nothing if he does not go home and share what he has gained. In all of these stories, there is rumination when the hero does not, which brings his end or the community's. In The Ring, a family gains possession of an article that creates unending wealth they horde which brings their generations to a tragic end. Uranus calls for you to share your knowledge with your community.
Do you inspire through logic or bully the community around you through emotion? Do you forget how to temper your logic without emotion?
Jupiter/ Saturn/ Pluto: These three brought us the giant dope slap that pulled the brakes on the train with the COVID 19 Virus.
These three bring death! The death of the cancer that was eating our society. It brought on the symptoms to shut us down and stick us in our PJs. IT brings the death of the cancer we were living that was going to bring us to a death. Not our own, but someone else's.
In time we all going to die, but that death would of been timed and chosen by us through our decisions. We would of chose the journey and experienced it fully. The death we are heading toward now is not our own and we will, in the end, be robed of the journey.
So how do you find that journey again? It is through finding yourself! Kill the patient and live again! By conquering the cancer the patient leaves the hospital to regain their own lives and name again. No longer are you a number.
In this time of isolation and stillness, it is for you to go deep in yourself to reconnect with your higher self and also admit where your faults are within your own shadow. The shepherd does pull the herd around, but the cow or sheep lets them do it. What desires have you created that you fear will not be fulfilled? You desire life you will fear death will rob it from you. The shepherd always presents death and demands obedience since he kept you safe from it. What have you sold in life to be safe in the herd?
The Teacher brings out the best in you and helps it grow in its own time. The Teacher allows you to grow from the seed through the darkness of the soil to the light in your own time. He allows the growth to, just be.
Remember whatever you share affects your community or family. If you stay in a job you hate for the sake of your family, your children will lose their lives to a similar job for their families to have the same life. When you give up your life to the 80hr work week, you hurt your friends who have been stolen from you. When everyone is just working, nobody gets to enjoy each other. You have killed those few people who tried to keep the community together who in the end decided it was...best to join them.
So I say it will not be the Novel Coronavirus19 SARS 2 that will kill the most people, it will be the loneliness, the nothing, that will kill us if we do not change!
Pallas Athena: The Goddess is here to work to balance emotions and logic to help you, through diplomacy, to help others change for the better. She is here to fight for the Teachers who will bring change. If you read this far, you might find yourself a Teacher as well. Shepherds are singular personas; Teachers are multitude. She is here to create the good virus of happiness and bliss we need to strive for by finding our True Selves.
It is the Goddess sent to do this job because the feminine is closest to the emotions. The herd is in a panic and only understands emotions. We need to start where they are at and talk to their shadows and egos and ease them into the Self. You teach English as a second language by starting in Spanish. The Goddess starts in the herd's own language to lead them into the logic of the Self.
Neptune: In the other Ring fighting the goddess is the tag team of ego and the shadow. The isolation of the Buddhist Creator of All Things realized his own existence and realized if he exists something else might. In that instance he created fear. Then nothing came to kill him, so he wished others to be around to end his loneliness. He created desire. Neptune will fight to keep the powers of your unconsciousness bottled up through fear, desire, alcohol, drugs, aimlessness, victimhood, and escapism. Neptune is the manager of the tag team.
The biggest growth in stocks lately when everything else is crashing is Zoom (desire and fear that work brings), alcohol, and video games. How many of us are just sitting on the couch bored and not participating in a hobby? Neptune keeps you here in the water of your subconsciousness.
Water is the symbol of emotions and subconsciousness. Neptune is fighting to keep your hidden treasures from your Higher Self to limit your growth now. Or is he?
Are you the one really fighting the Goddess to keep those seeds from growing? Is it Neptune? Are you keeping the best parts of yourself from growing? Your subconsciousness is where the seeds are born that flower into your Bliss. Why are you hiding them? Neptune is only as good of a manager as the tag team is.
Sabian Symbol: The Promise of Bliss and Happiness. There is a stage in Spiritual Alchemy that comes about from quitting a bad job, ending a bad marriage, or changing majors in college. It brings you into Heaven for a short period of time. It is a gift.
In this time of lockdown, you might find yourself fishing again, finding old friends, reconnecting with your partner and children, and finding new hobbies. You might start new businesses and connect online with other creative people. BUT! If you do not provide the foundation and the support through hard labor to keep those lofty goals, once the virus is gone so will they!
This time is to give you a taste of what can be, it is a limited free trial. If you like it you will labor to keep it. It is a time trying to sell you on yourself and your own happiness.
So Wednesday will be a busy day! It will not all happen on just one day, but it will be the start of your new life. It will be a hard day to start on, for Wednesday is day of the week that is governed by Woden/Odin who is the equivalent of the shepherd god YAHWEH of the Old Testament. But, if you can hold out to Thursday? Thursday is governed by Thor who is the equivalent of Christ who was the Teacher of Teachers he called Apostles and Disciples.
Saturday 4/25/2020
Pluto Retrograde today at 2:54 PM (24°59′ Capricorn). He’ll turn direct again on 10/4 at 22°29′ Capricorn. The cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn will Have the Hardest Times During this Time of Change.
The KIng is Dead! Long Live the King!
This SARS 2 virus has brought the death of the old world. The rider on the Pale Horse has brought us a warning!
Are we going to wait for the other three to ride in the real Death! NO!
Pluto is in Retrograde till October. The season of death. This will be a time of mourning and reflection. A time of letting go of what does not work for us individually and as a whole. It is a time of letting go of the past as we make room for the future. Not a passive time to let the future just unfold, but a time to shape it how we want.
This will also be hard to start on Saturday. Saturday is governed by Saturn who is moody and stuck in his ways, but the numbers 4 and 25 call for completion. 25 is a fourth of 100 and 4 is well...4. Four seasons and all. This date will help you bring an end to an old life and start a new one. When the American Colonies were founded, at that time the new year rang in March. It was in the Spring and not the winter. So start the new year in the Spring this year with the help of Christ/Thor whose number is 4. For Thursday is the fourth day of the workweek. Christ hung on a four-sided cross and 4 is the symbol of the Christ consciousness that resides within the fourth chakra art your heart in the middle of your body while sitting.
In this time of shedding and planning, do we feed the bad wolf or the Good Wolf that last week called for? It is time to shed the skin that does not fit our new growth like the snake. It is a time governed by the moon. It calls us to address our faults. Treat our illness and work with the symptoms to bring the cure. It is a time to be reflective.
To find an answer, sometimes we must look at our mistakes to realize what did not work and not repeat those steps. To look at them and find out why they did not work. Was it the right idea, but the wrong handling? Was it ill-timed? Was it just a bad idea? Those who do not study their own history are sure to fall prey to it.
During Samhain, Celtic cultures would burn effigies of outdated parts of themselves to make room for new growth. It was a time of harvest to prepare the fields for next year's growth. A time to prepare the crops for the feasts of the upcoming month that start the long rest till the Spring.
It was also a time when your inner demons might come out as the sun began to fade for a season bringing on a lack of serotonin. It used to call you to confront those things buried deep inside to help you prepare for the isolation of winter. This year will be the Spiritual 1816 Year Without a Summer. It will be our time in the cocoon. What type of butterfly you will become is left to you. What type of society we wake up into is up to you!
Pluto governs power: the power over something like the shepherd or the power within a group of the Teachers. Who will you choose to lead us?
Pluto can also bring great wealth! Do you choose the wealth you were born with that you can develop to bring happiness and your own bliss! Or will chose the common wealth that was someone else's desire which could of led to their happiness and not yours.
There is an old story of a soul waiting in line to meet St. Peter before he is born. He knows that once he waits his turn and meets him, St. Peter will grant him anything he wants in his first life, but what to ask for?
So the new soul starts asking people in line around him. The first person he asks looks like an old man, the man answers with a big smile and says, 'just happiness'. The new soul thinks that it is too easy and keeps asking others.
So by the time he makes it to St. Peter he figures out the good life is to have a big-chested blonde for a wife, to be rich, own a fast car, and live in a big house. So St. Peter grants it all to him, but in that life, his wife cheats on him, all of his friends are after his money only, depression leads him to crash his car, and he becomes handicap living in his big house all alone.
So the next life he wishes for a homely wife, to be poor, a cheap car, and a shack to live in. Well, we can guess how that life turned out.
He should have listened to the old man and just wished for happiness. Life is all about the gray areas in between extremes we get to navigate a balance in between.
You need to find out what is the wealth you want to gather for your hard labor! Prior to our loneliness and long work weeks, in the 90s NPR and others reported on stories of how Teachers balanced work and life. Talking about giving up a certain percent of salaries for a better quality of life. They had seen family, friends, community, and hobbies had a certain wealth to them. They held a value equivalent to money. Most of us ignored those Teachers and we find ourselves on the brink of the end of this virus now. How will it end?
Conclusions from this week?
How are you going to enter this period of Death and Rebirth? We are only as strong as the weakest link and all... Our decisions developed from our True Selves will be like the raindrops of the Spring rain that nourish the plants or the Hurricane that destroys! Will we run off the rails, hold on to the next disaster at the station, or take a new train?
Will we be guided by the shepherd or the Teacher? How many of us can face that individually we brought this virus on by feeding the bad wolf and ignoring ourselves for the herd. How many of those people will hear their inner voices and help our community get well again? Or will we have a series of Teachers hand out PHDs who in turn teach the way to happiness and Bliss?
How will you choose to come out through these times that the COVID-19 virus has brought to us?
