A lot going on at this turn of the year 2023 / 24 / CAP Season. And esp. VENUS – JUPITER wise, a great finale / start into the NEW! Nice New Year’s Gifts!
New momentum comes in, as 3 PLANETS turn from retro to direct:
As long as She’ll be in SAG (until Jan 23), VENUS is in the sign of JUPITER, while JUPITER is in one of the signs VENUS is at home, TAU. This ‘mutual reception’ reinforces both their themes – the effects being strongest in the turnaround shift of JUPITER, round the turn of the year.
* Have you, like myself (here in Mexico) taken Journeys to ‘Old Places’ that stand for what you value?
* Are you clearer about what YOU enjoy, independent of what conditioning / society / peers would tell you?
* Maybe being more tranquilo, slowing down, being more in Nature? Now it’s time to live by that understanding / philosophy.
Here are the
Highlights of JUPITER in TAU Transits of 2024
They culminate on Apr 20 – and there’ll be a beautiful finale, end of May. But let’s start with where we’re at:
In the U-turn Turnaround, JUPITER in slow TAU inspires us to take life extra slow & luxurious. Dwell, linger, take the goodness in with all your senses, enJOY! And if needed, stand your ground for your values!!!
JAN / FEB JUPITER stat. (throughout Jan) in early TAU in sextile w. SATURN in early PI (the alignment will be close for both months, but not exact) It’s kind of a big deal since this is the first alignment (as a friendly sextile) since their conjunction at Winter Solstice 2020 in early AQ. Standing our ground, and being in our natural (un)common sense truth & joy (JUPITER in TAU) can be inspiring to others, in chaotic, confusing, overwhelming times (SATURN in PI). Being open, asking for help and let things come together (SATURN in PI), helps with organic manifestations (JUPITER in TAU).
JAN 12 – day after the CAP New Moon MARS in early CAP in Earth trine w. JUPITER stat. in early TAU Gettingthings done – in a joyful, rewarding way. Great for building projects.
JAN 28 VENUS in early CAP in Earth trine w. JUPITER stat. in early TAU Nice time for attracting resources / making solid agreements in long-term projects.
FEB 25 – 27 VENUS & MARS in early AQ square JUPITER in early TAU By then, PLUTO will be also back in early AQ (from Jan 20 on) Collaboration is crucial for manifestation. Get your friends on board. Be the future.
MARCH 24 VENUS in mid-PI in sextile w. JUPITER in mid-TAU Wonderful vibes for attracting through connections (on all levels & dimensions), and with ease & joy…
APR 19 MARS in PI in sextile w. JUPITER in TAU Surf the waves of good vibrations, enJoy & offer gratitude for this precious embodiment on Planet Earth.
APR 20 THE highlight of JUPITER’s TAU Journey (every 13 – 14 years only): JUPITER meets & passes URANUS – at 21º49′ TAU EmBody Joy & Freedom! In appreciation & honour for Earth & Nature, and anything organic. Breakthrough / surprise / paradigm shifts, when it comes to anything Taurean: Nature / the Earth, food, values, money.
MAY 23 VENUS end of TAU meets JUPITER Sweet & joy-full grand finale of JUPITER’s Journey in TAU. Your (esp. end of) TAU SUN / MOON / AC / Planets are a super magnet.
MAY 23 JUPITER at the very end of TAU in sextile w. NEPTUNE at the end of (and last year fully in) PI Better manifestations through raising vibrations, connections, ease & flow.
MAY 25 JUPITER crosses the ‘Voice Point’ and enters GEMINI (until June 10, 2025)
Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s Turnaround Degree
JUPITER goes direct at 5°35′ TAU – not going back to 5°. And the Sabian Symbols are rounded up, so let’s take:
Royal Gorge Cantilever Bridge
“TAURUS 6° CANTILEVER BRIDGE ACROSS A DEEP GORGE
KEYNOTE The conquest of separativeness through group-cooperation
The person who has suffered deprivation and loneliness can give new substance to his or her emotional life by participating in a collective project.
All great evolutionary challenges imply the overcoming of basic difficulties. A step ahead must be taken, yet an abyss confronts evolving humans. It is no longer a personal void – an ‘open grave’ (5° TAU) – but a chasm that is an integral part of the ‘land’ upon which human evolution must proceed.
A link must be built through the power of the collective mind of the group or of the community at large, on the basis of the legacy of the past, to make a bridge over the canyon.
This is the first stage of the eighth five-fold process of ‘Substantiation’. The human-made bridge built with collective skill gives substance to and demonstrates man’s capacity to CONQUER OBSTACLES and to achieve evolutionary continuity as well as expansion in space.”
Now, that’s an interesting symbol – and can be linked to the symbol for the start of JUPITER’s retro journey on Sept 4– which dealt w. the individual’s character & determination, demonstrated during crises and adversity.
To face and overcome the obstacles presented at this phase of human evolution, collaboration is needed, to ‘build bridges’ over chasms of polarization in humanity. Which may literally also have to do with Taurean ‘territorial claims’.
And yes, we can all contribute to this ‘grand oeuvre’ of this time. PLUTO entering AQ for a longer phase (Jan 20 – Sept 1) and then fully (from Nov 19 on) pushes us into such directions too. A positive attitude (JUPITER) can go a long way, and be the foundation for manifestation (TAU) of the vision (JUPITER).
Where is TAURUS in your (birth / relocation) Chart?
As JUPITER travels now direct / forward in that realm until May 25, 2024, help enhance the ‘happiness level’ by living from joy through appreciation of Mother Earth & all Her gifts, and everything natural & organic.
A positive outlook & attitude of gratitude help with manifestation.
Esp. in those areas of life that TAU points to in your chart:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House – that ‘TAURUS House’ (if you have Planets, Sun, Moon / Nodes in it you do have an TAURUS ‘undertone’ in your chart!) Your Values. What you own, literally & metaphorically, incl. your Business
3rd House Your Environment & Relatives
4th House Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others. Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning. Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
Blessings for a joyfully manifesting journey with JUPITER now direct / forward in TAURUS!
Melanie
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Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
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VENUS comes out of SCORPIO, and spreads her wings like a Phoenix.
She’s this year the last heavenly body to leave SCO and rise up in SAG: After MERCURY, the SUN, and MARS.
While it’s coming to an end: The Love Goddess has been in her yearly ‘Underworld Journey’ in SCORPIO sinceDec 4. Not exactly one of her fave places to dwell in – polar opposite of yummy sensual TAURUS which VENUS rules – but: there’s beauty in the deep & dark… (as long as we don’t get stuck there and let its energy control us).
We’ve been (with VENUS in SCO) fascinated by and magnetized to magical, yet also uncomfortable, painful, intense, disturbing, yet hopefully transformational experiences, and gone through the depth with Love.
Nowwe can rise, move upward again, and feel reborn like a Phoenix, as we’re drawn to the Light.
Heart Light is coming in, during VENUS’s Journey in SAG (Dec 29 – Jan 23)
…while MARS is still in SAG too (until Jan 4), as well as MERCURY retro-to-direct (until Jan 13). Bringing inspiring and uplifting vibes to the otherwise serious, even heavy CAP season.
The window this season with most SAG energy (besides the SAG New Moon / MARS round Dec 12) will be Dec 29 – Jan 4 (MARS, MERCURY, VENUS). Time to raise vibrations, see things from a brighter, more positive perspective, stay away from righteous debates, and rather aim for freedom (yours / theirs) to pursue happiness as we / they love to.
Here’s the
Line-up of cosmic events during VENUS’s 3 1/2 weeks in SAGITTARIUS
Awesome SAG Body Art
She adds heart knowing, inspiration, hope, trust, optimism, and fun to the journey, in these still-dark, yet celebratory weeks, mostly in the CAP Season:
DEC 30 JUPITER (Ruler of SAG) in TAU (ruled by VENUS) goes from retro to direct. VENUS & JUPITER will be in ‘mutual reception’ while She’s in SAG. Have you cultivated inner values? Are you clearer about what YOU enjoy, independent of what conditioning / society / peers would tell you? Maybe more tranquilo, slowing down, being more in Nature? Time to live by that understanding / that philosophy.
JAN 1 – New Year’s 2024 MERCURY goes direct again, end of SAG (ruled by JUPITER) Bringing the inner mental exploration/ preparation / initiation forward into the Journey to / in the New World / New Time.
JAN 4 MARS enters CAP (- Feb 12) where it’s exalted. Gett’n Stuff Done. (RE)Builder Energy. Integrity Warriors in Action.
JAN 6 – Epiphany / Magi / Astrologers’ Day
JAN 11 New Moon at 20º44′ CAP – approaching PLUTO Contributing from our Best is most rewarding.
JAN 13 MERCURY re-enters CAP, this time to go fully through until Feb 4. The mind can turn more to simplicity, quality, longevity, planning, rewarding work, and resilience.
JAN 20 – a big day! The SUN at the very tail end of CAP meets PLUTO, before both enter AQ (for the SUN until Feb 19, for PLUTO until Sept 1 – 2nd phase -, before fully entering AQ on Nov 19, until 2043 / 44!) Power to conscious collaboration. Evolution of aNew Humanity arising from the ‘Old Empires’.
‘Dates’ of VENUS in SAG (Dec 29 – Jan 23) with other Planetary ‘Players’– and Alignment Medicine
DEC 29 VENUS enters SAG. Spreading our Wings. Love A-Rising. Walking in Truth, Freedom, and Beauty.
JAN 1 – New Year’s Day of MERCURY’s Turnaround end of SAG VENUS freshly in SAG in square w. SATURN in early PI Take it easy on relational dynamics with issues in the energy field. No need for adding to stories of (self)judgment / rejection. Speak your Heart Truth. Take the high road of freedom & flow.
JAN 3 VENUS in SAG in quincunx w. JUPITER (Ruler of SAG) stat. (turns direct on Dec 30) in TAU (ruled by VENUS) – they’re in mutual reception Joyful & optimistic start into the year – as we allow for /enhance freedom and let one another be in their happiness.
JAN 8 The waning MOON – before the NM on Jan 11 – in SAG meets ‘Morning Star’ VENUS. As Old Stories are put to rest, Hope & Love, Trust & Truth, Inspiration & Joy, carry us into the new cycle. Set your Heart on Fire!
JAN 11 – Day of the CAP New Moon VENUS in SAG in Fire trine with CHIRON stat. (turned direct on Dec 26) in ARIES Being fresh & free, authentic & lovingly truthful with one another is healing. And when we come from the Heart, it can be more easily reciprocated, and things are more simple.
JAN 14 VENUS in SAG in quincunx with URANUS retro / stat. (goes direct on Jan 26) in TAU (ruled by VENUS) How about (rather than habitually accumulating & consuming) releasing what you’ve been attached to / ‘sitting on’? Break old habits of comfort-not-really-comfort, and emBody Freedom.
JAN 19 VENUS in SAG squares NEPTUNE (‘her higher octave’) in PISCES Living & Loving in LaLaLand? ONEderful for music, dance, romance, without attachment. This transit can ignite big hopes and dreams, and allow us to be open to attract through uplifted vibrations, to receive blessings, and be in a world of miracles. A low vibration would be (buying into) over promising, esp. when it comes to possibilities of relationships – with disappointment effects.So rather aim high, aim for freedom. Let Love & Connectedness flourish. Exude your Heart Light.
JAN 23 VENUS enters CAP (until Feb 16) Rock-solid and LOVE that’s real.
VENUS in SAGin Your Chart & Life…
…can help your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planetary Archetypes in SAG and the area/s of life relating to the SAG House/s in your birth (and local) chart/s tobe magnetic and attract – esp. with clear focus, trust & Heart intent.
1st House Theme: Your Presence and Sense of Self With SAG there: Magnanimous and fun to be around. VENUS moving through: You’re a magnet. Love yourself fully.
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, incl. your Body and your Business Your inspiration and uplifting vibes are an attractive gift.
3rd House Your Environment & Relatives Wide open spaces to roam around? A multi-cultural world? Or sooo much space between you & them? A good time to attract (or travel to) people from afar yet near & dear to your Heart.
4th House Your Home, Origin, Ancestry Overseas? Around the World? Time for a loving re-connection to your (many?) roots.
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover Show your Heart, playfully attract, and keep it free and loving.
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle Sporty? Travelling? Marketing? Writing? A wonderful phase to attract new opportunities for engaging in your service-with-fun.
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others They’re sooo much fun to be with, mutually inspiring, great travel mates? Or a know-it-all / better who try to convince / convert you? Meet them with Love, and allow for lots of space between you.
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others. Your Transformations Share generously & trustingly. True gifting w/o agenda makes you feel wealthy & happy.
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels That ‘SAG House’. Soo many growth opportunities that you attract these days. Abundance is an attitude…
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self Maybe a teacher, modelling with inspiration, fun, and generosity. The public loves you, esp. these weeks. Be out there on your Heart Mission.
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends From all walks of life, and corners of the Planet. Party time…?! Enjoy the multitude of fun & inspiring people around you, and how you uplift each other.
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is. The Universe is vast and infinite. Amazing how you made it here! Bathe in Cosmic Love, and share it out.
Have a LOVE-ley Journey with VENUS in SAG! Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it inspires you on your earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
The annual Treat Time Specialfor Astro sessions is now ON, and extended to Jan 6 (Epiphany / Magi / Astrologers’ Day, and end of the 12 Days of Christmas!)
A sweet opportunity to make a gift of cosmic inspiration to others and / or yourself, and save big (22%, 33%, or even 2-for-1).
Treat Yourself. Treat Another. Share the Inspiration.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
The last Full Moon of 2023, and first wintry Full Moon of 2023 / 24 is in the making… She has many names, attributes and associations: Cold Moon / Winter Solstice / Yule Moon / Christmas Moon / Long Nights Moon.
This first Winter Full Moon in her own CANCER abode is such a sensitive, sentimental, nostalgic Full Moon. Bringing up lots of themes related to Home, Family, Children, Childhood, Belonging, and memories of Christmases past…
In early CANCER (with CAN undertone), the needs are / the Lunar mood is very emotional, sensitive, warm, soft, gentle, caring and comforting , while the SUN& PLUTO are in early & late rock-solid, wintry-cold, hard-core CAP.
* A pull, homeward?
* Where do we belong, emotionally?
We might be pulled into memories, dreams, reflections, stories, of other times & places, of our childhood, of the ‘Old World’… While connecting with, honouring, and receiving guidance and support from Elders & Ancestors.
CHIRON Medicine
The Full Moon is also in wide T-square with CHIRON in mid-ARIES, which changes directons from retro to forward just 2 1/2 hrs(!) after the FM.
Catalyzing the FM energy into Medicine for Healing acute and / or wounds from childhood / early in life (which may well be connected), for Healing the Inner Child, and for showing up newly, in authentic, bold, and simply(!) present ways.
How do you feel about stepping forward into the NEW, showing up as / for yourself and for LIFE?
The CHIRON in ARIES Medicine is part ofthe ChristmasFull Moon:
From the SUN in CAP – CHIRON stat. in ARIES side, it can be healing / strengthening to rely on one’s survival instinct, be good on one’s own, initiate as needed, and yet start again if circumstances aren’t right.
And from the CANCER MOON – CHIRON stat. in ARIES side, the young ones evoke Love, and need to be cared for.
Love heals Children and the Inner Child – at any age.
What are the feelings that this Solstice, Christmas & New Year’s season evokes in you?
Are you connecting with Traditions (CAP) over the Holiday season – with Family, Children, and the Inner Divine Child (CAN)?
How do you personally feel – in this hard & cold & serious atmosphere in humanity since 2020 (with massive CAP concentration esp. that year)? Is your world more gentle, sweet and loving again in the meantime?
* Who’s your Tribe?
* Where is your Home, and where do you feel you belong?
* How do you relate to Children (CAN) and Elders (CAP)?
How do you compassionately take care of your own and others’ needs (CAN), while also being mature, realistic, clear, consistent and firm about where you stand, what works for you and what doesn’t, what you’re willing to take on, and what your limits and boundaries are (CAP)?
Rest & Reflection
Resting & regeneratingis the seasonal Medicine that Mother Nature prescribes, in the Northern lands. Maybe storytelling, reading, reflecting on the passing year?
Which also goes well with MERCURY now retro, and back in SAG, after its half-way point, as it aligned with / stepped ‘behind’ the SUN in the Zodiac (see FM chart) since Dec 22 = ‘Day of Enlightening Insight’.
* What have you understood about the nature of the Mind?
* What helps with coming back to your natural place of Happiness & Gratitude (SAG) from which inspiration & abundance consciousness spring?
Be kind and compassionate (CAN) with yourself, when it comes to house-holding with your wintry energy (CAP), and make sure you get fresh oxygen and inspiration from Nature, in these indoor / homey / family focused days…
The Old comes to fruition. The Full Moon births & catalyzes the New.
So much is coming to Fullness, Fruition, and Harvest that is ripe for release now! So much birthing out of the Old Matrix, and into the New & Unknown Worldis happening.
This last Full Moon of 2023 in motherly, nurturing & caring CANCER carries many reverberations of the past. As well as themes that the end of the Year and even more so the New Year are pregnant with.
Several Planets are cuspy now. You can see them in the FM chart below. Their archetypal themes are in transition.
PLUTOend of CAP
Foremost, PLUTO at the very end of CAP, which the SUN will pass on Jan 20 – just before both enter AQ on the same day(!). As the Old Empire expires, crumbles and collapses, a new Era for our Humanity emerges. The Old fear, scarcity and top-down domination based regime is transforming… The Power of Love sets us free.
The old & dying paradigms have been revealing their power & control shadows big time, in the last years. What a purge! Showing us where we give power / authority away, and where renewing change is needed – and happening:
We’ll move into yet another powerful phase where Light of Consciousness (SUN) is cast onto shadow, and carry us through darkness (PLUTO).
Monarch Butterfly in Crysalis
We’re in a massive birthing process from an old era to a new one.
Definitely a call for new Life, beyond what feels energetically not alive anymore. I bet you feel it strongly coming up too, with this Full Moon in Lunar CANCER in contrast to hard-core CAP, where PLUTO still dwells.
The Power of Love sets us free, from the inside-out. We’re less prone to be controlled, don’t tune into these dark & low vibrations, and perceive the world differently / live in another world.
And we’re in this together. As we share from an empowered place (beyond old & heavy CAP / PISCES oppression / victim consciousness) we gain strength to BE the change.
AQ is where it’s at for PLUTO, from 2024 on. Initially, from Jan 20 – Sept 1, and (after a last wrap-up with CAP) fully from Nov 19 on, until 2043 / 44! Time to align with the Power of our Shared Humanity! And with the natural Power of Evolution!
SATURN in early PI / NEPTUNE end of PI
The Ruler of CAP is now in early PISCES where it came back to, in its retro-to-direct station on Nov 4. The Ringed One will still be in PI until Feb 14, 2026 when it’ll catch up wiith NEPTUNE as both leave PI in 2026 – a big deal! Another indicator that the Pisces Age with its mass consciousness, collectivism, addictions, and pervasive co-dependent vicim – perpetrator – saviour /martyr dynamics is coming to an end. While the AQ Age is in the making…
MARS / MERCURY retroend of SAG
…both end of SAG, close to the ‘Galactic Centre’ (see chart). In their combo (conjunction exact on Dec 27!), they can evoke passionate or argumentative debates. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?!
Hopefully, the MERCURY retro process in CAP – SAG has shed light on where lasting / renewing mental happiness beyond judgment & expectations can be found.
If MARS end of SAG is used for physical movement (hiking, running, walking, travelling) it can re-direct otherwise assertive / angry mental energy.
MERCURY goes further retro in SAG (until Jan 1) and only enters CAP on Jan 13, while MARS enters its exalted position in CAP on Jan 4.
The SAG – CAP cusp is the ‘Integrity Point’ where it’s about implementing what we know, using the gifts & opportunities that we received. And coming back to simplicity & priorities – we only have so much time and energy to work with – what matters most?!
VENUSend of SCO
She’s taken us to the depth & magic of Love – perhaps in dark places. On Dec 29, She’ll cross the ‘Phoenix Point’ to rise in SAG. Time to walk in Freedom, Love, and Beauty.
Thank you, LUNA, for bringing out all these shifts & changes! May we feel nurtured by what IS, and by what’s to come!
The Full MOON in CANCER – CAP will be exact tomorrow Dec 26 at 4:33 pm PST – Moonrise (West Coast Perspective)!
Let’s take a look at the
CANCER – CAP Full Moon Birthing Chart
You can see the MOON just above the AC in CANCER. On the West Coast, She rules the chart, and is in Her own abode.
A big emphasis on home, family, children, belonging, and: Being at home in oneself, unconditionally (12th House).
Contrasted by the CAP SUN, and MERCURY retro / MARS end of SAG, wrapping around the ‘Integrity Point’ cusp. Lots of activities in the mind and physically. s the goal / purpose (ever?) met /achieved? It’s all about Love…
MERCURY retro & MARS will meet up on Dec 27, and go into square w. NEPTUNE end of PI on Dec 27 / 28. Which can have a ‘running in circles’ / futility / diluted anger / mental-energetic ‘blah mode’ effect – or allow for more synchronicities when we don’t have an agenda, surrender, and remain in faith & flow.Take time to relax and just BE.
The SoLunar Polarity calls for Balance & Integration
The CAP – CAN axis is about safety and security issues. How can we create a balanced relationship between these apparently opposing orientations? And give equal importance and energy to:
CAN Gentleness, compassion, nurturing our own and others’ needs, family, tribe, finding belonging, going with rhythms and cycles, protecting Nature and our loved and little ones with loving care.
CAP Being mature and in integrity, accepting leadership / leading by example (not giving authority and responsibility away), working with priorities, resiliently, respectfully, using time and resources well, being the ones we’ve looked up to, and the experienced Elders.
I felt called to create a little contrast table of CANCER and CAP / AQ (where PLUTO enters soon) for you – hopefully a starter kit to tune into, and reconcile the polarities.
The two sides of the equation don’t have to be a dilemma but can synergistically cooperate and integrate, in various ways:
CAP asks us to take responsibility for our part in history / humanity (AQ) whose power (PLUTO) and control / authority structures have been exploiting and abusing Mother Earth (shadow of CAP) and her human, animal, and plant Beings that need protection & care (CANCER).
To have healthy boundaries, disengage from being sucked into the shadow, and Be the Change, the Oneswho care (CAN), and the Ones we’ve been waiting for & looking up to (CAP). Consistency and leading by example, rather than judging and blaming. Makes us feel better and more empowered too…
Resisting and blaming external authority and power structures can’t be the way forward. It still feeds the energy field of the Old & dying, by giving it attention, acknowledges it energetically, and basically responding / reacting in an adolescent manner. The SAG – CAP cusp where MERCURY cruises around 3 times is about being the adult. It’s also the ‘Tall Tree’ point :-).
How about claiming self-authority, and ‘outgrowing’ old modes, by co-building new & better (yet not buying into the pseudo mantra: “Build Back Better”), more compassionate & humane structures that take care of needs more directly, and on an equal level?
…rather than let the old fossilized, top-down institutionalized, world turn from Plutocracy (governance of the wealthy) toTechnocracy (governance of technology – based on a materialistic worldview), and combinations of both?!
Let’s not allow technology to influence / claim our biology! Says also URANUS in TAU, going from retro to direct again on Jan 26 – day after the LEO – AQ (ruled by URANUS) Full Moon. Time to turn inner liberation & spontaneity into outer manifestation of emBodied Freedom!
Balance is a key theme for the Full Moon Polarity. The Full Moon is the ‘Mother of Oppositions’, calling for Balance & Integrationof Solar Yang & Lunar Yin.
Rather than being too much bound by the past, by family programming (CAN), or by guilt, fear, worn down by duties and responsibilities (CAP) – can we be as Children, spontaneous and present?! The true gift under the Christmas Tree….
“Every moment is a new beginning” is a beautiful ARIES expression. “It all starts now. There is only NOW.”
Also apropos ARIES – CANCER: Being the Warriors of Love & Care.
Crystal activated Voyager card XVII – Star, with Kuan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Compassion – photo w. crystal activation by Melanie
The CANCER Goddess / Mother / Midwife MOON holds space & balance for it all, to transform and come through.
Mother Mary, Tara, Kuan Yin the Goddess of Compassion for Humanity, and other Lunar Goddesses are here for – and IN us.
May compassionate Goddess energy support us in all this.
What’s the Goddess you turn to, these times?
How can the CAN – CAP Full Moon affect & inspire us?
* Where / in what ways can we receive nurturing satisfaction, and reward, from being creative & resourceful, and working with what’s available to us (CAN – CAP)? Rather than buying from / into the system that makes it convenient to consume (and promises status a la CAP) – at what price?! Here’s to ‘grass roots’ gardening, cooking, and to (re-?)learning / applying traditional home / building / repair skills!
Let’s consume less. And have time to care, play, create & celebrate more!
* Where-else can we respond to what’s sold to us by: “Thank you, I (already) got this.”, and be content with less? A la Refuse – Reuse – Repurpose – Recycle
* Which wasteful (time, energy, resources) habits can we get out of, and establish higher vibrational, and deeply satisfying ones?
* How can we take more time for doing what we’re best at?
* Creative play & fun beat the heavy CAP vibes of ‘no time for that’… Maybe ‘even’ shifting the old conditioned paradigm to: Play first, work later.
Some Questions to inquire, or do an intentional CAN – CAP Full Moon Ceremony around (best: Dec 27 / 28):
* How can your needs be met, and your life be sustainable, in the context of the structures you’re living in?
* Do you need to make foundational changes, esp. in the areas of life relating to (esp.) CAP / (yet also) CANCER in your chart (Houses)?
* Do you need to downsize, to drop excess ‘weight’ (incl the weight of responsibility to manage what you got), to make life simpler, and have all that you need – plus more time?!
* Is the structure / system you’ve been in changing?
* How can you be resourceful in a way that nurtures you, and puts you at ease? Honour yourself for already being in the process.
CANCER – CAPRICORN is the axis of Family / Tribe and Elders / Leaders. Additional questions / inspiration for those themes:
* How can important themes round home, family, belonging, safety, emotional needs, and building of sustaining structures, responsibly working with time & resources, self-sustainability, and ‘s-aging well’ be reconciled?
* In a time where nuclear and extended families in the traditional sense seem to lose their cohesiveness (or will there be a renaissance?) – what’s your world of home & family transforming into?
* Where and what is your family & home, in essence?
* Where does your Soul feel at home? Where is your tribe?
* Who are the Elders and leaders you turn to for guidance?
* Who are your Spirit Elders? Your inner Elder might be waiting to connect with you.
If your Birthday is end of Dec, March, June, or Sept… …or your MOON, AC, or Planets are esp. in early CAN, CAP, yet also ARIES or LIBRA, this Full Moon is BIG for you!
If you wonder… or feel called to check in as it’ timely for you you’re most welcome to come to an Astro Alchemy session. Got a seasonal Treat for you: The annual Treat Time Specialfor Astro sessions is now ON,
And you probably feel it… She catalyzes other cosmic shifts too.
What else shows up in the LunaSpere?
The Full MOON in early CAN will go into a Water trine w. SATURN in early PI, and into a sextile w. stationary-retro JUPITER (going direct on Dec 30!) in early TAU. The early CAP SUN will go into Earth trine w. JUPITER on Dec 27.
Beautiful supportive SoLunar alignments with the two giants…
Letting go & letting BE, while having healthy boundaries towards what’s not conducive energy (SATURN in PI),what works well from experience (CAP) and is naturally protective (CAN).
So much Joy can be had if we enhance what we value (JUPITER in TAU). Which can be sustainably low-key / simple (CAP) and nurturing / caring (CAN).
Time to introduce the
Sabian Symbol for the Full Moon
As you can see in the chart, the Full Moon will be at 4° 58′ CAN – CAP.
“CANCER 5° AT A RAILROAD CROSSING, AN AUTOMOBILE IS WRECKED BY A TRAIN
KEYNOTE The tragic results which are likely to occur when the individual’s will pits itself carelessly against the power of the collective will of society
The automobile symbolizes the individualized consciousness eager to pursue its own course of action regardless of how it may conflict with the collective consciousness of the community (the train).
The symbol implies that at this early stage of the new process which began with this seventh scene, all such individual and relatively anarchistic or law-defying attempts are bound to fail. The driver may live, but his car will be wrecked.
Lest we consider this phase totally negative, we should realize that most of the time, humans learn their lessons through relatively destructive experiences – the via negativa of the mystic, or even the strange occult concept expounded in some sects of “salvation through sin.” One may speak here more generally of KARMIC READJUSTMENT.”
Wow, quite the surprise symbol!
Shedding warning light at what may happen when we tune into low vibrations of the energies of stat. CHIRON in ARIES (the wounds that ego based wars bring) and its ruling planet MARS together w. MERCURY retro (aggressions through righteousness and misunderstanding) in square w. NEPTUNE (effects can snowball) – all strong in the Lunar field.
The early CANCER side is very child-like, while early CAP is rather an adult / elder energy.
If we just go with our personal whims in the moment we can wreak havoc, even wage unnecessary wars, or at least our attempts end in futility. Either way, we can pay a high price. Which again maybe what’s needed, from a Soul level.
Maturity and social responsibility (CAP / SATURN in PI) are needed, to balance the equation, and to avoid learning things the hard way.
Where in your (birth or relocation) chart is CANCER?
That’s where themes of home, belonging, family, children / childhood / Inner Child ‘sit
The Full Moon shows how important it is to be in a sensitive, compassionate, gentle, caring place – and allowing healing to occur.
Which is even more relevant if your SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, or Planets are in that area of the Zodiac.
And for all of us in the CANCER Houses in our birth / local chart:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, your Body, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
May the loving Goddess Blessings of the CANCER Full MOON infuse & inspire us all, and bring Healing Medicine to wherever we need it most (whether we’re aware of it or not).
Melanie
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Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
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CHIRON in ARIES has been in ‘U-turn’ mode for a few weeks. It’ll go from retroforward-direct again on Dec 26, just2 1/2 hrs after the Full Moon in CANCER – CAP.
Time to come out of our ‘Chironic Cave’, ‘Closet’, or ‘Cosmic Cocoon’, and show up with our Medicine!
Full Circle CHIRON in ARIES– Historically / for You?
The last time CHIRON was for a long time in ARIES, almost 9 years: Apr – Oct 1968, and Feb 1969 – March 1977 – with lots of new and unprecedented happenings in those years. Mass protests in Prague 1968, leading to relative liberation, and of course Woodstock in Aug 1969, Moon landing in July 1969…
Those of you born in those years carry the Medicine of the Warrior, of Renewal & fresh Beginnings. Healing of early wounds is a big theme for you as well – leading you to emerge with New Medicine / ways of healing, and teachings that come from within, and are authentic & unique.
If you were born round 1973 / 74 you’re in your CHIRON Return (round age 50). Full circle initiation into your original(!) Wound-to-Medicine.
So Much Started with CHIRON in ARIES
CHIRON crossed over the Spring Equinox a.k.a. ‘Emergence’ Point on Feb 18, 2019, to ‘Come Alive’ in ARIES. Here’s a link to the blog post for CHIRON’s entry into ARIES.
CHIRON in ARIES (2019 – 2027) has brought up early / survival wounds, and teaches us about Warrior Medicine.
It connects us with the healing quality of being authentic, in the moment, alive & vital, of showing up, and of starting a-fresh!
2020, the first full year with CHIRON in ARIES, yet also with a massive CAP concentration, was so turbulent and unprecedented, esp. when it comes to the (established) medical field, which has shown:
It’s a ‘war medicine’ with a competitive spirit. ‘In the meantime’, humanity got alerted and agitated (ARIES), via relentless and addictive (get your dopamine hit!) media (PI) bombardment (AR). Hardly healing, rather adding to stress and fear which compromise the immune system.
In 2020/21, the world-wide immunization program has been rushed, in ‘warp speed’. Also very apropos CHIRON in ARIES.
Lots of survival mode stress since then, new medical precedents & procedures. Many battlegrounds, physically, mentally, emotionally. So much division, polarization, and warbetween the different ‘fronts’.
Many people got (re)traumatized by the experience: “You’re here by yourself, and need to fend for yourself”
How can your authentic Warrior Spirit be healing, and when is ‘being the warrior’ on whichever battleground re-wounding?
How did early wounds (esp. about survival / starting fresh and new) show up in your life – to be healed?
What’s the Medicine that emerges out of your unconditioned Self?
What IS a new approach to staying vibrant, healthy, and strong and resilient (ARIES / CAP), in this interconnected and multi-influenz-ial (PISCES) world?
2020 was the first full year with CHIRON in ARIES, yet also a year of the epic massive CAP concentration of JUPITER – SATURN – PLUTO. All about governments, security, law & order, fears, restrictions…
2021 was very Aquarian, with SATURN & JUPITER – for most of the year – in AQ, and SATURN in triple square with URANUS (ruler of AQ) in TAU. A rift cracked through society that humanity hasn’t seen in a long time. So much division among people, massive uprisings for freedom of choice and equality among humans, vs segregation. Hot controversies around what / who is science, and the role of systems / technology / technocracy.
2022 has been very Piscean, with JUPITER meeting NEPTUNE in PI, while also ‘trying on’ ARIES over the Summer / early Fall. Lots of chaos and confusion, in this inter-connected world, where domino effects, attributed to the war in Ukraine, affected (and can affect even more) all of Humanity. How do we get out of this mess?!
2023 has been Arian and Taurean, where JUPITER traveled, connected with CHIRON (in March / April), before entering TAU mid-May. In Summer, we had a pre-cursor of what’s to come via JUPITER – URANUS conj. in Apr 2024. The low vibrational activation of all this were yet more wounds of war (ARIES), devastation, survival, and (TAU / AR) territorial battles (Ukraine, Maui, Gaza, and many other places that didn’t get media attention).
These last 4 historic years have been so turbulent & unprecedented, when it comes to the (established) medical field which falls under the auspices of CHIRON – and presents itself with a CAP ‘style’ (authority, orders, overtaken by pharma corporations…). As well as when it comes to wars (ARIES) that wound everyone (except perhaps weapon producers and their stocks).
Humanity really needs to get out of survival mode and waging wars. There is more than enough for genuine human needs, and never enough for human egotism & greed (did Gandhi say this?).
In the meantime in Canada of 2021 / 22 – 23?
Besides the Canadian involvement in the worldwide medical emergency mode, incl. the escalation in Jan / Feb 2021, leading to an (i.m.o. un-Justin-fied) Emergencies Act invocation & revocation a few days later…
Currently other (new-not-new) historic battles are fought in the country, its psyche, and its First (ARIES) People.
Brave Young (as well as Elder) Warriors show up & stand up for the last Ancient Forests that are beingsacrificed on the altar of greedy neo-colonial exploitative capitalism.
The Time to act & protect Nature / everything organic & natural is NOW.
What does Canada’s chart say about the CHIRON Effect?
Bingo! CHIRON has been close to the AC & NEPTUNE at 15 / 16° ARof Canada’s Federation chart of 1867 – first time in 50 years – exact in 2022 – 2024 (Spring / Summer 2022, March / April 2023, Nov 2023 – Feb 2024).
You bet – there’ll be more old / original wounds emerging that go back to / mirror the country’s coming into being.
Time for healing and for a new beginning!
No reconciliation without truth!
While new colonization methods & trends have emerged, and are going on in changed format. Like decimation of Old Growth forests, fracking, and other unsustainable ways of mis-managing nature, gentrification / unaffordability – cultures are being pushed out of ‘desirable’ locations, while developer bullies are moving in, and outpricing people who lived there for a long time. A worship to the gods of greed, at the expense of humanity & culture.
JUPITER & NEPTUNE aligned on Apr 12, 2022, super close to Canada’s CHIRON (while the current CHIRON is on Canada’s NEPTUNE / AC – A double whammy ripple / snowball effect?
I should also mention, Justin Trudeau’s MOON & CHIRON are in ARIES….
What’s the Medicine of New Beginnings for Canada???!
Howzit going thus far, with CHIRON in ARIES?
Let’s start with the ‘state of the world’…
Well, what a question, these years, since 2019!
As mentioned – CHIRON rules all matters of Healing & Teaching – called Medicine (in case it got lost in translation / distortion…).
Maybe, one of the ‘wounds’ of the established (different from: traditional) Medicine is its identity as a Warfare (ARIES) Medicine.
“War on Cancer”, “War on Virus”, “War on – you name it”… The perceived invader in the body territory needs to be killed. The body as battleground.
And as we know from warefare – it’s only beneficial for weapon producers, and perhaps for those who ‘win the war’ – at massive expense of wounds & loss.
No questions raised in the ‘mainstream medicine’ about the message / symbolism / bigger context of the physical phenomenon of the illness, i.o.w., it’s not a shamanic or holistic approach. New revolutionary healing approaches (CHIRON in ARIES), like Terrain Theory have been dismissed – since there’s no money in it (yet).
All of this is consistent with the paradigm of the materialistic-dualistic / cause-effect / problem-solution oriented world:
“Here’s the problem of the pathogen. What’s the antidote?” Who’s making a fortune in the process?
Campaigns (a la ARIES – warfare, and SAG – mission / persuasion / marketing) are being launched (ARIES / SAG), reinforcing the polarization between the ‘evil doer’ / gangster / unpredictable terror virus and the health police. Similar to ‘War on Terror’. And again: Follow the money…
We’ve seen lots of re-petitive evidence of all the above, since CHIRON has been in ARIES.
This year also in real-deal war in Gaza, adding to the on-going war in Ukraine. What’s the purpose of those wars again? Who’s suffering, and who benefits from perpetuating / escalating wars???
I suspect, we have a parallel here, with the industry (pharma / military) being a big driver in both crises.
CHIRON Retro ‘Syndromes’
CHIRON retro (each year for 5 months, these years July – Dec), called us to go inward-backward, and trace early wounds (ARIES relates to the beginning of Life – literally Baby stage) that we might have internalized. And: To find the Medicine that meets / heals those wounds.
Examples
* Feeling left alone (maybe crying) – being all by yourself. Well yeah, people have been now so much in isolation, and in survival mode.
* Needing to assert yourself to be noticed. Lots of loud voices and noise out there – why is that so???! Are you being heard?
* Being in an aggressive-stressful environment – possibly experienced like a ‘war zone’. Check-check re: 2020 / 21 / 22 / 23.
* Being with a family / parent who’s all new to parenting and ‘makes it up as s/he goes’ – which can of course be stressful for the baby. Did you have that experience? What does it have to do with these years?
Susan Boulet – Shaman
CHIRON in ARIES, esp. in its retro movement, has also to do with Healing of earlier stages in humanity– which planted the seeds of what needs to change now. Thinking of pioneers / settlers / colonization. Also primal paradigms / deep imprints of survival
And it’s about re-connecting with the Medicine of ancient / early Shamans and Healers, and their healing wisdom. Without appropriating their culture…
Can we find them in our own lineage and culture? But hey, maybe we DO have deep inner / karmic connections to other cultures too…
How does that resonate, and what comes up for you?
And now for the Turnaround!
This is the time to meet and compassionately be with the ‘early YOU’.
To check in how his / her Start in Life has caused wounds & experiences that still inform your present stage, what is needed to heal those wounds, and how showing up for / as yourself, and ‘walking with the wounds’ has already brought Medicine for yourself and for others.
Have you accessed these expressions of CHIRON retro in ARIES? Now is a good time for review / integration, in the CHIRON Turnaround phase until early Jan.
The early CANCER – CAP Full Moon on Dec 26, just 2 1/2 hrs before the exact CHIRON Turnaround, and in wide T-square w. CHIRON helps with lovingly caring for, grounding, mothering & ‘grandmothering’ the wounds. Being in Integrity, and moving upward-onward, while not carrying ‘excess baggage’, says CAP. Healing Happens.
If CHIRON questions rise: “What heals?” and “What’s the teaching in this process?”
Baby Steps are the way to go, and the Medicine of ARIES Paradigm shifts happen in the moment (ARIES) Direct experience (ARIES) – no Judgment (a la CAP).
Sabian Symbol for CHIRON’s Turnaround Degree
CHIRON will turn direct at 15º 27′ ARIES. Since it won’t reach back to 15º, and Sabian Symbols are usually rounded up anyway, here’s…
ARIES 16° NATURE SPIRITS ARE SEEN AT WORK IN THE LIGHT OF SUNSET
KEYNOTE Attunement to the potency of invisible forces, of nature
In the light of personal fulfillment (symbol of sunset and wisdom) a Human Being may be able to establish a life-giving contact with natural forces. These are active any time growth processes take place, but our individualized mind is usually too focused on working for consciously set goals to be able to realize concretely the presence of invisible (or occult) forces in operation.
These forces constitute a specific realm of any planetary life. They are inherent in all biospheres, on whatever planet. They are non-individualized and un-free energies forming in the substratum of all life processes – thus of the process of integration at the level of the planet-as-a-whole, i.e. the planet as an organism with its automatic systems of growth, maintenance and organic multiplication.
In this planetary organism those nature forces act as guiding and balancing-harmonizing factors – somewhat as the endocrine system does in a human body, and behind this system the more occult web of chakra energies related to prana – the solar energy.
It is when this energy becomes less dominant – thus symbolically at sunset – or when the body energy is weakened by illness, fasting or sensory deprivation, that it becomes easier to perceive these Nature Spirits and to give them forms that symbolize the character of their activities. These forms differ with the cultural imagery of each human collectivity, retaining nevertheless some basically similar characteristics.
When this Sabian Symbol reaches into the consciousness of a human seeking meaning, it should be seen as an invitation to open our mind to the possibility of approaching life in a holistic and nonrational, intuitive manner.
This is the first stage of the fourth five-fold sequence of cyclic phases. It implies a call to REPOTENTIALIZATION. What this means also is the process of Becoming like a Little Child.“
A lot of abstract delineation… To describe how healing (CHIRON) – incl of early wounds (ARIES) it can be to tune back into magic & wonder & innoscence, like little children…
The Inner Child & young chidren around us can be our Healers, and we can help wounded children heal – maybe just with spontaneous gestures of love & connection…
CHIRON is sitting stationary between 15 – 16 ARIES end of Nov 2023 – end of Jan 2024, culmitating with the Turnaround the day after Christmas, only 2 1/2 hrs after the Christmas Full Moon in CANCER(!) – CAP, also on Dec 26!
SO apropos Healing for / by Children, and Inner Children!
Personal CHIRON in ARIES Themes for the Turnaround
Here are some themes you probably recognize. Esp. if your SUN / MOON / AC, or Planets – or even CHIRON are in ARIES, esp. the central part of it, with LEO undertone.
* All is fresh, raw, and NEW in ARIES. Be bold too – show yourself from your authentic, loving Essence.
* Doing something for the first time – try it on and love yourself through it!
* Setting a precedent for yourself – like a creative artist.
* Even if you don’t have partners or allies, taking initative and being self-loving as your go ahead by yourself anyway.
* Stepping into a New World where Love rules.
* When it’s time to leave the scene and start afresh – follow Love.
* Finding the Medicine of being Authentically-Lovingly YOU!
All of this can be scary, daring, and / or hugely liberating.
CHIRON brings up ‘wounds’ & awkwardness, and we feel like an outsider.
In ARIES that’s the case when we’re spontaneously, brave, show up or stand up for ourselves, and for what matters to us.
It might be also awkward if we didn’t have role models, or their teachings don’t apply to THIS.
Yet, what the heck? says ARIES,It’s my life, this is ME. Early ARIES is a Warrior / Survivor. All about the NOW.
That’s what ARIES often deals with – or presents / provokes: NOW THIS! Alive, alert, letting life force & love emerge in every moment. Time for fresh beginnings – Or for simply being present with what’s always NEW.
Show up in a new, creative way. Try out what you haven’t done before, not in a long time, or don’t have a ‘model’ or comparison for. If it ‘doesn’t work’ try something else (ARIES doesn’t mind starting anew). The essence of being innovative.
Angercan be your vulnerability (incl. passive-aggressive modes if anger isn’t / wasn’t ok) yet it also guides you to your Medicine.
CHIRON in ARIES in / for You
If you were born with CHIRON in ARIES (Apr – Oct 1968, and Feb 1969 – March 1977) youknow a bit (or a lot) about the CHIRONic experiences and expressions described above…
Round age 50, CHIRON will make its Return, and your ‘original wound / Medicine’ comes full circle.
For all of us (independent of age) – esp. if we have SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets in mid ARIES (or triggered by it, in LIBRA, CAN or CAP): We get a CHIRON ‘kick’ too, to step forward authentically, esp. in the area of life related to our ARIES House in the chart.
Mid-ARIES in your…
1st House Theme: How You show up – Mid-ARIES there: Lovingly-Creatively BE Yourself.
2nd House What you have and value – Innovation, Originality, Crativity, Courage to go ahead.
3rd House Your Environment – Dynamic, never boring, assertive, spontaneous? Let it be the Medicine.
4th House Your Home – Ever new, and ‘on the go’.Come up with new creations.
5th House Your Creativity – You’re a Pioneer? Try yourself out in a new way. Show your Love & your Colours.
6th House Your Work and Health – Assert Yourself in a healthy way. Do your own thing.Heal with Love.
7th House Your Significant Others – Do you attract dynamic, assertive, aggressive People? What does that say about you? Where is now the Love Medicine for new beginnings in relationships?
8th House Your deep Involvement and Transformations – Be the Creative Hero/ine / Warrior of Love in this.
9th House Your Travels and Worldviews – You go, Grrrl / Hombre!With Lotsa Love in your backpack.
10th House Your Calling and Purpose – Autonomy, Newness, Spontaneity, Creations of Love.
11th House Your Community – Warriors and Creative Individualists– Time fore sharing new Medicine.
12th House Your Oneness with ALL – Always in the NOW where Love resides.
Many Blessings for the Medicine in / as the Loving, Creative YOU, with CHIRON going direct again in ARIES!
Melanie
Feeling called to explore your Cosmic Map, and how it inspires you on your earthly Journey?
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session help shed light on things from deep levels, and get the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
The annual Treat Time Specialfor Astro sessions is now ON, and extended to Jan 6 (Epiphany / Magi / Astrologers’ Day, and end of the 12 Days of Christmas!)
A sweet opportunity to make a gift of cosmic inspiration to others and / or yourself, and save big (22%, 33%, or even 2-for-1).
Treat Yourself. Treat Another. Share the Inspiration.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 18 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
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If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Everyone knows the epic carol 12 Days of Christmas – and you might have wondered about the hidden, encoded meaning of the ‘gifts’?! Check out the Wiki article, and maybe you’re inclined to do more research?
The 12 Days go from DEC 25 / 26 Christmas Day / St. Stephen until JAN 6 / Epiphany. They start from the Christmas night DEC 25 / 26. Each ‘Day’ starts with the eve / night leading into it.
Guess why I’m writing about them? Because there’s also a ZODIAC Connection with the 12 Days!
How amazing is that?!
Two directions can be taken and combined, forward or / and backward in the Zodiac, both are complementary.
What I mean by that: The first Day of Christmas that starts DEC 25 / 26 (midnight if you will) is the Day of ARIES, and / or the Day of PISCES.
Would you like to tune in, follow the 12 Zodiac Days, and see which ‘customized gifts’ from those energies will present themselves?
Angers Cathedral South Rose Window of Christ (centre), with Elders (bottom half) and Zodiac (top half). Medieval stained glass by Andre Robin after the fire of 1451. Lots of astrological symbolism in Christianity and its architecture!
Here’s the line-up of dates and corresponding 12-Day ZODIAC themes (going forward and backward):
DEC 25 / 26 ARIES & PISCES
DEC 26 / 27 TAURUS & AQUARIUS
DEC 27 / 28 GEMINI & CAPRICORN
DEC 28 / 29 CANCER & SAGITTARIUS
DEC 29 / 30 LEO & SCORPIO
DEC 30 / 31 VIRGO & LIBRA
– and then it ‘flips’ on New Year’s, as we’re dancing on the VIR-LI-VIR cusp – Perfect Alignment!
DEC 31 / JAN 1 LIBRA & VIRGO
JAN 1 / 2 SCORPIO & LEO
JAN 2 / 3 SAGITTARIUS & CANCER
JAN 3 / 4 CAPRICORN & GEMINI
JAN 4 / 5 AQUARIUS & TAURUS
JAN 5 / 6 PISCES & ARIES.
Let’s invite synchronistic messages, and see how the ZODIAC themes show up for us!
Much Love to you, at Christmas & ‘between the Years’, in Timeliness & Timelessness!
Melanie
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Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
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Galactic Cente – The Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy
What grand finale of yet another intense game changer year of 2023! What a Galactic Transition into Light Returning!
These days, more precisely Dec 17 – 19, is the yearly time when (in the Northern Hemisphere) the SUN in late SAG points to the Heart of our Milky Way Galaxy – the Galactic Centre, a dark rift, ‘black hole’, AND a birthing place out of stillness. Honoured by indigenous cultures as the Womb of Creation.
If your birthday is these days, or your AC, MOON, or Planets are at 26 – 28° SAG, big themes are to align from our loving Heart, with the Heart of Hearts, to follow ultimate Truth, inner Guidance, and trust the inner Soul Light on our Path.
What also can come up here as a lower vibration is (ironically) are unrealistically high expectations towards oneself, others, or something happening from the outside – inevitably prone to disappointment. A not-so enlightened way of living the Galactic SUN square stat. NEPTUNE energy which was exact yesterday, Dec 16).
And if your SUN / MOON or other cosmic features are in early CAP: Happy RE-Birthday soon! Thank you for carrying the Light into the World!
On the Winter Solstice intersection of SAG / CAP, we’re also at the Space-Time cross(roads). SAG rules Space, and CAP rules Time.
Galactic Alignment of the Pyramids in Teotihuacan (“City of the Gods”)
What does it take to show up simply and ‘magically’ at the right Time and right Place? And to attract ‘synchronicities’ and cosmic guidance?
We increase the odds when we’re in resonance & coherence with the Universe, and follow inner Heart Guidance, the inner teacher who is connected to the bigger sphere, or even ‘simpler’: When we’re in egoless alignment with Integrity as-Nature, and move with LOVE.
The Winter SoUlstice Point is the Space-Time Point, Integrity Point, or Inner Guru Point. Here we can find the Teacher & Guiding Light within
Voyager Tarot card V Hierophant – the Spiritual Teacher, with Crystal & Ganesh activation.
Ganesha – Elephant headed Hindu god, known as the ‘Remover of Obstacles’ on the path, and Guru that takes us from the darkness (of not seeing what the obstacles is / was) to the Light.
This cusp is ruled by JUPITER (for SAG) and SATURN (for CAP).
The two biggest planets in our Solar System, SATURN & JUPITER, came together to start a new 20-year cycle at Winter Solstice(!) 2020 at 1ºAQ. What a celestial spectacle that was – and what a pointer to A New Era for our Shared Humanity!
SATURN, the ‘obstacle bringer’ teaches us, via ‘what’s in the way’ (hint: old patterns and conditioning, fears and limitations, ego contraction, sense of separateness, and need for control) and where we need to drop the excess ‘baggage’ of these heavy duty engagements.
SATURN is these years in PISCES (March 7, 2023 – Feb 14, 2026). Spiritual Teachings – and perhaps even a Pisces Age culmination / completion (as SATURN will approach NEPTUNE in 2025 / 26)? How about:living in The Dao of Unity & Flow?
The bignews will be JUPITER’s connection w. URANUS, on Apr 21, 2024. This connection happens every 13 years, yet this one is special.
Since by then, PLUTO will have entered URANUS’s sign AQ, once again (from Jan 20, 2024 on). A New Era for our Humanity is well underway – what does that mean for Nature?!
Can we practice in the forward-retro-forward course to bring what gives us meaning and happiness, and what lifts the Spirit (SAG)... Into lasting implementation / practice / priority (CAP)?!
Reflections for the Winter Solstice Point – esp. in 2023
* What have been the Gifts you received in the last year (and beyond)? Including those in disguise (usually the most spiritually important ones…) – compliments PLUTO end of CAP / VENUS now in SCO?
* Which of your inner / hidden / not applied Gifts have you been reminded of?
* What would be the best way of doing something / more with them?
* How can this implementation bring out your Best?
* How does the Inner Light return for you?
* How do you offer and contribute it to the Greater Good – AQ – to help co-create a New Era for and in Humanity?
* Living by ancient, timeless teachings, and bringing them into this time and into our shared future can be very beneficial.
* How are surrendering & connectedness the gifts of this time for you?
The SUN will reach the sacred SAG-to-CAP transition, at WINTER SOLSTICE on Dec 21, 2023 at 7:27 pm PST.
Here is the Winter Solstice ‘Birth Chart’
What’s the cosmic energy of Winter Solstice 2023?
What a unique alignment, of the SUN freshly in CAP – with MERCURY retro approaching it for the ‘Day of Enlightening Insight’ (Dec 22) when it passes behind the SUN – for the 2nd half of M-r, the ‘Promethean’ phase, while also re-entering SAG 11 1/2 hrs after the conjunction! Basically the SUN enters CAP, and M-r re-enters SAG within 2 days. All on the ‘Space-Time’ Point.
May Spirit / Consciousness / the Inner Light guide us on (SUN in CAP)! May we find Happiness and Freedom within (M-r in SAG), beyond having done things ‘the hard way’ – according to the mind’s mandates – or: After having experienced how the ‘Old / Traditional World’ operates and communicates in simpler, ‘more real’ ways (M-r in CAP)!
Also ON, at the onset of Winter 2023 / 24:
* CHIRON in AR retro / stationary will go direct on the Full Moon day (Dec 26): Showing up a-New, with our Authenticity and / as our Medicine
* VENUS still in SCO / crosses the ‘Phoenix Point’ to enter SAG on Dec 29: Love A-Rising. Walking in Truth, Freedom, and Beauty.
* JUPITER in TAU is also retro / stationary now, and will go direct on Dec 30: Bringing the gathered / re-connected Inner Gifts out into the World.
Celtic Wheel of the Year, w. the cardinal Turning Points of the Equinoxes and Solstices Incl. YULE – Winter SoUlstice
Let’s link up with the deep cosmic energy at this time of year!
And honour ancient traditions – in our Time & Place.
Speaking of Space-Time:
Space as we knew it has changed massively and irreversibly (Internet, globalization, worldwide travel boom etc.), during the period when PLUTO was in SAG (1995 – 2008).
Time as we know it is changing now, with PLUTO in CAP (2008 – 2024). Time is VERY relative, in fact it’s just a dimension that can be also molded, stretched, and transcended: We energetically ‘run out of it’ when we race around in scarcity mode, and, with consumer mentality (esp. before Christmas…), want more of what we don’t seem to ‘have’. Like a ‘hungry ghost’.
One of the shadows of CAP (the never satisfied materialist).
In contrast, we ‘have all the time in the world’ when we slow down, and tune into ‘Kairos’ (time-quality) rather than ‘Chronos’ (time-quantity). When we tap into ‘Deep Time’, and tune into Heart Time…
Undivided Time (and attention) –one of the best gifts we can give others, to ourselves, and to the World.
December Heart Sun (round 3 pm) – photo by Melanie, ‘back’ in Canada
Heart Blessings for our Journey through this Deep and Sacred Time of Year – the Galactic RE-Birthday!
The energy to align with essential deep Truth (the ultimate Giftthat comes ‘down the chimney’) so that we can actually Walk the Talk, Implement the Vision, and BE the Truth, the Light, the Love – Together!
Melanie
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Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
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With the New Moon, we’re reaching the 3rd decanate of SAG (20 – 29°59′) with SAG Undertone, in the calendar Dec 13 – 21.
The core of it is the Galactic Centre (between 26 – 28°), in the calendar year Dec 17 – 19).
The SUN in late SAG points to the Heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, a dark rift, ‘black hole’, AND a birthing place out of stillness, honoured by indigenous cultures as the Womb of Creation.
Out of the Darkness, new Light & Life is born!
As we enter this ‘space’ ultimate trust is required, and only found in the Heart.Following the Truth in our Heart, we can’t go wrong.
With the New Moonin the Galactic ‘part’ of SAG, it’s a good time to let go of old stories, beliefs, assumptions, agenda, propaganda (‘theirs’, ours), esp. if the ego is invested in ‘being right’ / ‘knowing The truth’ (SAG shadow).
What do we / what do they know??? What really IS the Truth?
The New Moon also approaches the square w. stationary NEPTUNE (turned direct on Dec 6) end of PI. The alignment will be exact for the MOON on Dec 12, and for the SUN on Dec 16.
Time to embark on a journey of ultimate trust into the Unknown and Unknowable. Light will return. That’s the cycle of life. At this time of year, and in crises of Consciousness / Spirit.
Every evolutionary crisis comes to a point where the energy intensity has spun out to the max –the Turning Point (which is also a Point of No Return to the pre-crisis state). No way back to the ‘womb’ / ‘cocoon’ / ‘sleep’ / semi-conscious state / the old ‘known’.
Not to say we’re moving to the hijacked propaganda program of the ‘new normal’, and other distorted programs. Just check in quickly how those make you feel…. Versus being in Heart Consciousness.
SAG – PISCES is about raising Spirit & Vibrations!
Morpho Rhetenor Rhetenor Butterfly
New LIFE, new freer, more conscious & evolved waysof Being are emerging.
Stepping into the NEW with renewed authenticity is the Medicine – says also CHIRON in ARIES (since 2019, until 2027).
CHIRON turns from retro to direct again on Dec 26: The Medicine of Showing up a-New, with Our Authentic Way of Being. CHIRON themes will be big in the 2nd half of Dec.
The NM in SAG will be in Fire trine w. the North Node & CHIRON retro / stat. in ARIES (see chart below): This energy field offers a golden opportunity for stepping forward into the New, boldly-authentically.
So, let’s take a look at the Cosmic Map of the
SAG ‘Galactic’ New Moon on 12/12
The exact New Moon will be at 3:32 pm PST on Dec 12.
So here’s the Bigger Picture.
* Lots of mutable energy, from SAG, PISCES, GEM, VIR. The New Moon is a mover & shaker, leaving the old behind, to raise consciousness & spirit for the path ahead. And yes, it’s also heralding the beginning of the Holiday season, with all its comings and goings.
* From the West Coast perspective, GEMINI is on the Eastern (AC) horizon, with its Ruler MERCURY in early CAP about to go retro – 8 hrs after the New Moon! Here’s a hopfully helpful M-r Cosmic RE-lief & Toolkit.
Take it easy when it comes to judgment how things should go (esp. timing wise), in the Turnaround ‘storm’ until about Dec 15. Roll with what-IS, be resourceful.
* The New Moon in SAG is ‘fuelled’ by MARS which is in SAG during the whole SAG and half of CAP season (Nov 24 – Jan 4)! Upward-Onward we GO! We can ride this energy by raising vibrations, moving up in consciousness, boldness, generosity, and literally: Travel to places that our Heart calls us to. Better than the low vibe of ego based arguing, and shooting from the hip, or worse: missiles from the air.
The SUN passed MARS mid-Nov when they were still in SCO. Spirit, Consciousness, and the Heart can lead, and the Warrior follows.
New MOON in SAG will be just 1 1/2 hrs before NM conj. MARS What motivates you to raise vibrations, and move with the Light?! Are you a way shower, a story / truth teller, an adventurer? Heart-YES in action.
* Can you see the beautiful Grand Earth Trine (between JUPITER retro / stat. in TAU, MERCURY stat. in early CAP, and LILITH in early VIR)? Extending even into a Kite, with VENUS in early SCO as the apex / outlet. Much welcomed grounding energy, in our inner values / in Nature (JU in TAU), in ‘common sense’ & simplicity in the ‘storm’ (MER in CAP), and in our inner wellness temple (LILITH in VIR). From that foundation, we can dive intoDeep Love.
* The moving & shaking SAG New Moon is a catalyst in the Turnaround month of DEC, mostly from retro to direct (from old patterns / inner processes with them to external expressions: NEPTUNE in PI turned from retro to direct, on Dec 6 MERCURY in CAP goes retro on Dec 12 / 13 ( – Jan 1!) CHIRON in AR goes direct on Dec 26 (with the CAN – CAP Full Moon which it’ll square!) JUPITER in TAU goes direct on Dec 30. Lots of momentum is starting to happen now!
Speaking of degrees: Let’s explore & gain understanding from the picture (SAG) of the
Sabian Symbol for the New Moon Degree
The New MOON on Dec 12 will be at 20º 40′ SAG.
“SAGITTARIUS 21° A CHILD AND A DOG WEARING BORROWED EYEGLASSES
KEYNOTE The use of imagination and make-believe in anticipating higher stages of development
This rather peculiar symbol seems to imply here that by imitating features belonging to a level of consciousness as yet unreachable, the process of growth may be accelerated. Eyeglasses symbolize intellectual development; the chiefs of primitive tribes in some instances have sought to impress their people by wearing spectacles without glass, or western hats – simply because these objects seemed characteristic of a race of superior people. This is similar to the process of growth by identification w. a Master or Guru. In a sense it is mere pretending or make-believe, yet wearing the ‘mask’ of a god the medicine man at the time becomesfor all practical purposes the incarnation of the god. Growth is always a hierachical process, even if the growing entity is not aware of it.
This is the first of five symbols constituting the fifty-third sequence. It suggests the value of LEARNING THROUGH IMITATION.”
Very cool. And funny also since SAG rules Seeing in all ways…
Indeed, we adapt ‘upward’ (also apropos SAG NM square NEPTUNE in PI) via imitation. The same of course goes for learning languages, play as imitation in kids, art, etc.
So why not being open to do just that? We don’t need to ‘know it all’ already, and can learn from others who’ve already ‘been there’ (also apropos MERCURY retro in CAP). The World / Life is a playground and a stage as much as a learning ground…
CHIRON w. the North Node in AR gives us incentive to be young, fresh, childlike – and SAG says: It’s FUN.
And of course, learning by imitation also goes for more ‘serious’ endeavours. 😉
Where in your (birth or relocation) chart is SAG?
Pointing to an area where reconnecting with your Heart Truth comes up – which opens up space & freedom, creativity & joy.
The New Moon adds renewed energy for raising vibrations, up-lifting / up-shifiting of Spirit & Consciousness in Freedom.
Which is even more relevant if your SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, or Planets are in that area of the Zodiac.
And for all of us in the SAG Houses in our birth / local chart:
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, your Body, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
So many blessings for the Heart Light Journey! Melanie
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session helps shed light on things from deep levels, and gets the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Dear known or yet unknown Cosmic Friend, embodied on Planet Earth!
What a wild world we’re in! So many shifts and changes!
Reflected in, and supported by, the cosmic weather which can guide us in / through the ‘storms’.
The dimension of TIME seems to have a life of its own anyway, toward the end of the year – but maybe even more so lately…
MERCURY in time- and priority sensitive CAP since Dec 1 re-minds us to slow down, be mindful, and time-quality conscious. Esp. as things seem to move so fast, in the whirlpool of the perception in pre-Holiday / year-end mode.
The (conditioned / modern) human mind always tries to ‘get somewhere’ – esp. in the Mercurial CAP vibe that is SO motivated by accomplishment / completion / attainment, i.o.w. getting things done.
…and is clearly frustrated when that seems jeopardized / efforts appear futile – as can happen more likely now under M-r in CAP.
Better to be in integrity – walk the talk / practice what one knows, keep things simple and real. And never mind the mind…
I’m drawn to traditions (so CAP), and to trad. cultures, esp. at this time of year. Traditions from my European origin & family, and by respectfully visiting other cultures, like currently: Mexico.
A good practice in deep respect for the land, the people, history. Always helps putting everything into perspective. Very good M-r in CAP (and SAG) practice.
* Spending time with Elders and hearing their stories.
* Being the grown-up.
* What are timeless / perennial sources of wisdom to turn to, in difficult times?
* What brings lasting / sustaining happiness?
This article is about well-known
Winged Cosmic Player / Mischief Maker MERCURY…
Let’s take a breather, RE-flect, read what’s been shelved away / hidden / ‘lost’, RE-connect with Spirit, and with people whom we haven’t been in touch for a while. Esp. with the the CAP – SAG connection: Elders, people from other cultures / people whom we meet travelling… check-check-check here…
* Time tosuspend judgment (that old CAP thing) / be mindful of those patterns of judgment, be curious, ask new questions / ask old qu in a new way, commune & communicate, just because, and because you never know where it leads!
* Let’s invite & encourage the cosmic & inner Messenger to re-trieve lost-in-translation info & news.
* Time to turn to (un)common sense, invite comic / cosmic relief, and a good sense of humour / satire (named after SATURN, the ruler of CAP).
Yep, obviously, these are all MERCURY retro ‘prescriptions’. One step at a time, and backtracking re-quired, says M-r.
Balinese Monkeys – as seen VERY retro (round 1990) – photo by moi
It’s time for another round of ‘good Trickster Medicine’.
Let’s check the facts first:
MERCURY in early CAP has been slowing down its speed from Earth perspective, to go into pre-retro ‘strom’ / station on Dec 9. It’ll turn retro on Dec 12 / 13, right after the SAG New Moon on the same day.
The retro journey will be this time from early CAP (8°29′) to late SAG (back to 22°11′) on Jan 1(!).
In CAP – SAG, the Messenger of the Gods will be busy flying back & forth, RE-working / RE-organizing, RE-orienting / RE-directing things / thoughts / us.
I bet you already noticed early MERCURY retro symptoms…
…maybe even since the pre-retro ‘shadow’started (M crossed the point in the Zodiac from which it’ll go direct again on Jan 1), on Nov 26 – just before the GEM – SAG Full Moon on Nov 27 (GEM is ruled by MERCURY!).
…and more likely since the pre-retro ‘storm’ (M now moves very slowly – less than 40′ per day – in ‘U-turn mode) from Dec 9 on(!).
I’m actually looking forward to re-discovering things slow & solid, learning about traditions and ancient / timeless teachings, and to being more on the land / in nature (all apropos CAP – SAG), in this M-r phase.
Also conducive to re-discovering informational resources that haven’t been in good use (or not for a while). And to intentionally-randomly strolling, and cruising around on your (Mercurial) bike / scooter etc, on old-new and not usually taken streets. One never knows what’s around the corner, and whom one sees and (re-)connects with…
Cheers to all things time tested & retro! Let’s invite & encourage the Messenger to re-trieve lost-in-translation signals, info & news!
Seriously…
This M-r starts with serious CAP.
The GEM – SAG Full Moon (w. MARS) onNov 27 already brought out the effects of polarzation through information and opinions, specifically, when it comes to the violence in Gaza. Reports, conversations, and debates round wars and violence continue… What actually turns this horrendous situation around?
Now, at Hanukkah, and into the Holiday season – of Peace & Light Returning! – MERCURY goes retro. The trapped / locked situation the world has gotten into, the apparent impossibility of ‘getting somewhere’ / coming to a conclusion with it, the horrific expenditure of resources and loss of lives, infrastructure and culture…
How could the Mercurial Alchemist of Polarities help?
What / who could be a ‘Messenger of the Gods’ – or divine intervention?
May ancient & timeless Blessings for Peace & Freedom descend / arise, from all Traditions that celebrate the Return of the Light!
Some Tidbits for Newbies to MERCURY Retro (M-r)
Why does MERCURY even go retro?
Because of an ‘optical illusion’. MERCURY goes regularly retro from Earth perspective, because ofits elliptic orbit around the Sun, in relation to the almost exactly circular orbit of the Earth around the Sun. We Earthlings are looking at the planetary moves geocentrically. From the central Solar vantage point, things would look differently, of course which is what astronomers critique about astrology… Since we’re not at the centre of the Solar System – human life as we know it happens on Planet Earth, our vantage point – Astrology is geocentric. And yes, a heliocentric astro chart is also available, btw.
Back to the M-r effect: From our terrestrial perspective, MERCURY hence appears to be alternating between going quite fast, going slow, and even ‘falling back’. Like two trains going at different speeds next to each other. When looking out the window of the at times faster ‘Earth’ train the slower one seems to be going backwards.
MERCURY goes retro 3 times a year (about every 4 months) for about three weeks. The area in the Zodiac that’s covered by the retro motion is 10 – 15 degrees. Because of that regularity, the retro phases are in each year in the same element/s.
In 2023, M-r has been occurring in the EARTH signs: Dec 29, 2022 – Jan 18, 2023 in CAP Apr 21 – May 14 in TAU Aug 23 – Sept 16 in VIR
And for 2024, it shifts back to EARTH-to-FIRE: Dec 12, 2023 – Jan 1, 2024 in CAP – SAG. Apr 2 – 22, 2024 in ARIES
What’s the Cosmic Weather on Earth, during MERCURY’s Retro Trip?
Well, the key is Winter SoUlstice (Dec 21) in the Northern Hemisphere – reason for the Season of so many trad. Holidays – that this M-r wraps around ‘symmetrically’.
Here’s the line-up of all the Astro Highlights from Dec 12 – Jan 1:
* DEC 12 SAG New Moon (w. MARS)
* DEC 18 – 20 The SUN moves through the Galactic Centre
* DEC 21 (exact at 7:27 pm PST) Winter Solstice! The SUN enters CAP
* DEC 26 Early CAN – CAP Full Moon
* DEC 26 CHIRON in AR goes direct again
* DEC 29 VENUS enters SAG (- Jan 23)
* DEC 30 JUPITER in TAU goes direct (- Oct 9)
Sounds like the Mercurial Messenger will havelots of important, otherwise overlooked (or hidden ‘between the lines’) messages from these Planetary Gods (and Humans) to convey!!!
New important information / new dialogues are re-quired too – (if things are under- or mal-communicated). Over-communication (often at the onset of M-r) needs to be re-balanced.
And it’s time to pick up conversations where they’ve been left off – maybe from the previous M-r end of Aug / Sept., or beyond (sometimes, things are linked in a sequence of M-r’s!
MERCURY close-up & magical
What you find in this extensive MERCURY Retro article
* Going with the Flow & Magic of MERCURY retro…
* MERCURY Retro in CAP – SAG & its Connections w. other Planets
* Where is MERCURY retro in CAP – SAG happening in Your Chart & Life?
And – going even deeper:
* 7-Phase Sequence of the MERCURY Retro Timeline
* Sabian Symbols of the Start & End Degrees of MERCURY Retro
* Timeless and Timely MERCURY Retro REminders
* My Seasoned MERCURY Retro Tips & Seasonal Tool Kit
Going with the Flow & Magic of MERCURY retro…
Mercury doing its retro somersaults again…
Technology, traffic / transport & communication glitches (or surprises!) sneaking in again lately, and calling for flexibility?
No way! Are you telling me…..?
YEP, the ‘inevitable’ is happening again: Another MERCURY Retro phase is ON!
In CAP – SAG this time: From 8°29′ CAP back to 22°11′ SAG, to be precise, from Dec 12 / 13 – Jan 1.
If you’ve read my MERCURY retro support REport (or even advocacy) over the years you know:
M-r isn’t necessarily ‘BAD’ news, as pop Astrology would have it. And hey – perhaps M-r is ‘even’ an overdue & cosmically well timed de-conditioning?!
During M-r, the MIND is operating differently / ‘unusually’, and tuned-up by the ‘New MERCURY’ (what’s that?!).
Have you noticed?
Our good old messenger / trickster friend MERCURY has been already since Nov 27 in pre-retro ‘shadow’ (i.o.w., crossed the 22°11′ SAG mark from which it will go direct again, at the end of M-r).
Yesterday Dec 9, MERCURY went into stationary (very slowly moving) ‘U-turn storm’.
And on Dec 12 / 13, MERCURY ‘officially’ starts its seasonal retro loop, which goes technically until Jan 1, and rolls out completely until the end of CAP Season.
So, end of Nov to end of Jan (which include build-up time before and roll-out time after) are under M-r influence.
Take it easy on ‘plans‘ (HA – usually the CAP specialty – and here comes holiday travel…), and don’t get wrapped up in ‘loops’ that are based on too much random info, not enough info, or simply: confusion.
A good time to chill, go on a RE-treat, or simply more RE-laxation (esp of the bizzy mind), and to be open to unexpected info / communication that can open your mind.
M-r is conducive for
* RE-viewing theold phase and old patterns – what’s good about them and forgotten, and what’s re-dundant / could use improvement. Perfect for Old-to-New Year writing & mind clearing.
* Purging outdated info& items (post-Holiday cleaning, yay!) – and finding surprisingly re-levant info ‘from the past’ (which can show where we were at mentally, at that time)
* Picking up lost & forgotten reading or writing projects we’ve been shelving for a while
* Catching up with people we haven’t talked with in a while – and being surprised by synergistic conversations that can lead to much more than ‘expected’. CAP relates to Elders, Ancient Cultures, people in leadership, mature people. So much to learn from / with them.
* And a heightened time for info to leak, and communication to happen that’s usually under the radar (esp. with the MERCURY – PLUTO connection).
Could be also a good time to check in again astrologically. Astrology is by nature about macro-micro, and about the bigger picture for ‘stuff’ we can easily get caught up in. Just get in touch if you feel it’s calling you.
MERCURY Retro in CAP, and its Connections with other Planetary Players
…with suggestions for natural alignment with the energies
You might wonder, what stands out, re: MERCURY Contacts in the retro loop in CAP-to-SAG? Thankfully, not too many this time round – yay!
Having said that, if M-r, esp. in its station at the beginning, and (lesser so) in the end of the retro phase ‘hooks up’ with one of your Planets or sensitive points you’ll definitely notice it.
What stands out is MERCURY’s triple square from end of SAG with stationary NEPTUNE (which went from retro to direct on Dec 6) end of PISCES – spanning over the entire Holiday season, and aligning with 2 Full Moons:
NOV 27 (day of the GEM – SAG Full Moon!) DEC 26 (day of the CAN – CAP Full Moon!) JAN 8
…the message of which could be summed up by Rumi’s quote.
From CAP, MERCURY will form a triple sextile w. SATURN (ruler of CAP) in PI, Dec 2, 21, and Jan 18. Checking in with Spiritual Teachings, in practical terms (“When the rubber hits the road” / when families come together for the Holidays…).
MERCURY in CAP pre-, during, and post-retro will form a triple Earth Trine w. JUPITER retro-to-direct (Dec 30 is J’s ‘due date’for this), on Dec 8 (J-r) Dec 18 (J-r & M-r), Jan 19 (both direct) Being grounded, thinking pragmatically: What has long-term value? What brings Joy? How do we get nurtured by nature?
MERCURY in CAP pre-, during, and post-retro will also form a triple Earth Trine w. LILITH in VIR (Dec 9, 15, Jan 24). Be in your Temple of Wellness-in-Wholeness, and discern what works for YOU / how you operate best.
So it seems like adjustments, esp. on the mental plane, can / need to happen in the MERCURY retro process, when it comes to themes of these Archeypes:
* NEPTUNE (stationary) in PISCES Surrender, Flow, Adaptation, Letting Go
* SATURN in PISCES (ruled by NEPTUNE) Applying Spiritual Teachings. Boundaries to non-conducive energies. Avoiding overwhelm. Stepping away from Victim – Perpetrator – Saviour – Martyr dynamics
* JUPITER in TAU Apprecation of joy, values, calmness, Nature
* LILITH in VIRGO Being ‘wildly’ self-sufficient and health / wellness conscious. Deconditioning work limitations.
Timeline of Mercurial Alignmentsin the Retro Phase
DEC 9 MERCURY in CAP went into pre-retro ‘storm’ (super slow stationary ‘U-turn’) Take it easy on ‘plans’. Get ready for synchronicities, and synch’ with the synergies of life.
MERCURY stat. in CAP in Earth trine w. LILITH in VIR (#1, again Dec 15, Jan 24) Planning / thinking long-term, and considering self-directed improvements for work, health & wellness? More input to come…
DEC 11 MERCURY stat. in CAP in sextile w. VENUS in SCO Soulful communication – when there’s deep timeless connection
DEC 12 / 13 MERCURY goes retro at 8°29′ CAP (see Sabian Symbol below), until Jan 1 Keep the Mind calm and on target. Stay grounded and heart-centred.
DEC 13 The still-New MOON (Dec 12) in CAP meets MERCURY A beautiful vibe for honouring Holiday Traditions.
DEC 15 MERCURY retro in CAP in Earth trine w. LILITH in VIR (# 2 of 3 alignments, was Dec 9, again Jan 24) What are traditional tools and practices that passed the tests of time which you could re-integrate?
DEC 18 MERCURY retro in CAP in Earth trine w. JUPITER retro / stat. (going direct on Dec 30) in TAU (# 2 of 3 alignments, again Jan 19) Being grounded, thinking pragmatically: What brings joy and has long-term value?
DEC 21 – Winter Solstice! MERCURY retro freshly back in CAP in sextile w. SATURN (ruler of CAP) in PI (#2 of 3 alignments, was Dec 2, again Jan 18) What are the spiritual teachings, given all the experiences you gathered lately?
DEC 22 – Day after Winter Solstice! M-r meets the SUN on the exact half-way point of the M-r phase, which happens to be also the ‘Integrity Point’ this year. Just 12 hrs later, MERCURY retro re-enters SAG. The Day of Enlightened Insight. Check out what epiphanies & paradigm shifts occur round this day, esp. when you’re calm, in simplicity & gratitude.
DEC 22 / 23 MERCURY retro re-enters SAG / Galactic Centre How do you know you know? Can you trust the Journey without focusing on the outcome? Be guided by the Heart.
DEC 26 – day of the CAN – CAP Full Moon MERCURY retro at the end of SAG (pointing to the Galactic Centre!) in square w. NEPTUNE stat. (went direct on Dec 6) end of PISCES – (# 2 of 3 alignments, pre-, during, and post-retro, Nov 27, Dec 26, Jan 8) End of SAG is double-SAG. End of PI is double-PI. Rather than going into communication whirlpools / confusion / disillusionment (based on expectations): Be in trusting flow… open to synchronicities and other messages of the Universe. Offer prayers, blessings, and invocations of the light that connect & elevate.And BE the Blessing.
DEC 27 MERCURY retro at the end of SAG (pointing to the Galactic Centre!) meets MARS (which will also square NEPTUNE on Dec 28) Rather than pushing / fighting for an agenda, use the energy & passion for pursuing what lifts you and others up.
DEC 30 JUPITER (ruler of SAG) goes from retro to direct again at 5º35′ TAU – 2 days before MERCURY goes direct Trusting that the inner joy & gratitude we’ve cultivated and reconnected withgives the outer journey a good foundation.
JAN 1 – New Year’s MERCURY goes from retro to direct at 22º11′ SAG (see Sabian Symbol below) Bringing the inner mental journey / preparation / initiation forward into the New World / New Time.
JAN 8 MERCURY end of SAG (Galactic Centre) leaves the post-retro ‘storm’, and squares NEPTUNE end of PI once more – (# 3 of 3 alignments, pre-, during, and post-retro, Nov 27, Dec 26, Jan 8) End of SAG is double-SAG. End of PI is double-PI. As the Holiday Season winds down with Epiphany (Jan 6) – How has your mind integrated the inner journey back to the Heart, to trust, faith, surrender / adaptation, and connectedness?
Indeed, the ‘hottest’ phases are the ‘U-turn storms’, before & after M-r (Dec 9 – 14, and Jan 5 – 10), when MERCURY moves slowest. As the Post-MERCURY retro stationary period comes to a close, take it easy, in the stormy integration phase. What can be a way forward, grounded in consciousness & experience?
Where’s MERCURY’s retro loop in CAP-SAG happening in Your Chart & Life?
Retro Loop in the Sky – photo by moi
The House in your (birth / relocation) chart that contains end of SAG / early CAP is the ‘Scene of Affairs’.
(Always, esp. now) Good to check in with your inner wisdom, experience and common sense, what elders, natural-respected role models / teachers would think, say, or do.
MERCURY is also associated with the Throat Chakra. Are you speaking from your natural authority – esp. in that SAG / CAP realm?
As you read this, maybe you have your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets (MERCURY?) in late SAG / early CAP? You’re in for a a Mercurial treat (and tricks too, of course).
MERCURY’s retro visitwill help connect the dots, walk the talk, and move forward in these realms…
We really have changed & matured so much in the last years, esp. via our CAP Houses! – given the powerful impact from PLUTO (2008 – 2024), and in the JUPITER / SATURN in CAP years of 2019 / 2020. Even the hard & tough way. Only to drop excess weight of dense and heavy energy. Give yourself credit, you deserve it!
Capricorn the Sea Goat
Do you know where late SAG / early CAP is in your chart, esp. House wise? Here are hints for how it makes itself known in your chart, and what MERCURY has to say.
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
With late SAG / early CAP there: Wise, mature, calm, reliable, resourceful & resilient. Knowing what excess produces – avoiding energy waste.
With MERCURY transiting through: Time to have your voice heard. Speak, write, let the world know (no unsolicited advice though) what motivates you & matters most to you.
2nd House Your Values. What you own, literally & metaphorically, incl. your Business Building on solid ground is your thing. A good time to find old treasures (MERCURY & PLUTO in CAP), or acquire something of lasting / increasing value (well, better after MERCURY is direct again). What gives you trust, and true rock-solid security? Time to appreciate and use what you (already) have, and build your business / CV, based on generosity, inspiration, experience, and integrity. The time is ripe. The world needs your gifts. Use them!
3rd House Your Environment & Relatives Far away / around the world? Conservative and judgmental… or: traditional & always there for one another, with old fashioned / timeless reliability. Thinking about them? Drop your own judgment, while staying in integrity. Don’t take on what’s not yours to carry. Don’t be guilt tripped / scapegoated. Be a calm rock in the world around you, come back to understanding people for who they are, where their journey has taken them, where their Heart is.
4th House Your Home, Origin, Ancestry A large family / storytellers? A rock-solid ancient world, affected by & writing history. Or just sooo old world / ‘Old Empire’, and you’re SO done with it? When coming home (uhhh – Holidays with MERCURY retro), suspend judgment and stay curious. Practice calm discernment: What have been the gifts of a solid foundation and teachings (even via ‘negative examples’) and how you’ve outgrown the Old? Offer generosity – go for what’s fun (and maybe ironic about it all). Take the best, and leave the rest (leave it to Love…).
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover Play may indeed need to take priority (a matter of permission? NOT). Create something fun & important – one step / day at a time. Instead of being held back by judgment, turn to the wisdom of experience, and infuse your creativity with mature ‘grandma love’. Talk to your inner child / grandchild. Cherish the time with your children as they mature, and appreciate every ‘season’ with them.
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle Taking on something significant? Here’s your top season to serve significantly, and take care of your health in a responsible way Your word matters. Affirm others and yourself in bringing out their / your best – for the Highest Good. The time is NOW.
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others Mature and reliable ones may apply. Enough hardship, rejections, or NO’s on their or your side, due to frustrations with unreliable, immature people. Done with old patterns. How have SATURN & JUPITER & PLUTO in CAP over the last years (esp. since 2020) been your (at times tough love) relationship coaches? How would your best & maturest side communicate with your partners? Keep it simple and real. Respect them and yourself.
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others. Your Transformations Important & serious processes you’ve been through – esp. in the last years. Yes, you need to talk about the hardship. Don’t get stuck in repeating patterns, though. You can be generous, but don’t take too much on for others (anymore) – you know that guilty or resentful feeling… But hey, let them know you’re there for them with your time, resources, and love if it’s in integrity for you.
9th House What gives you Meaning. Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels You’ve been places, and you don’t take travel / studies lightly. It doesn’t have to be SO. Which important lessons turned into wisdom over the years? Which people, places, and paths are you thinking about now, with all your experience under your belt? What have you learnt? A good time also to travel to the ‘Old World’, learn a foreign language (good challenge!), polish up an old one, or to study history / legal matters.
10th House Your Purpose incl Career. Your Public Self You aim high and challenge yourself, don’t you?! Hope you haven’t been overdoing it, nor held back by fear and performance anxiety in the last years, or judged (yourself) unfairly. The public wants to meet you, esp. these weeks. Yes, because you lead by example, might have accomplished something inspiring & admirable, and even more: you stand for something important. Be out there at significant / quality public events. An upgrade is due.
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends Top notch. Worldly & established. Or simply solid. And / or people who’ve been there, done that, who don’t buy into the narratives of consensus reality anymore, and rather co-invest their time and energy into what matters most, at the end of the day. Cherish precious time & space together, and honour how you’ve seen each other mature over time. Talk to your long time friends.
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is. Form & Formlessness. Ever interchanging and simultaneously present for you. Space is a mystery, ever elusive, ever expanding. Time is on your side. And it’s an illusion anyway. How’ve you experienced the evidence of it? The Universe has a good sense of humour. It has your back, and you can rely on it – as you tie up your Camel. Receive cosmic messages & symbols, and generously share them out– easy!
That’s the ‘short-ish’ (LOL) version of my take on this upcoming MERCURY Retro phase.
Wintry Retreat Magic – photo from Dec 22, 2022 by moi
If you’d like to dig (even) deeper, and go with the full menu, keep on reading:
7-Phase Sequence of the MERCURY Retro Timeline
NOV 27: Pre-retro shadow started: MERCURY in the Epimethean phase
DEC 9:Pre-retro stationary / ‘storm’ – started
DEC 12 / 13: MERCURY technically retro
DEC 22: MERCURY half-way in retro meetsthe SUN – a ‘New Mercury’ is born, a.k.a. ‘Point of Enlightening Insight’ – Promethean phase starts
JAN 1: MERCURY direct again
JAN 7: Post-retro stationary / ‘storm’ ends
JAN 20: Post-retro shadow ends.
The first half of M-r (phases 1. – 4.) is the Epimethean phase. RE-minding us of ‘old stories’ – which doesn’t have to be a ‘bad thing’ to overcome, it can be an important RE-flection / correction inducer…
The second half of M-r (phases 4. – 8.) is the Promethean phase. New insights and connection with Spirit & Consciousness can lead to new inspired direction – a very auspicious time.
MERCURY went into so-called pre-retro ‘shadow’ on Nov 27 (it passed for the first time the Zodiac point (22°11′ CAP) from which it will after the retro phase go direct / forward again, on Jan 1). Noticed ‘foreshadowing’ of themes that might come up during M-r ?
A good time to be fluid as quicksilver, RE-spond to higher intelligence, and trust the ‘messenger from the future’, via intuition & precognition.
Perhaps you already had inspired conversations with friends / in groups, about SAG themes (Politics, Philosophy, Studies, Travel…)to inform your view of things.
MERCURY Retro in the Starters
On Dec 9, MERCURY entered its stationary ‘storm’ period (moving very slowly), i.o.w., went into ‘U-turn’ mode, in early CAP.
A time to also slow down the regular fast & busy mind that likes to multi talk / task & be ‘in control’.
‘Regular’ / ‘normal’ communication affairs might have started to become ‘tricky’, ‘chaotic’, ‘complicated’, ‘messed up’… But only from the perspective of the ego that likes to seize control, via the mind.Yet also, synchronicities and magic might have kicked in…
MERCURY in ‘zigzag mode’ suggests being super adaptable, in flux & at ease, while swiftly, swimmingly / surfingly, changing course as necessary. It can lead to a more auspicious outcome than assumptions that the mind assumes are ‘the way’.
7-Circle Classical Labyrinth drawing by Helen Rowlands – reminds me of a brain
In the actual RETRO PHASE, from Dec 12 / 13 – Jan 1, the mind is geared to turn inward-backward, and mental moves may be paradoxical, like in a labyrinth, or ‘far out’ / eccentric.
As always, the MERCURY retro cycle starts with the ‘Epimethean’ phase (first half – until Dec 22), where old epic stories, memories, and patterns show up for REasons yet unknown, REvealing themselves in the journey.
With the CAP-SAG energy of the current M-r, it’s good to gain space and distance from the mind that can be sooo full, make things so important, heavy, fearful, depressing – esp. when ‘nothing can be done’ about bad news.
Don’t believe everything you (or: they!) think. Check where ‘your’ thoughts may come from, and why you’re attached to / loop around them!). Experiment with discussing with others, turn to other sources, for a more balanced view, informing your grounded authority.
Verify your thoughts & ideas in the ‘real tangible world’ with its practical implications. Invite unexpected insights, a world of synchronicities, and:
Be open for new understanding, via / of hidden and overlooked info that gets our attention now, for a RE-ason.
At the half-way point of the M-r phase (on Dec 22 – the day after Winter Solstice!!! -, this time), MERCURY crosses paths with the SUN: A new ‘New Mercury’ (like a New Moon in the monthly SUN – MOON conjunction) is born – which happens 3 x a year.
On the ‘New Mercury’ point, it’s time to REgenerate the mind MERCURY), to become more conscious, follow Spirit & the Heart (SUN).
While the SUN will be re-born at the Solstice Point (Dec 21)! Very auspicious! A wonderful time for ceremony, for new beginnings with creative mental / communicative projects!
Let’s see what Epiphanies THIS ‘Point of Enlightened Insight’ will reveal!
Prometheus surrounded by the Ring of the Zodiac – Rockefeller Ctre, NYC
The second half of M-r (Dec 22 – Jan 1) is the ‘Promethean’ phase… …where new insights & new Consciousness can be more easily carried forward & expressed, in creative & innovative ways.
Sabian Symbols of the Start and Finish Degrees of MERCURY Retro
MERCURY goes retro on Dec 12 / 13 at8°29′ CAP.
Since MERCURY backs off before passing the 9° mark, let’s turn to…
“CAPRICORN 8° IN A SUN-LIT HOME DOMESTICATED BIRDS SING JOYOUSLY
KEYNOTE The wholesome happiness which subservience to the ideals and patterns of a well-established culture brings to those who accept them unreservedly
In various ways, this section of the cyclic process brings to us images glorifying the power and benefits which a steady and well-integrated society brings to its members. SATURN rules CAPRICORN; Saturn was the ruler of the Golden Age before he became a symbol of binding limitations. One who accepts willingly or – even better – takes for granted the value of these limitations can lead a serene and happy existence, whatever their social status.
The third stage of this five-fold sequence suggests to us how we can enjoy our life condition by allowing the spiritual values it embodies to fill our consciousness. In every condition provided by a healthy culture – which hardly refers to our present chaotic world – human beings can find ENJOYMENT in the roles they are born to play.”
Now, that’s an apparently provocative and controversial symbol…
The birds are ‘domesticated’ – not necessarily caged-in (maybe that’s not required anyway). Do they live their purpose / dharma, in a domesticated place? Are they ‘happy’? Do they naturally live in the allotted limitations (not a question of ‘acceptance’)? Easier if born domesticated…?
Yes, indeed, one lives happier and more joyously (SAG) when naturally accepting the value of limitations (CAP), maybe physical ones, or what SATURN otherwise ‘challenge us with’ / ‘doesn’t grant’.
A mature human can find enjoyment in limiting situations, when a spiritual container (CAP / SATURN in PI) is available that helps with choosing / using the situation for a higher purpose (CAP). And the good news is also: It’s not just one solo bird but a group of them. Better together.
MERCURY ends its upcoming Retro Journey on Jan 1 at 22°11′ SAG.
Since MERCURY doesn’t fully go back to 22º in its retro journey – and usually, one rounds the Sabian Symbols up anyway – let’s take:
“SAGITTARIUS 23° A GROUP OF IMMIGRANTS AS THEY FULFILL THE REQUIRMENTS OF ENTRANCE INTO THE NEW COUNTRY
KEYNOTE Consciously accepting the ways of a new stage of experience, in readiness for the opportunities it will present
As we pass any threshold leading to a new realm of existence we have to meet certain requirements and the necessity to adjust to new ways of life – in action, thought and feeling.
At times this may seem an ordeal but it is inevitable. Everything that will follow depends largely on how we cross this threshold, and on the spirit in which we meet unfamiliar and perhaps shocking experiences.
At this third stage of the fifty-third five-fold sequence we face a combination of the two preceding symbols. We find ourselves in a period of TRANSITION. We have to imitate, yet retain our inner integrity.”
What an interesting Symbol!
While literally refugee / immigrant / border / humanitarian crises abound, due to wars and economic disparities / promises of ‘a better life’ (SAG) – the theme is as mentioned also very symbolic:
Evolutionarily, we’re transitioning into a ‘New World & New Time’. We have to adjust & adapt, yet also drop old burdens, patterns, conditioning, and karma. Tests and challenges are ‘normal’ (SATURN in PISCES March 2023 – Feb 2026) – not unlike when moving to a new country.
At the same time, we must not over-adapt, and in the process loose our identity / integrity, as the symbol (and SATURN in PI) advises.
MERCURY crosses the ‘Integrity Point’ 3 times, in forward-backward-forward motion, on Dec 1, Dec 22 / 23, and Jan 13.
Fascinating that this Symbol shows up for MERCURY’s Turnaround on New Year’s!
So – let’s be open to what comes up, in this M-r phase, as we suspend judgment (CAP), and are open to be taught higher principles and laws – that, as SATURN in PI teaches, are always paradoxical.
Let’s see what this M-r process shows about these symbolic themes that have an interesting link with each other…
Timeless & Timely MERCURY Retro REminders
Under M-r, ‘usual’ thinking and communication patterns are being questioned, and it appears at times as if there was a trickster / little devil at play.
Actually, we have a chance now to SEE the inner mental trickster / saboteur that’s been there all along, camouflaging & going unnoticed. Can you use ‘weird’ / hilarious scenarios asteachings?
The challenge is, not to get frustrated when things don’t turn out the way YOU thought they ’should’, according to the ego. Yep, expectations are a thing, on the SAG – CAP cusp….
During M-r, experiment with, practice, and hopefully also integrate for later, going with the flow, in an intuitive, heart sourced (SAG) way.
Feel free to change your mind, and disengage (less is more, says CAP) when you get the impulse / signal / intuition for an alternative course that works better, and is more aligned.
Yet don’t let the mind run the show, and create more ‘mental karma’.
Be open to and curious about ‘creative detours’ that might lead to unexpected turns, and unusual connections, rather than going with comfort / routine / habits of your ‘Inner Muggle’.
Rather than getting wrapped up with linear, habitual, and often self-limiting (CAP) ways of dealing with information / communication channels & modes, an ‘unorthodox’ approach, and maybe a little / random connection with someone can open up for serendipity, synchronicities, and magic.
Let’s mischievously ask ourselves (M-r):
* How can I get out of the busy conditioned & controller mind now, and shift to Openness for Change, Creativity, and Play?
* What would my Inner Magician / Wizard / Alchemist (yes, that’s what Mercury also is) suggest?
* Where’s the comic (and cosmic) relief in all this…?
Coyote – Animal Spirit cards by Susan Boulet
Let’s stay as mobile (like quicksilver, the MERCURY metal), adaptable, and unattached to ‘plans’ (CAP) / agenda (SAG) as possible.
MERCURY is a very light, youthful, fresh, fun-loving punster / Coyote / prankster energy.
It looks at the fun and also meaningful side of unusual twists & turns, and even likes to provoke those. Tuning into that less serious mode makes us happier and more at ease.
Come on board with these spontaneous twists, unintentional new-found puns, and creative fun realizations! While being mindfully present & clear.
Laughing at ourselves is certainly part of the picture. Best kind of humour.
We sure need comic relief of all the seriousness these days / months / years(!).
What happened to satire? There’s a cool word in German: Realsatire. Meaning, reality provides lots of satire in itself. So CAP.
M-r is about the meta level (not so much about the content of the mind and its expressions, but the nature of the mind, how and why we think and communicate). Noticing how the mind is playing tricks on us all the time, but can be in times like these hopefully more easily busted – esp. in comic relief ways – with ego alert, ha-ha! Great time for satire and comedy it is – and ‘real life s & c’!
When it comes to committing to something long-term – pls consider that it might not be ready to be definite yet.
Yet you can make a choice to be in a vibration that attracts the match that you easily recognize & connect with.
Spiraling Time OUT!
Give yourself time. During M-r, new information streams in, which can alter our outlook on things.
Often, after the M-r phase we have more information which gives a different picture, based upon which a good avenue forward becomes clear.
If we did commit prematurely and aren’t flexible to back off again easily, we might say, “Oh, if I only had known… I wouldn’t have changed course… and didn’t have to untangle complications.”
As always with MERCURY retro, esp. in CAP, clarify / specify communication whenever possible:
* Say things several times,in different ways / even in a different language to make sure there’s no misunderstanding in a fast / distracted context – in our oh-so ADHD world.
* Talk in a way that’s not just a judgment / statement, but offers invitations for open discussion, and be present and genuinely curious & helpful (if you are!), rather than distracted (Mercurial shadow).
* Ask questionsthat instinctively / intuitively come up (esp. to clarify otherwise held assumptions!).
* Choose the most direct medium & tool available (meet and connectin person, or at least via online video), which helps with clearer & more holistic communication, mimic, body signals. So worth it, says CAP, and more fun, says SAG. More ‘channels’ are involved & signals are conveyed, by being face-to-face with the other person, rather rather than on the phone, or via mutual messaging / e-monologue – so ‘standardized’ & ‘normalized’ in the electronic age, and an even bigger deal since 2020.
M-r gives us the chance to take a break from it – at least make sure we SEE each other! And who knows what else might come up and be addressed when you take the opportunity to actually meet & talk?!
Are you a slave to technocracy (domination by technology) / techno-crazy?
If you become mercurially frustrated, maybe it’s because you needed to learn something about the nature of the human mind and its extensions: Technological equipment which now, more and in different ways than already, seems to have ‘a mind of their own’…
You don’t want to become (well, maybe now you see how much you could be) a stressed-out remotely controlled slave of coordination & communication, and of the technology that should(!) be here to serve us (which interests does it actually serve most?).
Computers, phones, and tech gadgets are / should be treated as ‘just’ tools. Their efficiency also depends on & responds to the (hopefully relaxed & detached, savvy & inventive) mind of their ‘master’ (CAP).
Have you noticed? The technical equipment can magically-morphically mirror the state of mind WE’re in, even ‘simply’ by breaking down and being ‘on strike’ when we humans need ‘a break’ anyway?
Give your tools and tasks proper mindful and focused attention & care, one at a time, instead of attempting to multi task and ‘efficiently’ orchestrate everything simultaneously.
To keep the interface between the electromagnetic field of computers & the human mind smoothly operational, don’t impose any potential extra stress onto your nervous system – nor on your computer.
And how about: Turn the AI network off, and your natural inner intelligence (NI) on.
Take note & respect signals showing you that you need to be relaxed & mindful. Assume nothing, and drop your (under M-r evident, otherwise under the radar) expectations & assumptions.
Trust the infinite Intelligence of the Bigger System aka Universe – ‘Even’ as it might temporarily take you on wild & ‘crazy’ journeys that you apparently haven’t signed up for.
Trust the impermanence. And notice how much your mental involvement affects your experience of ‘the trip’.
Under M-r, talk to people from the past who come to mind, and whom you haven’t heard from in a long time.
And to ‘new’ yet familiar like-spirited people whom you’ve just met & intuitively ‘clicked with’.
M-r also tends to bring back unfinished communication business from the past, esp. from previous M-r phases (last one in Aug / Sept).
What also happens quite often under M-r:
* We receive / intuit a potentially interesting message for others that’s worth sharing & passing on – to whom it may concern.Go ahead, and ‘randomly’ (without your personal agenda) deliver / spread it to others, to whom that information & inspiration can be helpful.
* We’re prompted to connect two or more people with one another – because we can. Who knows what comes from it?
So, let’s keep collecting M-r communication karma cookies, by being the random messengers & connectors!
Back to Basics & Buddhists
Gibbons at Play – 1427 Painting by Xuande Emperor
Rather than having the mind ueber full… Be mindful, and observe the phenomenon mind from a deeper level.
Like, by asking yourself: Why am I really saying this? Who’s the one thinking and talking here?
If we don’t do from time to time this ‘mental hygiene’our inner ‘devil’s advocate out-tricks us, subconsciously ‘sabotaging’ our plans, second guessing ourselves, and constellating circumstances that make us back off from our original intention.
So important to check what we’ve been doing with our brain – or rather, what the brain has been doing with us all along.
The Buddhists call the day-to-day mind that busies itself with all kinds of ‘chatting’ and inner stories, lists, and dialogues, the ‘Monkey Mind’. Like a monkey, the trickster mind jumps from one tree of interest and attachment to the next, and is never quiet, unless we observe the movement, and thereby naturally calm it.
My Seasoned MERCURY Retro Tips & Seasonal Tool Kit
The Thinker – by A. Rodin
1) Be easy on yourself, as you get into the groove of things
It usually takes a week or so to adjust to the different mode.
Hope you could take it it easy on the pre-retro shadow phase (since Nov 27)… Rather than being ‘pulled into’ the wild ‘storm’ (since Dec 9), or apparently stationary stuckness (can be either and both, in paradoxical trickster fashion).
2) Be mindful, and lead from what’s here-now
There’s a tendency for the mind to be distracted and all over the place, to loose and misplace things & thoughts that later have to be RE-trieved again, in your ‘inner house’. Avoid getting scattered and disorganized, collect the mind ‘pieces’, be present with any situation & function ‘at hand’, and don’t loose sight of what practically works, and matters most (CAP). The apparent priority of urgent ‘little’ things & ‘small stuff’ can easily be a distraction and waste of energy. Practice coming back to the Here-NOW.
3) Retro is an inwards / backwards oriented energy
M-r is a good time to RE-treat, and RE-connect with meditation and mindfulness. Also an excellent chance (if not necessity) to deal with ‘old unfinished business’, ‘loose ends’, and to clear communication themes from the past, often carried over from a previous M-r times (Apr / May and Aug / Sept).
4) Every M-r phase is a great time for basically everything that starts with ‘RE-‘, esp. RE-sidual communication
Like: RE-assess, RE-align, REad, Re-search, RE-treat, RE-pair, RE-boot, RE-group, RE-consider, RE-arrange, RE-place, you name it…
One RE-ason for me pointing out all these RE-activities: During M-r (which also has a karmic undertone), we / they less likely get away anymore with being sloppy, and with procrastinating or neglecting RE-sidual communication issues with people from the past. They come up like a mirror. Talk about what RE-ally matters, esp. with friends and loved ones.
What do you think about – and want to (re?)discuss, esp. re: purpose and meaning of life, traditions, laws, history & storytelling, authority, elders, people from different walks of life…(all apropos CAP / SAG)?
5) Choose the clearest & most direct mode of communication available
Phone rather than messaging / emailing. Meet and connect in person rather than via phone / text, to make sure an actual dialogue happens (rather than just your factual monologue, with the assumption you know what they think, or they know what you think).
Consider communicating in several ways & via different media, to make sure the message comes across. Re-member people’s minds can be all over the place now, communication might be scattered and incomplete, or prone to assumptions: “I thought you got my email!!!”, or actually a monologue: “Are you just thinking out loud as you talk, or are you actually suggesting something to me?”
6) Be mindful & compassionate in your communication with others
Compassionately put yourself in their position, and take ownership & responsibility for your mental processes, rather than blaming and judging (possibly based on a lack / deficiency / incompleteness of communication) – so CAP.
7) Be clear and precise with commitments & agreements
Double-check whether you’ve been understood correctly, and RE-peat / RE-phrase back to them too. Avoid signing an agreement with consequences (CAP!), before you have all the necessary details / information (often only after MERCURY retro is over, or at least half-way, meeting the SUN = Dec 22).
8) MERCURY Retro RE-minds us…
…that direct connection with one another in authentic & lively dialogue offers the opportunity to open up, speak freely, and touch on other subjects than the originally intended purpose / agenda of the communication. Which can eventually lead to an even more important outcome or purpose (CAP) & direction (SAG) than anticipated. Check out in hindsight why you actually needed to talk to that person…
9) Under M-r, the odds for fabulous unexpected synchronicities are 99%
When we act intuitively and out of the ordinary, we let the spontaneous intervention of the Universe show us our interconnectedness! So magical!
10) M-r is a good time to RE-connect with people you have lost sight of – and see them in a new light
With theCAP / SAG flavour, get in touch with people with whom you’ve had a long-term, and / or mature connection and similar life view / path with but lost sight of. Trust your intuition, and let yourself be surprised by what shows up when you speak to them – also re: whether you are (still? again?) on a wavelength or not. No assumptions… Allow yourself to get mentally un-stuck in conversation. Old communication themes might get triggered, yet now’s the chance to see them in context (e.g. of your & their evolution / growth / maturation). Or you might meet new people whom you heart-connect with, and feel you already know each other ‘forever’ / ‘from somewhere’.
11) The areas of life (partners, children, career, groups, etc.) that THIS retro phase brings up for YOU…
…have to do with Planet/s and House/s that M-r activates in YOUR personal birth chart, i.o.w. where late SAG / early CAP is situated (see above). I’m happy to check that out for and with you – as a quick hint, or in a focused (or longer) session if more is going on for you…
12) When ‘glitches’ occur, be fluid and flexible like quicksilver (MERCURY’s metal), think “shift happens”.
No need to judge it / yourself as a failure (a CAP thing) / going off-course (a SAG thing). Turn the paradigm around: What could be the opportunity in this mishap? What’s ‘even’ actually funny about this?
RE-frame your way of thinking about things. And entertain the possibility that you might have subconsciously ‘arranged’ a wild alternative to the original ‘plan A’. Which – who knows? – might lead to something new and better and more fun than what the ‘normal’, ‘usual’, ‘regular’, and apparently most ‘efficient’ mind-in-rut-mode could have come up with?
13) Enjoy those unintentional puns, slips, and new connections in the mind, be creative and brainstorm – esp. together with your MERCURY Retro Friends.
14) Enlightened Insights, anyone…?
The Day of Enlightened Insight – when M-r meets the SUN on the exact half-way point of the M-r phase. In this M-r phase on Dec 22.
Check out what epiphanies & paradigm shifts occur round this day!
15) If you would like to know…
…whether you are a member of the RETRO CLUB (born under MERCURY Retro, as yours truly) …in which area of Life the MERCURY Retro Trickster in CAP would likely play tricks on / with you …how to consciously, creatively, and mindfully play WITH the energy…
…feel welcome to get in touch with your Astrologer.
Wishing you a blessed navigation in the retro- and interdimensional zone, with the Mercurial Mind currents, in the Heavens as on Earth!
Hope to SEE you again soon, in real life, or online – it’s all about REconnecting (as directly as possible)!
Melanie
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session helps shed light on things from deep levels, and gets the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
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Have you been feeling oh-so sensitive, overwhelmed, in a maze or daze, blah mode, aimless, passive, wiped-out, confused, going in circles, drifting, dreamy, disillusioned lately?
Feeling like checking out, escaping ‘reality’, and going into your ‘bubble’, or ‘hooked’ on something that has turned into an addiction?
Let alone being exposed to the pervasive effects of ‘media showers’ & bombardment of controversial info and opinions (MARS & the SUN in SAG approaching a square to NEPTUNE) SO much to take in(?), process, release…
No wonder these rather ‘loopy’ / lower vibrational expressions of NEPTUNE’s turnaround mode can show up nowadays even more so, in a World of confusion and uncertainty, deception, delusion and illusion.
Time to shed light at the cosmic context, on how to navigate with the overall ‘Weather / Climate’ & ride the Waves of Change.
NEPTUNE has been end of Nov – mid-Dec a focal point – as today,Dec 6, it changed direction from Earth perspective, from retro to direct. The Neptunian tides turn twice a year. Usually, early July from direct to retro, and early Dec from retro to direct.
Awareness of the NEPTUNE Archetype helps with being able to recognize what’s up when getting ‘hooked’, what alternative higher vibrational expressions may look like, how to tune into those, yet transcend those too, and be the witness, in the ‘hub of the wheel’.
But hey, we gotta start where we’re at (no ‘spiritual bypassing, which would be also Neptunian, lol).
NEPTUNE is a transpersonal planet – actually the ‘higher octave’ of VENUS. I.o.w., we’re personally attracted to and connected with another Being via VENUS, while NEPTUNE is about Being connected. And VENUS is exalted (in Her ‘top’ position) in PISCES which NEPTUNE rules.
It can be super simple to actually live in that fluid multidimensional state of connectedness – IF we don’t go into the illusion of separateness – which the mind, the ego and other gremlins constantly try to lure us into – all of which is super prevalent in the ever disconnected / polarized energy of 2023. But hey, there’s a way out of that illusory paradigm too.
Does it take extra stimuli (maybe ever increased dosage) to lose ourselves in something, and drop our sense of separate identity?
Or can you directly, without a ‘medium’ (substance, object, activity), already BE in the space which the promise of having / doing such and such…. pretends to take you to?
I saw a video based on Dr. Gabor Mate’s work (couldn’t retrieve it – maybe you find it – and he says it at many occasions), paraphrasing here: Addictions are often a distorted expression of the need for connection.
When authentic human connections or spiritual connectedness aren’t easily available one might turn to substances or behaviour which promise and temporarily give a chemical effect of relaxation, ease, bliss, yet are of course impermanent, and the longing for more starts to take over and take control.
Often, the missing of connection stems from early childhood trauma, esp. abandonment / unavailability of one or both parents / primary caretakers. A ‘like-heals-like’ approach would (rather than chemically medicating / numbing) call for genuine connection & Love. All very NEPTUNIAN…
NEPTUNE has been nowa-years (2012 – 2026) in the PISCEan Realm…
…which it rules (see NEPTUNE – PISCES painting by Johfra Bosschart)
…and about 80% through it by now.
NEPTUNE came out of the central Scorpionic part of PISCES – (10 – 20º) in 2021(!), and cruises now in the last 10 degrees (until 2026) which are double Piscean.
All is fluid, ever changing, impermanent, yet everything is always here. There is nothing constant about life, about you, yet something permeates existence. Big paradoxes. Wherever you go, there you are. Yet, where is the Self to be found?
The ‘Unified Field’ where Quantum Physics and Spirituality meet… is also Neptunian.
Humanity and all life forms are interconnected, in the Web of Life. And a bit more ‘practically speaking’, we’re ‘entangled’on all levels, ecologically, climate wise, via the media, politically, economically, and culturally. For better or worse? NEPTUNE ‘says’: It just IS so, beyond good and bad.
The last NEPTUNian / PISCEan Years…
NEPTUNE is certainly a cosmic key factor for all(!) the contagious elements of the evolution since 2020.
It also rules confusion, delusion, dream states, addictions, the longing for redemption, and: Connection with / Union in the ONE – a religious & spiritual yearning.
The two Planets unite every 13 years, but haven’t in PISCES (ruled by NEPTUNE, and formerly / trad. ruled by JUPITER before NEPTUNE was discovered), since 1856. The next time they come together in PI will be only in 160 years or so!
PISCES Age Rolling out…
We’re coming out of the Pisces Age. Indicators are SATURN having joined NEPTUNE in PI – the culminating / outflowing / completing wave, 2023 – 2026. As well as PLUTO at the tail end of CAP (which it leaves completely on Nov 19, 2024) – “The Old Empires expire.”
May the tide turn (in so many ways)! And may humanity become more aware of our connectedness in the Web & Waters of Life!
SomeThemes of the recent NEPTUNE Retro Phase
Since June 30, NEPTUNE has been on retro course (about 5 months yearly) – with the callto connect threads from the past into the current situations, and tofind what we’re longing for within, in the always available yet often elusive connection in the ONE. Call it unconditional Love of what-IS. Not a feeling – rather a way of Being.
In the meantime, ghosts from the past (apropos NEPTUNE retro) could have shown up (and looks like they did, big time). Not to be fought with, but to be let go of. Blessings to these subtle energies to move on, and also connect in the light-that-IS!
Sometimes, I share with clients a ‘mantra’ from systemic group work that I find helpful for releasing toxic / lingering bonds – not in a ‘flaky’ way, but deeply felt: “I only take the love, and give all else back – with love.”
And now the Turnaround… Tide is Turning…
Neptuno y Nereida de Puerto Vallarta
As NEPTUNE went out of retro and ‘forward’ from Earth perspective today Dec 6, infusing the Dark-to-New Moon (Dec 12) w. MARS (in wide square w. NEPTUNE)…we’re called to let go ofold & told narratives (theirs, ours), agendas, assumptions, beliefs, propaganda (SAG) – all of which could get us ‘hooked’.
Beyond that, cultivate the Nature of Beingness / Life(!). And find irrefutable Truth that’s beyond polarization / right or wrong / has no opposite.
Blessings for this NEPTUNian phase! Let it carry you through & beyond the stormy waves!
With NEPTUNE going ‘direct’ (and coming into gears from January on) its energy can show up more easily outwardly, and we can ‘move forward’ again on the wave of… (you name it). Rather than ‘backtracking’ into retro-PISCES realms, perhaps literally into the old PISCES Age modes & systems of Victim – Perpetrator – Savior. Check in where you’ve slipped into that co-dependent triad, like feeling victimized and paralyzed…?
Moving forward can literally mean with NEPTUNE in PISCES, amplified by JUPITER ruled SAG: Being part of a Wave, a Movement.
Caveat: A ‘phenomenon’ of collective openness / exposure (NEP) can also be ‘hijacked’ by any agenda, with its effective ‘marketing’ / propaganda (SAG). But this hijacking SO much needs to be, and is being called out now.
*What’s the Wave (NEPTUNE in PI) you want to be consciously part of, that expresses deep change for the better (PLUTO in CAP)?
*In what ways and areas have you been confused, sensing something’s off, but perhaps not able to pin-point it (NEP)?
*What would the inner spiritual (NEPTUNE) guide / guru / teacher say and do, when things seem overwhelming, confusing, chaotic / out of control? Yet also: interconnected and interdependent…
Good to create & tap intocontainers for the interwoven Web of Life: Meditation, deeply moving and connecting chants, dance, Yoga, and other physical & spiritual practices (grounding in the body is important). Not as an escape from the ‘real world’ but to go more deeply into resonance & connective vibrations, to experience Oneness, let go / release sticky darkness, and be newly open to receive the Light.
Being IN the world, yet not OF the world.
Never enough symbols for NEPTUNE in PISCES… so here’s the
Sabian Symbol for the Turnaround Degree
NEPTUNE went direct again today Dec 6, at 24°53′ PI.
“PISCES 25° A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION SUCCEEDS IN OVERCOMING THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF PERVERTED PRACTICES AND MATERIALIZED IDEALS
KEYNOTE The power of the Soul to intervene in the personal life, and to induce necessary catharses
The necessary centralization of the conscious attention and will symbolized by the preceding picture most often bring negative results — exclusivism, pride, jealousy, greed for power and wealth.
Every Human is a Church that has the Soul as its God. But most people forget the Soul, and live according to dogmatic rules and habits which not only have become empty of inner meaning, but very often have been perverted by the demands of the senses and the emotional nature, and by the ego with its rationalizing intellect.
A purging or catharsis is needed to restore not only fresh and creative spontaneity, but even more the contact with the Soul and the God-ordained dharma.
This is the last stage in the seventy-first sub-cycle. It leads significantly to the series of five symbols which concludes the vast cycle, because the final consummation of the process of actualization of the potency inherent in the original Creative Act requires moments of crisis and PURIFICATION.”
What a multi-faceted symbol…
Showing how distortions and excesses of ‘religious practices’ can degenerate into idol worship in so many ways. Idols are ‘fake & cheap substitutes’ for the real thing. The ‘beginning of the end’ – an externalization of Soul / God / the Divine, and a deviation from inner Soul connection (NEPTUNE).
Reminded me also of the Golden Calf theme in the Old Testament. Hmm, also wondering about the Wall St. Bull in this context (beyond its ‘mascot’ function for a Bull Market).
‘Mammon’, the god / demon of material accumulation: What we seek to own is never enough, and will end up owning us.
In this time of addictive consumption overload on all levels (amplified in the pre-Holiday season) what do we take in,energetically (PI) and physically (TAU where JUPITER & URANUS are nowadays – aligning next Spring), with the notion to own / assimilate?
* Why do we still ‘never get enough’? ‘Hungry Ghost’ syndrome…
* Why is this world / time / humanity addicted?
* Where would inward-turning take us to?
NEPTUNE turning direct again from this degree suggests:
* Navigating away from the ever so inundating ‘media showers’, perverting / inverting / converting practices, ‘rituals’ / substitutes for the ‘real thing’ that fuel addictions and consumer capitalism.
* Connecting back toour own Heart & Soul Intelligence, and finding connection from within, which will help us ‘purify’ and cast out outer corrupted materialized idols & ideals.
We Are Stardust
Somos Polvos de Estrellas We are Stardust. Contained in Everything, and containing the whole Universe in each and every cell and our whole Being. The Grand Mystery. Beautiful & moving(!) performance from Argentina (2017). So NEPTUNian also…
Where in your chart is end of PISCES?
That’s where it’s all about surrender, openness, adaptability, letting the ego go out of the way, staying connected, and being ONE with / as the Universe.
If your SUN, MOON, AC, Nodes, or Planets are in (esp. late) PISCES you’d be NEPTUNE-ized – immersed in an oceanic field – which may feel overwhelming, requiring letting go, changing vibrations or course, and calling for surrender, allowing, just BEING.
Which would have come up esp. when JUPITER joined NEPTUNE,on Apr 12, 2022 (at 24º PI), and again in close encounter in Nov 2022.
For all of us, the area of life related to the PISCES House (esp. round 25º) in our chart gets re-attuned by NEPTUNE. Well, perhaps NEPTUNE’s been in that House already for years, so you’d be familiar with the ‘rolled-out’ themes.
NEPTUNE going direct in PISCES in your… House helps you with the Navigation in Life – connected in Love-that-IS, esp. relating to…
1st House Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House Your Values, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House You in Your Local Environment
4th House You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House Your Creative, Playful, Inner Child and Lover
6th House Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House What gives you Meaning, Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House Your Transcendent and Spiritual Self and Union with All-that-Is.
Here is a gift that found me – passing it on to you, and letting the wave and the sound of the soundless bell permeate…
“May the sound of this bell penetrate deeply into the cosmos.
Even in the darkest space living beings are able to hear it clearly,
So that all suffering in them may seize,
And understanding comes to their heart.
And they transcend the path of sorrow and death.
The universal Dharma door is already open.
The sound of the rising tide is heard clearly.
The miracle happens.
A child appears in the heart of a lotus flower.
One single drop of this compassionate water
Is enough to bring back the refreshing Spring to our mountains and rivers.
Listening to the bell, I feel the afflictions in me dissolve.
My mind calm. My body relaxed. A smile is born on my lips.
Following the sound of the bell,
My breath brings me back to the safe island of mindfulness.
In the gardens of my heart
The flowers of peace bloom beautifully.”
Blessings for the NEPTUNian Sea Journey! Melanie
I’m here for you. An ASTRO~ALCHEMY Session helps shed light on things from deep levels, and gets the process going. Get in touch with me, via email (licht@islandnet.com), and we can explore what would serve you best.
Serving you with astrological guidance and perspective, pointing you to Your ‘Inner Cosmic Compass’. I’d love to inspire you to be in alignment with, and smoothly ‘ride’, those ‘auspicious’ or ‘challenging’ waves of cosmic energies that present themselves at a given time, and, similar to climate and weather, affect our human energy field.
Which can lead to eye opening awareness, growth, healing, release, transformation, and you can feel more connected with yourself and with all-that-IS, in the bigger on-going evolution. Ultimately, you dwell in a witnessing place in the ‘Hub of the Wheel’ where you are less & less affected, more & more liberated, and self-realized.
I welcome you as a client who is not seeking an ‘old school reading’ from me (“What’s going to happen TO me?”, “What am I supposed to do?”), but to be supported in accessing your own wisdom source, especially in times of a challenging transition, stuckness, transformational crisis, for new perspectives at a crossroad or dilemma, and for important choices.
This is to empowered and liberating ways of working with the ancient and timeless gift of Astrology!
Feeling called to explore your own Cosmic Map, and how it can guide you on your Earthly Journey? Come over / let’s meet online, for Your private Astro session!
ASTRO~EXPERIENCES via Courses, Workshops, and Embodied Astrology
Our experiential and embodied Astrology groups have over time (the 16 years I’ve been facilitating them) become quite potent and catalytic. The intimate Astro hubs (max 6 participants) are a treasured way of being personally seen and involved – more commitment, a personal sense of community, and deeper effects. Come join us, if deep synergy in a circle speaks to you! Find upcoming events on myAstrology for Self Realization FB Page.
DONATIONS
If you feel the Astro~News Blog with Astro~Weather & Astro~Medicine that I write about on-goingly has good value for you in your navigation with the cosmic currents, you’re welcome to offer a donation via e-transfer to my email addresslicht@islandnet.com. You can also donate directly viaPayPal here.
Malecon Magico – Evening in Puerto Vallarta Dec 3, 2023
Dear Lover of the Cosmos,
How’s it been going, with the Dance of Balance, and the Dance with Attractions in the last weeks, with VENUS in LIBRA(since Nov 8)?
Time to make choices, go for where there’s a magical match, and release what isn’t?!
Coming from fair LIBRA, VENUS crossed today the ‘Alchemy Point’ / ‘Tipping Point’, and started ‘her’ underworld journey in SCORPIOwhere She’ll dwell until Dec 29.
Looots of opportunities (and necessities) to process & release old, dark, (self-)destructive, shadowy energies that can get stuck in the emotional body – and can manifest in the physical.
Boost of the Water Element, and No Planet in Air
VENUS joins SATURN & NEPTUNE (both in PI) in the Watery Realm. While NO Planet is at this point in the Air signs GEM, LIBRA (just the South Node), and AQ, until Jan 20 when the SUN and PLUTO(!) enter AQ. Plus, MERCURY will go retro soon (Dec 12 – Jan 1).
The cerebral-intellectual-detached mode isn’t so supported (and Air signs might not be so happy about it…) but depth of feeling, imagination, surrender, adaptation, flow, connectedness, and compassion (incl. self-compassion).
SATURN moving forward again (since Nov 4) in early PI (and in Water trine w. VENUS on Dec 5!) holds us accountable and supports us with living by spiritual laws, while letting go of co-dependency, victim consciousness, addictions, and having good boundaries towards toxic vibes.
NEPTUNE in its ‘watery’ / multi-dimensional PISCEAN realm (until 2025/26) shows: We are, and all is connected and ONE, in the Unified Web of Life. NEPTUNE will turn around from retro to direct, on Dec 6 – just 2 days after the VENUSian SCO ‘dip’.
The waning MOON will go into SCO on Fri (VenusDay) Dec 8, to meet VENUS (beautiful ‘Morning Star’ / waning lunar crescent duo!) at dawn of Dec 9! Dive into the Magic of Love, and let it transform you from the depth!
VENUS in SCO attunes us to way deeper layers of Love – beyond LIBRAN ‘nice’, ‘pleasant’ and ‘attractive’, and re-connects us with Soul qualities & soulful partnerships – esp. as She goes into a Water trine with NEPTUNE (exact on Dec 25!)
Venusian Gifts from / in the Dark
SCORPIO is ruled by PLUTO after all, and PLUTO is now for the very last phases (until Jan 20, and again Sept 1 – Nov 19) in CAP. VENUS in SCO will go into sextile connection with PLUTO on Dec 28. Dive into the depths of soulful Love.
Let’s start with the dip into SCO – preparing us for the SCO Dark Moon (Dec 9 /10) New Moon in SAG (Dec 12), for VENUS – PLUTO, and all else. Stay tuned to what this phase brings – go beyond surface appearances, and don’t be afraid of the ‘dark’ and mysterious!
With VENUS in SCO, we’re attracted to the mystery, to peek behind the scenes, and go deeper & more intimately into relationships with significant ‘others’.
I heard once a VENUS in SCO quote: “Intimacy = into me I see – through you!” With SCO it’s about emotional / psychological intimacy primarily – which can lead to physical one. Although, SCORPIOs ARE a sexy bunch.
We might also attract lots of things (triggers?) that call for emotional processing. Well, no wonder, these years!!!
The VENUS – JUPITER stat. in TAU (ruled by VENUS) polarity – exact on Dec 9 – can bring lots of opportuities to enhance joy & intimacy, and be generous – esp. towards those who are ‘in the dark’, and where giving would make a difference.
While the VENUS – URANUS (stat. in TAU) polarity esp. – exact on Dec 20 – can be a catalyst for relatonship triggers, or breakthrough prone, in matters of Love / Attraction and Freedom (a balance to strike).
VENUS in ‘Exile’ in SCORPIO
VENUS isn’t ‘easily’ positioned – trad. ‘in exile’ – in SCO, furthest away from Her home in TAU where Spring is in full bloom, life and all the senses awaken.
Love can be bittersweet, sharp, painful, and takes us to & through what we consider ‘death’. As we’re drawn to look under the surface, we discover hidden beauty in the Dark & Changeful.
Dive in, and move through, with Love!
Don’t get too absorbed – and stuck – though, in magnetically alluring low vibrational Scorpionic things like crimes and scandals, vampire movies or real life psychic / energy vampire situations, power games, addictions or other unnecessary additions that suck your life blood. Yeah, ‘politics’ and ‘strategies’ are typically also on, pre- and during Christmas Season. Don’t buy into ‘schemes’.
Let’s channel the energy into deep immersion in the Mystery of Life that evokes our Love as the alchemical change agent.
VENUS on the ‘Alchemy Point’ and in SCORPIO brings alchemical and magical attractions & gifts – if we dive IN!
What may be ‘on the plate’ for Change & Alchemy?
From the ‘problematic’ side of VENUS in SCO…
* Why do you attract people and situations that take you into a painful, ‘underworldly’ / deep emotional process?
* What happens when you get stuck and attached to what you don’t even ‘want’, and what would help to come through?
…to the powerful side of VENUS in SCO
* What’s the Relationship Alchemy that presents itself to you now?
* Where is deep Transformation now possible in your Life?
* What does it take to go into it?
* What helps you in the process?
Maybe a transformation from getting involved with the Love of Power to living from the Power of Love?!
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Where is VENUS’s Deep Dive in SCORPIO happening in Your Chart & Life?
The House in your chart that contains SCORPIO is the ‘Scene of Affairs’.
Always, but esp. nowadays, a good time to tune into Magic and Mystery (without getting ‘lost in the dark’), and process what’s under the surface – with Love.
As you read this, maybe you have your SUN, MOON, AC, or Planets in SCORPIO?
Then there’s more to VENUS’s visit in SCO, since ‘she’ also activates your Scorpionic Archetypes.
In any case, ‘She’ visits your SCORPIO House, in the next weeks. Here’s the invitation:
1st House Theme: How you show up SCO: Mysterious, magical, magnetic (and scary to some people) VENUS coming: Don’t hide – value yourself, and meet your shadow with love.
2nd House What you Have and Value The power to deeply affect others, and the power to change Treasure those gifts in disguise – and you’ll attract from there.
3rd House Your ‘Relatives’ and Environment Magical Beings – with some muggles in the neighbourhood too Time to mingle, and learn some tricks from each other.
4th House Your Home & Family A magical place & regenerative Spa (or a skeleton in every closet and drawer) Time for a purge – you might love what comes to the light! Time to connect with family, and give them the love that shines through darkness.
5th House Your Creativity, Inner Child, and Lover You’re an Alchemist. A juicy time for new creations that you and the world will love.
6th House Your Work, Health, and Lifestyle Gotta be deep & magical, and purging happens, for renewal. Time for a cleanse, and to attract new work connections that can change you and them.
7th House Your Partners & Significant Others The Magic of Love and Attraction. Whom are you drawn to, and who’s drawn to you now, and why might this be?
8th House – that ‘SCORPIO’ House Your Deep Involvement and Transformations You let Life & Love change you. Time to dive in – with Love that takes you through.
9th House Your Travels and Worldviews Going to deep and magical places… Which ones are you drawn to, or IN now, and what’s their effect on you?
10th House Your Calling, ‘Reputation’, and what you model to others To be a catalyst for change. That’s why people are coming to you, always, esp. now.
11th House Your Community and Friends Taboo free zone A good time to find your like-spirited match (groups / individuals).
12th House Your Oneness with ALL The Big Mystery Magically drawn to it – and you give off that ‘certain something’ vibe.
Vamos a la Playa Magica!
VENUS’s ‘Dates’ with other Planets while She’s in SCO (Dec 4 – 29), and how to align with the Energy Blend
Into the dark season, VENUS in SCO helps us attract & connect with one another in magical, deep, life changing ways.
Her SCORPIO Journey starts with aspects to SATURN (Dec 5) and JUPITER (Dec 9): In ‘bad / challenging times’ and in ‘good times’ – there’s only Love.
DEC 4 VENUS coming from LIBRA is this year the last Planet to go over the ‘Tipping Point’, and enter SCO (while MERCURY is already in CAP, and SUN / MARS in SAG) Powerful choices from the Heart lead to renewal. How deep is Your Love? An on-going journey…
DEC 5 VENUS in SCO in Water trine w. SATURN in early PI “I only keep the Love, and give everything back, with Love.”
DEC 9 VENUS in SCO opposes JUPITER retro / stat. (going direct on Dec 30) in TAU (ruled by VENUS So many gifts and opportunities for enhancing joy & intimacy – with one another and with life. Be generous towards those where it would make a big difference.
DEC 11 MERCURY stat. (going retro on Dec 12) in sextile w. VENUS in SCO Stepping away from the outcome / success / accomplishment oriented mind, and diving into Love that can change – everything.
DEC 17 VENUS in SCO in quincunx w. CHIRON retro / stat. (going direct on Dec 26) in ARIES Diving into the Magic of Love can be a grand adventure – be the brave Hero/ine, and heal from within!
DEC 20 VENUS in SCO (where Uranus is exalted) opposite URANUS retro / stat. (going direct on Jan 27) in TAU (ruled by Venus) – a ‘mutual reception’ Intimacy vs / and(!) freedom in relationships…? Freedom from the ‘Known’, from old habitual patterns we’re attached to (via comfort, or because of unprocessed pain), and continue to attract from – until we set ourselves free. Or Divine / Inner Soul Intervention (a Uranian thing) does. Either way: EmBody Freedom, and Intimacy with Life.
DEC 25 – Christmas Day VENUS in SCO in Water Trine w. NEPTUNE stat. (goes direct on Dec 6) in PI Surf the waves of the Big Mystery! Know you come through the depth – as you surrender.
DEC 28 VENUS in sextile (a VENUSian aspect) with PLUTO (the Ruler of SCO) at the end of CAP – another kind of ‘mutual reception’ Tune into deep Love that knows no Time, is renewing & sustaining.
Blessings for the VENUSian Infusion & Alchemy! Melanie
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