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~ Moon Messages ~
NEW MOON
1:35 PM MDT JUNE 22,
1 degree 30
minutes CANCER.
[This New Moon
is in play until the
Full Moon July 7 in Capricorn.]
The Vision:
A MAN ON A MAGIC CARPET HOVERS OVER A
LARGE AREA OF LAND.
Keynote: The ability
to expand one's consciousness by stabilizing one's point of view at a
higher level.
This is the paradox which confuses so many minds. As long as the
intellect restlessly searches for new horizons it is confused by its
searching. Accepting a stable focus, the mind can raise its point
of observation and see reality in a truer perspective. The
individual becomes the whole focused at this particular point for a
particular task and function. He can at least reflect the
consciousness of the greater Whole, Humanity. ELEVATION is the
keyword.*
*An
Astrological Mandala: A Reinterpretation of the Sabian Symbols, Dane
Rudhyar, Vintage Books 1974. These visions were received
clairvoyantly in 1925 through "the intermediary" Elsie Wheeler.
Astrologer Marc Edmund Jones flashed each degree of the zodiac, out of
sequence, in front of her, and she described the vision she saw.
Decades later, Dane Rudhyar expanded on the significance of these
visions. They are wise reminders that life is chock full of
meaning.
~
TAROT:
A Crone's View -- Insights &
Instruction
PLANETS IN
RETROGRADE:
NEPTUNE, JUPITER and PLUTO are
RETROGRADE.
URANUS turns RETROGRADE
July 1.
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ASTRO FORECAST 2009
APRIL thru JUNE
Saturn and Uranus dominated the cold winter
atmosphere with their battle of old vs. new. In these next three
months of Spring, that battle retreats so that the forces of status quo
and radical new can observe the effects of their three month opposition
and develop new strategies. These are months of easement, when
we're more willing (having been tortured into submission during the
winter months!) to bend and change: stubbornness gives way to reality.
Final exam comes in July thru September, when the battle of radical new
vs. status quo reaches the point of culminating showdown. So
leap and risk entering all the changes you can honestly, tho
reluctantly, try. The point these two symbols -- Saturn and Uranus
-- are making is being sharpened now, April thru June. And that
point? The crucifixion of restrictive, outdated structures on the
shaking cross of the unknown and its frightening chaos. We resist
of course. Saturn's patterns have us by the subtlest emotional
strands, and we don't like change anyway. The adventure of risk no
longer appeals to us, we prefer cozy slippers and known territory.
Too bad. We have to change ourselves, personally and culturally.
What has been isn't working. But who's to assure that a new way
will work? No one but you. It's an inside job, and the new
will win this battle: it has help from the numerological wave of 2009,
the number 11, calling us to illuminate our lives and be inventive
(scroll down to read more about 2009 as an 11 year). ~~~~ There is a lot
of connectivity between Saturn and Uranus in ancient myths. In
myth, Uranus -- the Sky god -- was murdered by his own son, Cronus --
Saturn (Spirit, the Sky God, murdered by the confines of Time, Cronus/Saturn).
After the murder, Cronus/Saturn was heralded as a god who would bring
forth a golden age, but he proved to be a cruel god who wound up eating
his own children and bringing forth the Furies. Now, two thousand
plus years later, Spirit/Uranus has returned to confront his
death-dealing son, Cronus/Saturn, and reclaim earth. Remember that
as you resist leaving your comfy habits and attitudes. (Wouldn't
you rather fly than trudge?) ~~~~ To further emphasize the power of the
new, Uranus, a planet that holds the meaning of revolution,
independence, inventiveness, is travelling thru the mutable water sign
Pisces, a sign associated with the age we have been in for 2000 years
and are in the process of leaving. The age we are moving into,
Aquarius, is 'ruled' by the planet Uranus. Tidal waves of
synchronicity that will change the landscape inside and out, they are
a'comin'. ~~~~ Saturn is a planet associated with both
structure and stricture, and it is posited in the mutable earth sign
Virgo, Pisces' opposite. Virgo holds on to its harvest.
Those tidal waves will be met by roots and rock that are difficult to
dislodge. But definitely not impossible. ~~~~ This battle,
this resistance of the old to change, is going on within each of us,
cellularly, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. And it's going on
in all cultures around the globe as well, at every stratum of our
institutions. Just take in the news and you see it. Then look
within, you'll see the battle between the familiar and the unknown is
equally active in your sinews.
~~~~ But there is another major planetary transit, though
slower and ultimately more inexorable, more totally annihilating of what
is rotten and outmoded in human institutions, that will make
reverberating music in 2009. It will take a full fourteen years
from now for what has just noisily begun to break down -- the corporate
and financial systems of capitalism -- to be so decimated that a
rebirth of the economy can manifest.
The transforming elements have been drawn
to money and the shell game it is; and to the venal, greedy purveyors of
the pure fantasy that money is based on. (For a lucid and
fascinating detailing of the fantasy that is money, see
Zeitgeist Addendum.) All this describes the entry this year of
Pluto -- the little dwarf planet with immense power which demands we
mutate now and avoid the rush -- into the corporate sign of Capricorn,
thru which it will travel for the next fourteen years. I predict
that the money systems currently in use -- the paradigm of accumulation
that is capitalism -- will be destroyed during these next fourteen
years. The corporates will fight to keep their institutions in
place and play, but the lie of promise and the burden of debt each
dollar is heir to will not withstand the devaluing exposure it will go
thru. And the people will shout their fury. The populace
doesn't stand mute when the larder is bare. The government sees
this. Recently, the news reported that police in Phoenix, Arizona
have been trained for civil unrest containment in case people begin to
riot in the streets over no livelihood; no livelihood while CEOs of
bailed out companies still make more money in a year than the majority
of us makes in a lifetime.
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2009 - LUNAR YEAR OF
THE OX
January 26, 2009 - February 14, 2010
Mine is
the stabilizing force
that perpetuates the cycle of life.
I stand immobile against the
test of adversity,
resolute and unimpeachable.
I seek to serve integrity,
to bear the burdens of righteousness.
I abide by the laws of nature
patiently pushing the wheel of Fate.
Thus, I shall weave my destiny.
I AM THE OX.**
(The
Ox is the second sign of the Lunar cycle, following the Rat).
2009 is an OX Year:
Barack Obama was born in the Year of
the Ox, and hurray for that. He's the perfect rendition of what an
Ox personality is: responsible, calm and eloquent.
In an Ox year, hard
work is necessary to get results. The Ox symbolizes the attainment
of prosperity through fortitude and elbow grease. During the Year
of the Ox, tenacity and dedication are key. Leave no loose ends.
Get into a routine. Use logic. Keep calm -- like President
Obama does, himself an Ox. In love, take your time. Let the
courtship last a long time. Give you and your new interest time to
warm up to each other, time to get to know each other's true nature.
Give your feelings time to grow. Pay debts. Let your actions
be true to your word. All victories gained in an Ox Year are
deserved, earned through one's own efforts. All the Chinese
Animals get along with the Ox, with the exception of Dogs and Tigers.
The last time we were
in an Ox year was 1997. Here are a few history-making events from
that year -- it will be interesting to see the parallels that may emerge
in this Year of the Ox:
Israeli government
approved establishment of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem,
a setback in Middle East Peace Process.
Britain's Princess
Diana killed in Paris car crash.
Hong Kong was returned
to Chinese rule.
Heaven's Gate cult
members committed mass suicide in California.
Ellen DeGeneres outs
herself, becoming first openly gay woman to have her own sitcom.
Comet Hale-Bopp closest
it will be to earth until the year 4397.
Well-known people who
died in 1997 Year of the Ox:
William S. Burroughs
Jacques Cousteau
Allen Ginsburg
Jimmy Stewart
James Michenor
Mother Theresa
SOME FAMOUS
OX PEOPLE ARE:
WALT DISNEY
GORE VIDAL
SAMMY DAVIS JR.
PETER SELLERS
RICHARD BURTON
MARGARET THATCHER
ROBERT REDFORD
VANESSA REDGRAVE
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
BILL COSBY
GENERAL COLIN POWELL
RICHARD NIXON
GERALD FORD
VINCENT VAN GOGH
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
ADOLPH HITLER
You are an OX if you were born
during the following cycles; the element of OX you are is given too:
February 7, 1997 to January 27, 1998
(Fire)
February 20, 1985 to February 8, 1986 (Wood)
February 3, 1973 to January 22, 1974 (Water)
February 15, 1961 to February 4, 1962 (Metal)
January 29, 1949 to February 16, 1950 (Earth)
February 11, 1937 to January 30, 1938 (Fire)
January 25, 1925 to February 12, 1926 (Wood)
February 6, 1913 to January 25, 1914 (Water)**
**From
The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau - HarperCollins
2000
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2+0+0+9
= 11 Year
ELEVEN is a number
of Illumination. ELEVEN is considered a Master Number, a number of
Initiation into a deeper layer of understanding and awareness.
2009 bids us to soul search, to examine our ethics, to find new meaning
in life, to become familiar with our own inner condition, and to bring
light to it. In 2009, an ELEVEN year, the dance is done to the
music of spiritual expansion, illumination, holding to one's ideals,
invention.
Against the
background of this ELEVEN, which the whole world is resonating to in
2009, each of us has a Personal Year number. Here are simple
instructions for finding yours, and a brief meaning of each number.
Add your birth month
and date and the number 11. DO NOT REDUCE THE 11 TO A 2; it
is a double number. Double numbers are not reduced to a single digit but
left whole and function as extra dimensions -- Master, or Mastery,
numbers, a call to understand and perfect.
NOTE: Reduce
all other numbers (except the other double numbers you may run into,
like 22, 33, 44) to a single digit between 1-9, i.e.:
10 becomes 1, 12
becomes 3, 25 becomes 7.
NUMBERS & THEIR
MEANING:
1- Individualization
2 - Association
3 - Self-Expression
4 - Organization
5 - Experience
6 - Responsibility
7 - Wisdom
8 - Material Freedom
9 - Humanitarian
11 - Illumination
22 - Material Mastery
33 - Creative Mastery
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