GLOBAL ASTROLOGY BLOG: The Coming Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction of 2010

GLOBAL ASTROLOGY BLOG: The Coming Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction of 2010

Are you in tune with yourself?

Are you in tune with yourself? Am I in tune with myself? Neptune's Return is a good time to review this.


The planet Neptune is sitting at 25 degrees in the constellation of Aquarius - the same place as when it was first discovered in 1846. When a planet completes it's journey through all the constellations and returns to the same place, in this case it's place of discovery, in Astrological terms this is known as a Return.


Neptune being one of the outer planets of our solar system - travels slowly (from our perspective anyway!) - it's taken him 263 yrs to complete his journey. Neptune is 30 times further from the Sun than Earth.


Neptune rules the Zodiac sign Pisces - so it's not surprising that at the time of his discovery both Ether/anaesthetic and Photography appeared. Also significant contributions from both Darwin and Marx.


Neptune particularly influences fashion and music! So whatever constellations Neptune is visiting will influence both of these considerably. It's easy to track fashion cycles - just look at the sign Neptune was in at the time. Music, like fashion, is also influenced by this giant mass.


Neptune has the reputation for being evasive - or is he just hard to see clearly. Often surrounded by mist or fog - his contribution is not always obvious. With Neptune you need to 'feel' - he's not so easy to 'see'. In fact Neptune is all feel - he's the master teacher in that realm - he doesn't have another way of operating - he's all about 'flow'. Like the ocean, which he is linked - Neptune King of the Sea - he moves in rhythm to natures cycles. His sensitivity is extraordinary, he needs this to sense the mood, hear the rhythm and move with the cycle. He operates in the element of water - which flows. Water can be a powerful force- and faced with it's power, surrender is often the only recourse. He connects with the abundance of water within our bodies - they communicate, no words are needed. We sense, we intuit, we know, without having to be told - such is his ability to communicate and our ability to 'hear'.


Neptune also rules over the domains of artistic expression and the healing arts - both so dependent on intuiting, feeling and sensing.


So Neptune has returned what can that mean for us? In the Astrological Natal Chart a return is quite significant - particularly those of the outer, slow moving planets. During a period of Return we are often reminded of something, often forgotten in our busy scramble ahead. Reminded of something we knew was important in our life but put aside because there just wasn't enough time! When the planet returns to it's natal placement it brings back the energy of that placement - and we are reminded. Depending on the planet and it's placement this may not always be easy, but necessary for our way forward. This is often the case with the Returns of Saturn.


For me, I sense that Neptune's Return makes him more powerful, easier to be feel. Neptune is also connected to our desire to escape, to avoid - so maybe a time to see more clearly how we create situations that anesthetize us, so we can escape from our unconscious pains. Also an amazing time of creativity - maybe new awareness into healing with sound. The oceans and our waterways will also be more in focus. And in this time of transformative healing of the earth - possibly more storms and high tides.

But for me, I want to tune into him more - easy to ignore Neptune, or try to anyway - as he makes us feel so damn sensitive, it hurts! But sensitivity is the vehicle to explore his oceanic realms, his far away lands, his deepest mysteries.


Neptune's been a close companion of mine during my lifetime - I've feared him, tried to block him out, ignored him (or tried to), and plain refused to believe he existed. But that didn't change anything - just prolonged the desire to escape! He's powerful Neptune, but in a way that seems so diffused, so untouchable, so evasive, so hidden. But you have to feel with all your being - you see you can only feel him - your head is of absolutely no use here - I've tried it, I keep trying it - it's simply useless. Neptune has his own unique pathway and once you find it and have the faith in yourself to follow it - magickal realms of incredible beauty await you.


It's Neptune time - may you discover his etheral beauty and divine healing.


lotsa luv
marilynxx

The times in which we live!

Are you feeling it? Are you feeling it? I’m sure you are, just what is happening on this planet of ours???


Well it’s been a pretty full on time! The big Solstice event on June 23rd was potently aspected! The energy of two of the heavy weights Uranus and Pluto challenged this event – Uranus squaring both the Sun and Moon and Pluto opposing them. These planets impart powerful energies of change, revolution, innovation, death, rebirth and power. A potent brew!


The day after this great event – there was a New Moon – a significant time of new beginnings! Pluto – the harbinger of power, death and rebirth – opposed this New Moon.
Beautiful, loving Venus and creative, active Mars snuggling together in Taurus has been a welcomed relief. A sense and need to comfort and nurture ourself, has been somehow easier to feel – thank god! – so needed during these trying times.


The big Chiron, Neptune and Jupiter cha, cha, cha – is moving things in huge ways – can you feel your awareness moving at lightening speed? I sure can, sometimes I just want to say ‘stop!!!!!! Give me some peace for a while. . . . .please!!!!’ Where’s the stop button! ‘Do I have to feel everything???"


Openings created by Neptune and Chiron can be stressful! This would be a good time to seek out your favourite therapist, particularly modalities that can realign the energy fields, which are being powerfully transformed and reshaped as we speak!


Well, these are big times – and big methods are needed! We really don’t like to be woken up do we? We much rather get all cosy on the couch in front of the fire, watching our favourite movie or reading our favourite book, warm drink in hand. Safe away from the troubles of the world – ‘just leave me here please!!’


But alas – this is not the time. Time for hiding away has gone – nowhere to hide, it’ll come and get you wherever you are.


But if you’re a good girl/boy and pay attention, step forward and act – then you can have your cosy times on the couch in front of the fire (we need those) – but not as an escape! ‘Cause you’re never going to be able to forget – ‘they’ are never going to let us forget what’s happening and what we need to do.


This is 2009 – I remember watching cartoons that depicted these times – cars flying through the air, people dressed in space gear. I have lived through the ‘50’s, ‘60’s, ‘70’s, ‘80’s’, ‘90’s’ and now here in 2009. Things may not have changed as we projected, on the outside – but on the inside – things are really flying! Awareness is flying, understanding is awakening and the community of the world is communicating.


These are very big times indeed.


The energy surrounding the Solstice sets the energy for the 3mth period ahead. The energy contributed by the big boys Uranus and Pluto at the Solstice event created a powerful and portentous (borrowed this from Babula, great word!) start to the new season. Portentous means solemn, ominous, alarming, significant, threatening, crucial and menacing.

To quote Babula (lovely Astrologer from Qld) ‘stay tuned as there will be more major world events coming in the coming weeks’

I remember having a peak at the New Year chart – on Jan 1st this year. I remember it, as normally I’m an optimistic type who usually looks for the strengths and positives – but looking at this chart I got the shivers, and felt an ominous sense. I couldn’t help but feel that things were going to be difficult this year.

And I sense that this is just the beginning – there is more to unfold. A lot of people are aware that the way we’ve structured our social systems simply isn’t working. And anything that’s not working eventually breaks down.

Things aren’t working in big ways – so a major overhaul appears to be before us. Major overhauls take a lot – a lot of patience, a lot of awareness, a lot of realness, a lot of understanding and a lot of courage.

These big fellows up in our Solar System are not just doing ‘their thing’ – we are all connected. They effect us and we effect them.
These are major transformational times and it is not a question of can we change but how will we change – change is a necessity not an option. The sooner we realise this, the easier it will become.

In just a few months Saturn, the taskmaster of hard work, discipline, focus and ‘building from the base’ strongly challenges Pluto, the bringer of death, rebirth and renewal of power. This is a huge combination with portentous (that word again) possibilities.

This aspect continues through 2010 following this in 2011 – Uranus squares (challenges) Pluto as well.
Adding to this potent brew we have arrived in an Eclipse period – two is July and one in early August. Eclipses are also potent times – they bring change (not that word again!), endings and beginnings for the world at large. They have a particular significance for those people who have planets at the same degrees of the Eclipse. The Lunar Eclipse on June 7th is at 15 degrees Capricorn (smack bang on my Moon, I’ll keep you in touch!) – the Total Solar Eclipse on July 22nd is at 29 degrees Cancer – and the Lunar Eclipse on August 6th is at 13 degrees Aquarius.

Eclipse energy can last over a period of 6 months – sometimes for years. So to have all this powerfully potent energy happening all around the same time – is significant indeed. We are already seeing some of the consequences. But hold your hats guys – there’s more on the way.

So dear fellow citizens of earth – choice of change we do not have – this is going to happen regardless – so the choice we do have now is – are we going to be a part of this change or are we going to resist it? Resisting the flow is always much more painful – energy likes to go with the flow, in this way it has much more strength (martial arts) and more power.

So from my protected little space – so warm and cosy, our very graced lives here in the land of Oz (for a lot of us anyway) – how can I contribute, how can I be a part of this incredible, spectacular event which is happening NOW – before our very eyes.

These are big time indeed – and require big people, big individuals to open their minds, open their heart to things we could never have dreamt of.

Consciously focus your time – lovingly structure your life – have fun and enjoy ever moment – ‘cause they never return.

So this month’s message for all the different ‘signs’ of the Zodiac is;
"This is a universal message and sent to each of you – ‘go into your heart, rest in your love – listen to your answer when you ask ‘what can I do now to be a part of the healing of this Earth? Within that, I’m sure you’ll find your own healing’

Have a great month!
lotsa luv
marilynxx

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Many Magick Moments

hi!
don't forget to check out my other blog page - Many Magick Moments for more articles on Wholistic Health.

I'll soon have the Deva-line Flower Essence brochure available there - watch out for it. The Deva-line Flower Essences are a great friend in these super transformational times.

much love
marilynxx

I was asked sometime ago to write an article for the Aquarius Rising newsletter. I did one the next day (‘quick’, I thought) then sent it off, I called it Courage. Meg (editor of newsletter) got back to me – "I think there’s something missing’ she said, "would you like to revisit it?"
That was some time ago now and the ‘story’ has still not been told.

So I sit down early, fingers on keyboard and wait with eager anticipation or is it cautious trepidation – for what will arise from the depths.
It’s easy, you see, to find some nifty bits, clever pieces that come straight from the head (and hands – in Gemini, they’re connected). For someone with a strong Mercury and Gemini, it comes naturally. But what about those deeper caverns, those seemingly inaccessible grottos? So deep that they are removed from conscious thought or memory.
Meg tells me that everyone has a story to tell – with my head, I have many – but what is the real one (for now)? Let’s see!

I came down to Adelaide almost a year ago now – a few things prompted this. The main stimulus for me is and always has been ‘my body’. Being a Virgo, I guess that’s not surprising!

I had worked hard to create a business and centre – Magick Moments – in Ipswich, Qld. My partner and I had completely renovated this lovely old (over 100 yrs) Queenslander house. The poor house had seen better days and once we started pulling everything apart it looked a real mess. I pulled off walls (much to my partner’s frustration), revealing incredible cedar boards beneath. He was frustrated because he had to fix anything I pulled apart – we had some very ‘trying’ times. I repaired, sanded and painted every square inch – inside and out. When I got to the outside that was a real scene – me perched up on scaffolding (which I’d hired and put up myself, with help) painting the outside of the house – it was a scorching heatwave and I was probably about 12 metres up in the air, precariously balancing with paint tin and brush in hand – it was very scary –!!! But I was determined! The poor neighbours – they were terrified for me! I had new floors put down where old boards had seen their final days – stripped all the old doors back to their beautiful wood, replacing a panel in one old door with simply gorgeous old pink glass. The place was coming alive!

When the renvo was finished it looked radiant – I had created my Magick Moments. Each person that came into that place, right up until I closed it, would all say ‘it feels so nice in here, what a beautiful place’. It was a very beautiful place and with the help of some others (particularly my partner Bryan - thank you so much!) I had created it!

I could also feel the change in the street, the energy seemed to have ‘lifted’ – it was palpable. Neighbours were so happy to have me there – they were all very sweet, Magick Moments had come to Keogh St. I experienced so much love there.

So why did I leave? Well it was August 2007, I’d just done my 2nd Astrology class (I’m self-taught, since 1959) with Babula in Mullumbimby (one of my favourite places). It was on the Black Moon. I wrote in my journal

"I took it as a sign to pull myself out of my groove for a few days during my Saturn Return and Lunar Eclipse. I hoped by being in a different environment it would widen my perspective and clarify my thoughts. Clear the cobwebs so to speak – illuminate my path ahead – on this most likely my last chapter here on earth. I knew there was change ahead – I could literally feel it in my ‘bones’ – but I was a bit afraid to instigate the changes – ‘what if?’ I mused. But I know if you don’t make changes when they’re due – they’ll be made for you. So best to get in first!"

I learnt that the Black Moon carries an energy of repression and loss, of the deepest, ancient feminine – like the lost goddess, the lost ancient mother. Her location can illuminate those areas of loss, pain and grief and show us how to heal these repressed energies. Bringing them alive, into conscious action so her strengths and wisdom can be used, to bring to life the goddess – her loving and caring ways.

I then went to spend some time at another of my favourite places Woodenbong, a gorgeous little town right on the Qld/NSW border, surrounded by mountains. It was my 2nd Saturn return and the day after was a Lunar Eclipse sitting directly on my Black Moon – a very powerful omen!

"Bit by bit the moon disappeared, not entirely, as I thought it might, but without the reflection of the sun, the moon looked like a muted red ball. As it went through its transformation I wondered what effect this must be having on all the bodies in the sky. "It must be having some effect," I thought. "How would this effect all the other planetary bodies?" Something cannot happen like this and not have any effect. It’s a huge event. I wondered how this would be effecting all the stars, how would they feel? What lasting effect would this have on them?

Something as large as a planet has a tremendous energetic field and when that’s altered it changes the entire field. It was kind of eerie in a way – this reddish huge planet sitting in the sky. It was clear that it is a planet and that it sits so close to us here on earth"

The eclipse was powerful, very powerful – and it changed my life!
Watching it was simply staggering! The night sky in Woodenbong is always brilliant – but this night something really powerful occurred. I awoke the next morning and new everything had been changed.

There were some more ‘hints’ or should I say ‘shoves’. I was still finding ‘reasons’ in my head, for not making changes. So guess what? Yes my body made sure I was listening. For the first time in my life I called the ambulance – something very weird was happening in my body and I didn’t know what it was. They took me to hospital with concern it may be a heart attack. All tests were fine. It happened again a couple of weeks later – this time they kept me in longer – but still nothing showing on the ‘machines’. I knew something was happening but it wasn’t ‘gross’ enough yet to register on their machines. The time for change had come. To add to that, one morning soon after, sitting at breakfast – the words came loud and clear ‘now is the time’ – they sounded insistent.

So the dismantling process began – it was huge – my beautiful home and Magick Moments! My beautiful home, which I’d invested so much time and energy, so much love – created much beauty and comfort – and my garden, my glorious garden. I had literally planted hundreds of trees and shrubs. I made many of my Flower Essences (Deva-line) from my garden. In fact the birth of my Deva-line Flower Essences began there. This was an enormous job! Extricating myself from all that I’d created was massive – simply massive.

The overwhelming sense of change that seemed to be occurring within every cell of my being – was overpowering – I simply had to concede. So I did.
It took around 9 mths for the whole transformation – from the initial ‘sense’ to leaving for Adelaide. That 9-month period has come again at different times – it really is a ‘gestation’ period.

Within that time of gynormous change I visited my values many times – they were my guiding lights – they kept me going. "What is important to me?" I would ask again and again. These values led me here – for now – who knows what the future holds?
Just recently my partner commented (in good humour) when I mentioned that I was ‘easy going’ - ‘you are many things, Courageous, very loving (at times!) and determined – but ‘easy going’ ‘I don’t think so!’ I had to agree! But there was that Courage word again!

Am I courageous – I don’t know. What I do know is that I have to be true to myself, I have to listen to what I’m saying, that voice never leads me astray.

"Time to do everything you want – live the life you’ve been putting off until tomorrow – ‘cause remember, tomorrow never comes"!

You could say these words are relevant for me in my life having turned 60 – but they are always relevant, every moment of every day they are relevant – because it’s my life – my very precious life.

Today is a big day in the 'heavens' - the massive system of space and life above us - the Sun is shifting direction!
Such a huge mass of living matter -so crucial for our existence here on earth has slowed, stopped and is just about (3.16pm exact Adelaide/Australia time) to begin his brilliant journey in a new direction.
For us down here in Oz it means 'yahoo - summer's on the way" - a little way ahead yet, but the focus is there!

Life is a lot about 'focus' isn’t it?

With the focus of such a giant, powerful mass of matter - this surely must have an impact! Imagine the focus, commitment and effort it must take for the Sun - to slow, stop and change direction - and why? Well, from my meagre mental meandering - i'd say - for the benefit of us here on Earth. So us down here can start to get warmer and you up there to cool for a while!

This life - such a miracle - such immense intelligence - so awe inspiring!
This incredible Earth - this awesome Universe and us magnificent Humans - enough for us to admire and investigate for eons, i would think!

So with this powerful energy occurring as i speak/write - how can i - how can you - use this gift in time to change directions in our own life? How can we muster all our focus, commitment and effort to build momentum into a new direction, one which is in sync with life and it's incredible intelligence.

Humans have been celebrating these special times - Solstices - for many a millennium, for various reasons. So how can you and i stop, refocus and move in a way in sync with life - our life and the life which surrounds us!

Another amazing opportunity we're given.