The Solar Return is one of the more important charts we can have done. It is a chart done for the exact time each year that the Sun returns to its natal position at the exact degree and minute of longitude as it was at our birth. It provides a snapshot of what the year to come looks like, and stands on its own as a powerful indicator of what we can expect in the year that follows. It is the original reason the birthday was deemed so important, and why we celebrate our birthday every year. It represents the renewal of our light.
A reader asked me to given some examples of what I mean when I speak of "self-undoing behaviors." To me, these are associated with the 12th house, and there are two forms of self-undoing behaviors; the positive, and the negative. This will be welcome news for anyone having a hard time with the changes.
The March 2006 Solar Eclipse in Aries is favorable in many ways due to the overwhelming number of favorable aspects, those that are harmonious and stabilizing as well as those that make for a very unique time ahead of us. Saturn in early Leo on its stationary direct point at 5 Leo is very empowering to the Solar Eclipse at 9 Aries, and opens adventures wherever early Sagittarius falls in our chart. This extremely strong trine will make it easy to embrace the new that is coming for us all very quickly, and promises a major concentration of power directed toward a more vibrant future.
Though we still bask in the light of multiple trines and other very productive factors for a couple of weeks, April is volatile at several critical points. These are "generic storms" that affect everyone, and as you have read before, sometimes the best we can do when a storm is blowing through is not mess things up worse than they already are. When everyone else is losing their cool, if we keep our heads and focus, then after the storm we usually look good and see more clearly what is and could be than those who wasted the time is useless wheel-spinning. Some of the storms are familiar to us, while others are not, but they will affect us all in fairly large ways.
This was inspired by a reader who asked about some important issues in several areas of human existence. Hopefully this will help many of you understand what I have learned about the Eternal Light-Life we all live within. In The Magic of Space the author states repeatedly that all is “composed” of the substance of Universal Mind, also called Eternal Consciousness. That is the source of the Ten Thousand Things, in the classic sense. It is well established and accepted in the Wisdom Tradition that Nothingness morphs into Limitlessness while not losing its essential nature, and the resulting emanation (the Synthetic principle in all creation, cosmic and human) results in Limitless Light. All is Limitless Light, you and me included.
From everyone's favorite, The Magic of Space, some profound thoughts about our "spiritual" bodies, life in the higher realms, and why there's nothing to fear after we die. From Chapter 8, "The Reality and Illusion of Death," some comforting words.
There are very few times when all the planets ruling signs that oppose each other are in perfect harmony. A trine (120 degrees) is said to show a harmonized stable understanding between points. For the next few days, we have three trines going on. We have Venus trine Mars, Mercury trine Jupiter, and Sun trine Saturn. This is very rare, and very beneficial for doing a whole lot of things and adjusting our lives to make them work more harmoniously. Read on to find out more about this remarkable moment in time.
This Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006, will have major impact on all signs. Ordinarily an eclipse shows us what will be "shut down," opening other lights and activities in our lives. This one will be even more important in its influence, due to Pluto going stationary retrograde that day. When any outer planet goes stationary retrograde or direct, major global events follow. This Eclipse ushers in long term, far reaching transformative influences, purifying us of outmoded life material while bringing forth more potent spiritual potential. All will be dramatically transformed from this eclipse, completely serving the greater good in each of us and the world at large.
Today's article was inspired by a client who asked me about meditation. In some ways, to put it simply, prayer is when we talk to God, while meditation is when we listen. And of course there are many ways to listen, and many ways we are focused or unfocused in our habits of listening. There are many valid ways to meditate, and I have found that some techniques work better than others at different times in life, due to all kinds of individual differences.
Also known as the Spring Equinox, where the days and nights are of equal length. For three months the days will get longer, the Solar force gets stronger, and we should start feeling better, especially those with SAD, or seasonal affective disorder, a product of not enough sunshine getting to the endocrine system. The Equinox begins at 10:26 am PST. This is the time to launch projects, take a new look at the coming season of productivity, and figure out which what projects you want to tend. It is said that a chart done for the Equinox shows the season to come, and this one has some interesting aspects.
This is from one of my talks when I was asked just what astrology is. While I could not possibly explore the full implications of that question, this is a part of what I had to say. (I originally had an audio link of me giving the talk, but it was on a server I no longer have access to, and I haven't figured out whether I want to use a ton of bandwidth to offer it again.) Anyway, here's a piece of "What is Astrology?"
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