The Full Moon of June 2009 - It's The Blessing of the ChristFest

by Robert Wilkinson

The Full Moon in June each year features the Sun in Gemini and Moon in Sagittarius. It is the third of the "High Moons" occurring each Spring, a time when the World Teacher, a.k.a. "the Christ," pours forth new forms of loving-wisdom into the world that offers all a great leap forward in awareness of Higher things.

This is a very long article with an abundance of information about this year-long global blessing, so enjoy!

The 3 High Moons begin at the Aries-Libra Full Moon of Spring. The life arising then takes shape in a wisdom form of the "Eternal Buddha Nature" at the following Taurus-Scorpio Full Moon, known as the Wesak Festival. At this third High Moon the World Teacher takes that wisdom and distributes it to the entire world, where it influences the next 9 months.

If you want to know more about the energies of the recent Wesak Festival of 2009, please check out the article on the 2009 Taurus-Scorpio Full Moon Wesak Festival at the end of this post.

This Full Moon falls on June 7, 11:12 am PDT, 2:12 pm EDT, 7:12 pm Greenwich. It occurs on June 8 everywhere east of India. A quick look finds late Leo rising in Santa Monica and Vancouver, early Libra in Washington DC, late Scorpio in Amsterdam and London, early Sag in Tallinn, late Capricorn in Johannesburg, late Aquarius in New Delhi, mid Aries in Perth, early Taurus in Melbourne, late Taurus in Tokyo, and late Cancer in Maui.

Because the New Moon preceding the Full Moon always represents the seed forms that are brought to surface at and after the Full Moon, please check out New Moon in Gemini - What's Coming in May-June 2009. This can help focus what blessings and seeds are being offered to us in the near future.

This Full Moon falls at 18 degrees Sagittarius and Gemini. It is said that the middle third of any sign deals with the social levels of life, and being the second decan of those signs, invokes a sub-influence of Aries and Libra. Since the Moon always focuses the light of the Sun in specific forms, the degree symbols for both are important. The Sun degree is the illumination or enlightenment of the lunation, whereas the Moon shows us the potential forms that enlightenment will take.

The Solar degree Sabian Symbol is "Two Chinese Men talking Chinese," a degree of "alienness, but also independence from environment," and "conscious self-sustainment in spite of all conditions." Rudhyar comments that it symbolizes the ability to find others who "speak our language," and the need for us to have mental independence to concentrate on special issues. This implies a form of communication in specialized ways with those who share our culture is associated with how this lunation will manifest.

Dr. Jones says the keyword is DIFFERENCE and when positive it's said to be a degree of "effective mobilization of self and others for life's more specialized objectives." We find it is a degree of intellectual experience, where we are strengthened by cooperation with others who share our special areas of interest. Here "uniqueness is idealized as a corrective for self-diffusion," with a possibility of "an exceptional refinement of the personality along original or unusual lines."

The formula is Manipulating, Practical, Ingenious, Generalizing, Physical and Receptive. Rudhyar states the degree is in the Span of Restlessness, and the Actional-Physical level of Exteriorization.

The Lunar degree symbol of this Christ Fest is "On the Hot Beach Children Play, Protected by Sunbonnets." It speaks of the "protective agency which safeguards the free behavior of individuals," and a "vivifying contact with collective life-energies." We are told it is a degree of protection as we begin to "deal with the powerful energies " of the unconscious. We find that we need to value protection, but not overdo it, and we can play within safe limits, at ease in close contact with natural energies.

Dr. Jones says the keyword is INNOCENCE and when positive it's said to be a degree of constant and "complete protection of self through its exploration" of potentials and exploiting opportunities. Here the light is on our ability to give attention to our affairs, and some form of normality as "a corrective for ...frustration which follows from any inadequacy of contact with others." We are told this yields a "happy and full participation" through finding a role to play in life.

The formula is Manipulating, Practical, Original, Generalizing, Physical, and Receptive. Rudhyar states the degree is in the Span of Detachment, in the Actional-Physical level of Transferrence.

From these symbols it seems the coming World Teacher promptings affecting the next year will usher in new activities that will help us become more mentally independent so we can be more self sustaining in ways that will ultimately show as protective forms of play and interaction. We will find light and life among those who "speak our language" and thus correct any lurking frustration arising from past contacts. Through the originality indicated by the Sun, we will find a form of a new role we can fully and happily play in the world.

The lunation is about discoveries that have or will externalize that protect us and enable us to interact in safe ways. Expect individualizing experiences with like-minded beings related to your Ray work that show you how to play within protective circumstances. This is distributive Air (ideas) taking for through distributive Fire (inspirations).

This is a time when what we have simplified should show as forms of peace, where our "sacred dance" will serve as an example across space and time for those who follow the same path as us. It is a time of high feelings and deliberation in action.

As Saturn is still the handle of the Bucket, practice its virtues the best you're able. Sometimes patience during a delay, or taking the roundabout way, is the best dance to achieve a goal. The overall pattern shows we're leading with the Moon, closing with the Sun, and focusing through Saturn.

Given the aspects and positions, expect major releases of energies at the end of the end of old ways and views. The biggest lessons deal with productive mental disciplines of synthesis and deeper, gentler compassion helping our lower mind express the Higher Self as it is the vehicle to demonstrate the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius.

This will test our nobility, strength, creativity, and show us what we need to let go of, or purify, so that the role, function, or ideal we have defined as our heart's desire can make an appearance. We are still refining and committing to a greater value or more refined feeling experience.

Other lessons involve verbal mindfulness, not indulging in self-deprecating words or thoughts, and finding the role or roles we want to play that clarify who we are and what skills we bring to the interactions. Avoid getting lost in irrelevancies and side issues, and find ways to get the understanding you need to carry your specialized function to fruition.

It's great for empathy in seeing things as others do, but that doesn't mean we should adopt that view. We may have to awaken others to the importance of the subtle or larger things going on, and keynote the stages of what's developing.

The major aspects in the Lunation chart involve Mercury square the Aquarius stellium, and the Mutable T-square indicated by Saturn square the Lunation. You can find more about the Aquarius lessons by going to this article as well as this one on how the Mercury station square the stellium is likely to operate.

I've been discussing the Mutable T-squares earlier this week, so please re-visit those articles if you want to know more how these will work. In this Lunation Saturn is the driver for the oppositional energies of the Full Moon, and this indicates a confrontation with locked-up energies forcing us to unblock our deeper powers or live in a cage of our own making.

We all will learn to make basic personal decisions, letting go of lesser concerns and obligations to make room for greater responsibilities. We will have to find structures to help us integrate our outer interests with our sensitivities, and learn not to surrender to discouragement too easily.

We can learn a greater skill at interpreting opportunities, a deeper insight, and a more refined sense of proportion. The problems or solutions will be seen through a Pisces lens, allowing us to get a new inspiration when we withdraw from worldly things, and opportunities to put on a show that helps us arouse self or others from mundane concerns.

Overall, unique qualities in bridging obstacles are shown, as are "cosmic visitations" that will transform our being, depending on where Taurus and Libra fall in our chart. Venus and Mars both trine Pluto, helping all to get to the core of things in the sphere of social existence. This will be excellent for getting free of old restricting conditions, finding inner strengths and invisible helpers, and seeing periodic ways to demonstrate our skill so we can "win a prize" or at least a "free ride."

Given the special configuration of Mercury biquintile Pluto with each making a tredecile to Saturn, expect highly specialized, interactive serendipitous circumstances where our gifts will be perfect for circumstances, and vise versa. Add Mars quintile the Aquarius stellium, and you can see how some unique opportunities could show themselves.

Many will see their worth revealed through understanding how they've linked the lower self with the Higher Self, but only after the death of useless things that allows the blessing to come forth. There will be "spiritual linkage" through emotional distress that will lead to the dawning of a new day. Just be efficient in moving on as needed, and be dramatic when demonstrating your skill to your world.

These are the qualities of the Full Moon, which should help us express whatever new directions we were shown at the New Moon. You will recall its theme requires that we find a social warmth through exploring feelings submerged deep within. This is a time of a "return to the source," of adjustment, sacrifice, and shaping our minds and lives in forms revealing greater future spiritual fulfillment.

Briefly, from the New Moon article covering this time,

This continues to be a time to be practical, and finish lessons of discernment and ordering. We confront a form of culture valuable to us as a means to release our yearning for new experiences, even as we also face necessary adjustments in perception and communication. The growth is in stabilizing the heart energy as best we can, while eliminating whatever stagnant feelings we no longer need to carry....

There will be heavy duty adjustments as per the quincunx. We will have opportunities to value our independence and a youthful way of seeing things, as well as an ability to re-create what we need to through will power. Prove whatever needs proving, even while demonstrating cooperation in collective activities and seeing the power of symbols in shaping deep feelings. The trine indicates good timing on something that comes suddenly which can liberate us from adverse conditions through spectacular developments that galvanize us to action.

The novile shows either we're on a form of probation, or coming off a period of probation. This is emergent information of perceptions of how to act on our own initiative while attaining a strife transcending state of consciousness. It may come through frictional circumstances or inner crises of development, but the challenge is to be willing to shape the perception in forms of potential fulfillment. Follow your sense of responsibility and you may find a "fortuitous cooperation between inner and outer elements of being...."

This New Moon in Gemini falls at 4 degrees, a point of returning to source, and a technique to finding a form of "holiday spirit" to preserve some power of the wealth of heritage. We are told it is a degree of "social warmth," as well as a longing for a "preintellectual state of consciousness." This should intensify our feelings when we're in contact with primal images and "tradition-based archetypes," where we can discover deeper values and aspirations.

Along with the heavy influence of The Grand Irrationality at the New Moon, it would imply that we're all at major forks in the road of our lives, discovering deeper primal imagery, and finding ways that the various parts of our inner and outer being can cooperate with each other. This Full Moon should introduce us to those who are our Spiritual relations, and we can find safety in playing and creating within protective conditions.

When Venus entered Taurus, it became the final dispositor to all the other planets. At this ChristFest, we find it on the degree "An Electrical Storm," which symbolizes a "Cosmic Visitation" I mentioned earlier, which can transform our lives in radical ways. It allows us to sense Nature's power, and through the "visitation" we can become greater than we've imagined.

On a final note regarding this ruler of the entire chart, we see it is "real power for making an effective impact on events" through inwardly self-mobilizing, and through discharging strain we clear the way for genuine progress. We are told this can be unsettling when "human personality rises to a moment of union with the universal forces," and being a degree of high transformation, we can see greater potential ahead.

Somehow this all relates to what the World Teacher is about to pour out for each of us, and all of us, for the coming year. As with the Wesak, some things to think about in these hours at the eve of another great outpouring of Spiritual energies. Aum Mani Padme Hum.

I promised you earlier I'd put links here for the Wesak Festivals so you can understand more about the energies we're still bathing in. To learn more about the most recent late Taurus/Scorpio Full Moon Wesak energies, please go to Spiritual Astrology in May 2009 - It's A Happy Buddha Birthday at the Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio, also known as The Wesak Festival!

© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[paige]

Dear Robert,
My birthday is November 3, 1985, which I believe is the first day of the second decanate for scorpio. My question is, how could I find out for sure whether I have Libra or Aries sub-influences? Both?
Also, I have Mars and Venus in Libra... Would it behoove me to start reading solar activities for Libra since I could have a heavy Libran infuence?

Thank you so very much, I'm a very loyal reader to your blog.
Regards,
Paige

[Morvah]

Thank you for such an outpouring of wisdom this week. As always, much needed and absolutely relevent. Blessings to you and yours for the ChristFest,
Shanti

[Patty]

robert this is fantastic. Thank you so much

[Melody Dawn]

Dude :)

Very in depth article. Thanks for taking the time to write it out so clearly.

Question about Ray work. When you speak of Ray's I am assumming you mean Alice A. Bailey's and/or Blavatsky's ideas on Ray work ...?? Just curious how do you determine what Ray you are ?

It's something that's always puzzled me ... would love an article on this correlations ..

Hope all is well
Cheers
Melody Dawn

[Kirstei]

these messages are so completely relevant to my experiences now, may we all serve the moon in Her full glory.

Received with Grace and discernment (:
Namaste

[Robert]

Hi all - On the road, so these will brief. No more for a few days!

Hi Paige - The 2nd decan of Scorpio has a Pisces subinfluence in the modern system, Solar in the ancient. Your Solar ruler in Libra conjunct Venus in its home sign is heavy Libra. But it's not something that translates to a Solar chart influence.

Hi Morvah - You're welcome. Blessings to us all!

Hi Patty - Glad you like it. It took a while, but it was worth doing....

Hi Melody - There are ways, but that's beyond what I can do on this site. That was a part of the work I did with aspirants, disciples, and Initiates years ago. While some esoteric astrologers purport to know how to define Rays, I found mostly there is a severe lack of clarity and accuracy. But there are ways....

Hi Kirstei - Glad this is relevant. And yes, may Divine Mother come forth in all Her glory and splendor!

[micheline]

Hi, Robert it has been a while. I had that new moon fall in my tenth house. I had to do a big catering gig (something new for me but old) and it went super well and at the same time or on the next day I got present my new music at the place of event. All went fabulously.
Everyone was impressed with my efforts to make and excellent Middle Eastern type dinner for 20 and my music went over really well. My tenth house is also ruled by Taurus but co-ruled by Gemini. My fourth house is co-ruled by sag and this full moon falls into my 4th house. As well as the aformentioned mentioned event I was joined by an old friend who is also a sag but has taurus rising and we are not seeing each other. It is lovely cause we are on the same page. His rising conjuncts my mc. Cool and his true node in taurus also conjuncts my mc. Wow....
There is other stuff of serenpidity but its too much to write down. What is interesting is that the areas that are governed by venus/libra/taurus are subsequently tenth house and third house.

[Jennifer]

Hi Robert
I truly enjoy reading your articles and insights. Just a note to pass on to those interested, that The University of the Seven Rays has been doing alot of work with ray analysis. Michael Robbins is known for his work with this.

Also another site that might be of interest is www.innerlifedirections.com/blog
addressing current events issues from a larger perspective. The home page lends itself to offering a service assisting people to connect with their own inner life direction. Both sites mentionned are the real deal. As always a BIG THANKS for your time in posting these essential papers.
Jennifer

[suz-d]

Hi robert ... Suz-d here....
having a pretty tough time for the last bunch of days...like having to go backwards .... in a lot of emotional and psychic pain...something must be going on to make things go so badly in my life .... my career has been at a standstill for several days.... I've been attacked on various levels... hope you can bring some light and clarity to all this...
my aspects are:
May 9 1939 6:54 am Oakland CA
Sun 18 degrees Taurus
Gemini rising 16 degrees
moon 28 degrees conjunct mars 24 degrees in Capricorn
lots of squares and challenges in my chart

I sure could use a little counsel as I feel as though things have seriously tilted.
thanks so much!

[Pamela]

Dear Robert:

Thanks so much for explaining the energies at play and how to navigate through them. I am trying to let go and move forward and as you say ''We will find light and life among those who "speak our language" and thus correct any lurking frustration arising from past contacts.'' I am thinking this all feels like a transformation opportunity, as well as a purification of sorts. (That is if we let it). The full moon and transiting mercury at 23-24 Taurus affect me directly, as they sit upon my seventh house/first house axis. My Ascendant at 24-25 Scorpio. Pluto in the 1st degrees of Capricorn is sandwiched in between my Venus /Jupiter conjunction in the last degrees of Sagittarius, and my stellium of planets situated at 9-12 degrees Capricorn Moon/Mars/Saturn in that order in the second house. Oh yeah! I really want to dance my dance and serve the greater good. I'll try and keep open, centered and grounded and not be distracted with meaningless side issues. Being connected to nature at this time is really helping ground me again, and in the quiet of nature some answers come..

Thanks again.

Kind regards,
Pamela

[Matt]

Hi Robert,

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this great annual event. My one question about the lunation is this: what should take form as Jupiter passes through the void at 16 Pisces next March before the next series of high full moons?

Thanks,
Matt

[Carrie Ann]

What this full moon brought me was a health scare. I feel at siege and completed blindsided.

[Dina]

Hi, Robert,

Thank you so much for your insights, have been reading your writings for a couple of years. I live in LA, and sorry I missed you today in SM. Last year's ChristFest Moon brought a huge insight. This year, it happens to fall on the Eastern Orthodox Pentecost holiday...the day the Holy Spirit illuminated Christ's apostles. I thought I'd share that since it illustrates the unity of the human and divine. I hope we all come to feel that union.

[Ishmael]

really robert, don' know what it's about
aug 1 eclipse last year I get a very strange phone call

then eclipse feb 9 2009 I hear a voice over my computer

say hello and my name and apparently is a living voice
(do you understand what I'm saying here?)

a living voice addressing me by name...

Then on scorpio moon may 9 experience repeats, what the hell--??

maybe you can tell what the hell is going on I am not making this up-

apparently getting strange emails that seem to correspond to
astrological events?

Does any of this make sense to you --why would I make this up?

What is this? (I have no history of mental disorder)

I can tell you my sanity is greatly threatened, I pretend it didn't happen
but I know what happened. A voice came on my computer related to eclipse...

also on previous eclipse I received an impossible phonecall, unacceptable
-perhaps you can explain (I would like to hear an explanation of these
things...)
Who greeted by name? I am not mistaken, and it was no hallucination...
aug 1 and feb 9 eclipse- happened twice...
only beginning now to realize.... very difficult to even accept at all..

very difficult..

[Louisa]

Hey Suz-D, I also have Gemini rising at a similar degree (15 I think) so the full moon was exact on my Sag Neptune/7th house. Really quite shocking and traumatic, but i'm having lots of tea and baths to recuperate. Someone from afar turned out to be not at all what i expected and i am so terribly disappointed. Classic Neptune/7th house drama. Was yours a similar awakening? I'm sure it will feel better after the moon has waned...

[Marie]

I too have had the most traumatic full moon I could have imagined. Someone has hurt me very much, just through sheer insensitivity and now runs away. A lot of body issues I had been secretly holding all surfaced and burst forth in a most undignified manner. I really didn't expect it and now have no idea what will follow...it doesn't really feel like a release at the moment as I know the other person must be feeling very foolish and leaves me all the more sad and alone. It's beyond disappointing I just hope it's not in vain.

[suz-d]

hi .... well... looks like some of you are going thru the wringer too!.... there is some small comfort knowing how powerfully this time is affecting everyone. If I went through the list of odd events / traumatic events / on and on and on one after another, to the point that now I have to move from my apt location right after just getting settled because the a-hole across from my apt exploded into wrath and motor mouth insanity, attacking me etc etc. I cannot live near unconsious people like this! But this was only ONE of the things that happened. it's been nonstop attacks coming from every direction. Quite honestly I am finding it very hard to relax and be at peace. sigh...! Pass the red wine...and turn on the movies...!

[suz-d]

"It's The Blessing of the ChristFest" ...well Thank you Robert... but it hardly feels like it! one cannot even meditate much less get in touch with Christ energy when the vibrations are so rocky.

[Ray Guillette]

Dear Robert,

Theading about the energetic quality of this full moon gave me the courage to publish this movie online. (It has to do with cooperation and society)

http://www.voidengineering.com/giveget

Thank you for all of your work :-)
Ray

[margaretandsteve@hotmail.com]

hi Robert love your writings....I have bit of a mystery on June 7 I took a picture of the full moon and was astonished and what came out.I live in the Acores Islands.One of the pictures the moon formed a heart with what it seems like a comet hanging from the moon all the way down,another picture formed 3 question marks.I wish I could send these pictures for you to see because I do not understand how could that be.

[Louisa]

HI Suz-D are you feeling better? I am. Kind of cathartic. I know i wasn't the only one to go through trauma with that crazy crazy moon. But weirdly - it's alright now! Clarity. moving forward. I can't see the future but I know it's bright. We are just in the hall way now...door to the garden is coming up:)
Hope you're feeling better...

[suz-d]

thanks Louisa
and I knew already that we simply had to wait until the grand cross of this aspect faded a bit. yes of course I'm fine and thanks for asking. I scanned Robert's article on this time we passed thru and didn't see anything about the grand cross we were in. and that's why we felt so awful, we were up on the cross! he did however go over some of the issues we could expect to be facing and clearing.

there is simply no more room anymore to be off center ...which translates to being much more aware of what we're thinking doing saying in each and every moment of time. checking ourselves to keep centered and in integrity.

at the same time, when stuff comes up like it just did, it is up to be cleared and looked at at a deeper level to become more conscious, regardless of how brutally painful it can be!

OK... back to work...take care

[Marie]

Amazing observation suz-d, it has also struck me that we are all going through such difficulty without Robert here to comfort and allay our fear and pain! Really time to find out what we are made of and I have also noted a kind of subliminal connection between people and events. It's hard to explain but it's almost as though people are pre-empting each other and it's very startling!!!
maybe not necessarily bad and something to get used to for the future!?!

[Louisa]

Hi SuzD- - and Marie - yes you are both completely right, but i didn't realise it was the cross intensifying things i thought it was just a full, full moon that needed to wane!
Am not enjoying my current situation (living) at the moment but trying to see the positive of being so sensitive to the people in my close environment. And yes, moving out and on and forward as soon as possible...amazing how our spaces affect us...as if they are the centre and everything comes out from that....so important to be 'right' in our homes...
Blessings

[Marie]

John Fruscianti....Central.....amazing!!!

Im central to nowhere

Thinking of sweeping it clean

When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings

Ive gone around the sides of this universe as it stands

Outside the limits of all existence

Where light never ends

We should be grateful to the gods

Whoever theyre real to they are

I value my placement as in Hell

Remember that moment that I fell

Anything that could one day be is as real as what Im saying

If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet

Switch below with above all the way up into infinity

We should be thankful who we are

Whether we know ourselves or not

Walking alongside myself

Neither of us listens very well
Im dreading a time that is not near

As a man on cross I have no fear 
I cant believe these words Im saying

You gotta feel your lines

You gotta feel your lines

[Marie]

John Fruscianti....Central.....amazing!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jsRZzjrgI

Im central to nowhere

Thinking of sweeping it clean

When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings

Ive gone around the sides of this universe as it stands

Outside the limits of all existence

Where light never ends

We should be grateful to the gods

Whoever theyre real to they are

I value my placement as in Hell

Remember that moment that I fell

Anything that could one day be is as real as what Im saying

If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet

Switch below with above all the way up into infinity

We should be thankful who we are

Whether we know ourselves or not

Walking alongside myself

Neither of us listens very well
Im dreading a time that is not near

As a man on cross I have no fear 
I cant believe these words Im saying

You gotta feel your lines

You gotta feel your lines

[Robert]

Hi all - Great that this discussion evolved the way it did while I was gone. Very good stuff. This T-square certainly did integrate a lot, even if through the challenge of "squaring" ourselves with reality!!

Hi Micheline - Great that the Lunation coincided with such great things! Hope they are portents of things to come, and that the roll continues.

Hi Jennifer - I know there are some legit sources for Ray analysis, but I have found over the years that believing that one "knows" such things often becomes more a superstition than a living self awareness. I always taught my students to ask WHY it matters, and what useful difference it makes. For example, "knowing" that one is a 5th Ray personality is only useful for some things, but it can also be a trap. When a life chapter ends and a being must learn different ways to relate to and manifest their old personality strengths blended with new ones, it can yield a different personality Ray. Then a being believes something that is no longer true, and may stumble into erroneous assumptions and dialogs. And of course, there are many glamors associated with esoteric knowledge, especially believing that one Ray is "better than" another for this or that. It's a HUGE field of study. And of course, I've just posted something on them for those who want to get started.

Hi Suz-d - You may be dealing with something that must be confronted if you are to move forward unencumbered by echoes of memories of perceptions of echoes of memories of perceptions of... Sometimes career growth is obvious and externalizing, other times more subtle and internal. Remember this Christ Fest is the very beginning of a long wave process, and some things must be changed or even eliminated altogether to fulfill that process.

Attacks are inevitable in this world. The trick is to learn to avoid those which are unnecessary, and sidestep the slings and arrows of the necessary conflicts while practicing detachment, dispassion, and discrimination as the Divine Warrior, Krishna, fights through you. When besieged, then retreat. If the environment is hostile, then we endure it until it's time to move on, whether we want to or not.

Your Cardinal T-square is the challenge, and a balanced perspective is the solution. Mars recently activated the T. Your natal Pluto is in the Grand Irrationality, transiting Neptune and Uranus are overall very favorable to your chart. Saturn is showing you a new way to ground and while quincunx your natal Venus challenges you to adjust how you relate to things and people. I believe Jupiter is protecting you. On a final note, there was no "Grand Cross," only a T-square. The Sun binoviled Uranus, and the Moon was 9+ degrees from a square to Uranus. The only way this T-square could form a Grand Mutable Cross is if we have a planet between (approx.) 12-22 Pisces.

Hi Pamela - Yes, these energies affecting the next year can purify our contacts as well as our sense of being within our larger social atmosphere. This will bring forth your heart/art in some very public ways. You're so right that "the quiet of nature" is great for allowing us to listen for the answers that are always there if we choose to pay attention. Merging inner and outer Nature is one of the most important tasks we can do.

Hi Matt - We should be taught through Jupiter's function the solution to the void that will become apparent through this Lunation.

Hi Carrie Ann - Perhaps the blessing is knowing you need to focus on that before it became worse?

Hi Dina - Sorry you missed the talks, since I thought they were good. I taped them, and am figuring out how to make them available for a small fee after digital conversion to mp3 files. Great association with the Eastern Orthodox Pentecost. And yes, we can "all come to feel that union" if we're open to it.

Hi Ishmael - Don't know why you're getting strange phone calls, since they originate from any of 10,000 possibilities. I don't think you're making it up, or why you would think I would think that. I've had too many "Twilight Zone" experiences in my own life to dismiss strange occurrences, but I also know there are specific causes for such things, even if improbable.

Hi Louisa - Saturn is squaring all with mid-Gemimi or mid-Sag anything. However, since Saturn represents what we MUST learn, then however difficult it's necessary, since those are lessons that have been evolving over time and experience as a function of our Dharma. And sometimes that which is shocking in the short term is a real blessing over the long haul.

Hi Marie - During these years many will be hurt by others in process of each finding out who they should and should not be hanging with. I have noticed that many are hitting a wall, aspirants and toads alike. Those who learn don't have to go through that again. Those who run away will inevitably have to repeat until they get it. Nothing is in vain. Everything is grist for the mill of Soul, and once we chew up certain old karmas, we don't have to go there again. As for the song, great tune, great talent. Really good stuff!

Hi Ray - Now that I'm off the road I'll try to find time to check it out. You're most welcome.

Hi margaretandsteve - It may have been an atmospheric phenomenon, or even a celestial event. Why don't you email me and attach the pictures?