It's A Good Day to Be Gardening

by Robert Wilkinson

Wednesday and Thursday, April 29-30, should be great days to do whatever gardening you need to do. There are a host of very good aspects right now, so anything involving germinating, planting, pruning and shaping are very much favored.

Because it's such a good day to be with the plants, I'm not going to turn this into an extensive lesson. That said, if we are to believe the tenets of Agricultural Astrology (one of the classic 7 Schools of Astrology from antiquity) the primary reason today is so good is due to the waxing Moon in Cancer making some very favorable aspects supported by Sun in Taurus trine Saturn in Virgo.

The Moon stays in Cancer until 5:56 pm PDT Thursday (Friday 1:56 am Greenwich, 10:56 am East Australia), so gardeners in the Western Hemisphere as well as those in East Asia can take advantage of this very favorable time to be working with plants. May 3, 6, 7, and 8 should also be good time for germinating, planting, and pruning as well, so mark your calendars. Obviously gardeners in the Southern Hemisphere are preparing late Autumn and Winter crops.

(And yes I know Mercury is going retrograde on May 6, 10:01 pm PDT, 6:01 am Greenwich at 2 degrees of Gemini. I'll be composing extensively on that over the next week. For now I'll say that while Mercury on its station may show effects in many areas, the Moon is the primary ruler of plants and crops.)

Therefore, when gardening or planting trees and shrubs, it's of more importance that the Moon is favorable than almost any other consideration than major planet aspects. Right now it's increasing in light and in some very favorable, fertile signs. That's why Wed-Thurs are great days, as well as the days next week I've mentioned.

Copyright © 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Donna L. Faber]

I've planted a new and very liberating blogspot ... does that count? I imagine it would apply to all new beginnings.

D~

[Juliet]

Hello Robert,

Not sure where I could have posted this but there is a call for using positive energy to alleviate/end the spread of the 'swine flu' threatening to become pandemic.

Is there any way to use this forum in a ThoughtForm experiment like we did for the Bees and Darfur to work on a quick resolution to this? If yes, once posted, I would like to reference on Twitter with your permission.

I previously mentioned my 'Bubble Therapy' a while back - basically you imagine blowing lots of large, coloured bubbles (just like when you were a kid) up into the atmosphere and they traverse the world and where they land and 'pop' good energy is dispersed. Maybe we could do a Thoughtform Bubble Experiment and visualize these bubbles landing across the globe and dispersing healing energy to the areas hardest hit so far as well as a general 'landing' across earth.

Sort of a 'sowing' of the seeds of an empathic community working for positive change (in keeping with the gardening theme here) instead of succumbing to the rising fear of this particular virus.

What do you think?
Juliet, the eternal optimist :-)

[Valerie]

Juliet, I think it is a great idea! A good one to spread around,like fertilizer...

Thanks for the planting tips, Robert, I'm trying to get some flower seeds going myself. :)

[Morvah]

Hi Robert and everyone.
While I am in heartfelt agreement with the "Group healing for the Pandemic" strand developing here, I'd like to thank you Robert for raising the subject of gardening by the Moon. Lifelong organic gardeners, both as a means to a living and for our own physical and spiritual nourishment, my partner and I have been Moon gardening for 5 years with measurable success. I'd like to offer more here if anyone is interested - as you rightly say Robert, originally an essential science, it has been from deep in our past both a spiritual discipline and act of devotion and I would love to think that more of us could make this connection for the health of ourselves, our children and our planet. Any interest out there?
Shanti.

[Isabel]

Dear Robert,

Interesting post!

Juliet, what a nice idea. Of course each one may find ways of doing this healing work, but this image you shared is both beautifull and powerfull.

Morvah, I think your suggestion is wonderful and am waiting to read whatever you write about this.

Namasté,

Isabel

[Juliet]

Hello Valerie and Isabel,

Thank you - I absolutely love playing with bubble makers! The results are so beautiful and the fact that it is so transient makes me appreciate it that much more.

Essentially, I am independent thinker, so I concur with the concept that any form which can manifest healing is surely most appropriate considering the diversity of life on planet Earth.

Whatever any One can do for spiritually conscious evolution in support of the Whole, I believe, is a good thing!

Happy Healing,
Juliet:-)

[Robert]

Hi all - Sorry for the delay, but am up to my eyeballs in dealing with those who are dead or dying as we speak (not from the virus). Definitely into sending positive thoughtforms to antidote any and all flu. Since these sorts of things are affected by transits, maybe we can figure out something to post after I'm off the road. As for now, I am up to my eyeballs in trying to deal with the unexpected. But by all means, be thinking of how to use this type of group meditation as a boilerplate for widespread thoughtforms. Maybe your intention already made a difference. Who knows the effects of your already-done meditations in the rapidly decreasing "pandemic?"