I could hear rain coming, i could hear the sirens sound, now my feet won’t touch the ground
— Coldplay, “Life in Technicolor II”
By the time the Sun enters Leo at 11:56 am EDT Monday, you may experience a Doppler Effect of sorts. In a few words, that means a series of things coming at you faster and closer together until they reach a peak, after which the frequency drops off. If that is how you are feeling, take heart; it is not a bad thing.
Most of us experience the Doppler Effect when an emergency vehicle with a siren approaches. As it nears, the pitch of the siren seems to become higher, as well as louder. The increased pitch is because the vehicle emitting the sound is getting closer with each emission. That makes the distance between the sound waves shorter, which is perceived as an increasingly higher frequency of sound as you are being approached.
In effect the vehicle is chasing, and catching up with, the sound it is making. In terms of astrology, the same thing is going on right now. It’s one significant event after the other coming at you with increasing frequency. It will continue through the weekend and should peak with the Aquarius Full Moon at 2:16 pm EDT Monday.
As for how that translates to you, imagine you had spent your entire life up to now in a remote rural area, never before hearing a siren. Imagine finding yourself in a bustling city for the first time and what a disquieting thing it would be to to have a loud, oscillating siren coming your way. With no idea of what it was, or what it meant, you could very possibly find it stressful, alarming, even cause for panic.
Yet, is is rare for the approach of a siren to be anything more than an arousal to awareness and appropriate response. The same is true for the astrology over the handful of days to come.
If things are coming at you faster and faster, please know that the pace will soon modulate. If the pitch of events seem ever more shrill, please know that it will not always be that way. If you are wondering what to do, simply be appropriate.
Fear is not appropriate. Rather, assuaging the fearful is. Panic is not appropriate. Rather, you should comfort those in panic. Stress is appropriate only in how it can be relieved, which is usually through the most simple and effective action available that will remedy the situation.
It is not really necessary to itemize the litany of astrological events leading up to Monday’s Full Moon. For the sake of encouraging you to simplify as your first response, they will not be listed here. Instead, being aware is the first priority. Avoid the temptation to hide under the bed or put your head in the sand. Such a course of action will not help matters. It will be necessary for you to engage with, rather than avoid events.
As you engage with events going into next week, please remember three things. First, what transpires is probably not about you. Odds are that the increasing frequency of what’s clamoring for your attention will be serving to make you aware of what you have in common with everybody else.
Next, being present is the objective, being caught up and swept away is not. At this point, it is more important for you to witness, observe, note and learn. It is less important to act, except (as aforementioned) by acting in simple ways that are effective in relieving stress. That does not mean getting intoxicated as a remedy. Above all, act to clear your head, rather than muddle it.
Finally, there is a reason for what may seem like a lot of changes in a short period of time. For each of you, the reason will vary, and the means of coming to know it will differ. For all of us, it will serve all of us best to simply know that the reason will be revealed, and that it will not be a bad thing.
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Chief Niwots Son – thank you for the reminder to point also toward, not just away. With the Sun transiting my S Node/Sun/Logos conjunction over these days, I am working to let go of my need to see others and myself critically (right vs wrong) in order to feel secure. Your words remind me to also remember that if I can commit to seeing the divinity in each of us first, I can have less of a need for the right/wrong paradigm.
And Len, dear Len – you set the bar high, yet reaching for it always seems to bring me closer to that divinity I wish to know.
Bless you both.
Thank you, dear sweet Len.
paola: You are very welcome.
Strawberry: You are born for this moment, upon the anniversary of your birth, please have no doubt that you are, and best wishes (to Lizzy too).
Chief Niwots Son: Thank you, as always, for the blessing of your defining grace and depth of understanding.
be: Huge and continuous thanks for you. Not just for your knowledge. Also for you knack of just what fits where to help us see. Yes, you are correct that Nessus has a meaningful position, and given how Nessus is associated with the persistent shadow of abuse (which can only be addressed when somebody finally says “the buck stops with me”), we are facing a touchy situation. ank you also for invoking and acquainting us with both Logos and Makemake, both of which deserve a higher profile.
Amada: Speaking of deserving a higher profile – thank you so very much for all you do day in, and day out, for Planet Waves.
Lizzy: Seat belts are important, no less than you to all of us.
mindbodyalchemy: Thank you for the thought-provoking quote and informative link.
“Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable.”
– Paul Valéry, Notre destin et les lettres (1937)
and
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/#more-2363
Yes, thank you for this wonderful piece and advice, dear Len! My seatbelt is fastened and my helmet is on….
Thank you Strawberrry! A very Happy Birthday to you too, my dear.
yes — just what i needed to read today. kind of wish i’d read them even earlier, but c’est las vie! very grounding. thank you.
You are our voice of reason and calm Len, and your offerings are always an oasis in the desert, especially today. That siren to the country boy COULD be terrifying so in the interest of awareness I would like to add a small happening that affects United States citizens only, but I’ve not seen it on any lists of astro events happening this weekend.
Transiting (and retrograde) Nessus (the bad boy of the centaurs) has retreated back to conjunct the degree of the U.S. Sibly Moon who represents the People of the U.S. He will remain there, in retrograde through much of August, adding to the discomfort we all are experiencing regarding our nation. Today and through the weekend the Sun (along with Uranian Point Vulcanus ) will be sextile TNO Logo and dwarf planet Makemake in Virgo and together they will be putting pressure on Nessus (and the U.S. Moon) in Aquarius as they all combine to make a yod (or yods). With the U.S. Moon and trans. Nessus at the focal point we all could feel the pressure to recalibrate and reform or readjust in some way. Probably many of us are already feeling that pressure psychology.
I think it has to do with our identity as a nation because, in part, Logos is about identification, especially a masculine identity. Makemake is associated with talk, sometimes double-talk but always self-assured talk. The Sun is where we are conscious of ourselves and the world around us, and together with creative Vulcanus, and paired with Logos and Makemake, they are in a position to persuade Nessus (who in turn will persuade the Moon – us) to make this shift in consciousness regarding who we really are and what do we want to change about that.
Just thought if you hear conflicting messages regarding our country’s stand on this or that, just realize it is all part of the growing changes we are going through. Like Len says, it won’t last forever, and it really isn’t a bad thing. Just part of the process.
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Strawberrylaughter- Happy Birthday to you, and many happy returns of the day. Altering consciousness is a good thing, the trick is to aim it carefully in a valuable direction, and be proactive about when it changes.
Len- Your words of advice regarding the oncoming energies are precise and valuable, thank you.
“Maybe you had too much too fast, or just overplayed your part.”
…this could make for a consciousness-altering solar return.
I pray that I might have the strength & flexibility to allow that to happen.
(Happy Birthday to you, too, Lizzy!!)
Thank you Len, thank you for the words and the support.
“Being present is the objective, being caught up and swept away is not”.
Thanks.