Today’s Oracle takes us to the Capricorn weekly for Sept. 15, 2006.
The next week or so presents you with a test of your integrity, and raises the question of whether you can bring what some call the ‘higher self’ into the situations you face. This higher self is given many mystical attributes, but really it’s a perspective on life that allows us to exist exclusively in the present and not drag the baggage of the past into every situation. In the current situation, you will have about one single moment to make the choice of how you handle yourself, and it may arise when you least expect it. The story sums up simply as: do what you know is right, not necessarily what ‘feels good’.
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Oh Lovely, Be. Thank you. This harmonic idea has ‘struck a chord’ with me before. I’m curious to explore.
LOL! And no doubt I was something more solid before I got all fishy. Still feel more like the stone than the water most of the time 😉
Just came inside from gazing at Venus and the Moon (and Jupiter) so beautiful in the evening sky! I think it was Len posted the link for more info on the 5-planet gaze. Mars, Saturn and Mercury will light the sky while I am sleeping. Inspiring none-the-less.
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury
aword,
If you google Astrology, harmonics you will get a number of sites with valuable and interesting info on the subject. There is Harmonic Astrology and then there are Harmonic Aspects. It is the 2nd one that I used here. There is a book called Harmonics In Astrology by John Addey, Fowler & Co., that comes highly recommended. A little book by Frances Sakoain and Louis Acker called The Minor Aspects is my only book source on the subject.
There are two levels of aspects, one is overt and includes the major aspects of conjunction, square, trine, etc. The other one is called “subtle or “potential” and these are the minor aspects that are divisions of the chart wheel degrees into 5ths, 7ths, 9ths, 10ths, and so on. The novile or nonagon is part of the 9th harmonic. They aren’t used much, these little aspects, because they ARE so subtle, however I believe that with enough subtlety, over time, major things can be accomplished. I used to be a tortoise before I was a crab. Besides, have you ever seen what a waterfall can do to a big rock over the years?
be
Every once in awhile this oracle stops me cold. Yes, I’m a Goat, and that makes this message even more pointed. But geesh, I’m with Amanda: “…you don’t say, oracle.”
With Mars squaring my ascendant I know what I’d LIKE to do and I know it’d give me about three minutes of molten verbal ecstasy to give into it.
But the rest of my chart and the revelations of recent weeks tell me another story: Time to rise above, sister. This is more than the silent endurance I’m known for. Somewhere between fire-lashing and stoic acceptance there’s got to be a third point of integration where words don’t burn to ash and cold lead actually becomes malleable. Where something can form that endures and maybe even has both utility and beauty.
Love Mystes’ words. “More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.”
Darn tootin’, that. Tough Love is not a trademarked rehabilitation program with workshops. It IS.
I don’t know what will come of this and I don’t know what moment will demand my higher self engage (every moment??), but I’ve got about four problems bubbling along here and all of ’em demand my wisest self, whoever she is.
Pluto just inched past its direction conjunction to my Sun. And baby, if there was ever a time where I had to get real with myself, admit I don’t even know what I don’t know, this past season was IT. I don’t even have time to hitch that “thought it was a great idea” carcass around with me. I can only afford (my heart, my mind, my pocketbook) to be whatever I am today. Now.
A Cap with no master plan? No goals, no process in place? Guess that was just window dressing. Guess I’m going to be a different Goat.
Here’s to whoever we are becoming. In Love.
I’m off to make a cheese sandwich now.
Be; fascinating! I so appreciate this ‘work’ you do and your sharing of it here. I look forward to your continual stream of updates! I like to think that I also learn a thing or two about astrology along the way as you discuss these charts, aspects, planets.
Is there an astro-study that is “strictly” (planetary) harmonics?
Amanda, Hugs across the miles!!!!
Mystes and SheBear, nice to share a cup-a-PWOracle with you this beautiful day.
Cheers! to 2012 and a powerful train ride!
mystes & shebear – thank you. i’ll be contemplating your offerings.
bkoehler – not a day off on Monday, alas. 🙂 just a way to try and get a hold of everything without having all of christmas devoted to work — though most of us are putting in some time today, anyway. eric is in the last couple weeks of working on the annual, so we’re making efforts to keep everything on a steady course.
i had hoped to get a special christmas squid photo essay up tonight, but i don’t think i’ll get that far tonight, alas. already a bit sleepy, but i need to get some things organized and started for the week’s Daily Astrology features.
merry christmas to all, and to all, a good night!
Amanda,
I was really moved by your post and your dilemma, thought about it off and on through the afternoon.
Ran into a little fragment on Fred Woodruff’s astrology website that seemed to address your state. This is from a dialogue with a teacher named Nisargadatta (see my comments below):
Someone asks:
“What can truth or reality gain by all our practice?”
He uses truth and love interchangeably. He says:
“Nothing whatsoever, of course. But it is in the nature of truth or love, cosmic consciousness, whatever you want to call it, to express itself, to affirm itself, to overcome difficulties. Once you’ve understood that the world is love in action, consciousness or love in action, you will look at it quite differently. But first your attitude to suffering must change. Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love.More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.”
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Forgive me an error below when I said Venus is also exactly conjunct Saturn, when in fact they are trine. . Venus in Aquarius and Saturn in Libra. See Amanda? We all make mistakes. . all the time!
be
Merry Christmas to all who have wandered back to PW. I just read that Monday will be a kind of day of rest for the PW staff, or maybe just a ‘fall back and re-group’ day. I myself, off and on for the last few days, have been playing with a chart which, for me, is somewhat like a puzzle. It’s not a chart for an event, or a full moon or an eclipse or a solstice. It’s a chart that is the midpoint of one or two things and the beginning of a dance among the planets that seems to be choreographed by the Moon.
I picked the moment, January, Friday the 13th, 2012 at 4:26 AM EST for a couple of reasons, but mostly because it was the precise moment the Moon was midway between her own nodes. She’s the ‘engine’ for the soul train in this locomotive patterned chart, symbolically leading the way into a barren territory, and she’s at the top of the chart (for Washington DC) along with Mars in Virgo. In the three days following this chart moment, she will make a major aspect (square, trine, opposition, conjunction) to all the other major planets plus Chiron. Her Sabian symbol degree is of an Aristocratic Family Tree. Dane Rudhyer says about it “One returns to the roots in order to produce the flowering of personality, if this flower is to bring forth a living seed”. The Moon is in the south bending half-way between her nodes, a point where we must give away the energy in order for it to manifest. Seems Christmas Day would be a good time to share my thoughts on this project of mine.
This chart also has an “almost exact conjunction between Mercury and Pluto (exact at 8:01 AM) and an almost exact conjunction of Venus and Neptune (exact at 10:17 AM), creating a double helping of a joining of the personal energies with the trans-personal energies. But at this chart’s moment Venus is also exactly conjunct Saturn, and they are in each other’s ruled sign, and they are both moments away from being in the last degree of their signs. This is part of the puzzle I ponder over.
This is a chart that depicts the situations that exists as Jupiter and Saturn, exactly 2 degrees beyond the exact midway point of their 20 year cycle, will begin to separate for good from the opportunity we have had to take a measure of our societies and our governments, and determine how to best go forward.
The Moon represents our feelings, needs, homes, families, mothers, nurturing and the sign Cancer. This is my Sun sign and it is my country’s Sun sign. But everybody has a Moon somewhere and everybody can relate to this moment, which is the beginning of a message about our place in history and in our evolution. The north node will draw us toward our future and the south node will signify the past we are leaving behind. When the Moon conjuncts Mars at 7:36 PM on 1/13/12, it will also conjunct President Obama’s natal Mars and it will also conjunct the U.S. Sibly Neptune. If you are an American, it will be affecting you also.
A big part of my desire to put the pieces of the puzzle together is what I know about the astrology for the year ahead. Like, for example, Mars will be back-tracking through Virgo later in January, and in February, Saturn will go back over the last 18 degrees of Libra. Then in August 2012, Saturn and Mars will be conjunct at 24+ Libra. That is a degree that squares the U.S. Sibly Moon’s progressed nodes. . also from the south bending position. Because this position hampers outward expression of energy and encourages release or a giving away of the type of energy represented by (in this case) Saturn and Mars, we’re talking about stuff like control/containment, and war-making/agression.
Also in July, when Jupiter sextiles Uranus at the same time Pluto squares Uranus, he (Jupiter) will return to that position again in December and this time he will be the release point of a yod, fueled by the sextile of Pluto and Saturn who are in mutual reception. It would seem that Saturn is equally powerful as Jupiter in this case. But maybe not.
Transiting Jupiter will be conjunct the U.S. Sibly natal Uranus and the U.S. Solar Return Mars, both in Gemini. Probably, Jupiter has the upper hand at this time. But that is a year away from right now and we will be celebrating a new Winter Solstice and a new year just days away. Plenty of time to work on the puzzle.
Finally, there is a tiny little astrological aspect, a minor aspect of 40 degrees, called a Novile by some or a Nonagon by others. It is considered a harmonizing influence and has a similar quality to the trine though more subtle and of a higher harmonic. It acts as a link between subtle spiritual dimensions, not like the squares and oppositions and trines and conjunctions who are pretty direct and in-your-face. When the Moon starts her dance, first with Mars and ends this particular sequence with a trine to Venus, she will have covered just under 41 degrees. She will have danced with every major player in a major way, but all within an aspect that is subtle and in a higher realm of consciousness. The Moon expresses feelings and needs and she also nurtures and absorbs. Something to think about between January 13 and January 16, when the dance ends with Venus conjunct Chiron and trine the Moon. She, the Moon, will be at 3 Scorpio then and on her way to darkness at the New Moon on January 23 at 2 Aquarius 42. What a year this is gonna be!
be
ah dear Amanda, merry, merry christmas to you as well.
The 64 million dollar question, ya?! “*How* is that done?” — not to drag the past into the present. For me, I feel it’s making peace with and understanding my past *and* recognizing and taking responsibility for my role in that prior journey. It has helped enormously to meditate and figure out my nodal energies, my karma and dharma, so that there’s less inclination to drag my past into the present but instead a conscious choosing and making peace with my past, and an integration of the lost parts of myself, the alienated parts that I parked somewhere, for what ever the reason was at the time; probably ‘cos they were what instilled the greatest fears and anxieties and they can unfortunately paralyze us when they become overwhelming and we feel like we can’t deal with them.
I’ve come to see that everything we experience begins and ends with *us* really so it’s best to view life as all an illusion really and if you can get to a place through conscious exercising of the muscle of self, of Amanda at her core, and celebrate that spark within and fall in love with her every waking second, you can get to the place where even the things that happen to us that *seem* to turn out so drastically wrong as you put it, they can end up not being so drastic really but can be viewed as a lesson to help us get back on track to being in that constant state of love.
It’s our perceptions and expectations that tends to mess our life situations up. The more one can float around it all whilst being grateful for the major things like a roof over our heads, a warm comfy bed to retreat to every night, food in the cupboards and fridge to nurture us, and comfy, fun clothing to wear. If we are fortunate to have that then everything else can be regarded as a major bonus, so whatever else comes else along in our life experiences can be viewed and even appreciated as learning experiences which force us to keep dropping those illusions and attachments. Instead we get to accept the invite to float in that free floating state where love of self and of each other is the only way to go, and as the good man Jesus taught, the hairs on your head are all counted and the sparrows in the field want for nought, so we just have to work on not fretting so much!
I hope my Xmas ramble helps you a wee bit! I’m off out now to join some Xmas festivities and I will hold you dear in my heart, especially today amanda, and I will wish for your psychic burdens to be lightened big-time. Hey look up to big Jupiter stationing direct any moment now and imagine nothing but the best for yourself and for our planet, coming down the pipe. Peace and Blessings to you.
glad i could make you smile, shebear — and merry christmas!
though i have to say, my comment came from a sense of genuine pressure concerning this week, how the past week (and beyond) has not gone well, and not feeling entirely confident that i’ll be able to make the best decisions when they count in the near future. a lot seems to hang in the balance, and i’m not sure i have thorough-enough self-knowledge to navigate it all. i think i’m encountering blind spots i didn’t even know i had, let along can see through/around.
i keep falling into the dark side of what the abraham materials describe: despite not wanting dramatic, negative outcomes, it’s hard not to fixate on their possibility when things get rough sometimes — thereby apparently ensuring i get more of what i don’t want. really hard to get out of the head-space of fear, lack of confidence and anticipated grief when that seems to be what’s on offer; hard to imagine being able to make good choices when recent choices that seemed right as i made them ended up so drastically wrong.
interesting how pressure from someone to “do better” can be undermining, rather than inspiring. as in, you start second-guessing yourself & therefore lose sight of things like clear intuition, logic, thinking things through fully, etc. — thereby making it feel impossible to find your footing and just “be” and “do.”
so when i saw the oracle mentioning not dragging the past into the present, it was clear to me this is what it’s talking about (and yes, pretty much the whole oracle seems to apply). the question i’m asking myself is: how is that done?
oh amanda, you make-a me laff! heh heh
Happy Blessed Day indeed, as A Word beautifully phrased it. I’ve been quiet of late, de-cluttering, processing and strengthening a deeply satisfying inner contentment, but my PW community is never, ever very far from my thoughts and heart.
I so cherish this blog for being a place where I can feel most alive, appreciated and understood.
Sending you all my deepest affection and gratitude this “Blessed Day”and indulge me as I pass on a link to something I came upon this past hour that put a huge smile on my face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhHPIuTQ5k&feature=share
gee, you don’t say, oracle…
Lovely, Oracle.
Happy Blessed Day, PWers.
xo
Linda