Good Morning!
Your podcast is done. This week I cover Mercury stationing retrograde later today, and the Aries New Moon on Saturday, April 3. The charts above are the ones that I describe; click and you’ll get a much larger presentation.
Mercury will be retrograde from later in the day March 30 though April 23.
My take on this sequence of events is that it’s about self-actualization. There are many planets in Aries, pulling most of the energy, mass and gravity to one side of the solar system.
At the same time, these are focusing attention on Saturn in Libra, way at the other end. This represents some tension. One result may about boldly expressing oneself within your own life, particular within relationships. This looks like the structure gets tested or pushed and shown to be what it is. There seems to be a challenge to the known structure of those interactions.
So, get ready to be you, and to be you no matter who you’re relating to. Or, get ready to observe yourself doing so, and use that to ask a few obvious questions.
Here is your podcast in the old player, and here it is in the new one. By the way, if the new player gets cranky, try closing browser windows to free memory and it will work better.
Dude, I’m diggin’ your SF Giants cap.
Even if it — and you — are backwards.
😉
Beautiful, eloquent and Useful, as always. Thank you Eric.
I accidently typed “1992” (instead of number 15760) when looking for QB1 in my natal chart – and came up with an asteroid named Galvarino (asteroid number 1992) —
— the “get this” is that natal Galvarino is exactly conjunct natal 1992 QB1 at 11AQ. (Ha! synchonicity take that!)
….and they are near conjunct at this moment although Galvarino is moving along quickly (29 Aries today for the retrograde – he’ll already have moved into Taurus in 2 more days)
His story is gruesome, but has a lot of current event stuff in it – worth a read about him (he’s literally made into a fragmented man by his captors, his determination to Action and defense of Self and defending that relationship to the end. – or whatever else my imagination put into this lore.
I chose this link instead of Wiki ’cause I liked the Bad Ass of the Week thing! hahaha.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/galvarino.html
I liked your example of a novelist who’s been at it for years and still hasn’t had a breakthrough. In our throwaway culture few people bother to spend the time to develop a craft. Music is closer to the center of my viewpoint than writing, though I see them both as parts of my craft. It’s easier to hire a DJ than a band. Not to diss DJ’s, but live instruments are a different sonic critter than the most artfully constructed prefab recordings. Consumer culture worships youth cause the young are easier to manipulate.
I’m sick of young men howling about their shitty relationships and blaming it on someone else, stomping around a stage like a two year old with a guitar and calling it music. There’s a reason I only play with people older than me these days. Thousands of hipsters who primarily drink PBR and smoke cigarrettes flood this town every year, many of them coming to stay “where young people go to retire.” Young people who reject input from elders cause they haven’t learned that not all elders behave like the ones who abused them. So crafts like music are left to rot as prefab recordings blasted through PA systems try to replace the realtime community creation of living people playing live instruments. So I have to play with people older than me to learn anything. People who learned how to play before the internet.
What I’m getting at is the idea that if you haven’t had your breakthrough as an artist by the time you’re 25 you’re irrelevant is a reflection of consumer culture’s garbage mentality- almost everything we extract from the Earth goes to a landfill. It takes time to master a craft. If time is money you can’t afford to practice cause we have to return a profit for the slave lords by the end of the quarter. Garbage people would rather listen to the pre-recorded voices of the dead than cultivate a skill that takes a lifetime to master. All you have to be able to do is earn money in some wage slavery and spend it on products, i.e. be a good consumer.
Eric, what a wonderful message you give us. When you mentioned “curiosity” I had to chuckle, for this word has filled my 62 years, and believe me, it is some potent magic when put into practice.
Rob44, thank you for expressing your thoughts with such promise for us all.
Rob, that’s beautiful. Thank you for that crystal description.
I think it is worth noting in light of this focus on Self/Other lit up by this set of planetary chords — the focus on relationship that Eric is illuminating….. that recently there have been a ton of articles on the internet about how Science Has Discovered that heartbreak (as in relational rejection) is just as bad as physical pain and registered as that by the body. Here’s an example: http://www.thefamilygp.com/How-being-socially-rejected-hurts-like-physical-pain.htm
I love how these things align in the collective consciousness field. I reckon the healing of this is similar as well and also has to have strong roots in Who I Am (Who You Are.)
Also, Eric, thanks so very much for your description of how mental looping works to trap us and keep us from accessing our natural creative powers. 😉
cool stuff goin on.
Thank you, Eric,
And thank you Rob. After I read your post I breathed a sigh of relief. He (Rob) said it. He said it well. Eric, you so deserve to be well spoken of and to.
The breadth of your understanding of human nature, politics and relationships, the clarity of your understaning of the patterns and symbols of the created beings we live amongst (our Mother has many brothers sisters and cousins), your linguistic ability to synthesize and clarify the pictures we are presented when we look to the sky, are not paralleled by anyone one I have ever contacted–and I have quite a large and long contact list. You are YOU. Don’t quit doing that, Thank you.
And thank you thank you thank you again Rob for describing not only (and so well ) the quality of material that Eric gives us (loaf of bread in a quart of Malt-yeah) but also the in and out expericnces that you (and I ) have gone through as I have awakened and lived from my core, and then sunk into something beoming concretized, and having then to again re-emerge, to find out even more of who I was created to become, and have to step into that larger skin. Or not. Again. And Again.
So here I/we go again into Mercury SR. With Mars and Uranus awaiting us (with Eris) at the other end. What an adventure. What a challenge. Glad I came loaded with Curiosity. Takes me places I probably otherwise would never go. See you , there.
Thanks Amanda; and thanks for all the great work all of you at Planet Waves do to serve the greater good.
rob44 — eloquent; thank you for sharing. it could be a post in its own right.
Yikes.
I beleive that this New Moon in Aries will sextile my Jup. in Aquarius but *exactly* square my natal moon in Libra. Hmm…
Thanks once again for the fine work, Eric. In my Irish-American tribe they used to say of fine stout beer, “There’s a loaf of bread in every bottle.” Your podcasts strike me that way, as full-bodied drinks giving real nourishment. But more than that they’re a cornucopia; an abundance of nourishment offered from a dedicated vessel. And that image presages the Victrola horn, amplifying coded messages for those creatures leaning in to listen.
Last night before sleeping, I listened to this message via your preview link. This was after an evening reading other materials giving equally illuminating context on the course of times ahead, at personal and collective levels.
As often happens during sleep, I rose and sank between light consciousness and immersion into an ongoing dreamscape. With each descent I found myself returning to a room holding some kind of High Council; a tableau filled with soft-spoken, compassionate figures of grounded wisdom dedicated to assisting humanity in its struggle toward awakening. I felt they were both aspects of my greater Self, and sage beings in their own right.
I don’t recall the specifics of what they shared. As with other visions of that order, consciously remembered details matter less than the received essence of the experience. Yet I woke understanding that the counsel they offered was simultaneously intimately personal and universally relevant. I saw that there was no essential difference between the two perspectives. Both streams merged seamlessly, in a fluid transcendence of the dualism that defines our kind’s current understanding.
Through this flow of messages that filled my day and shepherded me into night, I feel a deeper integration of the core truths you and kindred souls strive to share, and that I strive to share myself. That the personal is political; that the individual is the whole; that the work we do as individuals to transform shadow into light is done for all.
For much of my life these truths have emerged and receded, taking the fore and retreating into uncertainty. They’ve burst forth in triumph and been beaten back by fear, doubt, and resignation. They’ve lived in concept more than action.
That process will continue. But sometimes within it we recognize a moment that’s a tangible turning point. One more step into receiving with body, mind, and soul what seeks to live through us. That much more willingness to protect, nurture, and affirm that perennial force of mystery and promise. More determination to stand for that which matters most, regardless of outcomes.
I don’t know humanity’s destiny. But I know better what I want to live for in the midst of all that passes away. Thank you.