As mentioned in the audio: How to Cross an Ocean, How to Light a Fire
Good morning,
I’ve got a bit of audio for you; this is a pretty straightforward astrology report, not veering too far into political missive.
Your audio covers Uranus and Pluto doing their thing, Jupiter changing signs the other day, and a few more bobs. Here’s your record in the old player, and the gray button below is the new one.
I do have additional thoughts about last evening’s Obamaganza, Olbermann and Assange/Manning, though not fully formed.
Yours & truly,
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There is also the inbuilt/inherent/implicit violence in our societies and inequality everywhere isn’t there, praps the edginess is in part feeling those tensions. The sign of a master apparently to live serenely with inquietude. Surely a way to go for me!
Indranibe let’s hope it doesn’t have to be ‘war’, maybe we’ll just follow Eric and Len and co into the dark and find an unexpected shift, somewhat in the style of the other wind (ursula le Guin)?
xxx
Aggressive toward mothers and women in general. I have always thought Mars had it in for us!
Paying attention without paying attention. That’s what your last bit about how to deal with the news brought to mind for me. Since my son went into Iraq at the beginning of that ‘false flag’ event, I little by little came to pay so much attention to the news, any I could find, more and more from the internet and progressive radio, that I became addicted possibly to its inherent negativity. I certainly became more and more angry. It was my way of being with my son, imagining where he might be and what he might be going through. As time went on, it was my way of being with him as his service changed. I listened to the Iraq veteran Winter Soldier testimony. I wanted to be prepared for anything he might have to tell me. It became tiring. Now I still listen when things seem interesting, when things are happening, especially like this latest thing out of Tucson. But when things begin to be repeated in the media or on the radio I check out and listen to music. Classical music. Very calming or passionate. Beauty. I want beauty. I’m hungry for it. I ran across your column Eric, early on, way back in the 90’s and was struck by your sensitivity, positivity and accuracy. I have only found it more helpful as time has gone on. Thank you for everything you do, thank you for who you are, polymoramoryphy and all.
I believe I shared this or something like it in one of Jude’s columns. Facing and verbalizing these feelings has been difficult. It’s taken so long.
A Christmas Story
Avoiding truth, hiding from what’s
eating my heart
9/11, a self-inflicted wound
for greed,
for oil,
for nothing
but to
grease America’s
slide into Fascism
My country,
a figment
of my imagination.
Imagine a nation,
imagine a nation
A nation of givers
instead of takers
Is it too late?
We will pay the cost in the blood
of our children.
Where can it be said
if not in poetry
Holding it in so long,
10 years
My son’s service, his life force
misused to line
the pockets
of the Oilygarchy.
Peak oil, a myth they say,
may be the best hope
of humanity
Everyone’s cars
rusting in their yards
good for planters, dog houses,
earthships
We’ll have to relearn how to die then
What will it take for us
to remember that
we are a family
that we are no more
separated than 50th cousins
that the DNA
of life
spirals in a circle
connecting all living things?
It’s all coming to an end.
We are all actively
participating in bringing
about our own end
Taking so many innocents with us
already so many
gone from memory
Those free of self-consciousness
hostages to human selfishness
Our time so short
our ideas so inflated
“What is man
That Thou art mindful of him
and the son of man
That Thou visitest him?
For thou hast
made him
a little lower than
the angels, alleluia
and hast crowned him with glory, glory”
What will humanity crown itself with?
The first of earth’s children
to choose the hour of their own departure
A glory more than questionable.
Psalm 8:4-5
ok…and Venus is ruler of the DC/7th house – is that right? (that is, at the place where all those lovely planets are going to conj on 02-02 on my DC)
So additionally to add to my “edgies” regarding upcoming 02-02 Ms. Venus will be conj natal Saturn and also semi-sextile natal Venus and add to that transiting Saturn in her sign of Libra.
And what does my natal Uranus eternally in opposition to his Happy Home of Aquarius think of all those lovely Planets having a party there without him?
Hm. Methinks this AstroStuff is very complicated.
OK..now I’ve got the edgies…..upcoming Sun/Moon/Mars/Ceres is on my DC (Aquarus) conjunct Chyron and Opposite Uranus.
I’m far enough along with my PW Astro Learnin’ now that I can see the configuration of what’s ahead, but I sure as heck don’t know what to be ‘feeling for’ in this. Any helpful tips or insights greatly appreciated!
ru: o my! I think we should just flood GCU with art depicting Astro Mice.
There’s another thing in the new moon chart I find kinda interesting: Uranus, Juno retro, and Venus are in a T square with Venus on GC, which is also my north lunar node so with my south node for me it’s a grand cross. Looks to me like an opportunity for light workers of all kinds to download cosmic info to inspire ways to mediate between the Promethean dream in Pisces and the climate chaos I think is the most visceral synchronization on Earth with the symbol of Juno in Virgo.
I just finished up an outline for an astrology book a few of my Facebook fans have been begging me to write that uses Thema Mundi as a means to envision an astrology reflecting ideals of permaculture and the circle of 5ths from music theory to illuminate another layer of an interpretation of aspects. This new moon chart looks to me like a jolt in the direction of manifesting that project. I don’t have many books left after selling so many to eat and I’m no longer a college student so I don’t have access to scholarly journals. I got no money for books…I don’t know, how scholarly does an astrology book based on linking new visions of the signs and houses with permaculture need to be? Since I live in Portland I suppose I could just hang out at Powell’s and take notes…
Anyway, even without my lunar nodes I thought the Venus conjunction to GC made that aspect structure pretty interesting.
Oh My!
I get e-mail from GCU Greeting Card Universe, ALL THE TIME. selling the work of 100’s of artists around the world
Today they posted requests for card designs for the new 13th sign!
I had to join the forum to write a disclaimer, and post several URLs that explain it better than I can.
In the future with your permission, Eric I will post your article to the forum. That will really set them straight!
Thanks, Eric, for another insightful pod cast. I will echo Indrani’s thoughts…there has been a palbable buildup to whatever is about to happen. It’s evident on pretty much every level you can imagine…from local to global. As you and I have discussed, this has been a rebirthing period for me, and isn’t it interesting that many aspects which we all feel mirror or relate to personal aspects in my chart? In many ways, I feel like the canary in the coal mine. I have a weak natal saturn jupiter opposition, both in cardinal signs. At the same time we will be experiencing a global Uranus Pluto square, I will be under the influence of a Uranus Pluto opposition. And, just as we experienced a Pluto Saturn square last year, I, too, had the influence of a personal Pluto Saturn square. I am also on the cusp of a Saturn Uranus opposition and a double Saturn Jupiter opposition. If you recall, my ascendant is virtually conjunct the galactic core…
I would have to say that because of the echo effect between the macrocosm and the microcosm, I am feeling the approach of a crossroads moment…a determinative moment that will create a new paradigm. Even further, without this paradgimatic shift, it’s doubtful that the path we have been on will be sustainable. It’s almost a case of change or die.
Without buying into a survivalist or even a millenial attitude, I think there’s a positive way to chart our path through what may very well be some turbulent waters. As long as we can live with change, we’ll be fine. It’s when we resist the change that problems arise.
With that in mind, I have embraced the approaching changes as not only not bad, but as a critical step in our evolution as a species or maybe even more accurately as matrices of spiritual energy, so to speak.
Lastly…fwiw…I don’t know if I would have been able to adopt this perspective without the assistance of Planet Waves and Eric, who has been a friendly and compassionate, yet objective, friend and counselor.
Thanks Eric…don;t know where I’d be without you!!
I’ve been feeling a restlessness as you describe, for for at least a year, but closer to two. I’ve noticed it especially in my colleagues – lawyers – most of whom are idealists, and in particular, the older lawyers, most of whom feel unfulfilled, undernourished, and as though they’ve somehow sold themselves ‘short’. As though the dreams they dreams have failed to materialise, and they’re finding it more and more difficult to live with that. Not just my lawyer colleagues, but all my friends (who are all dreamers), and my father, also a dreamer.
I was speaking to my brother who lives in New Zealand on the phone a couple of weeks ago – he’s very inituitive too. I said to him, “war is coming”, and he understood what I meant and said he felt that too. My daughter is currently at The Hague, leading the Australian delegation at the Model UN General Assembly. 4000 young people from around the world are assembled there as we speak. She and her team are finding the environment there very difficult. Consensus is extremely hard to achieve, and she’s finding that the sheer aggression displayed by delegates is overwhelming.
I read that sort of aggression as an extension of the desperation that seems to have overtaken most of the world’s nations – the world has seen more than 100 years of war somewhere in the world. The constant instability, the huge movement of refugees, the trauma that crosses generations, and the desperation for survival – these are all present at The Hague.
I suggested to my daughter that this is the current reality. While Australia has been barely touched by violence on our own shores, generations of Australians have been dispatched to fight wars in other countries, and our country is people by immigrants and refugees. I work as a criminal trial lawyer, and my colleagues and I notice that the cases are becoming more complex, post-traumatic stress disorder and variants of mental illness are becoming more rife. My colleagues are so badly affected by the work they do that I’ve been moved to research the very nature of the work we do and write a handbook legal practitioners can refer to in order to manage and look after their own mental health and wellbeing.
It’s as though the world is on the brink of something, and that something’s got to give. Things cannot go on as they are, and the present time feels like the ‘calm before the storm’. There is definitely something in the air, it’s in the weather, it’s everywhere, BUT, the mindset of people is anti-war. As though we do not want anymore of this, as though we are finally beginning to understand as a collective that belligerence and violence are NOT the way forward.
The world cannot financially afford anymore wars, nor emotionally. It’s in our government – the minority government is holding, it’s working, and that’s largely because the Australian public DO NOT WANT any further instability. The Howard government caused enormous social harm, and what we are looking for now is healing.
In a way, I’m impressed that my daughter and her teammates were so shocked – it demonstrates to them that all is not well, but also that we here in countries like Australia and New Zealand, have something to offer the world: a peaceful way forward. It demonstrates also the effects of war. I can’t imagine that any of these kids (marked as ‘future leaders’) will be in any hurry to turn to war or violence as the solution for anything. And that is the general feeling here too – we’re a peaceful nation, and a peace-loving nation. The feeling in the air is that we need to find another way, a proper and sustainable way forward – as Len wrote earlier this week – a way that offers inclusion, not exclusion. There is enough of everything right here in the world for all of us to live harmoniously. John Lennon, “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world can live as one.” That day is at hand, the hour is nigh – it’s written in the stars. It’s time. Amen.
Thank you Eric, for a lovely, thoughtful weekly audio report, and thank you in advance for the mammoth effort you are putting into Light Bridge – much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Indrani