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My daughter, Gwen, has been talking to me for some time about what you people are about. I am very interested in everything you are discussing and want to order a subscription. You might find it interesting (or not) that at 75 years old I am very much in tune with what I hear you are saying….But after about 40 years in the arena of spiritual seeking and everything that implies, it might be more understandable. From what I have heard about you, your voice is that voice that I spent most of my life looking for in the world. I have since learned to listen diligently to my inner promptings. But now the two are coming together. Thank you…
Dear Friend and Reader,
It’s Rachel again, here with your Monday edition. Eric is taking a breather from blogging for the duration of the Sun’s transit through Gemini and will be back June 20. Weekly and monthly horoscopes continue at Planet Waves Astrology News.
Today I have an excerpt for you on the Mercury retrograde, in hopes that you’ll get some insight into the one we’re experiencing now. Eric writes about the effect that Mercury has on our perception and how there’s more to it than having all our technology go wonky.
This being said, this retrograde seems to be responsible for more than its share of car and computer problems, but it’s difficult to tell since it’s not studied scientifically. The bright side is that ideas are subject to change, revision, expansion and a test for whether they really hold water, or in this case (Gemini) air.
But he associates the experience of Mercury retrograde with the ideas of a Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin. Have a look — it’s interesting.
Catch you tomorrow morning, bright and early.
— Rachel Asher, in Dublin, Ireland
The Swiftly Tilting Planet: Brussels, Friday, August 4, 2006
For individuals, the mind free in the cosmos, making its way along the web of humanity, Mercury itself presents real challenges when it changes directions. There is a phase of reorientation during and after the station. It’s a little like a magnetic pole shift which our brains take time to catch up with. I have no doubt that, though not ‘proven’, this is a physical as well as symbolic phenomenon, and I propose that we’re at a true advantage for being aware that it’s happening.
This environment goes beyond the devices and obvious connections. All that is broadcast enters consciousness and reverberates within a kind of mental or psychic environment that contains every sentient being. An early 20th century Jesuit scientist and philosopher named Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) called this the noosphere. Even if we attempt to pay no attention at all, we are affected; we swim in this environment, it is made of us and our awareness, and centuries of evolution have taken us to the point where psychic senses are now an accepted fact.
We feel the planet and we feel one another, all in addition to feeling ourselves at this urgent crux point of history where the momentum of change is gathering rapidly. Yet at the same time, many factors have conspired to create a mass shutdown of awareness. This, combined with the compression of time and new psychic portals opening, has a lot of people living with some pretty severe internal tension. It feels as if a balloon of awareness is growing inside everyone, waiting to burst.
Because tuning out and shutting down does not work on any level except the most temporary, those who plan to survive need to develop adaptation strategies, the first of which are psychological and emotional. Then we need processes to embrace the accelerating onrush of the future in more creative and efficient ways. Planetary awakening on any scale involves many combined individual awakenings, as well as a plasma-like gathering of energy. On the larger scale this is for the sake of the planetary evolution process, that is, our collective mission here and certain other goals seemingly beyond human awareness.
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Monday 09 June 2008
Apollo (6+ Leo) square Chariklo (6+ Scorpio Rx)
Juno (22+ Sagittarius Rx) sesquiquadrate Pallas (7+ Taurus)
Venus (18+ Gemini) conjunct Sun (18+ Gemini)
Jupiter (20+ Capricorn Rx) trine Sedna (20+ Taurus)
Eros (28+ Gemini) sextile Orcus (28+ Leo)
Eros (28+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Psyche (13+ Scorpio Rx)
Mercury (16+ Gemini Rx) quintile Orcus (28+ Leo)
Chariklo (6+ Scorpio Rx) opposite Asbolus (6+ Taurus)
Venus (19+ Gemini) square Logos (19+ Virgo)
Sisyphus stations direct (7+ Libra)
Today’s Oracle takes us to September 23, 2005, Virgo – Weekly
To allow new energy into our lives and to express ourselves in new ways it’s vitally important to let go of what has occupied our spaces and priorities for so long. There are some people who cannot make a change without the sense that something is being taken away; there are others who will cling to negative circumstances simply because they’re familiar. Neither strategy is going to work for you now and you can be glad of that. The options you have before you are simply too compelling to ignore and too good to make excuses about why you don’t deserve them.