{"id":62642,"date":"2012-12-18T01:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62642"},"modified":"2012-12-18T01:55:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T06:55:43","slug":"capricorn-solstice-2012-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/capricorn-solstice-2012-just-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Capricorn Solstice 2012: Just the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading over comment threads on Facebook and this blog about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Friday\u2019s Capricorn solstice. I was trying to find my bearings, find what could possibly be left to say about being alive on this planet to witness the last day of an ancient calendar cycle; what there is left to say about witnessing the mass killing of young children and the discussions springing up about the event.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My Sagittarius Moon is within a couple degrees of the Galactic Center, which the Sun conjoins today. I kept hoping my antennae might buzz, or that in taking a walk down the street, I might be struck by some profound insight, beamed in straight from the GC. Instead, I found myself mired in various tasks that made it hard to find a through-line to inner depths or even inspiration. And then I realized that some of the comments I had read possessed such a clear message and resonated so strongly with me, that maybe recognizing that message meant my Moon was working after all.<\/p>\n

\u201cEris is forcing us to become aware of one of our flaws: not dealing with the problem of assault weapons availability,\u201d wrote commenter bkoehler<\/a>. \u201cPholus has taken one small private pain (1 person, 1 small town) and made it a nation-wide suffering.\u201d <\/p>\n

This was a theme I noticed in a few places, and not just about the gun issue: that more people seem to be open to hearing and explicitly talking about the confluence of issues that have intertwined to allow 20 children and six adults to be killed by one young and apparently deeply troubled man. <\/p>\n

We are seeing the unconscionable gaps in our mental health services; our industrial-strength warehousing of people (especially young men of color, and those with mental illness) in prisons; our increasing appetite for violence in the media, in entertainment, in speech and thought; our state of perpetual war and consumerist distraction. More people seem to be saying, \u2018this issue is showing us an entire web of our cultural failures, and we are willing to consider their relationships to each other — and to ourselves\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Eric has written about the prominence of Juno\u2019s conjunction with the Sun on Dec. 21, 2012 as a spiritual imperative for us to establish a true relationship to ourselves. He wrote in a recent subscriber issue, \u201cwe really do need to get right with ourselves before we can be right with anyone else. That, or we need to go into our relationships honestly admitting that we’re also working out an inner relationship, and leave the bond with the other flexible enough to accommodate some self discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think in addition to these ideas of inner contact and intimacy with others, this idea of the 2012 solstice being about \u2018relationship\u2019 is also about cause and effect. <\/p>\n

Perhaps this is a too-broad interpretation of Juno, but I can\u2019t ignore the many, many conversations on the Internet right now about the relationships between cultural trends and Friday\u2019s events in Newtown, CT; the relationships between the various mass shootings in this year alone; the relationships between our environment, our DNA, our brain chemistry and neural pathways, our parenting, our economy, our school systems, our health care systems, our use of technology, and so on.<\/p>\n

PW commenter gwind <\/a>asked, \u201cwhat if the gun issue is the result, not necessarily a cause. What I am hearing is that we are finally getting to the discussion about how sick & disconnected our culture is becoming.\u201d That thought caught my attention, if I understood it correctly: what if the availability of assault weapons in the U.S. isn\u2019t the reason for tragedy, but rather the meta-tragedy of our culture in general is the reason for our gun culture?<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t managed to follow the thought all the way through, but I think it\u2019s worth considering. Gwind continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cI then add it to the Mayan calendar issue. I think part of the discussion about 12-21-12 is about the collective soul wanting so desperately for a new reality. We want a correction and do not know how to go about it. Like someone who may attempt to commit suicide; they may not want to really die, they may just want the pain to end.\u201d<\/p>\n

This makes more sense to me than the optimistic but sadly unrealistic idea that with the end of the 13th baktun of the Mayan calendar, mass enlightenment will simply occur — even for those who have been doing their spiritual homework all along. But a cry for help in the form of a shock to our collective emotional, energetic and psychic bodies, resulting in the widespread acknowledgement of humanity\u2019s interconnected failures? Yes, I could see that — especially if it also shows us how we can begin making the corrections and healing.<\/p>\n

We need to get out of our navels. As much as the solstice may have to do with working out our inner relationship as we negotiate more flexible, growth-oriented relationships with others, there is here also a call to find a way out of our respective narcissistic tendencies and wounds.<\/p>\n

Commenter Green-star-gazer offered perhaps the most resonant, wide-view take on what message such a brutal, tragic human event might have, occurring as it did so close to the astrological event that has carried both the most promise and the most fear of 2012. Here are excerpts; I encourage you to read the entire comment<\/a> for its context of Shamanistic worldview: <\/p>\n

What if as a result of all these sacrifices (including and especially those of the Souls who incarnate as the ones who pull the triggers) we are given a moment to STOP and ask ourselves if we are really doing what we\u2019ve come here to do? Are we really doing the very best that we can with what time we\u2019ve been given here? Are we really giving to each other, ourselves and our planet our very best, most creative efforts, full of passion and compassion? <\/p>\n

Or are we following the lemming trail off the cliff because we\u2019ve gone so far asleep that we don\u2019t believe that we have any power to affect change? What are we doing here? Why have we allowed ourselves to become so dark and full of dread? Why have we allowed ourselves to perpetuate violence against each other at every turn\u2026 in casual conversation, in music, in games, in media, in politics, business and even in intimate relationships? <\/p>\n

Why do we allow ourselves to be immersed in a culture of fear, dread and violence? These are good questions to ask ourselves, here at the turning of the ages.<\/p>\n

When are we going to wake up and see that we are CHOOSING to do this to ourselves? To me, that is what this chart of this moment is ALL about. It is a huge billboard reminder that we can make different choices at every turn and transform our outer reality if we are sufficiently motivated and have the courage to stand up to the dark forces and say, \u2018You are not what I am going to support, with my choices, with my actions and with my energy (which can be money) anymore. Period. End of story.\u2019 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chart section from a 30-degree sort on Serennu.com<\/a>. Juno is at 29+ Sag, about to enter Capricorn tonight ahead of the Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The question is, are we finally ready to stand up and really start to behave as if every choice matters\u2026 because it does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Consider also that on its way to the Capricorn solstice on Friday, the Sagittarius Sun trines minor planet 1992 QB1 in Aries tonight just after its conjunction to the Galactic Core. 1992 QB1 is a planet Eric has associated with the crossing of thresholds, and with those who help others to make such crossings — into new phases of life, death or sexuality. A trine facilitates easy flow.<\/p>\n

For the young souls of Sandy Hook who are making a crossing of their own, I wish peace. For those of us still here on this plane of existence, it seems we have a threshold of our own to cross: into understanding the unity represented by these relationships, and into a state of \u2018acting as if to hold the world together\u2019. And the Sun and 1192 QB1 are holding the door open. The Capricorn solstice of 2012 is just the beginning. But of what? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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