So today ends Venus’ and Mercury’s retrogrades end, and, in a few days, Mars and Jupiter conjoin. What can this mean for us? Why pay attention?
It is a bit strange for me to write so much about astrology of late, but it is at Source’s insistence. Our celestial neighbors always align to help facilitate cosmic shifts, and so earn our attention. The cosmic bath waters do make a difference. The conjoining of Mars and Jupiter, one of my favorite neighbors, is about action or forward motion in the energy of expansion. This time, the expansion in matter and consciousness is less about ego and more about what the heart wants. Yes, really.
This is a powerful time for Gaian residents, as it is in the cosmos. As human collective consciousness moves toward what we call “the holidays” the cosmos aligns in the purity of “holy days.” Yes, really. Feel the core of light, the pillar or still-point of Source Essence that you are, stirring and expanding. This is the “Star in the East” that was spoken of in the Christian traditions, the “Ohr HaGanuz” in Judaism, and the “Light of ten thousand suns” of the Sufis. It is the Essence of purity that every tradition calls Divinity. The Light that precedes all other Creation.
Think of that. The Light came first. It was and is First Emergence. Every significant alignment of our cosmic neighbors holds a facet of this light. So do we. When retrogrades end, only perceived from a Gaian point of view, and a planet appears to “turn direct” or reverse course in the heavens, the focus of those energies shift…from an Earth-established perspective. Do the planets actually change course? No. They hold their course. Only our perspective, and therefore our consciousness, shifts. A retrograde period brings our focus to how the cosmic energies represented by a planet can be focused inward. In other words, the spotlights go on inside us. When a planetary archetype “goes direct” the energetic focus turns outward once again. These cycles repeat, over and over, as the Earth, our beloved Gaia, spins. So the wheel of awareness turns.
I write about consciousness, about awareness. I feel the shifts as they happen, as movements in the heavens that surround my Earth experience. Sometimes, when I look at the night sky and the stars, my body experiences a bit of vertigo, as she feels with Gaia and her trajectory through space. Now is a time when we can all be more aware of this larger perspective. It assists the remembering. It can assist as a reminder of the co-creative fractals of Source that we all are.
We are not only our bodies. They come and go. We are certainly not our thoughts, though they can be fertile creative tools. Thoughts pass through us like clouds or birds on the wing. They come and go. We are not our emotions, nor are feelings and emotions the same thing. We are as much projected archetypes as are the planets and the stories we have made up to explain their existence, and we have the potential to hold as much or even more, light. Light that can be brought to bear within this glorious cacophony we call life.
So, as the planetary archetype of personal will and action conjoins the planetary archetype of expansion, what will increase within us?
Every expansion requires the letting go of something that limits that expansion. Tree trunks accumulate rings. What do we accumulate that serves, and what is ready to transform? What if?
Have a transformative week…as if we could help it. ;)
Infinite love~
