Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
I continue to feel disheartened by how humanity is being successfully programmed, with left-brain “reasons,” as usual, to “come down on one side or the other” regarding Palestine and Israel. What happened to the heart? To empathic communion with the Other?
Stern, structural, Saturn, at 0°31 of mystical, oceanic Pisces, turns to go direct after its annual 4.5 month trek backwards on November 4. If Saturn Rx has been used by the controllers to use mental “reasons” to keep people in fear of the Other, and thereby block humanity’s right-brain heart opening, I imagine that those who are ready will experience Saturn’s turn to go direct as transforming that blockage into a channel from which the heart’s love can stream forth, to participate in the oceanic Love that fills and fuels the universe.
Let’s ask that this be so. Let’s visualize this massive shift.
In the Saturn SD chart Saturn makes only a single aspect, and that is an subtle, constantly adjusting inconjunct (150°) to the Moon at 29° 45 Cancer, the sign that it rules. The 29th degree of any sign is one where the lessons of that sign must be learned. And what are the lessons of Moon-ruled Cancer? That family is the foundation of human relations, human survival. That we are all one family, the human family. The Moon’s inconjunct to Saturn at the moment of turning may indicate that those who are ready to shift Saturn’s structure from blockage to channel will begin to subtly vibrate into this recognition that, no matter what our race, color, or creed, no matter our backstory or nationality, all humans are family. We are the human family. The pain of suffering affects us all, whether or not we are blood-related to those who suffer.
Furthermore, we all suffer. When we allow the suffering of others into our hearts, when we shift Saturn’s function from walling off the suffering of others to allowing their suffering in, even if in a controlled, channeled manner, so as not to be overwhelmed, sunk into oblivion, then we cannot help but want our shared suffering to stop. NOW.
Allowing in the suffering of others in takes courage. The word courage, originally, comes from the French, coeur: HEART.
The heart can open as wide as the sky. And must, if we wish to survive and learn to thrive as a species on this beautiful, long-suffering planet.
Last night, it got down to 22° outside. And suddenly, the giant elephant ears, withered!
Same plant, slightly different view of it.
Not only that, but leaves, everywhere! And there’s plenty more still on the trees. Perfect for mulching gardens.
Me, this afternoon: “I’ve felt all along, this year, that the trees produced more leaves than usual. And now look, way more leaves that we’re used to seeing, especially all at once.”
Marita: “Hmmm . . . last year was cidadas, right?”
Me: “Yes! Could they be responsible for increased leaf yield?”
Nature is so very mysterious. And we foolish humans think we can comprehend her. Meanwhile, given what’s “going down” in terms of the continuous global disclosure of more and more all-too-human corruption, to me it feels like every day is Halloween, when all the ghouls come out.
”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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