from the chair: 18th November 2013 Full Moon in Taurus

Hi everyone! Get ready for the good life!

We’re about to emerge from the eclipse vortex, into the light of a new day! We’re on the freedom train!

We’ve been hurtling through the night on the journey to freedom! We’re in a change process that’s a whole heap more intense and magnified by a range of change agents!

The most significant are:

A. Planetary forces impacting on each other and on us

B. Solar activity increasing

C. Reversal of the Sun’s magnetic poles

I’ve outlined more details on this below.

First of all we’re about to exit from the last 4 weeks of the eclipse change process. If you haven’t experienced a big shift in focus and or physical change in the past weeks, then it is likely yet to evidence.

Change ongoing: Eclipses bring change, from a month to 6 months, even 12 months later.

What’s been happening:

Cleansing and purification of the earth:

The past 2 months: Ramping up of intensity has been bringing change and more change for us all!

Of course, we are in a long term process with this purification and evolution of consciousness of the earth and its inhabitants. However, over the past month or so and still happening are some intense energies happening at the same time and impacting on us all in a whole variety of ways.

Three primary forces for change have been:

A. Astrological/planetary shifts and interactions

B. Solar activity – increased in frequency and strength

C. Magnetic poles of the sun reversing

A. Astrologically: Planetary shifts and interactions

Astrologically, three strong forces for change intensified the transformation process for the past couple of months!

1. The Uranus/Pluto square/challenge is ongoing in impacting on us all and the earth! Feelings of insecurity to be released!

Remember, this is sudden, fiery, radical energy challenging deeply embedded primal forces in the earth and in the cell memories of our bodies. You may have felt this energy physically, emotionally, mentally and/or spiritually. This is major makeover energy for us individually as well as in the political, business, big money arena.

Security issues challenged: It’s like a time bomb has exploded and

continues sending out the destructive forces like waves of change, repercussions flowing on from the initial radical break out from the jail of limitation and restriction.

Nightmares of insecurity and fear may have emerged from the unconscious as we were challenged to release these oppressive forces from our psyche and the deep past of this and the memory of life on earth. It’s not just about you...it’s a collective release!

After 21st November easing off: An easing of these forces as they very, very slowly move away from each other. Returning March 2014.

2. The Scorpio energies:

Life, death, rebirth, resurrection and transformation!

Intensified from mid September to 5th December:

Bones laid bare! Draining off the dross!

Mind, heart, body and spirit going through a huge spiritual cleansing!

Increasing and intensifying since mid September as the faster moving planets shifted into Scorpio triggering Saturn and the North Node aligning us with a higher authority in ourselves, releasing a huge backlog of karmic commitments and burdens!

The Phoenix calls!

Aligning and restructuring our authority to earth’s evolutionary focus: Saturn and the North Node

Saturn (karma/responsibility/authority) is working long term with the North Node of spiritual evolution of the planet (our collective direction for growth and change).

Shifting out of the ongoing intensity of the Scorpio energies as follows:

Mercury in Scorpio is now direct: Out of retrograde shadow by 28th! Out of Scorpio on 5th December!

Clarity is being restored as the confusion and misinformation of the past weeks is gradually being revealed.

Mind you, we’ll start getting a clearer picture after 28th when Mercury moves out of retrograde shadow.

January 2014: The North Node shifts into Libra bringing us a focus on and growth in balance, harmony, love and justice...karmic and spiritual.

December 2014: Saturn moves into Libra out of Scorpio, so working with the energies of balance, harmony, love and justice...karmic and spiritual!

After 5th December easing off: After Mercury moves out of Scorpio on 5th December, two days after the New Moon in Sagittarius

3. The eclipse change process: From Aries Full Moon eclipse mid October to Full Moon in Taurus on 18th November...just up ahead!

Exiting the eclipse vortex: Full Moon in Taurus!

With the Full Moon in Taurus on 18th, we are to emerge from the eclipse vortex of these past weeks. We’ve been travelling through this change process since mid October with the Full Moon in Aries lunar eclipse.

Clarity beginning to return: Moving on from the eclipse!

Give thanks for deliverance from the ‘midnight special’, the night train as we speed towards the morning light! We’ve been travelling on the night train, liberating ghosts and hopes! We’ve travelled through an astrological season of change and transformation. The cosmic weather’s been intense that’s for sure!

After 21st easing off: The change process will continue with an easing of intensity as we move away from the affect of the Full Moon

B. Solar activity:

Increased solar activity during October and into November...coming and going!

Any solar activity has the potential to affect us, just as the moon impacts on us. We’ve had an increase in solar activity into November and we cannot predict when this activity is likely to occur. We just need to know that when there is solar activity, depending on its strength, it is likely to affect our physical bodies and our communication as it is likely to impact on the earth’s magnetic field. If your mind’s been a little addled, it’s not just Mercury retrograde energy.

More on solar activity and its possible impact on our bodies:

Dana Mrkich http://spiritlibrary.com/dana-mrkich/double-whammy-x-flares-clean-and-clear-your-energy

Unpredictable with respect to easing off:

We cannot predict an easing off. However, with the flipping of the Sun’s magnetic poles, it is anticipated there will be an increase in solar activity.

C. Magnetic poles of the Sun reversing: Happens about every 11 years, signifying change! Where is North???

The North magnetic pole has already reversed. The South magnetic pole is due to reverse in next month or so...no-one seems to know when exactly! We are within the ‘flipping’ process, so changing our hearts, minds, directions during this process.

Think back to 11 years ago and what changes were happening in your life at that time? Then, every 11 years going backwards in time.

With the shift, there is change for us all. We are all connected to each other and the magnetic field of the earth and the cosmos, so imagine when there’s a ‘flipping’ of the magnetic poles, there’s all likelihood there’ll be a ‘flipping’ within us. Maybe a complete change of direction, focus etc. Who knows! We are, after all, on a huge discovery tour!

Quote from CBC News article below:

The sun's magnetic flip is expected to increase the chance of significant solar flares, which are eruptions of magnetic energy from the sun’s surface. But these solar flares, when interacting with Earth's magnetic field, can knock out man-made satellites and power grids, affect navigation equipment on airplanes, and interfere with other electronics and communications systems.

Sun’s magnetic poles shifting:

Astronomy: http://earthsky.org/space/suns-magnetic-field-poised-to-reverse-polarity-scientists-say

More interesting information from CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sun-s-magnetic-flip-5-facts-and-myths-about-solar-activity-1.2424369

Possible impact on us during the pole reversal with some assistance for mitigating the influences (thanks for this Bea):

http://tomkenyon.com/cognitive-and-emotional-challenges-during-chaotic-nodes

Jupiter retrograding in Cancer until early March 2014:

Accessing the Akashic records???

Retrieving ancestral memory and knowledge...of our planetary past!

Data collection time!

A retrograde planet always takes us back to the past, a time when we recover old memories, people, places, experiences. Now with Jupiter being such a big expansive world energy, we have an incredible opportunity to connect with world memory and along with that, I imagine the Akashic records!

The Akashic Records from: http://spiritlibrary.com/spiritual-entities/akashic-records

The Akashic Records are an energetic imprint of every thought, action, emotion, and experience that has ever occurred in time and space. The Akashic Records can also be understood as the imprint of all experiences of all lifetime in all realities. They are an etheric, holographic repository of information for human consciousness for the past, present and potentials for the future. The energy that makes up the Akashic Records is the energy of Love!

Accessing the book of knowledge: The time is right, the door is open!

Here, we’re talking earth’s ancestors, not just our own birth family. This is world family and the knowledge is there for us to access when the time is right, when we are ready in consciousness and when the planetary forces open the door to another consciousness.

Accessing past knowledge for our next step forward:

Cancer is ruled by the moon, the divine feminine. Cancer rules the past, memory, ancestors. With Jupiter retrograding, we’re going back to the past, to discover our knowledge embedded in the memory of our earthly existences, our history.

Let the books fall off the shelf!

Knowing the truth, the good, bad and ‘the ugly’ sets us free: Releasing past unresolved oppressed energies through liberation of our true selves!

This energy is offering immense insights and with that, the opportunity for reclamation of lost knowledge about ourselves and our place on this earth. Prepare to welcome in the gifts and talents that you didn’t know you were carrying in your cell memory while letting go of the illusions.

How to access this knowledge:

The information is likely to come forth from the unconscious in surprising ways! Dreams will offer much!

Be open to ‘the messages’ from the inner voice, the body, the environment, others, media...and of course from dreams. Cancer is ruled by the moon which is a doorway to the dream world.

The body speaks: Listen to the messages from the body!

Our cell memories within our body carry the memories of lifetimes and of the earth itself so it’s important to allow these memories to surface when they are ready to come into our consciousness. It’s important not to put any value judgement on the memories that arise as this is like Pandora’s box which releases blocked, trapped energy which has been holding us back whilst at the same time releasing the positive unrecognised gifts within us.

Any part of the body may be activated: For example, with Mercury travelling through Scorpio, many of us have been releasing energies from the respiratory system, the voice and in relation to communication. However, Jupiter rules: liver, thighs, feet, growth, pituitary gland. These areas may well be holding energies which are prime for release now that Jupiter’s retrograding in Cancer. Retrograde periods help us access the unconscious!

What’s happening this week:

14th November:

Neptune turned direct in Pisces at 2 degrees 35 Pisces at 5.42 am AEDT

Spiritual expansion!

Our sails fill with a fresh breeze! We’re off!

Minds and hearts opening to a smorgasbord of potential!

Neptune turning direct opens the door of our imagination to the sea of limitless opportunities!

We are sailing again, even if the other cosmic forces are causing some choppiness to the waters!

The inner exploration complements the outer expansion of vision:

Neptune turning direct is going to be supportive of the ongoing work with Jupiter retrograding in Cancer! Even though they won’t be in close aspect by degree until the second week of December, their energies are both conducive to the expansion of our spiritual world and perceptions of new possibilities coming into view.

As Jupiter retrogrades, it contracts and draws us in while Neptune expands and draws us out. They’re both big energies and it would seem that one will discount the other. They won't. This will contained expansion...easy does it!

Boundaries broadened and challenged:

Neptune direct in Pisces! Where do I end and begin????

If we accept that we are one body with earth and all of the earth, then we can understand that the Neptune in Pisces energy is challenging to us as we are opened to the oneness while seeking our peculiar uniqueness.

Ongoing clarification of self: We’re all working with boundaries as we increasingly define our unique truth, clearing the dross away. The more we are in truth, the less we are ‘sucked into’ the energies of others and of the earth. Sure, at the moment we are clearing ourselves and the earth but we need to remember that basic learning of ‘like attracts like’.

Two big waves meeting in an explosion of watery emotional energy:

Jupiter goes retrograde,

Neptune turns direct!

With Neptune in Pisces turning direct, right on the energies of Jupiter going direct in Cancer, we’ve had big emotional water energies overlapping and coming into a complex clash of energies which may well have felt like you didn’t know if you were coming or going.

I wonder how much these energies were reflected in the huge tidal flooding of the Philippines. Yes, the typhoon whipped it up for sure and was instrumental in the flooding which brought so much death and destruction. Reminded me of the tsunami in Indonesia and Japan. Jupiter is in Cancer which rules home and family, a focus for the world this year!

Jupiter is huge, expansive energy which was once the ruler of Pisces (ocean energy) before Neptune was discovered. Jupiter will expand our inner knowledge base while Neptune will expand our outer spiritual consciousness.

In the Full Moon energy 3 days before and after it comes to fullness!

Our Gateway awaits!

We are bathed in the Full Moon energy for 3 days before and after it comes to fullness. We are already in the energy of this full moon.

Open your hearts, minds, bodies and spirit to the great joy and abundance offered by this moon.

16th November:

Venus meets Pluto in Capricorn activating Uranus in Aries!

Waking up the heart!

Likely to be a power packed heart energy in the growing light of the full moon! This is heart breakthrough energy!

Guaranteed to shift deeply held long term heart energy! This could impact on love, relationships, money, big money or values. We’re likely to be activated in the heart. It could be joyful or painful or both. It will be liberating for sure and provide a wonderful surge of heart energy in the fullness of the full moon energy of abundance.

It will be an awakening energy which doesn’t necessarily mean fear-inducing. It will be intense and may translate into a deep ‘falling in love’ energy which is empowering and heart opening.

It’s the good life!

The Taurus Full Moon ushers in a most auspicious energy of love, fulfilment and earthly abundance!

18th November: Full Moon in Taurus at 2.15 am AEDT at 25 degrees 26 Taurus

Love and money:

In Taurus, the moon is exalted, which means she couldn’t be happier!!!! Taurus is ruled by Venus, an energy which, in astrology, rules love as well as money. In Taurus, the love and money as income need to be aligned and in tune with each other.

Gifts and talents: Employ your unique gifts and the money will follow!

Taurus rules the gifts of the earth as well as our own gifts and talents which can be utilised for financial return and for our creative fulfilment.

Self-esteem, self-worth:

This moon is likely to flush out any energies which prevent you accessing love, money with respect to income. Taurus likes us to be working at what we love for the money to follow and will realign us with that energy at this time.

The full moon highlights the unconscious: Listen to the moon’s messages!

Insights are likely to come regarding anything that is unconscious that needs to be made conscious, whether we consider it positive or negative. It’s all a positive outcome for you and your life. Realigning, releasing and owning.

Love, beauty, harmony and the joy of living on the earth are on tap:

Let the balloons go!

Make a wish or two and float them for all!

Taurus is an earthy moon putting us in touch with Mother Earth’s fruitful abundance, earthly wealth and a love for the beauty of the earth.

Feet on the earth and hearts uplifted:

The Goddess of Abundance is awaiting our arrival in all her earthly beauty and love...the Taurus Full Moon!

The promise of the rainbow:

Universal abundance! Claim your birthright!

The potential of Taurus is the Garden of Eden, the garden of plenty with Taurus’ ruler Venus exuding the loving energies which plug us into the beauty and pleasure of planet earth! The joy of sensuality and the experience of the material world is calling us to re-establish our lives of prosperity.

Grounded and happy:

Taste the richness of life!

This is a moon that plants our feet firmly on the ground with a call to celebrate being on planet earth and being who we are! This is the love of Mother Earth! It’s a feminine show, so get ready to feel whatever you need to feel and love it all...regardless!

Culmination: Something comes to a head, a completion! The final straw!

The Full Moon brings something to culmination, brings something to light from the unconscious. In Taurus, the Full Moon will be highlighting matters pertaining to the ownership and celebration of our unique gifts and talents as well as money with respect to income earned.

The next two weeks to the New Moon in Sagittarius 3rd December: Complete!

Whatever comes to fullness, completion at the full moon will play out for the next couple of weeks as we finish off whatever’s come to light. If we’re working with new possibilities coming to light, then we’ll be clearing and preparing the ground for the planting of those possibilities at the New Moon on 3rd December.

Mars in Virgo and Jupiter in Cancer lending support: Hand in glove with the Full Moon!

Mars still going through the physical purification process is eager to get moving with plans and projects in bringing them to earth. Jupiter is accessing previously unconscious knowledge. Together they’re building dreams and schemes together with the emerging gifts and talents that will be taking us forward. They’re working hand in glove with this Full Moon as the moon is highlighting deep values, desires and what brings us greatest joy.

Jupiter trining the Scorpio Sun is offering positive energies for deep transformation of our desires for emotional security, a fulfilment of emotional security in home and family. Insecurities with respect to being emotionally fulfilled can be cleared at this time. Let it be so!

The Sun in Scorpio, is opposite the Taurus Full Moon:

A balancing act of emotional transformation and physical stability!

The question arises ‘Are we ready to embrace a deep connection to the earth in absolute trust of our entitlement to her bounty’?

Scorpio asks us to transmute the density of the dark energies of resistance within the alchemical process of transforming lead to gold.

Let the Scorpio Sun shine its light into our darkest recesses and bring our golden selves into the light of the full moon goddess!

Pleiades in proximity to the Full Moon energies:

The Pleiades are not too far away from this Full Moon so if you feel a connection to the Seven Sisters, put out your intentions and ask for insight. Connections you feel with planetary forces and/or families are likely to be supported with Jupiter retrograding in Cancer as we hear the voices of the ancestors, the voices of the past.

Sabian Symbols for the Full Moon energies:

From Cathy Pagano at: http://www.wisdom-of-astrology.com/astrostarsarticles/the-cosmic-story-taurus-full-moon-2013

The Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 26* Scorpio is: American Indians making camp after moving into a new territory. This image implies the ability to adjust swiftly to new situations by tuning into what is required. Living in harmony with nature gives us the ability to ‘know’ what to do next. Being intuitively at home everywhere means that you’re at home with yourself. So get in tune with the season and relax! Learn to sense your inner center, the calm within you.

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 26* Taurus is: A Spanish gallant serenades his Beloved. This Moon image suggests that it’s time to pay attention to the Heart. For a man, a woman symbolizes his soul. For a woman, a man symbolizes her protection and self-actualization. It is time to sing to your soul and ask for Love.

As you can see, it is time to rest on your harvest and tune in within. See what’s incubating inside you. What do you want? What is your heart’s desire? I’m not talking about money and power, but about life and hope. This is a great time to work on your new story. If you have planets at 26* Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, this full Moon will light up those energies and connect you to your new story.

Linda Hill on the Sabian Symbols for this Full Moon: http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/11/making-camp-in-new-territory-novembers-taurus-full-moon-.html#more

19th/20th Chiron moves direct:

Liberating the wounded body in the light of the full moon!

Returning to life!

In the light of the full moon waning, we’ll be experiencing a turn around with Chiron, the wounded healer moving forward after 5 months. We’re moving out of the inner discovery and healing of wounds to the psyche and the emotions, out of ‘hospitalisation’ and into recovery and rehabilitation as we strengthen our emotional and physical bodies for a return to life.

Chiron is about the wounds held in the physical body and as it’s been moving through Pisces, we’ve been liberating and healing the emotional wounds of ourselves and the collective unconscious. Get the tap shoes ready...very soon!