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Saturday 30 May 2015

30th May 2015 What's it all about Alfie?

 

Hi everyone!

What’s been happening:
 
Where’s the horizon:  Drifting in the light!
We are travelling...spiritually rather than physically! You may feel like you’re ‘going backwards’ or even at a standstill, grounded physically but with a brain full of butterflies.
 
Our ‘horses’ are grazing within the paddock,  somewhat confined  yet drifting under the Gemini Sun seeking nourishment and being in the moment.
 



Mercury is running this show!
This past 10 days or so we’ve been guided by the winged messenger Mercury who’s up to all the tricks of the retrograde energy, aided and abetted by some powerful planetary forces.
 
We’re travelling ‘under the radar’ of physicality as we mentally and spiritually implode, disintegrate and align with our higher mind. 
 



Networking the planet with light:
We’re engaged in a major cleansing process and consciousness upgrade.  As we disintegrate old thinking, we bring in the light of pure love and truth for ourselves and for the whole planet.  We ARE the glitterball of divinity!
 
 
A Gemini pyjama party: Exhausted but no-one wants to go to bed!  Raising the roof of consciousness!
It’s been an intense time over the last week or so since the Sun moved into Gemini, joining Mars and Mercury.  A stellium of planets in Gemini, putting the focus on our mind, our thinking, communication processes and nervous energy has kept us on our toes for the past 10 days.  Mars in Gemini wants to party and to party hard but our physical fire and drive may be somewhat depleted.
 
Mars, fire and drive feeling stymied:  Are you fighting or flowing?
Mars is a masculine, fiery driving force, traditionally an aspect of the ego which wants to ‘make things happen’ through physical action.  With a number of strong planetary aspects occurring through these past 10 days, Mars has been housebound and forced to take some time out.  Of course, you won’t have felt ‘forced’ if you’ve been allowing the energies to take you through this last stretch.  It’s the fighting and resistance in forcing your personal will against divine will which brings tetchiness, frustration and irritation. 
 
Mercury retrograde:    Mindblowing time!
‘What’s it all about Alfie?’:  Can I get it together?  Retrieving the pieces!
Just to ‘complicate’ matters, Mercury turned retrograde in its own sign of Gemini on 19th and we were thrown into the complexity of disarray as the completed jigsaw of our mindset/belief system was disconnected as the jigsaw pieces were pulled asunder.
 
Mental house cleaning: 
Cleansing, purification, release and rearrangement!
Mercury retrograde is always about a mind purification and upgrade of consciousness.  The intensity of this particular upgrade has been doubled with Mercury in his own sign and the Sun and Mars adding to the Gemini focus. 

We’ve been releasing the shadow mind and memory!
 
 
 
Clarity has been elusive:  Safety nets of old thinking must go!
Mentally, you may have felt confused as all the usual channels of thinking have been difficult to access.  As we let go of those mindsets, belief systems and safety nets of predictability, our usual escape hatches, we have been disconnected from normal reality. This is not just Mercury retrograde. 
 
Over the past week we’ve had Saturn, Neptune, Mars, the Sun, Venus. Chiron and Jupiter all in play with each other and the Gemini energies.

 
The past week:    Crossing bridges of consciousness!
Creating beginnings, opening doors to healing, meeting shadows  and resolving conflicts!
 
23rd May:    Sun in Gemini opposite Saturn in Sagittarius
Taking our spiritual authority!
This past week we’ve experienced the Saturn/Sun opposition in the signs of communication, learning and travel, Sagittarius and Gemini. This was a big call to authenticity, to own our spiritual essence and to join two forces which offer positive growth and learning, 
 
This meeting of Saturn opposite the Sun set the ball in motion for the week with a series of planetary transits rolling in on top of each other, over the top of us like waves coming to shore
 
Here is a list of the major planetary movements of this past week:
Waves of change:
 
26th:  Venus/heart in Cancer square/challenge to Uranus in Aries...shock, heart opening
 
26th:  Mars in Gemini square/challenge Neptune in Pisces...mind boggling, spiritually uplifting
 
27th:    Mercury meets Mars in Gemini...mind and body alignment
 
30th:    Sun meets Mercury in Gemini...the essential self alignment with mind
 
31st:    Sun squares/challenges Neptune...alignment of personal self with higher spiritual authority
 
There was so much happening on a daily basis with transits overlapping other transits, it was impossible for a Mercury ruled mind to get a grip on it all!
Please remember that some of us may have been more directly affected than others.  Much depends on your personal natal chart. 
 
What’s been happening physically, mentally, emotionally: 
Release, realignment and renewal!
Many people are feeling the impact of all the planetary energies.  Some are feeling physical exhaustion, emotional frustration and anger, mental confusion and spiritual loss of direction.  Please keep reminding yourself that it’s a temporary state of affairs as our realignment to a higher authority continues  during this Mercury retrograde period.  We have to lose our minds, bodies and spirits to find them again in a whole new state of being.  
 
Mars is our physical body:    Evolving the body consciousness!
If you’ve had aches and pains physically, emotions of frustration, anger, grief, fear, irritation or anything dragging you down, then trust that these energies are shifting from the physical,emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
 
Mars rules the head, fire and passion.   
Gemini and Mercury metaphysically rule the lungs, breathing, respiratory system, arms, legs’
Jupiter in Leo, ruling the circulation and heart.
 
 
 
 
Lauren Gorgo’s latest message:  

‘God realized:  the domain of the christ’
 
Here’s an extract, the opening lines:
 
Have you lost your mind? If not, there’s still time!

We just moved into what could potentially be the most exciting, most fulfilling mercury retrograde yet…a time, an opening, an opportunity to GOD realize, according to the Pleiadians.

We are entering a period of heightened mental capability and for those prepared, this means the ability to fully surrender the lower (monkey) mind in order to merge with the higher (divine) mind…a time to remember the basis of divine creatorship as our thoughts become the springboard by which our christed-consciousness reveals itself.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…the seemingly never-ending phase of EMPTYing out all the contents of our former selves continues as we are pushed (on purpose) to the limits of our humanity…to our breaking point and beyond.  To merge with our higher Self we are forced to surrender ALL of ourselves…in complete faith…to complete nothingness…in order to embody our true, authentic nature.

We are definitely not in Kansas anymore and the determination involved in these final, yet Herculean contractions of surrender is not for chumps. “Let go and let God” takes on a WHOLE new meaning here.

For those ensouling, the last 3 months amounted to a loss of identity unlike any other to date…a renouncing of our human-made self and life, a giving over of the remains of all of everything in exchange for our absoluteness.

If you are feeling held back, blocked from your bliss, depleted of life force, uninspired, unmotivated, depressed, defeated, abandoned, trapped, ANXIOUS, unfamiliar with yourself, confused about your place in life and the world, disconnected from a sense of purpose, thrashing thru an existential crisis of inconceivable proportion, deflated to the point of dissolving & wanting to go Home…I have good news: It’s very likely that you are in the throes of what the ego perceives as literal death….and on the other side of that ultimate surrender, is GOD realization.
The peaceful calm of eternal stillness awaits us all…
As far as our embodiment goes, we are so close to touching down and this is definitely kicking up deep survival fears accompanied by the typical ‘healing crisis’ type scenarios.  The lower body system is totally unfamiliar with the level of light that we are inundated with this year and as usual, it has a tendency to buck in defiance.  As we ground our very BIG Selves into our very small bodies, it can also elicit some temporary feelings of confinement, claustrophobia, even suffocation where the body feels limiting to the soul.
 
 
Golden Oldies:
‘You’ll never walk alone’ Elvis Presley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8oN8I3lrk Walking on through Mercury retrograde
 
‘What’s it all about Alfie?’ Cilla Black with lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAuoNa5g6i8

 
 
 
 
Upcoming Dates:
3rd June:   Full Moon in Sagittarius
6th June:   Venus moves into Leo
 
That’s it folks! 
 
We’ll be in the energies of the Full Moon in Sagittarius from 31st May as it comes into fullness on 3rd June at 2.18 am AEST.  I’ll have another update directly relating to this hopefully out by 1st June.  Quite frankly, I’ve been unable to complete this one until today as I’ve been totally lost in a fog of mental confusion and physical exhaustion.  I had intended it to go out last weekend.  But,  there you go...with the flow.  Nothing for it.
 
Mercury moves direct on 12th June, although we’ll still be in retrograde shadow for a couple of weeks after this time.

As always, love and blessings to all my fellow travellers crossing bridges, balancing energies and holding the energetic force of Mercury retrograde!
 
Helen
from the chair...renovating the mind, body, spirit and heart!
 
and dreaming the dream!
 





 
 
 
It’s all about love





Sunday 17 May 2015

18th May 2015 New Moon in Taurus, Mercury turns retrograde and Sun into Gemini

 

Hi everyone!

What’s been happening:
Here we are in the final rays and days of the Sun setting in Taurus, ruler of earthly abundance and richness.  Mother Earth is still very much with us in the coming days as we greet a New Moon in Taurus, setting the tone for the next lunar month.
 
Meanwhile we’re integrating so much information, insight and emotional input from the universe.  What does it all mean?  How do we make sense of it all?
 
This time of shadow Mercury retrograde feels particularly strong with much resurfacing of old issues, ‘cleaning’ and ‘cleansing’ issues mentally and physically. 
 
Connecting mind and body:  Joining the dots!
Mars and Mercury both in Gemini puts a clear focus on our mind energy as well as our physical bodies. This ongoing ‘joining’ of the dots between mind and body is with us for a while longer.
 
If we set our mind to it, it’s likely we’ll be able to really put some positive mental energies into our physical existence and our physical well being.  If ever there was a time to clear a whole lot of old negative and damaging belief systems, this is it!
 
What’s coming in:
18th May:    New Moon in Taurus at 2.13 pm AEST at 26 degrees 56 Taurus...stabilising!
Art:  Susan Seddon Boulet
 
New Moon:  Seed planting time!  Setting intentions!
It’s a New Moon in Taurus, the beginning of a new lunar month, the time to plant the seeds for the next month.  We’re setting our intentions and they need to be focussed on the physical world if we want to maximise this energy.
 
Mother Earth calls us home:  We are earthlings!
Taurus is grounding and heart centred, calling us to plant our feet on the earth and to take our place in the world.  She is calling us to own a sense of entitlement to a good life fulfilling our earthly desires which align with our spirit and our heart’s desires.
 
Venus ruled Taurus calls our hearts to open and accept the power of LOVE!
 
 
Balancing the physical and mental energies:  
Taurus Moon and Gemini stellium!
It’s going to be an interesting month with so much energy happening in Gemini, calling out our inner ‘airheads’, flying to the moon and back whilst the Taurus Moon energy calls us to trust our hearts, take one step at a time, be sure and steady and to bring our hopes and dreams into manifestation on earth.
 
A creative thinktank, brainstorming ideas:
    
Bringing projects and plans to fruition!

Just think of this as a thinktank of creative energies working together.  The Gemini energies of the Sun, Mars and Mercury offer new ideas, solutions and the fire and drive to carry them forward.  Enthusiasm and stimulation is on offer.  

The Taurus lunar energies are ensuring we are coming from the heart and coming from a place which ensures our deep connection to our physical world.
 
Visiting the past:    Resurrecting ‘lost’ opportunities?
The moon brings memories and inner stirrings for a fresh start in the sign of Taurus.  With Mercury retrograde, we may find ourselves revisiting what we felt were lost ‘opportunities’ which once ignited our heart energies.
 
 
Hearts reignited:  
Trust the heart energy to uplift your spirit to a new place of joy on earth
Many of us have felt a sense of alienation, feeling separate from our earthly existence as we reached for new consciousness. As we did, we stepped away from the pleasures of 3d reality which no longer had the same allure.  The straddling of two worlds is not easy and yet so many of us have been doing exactly that. 
Now’s the time to open the door of your heart to feeling your earthliness and the pleasure of the earth itself and to capture the messages being delivered from spirit which will be our guiding light for our way forward into a new way of living.
 
 
Taurus abundance blesses those who revere their earthly existence:  
A reclamation of our life on earth is at hand!
Venus ruling Taurus wants to ensure we are fully plugged into the joy of living on earth and all its pleasures. The joy and beauty of the earth is beckoning us to immerse ourselves in all it has to offer to uplift our hearts, bodies and spirit.
 
Reach out and connect to what brings you greatest pleasure and value during this next lunar month.  Find your ‘treasure’!
 
What are you worth to yourself?  to the world?
This New Moon calls us to recognise our true worth, to own our most cherished desires, to acknowledge our gifts and talents and to recognise our deepest values.  Through Taurus energies we discover those gifts and talents, our unique signature which offers the recompense of payment for services.  Taurus rules income from bringing our gifts and talents to the world.
 
Many of us are continuing to go through a change process, the growth process which brings forth hidden gifts and talents, untapped joys which offer fulfilment of cherished dreams along with a new income stream.  Revelations regarding new directions and income sources are highly probable this  next month with the Gemini energies bringing messages and signs from many sources.
 
 

The Sabian Symbols for the New Moon
From Lynda Hill:   


Sabian symbol for the New Moon and Sun in Taurus:
Taurus 27 AN OLD INDIAN WOMAN SELLING BEADS AND TRINKETS
This Symbol indicates having talents and skills and crafts that reflect one’s culture or abilities. Don't underestimate yourself and do only what you think others believe you are capable of. These very limitations are telling you of hidden talents and skills that you probably just take for granted. There is something very worthwhile on offer here, don't wait for passersby to stop and pay attention. Others may think you’re more talented and special than you realise. Get out and show your talents and abilities. Older, wiser elements of society making offerings to younger, less integrated. Worthy skills. Handicrafts. Artefacts of the tribe or clan. Quiet determination to succeed.

The Caution: Looking down on those that seem less fortunate. Underestimating the true worth of one’s job, hobby or craft. Bickering over money. Sweat shops and slave labor.

19th May:    Mercury retrograde at 11.49 am AEST at 13 degrees 09 Gemini...lift off?
Retrograde until 12th June

Are we coming or going?  or both?
Difficult to know when Mercury’s retrograde! It might feel like all systems are go and then delays come in and hold us back from attaining goals or implementing plans. Patience and awareness is everything with Mercury retrograde periods.  Any apparent glitches must be viewed as necessary halts in our progress as NEW INFORMATION IS COMING IN!

Mercury retrograde:  Risk management!  Refining the energies!
One of the greatest benefits of Mercury retrograde periods is the backwards and forwards with our thinking, our implementation of plans works like a cross checking of all the possibilities.  Retrograde Mercury often brings in new possibilities and better and improved ways of proceeding.

Stay open and be adaptable:   
Mercury retrograde can have us changing our direction!
With a Taurus New Moon energy which wants us to stay the course, keep on track, it will be interesting to see how the Gemini flightiness will work together with the inner fixed stance of the Taurus moon energy.



Back to the future:  Time travellers!
Time travel:    
A fluidity in inter dimensional ‘travel’!  Gathering data!
Mercury retrograde periods open up our communication channels through a broader spectrum of experience and reality.  Information is likely to come from all corners of the universe, from the past and from the future if we are open and receptive to those connections.

Me and my shadow:  ‘Shadows’ and memories from the past! 

Befriending the past!
Who or what’s been shadowing you, waiting for acknowledgement, acceptance, reunion or resolution?  This is the time when the ‘shadows’ of disowned, ignored or forgotten aspects come to visit. 





Possible challenges during Mercury retrograde periods:

Technology:  Glitches, delays, breakdowns
Patience and awareness is a key to negotiating this time period. You often see this kind of thing happening in the commercial world of banking, shopping, buying, selling, payments.  Also any technology such as cell phones, home entertainment.

Try not to leave things to the last minute with this time.  You can’t guarantee it will flow for you but it’s a kind of risk management that can work. 

Lines are crossed:  
Misinformation, misunderstanding, confusion, forgetfulness
Be aware this can take place in the personal arena as well as the public or work environment.  

Appointments – double check times and meeting places
Double check for meaning in conversation rather than making assumptions, jumping to conclusions.
Bookings for shows, accommodation, travel – double check
 
 
Travel or transport problems:  Timetables, tetchiness and trip ups!
The problem with this Mercury retrograde period is that we’ll be wanting to get there fast, not be delayed and not thinking ahead!
 
All we can do is double check bookings, road clearance, weather, roads and ensure road vehicles are tuned up, filled up with fuel etc.
 
Air flights:  Not much we can do except leave early for the airport and trust!
 
 
 
The Sabian symbol for the Mercury retrograde degree:  Particularly relevant for this retrograde period!
From Lynda Hill: http://sabiansymbols.com/

Gemini 14  TWO PEOPLE, AT WIDELY DIFFERENT POINTS, ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH EACH OTHER BY MEANS OF TELEPATHY
This Symbol speaks of psychic and clairvoyant communication with others and the ability to be able to pick up on what others are thinking. You can communicate with someone and it is not always necessary to be physically face-to-face, or on the phone or emailing them or the like. You can have bonds with people that are unaffected by distance or actually being in touch with each other. Let your heart tell you that you are always in their company and there is no need to feel alone. Keeping others in your mind and heart will communicate something to them, and probably they back to you. Conquering space and time limitations. Psychic and mental communication. Sharing ideas. The ‘other person’ knowing what is felt or thought. Being on the same frequency.

The Caution: Blocking out psychic awareness because of fear. Manipulating others by subtle means. Mind and thought control. Feeling very separated by time and space.

21st May:    Sun moves into Gemini at 6.44 pm AEST...taking to the air!
 until 22nd June

Mind power takes hold!  Butterfly energy!
The Gemini Sun puts the focus on our mind energy!  With Mercury and Mars already travelling through Gemini, our mental energy is empowered by the light of the Sun. 
Our fire and drive/Mars is being energised by our mind energy and our communication channels are wide open with Mercury as the doorperson.
 
Mind expansion:  Accessing the divine mind!
The Gemini Sun is calling us to access the mind energy and to experience an expansion of our capacity to think beyond the mundane, to evolve our mind consciousness.
 
The test of our power and authority this month will rest with our capacity to be aware of our thinking and to harness its power for our own best interests in moving forward.

Messages coming:    Thick and fast!
Gemini rules communication, education and travel.  With Mercury in Gemini, in its own sign, we have a doubly strong message...information coming in as fast as we can process it. 
 
Be discriminating in what you receive, accept and believe.  Utilise the higher mind to choose the higher path of information.  Lots to discover and uncover with Mercury revealing all kinds of truths about who your ‘Gemini’ self is.  Remember, we belong to every sign of the zodiac.
 
 
A stellium in Gemini:    Super person trying to do 100 things at once!  


With the Sun, Mars and Mercury all in Gemini, we’ll feel like we can take on a multitude of activities and cover all the bases at the same time.  With the mind soaring into new ways of thinking, new ideas and new potential and the fiery Mars charging our spirits with confidence in our mental focus and energies, we could become scattered, spreading ourselves too thin.
 
It might feel like we’re flying with all the Gemini energy firing up the hot air balloons. 
 

Risk management energies:  Grounding the butterflies!
1.  The Taurus New Moon energy will offer a stabilising and grounding energy through the month and will be calling us to bring some of the mental energy into the earthly environment.
 
2.  Mercury retrograde will keep us to a pace we can handle, even if we don’t like the delays!
 
3.  For about the first week of Sun in Gemini, until 26th, we’ll have Saturn in Sagittarius opposing the Gemini Sun
If ever there was a planet to slow us down and keep us making steady progress, it’s Saturn!
 
 
 
Golden Oldies:
‘Your Love Has Lifted Me Higher’ Rita Coolidge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huK1bLMcb0c  Taurus New Moon
 
‘Me and my shadow’ Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-4uKgXRnpI  Mercury retrograde
 
‘Come Healing’ Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUB1O2cT2gM&list=RDMUB1O2cT2gM#t=0  Taurus New Moon
‘Come Healing’ with lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA9VExCEV_k
 
‘Those were the Days’ Mary Hopkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JOmU2jFUo for Mercury retrograde
 
‘Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows’ Lesley Gore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6ndp1WlyA Gemini Sun
 
 
‘Computer Trouble’ French and Saunders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkBAxhE6SEw Laugh it off through Mercury retrograde
 
 
Upcoming Dates:
3rd June:    Full Moon in Sagittarius
6th June:    Venus moves into Leo
 
 
That’s it everyone!  Been dealing with the technology glitches with this update but remaining calm and PATIENT!  haha
 
We’re in the time tunnel of Mercury retrograde, flying up to the Gemini Sun, bathing in the light of Mother Moon Taurus.  It may feel confusing as so much is happening in our inner consciousness through this period of time.  But we are on the move!
 
As always love and blessings to all of us travellers on the road less travelled.  We’re on the move, in the air, on the ground, swimming through the currents of change and transformation.  

Remember that Venus ruled Taurus calls us to love and Gemini calls us to find the missing ‘twin’ so with this energy anything could happen!
 
helenbea
 
from the chair
 
being uplifted
 
 



 
 
 

It’s all about love