Hi everyone! We made it! Our wishing well
awaits!
Time to give thanks and set the intentions!
Capricorn magic in the air!
Well here we are in the closing days of 2016, a year of major shifts and
changes both personally and globally across all spectrums. It’s been a major
year of shifting consciousness for us all. And I mean ‘all’ as the political,
social, economic playing fields manifested tensions and challenges reflective of
so much that is going on within us all.
After all, we know that ‘the personal is the political’. That’s an old one
that still rings true and is ever more evident as consciousness expands and
understanding of the power of the personal and its resultant impact on the
‘political’ continues to grow.
The mass awakening continues and will continue to do so as we hold to the
expression of our understanding of the nature of reality and maintain our
practices in uplifting mind, emotions and spirit to creating a more evolved life
for ourselves and for the world.
It’s time now to look to the future being set in motion by a New Moon in
Capricorn, a new calendar year which numerologically marks the beginning of a
new cycle for the next 9 years.
Change is ongoing and neverending and the next few years promises to
challenge us to step beyond the mindsets of how life has been and to bring in
the upliftment that comes when we believe that life can be positive and
fulfilling.
2016: a year of endings!
Art: Jeremiah Morelli
Ending the year in a seemingly
precarious situation:
Atop the mountain...a little battered and emptied
out!
We’re here at the end of a tumultuous year of change and challenge on so
many levels of our being. Our world continues to be rocked in so many ways.
How wonderful that we have lived through such remarkable changes and are still
here not just to tell the tale but still open and ready to weave the stories for
the future.
Regeneration and renewal: A new moon to bring fresh impetus to our
exhausted beings!
Our ‘home’ seems emptied out, abandoned to the elements resting
precariously atop a mountain, looking rather battered and beaten. We’re needing
a renovation rescue job and all of us are preparing for the new year to do just
that as we renew, rest, regenerate and rebuild our physical and spiritual
energies to begin a new year in more ways than one.
My take on the passing of so many ‘celebrities’ from the artistic
and creative world:
Yes, we’ve been in a ‘9’ year numerologically but is that the only reason
for such an aberration.
Letting go of the projections and claiming the inner
love:
Art: John Littleton and Kate Vogel
I’m wondering if we’re beginning to manifest an era where ‘celebrities’
play less of a role on the pedestal adored by their fans, holding the
projections of ‘lesser’ mortals. As more people seek their own creative light
and gifts and talents, there becomes a greater focus on looking within and
working on developing and expressing our own unique talents in the world. As we
begin to shine from within there is less need to shine adoration on ‘the stars’
of the world. This is not to lessen their contribution but to see ourselves as
powerful shining lights within.
We’re rising to the call to discover our gifts and talents, our
inner light: Being our own magicians!
I feel it may be a Pluto in Capricorn manifestation as Capricorn rules
success, fame and fortune. Pluto’s been in Capricorn for a few years now.
However this year Pluto’s been connecting with Uranus and Saturn and just
recently with Jupiter. Jupiter and Saturn are the two big ‘social’ planets
which shift social consciousness. Saturn’s ongoing square with Neptune has been
shifting the illusions, building new foundations for spiritual and artistic
gifts and talents as we are called to take our authority in these spheres.
29th December:
New Moon in Capricorn at 5.53 pm AEDT
at 7 degrees 59 Capricorn
Art: Jeremiah Morelli
Sun and Moon speaking same language: Capricorn
talk!
At the New Moon, the Sun and Moon sit on the same degree coming together to
initiate a new lunar month with a new lunar focus and energy. Coming just
before the New calendar year and after such a tumultuous year of change and
upheaval, most of us will be eager to step through a new doorway which offers
the potential of a richer canvas for the ongoing creation of our lives.
It’s seed planting time: No need to rush! Just plant and
nourish!
Capricorn is an earth sign which calls on us to
bring forth the seeds of manifesting a new potential in the physical dimension.
This could well be in relation to work and utilising gifts and talents.
Doing the work we love for financial return and success:
Capricorn rules work, success, achievement and respect through work and
material attainment. Money, status and ambition are big factors in Capricorn’s
drive to achieve something of note in the world.
A new calendar year coming up: Setting intentions at this New
Moon!
These are the driving forces that take us into each new calendar year.
However, we need to remember that with Mercury still retrograde until 8th
January, commercial ventures will be going through their research and
development stage.
It’s time to set intentions and explore various options.
Easy does it, step by step:
A sign of tradition. Capricorn clings to the
tried and true methods and takes the cautious path of step by step commitment
and dedication to the ideal. this is very much in line with Capricorn’s ruler
Saturn who calls on steady and thorough engagement with all that we take on.
Saturn rewards focus and determination to keep going...yes, endurance along
with patience and the absolute faith in ourselves and our pathway forward to
success and fulfilment in our lives.
Mercury a key player at this New Moon: Up close and personal to
the New Moon/Sun at 7 degrees! Get out the bag of endless possibilities!
This New Moon is close to Mercury at 6 degrees
Capricorn which signifies the importance of noting Mercury’s realm of interest
which includes communication, education, social networking and of course
commerce.
Mercury rules our mental body and is one of the planetary ‘movers and
shakers’ for getting things happening. However, in this retrograde time. the
moving and shaking is more likely to apply to our ruminations, gathering ideas,
interacting with others and reviewing possibilities from the back burner. Being
so close to the New Moon/Sun it seems Mercury has a key role in the upcoming
lunar month guiding our thinking and activities in making the most of laying out
a few plans...even if they have to be reworked later on when Mercury turns
direct.
Just get out the bag of endless possibilities which is bursting at the
seams with new ideas, new projects and new ventures. Oh wait....here’s an old
chestnut from the past that has potential to be reworked to come into fruition.
Timing is everything with Mercury as we know so patience. patience, patience.
Mars in Pisces at 7 degrees is also having a harmonious
conversation with the New Moon/Sun: Giving up the battle and laying down the
sword.
Mars is close to the South Node of the moon at 4
degrees Pisces so we can colour the interaction with the releasing of some of
the masculine energies way past their ‘use by’ date. Mars is being immersed in
the ocean of Piscean emotion and higher consciousness, cleansed and purified of
old warrior anger and fighting mode. There is nothing to do but surrender these
old patterns of warring ‘within’ as well as ‘without’. The fighting is being
challenged to be released. The most powerful energy for us to use is our
light!
The New Moon in Capricorn is setting a new agenda along with these energies
of Mars and Mercury, a new way of ‘doing business’ in the commercial world and
in our interactions with others. Our fire and passion is being directed to the
energy of truth, our own purity and integrity.
A couple of powerful challenges/opportunities:
Working together to clear the collective spiritual and karmic wounds! Just drop
it!
Freedom’s the goal!
We’re giving up the paradigm of ‘hard work and
struggle’! Off the treadmill!
Art: ‘Burden of the Material World’ Tran Nguyen
Uranus and Jupiter opposing at 20 degrees Aries/Libra:
Individual freedom and collective societal karmic justice!
Exact on 27th: Effective from 19th December to 5th January
We’re over the intensity of this one but it’s
still impacting on us through the New Moon so setting us up to keep working with
balancing individual freedom against collective justice. We’re shifting karmic
imprints with this one as we choose to take the bridge of freedom and cut the
karmic ties and complete karmic contracts.
Chiron and Saturn squaring off at 21 degrees
Pisces/Sagittarius:
Collective spiritual wounds and karmic release of ideologies, old
spiritual wounds and beliefs!
Exact on 29th December: Effective from 18th December to 10th January
Chiron is the guide to the ‘wounds’ we carry and in Pisces is indicative of
the collective unconscious and a call to evolve our emotions to higher
consciousness. We’re learning to let go of reactions borne of the past memory
banks held within us all.
Saturn is the Lord of Karma and tradition and in Sagittarius, ruler of
religion, spirituality and higher education is indicative of the karmic wounds
we’re carrying in our cell memories. ancestral DNA of past times. We’re
releasing those wounds inflicted from ideologies of other times, places and
people which no longer serve our growth in consciousness.
Uranus connecting harmoniously with both Saturn and Jupiter:
Cutting the ties with the past...karmic patterns, contracts!
A three way powerful dialogue which has been
with us for the past week and is continuing into the new year.
With Uranus in the picture and in the sign of Aries life is not
predictable and is likely to continue with the lightning strike insights and
wake up calls. We can only be open, receptive and to accept the nature of the
change process carrying us forward at this time.
Freeing ourselves from the past: Looking to the
future!
When we take action to eliminate that which is stunting our growth and
holding us back then we are acting in the higher consciousness and are choosing
the path of ease and growth without the crisis and shock that comes with Uranus
in Aries.
Sabian Symbol for the New Moon in Capricorn:
From
Lynda Hill www.sabiansymbols.com
Sabian
Symbol report for the New Moon in Capricorn and all planetary symbols: From
Lynda Hill
Capricorn
8
BIRDS IN THE HOUSE SINGING HAPPILY
This degree shows the spreading of joy,
happiness and laughter to those around you. It also shows that music can lighten
people’s spirits. Further, thinking positive thoughts, being loving and
accepting of others are the hallmarks of this degree. Listening to the songs of
birds can be rather magical and can bring spiritual messages. By expressing your
pleasure you can lift the feelings of others and they will most likely join in
the chorus, in some way. Even though there are a number of social rules to
follow, that shouldn't bother you. This is a sign of sharing good feelings and
happiness with all who enter your sphere of operations. Being at one with
everything. Music. Bird song. Birds. Happiness. Positive thinking. Singing.
Entertaining others. Seeing the beauty in life. Chattering in the
background.
The Caution: Idle chatter. Smug superiority. Not seeing the happiness inherent in everyday life. Loneliness. Feeling abandoned. Whining and complaining. Demanding.
The Caution: Idle chatter. Smug superiority. Not seeing the happiness inherent in everyday life. Loneliness. Feeling abandoned. Whining and complaining. Demanding.
29th December:
Uranus stations direct at 8.28 pm AEDT
at 20 degrees 33 Aries
Interesting affect of Uranus stationing to move forward just a few hours
after the New Moon. This slow moving planet travelling through Aries has been
bringing some lightning strike changes in our thinking and in our world. Aries
is a fiery energy which pushes the buttons with the resultant impulsive
responses, often reactionary and militant. What new energies are being birthed
out of this New Moon...time will tell.
We’re in the long term transformation of the old warrior energy of
‘shoot first’ and ask questions later:
Uranus brings a higher consciousness which has
been acting through the Aries spectrum. How do we transform the masculine
warrior energy when it has been a dominant archetype carried within us all.
Uranus has been playing a significant role in this change process, striking us
with lightning fast suddenness in the physical world both personally and
globally bringing us to our knees with shock at times. Sometimes, shock and
crisis is the only way to wake up as we continue on the path of old patterns of
resistance to the higher path.
Now we discover how much we’ve grown in consciousness: Hanging up
the boxing gloves!
No more shadow boxing!
Well now Uranus moves forward after the past months of retrograde journey
and we’re going to find out just how much we’ve been learning deep within these
retrograde months of inner journeying. We may be pleasantly surprised at just
how far we’ve come along the path of consciousness. As indicated in the New
Moon information above, Uranus is still working closely with the two big social
planets, Jupiter and Saturn, shifting social values, belief systems and the
foundations of our society. Uranus in Aries is calling individual consciousness
to arise to the call of the higher path for resolution and revolution of the
whole social structure of society. The status quo is shifting.
4th January: Venus moves into Pisces
Expansion in
love of the collective heart!
Until 3rd February 2017
Art: Rick Eggert
‘Love comes in and takes us for a
spin’: Upliftment and expansion of our emotions!
This wave of beauty and harmony will be washing over us from the 4th,
uplifting our hearts and emotions to the higher spiritual energies of Pisces.
Our consciousness to be uplifted rather than drowning in a sea of emotions.
Pisces is all emotion and can take us into escapist energies which can bring us
the bigger dream as well as take us into the escapist addictions so common in
our collective energies.
Artistic inspiration: Dreaming in new images, sounds and
expressions of the heart!
The artistic inclinations are awakened as our hearts are expanded with the
knowledge of our own unique gifts and talents. Pisces is the dreamer ruled by
Neptune, planet of illusion, delusion and inspiration.
Inspired hearts bring forth unique gifts:
Our most inspired artists and inventors accessed this energy which throws
up delusions, ideas coming from outside mundane reality. We inhabit many
different realities and we need access to these higher states of reality if we
are to access our artistic expression in a unique way.
This is our call our opportunity to tune into the exalted energy offered by
Venus in Pisces. Let’s not forget that Pisces is known for the addictions to
escapism...’sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll’ is one of the Pisces mantras and without
doubt has brought some amazing artistic creations into the world.
Unification and harmonising energies are available as our feminine
Venus joins masculine Mars until the end of January:
Venus will be joining Mars until 28th January
bringing our feminine and masculine energy into balance and harmony in the
Piscean waters of harmony. Our two ‘sides’ of our being are cleansed and
purified together with the potential for a personal and collective unification
of our two ‘warring’ factions within.
Mars resistance to going with the flow:
Our awareness is the crucial factor!
As we know, we can experience resistance from Mars in the water energy. He
went into Pisces just before Christmas and in Australia over Christmas we had 6
men who took on the elements and lost their lives through drowning. RIP to those
souls. Apparently, 90% of deaths by drowning are men as they like to take the
risks and pit themselves against the elements. We all have this energy within
us...some more than others. It’s just the nature of the beast.
Venus and Mars in Pisces:
Our hearts are fired with passion and divine love...the higher
spiritual forces call!
Great potential for healing and resolution of relationship wounds including
the practices of ‘self harm’ through criticism and judgement. As we allow
ourselves to be human and love our humanity, greater love is available for
others.
5th January: Mercury moves retrograde into
Sagittarius
Revealing the false beliefs...truth!
We’re still going over old territory and
nothing’s moving forward until Mercury stations to move direct on 8th January.
so more reflection, renewal and reworking of all the possibilities. Mercury in
Sagittarius is able to access higher consciousness and wisdom through higher
learning and in the exchange of ideas with others. Sagittarius is a gregarious
sign which enjoys learning through connecting with others for growth and
expansion.
More time out for introspection and reflection:
However, Mercury retrograde time is a call for introspection, for stillness
and for putting ourselves in a place where the messages of higher consciousness
can be dropped into the letter box of our mind.
Golden Oldies:
‘Bright Eyes’ Art Garfunkel from the movie ‘Watership Down’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyQmH9NZcw
...the death of Hazel
‘Break Away’ Art Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4acvJpktc
Endings and freedom calls (with lyrics)
‘C’est Magnifique’ Eartha Kitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqcI5EVF6bU
Venus in Pisces
‘Dream a little dream of Me’ Mama Cass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4T3tMkjRig
Venus and Mars in Pisces
‘Dream a little dream of Me’ Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TmogXhOZ8
‘Break away, fly across your
ocean
Break away, time has come for you
Break away, fly across your ocean
Break away, time has come...
For you to awaken in another country
greet the morning under foreign skies
Leaving me to face another Mondayit's not easy to get by...’
Break away, time has come for you
Break away, fly across your ocean
Break away, time has come...
For you to awaken in another country
greet the morning under foreign skies
Leaving me to face another Mondayit's not easy to get by...’
Upcoming Dates:
8th January: Mercury stations direct in Sagittarius
12th January: Full Moon in Cancer
13th January: Mercury moves into Capricorn now direct
That’s it folks!
Hugs all around!
May the Capricorn gnomes deliver a happy, healthy and prosperous new year
with a renewed vitality and energy which has been taking a beating in 2016.
May the new year bring us a greater sense of stability and security within
us all as the world gets a major long term makeover. This coming cycle is a
call to us all to step forward and shine our lights with a confidence that has
been eluding us as we experienced personal challenges to our health, wellbeing
and our own personal status quo.
The ground may still feel a little wobbly but it is entirely in our hands
to maintain the discipline of the mind and heart to think and feel
optimistically and positively no matter what happens in the world. Our thoughts
and emotions are energies which are part of the collective force of creation.
You want to make a difference? Commit to greater awareness of the role you play
in world affairs. It’s not just about voting at a political election.
Love and blessings to us all as we launch into the New Year of 2017!
helenbea... with such great love to you all, my fellow pilgrims...we’re doing it!
from the chair...magic’s in the air!
It’s all about love
