from the chair: 31st January 2014 New Moon in Aquarius

Hi everyone!

Get ready to fly...soon!

The Aquarian vision calls us on to rise above the clouds!

What’s been happening:

We’re flying under an Aquarian Sun whilst at the same time being recalibrated physically, releasing emotionally and shifting mentally. If you’re having some intense challenges with the physical changes, you may well feel like you’re grounded and very far from accessing the vision that Aquarius promises.

Over the past couple of weeks:

Light then heavy, up and down!

Physical recalibration and emotional release from the body can bring up all sorts of strange aches and pains and new symptoms of illness as the cells of the body adjust to the input of energy. Energy then no energy is all part of this process.

Mercury squared Saturn last weekend:

Surrender, on your knees

On top of that, during the week building to last weekend, we had Mercury/the mind in Aquarius challenging Saturn in Scorpio calling us to break through old conditioning and mindsets, to reach for the mental freedom which frees the body.

Physically: Maybe this energy hit you physically in the joints, the knees as well as the head, legs, arms, hands. These areas are ruled by Saturn and Mercury.

Meaningful communication:

Sharing the vision, uniting in the vision! Reframing the foundations of our lives in the light of freedom!

Maybe you had some deep and meaningful conversations which related to freeing up your life and in doing so, giving it a new stability. This could have been in relation to home, work, family and how that all fits together.

The Aquarian Sun is calling us to unite with a common purpose, a common vision, a common ideal. A lot of this is playing out in family, home, work and in the community both local and global. We inhabit many different ‘communities’ such as partnerships, families, work colleagues, community/sporting groups.

What’s happening:

Until 31st January: Venus retrograde through Capricorn

Revisiting past heart wounding embedded in the body...the old stories leaving!

Retrograde planets always take us back over old territory and with Venus involved it’s been a heart felt journey. In Capricorn, we experience the revisiting of old heart energies through the body, through the earth energy. Old hurts and pains may be re-emerging from the body but require healing of the heart.

Releasing ‘less than’ memory triggers:

The individual vs society...battles of the past ready to go!

Capricorn, representative of the system, the status quo could well mean you’ve been revisiting old wounding associated with past disempowerment by the status quo, by society’s conditioning, by the government etc. Old experiences of disconnection from love may have been revisited as we were confronted by any issues of lack of worth and value.

Culminating on 31st January:

Opposition between Jupiter retrograde in Cancer and Venus retrograde in Capricorn

Releasing memories, past lives, ancestral memories and earth memories

Revisiting and clearing old memories from the unconscious:

Dreams, nightmares and insights

Venus and Jupiter both retrograde and opposing each other has triggered some clearing of memories, past and present lives from our hearts and our physical and emotional bodies.

Retrograde planets take us back to the past:

Feeling the emotions associated with experiences and letting go!

This energy has held us in a profound period of cleansing and purification. Both planets are retrograde which means we're revisiting old experiences and emotions. Cancer rules the ancestors, the past and is all emotion with Jupiter expanding the emotions even further. With Cancer ruled by the moon, surfacing of the unconscious memories may well be coming through vivid dreams.

Releasing memories of the ‘ancestors’ from the body:

Releasing the ancestors!

Karmic burdens released!

Capricorn is the earth and Cancer rules the ancestors, not just our original family this lifetime but the whole of human experience. We all know the expression ‘the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons’. In some sense, this is how it works as we carry the memories in our DNA coding. However, we have the choice to change the patterns of the past through changing our thinking, emotions and behaviours. As we release ancestral coding, we start accessing our true self and prepare to join our soul family.

Releasing alienation, readying to find our ‘tribe’:

Jupiter is expansive worldly energy and in Cancer brings up memories and emotions associated with our ‘home’ and associated with nurturing/mothering.

Opposite Venus retrograde in Capricorn, we have been clearing up residue memories associated with any sense of disempowerment, any feeling of alienation from home, family, place in the world and a sense of belonging.

From 24th January to 8th February: Opposition between Jupiter in Cancer and Pluto in Capricorn

Getting off the treadmill and out of ‘treadmill’ mentality!

Finding balance between home and work, nurturing and ‘the system’!

This meeting between Jupiter and Pluto comes to intensity on 31st, the day of the New Moon. However, it is already impacting us with pressure to let some part of ourselves go with respect to the ‘old order’/status quo in order to expand our connection to the power of self-nurturing and home. This is very much about making choices to get the balance right between home and family and our working life.

Cut the karmic ties with ‘the system’: Being reborn as a person of worth and value through self-mothering and nurturing!

It’s our choice if we maintain a belief system that says we have to work hard for a living. We are currently being asked to choose whether we want to live in balance and harmony or to live in servitude to ‘the state’ and the system.

How do we release from the mindset of conditioning?

Choosing self-love and acceptance makes a statement to the universe that we value ourselves. In being kind to ourselves, nurturing ourselves, we make the statement that we are valuable, our bodies are valuable, our time is valuable, our energy is valuable. In taking time to rest, relax and regenerate whenever possible, we are choosing to live a balanced life, balancing the demands of society and others with our own needs and desires.

Whatever we ‘feed’ continues to grow as we perpetuate our own reality.

Actions do speak louder than words!

Releasing the karmic bonds to ‘the system’:

Cutting free of enmeshment,

unhealthy relationships with ‘the system’!

Forgiving past hurts and ‘wrongs’ inflicted by ‘the system’

...releases the karmic ties! Time to move on!

Wherever we have a 'toe in the water' of experience, so also do we have a connection to the human experience on earth. Capricorn rules government, systems, the status quo, authority of ‘the system’, the patriarchy whilst Cancer rules the mother and nurturing. If you've had a confrontation of these two worlds in your life experiences (who hasn't!), then a lot of this conflict is being cleared up.

Forgiveness is the key:

Give up the resentment, anger and fighting which are ties that bind us karmically!

If you have ever felt overlooked, forgotten, ignored, undervalued, underpaid, unrecognised by any system of authority, this is a perfect time to sever the karmic bonds of resentment, anger, fear, hate...whatever! Time to restore balance for our own sakes.

31st January: New Moon in Aquarius at 10 degrees 55 Aquarius at 8.38 am AEDT

New doorways:

The New Moon in Aquarius heralds a lunar month of breaking with the past and reaching for new territory, new fields of discovery, new frontiers. A New Moon is always an opportunity for a fresh start in some area of our lives. The astrological location of the New Moon gives a sense of focus for the next month as well as for the next year until the next New Moon in that particular sign.

Finding community, soul tribe, shared hopes and dreams:

The Aquarian energy rules hopes and dreams, community and friendships. This is a focus for the next month. However, as well as these areas of focus, Aquarian energy lends weight to any desire to be free, to be unique and to access altruistic desires in contributing to the evolution of humanity.

Thinking outside the box:

A break for freedom!

If any energy is going to get us out of the mindset which has kept us from growth, Aquarius is the one! It activates our individuality and our desire for expressing that individuality in the wider world.

Innovation, along with unique thinking are accessible at this time. We really do get the opportunity to think outside the box of conditioned mindsets and to explore our own unique abilities and gifts.

We may well ask ourselves ‘What can I do to contribute to the world?’

Under the Aquarian energy, it won’t be on a treadmill of exhaustion.

New possibilities emerge at this New Moon, even while we continue to get the ‘makeover’, the recalibration of our energies, the realignment of body, mind, heart and spirit.

The New Moon links positively to Uranus in Aries:

In case you didn’t get the wake-up, this will hammer it home!

New insights, new start!

Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius and being in a positive relationship with the New Moon in Aquarius, tells us that this New Moon is giving a significant and powerful shift in insight, understanding and the impetus to take action!

The domino effect: The New moon triggers radical Uranus, transformational Pluto, heartfelt Venus and expansive Jupiter!!!!

Uranus, triggered by the New Moon, continues to trigger Pluto and in turn, Venus and Jupiter. These planets are already in a dance with each other so this New Moon is bringing in some dynamic and sudden changes of the best kind. Make the most of this energy which is releasing, freeing and bringing in new possibilities.

Bottom line:

A big whoosh of completion of so much heart healing energy!

It’s do or die!!!!

This feeling comes in with the New Moon. Breaking through. The full import may not be immediately evident as Venus is getting ready to move direct, so not much movement there in getting going. Wait till after 1st.

Beyond the New Moon:

Still letting go and integrating until about 8th

when Jupiter and Pluto move on from their opposition!

Yes, we’ll be letting out and letting in all at the same time. Just keep imagining that image of the Aquarius water bearer above, pouring the new energies in and clearing out the old stuck energies of the past.

It’s a Super Moon: The moon is close to the earth!

Aquarius energy is super strong calling us to uplift our minds to the stars!

Reinforcing the strength and significance of this particular New Moon to Planet Earth!

This is our second Super Moon in 2014, the first one being at the New Moon on 1st January. Again, we have the power of the moon making its presence felt at the beginning of this year, reinforcing the importance of bringing in the ‘feminine’ energies, the nurturing energies into our lives for balance and harmony.

What could be a better image of the New Moon in Aquarius heralding the Chinese Year of the Horse!

We’re flying!!!

Up to 31st January, Year of the Water Snake:

Completing emotional healing and transformation

...the final stages of the Year of the Snake!

We’ve been moving through the final days of the Chinese Year of the Water Snake. It’s been a slow and meandering year of change, forcing us to release old ‘skins’ of the past and of old emotional responses to ourselves, to others and to our lives and situation.

Finishing off Year of the Snake:

A final push and intensification of energies in the ‘birth canal’!

Squeezed in the vice!

When we come to the closing stages of the end of a cycle whether of planetary movement, of astrological forces or of a pattern such as numerologically, we often experience an intensification of that energy like a last ditch effort from the unseen forces to push us through. Of course it’s really our own soul that is putting this intensity into the final stages to maximize the utilization of the available energies. Sort of like making the most of what’s on offer.

The proof of the work we have accomplished will start to show at the beginning of February.

We'll soon be riding that New Moon pony into the Year of the Horse after 31st!

31st January: Chinese New Year, Year of the Wood Horse!

The New Moon in Aquarius marks the beginning of:

Chinese New Year of the Wood Horse!

Happy New Year!

Yes, another one!

This is the Chinese New Year of the horse!

Chinese New Year of the Horse!

A galloping year of change!

The horse energy will really get us going this year after the past year of the water snake which was slow moving and emotionally transformational.

The horse is an animal of the earth and is ready to carry us where we need to go at breakneck speed if necessary. Impatience and knee jerk reactions could be possible as the horse will not be contained or limited unless such limitation aligns with its own desires.

‘On your horse!’:

With less tolerance for those who infringe on our boundaries or disrespect us we’ll be quick to respond and move on from such irritations and damaging energies. We’ll be ready to travel with our own special herd, strengthening our sense of self with like-minded others and soul family.

Finding your own herd!

More information on Year of the Wood Horse: http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/susan-levitt-horse-year-2014-races

Apology:

Last update I gave the incorrect dates for Mercury moving into Pisces and going retrograde.

The following information is correct.

1st February: Mercury moves into Pisces...Sing, sing a song, Sing out loud, sing out strong! 1.29 am AEDT

Mercury in Pisces puts us in touch with all ‘fluid’ forms of communication tapping into the visual and auditory senses. This energy will put our minds and words ‘in the flow’. Go with this energy and hear new words to uplift!

Hearts awakened to expressing spiritually:

Music, art, dance, poetry, lyric writing come to the fore with this influence. Coming in just a few hours before Venus finds her feet again moving direct, we’re likely to feel our hearts open with the sounds, sights and movement of nature and of love.

Speaking from the heart: With Venus, our heart energy, still travelling in Capricorn, our mind energy/Mercury may bring forth so much from our hearts which was resolved during the Venus retrograde period of the past 6 weeks since Christmas. Words and emotions come into a more concrete form as we express them to significant others in our lives.

Desire to bring art forms into physical reality:

The song, book, painting, sculpture, dance you have wanted to bring forth, now has planetary support. Even though Mercury goes retrograde on 7th and moves into Aquarius, it will be a positive energy for reworking, polishing etc. anything you start at this time. Retrogrades are good for honing what is already in the pipeline.

1st February:

Venus moves direct in Capricorn at 7.49 am AEDT

at 13 deg 33 Cap

Still journeying through the centre of the heart of Mother Earth...on our way out! Hearts released and readying to emerge!

A big relief as energy lifts from the heart:

This will definitely be a relief after the past weeks of retrograde journey since the December solstice, which has brought up all kinds of heartfelt feelings long buried. If you didn’t experience questioning of values possibly along with ‘deep and meaningfuls’ with partners and significant others, then be assured that all is in order.

Healed relationships: However, most people had some form of questioning happening about what’s important to them, their lives and relationships during this past 6 weeks. There’s been a lot of reframing of values and commitments to self and with others. Some people may have seen a break with a partner whilst others have deepened their love and commitment to each other and a common vision.

Capricorn strengthens our commitment to our heart and our values:

Venus in Capricorn now in direct motion is calling us to bring our discoveries, our new emotional foundations into the reality of our physical existence. Mercury in Pisces will be informing our creations with a visionary idealism.

Venus is still moving out of shadow for a while yet, so just keep trusting our hearts are clearing, getting ready to fly when Venus moves into Aquarius on 6th March.

Meanwhile, we’re putting our hearts on the line in a worldly sense.