Waterboat Men and Hippos: The Full Moon in Taurus and other planetary powerhouses.

I know.. It's been more than a while since I last posted.  All I can offer as an explanation is that "oh my giddy aunt, a lot has gone down!"  But here we are again about to feel the potency of yet another cosmic event; a Full Moon in Taurus, with a generous side serve of  some other intense planetary patterns offering us some more (groan) deep diving opportunities.  So man up, don your scuba gear take a deep breath and let(s) go!

November 17 heralds a Full Moon in the sign of Taurus.  This Full Moon signifies the closure of an intense few weeks that started at the beginning of November with what could be called the 'eclipse sandwich'; a period where we had a powerful solar eclipse followed post haste by a lunar one.

During this time there were numerous intense Solar Flares bringing in more Light, offering to us 'upgrades' both physical and spiritual.  You might have been energised by these or flattened or indeed both. Whatever your personal experience may be, our flesh suits, our cells and our Selves have had the opportunity (read kicked up the bottom)  to come further 'online' into a new paradigm that has been building  and breaking us down all at the same time for many years. Some call it the Shi(f)t and the Shift my friends is now more than here than it has ever been.  Its anchored and waiting patiently for anyone to climb aboard when and if they so wish.

Personally I'd advise you to embark because even if you think this has been or is a hard ride and you are oh so tired of it all, to resist, I'm told, will mean a harder one in the long run.

The current planetary positions with the Moon in  tenacious Taurus,  the Sun still of course in transformative Scorpio, Venus conjunct Pluto (ruler of Scorpio) in Capricorn (time, resources, structure), Uranus (the game changer) is Squaring Venus (values, finances, relationships, love). Mercury is also conjunct the North Node of the Moon in Scorpio messengering up with lightening speed all those  niggling dregs from your deep dark depths. It feels like there is no escape hatch.

Pluto calls us to stop being surface dwellers and take a plunge for it is there that the last bit of the map lies. Waterboat Men haven't a chance.  Pluto is going to grab you and pull you under anyways so let (E)go (Scorpio) and surrender to the process of digging for those final hidden habits and tendencies that are holding you back from the treasure you really want to be.




The alchemy of Pluto, Venus, Scorpio and Taurus has the potential to bring up the biggest fear we have of all; the fear of death.

Plutonian/Scorpio energy is about death and transformation for they are one and the same.  The current cosmic catalysts are all about a metaphorical kind of death; they are about letting go of controls, both personal and societal.  They herald a time when like the change from caterpillar to butterfly we literally have the chance to create a new DNA; a truly upscaled model of our Self in any area we may wish to modify.

The fear we have around death is not so much the actual demise of the physical body its more the fear as to whether in this life you have lived up to your full potential.

"Have I done what I came to do?  Have I created what I want to create?    Have I committed to the right thing/person/career?  Have I navigated well this world practically but also have I brought into my experience my true uniqueness, my true divinity? Have I fulfilled my purpose?  Am I enough of me? "

These fears or questions are also heightened by a growing sense that there isn't enough time.  With both Pluto and Venus in Capricorn which is ruled by Saturn (the father of time) it isn't surprising that this sense of not having enough time to fulfil one's purpose is exaggerated.

Time does feel incredibly compressed and with Uranus in the mix there is a propensity to want to keep on the go- go-go but something is reigning us back.  You guessed it, it's Pluto (again).  He is the slowest planet of all. By the time Pluto has done one orbit of the Sun the gas giant Uranus has already done three laps so you can see why perhaps you feel at times that there just isn't enough time or that things are just not getting done.

Time is essentially a human creation that has served and upheld the outgoing 3D paradigm of living.  So as we move into a different dimensional experience, the usefulness of a structure that impinges on our freedom is bound to start to feel restrictive.  Being tired or feeling like you are time poor is merely a way of making us stop and listen; a way of realising that we need to re-calibrate or re-direct our energy.

As you allow yourself to think out of the box regarding time you will likely find a flow or even a flood of ease descend upon you with regard to the growing desire to fulfil true purpose.  That camouflaged  fear of death, which is also rooted in a linear and limited approach to life will begin to fade and the ability to live in that much bandied around phrase of 'living in the now' becomes easier.  As this happens the reins miraculously seem to soften and loosen, allowing us to ironically line up with our secretly coveted truth with accelerated speed.

 

If you look around the world, the 'control' system is falling apart or at best under great scrutiny.  The rules we have lived with thus far are by and large not sustainable in the same way anymore,( if they ever really were?) This goes for us on a personal level too. The ideology, the processes, the commitments and 'common sense' is morphing rapidly.

To buck against this current creates resistance and potential discomfort. We are being offered opportunity to come in complete alignment with our wholeness; to operate from our  own core rather than from cues given by the external.  It's like driving with no headlights or ditching the GPS for a star chart but it is now the new improved way of doing life.



Venus brings with her a need to reconsider values.  She pushes us to ask what our values really are outside and away from the ones that we have bought into or been pummelled by throughout history.  She'll inspire you to consider how you  would interface with your self worth outside of the  'value" system society has set up for you so far. What do you really think of money?  What are your real financial needs?  What kind of relationships do you really want?  Are you really and fully in true authentic relationship with yourself or are you still a dilute version of your latent desire?

It may feel like all partnerships, marriages, friendships and even family relations are becoming more fragile.  Irritation, anger, resentment and a general patina of dissatisfaction may be colouring your world at the moment. All distant rumblings or downright discontent in relationships are merely about the relationship you are in with yourself.

The initial reaction may be one of wanting to toss the whole lot of them overboard (very tempting I know!), to end things no matter what; that wish for a clean slate feeling.  For some this might be the appropriate thing to do but what the Pluto/Scorpio energy is essentially asking us to do is to get all forensic and acquire clarity before taking action because 9 times out of 10 the issues at hand will be examples of transference.

Any elements in a relationship that no longer serve the ideology of self love being the pathway to liberty and indeed to increased compassion for greater humanity, are examples of situations that keep us trapped in an old pattern that is wearing thin in its efficacy and production of joy. These are being called up for release now not later.


Its valuable to build (Taurus) an awareness (Scorpio) around how you spend your time (Capricorn) and energy (Uranus).

Just as we may have or had strategies of how you choose to spend or save our money so that we ensure a modicum of safety and security, we also now need to consider with the same level of importance how we will choose to spend our emotional, physical and spiritual energy.  Do we want to follow the crowd or society or do we wish to listen to our own inner voice just that wee bit more?

All excess emotional baggage needs to be dropped off at left luggage because the last call for the flight to personal freedom and self actualisation in line with our own personal truth is banging on over the tanoid system.

The Full Moon is doing its job of illuminating the unconscious and its planetary accomplices are prodding us  to let go of any habits, conscious or unconscious that could keep us in emotional, social or soul bondage.


Nature always bring balance.  The paramedics are always, if not overtly, right there on standby ready to support these deep dives.  The Taurus Full Moon whilst illuminating is also nurturing.  Taurus is the sign of practicality, tenaciousness and building. In this case she supports our endeavour to build trust, in ourselves and in the apparently crumbling world that we are, even in small ways, leaving behind.

The energy of Taurus allows us to easily put new roots down.  The ashes left from our Pluto back burning  not only reveal the phoenix within but also fertilise and nourish the soil that we now choose to seed.
A little Full Moon gazing or absorbing will make you feel safer despite what you are being en-courage-d to leave behind.

Like the ancient Egyptian goddess Taweret- protector of new life, who came in the form of a hippopotamus, the Taurus Full Moon will take care of you in all the possible chaos. So wallow in the mud and moonlight if you can!

Move Over Tolle!

Just for fun. "Channeled" (with tongue firmly fixed in cheek) by the Divine Feminine.

Want to lose your Ego? Ascend? Grow your Spirit?



No need to read Ekhart Tolle, sign up for yoga, join an ashram, study Vedanta or follow a guru. 

Become a full time stay at home mother. 

    

The Self gets put in its place automatically.



You clean up a lot of crap "inside" and out.



Go to places you have never been (and don't really want to).



You spend all night up "awake".



You hook out of the 'external" forever (you don't know what a CV means anymore, in fact in this paradigm of 'experience" yours would pretty much be empty).



There is no danger of applause, accolade, being hypnotized by money, fat salaries or potential promotions.



Most of the time you have to just BE because you are too tired or otherwise occupied to engage in any dreams of DOING!

You have to find creative ways to find your freedom, usually this means realizing its a state of mind.



The only way to improve your Self Esteem is by acceptance; acceptance of who you are as you ARE (usually in a slight state of disrepair and/or despair), and acceptance that this is IT..it doesn't get better than this even if 'this' isn't what you expected or desired.

You find inner peace/make peace with what Is.



Most importantly you have to ditch the idea of good and bad, wrong and right; duality.

Being a full time mum will toss all idealism out of the window. 

It's likely that holding on to be-lie-fs you were brought up with won't work any more because for the sake of Unity and peace you'll have to learn to go with the flow and lose judgment forever.



See?  Now you are "there" full of "unconditional LOVE!"



To top it off you really get used to acknowledging and accepting that life just IS as it IS!

Are we there yet? 

Always and never. 

There you have it 101 of Spiritual Mastery.

Ego dissolved (lying dismantled in some random cobwebby corner along with the dog hair and un-paired socks).

"Ascended" in one fell swoop (well maybe a few decades) and.. The Spirit has grown.....up! (Yours and Thiers).


Move over Tolle.......

Lily and the Blah-niks: Dark Moon Lilith in Cancer.

Dark Moon Lilith is the point in the heavens of the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit around the earth.  She is the power of the unsaid, the potency of silence; of secrets too long kept. 
  


As Dark Moon Lilith, the symbol of the wild free energy that does not like to feel tamed or contained is triggered there can be a surge of energy, a remembering of of injustices and imbalances.  

As Lilith moves into Cancer many women in particular, may find that the way they respond emotionally ramps up. In addition the intuitive and psychic tendencies characteristic to this sensitive sign may also escalate. 

Basically you get more "crabby!"


The sudden urge to defend oneself against emotional or physical intrusion might (will) rise causing confrontation and discomfort for the Mother/Sister/Wife archetype within.

Grace and acceptance might just leave the building.. just for a very little while .

Now is the time to allow yourself the space to really feel without judgement.  To avoid screaming matches, the throwing of plates and other dangerous missiles at your mate or any passing random stranger,it's useful to soften that crab shell and refrain from walking sideways.   


Sit strong in your vulnerability. It is a time to acknowledge any hurt or pain that have been your life long secret companions. Opening up this Can(cer) of worms  will not weaken you. Quite the opposite.  Allow the tears to fall and surrender to the mosaic that you are or better still go buy a new pair of shoes preferably of the high heeled kind.  Walk tall in your magnificence. Step up to the joy (and pain) of being Womb-an.  She is all powerful, she is strong and she's beautiful.

Lily and the Blahniks

Do I love my man and my children more than I love myself? Is this a good thing? I can cook up scrumptious meals just for them but find it as easy as the CIA catching Osama, to prepare, let alone eat, a meal that I either need or want. My desires went underground a long time ago, and I mean a long time ago when men walked around colossal stones in white nighties with big long beards. 

 

The Eve in all of us is still ashamed of that apple malarkey if it ever did really exist, and being a woman of conscience she still punishes herself on a daily basis. Really get over it Eve! It was a long time ago and its time to let go. Get yourself some therapy girl. Any good shrink will tell you its unhealthy to fester in the sweat of your own guilt. Think gilt not guilt. Think gold- repeat after me “I am gold” 

Throw away the fig leaf and buy some Manolo Blahniks or if that makes your sustainable blood curdle, a hemp skirt will do. Eat a whole, free range if you like, chicken, tuck into a bowl figs and luscious Greek yoghurt drizzled with honey (you can keep the fig leaf for those nudge, nudge, wink saucy moments). I mean what is the deal Eve? Go find your buddy Lilith (Eves' twin sister) and be bad for a day. Head into town and rip it up. Your "bad" probably means not doing the washing or getting a take away for dinner, or more naughtily maybe you won’t vacuum this week. Oooh, oooh , an inch of dust rather than half of one- Agggh- we’re all scared out of our hole proof undies!!!

Lilith might tell you its OK to take a break. She’ll start training you to be free. She’ll probably introduce you to a voice coach who will show you how to get that choked up, annoying squeak that turns into something of a whine when you don’t get heard, into a melodic, alto that runs off your tongue like the sound of a crystal clear waterfall.

Lily, as we will call her affectionately, will book you into a 5 star establishment, order you a mans’ portion of steak and chunky chips (room service of course), draw the black out curtains and tuck you in for the sleep of a life time.

Six days later (she too rests on the 7th) she’ll wake you from your slumber, run a bath for you and leave you there until you are scrubbed clean of your original sins. After that she will hoist you out of your comfort zone. Your bra will be tossed in the bin and she’ll help you drape cloth around your body that would put Givenchy to shame. She’ll take you by the hand and march you to the nearest ATM. One look from her glaring eyes will send you into submission and you’ll withdraw cash, equivalent to a mere single contribution you have made to the mortgage, kids, food shopping and SUV that lies in your garage. Your faltering fingers will be steadied by her piercing gaze as she reminds you of the 2400 other pay cheques and unpaid labour you have put into the account over the past 20 years, "None of it really spent on you my dear!" she'll say sarcastically.

 Lily seems to be a bad influence, a friend you could do without doesn’t she? She’s the kind of girl your mum warned you about; the wanton witch who can lead you astray. Actually she is your best friend. Be brave. Get to know her. She's actually is the part of you that you have forgotten, have no memory of and Lily really loves you...and shoes.

The Mermaid Diaries : June Solstice and Magpies; (Really) letting go of...

The Mermaid Diaries : June Solstice and Magpies; (Really) letting go of...: The past three months or maybe more have brought a persistent Magpie into my life. She (or he) comes periodically every day and throws ...

June Solstice and Magpies; (Really) letting go of the old to create the new.

The past three months or maybe more have brought a persistent Magpie into my life.

She (or he) comes periodically every day and throws herself against various windows around the house. She started by attacking the window most prominent, in the kitchen, which is where I spend a lot of time.  First she would appear to perform this ritual in the early afternoon when I would be most likely be preparing dinner, but in recent days she has been committing virtual suicide many times a day in a variety of places.

The insistent flying into the window is behaviour  said to be caused by adolescent magpies seeing themselves in the reflection of a window attempting to fend off any competition. However having always been claircognizant ( being tuned into signs and symbols that occur in nature and elsewhere), I knew that this bird was bringing more than her natural behaviour into my perception and experience.

Over the months if I am not in the kitchen this bird will fly into the window of the room that I am in at any given time. The frequency and ferocity has increased as though she is really trying to get my attention for an urgent purpose to the point where on some mornings she pecks at the bedroom window even when the curtains are closed and the reflection from the window not so apparent.

Today I finally sat down and spent a good 20 minutes 'asking" her and my unseens her purpose.  This is what came up.
                                             

In Shamanic terms birds represent freedom and Spirit so I sensed that perhaps I was not fully letting my Spirit 'in'. Magpies are also the communicators of the Spirit realm so I was possibly not communicating my own truth with enough courage or conviction.

As the June Solstice arrives on the 21st, astrologically and cosmically it is a time to really let go of any thing that is not aligned with your Source Self.  It is a time where we are being asked to bring to resolution and make conscious any old habits of mind, body and spirit that do not vibrate with the life path and experience you and therefore the collective want to experience.

As we shift from the energies of Gemini (the communicator, conduit, master of the abstract and facilitator of new stories) into the new nurturing container of Cancer where all new life is mothered and given shelter we have the profound opportunity to bring new ways of Be-ingness to ourselves and our Global experience.

Cancer is the womb; the creator.  What ever you put in that womb will be nurtured.  Put more of what we already have in the world in there and the more it will multiply.  Use the Gemini traits of embarking on a new journey, daring to be maverick and having the courage to communicate these changes with a little bit of  "spirit" or cheekiness and Cancer will grow for you a whole new experience.

It's really a time to jettison any ideas or deeply conditioned processes that will hinder y(OUR) expansion.  If you have self derogatory thoughts about your body, your gender, your worth, your work, your interface with any aspect of your existence now is the time to release it for good.

All apparent or hidden energies of duality must be released. All elements of opposition integrated.

Magpies are considered the light in the darkness.  My interpretation of this sign that has been forcefully pushing its pesky way into my life in recent weeks is, that NOW is the time to cut all cords that tie us to anything that does not build peace, abundance and well being.  Now is the time to really fully release all that is not resonant with Source Self.

As we leave the previously pervasive ideology of  duality behind it is interesting that the Magpie with it's colouring, symbolises their  ability to live in the black and the white; it's like they know how to live within the dark and the light simultaneously understanding the benefits of contrast yet disallowing the darkness to be their primary guide.

They tend to collect and hoard 'shiny" things, again a symbol of how we need to continually work consciously to gather within us thoughts and a perspective that focuses on the beauty and magnificence of this physical experience.

The Magpie totem also encourages us to use whatever understanding we already have; the treasures that we are.

Instead of aiming for perfection before we begin the process of letting go of old, unhealthy (after the Solstice, frankly unworkable) notions it's more productive to just start moving gently towards new and desired patterns.

For example if it's your physical well being that is a the top of your list instead of embarking on a boot camp, commissioning the juicer and pushing, punishing yourself into good health it's ok to take the low road of say just adding a green salad to your plate of pizza or taking a 10 minute walk for a few weeks until you build up that sense of enjoyment and empowerment that small changes bring.

The quick or ardent fix is out because with every thought or action that is focused on this dramatic approach to change, there is an accompanying sub-text that is basically saying 'I'm not good enough or what I am doing is not good enough so I have to work really hard at revising that."

Wholeness does not come from highlighting the 'holes."

We cannot change ourselves, our world or our experiences of life by viewing what we are or where we are from a place of underscoring deficit.   A poor man cannot make himself rich by focusing on what he is lacking, a country cannot change its situation by discussing its problems, nor a child become confident by a teacher telling him where he is failing.

The move from Gemini into Cancer that the June Solstice marks, means that we have a window of opportunity to use the Gemini traits of adaptability and communication to facilitate these small but powerful changes in our lives.   Magpies are known for their opportunistic natures often teasing more predatory birds such as eagles to show their prowess.  They have a daredevil nature often swooping in on the unsuspecting.  I don't know how many times my 'tower" has been 'buzzed' by a cheeky Magpie as I hang the washing!

If we are to BE-come more of OUR- Selves, if we are to co- create a collective experience that eradicates the difficulties, horrors and injustices of our history and current time, if we are to bring more health, abundance and well being into all of our experience we are now at a time personally, collectively and well aligned cosmically to take some risks, to behave like the daredevil magical magpie.

Now is the moment where we can bring true resolution to tired, untenable issues that have held us back as individuals and as a species.  It's a clear sign from the uprisings in Turkey and Brazil during the build up towards the June Solstice that we can and must take these opportunities to bring change; dare to be different and take risks.

Here we have a portal to unhook from the pervasive paradigm to put ourselves on the line so we can all grow.  The timing is perfect to leave our history behind and carve out new, more sustainable, more equable and frankly just happier, easier times.

Magpies draw on their resourceful almost eclectic way of living to survive.  Our success depends on using this wide and varied way of being; it is now counting on us to have the courage to  literally "wing" it. The rules that we have lived by thus far are all obsolete.

Magpies are not creatures who stay in the safety of a nest or gather around them secure structures to survive such as Bowerbirds do.  Instead they dare to go get what they need and are much more 'in your face' birds, metaphorically calling us to do the same.

This next few days is the pivot point that we can avail of to be compassionate with ourselves and others around hidden or apparent fears and inadequacies.  We need not confront them head on as has been the previously ascribed methodology. This shift can be made easily and quickly instead by being gentle and respectful in sync with the frequency of  love and peace we all deeply crave.

It's time to reconcile the dualities of our conditioned nature; to resolve any lingering emotional and spiritual oppositions.   Its useful to pay attention to your dreams and hunches and then have the courage to 'go' with the messages they provide. Your steps will not falter if you focus on things that you as an individual value.  As you listen to your heart your heart will naturally open to the dissonant cries of others and your compassion and ability to act upon it will grow.

Selfishness automatically leads to Selflessness.  Can you feel the relief in this statement?  Sit with it an allow it to grow, allow yourself to blossom back into the seed of Source that you know you are. If you feel the relief you know that you are ready to be a harbinger of change.  If you still feel uncomfortable with the idea of Selfishness leading to Selflessness you have been given the gift of knowing that you still have some work to do with aligning with your god-self.

My Magpie's insistent and often grating cries have been screaming at me (and now at you!)  She has been calling me to make that final step and really "wake" up, live consciously in absolute awareness.  She has me walking fully the uncharted territory of truly leaving all dregs of victimhood behind to deliberately create with the support of Uni-versal forces, the life and experience that I know We are meant to have.

The Magpie cries:

"Let go of the old and bring on the new!  Dare you!" 


PS:
As I began to write this the incessant flying into windows stopped and at some point my magical Magpie came to rest on the window sill of my study.  She stayed there for about half an hour flitting from the sill to the Passion Fruit Vine on the opposite boundary wall every so often.  She pecked at the window once or twice as if wanting to get my attention, fixed me with her beady eyed glare and then flew away.  I wonder if she will return.  

Change your mind and you change everything.

The influence of the much anticipated (read thank goodness at last!) watery Grand Trine is now with us. It's not firmly in place until July but the energies are shifting and adjusting their flowing skirts so that they can look pretty for the ball ahead.

A Grand Trine indicates a somewhat easier planetary pattern in comparison to the more intense and challenging times of the May gone by.  Since this Grand Trine is the water signs of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces we can choose to either passively go with the flow or learn to really paddle our own canoe with the help of the mighty force of the powerful currents that lie below.. or is it above?

Without sufficient consciousness Grand Trines can also be times where we can get complacent, stick to well worn pathways of old habits and fail to move a mere inch in our own personal growth. Learning to navigate a trine is like learning to catch a wave that brings you into shore with minimum effort.  Surfing the swell like this does require skill.  It incites balance, moving from intellect to instinct, bringing in the energies of Masculine and Feminine whilst keeping one's centre of gravity, the focus, firmly in place.

We have moved into a phase where all the unfolding that happened in the past few weeks can now be gainfully employed.  It does require us to really embrace fully the insight of prior weeks gained.  It is a time where practical application of new knowledge can bring great things.  What it means mostly is the move from limited thinking that you're  a novice and need your Cliff's Notes or even a 'tutor", to daring to let go of the side to plunge into uncharted waters.

What was thought to be common sense prior to the triple eclipse has been turned on its head.  So many templates for living are being dissolved and dismantled.  If you take a moment to sit quietly with yourself you can feel it in your bones that the 'old" ways of being just don't work anymore.  It's likely your body literally won't go to places it used to.

The recent protests in Turkey were an example of this new energy that is now in motion.  There was that real sense that those who joined in the endeavour to save the last green space in that part of the city just couldn't be complacent or turn the other cheek anymore; the environment could not this time, be compromised in favour of economics.  The justifications however noble, sensible or tried and tested as they may seem, are no longer valid.

Wherever this sense of compression is felt, whether it's financial, creative, environmental, career based, focused on well being or  personal relationships there is likely a sense rising that is pushing us towards wanting or having to do 'it" differently.

The Grand Trine literally invites us to learn to swim without the water wings of the past.   Luckily this won't bring too many near drownings as a Trine is essentially a time of smooth flow.

The struggle comes when we don't permit ourselves to at the very least, ALLOW this feeling to have just a few breaths of air before we shut it down deeming it impractical, impossible or even down right silly.


Yes, it's all a little scary. At best most of us don't feel like we have all the information yet and it can feel unsafe and rather remiss, like investing in new Stocks based on hearsay.  It can feel like we are tossing the baby out with the bath water or leaping out of a plane without a chute.

Our deeply embedded beliefs around safety are being challenged at every level and our "common" sense keeps kicking in.  Yes, it's called common sense because all it is is a common collective bundle of thoughts that have been given the largely undeserving honour of being called reality simply because they are thoughts that have been thought for a very long time.

In truth reality really is in our own hands, our own thoughts and our own minds.  It's a fictitious situation that can turn on a dime, even more so now that the previous grids have been loosened by a growing collective that is choosing (being forced you mean!) to do life differently.

So how do we begin to plot a course, find a foot hold and sift chaff from wheat on this next step of the journey?

We are now fully responsible for everything in our experience.  Refrain from blame games and let go of the  last vestiges of a vibration of victimhood.  Nothing happens without our permission.  Walk away from dualistic thinking.  Release all stories that do not hold you as sovereign. Start seeing the difficulties and frustrations in your personal experiences as gifts of contrast that have illuminated your pathway back to your home, to your Self.

The dark is as loving as the light .There are no good photos without some element of contrast. It does not contract our experience of this physical existence, it is a catalyst that propels us towards further expansion and expansion is what we are here to do- ask any physicist.

We are not here to cull and curb desire. From two mere cells we begin life via expansion. It is in our blueprint that we MUST expand.  Desire is the catalyst to that expansion.  We have merely bought into, hook line and sinker, a legacy mesmerised by a mindset that tried to, largely from fear and ego, keep us from growing into our Cell-ves.

The watery Grand Trine that sits on our horizon will draw us into our emotions. It can be a very sensitive time, a time where we are are literally asked to lose our minds and fully occupy Heart.  It can be a time where we will feel our way through the coming weeks rather than think.  Each moment will be asked to be lived by  constantly re-calibrating according to the feeling at hand without judgement. We are being encouraged to really let go of outcomes and  become aligned with process alone.  Linear thinking is old hat, there are no beginnings and no true endings.

Our actions are being encouraged to be movement that grows from faith, from intuition, from a place of knowing and trusting.  The fastest way to get to the place you want to get to is by expressing our feelings and then letting them go. No more analysing or needing to get to the root of everything.    This way we connect to something much greater and magnificent than the usual trials and tribulations of our former personalities.  The sense of self empowerment that is born from this is far greater than anything we have ever dared to experience before.

Acknowledge the sharks and swim on.

Use this Trine time to align with the idea first before you take action.    Know that desires manifest when we hold focus on the joy inherent in the idea rather than on just on the outcome.  Learn to be like water; to morph and flow around obstacles in your way but also 'know" you can and will carve out channels and move mountains  if need be.

Water's power lies in its mutability, in its a-quiesence, in its changeability and fluidity. It's a time when if we consciously release and lose our conditioned fears, dare to jettison common or 'sensible" thinking we will open doors to ease, fulfilment and change.

 Change your mind and you change everything.

The Mermaid Diaries : The Tango and the Waltz: Learning to embody the Ma...

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The World is my cauldron! Becoming an alchemist of change.

Yesterday had me running for the beach.  The winter Sun was out in his splendour and glory and my mind and body were in serious need of a solar fix; a blast of his fiery cleansing rays.

Much has been changing and morphing over these past six months its hard to remember what it was like prior to December 2012, that so called watershed that cosmic counsellors have been waxing lyrical about for years.


I personally, never took too much heed of all the hell fire and brimstone theories but in retrospect there is no doubt that much has changed.  Some of it has been  hitting the proverbial fan, but in essence if you dare to slow down and seek deeply, (as would a mermaid), you will be blown away by the shift.


As I lay flat on the beach soaking in the life force I was blessed with a sky scape of brilliant blue: not a cloud in sight.  As the minutes ticked by the odd lonely cloud blew in to view.  Within seconds of a cloud appearing in my field of vision it would start to disappear.  It was truly magical to watch.  My eyes like a camera on time lapse took it all in, marvelling at the speed and ease with which this moist, seemingly dense body of water vapour just melted into nothing.  Immediately I felt this same phenomenon  begin to operate in my own body and mind.  I knew now that nothing that I did not want to hold on to could be dissolved instanteneously.

The world was my cauldron!



There is great alchemy in the air at the moment.  Greater than it's ever been.  Our lives are the crucible in which we can make any magic happen.

I know we have heard it all before; the power of the Law of Attraction, you are what you eat, what you think about you bring about blah blah, but the potential of these ideas is now greater than it has ever been.

It's like up until now there was some weird almost tangible, physical structure that kept us somewhat at arms length at manifesting our dreams or our desires. There was perhaps an invisible thread that kept us connected to our 'reality".  Even in the last six months it still felt like there were training wheels attached to our cosmic bikes kind of keeping us tethered at some level to a world and experience that we knew we wanted to change but it wouldn't let us go completely until we were really desperate and dying.

Nature has a way of being cruel to be kind.  Animals toss their babies out of nests and into the dangers of the wild to get them ready for their best selves.  However they still tend to keep a watchful eye on their young at first and bat the hell out of them if they don't get it right.  This is what it has been like for those who have been tuned in to the change.

Those training wheels are off now and we are free wheeling and wobbling around trying to get in  touch with our new found freedom.  Its exhilirating and terrifying all at once but rest assured the grid we once lived with, the tracks we once followed have been lifted away leaving us with no road, no yellow bricks or even a gravel path to follow, for we are truly drivers of our own lives. The only thing is we don't really know how to drive now that the Highway Code has been axed.  Making decisions for ourselves that hold fast the code of the heart; love, compassion, appreciation, joy and peacefulness is something completely new.

Anyone who carries an energy of being a victim, anyone who chooses to hold on to guilt or a sense of 'justification" is merely operating from the perspective of the rational mind.  Our history reveres this view point, it calls it 'reality" it gives it the label of being realistic and intelligent.

The rational mind thinks it knows more than it actually does.  We are a work in progress moving between the heart and rational mind and probably profoundly confused and possibly a little scared of giving in fully.

What we think or thought was reality is no longer a collective truth but the rational mind is still engaged and employed in this soon to be archaic way of navigating life and so there is a sense of conflict.  We are interns in using this new vantage point of  the freedom of choice.

We are in a phase where our birth right of  free will are coming out to party.  This process is guided by the heart whose connection to Source/God/Self is coming online, in fact we are already serviced with a broadband network via fibre optics... if we choose.      

Changes on a personal and collective level will not come through tried and tested means.  They will not morph by giving attention to the 'problem or attempting to fix what is broken, for the more we carry the vibration of needing to 'fix" something, whether its our body, the politics of a place, or our partner and children the more food you give to the idea of it being broken.

Transformation now comes from turning away from the dark, from our 'reality" and bringing more focus, more light to appreciation, joy, compassion and love.

There is no longer a real demarkation between inside and out.  The boundaries between the perceived two states, like those clouds, are fast dissolving.  How fast they dissipate is entirely up to us because in truth there was never anything that really separated us; duality was as fictional as we chose to make it.

The power that we see or saw in others, in institutions, out 'there" in the world, that seemed separate from our own was merely a reflection of what we chose to feel about our own divine majesty.

The sentence 'Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?" holds more truth now than ever so if you want to be state of the art, step right into your heart!

Reconsidering Idealism and the Imagination. The Solar Eclipse.

The previous Lunar Eclipse was one that brought to the surface inner, hidden patterns and elements. It was a cosmic event that brought to light unidentified dross that needed to be sifted out from our-cellves.  Now its time to turn that dross into gold.

Past emotional baggage such as old childhood wounds revolving around not being loved, abandonment issues, loss, scarcity and anything that hummed of a lack of self worth were likely poked and prodded by the cool fingers of those lunatic moonbeams.  If you didn't at some point, dissolve into tears, consider checking yourself into the nearest nut- house, or just got the feeling that something MUST change over the past few weeks then you were made of more than titanium.
  
It's a very "watery"  year for us with many powerful outer planets in water signs so buy some shares in Kleenex and get yourself a really sturdy umbrella and some wellies.  The waves and tides will be high.  How we surf and swim with these currents is entirely up to us.

In the wake of that very intense Lunar Eclipse we are brought back from our inner, largely emotional experience of life to a more external place;  that place we like to call 'reality".  The dive down deep into the inner landscape instigated by the Moon now brings those treasures to the surface for review; for the Sun to dry them out and see them in the cold light of day.

What we took for granted as being practical, infallible or 'truth' may suddenly feel like it's crumbling. Many of our structures that appear noble, wise and realistic will be on the table trembling in their boots like bemused, faithful employees waiting to be fired for no apparent reason.

The Solar Eclipse currently in process (9/10 May 2013) has the potential to illuminate beliefs and habits that we are largely conscious of.  It is a time to reconsider the values we have thought served us best.  It's a time where we metaphorically throw out old clothes that we think suited us but now seem strangely ugly and outworn.  All of a sudden that classic black Chanel dress you thought you would never give away seems old fashioned and unusable.


We cannot create a new situation without turning our backs completely on an old one.  The theme for the next few days will be about using our idealism and imagination.  The strange thing is that this idealism might seem like it is anything like ideal.  This is where the imagination really has to upgrade to its' 2.0 version and be daring and outright bold.

For example if you are dealing with physical issues; illness, poor habits or just knowing that somewhere along the line you and your body could have a better relationship, now is the time to turn all of your previous ideas around how you 'should" achieve your goals on its head.


The planetary influences are here offering you the potential to decide HOW you want to achieve your dreams.  What works is what you choose will work.

On a collective level what is seemingly not ideal or defies, common sense is probably what will bring progress and access to a better result.  Whether the platform is political, economic or personal, what will work is daring to break out of tried and tested formulas to try something new. Something new that speaks to the heart and gives the mind the heave- ho.

If you suddenly get the urge to cure your physical dilemmas with a daily cupcake rather than stick to a stringent diet or choose to elect a political leader that hasn't inspired your mind but reaches some weird place in your heart, do it!  There is something in the air that might just make it all work.

There is a new type of 'mastery" available to us.  We have been brainwashed for eons to believe that progress or empowerment comes from direct action.  As a society we are addicted to action thinking it is the only way to facilitate change.  However this new 'mastery" involves less of the do-ing (thank goodness, aren't we all really tired and worn out?!)  and more be-ing, imagining and aligning with ideas that feel more human.

This "easy does it" is not for the faint hearted. It requires intense focus on this alignment process, it involves activating an imagination that has been lying largely dormant for eons, it asks us to really bring forth into our daily lives compassion, consistent gratitude when there might seem very little to be grateful for and mostly it insists that we release all judgement of ourselves and of course others.  It begs us to be first of service to ourselves and then from that fuller place we are automatically contributing constructively to the world of others.

The be-LIE-f that we are impotent or helpless in the face of the bigger picture or held back by the 'other" or some external circumstance is being asked to be released.  The penny is beginning to drop that we are both the internal and the external in everything; no circumstance is bigger or more powerful than we are.  We are catalysts not just for the transformation of our own lives but by virtue of each individual being part of a whole, how we choose to en-vision our selves will undoubtedly affect the wider profile; its just plain physics.

During this Eclipse sandwich ( the next Lunar one is on 25 May) there is the possibility for a lot of physical release (read pain!).  On- going aches and pains in muscles, joints and bones, digestive issues, twitches, a sense of foreboding, mild anxiety, restlessness and sleeplessness are all just signs that there is a releasing of outworn energies and beliefs.

As the  imagined boundaries and illusory notions that our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are separate entities are dissolved by our evolving consciousness, our bodies jettison these thoughts physically clearing pathways for new improved dynamics.  This is a ritual of purification.

What we focus on we will energise so be vigilant with thought.  Eclipses in ancient times were often considered periods of danger.  In hindsight what that really means is monitor your thoughts for the veil is thin.  The timescale for manifestation is shortened so what you think about you may well magnify fairly quickly.

In light of this, any residue of poor self worth has the potential to rear its ugly medusa like head (well it is the Year of the Snake), not to punish you or prove to you that you are worthless but to shine a light on the nonsensical notion that any one of us has true deficit. Yes, we are all works in progress but that is our most magical beauty for it keeps the door open to our infinite expansion. How dull and boring it would be if there really was an end line. When the cup can never be full it means more drinking time!

The easiest (a must in current energies) way to address the way you see yourself is to ask yourself if your value judgements are  truly helpful.  They may be mainstream and practical. They may seem tried and tested. They may be deeply rooted in religious or cultural indoctrination but are they helpful? Do they make you feel full and replete?  Do they make you feel self loving, compassionate and free? Or do they weigh you down with the list of things to 'do" before you can feel good?  If its the latter you are still holding duality, you are still dressing your ego in his finest robes.

It's a really good time to offer yourself and others (when you are ready) unconditional love.  Its a good time to really use gratitude as your main App and actively seek out abundance in all things.  It doesn't matter if you don't have enough money, no primary relationship or an ailing body. This Eclipse gives us the energy and impetus once we start the ball rolling to lift stones and find what at first might seem meaningless things that show us how full and rich our lives really are.

What we seek we always find.

Home is where our heart is. The first of three Lunar Eclipses.

The first of a powerful line up of lunar eclipses occurs tomorrow the 26 April 2013.   There will be two more before the mid year Solstice.   Eclipses  bring greater voltage to the charge of change.

This first eclipse combined with a what the Buddhists called a Wesak (enlightened) full moon in Scorpio, brings into our sphere the usual and sometimes dreaded Plutonic energies of transformation through dissolution and penetrating exposition.

Issues around latent and hidden insecurities regarding money, home and relationships; romantic, business and platonic, are illuminated.  Along with these anxieties there is a strong presence of the rise of compassion and desire to put this to good use for the collective community.

Our sense of home is literally being shaken up by escalating violence, struggles with finance,  or feeling isolated.  The world seems to becoming increasingly 'unsafe' and we are being pushed more and more to find our true home which, lies in the centre of our be-ing; our Heart.

For me personally this is indeed true.  I have had this past week the ressurection of grief around wishing to move home but feeling thwarted by the financial impossiblity of this and then at the same time I have been more than usual, deeply touched by the sight of real homeless people that pepper the streets of my city; a city that claims to be one of the most prosperous at this point in  our history.

Neither my angst over not being able to change my own residence nor the sight of a man sleeping rough have made any sense and I have been awash with both anger and grief.

This is the effect of the current planetary energies amplified by the rising 'awakened' collective.  We are in the first phase of re-BIRTH.  The contractions are tame to what they will become but we don't know this yet and so the pain is as sharp as it would be upon crowning.

The Full Moon in Scorpio is of course accompained by our central Sun being placed in earthy, pragmatic, designed-for-comfort Taurus so the impulse or push to integrate even more of the opposing energies of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine will also be on the cards.

Maybe you have a feeling of being penalized by society if you are woman or have fostered the traditional role of nurturer and giver, or if you are male whose primary purpose has been to provide and find pragmatic solutions to issues around finance, security, protection and the future you might be feeling suffocation and intense pressure.  Both embed a sense of powerlessness.

There is likely a sense of being under the pump, a sudden shot in the arm that jerks you into first anxiety and then into thoughts based in social justice.

Anger, resentment and grief are all emotions that are being called up to be released.  The 'feeling" closet  of our lives is being opened up, ransacked, dusted and purged of all old gremlins that have had the job of keeping an unhealthy ego and a reality that serves it, alive.

In the 'darkness' of this Lunar Eclipse our eyes are being re-adjusted, re-callibrated. Our pupils dilate letting in sufficient light so we can make known the aspects of ourselves that lurk like monsters in the dusty recesses and dank corners of our minds.

It's a really good time to clear any residual emotional (and real) clutter that no longer serves you. Just like the old pair of shoes you keep simply to remind you of a time gone by but never really wear, its time to release old feelings that no longer serve your evolution.

Anything remotely Scorpio is always about re-birth, about re-construction, but first it must be made known before you torch it.   Intense emotions are a sign you are letting go.  Tears and tantrums are merely the processing tools. Don't attempt to swallow your feelings.  To do so literally brings 'water retention' into play which if not released can affect the health of your 'heart'; the place that now leads us.

WIth  grand-daddy structured Saturn travelling through the sign of Scorpio and  Darth Vader Pluto weilding its power in Capricorn there is a definite feeling that this is the time, this is the place, where old "architecture" (read establishment) is being bulldozed to the ground.  To add flow to the whole process a watery Grand Trine begs us to attune to the needs of mass consciousness with compassion.

We are being en-COURAGE-d to release all that we thought was real and necessary for our sustenance. We are being asked to disengage from the pursuit of  false, fear based individual growth and freedoms and re-align ourselves with more communal enterprise, pursuit and philosophy.  

To do this it is imperative to anchor ourselves in our hearts for this is where our true home and security lies.  With a strong sense of 'home" embedded deep in the centre of our BE-ing-ness the old, outworn carcasses of what we have called 'reality" for centuries can finally be thrown on to the pyre.