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by Cayelin Castell

"…All life is magic.
If you learn nothing else,
learn this…"

"Magic begins in the mind.
The first step is to imagine.
What you can imagine can be made real."

—Morgan Lwellyn The Greener Shore

Life is magical…even though sometimes we need to be reminded. Magic is everywhere all around us in every moment. Gratitude for the magic of life is a powerful key to experiencing more and more magic. I have also found having an inner commitment to living a magical life works in ways I hadn’t even imagined. There is a warning however that anything not in alignment with whatever is a magical life for you will come up for clearing including fears, beliefs, relationships, lifestyle choices, and anything else that holds you back from experiencing the magic of who you are.

I started writing about the power of magic in the Celestial Timings before the year 2000. I could not locate when that was as the Celestial Timings files are missing from that time. It was a not so fun lesson in the necessity of backing up files due to inevitable but highly unpredictable computer crashes. In the April 2001 Celestial Timings I wrote about the power of imaging as a way to co-create our reality. In the process of writing about I suddenly realized the word Magi is the root word of imagine, magic, magician, and imagination. I included this insight in a paper I wrote as one of my graduation assignments from the Global Citizen University around that time.

I had the sense that there was more to the Magi than I was fully aware of at the time. I knew the Magi were alchemists and astrologers. I knew they were the keepers of sacred knowledge and they knew how to respond to the planetary messages. In many Shamanic Astrology groups over the years Daniel Giamario has referred to those who feel called to bring Shamanic Astrology to the world as the current day Magi returning and gathering as Harbingers of the Turning of the Ages.

As this New Year (2007) dawned I started receiving the knowing that March was the month I would again write about Magic as a focus. Magically, as synchronicity is a form of magic, in early February I was given a copy of the Sedona Journal of Emergence with articles from various channels. There was an article by Miranda Ryan (www.shamanicascension.com) that captured my attention with a message from the Magi magically addressing exactly what I was imagining. The article said:

“Magic is a space within the heart. We are the Magi, and we are activators of that space. Alchemy and magic are intertwined. Alchemy is the process of the inner working of transmutation, and magic is the outer experience of transmutation. Magic is concerned with spiritual matter, and alchemy with physical matter. We Magi are alchemists adept in the ways of magic….Our story-your story-brings you strength and joy. We know this, for we are you….

Miranda then goes on to write,

“Celebrate the Magi. Let their words shimmer through your being as you connect to more of who you are…”

March is a magical month as they all are in their own way. As we recognize with gratitude the magic of life all around us our lives our guided by more and more magic bringing us the ability to appreciate with greater joy this wondrous magical time on planet Earth.

Visible Planets
Invisible Planets
March Daily Highlights
March 2007 Daily Highlights

Mar 01, Thursday. Moon in Leo occults Saturn for the 3rd time this year. When the Moon occults (or covers) a planet it acts to accelerate and intensify the energies uncovering the hidden essence of what is seeking form. Today’s Moon occultation of retrograde Saturn (24 Leo) accelerates the intended collective embodiment of radical, open-hearted, self-love and what needs to be cleared or uncovered for this reality to manifest? When we can love ourselves with open-hearted love, similar to how a dog so completely and joyously loves his human family no matter what, our worldly experience shifts. When we release the burdens of rigid belief systems and judgments that drive punishing behaviors” toward ourselves and others, then we are well on our way to greater experiences of self-forgiveness and self-love. It may help to take time today to note what you truly love about yourself. If you are having trouble figuring that out – then it might be helpful to engage in a radical “out of the ordinary” act of kindness. Kindness towards ourselves and others is a magically transformative energy.

Mar 02, Friday. Moon moves into Virgo this afternoon opening the Full Moon Eclipse Window exact tomorrow. The Virgo mysteries are attuned to the patterning of life and the sacred ways to keep ourselves in this world in balance with the unseen worlds around us. When we are attuned with the pattern of our own lives then we are more easily supported by the Source of All that IS. If you are feeling resistance around any of your efforts in the world it may be a message that this is not in alignment with your pattern. Spider reminds us that when we weave our web in the proper location all we need comes to us. As we approach the Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse tomorrow it is time to note the ease of your alignment with the pattern or web of your life? If your web is not drawing to you what you need to fulfill your life purpose then it may be time to consider how to weave a new web by looking more deeply into your own pattern, including noticing coincidences around you and the messages you are receiving from our environment.

This Virgo Moon and approaching eclipse is beautifully summed up in these words from Morgan Llwellyn’s book The Greener Shore.

The Source of All Being does not work at random, though to our eyes it may appear so. Always remember: There are no coincidences, just unexpected glimpses of a hidden pattern…all elements of the Pattern are linked. Stars and Stones, humans and animals…

Mar 03, Saturday. 3/3. Virgo Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse (13 Virgo totality is around 10:43 pm GMT or 5:43 pm EST most visible in Europe and Africa. The eclipse is ending around Moonrise in most of the Americas but the Eastern Times zones may enjoy some of the visual eclipse experience. A total Lunar Eclipse from our Earth-based perspective occurs when the Earth passes in a direct line between the Sun and the Moon. The Earth’s Shadow crosses over the face of the Full Moon. It is an opportunity to visually see and embrace our personal shadow and uncover the gifts that may be hiding there.

The line-up of these three celestial bodies, the Sun, the Moon and the Earth, are like aligning the tumblers in a combination lock, opening a portal to previously unrealized planetary and personal codes. Eclipses accelerate change, clearing, eliminating, releasing, and transforming in ways that assist in greater manifestation of these codes in alignment with our divine design. When visible, Total Lunar Eclipses are an opportunity to witness all the phases of the Moon, from Full Moon to Full Moon, in about 3½ hours. This is a rapid acceleration in our space-time experience collapsing what is normally about a 30 day cycle to just over 3 hours. Interestingly, in Celtic traditions 3 is considered the number of fate and this Eclipse is also happening on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of this year. Plus any planetary or celestial event has at least a three day window alerting us to the Power of Three.

The Power of Three has many dimensions and applications including alchemy, multiplicity and fate. For example, the number three operates as the number of multiplicity by giving birth to all the numbers beyond 2. The numbers of life begin with One representing unity or oneness with the Source. When we add One to itself we then have Two, or One plus One equals Two (1+1=2). One and Two then come together birthing Three (2+1=3). Three then has power of multiplicity to give birth to all the other numbers (3+1=4, 3+2=5, 3+3=6, 3+4=7, 3+5=8, 3+6=9). The Power of Three takes on additional meaning when we consider that Science defines the reality we live in as 3rd dimensional reality. During today’s eclipse it may be beneficial to tune into messages being revealed around the Power of Three in whatever ways work best for you.

This passage from The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, Tablet 11, translated by Doreal may help to further inspire your connection to the Power of Three.

…Three is the mystery, come from the great one,
Hear, and light on thee will dawn.
In the primeval dwell three unities,
other than these none can exist.
These are the equilibrium, source of creation,
One God, One Truth, One Point of Freedom.
Three come forth from the three of the balance,
All Life, all Good, all Power.
Three are the qualities of God in his light-home –
Infinite Power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love…

Mar 04, Sunday. Purim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim The Sun and Uranus reach their exact annual conjunction tomorrow, however, the potency of this Timing is activating today as the Sun moves within one degree of Uranus. This is catalyzing unexpected changes supporting radical compassionate healing and may bring in revolutionary new ideas and information designed to shift or shatter our current beliefs or perceptions of reality creating the space for innovative change. The Sun and Uranus together have a sense of great magic connected to them especially when we consider the power of this combination to dislocate our current assemblage point for the purpose of creating greater freedom.

“There is a unique feel to Great Magic. A sense of dislocation: an intense focus that precludes an outside awareness.”

—Chief Druid Ainvar in Morgan Lwellyn’s new book The Greener Shore

Mar 05, Monday. Moon moves into Libra energizing the mysteries of partnership and relationship. The primary gift of relationship is to connect with, know, and relate to the divine within our selves through the reflection and interaction with another. Many make the mistake of focusing on the Other rather than themselves. When we focus on loving, valuing, and blessing who we are then it is much easier to love, value and bless others.

Today is the exact conjuction of Sun and Uranus (15 Pisces) energizing revolutionary assemblage points shifts that alter our experience of reality. As Uranus travels through Pisces these shifting assemblage points are greatly facilitated by Radical Compassion and Radical Kindness. Recent research shows that acts of kindness benefit not only the person who receives the kindness and the person who gives it but also anyone who happens to witness an act of kindness. http://www.kindness.com.au/kindness_and_health.htm and http://www.intouchmag.com/oprah.html Kindness toward ourselves and others helps us to heal our hearts and to forgive the unforgivable liberating us to live fuller, more loving, joyful, magical lives. Here are some forgiveness statements that may aid this process.

I forgive myself for all the ways I have ever withheld compassion for myself especially when I was reacting out of fear and pain—hurting myself or others as a result. I forgive myself for withholding compassion and forgiveness for those who have hurt me. And… I forgive the unforgivable thoughts, words and deeds I have thought, said, or done to myself or others… And I forgive the unforgivable thoughts, words and deeds others have thought, said or done to me.

Mar 06, Tuesday. The waning Libra Moon is approaching Spica, located in the constellation marking the hand of the Virgin Priestess. Relationships are highlighted offering opportunities for us to see how well we are doing in taking responsibility for whatever experience we are having in all our relationships.

When we are living from a strong basis of self-love we can let go of our need to have people be different than what they are and can see them as perfect just as they are right now. Ken Keyes confirms this in his book A Conscious Person’s Guide to Relationships saying; “As we reach behind the models in our minds, we can see the way in which each individual is beautiful, capable, and lovable. By learning to accept people as they are, we can see the preciousness of each person.

Mar 07, Wednesday. Moon moves into Scorpio and Mercury stations Direct (26 Aquarius). Scorpio is the archetypal energy that is a master generator of Life Force Energy, of Will, and of Desire. Our primary evolutionary process is NOT about getting over our human desires or somehow evolving past them. Scorpio School reminds us that desire is fine and is in fact a part of the human experience. It is our attachment to the way we want our desires to manifest that causes pain, frustration, and other problems. When we learn how to be with our desires without attachment to how they manifest, then Life Force Energy is free to find it’s most powerful and life supporting expression in our lives. And when we are not attached to the results what manifests is usually more amazing than what we were imagining anyway.

Mercury is stationing direct today though it does not pass the degrees of its retrograde station until March 27. (See March 8 for details)

Mar 08, Thursday. Still in the window of the Mercury station direct that took place yesterday, with the Moon still traveling through Scorpio we also have the magical feminine Venus (18 Aries) trining the expansive visionary Jupiter (19 Sag). This is a time for expanding our vision of the truth of who we are as we remember the power of our thoughts to co-create our reality. Gary Zukav further inspires this understanding with these words from his book The Seat of the Soul; “Not all forms are physical. A thought, for example, is a form. What is a thought formed out of? Thought is energy, or Light, that has been shaped by consciousness. There is Light, and there is the shaping of Light by consciousness. This is creation.”

It is wise to be conscious of the thoughts we are thinking as they are the basis of the reality we are creating moment by moment. Daily thoughts of Love and Gratitude for the gifts of life we experience everyday is our most powerful creative tool. When we combine this with non-attachment to how our desires manifest or if they manifest at all - releasing all expectations and attachments - then we tap the magical realm of co-creative manifestation in alignment with the unfolding divine design. This is the essence of magic and manifestation when Scorpio and Aquarius are operating through their true archetypal intent.

Mar 09, Fri. Venus (19 Aries) trines Saturn (19 Leo), Sun (19 Pisces) Squares Jupiter (19 Sag), Venus (19 Aries) sextiles Neptune (19 Aquarius). On Jan 22, 2007 Venus was opposite Saturn. By July 1, 2007 Venus will exactly join Saturn in the evening sky. Both Venus and Saturn are visible in the evening sky with Venus near the western horizon and Saturn nearer to the Eastern horizon 120 degrees apart. Venus travels faster than Saturn catching up with Saturn over the next few months. Saturn and Neptune are still dancing in close opposition to each other as Venus comes into trine Saturn and sextile Neptune. This suggests a time of deepening inner knowing guiding our inspired visionary thoughts and actions as we more consciously co-create our experience.

Also, the Sun Square to Jupiter reminds us that Jupiter will be slowing down to station retrograde on April 5. This is a time when we may receive magnified insight into the greater truth of who we are.

Mar 10, Saturday. The Moon is moving into Sag visible near Antares tonight. Antares is the stargate that marks the heart of the Scorpion and is one of the four royal stars of ancient times known as the watcher of the West, also linked to Archangel Uriel. Bernadette Brady’s book The Fixed Stars, tells us all four of the royal stars (including Regulus, Aldebaran, and Fomalhaut) are linked with their own unique teachings, special powers and successes when we are able to meet their challenges as part of the heroic journey of life. Antares is also associated with archangel Uriel guardian of the mysteries of peace and inspiration. In Hebrew Uriel means “Flame of God” or “Fire of God” and personifies the divine flame that originates from universal mind. This is the fire of creation as spirit descends into density and form. Uriel as Patron of Ecology is also described as: "… the keeper of the mysteries which are deep within the planet, underground and in the hidden depths of the living world." [Archangel Uriel, Patron of Ecology]

Mar 11, Sunday. The Sagittarius Moon conjuncts Jupiter (19 Sag) as it approaches its Lunar Standstill Last Quarter Phase (21 Sag). The illumination of the expansive Sagittarius realm energizes greater possibilities for profound shifts in our awareness and true understanding of ourselves. The Sagittarius Lunar Standstill window with Moon conjunct Jupiter in Sag suggests a time of releasing old identities and ego attachments. This is a time for being truthful and honest with ourselves, for being vulnerable and getting in touch with what is truly in our hearts for us to express.

"Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives."

—Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart

Mar 12, Monday. Lunar Standstill Moon conjuncts Pluto at Galactic Center and then moves into Capricorn crossing the Galactic Plane. Galactic Center was also known as Hunab Ku by the Mayans, the source of conscious energy manifesting the rhythm and form of our universe. All this year and into next Pluto and the Moon are meeting here located visually in the sky between the constellation of the Archer near the tip of the arrow and above the tail and stinger of the Scorpion (the Archer is a.k.a. Sagittarius – see difference between signs and constellations). This is located near where the Milky Way and the ecliptic intersect. In the three-day Lunar Standstill window the Moon is so far south in its orbit from the Earth’s perspective that it literally covers or crosses directly over Galactic Center. The Moon is an activator and transmitter amplifying the energy codes being transmitted from any particular area of the sky. Therefore the Moon is assisting in the flow of energy and information from the Galactic Gateway for all of 2007 and remains within one degree of this effect in 2008.

There are three days each month for the rest of 2007 when we can more easily receive incoming Galactic Messages, Codes and Energies from Hunab Ku. Knowing about and consciously engaging this Timing further opens and activates our abilities as conscious conduits in anchoring these energies in the Earth plane. Many are noticing this three-day window is intensifying whatever issues any of us are still hanging onto or still in the process of releasing. Surrendering what we think we know and who we think we are while also going with the flow of what is occurring seems to be the most effective and useful strategy for experience the magical transformational opportunity of this window.

Mar 13, Tuesday. The Moon is continuing its journey through Capricorn, and the constellation of the archer, completing another three-day lunar standstill window at Galactic Center. The influx of galactic light codes pouring into our solar system and onto the Earth at this time, are activating an unprecedented evolutionary quantum leap. Many may resist these time-coded evolutionary changes but ultimately the Star Trek Borg had it right when they said “Resistance is futile!” This evolutionary process is already underway and resistance to it would be like the caterpillar resisting the inevitable transformation into the butterfly.

Mar 14, Wednesday. The Moon moves into Aquarius illuminating the mysteries of revolution for evolution. Revolutionary ideals that promote evolution and the ability to support our individual right to determine our own evolutionary path is an assemblage point shift that provides us all an opportunity to experience the freedom of who we truly are.

Mar 15, Thursday. The Moon conjuncts Chiron and Mars (both at 13 Aquarius) and then the Moon moves on to Neptune (19 Aquarius21) early tomorrow morning. The Moon is transmitting the entire collective library related to the Aquarius mysteries to Chiron and Mars today and then Neptune tomorrow. This is happening in the window of Mars preparing to meet Neptune by March 25 and is a potent combination of active and receptive energies creating the possibility of shamanic healing. Chiron is the shamanic healer. Mars and Aquarius are actively engaging the cosmic perspective bringing new insights and innovation to our awareness illuminated by the transmission from the Moon and Neptune. Neptune operates in the ocean of formlessness where all possibilities exist. Today Mars has an opportunity to receive a transmission from the Moon to assist him on his quest for enhancing and enjoying the beauty and pleasure of life in new and innovative ways. The current Mars quest began in Nov 2005 in the archetypal realm of Taurus and is nearly complete.

Mar 16, Friday. As messenger Mercury (28 Aquarius) is occulted by the Moon and expansive Jupiter (19 Sag) trines Saturn (19 Leo) new forms are emerging based in self-love and the honoring of the divine within. The Aries warrior protectress Venus (28 Aries) is trines the transformational initiator Pluto (28 Sag and is also sextiling Mercury) giving us a powerful recipe for radical miraculous compassionate healing. This is beautifully depicted in the early 1980’s movie Resurrection with Ellen Burstyn. The heroine Edna May (played by Burstyn) becomes a powerful Pisces Healer after she has a near death experience resulting from a car accident that left her paralyzed. After her return from the otherside she discovers she has the ability to heal her own paralysis and that her remarkable healing gift extends to anyone she lays her hands on. At one point in the movie Edna May makes an attempt to describe her experience. This is a description of the empathic Pisces Healer.

“There is this person standing in front of me see and they’re sick or hurtin’—scared. And somehow, and I don’t know how, I— I Just kind of become them. I start feeling hurt and scared and sick. Its like I feel them but there’s this other me that’s outside that wants to reach out and make the pain go away—you know kinda the way a Mother does when her little one gets hurts. It’s a kind of kiss and make it better sorta thing."

Another example is described by psychic surgeon Alex Orbito in the book The Secret Teaching of the Espiristas by Harvey Martin as follows:

“As I see the crowd of sick people waiting for me to relieve them of their suffering, my heart is filled with compassion. I deeply and fervently pray to God to make me a channel of his healing power. As I pray, I am suddenly transformed into a Holy Man whose only remaining feeling is of love, mercy and compassion toward the sick. At this moment, I no longer think of myself as Alex Orbito, but as mere channel of God’s healing power."

Mar 17, Saturday. Venus moves into Taurus until April 11 traveling through the domain of sacred pleasure. In the mystery school of Taurus a primary key to experiencing the joy of powerful life force energy is in the ability to receive, enjoy and savor the moment. Any pleasurable, enjoyable experience engaged with conscious intent for the purpose of promoting self-awareness, well-being, and the strength and vitality of all concerned, ultimately leading to a state of bliss and ecstasy, is in the domain of Sacred Pleasure. Noticing our current reality in a place of acceptance frees the limiting energy of judgment and allows for new possibilities to emerge.

Moon conjuncts Uranus (15 Pisces). This is a timing that indicates exploring and experiencing new territory as the old forms are breaking down. Uranus often brings change in sudden and unexpected ways, breaking down the old limiting beliefs, the old assemblage point, breaking through to new perspectives, insights and understanding. Sometimes a person can get stuck in the breakdown by holding on and resisting the changes now possible thereby missing the breakthrough. It helps to go with the flow and note the messages of change that are innovative, brilliant, cutting edge, and liberating.

Mar 18, Sunday. The Pisces New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse (28 Pisces) is visible in China and is squared by Pluto. Mercury re-enters Pisces and the Moon moves into Aries. A Solar Eclipse opens a portal that allows us to peek into the inner workings of the source (where the blinding light of the Sun is toned down). The Sun, represents the fuel or life sustaining force of our world and in an eclipse is going through a shamanic death, being reborn a short time later within a few hours. This is an event out of the rhythm and flow of ordinary time. It creates an opportunity for us all to participate in a planetary conscious death and rebirth process. This is especially potent for those who actually have an opportunity to witness at least some portion of the eclipse event. In a total Solar Eclipse the day turns into night, the stars come out, the flowers close up, and the birds stop singing. As the light returns, the world experiences a second dawn (or rebirth) within the same day. This feels much like the birthing of twins, a double dawn symbolizing illumination and resurrection that brings renewed light into the world.

Eclipses open portals from the Great Above. These doorways are opportunities to consciously connect with what is hidden within in ourselves. Essentially, the Moon is occulting the Sun or covering it. The Sun is hidden for several minutes and then begins to reappear or to reveal itself. This imagery speaks to a conscious choice to surrender into the great void or great unknown. Out of this chaos a new world is birthed. Through the accelerating or quickening of the eclipse energies this new world grows and take form at an amazing rate of speed, emerging more and more fully into the light of our awareness with each passing day. What is hidden shall be revealed, just as the Moon covers the Sun, hiding it for a space of time and then moves on uncovering what has been hidden. Releasing all expectations and being present to this energy allows it to manifest in the most supportive way possible.

Mar 19, Monday. Sun (28 Pisces) squares Pluto signaling the slowing of Pluto (28 Sag) before its Retrograde station on March 31. The Sun Pluto square sheds light on any shadow places preventing us from fully and passionately living life. These shadow elements include our fears, limiting beliefs about who we are, our forgotten and/or denied talents, abilities and skills, our buried feelings, and our unconscious wounds. For those with planets or angles between 26 and 29 degrees of mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sag, and Pisces) this marks an especially important personal Pluto initiation that will require you to die to who you believe yourself to be. Resistance to this process of death and rebirth creates greater challenges. Resistance wears us out. When we are willing to turn toward what we fear and integrate it in our life we are no longer driven by it. When we are no longer driven by fear it looses its power to choose where we are going. We shift our experience from being at the effect of whatever fear is driving us to incorporating it in such a way that it becomes our strength, our gift, the medicine we carry. Willingness to engage your shadow be it fears, or ideas, or beliefs, and or things you are hanging onto that are ready to leave your life supports this transformative process.

Mar 20, Tuesday. Today is the Vernal Equinox when the Sun moves into Aries and the Moon moves into Taurus. At the Vernal Equinox the Sun crosses Zero degrees Aries placing it in exact alignment with the Earth’s Equator meaning the Sun is rising due east and setting due west infusing the magnetic field of the Earth with solar energy in a rhythmic cycle linked with the seasons. The Upanishads described the Sun as “…door of the world, an entrance for the knowing…” The Sun’s alignment with the equator of the Earth at the Equinoxes opens a doorway encouraging us to notice what is occurring in our dreamtime, our mediation time, and our ritual or ceremonial time. It is good time to notice if we are allowing the magic of this timing to support the visions and inspiration available in this window? (See Celebrating the Equinoxes)

It is interesting to note that the Mayan Pyramid at Chichen Itza known as Kukulkan (feathered serpent) was built in part to track the equinox Sunrise when the shadows created by the rising Sun form an undulating serpent traveling down the steps of the pyramid. There is another Mayan Spring Equinox Temple located Near Merida, Yucatan, Mexico called Dzbilchaltun (Zi-bil-chal-toon which means place with writing on Stone). At Sunrise on the Equinox, the light of the Sun passes through special openings in the temple illuminating the center of a column of stone about a hundred yards away. This phenomenon occurs only at the Equinoxes and was used by the ancient Maya to determine the exact day of the Equinox. There are many other ancient and recent places around the planet that have been built to capture the rise or set of the Sun at these seasonal gates. If you find one near you it is worth checking out as it increases your direct experience and knowledge of exactly how this magical time manifests on Earth.

http://web.axelero.hu/dob10638/english/mayan_e.htm

During this window of accelerating light energy the waning Moon is entering Taurus reminding us of the importance of healthy receivership. Are we truly open to receiving the abundant gifts life is continually offering? Do we fully recognize and accept these gifts or do we miss noticing them because we have a narrow limited view of how life should look? Are we taking time to relax, smell the flowers, enjoy the sunset, and feel the beauty all around us?

Mar 21, Wednesday. Moon conjuncts Venus (5 Taurus) at the Fourth Gate also known as the “gate of compassion.” This Moon/Venus conjunction marks the fourth gate in Inanna’s ascent from the underworld where Inanna or Venus retrieves her breastplate symbolizing the reclaiming of her ability to truly love herself and others with a compassionate heart. Her underworld initiation was a time for healing any wounds that distorted or limited her experience of truly loving herself, loving others, and loving life! This is a collective ceremonial aspect worth engaging if you feel called to join in reclaiming your ability to compassionately love yourself and others.

Anyone who has turned a multiple of 8 between Jan 20, 2006 and Aug 24, 2007 are personally in their 8 year synodic Venus return so this is a particularly important ceremonial time for you empowering the sacred feminine experience in your life. With Venus at the “gate of compassion” we are being called to notice how we are engaging compassion for ourselves and others. Here we are defining compassion as the ability to have awareness of our own challenges, or the challenges of others, from a place of complete acceptance and appreciation for the gifts the challenges bring without having to change, rescue, or fix, the existing circumstances. When we reach total acceptance through radical compassion miraculous spontaneous healing often occurs.

Mar 22, Thursday. Mars (18 Aquarius) is opposite Saturn (18 Leo) and the Moon moves into Gemini energizing the mysteries of the Heyokah, Coyote, Contrary. Saturn operates in the world of Form structuring our reality based on our beliefs and the way we structure the rules of society. Mars is the active masculine principle that when inspired puts its energy toward furthering whatever cause it is most committed to supporting. Mars opposite Saturn indicates there is plenty of energy to put toward furthering the cause of structuring our world based in the reality that we are divine beings. Loving self as a divine expression and stepping forward to live the greatness that we are is the opportunity of this Time if we are willing to embrace it. However, as Marianne Williamson reminds us in her book A Return To Love “our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Embracing the divinity that we are and the power of that to truly live the greatness that we are is a huge challenge. The cultural belief about Saturn has been that we are somehow flawed because we are human. The emerging belief, for example, as expressed in The DaVinci Code suggests that “Human is Divine” and it is time we embrace, and live, that reality.

Mar 23, Friday. Late last night or early this morning (depending on your time zone) The Moon entered Gemini and will conjunct Aldebaran later today. Aldebaran marks the eye of the Bull and is one of the four Royal Stars of ancient times. Aldebaran was also seen as a portal or key to the Silver Gate, where the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic by the Galactic Edge, seen by the ancients as the place where souls enter this dimension. (see Jan 1, 2007 Archives) The Moon will be visible just past Aldebaran tonight still within range to transmit energy or information from this area of the sky.

Mars (20 Aquarius) sextiles Jupiter (20 Sag) with retrograde Saturn (19 Leo) opposite Mars and trine Jupiter. This is further activating (Mars) and expanding (Jupiter) the truth of the emerging new structural (Saturn) reality within the unfolding cosmic design, as we expand into new, never before experienced, territory structuring into our everyday experience the true knowing of our divine identity.

Mar 24, Saturday. Today opens the Lunar Standstill window with the Moon crossing the late degrees of Gemini at the Galactic Edge. We are also in the window of the Mars (20 Aquarius) conjunction with Neptune (21 Leo) that is exact tomorrow. (See Mar 15)

Today also begins the First Quarter Moon window meaning the Moon appears to be half full rising around 10 am and will be overhead around Sunset. The light of the Moon is a reflection from the Sun and the phase of the Moon describes the angle of relationship the Moon has with the Sun. The First Quarter Moon (or the half Full Waxing Moon) occurs when the Moon is 90 degrees away from the Sun from the Earth’s perspective.

The Moon is a transmitter because of its reflective nature and how we experience the Moon is through its ability to reflect the light of the Sun. Therefore, as the Moon literally crosses the Galactic Edge in its “out of bounds” degrees passing directly over this area of the sky (during the years of the Lunar Standstill) three days each month for the rest of this year we are receiving transmissions from beyond our Galaxy.

This coupled with the conjunction of Mars and Neptune along with Saturn sitting opposite them both we have a powerful combination of energies conspiring to take us beyond ordinary reality, where our dreams are destined to become manifest when they are in alignment with our divine purpose. In this magical window it helps to notice what dreamtime or dreambody messages are available today? What are the messages we have for the greater reality? Remember we inform the mysteries as much as they inform us when we are willing to engage a conscious relationship with what is unfolding moment to moment.

Mar 25, Sunday. Today is the Lunar Standstill Cancer First Quarter Moon (5 Cancer) occurring near the June Solstice Marker (0 degrees Cancer) at the center point of the Sacred Hoop. Plus, today is the exact Mars Neptune (21 Aquarius) conjunction. The monthly transmission of inter-galactic information and vibrational frequency coming in from beyond our galaxy that began yesterday is reaching the center point of this three-day window. With the Moon in the Cancer domain the transmission includes the householder mysteries of home and family. When we include the Mars Neptune conjunction this is a time for actively dreaming and noticing how well we are doing with engaging and creating the experience of nurturing home and family for ourselves? Are we creating safety for the children in our lives including our inner magical child?

It is not so important to know HOW to create a safe space for ourselves and our family as it is to have the genuine heart-felt INTENT, while asking the questions with willingness to receive the answers even if that means releasing unhealthy habits in our lifestyle and in our ways of communicating. First and foremost is being willing to create or allow for a safe space where our divine self can show up and shine. This comes back to the Hopi Elders who have reminded us so eloquently that “WE are the ONES we have been waiting for!!!” This timing supports us in allowing for that possibility to find it’s most genuine and heart-felt expression.

Mar 26, Monday. Still within the energy of the Mars Neptune conjunction and the Lunar Standstill window we are rapidly approaching the rare conjunction of Uranus (an 83 to 84 year cycle) with the North Node (a 18 to 19 year cycle) in Pisces. The last time Uranus and the North Node exactly met in Pisces was Nov 21, 1839 at 12Pisces30. It was May 26, 1923 that Uranus and the South Node joined at 17Pisces16 or the opposite point of where we are now. Extending this reference point it was about 16 years ago when the North Node joined Uranus on Nov 11, 1991 at 11 Capricorn also in the line-up was the Moon traveling through and Neptune at 14 Capricorn.

We have been feeling the influence of this Uranus North Node conjunction for the past year and will be feeling it through the next eclipse window in September. This shift began when Uranus entered Pisces on March 10, 2003 energizing opportunities to examine our underlying reasons for being in service or being givers beyond what we might have told ourselves based on our cultural programming.

It is helpful to examine your motivation for being a giver. Are you giving because you love and enjoy the process or is your giving driven by guilt? Are you “giving to get” for some later reward in this life or beyond? Are you giving to relieve or avoid feelings of inadequacy? Are you giving or being in service because you don’t know what else to do with yourself or because you are living from the collective program that says it is more blessed to give than receive? Or…are you giving and being in service for the sheer joy of the experience with no expectations of an additional reward? Do you have as much love and compassion for yourself as you do for those you serve? Uranus is helping to set collective humanity on a new path of compassionate service that includes healthy giving to ourselves as well as to others.

Mar 27, Tuesday. The Moon moves into Leo transmitting the mysteries of our radiant and shining divine essence. When healthy this expresses as self-love, self-confidence, self-approval and self-acceptance. This is a great time to practice approving of yourself, affirming you essential divinity. If this is challenging it might help to find a friend who is willing to practice this with you and reflect the gifts you see in each other remembering that what you see in another is what is within you too! You can even do this yourself by just thinking of someone you love and/or admire, noting what it is about them that attracts you or inspires you. Then take a moment to claim and embrace those qualities or aspects knowing that what you see in others is what IS within you.

In The Gift of Change Marianne Williamson reminds us that: “There is a magical power in relating to the good in people.”

Mar 28, Wed. The Moon occults Saturn for the second time this month and the 4th time this year. As the Moon covers and uncovers Saturn revealing the hidden mysteries of our divinity it is time to embrace our true greatness restructuring our reality from the basis of genuine love, acceptance, and approval. The power of this change is accelerated through the magic of encouragement. When we individually and collectively focus on encouraging ourselves and celebrating our greatness then we are building a new world based on everyone showing up and having a way to share their gifts with recognition and appreciation.

Bringing forth our greatness is critical to the survival of the species; only if you get to live out your potential and I get to live out mine will the world be able to live out its own. Since limited thinking produces limited results, supporting others in believing in themselves helps to move the entire world forward. And becoming who we’re capable of being - regardless of other people’s opinions of us – is part of our responsibility both to ourselves and to God…Unless we’re supporting the emergence of greatness in the people around us, we’re not doing our full part to help heal the world… ~Marianne Williamson The Gift of Change

Mar 29, Thursday. The Moon is moving through Virgo reminding us of the importance of honoring the sacred pattern of life. All life expresses through a specially encoded pattern unique to each aspect of life yet integrated into the overall pattern. There is the pattern of the seasons, the phases of the Moon, of life, of growth, of death, and the individual pattern we each carry. This is a great time to honor your own unique pattern and how it is linked with the larger pattern. Simply acknowledging your life with a genuine heart-felt thank you is an extraordinarily magical act infusing the existing pattern with a mystical transformative vibration of love and gratitude that travels throughout the web or pattern of life uplifting every aspect within the pattern.

Mar 30, Friday. Uranus and the North Node make their exact conjunction at 16 Pisces 07, Mercury is in the energy of the conjunction at 14 Pisces and the Virgo Moon is crossing the South Node activating the entire nodal axis. This is a line-up that can bring unexpected messages and innovative inspirational ideas that further our evolution toward wherever our destiny is taking us. Allowing ourselves to be inspired and to roll with the flow will most likely take us to an experience and way of being that is beyond what we have previously imagined. Magic happens when we are open to receive life’s gifts without attachments to the results. This magical alignment is a doorway opening to a divine destiny far beyond our ability to express in words rooted in this dimension of experience. Willingness to let go, release, and embrace radical change is helpful. (See March 26)

Mar 31, Saturday. Venus (16 Taurus) sextiles Uranus (16 Pisces), and Pluto stations retrograde (28 Sag) until Sep 7, 2007 (26 Sag). The Venus sextile to Uranus can bring some pleasant surprises reflecting the divine feminine in her most sensuously loving and pleasurable form. The Pluto station is the biggest collective energy today taking us deeper into any shadow places where we are not being honest with ourselves. Carl Jung said: Enlightenment consists of NOT merely seeing luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult, and therefore, unpopular.

This understanding is an interesting blend of Pluto as it travels through Sagittarius as the archetypal realm of Sagittarius is an energy that prefers to seek the light, often ignoring or denying there is a shadow. Pluto, however, relentlessly excavates the shadow, especially as it relates to our authentic selves acting as an antidote for denial, relentlessly stripping away any beliefs and ways of being that support what we deny within ourselves, usually through circumstances beyond our control. Willingness to embrace the uncomfortable, dark places within our selves is the magical key to transforming them into our strength.

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