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December 2008 Celestial Timings
By Cayelin K Castell

 

From the Order of the Wise.

“In the dead of winter the work of the druids continues. While our people shelter in warm lodges, we whisper to the seedlings in the frozen earth. We light the fires that will guide the reluctant Sun back from the realms of frost. We supervise birth and burial, keeping the living and the dead in harmony with the Earth and the Otherworld. Druids, by Morgan Llwelyn


What I am about to share isn’t anything new from what I have seen written by so many others and their take on the November 4, USA elections and yet I feel compelled to acknowledge the wonder of that event. I feel the November 4, 2008 Saturn/Uranus opposition created a timeline, assemblage point shift of a magnitude beyond anything previously experienced on planet Earth.

There was a wave of heart opening energy that swept the globe and set a powerful heart directed template for the coming revolutionary changes. I also know there were many who did not share in the joy of this event for many reasons. Even so it seems the genuine joy, hope and love experienced by so many reached a critical mass that altered our reality and established a new template for the Earth.

Speculation about the effect of the Uranus/Saturn opposition on election day ranged from no election, to another stolen election, to concerns about riots and unrest if the election appeared to be stolen again. Ultimately, Uranus surprised us when it came through with an unexpected outcome, a land slide victory that powerfully opened the hearts of so many around the globe. I experienced an unprecedented profoundly powerful physical shift in my surroundings when the announcement came that Barack Obama had been elected our 44th president.

The only way I feel I can come close to describing my experience is by saying I felt the whole room literally spin around me and I knew a major assemblage point had shifted as we were clicked into an alternate reality or alternate timeline. I have read other accounts that though worded differently seem to have expressed a similar experience acting as a confirmation for me. I feel we were witness to the imprint of a whole new planetary template anchored in the vibration of love, hope and inspiration.

The news was full of stories about the joyous reactions and celebrations around the planet suggesting we reached a large enough critical mass to establish a new holographic field. Meaning those waves of hope, inspiration, joy and love are now fully anchored into the new template and the new timeline of the mass consciousness. My sense is that this new template will be the basis for the recurring Saturn Uranus oppositions still to come and will be greatly assisted when we remember to keep it energized with our thoughts, feelings and actions.

There is still a huge disintegration process of the old structures occurring and our community and global issues most likely won’t be solved over night. Although it is important to remember that when Uranus is active anything is possible - even what might seem impossible. In any case it is clear something really big has changed and that change opened hearts around the world and we are that much closer to the reality of the New Heaven and the New Earth.

With great love and gratitude, it is done, it is so, and Heaven and Earth rejoice.

Visible Planets (These are the highlights for this month with more details and interpretations shared in the Daily Timings)

Invisible Planets

Daily Timings

Dec 01, Monday. Moon conjuncts Jupiter and occults Venus at the 5th gate a.k.a. the Gate of Communication as Venus continues her journey through the gates marking the successful completion of her underworld journey that ended last July. In addition to this also being a Moon occultation over Venus magnifying the effect of this Gateway passage Venus is also exactly conjunct Jupiter (22 Capricorn 16) visible in the evening sky after Sunset. The occultation of the Moon over Venus is visible in Northeastern Canada, Europe and Scandanavia.
Dec 02, Tuesday. The Moon moved into Aquarius late last night or early this morning depending on your time zone.
Dec 03, Wednesday. The Moon conjuncts Neptune (21 Aquarius 25)
Dec 04, Thursday. The Moon moves into Pisces
Dec 05, Friday. The Pisces First Quarter Moon moves to conjunct Uranus late tonight or early tomorrow morning depending on your time zone. The Sun conjuncts Mars (14 Sagittarius)
Dec 06, Saturday. The Moon moves into Aries, Mercury (21 Sagiattarius) Squares Saturn (21 Virgo)
Dec 07, Sunday. Venus moves into Aquarius until January 3. Earliest Sunset of the year.
Dec 08, Monday. The Moon moves into Taurus late tonight or early tomorrow morning
Dec 09, Tuesday. Venus will pass by the North Node, Chiron and Neptune this month.
Dec 10, Wednesday. The Sun (19 Sagittarius) Squares Uranus (19 Pisces)
Dec 11, Thursday. Mars (19 Sagittarius) Squares Uranus (19 Pisces)
Dec 12, Friday. The Gemini Full Moon (21 Gemini) with Mercury entering Capricorn leaving Capricorn on January 1 only to return again on January 21 due to its retrograde and remaining in Capricorn until February 14.
Dec 13, Saturday. The Moon moved into Cancer late last night and the Sun (22 Sagittarius) sextiles Neptune (22 Aquarius)
Dec 14, Sunday. The Moon moves into Leo late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
Dec 15, Monday. Mars (22 Sagittarius) squares Saturn (22 Virgo)
Dec 16, Tuesday. Mars (22 Sagittarius) sextiles Neptune (22 Aquarius)
Dec 17, Wednesday. The Moon moves into Virgo
Dec 18, Thursday. The Moon conjuncts Saturn (22 Virgo)
Dec 19, Friday. The Virgo Last Quarter Moon is at 28 Virgo this morning before moving into Libra
Dec 20, Saturday. The Moon is in Libra
Dec 21, Sunday. The Moon moves into Scorpio and the Sun Moves into Capricorn marking the December Solstice.
Dec 22, Monday. The Sun squares Pluto (1 Capricorn) in the Solstice Window
Dec 23, Tuesday. Venus and Chiron conjunct (18 Aquarius).
Dec 24, Wednesday. The Moon moves into Sagittarius and Mercury (19 Capricorn) sextiles Uranus (19 Pisces)
Dec 25, Thursday. Mars is crossing Galactic Center (28 Sagittarius)
Dec 26, Friday. The Moon conjuncts Mars just before both move into Capricorn and conjuncts Pluto
Dec 27, Saturday. The Capricorn New Moon is at 6 Capricorn and Venus is conjunct Neptune at (22 Aquarius)
Dec 28, Sunday. Mars conjuncts Pluto (1 Capricorn) and the Moon occults Mercury at 26 Capricorn
Dec 29, Monday. The Moon occults Jupiter (28 Capricorn) and then moves into Aquarius
Dec 30, Tuesday. The Moon conjuncts Chiron (18 Aquarius) and then in the early morning hours tomorrow conjuncts Neptune (22 Aquarius)
Dec 31, Wednesday. The Moon conjuncts Venus (26 Aquarius) at the 6th gate and then moves into Pisces, Mercury conjuncts Jupiter (29 Capricorn, and Saturn stations retrograde (21 Virgo 46)

Daily Timings
Dec 01, Monday. Moon conjuncts Jupiter (22 Capricorn) and occults Venus (22 Capricorn) at the 5th gate a.k.a. the Gate of Communication as Venus continues her journey through the gates marking the successful completion of her underworld journey that ended last July. In addition to this also being a Moon occultation over Venus magnifying the effect of this Gateway passage Venus is also exactly conjunct Jupiter (22 Capricorn 16) visible in the evening sky after Sunset. The occultation of the Moon over Venus is visible in Northeastern Canada, Europe and Scandanavia.

This is an important collective ceremonial timing and EXTREMELY important for those born in an eight year (8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104, etc.) between August 24, 2008 to April 3, 2009 designed to uncover the hidden mysteries of healthy heart-directed communication. Speaking your truth in ways that are constructive and supportive can help to sustain and maintain healthy coalitions as well as build new ones designed to transform the current world structures that are serving a greedy few to ones that serve everyone and serve the best interests of our environment as well as the planet as a whole.

Venus and Jupiter together are magnifying and expanding the Divine Feminine Voice coming from the Circle of Grandmothers reminding us of our responsibility to live consciously in cooperation with ourselves and with each other.

This website tewawomenunited.org features a circle of Grandmothers working to assist those who have experienced traumatic loss, domestic violence, substance abuse, and so on. They are using the aconym V.O.I.C.E.S. representing:
Valuing
Our
Integrity with
Courage
Empowerment
Support

With Venus at the Gate of Communication in Capricorn conjunct Jupiter it is timely to look at how effective our communication is and what changes will help make our communication more effective so that our voice is not only heard but is heard in ways that make a useful and important contribution.

Dec 02, Tuesday. The waxing Moon moved into Aquarius late last night or early this morning depending on your time zone bringing through the mysteries of the cosmic revolutionary experimenting with innovative ideas intended to accelerate growth and consciousness. These are the mysteries of unique, unusual and out of the ordinary experiences designed to create shifts in the structures that define and limit our current reality.

Last month the Moon moved into Aquarius during the day of the US presidential election. In addition to the Saturn Uranus opposition occurring that day the Moon assisted in the planetary assemblage point shift that imprinted a mass experience of shared joy and opening hearts that swept the planet. It was an assemblage point shift that has forever changed the landscape of this reality and it is being further energized the next couple of days with Moon in Aquarius.

The Sun is conjunct Antares one of the four royal stars. According to Bernadette Brady’s book on The Fixed Stars, 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 one of the magical Behenian stars and with the Sun it is receiving additional light codes from the source.

Dec 03, Wednesday. The Moon conjuncts Chiron (17 Aquarius) and Neptune (21 Aquarius 25) energizing shamanic healing that supports access to the Field of Dreams where we may receive guidance and inspiration especially when we are asking. When we intentionally tap into the universal dreaming field through meditation, prayer, and ceremony, we are acting as conscious co-creators and we are actively helping to “dream the dream onward.” (See December 29 and 30)

Dec 04, Thursday. The Moon moves into Pisces energizing a time for visioning and dreaming in ways that stretch beyond ordinary reality and operate from the imaginative realms where everything is possible. In essence this is a reminder that reality is primarily limited by our imagination and our belief of what is possible. When we actively use our imagination with love in our hearts it helps to facilitate a multi-dimensional universal experience that unlocks the secrets of the universe living within us. What we actively imagine is true becomes our reality.

Dec 05, Friday. The Pisces First Quarter Moon moves to conjunct Uranus late tonight or early tomorrow morning depending on your time zone. In the Pisces realm the qualities of empathic compassionate service are the leading edge. Healthy Pisces enjoys a mystical connection with the divine and simply serves all life through loving compassion. Out of balance Pisces energy is unable to know its own feelings and experience because it merges with and then becomes empathically attuned to those around them. Healthy Pisces must first direct their compassionate energy towards themselves. Then when in balance these mystical dreamers can serve the world in a way that is healthy and supportive to all.

The Sun conjuncts Mars (14 Sagittarius) marking the center point of this underworld journey for Mars. Mars entered the underworld in mid-October and will rise as a morning star around March 1 when the Sun moves 15 degrees away from Mars. The Sun conjunction with Mars marks the shamanic death and surrender point where Mars has been wholly consumed by the light of the Sun and is being transformed and prepared for a shamanic rebirth. Also interesting to note is the 14 Sagittarius is the area of the sky where the Great Attractor is located suggesting this shamanic death and rebirth goes beyond galactic dimensions. The Great Attractor is a huge energetic force drawing many galaxies toward it at a million miles per hour.

The Great Attractor

The Great Attractor is far bigger than a galaxy. In the terminology of astronomers, there are clusters of galaxies containing maybe hundreds of galaxies, and superclusters containing many clusters. The Great Attractor is a supercluster, or something even bigger (the terminology becomes a bit fuzzy when it comes to the largest scale structures in the universe!).

The gravity of the Great Attractor has been pulling the Milky Way in its direction --- the motion of local galaxies indicated there was something massive out there that are pulling the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and other nearby galaxies towards it. For a while, nobody could see what it was, because it lies behind the plane of our Galaxy --- that means the gas and dust in our Galaxy obscures the light from the Great Attractor, and it is outshone by the stars and other objects in our Galaxy. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/990924a2.html and
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/mystery-of-the.html

above image of the Great Attractor located at http://www.saao.ac.za/fileadmin/template/gallery/wkk5459colourmod.gif

The Sun Mars conjunction in this area of the sky suggest we have an opportunity to tune into the mysteries of the Great Attractor reminding us of our own great attracting abilities. We too are attracting experiences to us at the rate of millions of miles an hour and it might be helpful to notice what you are attracting to yourself at this time.

Dec 06, Saturday. The Moon moves into Aries until Dec 8 and is energizing the mysteries of the rugged individualist, the impetuous youth, and the Warrior Amazon, who is spontaneous, courageous, and strongly committed to protecting the cosmic order. Aries is primarily interested in the cause they feel most passionate about and what authentic action will support their cause. Are you taking action that authentically supports your life and the causes you are feel passionate about?

Messenger Mercury (21 Sagittarius) squares the elder Saturn (21 Virgo) accessing the spiritual truths that are designed to expand conscious awareness and create new forms of sacred work that honor and respect the needs of the Earth and all who dwell here.

Dec 07, Sunday. Today is the earliest Sunset of the year depending on longitude and latitude. June 14 is the earliest Sunrise. Venus moves into Aquarius until January 3 emphasizing the freedom loving, revolutionary aspect of the feminine principle as she that is accesses a cosmic perspective for the purpose of facilitating whatever changes are necessary for the freest expression of the divine feminine essence within of us. (See Dec 9)

Dec 08, Monday. The Moon moves into Taurus late tonight or early tomorrow morning transmitting the mysteries of love, beauty, intimacy and pleasure. A great Taurean movie that gives a sensual feeling for the Taurus mysteries of love and intimacy as a sacred experience is Don Juan de Marco with Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp’s character also displays the qualities of the Gemini Lover who can shapeshift into whatever a woman wants most, but looking more deeply we find the inner heart’s desire of this version of Don Juan is to deeply savor and enjoy the experience of loving and being loved by his beloved. The character Don Juan remarks at one point in the movie that there are only four questions worth asking. “What is Sacred? Of what is the Spirit made? What is worth Living for? And what is worth Dying for? From the Taurean perspective of deep sensual in the body experience the answer he gives is the same for each question – “only love.”

Dec 09, Tuesday. Venus will pass by the North Node (10 Aquarius) on Dec 16, Chiron (17 Aquarius) on Dec 17, and Neptune (22 Aquarius) on Dec 27. In March of this year Venus passed by the North Node reminding us of planet Earth’s destined ascension through the 44:44 Stargate. In a magical act of synchronicity the 44th president of the Untied States was just elected. Also, in March of this year I shared these words from Maia Christiane talking about the 44:44 stargate and the role of Earth’s sister planet Venus in assisting the Earth in the ascension process.

The 44:44 Stargate and its sacred geometry is the earth's portal into the next octave for humanity in the Return Home. Here we will move into a closer look at the actual procedure of the ‘uplifting, the time when ensouled human beings come together in a mass synergy of experience in which they achieve a Light quantum within their cells, transferring them through the 'eye of the needle'. The choice for ascension is made from the level of the higher self for each soul who will pass through the 44:44 Star Grail gate, and is that which represents the 'eye of the needle'. More info here http://www.spiritmythos.org/earth/NES/nes_intro.html and this link describes more about the Venus gates
http://www.spiritmythos.org/timely/08-10-01_seraphicodes.htm

The Divine Feminine principle is bringing the magic of love to this triple configuration that has been so prominent this year. Love is the most powerful healing and transforming force in all of creation and the key to entering the stargate. For those who embody love, the love of self, the love of life, and the love of others they will easily pass through this stargate and hold the frequency of love for others to follow.

Pure Love can instantly and magically transform the holographic field we are currently experiencing. The magic of love goes beyond what we can rationally and logically experience. When we are expressing and feeling love everything changes to reflect the divine power and beauty of that love. Love is forgiving, kind and caring. The Neptune, Chiron and North Node conjunction this year has been a powerful indicator of the initiatory energies for moving into our light bodies as the Earth is moving into hers through the on-going global ascension process.

The best way we can assist this process is to activate and live in our own Light Body and the best way to do that is through pure expressions of heart-felt, genuinely, joyful Love!!! Again a powerful new template based in love and joy was established in the Earth Grid as a beautiful reflection of how well we are doing with the current planetary initiations and ascension process. It is up to us to continue to energize this grid with our loving and joyful intentions.

Dec 10, Wednesday. The Sun (19 Sagittarius) Squares Uranus (19 Pisces) today indicating Uranus is picking up speed since its direct station last month. These energies illuminate ideas and information that challenge the accepted status quo often manifesting through surprises and/or reversals that shift our perception of what is real as witnessed last month when Saturn and Uranus were opposite each other. When we allow for all the possibilities and ways of being, especially the ones that are radically unconventional and cosmically inspired, our relative world expands producing liberating experiences of evolutionary growth.

Dec 11, Thursday. The Moon moved into Gemini late last night or early this morning depending on your time zone, opening the Gemini Full Moon window that will be exact tomorrow. The Moon in Gemini illuminates the mysteries designed to take us beyond the seemingly conventional rules of this reality, and beyond rational and linear thought processes. This is the domain of the coyote trickster whose antics remind us things are not as real as they appear.

Passing through the Sacred Hoop over the next few days the Moon will be visible approaching the royal star Aldebaran, the eye of the Bull, tonight. In some cultures Aldebaran was considered the all-seeing “eye of god” and has associations with the restoration of the original perfection of the Earth. This is a great time to tune in and ask for restoration - through remembrance - of the divinity that we are and the purity and perfection of our hearts.

This is further emphasized by Mars (19 Sagittarius) squaring Uranus (19 Pisces) conjuring experiences of truth that come through radically inspired, genuine compassion.

Image on Juan Diego's Tilma

Dec 12, Friday. 12/12 and the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is the Virgin Saint of Mexico. On December 9, 1531, she first appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill and told him that she wanted a church built in her honor on that very hill. The Bishop did not believe Juan Diego and asked for proof. When Juan Diego returned to Our Lady and told her the bishop’s response, she asked Juan Diego to hold out his tilma (cloak).

Right there on that cold winter’s day in December she filled his tilma with the roses of summer. When Juan Diego showed the Bishop the roses in his tilma, they were astonished to see Our Lady’s image imprinted on the tilma as well. Then the bishop did believe and a beautiful church was built on Tepeyac Hill and is the most revered place of worship in Mexico. (For more on the magical story of Guadalupe, see these websites http://www.marypages.eu/GuadalupeEng.htm
http://www.rimjournal.com/arizyson/guadalup.htm http://www.geocities.com/franciscanhistory/OLOG.html) above image is located att https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Our-Lady-of-Guadalupe-Posters_i412553_.htm and is thought to be a replica of the image that appeared on Juan Diego's Tilma.

Images of Our Lady of Guadalupe show her standing in a light portal (star gate) with stars on her cloak and the Moon under her feet. This suggests she is a Shining One who beckons us to remember our own radiant and shining essence while showing us the way toward fulfilling our divine destiny.

Today is the Gemini Full Moon (21 Gemini) (a Blue Moon Full Moon worth noting) bringing to light the more playful, fun side of life. Celebrating, networking, socializing, doing something fun and entertaining are all great ways to enjoy and engage this Full Moon energy. As I have shared before the Moon cycle connects with both the number 12 and 13. This is because the Moon takes 27.3 days to return to the same sign and degree but it takes 29.5 days to return to the same lunation (i.e. Full Moon to Full Moon). 27.3 divides into a year about 13 times and 29.5 divides into a year about 12 times suggesting both these numbers are equally sacred to the Moon. Most people who say the sacred number of the Moon is 13 do not realize that we do NOT have 13 Full Moons every year.

Since the December Solstice last year in 2007 this marks the 13th Full Moon a rare occurrence that only happens every three years or so. Next year 2009 will feature 13 Full Moons in the Gregorian Calendar year due to two Full Moons falling in the Month of December. An interesting research project would be to track the years that have 13 Full Moons either from Solstice to Solstice or in the Gregorian Calendar to see if there any patterns that might emerge in those years that differ from other years. When considering the original meaning of the Blue Moon this year’s 13 Full Moons is more in alignment with the original concept of the Blue Moon. (See Understanding the Blue Moon)

Mercury enters Capricorn (crossing the December Solstice point) today and leaves Capricorn on January 1 for a brief time to return again on January 21 due to its retrograde and remaining in Capricorn until February 14. Mercury at the Solstice point is a place in-between realities, in-between what was and what is becoming, in-between what is known and what is yet to be known, in-between what is ending and what is beginning. It is a place outside our fixed experience where all possible worlds exist and when we are conscious with this center point we can choose the new beginning, the new time-line, the new experience, the new reality, from the center of the great mystery. Mercury is the transformational messenger transmitting messages from this in-between place where past and future meet in the now.

Dec 13, Saturday. The “out of bounds” Moon moved into Cancer late last night crossing the area of the sky where the June Solstice is located inside the center of the Sacred Hoop. Tonight the Moon will be visible just past the Galactic Edge approaching the Feet of the Twins and is transmitting the light codes that are available from beyond our Galaxy.

The Sun (22 Sagittarius) is conjunct the Fixed Star Rasalhague and sextiling Neptune (22 Aquarius) in a rare Celestial event that connects the celestial, visionary power of Neptune to the visionary healing power of the Serpent Bearer, also known as Ophiuchus. Rasalhague is known for its desire to heal wounds and is strongly connected to the concept of healing, whether on a personal level or in society as a whole.

Ophiuchus is located between the Archer and the Scorpion just east of the head of Hercules and covers part of the Milky Way. This constellation depicts a Man holding a large snake. The snake is sometimes seen as a separate constellation known as Serpens. Ophiuchus is not one of the 12 zodiacal constellations however the Sun does pass through this constellation for 16 days a year spending only nine days a year in the constellation of the Scorpion. This is why some say we should have 13 signs instead of 12.

The signs however, are different from the constellations and represent a 30 degree division from the Equinoxes and Solstices not from the constellations themselves. (See The Difference Between Signs and Constellations and A Shamanic Look at the Turning of the Ages) This actually comes back to the importance of 12 and 13. In our current system, there are 12 seasonal signs that move through the constellations over 26,000 years. However we could see that perhaps there is a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, that lies along the ecliptic (the path the planets travel) and is therefore a zodiacal constellation but not a seasonal sign.

In his book The Living Stars, Dr. Eric Morse tells us Ophiuchus is a symbol for Aesculapius, the ancient Greek healer trained by Chiron and believed to be the ancestor of Hippocrates (born 460 BCE) where the Hippocratic Oath originates, and Serpens was his symbol of healing. The serpent as depicted in the caduceus is the symbol for the poison (venom) that can both cure and kill, and Ophiuchus uses it to heal.

The Healing Temples of Aesculapius were built near healing springs throughout Greece. After fasting and bathing, the sick and disturbed would spend the night in special 'dream incubation chambers' in these temples. The dreams of the patients helped to diagnose illness and determine cures. Neptune also works through the dreamtime messages so this is a powerful time to pay attention to your dreams and any messages of healing that may be coming through them at this time.

Dec 14, Sunday. The Moon moves into Leo late tonight or early tomorrow morning depending on your time zone reminding us we are the ones we have been waiting for… we are the radiant and shining ones remembering our divine expression through radical self-love. Radical self-love is only possible when we have radically forgiven ourselves for any harm or mistakes we may have done and when we release identification with the victim archetype.

Indeed authentic healthy self-love is one of the most challenging experiences to embrace as it is so easy to feel unworthy and undeserving. And yet…it is vital we learn how to let the light of our divine essence shine in ways that are natural, genuine and joyous.

“We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from loving ourselves.” Paul Valery quotes (French Poet, Essayist and Critic, 1871-1945)

Dec 15, Monday. Mars (22 Sagittarius) squares Saturn (22 Virgo). Seth, the internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher who spoke through author Jane Roberts while she was in trance, coined the phrase “You Create Your Own Reality”. Seth had this to say about how our beliefs, or what we believe is true, creates our reality... “As I have told you, there is little difference if you believe that your present life is caused by incidents in your early infancy or by past lives over which equally you feel you have no control. Your events, your lives, your experiences, are caused by your present beliefs. Change the beliefs and your life changes.” –Seth http://www.sethlearningcenter.org

Said another way…Change your truth, or what you believe is true, and you change your reality. Again this is a reminder that our power to create our reality is based in the truth of the present moment and the conscious choices we are making right now.

Dec 16, Tuesday. Venus is conjunct the North Node (10 Aquarius) and the Moon passed by the South Node (10 Leo) last night. In the book, The Earth, The Cosmos and You, Virginia Essene tells us that Venus is the sister planet to Earth and acts as a cosmic mirror. Venus rotates the opposite direction (mirroring Earth) and is close in size to the Earth. Many ancient cultures tracked the Venus cycle including the Sumerians and the Mayans who left compelling evidence of their great interest in Venus. Something to note is that 2008 marked the half way point between two rare Venus transits over the Sun alerting us to another way we are going through a massive consciousness shift as past Venus transits have indicated.

Venus transits over the Sun happen in pairs with either 122 years between the last of the pair and the first of the next transit or 108 years between them. At this half way mark between Venus transits (the next one occurs in June of 2012) we find the conjunction of Venus with the North Node drawing our attention to the unfolding Destiny of the Divine Feminine in her Cosmic Revolutionary, Independently Brilliant expression that is highly attuned to the Big Picture Overview. This is a time for tuning into inner guidance for the next steps in the unfolding divine plan. (See Venus Article)

Dec 17, Wednesday. The Moon moves into Virgo transmitting the mysteries that include full knowledge of the patterning of life and the natural rhythms and cycles of Earth and Sky. As we approach the Winter Solstice and the end and beginning of a Solar Cycle it is useful to take this time to note what is completing, what is being seeded for the new cycle and how attuned are we to the turning of the seasonal wheel of time and our inner cycles of rest and activity? When we live in harmony with the natural seasonal cycles we are living in harmony with life.

Dec 18, Thursday. The Moon conjuncts Saturn (22 Virgo) within 3 degrees of the opposition to Uranus (19 Pisces) magnifying the effects of last month’s opposition to further shift the assemblage point of our current culture that has been operating from a punishing Saturnian view that has enslaved humanity with the fear there is not enough and we are not good enough in the eyes of God and must somehow prove ourselves. The current economic and religious structures tend to create greater fear and condemnation of what we do not understand. This entire month is a great time to look deeply at what you condemn within yourself and others and practice accepting what IS in ways that allow for the changes that are timely. Love, compassion, and acceptance are powerful transformative ascension keys that are worthy of our attention.

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Gustav Jung quote

Dec 19, Friday. In ancient Roman times today marked the beginning of Saturnalia, an annual week long festival when business stopped, executions and military operations were postponed and the masters served the slaves. It was there way of overturning the rules for a fresh perspective. We are in a time of planetary Saturnalia (based on the Galactic Alignment signaling the Turning of the Ages - see Dec 21) when the old rules or structures are crumbling and new structures that support these rapidly changing times are seeking form.

The Virgo Last Quarter Moon is at 28 Virgo this morning drawing out awareness to the web of life or that structure that defines our current reality. This is a time for discerning what parts we are completing with and letting go so a new more vital and magical web can be woven.

Dec 20, Saturday. The Moon moved into Libra yesterday energizing the mysteries of conscious equal partnership, harmony and balance. We exist in relationship to the Earth, to the Sky, to the plants and animals, to each other, to ourselves and to all of life seen and unseen. Today begins the three day window of the Winter Solstice that will be exact tomorrow. Solstice literally means “Sun Standstill”. The Sun pauses in the shift of its extreme southern path on our inner and outer relationship with life and what these relationships are teaching us about ourselves. This is a time for noting how we are relating to these changing seasons and if there are new choices we could be making that are more supportive of your relationship with the Earth.

Dec 21, Sunday. The Moon moves into Scorpio until December 23 and the Sun Moves into Capricorn marking the December Solstice. With the Moon in Scorpio and the upcoming Sun conjunction with Pluto tomorrow this Winter Solstice is not only seeding a new yearly seasonal cycle and a new Galactic 26,000 year cycle but is also going through a powerful shamanic death and rebirth. (See December 22)

The Winter Solstice for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere equates to the New Moon point of the year, when we have the shortest day and the longest night. The New Moon is the darkest phase of the Moon’s cycle, as the Winter Solstice is the darkest phase of the yearly seasonal cycle. This is the time to plant seeds, or conceive the dreams and goals for the coming year. With the Moon currently in Scorpio acting as an intensifying life force generator it is charging these new seeds to ensure they have what is necessary to grow.

In the 1980’s, Daniel Giamario, founder of Shamanic Astrology, began sharing information that the December Solstice marked by zero Capricorn in our Seasonal Cycle was to align with the exact intersection of the Milky Way and the Ecliptic. In the early 1990’s astronomer John Muess calculated this intersection would be exact in May 1998.

Synchronistically, in May of 1998 scientists began noticing a new energy belt of highly charged atoms appearing in the Earth’s Van Allen belt. The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. The Van Allen belts are closely related to the polar aurora where particles strike the upper atmosphere and fluorescence. The term Van Allen Belt refers specifically to the radiation belts surrounding Earth; however, similar radiation belts have been discovered around other planets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Van_Allen_radiation_belt.svg http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/articles/eisbaker.html http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global/planetophysical1.html

All this is to say something very interesting is going on not just on Earth but in our entire Solar System and Galaxy. Scientists are now pondering what many feel is an imminent Galactic Superwave burst of (blue) light energy coming from our Galactic Center may be imminent as we approach 2012 and beyond. (the Blue Star Kachina as prophesized by the Hopi perhaps?) These are mysteries worth pondering in this magical Solstice Window.

Dec 22, Monday. Happy Hanukkah. The Sun conjuncts Pluto (1 Capricorn) in the Solstice Window. In a 248 year Pluto cycle this is the closest Sun conjunction to Pluto near the Solstice that will occur. It is also the closest Sun Pluto conjunction to the Galactic Cross (the intersection of the plane of the Galaxy with the plane of the Solar System (a.k.a the Ecliptic). The December Solstice aligns here for a period of years about every 26,000 years and is one of the strongest indicators for this current Turning of the Ages. We are now four years from the infamous 2012 date and we will have many more beyond the ordinary Celestial Events before we reach this enigmatic December Solstice of 2012 when Pluto will have moved to almost 10 degrees Capricorn. This means this Winter Solstice is the most powerfully exact initiation of Pluto at the Galactic Gateway in the Solstice Window.

Today’s alignment with the Sun and Pluto at the Galactic Cross tells us we can expect further disintegration of the current world structures. This is similar to the dissolution of the caterpillar as it literally transmutes into a Butterfly. The planetary initiation we are experiencing is no less spectacular. Our beloved Earth is transforming and ascending into a whole new vibration. Just as the butterfly no longer relates to life as a caterpillar and flies off into a whole new adventure and so shall we.

The 26,000 December Solstice Alignment with Galactic Center sets the Earth up to receive the light codes or photon energy directly from the center of our Galaxy. This photon light energy is changing the vibration of the Earth and all who dwell here. Kireal’s book The Great Shift Revised explains more fully how this energy works…

Photon energy is the powerful new energy source that will replace electricity in the new millennium. It's a free energy source and nobody can monopolize it. Its outer edge or belt has already reached Earth's atmosphere and is affecting not only Earth but many planets in the solar system. Photon energy is light energy, and it permeates the Earth in waves. It has the power to extend human life because it realigns the human body into a lightbody. Photon energy vibrates at a very high frequency and confers the power of instant manifestation of thought. Therefore, it is essential to maintain clarity and purity of thought by practicing daily meditation, being in the "now," and staying heart-centered. In one sense, the Great Shift in Consciousness is the evolution of Mother Earth and her inhabitants into the realm of photon energy for the next 2,000 years.

For a full explanation of photon energy and the evolution of consciousness, see Chapter 4 in Kirael: The Great Shift Revised Edition. http://www.kirael.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=139&Itemid=38

Dec 23, Tuesday. Venus and Chiron conjunct (18 Aquarius). The energies of the passage of Venus by Chiron will be felt for a few days before and after today. Looking west after Sunset Venus is shining brightly. We can’t see Chiron with the naked eye but if look toward Venus tonight we can experience the transmission of the energies coming from this area of the sky.

According to Melanie Rheinhart’s book on Chiron a primary archetypal expression of Chiron comes through the Philosopher's Stone known for its magical ability to change base elements into gold and transforming poisons into medicine. With Chiron’s approximately 5 year journey through Aquarius humanity’s collective Shamanic Journey includes healing the past wounds born out of limiting and restrictive beliefs that underlie our current cultural rules and laws. These rules support a cultural program conditioning us to believe we are less than divine. The current transformational chironic journey is intended to transform the poison of these limits and restrictions so they become the medicine we carry providing us with support in fully knowing and expressing our true divine nature.

Chiron’s meeting with Venus is a foreshadowing of the upcoming triple conjunction of Neptune, Chiron, and Jupiter in 2009. This is rare configuration adding its alchemical transformative energies to this amazing acceleration of ascension energies that are taking place over the next few years as we count down to the December Solstice 2012 when the Sun Rises with the Nuclear Bulge at Galactic Center heralding a time that represents the completed installation of whole new operating system, and a new planetary grid system. The installation is occuring bit by bit and scheduled to be fully operational as we move toward 2012 and beyond.

Dec 24, Wednesday. The Moon moves into Sagittarius transmitting the mysteries of the questing amazon adventurer engaging the quest to boldly go where no one has gone before in search of truth, meaning and expansion of the self to the widest possible expression. The quest includes discovering new worlds, new truths, new ways of experiencing the realm of spirit. Now is a good time to notice if you feel inspired by new information, new insights, and new ideas, and if you are open to seeking greater meaning and understanding?

Mercury (19 Capricorn) sextiles Uranus (19 Pisces) assisting in creating communication that is outside our ordinary experience originating in the Celestial Realms sending out multi-dimensional, revolutionary, life changing information for those who are open to receive it.

Dec 25, Thursday. Merry Christmas. Mars is crossing Galactic Center (28 Sagittarius) and will exactly pass over the Galactic Cross where the plane of our Galaxy intersects with the plane of our Solar System. This suggests Mars is receiving a direct transmission from this powerful source point where our Galaxy originates. The light codes coming from this area of the sky are seeding the New Earth and Mars is actively transmitting these seeds of light from December 19th to the 30th. These energies are coming to us from a place outside our everyday, middle world experience providing us with an opportunity to actively choose a new beginning, a new time-line, a new reality, based on our thoughts, words and actions that is furthering the divinely inspired new template.

Dec 26, Friday. Happy Kwanzaa. The “out of bounds” Moon conjuncts Mars just before both move into Capricorn and conjunct Pluto acting as an activation or trigger for whatever shadow is lingering around the world political and financial structures. These are the structures that are holding the current system in place and they are disintegrating on the underworld initiatory energy of Pluto’s relentless pursuit of the shadow, of what has been hidden and denied, and what has been corrupt and distorted. Recent months have caused issues around fear of lack, of scarcity, and of dwindling resources to surface through events beyond our control.

Whatever fears are coming up now are there for us to embrace and transform so we can create a new sustainable and enjoyable reality for everyone. This is not the time to project our fears, our undesirable thoughts, feelings and actions on others. Rather this is the time to look within and to meet those fears so they no longer have power over us. When we project our fear onto the government or economic crisis or other external events it distracts us from engaging what is really going on inside of us.

If you notice you are feeling judgment and anger toward anyone, or anything, or any institution it is time to take note and to ask yourself what the fear is inside of you that is creating this experience. This is a gift you give yourself as often our reaction to situations outside our control are bringing our own shadow to light so we are no longer at the effect of it but rather through making new choices we become empowered in joyous new ways that may not have been imagined yet.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Gustav Jung

Dec 27, Saturday. The Moon has returned Capricorn where it was at the beginning of this month and today the New Moon at 6 Capricorn is aligned near the Galactic Plane. This Capricorn New Moon is another seed point energizing the new operating manual for humanity and planet Earth. In ancient times this would have been consider the New Year’s point as it is the closest New Moon to the Winter Solstice and therefore a high holy ceremonial time.

Venus is conjunct Neptune at (22 Aquarius). Neptune is a Celestial World planet connected the Field of Dreams. Thus this is a time when the Goddess is actively dreaming through each of us and in Aquarius these are the dreams of change, the dreams of innovation, the dreams of freedom and the dreams of radical peace and plenty for all. These are also the dreams of the egalitarian ideals that supports each person finding their own evolutionary path free from the dogmatic restrictions of the current culture. Are you open to receive the insights, inspiration and other gifts of these dreams?

Dec 28, Sunday. Mars conjuncts Pluto (1 Capricorn) and the Moon occults Mercury at 26 Capricorn. Mars and Pluto are meeting at the Galactic Cross located near Galactic Center. This is powerful activation through the expansive energies of Jupiter and the sacred masculine energies of Mars who has just begun a new quest in the Cancer domain to discover new, viable ways to experience and express responsible nurturing. The Cancer Capricorn axis currently aligned along the Galactic plane (for many more years) is the axis that works with the core foundational expressions of healthy family and community. These archetypes are undergoing radical shifts as they access new light codes designed to further facilitate the healthy evolution of these archetypal energies.

Dec 29, Monday. The crescent New Moon occults Jupiter (28 Capricorn) and then moves into Aquarius creating another massive acceleration designed to expand our vision of the global transformation into the New Earth paradigm. It may be possible to have a visual connection with the tiny crescent Moon and Jupiter tonight…visible low on the western horizon depending on your horizon line. The Aquarian energies have been highlighted this year as the North Node, Chiron and Neptune have all been closely connected in Aquarius.

The Moon comes along once each month and amplifies these energies initiating us more deeply each time into the mysteries of ultimate freedom from the known as we embrace unexpected “events of extreme novelty”. As expressed in the Celestial Timings earlier this year “events of extreme novelty,” described by Terrence McKenna’s fractal waveform known as “timewave zero,” are accelerating. The timewave zero describes the field of pure consciousness when all other forms of energy vanish. This is a field of pure consciousness, also described as the Unified Field, the Vacumm State, the Akashic Record (Akasha is the Sanskrit word for space) a.k.a. the “A-Field” as described in Ervin Laszlo’s book Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything and is from where all creation arises into manifestation.

This Field by whatever name is the source of all creation and is the record of all that has happened, while also informing what is yet to happen in all past and present universes or what Laszlo terms “metaverses”. In this book, Laszlo describes experiments by physicists, cosmologists, biologists and scientists supporting the "informed universe" theory and the existence of the “A-field”. Additionally, evidence suggests that we are not in a random universe as the probability of that is beyond astronomical. http://www.scimednet.org/library/reviewsN89+/N90Laszlo_akashik.htm

The critical mass and planetary assemblage point shift we experienced during the election last month has reset the Akashic Field further confirming we are living in a radically changing universe. It is important that we keep dreaming the dreams of a new, wondrous reality as our dreaming energy taps into and co-creates from the Akashic Field (the field of all possibilities) from where all creation arises. The planetary assemblage point shift that occurred on November 4 was imprinted with great joy, love and inspired hope for a bright new world that is visibly dawning at this critical time in the Turning of the Ages.

Dec 30, Tuesday. The Moon conjuncts Chiron (18 Aquarius) and then in the early morning hours tomorrow conjuncts Neptune (22 Aquarius) energizing and transmitting the mysteries of the Shamanic Healer and the cosmic visionary revolutionizing and expanding consciousness that propels us to ever-greater evolutionary experiences in unique and innovative ways through unexpected change.

Treating ourselves and others with kindness is one of the most radical, revolutionary ways we can engage this Timing. Kindness and compassion is the most effective transforming healing elixir available from the Chironic and Neptunian energies available to us now. Research shows acts of kindness raises our whole vibrational energy not only for those giving and receiving the kindness but for everyone witnessing it. Kindness raises our physical vibration, releasing serotonin and other feel good hormones in the body. This creates a wave of healthy vibrational energy rippling throughout our world bringing the light of love and compassion into material form.

Dec 31, Wednesday. Happy, Joyous Blessed New Year’s Eve! Remember the 31st of December and the shift to the New Year finds the fixed star Sirius (our brightest fixed star in the night sky reflected in the name Sirius that means “shining one”) directly overhead around mid-night local time. This is an important cosmological feature, occurring in the window of the Turning of the Ages, in an otherwise seemingly arbitrary New Year time. In most ancient cultures their New Year celebrations were linked to either a Solstice or Equinox Timing near a New or Full Moon. January 1 is a set date that falls about 10 days after the Winter Solstice.

The fact that every year Sirius is located directly overhead around mid-night at this time of year is a significant Celestial Event as the Earth is receiving and infusion of light energy from Sirius as the Gregorian Calendar marks the beginning of another year. The light codes beaming in from Sirius infuse the Earth’s magnetic grid helping to inspire and awaken humanity to greater love and understanding especially during this unprecedented time Shamanic Astrology refers to as the Turning of the Ages.

In the temple of Isis-Hathor at Dendara, Egypt, appears the inscription, "Her majesty Isis shines into the temple on New Year's Day, and she mingles her light with that of her father on the horizon." http://www.souledout.org/cosmology/sirius/siriusgodstar.html

See article on the Lunar Standstill and the Great Shining Ones on the Articles page

The Moon conjuncts Venus (26 Aquarius) at the 6th gate and then moves into Pisces, Mercury conjuncts Jupiter (29 Capricorn), and Saturn stations retrograde (21 Virgo 46) This marks the passage of Venus through the sixth gate out of the underworld where she reclaims her inner vision and in Aquarius her ability to see the big picture and the cosmic perspective, with Saturn’s ability to bring these visions into concrete, practical structure and form.

Saturn (22 Virgo) stations retrograde symbolizing the overturning of the old Saturn rules and disintegrating structures or patterns that no longer serve the health and well-being of humanity and the planet. It is time to look deep within and to see what patterns or structures are not working and to let them go, overturn them, allow for a different more effective experience. Uranus is still in close opposition to Saturn catalyzing the changes that are needed to bring us back into greater harmony with the Earth, her natural cycles and seasons and the greater patterning of life. Willingness to change and allow change, willingness to be active participants in the global changes taking place, willingness to let go of old ways that no longer work, willingness to embrace new ways of being in sacred relationship with the Earth and with life, and willingness to come from love and heart-knowing, will help to smooth this transition and anchor the reality of ascension into the New Earth.

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Gustav Jung quote

Additional Resources:
The Astronomical Calendar 2008 by Guy Ottewel
The Celestial Guide 2008 by Jim Maynard
Sky and Telescope Magazine January 2008 Issue
Brady's Bood of Fixed Stars, Bernadette Brady, Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1998, Maine
Morse, Eric, The Living Stars, Amethyst Books, London and New York, 1988
Allen, Richard Hinckley, Star Names, their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1963 (reprint of 1899 original)
Vivian Robson: The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology: Samuel Weiser Inc, NY 1969
www.sky.org/skywatching
Sky and Telescope Website
Star Maps are from Starry Night unless otherwise noted

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