“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

Gandhi

….As I write, the MoOn passes the Galactic center in late Sag, pulling our etheric energies into more suggestive states of cosmic awareness.  With Mercury now being direct and soon to be Mars, the deep pre-dawn of Spring meditation is nearly over.  Hopefully you have went through a pleasant readjustment of your body and mind, thus preparing you for the massive waves forming in Neptune’s sea ahead. “The Gods” are readying us for what may be the most interesting Summer of our lives….

Progress is a subjective term.  What is progress for one, may be idle tides for another.  Whether we are talking about progress on a personal level or a collective level, it is always going to be subjective.  I like what Gandhi says about “honest disagreement” being a marker for progress.  ”Shall we agree to disagree…?”  We all have our opinions, yet true progress into wisdom is the realization of exactly that: We all have our subjective opinions which are created from our experiences in life.

In Astrology, there are many ways we can deal with this idea of progress.  Through Transits we can watch how the planets are moving around a person’s chart–cycle within cycle, phase within phase– triggering various aspects of one’s Archetypal landscape.  There are also various types of Progressions, Arcs, and Planetary periods you can look at. They all seem to work, they all function differently.  It is Secondary Progressions that have always caught my curious eye.  Giving one year to each day after a person’s birth, you watch the slow ‘progression’ of the planets unfold throughout a person’s life.  Let’s learn more….

Secondary Progressions:

Secondary Progressions are the most commonly used of all the forms of Progressing the chart.  This ancient method has been used since biblical times.  Again, you give one year to each day after a person’s birth.  For example, the Progressed chart will look identical to the Transits in the sky 30 days after a person’s birth.  Because the chart progresses so slowly, only the Inner planets (Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Sun, Moon) move much–the Moon moving the most.  In one day the Sun moves 1 degree and the Moon travels an average of 13, meaning in one year, the Sun will travel one degree in the Progressed chart, the Moon 12-13 degrees.  Grok? I’m my study of Astrology, the Progressed Moon is the main progression that reliably blows my mind.

The Progressed Moon is like our slowly shifting mood.  It stays in a sign for around 2.5 years and moves to the next.  While the Progressed Moon moves through each sign, our overall mood and approach to life is greatly influenced by this Sign/Archetype.  A person who is experiencing the Progressed Moon moving through Scorpio is going to be processing life in an entirely different way than if it were in its polarity of Taurus.  The Scorpio period will bring deep and penetrating moods into a person’s sphere, allowing them to unearth poisonous emotions, thoughts, and energies from their bodies; In Taurus, the expectation would be more along the lines of feeling abundance, groundedness, and much beauty surrounding them. Knowing where you Progressed Moon is in your chart is vital to understanding “where” you are at in your life.

There is another way of relating to the Progressed Moon and it relates to the Sun.  It’s called the Progressed Lunation cycle.  Remembering that one day equals a year and each month the Moon makes an entire Lunation, we can then understand that every 28-30 years the Sun and Moon will return to their natal positions.  Depending under what Lunar phase a person was born, they will experience the Progressed New Moon at some point in their first 30 years of life.  For example, if a person was born under a Full Moon, it will take around 15 years for the Progressed Sun and Moon to come together, thus creating a Progressed New Moon.  This cycle is one of the most important periods in a person’s life because it relates to a birth of a fresh psychology.  Hard to see while its happening but astonishing in retrospect, this Progression is mind blowing in its accuracy.  As is the Progressed Full Moon that will happen 15 years after the New Moon, bringing forth a fruition of the energies that were present at Progressed New Moon.

…..you can cast a Progressed chart at Astro.com or contact me for one if you are interested……

There are many other implications of these cycles mentioned.  Over the next month, I plan on diving deeper into the Progressed realms and exploring more with you.  Like with all Astrological notions and markers of change, this Progress is relative.  It always depends on the person, the Soul, and the choices that are made.  True progress is measured outside of the chart and in the eyes of the adventurer!

***News: Exploring these Progressions is a way for me to share written information on this subject before the Teleseminar I will be teaching on April 29th on this subject with Nightlite Astrology.  If you are interested you can contact me at Kosmognosis@gmail.com and I can tell you more ( I will also have more info very soon about time, cost, and numbers*****

Blessings,

sOma

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art: Simon Haiduk

“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.”

Black Elk

…Over the next 24 hrs Mercury will go Direct (…the station has already begun).

1. Mercury went Retrograde while conjunct Uranus!

2. Mercury was involved with the Aries New moon!

3. This whole Mercury Retrograde coincided with Mars being Retrograde in Virgo (Mercury’s own sign)

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Today I was granted a wonderful conversation with Tom Lescher.  We talked about Lilith.  If you have heard of Black Moon Lilith, you will enjoy this thoroughly.  If you haven’t, you will still love it.  Hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

Love,

sOma

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music: Trevor Hall

Art: Karol Bak

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Become our Allies by lending an open ear to our Astrological cahooting. Caroline is one of the most fascinating orator’s on the topic of Astrology and it doesnt stop there.  Her knowledge of Myth, Magic, Politics, and word play weave nicely into her Astrological bag of tricks.   We talk about the Grand Earth Trine, Mercury retrograde, Neptune in Pisces, the Envision Music festival, 2012, and much more.  Have a jolly time with this one.

Love,

sOma

Kosmognosis@gmail.com

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“We need to suck the G out of Kingdom”

Caroline Casey

art by Eric Nez

…the days of King’s and Queen’s must be close to their terminating days. The last spin of the old wooden wheel.  No need for repair.  We can just leave it there in the sand to bake in the ancient Sun.  Time to move on and remember our Kin and to forget the King.  After all, the only the Kingdom which really matters is closer than you can even suppose Just breathe. I will meet you there….oOo

There has been an amazing stellar event forming in the sky and it was exact last night (the 13th).  We can call it the Grand Earth Trine. 3 out of 5 players in this aspect are visible in the sky. Venus and Jupiter at 9 degrees of Taurus are visible and are showering all earthlings with an abundance of earthly delights. Aside from the Moon, they are the brightest and most beautiful sights in the night sky (viewed just after Sunset in the West).  Mars in Virgo who is still retrograde at 9 degrees is also visible as a lil’ reddish eye in the sky traveling throughout most of the evening sky (look to the East just after sunset).  Lilith (who is with the Jupiter/Venus party) cannot be seen, nor can Pluto at 9 degrees of Capricorn–strangely poetic, in that they both relate to shadowy sides of the personality and our sexuality.  Hidden.  Not to be seen.  Taboo. That is until Jupiter and Venus illuminate these espers of the unconscious mind, and invite them to the higher realms for sips of amrita tea.  The entire aspect can be summed up in one phrase:

Your body is your temple!

In antiquity,  triangles (relating to trines) were conceived by the ancients to explain the secret order of the cosmos. Pagans believed that triangles symbolically revealed that three spirits were brought down into the geographical or the worldly realm.  In other words, “a god of three” or triune god would be a composite of three different deities (ie. Father, Son, Holy Spirit). In this particular Earth trine (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) there are more than 3  deities, there are 5: Pluto, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Lilith.  In an attempt to describe the dynamic without excessive words of confusion, I feel mythogical metaphor woven with poetic phrase may be more successful at doing the trick:

As the cancer slowly spreads throughout all the foundations

your world, my world, big world, the entire world

Pluto smiles while gazing upon the mycelial arms moving deeply,

into the heart of Babylon

and all its influences.

Across the land to the East, Mars retreats

looking for better weapons

better techniques

maybe even a teacher or Virgin.

While in the West

the Goddess’s of light and dark

black and white

Venus and Lilith

sit serenely at Jupiter’s feet,

patiently waiting for a teacing

an answer

a cause

a surprise

a moment to shine

His mouth unmoving

eyes shut

motionless

until…..

the body breaks

the earth quakes

and the kundalini awakes

(the Earth echoes…)

The body is your temple!

more art by Eric Nez

Today, I experienced this aspect in its fullest potential of manifestation.  Having felt physically exhausted ever since my return from Costa Rica, I awoke feeling strangely refreshed–regenerated (Pluto/Mars).  But I swiftly screwed that up by sipping coffee with my breakfast (Pluto/Mars again).  Breathing deep and keeping my spine aligned, a friend and I go to a sacred lake in the mountains of North Carolina (Jupiter/Venus).  Instantly we both gravitate to our own rock and begin our practices (Mars/Jupiter/Venus).  My first observation was the depth of silence.  I hadn’t felt this way or experienced that degree of stillness in all of my travels and it felt amazing to realign with “nothing.” Lakes are vastly different than oceans, rivers, and waterfalls….  (I remember having the thought “this is the sound of Gaia’s memories…..at the top of the oldest mountains in the world……this is where you can find it…).  I then had the conscious thought of, “Wow, Jupiter is conjunct Venus right now…….It’s been too long since I’ve been here.” Blissed out, silent and calm. Then, we both jump in lake.  Me with my underwear, friend without, into the ice cold mountain lake. As we were drying like lizards in the Sun, our bliss, our practice, our moment in perfect alignment with the Grand Earth Trine shifted when the cops came (dark side of Mars).  A public nudity ticket for my friend, an hour of hassle, and then we were on our way.  The triune of Gods were laughing and managed to say, “ You think its that easy huh? To be in perfect alignment with your body, mind, and spirit.  There are tests along the way human.  Can you keep your center.  Can you keep your cool?” I did, but not without a shaky heart beat and unsteady hand.

“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”

Lucius Anneaus Seneca

If you are reading this, you no doubt have a creeping suspicion about the corrupt nature of our government and how it affects your quality of life. I’m not just talking about Monsanto and bad seeds, I’m referring to subtleties of mind control and evil manipulations of individual freedom.  This is where Pluto in Capricorn comes in, with wicked cool magic in hand, and begins throwing dark matter bombs into the hearts of the “our Masters.” Pluto entered Capricorn in the fall of 08’ just before Obama took office and won’t leave until the early 20’s.  He is going to transform the system–whether we like it or not.  And I feel this also relates to our own lives.  We are all in it, like fish in water.  We can sense it, but can’t exactly point a finger at it.  It’s 2012.  And its only the beginning.  The Kingdom is falling, and the Kin are beginning their hooting and hollering.

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

William Shakespeare

The fact that we live in a world that inhibits you from so many natural human rights (like jumping into a lake without cloths on) is nothing short of injust.  Yes, it’s just Amurica, but there are places that are worse, and there are places that are slightly better.  The bottom line is that it is all changing.  With the help of some friends, Pluto has been able to speed up many realizations in many of our lives over the past week.  Whether its in the body, in the form of an illness of physical limitation; the mind, perhaps an addiction to a person, place or thing; or in the Spirit, which could be in the process of a profound realignment–no matter where the stakes are being raised, it is happening.  This Grand Earth Trine is preparing us for something, I feel it. Don’t you?  We just need to find our Kin, release our “sin,” and begin.

…as you look towards the West tonight, gazing into the crytalline depths of Jupiter and Venus, remember this:

Luke 17

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

I always wonder what the world would be like without division, hate, and injustice.  A “Kindom” not a “Kingdom” perhaps. (suck that G out!)  Where we can see deeper than the skin and into the heart and soul of our brother’s and sister’s without judgement.  Where we could skinny dip if we felt like it without worrying about being ticketed or arrested.  What would it be like to live in a world without taxes, property, capitalism, and walmart.  Really…..think about it.  An Archaic Revival of both the world and the spirit.  These are my thoughts, these are my trining dreams.

“My Grand Trine Offering”

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Love,

sOma

Kosmognosis@gmail.com

featured image by Eric Nez

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