We do not see things as they are.

We see them as we are.

 

~ The Talmud ~

 

There is something extraordinary about this week.  The way we relate to the world is changing. Seven days of perceptual mutation is upon us.  There are two major celestial events about to occur: Venus turning retrograde and an Annular Solar Eclipse.  Venus starting off the week, the Eclipse ending it.  Even though these transits have yet to occur, I’m sure you can already feel it.  Riding off a few rough patches at the end of last week (esp….Thursday eve and Friday morning,  felt by the Moon squaring Saturn) we are now being ignited by windy intellectual fires.  And so, here is my new idea: Weekly reports. The goal: To assist you in both planning and understanding your coming days. It is my hope that it brings you more context and meaning to your life.

 

…the prayer: To realize how our Inner world creates our Outer world.  To see into the nature of a Hologram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday:

Having already passed the 3rd quarter phase of this Lunation cycle, the Moon in mid Pisces harmonizes with Black Moon Lilith via a sextile and prepares for a serious squaring palaver with Venus shortly before she turns retrograde.  Monday is potent day offering much reflection on what came up for us during the Super Moon in Scorpio.  When she is activated through the sextile aspect by Black Moon Lilith, I feel we will all be confronted with the shadow of our Inner Feminine nature.  This may bring up issues around sex and sexuality. It may also create a potent increase in our untamed animal spirit within. Think twice before acting on unhealthy urges.  Luckily, Mercury is trining Pluto on this sensuous battlefield giving us the capacity to see deeply into the nature of our Unconscious Mind.  These patterns we are having trouble seeing may become more apparent today.

 

Tuesday:

 

Tuesday is an auspicious day for a meditation during the Spirit hours.  Between 3-5 in the morning are said to be the most sacred times for Spiritual practice.  I can vouch for this.  If you have never tried, this Tuesday morning may be the greatest time to attempt it.  The Moon will sextile Jupiter in these early hours assisting the calm traveler to find a perfect activation point into the deeper more profound realms within.  Shortly after the Sun rises, Venus will turn to the Sun in her retrograde motion.  It will be good to have a visionary boon to hold onto throughout this Venus cycle.  Its going to be an stimulating ride. Tuesday afternoon, the Moon also  moves into Aries.  She will then conjoin with Uranus.  This is a day of insight, preparation, and electric change. A time for envisioning.

 

Wednesday:

 

What was intoxicating yesterday is now a challenging memory today.  The MoOn will still be in Aries, giving us the strength and courage to manifest the mystical downloads from Tuesday, but the Moon does make a frustrating square to Pluto.  A test on our ability to stay true to what we learned less than 24 hours ago.  Mars, who is ruling this Aries Moon steps onto the field with weapons aside and chest out high and faces Pluto via a trine.  This is a helpful aspect running parallel to the Pluto/Moon square because when Mars trines Pluto it gives us the urge to eliminate and purify aspects of our life.  Not only the urge but the power to do so. Whatever we saw on Tuesday in our meditation wants to be truly eliminated today.

 

Thursday:

 

If you are one of those helpless romantics in world, endlessly searching for your “soulmate” then today will be a day of interest for you.  Seemingly everything worthy of note Thursday relates to Love.  In the late degrees of Aries, the Moon opposes Saturn in Libra.  Saturn asks us with a stern gaze, “Have you been responsible with your heart?” “Or, have you been a reckless arrow pointed away from yourself and not in?” The Moon will also sextile Venus who is now moving retrograde, having already opened the karmic portal of Love and Love lost.  Juno, who relates to Soul contracts moves into Scorpio and Palles Athene moves into Aries.  With both of these asteroid Goddesses moving into Martian/Masculine signs on the same day, its hard not to come to the conclusion that some sexual force is at work here.  A helpful idea: Sexual energy doesn’t just need to be used for sex or gratification, it can also be used for spiritual growth, creativity, and healing.  Sit with this. It’s your koan for today.

 

Friday:

Whether you are the partying type or not, this Friday isn’t the best day for celebration. It is going to feel like an internal one for many.  A day of dreaming, reflecting, and ultimately healing.  As the Moon moves into Taurus and begins her balsamic homestretch into the mysterious New Moon/Total Solar Eclipse, there are some serious questions we are going to be posed with.  When the Moon sextiles Neptune in the early hours of the day, we will think: “Am I living my dream? “Am I in alignment with my visions?” Later in the day, the Moon will do the same with Chiron and we may think, “How am I overcompensating in my life?” “How am I living out of integrity with what I know that I am?” And lastly, the Moon will trine Pluto giving us the support to release, die, and be born again.  All those little death’s, side by side, breathing in, breathing out: Don’t fear death, it is just a doorway.  Find silence somewhere today and deeply reflect on these questions.

 

Saturday:

 

Saturday is a day of complete embodiment.  As the MoOn wanes closer to the Sun and disappears from sight, she makes a few important visitations.  The MOon makes three conjunctions today in mid-Taurus: to Mercury, Black Moon Lilith, and Ceres–one androgynous being, two Goddesses.  Mercury is going to enhance our perceptual acuity, offering us a direct link into the heart of “the matter;” Lilith will be waiting in sexy earth based attire, ready to show us a thing or two about sexual power and its proper usage; Ceres may be in the garden where she will give us the deep intuition of the importance of earth based living via organic metaphor.  Being this is the last day of the Lunation cycle, think back to the Super Moon (May 5th) and try to remember what came up for you then.  What was the seed you planted on the New mooN (April 21st)? And where are you at now? Can you see the Moon’s magic?

 

Sunday:

 

Today is the day of the Total Solar Eclipse.  An Annular Solar Eclipse at zero degrees Gemini.  Zero degree points are said to be critical points.  Fated events can occur on Zero degree points.  But before the Eclipse even occurs, the MoOn pays a visit to the Guru (Jupiter).  Whatever is learned in the hours before the Eclipse from the Moon/Jupiter conjunction it is going to be of great use when the Dragon hole opens. (If you wanna read more on the Eclipse, READ HERE)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

art by Michael Garfield

 

 

Again:

 

We do not see things as they are.

We see them as we are.

 

~ The Talmud ~

 

…when we can successfully internalize our projections, we can see clearly how we are creating them and where they are coming from.  It is nobody’s fault but your own.  Own up to your accusations.  Sit deeply with your emotions.  The only person who can hurt you is yourself.

 

Love,

Soma

 

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“There is a transcendental dimension beyond language… It’s just hard as hell to talk about!”

• Terence McKenna

 

…weary from the journey, the illuminated traveler steps off the glass boat and enters an invisible landscape.  A peculiar toad slowly hops behind.  In the sky the Moon begins to Eclipse the Sun.  Strange days surround him. And all he can feel is an exalted curiosity of the days ahead.  He moves forward never looking back, eyes glowing with a visionary blaze: He wonders about the Nature of Language….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annular Solar Eclipse

Eclipse Time:

May 20, 2012

4:47 PM Pacific

7:47 PM Eastern

 

technicalities….:::::

 

The Annular Eclipse of the Sun is upon us. An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon. This is the first Annular Eclipse to be seen in the US since May 1994.  Here is a link to the breakdown and where it will be seen world wide (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2012.html).

 

When it begins?

 

May 20, 2012

 

Eclipse begins–20:56.1 GMT

Southern limit of penumbra begins—21:42.4 GMT

Southern limit of umbra begins–22:07.4 GMT

Central Eclipse begins—22:09.0 GMT

Northern limit of umbra begins—22:10.6 GMT

Central Eclipse at local apparent noon—23:59.1

 

May 21, 2012

 

Northern limit of umbra ends—1:34.8 GMT

Central Eclipse ends—1:36.4 GMT

Southern limit of umbra ends—1:38.0 GMT

Southern limit of penumbra ends—2:03.1 GMT

End of Eclipse—2:49.3 GMT

 

Eclipses happen during New (Solar Eclipse) and Full (Lunar Eclipse) Moons.  They occur because of the lunation’s proximity to the Nodes of the Moon. The hungry Dragon’s Rahu and Ketu.  This Eclipse happens within 5 degrees of to South node in Gemini.  South Node Eclipse’s are different than North Node Eclipses in that they relate to “release” and “completion” in contrast too the “obtaining” and “worldly manifestations” of a North Node Eclipse. I like to relate to Eclipses as “Dragon Holes” where energy converges in a profound way–perhaps multidimensionally–to assist in the speeding up of our evolution on planet Earth. Aside from the psychological implications of what this means for human beings, Eclipses–esp Solar Eclipses–tend to have a profound impact on the Earth and her creatures too, creating strange weather–even Earthquakes! Think about it like this: Sun is light and life; Moon is dark and night.  In the middle of the day, the Moon Eclipses the Sun, creating darkness on the planet.  It interferes with the flow of life.  Birds go to bed.  Creatures become confused.  Human’s stare into it and go blind.  Its magical.  Its mysterious. It’s dark.  And this particular one has my Gemini mind in an explosive storm of inspiration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sabian Symbol for this Eclipse:

 

“A glass bottomed boat in still water”

 

…our traveler has a memory of the visions he was gifted.  His eyes glow brighter.  ….that boat the thinks….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The eclipse falls at 00 degrees of Gemini.  This is important to note for 2 main reasons:

1. 00 degree Gemini: The 0 and 29 degrees are more crisis-oriented points, especially in predictive work.

2. Alcyone:

Called “The Central One”, Alcyone is the central or main star and also the largest star of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, the seven stars that are situated on the shoulder blade of the Bull. Alcyone is often seen as representing the whole group that are all situated within one degree. (http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Alcyone.html)

 

Q: What could the crisis be?

A: One in Consciousness

 

Its like:

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s overfull! No more will go in!” the professor blurted. “You are like this cup,” the master replied, “How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.”

 

I feel this Eclipse is similar to this infamous Zen story.  Our ideas about what reality are about  to be blasted wide open. It may be subtle, but it will no doubt be profound and in perfect timing for the wild Summer ahead. We live in a world texting while driving, watching the tv not thinking, and drugged while sleeping.  Are we really prepared for the “Ascension.”  Are we really ready for “the World to End?” For science to save us and heal the Earth.  I’m not going to pretend to know, but I will just playfully say: Hell NO! Lol…..All three of these memes (ascension, Armageddon, and scientific saviors) may come close, but my intuition tells me none are true.  I think its stranger than we can suppose.  This is what this Gemini Eclipse is all about: Mind blowing realizations.  Perceptual downloads of another kind.  Divine moments of Truth through a breath.  The awakening of Gnosis through Symbiosis!

 

…perhaps?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have been calling 2o12 the “Year of the Gemini” for a few reasons.  This Eclipse is one of them.  The Lunar Eclipse in Sag/Gemini on the 4th of June is another.  Venus transiting the Sun is yet another.  And lastly, Jupiter’s ingress into Gemini is going to be the laced cherry on the celestial cake.  If you are a Gemini or have any planet in Gemini, pay heed, this is important.  Its also quite active for anyone with Mutable signs (Sag, Virgo, Pisces). For the rest of you, well….I’m sorry, you are left out……  I kid…..where it is happening in your chart is important too! Is the Gemini party happening in your 2nd house? If so, your ideas around money are going to be reprogrammed.  In the 7th? Your relationship model shall transform through the Universe activating your curiosity about that magical person you met via synchronicity just other day, perhaps testing your current relationship.  We live in mercurial times.  Changing fast and constantly. Embrace it.  You can’t control it.  Grows wings like Alcyone and catch the updrafts!

 

Neptune’s T

 

There is an Aspect happening to this Eclipse that brings us deeper into this idea of mind expanding glee. It is mystical Neptune squaring the Eclipse, creating a T-square aspect. A T-square is a relationship between 3 or more planets.  2 opposing each other (in this case the Nodes of the Moon (Gemini to Sag; Facts vs. Experience) and then 1 planet squaring the opposition.  The planet that squares the opposition (Neptune) creates both a conflict and hopefully a resolution to the polarity.  In sense, it brings us into a non-dual state.  Weightless.  Without fight.  What is Neptune in Pisces asking us to do to solve this existential crisis? It’s simple: Dream a dream that fills you to the brim with ecstasy.  Without a dream, without a myth to live by, we become rudderless.  When we are rudderless without hope or vision, we turn to the bottle.  Escapism is the key word here with Neptune.  What do you do to escape the Truth? Where do you go when you wanna find the Truth? Ask yourselves these questions from now until the Eclipse and do what you are afraid of.  You will be rewarded. You cannot escape these Dragon’s!!! Rahu and Ketu are watching you.  Align with the Neptune’s lesson and you align with God, riding the severed Dragon into the night.

 

….our traveler passes the liquor store and feels the pull.  A pull greater than any woman.  He continues walking, remembering his vision.  He has seen his Truth!!! Why ruin it!? He hears music in the distance, turns, and walks towards it…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I find it intriguing that Jupiter and Mercury will also be widely conjunct this Eclipse.  Jupiter and Mercury relate to “vision, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, gods, religions, philosophies, trips, and travels” and they also rule the Nodes of the Moon currently (Gemini and Sagittarius).  This means they are facilitating the entire process. Mercury the main maestro, being he rules Gemini.  Their positioned in the sign of Taurus, less than 10 degrees away from the Eclipse. They are watching close.  It’s as if they are on a chariot riding behind the MoOn, making sure everything works out perfectly, sprinkling ambrosia and amrita on the world below. sOMa.  We are in a dream within a dream within a dream.  How do we wake up? Pick up up their gifts, falling from the sky of mind.

 

Before I burn out your synapses, I will force myself to a teasing halt.  I’m excited.  There is much more to talk about.  For instance: What is the Myth of Alcyone all about? How does it relate? There is a powerful Mutual reception in this Eclipse chart.  What is it? What does it mean? And much more….But I will save it for the future.  And what exactly is that? I have yet to find the words to explain it.

 

….an Ocean perhaps….oOo

 

Hope you enjoyed this….oOo

~*~

Love,

Soma

:::::If you are interested in how this Eclipse will be affecting you in your life, you can contact me at KOSMOGNOSIS@GMAIL.COM and we can dive into the Dragon hole together:::::

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Join me for a conversation with Hal Bahr, who is both an Astrologer and a Human Design practitioner.  It’s a First Quarter moON today, and la Luna is in Tropical Aquarius.  We are being tested on our capacity to integrate our lofty visions we have been having lately.  Don’t let it disenchant, instead, chant, and bring in the mercurial hiss of Sag magic!  You control your destiny.  Never think otherwise! Mercury holds hands with Venus in early Sagittarius now, skipping along open fields, having glimpses, that are promising a change to all these empty feelings we’ve been having. Hope you enjoy! Hope you gain something!

music:

Ray Lamontagne: Empty

Alexander: Glimpses

Namaste,

sOma

*If you would like to set up a reading, don’t be shy, and just send me an email at KOSMOGNOSIS@GMAIL.COM.

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namaste,
sOma
www.Holestoheavens.com
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“Like a true Nature’s child, we were born, born to be wild” 

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…Monday afternoon, just after the moOn moved into Aries, moving her way slowly and patiently towards her Full phase, I decided to drive to the high country, in search of the sacred ‘bear medicine’–Osha. Deep in process, reflecting on a series of cathartic events that have recently shook me to the bone, I was surrounded by beauty, synchronicity, and the feeling of de ja vu, as I ascended up those rocky slopes .  I remember thinking about the Pluto/Uranus square–”the 2012 aspect”–  feeling how Uranus truly relates to a “breakthrough vs. breakdown” dynamic in our lives right now, wherever it is transiting in our charts.  It made perfect sense me. Pluto brings the Fear and the necessity of emotional transformation, and the square to Uranus, is the opportunity for our “big breakthrough.”  Drunk on this idea, I then arrived to Hesse trailhead.  Blade in hand, in the crisp air of the high country of Colorado, I took my first step into the Wild, seeking out this sacred Osha medicine…..

It is said:

“Wolves are the epitome of the wild spirit. Their positive characteristics are so numerous it is no wonder that Native Americans and others practically deified them. They symbolize power, clan, honor, and the connection to Nature’s greatest mysteries. The wolf is the true spirit of the free and unspoiled wilderness.”

from Ted Andrews “Animal Speak”

     One of the main reasons for my trip–aside from the search for Osha–was to clear my head.  Having just experienced a burning back draft of an unfortunate secret I reluctantly decided to keep from a dear friend, I was needing time for process with Nature, and the wild energies that never forget to help us in our healing. LIke the boomerang of karmic service that Saturn offers, it was also apparent to me, that the Full moON which was in the process of formation, was intimately involved with Saturn, because of its conjunction with the Sun in Libra.  There have been a few conjunction aspects to Saturn over the past weeks: Venus/Saturn on Sept. 29th; Mercury/Saturn on Oct. 6th, and then, the soon to be Sun/Saturn conjunction this Thursday, Oct. 13th.  The essence of any Planetary Archetype who makes contact with Saturn is Alignment to Truth. With Venus it relates to our Values and Love; with Mercury it is Mental Discipline; with the Sun its Purpose and Integrity.  I’m sure you have also been feeling these heavy, constricting, and mature energies as of late.  And…this is where I was at, as I took my first steps into the river valley.  Questioning myself: “Where have I lived outside of integrity;” “How have I lost my honor;” “Where is my love;” “Where is my Heart….” These were my questions, just moments before my great discovery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When harvesting Osha ((Ligusticum porteri), you must be overly aware of other Ligusticum plants and look a likes, in the carrot/parsley families.  The reason for this is because Water Hemlock is one of them, and it is a plant that can easily kill you, if ingested in sufficient amounts.  Being that the first frost has happened, there are no longer leaves or flowers on any of the plants–just seeds left over.  If you are not aware of the seed differences between these plants, you are in for a Fool’s errand.  Luckily, I have been properly schooled on this subject, so I wasn’t worried–though, I will admit, once I discovered three different varieties of this family growing next to each other, I became a bit doubtful.  Still confident enough in my plant knowledge, I found a proper Osha stand, and choose my plant.  Saying prayers, asking the plant if it was alright for me to harvest here, I got my botanical intuitive nod, and went in.

The moment my blade struck the earth, there was a monstrous ruffle in the bushes, and I jumped back!!! Osha is also referred to as “Bear root,” and the split second adrenal rush I experienced was full of red vision scare, thinking I was about to be mauled by a bear, protecting his medicine.  But I was wrong.  Instead, a pure white wolf dog appears, wearing no collar.  He stops just feet from me, silent, staring, psychically communicating a special message into my heart.  It was a two fold message:

1. You have found the root.  I am its messenger for you today.

2. You are a Lone wolf.  You always have been….Just look: “You are on Hesse trailhead…” Remember reading Herman Hesse’s ‘Steppenwolf’, the world is not random.  It’s perfect.  And you are remembering.”

Startled by this message, but drawn to the Spirit of this animal, I moved forward to connect more.  But he would not allow it.  He began barking frantically, attracting the attention of a passing woman on the trail (I thought I was alone).  Turns out, the woman who was walking, was just seconds ago, thinking about her old wolf dog who had died a few months prior.  She said this wolf dog was nearly identical to her own. And so we shared magical stories, harvested the Osha together, and moved on. Once she departed, a deeper layer of my journey revealed itself.  It was a lesson of the pack–the wolf pack!

For the past 7 months, I have been living with two Wolf dogs up in the mountains, with Twin owners, who also embody “Wolf medicine.” Living there, laughing there, healing there, I have learned many lessons around the idea of “Community” and “Pack.” Lessons that I will never forget.  Being the Lone wolf spirit that I have always been, it was good for me to experience.  But unfortunately, there are aspects of myself that are fully sacrificed living in such a way.  My solitude, my truth, my long journey’s alone into Inner space, which no doubt atrophy when sacrificed for social wings. And for some unknown reason, a series of unfortunate events had to occur, creating a rift around a wound, to force a shift in the role I have in the Wolf pack.  Howling at the moON, I saw it, I see it, and I accept.  The healing is nearly complete, as long as I am forever seeing into the nature of my mind and heart, through those piercing eyes of the Osha wolf.

….the pregnant Aries moON illuminates to road ahead.  Don’t be afraid to howl.  And definitely, have no fear of the Wolves who await you.

* How did this Full moON affect you? Have you learned the Big lessons? Do you want to know where it happened in your own Natal chart? Do you want to understand the delicate and complex implications of this lunar cycle for yourself? If so, you can contact me for a reading, and we can dive in deep, searching for all the missing pieces, craving to be illuminated.

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namaste,

sOma

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Links:

http://exploringastrology.libsyn.com/libsyn.com

http://evolutionaryastrology.podomatic.com/entry/2011-09-11T19_02_33-07_00

Join me for this Harvest moOn to learn about the implications of this mystical Pisces full moON.  We will talk about the Full moon and also the opposition of Mercury and Neptune/Chiron.  Hopefully you will find inspiration in the show for your life, and make a change, in aligning to your Mystic within.  Enjoy!

Namaste,
SoMa

Kosmognosis@gmail.com
Holestoheavens.com

Music:
Ben Sollee: A Change is gonna come
Trevor Hall: Different Hunger

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