Mars enters Taurus today, bringing a refocus on our work, love, animals, and living arrangements. Slow down, take stock of your life right now, get grounded, and spend time with nature. This is also a lovely romantic transit.
Venus, the planet of Love and Creativity, is still traveling close with the Sun and going through a transformation, emerging as the morning star in the next few weeks.
Mars is squaring Pluto over the next few days, which brings tests to our evolution and life path. Be present with anger, and avoid battles with others because they can escalate with this transit. Mars through Taurus continues with a sextile to Saturn in Pisces (July 10th), and a conjunction to Uranus (July 16th) and ends with sextile to Neptune on July 24th. In this month Saturn and Neptune are also stationing retrograde adding to the need for careful and well considered moves.
Persephone Awakening’, by Jesper Alvermark, aka Zabani
What houses will both of the eclipses be transiting in your chart? That’s the area of life that will likely be affected.
5° Libra
19° Aries
I want to share the Sabian Symbol for Sun entering Aries, and the start of Spring. Today is the real New Year – when the Sun moves to 0 degrees Aries. Here’s Dane Rudhyar‘s insight into what this day means! Happy Spring:
“PHASE 1 (ARIES 1°):A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER.
KEYNOTE:Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness.
This is the first of the 360 phases of a universal and multilevel cyclic process which aims at the actualization of a particular set of potentialities. These potentialities, in the Sabian symbols, refer to the development of man’s individualized consciousness — the consciousness of being an individual person with a place and function (a “destiny”) in the planetary organism of the Earth, and in a particular type of human society and culture.
To be individually conscious means to emerge out of the sea of generic and collective consciousness — which to the emerged mind appears to be unconsciousness. Such an emergence is the primary event. It is the result of some basic action: a leaving behind, an emerging from a womb or matrix, here symbolized by the sea.
Such an action is not to be considered a powerful, positive statement of individual being. In the beginning is the Act; but it is often an imperceptible, insecure act. The small tender germ out of the seed does not loudly proclaim its existence. It has to pierce through the crust of the soil still covered with the remains of the past. It is all potentiality and a minimum of actual presence.
In the symbol, therefore, the emergent entity is a Woman; symbolically speaking, a form of existence still close to the unconscious depths of generic biological nature, filled with the desire to be rather than self-assertion. The woman is seen embraced by a seal because the seal is a mammal which once had experienced a biological, evolutionary but relatively unconscious emergence, yet which retraced its steps and “returned to the womb” of the sea. The seal, therefore, represents a regressive step. It embraces the Woman who has emerged, because every emergent process at first is susceptible to failure. This process is indeed surrounded by the memory, the ghosts of past failures during previous cycles. The impulse upward is held back by regressive fear or insecurity; the issue of the conflict depends on the relative strength of the future-ward and the past-ward forces.
The possibility of success and that of failure is implied throughout the entire process of actualization. Every release of potentiality contains this two-fold possibility. It inevitably opens up two paths: one leads to “perfection” in consciousness, the other to “disintegration” – the return to the undifferentiated state (the state of humus, manure, cosmic dust – i.e. to the symbolic “great Waters of space,” to chaos)
This symbol characterizes the first of five stages which are repeated at three levels. This stage represents the initial statement, or theme, of the five-fold series which refers to the first level: IMPULSE TO BE.”
“Today we celebrate Mabon, or the Autumn Equinox. The hours of the day and night are equal. Today is harvest festival, and we pay our thanks for the wondrous blessings we have been given all summer. This Sabbat is also sometimes known as the Second Harvest Festival, Wine Harvest, Feast of Avalon, and Cornucopia.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. When you feel overwhelmed call upon the angels for they will help you to move forward and hold you in your arms when you are afraid. Whatever you have been working on can be harvested now. You are more powerful than you can imagine and can make all your dreams come true.
Tonight it’s appropriate to wear your finest clothes and celebrate with a bountiful harvest of food. Tonight is we turn the wheel of the year and get ready to head into a period of rest, relaxation and reflection. Take a walk in the woods; scatter some offerings for the animals and elementals of the forest.
It’s the night of mysteries and balance. Enjoy the fruits of your labor this year. Celebrate you and your accomplishments! When you are doing spell work or rituals tonight, work with protection, prosperity, security, self-confidence, harmony and balance.
Deities of Mabon: Goddesses: Morgan, Epona, Persephone, Pamona, and the Muses Gods: Mabon, Thoth, Thor, Hermes, the Green Man
Symbols of Mabon: Wine, gourds, pine cones, acorns, grains, corn, apples, pomegranates, vines such as ivy, dried seeds, and horns of plenty.
Herbs of Mabon: Acorns, benzoin, ferns, grains, honeysuckle, marigold, milkweed, myrrh, passionflower, rose, sage, solomon’s seal, and thistle.
Foods of Mabon: Breads, nuts, apples, pomegranates, potatoes, carrots, and onions.
Incense of Mabon: Autumn Blend – benzoin, myrrh, and sage
Colors of Mabon: Red, orange, maroon, brown, and gold.
Stones of Mabon: Sapphire, lapis lazuli, yellow agates.
VENUS turned Direct in Leo this week, just as JUPITER turns backwards in the other direction. Both are stationing over our heads for the next 10 days or so. September is a bundle of retrogrades and cross currents. If you look below, almost every single planet is going backwards, with the exception of MARS, however this fiery planet is miserable in the sign of Libra (in his detriment).
The vibe this month is introspection – turning our focus inwards and checking in with our instincts. Retrograde planets have us rethinking everything, traveling over old ground, revisiting old choices and decisions, perhaps worrying, feeling helpless, and unable to get over things we need to release. Click here to book a phone reading ($175.00) with me
CURRENTLY:
Sun at 14 Virgo Mercury RETROGRADE at 13 Virgo Venus DIRECT at 12 Leo Mars at 6 Libra (weak – in detriment) Jupiter RETROGRADE at 15 Taurus Saturn RETROGRADE at 3 Pisces Uranus RETROGRADE at 23 Taurus Neptune RETROGRADE 26 Pisces (rulership) Pluto RETROGRADE at 28 Capricorn North Node at 26 Aries
CURRENTLY: Sun at 7 Virgo Mercury RETROGRADE at 20 Virgo (strong but backwards lol; exalted in Virgo) Venus RETROGRADE at 12 Leo Mars at 1 Libra (weak – in detriment) Jupiter at 15 Taurus Saturn RETROGRADE at 3 Pisces Uranus RETROGRADE at 23 Taurus Neptune RETROGRADE 26 Pisces (rulership) Pluto RETROGRADE at 28 Capricorn North Node at 26 Aries
Full Moon at 7 Pisces on Wednesday, August 30th at 6:36pm Pacific. This Full Moon is conjunct retrograde Saturn, so there is a sense of heaviness and responsibility to issues that are coming up now… and with seven planets in retrograde we are walking back through territory we have already passed through. The past is coming up and giving us a new understanding of our evolution.
Friday, 10:34am: Full Moon Eclipse at 15 Scorpio. Avoid social complications and risky situations. Reality is bending, and we are being transformed. Pluto has released a surge of life-transforming energy from the primordial depths. It is also True Beltane today.
The key word is BALANCE. This Full Moon puts the focus on our relationships – business and personal. Clear the air, forge new agreements, speak the truth, and put energy into the neglected areas of your life. If something has been standing in your way, now is the time to deal with it. Get it done.
This one is an invitation — to follow the Messenger’s mythic, magical journey to reclaim the genius of your body mind and retrieve the brilliance of that fire that lights up the web through which the Cosmos enters you — the one we call the nervous system, linking you to the cosmos-neurological web of the Universe itself. This one is a daring, high-stakes mission — to rewild your mind and bring your life fully alive, just as spring does to the world.
In the ancient world, where Mercury was called Hermes, he was the god of finding and meeting, the guide of souls, and the trickster (the mythic figure who crosses time, space, and cultures).
“The Holy Guardian Angel is more than the projected image of our perfected self, or the voice of our conscience. It’s more than the inherent, innocent knowledge of right and wrong. It is more than the divine ear that hears us when we look to heaven and pray ‘oh God if you get me out of this I’ll never do anything so stupid again’.
But what that ‘more than‘ is, is difficult to discuss.
“Get your angel and have him explain” seems to be the advice of the Abramelin ritual.
Nevertheless since Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is of such supreme importance to the spiritual career of the of the aspirant, it might be helpful to see how the concept might be more clearly illustrated. To do this I will briefly review the kabbalistic principles as they relate to the fundamental document of hermeticism, The Emerald Tablet of Hermes.
From Lon DuQuette (from The Golden Dawn Journal, The Art of Hermes): “Originally presented in the book of “The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; as an illustration of the basic format structure of the Abramelin operation, I used the Emerald Tablet of Hermes.”
Secret Keys of Freemasonry by Manly Palmer Hall. “
April 6th, 2023: Full Moon at 16º Libra, opposing Chiron at 15º Aries Also, Mercury conjunct North Node at 4º Taurus
The key word is BALANCE. This Full Moon puts the focus on our relationships – business and personal. Clear the air, forge new agreements, speak the truth, and put energy into the neglected areas of your life. If something has been standing in your way, now is the time to deal with it. Get it done.
With Chiron (the Healer) in the mix, our relationship traumas could come up. Face them and heal them – especially issues around codependency, trauma bonding and attachment wounds. Awareness, communication and healing are within reach! If we’ve been isolating, the Libra energy fosters reconnection with people.
Chiron shows us where to find the medicine to heal ourselves, and since it’s conjunct the Sun at 16º Aries (which is exalted), it’s about self-acceptance, motivation, and confidence. Refocus on your personal journey, and what you want to accomplish here on Earth.
On the same day Mercury conjuncts the North Node at 4º Taurus. This is the mind joining with destiny. There is insight into our future path or direction, however Taurus wants us to be grounded and in reality about it. How do we manifest our dreams? How do we make things happen in the real world? Taurus reminds us to connect with the physical world and use our five senses; what we see, feel, hear, smell, taste, and touch in front of us.
Making a talisman for a planet gives one the power of attracting the Seven Planetary Forces. Unfortunately these metals are extremely expensive, or lethal (i.e. lead and quicksilver), but it’s still interesting to look at these correspondences. They apply to writing with different colored inks as well.
Gold is the Metal of the Sun Silver is the Metal of the Moon Iron is the Metal of Mars Copper is the Metal of Venus Quicksilver is the Metal of Mercury Tin is the Metal of Jupiter Lead is the Metal of Saturn
The 7 Kabbalistic Signs of the Planets are:
1. Moon: a Globe Divided by Two Middle Moons.
2. Mercury: a Cadeus and Cynocephalus.
3. Venus: a Sexual Lingam.
4. Sun: a Serpent with the Head of a Lion.
5. Mars: a Dragon biting a Swords Guard.
6. Jupiter: a Pentagram, or an Eagle’s Beak.
7. Saturn: a Limping Elder, or a Rock entwined by a Serpent.
Also, the Seven Notes of the Lyre of Orpheus correspond to the Seven Planets. A Planetary note corresponds to each one of the Seven Colors of the Solar Prism. Alchemy is Intimately Related to Music.
March 7, 2023: Full Moon at 16 Virgo. The sign of the Virgin, which represents “being whole”, pure, and uncorrupted. It unifies our health and our work, and inspires us to live in integrity. Beware of the obsession with perfection and overthinking.
If you feel overwhelmed by this full moon, go over to the Pisces Sun on the other side of the sky for guidance. Reconnect with your spirituality, faith, and the god of your heart. Reassure yourself that you are exactly where you need to be right now, and cleanse yourself and your home.
Also today, Saturn enters Pisces. This marks a huge change in the undercurrent of our lives and society. Saturn is authority, ambition and power, and represents the institutions in our world, as well as the structures of our lives. Pisces dissolves what it touches, and erodes the stability of Saturn, so Saturn isn’t too happy in Pisces.
The best way to handle this transit is to be aware of the qualities of “sacrifice” and “surrender”. Use them to navigate the realities in your life. Surrender to discipline, to your basic needs, to the reality of who you are and what you want to accomplish. This will be a great few years to focus on bettering yourself, and supporting the growth of people around you.
