A Bigger We, A Greater Win: Moon Conjunct Vesta Aquarius et al

Vesta and the Moon conjunct in Aquarius points to a deep sympathy and desire to reach for a new paradigm of service.  This is exactly the sort of thing that is too often misrepresented as self sacrifice.  This is exactly what it should never be.  Vesta in many ways does in fact represent a certain call to service, and in certain terms she represents a sublimation of immediate or obvious gain in favor of a spiritual one. 

At the Same time the moon surely (among other things) speaks to how we care, in all senses.  In Aquarius these energies soar high in a very idealistic way.  It causes us to pine for a kind of service that equalizes and revolutionizes the world.  In so many ways this particular vibration, maybe more than any, speaks very strongly to precisely why true service is in fact never self sacrifice (point in fact when it becomes that it generally does fairly nasty things to all involved).

In true service there lies a glowing heart of emotional intelligence, a part of us that can see (whether consciously or not) the interconnected nature of life itself and in fact of all creation.  It is the understanding that the pursuit of true service is an act of communion, not with a distant hypothetical, liturgical or dogmatic idea of what the divine is, but the divine in me  with the divine in others, in this case the divine in all. 

Joy and suffering are the voice of the divine echoing in us, and when we change things, when we do true service, it is a prayer in the world, it is a way communing with the divinehen we bring joy when we alleviate suffering from a place of love and Joy we transcend the illusion of division and embrace a bigger us, a greater self, and we heal and become so much more!

When service is self sacrifice, then the prayer is broken.  We approach from a vantage of one above another.  How can our divinity commune?  How can this true communion take place?  My divine spirit is in fact on the same level as any divine spirit in anyone or anything!  If I am self-sacrificing I am placing myself above, and it is a conversation between egos, and spirit is lost.

Also there is an opportunity, as these bodies Sextil Uranus in Aries, Pointing to the fact that should we reach for it there is a grand desire to move on just such real human work...

  The best place to begin is by speaking what we want, as often as possible.  Do not worry if the desire is vague, pray it out loud in the ears of spirit, the spirit in the wind, the spirit in other people.  Trust that this desire will be answered, and part of the desire is to understand how to do it.  Part of the desire is to come up with a plan. 

Do not worry pray it out loud, in words with breath online.  Then pray it with others, then pray it with your feet, with your hands, with your commitment.  Pray it every day.  Pray it to the Earth. To the Sky to the Fire to the Sea!  Pray it with love and Joy and Hope!  It will be answered, with the greatest communion, the partaking of spiritual food, which is the embracing of that sacred connection of all creation.

We Can Do it.  I Believe in Us.

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Fire Trine-kite, Grand Cardinal Cross, Be present, Listen, But by all Means Rage

Today, we continue with the long-running subject of the grand Cardinal cross which has been a "significant motivating factor" for quite some time now- and to come.... So seriously if your stressed its all about listening and making changes...  And today is the day suited to do it for goodness sake.


Remember how the Pluto-Venus axis was in the center of the works in the last article?  well that star has shifted out, and we've shifted into yet another prominent (but not nearly as prominent as the star) configuration.  A Fire Grand trine with Saturn Sextiling 2 of the planets putting an "air Tail" on what we call a kite.


Now a Grand trine, as started before is a series of three (or more) bodies who's energy rolls very easily from one to the next.  In this case we have Uranus the march of the future, the idealist in Radical raging Aries, and Conjunct (in astrological terms it means the 2 energies are united and build off each other) Ceres, our little power of nurturing and letting go, and when she's paired up with Uranus in Aries, it is a grand couple of letting go both giving and gaining independence, and speaking with very few compunctions.  To make this more fun we trine that with a Mercury in Leo which means we are up for a gregarious posture in our speech and maybe a bit too much bravado... Trined finally to the Moon hanging out in Sagittarius which builds and emotional longing for chances taken excitement and adventure (not to mention travel) well its clear how these 3 energies can spiral very quickly, possibly out of control.  Especially with the kind of pent up energy being held by a grand cardinal cross.


Add to that that Saturn in  Libra (our little planet of law, order and boundaries) is opposing Uranus... But this is where it gets good!  Up until now we've been talking about the stuff that affects you no matter what you do, sure you can choose to use it proactively or destructively, but these vibrations show themselves one way or another... enter the sextils between Saturn in Libra and The moon, as well as Mercury.  If we pay very close attention we can listen very closely to "the moment" and find a rudder to Steer that beautiful Uranian chaos! 


It just listening first, and while.... its just making absolutely sure that when our cork pops, we are very present, and not just in out little diatribe, that we are actively Negotiating (Libra) the rules and expectations with others as we go... This allows us to take what is essentially a good messy thing, and turn it into a better slightly less messy thing?


If in Doubt listen, but rage today, by all means Rage!

For More On:

Saturn

Uranus

Ceres

Aspects still in play:

Grand Cardinal Cross: http://rebelastrology.blogspot.com/2011/07/over-coming-isolation-saturn-restrains.html, Stellar Revolution, This is What Astrology Looks Like!,  Dancer Dance! Grand Possibilities from Little Steps, Grand Cross to bear, Transform your life  

Neptune Chiron Conjunction: Neptune Chiron Conjunction video,Neptune Chiron Meditation, 

Neptune and Jupiter:Neptune and Jupiter video, A funny thing happened on the way to Know-where

Grand Earth Trine: a call to integrity and patience

Meanwhile while all this other stuff is going on... and yes that's exactly how it is!  There is a reason things seem crazy, its because this is just such a vibrationally jam-packed moment!  Well while all the stuff I've been talking about is still happening (see my last blog, and all the blogs sited there-in) there is yet another bit of intensity I'd like to focus your attention on!


An interaction between the Moon in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Taurus, lined up precisely in what is called a grand trine, which means they sit in such a way that when you draw a line between them on the chart they form a perfect equilateral triangle...  Specifically this is the most powerful of the "soft" aspects, pushed to its strongest ,manifestation.


Now the results of a grand trine will be felt no matter what you do, but it may be to our best interest to get in ahead of this and try to turn it to the best possible manifestation and most positive side of it.  Let's look at what it means:


Moon: our emotional guidance system is geared toward the specific and toward health (Virgo) flows easily and lends energy to (and receives energy from) our sense of optimism, possibilities, opportunities and expansion (Jupiter) which is geared in a consistent process oriented committed comfortable pattern (Taurus) which is giving and receiving energy from the interaction of personal power vs political power and airing of collective dirt/healing dark secrets (Pluto) which is currently operating within the realms of the Law, Money and Patriarchal Power (Capricorn) which of course is also giving and receiving power from our sensitivities.


This aspect can play very well or very poorly, and the secret here is Pluto magick.  The secret to Pluto is to own your own power and refuse to take a victim stance.  This often time does not actually mean fighting... this usually means finding a way (when possible) to refuse to give energy to the powers that be... to take our personal metaphysical ball and go home.  Let the Pluto within keep his power, and the Pluto without disappears as the illusion he is.  Part of the key to this is all about honesty with ourselves and with others.  Asking for what we need directly and knowing that if we can not get it honestly from one source then there is a better source out there that we can.  Beyond this it is about letting go of expectation, and being as loose as possible.  If we can keep our Pluto playing on the positive level, it is a time of real potential to set positive growth in motion, starting with what we feel we want, translating it into what we know we can create, taking that to empower our sense of personal power, and once again using that sense of personal power to empower ourselves emotionally to keep on it!


One hand washes the other one back scrubs the next!  They key, focus in on integrity, honest and healing through sunlight and open air!


Affirmation:

I build a future worth living, a life worth having enjoying every step of the way and the process of creating with full disclosure honesty flexibility and a firm unapologetic statement of my needs!

Grand Cardinal Cross:http://rebelastrology.blogspot.com/2011/07/mars-moon-neptune-mutable-t-cross-quest.html Stellar Revolution, This is What Astrology Looks Like!,  Dancer Dance! Grand Possibilities from Little Steps, Grand Cross to bear, Transform your life   Uranus-Lilith Conjunction:Shining Light into Shadow, 

Neptune Chiron Conjunction: Neptune Chiron Conjunction video,Neptune Chiron Meditation, 

Neptune and Jupiter:Neptune and Jupiter video, A funny thing happened on the way to Know-where

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Love Without Freedom is Not Love at All: Affirmation For Sun Sextil Jupiter Sextil Neptune Sextil Pluto

Love without freedom is not love at all.  Freedom without honesty is not Freedom.  Honesty without self awareness is Surely a deceit. Self Awareness is the Awareness of love in the Self.  A single step torwards any of these in ernest is a single step to all of these in practice.

I Open my heart to the honest value that I deserve love given freely and with full knowlege and intent.  I know myself well enough to know that I am fully worthy.
This Affirmation goes excellently with Todays reading (the substance of which is in effect through July 6th)
A Reading For 6/22-7/6/11 but is a good thing to remember and repeat always.