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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ~ Brooks Atkinson  an American theatre critic for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960.

“People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.” ~Epictetus

Seeing things through a different set of eyes changes the whole picture. Cameron C Powell

Seeing life through the lens of Shamanic Astrology changed my life 22 years ago this month and it continues to brilliantly inform how I am navigating these speeded up times in ways that are supportive, insightful and miraculous. It was Mother’s Day weekend 1990, when I met Daniel Giamario at the Tucson Astrologer’s Guild where he was giving a talk.

I had no idea how attending this talk would not only change my point of view and perception of astrology, it ultimately would change my entire life. Interestingly, I was 9 months pregnant with my youngest child and focused on being the Mom of my three (my oldest was 7 and my twins were 5) soon to be four children.

Just the fact that I had three children and was about to have number four was already way outside of what I imagined my life to be…a whole other story for another time. So I was already coming to terms with expanding my point of view in the realm of motherhood.

I didn’t know much about any kind of astrology, much less Shamanic Astrology, when I showed up that day but I somehow knew this was something I needed to learn more about, without really knowing why or where it would lead, or even how I would learn this as there were no formal classes at that time.

22 years later I am still in awe of the gift of these teachings and I love sharing them in the Celestial Timings. One of the greatest gifts Shamanic Astrology provides us is  knowing what initiation cycles we are in and knowing what the best strategies are for navigating them.

For me, the insights, understanding, growth and change often sneak up on me as is the case in the story of my current Saturn Cycle where I have had the opportunity to understand and experience Saturn from a new awareness about an old perspective. This is the type of understanding that only comes  from direct experience. (See more HERE)

Me and Mom in 1978 when I was 22 and she was 44.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms everywhere including whatever ways we mother ourselves or others…and to my Mom, Merilyn Massey, who made her transition 15 years ago. I miss her still and am so grateful for her as a Mom and a friend and a priestess sister. Her story is an inspiring one about the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet…it is HERE

Plus it is interesting to note the word Mother as it has roots in the word Matter and Saturn is all about structure and how Matter manifests into form. How cool is that? More about how this works is HERE
2012 May Daily Celestial Timings (All times are PDT unless otherwise noted)

May 01, Tuesday. Calenderic Beltane or May Day. (audio for this week has more) The Moon passes about 7 degrees SSW of Mars (5 Virgo 24) at 1:27 am and just passed by Regulus last night. (See May 13 for details on the Grand Trine forming once again and May 29 for more about Mars, Regulus and the Moon)

Venus is passing by the fixed star Capella (22 Gemini) stationing retrograde within one degree of this star on May 15.  Capella, located in the constellation of Auriga a.k.a. the charioteer, is the sixth largest star visible from earth and one of the brightest stars marking the outer rim of the Sacred Hoop. Plus, it is one of the 15 Behenian Stars the ancient alchemists worked with whenever a planet was within 6 degrees.

Each Behenian star has a precious gem and plant associated with it that were used in making talismans and strengthening intentions during times when planets passed these stars. Capella is linked with the plant or sacred herb Thyme and the precious gem sapphire.

Due to Venus stationing retrograde on May 15, we find this wandering star within 6 degrees of Capella  from May 1 to June 4. Venus re-passes Capella on July 28 and is within 6 degrees from Capella July 23 to August 6.

The Greeks saw Capella as the goat being carried by the Charioteer on his left shoulder, and is the primary star associated with the cornucopia, “horn of plenty” and “food bearer”. In India, Capella was the sacred “heart of Brahma” and in Akkadian it was the “messenger of light”. For some it was the “rainy goat star.”

The ancients felt this was a star that bestowed blessings giving:

honor, wealth, eminence, renown, a public position of trust and eminent friends, and makes its natives careful, timorous, inquisitive, very fond of knowledge and particularly of novelties. [Robson*, p.151.]

Venus is hanging out with Capella all this month and right up to the Venus Transit on June 5. This is a potent symbol for abundance and “plenty for all” when we remember our connection to source and that there is more than enough for everyone always.

It is only our point of view that creates our limited perception and therefore experience of lack and scarcity. Truly the perception of “not enough for everyone” is only an illusion supported by the collective consensus reality. The divine feminine Venus with Capella is here to remind us that we are rich and abundant when we are willing to live from that point of view. This is because our point of view shapes our reality and thus our experience.

May 02, Wednesday. The Moon Moves into Libra at 7:04 pm and is visible approaching Saturn and Spica catching up to them and is visible beyond them by sunset on May 4. The Moon in Libra transmits the mysteries of conscious equal partnership and relationship. The primary gift of relationship is to connect with, know, and relate to our own divine nature through the reflection and interaction with another. The mistake that is often communicated in our current culture is the belief that the “other” can in any way be our source of happiness. If we are not happy with the relationship we have with ourselves then it is very unlikely we can ever be happy with another.

The Moon in Libra is illuminating this reminder that when we focus on loving, valuing, and blessing who we are then it is much easier to love, value and bless others.

May 03, Thursday. Jupiter is within 10 degrees of the Pleiades catching up to be within 3 degrees by the end of May. However, Jupiter is now traveling with the Sun so this conjunction is NOT visible. (See April 2012 Archives for more about the Pleiades)

The Moon is visible approaching Saturn and Spica tonight and will be visible beyond them by sunset tomorrow. The Moon with Saturn and Spica is especially potent over the next few months as we are approaching the final integration stage of Saturn’s transit through Libra and long visitation with Spica. Then Saturn enters Scorpio in October of this year shifting the focus to the tantric mysteries and our ability to source and manifest our reality when we are remembering to align our desire with divine will and the source of all reality.

Spica is a bright blue star located in the hand of the Virgin Priestess. One of the symbols of Spica has to do with the mysteries of sowing and reaping. What we think, feel say and do affects what we are magnetizing into our life.

Saturn will not return to this area of the sky for 29.5 years so this is the time to take advantage of the opportunity to restructure what you are sowing and what you then will reap as a result. (See Audios on Saturn in Libra and Spica)

2012 May Celestial Timings Template (all times are PDT unless otherwise noted)

May 01, Tuesday. Moon passes about 7 degrees SSW of Mars (5 Virgo 24) at 1:27 am.

May 02, Wednesday. Moon Moves into Libra at 7:04 pm and is approaching Saturn and Spica catching up to them by May 4.

May 03, Thursday. Jupiter is within 10 degrees of the Pleiades catching up to be within 3 degrees by the end of May. However, Jupiter is now traveling with the Sun so is NOT visible.

May 04, Friday. Venus is at greatest declination North (27.82 degrees) in its 8 year cycle and in fact until May 7, 2239 with an even higher peak 2263. Also Venus is near the fixed star El Nath, the northern tip of the Horns of the Bull.

May 05, Saturday. 05.05.2012 or 05.05.05. Beltane. Happy Cinco de Mayo. The Scorpio Full Moon (16 Scorpio) is exact at 8:35 pm and is very near the fixed star Zuben Algenubi. Mercury (24 Aries 39) is opposite Saturn (24 Libra 39)

May 06, Sunday. The Moon moves into Sagittarius passing through the head of the Scorpion and is visible approaching Antares, the heart of the Scorpion tonight. Plus the Moon passes over the Solar Eclipse degree of November 2011.

May 07, Monday. The Moon is passing 5 degrees NNE of Antares, the heart of the Scorpion around 10 am so will be visible beyond Antares by sunset tonight.

May 08, Tuesday. The Moon passes into Capricorn crossing the over the Galactic Cross at 7 pm tonight located between the constellations of the Archer and the Scorpion. Mercury moves into Taurus at 10:15 pm. Mercury is technically visible in the morning sky until May 20, catching up to the Sun on May 27 and moving into the evening sky by June 4.

May 09, Wednesday. Moon is occulting Pluto (9 Capricorn) for the first time this year at 10:33 am. This is not visible without a high powered telescope if viewing from Antarctica.

May 10, Thursday. Mercury is 2 Taurus, Vesta is 4 Taurus, Ceres is 12 Taurus, Sun is 2o Taurus and Jupiter is 22 Taurus preparing the way for the Solar Eclipse on May 20.

May 11, Friday. The Moon is entering Aquarius at 10:03 pm.

May 12, Saturday. The Aquarius Last Quarter Moon (22 Aquarius) is exact at 2:47 pm

May 13, Sunday. Happy Mother’s Day. The Moon moves into Pisces at 4:42 am and conjuncts Neptune (3 Pisces) at 10:25 am. The Sun and Jupiter (23 Taurus) are conjunct exactly at 6:24 am.

May 14, Monday. The Moon conjuncts Chiron (9 Pisces) either late last night or early this morning. The Moon is activating both Neptune and Chiron illuminating themes of shamanic healing that occur in the Celestial and the Underworld. This goes beyond our Middle World concepts of cellular and psychic healing. Keeping in mind the importance of alchemical healing within ourselves Neptune and Chiron are operating together to help facilitate deep healing at the cellular and DNA level literally creating or inventing a new operating system within our physiology.

May 15, Tuesday. Venus (24 Gemini) stations retrograde at 7:33 am. The Moon moves into Aries at 2:45 pm. Moon occults Pallas Athena (29 Aquarius) at 1:13 pm.

May 16, Wednesday. The Moon passes 5 degrees NNW of Uranus

May 17, Thursday. Ascension Day. Mars (9 Virgo) is again trine retrograde Pluto (9 Capricorn) taking us back to the March 13 Grand Trine.

May 18, Friday. The waning Moon moves into Taurus at 3:03 am.

May 19, Saturday. The waning Moon conjuncts Mercury (20 Taurus)

May 20, Sunday. Sun enters Gemini at 4:05 pm. Annular Solar Eclipse (Zero Gemini)at 4:47 pm conjunct the Pleiades with Jupiter and Mercury nearby. The annular phase is visible on the Chinese Coast, the South of Japan, Western United States and Canada.

May 21, Monday. Mercury and Jupiter conjunct (25 Taurus) at 10:58 pm

May 22, Tuesday. Retrograde Venus (23 Gemini) and the Moon meet at 2:24 pm so the Moon will be visible beyond Venus tonight.

May 23, Wednesday. The waxing crescent Moon moves into Cancer crossing the Galactic Cross at 4:31 am. Sun (3 Gemini) squares Neptune (3 Pisces) at 1:57 pm signaling the approaching Neptune retrograde on June 4.

May 24, Thursday. Mercury moves into Gemini at 4:12 am.

May 25, Friday. Mercury (3 Gemini) squares Neptune (3 Pisces) at 2:38 pm. Moon moves into Leo at 3:11 pm.

May 26, Saturday. Happy Birthday 22nd birthday to my youngest son. Mercury is conjunct the South Node and about to be exactly conjunct the Sun (5 Gemini)

May 27, Sunday. Mercury conjuncts the Sun (6 Gemini) at 4:20 am

May 28, Monday. The Virgo First Quarter Moon (8 Virgo) at 1:16 pm and is conjunct Mars passing by about 6 degrees SSW of Mars around 11:29 pm tonight.

May 29, Tuesday. The Moon is just beyond Mars tonight.

May 30, Wednesday. Moon moves into Libra at 3:46 am. Mercury square Mars.

May 31, Thursday. Moon is conjunct Saturn at 6:31 pm.

~From The Revised Shamanic Astrology Handbook (Available Soon!)

Over the years I have made great strides in viewing Saturn as an ally. Certainly, there are times when Saturn limitations can feel unfair, depressing and downright difficult. However, Saturn is also about growth and maturation and creating or building the structures that really support who we truly are.

Something to know that may shift your view of Saturn is contrary to popular belief Saturn is a feminine planet that has been co-opted by the patriarchy. Saturn is about the structures of reality, or form. And, form is about matter, and matter has its roots in the word mother. Not only that Saturn is most resonant with the sign of Capricorn, a feminine earth sign, that has to do with the Circle of Grandmothers. So, ultimately Saturn is feminine and is NOT a punishing, judgmental masculine God, as described by the patriarchy, though it certainly can feel that way at times.

Whatever our experience of Saturn is, it may be helpful to know, that Saturn is simply reflecting to us a reality that is structured by our personal and collective belief systems. Over the last five thousands years there has been a collective belief or story that is rooted in the “fall from grace.” Even if we don’t personally believe that story much of our world and our lives are still at the effect of it. (See Audios on the Doing Addiction)

We all encounter Saturn as everyone goes through Saturn transits during their life. Additionally, many have some type of Saturn complex on their natal chart so they are the ones dealing with Saturn on a constant basis. What follows are some of the ways you might encounter the presence of Saturn…by transit or by dynamic aspect on your natal chart.

You might be in a Saturn Cycle or Have a Saturn complex if:

• You find yourself saying, “It’s NOT Fair!”
• Or if no matter what you do (or how perfectly you do it) it feels like you get the same unfair results.
• Or if you are certain you have done everything exactly the way you were taught to do and shown up in the way you thought you were expected to show up and still the love you desire, the appreciation you crave,and the recognition you deserve, alludes you.
• Or if you find yourself feeling like no matter what you do – you are somehow doomed to repeating the same process over and over like a record stuck in a certain groove, even when you thought you were being conscious about your choices. Yet, somehow, you still find yourself in an unfair situation or experiencing undesirable results.

A Personal Saturn Story
Speaking from my own recent personal experience, as Saturn is opposite my natal Venus this year, I recently heard myself saying “this isn’t fair!”

After realizing I had said this more than a few times it dawned on me I was in a Saturn cycle and I was hearing myself saying a classic Saturn statement. Not only that I suddenly remembered that in Saturn’s world fair doesn’t really exist and I needed a new point view about what was happening.

Saturn Can Feel Unfair
Imagine hiring the best attorney on the planet to present your case and imagine that you have even managed to have your case reviewed by the highest court in the Universe and the Lord’s of Karma are presiding over the proceedings. Then imagine that the arguments presented are the most perfect, logical irrefutable arguments possible, and your legal team is absolutely certain that you will win your case.

When the verdict is returned very likely from Saturn’s point of view the answer will be something like:

You are right, it isn’t fair. Deal with it. These are the cards you were dealt and there is nothing we can do about that. Your task is to learn how to play with the hand you have and do the best you can do with it.

But also know that you must deal with this all the way, so even when you think you have dealt with it…be warned that you may find surprising ways this will again surface in your life.

Consider it a test. The ultimate test. The test of self-love, the test of loving yourself no matter what unfair circumstances you are facing. Its not about fairness. Its about loving yourself no matter what.

Grrr….followed by lots of swear words and tantrums that ultimately don’t change anything, except perhaps helping you to express how you feel, hopefully in a way that doesn’t cause harm to anyone. And perhaps that leads to acceptance and that might lead to a new experience, but its not guaranteed.

I am about to share with you, as briefly as possible, my own Saturn situation to help give a better sense of what I am describing. And…my hope is you find peace with your own Saturn experience.

My Father/Saturn Experience
For me,  my encounter with Saturn started before I was ever born. My parents got married the day after they graduated from college and I was conceived on their wedding night. Three weeks later, when my mother realized she was pregnant, my father insisted she have an abortion (that was illegal in 1955) or give the baby (that would turn out to be me) up for adoption.

My mother refused and my father was furious. So this is why I wound up being born into a classic Saturn situation, meaning that no matter what I did I could NEVER please my father. Ultimately, he disowned me twice. (Not surprisingly from a more mainstream approach to astrology I do have Saturn square my Sun on my natal chart. Both are considered father symbols in other astrological approaches. Remember I said Saturn is actually Feminine but was co-opted by the patriarchy and so many of us do have a very convincing patriarchal Saturn experience.)

The first time I was disowned, was when I was 20 and my father blamed me for my parents divorce. The reality is it was amazing they had stayed married as long as they did. However, he needed someone to blame and I was handy. Years later, when I was about 33, we had a tentative reconciliation that lasted almost 6 years.

The second time I was disowned was when I was 40 because I dared to ask him for a healthy boundary (a way to complicated story to share here) and he went into a rage, proclaiming he would never speak to me or anyone who reminded him of me (meaning my four children) ever again. That was in 1996 and true to his word, he has not spoken to me, or my children since then. This is not a surprise as I wasn’t the first family member he disowned and never spoke to again, and I am happy to say I am at peace with it.

My First Two Marriages
So of course in my first two marriages I recreated situations where my former husbands abandoned me or disowned me. I could easily make my case, and prove without a doubt, that I didn’t do anything to deserve the way my father has treated me, or the way my former husbands have treated me. I can also see that they were all operating from their own deep wounds that had nothing to do with me, and it was easier for them to project the pain and blame onto me than take responsibility for their experience.

Over the years, I have done HUGE amounts of forgiveness work and lots of different kinds of healing therapy and have taken responsibility for the way I co-created all of these situations. In essence, I have been dealing with my own crap, my own projections and inadequacies as consciously as I can and have been for many years.

The Saturn Hand I Was Dealt
However, it is also true that the way I have viewed myself, the way I have shown up, or not shown up, has been greatly influenced by the hand I was dealt. Over the years, I have come to accept that it is my job to keep peeling the layers and forgiving myself and forgiving them in the best way I can in each moment.

And the results of this work are evident in my life. I have a conscious equal partner who joins me in owning our personal stuff and taking responsibility whenever we find ourselves projecting on each other. I am so thrilled and grateful to finally have this kind of mirror in a beloved relationship. It is one of the gifts of doing the Saturn work and Saturn is definitely a tough task master, yet, when you are willing to take responsibility it is so worth it.

I thought I was done with this whole father rejection, abandonment piece, until Saturn began opposing my Venus last November. Around that time the voices of judgment that had been mostly quiet for so long, suddenly started growing louder.

When Life Feels Unfair
In April, I had an experience with two family members that felt totally unfair. I soon realized it was a situation that brought up the old feelings that I didn’t deserve to be treated the way I was being treated. The situation was a perfect set-up because I didn’t expected it to show up in the way it did and of course it so perfectly fit into my pattern that I didn’t recognize it at first. It wasn’t until I heard myself saying out loud “this isn’t fair!” that I had the sudden realization Saturn was at work. AHH HA!

Before I GOT this was Saturn, I had been presenting my case to my beloved, who totally agreed with me that I didn’t deserve to be treated the way I was being treated. If anything he reflected to me that I had been more than supportive and had shown up with great integrity and he was actually angry on my behalf. And as supportive and validating as that was, I had this sneaking suspicion that there was something deeper I needed to look at in this situation.

If you have been reading the Celestial Timings for awhile you know I am continually writing about how everything in our life is a mirror to us personally and this case was no exception.

Reflecting on what was happening, I realized this goes back to a core belief I had as a child based on the fact that I knew my father hated me and my little girl self translated that knowing to “God Hates Me.”

Furthermore, no matter how perfect I am, no matter how kind and generous and supportive I am to others, no matter how much I do my own personal clearing and healing I was finding myself face to face with this limiting childhood belief that I thought I had a handle on and my conclusion again was it SO NOT FAIR. Grrrr…

The Saturn Test
Wait, wait, don’t tell me – this must be my Saturn test? Ah yes, of course it is. It is the Saturn test of self-love and even though my feelings were deeply hurt and my pattern totally activated I got to this realization in a record amount of time. So YES there is progress, there is hope for me, and I am forgiving myself, and forgiving everyone involved all the way back to my father and God himself or rather my little girl perception of God hating me and the whole perception of the unfairness of Saturn.

Yay for me…and I hope this story is helpful for you as Saturn (a feminine planet) continues hanging out with Spica (the main star of the Divine Feminine) this month. (See the May 2012 Celestial Timings May 3, 5, 30 and 31 and stay tuned for the station direct of Saturn on June 25). It will be nearly 30 years before Saturn returns to this area of the sky so this is a powerful opportunity for us to create a whole new structure of reality based in the ultimate Saturn teaching of Self-Love no matter what is going on in our external reality.

A Final Personal Note
I am three years away from my second Saturn Return with non-stop personal Saturn cycles along the way so I know I will have many more opportunities to share ongoing insights and experiences about my own Saturn journey.

Happily, I have successfully addressed the recent situation mentioned above by expressing my feelings and taking responsibility for my experience, along with asking for what I wanted to happen going forward. I consciously chose not to shame or blame and so I easily got a great response to my reasonable request and so far so good.

Ultimately everyone (especially me) has had an opportunity to grow from this experience proving that this is the gift of Saturn, when we take responsibility for whatever experience we are having even when it doesn’t feel fair.

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Notice the orb over my head on on my body. These are the orbs that followed me around on my Birthday March 4th and somehow feels like a great way to end the Saturn Story proving there is magic even for a person with a lot of Saturn.

Let your perception of beauty and iridescence lead your way.
Places and people who have answers for you
will appear more luminous and attractive.
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

Asking the Right Questions

What if asking the right questions was the key to changing your life experience?

What if instead of asking; “what is wrong with me?” or “why am I not _____” (fill in the blank… happy, healthy, prosperous, etc…) we asked ourselves how we could change our point of view to see what is right with us or we asked ourselves what steps we need to take to create a more fulfilling experience?

So often we are not even aware of the questions we are asking or that they might not be helpful questions or that they might be leading us to answers that are less than helpful in relationship to our true intention.

I love Douglas Adam’s book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy partly because he humorously addresses the concept of asking the Ultimate Question. There is a point where Adam’s describes a super computer (named Deep Thought) designed to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Deep Thought ran a 7.5 million year program to come up with the Ultimate Answer,  which turned out to be “42″.

What? 42. What does that mean? What kind of answer is that? When asked, Deep Thought said to understand the Ultimate Answer the trick was to have exactly the ‘right’ question. When asked, Deep Thought did not know what that question was but offered to help build an even more powerful computer to find the Ultimate Question that would help everyone understand the answer.

This new computer incorporated living beings into the “computational matrix” on a planet called Earth and was five minutes from completing its 10 million year program when Earth was blown out of the sky by the Vogons. Sounds like a Mars and Mercury Retrograde acting together, right?

Anyway, this is about finding the Ultimate Questions that help us to understand the meaning of life or more importantly the meaning of our own life. We don’t need a super computer to find the answers. Rather it is up to us to keep asking the questions that lead us to answers that may lead us to more questions. In many ways, it is not about having the answers but about being willing to live the questions.

Questions are Powerful Tools
Intentional questions have the power to lead us to powerful and supportive new insights in how we co-create our life experience. This is because when we ask questions our minds immediately begin searching for answers. So the questions we ask are important because they will lead us to answers.

That is why if we are asking questions like what is wrong with me, what did I do to deserve this, why can’t I do anything right, or where did I go wrong….then what we will find are answers that tell us what is wrong with us, why we can’t do anything right and where we went wrong. This often has the effect of confirming what we already are assuming about ourselves and further strengthens any limiting point of view we may have about who we are.

These assumptions are often rooted in beliefs that were ingrained in us by our parents, religion, and/or culture. In some rare cases there might be an assumption that someone has all the answers so isn’t curious or willing to do personal inquiry. However, it is more likely that there are assumptions like NOT being smart enough, or good enough, or patient enough, or being lazy and never amounting to anything. The beauty of letting go of assumptions and adopting a sense of curiosity and willingness to ask intentional questions is that it can lead us to unexpected and wondrous results.

(see April 2012 Paid Subscriber version of the Celestial Timings for the rest of the what I shared about the power of conscious Questions with lists of conscious questions you can ask yourself including What If questions and Why Questions…)

This is an awesome just under 3 minute video on the phases of the Moon for 2012  HERE
And  another video on how the Earth is not really orbiting the Sun but rather part of the spiral through space/time HERE This is similar to how the Earth is NOT Flat and the Signs and Constellations are NOT the SAME more HERE

April Daily Celestial Timings  (Times PST unless otherwise noted)

April 01, Sunday. All Fool’s Day. The genesis of our current understanding of April Fool’s Day grew out of the 1582 change in the calendar instituted by Pope Gregory shifting New Year’s Day from April 1 to January 1. News traveled slowly in those days and for various reasons many continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April First. Those who continued to celebrate New Year’s in April became known as April Fools and was a way to pressure individuals into conforming to a calendar that was designed to focus awareness on physical evidence and promote materialism and commerce. It has been highly successful not only in focusing consciousness on materialism but also in disconnecting us from the magical world including the natural cycles of the Earth and Sky.

The mission of Shamanic Astrology is to remind us of the magical connection between the Earth and Sky while also recovering a deeper connection to the natural cycles in ways that enhance our intuitive knowing and consciousness connection to Great Mystery.

The waxing Moon passes 5.8 degrees SSW of the Beehive Cluster at 4:00 pm. This means the Moon will be visible beyond the Beehive tonight approaching Regulus. The Beehive is located between Castor and Pollux (the brightest stars of the twins – See April 27) and Regulus, the heart of the lion. The Moon may diminish visibility of the Beehive stars, however, it is also transmitting the mysteries of these stars including the way Bees work in harmony together to further the good of all. This is why Bees represent hidden wisdom.

April 02, Monday. Venus (29 Taurus) is passing by the Pleiades in one of its closest passages in an eight year cycle visible near this asterism tonight and tomorrow as she enters Gemini tomorrow. 2020 will be an even closer passage and 2028 closer yet. The Pleiades were considered by ancient alchemists to be a Behenian  star group, meaning their power is magnified whenever planets are within six degrees

This marks the annual passage of Venus by the Pleiades as she enters the Sacred Hoop, traveling through the Hoop until July 3. The Sacred Hoop is near the western horizon this time of year and Venus has reached her highest point in her evening sky appearance, beginning her slow descent toward the horizon to disappear from the evening sky in early June. However, this month Venus will continue to be brilliantly visible in the western sky after sunset.

Whenever planets pass through the Sacred Hoop it is a reminder of our inter-connectedness with all life and the importance of mending our personal and collective place within this circle of life.

Venus also moves beyond the boundaries of where the Sun can rise or set on the horizon and will remain “out of bounds” until June 4 reaching maximum “out of bounds” declination by early May at 27 North 49. The Sun can only reach 23 N 26 at the Summer Solstice. Venus is now at 23 N 28 so she has just barely moved beyond the maximum declination of the Sun.

Whenever a planet is outside the boundaries of the Sun it is “outside the box” or outside of ordinary, everyday reality. Many people who are born with planets that are “out of bounds” are the ones who push beyond the limits of their reality to initiate new points of view, along with new ideas and ways of perceiving reality that are not locked into what the culture has agreed upon as “real.” This might show up as a time when breaking the rules (that do harm) is actually helpful because it is an energy that operates outside the limitations of the cultural reality.

These next couple of months will be fascinating to see what develops with this extended wild and unpredictable Out Of Bounds Venus due to the Venus Retrograde on May 15.

Spontaneous Evolution, Our Positive Future (And a Way to Get there from Here) by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman explores our understanding of reality is based on our perception and more importantly the challenge for many is the new emerging reality is not supporting the old perceptions. Being excited by the new possibilities helps to shift our perception, our point of view so that it resonates more fully with the emerging new reality. Venus Out of Bounds is the perfect time to expand possibilities that support a new reality.

Today, human evolution is at a turning point where an old paradigm and a challenging new awareness are uneasily trying to coexist. We are wedded by habit and tradition to an outmoded view of the Universe yet civilization is pregnant with a new, exciting, and optimistic understanding of life.

The waxing Moon is visible approaching the royal Behenian star Regulus and will be beyond Regulus by sunset tomorrow night.

April 03, Tuesday.  The waxing Moon passes 5.6 SSW of Regulus (0 Virgo) at 6:53 am and 8.3 degrees SSW of Mars (4 Virgo 21) at 2:16 pm. This means the Moon is visible beyond both Regulus and Mars by sunset tonight.

As one of the four royal stars of ancient times Regulus marked the June Solstice, or zero Cancer, in 2345 BC.  About 2,160 years ago the sign of Leo began to overlay Regulus and just last November 2011 the seasonal sign of Virgo began a 2,160 year overlay over Regulus for the first in time in about 24,000 years. Interestingly, 0 Gemini is now overlaying part of the Pleiades, though some of the stars are still in the seasonal sign of 29 degrees Taurus. O Gemini is exactly 90 degrees from 0 Virgo telling us that Regulus and the Pleiades are at a nearly perfect 90 degree angle.

Venus enters the sign of Gemini at 8:18 am and passes 0.4 degrees SSW of Alcyone, the brightest star in the Pleiades star cluster at 3:00 pm. Considering the Pleiades straddle both Gemini and Taurus it suggests we are experiencing an integration of these two archetypal energies that includes the stars of the Pleiades.

Three stars in the Pleiades, Alcyone, Atlas, and Pleione, have already moved into the first degree of Gemini.  Alcyone also referred to as “The Central One” or Eta Tauri by astronomers, is the brightest star of the seven primary stars of the Pleiades, a.k.a. the Seven Sisters, and is sometimes used to represent the whole group of stars. However, six other Pleiadian stars are still in the last degree of seasonal Taurus, including Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Merope, Taygete and Sterope or Asterope. (See April 23)

In the ancient Arabic world the Pleiades were artistically depicted as a cluster of grapes symbolizing the secrets of the universe. The Mayans saw the Pleiades as “Tzab” or the rattle of the snake. The Mayans were tracking when the Sun and Pleiades were conjunct at the zenith point, on their ‘days of no shadows’ when the Sun is directly overhead and casts no shadow. Once every 26,000 years this occurs signalling the end and beginning of the 26,000 years precessional cycle as described in the May 2011 Celestial Timings Archives. Other cultures associated the Pleiades with rain, tears, war symbols, engineering, architecture, and the healing arts….

April 04, Wednesday.  Mercury (23 Pisces 51) stations direct at 3:11 am beginning a new synodic cycle with a Pisces overtone that will last until August 26, 2012. The archetypal energy of the mind now being integrated into the collective psyche of humanity for the next four months is Pisces. Archetypal Pisces is the expression of the mind that operates from the right brain feminine perspective and the feeling function. This is about healthy integration of the feelings as a way to experience a healthy functioning mind. This includes compassion and being willing to embrace the unknown and trust the knowing that exists beyond logic and reason.

Said another way, the world is the result of what we believe and perceive reality to be. We are dreaming the dream of our life experience and reality in every moment, and we can change that experience by simply changing what we believe, or what we are thinking on a daily basis, as that is what we are dreaming into existence.

As mentioned in the February and March Timings quantum physics has proven that this reality, the reality we live in, is not as real as it appears. The fact is the observer affects what is being observed through their intention and attention. The Pisces Mercury overtone is a reminder that we are responsible for our experiences as they are generated from our beliefs, expectations, and perceptions of reality.

What limiting beliefs and thoughts do you have that hold you back from expressing your true brilliance? What if you could shift those beliefs along with any self-judgment so you have genuine compassion for yourself and others? Are you willing to let go of habitual thinking that is based in limiting judgments and old paradigm limitations? What if doing so helped you to experience an entirely new reality that is fulfilling and fun?

Additional events this month include more on the Out of Bounds Venus, The Pleiades, Atlas, Mercury and Mars going direct, Mercury repassing Uranus and squaring Pluto for the third time. It is interesting to note that as Mercury came back to be with Uranus the second time we had a BIG earthquake (7.6) in Mexico at the Spring Equinox.

April also features the Great Diamond, Spica, Arcturus, and Saturn, a special Friday the 13th, the Taurus New Moon, Jupiter in Taurus, and Sacred Sexuality, Lyrid Meteor Shower, the royal stars Aldebaran and Antares, the Sacred Hoop of Stars with the belt of Orion and Bellatrix inside the Hoop and Castor and Pollux marking the outer ring.

Plus, a preview of the upcoming Uranus Pluto Square exact for the first time in June. More about the rare Venus Transit also in June, how to prepare and what the special dates are leading up to this special event, including the 7th Venus gate where she retrieves the vestment that symbolizes the reclamation of her Divine Authority.  And we begin to look at the important Annular Solar Eclipse on May 20 with the Pleiades (this is a SUPER BIG deal on many levels and I will explain why) and Jupiter with the Pleiades in early June (a once in 12 year occurrence). See the Paid Subscriber Celestial Timings for the rest of the Daily Timings, Audios, Videos and Star Maps covering all the above and more. Details are HERE

April Celestial Timings Template (Times PST)

April 01, Sunday. The waxing Moon passes 5.8 degrees SSW of the Beehive Cluster at 4:00 pm.

April 02, Monday. Venus (29 Taurus) is passing by the Pleiades today and tomorrow and the waxing Moon is visible approaching Regulus tonight. Venus also moves beyond the boundaries of where the Sun can rise or set on the horizon and will remain “out of bounds” until June 2 reaching maximum “out of bounds” declination by early May at 27 North 49. The Sun can only reach 23 N 26 at the Summer Solstice.

April 03, Tuesday.  The waxing Moon passes 5.6 SSW of Regulus (0 Virgo) at 6:53 am and 8.3 degrees SSW of Mars (4 Virgo 21) at 2:16 pm. Venus enters the sign of Gemini at 8:18 am and passes .40 degrees SSE of Alcyone, the brightest star in the Pleiades star cluster at 3:00 pm.

April 04, Wednesday.  Mercury (23 Pisces 51) stations direct at 3:11 am.

April 05, Thursday.  Venus (2 Gemini 13) squares Neptune (2 Pisces 13) at 6:49 pm.

April 06, Friday. The Full Moon (17 Libra 23) is exact at 12:19 pm. The waning crescent Moon passes 1.8 degrees WSW of Spica (24 Libra) at 10:00 pm.

April 07, Saturday. The waning crescent Moon passes 6 degrees SSW of Saturn (26 Libra 49) at 3:15 am. Venus (3 Gemini 55) squares Mars (3 Virgo 55) at 4:36 pm.

April 08, Sunday. Easter.  The waning crescent Moon (15 Scorpio 01) is opposite Jupiter (15 Taurus 01) at 8:08 am.

April 09, Monday.  The waning crescent Moon) is conjunct the North Node (5 Sagittarius 54 at 5:49 pm and Venus is exactly conjunct the South Node (5 Gemini 54) at 11 :15 pm tonight. All of this is occurring in the area of the sky near the stars of Antares (10 Sagittarius) and Aldebaran (10 Gemini). Both of these royal stars are also Behenian stars.

April 10, Tuesday. Pluto (9 Capricorn 34) stations retrograde at 9:23 am.  The waning crescent Moon passes 5.0 degrees N of Antares at 11:00 pm.

April 11, Wednesday.  The waning crescent Moon crosses Galactic Center at 0 Capricorn at 10:02 am. Venus is at greatest latitude N of the ecliptic plane today (3.4 degrees). This is related to Venus being outside the boundaries of where the Sun can rise and set.

April 12, Thursday. Venus (8 Gemini 07) squares Chiron (8 Pisces 07) at 3:06 pm. The waning Moon passes 1.3 degrees SSW of Pluto (9 Capricorn 34) at 2:30 am.

April 13, Friday. The Last Quarter Moon (23 Capricorn 55) is at 3:50 am. Mars (3 Virgo 41) stations direct at 8:53 pm in a close opposition to Neptune (2 Pisces 28)

April 14, Saturday. Venus passes 9.8 degrees NNW of Aldebaran at 4:00 am, in the first of a triple conjunction (June 20, July 9).

April 15, Sunday. The Sun (26 Aries 11) is opposite retrograde Saturn (26 Libra 11) at 11:26 am, moving from morning to evening sky though will not be visible in the morning sky until May 28. Saturn is also reaching its closest approach to the Earth, a.k.a perigee at 11:51 am. Mars passes 4.3 degrees E of Regulus (0 Virgo) at 11:00 pm.

April 16, Monday. The waning crescent Moon passes 5.7 degrees NNW of Neptune (2 Pisces 30) at 3:25 am and catches up to Chiron later that day (8 Pisces). Mercury moves into Aries at 3:42 pm.

April 17, Tuesday. Mercury’s return to Aries yesterday and approach to Uranus signals the movement of Mercury beyond the degrees of the its retrograde station happening on April 22.

April 18, Wednesday. The waning crescent Moon passes 7.0 degrees NNW of Mercury (1 Aries 48) at 12:28 pm and 5.2 degrees NNW of Uranus (5 Aries 58) at 8:45 pm.

April 19, Thursday. The Sun moves into Taurus at 9:12 am.

April 20, Friday. Mars (3 Virgo 55) and Neptune (2 Pisces 38) remain in close opposition within about 3 degrees until the end of the month.

April 21, Saturday. The Taurus New Moon (01 Taurus 35) is at 12:18 am.

April 22, Sunday. The waxing crescent Moon passes 2.5 degrees N of Jupiter (18 Taurus 16) at 10:10 am. Mercury passes 2.0 degrees SSE of Uranus (6 Aries 08) at 1:29 pm. Lyrid meteor showers, very favorable this year.

April 23, Monday.  The waxing crescent Moon passes 3.7 degrees SSE of the Pleiades (29 Taurus) at 11:00 am.

April 24, Tuesday. The waxing crescent Moon passes 5.0 degrees N of Aldebaran at 8:00 am and 5.7 degrees S of Venus (17 Gemini) at 8:36 pm.

April 25, Wednesday. Mercury (9 Aries 30) squares Pluto (9 Capricorn 30) at 7:51 am.

April 26, Thursday.  Venus is beginning her passage through the Horns of the Bull and is also in coming into zodiacal alignment with Bellatrix a star marking the left shoulder of Orion. Betelguese marks the right shoulder of Orion. Then Venus will be passing in zodiacal alignment with the belt stars or Orion before stationing retrograde at (23 Gemini 59) on May 15. This is very near the Southern tip of the Bull’s horns near a fixed star called Al Hecka.

April 27, Friday. The waxing crescent Moon passes 10.6 degrees SSW of Pollux (22 Cancer) at 8:00 pm.

April 28, Saturday. Astronomy Day, celebrated since 1973, in April or May on the Saturday closest to the First Quarter Moon. Waxing Moon passes 6.0 degrees SSW of the Beehive Cluster at 10:00 pm.

April 29, Sunday. The Leo First Quarter Moon (09 Leo 29) is at 2:57 am.

April 30, Monday. Venus shows greatest illuminated area at 2:00 (19 Gemini 56) am. At 4:00 pm Venus (20 Gemini 13) is at her greatest magnitude at -4.5. The waxing Moon passes 5.7 degrees SSW of Regulus (0 Virgo) at 5:00 pm.

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Timeline Convergence And the Hopi/Tibetan Prophecy

Those of you who have been reading the Celestial Timings over the years have probably figured out by now that I am fascinated by the mysteries of time. I have confessed this in past Timings as well as the fact that I did create something called the Celestial Timings. This means I am engaging and writing about cosmic or celestial time as it relates to Earth time in the work I do and I love it!

I have been gathering and compiling some of the things I have written specifically about the nature of  Time Here. Plus, I am continuing to gather more of these sharings on Time from over the years and will add them as well. I might have already confessed that my favorite Sy/Fy shows are ones that deal with the many variations on Time, Time Travel, Time Dilation, Time Paradoxes, Parallel Time, Multiple Timelines and so on.

Recently I have been led to review some of the information from Project Camelot about Project Looking Glass also referred to as the Montauk Project. That led me to find the recent interviews that occurred in January and February of 2012 presenting new information about these projects and the nature of Time, Time Travel and our Current Time including December 21, 2012.

It is interesting to note that December 21, 2012 is not especially astrologically significant as compared to the rare Annular eclipse on May 20, 2012 with the Pleiades, and the partial Lunar Eclipse on June 4, 2012 just hours before the Venus transit over the Sun – that won’t happen again for 105 years. Even this December Solstice is NOT as significant as the one in 2010 or last year. However, there is a lot of information out there talking about the significance of the December Solstice 2012 that seems to exist beyond Celestial Time as we understand it.

I recommend checking out the newly posted interviews along with a lot of fascinating archived material on the Project Camelot website. The newest ones are with an ex-navy SEAL, Bill Wood and another video Q and A session with Bill Wood, David Wilcock and Bill Ryan, hosted by Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot. These interviews have a great deal of inside information about the Time Projects and how they relate to NOW. This is truly mind altering, and may radically shift your point of view.  This information is presenting possibilities that many of us have long suspected and are now being confirmed. You can watch the interviews HERE and HERE.

If you are willing to take the time to investigate this information it will further reorient your perspective about Time and how Time has been manipulated by the powers that be. Plus these links will lead you to more links and videos on these subjects that are fascinating to contemplate. And if you Google words like Montauk Project you may find yourself discovering all kinds of interesting information. HERE is just one example.

My Personal Summary 
For those who do not want to invest 6 or more hours engaging this material, following is my summary of the videos. This summary is sketchy at best but hopefully will inspire you to do further research into these matters. I recommend you do your own research and see where it leads you. For me personally much of this information is a HUGE confirmation for experiences I have had since I was a child around the mysteries of Time.

The above videos cover a wide range of topics including formerly Top Secret information around explorations in Time Travel. Did you ever see the TV show Stargate SG-1? The show is one of my favorites because of all the cool Time stuff and the ability to travel to other worlds in seconds. I always felt that the show was based on real military projects and apparently according to these interviews my suspicions may be correct  especially around the issues of Time Travel, Time Dilation, Multiple Timelines etc.

Many of the Time related projects talked about in the interviews have connections with Einstein, Rosen, Podolsky, also known as Einstein-Rosen Bridges, or ERBs and involved working with super high tech physics and devices that were specifically engineered to look through, or travel through time, and then figure out what actions would manipulate future events toward a desired result.

Explorations in Time and Timeline Manipulation
Specially trained personnel were sent through time (using highly sophisticated technology) to gather information for the purposes of manipulating outcomes in Time by changing things before they happened, thus effecting and even creating new future timelines. However, it turned out that everyone they sent forward through time was unable to travel beyond December 21, 2012 as they hit a blip, or a timeline contraction, where everything went white or blanked out. It was as if all the timelines funneled into a convergence point or singularity. Additionally, all those who came to this point in time also reported ecstatically blissful experiences.

In an effort to understand this phenomenon several complex computer programs were developed to find a way around this apparent contraction point of Time. All the calculations and all the research came to the same conclusion that Dec 21, 2012 is a convergence point of ALL Timelines into what Terrence McKenna referred as Timewave Zero or the Zero Point. (See March 5 and 18). Beyond this zero point it seems that there are two possible scenarios that could emerge and they are referred to as Timeline 1 and Timeline 2. Details are HERE

Timeline 2 – Results in Catastrophe
The elite powers that be, or more accurately the elite powers that were, have been working to ensure that this is the Timeline that happens going forward from Dec 21, 2012 because they are prepared to survive the catastrophic ending this Timeline entails so they can continue to rule and dominate Earth.. (Think last year’s movie 2012 and you get a sense of the level of catastrophe this Timeline is about) However, so far all indications are, leading up to now and beyond, Timeline 2 is NOT the Timeline that is destined to occur and these powers that were have reached their endgame, thought they haven’t given up yet. Because, of course their survival depends on this Timeline being the one that occurs.

Timeline 1 – Results in Ascension
This is the Ascension Timeline and the one we are destined to experience.

These two timelines describe the two paths or possibilities found on Prophecy Rock in Hopi land. (I personally have been to visit Prophecy Rock and see what is inscribed there.) The Hopis refer to the two different paths as the path of the two-hearted and the path of the one-hearted. The path of the two-hearted ends in destruction. The path of the one-hearted ends in ascension.

My current understanding of the path of the two-hearted is these are the ones who have a hidden agenda for domination and control and have been desperately doing their best to manipulate the Timelines toward the path of destruction.

Love and The Ascension Timeline
The Ascension Timeline is inclusive, going beyond the dualistic battle between good and evil. It goes beyond the competitive model of one timeline winning over the other. Instead the Ascension Timeline transforms ALL life so that it vibrates and expresses its pure essence of love and light. Timeline 2 remains in the world of duality. Timeline 1 transcends duality and polarity and even transcends our current experience of Time. In Timeline 1, Time as we know it will no longer exist.

Co-creating with the Ascension Timeline
One way to be a co-creator with the ascension timeline is to operate from LOVE. The more we love, the more we express love, and the more we live love, the easier the transition into this Timeline will be.

The more fearful we are, the more attached we are to the old forms, the more we are hanging onto what has been – the more challenging it will be until the shift is complete. What seems to be clear is this change is happening in spite of anything we do or don’t do and ultimately no one will be left behind. All of humanity will be uplifted and their DNA transformed to operate in this new ascension vibration.

This is the Time we have been Waiting For
As the Hopi Elder’s reminded us some years back…We are the ones we have been waiting for…and we are finally arriving at the Time we have been waiting for as well. Based on the physics described in the above videos and other material I have shared over the years in the Celestial Timings it is clear that it is possible and probably that everything will change in the blink of an eye returning us to the state of love and bliss that is naturally ours to experience.

No matter how chaotic and terrifying world events become the most important activity any of us can do is stay centered in out hearts and in love. In essence its like a final test that we can not fail. However, the more practiced we are in living love and compassion the easier the test will be.

That is why I personally am consciously re-committing to step-up my personal practice of loving kindness towards myself and others every day. Truly this is the greatest gift anyone can bring to the world at this time and if just one percent of the world population were committed to engaging in one loving, kind act every day we would ease through this transition into the New Earth on a master wave of love, cooperation and kindness, and all the competitive ways of the old world would naturally fall away.

HERE is an interesting interview about Hopi/Tibetan prophecy and the times we are already experiencing.

Personal Note: I love that the subject of Time is featured in the March 2012 Celestial Timings as synchronistically this is the month I am turning 56 and I was born in 1956. For those of you have read my mother’s conscious death story you may remember her communication from the other side was the date 1956 that  infiltrated her computer on every document and every program the first time we turned on her computer three days after she died in 1998. Merilyn’s story is HERE. The other thing about turning 56 is I am in a 19 year Nodal Return and an eight year Venus Return – something Shamanic Astrology describes as a Magical Time and I have been definitely feeling the magic and miracles all around me.

You may think it is odd that I describe the writing of the Celestial Timings this way but the reality is I have no idea what I will write about until I am writing them…and the theme of Time is what wanted to be written this month even though I had initially thought I would be writing about something else. Interestingly, in the last 16 years of writing the Celestial Timings this is the first time the March Timings have been specifically about the mysteries of Time in this way.

And…yes Time and the Timings from the perspective of Cosmic Time as it relates to our Earth Time is what I write every month. However, the essence or other mysteries of Time in most months is subtle at best – though as I mentioned before I have dedicated whole months of Celestial Timings to the mysteries of  Time over the years.

Having said all that I find myself tempted to say How Timely? or Its about Time! And in many ways it is but its also about moving beyond Time…the New Earth will not exist in Time as we know it. Time will soon be a thing of the past AND the past is a concept of Time, so when we step out of the construct of Time to our true essence – none of this will have any relevance from that point of view. I know it boggles my mind too and I think to myself a whole new experience of Time or rather Non-Time – how cool is that?!

March 2012 Daily Celestial Timings (All Times Are Pacific Time unless otherwise noted)

Check out this video from Sky and Telescope showing the 6 or 7 brightest objects in the Night Sky just 45 minutes after Sunset as March Begins.  And this Video from March 5 – 11 featuring the Venus Jupiter Conjunction. Both Videos are Five Minutes long and are standing in for several sky maps this month as these videos give a fabulous visual overview of what is happening.

This is a wild month of Cosmic Events. Therefore, I have included extra audios for paid subscribers totalling 17. These audios are covering the Overview of the Month and each week, several on Aries, including Sun and Uranus, three on Taurus and Jupiter in Taurus, Eris the dwarf planet in Aries, and the Spring Equinox. To find out how to get a subscription to the Celestial Timings check out this link.

Mar 01, Thursday. The North Node (9 Sagittarius 29) is still within minutes of being exactly conjunct Antares (9 Sagittarius 55) and the South Node (9 Gemini 29) is closely conjunct Aldebaran (9 Gemini 57). The Nodes remain within one degree of these royal stars until March 7 and within 3 degrees of them for the rest of this month.

Remember a nodal alignment with any one area of the sky can only happen every 18.6 years. It was the summer of 1993 when the Nodes were last aligned with the Silver Gate of Aldebaran and the Golden Gate of Antares. From the perspective of linear time as we tend to currently experience time now – the Nodes are a symbol of the past (South Node) flowing toward a future destiny (North Node). From a another point of view All Time exists simultaneously. (See March 28)

This is a reminder as stated in the February Timings that the destiny of humanity and the Earth has an opportunity to come into alignment with the mysteries of a balanced expression of the Heart (the Scorpion) and the Mind (the eye of the Bull). As the Earth’s solstices continue to align with the Galactic Plane we are in a time of increasing High Magic. The 19 year Nodal cycle crossed the Galactic Alignment last year creating opportunities for further awakening the fulfillment of humanity’s divine destiny and the evolution of our beloved planet. In the simultaneity of Time this already exists, however as we navigate linear time the thing to remember is we experience this as an evolutionary process…

Mar 02, Friday. Mercury enters Aries crossing the Spring Equinox marker in the sky at 3:41 am. Mercury is the messenger and in Aries the messages are intended to awaken our inner knowing – the kind of knowing that comes without hesitation and is acted on without thinking it through. This is about trusting and acting on what is presenting itself even if it doesn’t make logical sense at the time but feels perfect in every other way.

Aries energy is quick and decisive – intuitively and spontaneously acting before reflecting. This is why it is a great time to take any action that inspires you and is intended to move energy toward the fulfillment of your soul’s purpose. Also if you haven’t backed up your computer or other important data recently it is time to act on that now as Mercury goes Retrograde in the wee hours of March 12.

March begins with a powerful Grand Earth Trine between Mars (Virgo), Pluto (Capricorn) and Jupiter (Virgo). The closest aspects of the trine are lasting into April. Venus joins the trine when she enters Taurus on March 5 traveling through Taurus until April 3. Venus catches up to an exact conjunction with Jupiter on March 13.  This Grand Trine has been forming in various configurations since last summer.

It is helpful to remember that a Grand Earth Trine is grounding and stabilizing. This is because the earth element governs manifested structural form. Earth has to do with density and things that last over time or take a long time to change. Sustained successful endeavors that last many years are grounded in the practical nature of earth. This element manifests through our senses and is often related to the time it takes to integrate and assimilate an experience. Earth is known for not only being practical but also productive, dependable and resourceful (Capricorn) teaching us to savor and enjoy the embodied experience of life (Taurus) while also honoring it as sacred (Virgo).

The earth element expresses through the sensation function (one of two perceiving functions – the other is intuition associated with the fire element) as described by Carl Jung. FYI…based on this model the two judging functions are thinking air) and feeling (water).

Sensation refers to a focus on direct sense experience, perception of details, and concrete facts: what one can see, touch, and smell. Tangible, immediate experience is given priority over discussion or analysis of experience. Sensation asks the question “What exactly am I perceiving?” Sensing types tend to respond to the immediate situation and deal effectively and efficiently with all sorts of crises and emergencies. They generally work better with tools and materials than do any of the other types. More HERE (See March 31)

The challenge with too much earth is it is slow to change and sometimes even rigid or inflexible and yet earth is essential to solidify and sustain any middle world manifestation. With all the rapid changes now occurring this configuration in the earth element this Grand Trine is a great opportunity for implementing balance – allowing for sustainable changes that are also sacred and pleasurable. To gain maximum results from this Trine it might help to lie or sit on the Earth, spend time in a garden, walk in nature, connect with an earthy drum beat or chant, or engage any other grounding practices you might know. (See Mar 5, 10, 11, 13, and 31)

Mar 03, Saturday. Retrograde Mars (13 Virgo 39) is opposite the Sun (13 Pisces) at 12:10 pm beginning a new cycle of Mars. This means the sacred masculine is exploring the mysteries of Service to Spirit that celebrate the sacred especially as it manifests through the feminine principle. Mars opposite the Sun in Pisces is illuminating the mysteries of sacred service through heartfelt compassion and the ability to create a safe space that helps others to heal and know their value. This suggests this is a time for the masculine principle to truly forgive itself for all the unforgivable ways it has behaved in the past including domination, control, wars, torture, manipulation, greed, and disconnection from the sacred nature of the masculine principle.

Forgiving the unforgiveable emerges in part from the conscious realization that ultimately there are no victims. There are only co-creators and sometimes as co-creators we are unconscious of what we are co-creating. Thus, genuine forgiveness must start with us because there is nothing we have ever experienced that we did not somehow co-create either consciously or unconsciously. This does not mean those who have caused harm to others are not still responsible for their behavior and what they have helped to create. It is simply a recognition that when we understand the principles of forgiveness we are no longer victims and we are awakening to the reality of greater conscious co-creation and personal empowerment.

Some really great forgiveness practices and links to websites are below. Truly Forgiveness will create greater ease as we head toward the Converging Timelines at the end of this year. I am listing three methods of forgiveness that can work separately or all together. (See March 4)

Radical Forgiveness developed by Colin Tipping. Here is a link to free downloadable worksheets on Radical Forgiveness. Reading the book, doing the worksheets and engaging in the offerings of this website can be forever life changing. Some might argue that forgiveness is unnecessary and from some points of view that may be true but in our human experience the practice of forgiveness, especially self-forgiveness is empowering and liberating.

Stauffer Method of Forgiveness…as another option and style of forgiveness work. http://www.crtraining.org/library/forgiveness and http://bolstablog.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/griceo

Hoʻoponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is a simple, easy ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness. The distilled essence of this process is in four phrases said silently to yourself as much as possible, all the time, or whenever you remember to say it. “I love you. I am sorry. Please Forgive me. Thank you!” These links have more. http://www.hooponoponohelp.com/  And http://www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfbkG97H7Q and ho’oponopono meditation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lil63u-xB70&feature=related interview of Dr Ihaleakala Hew Len http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xCmvZZFQI0&feature=related

Mar 04, Sunday.  This is a day that commands us to March Forth in Love and Compassion for the purpose of celebrating, enjoying and savoring life. Plus this is the day I celebrate my 56th Birthday. YAY... 

Venus (28 Aries) is opposite retrograde Saturn (28 Libra) at 3:18 am highlighting the disintegration and annihilation of current shadowed structures that deplete the Earth and the feminine principle. Venus in Aries is a powerful Warrior Solar Goddess fighting to right wrongs and to establish the cause of freedom and justice for all.

Saturn is about growth through encountering the limits of this reality. The growth and maturation Saturn inspires is helped by assessing what works and what doesn’t work. From there it is about making new choices that further support what is working and making choices that help facilitate the fulfillment of our current life intent.

Interestingly, healthy Saturn asks the Warrior Goddess Venus to let go of preconceived ideas and beliefs of right and wrong, or good and bad. Saturn asks Venus to take back any projections that limit her experience of her full power as a divinely inspired protector of the cosmic order of life and the protector of the Earth. The Amazon Warrior knows it’s not about being perfect or having to do it all, rather, it is about each person doing their part that creates the momentum for positive impact.

The Moon enters Leo at 3:18 pm transmitting the mysteries of radical radiant self-love, self-confidence, self-approval and self-acceptance. The first thing to remember is self-love is not arrogance, hubris or insolence.

Radical, revolutionary healthy self-love is only truly possible when we are willing to take personal responsibility for who we are, what we are experiencing and how we are showing up in the world. Keeping a journal of ways that you are approving of yourself, accepting yourself, and showing up with courage and confidence that naturally inspires others are all healthy expressions of true self-love.

Self-forgiveness is an essential element in experiencing genuine self-love. Guilt and shame keep us from loving ourselves, as do anger and rage at what others have seemingly done to us.

Self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others brings a sense of worthiness, peace, and well-being. Be kind and gentle with yourself, just as you would with a small child. Forgive yourself for the mistakes you have made, for the hurt you have caused yourself and others. This is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and the emerging New Earth paradigm by living and expressing self-love born out of self-forgiveness, kindness, acceptance, and compassion for our human challenges. (See March 3)

March 2012 Celestial Timings (I have made lots of changes to this Template as I wrote the daily Timings so this is a sketchy outline at best)

Mar 01, Thursday. The North Node (9 Sagittarius 29) is still within minutes of being exactly conjunct Antares (9 Sagittarius 55) and the South Node (9 Gemini 29) is closely conjunct Aldebaran (9 Gemini 57). The Nodes remain within one degree until March 7 and within 3 degrees the rest of this month.

Mar 02, Friday. Mercury enters Aries crossing the Spring Equinox marker in the sky at 3:41 am.

Mar 03, Saturday. Retrograde Mars (13 Virgo 39) is opposite Sun (13 Pisces) at 12:10 pm

Mar 04, Sunday. Venus is opposite retrograde Saturn at 3:18 am and Moon enters Leo at 3:18 pm.

Mar 05, Monday. Venus moves into Taurus at 2:25 am, Mercury passes Uranus at 3:36 am (the first of three conjuncts due to the Mercury Retrograde beginning on March 12.

Mar 06, Tuesday. The Moon moves into Virgo at 7:27 pm.

Mar 07 Wednesday. The Moon conjuncts Mars (12 Virgo) at 3:28 pm

Mar 08, Thursday. The Virgo Full Moon (18 Virgo 13) is exact at 1:39 am. The Moon moves into Libra crossing the September Equinox marker at 8:50 pm.

Mar 09, Friday. Moon passes by Spica and retrograde Saturn (28 Libra) at 7:09 pm.

Mar 10, Saturday. Moon moves into Scorpio.

Mar 11, Sunday. Venus (5 degrees) is catching up to Jupiter (9 Taurus) on March 13.

Mar 12, Monday. Moon moves into Sagittarius at 11:53 pm passing by Antares and the North Node.

Mar 13, Tuesday. Venus and Jupiter (9 Taurus 25) meet at 10:54 pm

Mar 14, Wednesday. The Sagittarius Last Quarter Moon (25 Sagittarius) is exact at 6:25 pm. Grand Earth Trine includes Venus and Jupiter in Taurus trine Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn are all trine each other.

Mar 15, Thursday. The Moon moves into Capricorn crossing the Galactic Cross at 3:24 am and catching up to Pluto at 8 pm and adding its energy to the Grand Earth Trine.

Mar 16, Friday. Jupiter and Venus are now only 2 degrees away from each other. Venus has passed Jupiter is starting to pull away from Jupiter though due to the Venus Retrograde starting in May will slow down and return to be within 4 degrees of Jupiter in June. Both will have entered Gemini.

Mar 17, Saturday. The Moon moves into Aquarius at 9:11 am.

Mar 18, Sunday. Retrograde Mercury comes back to conjunct Uranus at 10:24 am.

Mar 19, Monday. Happy Spring Equinox. Moon enters Pisces at 5:05 pm and Sun enters Aries at 10:15 pm.

Mar 20, Tuesday.

Mar 21, Wednesday. Sun conjunct retrograde Mercury at 12:22 pm

Mar 22, Thursday. Moon conjunct Mercury at 4:50 am, Aries New Moon (2 Aries 22) at 7:37 am, Moon conjunct Uranus at 11:36 am and the Moon squares Pluto at 9:38 pm.

Mar 23, Friday. Mercury enters Pisces at 6:22 am

Mar 24, Saturday. Sun conjuncts Uranus at 11:21 am and the Moon moves into Taurus at 2:43 pm

Mar 25, Sunday. Moon conjuncts Jupiter at 3:02 pm

Mar 26, Monday. Moon conjuncts Venus at 12:26 pm

Mar 27, Tuesday. Moon conjuncts the Pleiades as it enters into Gemini at 3:43 am.

Mar 28, Wednesday. Moon passes by Aldebaran and the South Node

Mar 29, Thursday. Sun squares Pluto at 12:54 pm and Moon crosses the Galactic Cross at the Galactic Edge as it enters Cancer at 4:07 am

Mar 30, Friday. The Cancer First Quarter Moon (10 Cancer 30) at 12:41 pm

Mar 31, Saturday. Venus is nearing the Pleiades

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