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Happy October 2024
We are living in Alchemical Times. What has been is being transformed. The shadow is coming to light. Through our attention and intention we are co-creating a New Earth, a New Reality, a New way of Being. The base elements of this reality are transmuted and transformed. We chose to be here for this very experience and to assist in the greatest Alchemical Transformation that has ever occurred as far as we know.
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One example, is the October 2 Annular Eclipse occuring as an important feature of this Alchemical Cauldron and the Aries Full Moon bringing us back to the April Total Solar Eclipse with Chiron.
Venus and the Moon Meet near Zuben Elgenubi
Chiron in Aries Healing the Wounds of Injustice
Be sure to check out the Video Below on any Annular Solar Eclipse and especially the one happening on October 02.
Sep 30 is the exact Sun Mercury conjunction (8° Libra) on the far side of the Sun from the Earth’s perspective within just over 2° of the Annular Solar Eclipse and the star Porrima happening on Oct 2.
This is paving the way and adding additional Alchemy to the upcoming eclipse.
Mercury represents the mind, perception, communication and how we creatively communicate who we are through what we think, say and do.
Mercury with the Sun is with the source of light magnifying opportunities to initiate new ways of thinking, speaking and communicating.
The Alchemy of Kindness A Message from Mercury and the Sun
We are about to further energize the powerful Alchemical Cauldron of Transformational Change with the Annular Solar Eclipse on Oct 2.
Then on Oct 17 we have an Aries Full Moon very near Chiron illuminating the long forgotten energy of Aries as a Warrior for Kindness. I will share more about this in my Aries Full Moon video but it feels helpful to further activate the seeds of Kindness in this New Moon Eclipse.
Gavin Whitsett, author of the book Guerilla Kindness (the title definitely has an Aries Flavor) says:
“A whole host of studies have focused on whether people who are treated kindly are likely to pass on that kind-heartedness… Now here’s what’s truly fascinating. Even witnesses to kindness, people who see somebody else being treated to a small courtesy, for example, are stimulated to behave more kindly. Thirty years of research confirm that kindness does indeed have a marvelous ripple effect.”
This is a great time to commit to being kind. Practice kindness in some small way everyday. Say something kind. Do something kind. Radiate kindness in your smile, or in an acknowledging gesture. This will change your life and all life around you.
Even if you have already seen them – you might find it a helpful reminder to revisit the Annular Eclipse videos below as a way to support this potent opportunity to further the alchemical changes already at play and that we can amp up through kindness as we co-create a new reality with these energies.
Because as mentioned previously, we are living in Alchemical Times. What has been – is being transformed. The shadow is coming to light. Through our attention and intention we are co-creating a New Earth, a New Reality, a New way of Being. Let’s make sure Kindness is leading the way!
Pluto is going direct on October 11 for its last forward pass through Capricorn in over 200 years.
Earlier this year I shared in an interview about my long Pluto Journey and being pushed hard by the universe to stand up for myself. So easy to stand for others and not so easy to say NO or stand for myself. See video below or at this link
I am also noting how I am feeling about myself and the circumstances of the world that surround me giving myself permission to feel the grief, the loss, the anger, the rage and the uncertainity that scares me. This also includes saying YES to what lights me up adding to the alchemy continuing to change my life in empowering ways.
I share this – as my hope is everyone seeing this is recognizing the alchemy happening for you and even though it may require you letting go of an old identity, a way of being, a kind of work you have done for a long time – maybe even decades – a relationship and/or way of relating, or something else, the empowerment on the other side is so worth it!
Especially once you get through the grief. Pluto does ask us to be with our grief so we can move through it and not just repress or suppress it.
Meanwhile Peter and I are about to celebrate our 18 year wedding anniversary on Oct 22 and even though Pluto is affecting us both our marriage is better than ever. Everyday we are celebrating how much we love sharing our growing love and appreciation for what we are co-creating. It is so Libra….
Many have found our story to be inspiring so… Here is a link to the our Secret Wedding and why we got married when Venus and Mars were with the Sun in 2006. Our intention has magically worked better than we ever imagined. https://cayelincastell.com/sacred-union/
Here is a brilliant (and timely) podcast speaking into transforming our emotional inheritance. I shared this before and its worth sharing again. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sounds-true-insights-at-the-edge/id307934313?i=1000570473942!
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Oct 11, 2024 Pluto stations Direct at 29˚ Capricorn for the last time in the next 2 centuries
A shamanic moment designed to alchemically transform all that is no longer working in our greater collective and through the pillars of our society including, education, government, health care, and economics. What is worth taking forward and what must we release, dismantle and die to so we can create a new way of being that celebrates and supports all life here on Earth.
The Still Point of Pluto – the shift in direction, the shift in awareness, a rebirth point.
Pluto (29°Capricorn 38′) stations direct On Oct 11. The Moon is passing Pluto earlier in the day intensifying and illuminating this Still Point station of Pluto.
This Still Point (a.k.a mid-point of the retrograde cycle) is a time when the Phoenix prepares to rise from the ashes of what has been into what is birthing. The Phoenix chooses to die to its old form purposefully diving into the fire of transformational change.
This is about any process of death and rebirth including choosing to die to all the fears and beliefs of the Old Earth, survival of the fittest, those who are strongest conquer and win. They are the ones who seemgingly are driven to amass power and control resources needed at the expense of others. What would it take for us to die to any linger beliefs we may carry within us around this limited perspective that does harm to others and the Earth.
We can always choose to cooperate with the process of rebirth especially when it is about new ways of sustainable living that supports ALL life not just an elite few.
One of the most challenging, scary places is the space between what is dying and what is birthing. The empty void where everything is and isn’t, where unmanifest potential exists before birthing into manifestation.
This is a natural process – even if we resist with all that we are – the Sun sets on the day that is – before rising on a new day. The seasons continue to change and we are powerless to stop it.
So why not surrender, trust the process and choose to plant the seeds of a New Earth, a new time, a new way of being? How is it we are now Rising from the ashes of the old into a brighter, more magical, more fulfilling new day, new way of being that is anchored in LOVE?
Oct 13, 2024. Sun 17˚ Libra 41’ opposite Chiron 17˚ Aries 41’. Transforming the wounds of our failing culture first within ourselves and then within the greater collective. The intent is so these wounds no longer define us but rather give us the strength to shine our healing light into the world so others feel inspired to do their own healing.
Oct 22, 2024. Sun enters Scorpio at 3:14 pm PDT activating the mysteries of death and rebirth, regeneration and the mysteries of edgewalking until Nov 22 when the Sun enters Sagittarius. More on Scorpio Edgewalking
What exactly is edgewalking? William Irwin Thompson describes edges as the place where things change, grow and evolve in his book The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light.
New growth appears on the edges of branches and stems so hanging out on the edges is where growth happens.
It does take courage and an ability to trust the process to be a successful Edgewalker – to be willing to die to the old and willing to explore beyond the edges of what is known and what is familiar. It also requires the release of attachments to what has been and embracing what is becoming birthing into the power and magic of who we truly are.
October 31, Thursday. Eve of All Saint’s Day – Halloween a.k.a Hallowmas or All Hallows Eve. Hallow in middle English means holy and Halloween means hallowed evening or Holy Night. There was a time when Halloween was not a set date on the Calendar but rather it was celebrated on the Full Moon nearest the exact astrological cross-quarter when the Sun reaches 15 Scorpio now occurring on November 7.
In Celtic traditions this time was known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in…sow is the same as wow) and was their New Year celebration. The cross-quarter between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice is when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.
Usually this is thought of as the veil between the living and the dead, however, more and more people are experiencing this as the veil between alternate realities and timelines. Approaching this holy time with reverence and clear intent is highly recommended.