My first trip to Mesa Verde, Colorado was when I was 8 or 9 years old. I remember feeling I had entered an alternate reality or timeline (though I wouldn’t have used those words back then). I felt as if I knew this place. It was a part of me and as I was recognizing the land and what had been created there – it was also recognizing me. It wasn’t something I could put into words then and even now all these years later I can only share the smallest bit of what it felt like to enter this strange ancient world.

I was thrilled when the ranger guiding our tour invited me to be the first one to climb the ladder up to one of the sites. Fearlessly and as if I had done this 1000’s of times I climbed the ladder and it felt so right!

I remember the ranger saying the people had just mysteriously vanished. In the 1960’s we were told they found corn still in the grinding stones along with other personal items as if they just vanished into thin air. They were there one day and gone the next. I remember thinking maybe alien spaceships came and got them or maybe they walked through a time portal entering the Twilight Zone.

In more recent years research indicates drought (climate change) over crowding and violent encounters with others may have played a part. It now seems likely many of them migrated to other more sustainable places to live. MORE about this HERE

Sacred Journey to Mesa Verde in May 2000

In 1996 my priestess community began a journey to wholeness with the intent to spiral back in time and space to heal the wounds of the divine feminine and masculine. Our mentor and facilitator was Nicole Christine and her guidance was the main phase of the journey would be complete in May of 2000.

When she shared that with the rest of us – I got to confirm that May 4/5, 2000 was a rare 7 planet line-up at a New Moon near the Beltane Cross-Quarter. Having worked with the Emerald Tablets – Mesa Verde – meaning Emerald Table – was calling us to complete our ceremonial journey there.

The magic of that journey goes beyond what I am about to share as I am doing my best to keep this on the shorter side.

Dream Magic
Early morning around 5 am on May 4, 2000 I woke suddenly from a dream that was extra vivid and viscerally real. We had spent the night at Mesa Verde (the Emerald Table) and we were getting up early for a New Moon ceremony and the super rare 7 visible planets alignment I mentioned (including the Sun and the Moon – not really planets but called as such for simplicities sake).

Of course because these planets were with the Sun – they were not visible. However, as you can see from the chart below the alignment was right near the exact May Cross-Quarter that occurs each year when the Sun reaches 15 Taurus.

Our sunrise ceremony included energizing a planetary Return to Wholeness while invoking the aspect of pleasure and beauty as our guiding principles. Read More

Station Points are Still Points
The retrograde and direct station of any planet represents one of two exact Still Points creating a nexus or connection point (a convergence, a coming together) linking two or more things – such as possibilities, inspiration, and ideas –  that ideally supports our personal and collective evolution.

TS Eliots’ poem on the Still Point is a wonderful description of the Still Point.

Any Retrograde is Similar to Pulling the Arrow Back on the Bow…

When an arrow is pulled back on the bow it is stepping back to gather strength and momentum for moving forward.  Literally what we see is the arrow moving away from its intended target for the purpose of gathering the necessary power designed to help swiftly propel it forward with aimed intent and purpose. It is a great reminder that stepping back to step forward helps us do so with greater clarity and confidence when done with awareness and intent.

On 17 September 2020 there is a Perigee New Moon at 25 Virgo on the 233 year anniversary of the signing of the Constitution and every year around September 17 the Sun returns also known as a Solar Return. See chart below.

Preamble to the USA Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Constitution of America, We the People.

September 17, 1787 (in 2020 that is 233 years ago) the approved Constitution was signed by thirty-nine delegates from twelve states (all but Rhode Island). Delegate John Dickinson, was ill and not present, so he had George read and sign his name by proxy.

George Washington, as president of the convention, was the first to sign it. The other delegates signed by state in strict congressional voting order. Washington, however, signed near the right margin, and so when the delegates ran out of space beneath his signature, they began a second column of signatures to the left.

Jackson, the convention secretary, also signed as a witness.

“…the movement of the Myth (in the United States) has been from theocracy to democracy, from frugality to consumerism, from severity to comfortableness, from communitarian self-sacrifice to preoccupation with the Gross National Product. In other words, when people talk about the American dream nowadays, they are thinking more of comfort, convenience, secure jobs, home and manicured lawns, and all the rest of modern amenities.”

What would it take for us to be willing to live this in our personal lives?

What would it take for this to be the reality we live going forward?

Honored that Dr Christiane Northrup read from this article in this video!

For those who are interested here is a Noon Chart for the Day the Constitution was signed. The Place should be Philadelphia so will hopefully get that updated soon but it won’t change this chart much!

https://www.stepping-into-sovereignty.com

Denebola is the brightest star marking the tail of the lion located around 21 Virgo 53 in 2020. It takes 72 years for a one degree shift meaning it will be about 8 or 9 years before Denebola reaches 22 Virgo.

The name Denebola is rooted in the word Deneb an Arabic word meaning tail. Over the centuries this star has had many different names or derivations of its current name. More at this link.

Denebola is the third brightest star in the Lion constellation, about 36 light years from Earth, with 75% greater mass than our Sun and twelve times the luminosity. Denebola’s visual magnitude is + 2.14 so it is easily visible to the naked eye.

It was considered to be a season changer because when Denebola started rising into the morning sky the heat was beginning to diminish from the days and the cold began to diminish when Denebola disappeared as described by the Persian astronomer Al Biruni (973-1048 A.D.) who wrote: “The heat turns away when it rises, and the cold turns away when it disappears.” Read More

More exciting details are shared in the 17 minute video below…

Venus and the North Node come together once each year but it is usually only every 18.5 to 19 years that Venus and the North Node return together within any specific sign.

August 5, 2020 Venus and the North Node join together in Gemini in a rare occurrence when Venus is also in her synodic return at the beginning of her 19 month Gemini Synodic Cycle. This is the first of two conjunctions that is even more rare joining together again on May 17, 2021.

The last time Venus and the North Node were together in a Gemini Venus Synodic Cycle was in 1965 and then they only came together once. This won’t happen again for 100’s of years because 56 years from now in 2076 Venus will no longer be rising into the Gemini cycle having shifted to the Taurus Cycle in May of 2060. In the table above you can see Venus and the North Node can conjunct two times when in Gemini – BUT this only happens once in about 300 years or more when Venus is also in her Gemini Synodic Cycle.

Anyone turning age 56 between June 10, 2020 and January 14, 2022 is in a rare and powerful time where Venus and the North Node are returning to activate your personal divine destiny especially as it relates to either your emerging feminine identity (women) or your inner connection to the feminine within (men).

Collectively this means Venus and the North Node in Gemini as we are experiencing it now is a rare once in many lifetimes event that is worthy of our intention and attention.

This 17 minute video explains much more…

This link has the details of a remarkable Ceremonial Journey through the Venus Cycle designed to support your personal and our collective journey with this remarkable once in a life time opportunity with special rate offer into September.

And stay tuned for a second video featuring the Venus North Node conjunction in 2021 with the star Aldebaran…be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel (and click the bell symbol too) to get notified when this video goes live!

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Upcoming Mercury in Virgo Dates

Mercury in Virgo
Mercury is the shapeshifter magician who slips in and out of the realms of Time. This is especially evident during Mercury Retrograde in Virgo.

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The Shamanic Healing Power of Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Brief Introduction)

The journey to living a more fulfilling life begins with forgiving the unforgivable.
Whatever unforgivable things we have done to ourselves, done to others or have had done to us!
It is about clearing the slate and experiencing a NEW beginning
from a place of forgiveness, kindness and love. Read More

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2020 Certainly has been a time of unusual events that have altered our reality in ways many had never imagined.

2020 July Celestial Timings PDF for additional Details

June featured the beginning of a New Venus Cycle with Venus Retrograde most of the month. Mercury joined the retrograde line-up a few days before Venus stationed direct.

Then we had the second of 3 exact Jupiter Pluto conjunctions on June 29/30.

The first was April 4 and the last is November 12. Find out more here and how the Jupiter Pluto conjunction is the Alchemy that can liberate whatever might be holding us back – now. https://cayelincastell.com/the-alchemy-of-jupiter-and-pluto-conjunctions/

We begin July with Saturn returning to Capricorn helping to further facilitate the dismantling of all the old forms that are no longer sustainable in this reality. Jupiter expands this process and Pluto turbo charges our opportunity to die to the old and make room for the new. All three planets remain very close this entire month. Read More

Jupiter Pluto 2020 and Beyond e-book version with images and tables

Unedited Plain Text Version Below

The Alchemy of Jupiter and Pluto Conjunctions Natally
(applies to squares and oppositions too)

On April 5, 2020 my first grandbaby entered this world with a nearly exact Pluto Jupiter conjunction in Capricorn (shown here at 2.5 months old).

Two months earlier, in February 2020 I was on an astrology panel at the Conscious Life Expo sitting between two astrologer’s who were talking about how a Jupiter Pluto conjunction was an amazingly fortunate combination – especially for the economy.

Interestingly other astrologers have a different opinion about this including Peter Burns who researched this topic here and found that Jupiter Pluto is not always a great time economically and in fact often represents a collapse of the old structure (especially when in Cancer or Capricorn) ideally so something more vital and supportive to all on planet Earth can emerge. However, that hasn’t always been the case in the past. Read More

Jupiter Pluto 2020 and Beyond e-book version
with additional edits and part two
of this article taking a deep dive into what it means
to have this signature along with images and tables

Unedited version below…link above has additional tables and insights added and part two…

Astrological patterns are recognized in terms of the meaning
that we bring to inner and outer experiences,
although we are perhaps in turn predisposed to the quality
of our experiences by the patterns themselves.
However, rather than trying to pre-empt fate,
to ward it off or pretend it does not exist,
we may perhaps work with it as consciously as we are able:
thus we participate in the alchemical opus,
the hero’s journey, the philosopher’s stone,
or the finding of the long lost kingdom.

 Chiron and the Healing Journey
An Astrological and Psychological Perspective
By Melanie Reinhart

The above quote is from a book on Chiron (the Shamanic Healer) and YET also very much describes the Pluto process especially when Jupiter is involved. You might find it interesting that I wrote the article below before remembering this quote I have loved for over 20 years from Melanie Reinhart. I thought I was done writing this when suddenly I just had to find this quote about I remembered having something to do with the alchemical opus and philosopher’s stone. It feels like the perfect way to begin introducing the concepts shared below.

The intent of this article is to inspire all who read it to discover your own alchemical opus within – transforming your base elements into the golden light of who you truly are! Read More