Shadow moves in
obliterating light
Tis vesper hour when doves coo
And earth pulls to her dark sleep.
What awakens in this twilight landscape?
What outline rises, revealed in penumbra?
With nary a sharp edge or defining detail
Silhouettes disappear
Life melts into the dim
And dirty of no man’s land.
 
Hold the candle high.
Unexpected contours form.
New perceptions sigh into being.
Shadow opens confusion,
A portal to ‘what if’ and how
Obscures intention.
Black clouds of fear? 
 Or definition of light?
 
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”  – Ram Dass 

I write to you as Trump swears his fealty to god and country.  I write to you as his limited abilities to rule are exonerated by power and money.  The world we’ve known spins backward on her axis, and all the light there is must now be created by those who love this land, and respect one another. The poem above speaks that any wisdom will be illumined in and by the dark.  So let us enter the dark fearlessly as spirit warriors.  If our world must transform through shadow, so be it.  Let us fearlessly enter shadow to heal and nurture. We cannot go around or over, we must move through.  Beginning this perilous journey, let us reach out to one another, making ‘love’ a daily mantra.  Let us not give our power to those who violate through mis-use of power.  Let us listen only to the still soft voice within that holds our truth.  And let this ‘truth’ embrace acceptance, charity and grace.
 
Looking at the chart for the inauguration, there are several illuminating energies for the years ahead.  (Interesting that inauguration has a Latin root in augury, a sign or omen of things to come.). The Sun, as leader, is at its power at the top of the chart, alongside Pluto, God of death, darkness and transformation.  Side by side, in the 10th house of leadership, they march arm in arm to move this country onward.  Pluto, just now in Aquarius, with its themes of change, and rise of ‘we the people,’ also holds’ its shadow energies.  Both describe Trump quite perfectly: ruler of riches, enough power to be a felon and be president.  Enough power to rule through corruption and yet be elected.  Enough power to rape women and now control their access to healthcare.   Enough power to drill anything and everything without care of the eco system.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.