Weekly Astrology

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.

“Don’t just tell me your dreams show me.”

Wisdom Body Notes for Dec. 29-Jan. 10 by Samantha Cameron

This year ends poetically with a ‘Black Moon’ holding much synchronistic information, guidance, and ‘dark offerings’ that illuminate the coming year. Its Black title simply refers to it as being the second New Moon in a calendar month.  We began December under a fiery New Moon in Sagittarius.  We end December with the Moon in earthy Capricorn, asking for boundaries and structures of power re-do in step by practical step practices.  The fire fills us with passion and inspiration.  The earth demands we proceed in a grounded, practical fashion.  We also began last year, on 1/11/14 under a Capricorn New Moon, connected to chaotic, revolutionary, disruptive Uranus, and the karmic nodes that challenge us to choose the right path.  Sound about right to you?

BONE LIGHT. 
 
As the long night falls, 
Failing light cold-sucks
Every color into bone marrow 
Insisting on the inner odyssey.
Naked trees with outstretched limbs 
Line a vesper horizon in silhouette.
 Turn from your dark loneliness
To say, “I am here.
Here to begin again.”
  

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life that matters.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wisdom Body Notes for Dec. 5-15 by Samantha Cameron

R.W Emerson would be pleased with the possibilities to deep dive this December!  As the closing month to a year, December is a ‘wind-up time’ offering insights, possibility of new intentions, and closure to what was.  We are under a flurry of heavenly energies -many turning in different directions which demand extra attention, depth perception, and healing considerations.  So much of what we perceive depends on our belief system.  How do we choose to see the world?  Do you believe it’s not to be trusted?  Or is it fruitful and accommodating?  Holding a mirror up to our mind sets reveals a reflected energy of attraction.  The big issue is always being conscious to our thought process. We had supportive help from the new Moon guiding December’s engine as she ‘gave birth’ in the higher mind and ethics of Sagittarius, asking “What is the truth?  What are the facts.  What is my intention in harnessing this energy?” A Sagittarius New Moon asks us to align with our higher purpose and remain centered with what matters most. This New Moon aligned with the fixed star, Antares that offers ‘the power of the heart.’  It is one of the royal stars of Persia, and in the West is linked with the Archangel Uriel- ‘She of divine wisdom.’

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”  W.H. Auden

Wisdom Body Notes for Nov. 23-Dec. 1 by Samantha Cameron

Pluto, the dark Lord of passion, power, mystery and transformation, finally made the move we have all been longing for this year.  Sadly, he did not move in time to harness his new Aquarian energy into the American election.  On Nov. 5th, he stood poised on his last 29 degree-tipping point in Capricorn, squeezing the worst of Capricorn energy into the world.  Nothing is inherently good or bad in Astrology.  Yes, it can be difficult, life changing, sublime, seductive and everything in-between.  But as Pluto is about power, here to teach us how to use it, in a final degree of any sign, he will express the worst and most damaging energies of that sign.  Observing the worst of it teaches us what not to do. As an agent of change, hopefully he informs us of better sight and endurance for endings, for death and transformation of all types.

Wandering Soul

Wandering soul come home.

Bear witness to tragedy.

Surrender to what is.

Guard the sacred

For you are guide to what shall be

Led by wisdom’s heart.

Wisdom Body Notes for Nov. 13-18 by Samantha Cameron

There are multiple, twisty, integrated cosmic facts to share with you this week.  You may be confronted and confounded by choices to play angel or devil…….of course it depends on what you consider angelic and what plays the devil.  Will freedom grab you by the ears and throw you into new seas?  Or will you find the next step in a well laid out, known paths, resuming an old journey?  Will your emotional body howl at the Moon or do you prefer the sedation of earphones under a quilt?