Jupiter, which usually takes one year to travel through a sign, just raced through Pisces, from the middle of January 2010 to early June 2010 and then retrograded back into Pisces from September 8, 2010 until next week on January 22, 2011, when it enters Aries. Jupiter met up with Uranus twice in Pisces and once in Aries in the past year, opening and expanding our spiritual 3rd eye to see these new energies and to open up to our "real' spiritual identities. Yes, we are all being called to be the hero/ines of our own lives so that we can bring back a unique gift to our people - the gift of our talents in this time of radical change.
Many people are upset -" look at what's happening in our country and in the world. The shooting in Arizona has brought up the question of our civil discourse -" can we learn to see each other's viewpoint? Can we discover the balance? (Saturn is going through Libra and challenged the solar eclipse energies to incorporate a more fair and balanced discourse.) Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could learn the lesson of the Tucson killings and stop hating someone because their views differ from ours?
President Obama, speaking about the Tucson murders, noted the instinct to protect each other displayed by the victims and survivors: "These men and women remind us that heroism is found not only on the fields of battle. They remind us that heroism does not require special training or physical strength. Heroism is here, all around us, in the hearts of so many of our fellow citizens, just waiting to be summoned -" as it was on Saturday morning. Their actions, their selflessness, also pose a challenge to each of us. It raises the question of what, beyond the prayers and expressions of concern, is required of us going forward."
We need to learn the lessons of fair discourse, of taking a stand, and of concern for the future so that the sacrifice (meaning: to make sacred) 6 people made -" especially a young girl born on 9/11 -" will be honored.
What values make you the person you are? What values and virtues do you want to express in your life: Honor, courage, vision, fairness, grace, beauty, wisdom, integrity? It's time to know. And then it's time to walk your talk and be them.
Jupiter goes into Aries just after this full Moon, so watch for the energy shift on Saturday January 22nd. The expansive energy of Jupiter leaves the watery realm of Pisces for the fire of Aries. Be Inspired!
Uranus has been traveling through Pisces since March of 2003. Uranus releases energy from old forms and structures, and awakens new and original forms in the sign it transits (to go through; transition; transformation; to change.) In Pisces, Uranus has awakened us to higher and deeper dimensions of life and of ourselves. The reality of the Unconscious, of other dimensions, of personal spirituality has changed us in the past 7 years of Uranus' transit through Pisces. The imagination has re-awakened and we have to learn to relate to it, as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell saw, experienced and predicted.
On March 11, 2011 Uranus begins to transit Aries (yes, it is still Aries, with an underpinning of Pisces) awakening us to our courage, initiative and identity. What interests, creativity and talents do you possess? Uranus in Pisces opened us to the archetypal energies of life. Just remember -" archetypes "pick' you, you don't pick archetypes. You need to be opened to the archetype that is working to manifest through you. If your ego decides who you should be, you will never fulfill your potential. If you allow your Self -" your inner Truth -" to guide you, you will discover a creative power within that will bless your life and bless the lives of those people you love and interact with.
Several asteroids form a mutable t-square with Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces. With Juno, the energy of equal partnership at 30* Virgo and Vesta, the energy of transformative fire and sexuality, focus and commitment on the Galactic Center in Sagittarius holding down the other two legs of the t-square, we have the opportunity to learn the new story if we open ourselves to it.
Prepare for your original blessings! (Matthew Fox, the Anglican theologian, wrote a wonderful book called Original Blessings. It will take away some Catholic guilt.)
With Neptune, the ruler of Pisces traveling through the last degrees of Aquarius (Uranus' domain), we have created over the past 14 years a global community (Neptune) through technology (Uranus). Neptune in Aquarius has opened us to a vision of world-wide unity and freedom, for we have seen how fragile our world is and also the truth that we are all at this crisis point of life together. We are learning that we are indeed all one people, all one Earth.
Full Moon in Cancer
The full Moon in Cancer occurs on Wednesday January 19 at 9:22pm GMT/4:22pmEST/1:22pmPST. The Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Cancer bring up family issues and obligations as well as the issues that face us as citizens of our respective countries.
If we need a new story to guide us into the future, we also need to know what story we need to leave behind. Or, like Samwise talking to Frodo about their part in the story of the Ring, we need to see what part of the story we're in so we can decide where to go from here. That's one of the functions of a full Moon. It makes us aware of what we're feeling about our current situation.
I've picked the story of "The Maidens of the Wells" to describe our society at this moment. Your reaction to the story will tell you a lot about what you're feeling about the old Capricorn story.
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