July 14, 2019 - Spotlight on the Underworld

Hades abducting Persephone

Are you seeing the darkest side of yourself yet? Are you face to face with the most vilest of the villains? Is there someone around the ‘neighborhood’ of your world who is showing the ugliest face of life? That’s because the Sun is opposite Pluto, the spotlight is on the ‘underworld’. 

It is a good day to explore the shadows of our personality. What is your most protected secret? What would happen if others could peek at your sexual behavior? The door to the closet where we hid our skeletons is wide open!  Our jealousy, passions, obsessions, manipulative conduct, power struggles, vile taboos are out in the open for us to see. 

If one is subject to violence, it can be the mirror of the violence we’ve stored inside. Otherwise, we realize how we have been sabotaging ourselves. Self sabotage is the work of Pluto as well. The Sun is the most potent light that can help us overcome it. If we have been consciously or unconsciously manipulating someone, if we have been doing shady stuff, today it’s obvious for the whole world to see. 

Today we see the dead carcass of some situation, the ugliest and most disgusting shape of it. In a relationship, we can be provoked to reveal the ugly side we conceal. The other person may poke your most vulnerable emotions, it may feel like a burning inside ready to burst. Even if we want to present the best face, if we look for the bright side, we cannot avoid having shortcomings. We are human beings making this amazing spiritual experience.

It can be a great day to understand how strong of a grip the addictions have on our soul. It can be a great day to realize that pornography, or drugs or alcohol is destroying our life, our happiness. They are telling a lie, because  they cannot give us true fulfillment. In fact, we do it because we don’t believe in our greatness, in our wholeness, in our divinity. We do it because we are scared of our own power! Today we can say, ‘I’m done, I’ve had enough’, ‘I want to be happy, I leave behind the crutch of escapism, addiction, avoidance’. 

When we can see the darkest of night, we long for the dawn. Today it’s a great day to empower yourself!

Make it a great day! Empower yourself! Sat Nam

Grand Trine of Healing 3d chapter - Chiron Venus North Node in Cancer

January 2019

In previous months, I wrote about this Grand Water Trine of Healing activated by Jupiter, the Sun, Mercury and the Moon. This New Year brings the 3d and final chapter of our healing when Venus arrives at the end of her Scorpio journey and activates the Water Grand Trine again, this time with her soft touch of Love. This is a highly emotional contact. Let us understand why.

Eight years of Chiron in Pisces come to a close

You may be aware of what Chiron in Pisces taught you the last eight years about emotional sacrifice,  wounding, and healing; more so if you know what house is occupied by Pisces in your Birth Chart. There, Chiron has been having an issue with his identity dissolved in the primal soup of the Piscean 'ocean'. Taking into consideration that Chiron in Pisces transit happens once in 51 years, one understands how powerful his effect has been during these eight years. After going into Aries for a short time, he came back into the last degrees of Pisces just to make sure we got his message. We are now taking his 'final exam', so to speak.  It may resonate with something that happened in your lives between 1960 and 1968 if you were alive then. What's the open wound that reopened now for final healing? Were we able to heal? Or we are trying to heal someone else instead, avoiding our own pain? 

Every person has experienced this in a different area of life. For example, if Pisces is your 2d house, you may have thought that your own value, your self worth was not that important, or you may have sacrificed your own finances and possessions for others. "The body itself may be felt to be unreliable, faulty, wounded [... or with some] actual disability, injury or physical trauma to cope with" (Reinhart 107). If Pisces is your 7th house, we are always engaged in hurtful and sorrowful relationships. "The situation is often a repetition of our early relationship with the parent of the opposite sex, and [... we] believe that relationships are dangerous and should be avoided." (Reinhart 138). 

Together with the Scorpio activity of the last six or seven years, Chiron has been one of the most painful and deeply transformational astrological influences on our lives. Being at the end of the Zodiac in Pisces, Chiron is preparing us for a Rebirth when he re-enters Aries, the sign of the new beginnings, of new form, and new identity.

Venus in Scorpio trine Chiron 

Venus and Chiron dialog about unfulfilled and painful love, values and finances. In trine, it gives us the opportunity for healing previously unresolvable relationship issues, and conflictive personal values. We may have "met people who feel familiar to us and opened us to other dimensions of consciousness through painful relationships" that can only be understood and resolved considering the oneness of all (Pisces). These relationships have probably brought us a mysterious, as well as unfathomable personal growth. This is our opportunity to overcome the painful sensitivity to disharmony and unrealistic expectations of love, values and money. Our relentless efforts for reconciliation can now bare fruit, and we may finally understand the true meaning of Forgiveness of the other and of ourselves. "Chiron aspecting Venus often brings a genuine ability to open others' capacity for relationships and to touch them deeply. We see people as mirrors of ourselves and find differences hard to encompass" (Reinhart 208). However, now Venus at the end of her Scorpio journey, in trine with Chiron at the end of his Piscean journey of eight years give us the balsamic ablution that closes and erases our Venusian wound. 

Venus and Chiron trine the North Node in Cancer

If you remember what I wrote about the North Node shifting to Cancer realm, now you can see that Chiron in aspects with all the other planets has been helping us transform our emotional body, so we are able to find comfort, safety and a soft and tender 'shelter' where our head can rest in this chaotic world. With the North Node in Cancer we look within the walls of whatever we call 'home' for support. Having successfully healed our deepest wound, we are now ready to stand tall, face the new challenge and start anew what 2019 brings for us. And I can assure you that 2019 comes in full force. Life is changing in unforeseen ways. We will find ourselves in a world that may now seem unbelievable, but the challenge is just preparing us to live our most cherished dream. 

Reference: "Chiron and the Healing Journey, An Astrological and Psychological perspective" by Melanie Reinhart.