August 2006 Celestial Timings
By Cayelin K Castell
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you;
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want;
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
- Rumi
The Lunar Standstill At Callanish
July 9, 2006 Full Moon Rise at Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Behind a dense cloud bank the Full Moon rose over the mountain known to the locals as ‘sleeping beauty’ or ‘the old woman of the moors” or a Celtic goddess known as Callieach. The Moon remained veiled much of the night. However, there were several brief glimpses of the Moon some occurring before the Moon had traversed all of Callieach’s body. The huge glowing golden orb of the Moon appeared, disappeared and reappeared each time a little further along her body. Then we were blessed with a longer view before the Moon disappeared into a dense cloudbank not to be seen again for the rest of the night. However, we did get to see the Moon long enough to get a clear sense of how the Moon walks on the land.
We were so very blessed and lucky to see as much as we did even though we had all hoped to see so much more. Callanish resident Ron Curtis, long time resident and researcher of the stones along with his wife Margaret Curtis, said the clouds have obscured any good viewing of the Moon Walk over the past few years and the past year especially. He blamed it on global warming and the shift in weather patterns that have changed so much in the last 19 years since the last Lunar Standstill that was visible in 1987.
Ron’s words gave me an immediate sense that the weather patterns of continual rain and clouds on the Isle of Lewis and droughts elsewhere in Scotland and the fact that the magic of the Moon Walk is being obscured for all who come to see it is a very strong warning that we as citizens of planet Earth need to wake up to our global climate crisis before its too late.
Consider that ancient people were so captivated by the magic of the Moon Walk they build these massive megalithic sites primarily to track this phenomenon. The knowledge they had, demonstrated through their attention to the tiniest details, is staggering, far outstripping our ability to create anything like it today. It was through their visual connection with the Moon Walk that they received the direct life changing transmissions occurring during the Lunar Standstill. To be a visual conscious witness to the magnificence of the magical relationship between land and sky is forever life changing. What little we did see of the Moon Walk that night at the main Callanish site impacted everyone in our group and I suspect on all those who gathered there from around the world. And for now we can only image what kind of magnified impact the entire Lunar Standstill has when it can be visually witnessed in its entirety.
Synchronistically as is the way of these times, upon returning from Scotland, I had the chance to see Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth bringing home the reality of the impact of Global Warming on our planet. Indeed, he showed the challenges of places drenched in rain and flooding while other places are suffering from severe drought and feminine.
I encourage everyone to see this movie if you haven’t seen it yet. Our life on Earth now depends on as many people as possible waking up and immediately taking action to become the solution rather than adding further to the problem. Meanwhile regardless of whether or not you have seen the movie or not here are two websites that have all kinds of information about what we can do to be the solution… www.climatecrisis.net and www.stopglobalwarming.org I am also adding many of the tips listed on these websites at the end of this month’s Celestial Timings. A saying I remember when I was growing up that fits this time is “Green Trees Make a Green Forest!” If each of us does our part then we can change the tide of global warming that is destroying our ability to live on this earth. However, time is running out and we must choose to take decisive, responsible, and inspired action today before it is too late.
Planetary Data
Aug 1, 2006 Moon moves into Scorpio
Aug 02, 2006 First Quarter Moon - Scorpio 1:46 am PDT
Aug 04, 2006 Moon occultation of Antares
Aug 05, 2006 Moon conjunct Pluto (24 Sag)
Aug 06, 2006 Mercury 9° south of Pollux and conjunct Procyon as Mercury reaches greatest western elongation (19°) from the Sun on the Eastern horizon before Sunrise.
Aug 07, 2006 Sun conjunct Saturn 15 Leo at the Cross-Quarter between June Solstice and Sep Equinox
Aug 08, 2006 Venus 7° south of Pollux also conjunct Procyon
Aug 09, 2006 Full Moon conjunct Neptune 17 Aquarius
Aug 10, 2006 Mercury moves into Leo and Sun opposite retrograde Neptune 18 Aquarius
Aug 11, 2006 Moon conjunct Uranus 12 Pisces
Aug 12, 2006 Venus moves into Leo
Aug 13, 2006 Mars (12 Virgo) opposite retrograde Uranus (12 Pisces)
Aug 14, 2006 Moon moves into Taurus
Aug 15, 2006 Last Quarter Moon 23 Taurus
Aug 16, 2006 Sun (24 Leo) trines Pluto (24 Sag)
Aug 17, 2006 Begin the Lunar Standstill window at the Galactic Edge
Aug 18, 2006 Mercury (12 Leo) square Jupiter 12 Scorpio and Moon at exact Galactic Edge
Aug 20, 2006 Mercury conjunct Saturn (16 Leo) & opposite Neptune
Aug 21, 2006 Mercury (18 Leo) opposite Neptune (18 Aquarius)
Aug 22, 2006 Moon conjunct Saturn (17 Leo), Venus (12 Leo) square Jupiter (12 Scorpio) Sun moves into Virgo
Aug 23, 2006 New Moon 1 Virgo
Aug 24, 2006 Mercury (24 Leo) trine retrograde Pluto (24 Sag)
Aug 25, 2006 Venus conjunct Saturn (17 Leo) A.M. sky
Aug 26, 2006 Venus conjunct Saturn (17 Leo)
Aug 27, 2006 Venus (17 Leo) opposition retrograde Neptune (17 Aquarius) Mercury moves into Virgo
Aug 28, 2006 Moon moves into Scorpio
Aug 29, 2006 Moon conjunct Jupiter (13 Scorpio) Mars (24 Leo) square Pluto (24 Sag)
Aug 30, 2006 Jupiter (13 Scorpio) near Zuben Algenubi
Aug 31, 2006 Sun conjunct Mercury (8 Virgo) Saturn (17 Leo) opposition retrograde Neptune (17 Aquarius)
Aug 1, Tuesday. We are entering the time of the August Cross Quarter that occurs astrologically on Aug 7 when the Sun reaches 15 degrees Leo the half way point between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox. In the Christian Calendar today is known as Lammas and in the Celtic Calendar was celebrated as Lughnassadh (pronounced Loo-nuh-suh) a time of harvest and victory. Lughnassadh was the first of three harvest festivals celebrating the plentiful ripening grain and the prosperity of the land and people. The Christian religion adopted this celebration and called it 'Lammas', meaning 'loaf-mass', the day the first fruits of the harvest were offered and newly baked loaves of bread were placed on the altar. (See Aug 2003 Celestial Timings Archives
http://www.shamanicastrology.com/celestial_timings_archives_2003.htm ).
This month begins with Jupiter (10 Scorpio) nearly exactly square the Sun (9 Leo) and square Chiron (7 Aquarius). The Moon joins Jupiter tomorrow (though visually very near Jupiter tonight) forming aspects with both the Sun and Chiron. The Moon is a catalyst to these forming energies especially when we are acting through passionate aliveness and the willingness to live beyond our current edges. Many have felt stretched far past any familiar edges in recent months, facilitating deep inner and outer changes giving us opportunities to expand and grow beyond previously known territory. All unresolved shadow issues will continue surfacing for acknowledgment and loving release. Denial becomes more and more painful to continue as we are being called to release it through acceptance and forgiveness.
Aug 2, Wednesday. Cartago, Costa Rica celebrates this cross-quarter timing on August 2. This is when La Negrita is honored and celebrated. La Negrita is a small Black Virgin statue found by a young girl in 1635. The statue demonstrated magical powers by always mysteriously returning to the spot where it was first found. It was decided a church should be built on the spot and that is where La Negrita resides to this day. On August 2, Pilgrims from all over Central America journey to honor her. http://www.isls.com/costarica/destination/cartago.html
Also today the first quarter Scorpio Moon (10 Scorpio) is conjunct Jupiter accelerating the effect of the Sun (10 Leo) Jupiter (10 Scorpio) Square. The Sun fuels and nourishes life. However, too much Sun scorches the Earth and destroys life and too little Sun prevents life from growing and flourishing. (See this month’s intro on Global Warming) When aspecting the Sun, Jupiter has the potential to be even more inspiring and expansive than usual. The challenge is to be alert to a tendency towards overexpansion, overdoing, overconfidence, overload and even over-optimism that is too idealistic or ungrounded. It is just as much of a problem to have too much of something as not enough and is ultimately not supportive to a practically embodied growth experience. This timing requires us to look at how to balance these energies. It may help to notice where you feel inspired and then act with wisdom and self-assurance to ground these intense light energies in ways that are beneficial and supportive.
Aug 3, Thursday. The waxing Moon enters Sagittarius this afternoon and is visible approaching the fixed star Antares tonight remaining in the Sagittarius domain until late on Aug 5. When it is healthy, the Sagittarian Quest for Truth recognizes that truth is a growing evolving experience. As our understanding of quantum physics and other sciences grows so does our understanding of how the universe works. This is not simply a cause and effect world as was once believed just as the world is not flat as was once believed also. Movies like What The Bleep Do We Know invite us to ponder how the truth of our reality at any given time is very much based on our beliefs. The movie describes how the native island people could not see the huge sailing ships when Columbus first arrived at their shores because it wasn’t part of their known reality, yet the truth of the ships existed though it took time for the native people to shift their perception enough to be able to see them.
Niels Bohr, known for his investigations of atomic structure and radiation winning him the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics, had this to say about truth.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
So what is truly true??? What is the truth of our reality in this world of duality and polarity and how is that truth growing, changing, and evolving? Are we willing to release old outmoded beliefs in order to experience new realities based in new experiences of the truth? Is what we know to be true right now really the truth or some shadow of a yet deeper more expanded truth yet to be further revealed and understood?
Aug 4, Friday. The three-day Lunar Standstill window begins today as the Moon travels through mid to late degrees of Sagittarius. (See June and July Celestial Timings archives www.celestialtimings.com and the Lunar Standstill article on articles page of www.shamanicastrology.com)
The ‘out of bounds’ Moon challenges us to look at the truth of our reality especially what is shifting and changing outside the boundaries of what we consider standard life experience. As the Moon journeys through the Lunar Standstill extreme crossing over Galactic Center our attention is drawn to the possibilities of what this all means? When we are imaging the energy codes coming toward Earth producing maximum beneficial evolutionary results for all life on Earth while releasing our attachments to what that might look like we then are acting as co-creators and conscious participants in the current unfolding mysteries.
(See Aug 5 and the Introduction June 2006 and July 8, 2006 Celestial Timings Archives also worth seeing in a bigger form is this Temple of Hunab Ku by visionary artist by Andrew
Andrew Annenburg 
"Portal of Hunab Ku"
From "The Lost World" Series
http://www.andrewa.com/Posters/posters.html
Aug 5, Saturday. The Moon is rising and setting at its most southern extreme today and conjuncts Pluto (24 Sagittarius) before moving into Capricorn across Galactic Center also known to the Mayans as Hunab Ku. The Mayans considered Hunab Ku to be the ultimate creator and conscious principle that organizes all matter in the manifest creation. The Mayas also felt that Hunab Ku or Galactic Center constantly gives birth to new stars and planets as well as being the portal or gateway to other galaxies beyond ours and that everything that happens in our Galaxy comes from the center through cyclical energy waves or bursts. As confirmation, scientists are now concluding that Galactic Center is not only consuming huge amounts of matter but it is also giving birth to stars etc. as well. http://www.aztlan.net/rumblings_center_galaxy.htm
Remarkably this is the year of Pluto’s exact alignment with the galactic core (for the first time in 248 years) and this year is the center point of the Moon’s 19-year lunar extreme. This means the Moon is passing furthest south of the ecliptic while in Sagittarius and Capricorn in its 19-year cycle causing it to actually cross directly over galactic center once each month for all of 2006 and 2007. When we consider how the center of the galaxy influences our evolutionary experience in general and then we add Pluto’s alignment in the time of the Lunar Standstill along with the Sun’s passage here at the December Solstice (something that can only happen for a period of time during a 26,000 year cycle) we know there is a huge activation occurring in the harmonic calibration of our galactic source through our space-time-grid experience.
Aug 6, Sunday. Still within the window of the Lunar Standstill and entering the window of the August Astrological cross-quarter the Sun (14 Leo) is just about conjunct Saturn (14Leo45) and will be exact in the early morning hours tomorrow. The Sun is illuminating and energizing Saturn qualities that assure success when we are focused in a good way on creating a healthy reality. The most effective key to this is through actively practicing self-forgiveness.
I forgive myself for all the ways I have not truly loved myself, forgiven myself, and approved of myself or others. I forgive myself for believing family, friends, spiritual teachers, and significant others, know more about what I should or should not do to live a fulfilled life. I forgive myself for placing my power, to know myself and what my needs and desires are for living a magical life, outside myself.
Aug 7, Monday. The Cross Quarter is exact today as both Saturn and the Sun reach 15 Leo or the exact halfway point between the June Solstice and September Equinox. The days are growing shorter, though still longer than the nights, and Autumn is just around the corner. In ancient times the cross-quarter dates between the equinoxes and solstices were celebrated as the “border time” or in-between time, the mid-point in-between two seasons and was a time for gaining insight and/or inspiration beyond the limits of ordinary time. Utilizing this time for divination, meditation or other forms of guidance is especially effective now in helping to further assimilate all the Harmonic Galactic Vibrational Shifts now in process. The Sun Saturn conjunction at this in-between time suggests another potent timing for doing a forgiveness/self-forgiveness kind of ceremony for the purpose of further structuring the principles of self-love and self-acceptance into practical reality.
I totally and completely love and accept myself even though I am still learning to forgive myself and others for all the wrongs and hurts and fears I have experienced.
Aug 8, Tuesday. 2006 is an 8 year numerological so today’s date adds up to 8/8/8. In August 2004 Celestial Timings information was available about the 8/8 Lion’s Gate on Gillian MacBeth-Louthan’s website the quantumawakening.com. At that time Gillian shared about the awakening cellular record held within a crystalline structure that exists in our DNA codes located in our Pineal Gland. This awakening is in part due to the quickening of time as we move into unknown territory beyond what the ancient Atlanteans or Lemurians had accomplished. This is another potent ceremonial window that can be utilized working with the power of the triple 8 and the approaching Aquarius Full Moon exact tomorrow within the window of the cross-quarter that was exact yesterday. The Fullest rise of the Moon is tonight (around 7 or 8 pm local time depending on your time zone and horizon line) having already begun to wane by tomorrow’s Moon rise about a half hour to 45 minutes later than tonight’s Moon rise.
This Aquarian Moon energy is transmitting the mysteries of the cosmic revolutionary, whose intent is to ultimately revolutionize conscious awareness through the living expressed truth of our divinity. Aquarius pushes for cathartic, liberating, evolutionary change and with the Moon passing by Chiron and Neptune with the Sun still within one degree of Saturn at this cross-quarter in-between the worlds time unexpected events beyond our current imaging are quite possible. The intended gift of whatever events are transpiring now is to assist in breaking out of old limiting patterns to break through to greater freedom of being.
Aug 9, Wednesday. The Full Moon in Aquarius (16 Aquarius44) is conjunct retrograde Neptune (18 Aquarius27). The Sun is opposite the Moon at 16Leo44 and will exactly oppose retrograde Neptune (18 Aquarius) sometime tomorrow. Experientially we see the Moon rising full for three nights, the day before, the day of and the day after the exact Full Moon. Therefore, we experience the potency of the Full Moon Window for three days. In the hero’s quest as described by Joseph Campbell this phase of the Moon relates to the Mystical Marriage or Apotheosis. The dictionary definition of apotheosis that applies here is: Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification. This is the phase in the cycle where the goal of the journey is reached, the seeds have matured and are bearing fruit, the gifts are received when we are open to receive them creating an opportunity to remember and experience our divinity. Watching the Full Moon inspires our connection to what is coming into fruition through our visionary and revolutionary dreams. This is time for following inner guidance that often defies logic and reason, which is the place where true inspirational change emerges.
Aug 10, Thursday. Waning Perigee (closest to the Earth) Moon in Pisces conjuncts retrograde Uranus (14 Pisces) and trines Sirius. Plus the Sun is opposite retrograde Neptune. Neptune is the ruler of the Oceans as well as the Pisces domain connecting with the watery realms of our imagined reality. This brings to mind ancient stories that say the dolphins came to Earth from Sirius. Many visionary artists have given us brilliant images of ancient underwater Temples where dolphins move between the worlds. Using our imaginations now is a time for connecting into these magical realities and calling upon the spirit of the dolphins to guide our journey. Check out these links for Dolphin Temple artwork that is helpful in assisting your visual imaging.
http://www.andrewa.com/Posters/posters.html
AQUEOUS ATLANTISv by Andrew Annenberg From The Lost World Series
Aug 11, Friday. Mercury is moving back into Leo getting ready to cross the July 4 retrograde station degree (1 Leo 21) tomorrow. Whatever has been set into motion with this Mercury retrograde the final messages are now being delivered. Keeping in mind the earlier messages of self-care and self-forgiveness it is time to further activate expressions of radiant, healthy, creative, radical self-love. Healthy Leo knows it is their presence and the light they radiate and vibrate in this life that is their greatest gift to this evolving world.
This reminder from Conversations with God Book 3 by Neale Donald Walsh is one possible expression of Mercury’s current message.
In those moments during which you experience yourself being “revealed” to yourself – whether these are what you call out-of-body experiences, or dreams, or magic moments of wakefulness when you are greeted by crystal clarity – what has happened is that you have simply slipped into ‘remembering.’ You are remembering what you have already created. And these rememberings can be very powerful. They can produce a personal epiphany.
Aug 12, Saturday. The Moon is moving into Aries until Aug 14 and Venus is moving into Leo where it remains until August 27. Now is the time to take decisive inspired action that supports the creative expression of your divine essence. Acts of radical compassion and forgiveness of self and others are timely especially as Mars is reaching exact opposition to Uranus tomorrow.
Aug 13, Sunday. Mars (14 Virgo) is in exact opposition to retrograde Uranus (14 Pisces). The effects of this are felt for at least three days before and after today’s exact timing. When Mars and Uranus aspect each other it is always a good time to be extra careful as accidents are more likely under this influence and more easily avoided when we are aware. Unexpected events are the way that Uranus typically creates assemblage point shifts. Uranus operates through radical change and in Pisces it is also operating through radical compassion. The most radically compassionate act we can do for ourselves and others is to embrace what IS in the moment knowing that whatever is happening is changing. Sometimes the feeling is it can’t change fast enough and other times the feeling is we don’t ever want what IS to change. However, change is guaranteed. Everything in this manifest world is changing so it helps to remember to trust the flow of change releasing our attachments to how we believe things should or should not be.
Aug 14, Monday. Moon is moving into Taurus early this morning opening the last quarter Moon window that is exact tomorrow. The last quarter Moon represents the integration phase of the current Moon cycle. Taking time to meditate on what is seeking integration now is helpful. The Taurus mysteries remind us of the importance of opening to receive the pleasures of intimacy with the divine, with ourselves and with others.
Aug 15, Tuesday. Today is the exact Last Quarter Moon in Taurus (23 degrees). The waning half full Moon is rising sometime before midnight depending on your horizon line and will be directly overhead around Sunrise tomorrow. As suggested yesterday intimacy is a key factor to the Taurus mysteries. Being willing to know ourselves deeply and to deeply connect with others is an essential element in living a healthy, happy, joyful life. Dean Ornish, author of Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy has this to say…
“Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well. I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet, not smoking, not exercise ... not drugs, not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death."
Aug 16, Wednesday. Moon moves into Gemini until the afternoon of Friday Aug 18 transmitting the mysteries of the eternal youth. This is a great time to find creative ways to have fun, work through play and network. Sun (24Leo11) trines retrograde Pluto (24 Sagittarius11) signaling the approaching retrograde station of Pluto in early September moving only 6 minutes between now and its direct station on Sep 4 at 24Sagittarius05. For the next few weeks Pluto has reached its current edge designed to uncover and release any fears or misconceptions that are disempowering our lives. Being willing to surrender and trust what is unfolding supports greater empowerment much greater than perhaps yet imagined. Indeed, myself and many others I know who have been in their own personal Pluto transformational process in the past few years are finding themselves in whole new more magical lives beyond what they had ever thought possible. The key was surrendering and dying to what was ready to die.
Aug 17, Thursday. The Lunar Standstill three-day window at the Galactic Edge begins today (See Aug 18). Mercury (12 Leo) squares Jupiter (12 Scorpio) exact tomorrow activating a process of assimilating the expansive visions of Jupiter and pushing or expanding the limits of our minds into new territory particularly around the issues of intensely passionate expressions of self-worth, self-love, and self-confidence. The past few weeks have provided an opportunity to deepen our experience of self-love and self-worth especially if we have been actively engaging in practices that promote healthy self-love through self-forgiveness, self-care and compassion.
Our choices backed by our actions help shape our personal experience. Perhaps the best place to begin is by actively forgiving all the ways we have sabotaged ourselves through thoughts and actions that have diminished or negated the magnificence of who we really are. We do not have to prove ourselves to have value and worth. We are valuable because we exist. (See Aug 18)
Aug 18, Friday. The most northern rising and setting extreme of the Moon for Northern Hemisphere and southern rising and setting extreme for Southern Hemisphere is happening today in this Lunar Standstill window is occurring today while Mercury (12 Leo) squares Jupiter (12 Scorpio). Moon is moving into Cancer crossing the center of the Sacred Hoop or the Great Shining Circle at the Galactic Edge where the June Solstice is currently located. Once each month the ‘out of bounds’ Moon accesses and transmits energies from beyond our galactic realm. This suggests we are receiving a whole new download of inter-galactic information and vibrational frequency that is beyond the bounds of what we have experienced up until now. This vibrational shift has been in process for many years and is magnified in this 19-year lunar standstill window. It is easier to assimilate these energies when we consciously engage our thoughts and actions. If our minds are running toward self-destructive thoughts then we can acknowledge those thoughts and change them by choosing to focus on what supports our growth and well being. We have the power to choose our thoughts in every moment. If we are upset we can choose to continue to think about it or we can choose to accept what we are feeling, release, let go and choose new thoughts.
Aug 19, Saturday. Still within the Lunar Standstill window Mercury (14 Leo) is moving to exactly conjunct Saturn (16 Leo) tomorrow. Mercury relates to the mind, how we perceive our reality and communicate our experience. Saturn relates to the structure and form of our lives and this form is created in large part from the focus of our thoughts. When we focus on what we feel we lack in ourselves and our experience then we are creating more of those experiences. When we focus on loving and approving of ourselves then we are creating more of those experiences.
When our mind wanders to destructive, negative thinking we can make a different choice. We can choose to remember what we are grateful for and what we love about ourselves. It might even be helpful to create a gratitude list to refer to daily as you begin to restructure your thinking toward greater self-love.
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
~Oscar Wilde
Aug 20, Sunday. The waning Moon is entering Leo and Mercury reaches its exact conjunction with Saturn (16 Leo.) The message of this time is centered around the power of love. When we love ourselves we are loving the divine source, Great Mystery, God/dess, Spirit all that IS.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha
Aug 21, Monday. Venus and Moon (11 Leo) meet for the 7th time since Venus rose as a morning star this last January marking the passage of Venus or Innana through the underworld 7th gate relating to the first chakra energy. This symbolizes giving up of the beliefs and actions that prevent the feminine principle from fully experiencing, enjoying and loving her own unique life force. This is a great time to ceremonially and symbolically release ideas, habits, and ways of being that prevent us from fully enjoying our life force energy. Anyone who is turning a multiple of 8 (16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88 etc.) from Jan 20, 2006 to Aug 24, 2007 is in a special eight year synodic Venus return and this is an especially significant time for engaging and deepening self-love through self-forgiveness and enjoyable activities. (If you are in a multiple of 8 year between Jan 20, 2006 and Aug 24, 2007 now is a good time to get a shamanic astrology reading to assist your understanding and conscious participation with this important eight year transformative cycle. Check out my reading info on the website.)
The intuitive right-brained expression of Mercury in Leo (18 Leo) is highlighted by Mercury’s opposition to intuitive right-brained Neptune (18 Aquarius). These are highly creative energies assisting in optimizing attunement with the field of all possibilities for inspired imaging, dreaming and thinking. There is also a possibility of feeling ungrounded, confused and disoriented. Relaxing and allowing your inner guidance to direct your actions in ways that may not seem logical and rational can produce unexpected yet valuable and innovative results. True divinely inspired insights are possible when we are open to the messages of magic and mystery that Mercury and Neptune are bringing.
Aug 22, Tuesday. Moon conjuncts both Saturn (16 Leo) and Mercury (20 Leo) and Venus (12 Leo) Squares Jupiter (12 Scorpio) Late tonight or early tomorrow the Sun moves into Virgo where it remains until Sept 22 depending on your time zone. This seasonal move of the Sun into Virgo emphasizes our relationship to the pattern of life including the pattern of Sacred Time and Sacred Space. This includes the idea of “right timing” or “appropriate timing”, the timing that is most aligned with the natural rhythms of life.
Aug 23, Wednesday. The New Moon in Virgo is emphasizing the ancient pattern of life contained within the natural codes of knowledge such as our DNA and the cycles and rhythms that helps us to know what time it is for us. This is the work of Spider Woman who weaves the web of life through her intention and skill. So this New Moon is definitely the “right time” to tune in and align with your own supportive personal rhythms creating your own web designed to attract all that you need to fulfill your sacred work in the world. When properly woven all that is needed is magnetized and drawn to the web.
Aug 24, Thursday. The Sun (24Leo08) is trine retrograde Pluto (24Sagittarius08) signaling the rapid slowing of Pluto moving only 3 minutes between now and its direct station on Sep 4 at 24Sagittarius05. These next couple of weeks are a powerful time for inner shamanic journeying to discover more fully the truth of our divine essence.
Continuing to practice forgiving any of the seemingly unforgivable ways we have treated ourselves and others and actively finding ways to love who we are assists us on this journey. Accepting what IS for now while decisively releasing limiting perceptions and concepts that support the false belief that we are not good enough just the way we are. It is time to be truthful with ourselves yes and to actively participate in creating a loving world where miracles are a common experience.
William Blake once said: “The truth that is told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” This extends to the truth we tell ourselves. If we beat ourselves up with the seeming truth of our failures and mistakes then we are not remembering to forgive ourselves or others. That is why practicing self-forgiveness is an important step in creating a new reality based in the truth of our divinity.
I forgive myself for all my seeming mistakes and failures and for all the ways I believe I have betrayed myself or others and I embrace the truth of my divine expression and the divine expression of all life.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
~ Willa Cather
Aug 25, Friday. Today’s apogee Moon (furthest from the Earth) in Virgo occults Mars (21 Virgo) for the second month in a row visible in Central and North Eastern South America. This is actively bringing forth greater experiential awareness around the natural cycles and rhythms of life. This is an opportunity to actively engage the unfolding mysteries of the cycles of time, as we are co-creators of our experience within the realm of time. Indeed time exists differently in different dimensions. Even here in this dimension we might experience different aspects of time as stretching, shrinking, speeding up, slowing down. Sometimes we might slip into the space of non-time or no time or time beyond ordinary time. There is time that is linear and mundane and time that is magical. There is the experience of lots of time or conversely very little time. Mars in Virgo occulted by the Moon suggests there are many patterns and possibilities being revealed or uncovered when we are open to receive them including the patterns of time and how we can consciously engage them and how these time patterns relate to the overall pattern of life.
Aug 26, Saturday. Venus conjuncts Saturn (17Leo) continuing the process of restructuring a loving relationship with ourselves if we are choosing to work with these energies. Additionally the Moon is moving into Libra early this morning transmitting the mysteries of conscious equal partnerships that teaches us more about ourselves. This applies to the sense that all relationships are opportunities for healing, learning and growth. Relationship coaches Layne and Paul Cutright share this tip about the gift of relationships in our growth process…
Look into the mirror of your relationships and use the reflection to change what needs to be changed within your own consciousness. It is important to resist the temptation to make other people change without first looking at what needs to be shifted within yourself. It can seem quite miraculous that as you change yourself, the reflection in the mirror of your relationships changes, too.
When you look in the mirror and see that your collar needs adjusting, do you reach out to the reflection to adjust your collar? Of course not! You use what you see in the mirror to more effectively change what you need to change on your own person.
Your relationships are actually mirrors of your own consciousness. When you learn to see your own reflection in the quality of your relationships with others, you catapult yourself on your path of personal growth and spiritual evolution.
http://www.paulandlayne.com/index.htm
Aug 27, Sunday. Venus (17 Leo) opposite Neptune (17 Aquarius) and Mercury moving into Virgo. Mercury in Virgo is sensitively attuned to the natural cycles and rhythms of the Earth and Sky for the purpose of living in sacred harmony and balance with all life. This is the domain of Spider Woman who weaves the web of reality and is a great archetypal image to connect with over these next couple of months. (See Aug 31)
Venus in Leo opposite Neptune has a marvelous sense of energizing experiences producing great magic and feelings of great love. Romance writer Nora Roberts says,
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Aug 28, Monday. The waxing Moon is moving into Scorpio and can be seen approaching Jupiter tonight. The realm of Scorpio includes the mysteries of Death, Rebirth, Transformation and Regeneration. Healthy Scorpio willingly engages the mysteries of death, trusting the process of rebirth like the surrendering phoenix diving into the fires of seeming doom and then magically emerging renewed, revitalize, transformed and more empowered than before.
Aug 29, Tuesday. Moon conjuncts Jupiter (13 Scorpio) near the fixed star Zuben Algenubi visible in the evening sky tonight and Mars (24 Virgo) is square Pluto (24 Sagittarius). This is a powerful combination of aspects energizing themes of death, rebirth, and transformation that come either through voluntary or forced surrender to what IS. What attachments are we holding on to that prevent us from experiencing more of our passion and life force? And how can we release these attachments trusting that the transformation that occurs as result supports growing experiences of ecstatic bliss?
Aug 30, Wednesday. Mars is approaching conjunction with the South Node (25 Virgo) exact on Sep 1. The Virgo South Node links with the past mysteries of the sacred work. The sacred masculine principle activates these mysteries intending to access what really works while also actively releasing what doesn’t work in relationship to honoring the sacred expression of life. If you haven’t taken action yet to reduce global warming now is a good time to start and if you have already begun to continue with renewed commitment.
www.climatecrisis.net and www.stopglobalwarming.com
Aug 31, Thursday. Saturn (17 Leo) opposite Neptune (17 Aquarius) and Sun conjunct Mercury (7 Virgo). What are the new visions and dreams? What new forms are they taking? What is the sacred nature of our reality and how can we most honor, acknowledge and respect the new forms now emerging?
Our reality is created by our beliefs and what we choose to give meaning too, so we literally have the ability to restructure our reality through dreaming new dreams and finding new meaning for the old symbols of our lives. This is illustrated beautifully by the children’s movie, The Never Ending Story, with a book by the same name. The story is about a magical land called Fantasia and its interface with the human world.
Fantasia is being consumed by the Nothing and is rapidly disappearing. The Nothing or no-thing gains destructive strength as people stop believing in Fantasia. The hero’s mission is to find a human child who can give the princess of Fantasia a new name. This symbolic action is necessary to re-dream or re-create Fantasia. Once someone, anyone, believes in this magical land and engages it then the Nothing transforms recreating Fantasia according to the new beliefs.
This tale reminds us that what we choose to believe and energize becomes our reality. We often forget we are the dreamers believing we are at the effect of the current dream reality so much that we also forget we can dream a new reality at any moment. The reality we experience only has meaning as long as we give it meaning. We can now choose a new reality based on love, pleasure, compassion, ecstasy, beauty, abundance, gentleness, ease and grace if we are willing and believe in our power to manifest our dreams.
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News about the 10th Planet? http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7848
Some simple things you can do to help reduce Global Warming
For more information visit www.climatecrisis.net
Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds! You can purchase CFLs online from the Energy Federation.
Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer
Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has more tips for saving energy on heating and cooling.
Clean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner
Cleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
Install a programmable thermostat
Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.
Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases
Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances to choose the most efficient models. If each household in the U.S. replaced its existing appliances with the most efficient models available, we’d eliminate 175 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year!
Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket
You’ll save 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple action. You can save another 550 pounds per year by setting the thermostat no higher than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water. You can use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead (350 pounds of carbon dioxide saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year) instead of hot.
Use a clothesline instead of a dryer whenever possible
You can save 700 pounds of carbon dioxide when you air dry your clothes for 6 months out of the year.
Turn off electronic devices you’re not using
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you’re not using them will save you thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
Unplug electronics from the wall when you’re not using them
Even when turned off, things like hairdryers, cell phone chargers and televisions use energy. In fact, the energy used to keep display clocks lit and memory chips working accounts for 5 percent of total domestic energy consumption and spews 18 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year!
Invest In Companies Who Practice Environmental Ethics
If you invest your money, you should consider the impact that your investments and savings will have on global warming. You can learn more about how to ensure your money is being invested in companies, products and projects that address issues related to climate change http://www.socialinvest.org and http://www.ceres.org
Make your city cool
Cities and states around the country have taken action to stop global warming by passing innovative transportation and energy saving legislation. 194 cities nationwide representing over 40 million people have made this pledge as part of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/climate.
Tell Congress to act
The McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act would set a firm limit on carbon dioxide emissions and then use free market incentives to lower costs, promote efficiency and spur innovation. Tell your representative to support it. http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/globalwarming_petition?qp_source=undo1&linkID=3
Make sure your voice is heard!
We must have a stronger commitment from our government in order to stop global warming and implement solutions and such a commitment won’t come without a dramatic increase in citizen lobbying for new laws with teeth. Get the facts about U.S. politicians and candidates at Project Vote Smart and The League of Conservation Voters. Make sure your voice is heard by voting! The league of conservation voters http://www.lcv.org/scorecard and
http://www.vote-smart.org/program_about_pvs.php
Buy locally grown and produced foods
The average meal in the United States travels 1,200 miles from the farm to your plate. Buying locally will save fuel and keep money in your community.
Buy fresh foods instead of frozen
Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.
Seek out and support local farmers markets
They reduce the amount of energy required to grow and transport the food to you by one fifth. You can find a farmer’s market in your area at the USDA website.
Buy organic foods as much as possible
Organic soils capture and store carbon dioxide at much higher levels than soils from conventional farms. If we grew all of our corn and soybeans organically, we’d remove 580 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere!
Avoid heavily packaged products
You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.
Eat less meat
Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane, which they exhale with every breath.
REDUCE YOUR IMPACT WHILE ON THE MOVE
Almost one third of the carbon dioxide produced in the United States comes from our cars, trucks and airplanes. Here are some simple, practical things you can do to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you produce while on the move.
Reduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible
Avoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year!
Start a carpool with your coworkers or classmates
Sharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free national service connecting commuters and travelers.
Keep your car tuned up
Regular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.
Check your tires weekly to make sure they’re properly inflated. Proper inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference!
When it is time for a new car, choose a more fuel-efficient vehicle
You can save 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year if your new car gets only 3 miles per gallon more than your current one. You can get up to 60 miles per gallon with a hybrid! You can find information on fuel efficiency by visiting http://www.fueleconomy.gov and http://www.greencars.com/
Try car sharing
Need a car but don’t want to buy one? Community car sharing organizations provide access to a car and your membership fee covers gas, maintenance and insurance. Many companies – such as Flexcar -- offer low emission or hybrid cars too!
Try telecommuting from home
Telecommuting can help you drastically reduce the number of miles you drive every week. For more information, check out the Telework Coalition.
Join the virtual march
The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to bring all Americans concerned about global warming together in one place. Add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of other Americans urging action on this issue.
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