Aspects for the week beginning 21 November 2010
We are in the throes of the Pleiadian Full Moon at the end of Taurus today, the Sun is also at the end of Scorpio, and it may seem like the end of a cycle. You may be able to make sense of a cycle which started a month ago, or two weeks ago. It is an emotional high tide for that particular cycle now. In the middle of unrest about Student University fees, and benefits, and how many of our troops are being killed in Afghanistan and why are we there…Prince William and Kate Middleton got engaged, with Princess Diana’s engagement ring, a huge karmic statement. Sapphire is a strong carrier of telepathy, so they will be conversing constantly with Diana. I have written separately about the engagement, so as not to clog up this blog. Today is about emotionally processing the last two or four weeks, and the benefits conundrum is still very much in our minds. John Bird, founder of Big Issue, writes an open letter to Iain Duncan Smith in this week’s issue, pointing out that “The Big Issue has steadfastly tried to get people back into work with the support of our readers. By getting people away from dependency we have inspired people to believe in change. The Big Issue has helped get people off long-term unemployment. By supporting businesses that take on long-term unemployed people, we have demonstrated it is possible to inspire change. There are hundreds of social enterprises like us who help the unemployed into work…Your single benefit payment may have legs. If it is seen to be addressing one of the greatest ironies in social delivery – that is, the fact the vast bulk of social security costs are not in the money the recipients receive but the cost of giving people the money, that is the most costly part.” That is his contribution to the debate, but frustratingly we do not have his birth date, let alone his time of birth. Use the Pleiadian connection today to fully explore any emotional or spiritual issues or conundrums. If you receive higher guidance today, it may be sourced from the Pleiades, especially if it is bringing solutions based on group and community co-operation. The Sun enters Sagittarius tomorrow (Monday 22nd), and hopefully today’s wranglings have ended in some resolution, so that you can cheerfully move ahead into a new phase. This may be signalled by a change of routine, new horizons, a new social scene or even a new philosophy based on a broader perspective (the broader the better, unless you’re Virgoan in which case you will uphold the need for scrutiny of detail – it’s a good trick if you can do both). The tension between seeing the wood and seeing the trees is a theme for this week, so it is a good week for eye exercises, for example as under the Bates Method. For as you start to examine the bigger picture tomorrow, you then become aware of its opposite, the smaller picture. This is because a square is building up between Mercury (detail) and Jupiter (expansion), and this square peaks on Thursday (25th). So if you have a tendency to one extreme or the other, it is worth examining the opposite pole and bringing the two together or filling in the gap. You could find that it is a good game, very satisfying and worthwhile, as the information from one end will inform the other eventually. So that by the time you get to Thursday, you could be adept and begin to experience life holographically. If you wish to work with animal totems, you can use the ant for detail and the whale for the bigger picture. Light worker and animal communicator Teresa Wagner has a superb website dedicated to the whale experience http://swimandcommunicatewithwhales.com/ and her animal communication website link is on my Contact page. If you have not been working on your communication and vision, you may feel mentally overstretched on Thursday. Saturday (27th) is a day pregnant with possibility and meaning. Mercury is sextile with the conjunction of Neptune and Chiron. It is a day when mind, spirituality and healing combine, and you can realize the meaning of health in all its multilevel connections: the conventional medicine, the alternative medicine; the psyche and the soma. In meditation you will sense that It is All One and Everything is Connected. The Universe is going out for All Unity on Saturday, because the Mean North Node will be conjunct with Pluto, so on an individual level our destiny and our psychology are seeking to synchronize, and on a global or society level our collective karmic mission seeks to unite with objectives for healing the disaffected sections of society. It is a tall order, both individually and collectively, and could be very difficult if it merely exposes the gap between how we want life to be or our lives to be, and how they are. So it is a good week to make time for meditation in order to bring together the gaps in our lives and in society, in our minds and in reality.
November 21st, 2010 at 5:20 pm
I’ve had a topsy turvy kind of day today, including slipping over on dog walk this morning but it’s okay – I bounce. All my ingredients are ready for me to really get creative this week. Also there has been a return of the water meter saga, 5 phone discussions and one cancelled appointment so far. I may hear tomorrow of when ‘the gang’ can be activated to search for it, despite it only being just below the surface. Now the gas want me to have a ‘smart meter’ fitted. Don’t care, I will be sublime in my creative bubble. Not too sure how this fits in with the aspects this week, I expect I’ll find out when it goes haywire, ha. Thanks Lana for such in depth description love Sarah
November 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am
Thursday this week is American Thanksgiving, a holiday fraught with more than the usual family drama. So much so that almost any American can relate with any other American through the Thanksgiving experience – it breaks down societal barriers and we truly ARE one family. The drama of who will cook what and where THE MEAL will take place, and how the banished are or aren’t invited to the feast, whether the new bride will be invited to bring food, or will take over the feast entirely and on and on and on – including the endless stories of the drunken cousin-aunt-parent-child. Add that to your comment “If you have not been working on your communication and vision, you may feel mentally overstretched on Thursday” and I wonder about this being a more dramatic than normal Thanksgiving.
In our family, because of my Mother’s illness, we’re having a chicken (yay) and some veggies and SHOULD have very little drama. Bear & I don’t like turkey so we’d prefer something else anyway, and Mom hasn’t really been at her best in the kitchen for a while (some scary-underdone food has come out in recent years) so this is a WIN as far as we’re concerned. None of the cousins are coming out to visit Thursday, because their parents are ill also, so THAT drama is reduced. And Bear’s family is scattered to the winds so they don’t even enter into the conversation, although we were invited to drive up to one sister’s for the meal. She lives in a ski holiday area which just got its first snowfall – even if Mom weren’t sick we’d probably not go for that reason alone.
As the token Virgo (I believe I am the token Virgo) I am standing up and proudly saying it IS possible to see both macro and micro views, just in case anyone is wondering! 🙂
Thank you again for this peek at the week ahead, with some important heads-up info for us to bear in mind.
Sarah – seriously, I’LL come find the dratted water meter for goodness sake, how can they not find it?! Do let us know how your creative bubble goes.
Oh, and speaking of creativity, I have to brag on my Bear – he’s really been working with his cello (he’s played since he was a kid, only recently coming back to it in any serious way) and he done did great yesterday in a recital! Kudos to the Bear!
*hugs across the miles*
Dia
n.b.: ‘Done did’ is emphatic American slang, often used to accentuate a positive or negative comment
November 22nd, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Dear Sarah
Hope you are keeping on an even keel, and garnering the wisdom of being messed around by the Water Board.
Hope you will have happy news by next week on that score,
Love
Lana
November 22nd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Dear Dia
Thank you for your account of Thanksgiving in the U.S.A.! I have only been once, to New York, and it wasn’t at Thanksgiving. Maybe we should think of something to have Thanksgiving about here,
Love
Lana
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Lana;
Supposedly we’re giving thanks for the native peoples’ helping us survive that first cold winter. And, of course, we’re giving thanks for the amazing bounty of food this rich land can provide (despite our best efforts at chemical-ing and pesticide-ing); and for our families.
Thanksgiving here has a STRONG pioneer, us-against-the-elements (and us-against-the-crazy-king and us-against-the-religious-establishment) aspect. I suppose y’all could do the elements part but it’s been a long time since you were pioneers (I’m thinking about 2000 years, give or take – my math could be wonky but that’s my rough guesstimate).
Next time you come to this side of the world, come to the left coast (that’s what we call it) and see some REAL culture – LA and San Francisco style.
Dia
November 23rd, 2010 at 2:16 am
Lana, Sarah and whomever esle:
Have you heard of a concept called (I believe) Pearl Babies? It was explained to me today that this is a belief that there will be a special group of babies born in the next 12 or so months who will be incarnating specifically as teachers. I heavn’t heard anything like that and thought perhaps you might have heard about this. I’m doing research, if I run across anything I’ll certainly share with you –
Dia
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Dear Dia (token Virgo)
Thanks for your comments.
Yesterday I experienced an ultimate nightmare (for a Sagittarian) of being caught up in a corkscrew of detail, so I have had the Mercury end of the square with Jupiter, and am now waiting for the Jupiter end to open up.
I dreamt last night that you made a flying visit to the U.K. so that’s what you get for commenting!
Would love to make a flying visit to California, but I don’t drive, and I have heard that you have to drive…
The Pearl babies information is interesting. I have tried to keep up with the Indigo Children, and the Crystal Children. Last year when Jupiter was conjunct with Neptune and Chiron, my inner guidance told me that children born at that time were Diamond Children, and then I read that somewhere.
I have been making a special study of children born this year, and have been doing more baby charts than ever before, so will look out for the Pearl Children. Thank you for the inspiration!
Love
Lana
November 23rd, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Hi Dia, best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving. I hope your mum can join in. In his last couple of years my dad often got mildly confused and it caused me a fair amount of angst. And amusement too, about the situations rather than him. I worked with mums and new babies up to 4 years ago and observed different stages as each phase came in. It was changing from Indigo to Crystal and I found meeting these new little ones with old souls most inspiring. I haven’t heard about the Pearl stage, well until now that is, and makes total sense to me. Love Sarah. p.s. Water Board seem to have abandoned me at the moment. We have snow forecast for later this week, unusual apart from last year, so things will grind to a halt anyhow.
November 27th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
We survived Thanksgiving!
Mother decided to make a simple (yet really elegant) one pot chicken meal – which was cooked well enough (rather than a few dodgy turkeys we’ve survived in years past). Bear picked out a pie and we all feasted. The folks were in odd but high spirits – not sure who’s actually sicker, Mother or Step-Father.
We’re not an American Football family so we avoided that, and only watched the weather news, because it’s been getting down to and below freezing here for the past few nights (brrr) and warming up to only 68F or 70F (still brrr). It’s the desert influence, these cold, dry periods. Once air comes in off the ocean, we’ll warm up and possibly get rain (oh, that’s actually later this week – still brrr)
To y’all in England, this doesn’t sound dramatically cold, but here – people are getting terribly ill and some are even dying. We’re acustomed to much warmer temps. Even the doggies, with their thick coats, have been up on furniture at night (at least 3 of 4 have been – Dragon, of course, sleeps on the bed. She was that little ball tucked into my neck this morning. Topaz seems to have claimed the couch, which means Phi and Nellie trade off on the bed. Phi has a thinner undercoat right now than Nellie, so she’s been on the bed more often. And when I say on the bed, I mean on and snuggling us to within an inch of our lives) (oh, and cats, there have been a number of cats pressed up against us at night as well – it varies)
It’s 9am and the house is heating up to 73F but the cold dryness makes it difficult to stay warm – even in lots of layers. Bear doesn’t wear layers, which is why he’s sick (poor boy – spare him a moment’s thought if you would)
Hope y’alls week went well and not TOO cold (I hear there was a blizzard in Norfolk tho’ – is that real – brrr!)
*hugs*
Dia & the c-c-c-cold gang