{"id":2836,"date":"2014-03-21T09:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2014-03-21T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:14:06","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-23-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 23 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelologists<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Up until the 1990s there were many books about spiritual guides, and then in the early 1990s a plethora of books sprang up about Angels.\u00a0 One of my favourite books about guides was updated to include Angels.\u00a0 It\u2019s an uplifting subject for reading, and I began to have a few experiences of my own.\u00a0 One of the members of my meditation group was able to see Angels, and\u00a0 used to regale us with detailed descriptions of them.\u00a0 I have often wondered how the great art masters of yesteryear came to compose their paintings of Angels, and how clearly they saw them in their mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n

Emanuel Swedenborg<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Emanuel Swedenborg was born in 1688 in Sweden, and for a considerable part of his life was a Scientist and inventor, but had a wide range of interests.\u00a0 In the 1740s his spiritual sight began to open up, and in the mid-1740s he had a major spiritual awakening, and saw hosts of Angels in his visions, also communicating with planets.\u00a0 Swedenborg was an Aquarian, with his ruling planet Uranus exactly conjunct his Moon (unusual visions).\u00a0 This conjunction was conjunct his I.C. (Imum Coelum), so he had an unusual foundation for his life, which became more fundamental after his spiritual awakening.\u00a0 His Neptune (spirituality) was trine his Chiron (healing) and it was soon after his Chiron return in mid life that he was able to access this healing pathway.\u00a0 His North Node was exactly sextile his natal Neptune, indicating that Angelic communion was part of his karmic mission.\u00a0 His Mars (physical vision) was trine exactly with his Ascendant.\u00a0 At the time of his Spiritual Awakening, Uranus was transiting his natal Mercury (the opening up of his mind to higher consciousness) which is a once in a lifetime transit.<\/p>\n

Doreen Virtue<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Doreen Virtue is a prolific writer on Angels, with CDs and Oracle cards a-plenty In the shops (as well as online).\u00a0 Another is Diana Cooper (not quite so prolific), but her birth date is not available.\u00a0 Emanuel Swedenborg was Christian in his focus, but Doreen is non-denomenational, which places her Angel work firmly in the New Age category.\u00a0 She qualified in Psychology originally, and some of her early books are about diet and eating disorders.\u00a0 It was on an early taped meditation about Angels that I first heard her refer to her career as an \u201cAngelologist\u201d, not a word I had heard before.\u00a0 To make Angels the focus of your life\u2019s work must be enjoyable, I thought.\u00a0 She has a considerable presence on Facebook, \u00a0recently including a daily diary.\u00a0 But the current focus of her work, from her most recent book, is Self-Assertiveness for Earth Angels, which ensures that none of us gets trampled upon.\u00a0 When I first saw Doreen\u2019s birth chart many years ago, I looked at her triple conjunction of Jupiter, North Node and Neptune conjunction, and thought: \u201cThere goes the chart signature of an Angelologist!\u201d\u00a0 However, I do know others born around the Spring of 1958 who have the conjunction, and have chosen to do other things for a living.\u00a0 It is still rare to be an Angelologist.\u00a0 She has Mars (physical vision) trine her North Node and Neptune (karmic mission plus Angels).<\/p>\n

Lorna Byrne<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By the time Lorna Byrne\u2019s first book came out in 2008, I felt I had read enough books about Angels and considered I had the t-shirt.\u00a0 I was wrong, but I resisted reading her books until recently.\u00a0 Lorna is an Irish mystic from birth, who saw Angels from the time she was a baby.\u00a0 For someone like myself who does not see Angels, her detailed descriptions of them are a treat, and make you feel as though you are seeing them.\u00a0 She brings them to life more vividly than other writers. It would be wonderful if she or someone else produced a book of illustrations of her visions.\u00a0 She has a particular emphasis on Guardian Angels:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am continually amazed at the number of people who doubt they have a guardian angel.\u00a0 Many are happy to accept that other people might have a guardian angel, but doubt that they have one themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her third book, brought out in the middle of the era of the Uranus-Pluto square, focuses on the need to recognize the Angel of Hope, who she describes thus:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Angel of Hope doesn\u2019t look like any other Angel I have ever seen. \u00a0He looks like a massive flame.\u00a0 Within this very bright flame I am shown a faint human appearance, which is masculine, and a beautiful dazzling emerald green colour, holding a torch \u2013 like an Olympic flame.\u00a0 The brightness of the Angel of Hope looks different to any other Angel; I think this is because it\u2019s a light within a light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorna came from an Irish Catholic background, and because she was withdrawn as a child, always seeing and communicating with Angels,\u00a0 she was considered to be \u201cretarded\u201d, and left school at 14.\u00a0 She married and had four children, but her husband Joe was dogged with ill health and died young, leaving her to bring up her children as a single parent.\u00a0 It was revealed to her when young that she would one day write books about her experiences, but for the most part needed to keep silent about what she saw.<\/p>\n

Lorna\u2019s Sun and Mercury in Aries (the sign of physical vision) are largely unaspected, pointing to a highly individual path and vision.\u00a0 Her Sun does however exactly sextile the asteroid Chiron (healing) and squares by three degrees the Nodal Axis\u00a0 – again marking out her karmic path singularly.<\/p>\n

Her fourth book \u201cLove from Heaven\u201d is due to be published on 24th<\/sup> April, just after the Cosmic Cross which includes the next square of Uranus and Pluto, so it will be most timely.\u00a0 I have pre-ordered a copy.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All three of these Angelologists have Neptune (Angels) aspected to their North Node (karmic mission).\u00a0 Swedenborg had Neptune exactly sextile his\u00a0 North Node,\u00a0 Doreen Virtue has Neptune two degrees away from her North Node, and Lorna Byrne has Neptune sextile her North Node within 3 degrees.\u00a0 The healing applications of Chiron are prominent for all three, too.\u00a0 Emanual Swedenborg had Chiron trine his Neptune, with the North Node sextile both, in between them.\u00a0 Doreen Virtue has a trine between her Chiron and Jupiter, three degrees apart, and Lorna Byrne has an exact sextile beteen her Sun and Chiron.<\/p>\n

Aspects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A splendid first aspect for the week arrives on Wednesday (26th<\/sup>) when Mercury trines Jupiter.\u00a0 Sales and business plans are blessed, as is travel, communication and education.\u00a0 Use any preparations you undertake that day as a launch pad, setting the tone for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

Friday (28th<\/sup>) has another constructive aspect in the form of Mercury sextile Pluto.\u00a0 Though Wednesday\u2019s\u00a0 proceedings would have been informative, Friday\u2019s takes information to a deeper level, perhaps taking into account causation, or psychological motives.\u00a0 If you sketched out a plan of action on Wednesday, you can connect the dots or colour in the outlines on Friday.<\/p>\n

Saturday (29th<\/sup>) brings another aspect to Mercury, this time a conjunction with Chiron.\u00a0 Here the focus will be on healing, and solutions should follow on sequentially from any mental crises.<\/p>\n

Next Venus trines Mars, which is good for kindling romance, or balancing the male and female sides of the psyche, occurring in the evening (U.K. time).<\/p>\n

If you meet an attractive stranger at a party, be aware that only two hours later, with Venus going on to square Saturn, they could break your heart, and disappear leaving only a glass slipper, even before midnight.\u00a0 In other words, do not set too much store by an early evening attachment, as its loss could be keenly felt all too soon.<\/p>\n

It seems like a melancholy way to leave the week, so let\u2019s take a sneak preview at the next day (Sunday 30th<\/sup>).\u00a0 There we see a New Moon in Aries: new life, new love, and hope springs eternal\u2026<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n