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Happy Aries New Moon~To Be A Beginner
Comments(0) “If the Angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not with your tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Today is the Aries New Moon and the astrological conditions are ripe for creating something new and transformative in your life. If whatever you are seeding or beginning today feels a little daring or requires you to take a risk, so much the better.
Since Aries is the sign of fresh starts, initiations and pioneering, and the New phase of the Moon is the time each month for beginnings, the Aries New Moon is, universally, the most potent day of the year for seizing the energetic potentials and setting your sights on that which you’d like to create, acquire or accomplish in the weeks and months of the coming growing season.
The conditions under which something is born or begun will be expressed in the child, fruit or project as it grows. These potentials and conditions are apparent in the planetary cycles at play in the astrology chart for the moment of beginning. As a practical rule of thumb, it is helpful to remember that if we are feeling joyful, vibrant and expansive and creating from a feeling of inspiration that which we begin will bear those positive qualities.
Conversely, at times when we feel fearful, desperate, are in resistance to ‘what is’ or are motivated to change something we don’t like without addressing the underlying reasons for those feelings, the creations we begin will carry those constrictive energies.
For years now I’ve created a Treasure Map on the day of the Aries New Moon. This is simply cutting inspiring images and words from magazines and affixing them to a poster-board to be placed somewhere you can easily see. This serves as a rich visual reminder or map of where you’d like to go from here.
Keep in mind joy is of the essence. Anything conceived in joy and that brings you joy will naturally express and connect you with that which is essentially You.
In joy!
Jodi
Spring Into Aries
The cherry trees are in bloom all over my neighborhood these days. Spring is busy dressing up the hillsides with wildflowers and bursting tender green shoots out of long, bare branches in celebration of this new growing season.
The Sun entered Aries on March 20th and the pace of life advances, yet again. Aries is the time of bold beginnings, spirits are high as the energy increases along with the daylight hours. This past week I’ve seen a family of baby birds, lots of tiny groundhogs dashing about on the hill and a parade of little ducks march through my back yard. Yesterday as I ran in the hills above the golf course a pair baby jack rabbits went bounding across the trail after their mother.
We humans are ready to get busy with new babies of our own as we spring clean our closets, offices and homes pitching those things that are worn out, don’t fit or just aren’t working for us anymore. This frees up time and space for new things and projects we’re enthused about getting into, now.
Aries is the first of the fire signs; its nature is inspired, enthusiastic and bold, pioneering, impulsive and daring. While the Sun is in Aries we are supported in starting new things, just because.
Aries natives characteristically see life as a grand adventure. When they have a bright idea about a new way of doing something or are inspired to do something that hasn’t been done before is reason enough for them. Instinct and impulse followed by the joy of taking action is the Aries way. As the Nike people say, “Just do it!” Breathe life into your inspired ideas and back them up with action just for the fun of it and see what happens.
In this result-focused world it is good to remember that life is a journey, it is what happens in the moment, with each breath and step we take. This moment is your point of choice and therefore your only point of power. Enjoy!
Astrology and the New Energy
I’ve been drawn for many months now to several resources that offer teachings and information on Ascension and the New Energy.
Being an astrologer I’ve been challenged, lately, to reconcile the astrology I grew up with and have worked with for decades, which is based in cause and effect thinking, with the new energetic potentials I am seeing, hearing about from others and sensing from within.
Yesterday I had the clear insight that astrology in its original form, just like most things on our earth plane of existence was different, very different than what it became over millenia. The astrology most often practiced today has morphed into a horse of an altogether different color.
There is a school of thought that we have lost something in our modern astrology and old texts from the Renaissance period and back as far as ancient Greece are being restored, studied and taught, once again with the belief that they hold the key to the wisdom encoded in this ancient art and science. Those who are on this path have the made great strides but I don’t know that they have reached anywhere near far enough to get back to the basics of astrology.
Astrology in its truest form offered vital information and insights into living a physical human life connected to one’s spiritual wisdom. In ancient times we realized that once we incarnated we would once again lose access to our divine wisdom and devised the system we called astrology to remind ourselves not only about the purpose for which we came to earth but that we were fragments of the Creator and holding a unique point of view from which to experience physical life.
We knew retaining our sense of individuality within the whole of humanity was key to accomplishing our mission.
As time went on and the peaks and valleys of evolution occurred we eventually became so inundated in the three-dimensional challenges that our access to true spiritual wisdom became more difficult, if not impossible to accomplish. There were times when we agreed to let go of both the key and the map and surrender completely to the limitations of the earth plane. It was all part of the process.
Our world has been primarily based in fear, despite the fact that we are all Love at our core, for most of our existence here on earth. Today, the pendulum is swinging the other direction. Enough of us have remembered we are divine beings of love and light, to turn the tide and change the energetic balance on the planet from darker to lighter, from limited to increasingly expansive, and most importantly, from predominantly fear-based to a vibration of increasing love and joy.
Today we can choose to cultivate wisdom and compassion and live in the vibration of love. We can make different choices than we have in the past and choose to use our energy and time here to create fresh possibilities and do things in a way that was never before possible.
Astrology, the ‘Divine Science’ that was misunderstood, maligned and feared for so long can once again be remembered and restored as the sacred teaching and guide for living it is; a map to the divine potentials–the preferences chosen to be engaged, embodied and enacted in order to shine the light of our own experience and awareness. Thus making it more likely for each of us to joyfully and graciously offer the universe the gifts of our own unique heart and soul.
I like to think of astrology as showing us where to look to discover our own path of the shiny breadcrumbs. Our path holds what others may think of as ordinary or not even notice but we recognize them as gems that lead us back to our true spiritual nature. Our path is the one that lights with each step we take and leads us in this lifetime to all we truly are.
True Astrology illuminates not only the evolutionary path of greatest benefit but the way of joyful abundance and abundant joy.
Destination
“The future
is not some place we are going,
but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found,
but made.
And the activity of making them changes
both the maker
and their destination.”~John Schaar
A Change of Season
Miriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines season as:
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I have noticed in recent years that the seasons of the year are packed to overflowing with activity, growth and change. Whereas when I was younger the years had a distinct flavor, now the seasons themselves are colored and marked by themes that begin and end quickly as new areas of interest spark and carry me into uncharted territories.
In my work with clients and interactions with others I’ve observed this same phenomenon. We are being seasoned by the desire from within for a more heartful and engaging way of living and being. If we are to stay current with our emerging deep inner self we must continue to let go of old behaviors and ideas about who we thought we were. As we release old concepts and behavior our true nature begins to be revealed, and with it a state of grace.
Whatever we cling to thinking it defines us is somehow limiting our true expression. The definition of you is unique in all the world. Only you have had your experiences. Only you have walked your path. Only you know what you truly need. Only you can feel your heart warm and race a bit in the presence of someone or something you love. Our divinity alone gives life, lights eyes and drums hearts.
As Gerald Manley Hopkins said in one of my favorite poems As Kingfishers Catch Fire, What I do is me, for that I came.
Life in the body in this life that we alone are living is a journey to discovering our wholeness, our holiness, that which we alone can do as we stand in the light of all we are and shine it out into the world.
The tree in the picture dropped all of its leaves a couple days after I took this picture. It doesn’t look the same but the spirit of the tree is alive and well. Today the angles of its dark limbs reach in sacred geometry against the backdrop of the sky. A season of rest and the restoration of resources begins. When the seasons change again the green buds of spring will begin the cycle of creating these gorgeous orangey-red leaves anew.
Abundance Reconsidered
These flowers bloom in the entrance to my home; a vibrant greeting welcoming me back from the world at large. I am amazed when I stop to realize how often I simply forget to notice the beauty and abundance always around me; the blessings the universe is constantly offering when I am busy “living” and wondering how I am ever going to get enough done to make a difference, to make a dent in the to-do list that I add to every day or the pile of papers languishing on the table until I finally find a few moments to take action to do whatever must be done before they can be filed or discarded.
When did it get to be this way? When did the balance tip so far into the overwhelmed zone that I lost the joy of living an active and creative life? I now find myself planning to plan to organize so I can get a handle on all of this stuff that I don’t really care about but feel I must attend to.
It is time to step out of the insanity of that plan and stop to look at the flowers while they bloom. My new plan is and has been for some time to begin eliminating the time and energy sappers…. to say no to the things that offer little or nothing in return and banish them from my to-do list and my life.
These days, especially with the overabundance of information available online, I have found it easy to get caught up in someone else’s vision or someone else’s plan or agenda for how I should spend my time, money and life. As I do this my own vision and plan (as much of them as I have allowed myself the time and luxury of imagining) are shoved to the back burner to simmer.
It is only when the vision, plan and agenda of another complement and are in resonance with who and what we are that there is truly a mutual benefit. And from a mutually beneficial alliance comes a feeling of abundance and well-being for all.
When we spend our time doing the things that feel joyful and mean something to us our life can expand in an abundance of magical and miraculous ways.
Everything Happens For A Reason
Some days the complexities of living a three-dimensional, black and white, good or bad reality take their toll. Enough! I want to say. Everything has its place on life’s continuum.
Everything happens for a reason. Somehow, I’ve known this since I was a child. Even in my darkest moments this inner knowing gave me hope with which to carry on. I guess you could call it faith that in some way, if there was a reason for what had gone on, some good was seeded within it.
Mandalas are fascinating microcosms of the the wholistic nature of life. They speak to us on levels beneath reason and logic drawing out a new understanding–insight that intellect alone could never know.
