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Robert of Mayflower’s 

Astrological News and Spiritual Views for May 2012

(248) 547-8227

“God is the perfect poet.” -Robert Browning

 

In the place of Space,

Wear our heaven out

 

Each of us is a crystal, unique and six faced;

three primary colors, three secondary embrace

a seventh principle as invisible to trace

as self and truth in love’s entrance.

In the place of space there is nothing

to tell. Awaken it and banish all hells.

The nature, soul, crystal is to light

six faces, virtues, lamp dark night.

It’s not that virtue will not hurt

nor innocence be not lost

nor there be no parting from frost

when fear and ignorance is quashed

all labor pain is the struggle

of higher birth; so every poem,

every verse.

Such is the royal road and art

‘inner-sense’ awakens soft sophia,

the gods within we do court

when flint we spark

with Neptune’s fork

new mornings in resurrected light,

love’s fire to burn new clear bright

the refuge of unenlightened years;

redemption of lost pain and tears

in bodies of truth clear sight

and love we bare thru dark night

to wear our heaven out

for the World to share,

strike the flint

the heart to flare

in the place of space

wear our heaven out

be the truth and loving art.

 

-robert thibodeau

 

Sophia of Flint

 

It’s not much to admire, this head lost

in muddy soggy fog and mire

floating down river, lost of lyre.

Yet; Strike it thrice to see its fire,

a fourth way, heart spirit soul aspire

in higher trinity spiral inspire.

Not to raise old cerberus,

the three headed dog of lower realms;

but higher heavens to descend,

heaven to earth, earth to upwend;

Father, Mother, Creative Word;

creative verse to awaken

inner soul higher birth.

 

-robert of mayflower

 

Beyond future and past, this I AM; ever present, ever vast, this name of all names, born from the tension of all opposites inherent and outcast, beyond beyond and back again. I AM the ever present stillness in a sea of change, formless truth in every game, train of form, name, fame, blame, shame, wane or gain. I AM ISIS and Hermes, ‘Wisdom Virtue Mind’, the Sun at Midnight in every darkness shines. I AM every mother all and world orphan child, the primordial darkness and light of every wylde. -Trebore Tau Bodhi,’ On What It Is’, and Incarnational Inquiry.

 

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

-Sir Walter Scott

 

“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

 

News and Views

1. The first half of May is karmically transformative with many a long-term realization that either forces one to change, or encourages one to change one’s own mindset; i.e. sit down and take stock of oneself, and/or events and circumstances to both progress and ‘root’, ‘ground’, one’s wandering mind and myriad possibilities. Tendency to tiredness, yet full of stress; or is it that one is tired and exhausted due to always feeling stressed out? Possible need for yoga, exercise, gardening, and deeper reflection, meditation. First half of May could be creatively stirring of new adventure and forward motion, progressive new grounds to plow, garden. Otherwise, possible crazy ‘off-the-wall’ experiences. Aggressiveness, quarrelsomeness, brings possible mishap (man-made along with nature extremes), bringing about a state of remorse, retrospect, return, mourning, or sad realization. Good for plowing new ground, composting old experience, and having the courage to tell the truth universal to all. This month brings plenty of opportunity for compassion (its Buddha’s Birthday!). A need for spiritual/psychological counsel or advice. With Pluto near Washington D.C. Ascendent this Full Moon early May; a sombre serious moody state of the nation week or two. Peculiar twists of fate and destiny may leave one pondering a deeper, more realistic, placement of self in work, health, and relationship. Separations, deaths, endings; as well as, new beginnings, births and new starts mark this time. Are attachments or obsessions, negative emotions, beating you up? Are you taking responsibility for your previous actions and karma in working things out? Or are you projecting that you are a victim and it’s always others’ faults? From the higher self point of view, each of us is master of our destiny and future. Free will to learn is always available. From the more relative side of things, there is fault, courts, burning, learning, returning, and always possibility for the mind to rise in awareness. There is destiny, free will, futurity; and there is karma, learning from past mistakes. Cardinal Signs and Houses are affected the most, so check your chart. For spiritual insight see any books by Osho, Gelek Rimpoche, Trungpa, Steiner or Blavatsky. Getting a bigger picture, a greater mind view, a more participatory divine converse and world spiritual conception is key to a better future. Same old same old doings bring same old re-learnings.

 

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” -Ayn Rand

 

“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

 

“With women, you don’t have to ask; Compassion is instinctive and heartfelt, and without the strings of attachment or trade.”

-Captain Bob and the detroit river paddle boat ‘Stinky Waters’

 

“Art is the tree of life, Science an ever progressive strife; love a forever striving, truth a better self uprising. A fool climbs an upside down tree, art and beauty to the fool’s not seen. The sun is wise in shining, the moon wise to reflect, the heart and earth one love unwinding the wings of joy and truth resurrect. In present perfect is wisdom shining who in perfect stillness beholds what is imperceptible in another yearning to unfold, to become, to be World. Spirit is no other.”

-Trebore Tau Bodhi of Mayflower, mystic and philosopher

 

Mars continues its waxing square to the Nodes into May precipitating new relations, negotiations, arrangements, and re-arrangements, of ways of relating. Such aspects stir feelings and emotions to progress, grow, further aims; or need to get further in or out of certain situations, relationships, involvements. Acceptance, forgiveness but not forgetfulness of lessons learned, stillness listening to greater wholeness, further learning and raising of consciousness, awareness, is key to healthy progressive interactions and working relationship. Mars tends to rashly dash in and act up rather than think and drink the waters of love and compassion kindness; so take care, be mindful. Mars 150 degrees (inconjunct) from Uranus gives alarming ‘now or never’  feeling which can easily lead to either genius activities, or just blown out frustrations, anger, stress, and/or aggressive reaction, use of force. When wisdom and compassion do not prevail, anger/fear/force/crazy emotions quickly consume one. Mars plows assertively ahead to trine Pluto on May 16th bringing persuasive direction to the future. Plutocratic assertiveness and powerful forward motion by those in position pave the way to a better futures. A desire to fix up, repair, mend, restore, and protect assets, values, and what one long-term needs to survive. Earth signs and houses in your chart (Taurus, Capricorn, Virgo) most likely to benefit or struggle with such times. Those most likely to not benefit are those standing in front of the bulldozer, that of ‘Cancer’ and ‘Pisces’ signs and houses. Aries, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces signs and houses continue to adjust, change, dance, and attempt to romance their way through the mine (mind) field. Fixed signs and houses tend to feel taken advantage of, or are taking advantage of the situations at hand. People with anger issues, or those always blaming others for their own past karmic deed and consequence, seem to feel desperate, lonely, loony, out-of-balance, cartoony. Over-the-top escapades and inflationary ego grandiosity or inflammatory behaviour seem to discolour the days of early May. Others colour the days with courage, truth, singular unique virtue. Some may just hide away to regenerate or renew.

 

Many consider Full Moon in May to be Buddha’s birthday, Enlightenment Day, and day he died. Full Moon this week brings the esoteric ‘Wesak Festival’ wherein those who are attuned can, in their meditation or even sleep, travel in spirit, or out of body, to join the Festival of Light and Love, the Festival of Enlightened Beings on the supersensible subtle spiritual planes for teachings and spiritual empowerments. See Leadbeater’s ‘The Masters and the Path’ (said to be really written by Ernest Wood, his secretary). Nonetheless, it is a highly spiritually-charged time that can heighten one’s awareness if purified enough to receive such higher knowledge and experience. For those who entertain negative habits and behaviour, it can be challenging time. To me, all May is a good time for flowering higher virtue, positive inner change and outer renewal; and it’s Mayflower Bookshop’s Birthday!

 

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.” -Robert Browning

 

“Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.”-Sir Walter Scott

 

“Let peace bring peace, love bring love, truth bring truth; only then will self bring spiritual awareness, happiness, and contentment to mother earth.” -robert of mayflower

 

2. May 1st (Beltane Day, Druidic Summer, The Great World Mother Festivals) to Full Moon on 5th (on Ananda, meaning Bliss, beloved disciple of Buddha) to Moon conjunct Pluto on 9th is oddly confrontational. Complaints and protests tend to lack clear communication or enlightened action or message. Need to be clear and simple as to needs and desires. Anger is a negative wanting to make one’s point out of exaggerated actions or stolen freedoms. Using force on another, taking away their freedom; is to take away one’s own future freedom. Anger is a lack of wisdom. It is a lack of knowledge of the true nature of self, destiny, and free possibility. True courage is the freedom to bring about change in oneself. This is a time of: No shame or blame, just new learning, re-learning, and a returning to new but strangely old ground. Strange losses, separations or deaths. New meetings of long-term consequence (for good or other) occur in these days. Be the change you want to see in the world. Teach by example, then the words will ring true. Get a taste of heaven, swallow the truth, don’t lick the wounds. Middle of month (to the 19th, Asvaghosha, Mahayana festival of) good for renewing, or making new commitments to long-term virtues and futures.

 

“Love is energy of life.” -Robert Browning

 

“Heart to conceive, Mind to know, Will to do, dare the soul, Spirit to share.”

-robert of mayflower

 

“Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life?” -Havelock Ellis

 

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

 

May 4th, Day of the revelation of the Esoteric Doctrine of Buddha to his disciples. 

May 6th, The Mysteries of Serapis, Egyptian; Buddha, named ‘Siddartha’ – ‘Fulfilling all things’.

May 12th, Ammonius Saccas Day, the ‘God Taught’, founder of Neoplatonism and the earliest theosophy.

 

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” -Robert Browning

 

“O to be in Michigan now that May is here, is to give and partake of good cheer; to say nothing of the better taste of kisses and beer, and the throwing away all winter’s fears. O to be in Michigan now that May is here!” -Captain Bob and the Paddleboat Goldie Dawn; Capt. Bob is a mayflower regular.

 

3. May 13th Sun conjunct Jupiter in later Taurus. Earth Signs and houses have special opportunities to grow. (Fixed signs and houses need watch over-eating, thinking and speaking without virtuous actions to back it up, and emotions rocking the boat of clear thinking.) Many opportunities to learn, meet new interesting people and connections during week or so around this time. Time to take profits or make profits. Good time to make good karma, or to spend such. Good day to share, make good company, and wear your best colors and heart felt smiles. May 13th to 19th Mercury and Mars trine Pluto … deep connections for success, money, power, mind, commerce, business. Virtue and vice, positive or negative karma is quickly being made now at this time; so take care to be mindful.

 

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?”

-Robert Browning

 

“Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”-Sir Walter Scott

 

May 14th, Egyptian Festival of the finding of Osiris’s missing part and rejoicings of Isis.

 

4. May 15th Venus almost trines Saturn before retrograding 10:33 a.m. until end of June. Good for internship, yoga, retreat, meditation, eating grains and greens, deepening love links. Many strong connections for love, business, politics, romance, friendship, work, and networking are made at this time. Long-term friendships deepening. Venus in retrograde gets indecisive when it comes to love, often having dual investment or interest; yet its also a time to reach out and get in touch with larger view, vista, horizon. Venus in Gemini tends to flirt; yet its great for connecting the mind with the heart if you can do it. Love and sex needs mind and body, but without true heart to balance it all out, conflict of interest ensues. The heart is the wisdom of the body, the mind is the love of the soul. Mind your heart for the gold of truth, love is no other.

 

“Love is heaven on earth, truth is heaven who you are wherever you are.”

-Robert of Mayflower

 

“Perfection is the dignity we are, fearless to be ourselves, in love with the world … enough to join birds in song, clouds in passing, stars in dancing nights, stones into days, days into art, meaningfulness into community.” -robert thibodeau

 

“One can love too much, but one never loves enough.” -robert of mayflower

 

May 17th. ‘Dea Dia’, Festival of the Great Mother, Roman.

 

May 18th, ‘Apollon’ or ‘Apollo’, a pollen Festival, Greek aspect of the sovereign Sun.

 

5. Festival of Manjushri, aspect of Buddhist Trinity. Sun enters Gemini, May 20th Solar Eclipse roughly squares Neptune and Mars too (Sun square Mars exact June 7th two days after Venus Transit on June 5th). Courageous acts or foolish egotistical acts? Danger of misuse of energies; yet when inspired, great deeds of courage and virtue can be accomplished. Danger of foolhardiness and negative psychic fixations leading to destructive tendencies. Strong assertive moves or actions for improving relationships at work, with health, with peace. Astrology and psychology most often work in opposites, so peace-making or war-making is impelling energy at this time. Manjushri energy sees through opposites and polarities, transcending in wisdom truths. At this time, avoid paranoia and jumping to conclusions from fear or gossip. This whole period of three weeks is highly energized in such fashion, and highly charged for creativity and higher calling, sudden rising to power. It is also dangerous in the sense that loose lips and tongue can sink one’s boat. In such times as this, ignorance continues to prove itself more dangerous than a weapon. Time of volatile shock or change precipitating sudden realizations, shocks, further unwanted change, and fallings from power. It is a time of accelerated energies and high velocity when it comes to love-life, relationships, money situations (for many that is love), and security/home/valuables/friendships. It is up to the individual to make it what one wills. With such aspects and eclipse, ethic and moral questions can arise as to calling, work, relatives, relationships. Especially affecting those with mutable signs or such houses in the personal chart. At such time one tends to feel uplifted in spiritual ethical morality, or one feels fallen in such (in hopes and dreams). A need to find closure or new openings. A time to secure one’s principles in the highest virtue and ideal for true love, relationship and work to prevail. Longings for true calling and destiny, a higher sense of life and destiny envelops the time. Otherwise, fate and difficult karma shadow the light ill found. Without a higher power or calling, one can feel quite crest fallen or inwardly injured or depressed during eclipse times. Need for love, healing, higher truth to further awaken compassion and wisdom truth to guide such soul journey times. June 11th Jupiter enters Gemini favouring for a more positive year for Air signs and houses of Libra, Gemini, Aquarius; but first one has get past the Gemini Solar Eclipse May 20th lasting in influence into June. Avoid overdoing, simplicity is reciprocity.

 

“Children, plants, flowers, animals, and trees are love, it is truth that protects them.”

-robert of mayflower

 

“The ‘Love Button’ is hiding right behind the ‘Hard Work’ button, next to the ‘be true’ button! Together, all the bird songs make a sweet soul nest for the soul of earth.”

-robert of mayflower

 

“The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.” -Bertrand Russell

 

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Derek Bok, ex-president of Harvard

May 21st, Plato, the Master Philosopher and father of european mysticism

 

6. May 22nd Super Planets hook up! Mercury conjunct Jupiter leading into May 24th Mercury enters Gemini, May 25th Mercury square Neptune, Mercury crosses node (Sun’s Path on 26th) and May 30th Mercury square Mars. Sun squares Neptune on 23rd just to screw and unscrew things up. Strong shift in collective consciousness, new news, shake up views, and novel vs. hostile ways of thinking, or not thinking. Stormy weather and times shake up status quo with new insights and facts surfacing now and related to past few months. Stormy weather perhaps in many parts of the world. Uncertainty of times for those not inspired by Buddhi Manas, or Higher Self, truth and love. May 22nd is Richard Wagner’s birthday, a stormy windy earth shaking music composer, conductor, and thematic opera maker.

 

7. May 24th, Hermes Trismegistus, ‘Thrice-Greatest’, Father of the Hermetic Wisdom, 4000 B.C.

 

8. May 25th Lieh Tsze, Taoist sage and mystic, taught simplicity and vacuity, 4th century B.C. “[Liezi] could ride the wind and go soaring around with cool and breezy skill, but after fifteen days he came back to earth. As far as the search for good fortune went, he didn’t fret and worry. He escaped the trouble of walking, but he still had to depend on something to get around. If he had only mounted on the truth of Heaven and Earth, ridden the changes of the six breaths, and thus wandered through the boundless, then what would he have had to depend on? Therefore I say, the Perfect Man has no self; the Holy Man has no merit; the Sage has no fame.”-the Zhuangzi; a Daoist vs. Dowist view.

 

9. May 28th, Solomon, Festival of, and said date of birth, c. 970 B.C.

 

10. May 31st, Jeanne D’Arc (born June 1st, 1412) is burnt at the stake this day 1431.

Sense of inevitable change, need to deepen, and make more pervasive one’s love and truth, one’s reality.

 

“Perfection is a pure space we make in which we are courageous to be true, in love with it all, and daring to be exposed naked truth and love.” -robert of mayflower

 

“May all beings find enlightenment. Love hearts and minds that love hearts and minds, everything and everybody. Indulge in every possibility for truth, love, virtue, wisdom, insight; willing to get up tomorrow in stillness to make it happen today. Make all the world friend, blessing all along the way. May angel find the angel, truth the truth, and love find love.; to each their own.’ -robert of mayflower

 

Robert is available for speaking engagements and Astrological Spiritual Consultations

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Robert is performing live music sometime at John Lamb’s Springfed Arts Backyard Benefit on May 12 at 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. http://www.springfed.org/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=54

 

Check out good friend Dougie MacLean’s website http://www.butterstone.tv/en/ which includes live performances and guitar lessons.

 

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An Emerald is as Green as Grass

 

An emerald is as green as grass;

A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;

A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone,

To catch the world’s desire;

An opal holds a fiery spark;

But a flint holds fire.

 

-Christina Georgina Rossetti

 

 

A Rose

 

No intelligence nor heart is needed,

when anger and ‘put down’ goes unheeded,

nor is shame or blame a happy clown

when love and truth cannot be found;

Sacred is the art of forgiveness

beyond all selfish and unfinished business

a greater stillness is in listening, living

in the isthmus of a Christos, giving

itself to each moment

redeeming the past

birthing the future

born in the darkness

fractured by morning

beyond the thorns,

not a journey of outward going,

but a learning, a returning

an opening to self;

I AM

a rose

in truth and love.

 

-robert thibodeau

Robert of Mayflower’s 

Astrological News and Spiritual Views (248) 547-8227

 

“Out of the wreck of winter, green fingers rise from the ground;
and though Persephone’s forehead frowns, her Prometheus is
unbound. Let no poet rest in last fall’s leaves;
Homer, Milton, and Shakespeare kneel to yet born trees
sprouting from the hearts of young lovers fool enough
to trust new worlds to grow. Happy Spring Time Spirit Soul!”

-robert of mayflower

 

“Those who desire to work with us must know that we have taken for our banner the humble, yet unconditional, honest, striving for truth; striving ever upward into the higher worlds.”

-Rudolf Steiner, The Esoteric Significance of the Bhagavad Gita, lecture 9.

 

“If the entire is to feed thy soul,

then in the littlest thou must see the whole.”

-Goethe

 

April 4th, Mercury goes Direct from Retrograde; also Venus enters Gemini. Sudden clear communications and insights as to love, travel, business, relationship. (Scorpio & Cancer benefit) (mutable signs and houses most affected being Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces). Communications clear up, progress shifts into forward or higher gear. For the next few weeks you may feel like you’re waking up from a dream as Mercury, i.e.. Hermes, the awareness mind, going direct in Pisces, enters Aries April 16th, making for strong forward, more aggressive, thinking. Strong new emergence of clarity and progressive thinking in one’s business matters, dreams, aspirations, and future proclivities. Especially for Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and Libra (signs and houses most affected) who need to make decisive sure decisions now in coming weeks as to future.

 

“Let him be whosoever he may be

whether Vishnu or Mahadev,

Brahma or Indra,

Sun or Moon,

Lord Buddha or Mahavir—

obeisance be ever only to him

who is free from the poisonous effect

of desire and anger

who is filled with compassion for all life

and who is purified by a perfectly virtuous life.”

-MK Gandhi, Book of Prayers

 

“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl

April 5th Venus squares Neptune, producing a few days of idealized or Platonic love escapades. Far-reaching futuristic plans for some, over-optimistic inflated dreams crashing to a more earthy practical reality for others. Good for reaching for love on a higher plane. Avoid obsessions and overwhelming fantasies in self or others. Good for artistic and spiritual release, heightened states of sensitivity. Take care that play and work don’t collide or lose sense of balance. We need both, but not in extreme. If it seems too good to be true, it is. (Mutable Signs and houses most affected.) Libra and Aquarius (signs/houses) get magical intuitive insights, flashes, dreams prophetic.

 

“To love is not a state, it is a direction.” -Simone Weil

 

“The soul awakes; and, wond’ring, sees
In her mild hand the golden Keys.”

– William Blake, “To the Queen”

April 7th, Venus square Mars (affects Virgo, Gemini, Pisces and Sagittarius signs and houses the most). Fighting like cats and dogs? Or love and play taking you over? Too much talk, debate, undue criticism, or argument, conflicts with harmonious sensuous artistic peace loving vibe. Strong eros (Dionysus) function with this aspect, fun loving nature, play and sexuality. Tendency to dissatisfaction or irritability due to immoderation or over-indulgence. This aspect makes people very animated and expressive, due to need for love, attention, need to release or receive. Great aspect for doing things, going places, having fun. Avoid friction due to rough talk, negative critiques, or unconscious quarreling, streaming. Love squabbles, and troubles; or is it love bubbles, bangles, and tangos? Aquarius, Leo, Capricorn, and Taurus can benefit from this aspect, bringing highly interesting times and people into their life. Strong need for love, attention, and passionate release.

 

“I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.” -Robert Bolano

 

April 10th Pluto goes retrograde heading for June, Uranus square (from 7th to 12th April) Need to re-coagulate, re-member, re-collect and re-arrange oneself as to true aims, goals, and foundation, center. Coming to power through beautification, ennobling virtues, compassionate demeanor and manners. Otherwise, taking a more ruthless mean turbulent passage through time. (Cardinal Signs/houses most affected) (Taurus, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Leo benefit from this aspect and time, come to power, long-term goals). Strong internalizing energy and focus for aims and goals. Astrological energetic for strong financial, business, or career moves. Strong impelling or compelling energetic for either exploiting others or benefiting others. Good and Evil, wisdom and ignorance, debate, argue, engage. Long-term partnership and relationship planning and workings. Those born at the end of December, end of March, end of June, end of September continue to make huge changes inwardly and outwardly in their life, goals, career, relationships, home and circumstance. For these dates and anyone with planets in first 9 degrees of cardinal signs, deep change and metamorphosis in store. Need to exercise to maintain healthy life-style. Health and career may call for personal changes in diet and life style. Coming to power or losing power type energies at play here.

 

“Things have to be what they are, but everything is what it is and can be beautiful. There is no reason why truth should hurt anybody. The only person you can hurt is the person who does not believe in truth.” -Manly Hall, from the lecture notes on The Transcendentalists of Alexandria, Athens, and Boston Massachusetts

 

April 13th, Mars in Virgo goes Direct from retrograde, expect sudden dramatic dynamic and exacting demands and requirements from or to self. Reality wake up call, on what to do, or what not to do, immediately. Mars going forward is in close trine to Jupiter and Pluto, while close to square with Uranus. Lots of energy these weeks before and after this aspect, for improving self, work/job, career, money, and health. Mars stays in Virgo (health & work sign, as well as relationships to those one works with), until July 3rd when Mars enters Libra. Avoid negativity and unneeded sarcasm, or too much criticism. Remember, ‘Negativity is its own reward’, oft backfiring on the sender. Good for fixing up things, healing up, and cleaning up.

 

“Mystics and schizophrenics find themselves

in the same ocean,

but the the mystics swim

whereas the schizophrenics drown.” -R.D.Laing

 

“Everything that begins as comedy ends in tragedy.” -Robert Bolano

 

“God gave us the nuts, but he will not crack them for us.” -Goethe

 

April 3rd to 13th, Mars within a degree of squaring Neptune, over-active imagination and fantasy, or spiritual inspiration and aspirations? The last week or more, and days to come, (including April 25th), are great time for spiritual artistic activities. Strong active creative imagination for the arts, romance, reaching out beyond oneself, soul-mating, making spiritual friends, networking, spiritualizing environment and domestic, music, travel, future planning, and more. (Earth and Water Signs favoured). But such aspects are dangerous and weird for everything from UFOs, Virgin Mary sightings, taking wrong dosage or medications, drug/alcohol problems. Such aspects impel some to lie, make complete fabrications, and hallucinate. Often precipitates danger of food poisoning, health problems hard to diagnose. Illness due to wrong thinking/feelings, wrong diet or life-style, attitudes of wanting something for nothing, or wanting something with no exchange, for no work or energetic sharing. Although one could possibly make a large amount of money or have a happy indulgence or two, the Mars/Neptune aspect is notorious for being side-tracked, lost in space, losing something, dumb affairs wasting time or energy, or experiencing the feelings of being swindled or cheated. Dangerous aspect for over-indulgence, or harm through drugs, wrong use of medicines, false medicines, and pathological weird states of mind. Take care around seriously inflated or deflated egos (often in the same body!). Avoid idiot compassion, avoid liars and repeat offenders (those who cause unnecessary suffering bringing no learning or growth). Lack of clarity to affairs. Possible chemical imbalance danger. Good for wise compassion for the ship of fools, good for creative crazy arts and music. Good time for healthy diet at the OM CAFE in Ferndale or the INN SEASON Restaurant in Royal Oak. See ‘Self-Healing Cookbook – changing moods with food’ book at Mayflower Bookshop for some of my ‘cooking for happiness and health’ secrets!

 

“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.” -Robert Bolano

 

“We’re all children of God, that’s not the problem. The problem is that there are few adults with God, spiritually mature responsive compassionately wise adult individuals.” -robert of mayflower

 

April 9th, Venus conjunct south node. Good for going with the flow, surrendering to higher cause or purpose, flowing in and with what is beautiful, artistic, musical, magical, and sensuous. Otherwise, a lack of flow, willingness to adapt or change, precipitating a sense of separation, isolation, or aloneness.

 

April 10th Venus oppose Juno Asteroid – The need for tender loving care and good soup, grains, and friends. Otherwise, the lack of mothering, garden, and friends, urge one to reach out in new and daring ways for love and nourishment.

 

“Genius is what perpetually sees how to make better futures for all of us, this is bodhi-dharma mind. The limited and short-sighted see but for the separate self, conspiring to pull karmic consorts into the web of illusion by self-indulgence rather than transcendent audience.” -trebore tau bodhi

April 12th-13th, Venus squares Chiron. Love and compassion as a force for healing and reconciliation is the positive energetic of this aspect. Negatively, the lack of communication and bridge- making, loving kindness, pinches the inner life with pangs of separation.

 

“In each man’s life there comes the moment when his heart must either burst or turn to stone.” -Chamfort

 

“The heart dreams of flowering buds bursting into color, fragrance, sensual wholeness with sky and kiss of sun; giving oneself away and becoming the world grace, the rainbow, a song and dance of love. The healthy flower has good relationship to bird, bug, soil, and weather changes, seasons, and flow.”

-robert of mayflower

 

April 15th Sun oppose Saturn. Carrying too much dead weight? Are others not carrying their own weight and share of work? Feeling blocked by others? Good for meditation and simple exercise and diet. Luck happens here when one is patient, persevering, seeing reality. Happiness when being alone or with that special one. Good for simple clarity and dress. Simple diet, brown rice and miso soup day. Good for taking it slow, working the yard, writing poems in the sun or rain. Furthermore, it may be a time for more rest and self healing, tender loving care, and retreat. This is a ‘face the music’ reality kind of aspect. Often one feels like they have to make things, oneself, simpler and clearer. Need for straight honest conversations and thinking. Tendency to back off from something or someone until a later time; or to postpone or wait for something new or right. Past drags on some. Tension when one feels always on the hold button concerning other or goals/aims. Good for yard work and cleaning. (Cardinal Signs/houses affected most. Fire signs/houses tend to be favored for positive event/outcomes).

 

“God has no religion.” -Gandhi

“God is Love, the Goddess is Wisdom Truth; humans are the heart/mind possibility of uniting those two.” -robert of mayflower

April 19th Sun enters Taurus for a month. Good practical honest sensuous earthly month. New Moon on 21st during Lyrids Meteors lasting 4 days or so, kick off down to earth week of positive fruitful planning and doings. Gardening friends, community, and the back yard. (Fixed signs/houses most affected, also earth signs/houses.) Good for family friend get together, as well as sure workings toward better home, job, heart calling.

 

“No sooner does a man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.” -Jacques Cousteau

 

April 22nd, Mercury conjunct Uranus – Earth quake sparklings of new exciting ideas, actions, conversations, debate, creative shake-ups, revolutionary novel impulses. Compelling insights and conversations leading to new directions. Could be windy stormy weather extremes in week coming up. Sudden outbursts of creative or destructive energy. Emotional storms vs. intellectual lightning, revelations. Good aspect for spectacular sport, striking actions, gymnastic athletic love-making, as well as breath-taking experiences and breakthrough events. Negative inclinations include: impatient intemperate agitated rash action or speech, anger, or mistaken/breakdown events and behaviour. Surprises, good or bad. Sudden turns and upsets, visits. Much positive concern for the less fortunate. April 22nd to 24th good for positive financial or future or relationship doings and planning.

 

“You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.” -Robert Bolano

 

“Love transforms, enlivens life; and with the fire of intelligence, love’s genius awakens a higher mind. Love transfigures and resurrects, jolts alive and makes presence present, all the while love grounds one. Love is an eternal present unwrapping, a tense divine revelation happening. Intelligent Love is always revolutionary, freeing, startling, and endlessly creatively alive, all the while making one a lightning rod for both good trouble and lightning revelation and perpetual revolution of self into selflessness, the world.” -robert of mayflower

April 23-24th Sun trine Mars and Moon conjunct Venus … good days for foreword motion in both work and relationship, money and love. A sense of clear light and progress in the things we love.

 

“Who we are looking for is who is looking.” -St.Francis of Assisi

“When man cannot keep a secret, 

the world will be at peace.” 

-Manly Hall, The Story of Mankind lecture

 

“The reason we make little things important is because we have not enough insight as yet to make big things important.”

-Manly Hall, Lecture note 191

 

April 25th Mercury square Pluto, making for tough mental grind, or negative news or speech, sorrowful events. Strong impulses to persuade or force one’s view. Avoid forceful fanaticism or over-aggressive disorderly nervous types. Unless you know what you are doing, avoid making ultimatums or final judgments. Honesty is always the best policy. Liars are secret control freaks. Anger is expressed depression and lack of true knowledge of SELF. Depression is repressed anger and lack of true self-knowledge, spirit self awareness. Many an uncomfortable truth revealed this last and coming week with such aspects. Politics, of course, will be in another weird word war. Blaming others for one’s own karmic creations. Avoid jealousy and negative criticism that demeans but has no compassionate wisdom understanding. (Cardinal Signs/house troubled or co-creating change with circumstances and/or others). Good aspect for reading and research. Coming to uncomfortable truths and facts about oneself or others.

 

“We interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”

-Robert Bolano

 

April 28th- Venus, as evening star, at greatest brilliance and light in west. Inspirational evenings of love and grace, friendship and super sensuous occasion (or the lack of such, depending on how Venus aspects in your own natal chart). Good time for spiritual research, poetics, and the arts, music.

 

April 30th into May 1st, Mars square nodes cause stir and upset, possible shift in relating to others, for better or worse. Desire for connection, continuation, harmony and union, collide or quarrel with troublesome ego moves out of fear or limited desires. Mutable signs/houses primarily involved. Positive for courageously changing oneself, opening oneself, honestly reassessing right relationship inwardly and outwardly to others. Courageous acts of virtue and honour for the sake of others. Good for helping others help self.

 

“I think that’s what kills people like Presley. The king is always killed by his courtiers, not by his enemies. The king is over-fed, over-indulged, anything to keep the King tied to his throne … and what Yoko did for me was to liberate me from that situation …” -John Lennon

April 29th Sun trine Pluto reveals leadership abilities (who’s got em), and a positive spirit of the future striving or goal. Good day to shine or put one’s best positive self forward.

 

“I have always imagined that Paradise 

will be a kind of library.” 

-Jorge Luis Borges

 

 

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“You Learn.

 

You Learn

 

 

After a while you learn the subtle difference

Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

 

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning

And company doesn’t mean security.

 

 

 

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts

And presents aren’t promises,

 

 

And you begin to accept your defeats

With your head up and your eyes open

With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

 

 

And you learn to build all your roads on today

Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans

And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

 

 

After a while you learn…

That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

 

 

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,

Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

 

 

And you learn that you really can endure…

 

That you really are strong

 

And you really do have worth…

 

And you learn and learn…

 

With every good-bye you learn.” – Borges

 

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch

this declaration of the mastery

of God who, with magnificent irony,

granted me both the gift of books and the night.” -Borges

 

May all Beings find Happiness and the causes of Happiness. -Jewel Heart

Robert of Mayflower’s Astrological News and Views, March 2012

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“An open heart pure and true, clear thinking not a cloud when blue, a simple walk and spirit for life, is the best of guides to find eternal life in each passing moment.” -rt

 

“The whole planet and all of life is a vast university. The historical moment we are in this year, is a sort of final exam, in which we not only learn if we graduate from high school and go to a college of higher learning; but we now get to find out if we will even have a world left to learn from.” -Trebore Tau Bodhi

 

Conquer the ignorance within oneself and the war will cease. Furthermore, it is in the discovery of who and what we are, that all great wealth and peace arise. With such work we are never unemployed, the job takes and lasts forever.

 

*March 1st to 5th, March 6 into 7th; Stormy weather, fights, oppositions, accidents, strong shake ups, fall outs, reaching peak out and need to turn round and think deeply about how one’s own actions create future karma. Beginning of March and end of March loaded with war like, storm like, aggressive aspects. Many relationships (business, personal, friendships) need to go to a higher level of spiritual integrity, virtue, and qualitative life style; or perish is a storm of negative reaction, projection, and little mindedness. Good time to find higher octave of harmony, intelligence, constructive critique for self and other, and compassion, peace. Good aspects for getting lots of work done. Bad aspects for just working on others to be at fault. Such aspects may bring intense storms as well as early spring moments. This could be a time when some things fall apart, depart, or impart new arts, ramparts, and co-heart in higher truths and love struggles to incarnate new forms out of old. Ominous or good time (depending on personal chart) for starting or ending affairs of the heart, business, or political ties. Good for both birth and death (the middle of March brings spiritual mass attunement, the beginning and end of March is strange karma time for many). Relationships, work, calling, home; its all up for grabs or re-consideration and re-construction. This early and late March is a very feisty time where many relations and arrangements, struggle or fight to survive. Struggle to make it in or out, to be on the top, or fight to avoid hitting bottom hard. Good for the fight for truth, love, and a higher calling, freedom to learn and express. Extremes in the weather, a warring of opposites, warrior moves and reactions. Upsetting emotions and difficulties in relationships which are fixated in negative fixations and obsessions such as jealousy, anger, attachment, projection, possessiveness, and control freaking. (See m’new song ‘Bigger Love’ on YouTube mayflowerbookshop channel for further insights, the ‘ONE SKY’ song was inspired by OSHO book that title). This is a big month for wanting a ‘bigger love’ in self and other (in self usually prevents the war). A general lack of compassion and higher spiritual freedom with early and late March aspects, so take care. Positive side is courage, conviction, strength for standing up for what is right to do for oneself, honoring long held virtues and family traditions. The problem is when one forces others rather than enlightens oneself with freedom. while respecting other. With Mercury conjunct Uranus March 5th and again on the 18th, Some people grow quick with unexpected positive surprises, others flip out not able to grow or change. New insights or personal revelations cause shake ups in status quo. Expect a month of constant intellectual change and challenge when it comes to day to day activities, job, relationship, and decisions concerning home (where, and who to live with, arrangements). There is a tendency to fix it or get rid of it. Interesting upsets or turn around bring new possibilities. March 7th good day to plan garden, spring, and summer plans and venue. Avoid the negative path. Unless constructive critique, purifying diets, pulling the weeds of unruly emotions, avoid conflicts escalating with other. Uranus and Mars aspects often precipitate events before actual aspect occurs, recent shootings and tornado, storms reveal such precipitate events. Needless to say, this could be a wild month for storms and unbridled emotions. Positively speaking, spiritually brave souls for truth and love arise.

 

There are many people I’d tell to ‘Go To Hell’, but it seems they’re already there. -Captain Bob and the Paddleboat Erie.

 

There is no solid forever permanent heaven, each day we must rediscover the garden within each other. There is the Great Work to be found. -Trebore Tau Bodhi

 

 

*March 8th, Full Moon crosses equator to ‘stir it up’. Stormy? Sudden shifting of technique or strategy. Switching inner to outer, outer to inner? Constructive criticism vs destructive criticism? Good time to clean, fix up, catch up, and honor the other’s views. Good time to be the love and truth you’re looking for.

 

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.” -Herman Hesse, N&G.

 

*March 9th, Moon triggers Uranus/Pluto, freedom and need for security struggle to find lasting truth and love. An emotionally and intellectually charged day revealing hints as to the coming few years. Remember, everyone has a right to their experience, even if they are wrong. Teaching by example goes far here, as does patience and cautious or wise words. Create time to be silent, listening to the whole of life’s teaching and subtle direction. Protest one’s own lack of talents and creative response. True humility only comes in the face of a higher spiritual recognition, seeing. Knowing one doesn’t have the answer to help another find peace and enlightenment is the humility that opens the door to learning. As long as we are willing to learn, we will never grow old and harden against higher love and truth.

 

*March 10th Moon Perihelion. Things get delivered, come to understanding, intensify, become realized, and are cognized or faced. Good time for dealing with things, otherwise need to compromise or make peace, not confront.

 

Each of us must learn to ensoul our money, our work, our givings and offerings with the purpose and intention of world peace, loving kindness, compassion and freedom to all. Such universal intention multiplies our wealth and good return, our reincarnation into the next moment or life. -Trebore Tau Bodhi

 

*March 12th, Mercury goes Retrograde in Aries returning to Pisces on 23rd, going Direct April 4th. Mercury retrograde, unless well aspected to your natal chart, is a time to go back over the past and fix up things. Difficult time for new beginnings or new starts. Good time to stop fighting others and resisting what life is teaching you. This Mercury retrograde tends to make many tire of fighting all the time, or struggling just to be oneself.

 

“This isn’t as simple as an experience of Harry Potter and friends, pre and post puberty rites. Its not just a taste of life away from the parents, this is a real Lord of the Rings, experience. The world is in trouble and huge monstrous shadows of darkness (ignorance, selfishness, pollution, greed, fear) are coming to the little hobbits still sleeping in small personal comforts and little universal thinking. If you really take a look, there is probably a Gandolf knocking on your door now!” -Captain Bob and the Mississippi Paddleboat Thunder Fun

 

*March 13th (active all mid March!) Jupiter/Venus trine Pluto; Lover’s bliss and whole life connection, the leaping into the sunshine of the Heart. The tantra of love and devotion, right action and universal harmony is vibe now. (avoid gluttony). Happiness in the journey aspect abound. Good for locking into good strong connections, long term goals and sure foundations. The ability to see and feel the archetypal good, true, and beautiful. (Basically Venus/Jupiter grand trines Mars and Pluto benefiting all earth signs and houses. See yr chart). Women rise to power, new beauty and arrangement. (A woman VP?). Look in your natal chart for what houses Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo. Virgo (and Pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini) being hit by Mars retrograde needs this positive vibe moment. This is rough month for these signs, and everyone;s houses such signs in!). The Stock Markets could be doing well at this time. If they fall a bit, its due to profit taking. Such aspects mid March often find some people making lots of money easily and without much effort. Its also an aspect, on the down side, when some people lose big money due to throwing caution to the wind, wanting something for little or no effort or work, and lost due to over estimation of self. Avoid self aggrandizement, bragging, ego inflationary activities. Goethe’s cue is ‘Too much good is evil’. Too much of a good thing can hurt one. Everything in moderation. None-the-less, Mid march if full of exciting aspects for positive new meetings and connections, group endeavors, positive news economically in the short and long run view. Good for peace making and plenty of positive vibe. A much necessary break from the grind. Sometimes such aspects portend of the death of highly celebrated personality. New arts and cultural impulses arise at this time.

 

The Economy isn’t the worst problem facing America, its our life style! It’s the lifestyle that creates economy. We don’t need more money, we need more loving kindness, sharing and caring for each other. -Capt. Bob and the Queen Paddleboat Maya Gaia.

 

The economy that will not economize is an unruly adolescent pleasure seeker, addicted to the fear of one’s own mortality while quickening oneself to such bitter end. -Captain Bob and the Tugboat Land sing Anyways U Can.

 

The economy will economize when each of us discovers our own inner wealth and fullness of heart, our spiritual treasure and psychic gifts; otherwise, nothing outwardly is capable of filling the hole or emptiness within. Virtue Mind Training is the wholeness capable of fulfilling and transcending, crossing the abyss of pain and suffering in this samsara carnival.  Deep within there is a great peace. Seek that first. -robert of mayflower

 

 

*March 14th (operative 11th to 18th). Venus conjunct Jupiter, Venus trine Mars, and retrograde Mars trining both Jupiter and Pluto. Many interesting love and higher spiritual connections being made now. Spiritual alliances working for higher causes. Good aspects for romance, marriage (even plans), new business plans or arrangements, long term and short term goals for greater happiness. Danger of extravagance or over doing, drinking, partying. End of month reveals if you made the right moves. Middle of the month is magic spring dance. This whole time period of 11th to 18th gives vision and voice, feeling and higher attunement to our future in who and what we want to be. The end of the month is the energetic attempt to begin the work and journey of getting to our higher envisioned intuited place and self. This could cause some ground shaking reactions and responses from our past to arise. i.e.. Karma gets shook up and worked out so we can grow.

 

“It will never be possible for us to obtain a dishonorable victory over natural law.” -Manly Hall

 

“Love is the true way to peace. Fear freezes, anger burns, hate destroys, jealousy deforms, ignorance numbs, delusions throw out, our own future possibility. When we begin to discern and learn about our own karma and many reincarnations, the spell of bad luck is dispelled. True freedom and love may now emerge. Look to one’s own heart for all true predictions and prophecies.” -robert of mayflower, from the Charity begins at Home Talk.

 

*March 17-18th, Vesta squares Pluto in sky, Flaming on or off? Hot then cold? Many a hot shot waivers, many a slow one now quickens.. Strong determination to transcend, win, upset, intellectually debate, or even rise to truth. Success  comes from harmonizing the inner and outer, higher and more earthly worlds in truth and love for all. Negatively its the dilemma of the virgin and the whore, the pure virtue and the day to day matter of fact needs. The ideal and practical making ends meet in ever new beginnings. Conflict between warrior goddess/mom need to win or make right, vs need to surrender or flow to flower avoiding feeling used. Avoid smothery motherly or selfish benedictions. Mercury conjunct Uranus second time this month shocks many with new awareness, truth, insights, and sudden need to re-think or re-examine one’s position or direction. Good for living the truth, avoiding just ‘telling it like it is’.

 

“Its not about going to Mars or beyond, its about transcending the burdensome gravity of false materialism and attachment to form, to something that we wish to last forever and be solid. There is no such thing, everything changes, everything is up for grabs and rediscovery; even you. Fear is clinging to perishables. Love is the selfless mother of compassion.” -robert of mayflower

 

*March 19th Pisces Moon conjunct Neptune late evening makes for weird, but perhaps, psychic dreams and premonitions. Good for pre-cognitive visionary, musical, advertising flashes, networking connections, seeking higher connections, future connections, as well as redeeming past. Avoid false nostalgia or day dreaming. Good for higher connections, not always good for practical everyday reality or commitments.

 

“Often in separation or divorce; spiritual and moral ethical behaviour, even religion or spiritual life, is rudely cast aside. Social pretense and idealistic or superficial facade is stripped bare, and the barbaric selfish egotistic survivor instinct of an avenging god holds unconscious angry hostile expression oft leading to deeds with little or no concern for virtue, intelligence, wisdom, or insight into what should be nor what once was family, friends, social network, or bigger love or world outside the little selfish self.” -Roberre Ribbons

 

*March 20th, Spring Equinox, Sun crossed equator; avoid conflicts and unnecessary speech or travel. From 20th to 24th, time rocks and swirls too quickly with too many things happening all at once. Weird shake ups, break ups, turn-a-rounds, loss, separation, even death (of dream or ritual, habit). Juno squares Mars and Chiron around 21st (love quarrels or fun roll around?), maverick wild moves for fun, love, and profit. Moon crosses equator 22nd on New Moon/Uranus/Mercury causing wild weather and storm with both nature and emotions. A heads up and ground quaking shake up time coming now and in next few weeks. World Hot Spots erupt, complaints or rioting or protest arise. Strong voices for change with need for higher wisdom to guide. Need for true virtuous world leadership to arise. Morality based on universal principles of love, truth, lasting freedom and responsibilities needed for such may arise at this time. This last two weeks of March brings many a change like it or not to many a domain. Also brings many new breakthroughs in science, computers, economic understanding, politics, and relationship. World reality and personal little down home reality have trouble meeting on harmonious ground. Good time to let go and let God (or Goddess) when it comes to earth changes, and changes due to things outside or bigger than you. On the other hand, if you know what you’re doin, try catching a big wave and ride. Big week for big news world wide and nation wide. Lots of changing chairs, loss of chairs, and new chairs appearing.

 

“The reason more people can’t realize the world is heading in the wrong direction, is that if they did, they’d have to turn themselves in.” -Captain Bob and the Paddle Boat Fanny May.

 

*On 24th Sun conjuncts Uranus. A sense of explosion or jolt, finality and sure change is in the air. A time of quickening and revelation. This whole last 5 days here may reveal over the top heroics, but also foolhardiness antics, shake ups and upsets, break ups and break through. Lots of wild ever changing and at time aggressive energies. Innovative breakthroughs or breakdowns. Reset or upset, re-tune or out-of-tune aspect. Good for change, hard on the unchanging.

 

Many people in the last 30 years have really come out with themselves, their personality and ego desires, wants, and personal expression. Looking at the world situation, it may be time for many more to turn in, tune in, intern, and return to the inner core center, the city of gold, the heart of being, becoming, be-ness. Only the Transcendental can transcend, only the loving ones be loved. -Captain Bob and the Upper Lake Superior

 

*March 25 Moon conjunct Jupiter, a quick and small aspect but pleasing when socializing, making friends, hanging out for fun and pleasure. Good time to catch a breath and good dinner and friend. Good time to make oneself at home with oneself too.

 

It used to be in a past history where our world was big and our problems small. Now the world is small and our problems big. Buddha wisely said to look for the middle way and avoid extremes. Jesus got crucified between the two, but also arose. Jesus said where two or more of you gather, I will be there. The Christos, the Mind, the Word. Jungian’s say ‘hold the tension of opposites’. Pythagoreans see a unity or a trinity and avoided opposites or duality. Unless initiate truth was to be revealed duality brings war. Jewish mysticism has the cabala, the middle pillar, to balance mercy and severity. The center of the interlaced triangles of Solomon’s Seal is the same. It is here that the solar hero arises. Brahma and Shiva have Vishnu. Its seems a middle way, a going to the celtic crossroads, is now upon us again for better or worse. Let us be centered in love and peace, the truth of who we essentially are. – Aria Fairchild, the STAAR Journal

 

*March 27th, Venus at greatest elongation (no joke) east from Sun. New beginnings, re-beginning, starting over or looking deep within for new ways to renew, awaken, rise in love and awareness. (earth signs and fixed signs feel it the most). Tendency to reach far  within or without for true love and love for truth.

 

The world will change when we learn ‘to become’ rather than ‘to acquire’ or ‘possess’. When we learn that we are the world, we are the walking book, we are the temple of Spirit Self, change will become only learning. There is no shame of blame, only learning. The world is a book of changes, an ever learning turn of the page. Stop trying to forever rearrange facts to solidify our own false security and ego. Only when we seek, learn, talents rather than seek luxuries,will real change take place. New aspirations of becoming rather than ambitions for finished products and material wealth alone is key to true happiness. It is time to have ‘spiritual access’, not just ‘material possess’. It is time to put everything to right use and not be held in bondage by our own fear and desires, our possessions and obsessions with what yet to possess. It is time to ascend in awareness while being here now, not flying to somewhere something else. The ‘cling-ons’ are the bad guys, be cling free of attachments. Be the truth and love you want. Give what you desire. Generosity of self makes one beautiful. -Trebore Tau Bodhi

 

*March 28th Mercury crosses equator, could make for stormy weather, or is it just new insights that ‘storm into view’?

 

If we are going to remain civilized and not return to barbaric warring tribes and gangs, a New World, a Spiritual Economy, a Soul Economy, needs arise within and before us quickly, before the tides of chaos both man made and nature reactive finally reacting at a massive level befalls us. -Trebore Tau Bodhi of Mayflower

 

*March 29-30 Sun square Pluto and Moon trigger; negative emotions eat at you? Or is it time to do another personal laundry, purification, and re-attunement to higher calling and true virtue motivation. Avoid destructive habits and/or unhelpful negative criticism. Good time for healing up, catching up, fixing up, renewing. Avoid tearing it up or terrorizing it up.

 

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“When you fall from failure, forced to stoop low; take a breath of earth’s flowers, they’ll refresh your soul.” -rt

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” -Carl Jung

“Only beauty can arrest the wild beast, the rest of us have to use smarts and the luck of genius.” -Capt. Bob and the Paddle Boat Erie

“There is no way to love, love is the way. There is no way to truth, truth is the way. There is no way to self, there is no self other than love and truth.” -rt

“I didn’t come here to look at the walls, I came here to read books.” -Namwen Lam Lurcaal

 

• February 1st, Venus in Pisces opposes Mars in Virgo (influence lasts a few days before or after date, Mutable houses and Signs affected the most – Virgo, Pisces, Sagittarius, Gemini). Is this a month of relationship problems, squabbles, and sobbin’ goblins? Or one of transcending the tragic with the magic of love and inner transcendental wisdom? Peaceful Harmony vs. antagonistic criticism and opposition. Criticism needs be constructive.  Negativity is its own reward. Quick, someone call the Love Doctor! Somebody is having a bad dream come true. Is someone too critical, hurtful of feelings? Is another too passive and a psychic sponge for everyone’s problems. Be positive to the many possibilities compassionate patient love and stillness listening understanding can present. Transforming cranky politics and critics, discursive angry minds and negative emotions into workable solutions and resolutions with a sustainable future is a job that may take awhile. Mars/Venus oft is like cats and dogs fighting, or feelings vs intellect. It is a struggle between the etheric and astral body, inner feelings and outer emotions conflicting or attempting to harmonize. Inner subjective or spiritual experience and needs may feel misunderstood. The inner struggles or opposes outer reality and world events; or vice versa. Venus/Mars opposition struggles to join or split opposites. On person spiritual and the other material? Tendency to  fight for causes believed in, or idealistically imagined for (Venus in Pisces). Struggle between peace and war, quietude and noise; rhythmic rhyme or harmony, versus chaotic reaction. When love works, it’s the best; otherwise divided interests lead to conflict. Carrying something out as far as possible before someone or something caves in, surrenders, returns home, or finally ends, fails in the cause. Good aspect for challenging and being challenged if one doesn’t lose one’s balance and composure, virtue and solidarity. The forces of freedom vs fate or destiny struggle for voice here. By February 23rd Mercury oppose Mars, clarity and understanding, resolution, is found. “If you don’t learn from your mistakes you flunk life. If you don’t make mistakes, you must still be living with your mom, or in a state of dysfunction and denial.”-Captain Bob

 

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” -Charles Dickens

 

• February 3rd, Neptune goes into sign of Pisces for 13 years. A new collective sense of peace, spirituality, ecology, care for the less fortunate? Or is it false mirrors of self breaking? Or new cosmic mirrors of spiritual ecological possibilities emerging? Expect many new insights and changes with religion, prisons, what is imprisonment, birth procedures, many a quest for or labor for future to birth, embryological  processes, pre-birth experience, mediumism, and a quickening of all spiritual and psychic states of mind and matter. Neptune in Pisces will reveal new ways of loving, forgiving, healing, surrendering, and making peace in the world. Last time Neptune in Pisces was 1847 to 1861. A strong conflict between false purity vs. cold realities of social community were occurring. From the Gold Rush beginning in California to Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, people can be put under a spell of heightened feelings and inner compulsions to travel, experience, and explore worlds dreamed and conceived of. A wanting of something far away. Inspiration to voyage or quest. Will we collectively surrender to a higher spiritual power (via meditation, yoga, compassion, ecology, equal rights, virtuous behavior to all life); or to lower seductive dark unconscious powers of drugs, escapism, mass gladiator spectator distractor factor sports, porn, gambling, wrong use of meds, drugs? Expect strong shifts in collective likes and dislikes, in cultural trends, clothing, movies, tv. Is is mass unconsciousness or higher consciousness, and ecstatic sublimation of ego and transcendent wisdom arousal as in an Emerson, or Whitman, Thoreau, Dickens? A transcendental  re-visioning of the world, or tragic loss of individual rights to life, health, education? A sickening of the ‘ego’ in the downward suck of drained economies and the natural world? A new spirit of virtue and peace, or a feeling of being drained, vampirized, and bled into unconscious sleep or mass hysteria, pollution, mono-culturalism? Have you seen the new book ‘Queen of the Bees’ yet? Is it an apocalyptic time of Atonement or At-One-Ment? The last Neptune in Pisces concluded in 1861 with the start of the American Civil War! Ending slavery was President Lincoln’s war goal. We are still, in the world, dealing with slavery, sex, economic, and more. We will see what happens now that Neptune enters the sign Pisces, Neptune being the ruler of the seas, the seas of higher love/compassion, as well as samsara’s sea of delusion and illusion, suffering and intolerance. All mutable signs and houses as well as water signs especially feel like stopping the struggle and finding a deeper peace. A great CD of music at Mayflower for such sound environment is Chakra Meditation by Karunesh, or any Marina Raye Native Indian flute/bird/water sounds. Check it out. Good music for meditation or massage, or pleasing background.

 

“In the feeling and willing of thinking the human being lives out of his karma of the past; in the thinking and feeling of willing, he or she prepares one’s karma of the future.” -Rudolf Steiner

 

“Only for divine presence, universal love and responsibility and response, does the heart tremble in full presence and attention, joy.” -Trebore Tau Bodhi

 

• February 7th, Saturn retrograde in Libra, Full Moon in Leo, Sun Conjunct Mercury. A time of wisdom reflection, or is it falling back to reconsider?Saturn retro with effects lasting into late June, affects all cardinal signs of Libra, Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and the air signs Aquarius and Gemini. This aspect allows for retreating within to re-evaluate the wisdom of the past against needs of present and future. With Leo rising and Jupiter Midheaven D.C. chart, lots of over the top good will and prince and princess good charm here, as well as concerns for the poor or down trodden. New leadership ideals and sudden appearance. This aspect favors social upgrades in the spirit of the good, true, beautiful. Good time now and in coming week for retreating into sound thinking and good hard clear decision making concerning lifestyle, relationships, partnerships, investments, legal, euro or currency politics and problems. Politics start settling into reality, along with America coming to some kind of common sense as to what is good for everybody. Not just a ‘most for the many’ but a wise choice for the future upholding the best (virtues, values, laws, rules, disciplines) of the past. Good for trying to regulate or bring harmony and balance into day to day relationships, enterprise and eco economic systems. With the Centourid meteor showers peaking next 3 days, a need to come to the earth, be practical, come down to earth, to long-term reality and goals, to sustainable workability and true progress, rooting and growth. Saturn in Libra is trying find the right balance between the spiritual and material, the inner and outer worlds; the right balance between freedom and security, self and other. Concerns over rights and what is ‘right’ or ‘spiritual’ to do. Unstable extremes in weather and storm, the 7th through to the 10th. Other possible crazy weather days include February 14th-15th, 19th, 21st, 23rd-24th, 26th, 30th into March 1st.

 

“Any fool is brave enough to throw themselves into an argument or debate, few have the fortitude and selfless courage to sit back and truly listen, even live into the situation.” -Captain Bob and the Woodward Cruise

 

• February 8th, Venus enters Aries. (Cardinal Signs and houses on Love alert). Fiery enthusiasm for new impulses for growth. Shake-ups or sudden impulsive gestures concerning love and relationships. A wanting to go to the next higher level in relationships or to shake it up, change it, or move on. A need to fly, or re-found the true ground. Renewed impulses concerning love and adventure. Women rise to the top at this time. Strong Anima animus adventures prevail. Look for strong female spokesperson, political figure, leader, and/or Hollywood voice of power. A woman as VP?

 

“Never underestimate the genius within ourselves to get into more trouble so to quicken our karmic lesson.” -Captain Bob and the Paddleboat Detroit River

 

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

-E. E. Cummings

 

• February 9th, Venus conjunct Uranus, on February 10th Moon opposes Uranus and Venus triggers it as event (see item 4). Love revolt or love revolution?  A need for intelligence with love. A sudden, short-lived, shift in fortune, like and dislikes, attraction/repulsions. Sudden arousal and excitement, or upset, concerning love, pleasure, adventure. Negatively, sudden upsets, jolts, separations, revelations and provocative stimulants. A need for new music  and inspirations. Have you heart m’new song One Big World. Click here… One Big World

 

 

“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” -Charles Dickens

 

• February 12th-13th the Mercury trine Saturn and Mercury enters Pisces, on 14th Mercury conjuncts Neptune giving us some insight and facts both good and bad about Neptune entering Pisces. Concerns about honesty in reporting, ecological problems, politics smoke and lipstick, futuristic probes as well as false predictions, fables, and ads. Psychic dreams and insights easier with this aspect, but danger of false dreams, hallucination, and wrong views based on fantasy or desire, fear or aloneness, abandonment. Good for the arts, music, and tricky political manoeuvres. Strong practical thinking attempts to join up with higher spiritual inspirations and insights. Good time to reread your Steiner books, or come by Mayflower for a new one!

 

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” -Bruce Lee

 

“Love, friends and family, are about as close as one can get to both Heaven and hell.” -Captain Bob and the Paddle Boat Queen Mate

 

“True friends stab you in the front.” -Oscar Wilde

 

• February 15th Venus square Pluto, February 17th Moon triggers this Venus/Pluto. A need for intimacy and healing love. Avoid repeat offenders and negative moods that can’t get good work done. Good time to rid self of unneeded items, clothing, and things. Avoid jealousy, taking things too personally, control freaking or freaks, obsession, false pictorial imaginations (porn), deviations, and betting on false futures. Good for cleaning, washing, catching up with bills, making honest economic assessments, appreciating what one has before that too is gone; and for loving enemies even if you don’t like them (who else can squeeze you like that and show you your fear, littleness, and lack of wisdom healing power, thus keeping you humble). Good for humming and being humble. Good for healing old wounds. Avoid feeling re-wounded. Good for bonding. This aspect can make one feel intimate with another, or rejected and coldly thrown out. Good for solitude, retreat, taking personal inventory and stock of oneself. Bad for ill passion, good for compassion.

 

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” -Charles Dickens

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” -Charles Dickens

 

“We forge the chains we wear in life.” -Charles Dickens

 

• February 18th Sun trine Saturn. Perseverance, patience, persistence will pay off, secure, endure, and preserve both your qualities and sanity. Do good, do right, keep your soul and mind in the light this day. Meditate and pray in silence, stillness, and the able heart listening for what will work for us all. Be still and know and grow, glow in the truth of love’s forgiving; inwardly living what pureness radiates from the core of your being to all life, and back again. Bless and be blessed. If you don’t have a spiritual mentor, teaching, or teacher; imagine one. Good time to mend and fix things up. Good for taking a break and pondering past and future in light of today.

 

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” -Mark Twain

 

• February 19th Sun enters Pisces and conjuncts Neptune, New Moon conjunct Neptune on February 21st triggers this aspect into days to come. Big aspect for uncertain times, untimely death, sudden fall or rise of fame, falling asleep and dreaming, hard to be reality conscious. Pomp and circus blur reality and common sense. Sentimentality over facts and reality prevail for a moment (particularly the 3rd, 13th-14th, 19th-21st). Strong aspect for succumbing to higher or lower calling; being bowled over by someone, something, some cause. Can be inspirational and overwhelmingly motherly and loving, caring, taking care of, and appreciating. Danger of abandonment and looking away from, escaping, reality or responsibilities. Neptune rules oil, drugs, oceans and waterways, oil, paper monies, China or Asian good and economics, film industry, Hollywood and TV, glamour and flamboyant outage and outrageous behaviour over the top. A week or two of strange world events bending our souls to listen.

 

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” -Will Rogers

 

• February 23rd, Mercury opposing Mars. Strong windy stormy day and speech aggressive vibes. Ideas assert themselves, assertions force themselves. Aggressive action or negative speech, reactions, critique, can drown clear thinking and clear mindedness with these aspects. If patient, good for getting lots done. Otherwise, difficult travels, conflicts of interest, loss of sanity, over the top anger or violence. Difficult time to travel or argue with someone. February 24th lunar aspects to Uranus/Pluto jolt or storm us back into reality and clear thinking, like it or not.

 

• February 25th-26th lunar aspect to Venus and Jupiter give us a long needed sweet weekend of love, joy, appreciation, and social life. Enjoy it though a minor aspect. Happiness with others, sharing and generous appreciating goes far here. Make peace not war, but prepare for March 3rd when Sun opposes Mars and the hawks bang, dogs bark, and things force themselves to light or fight. Aspect for more stormy weather.

 

“When you fall from failure, forced to stoop low; take a breath of earth’s flowers, they’ll refresh your soul.” -robert of mayflower

 

“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.” -William Wordsworth

 

That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. -William Wordsworth

 

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This Thursday, January 5th 7 p.m. at OM CAFE, Robert talks, ‘Astrological Predictions, Insights and Spiritual Views for 2012 and Beyond’. Sun Sign predictions, major aspects, Uranus/Pluto aspects of unrest/protest/breakthroughs/breakdowns/and sheer genius/ politics, economics, Presidential race, weather, the Venus Transit and end of Mayan Calendar and more. Join us for fun, insight, and good food if you want it. Call (248) 547-8227 if you need more info. Blessings.

 

• January 1st, Venus in the evening sky; Mercury in Sagittarius square Mars in Virgo vibes the day with gusty winds and stormy weather; but also gusty big winds and storms of criticism, small thinking, too big of thinking not practical, and maybe just cleaning house. Other possible difficult weather days (and psychic craziness daze) include night of January 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 20th-23rd, night of 26th into 27th. The whole end of the month may reveal tough times for weather, war politics, and wall street economics. Jupiter trine Pluto March 13th may bring much needed positive vibe in economy, markets, peace-making, strategic smart thinking in many areas of life (good time then especially for Taurus, Pisces, Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn. Air Signs benefit next year ’13, Water signs year after that ’14)

 

“If you don’t start at the top, you may never get there again. Find the best in everybody.”-robert of mayflower

 

• January 5th, Earth nearest Sun in yearly cycle. January 6th the day christians celebrate the three Magi finding the Jesus baby, as well as the day Jesus gets baptised by John the Baptist while descent of fiery Holy Spirit sparks the beginning his three year ministry as ‘Jesus the Christ’. At any rate, the whole Solstice up to January 6th is a sacred time in all history, all religions, for the birth of light, the solar hero, and a deep spiritual renewal of the year. Hannaka (a new KA, Spirit Soul Spark), festival of lights. Brith of Krishna, Mithras, Dionysius, Orpheus, Hermes, and many more. Earth gets baptized in fire of sun and galactic center! We awaken within.

 

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde

 

• January 7th-8th-Mercury aspects along with Full Moon in Cancer January 9th brings rash of suprises in both good and bad news. Flu going around Detroit area should reach its peak. Mars in Virgo aspecting Full Moon brings week of cleaning and tidiness, good for detail work and analyzing situations. Bad or ill effects if over-critical, neurotic nervous, forceful, or irritable. Little things bug you, little things can become big things; and yes, little things matter, especially politeness and patience. With Sun still in Capricorn, wise to stay practical and grounded, keeping long-term goals in mind. Try to win the big picture, letting go of little pet peeves and worries. Air Signs benefit (Gemini/Aquarius, also earth signs Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo). Mutable Signs need to avoid in self and others: anger and over criticalness, negativity (Virgo, Pisces, Sagittarius). Have you read Gelek Rinpoche’s ‘Good Life, Good Death’ Book yet? Or Steiner’s inspired by Emerson’s ‘Stages of Higher Knowledge’ yet? see http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA012/English/AP1967/GA012_index.html Or Osho’s ‘Words from a Man of No Words’?

 

• January 13th Venus trine Saturn, Mercury conjunct Pluto; and Mercury conjunct Neptune, going into Pisces. Influences next few days. Lots of hard cold realities hit, along with wish to fly away, escape, or dream. Tendency to extremes in behaviour. Selfish or too selfless? Need for inner re-evaluation. Possible strong shift in G.O.P. bid for President at this time. Romney coming into good aspects. Someone else drops out. If events or people seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. Reality and dreams clash. Secrets get revealed today. Although, perhaps, good for: future planning, music and the arts, research and investigative long-term projects, keeping to the sure and true, practical and creatively grounded; beware of scandal, propaganda, sudden power plays and unusual turns in politics and economics. Strange love interests and bedfellows with such aspects. Ideals clash with reality. Cardinal and Fixed Signs affected the most (Capricorn/Aquarius, Cancer/Leo, Aries/Taurus, Libra/Scorpio). Jealousy, lies, control freaking, manipulating tactics, all go to support people distancing themselves. Have you read Rudolf Steiner’s ‘Philosophy of Freedom’ yet? For the world’s future and our healing present time; every kiss must come out of freedom, every social interaction and economic exchange out of freedom and love.

 

“Citizens, in the future there shall be neither darkness nor thunderbolts, neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood… In the future no man will slay his fellow, the earth will be radiant, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, that day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy, and life.” -Les Miserables, Hugo (p. 1116)

• January 20th, Sun enters sign of Aquarius; the next three days seem more fun and lighter, more friendly and social, sharing and caring. Good weekend for hugs and friends.

 

“i would suggest many people are brainwashed, but one has to have a brain first if it’s gonna get washed, so maybe it’s not true.” -captain bob

 

• January 23rd, New Moon in Aquarius, Mercury trines Mars, Mars goes retrograde till April 13th. A new receptivity, spiritualization and love for other people, the world, permeates the time. A sense of concern for helping others in trouble of difficulties. Quick thinking and enterprise. With Mars going retrograde till March where it almost opposes Neptune in March; there is a need to take extra precaution concerning health and food. Dangers of infection or weird psychic states, confusion, or hysteria. Mars manages in its journey to square Chiron, the Nodes, and the asteroids Juno and Pallas. This can work well for psychologizing and healing others. Also good for in-turning, for reflective states of mind, psychology, and getting a good in-depth astrology consultation. Mars retrograde a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16k4tEnLLY aspect for wild speculations or investments, often causing troubles for Wall Street investors. Often war hawky with aggressive or war-like assertive behaviour that can backfire or miscalculate actions and results. By the time Mars goes direct again, many a problem concerning health issues, jobs, work, book-keeping, spending, and even the economy may be solved, or adjusted to the right track for solutions. The Presidential Race will become clearer, and there is a good chance that a woman will be running on one, or both, the tickets for V.P. (astrologically speaking).  End of January loaded with crazy extreme weather aspects. January 22nd, 23rd, 26th night into 27th, 29th-30th all critical.

 

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