Mayflower Bookshop Astrological and Spiritual News and Views for September 2011
Robert Thibodeau
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“Putting things to right use, and not hiding, leads to right love; being true to one’s highest ideals, virtues and values and incarnating, manifesting such in one’s daily life, leads to truth, spiritual destiny, and good luck.” -robert of mayflower
1. September 11th, Mercury opposes Neptune (into 10th when Moon conjuncts Neptune) bringing many an imaginative leap into the future, as well as throw backs from the past. Keep a keen eye out for what is illusion and magician’s trick, hype or imaginative PR or advertising, or what is a straight out lie. Reality and what is truly possible versus lies or false dreams struggle here into Full Moon on 12th. Good for future planning, arts and music, dreams, pre-cognitive prophetics, and platonic love.
“Real spiritual insights and actions always have lasting value. Even when they change, they change for the better.” -robert of mayflower
2. September 9th to 13th Venus/Saturn declinations along with Full Moon square Nodal Axis may shake up many a relationship in business, family, love. Late August’s flings and adventures in new freedom and love (or even business) now get hit with the bill, reality, and/or long-term effects good or ill. In the musical chairs game, everyone dances with the music, when it stops everyone tries to find a seat and there is always one person who can’t get a seat and is now eliminated from the game. During these astrological aspects in the sky, all the rules start to change. This month, many find the right seat, while others dance away hearing invisible, inaudible music and no longer want into the game. End of the month tells the story of who’s got the right road map. Practical responsibilities and the need for security meet up with creative freedom urges, or there is a clash. True love never leaves; in fact, one discovers its been here all along.
“Stillness Meditation, silently listening to self and world, without reacting but really listening to see and hear what Life is telling you, is a real beginning in the quest for truth and love.” -robert of mayflower
3. September 12th, Harvest Full Moon with Mercury trine Pluto gives practical clear thinking (if not too critical/Mercury in Virgo). 13th’s Lunar aspects shake things up, reversals and sudden shifts of gear; along with need to redirect reprogram the Sat Nam navigator. Moon apogee on 14th tends to throw some plans or people out the window, out of the mind, and out of the future.
“Real change always happens from within first. Outer calamities and storms of change forced on one is the result of wrong thinking and actions from the past, the result of karma. Once something is happening or takes place as a current to past event, we can only learn from it. Before difficult or trying events occur it is possible to change or alter the coming event. It is possible to change the future before us. Any true Spiritual Practitioner, political or economic investor or scientist, even gambler, knows this. Once an event really takes place we can flow with it, learn from it, even grow from it. Before an event takes place, the spiritual scientist and artist of life can change it. ” -robert of mayflower
4. September 6th, 13th, 17th, but especially the 25th, 27th, 28th, 29th stormy aspects for quakes, eruptions, upsets, protests, reversals, turnabouts and turnarounds, shake-ups, and political economic hotspots igniting change and high tension wire dynamics. Hey, it could just be one heck of a party week. If one knows what one is doing, it is a good time for dynamic strong change and transformation and renewal. Especially Earth signs and Air Signs, Capricorn/Virgo/Taurus/ as well as Libra/Gemini/Aquarius signs play into the major events for these important times.
These aspects call for us to change or be changed. Next higher level of love and truth calls for change and renewal; otherwise it’s an ‘I’m all shook up’ Elvis aspect. One would think these aspects will reveal further global changes and necessary progressive decision making as we move toward the collective planetary changes precipitated by the planetary and galactic alignments occurring in 2012.
“If you can’t change it, learn from it, grow from it, garden it; make it part of a bigger plan you haven’t quite caught up to yet, even though its caught up with you. This is how the champion poets, artists of life, and spiritual scientists do it; everything is part of a greater wholeness. Each of us knowing it or not, are co-creative with the future. We are co-creative because we are not alone, the whole world is with us, in us, without us, and yet for us.” -robert of mayflower
5. September 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th – Pluto goes Direct from Retrograde, Venus opposes Uranus Saturday, and Venus squares Pluto on Sunday. Moon peak north declination along with Mercury square node then adds to intellectual and emotional awareness of rights and wrongs, and lack of Emersonian or Buddhist Bodhisattvic transcendent view. Long-term goals and practical earthy reality needs to settle in to day-to-day behaviour. Leaps of love, faith, and courage dare new expression while fears of aloneness, loss, rejection haunt the movie house. There are sudden realizations of who is who, and what work is necessary to attain goals and results. Sudden storms, upsets, losses, separations, as well as highly creative spirited twists of fate play tempest in a teacup these daze. This is really a bad time to be doing dumb stuff. Secrets get revealed this month having long term effects. Virtuous actions increase in potential to heal and make better situations. Sunday into Monday call for a deep need to work on the self, not the other; commitment to personal spiritual work, training and goals. Others may reject you, but don’t reject your own higher calling, higher self, higher values and goals. Don’t blame others for your own lack of insight and clear thinking futurity. Cardinal Signs Libra, Capricorn, Aries, Cancer are the most affected, but look to your own astrology chart for which houses or areas of life affect you. Everyone has these signs in their personal chart somewhere, so check it out. Earth signs and Air Signs, Capricorn/Virgo/Taurus aswell as Libra/Gemini/Aquarius signs play into major players and events this month. This aspect precipitates or prepares events coming up last week of September which clear the ground and perhaps lay new foundations for what is to come positive near end of October leading into end of year and Mayan Miracles of 2012 when the Cosmic Mother of the Galactic Center and her Princess Daughter, the Virgin of the Sun, Persephone are spiritually and esoterically re-united. It is not the appearance of darth vader, devil evil, nor the appearance of a male god to save us. It will prove to be an historical moment of importance in that the feminine mysteries of motherhood, compassion, garden ecology, nurturing, healing, and sacred trust between humankind and life on earth returns. Not the Lord of Rings return of the King, but the return of spiritual wisdom, the Great Goddess. Of course this is timed to be the rise of women running the world rather than just men, but that is just a fragmentary reflection of a much bigger picture of human beings, both men and women, learning to divine their co-creative divinity, virtue mind heart, and true work. When we work on ourselves, our own inner transformation from fear/desire to love and truth; no one will be out of work.
“Peace and love, though eternal in heart, is something each of us needs to rediscover and strive for daily. It’s not a given, it’s more a give-and-take situation demanding freedom and respect for others aswell as deep love and compassion for who in there struggles to flower, open, awaken to participation and love.” robert of mayflower
6. As Venus enters Libra on the night of the 14th and when the Sun enters Libra on 23rd (the alchemist, magician astrologer Agrippa’s Birthday), Peace and Love vibes, reconciliation, and looking to hook up with right connections in work and play permeate the unsettling vibes of 17th-18th and 25th through 29th. Very strong connections for growth or break-away, good or hammer/anvil, strike strong cords of attraction or repulsion this month.
“There are always times to come when it is too late to prepare, study, or even think. It is then when karma comes down and we see who has destiny in their hearts and hands. But of course, till then; study, work, prepare, pray and meditate, guardian, garden, truth and love.” -robert of mayflower
7. September 23rd to the 29th – Quakes, storms, flooding, tidal waves, aswell as political and economic unrest. A time of many psychological, spiritual, and even physical death and rebirth, transformational change, and metamorphoses. See number 5 for which signs of zodiac which are most affected. Super New Moon September 27th time period adds to the intensity and Hysteria as well as psychodrama (new moon periods activate inner emotions and inner psychological states. Good time to clean house of unwanted items as well as work on self-purification and spiritual attunement.
“Due to long standing values of birthing boys and not girls, China now has way too many men looking for way too few available women. Are you a woman looking for love? Learn the language and move to China. There is 120 boys to 100 women leading many a man to attempt to even buy a woman. On the other hand, are you a lonely chinese man? Move here! We have more women. Plus, in the long run this could be good for global peace-making and the economy.” -Captain Bob of the Mark Twain Princess Lake Paddle Boat Association.
‘Love or hate can make one immortal; choose LOVE!’ -captain bob
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