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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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and Spiritual News and Views for January 2012

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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‘Astrological Predictions and Spiritual Insights into 2012 and Beyond’

1. December 1st, Venus conjunct Pluto. LOVE TROUBLE or LOVE’S DEPTHS DIVINED? Shake ups in politics and high places. In musical chairs, this is when the music stops. One finds out if there is a safe seat, a real friend, enough resources, energy, sound plan for one’s projected identity, work, and health. Cain may no longer have a chair on stage after this weekend. For that matter, so may many a cardinal sign. Libra, Aries, Capricorn, Cancer (as well as Gemini and Leo) signs may find themselves in need of retreat, renewal, review, renegotiation, and rediscovery. Need to purify or re-attune certain habits or situations. Cardinal Signs do well to lay back and have some compassion for the protesters and wranglers. Playing it safe amidst storm and blunder. Mutable signs aggressive, forceful, strong but in need of compassion this weekend (Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo) as well as Aquarius, Taurus, Aries, Cancer, push hard this week for agenda and projected aims but need to avoid unnecessary anger or aggressive words or acts which may cause strong antagonistic reactions in others. Check your own astrology chart for what houses these signs (especially cardinal and mutable) fall in your own chart. Such aspects bring out the worst behavior when it comes to those insecure in love, health, or money matters. Love Trouble means you don’t love enough, or getting enough love in these possible areas –

Capricorns need to love themselves more. Love themselves in a way that serves the higher self and the whole environment, world, spirit.

Aquarians need respect money and property of self and others.  The past mistakes are about to be relearned and let go of, making for new future opportunities when it comes to love and money.

Pisces learn who is friend, who is brother and sister; and who to keep away from if success in money and love is to be attained.

Aries – it’s all about keeping the home and higher calling together, clean, orderly, sacred. Need to continue the search for the right job, being willing to work and joy well on your way to new heights; as well as keeping home in good order and sacred cleanliness.

Taurus – Children, or creative projects, raise you above the noise and psychodrama. Do the things you love to do and play all  into your new found wealth of self and other. Personal art and creativity enhance money, and love.

Gemini – It’s now quality over matter, higher learning over boring repetition of self and other despoiling your creativity and inner wealth. Find the greater work of spiritual lifestyle, making the day-to-day job ennobled. Working on one’s inner self purifies and enriches the outer work. Outer work and exercise alone won’t find the happy bird to nest.

Cancer – Invest in your own learning and others can’t take away your love’s worth. The ancient wisdom states that we have only teachers; some teach us how to behave, and others how not to. Knowing what to let go of opens new doors. Love yourself more by giving yourself more private downtime to reflect, contemplate, meditate, and refine one’s world family view. Enrich the inner self to make the outer more wise.

Leo – If you don’t use it, you lose it? Knowing what to give and what to keep is important now. Try putting everything to right use or sell it or give it away. Keep things and self alive by putting everything to right use. What you imprison, imprisons some part of you. What one frees, frees some part of you.

Virgo – Seek what your own higher self requires for further learning and growth; prosperity will follow. Blame not others, blame only the self. Then you can fix things. Change self to change world around you. New learning brings new prosperity. Let go of knowledge of the past to glean and view that which you have yet to know and achieve. What allowed you to survive before will not fulfill you now, nor your future to come. Let the unknown slowly come into view.

Libra – Finding the right world work, quality job, spirit work calling, is now your ticket to future health, money, and love. In other words, follow your star and the whole earth will follow. Stillness of one’s own desire and fear is the key to seeing one’s higher calling. Is your job or world work making you sick or healthy? Need alone time to reconfigure future? Letting go of attachment to outer world, and having space and downtime to ponder the whole of life, may give you much needed insight into self in matters of love and money, futurity.

Scorpio – Friendships aspiring to Aquarian virtues of good fellowship, brotherhood and family of man, honoring the wisdom goddess in all her disguises and faces, and spiritualizing all relationships opens many a door to new opportunity. Being the good friend will make right many a thing now, healing the past and creating better futures.

Sagittarius – Now is the time for retreat, solitude, meditation and yoga, and possessing one’s own religion of heart and soul in the spirit of world peace and family.

“As you know, our age is not guided by insight and it thus must bear the karma of that failing.” -Steiner, Inner Impulses of Evolution, Chapter One.

“If you’re not able to shrink your ego, you may need a shrink.’ -Robert of Mayflower

2. December 2nd, Sun square Mars (Moon conjunct Uranus December 3rd). Again, this weekend really good for those courageous enough like Ulysses and Odysseus to brave the storm and tempest. Good month for purifying diet and health, motive and aims. Strong force and determination to proceed at all costs. Avoid making new enemies by over assertive actions. Need to be kind, clear and precise in communications and actions. Lots of reactive people this weekend. Good for debate but difficult aspect for confrontations. Drive through your days here defensively. May be an ass-kicker for protesters around the world. Haste makes waste. Avoid falling into negative emotions that lack clear awareness of how to proceed in wisdom/compassion. Better to be still than premature and hasty. Power forces for change blow and flow through the weekend.

3. December 4th Mercury square Mars. Change of mind, mental vicissitudes, debate or argument. Again, if one is wisely discriminate, astute and clear, good aspect for making one’s point precise. Most people just argue for argument’s sake with discursive and negative emotion mind with this aspect, so beware. Accidents and strong winds, talk, actions of force; lots of communications. Be sure to have your facts right before insisting. Patience and consideration of others goes far here.

Love is the key, we are the lock. Truth is the door, we are the door opener. -Robert of Mayflower

4. December 5th Venus trine Mars, Mercury inferior conjunction with Sun; with Moon conjunct Jupiter on 6th. Earth Signs prosper, Capricorn, Virgo, Taurus. This aspect may be the healing nurturing vibe for some to make up for past mistakes or discrepancies. Good aspect for healing, catching up, furthering positively one’s future or present moment in history. A few days here of clarity and sanity, positive thought and action, after the stormy weekend past.

“Exuberance is beauty.” -William Blake

5. December 9th Moon square Mars into December 10th Lunar Eclipse 18 Gemini, with Uranus going Direct from retrograde December 10th. Restless world. Weird storms, protests, reversals, and upsets abound. With Mercury retrograde and full moon in Gemini, waves of information and news clash with confusing, erroneous, or wrong information. Mercury retrograde known for time of difficulty getting facts right, difficulty getting new things off the ground and started right, false starts and reversals. Revolution is in the air and everybody is an armchair general for change today into coming week. Sudden shifts in markets, politics, and strategy. Cardinal and Mutable signs shifting gears and direction, mind. Uranus is known for sudden break-ups, changes of direction, heart attacks and sudden loss, or change of heart and sudden healing. Uprisings and sudden downturns or reversals. Uranus always surprises or shocks one into growing in new ways. Uranus has been going retrograde since early July 2011, and now goes direct. Things attempted last spring and early summer, now take either new turns, go up to the next higher level, or get dropped. Many a breakthrough or breakdown.

“When you drive someone to suicide, that’s murder.” -Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone in ‘The Spider Woman’.  Think, medications that if you quit, drive one to ‘suicidal ideations’, as friend Doug Gabriel tells me. Hmm …

“Someday the woman may realize that her yearning to love the father—spiritually and sexually—was her yearning for wholeness, and all her lovers along the way were part of that yearning. Someday she may realize that the gift of loving, even loving that is unrequited, is as great as the gift of being loved. Someday she may realize that it was the lovers who rejected her who unconsciously gave her the gift of a heart that is burned clean of a power drive that would have attempted to make the mystery serve her. Burning in the inner fire brings the Beloved home.”

-Marion Woodman, from the last chapter of  her book, ‘Leaving My Father’s House, A Journey of Conscious Femininity’.

6. December 13th, Mercury goes direct from retrograde, Moon at apogee. Sudden forward shift of energies in coming days. Deep feelings get released, far out, out-of-bounds thoughts and emotions, or over the top behavior, out-of-bounds or limits behaviour and events. Feelings of wanting to matter, incarnating ideals and making dreams come true. Creativity surge and information overload also in the air. Mercury has been retrograde for the last three weeks or so, causing many a mistaken word and action to retard or confuse relationships and/or paperwork, accounting, and true fact. Here  things start to get straightened out. Here’s how the Sun Signs are affected. Find your sign, moon and ascendent or in which house in your own chart holds these signs for how you are personally affected in love, work, money, karma, and calling. Sagittarius needs to be clear in word and deed. Your own negativities or fears may inhibit good luck coming your way.  New news and opportunities arise soon. Capricorn needs to stop waste or leaks in spending. New opportunities for material success and security just around the corner. Aquarius now benefits from brothers, sisters, friends and family. Better communications and travel in the works and planning. Pisces reassess home and security, diet and chi vital energies. A subtle change of diet and dress improves health and self-image. Aries need to find meaningful play and love so as to march forward creatively. ‘If you don’t want to be treated like a child, stop acting like one’ may be the solution to your anger and judgmental attitudes of late. If you want love, be love. Taurus needs to find right inner and outer work to find wholeness and happiness, healing. Find work that is fulfilling and rewarding to the inner self. Work that ennobles the soul, healing to self and others. Gemini’s secret to success is right partnering and relationship. Don’t make anyone evil in your mind, see the divine in everything. If you can’t see it, look again. Whether close or from afar, now is the time to align your heart and mind to those who hold, reveal, radiate or reflect your own highest ideals, morals, virtues, and goals. Stop comparing yourself with others or blaming others. Now is the time to attune and align yourself with right others, right relationship. Cancer Signs now know what to keep and what to be rid of (in self or other). Attachment is the glue that got you stuck in a slow death and rebirth movie not all of your own making. Either love your way through your every situation or rid yourself of burdensome baggage and unnecessary karmic learning and repeat learning situations. Leo now sees the future, what to do and where to go, fly, travel, and work so to attain goals. Higher learning and need to intelligently grow facilitates your outreach. Think big now, higher opportunities approach in coming times. Don’t get high, take the high way, noble way. Virgo, it’s all about career and calling now. When the right work and calling, the right star, is your only aim; all other things, money and relationship, fall into place. If you take your eye off career and calling, money and relationships fall apart. Libra, it’s all about right friends now. In the coming weeks, discrimination about who is making for a better world, future, and who is not. Your own hopes and dreams, health and wealth, depend on you being a true friend to yourself, listening to your own subtle needs and wants. But in the coming weeks, it may be revealed to you a much deeper sense of who and what is true friend, true future, holy and happy, better world. No one is friend who isn’t friend to the whole world. Divide and conquer, gossip and judgment, doesn’t work now. Making walls to keep out and defend doesn’t work now. Now is the time to make circles that encompass the world while simultaneously keeping secret and sacred holy your own deep private heart; your own heart for world truth and love. Scorpio now discerns the difference between hiding to avoid being found out or hiding to protect, nourish, heal, and prepare. Also the difference of being respectfully reserved, sensitive to others’ struggle, and philosophically thoughtful and discerning from making judgments that separate oneself from other. From over-sensitivity and hiding from others for fear of rejection or non-negotiable differences, Scorpio now sees more the struggle within each soul to find wholeness, completion, emergence, and revelation of truth and being, allowing compassion to bridge separateness. Perhaps Scorpio is hibernating and preparing for a new emergence to come. Scorpio’s danger at the moment is an unconscious falling back to old unresolved patterns and formulas that in previous times either didn’t work or left one wanting, unresolved, and incomplete. Over-sensitivity to self and lack of compassion for others is antidoted by silent downtime to contemplate and further digest one’s own past and whole of life experience so as to digest and acquire more meaningfulness and wisdom insight to serve better futures. Pride is overcome by seeing the universal nature of suffering, as well as struggle of each individual through karma and many lifetimes to be whole, complete, free, and more flowering in heart and mind, soul and spirit. Find what house in your own chart each of these signs is in to discover how you are affected in matters of money, family, friends, love, work, calling and more.

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” ~ James Joyce

“Never confuse a single mistake with a final mistake.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are only two mistakes one can make in regard to the road to Truth: not starting, and, not going all the way.” ~ Adyashant

7. December 17th Moon conjunct Mars in Virgo, watch out for being too critical or negative. Be constructive, positive, good future vibed. Good day to clean and catch up to a thousand little things needing your attention. Remember: If you are not working on yourself, you’re not working. This used to be the slogan in early days of OM CAFE and Mayflower Bookshop.

8. December 18th Venus square Saturn; difficult day to find what you want; or did you forget something? The past returns, the present sinks into the past and slips from your hands, or is it you just want more hugs and love? Patience and loving kindness, others first, and compassion go far with this aspect. Venus/Saturn often brings feelings of not being loved and appreciated enough. Yet also good for long-term love. Loving what matters.

9. December 20th, lots of little aspects in the sky including Venus square Jupiter make for one very very busy day. Multi-tasking and doing a thousand things at once may be in store. If you can concentrate on one thing, you will have a thousand views and waves of effectiveness. Great day for loving someone, even if only yourself. Lots of news from the big world this day. Extremely lucky or unlucky day depending on how your chart is aspected. Hanukkah on December 21st with Moon in Scorpio on eve of Sun Trine Jupiter makes for intimate sweet socializing and personally touching times. All the days around Solstice time are sacred to the Ancient Philosophers. The Sun travels through the sky where the center of the milky way is, more stars than anywhere. Truly a festival of lights. This is the time for deep inner renewal of the subtle physical bodies, a re-dedication of the living temple of the universe, the divine, the higher self, the spark of God within us.

“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.” -Aristotle

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder.” -Plato

10. December 22nd, Winter Solstice 12:30 a.m. EST. Moon at perigee (everything seems up close intense in your face, look inward and be at peace to antidote violence, anger, over emotional intensities). Sun square Uranus makes for sudden shocks, changes, shifts, insights, revelations, news, jolts and quaking stormy immediate awareness breaks in the flow. Shocks, storms, quake, shake ups, new news for change, both good and bad news from many fronts, sudden change of gears, sudden good or bad luck strokes, strokes or changes of heart. Sudden loss and/or found. Really important day to mediate upon the coming year. Prevision and foresight into the future can be spiritually perceived if next 4 days pondered quietly and deeply. Dec. 23rd Mercury at greatest elongation 20.3 West. From Solstice day and for the next 4 days, ponder destiny and fate.

11. December 24th, New Moon at 2 degrees Capricorn, moody serious day, strange weather in parts, downer night. Good night for burning the yule long, tea, and renewal. A serious or intimately personal time to consider past in light of the future. Bad time to hold grudges or be emotionally upsetting. Good time to heal past wounds.

12. December 25th, Christmas, Jupiter goes direct and the world is saved once again by Santa Claus from being a total disaster. Ha! I mean Ho Ho Ho. Jupiter direct after being retrograde since end of August. Many a project or dream worked on last spring summer, now comes into positive view. The last six months’ work is about to pay off in coming times. Christmas should unveil new positive spirit and future possibility.

“You don’t relate directly to your life because you’re wearing a suit of armor. Then you act to maintain the comfort inherent in the suit of armor, which makes you numb towards relating directly with actual experiences. The alternative is not exactly a question of taking off the armor. It is a question of seeing the possibility of nakedness, seeing that you can relate with things nakedly. That way, the padding you wear around your body becomes superfluous at some stage. It’s not so much a question of giving up the mask; rather the mask begins to give you up because it has no function for you anymore.” -Trungpa, Tibetan Rinpoche

13. December 28th (Moon conjunct Neptune), 29th (Sun conjunct Pluto), 30th (Moon oppose Mars) strange foggy celtic re-patterning for future need, or winter weather storm or flooding in parts, and also, world weirdness alert for idiots who think they are god, Thor, or the avenger. On a positive note, spiritual compassion and courage, compassion and kindness abound in such deluded midst and mist. A strong sense of psychological and emotional death and rebirth with these aspects. A sense of compassion and spiritual awakening too. Also a sense of live now, we die in the future. Positively these aspects make one feel as if their life mattered, and something more can be done to improve self and world around. Worries about world, as well as need for personal intimacy and sharing.

14. December 31st New Years Eve, with Moon/Uranus and later Moon/Pluto aspects with Moon in Aries. With Mercury square Mars around 1 am January 1st, take extra extra precaution driving and partying that night. Over the top joy and excitement collides with depressing negative vibed situations and people. Weird weather, difficult travel, miscommunications, arguments, debate, anger … avoid all that midnight ramblers and riders/flyers. Having said all that, if you are top flight ready, good time to get real, get down, socialize and party with intense personal touch and feel. Good time for mental breakthroughs or breakdowns. AVOID DRUNK DRIVING for sure!

15. January 5th, Thursday at OM CAFE 7 p.m., join Robert for a talk on ‘Astrological Predictions and Spiritual Insights into 2012 and beyond’. Donation, $20 suggested. Join us! Food and drinks available at OM.

Robert is available for readings either online on website, or in person or phone readings, by appointment.

Mayflower has lots of fun gifts for Christmas, including:

• Tibetan bowl bells
• thousands of Quartz Crystals
• Shamanic Jewellery
• Books on Sacred Geometry (Geometry of Flowers even!)
• Books on the esoteric side of music
• South River Miso , and other Macrobiotic items
• Astrology Calendars for 2012 (mention this ad and get 10% off on Calendars!
• Wool Sweaters and Hats!
• Spirulina and Clorella supplements
• Vegan and Vegetarian Cookbooks
• New Age and Spiritual Music (flute with birds and water the hot seller at the moment!)
• Hundreds of Gemstone bracelets and necklaces
• Tibetan and India Malas, sacred woods and gemstone
• Magic Gemstone bags, $10,$22, $44 each. Pick from these subjects: Romance, Wealth, Health, Higher Self, Angelic Attunement, and Calling. We hand pick the right stones for your magic wish and aims!
• New and used books on Osho, Steiner, Theosophy, Native American, Astrology, Tarot, Numerology, Jungian Psychology, Mythology, Masonry, Rosicrucian, Self Help, Self Healing and Alternative Integrative Healing, Wicca, Paganism, Yoga, Meditation, Esoteric Christianity, Kabbalah, QBL, Templars, Grail Mysteries. Tarot decks, Feng Shui, Crystal balls, Vegetarian Incense from around the world (we have the largest selection in the Midwest!), artcards, window decals. We have many Stained Glass Windows – colourful art to hang in your window to catch the sun! Many deity statues to choose from, sacred art objects galore.

More fun & worthy events include:

• Carolyn Striho Group playing live music at Dylan’s on December 3rd. See her website;http://www.carolynstriho.com/  Carolyn and her band are a great show to behold, beyond beautiful and energetic she rocks! She has won many awards for her music and has played around the world.
• December 17th Dance Party at Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor. See Jewelheart.org
• Sunday December 18th, The Park Bar, Funky D Records VIP Christmas Party with the Howling Diablos. Also appearing is Horse Cave Trio, Staggolee, & DJ Linda Lexy! The Park Bar, 8 to 12, $10. The Diablos in the past have opened for many a famous band, including Tom Petty and the HeartBreakers, ZZ Top, and the JGeils Band! A real jamming band. See: funkydrecords.com
• Another good friend, Bob Monteleone will be playing December 3rd at Freddy’s in Clinton Twp. Mi. and on December 9th at the Hamlin Pub on Van Dyke in Shelby Twp. Always a good show. Bob can play any and every song, often taking requests for originals and covers! http://www.myspace.com/bobmonteleone

Dinner with Robert of Mayflower at OM CAFE 10th November at 7:30 p.m., make your reservations now, call OM Cafe 248-548-1941 and talk to Jessica or Jason. Many dinners to choose from. Buy dinner, followed by a 45 minute talk on ‘Living a Healthy Spiritual Life with Love and Intelligence’. Robert of Mayflower speaks at around 8:15 p.m. After the talk, a few new songs by Robert, and then socializing and a little party with friends. Join us!

November 12th Come on up to Mario’s in Troy to hear Robert play with Carolyn Striho and DD in a big night show starting at 9:30 p.m. Free!

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”

-Thomas Aquinas

“Happiness and Joy, Love and Truth, is who we are. Let us live the life to come to know the teachings of Spirit!” -rt

ASTROLOGY NEWS AND VIEWS-ROBERT OF MAYFLOWER

1. November 1st, Mercury square Neptune. At best, good day for Om Cafe Miso Soup and macrobiotic plate. Good for playing around, dreaming, planning the future, artistry, and poetics. This aspect notorious for deceptive proclamations, lies, false planning, lack of clarity, confusion, weird weather and psychodynamics. Flamboyant over the top behaviour occurs with this aspect. Take care to avoid fantasy imaginations that get you in trouble. With medication overdose up 3 times higher in last 11 years, difficult Neptune can make for more of such. Super-sensitivity and over reaction. Difficult time to be exact or exacting, or to make big promises one can’t keep. Avoid inflationary or inflammatory behaviours and situations. Strange weather and events in certain parts of world. Confusing news, ads, proclamations, and strange fears, obsessions. Misleading information may precipitate mistakes. Remember, just because you feel it, doesn’t make it real. Ideals not met may stir relationship problems. Avoid projecting on others. Weather and Stock Market nutty and not to be trusted November 7th, 9th, 20th give or take a day. Good time to let go of what doesn’t work.

“Everything gives pleasure to the extent that it is loved. It is natural for people to love their own work…; and the reason is that we love to be and to live and these are made manifest in our action. Secondly, because we all naturally love that in which we see our own good.” -Thomas Aquinas

2. November 2nd, Mercury and Venus enter Sagittarius. Higher mindedness, future vision or premonition, and higher love provoke one to transcend one’s fears and worries. New ways of thinking and working with others is now possible. Good time to embrace the bigger picture, the spiritual sky, higher virtues and unique good possibilities for the future emerge. Now is the time to renew your education on higher love work that is fun. Generosity and friendliness go far with this aspect at hand for next few days.

“Question: When does the memory come in of all the previous incarnations?

Mme. Blavatsky answers: To have a memory you have to live. You can have the memory of what? If you have never been anything, you cannot have a memory. You must have a memory of something.” -HPB, ‘The Secret Doctrine Commentaries, The Unpublished 1889 Instructions,’ now for the first time published, ISIS Foundation, the Hague, 2010.

3. November 3rd, Mercury and Venus trine Uranus. Lucky time for breakthroughs in thinking and romance. Sudden lightening insights and awarenesses. Lucky dreams and chance encounters. Good day to give and get a hug. Good time to communicate one’s true feelings or intent.

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.” -Thomas Aquinas

4. November 7th, Mars oppose Neptune (in influence until 21st). This aspect can vampirize, pollute, or drain your energy. Others suffer the crazy side of active imagination, too much energy, and lack of sleep. Crazy accidents or world events, flooding, fire, strange weather and politics, economic confusion, propaganda aspect. Psycho inflationary remarks and actions leading to paralysis or ‘way lay’ of directions and goals. Sudden shifts in markets, politics, weather. This aspect brings out the good guy/bad guy polarity. Religious clash or clash of ideals and futures. Past and future collide. Hard to be present. Avoid spoiled food, fools, and liars untrue to self. Troubles around water, or fire, travel, and false promises. Neptune/Mars can be related to poisoning, bad food or water, air; infections or small epidemics; lies and con-men. Wanting something for nothing. Obsession and psychic inflation is to be avoided. Bad radio and hair day. Good aspect, intense, for the arts, music, movies, acting. Difficult aspect though for delivering the goods, landing the real thing, or completing the job. Need to rid oneself of hidden fears for right decision-making. Ideals and dreams clash with practical realities. Need to re-think plans in more realistic or practical way. Feelings that others have too much influence on your life. Need to take personal responsibility for one’s life, karma, future. See ‘Self Reliance’ by Emerson. A great book able to fix the problem of  being too dependent on others. Obama losing the popular vote? Cain and Perry further slip? Romney after Neptune goes forward rising in popularity, or is it only one left standing?

“Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me, in saying it, to understand it.”  -Rainer Maria Rilke

5. Fixed Signs, Leo, Aquarius, Scorpio, Taurus (and houses such signs are in) need to hold to a higher ideal and truth now. Fixed signs affected most for feeling lost or lied to, having too much to do, too many to please, and never enough downtime free of worry and depressing thoughts; strive for the ideal, yet keep practical and simple to hold the ground you stand on. Do simple physical exercise, eat yang/alkaline.

“Take the alchemical, if you please, in connection with the expedition of the Argonauts. All alchemy is there, if you could understand it: the philosopher’s stone and everything is in that expedition of the Argonauts, there in the Golden Fleece.” -HPBlavatsky, pg. 535, The Secret Doctrine Commentaries.

6. November 9th, Neptune stationary going direct. Sudden  clarity, awakening, new ideas, realizations and findings, even shift in feelings may alter and change future directions and plans. Higher love and lower appetites collide? Strange weather and facts appear around this time. UFOs and Mother Mary sightings increase all month. Remember, love vanishes all fears; truth, honesty, dispels paranoia and confusion. Be truth and love, be yourself; all the other selves will be taken with you, work with you, and love you truly. The crazy ones will leave, and destiny will arrive. Neptune’s shift brings gradual shift in plans for many. The weather, stocks, current events, Hollywood, and the front burner and page, metamorph into another glimpse and angle of future trends. Look for more quaky shaky extremes in world weather and eery warnings of the future, now at full moon and at next new moon November 25th. East and West coast affected, as well as other parts of world.

“Heaven is the realization of accomplishment and hell the recognition of failure.” -Manly Hall

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.” -Thomas Aquinas

7. November 10th, Full Moon, Mars enters Virgo. Dinner talk by me at OM Cafe on Woodward Avenue in Ferndale at 7:30 p.m. “Living a Healthy and Spiritual Life- the high romance of knowledge with a heart.”

Good day this full moon for romantic encounters, new opportunities at work, or for work. Avoid criticism that is not constructive. Water and earth signs and houses most affected, sensuous, practical, feeling good vibes.

8. November 16th, Mars in Virgo trine Jupiter in Taurus. Good time to get healthy, exercise, work out, clean up messes, aspire to greater work and goals. Time to get a thousand things, and thinks, done. Good time to clean, catch up on paper work, reconnect or make first contact, right connect. Good time to wheel and deal, and play your cards of good fortune (earth signs and earth houses affected for the most good). Constructive criticism may work here. Good aspect for right strivings, good goings, mobility, healthy conversing and interacting. Good for cars and working being a star with a healthy heart.

9. November 20th Sun square Neptune. Bad time to be cocky, egoistic, flamboyant or bombastic. Unless of course, you are Elvis, the happy ghost. Nostalgia of the past and a mirage like lure of the future, make for many a foolhardy manouevre and flip. Avoid promises that can’t be true. Get everything in writing. Confusion in economics and the political scene. Neptune tends to be too much make-up and lies, deception in high places. Neptune can also bring far-a-way dreams come true, but usually it is pipe dreams and feeling ill or faint from false hopes and dreams, wrong diet, and miscarriage of justice, truth, and divine love (fixed signs beware). Good aspect for dreaming, music, arts, creative design.

“If God does not prevent evil, he is not good; and if he cannot prevent evil, he is not God.” -Buddha, quoted by Manly Hall

10. November 22nd, Sun enters Sage Sagittarius. Higher minded goals and big big plans emerge to take center stage this coming 3 or 4 weeks.

11. November 23rd, Sun trine Uranus in fire signs, Mars trine Pluto in earth signs. Breakthroughs in long thought-out decision-making. A feeling that, now is the time to act. Stock Market should do good for a spell here. Good time for future investing. Good time to try something, or someone, new. Good time to just raise yourself to your own next higher level of functioning. Working with others in positive spirit of enterprise and adventure. Many strong individuals have something to say and do at this time. A more than average time of truth for the press these days. Enthusiasm and practical insight work to sustain goals and true picture of situation. Happiness working alone or with others. Following one’s star brings success and joy with this aspect. Fire and Earth Signs and houses prosper to take new steps (Sagittarius/Aries/Leo/Capricorn/Taurus/Virgo).

12. November 24th, Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius. Thanksgiving recheck. Be sure to speak simple and clear. Emotions unconscious may blur clear communication. Avoid saying or doing or over-doing where you will feel sorry for it tomorrow. Good time to heal or fix the past. A rechecking of facts may be necessary, yet there is a sense of forward motion. Mutable signs and houses need re-think, re-tooling, review, re-stocking, renew. (Gemini/Sagittarius/Virgo). Avoid over-indulgence for rest of month. Drive safe, talk kindly, feel universal shining. Shifting weather.

“What we love, or avoid loving, plays into the most fertile and innocent of moments. Spirituality is consciously, cognitively, leaning into the love part; consciously participating in all matters of the whole world, the wholeness part of each person and thing. This is the weaving that us all.” -rt

13. November 25th, Solar Eclipse 2 degrees Sagittarius. A few shake ups at high levels of rethinking may be in store here. Awkward brutal honesty at odds with cover-up and avoidance brings weird facts to light this next two weeks. Politics and money issues get mixed up with religion and little love issues. Mutable signs need to cut out bad habits, or be cut out of something, or someone’s, life. Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Sagittarius predominantly influenced here. Check your chart for what houses mutable signs fall in, or if you have other mutable signed planets. Look for more shaky extremes in world weather and eery warnings of the future. New Moon trine Uranus could bring extremes in weather and possible small quakes, (west coast perhaps one possibility). Uranus often brings many surprises both good and bad, sudden changes and calamities. Mars plays into it so avoid anger and force as a method of getting your point across. Plutocrats who work out of power and authority now seek ways of having power through not just over, compassion not just passion for. Neptunians and Neptocrats who work out of pride and fear, swindling accounting schemes, secrecy and theft, now try to find ways of success that include ecology, the communion and community of all life and peoples. Neptune can slip into socialism, but has the ideal of love for all. Uranobrats and intellectually superior people, consultants, and technocrats and scientists now ponder the heart of the matter; that, without love, winning and vast power or wealth is meaningless gesture. That love without intelligence is just an unbridled storm passing, a flower without roots, fireworks eventually smelling up the place with false promise. The eclipse is a good one for taking a deeper look at history, our story, and the collective bent of modern times. Seek the sage of stillness within, meditation or silent listening prayer, for further clues. Fate and destiny have a conversation. The Philosopher or lover of truth awakens within silence listening with the ear of the heart.

“The little mind makes traps and cages, and tries to control people and things. The big soul makes keys for everyone to unlock secrets of self and nature, making maps to happiness, enlightenment, success. The friend makes miso veggie soup, grains and greens, along with songs for the journey.” -robert of mayflower

14. November 26th, Venus enters Capricorn and squares Uranus; Moon conjunct Venus. Venus in Capricorn wants clarity, constancy, honesty, and long-term love commitment; at least something that matters or lasts into the future with meaningfulness and gradual growth and surety. Erratic behaviour or getting too caught up in being little, cheap, or over analytical, over calculating, brings problems to love life, and even perhaps to work. Now is a time when one looks for a more mature stable work and love relationship. Dry materialistic controlling cold hearts lose out now to freedom, long-term goals, sure loving and the desire for a happiness that lasts.

“The things that we love tell us what we are.” -Thomas Aquinas

15. November 27th, Venus trine Jupiter. Good time for reaching out and connecting up with greater calling or more friendly happy social environment. Good aspect for beautifying self and home, healing self and friends, making amends, and loving kindness in general. A Healing Hug time for sure.

“Every path into the spiritual world goes through the heart.”
-Rudolf Steiner, from the Contents of Esoteric Classes, 8-24-1910

16. 11 year cycle of solar flares and sunspots coming in 2012 to coincide with end of Mayan calendar. Lots of positive and needed changes to come for all cardinal signs and houses.

“…i am always wondering….

about the suffering of so many,

and the heaven ever available at a heart’s touch.

Breathe inward to the heart of truth and love, there the

stars are not distant…”

-rt

Robert of Mayflower

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Will Chris Christie be the next president?! Will the Tigers win the next two games only to lose the 4th? Anything is possible this month. Is 2012 the end of the Mayan Calendar and the beginning of a new world?

Robert of Mayflower’s

Astrological News and Spiritual Views

for October 2011.

-Robert Thibodeau

“Infinite unlimited Love drives out finite limited egotism, selfishness, and war. May Truth and compassionate loving kindness lead us to and from the heart.” -Trebore Tau Bodhi

(All Astrological Aspects have influence sometimes for a few days before or after date given.)

1. October begins with Mars square Jupiter at 1:21 am on the 3rd and ends with Sun opposing Jupiter, with Jupiter trine Pluto on the 28th. Basically, this should prove to be quite an energetic month for talking, debating, playing, and courageously taking new steps to quicken the economy and get back to work. Such aspects give some people too much energy  though (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, Taurus) in particular are energized and over-the-top with love and high ideals. Cardinal Signs keep having new insights and revelations that catapult them headlong into the future. Mutable signs are happy they are not on the firing line, and are happy to give good counsel and good cheer to every situation. Look to your chart as to what houses, or areas of life, are activated by the cardinal eruptions and fixed sign love idealism. If channeled into creative outlets, such signs can accomplish much in the fields of business and social life, athletics and physical doings, building, fixing up things. Expect extremes and exaggerations in the stock market (especially Mondays and Tuesdays, and end of month into November time). Also many extremes and vicissitudes on the economic and political front and forums. Personal relationships keep getting new jump-starts but take care around any sensitive areas in relationships, money matters, political or geo political hotspots end of month.  Good month for rekindling business and new and old friendships. It’s a month for wanting action, wanting to grow, wanting to start something new. Also strong month for dreaming of different or better futures; strong for pursuing high romance, and love’s ideals.

2. Watch the dates of Oct. 3rd, Oct. 6, 10th, and 13th; 19, 25th, and evening of 30th to avoid negativities, emotional heaviness, and weird weather people. These days could seriously dampen the spirit of love/joy and going big, so take care … and keep loving kindness, wisdom and compassion going. Here there is a need to prove oneself or to manifest one’s ideals and dreams, promises. Feeling depressed or is it divine melancholy? Good days for Miso Seaweed Soup and a Macrobiotic Plate at the Om Cafe. Jason there should be able to pick up your spirit and smile with the great food and desserts there.

3. Venus goes into Scorpio on the 9th amplifying the passion and fury for truth and love. Venus was in fair weather Libra up to now looking for equality and co-decision making. Now, some decisions may be made for you, or need to be made now. Especially the ‘in or out’ type decisions, ‘yes or no’ decisions; no ‘maybe’. Who you thought was with you may now change. With Venus going into Scorpio, decisions have to be made sooner than later about many a thing, money, sex, love, future direction, what to get rid of. So for the rest of October, enough with fairness; go for what’s right, light, wise and flies, what fits tight. Go with what quickly sweetly quells the fire and outwits wrong desire. What facilitates the future journey to happiness and freedom, enlightenment and friendship, love, is the ticket to ride now. Avoid repeat performance, jealousy, attachment, control freaking and emotional manipulation. Violators never get it till its too late, so take good notice. Good time to increase one’s compassion and avoidance for idiots, repeat offenders, scammers and those freaking out from their own fears and tears, desires and feelings of wiredness, tiredness, and lack of right knowledge; avoid the, ‘you should feel sorry for me’ chit. Look for the Karma, Dharma, freedom and truth that holds us all. October 10th brings strange weather and conflicts, pre-debate debates on jobs, economy, war, politics.

4. Full Moon October 11th 10:06pm. GOP Debate night followed by Mercury trine Neptune next day portends to a good show and a wee bit of a debate. With Neptune, the winner is whoever puts on the best magic show, theatre, best one liner slogan or insight slap. Watch Neptune cartoony dreamy promises and good posturing. More on Elections future in this newsletter.

5. October 13th Sun conjunct Saturn (5:13pm exact). Early morning yoga? Need for more exercise and rest? Serious day to bottom line it. Meditative virtue mind wins the day. Miso soup at Om Cafe would help too. With Moon conjunct Jupiter around noon earlier; this is an up and down day. False notions of success or happiness may here find an end of the road feeling, or a fated bad luck and just depressing kind of day. For others it’s a good work day relaxing into the evening. Good day to sit with reality and truth. If you are lucky, everything stops to give you a break. Perhaps good for things and situations getting clearer as to what to do and not do. Pieces fall into place giving sense of reality by end of day. Cardinal Signs mostly feel this, Capricorn/Cancer/Aries/Libra. Mutable signs get moody about it, and fixed signs say ‘i’m not moving, i am just thinking about it.’. Good day to stick one’s head into healthy disciplines and goals. Good day to THINK, be still, and PONDER. New initiatives and love in the air inspires new cards or options in the game. Wait till next day to get insight and new options if you don’t get it today. Venus opposing Jupiter evening of 14th, brings fun to the sunny hearted, the social/family scene hits a positive new beat. Monday 17th Mercury opposing Jupiter carries over a wanting to keep going, growing, knowing, spending oneself to succeed vibration; this  carries through the month. Good for fun reaching out beyond one’s self. Good but possibly difficult or dangerous for those who over-indulge, over-do, over-invest, gamble, or take risks. Lots of generosity and sharing this month but avoid idiot sharing, idiot compassion, and idiot ‘someone is coming to save me’, or me ‘them’…  No one is being saved, now is the time to spend yourself on your higher self, the world.

“The insights you get are food for the spirit. The body, soul, and spirit all need food and exercise. We get this spiritual food by the way we love and work.” -robert of mayflower

6. Oct. 21 eve, Sun trine Neptune makes for dreamy weekend of escapism and heavy future planning, wanting to disappear or fly away in feelings of pleasure or high escapade. Spiritual soul mating aspect, arts, music, love. Neptune makes one feel an inch away from the goal, close yet a bit away. Take care not to space out, not paying enough attention to what’s ‘right here now’. Yet, this time is good for making far-reaching plans and dreams. Orionids meteor showers give grounding and feeling of coming to earth. Coming to earth with strong facts, determination, goals, with practical get-down-to-work attitude. Now is the time where the bottom rises and the top descends to meet the heart. Otherwise, if you miss the train, you may be wondering, wandering, and asking; rather than hearing the truth, the way, and the lifestyle to go.

7. Sun into Scorpio Oct 23rd makes for sharp shift into strong focus for what really counts as to where exactly one is going, when one will arrive, and what is the exact agenda. Good for getting to exact details but avoid being too exacting or hard on others.  Awareness of what to cut out is crucial if success is to be had.

8. New Moon on 26th to end of month tends to be stormiest in weather, politics, economics, love, health, stocks; and serious shifts in decision making top to bottom, bottom up.  Shake ups or re-structuring at high levels possible. Whatever isn’t working or causing too much friction or tends to rattle the cage too much, gets cut out or reworked now. Avoid starting arguments or being over assertive. Avoid being too hard and fixed, flow more at this time. Did you not read ‘The Book of Secrets’ by Osho, or ‘Foundations of Esotericism’ by Steiner, or ‘Isis Unveiled’ by H.P.Blavatsky yet? Now could be the time! Difficult time to use force, good time to use wisdom and loving kindness. Especially concerning family, love, and friendship. If you know what you’re doing, now time for major breakthrough in love and money; otherwise major breakdowns. If possible, avoid travel, legal matters, exaggerators, crazy people, family squabbles, love quarrels. Unless really smart and well planned, be still; have compassion, and make smart wishes. Fixed wills clash at this time (Venus/Mars in fixed signs). Patience and practical common earthy sense and honesty win out over anger, impatience, pride, and ego now. Strong time for pure passion and passionate pursuits, bad time for fanatical extremism or use of forceful means. With Jupiter trine Pluto good for big money/political plans, good for long-term planning and goals. Try to compromise in sharing power or decision making. Bad or difficult time for taking the law into one’s own hands. Good time for considering what is right or good for the whole.

9. Presidential Election 2012? Mercury goes retrograde on election day! November 2000 election had Mercury retrograde. ‘Holy Bat Smoke Robin’, this could be a mind-bender of an election with a wee bit of confusion or questions surrounding the election process.

10. President Obama’s Astrology Chart reveals progressed Moon about to oppose his progressed Sun making for a Full Moon peak out experience. He may feel he’s reached his full maturity and capacity as President. After the full moon experience one reflects and thinks more, wisdom grows and instinctive knee jerk reactions slow. This could be a time of the last knee jerk reactions. When transiting Uranus joins in on this aspect, especially end of October into first few days of November, look for either a strong jump start on the coming Election, or a jump to a higher more positive level of conversation and action; or just the opposite, some kind of upset or troubling downslide. Obama will have to watch his temper and avoid anger, over-reaction. Good aspect for sudden new insights and revelations. Either way, whatever sudden events or revelations (world or personal) about to happen, could set the mark for the conversation and theme of the next year into the elections. Look for strong indications of who could win at this time. This is also an earthquake or storm type aspect, a sudden alarm or twist of fate type aspect giving positive or negative surprises. Uranus always shocks and enlightens. quickening growth and wakefulness.

11. Chris Christie could win!?! Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey, a republican contender could be president? Well, I think it is possible if he runs. He is strong enough, he may just walk. With Jupiter transiting his sunrise chart’s MC, he could be a very popular contender with the masses, liked by both democrats and republicans. With progressed Mercury near his natal moon and progressed Mars within square of both, he can debate and defend nearly any position he wishes to take. With transiting Jupiter near conjunct his natal Mars on Election Night, he could actually win, and/or influence the vote. With transiting Uranus squaring Chris’s progressed Sun, he may quick become a blazing Sun, or will he quick reach comet like velocity and swoosh by back to invisibility. Stay tuned. Chris is popular in past for fighting crime, gang violence, porn, and even corrupt politicians stealing from taxpayers or abusing power. He could find himself in a groundswell of popularity if he decides to run. Chris has same Virgo sun and Sagittarius moon signs as Charlie Sheen and Amy Winehouse, so he’ll want to be sure not to over-do, over-talk, over-eat, or over-drink. Chris may rock the boat; or, will he just influence the pick and tend to back off, hiding more behind the front lines of the press. Will he run for President, or perhaps be VP material? I think he may run. With President Obama Election night aspects, upsets are possible. Saturn squaring his natal Mercury on Election Night with Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius opposing his natal Gemini Moon makes for a bit of election seriousness and possible confusion, for sure. Mars square the President’s natal Mars then makes for strong speech, impulsive or assertive action. Well, at the least, the election will be an exciting event, perhaps even a cliffhanger hanging on much past the election night.

-Robert Thibodeau, Mayflower Bookshop,

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*Gelek Rimpoche speaks Thursday, October 20th

7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Birmingham Unitarian Church, 38651 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

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*Chris Fessler speaks at the Theosophical Society in Berkley

on Woodward Ave on Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine Cosmogenesis

Friday October 21st. 8 p.m.

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“Spiritual and Astrological Insights into the Present and Future Times”

Predictions and insights into the 12 signs of the Zodiac, the 2012 End of Mayan Calendar, the Presidential Elections, and more!

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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August 2011 News and Views from Robert of Mayflower

(248) 547-8227

“Real friends garden and guardian each other’s sacred space and mind-stream.” –Trebore Tau Bodhi of mayflower

• 1. More earthquake quaky shaky fallouts on August 17th (from August 8-12th doings) when higher truth and love clash with lower desire and fear. One may struggle to find the truth and facts in one’s continued worries and troubles. Look to the stillness, to the Higher Self, for what holds us all together. Or is this just another time to pull weeds, be compassionate with idiots and the spiritually lazy. Avoid blaming others or shaming oneself or others. There is only living up to, and striving, for the Higher Self, for virtue. The highest truths aren’t striven for nor cultivated, they are listened for. Watchful stillness perceiving universal suffering, everyone’s struggle and suffering, allows for new views and creative possibilities. ‘Let Go and Let God’ wisdom good here; soul listen!

• See you August 26th-27th when Mercury goes direct!

-robert of mayflower

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The Art of Friendship

The art of friendship isn’t words

though words may sometimes clothe it.

The art of friendship is the heart,

when eternity and love enfold it.

The art of friendship is the heart

When eternity and love unfold it.

The science of love is the mind

shining in compassion’s wisdom.

The outer friend will come and go,

some teach us what not to do.

The inner friend forever ensouls

virtue and truth one cannot lose.

The art of friendship is not without

mistakes, and many further learnings.

The art of friendship is an infinite night

in which all the stars are burning

brighter bright to guide the way

to a promised land first glimpsed

and promised when one’s eye

and heart first saw the light within

The light of love makes all things new.

Few are those that know the truth

of stillness shining compassion’s hue

on everyone and thing you do.

The art of friendship is beyond words

beyond a leading or following

a conquering or being conquered.

Written on the stars, lifetimes

emptied into this moment

wisdom triple truth; head, heart, hand

unchaining prometheus from stone;

transforming every desire and fear

into love and truth and going home.

The art of friendship isn’t words

though words may sometimes clothe it.

The art of friendship is the heart,

where eternity and love enfold it.

The art of friendship is the heart

When eternity and love unfold it.

The science of love is the mind

shining in compassion’s fortunes.

-robert thibodeau, July 17, 2011, morning

“Without freedom all is lost;

without love, nothing found.”

-robert of mayflower, July 2011.

“For as you hear, you answer. And behold! Your answer is the proof of what you learned. Its outcome is the world you look upon.” -Course in Miracles

Robert Thibodeau’s Spirit’d and Astro Logic News and Views

Mayflower Bookshop

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“Real spiritual work is working on oneself, one’s own mind and feelings; not working others over with anger, hate, fear, obsession, delusions, projections. Work on the self is the essential real work. If you are not doing that, you are not working and spiritually unemployed.” -robert of mayflower

“Love is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with–everyone blooms.” -Marion Woodman

–June 30th, Moon occults or eclipses Venus. True love always supports long-term goals of spiritual and moral/virtuous behavior. True love does not support negative habits and emotions that do not work to better or heal the situation. This may be a time of deepening connections to loved ones and friends, or cutting the ties that blind or bind one. Avoid over-eating or over-doing. This aspect is either really good for purchases, or really bad for purchases that you’ll never really use (few days around date). If attuned, good time for love and social activity that carries a personal touch or depth to it.

“Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.” -Marion Woodman

–July 1st, Solar Eclipse in Cancer. This is an extraordinary time to initiate new ideas and plans. It is also an extraordinary time to come to complete realizations about self and others, the world and spiritual need. Intense endings and new beginnings often accompany eclipses. Watch this one for the next 14 days up to Full Moon on July 15th.

“By the time you swear you’re his,

Shivering and sighing.

And he vows his passion is,

Infinite, undying.

Lady make note of this —

One of you is lying.” — Dorothy Parker

Cut negative things out or be cut out yourself. If one listens to one’s deeper heart well enough at this time, if one also listens to the call and necessities of the world at this time, one can reach sure realizations concerning oneself, fate (karma), and destiny (new freedoms), and friends now. The world is at this time, this month, in cosmic attunement with what is right in thinking, feeling, doings; and what needs fixing or will never be fixed. Fix it or learn to live with it till next lifetime. Many are in an emotional bardo and could use a change of diet along with yoga and meditation.

“In the super-sensible world we only come to the point by calling the beings who reveal everything, beautiful, for in front of them we feel just as we do before a beautiful picture. But the beings who do not reveal their natures in their external form are felt to be ugly. Thus, if we can put it so, beauty or ugliness depends upon the fundamental natures of the beings…A being is beautiful because he hides nothing, because he bears in his very countenance what is within him. True and beautiful are one and the same when we enter the super-sensible world. A being who does not reveal what is within him is ugly. That is immediately felt by clairvoyant consciousness. But there is the further feeling that he lies and does not show what he ought. What is ugly is at the same time untruthful! What is true, upright and honest is at the same time beautiful; what is ugly is untruthful. In the super-sensible worlds a point is reached when a separation between the concepts beautiful and true, in the one case, and between ugly and untrue in the other, loses all meaning. So the expression beautiful must be used of a being who is felt to be honest and upright, while the opposite feeling must be called ugly.”

-Steiner; from ‘Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment’.

–All the Planets, except Saturn and Pluto, are within 10 degrees of sextile to each other from the signs Pisces through to Cancer, being contained in a Trine or Harmony Aspect. Pluto and Saturn make harmonious and rough aspects to all these planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune). Although everyone these daze has a serious bottom-line, this interesting aspect suggests many new connections and hook ups, many integrated spiritual and material encounters, many karmic and dharmic weavings. It also may reveal strong endings or separations during this month, as many an ‘ego’ falls or loses power, as others rise to power, fame, and gain. Furthermore, Saturn and Pluto occupying one half of the Astrological Signs and Zodiac of Stars indicates a strong need to align oneself with safe and sure long-term planning or investing of one’s self, money, and energies. It also may suggest many a hardship to come for some others; chronic conditions, slow but sure ending or decay; a real need for facing inevitables and a willingness to rediscover oneself in a bigger or much different picture than previously experienced. Good for long-term goals for both work, home, relationships, and health. Many visions, premonitions, and insights into future events, such as 2012-13, come at this time.

Also occurring at this time are the following approximate planetary aspects. Here we find an interesting polarity and dynamic allowing those attuned to prosper and gain much forward motion with goals and projects.

1. Uranus midpoint Jupiter and Neptune- Huge windfalls and gain; or, its opposite, bankruptcy and loss. Sudden collapse of situation, or sudden arousal of new possibilities and direction. Concerns over debt and new ways of breaking out of old situations. Some experience at this time, a sudden sense or feeling of new found freedom or truth. New ability to act in innovative new ways. Sudden realizations and turn of events. (Check your chart for where Taurus, Aries, Pisces is located, and how its aspected to your natal chart).

1. Jupiter midpoints Mars and Uranus- Favoring earth signs but also possible strong effect on fixed signs of Scorpio, Aquarius, Leo. Fanatic endeavor to deepen and expand, gain, spend, extend, grow, overcome. Strong fluctuations in the market place and social political response to crisis or emergency. Good luck in difficult or bad situation. The sweet in the sour and the bitter in the sweet type moments. A need of Wisdom and Compassion in the face of challenging times. Happiness or success through sudden superior action or doings. Joining others for higher purpose or cause. Big prize or surprise events. Tendency to over do, whether virtuous or non-virtuous acts. Positive collective experience or response. Lots of lucky breaks or sudden turn of events. A highly entertaining aspect that can do much social good. Danger in overeating or indulging. Otherwise fun summer and family/friends aspect.

1. Mars midpoints Sun/Moon and Jupiter- (late June into July influence) Assertive or aggressive flamboyant and affective actions. Militaristic actions to conquer or champion a cause. Good for making good cars, making good point, and throwing oneself into good cause. Courage and forthright boldness to speak the truth, but danger of over-aggressive speech and criticism. (Talk radio loves this kind of aspect, as does all news stations.) Avoid anger and negatively charged situations if at all possible for things can get out of hand, overdone or explosively exploitive. Good time to take noble or right action when inner and outer situation, experience, warrant. High time for pregnancy or birth, positive vibes. The joy of mothering or fathering others. Happiness due to virtuous action or deed. Luck and good fortune favors here the brave, bold, virtuous, the well endowed or right holy minded. Happiness from engaging others or participating in higher motivated activities. Positive solutions or assertive actions as to business, relationships, job and inner work, even war and economics.

1. Jupiter midpoint (approximate aspect) Neptune/MC and Sun/Moon. Many future plans now being made. Reaching way out to satisfy desires or ideals. Dreamy and lucrative time for some. Social and Spiritual time for some. Luck through manifestation of ideal or dream. Happy sleep. Need to take caution around gas or bodies of water. Avoid expenditures not based on happiness.

“Love is free and  given;
In a place where there’s no parting;
In the full life of Heaven rolls
A sea without a shore!
Always one night of bliss this unending,
Everlasting Hymn
Of God’s face o’er us bending
Shining sun, never waxing nor wanting.” -Novalis, 5th Hymn to the Night, a Captain Bob translation

–July 7th Jupiter trine Pluto (influence extends few weeks before and after date). Positive influence for making long-term goals work now. A big business deal aspect. Old trusty friends now pay off in positive futures and sure direction or goal. Positive vibe concerns for money, land, investments, securities. Positive growth and development in all earthy concerns. Good time for change, metamorphosis, or transformation in all practical down to earth and business matters. Wanting to be unstuck, unaffected, or unreactive to negative people and things. Strong urge to rise to the top. Taurus and Virgo benefit most from this aspect; possibly Capricorn, Pisces, and Cancer too! Cardinal Signs are challenged to grow or get side-tracked. Check your chart for where such signs appear and with what planets. Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Libra need to be brave of change and positive opportunity; yet cautious (not paranoid) of close associates or friends who have their own problems or unresolved issues/habits/negativities that may trip on you, consciously or accidently. Check in your own personal chart for earth sign houses where the strong urge for success and growth, maturing and deepening now occurs. Good time to rectify or address all financial, vocation, properties, business, and relationship concerns. With Venus square Uranus on 7th too, there is lots of entertaining news and love vicissitudes (ups and downs) this month. Quick storms. All love and infatuations, creative artistic or family/relationships, psychic encounters and genius insights, are called upon at this time to reach higher levels of understanding motivation and purity. Positive change is in the air. Energetic need to ascend to next higher level or be challenged by others to grow. Change or be changed vibrations.

“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber

–July 9th on till lunar eclipse December 10th, Uranus goes retrograde in impulsive Aries, joining Neptune and Pluto already retrograde. Good time to retreat or turn inwards with long-term goals in mind. Otherwise, if need be- Act Quick. Good time to immediately resolve issues and debates. Meditate, do yoga, and inwardly turn one’s view to listening to others’ needs. Be slow to criticise. Good time to be sure one’s own deep inward feelings are peacefully attuned to the whole situation. Good time to see how others see you. Bad time to be over-aggressive and premature in attacking others’ faults. Difficult time to use force or to speak out aggressively. Wisdom and Compassion needed now to see the immediate and long-term goal simultaneously. Many concerns over the debt, war, insane weather extremes, and lack of loving kindness may cause some to fear and feel alienated. Good time to read Osho, Steiner, Blavatsky, Ohsawa, Tibetan Buddhism. We need a divine plan, friends!

“Psychopaths storm the place with their singular negative ego playing some demon god of destruction and negativity, with no sympathy, compassion, or empathy to anyone; not even themselves. Narcissists look in a mirror and think they see you. They care only about what they see inside themselves. Borderlines are impulsive, crazy, angry or spewing crazy energy out, they throw themselves out of the body at others, they have an inability to control their rage and anger coupled with an extreme fear of abandonment, rejection, isolation. I prefer reading Mark Twain, Emerson, or Osho any day…” -Captain Bob

“Take a man who has no grounds for jealousy at all, but believes that he has every possible ground; he is unhappy in the deepest sense of the word, yet there is no occasion for it at all. The extent, the intensity, of the unhappiness depends not on any external reality but simply on the man’s attitude to external reality — in this case, to a complete illusion.” -Rudolf Steiner, Good Fortune, Dec. 7th 1911

–July 7th, 10th to 13th-14th, 20th to 25th, and the 27th when Moon occults Mars, are set up aspects for working out karma and finding new freedom through higher learning. Watch out for stormy weather days both in nature and in emotional life.  These aspects make for strong weather shifts, heavy storms, extremes in mother nature disturbances as well as geo political hotspot happenings. Take extra care during these times to avoid arguments, accidents, and negative conditions. Eat extra grains and greens (even Aloe Vera) to soften Mars’ fiery and martial aspects. Be the love you want to get. Live the truth you see. If you don’t want to grow old and crabby, keep learning and growing. Until the whole world is at peace, keep learning and being open to receive. Patience and compassion

–July 30th New Moon brings positive spirit for peace and joy, harmony and goodwill.

More News—Check it out

-Clean Water and Air should be a national priority in my mind. An Assault on Clean Water and Democracy by “short-sighted and self-interested politicians”; our “indentured servants in Congress”!? Polluters and politicians working together for immediate profits at the cost of a healthier future? Check out Robert Kennedy Jr. article, it may challenge your ‘think’.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/an-assault-on-clean-water_b_891613.html?ir=Yahoo

-don’t get married? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-neil-clark-warren/on-second-thought-dont-ge_b_888874.html

-Number of people displaced by natural disasters doubles in 2010 from year before. Experts starting to think ‘Climate Change’ the reason.

-U.N. declares internet ‘a human right,’ and that there should be ‘universal access’ to clean water and air.

-Scientists and industry regulators admit knowing for years that Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide ‘Roundup’ causes birth defects.

–The End of the World Rapture Preacher had a heart attack recently … was he just predicting his own end of the world? Will he die before his latest 3rd revised prediction for death of earth? Stay tuned to the craziness.

–5 million plus people in eastern China this June displaced from flooding due to torrential rains. Food prices jump up in price.

–Weird extreme weather the new normal? Fires, droughts, heat-waves, floods, volcanoes, quakes don’t shake us up no more? It’s all in pictures or on TV till it hits you personally. Are many people too poor in mind, or too broke in spirit, to care? How we live our life votes as to what happens next; individually and collectively. The crass materialist always blames others. The spiritual person blames the one person who can do anything about it. -robert of mayflower

-It’s reported that 50 or older internet dating biz is up 8% or more as divorced and widowed look for love … most are looking for a lasting relationship with someone within 5 years of their own age. More women looking for a younger man … someone healthy. Women don’t want to be the nurse or purse to a man.

Based on the Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey, which samples 3 million U.S. households, as well as 2010 census data released so far this year, people 65 and older comprise roughly 13% of the population born between 1946 and 1964. The 65-plus age group will amount to nearly 1 in 5 Americans by 2030. Boomers ages 55 to 64 are the fastest-growing age group since 2000, jumping 43% to about 35 million. The number of people ages 45 to 54 also rose sharply, up 18% to 45 million as young boomers moved into the ranks.

—-Weed Killer RoundUp causes birth defects and illness?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n_883578.html

—Food Supply Dwindling http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/global-food-crisis-world-dwindling-crops-national-geopraphic_n_884093.html#297265

—Extremes in the weather http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html

—Scientists report all coral reefs will be gone by 2050 and that marine distress of all the oceans could go extinct in the future causing a shocking extinction of life if human beings don’t change behavior and habits so destructive to nature’s ecology life.

-Scientific Researchers report sea levels rising at fastest rate in 2100 years.

-Volcanoes erupt around the world, storms intensify; earth sick?

-Scientists or statisticians report 3 out of 4 women would not marry an unemployed man. This makes sense since about 25% of people are not employed. It doesn’t count i assume women with women.

-Phoenix recently hit 118 degree heat July 2nd and breaks old record. I was born in Phoenix.

-Without freedom all is lost, without love nothing is found. -robert thibodeau

-Diabetes more than doubles in numbers since 1980, researchers in London and at Harvard claim. Elevated blood sugar and lack of control of weight seem to be the cause of the problem.

“Two things must be completely avoided during esoteric training. We should never harm anyone through deeds, thoughts or words intentionally or not. Secondly, the feeling of hate must disappear in us, otherwise it reappears as a feeling of fear; for fear is suppressed hate. We must transform the hate into a feeling of love, the love of wisdom.” -Rudolf Steiner, From the Contents of Esoteric Classes, 2/26/1909, Rudolf Steiner Archives

Earth gives us sacred form;

Stars, our intelligent Mind;

Real Freedom comes when

Virtue sparks the Heart to shine.

May real fireworks,

love and compassion,

garden earth friends.

Make heart offerings to the sky,

and if weather permitting-

the gifts of the Higher Self

will plough new roads

of Peace and Joy,

dharma mind

open heart alchemy

for World’s Becoming.

-robert of mayflower bookshop

Robert Thibodeau

(available for talks and consultations)

Mayflower Bookshop

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Berkley, Mi

48072

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Astrological and Metaphysical News and Views for June 2011

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“O joy that Life is lasting
To endless life above;
Now larger longing tasting,
With sense transformed in love
The starry world melts flowing
Into life’s golden wine,
To feed our souls a-glowing,
Till we as starlight shine.” -Novalis, Hymn to the Night

Weird Weather and/or Stormy Days include 11th to 16th, 19th to 22nd, 26th to 28th. (Heavy Rains, storms, hurricanes, lightning, and even quakes or volcano activity are possible.)

“Use your breath, breathe through fears or walls. ‘Stillness listening’ and ‘love looking’ is the ‘way to go’.  -robert of mayflower

• June 1st, Solar Eclipse in Gemini. Eclipses good for ridding self of negative habits or conditions, eclipsing or cutting off something. In this case, it may be time to rid oneself of outworn thinking. Eclipses are infamous for some major event or person being eclipsed or cut off. Eclipses make one more sensitive. The effects of virtuous and non-virtuous activities are enhanced and multiplied at such times according to a few tibetan lamas I’ve talked to. In other words, you make twice the good or bad karma depending on your virtuous or non-virtuous behavior. Eclipses intensify the energy. In Gemini, it intensifies communications, networking, connections with family and friends; or its opposite manifests in breakdowns in communication, electricity, communications, satellite stuff. Eclipse hits southern Japan, along with other places such as eastern Asia and north Canada and Alaska. Let’s hope Japan’s troubles don’t worsen.

“All is seed.” -Novalis Notebook

• June 3rd Mercury square Neptune (Neptune going retrograde). This influence to 11th, and again 19th to about 23rd when Mars squares Neptune). Be CLEAR in all communications. Spiritual intuitions and idealistic feelings (or lack of) run high, intensified. Beware of lies, wrong turns, getting lost, confused, or uncertainty due to wrong thinking, diet, environment. It’s a bad time to shop or make major decisions unless forced into such, or of necessity or pressured; or divinely inspired. Weird toxic weather in some parts of the world. Need to be practical and realistic in the face of inflated dreams or self image. If one can channel this energy, spiritually inspired and intensified courageous thrust and outpouring of energy. Otherwise, these Neptune aspects are known for escapism, wrong or misuse of medications, emotional and psychotic reactions, feeling drained or vampired tired, worn down, along with fantasy or hallucination. Inflation followed by deflation on psychic, emotional, and even certain economic conditions often prevail.
• June 4th Jupiter enters Taurus which makes for sensuous yet practical down to earth experience. Also, a need to think and act for what is right here and now, the immediate physical need. All the while keeping one’s eye on the big picture or larger vaster goals. A tendency in the coming year for asset inflation, though certain things may have a further fall or deflation until Jupiter enters Taurus further. Land and buildings should rise in price over the year to come. A sense of wanting to get back to work, so to realize practical plans and ideals.
• June 7th to 11th Jupiter sextile Neptune/Venus squares Neptune; lunar perigee; followed by June 12th Saturn goes direct from retrograde; to 16th, Lunar Eclipse on 15th. Watch for moody extremes in weather and emotions as feelings clash with practical Saturnian rationality. On the upside, good time for Platonic ideals, higher love, socializing and summer play. Good time to fix a difficult situation or two. Don’t avoid needed communications. Don’t put off what could be completed now.
• Lunar Eclipse June 15th at 24th Sagittarius. Good time to make good on past mistakes. Communication that is compassionate, and not too frank or hard, would be wise. Avoid inflating stories or personal animosities. Travel for some is crazy, for others a dream come true.
• June 17th to 19th; Mercury squares Uranus and then opposes Pluto. Watch the wagging tongue that tells either unwanted truths, or shocking insights. Wild winds of change foresighted here. Slips of the tongue can rearrange the room or playing field. Freedom and deep security needs or fears clash. May the day come when truth and love prevail. Alone, one is a hammer and nail, the other the receptive or not so receptive wood. There is no religion higher than truth, no science deeper than love, no art greater than being yourself. Good Luck Jeddi Knights…! The Secret? Throw the ring in the fire, not the fire in the ring O ye little hobbits. Anyways, this aspect is precurser to 26th Sun/Uranus aspect making for shaky ground for some; for others, breakthroughs to new territory and experience, stormy weather, and intellectual escapades, discovery, and research discovery. “Gentlemen and Gentlewomen; the way is up and down, stick to the middle way and voyage and voyage where ye will” -Captain Bob of the Good Mayflower.
• June 21st, Summer Solstice, Moon in Pisces, Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Libra. Plans to part or separate from some person, situation, or place. Practical and solid work and thinking prevails. Facing realities. Persevering through negative thinking or difficult environs. Success through diligence, patience, perseverance, and persistence. Ideals meet everyday needs or troubles due to ideals being too far from practical here and now needs. Cardinal Signs, Libra/Capricorn/Aries/Cancer affected primarily. Need to see the sweet in the sour, the positive learning in the difficult or retarding or inhibiting. If you feel you are talking to a wall, you may be. Try making a door, a bridge. Otherwise, patience and long but sure road maps may help.

“Every human being has his years of martyrdom.” Novalis

• June 22nd Mars square Neptune (especially affects Gemini and Pisces). Work to be clear, practical, honest, and futuristic, participatory. If things seem too crazy, make quiet down time to listen for the silence to awaken new views. Good time to be inspired in the arts or more spiritual and compassionate activities. On the other hand, (Sagittarius and Virgo, and mutable signs and houses especially) need to take extra care of being swindled or fooled, bamboozled or flap doodled noodled in waste of time and money things. All mutable signs (and houses in chart) need to avoid letting past and falsely idealized future, cheat you out of the present moment, time, or money. Misguided or greedy intentions and actions during this time can lead one to folly and mishap. Be cautious of going unconscious. Tendency to fling oneself into a midsummer night’s dream or imaginative venture. Can also be a rejection of ideals or otherliness, situation, or environment. Tendency to not see the whole picture or to be under an illusion. Denial of situation or cover up, lies. Misdeeds and mishaps due to false premises or foundation. Destructive tendency, infection, wrong or tainted food, air, or water. Imaginative pleasures. Need to avoid living in pictures, gambling on something outside oneself, or forcing one’s thinking or actions on another. The need to protect the environment and little ones. Spiritual ideals clashing with physical reality. Tendency to escape or be distracted from one’s true nature or goals. All aspects have a positive and a negative potential. The idea is to work for positive expression of planetary influence. Yet, when reading or hearing the news at these critical and difficult aspects, it is inevitable that the worst and highest valued events take place simultaneously. There is a choice to be made, and a responsibility for that choice. Neptune aspects can tend to make one fall asleep to one’s higher self or virtue true. Mars/Neptune particularly can be seductive. Also, foul weather, pollution and bad food, and thinking; also inflammatory events, tricks and illusions, wanting something for nothing. Yet, Mars/Neptune is also active imagination and courage indeed. The inspiration and imagination of the ideal, of the gods. Neptune being the god of the sea, may also indicate rain or storm or oceanic, even space, disturbance; or spiritualization. Mars/Neptune can be fires or suffocating toxic situations. It can be the addiction to porn and gambling and the marital troubles it brings. It’s spectator sports and watching your life go by. Or is it divine inspiration to think, feel and do. It can also be the Great Mother of Compassion and her spiritual warrior side of justice. This whole month is a Neptune vibe, along with attempts to break into a new spirit for life. Let’s Feng Shui the planet!

“Inner Space, the last and first frontier and wilderness!” -Captain Bob of the Mayflower Ship

• June 26th to 29th influence, Sun square Uranus, and Sun oppose Pluto, respectively. Upsets, reversals, quakes or volcanic activity; shock surprises or accidents followed by heavy burdensome reactions or clamp downs. Avoid getting carried away with exaggerated or inflated actions. Courage and bravado at cutting out negativities, perhaps a dampening bad habits, repeat offenders, and thugs. Pluto involves secret weird doings as well as events affecting the masses. On positive side of things, a call for renewal, new awareness and heightened consciousness, success of good over evil, so to speak.

“No-thing is spiritual ground, no one sees the true earth, one can only be it; that is, Truth it, live it.” -Trebore Tau Bodhi, notes to myself

• June 30th, Moon occults or eclipses Venus. True love always supports long-term goals of spiritual and moral/virtuous behavior. True love does not support negative habits and emotions that do not work to better or heal the situation. This may be a time of deepening connections to loved ones, friends; or cutting the ties that bind one. Avoid overeating or overdoing. Either really good purchases, or really bad purchases at this time (few days around date). If attuned, good time for love and social activity that carries a personal touch or depth to it.
• July 1st, Solar Eclipse in Cancer. This is an extraordinary time to initiate new ideas and plans. It is also an extraordinary time to come to complete realizations about self and others, the world and spiritual need. Endings and new beginnings accompany eclipses. If one listens to one’s deeper heart well enough at this time, if one also listens to the call and necessities of the world at this time; one can reach sure realizations concerning self, fate (karma), and destiny (new freedoms) now. The world is at this time, this month, in cosmic attunement with what is right in thinking, feeling, doings; and what needs fixing or will never be fixed, so we need to learn to live with it till next lifetime or bardo. All the Planets except Saturn and Pluto are within 10 degrees of sextile to each other from the signs Pisces thru to Cancer, being contained in a Trine or Harmony Aspect. Pluto and Saturn make harmonious and rough aspects to all these planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune). This interesting aspect suggests many new connections and hook ups, many integrated encounters, many karmic and dharmic weavings. Also may reveal strong endings or separations during this month. Furthermore, Saturn and Pluto occupying one half of the Astrological Signs and Zodiac of Stars indicates a strong need to align oneself with safe and sure long-term planning or investing of one’s self and energies. It also may suggest many a hardship to come for some; chronic conditions, slow but sure ending or decay; a real need for facing inevitables and a willingness to rediscover oneself in a bigger or much different picture than previously experienced. Good for long term goals for both work, home, relationships, and health. Many visions and precipatory insights into future events, such as 2012-13 come at this time. Also occurring at this time–the approximate aspects of—

1. Uranus midpoint Jupiter and Neptune (huge windfalls, gain or opposite, bankruptcy and loss). Sudden collapse of situation, or sudden arousal of new concerns and direction. Concerns over debt and new ways of breaking out of old situations. Some experience at this time a sudden sense or feeling of new found freedom or truth. New ability to act in innovative new ways.
2. Jupiter midpoints Mars and Uranus (fanatic endeavor to expand, gain, spend, extend, grow, overcome. Strong fluctuations in the market place and social political response to crisis or emergency. Good luck in difficult or bad situation. The sweet in the sour/bitter experience arises. Wisdom and Compassion in the face of challenging times. Happiness or success through sudden superior action or doings. Joining others for higher purpose or cause. Big prize or surprise events. Tendency to over do, whether virtuous or non-virtuous acts. Positive collective experience or response. Lots of lucky breaks or sudden turn of events. A highly entertaining aspect that can do much social good.
3. Mars midpoints Sun/Moon and Jupiter; (late June into July influence) Assertive or aggressive flamboyant and affective actions. Militaristic actions to conquer or champion a cause. Good for making good cars, making good point, and throwing oneself into good cause. Courage and forthright boldness to speak the truth, but danger of overaggressive speech and criticism. (Talk radio loves this kind of aspect, as does all news stations). Avoid anger and negatively charged situations if at all possible for things can get out of hand overdone or explosive exploitive. Good time to take noble or right action when inner and outer situation, experience, warrant. High time for pregnancy or birth, positive vibes. The joy of mothering or fathering others. Happiness due to virtuous action or deed. Luck and good fortune favors here the brave, bold, virtuous, the well endowed or right holy minded. Happiness from engaging others or participating in higher motivated activities. Positive solutions or assertive actions as to business, relationships, job and inner work, even war and economics
4. Jupiter midpoint (rough aspect) Neptune/MC and Sun/Moon. Dreamy and lucrative time. Social and Spiritual time. Luck through manifestation of ideal or dream. Happy sleep. Need to take caution around gas or bodies of water.

“And Love is freely given;
Nor is there parting more;
The full life rolls in Heaven,
A sea without a shore!
One night of bliss unending,
One everlasting Hymn
While God’s face o’er us bending
Shines sun-like, never dim.” -Novalis, 5th Hymn to the Night

• July 7th Jupiter trine Pluto. Positive development, change, metamorphosis, or transformation. Wanting to be unstuck, unaffected, or un-reactive to negative something or some one. Strong urge to rise to the top. Taurus and Virgo benefit most from this aspect; possibly Capricorn, Pisces, and Cancer too! Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Libra need to be brave of change and positive opportunity; yet cautious (not paranoid) of close associates or friends who have their own problems or unresolved issues/habits/negativities that may trip on you, consciously or accidently. Check in your own personal chart for earth sign houses where the strong urge for success and growth, maturing and deepening now occurs.
• July 9th, Uranus goes retrograde, joining Neptune and Pluto already retrograde. Good time to retreat or turn inwards with long-term goals in mind. Good time to meditate, do yoga, and inwardly turn one’s view and listening ability. Good time to make sure the deeper inward feelings and person is attuned to outer doings and circumstances.

Robert Thibodeau of Mayflower Bookshop is available for private consultations by appointment. (248) 547-8227, 2645 W. 12 Mile Rd., Berkley, Michigan 48072

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“Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every  rose bud has in it a rose.” -Rudolf Steiner

3. April 4th, Neptune goes into Pisces , retrograding back to Aquarius in August, then back into Pisces in Feb 2012 till 2026. Last time was 1846-47.  Very strong idealism begins to spark both individuals and the masses to renew our connection to land, air, and water. Compassionate politics and conscience for truth holds us all. Will earth as garden holy return? Or is it too late? Inner receptivity invokes both higher psychic sensitivities as well as easier road to escapism. Legalization of weed coming soon? All water signs start to have a less stressful time, less pain and more gain, easy going harmony and rhyme to life. Obama kicks off 2012 Re-Election bid with Neptune going into Pisces this day. Is he too “A gentler kinder George Bush”? Neptune in Pisces may introduce new forms of peace making utilizing the power of plants and natural earth energy for peace, prosperity, compassion, and harmony. Neptune in Pisces can also work enabling others to ‘escapism’ and dreamy ideals that are not practical. More UFOs and Virgin Mary Sightings, as well as Elvis, for sure. As we go from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian age, there is a need to find “God” or a universal mind of harmony and peace, connectivity, brotherliness and mutual interdependence, in all living things. The great tibetan lama, Chogyam Trungpa, was a Pisces sun sign who died on April 4th, 1987. Though a January 15th Capricorn, Martin Luther King Jr. died on April 4th. Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Cayce were clairvoyant Pisces sun signs. Pisces can be psychic intuitive, but also emotional sponges and drown in their own feelings. Pisces tend to want all peoples happy and free. With Neptune going into Pisces, all of us are getting more sensitive/intuitive/psychic to what’s goin on in the world. Until we learn to love everyone, there is no real connection, no real peace nor healthy science, for neither the world nor one’s own mind/heart.

4. First 9 days of April, Pluto about to go retrograde (Retro on 9th till Sept 16th when it goes forward). Good time to clean up old messes, throw away or give-a-way unused or unneeded clothes, items, stuff. Early degree cardinal signs of Capricorn, Aries, Libra, Cancer, continue to purify or get rid of selfish ego aims and personal fear/desires; such signs are finding the higher spirit self. The bigger picture of our life is overtaking, replacing, transforming or crushing the little ego picture/view/aims. Next 5 months reveal a major restructuring, renewing, re-evaluating how one’s little heart and mind fit in with the big world change at hand. Lets hope the world catastrophes, wars, and nature upheavals slow down long enough for us to catch our spiritual breath and graceful mind. Good time to look deep within to see what really matters, and what we really want to get out of life. What house cardinal signs are in within personal horoscope will reveal where death and rebirth processes are at work, endings and new beginnings occur.

“Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every  rose bud has in it a rose.” -Rudolf Steiner

8. April 20th to 22nd when Venus conjuncts Uranus makes for many a quick slip of the tongue, or kiss of the lips, as well as shooting from the hip, and not wanting to take any lip. Making up for past mistakes, or making new mistakes? Time to get the make up on, not be late for the party, or parting of ways. Many revolving doors hit these days into Mercury direct on 23rd. The future collides with the present, and the present wants of ditch the past, and the present holds everyone hostage. Whatever house ARIES is in your personal astrology chart, Aries or Leo/Sagittarius, is where to look for new flashes of genius, fun, creativity, genius, and love. Wild storms here and there, wild love too or creativity, spirited play.

9. Mercury direct on 23rd, lots of things shift into higher gear, forward motion.

10. May 6th is Bob Seger’s Birthday (1945). With transiting Neptune going into Pisces to conjunct Bob’s Moon this year; will Bob make a movie?  Open a Bob Seger Bar and Music Scene Night Club? Experience another hit song along with world travel? Enjoy a second honeymoon. Find a spiritual soul mate? Melt down and surrender? Retreat and/or move from Michigan? Neptune/Moon can take one for a sweet dreamy ride or melt ice cream in yr lap. One has to stay grounded to hold heaven down to earth. Good for making a movie or being in a movie. Bad for escapism and drugs/alcohol misuse. Bob should stay on top.

11. With Uranus transit coming to square Ryan Adams Ascendent sign late in April then into May, expect some creative wild turns of event; perhaps ‘make-it-or-break-it’ songs, along with more ingenious original and novel outpourings from this artist musician born in the chinese sign of the TIGER and element of WOOD. He’s not leaving his wife this early in, is he? Easy Tiger, don’t get no ideas about this man going straight and settling down. Most likely Ryan’s unique creativity is on fire again. Uranus brings surprises and hard to predict behaviour though, its true. Born Nov. 5th, ’74; Ryan Adams has Moon and Ascendent in the astrological sign of Cancer, Sun/Venus/Mars are in mid Scorpio, which both make grand water trine to his Jupiter/Midheaven in Pisces. Lots of water feelings and psychic sensuous sensitivity for sure. With Uranus coming to conjunct his natal Jupiter within next few years, his best genius times are yet to come!

12. Genius Mad Madonna hiring Ex Clinton Spin Doctor to replay federal investigations into her and the Kabbalah Centre International. Madonna has Leo sun sign to shine like a star, but has a Virgo Moon and Rising sign that keeps her in ‘work out perfectionism’ (also Virgo’s need to clean out everything…the “out damn spot, out!” syndrome; the good dog with imperfections friend mending), along with need to prove herself to even herself. With transiting Neptune past the opposition to her Sun, she have felt cheated and lied to in recent past. Perhaps also overwhelmed with trying to be a Great Goddess and the ‘Great Mother’ to so many. None-the-less, with Neptune coming to oppose her Pluto, Mercury, Ascendent, and Moon in coming years; she will have her work cut out for her not to take what others do personally. Madonna will try once again to create a new image and persona for the world theatre she so well operates in; or did up to now. Transiting Node conjuncting her Saturn may swing her back into discipline, yoga, and meditation, as well as hiding out. She will feel the need to find quiet down time to think for herself once again, free of others who may be misleading or confusing her.

***New book, a must have for those of you who want to understand water, how to purify, how to make back yard or garden water renewal fountain that energizes the water, air, and thus your land with renewing vital etheric force, prana, chi. ‘Energizing Water, Flowform Technology and the Power of Nature’ by Jochen Schwuchow, Hohn Wilkes, Iain Trousdell. Over 40 years research and results of research on nature of water and its purification. Get it now at Mayflower Bookshop. We mail books! New batch of Miso and Seaweed just in along with a few new books on Astrology, Osho, Steiner! Also new hippy summer purses in!

• STRANGE THINGS IN THE NEWS—-along with spiritual quotes
• music and laughter proven to lower blood pressure as much as cutting salt. It also makes you happier. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/laughter-blood-pressure-_n_841445.html

-Mega millions jackpot winner worth $319 million??? What’s it worth to the landlords?….ah, i mean, the State…, of things….?

-Study finds connection between religion and obesity. Or is it that they are more accepting than TV and Hollywood?

-Dolphins die in underwater training blowing off bombs in the ocean. Yuk….the military has no ecology rules it seems. Good luck yo swimmer surfers…yo-yo!

-People are debating whether Amazon should pay sales tax. Forget that ,  why are mom and dad little independents paying when the big guys don’t? think about it.

-March 24th news from Randi Rhodes Radio Network….Muammar gadhafi as a special elite “40 gun-toting, lipstick wearing, bejeweled trained killer” all female bodyguard corps protecting him. From what? Other women? Incoming missiles? men? This guy wants to appeal to the average gambling playboy spectator sports guy, or what? Some news media claim all 40 of em are virgins!?? Is he listening to satellite radio too much or what!?! Reality is stranger than fiction.

-Ouch! Scientists find that many urban gardens suffer from lead paint and lead gasoline, arsenic, and other pollutants from industrial past. Advice is to test the soil.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/urban-gardens-chemicals-lead-arsenic_n_839485.html

-dial it up, you can’t get it…the internet is gone. Equal playing field disappearing. People tell me; ‘They’, whoever ‘they’ are, control everything. Well, all i can say…is try to get good air and water when the whole earth is dying. Go ahead, amaze me…doesn’t seem like very many are in control of even the house and backyard…

-Detroit population drops 25 % in last 10 years, Michigan dropped‘.06%’ in last  10 years. Detroit population not this low since 100 years ago. Black and white middle class moving out….hippies moving in? Whole Foods is looking to move in the heart of down town Detroit! Lets clean up crime and make it sage safe again, yay!

–Nearly two-thirds of Britons not religious according to latest survey. Brit peoples do not regard themselves as “religious”, a new survey carried out to coincide with the 2011 Census suggests.The British Humanist Association (BHA), which commissioned the poll. I think they’re intellectual not religious. Anyway, what does it matter. Osho says he teaches ‘religiousness not religion’. I like that.

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“According to the Pew Research Center’s findings (“The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families”) although 44 percent of Americans under the age of 30 believe marriage is heading for extinction, only five percent of those in the age group do not want to get married. Also, college graduates are more likely to get married in order to start families (64 percent) than those with no college education (48 percent). In 1960 nearly 70 percent of Americans took the plunge; now only about half that number, and eight times as many kids are born out of wedlock (TIME/Pew survey).” Huffington Post,  ‘Who Needs Marriage’ article

2009-10 13 % jump in those living together who are not married.

Does marriage work anymore? Is it broke?

—We now live in a world where you can go on the internet news and find ‘An interactive guide to nuclear containment’. Fun stuff for sure. Where are the kids again? And who ya gonna kiss? A glow in the dark barbie?

-largest earthquake in Japan’s history hits march 11th ,  magnitude 8.9 . Japan is on the “Ring of Fire” — an arch of earthquake volcanic zones stretching around the Pacific in which 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur. Last newsletter, March, predicted major quake. Can’t help but think this is wrapped around Uranus entering Aries and approaching square to Pluto in Capricorn.

-NASA missions to the BP oil spill in the Gulf show toxic compounds (many similar to gasoline) are becoming airborne and brought ashore in precipitation, rain, exposing coastal populations to chemical poisoning. Increasing numbers, numbers without precedent, of dead infant dolphins, along with oil from the BP blowout 11 months ago continue to wash onto shore. Local politicians and government officials continue to say ‘everything is fine”. Welcome to Apocalypso Bizarro Nature Disfunk 2012; Coming Soon to your neighborhood.

-11 million Americans, 23.1% with mortgages, owe more than their home is worth.

“No one can make or give you happiness, its something one’s inner self awakens and opens to.” -Aria Fairchild, Mayflower

“He alone deserves liberty, like life, who daily must win it.”-Faust utters when dying.

“He only earns his freedom and existence, who daily conquers them anew.” -Faust, Bayard Taylor translation

“I only really enjoy my life when I win it every day afresh.”-Schiller, William Tell

“Then first do I truly enjoy my life, when I reconquer it every day as a new possession.” -William Tell, Bayard Taylor translation

“The sole condition of perfect happiness is the good which one accomplishes for others.” -Aria Fairchild of Mayflower

“Then dared I hail the Moment fleeing: “Ah, still delay – thou art so fair!” The traces cannot, of mine earthly being, in aeons perish, — they are there! –in proud fore-felling of such lofty bliss, I now enjoy the highest Moment, — this!” -Last words of Faust before dying after redeeming land from the sea for the poor and future peoples who will “stand on free soil among a people free”.