Since the last Dark Moon (I talk about it here) a couple of days ago, many things are happening.
For starters the Moon is now in its new phase, the Crescent Moon in Scorpio. Not a happy place for the Moon.
Secondly the Dark Lord Pluto has shifted gears, still standing still but has put the forward drive. Do not imagine a Ferrari. It is more of an aircraft carrier going from backwards, zero to slow cruise. Motion forward will only be apparent on the 14th of October 2021.
When planets are standing still their power, their grabbing of our attention is even stronger. Imagine focusing the light through a magnifying glass. It burns if you keep it still.
Venus, the sexy Lady with the daggers under the red velvet dress has now changed its clothes and is running bareback with flowing hair in the wind, on a horse, towards wide untamed horizons. (Venus is now in the house of Sagittarius).
However, those untamed horizons have more to them to what we can see. There is a portal, one that Venus has to go through. It is one way out (South Node in Sagittarius part of the jabbing axis). When she gets on the other side after a deep inside battle, she finds that she had to leave behind, things that were dear to her but in this new landscape they are not needed any more.
In the meantime, in the daytime house of Venus, Libra, we have an assembly of planets all coming to a reunion with the Sun. Mars and Mercury in Libra are joining the Sun to start a new cycle.
For Mars it has just happened and for Mercury is happening tomorrow.
When a planet conjoins the Sun, it is an important part of the cycle. You can imagine it as if your boss calls you to the office for a recap and new mission orders. Or as the ancients saw it, the planet is called to a private audience with the King, receiving new orders and guidelines.
The journey towards the Sun, especially the last 15 degrees, are never pleasant to the planet. It is like receiving a purge, a huge detoxification. One is weak and very tired. It is literally and metaphorically the burning of all that is past, so to arrive in the heart of the Sun, in front of the King with a pure heart.
Mercury and Mars after their individual reunion with the Sun, they will meet alone to talk about their new missions. And they will meet again to discuss more on the 10th of November 2021.
You have also to keep in mind that Mercury is having his own personal dance through Hell with Pluto and I tell the story here.
It is worth nothing that both the Sun and the Moon are in what is called Via Combusta, the burnt road. Sun and Moon in this road are very uncomfortable to say the least.
And as you can see the recurrent theme of burning down is coming from many sides of the story.
Saturn and Jupiter are also standing nearly still because they are finishing their walking backwards in the sky, their revision period and preparing to move forward. (Saturn on the 11th of October 2021, Jupiter on the 18th of October 2021, the same day Mercury goes direct too). Whatever Saturn and Jupiter personally mean in our lives, they are grabbing us to full attention. Normally Saturn deals with working with limitations, Jupiter that passion that drives us through our lives.
The Cosmos seems to be inviting us to the burning down back to our essence, letting go of the superfluous and standing still in full awareness of who we are like a surfer awaiting the wave of change.
Both processes take time, and they are not pain free. We can see it in the world around us collapsing, with the titanic forces battling and scrambling for dominance of the crumbling reality.
Only by tuning in to what is our true essence can we all slowly move to a new form of civilisation build around our humanness.
Remember the Great Conjunction that happened in December 2020 (I talked about it here)?
It started with both Saturn and Jupiter being burnt by the Sun. They were both at the end of their cycle. Tired, weary, exhausted, and burdened by things no longer needed. A civilisation that is dying. We did start a new 200-ish period in the Air element, but we started it by activating the demolishing of the old in the sign of Aquarius.
All our structures must crumble. All of them, including ideas, dogmas, science, religion. There is no way of avoiding the fire of destruction. We are being called back to the Divine Fire and in the process, we are being burnt to our bones. What will remain, if we have found it in the meantime, is the essence of who we truly are both as individuals and as our collective human experience.
If we do not, we will just be matter, that has been burnt into the ashes of human evolution and blown in the winds of change as the Earth keeps journeying around the Sun.
Listen to the flames burning in your heart, in your bones, in your soul.
Let it consume you until nothing remains but the crackling of amber and ashes.
Listen carefully and with an open pure heart.
Between that silence that only complete destruction is capable of, a voice is slowly calling you.
Good Luck!
Hilary
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