Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Oracle Report will return Monday, February 9, 2015 for what will probably be the last week of posts.  This astrological year technically ends on February 14 with the end of the Third Quarter Moon phase.  The year of the Sabian symbol of "the ruler of a nation" is the last of the old world.  Despite my requests for support over the last few months to keep the reports free for everyone, this is not happening.  A dollar from the many would go farther than several from the few, and I can no longer sustain it.  Thus, it seems the appropriate time to end this format.  I am proud that The Oracle Report has served as a beacon for the last five years of the old world.  It has been my honor.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Full Moon Phase:  realization, enlightenment

Moon in Virgo

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi (Goddess of Wind)

Skill: view the energy and view your life today as an experiment

Positive Imprint: discovery, revelation, liberation, inner strength, clearing, back to basics, seeing simplicity within complexity, valor, following new impulses, adventures

Catalyzing Imprint: confusion, restlessness and inertia, self-sabotage,

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting plans into the future, spiritual retreat)

The last day of the Full Moon phase is a big one, as the Sun will move to opposition with Jupiter and exponentially expand the complexity of the day's energy.  Jupiter excels at this, and with the full force of the Sun with it, the power for revelations is at maximum.  Exact opposition occurs at 1:15 pm ET/6:15 pm UT.

In astrology, oppositions (when planets are 180 degrees apart) are equivalent to Full Moon phases, the time when the fullest amount of light is available.  It's also the time when we can go a little crazy with Full Moon fever.

Since Jupiter expands all that it touches, this last day of Full Moon fever can spread like a virus (viruses are empowered with this energetic, incidentally.  Not good for the latest attempt by the unnatural world order with infectious disease here in the US - measles - and the continued war on children.).  Outbreaks of all kinds can occur.  Break outs, mix ups, shake ups, wake ups, break ups, come with this volatile energy.

Jupiter is located at the degree of  the Sabian symbol "a chemist conducts an experiment for his students," so the mix ups, shake ups, and wake ups, etc. are designed to teach us something. 

The Sun is located at the degree of the Sabian symbol "a man being unmasked at a masquerade."  We face ourselves with this energy.

With the opposition of the Sun and Jupiter today, we are learning something about ourselves.

The other ingredients mixed into the (al)chemical base today are the Moon and the Black Moon.  These two are trying to initiate and develop something within us.  The energy is related to discipline, practice, and focus.  But the combination of both of these moving through Virgo right now tends to make us very, very hard on ourselves. 

Since the energetic of the Sun is to show us something about ourselves and the energetic of Jupiter is expanding and mixing up things to highest proportion, the high potential for really beating ourselves up and feeling like we are failures follows suit.

The volatility of this energy de-stabilizes people, places, and things.

Mercury will contribute an ingredient of possible shock and awe, which is designed to clear the air of things that have built up.  There is a suddenness to events.

The highest view of today's energy is one of acceptance of what is being revealed, mixed, and shaken.  View the energy and view yourself as an experiment.  The purpose of an experiment is to learn something or discover something.  This is our goal today.  Of all things, facing ourselves seems to required the most bravery.  Today we are wise AND brave owls.

(Note:  After considering a question from a wise owl Fernando on Andrew's Oracle Report Facebook community about how the "negative" imprints for the day often are things that enable us to move into the "positive" imprint or learn something, I am prompted to change the heading of "negative imprint" to "catalyzing imprint."  I couldn't agree more, Fernando, and it is a nuance that deserves discussion.  Recognizing that we are in a "negative" imprint mode, instead of staying there, we can continue the flow with the realization that an opportunity -  a catalyst - for change has opened.  We are in a point of power at that moment.  Let's experiment with it.)

(Note for Virgos, Pisceans, and those with the Black Moon in Virgo or Pisces:  Hold tight.  The Moon will move out of Virgo and into Libra on Saturday at 1:44 pm ET/6:44 pm UT.  This month's go around with the Moon and the Black Moon has come under very intense energetics, amplifying the shadow side.  Full Moons amplify anyway, but the aspect of the Sun and Jupiter are blowing things far out of proportion.  Emotional destabilization, deconstruction, and dismantling is happening for you in order to bring you to a higher state of consciousness and develop untapped power and talent within you.  It does not come easily, but you can ease the situation through acceptance.  Minimize the self-judgment because that will become a mental loop that is hard to escape.  Accept without self-judgment.  And then endeavor to do better.  That's what the Black Moon in Virgo does - it does better.  Remember that you are undergoing massive regeneration through August 25, 2015.  Then...look out world.  Those of creative service are birthing the Second Renaissance.)

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Full Moon Phase: realization, enlightenment

Moon in Virgo

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: "step aside" and let the field shift around you

Positive Imprint: allowing oneself to be vulnerable, finding grace, comfort, things that feed your soul, fellowship, like attracting like, expressing self, making the best of what's around

Negative Imprint: afraid to speak or stand up for oneself, impossible to satisfy, disconnected, judgmental, suspicious, doing things for show

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting plans into the future, inner spiritual retreat)

Full Moon phases intensify energetics, bringing light to situations so that we can fully see them for what they are.  But Full Moons also bring out shadows, and shadows can quickly turn into more than they are.

In general, people often respond and react from fear on the one day each month when the Moon makes conjunction with the Black Moon.  That day is today.  These energetics will affect Virgos and Pisceans and those with the Black Moon in Virgo or Pisces the most.  It's an opportunity to learn, grow, and re-integrate personal power that is trapped in false beliefs that one is not good enough, one does nothing but fail, and one's trust is always betrayed.  It's a trick of the mind meant to divert you from your course in life.

Beginning last night, an energetic entered that "tests" us in some way to gain a higher level of understanding.  It brings in pressure.  But, the energetic coming in right behind around 6:00 pm ET/11:00 pm UT tonight brings assistance and insight for solutions that will unfold tomorrow.

The desire to break free from something that restricts us is very strong with this, but so is the fear of what that would be like (because it is new/unknown).  We are in luck because the Wisdom Goddess who sweeps through like a gentle breeze (or a hurricane, if needed), Matangi, is clearing space and clearing a path.  She is sweeping the field.  It can make things feel weird or jarring because the field is being perturbed.  Remember that this accompanies energetic shifts and that it will settle out.

Step aside from the energy and let Matangi clear the way.  There is ample support and protection in place as the field shifts.  We are along for the ride.  And if you need something to hold on to, think about beautiful things that were created during the Renaissance.  That is happening now.  Can you imagine the things that the Second Renaissance will create?

(Here is the article I was trying to link to yesterday about the old returning in new ways:)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Full Moon Phase:  realization, fulfillment

Moon in Leo

Ruling Wisdom Goddess:  Matangi

Skill:  “sweep” your personal energetic field

Positive Imprint:  clearing the air, unclogging, healing and healing solutions, like-minded people finding each other, organizing, decision-making skills, quests, sincerity, transferring knowledge and information

Negative Imprint:  afraid to join with others, bossy and controlling, blinded to truth, repetition that drains energy, recovery, unworthiness, feeling not good enough

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month:  “an old adobe mission” (projecting plans into the future, inner spiritual retreat)

As the Full Moon phase continues, an energetic wave sweeps through to clear and refresh the collective “field of consciousness.” Today, ample energy is available to re-organize, re-assess, re-configure, and re-structure things, situations, ideas, projects, and plans for the future (our own personal “adobe missions”).  This makes them better.

A “re-set” of the field actually began yesterday with the conjunction of Uranus and what astrologers call the South Node of the Moon and an opposition with the North Node of the Moon.  The South Node represents the past and connections with the past.  The North Node represents the future and destiny.  Uranus operates like lightning, quickly electrifying and shocking systems – systems of the body, the Earth, and the consciousness that connects the two (the dream we are dreaming with Gaia Sophia).

Something may have crossed your path yesterday that is a key piece for your future.  This could be a random communication, a meeting, an event, a serious thought, a glimmer, or even a feeling.  If you are unsure of what that might have been, ask the Wisdom Goddess Matangi to enlighten you.  (The Moon is ripe for assisting with this.)

Under current energetics, dominant structures and systems of the past are continuously being disempowered and dismantled.  A revival of structures and systems of the past are returning in new ways.  Here’s an example:

I love the line that the high priest of this group said about the ______

Sweep your own “field” of consciousness today.  Mentally hit the “refresh” button.  We are closing out the past year this month, which is like a month-long Third Quarter Moon phase.  It’s the time in the natural course of life when we accept responsibility for the way things are now, complete what needs completing so we can move on, and think about how we can do and be better.

This is the official end of today’s report, but here is an additional element for consideration as the field re-sets:

Today’s energy fits in perfectly with the directive of this lunar month to begin “out posting” or projecting ourselves and our desires into the future.  Our desire coupled with our wisdom is what is merging the world of spirit and the world of matter to create the Second Renaissance on Earth.  This is the time when we transcend the control system that has enslaved us.

The aspects of Uranus with the South and North Nodes are also re-activating the Grand Cardinal Cross energy of last year that was so monumental.  The Grand Cardinal Cross was the marking point in time when those on Earth with a mission to bridge-build the Second Renaissance were called to begin fully actualizing it.  It sounded a bell that rang out, signaling the shift.  It was reveille.  And the time was set up a long time ago.

But, it was also the signal of something very beautiful – the rise of the Divine Masculine.  The Divine Masculine is expressed in the counterpart of Gaia Sophia, Thelete.  Thelete is the aeon (divine being) the Gnostics understood to be the partner of Sophia. 

The Sacred Marriage of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine is also the Sacred Marriage of humanity.  The inner unification of the parts of our self is our reunion with The Divine.  This is the part people are missing about unification of the Sacred Masculine and the Sacred Feminine.  It is about reconnecting those two inner parts of ourselves, the feminine and the masculine, but the deeper story is that this produces the reunion with God.

I have a lot to say about Thelete and the Sacred Marriage as divine reunification and have been waiting a long time to say it.  As this month draws to completion and Mercury turns direct, I will happily begin to share it.  The book I am finishing serves as a foundation for these notions, one which everyone can build from in their own ways. 

Sophia and Thelete are the foundation and structure of our future – our adobe missions.  It’s time we knew more about the building plans.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Gibbous Moon Phase: trust in a higher power and order

Moon in Cancer/Leo (12:41 pm ET/5:41 pm UT)

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi (Goddess of Soft Breezes)

Skill: soften up

Positive Imprint:  determination and drive, deep realizations, the transformation of situations, pausing, archetypes, seeing beyond appearances, sounding a call, faith

Negative Imprint: irritable, instability, deception, undermining others, bogged down, demanding attention

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting projects and ideas into the future, spiritual retreat)

Today, wise owls will view detours, do-overs, misfires, false starts, and obstacles as an opportunity.  This is something of a test for us today.  Instead of succumbing to frustration, we "clue in" when things start going sideways and let the soft breeze of Matangi take over.  She will untangle the situation for us, showing or teaching us something in the process.

The primary catalysts for the disruption are Mercury retrograde.  But the energetic of the Sun today at the Sabian symbol of "a train entering a tunnel" directs us to keep going no matter what. 

This can happen with actual detours on your travels today, electronic malfunctions, miscommunications, accidents, things that cause things to come to a standstill, alarms, and unexpected events.

When these kinds of things happen, take a deep breath of Matangi's energy.  Matangi means soft breeze in Maori.  Relax yourself and let some air into the situation.  Don't turn around; keep going.  There's a reward for doing so.

I know this for a fact already today because Mercury retrograde caused me to have to venture out for wi-fi.  Keep going if you face obstacles today.  It will be worth it.

Note:  I will not be posting a report tomorrow, but I will return on Wednesday.

Saturday, January 31 - Sunday, February 1, 2015

Gibbous Moon Phase: trust in a higher power and order

Moon in Cancer

Ruling Wisdom Goddesses: Matangi (Goddess of the Margins) and Shodashi (Goddess of Beauty)

Skill: reflect and contemplate, envision the future

Negative Imprint: evasive, social status and political correctness, fear of change, a slave to fashion and fads, misplaced loyalties, sacrifice, prideful, nervousness and worry, overly-critical and fixated on finding a fix

Positive Imprint:  looking forward to something, subtle perceptions, changes in the air, refreshed perspective, loyalty, pride, dedication, relaxation, taking measure of something without being critical

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting into the future, inner spiritual retreat)

On Saturday, Mars will make conjunction with Chiron.  This dynamic can bring strong impulses to lash out at others or ourselves (in the form of self-sabotage).  But energetics are in place instead to push this dynamic toward a massive offensive to clear out old energetic fields of ourselves and the collective of humanity.  Old imprints (the past) are severely disempowered, and space is cleared for the insertion of new imprints (the future).

Ground is not only cleared out, but it is fertilized due to the conjunction of Venus and Neptune on Sunday.  Venus and Neptune bring things to new heights - exaltations.  It is energy that is deeply concerned with beauty and creating beauty, art, music, spirituality, and expression.  We are all dreaming the dream, and Venus-Neptune takes our dream to a whole new level.

To fully experience the beauty of the Venus-Neptune dynamic and the spiritual heights it can take you to, play.  Engage a playful attitude as much as possible given your circumstances this weekend.  We have to disengage ourselves as much as we can from "the matrix" in order to maximize the spiritual connection and inspiration that is possible right now.  Play music to help get there.  If you are a musician, higher forces of the divine feminine and the divine masculine ask you to play this weekend.  Just play and send your sounds out into the air.  If you have a drum, you are asked to take it up.  We are clearing the way for the music of the spheres, the energetic for the upcoming astrological year (which begins April 18, 2015).

The danger zone with these energetics can produce feelings that we are not enough - attractive enough, creative enough, good enough - for whatever and start a downward spiral.  Mars and Chiron are both warriors.  They can strike and wound.  Venus and Neptune try to take the superficial to the sublime, but it can get mired in over-valuing appearances and stuck in social status and judgments.  That's a waste.

It's also a waste to take the perspective that anything you've put a lot of yourself into has been for nothing.  Energy that has been expended can be molded into anything as part the next stage in its evolution.

Most definitely the energetics encourage us to go within this weekend.  Contemplation and reflection bring inspiration and wisdom.  The inspiration and wisdom helps us see the subtle, first light of the daybreak of the future.  Perceptions of the light change.

Speaking of light, Sabaoth (name of the divine being that is the Sun, according to the Gnostics) is showing signs of potential activity for the first time in a couple of weeks.  A few lower-level M-class flare have erupted, but none with coronal mass ejections.  M-flares look to be strengthening now.  Perhaps Sabaoth will send us a message.

Let's step aside and let higher forces clear the field.  Let the music play.  Please keep those captured moments of beauty coming as you find them and take a photo!  Enjoy, everyone!

Friday, January 30, 2015

Gibbous Moon Phase: trust in a higher power and order

Moon in Gemini

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi (Goddess of the Margins and Those Who Are Marginalized) with special guest Shodashi (Goddess of Beauty and Goddess Who Fulfills Our Highest and Best)

Skill: slow your pace; be watchful of signs and patterns

Negative Imprint: excluding others, insecurities, noise, carelessness, rushing, slacking off and expecting others to take up the slack, undervaluing, unappreciative, seeking approval from others or externals, self-centered

Positive Imprint:  inner strength, safety, creativity, the desire for a feeling of being at home, sharing, exchanges of knowledge and experience, cooperation, spiritual guidance, expansion

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (outreaching and outposting to the future, spiritual retreat)

Multiple strong astrological aspects are in effect today to bring us inspiration, wisdom, or an experience that may change our lives.  The Universe breathes out so we can breathe it in; we then breathe out so the Universe can breathe us in.  These powerful energies blow through with gale force winds today.

If I had posted a report yesterday, I would have highlighted the severe upswing in mental and emotional confusion, and an overall racking of the brain trying to figure something out or create something.  If you experienced that, some sort of insight or resolution should come your way today.  This is related to the theme that things can change our lives.

As Winds of Change come through, they may wipe things out.  The Wisdom Goddess "on call" this month, Matangi, has a way of doing this.  If a sudden feeling and mantle of power overtakes you to take a stand today, this is Matangi's hand.  She strives to make everyone feel safer and more secure.  She brings anyone who has felt disempowered or victimized (especially by society at large) back into the group.  She has a tender heart for anyone who feels like they belong in the "land of misfit toys."  A lingering signature of this today brings special blessing to any group efforts.  What we do or give in support to others is multiplied under the multiplicity of astrological aspects today in combination with the multitude of Matangi's energies.  We aren't interested in getting something back by giving, we are interested in applying our energy and resources at opportune times for the maximum benefit for all.  It multiples.

Matangi often works in close association with the Mahavidya (Wisdom Goddess ) Shodashi, Goddess of Beauty, who makes an appearance today.  This is fitting for "astrological beauty week" that is courtesy of the conjunction of Venus and Neptune (exact conjunction Sunday).  This ought to be interesting.  It looks to me like the goddesses are gearing up for the Full Moon, but today Shodashi adds her energy for the potentially life-changing effects.  Shodashi moves the lines of our lives into proper course.  She makes marks. 

Shodashi is using the energy of Uranus, the Planet of Changes, in tight conjunction with the South Node and therefore tight opposition to the North Node, which represent the past and the future respectively.  It's all geared toward out-posting and outreaching ourselves into the future.  Everyone should be giving ample thought to where they have been and where they want to go.  The future we want is happening right now at a marking point in the future.  It's happening now and we will experience it then.  The Wisdom Goddesses help us get there.

If you doubt this, the energy of the Gibbous Moon phase offers seemingly magical signs, symbols, and synchronicities that help us trust in the future and hold hope.

To handle the gale force today, slow down.  Slow your pace and quiet your mind for a moment.  Open up time and space for a message to find you.  It just might change your life.

(P.S. Mercury is retrograde and will make a conjunction with the Sun once again today.  This is excellent energy for re-working things, but it often comes as a result of malfunction, error, miscommunication, interference, and the fact that the time needs to be right.  Electronics, interpersonal and travel may present challenges.  Remember to slow down.  Mars is moving into conjunction with Chiron, bringing sweeping healing, but I will discuss that more tomorrow.  Venus makes a square with Saturn today.  We will let the Mahavidyas take that one.)

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

First Quarter Moon Phase: step out, take action

Moon in Taurus/Gemini (5:36 pm ET/10:36 pm UT)

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: follow the transformation

Negative Imprint: blowing things out of proportion and blowing up, bullying, victim mentality, overcautious, hiding one's light, impatience, disguise, selling out

Positive Imprint: intelligence (as in intel), observation, magnetic attraction, rising above, acceptance, patience, things that are worthwhile, cautious, overcoming

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting into the future, spiritual retreat)

Today is a day of metamorphosis - change of mind set.  Things change shape right before our eyes.

Like wise owls high up in a tree, our eyes watch what unfolds today from different perspective.  The mechanics of the stars are working to transform something from one thing to another.  It's shamanic shape-shifting of the highest caliber.  If we are paying attention, the energy is designed in such a way that before the sun rises again, wisdom enters and we see something about ourselves, others, our lives, or our world entirely differently.  Spiritual energy is inspiring the transformation.

This brings a grand opportunity to empower ideas, projects, goals, visions, missions, wishes, and dreams.  All that is required is attention.  Direct some of your energy into something that you want to bloom.  Take some sort of action with it.  Give it some love.

Creativity is rising to massive peaks, thanks to the muse that accompanies the energy of Mercury retrograde while Venus makes conjunction with Neptune.  This dynamic continues through Sunday.  Lucky us!

We've had a few days lately with energies that harkened back to previous lunar months.  Today the themes from the Aquarius 2014 cycle, which began on January 30, 2014 (remember the Supermoon?) and was in effect for most of February.  Consider this in context to what you didn't think you were capable of then and where you are now.  How has the shape of that shifted with time?

First Quarter Moon phases are about stepping out of our comfort zone and entering into new territory.  Trees teach us this.  Don't hold yourself back.  Share.

Shamanic shape-shifting is spiritual business.  As we watch things morph into something else today, let's reinforce our connection with Gaia Sophia by spending some time with the eye candy of nature.  Follow what you are attracted to because there are magnetic pulleys in place drawing us toward people, places, and things that are important for our future.  Shape shift into a wise owl up in a tree, eyes peeled on everything.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

First Quarter Moon Phase: step out, take action

Moon in Taurus

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: be mindful of what is being projected and what is on display

Negative Imprint: stingy, "outing" something, inappropriate public displays, fear of change, depression, false fronts and pretense, wanting to quit, emotionally overwhelmed

Positive Imprint: availability, peace, appreciation, unwavering, burning desires, interchange and exchange, standards, uplifted, observant

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting into the future, spiritual retreat)

The word for the day is "projection."  This needs to be kept in mind in all things.  In general, there is a tendency to project the good, the bad, and the ugly onto others.  While this may not be what you are doing, someone may do it to you.  Look behind the scene of any dramatic interactions to see if someone was projecting their own feelings about themselves onto others or you.

"Projecting onto screens" is definitely a strong element in the energy right now.  The entire lunar month is about projecting into the future - setting up things that will develop later.  Venus moves into Pisces today, joining Neptune, Mars, and Chiron.  It's a Piscean sea full of love, beauty, creativity, spirituality, initiative, and wisdom. 

There's also a Piscean sea monster with tentacles of gloom, isolation, depression, anger, confusion, and wounding.

We can choose what we project onto the field of consciousness today.  Will we unleash the Kraken or swim like merpeople (mermaids, mermen...)?

Be particularly mindful of what you are watching this week.  I mentioned that this week is like Astrological Beauty Week, so we are naturally inclined towards things that catch our eye.  Television (the projection of a vision or message) screens (insertions to reality) are the primary method for controlling people.  Remember that it is a projection of a certain perspective of reality meant to exploit our natural, mammalian tendency to model or mimic what we see.

Today also foreshadows the next lunar month, with Venus activating the degree today.  Venus will "set-up" events that will unfold with February 18th's New Moon.

What's on display?  That's the thing for each of us to watch in our own lives and in our world today.

(An aside:  In the United States, New England has certainly become a captive audience for what's being projected on television with the shutdown from the anticipated super storm [that wasn't].  This area is on the Arcadia ley line that I've talked about before that has been so heavily imprinted with fear, grief, terror and death - traumas.  This area is ripe for a violence that may be staged as part of this weekend's big football game, since one of the teams hails from New England.  It could also be imprinting an energetic that will repeat at the next New Moon.  This storm was most likely geo-engineered, and poorly so.  Remember the Sabian symbol energetic last week of trying to control the forces of nature?  The new world order has not figured out it cannot control Mother Nature.  But this area has been targeted for a reason, so we watch for what might have been exchanged, orchestrated, or fixed while everyone went home.  The major cities of the Northeast shut down early yesterday.  The Associated Press today reports, "Light snow fell steadily early Tuesday in midtown Manhattan as a few municipal trucks rumbled down empty streets.  The city had an almost eerie, post 9/11 feel to it: No airplanes in the sky.  An unexpected quiet."  Was this a ritual to reinforce past rituals and to set the stage for a future one?  One thing for sure:  whoever owns the trucking companies hired by the state departments of transportation is making a killing from New England to the mid-Atlantic.  Wise owls know to always follow the money.  And the Sabian symbols!)

Monday, January 26, 2015

First Quarter Moon Phase: step out, take action

Moon in Aries/Taurus (11:37 am ET/4:37 pm UT)

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: take a new perspective

Negative Imprint: arrogance, disregard of intuition, conformity, refusing to listen to others, judgmental, missing things, blocking changes

Positive Imprint:  progress, initiation, adjustments, building confidence, originality, self-expression, awakening, support, observing patterns

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (setting foundations and intentions for the future, inner spiritual retreat)

Today's energy brings in details that enable us to see a bigger picture.  With this, we come into fuller participation with life.

As the details and events of your day unfold, do-overs, interruptions, errors, dropped calls, electronic malfunctions, and loss of data could be encountered.  But these things happen today to help us pick up, process, or re-think important things - things that help us see a bigger picture of ourselves, our lives, our world, our future.  So while these sorts of things seem to set us back or put us behind schedule, they are really advancing a greater cause.  Just having to stop something midstream will re-direct the course of your thinking.  The course of your thinking may have nothing to do with the actual situation that is being halted.  If you experience this today, take a break and let Spirit infuse and guide you.  What wisdom is trying to be revealed to you?

An undercurrent or hint in the energetic today leans toward us finding new ways and doing new things that are a truer representation of who we are.  Things are quite reflective today; there is a linking between the inner and the outer.  How is the inner and outer matching up for you?  Is there something that has been latent, dormant, or altogether forgotten that is trying to return?  What did you love to do in the past that you have not done in a very long time?  What did you love to do (or want to do) as a child?  Would doing it make you happier?

If you do not know the answer to this today, you may know it by Sunday.  Tomorrow begins what I am calling Astrological Beauty Week with Venus moving into Pisces to meet up with Neptune.  Venus and Neptune bring the heights of beauty, but when they converge in Pisces, we have an explosion of creativity!  The most beautiful forms for the future can be envisioned under this energetic.  Any efforts put toward your own personal "adobe mission" - your outreach into your future - will multiply a hundred fold and will fully bloom and yield by October 17, 2015.  (Remember, it's a big picture kind of day, so we are seeing far ahead.)  Beauty Week is good.  The best of it is found in nature.

That's the official end of today's report, but here's more for consideration:

The little element that is not so little with Venus' entry into Pisces tomorrow is that it will begin transiting in opposition to the Black Moon in Virgo.  The Black Moon is transiting Virgo through August 25, 2015.  During this time, we are coming to new understanding about our fear of failure and our fear of being vulnerable.  Some do better with these things than others, and this is indicated through one's astrology chart.  But as Venus transits Pisces through February 20, 2015, we come to a new understanding of how we want to measure up to ourselves.  The measure of who we are is self-determined.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.  - Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin

Saturday, January 24 - Sunday, January 25, 2015

Crescent Moon Phase: persevere; view challenges as an opportunity to strengthen, revise, and improve

Moon in Aries

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi (Goddess Who Includes)

Skill: post up

Negative Imprint: needing external validation, being too conservative, neurotic, fear of the unknown, ageism, faking, destruction of property, backed into a corner, impediments to progress by standing still

Positive Imprint: repurposing, past life connections, tapping in, wisdom of elders, structuring, making history, rediscovering the past and bringing parts of the past forward, innovation, jumping into the void

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (projecting plans into the future, inner spiritual retreat)

This weekend, we are asked to "post up."

In basketball terms, posting up is turning a certain way so that you can establish a position to receive a pass of the ball.  The Universe asks us to post up and claim our spot so that we can receive spiritual guidance.

This comes as part of the lunar month where we are projecting our plans, ideas, wishes, and selves into the future.  We envision the construct of what that looks like.

 A major component of the construction comes from a foundation, an undercurrent, of our inner wisdom.  Inner wisdom is divinely directed.  As we establish "adobe missions" in the future - outposts where we will arrive later in time, we are reinforcing the structure now with inspiration from Spirit.  This weekend we are posting up to reinforce our outposts.

Old adobe missions are spiritual retreats.  Other names for old adobe missions and spiritual retreats are temples, medicine wheels, churches, groves, schools, farms, vineyards, mountains, beaches, theatres, museums, studios.  What is yours?

It is a good idea this weekend to spend some time in whatever place or space is spiritual for you.  Spirit is sending key insights into matters.  The energy naturally places us in alignment for inner wisdom.  There is a lot happening for our inner contemplation; complex sets of dynamics are in effect.  Here are the highlights:

• Relationships, particularly romantic relationships, are undergoing revision, restructuring, and reassessment.  Changes occur this weekend to bring things to better states.
• Mercury retrograde is acting as a muse, inspiring us with ideas and actions.  The energy is design-oriented and functional.  Mental architecture takes place.
• New things are being built from the past.  All kinds of things are repurposed or even fully restored.  On Saturday, our experiences from the Leo 2014 lunar cycle (July 26 - August 25,  2014) return for a visit and reconsideration.  On Sunday, our experiences from the Pisces 2014 lunar cycle (March 1 - March 29, 2014) follow suit.  Consider all of this in context and look at how those experiences have enabled you to claim more of your power and become who you are today.  (Another element of this energy is a heightened ability to connect with our ancestors.)
• Leaps of faith, discussed at the New Moon of this cycle, may be necessary because the energy shifts quite palpably this weekend.  The Moon catapults into Aries after an energetic journey through shadow lands over the last two days, which is a definite shift.  But both Saturn and Pluto move to new degrees this weekend.  Saturn moves away from energy for strategizing and toward energy that takes us to higher levels.  Pluto moves away from energy for permanent structures and toward energy to heal and raise the spirits of people, particularly children.  (Heads up: The Wisdom Goddess Matangi is getting ready to roll through on those who prey on the weak, disadvantaged, and marginalized.  Whereas the goddess Dhuamavati "sweeps" through the field, Matangi razes it.)

Post up with whatever works for you from this post as you engage in periodic spiritual retreat and communion this weekend.  Remember to connect with nature as part of this.  Find beauty.  And if you can snap a photograph of it, please send it to me to post for everyone to enjoy!

Friday, January 23, 2015

Crescent Moon Phase: persevere

Moon in Pisces

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: love and heal

Negative Imprint:  over-ambitious, over-analyzing, overly-critical, overly-competitive, causing distress, trying to control nature, testing, false power, feeling guilty and not taking action to remedy the matter

Positive Imprint: attraction, sharp instincts, maintenance, relating, healing, spiritual centers, offering, inventive, balance, achievements

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: an old adobe mission (building the future - the Second Renaissance, outposts, spiritual retreat)

Today, the Sun moves to the degree of "a Hindu healer."  How about we all go forth today with a powerhouse wave of love?

The planets favor it, and there is extra help from Uranus.  Readers who have been following the Oracle Report since last spring know that Uranus has been the main player in the energy and events of the last year.  Today we bid farewell to the energy of Uranus at "a bomb which failed to explode has been safely concealed."  Uranus will not return to this degree in our lifetimes.  The bomb has finally been safely concealed.

Until the hour of the next New Moon (February 18, 2015), Uranus will be disseminating the energy associated with "a serpent coiling near a man and a woman."  Kundalini rising is implied with this symbol, and it is reinforced by the fact that it is Uranus, which rules kundalini and all things electric.  Uranus also rules changes - sudden, shocking, life-altering changes.  This energy attracts, allures, and entices, but it also tends to attract people, places, and things that can obstruct or build a wedge in relationships.  All of this serves to put things into proper order.  Uranus aligns and sets things right.  Serpents bring wisdom.  We will be the better for it by the time the Moon is renewed.  We will have found new ways to relate.

The Moon continues to move through Pisces, activating everyone's shadow sides.  This is in effect until tomorrow morning, Saturday, January 24, around 8:30 am ET/1:30 pm UT.  It is best to keep a gauge on emotional reactions, especially if you are a Virgo or Pisces or have the Black Moon in Virgo or Pisces (see the appendix of my book on the Black Moon available for free download at www.oraclereport.com to determine the sign of your own Black Moon). 

On "Black Moon days," as I call them, if we are under stress or if our astrology chart is being activated, we default to projecting our own thoughts and feelings onto others.  We project onto others that which we cannot face in ourselves.  Be aware that energetic triggers are in place to help us integrate the parts of us that are fragmented.  The Black Moon aims for wholeness and takes full advantage of her opportunities.  The Black Moon is the Queen of the Underworld, and she often takes us down to the bare bones to enlighten us.  Be gentle with yourself if she takes you into her realm.  Remember that you are much more than your emotions.

There is the tendency today to over-do things, which is the quintessential issue with the Black Moon in Virgo (the current location of the Black Moon).  In fact, we tend to "way" over-do things today.  This comes about quickly when a competitive element kicks in.  Competition with oneself is the preferred match for the Black Moon in Virgo.  It staves off feelings of incompetence, incapability, and not measuring up because of some nebulous, inherent flaw.  This flaw is unidentifiable because it does not exist.  It is a shadow.  So we will see through the screens that have us feeling like we cannot do, have, or build what we want.  We are qualified for life by virtue of being here.

It may be helpful today to keep in mind that there is nothing to prove.  Nothing has to be put on display to impress or draw attention.  Bragging about successes, achievements and conquests really turns people off today.  It backfires.  Don't engage that battle.

This is the wisdom needed to go forth today in a powerhouse wave of love.  As the Parliament of Owls, we focus our intent and send it out to the world with a great big bow around it.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

New Moon Phase: intend, initiate

Moon in Pisces

Ruling Mahavidya: Matangi

Skill: learn from the past

Negative Imprint: disguise, dissatisfaction with life, rules of social structure, emptiness, domination, quitting

Positive Imprint: free spirited, asserting independence, the true essence of people, advising, passions turned to creativity, changes to external appearance of things reflecting internal changes

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (building the future, inspiring the Second Renaissance, personal spiritual space)

Today is the last day of the New Moon phase of this lunar cycle.  According to ancient wisdom, the directive for the days of thee New Moon phase is to set goals and intentions and make wishes (or reinstate previous ones).  So if you have not done this, today is your chance to plant your heart's desire into the field of consciousness.  This month is all about building things, so we want to set them on good foundations - ones that are aligned with and empowered by Divine Time.

There is a caveat here.  The natural time of the energy is one of beginnings.  But today's energetic specifically carries strong signatures of rebellion, giving up, and quitting.  There may be something that we want to walk away from today.  The situation may seem no longer bearable.  But this energetic lasts only for today (with a little bit of bleed through yesterday and tomorrow, since energy moves in waves).  The thing to keep in mind is that the energy will change tomorrow.  Do you want to quit now or wait it out?  The answer is different for each of us.  Consequences need to be kept in mind.

The better use of today's energy is to express it.  Share the wisdom you have gained from a tough life lesson.  Express it through art, music, words, voice, cooking, cleaning - any action.  The foundation for constructing our psyches as "old adobe missions" is knowing what we know.  We build from our deep experiences that engendered wisdom.

Today and tomorrow the Black Moon's energetics become features of what we are building.  It is critical to not weaken the foundation of your adobe mission (your temple, your future) with feelings of failure and disappointment.  These will form cracks in the foundation.  This is especially true for those with the Sun in Virgo or Pisces or the Black Moon in Virgo or Pisces.  These wise owls are spiritual carpenters by nature, but their skills of strength are re-tested and re-formed while the Moon is in Virgo or Pisces through August 25, 2015.  Remember that fears of failure and vulnerability are shadows that attempt to hold us back.  Failure is only more information to make a better decision or get to a better outcome.  Failure means "more data required."  Some decisions or outcomes are so monumental that they require a lot more data, which means a lot more failure.  Failure is acceptable.  Letting "failure" stop us is not.

From the intensity that is being generated by the astrological aspects in play, a drive from deep within us come to strive for something new.  We get a glimpse of a vision of something and want to strive for it.  This is coming from the inner part of us that is called the sacred masculine.  It is prompted internally and then manifested externally through our desires.

Take what you have learned thus far and put it into context of desire.  Where do you want to project yourself?  What does the future you want look like?  On which values is it based?  Where does it feed?  What new thing needs to happen now to make it happen later?

(Note: Details are good.  Matangi, the Wisdom Goddess on duty this month, excels at the implementation of details.  She is an administrative powerhouse. She makes swift work of it, too.  Think about the steps it would take to get you where you want to be and put it out to Matangi.  She takes care of business.)

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

New Moon Phase: initiate, begin

Moon in Aquarius

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: moderate extremes

Negative Imprint: gossip, going on rampages, losing control, emotional roller coaster, hysterics of health or safety, unrecoverable, making things overly complicated than they need to be, taken off guard or by surprise, unhealthy attention-seeking behavior

Positive Imprint: learning, wonder, power of Mother Nature, responding above and beyond, honing skills, rallying, expressing feelings of vulnerability, awakening and inspiration, sounding a call

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (spiritual outposts, building the Second Renaissance)

We have a day of potential extremes on tap.  The nature of the energy is stormy and unexpected.  Shocking things can happen suddenly and test our inner fortitude.  Wise owls know that responses that are above and beyond the normal limits or the call to duty may be required all month long, but especially today. 

This usually entails leaving our comfort zone.  We are stretching ourselves beyond where we have been because we are building "outposts."  We are out-posting or out-reaching ourselves into the future.  As the old system flails and fails, a new one is re-emerging with a twist.  The wisdom of the ancients returns to a now technologically-advanced collective of humanity.  Imagine the possibilities.  (Actually imagine them - the mission of the New Moon phase is to set intentions and insert hopes, wishes, and dreams into the field.  This is how we shape reality or co-create with Spirit.  It all starts or stops with desire, so do not discount what your heart is saying to you.)

Mercury will station retrograde (or appear to move backward in the sky) today.  Long-time readers know that the day a planet stations retrograde or direct is usually intense, hectic, and chaotic.  When Mercury stations direct, interpersonal communications, electronic communications, electronics in general, and travel are the areas where challenges surface.  Allowing extra time, having plenty of patience, and sometimes walking away and coming back later is the best advice.  Mercury retrograde always makes things better than they are, but it is rarely on our preferred time schedule.  We have to wait until it is time for things to be "unlocked" or "activated."

In the meantime, the parliament of wise owls is testing out the theory that Mercury retrograde is a muse and we are aiming to be amused by it (in other words try to have fun with it as much as possible).  The energy seeks to inspire something that is pivotal to your future.  In this month's audio recording I talked about how there are certain safeguards and protections that accompany this Mercury retrograde to make sure we get the messages.  If forward momentum slows or if your best laid plans are laid to waste, step back and let the field re-arrange.  Let Mercury put a new spin on things.  Let him spiff them up.

As we are trying to do things a different way, we want to discern if we are compromising ourselves in any situations and/or just going through the motions.  The energy is not supportive of any part of the past that is organized around power and control dynamics.  This month, these types of dynamics play out in relationships (personal, professional, familial) in order for us to clearly see what is happening.  Demands for attention or to be the center of attention are strong today.  Jealousy easily rears its ugly head.  Competition can get ugly.

A warning comes for the most challenging part of the day, the hour between 2:30-3:30 pm ET/ 7:30 - 8:30 pm UT, when the Moon will oppose Jupiter in the midst of the already-chaotic energy.  A chain of events could tip off and send frustration, impatience, and control to extreme levels.  Emotional outbursts, blow ups, or breakdowns are trying to liberate energy that has been pent up.  Our job is to moderate extremes so that things don't become too untethered.

Mercury is our muse, not our enemy today, or at least that is the test.  If you feel tested yourself today, reach beyond your normal limits.  Don't hold yourself back or hide your light.  You are needed.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

New Moon Phase: set intentions, initiate, begin

Moon in Aquarius

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Matangi

Skill: take a leap of faith

Negative Imprint: losing faith, hopelessness, unfeeling, betrayal, pretension, pushing one's beliefs, repeating the same behavior, too insulated, ungrounded

Positive Imprint: renewed faith, making progress, loyalty, sparks of creativity, safeguards, firmly grounded, spiritual awakening, assurance

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an old adobe mission" (creating the Second Renaissance; spiritual retreat)

The New Moon that offers energy to create the Second Renaissance begins today.  The infrastructure of our future is forming.

The New Moon is in Aquarius and Aquarius energy dances an electric dance.  It is ruled by Uranus, the planet that has been the key factor in what has developed in the world and in our lives since March of 2014 (the beginning of the current astrological year).  Uranus storms through with lightning bolts and high volts of change.  He moves swiftly, decisively, unpredictably, and shockingly.  We've all been struck by lightning in some way or ways over the past year.

Uranus is masterful, however, in that the energy catalyzes whatever needs to happen in order for us to be in proper alignment with what is in our highest and best interests.  My teacher always says "Uranus puts you where you need to be."

Along that (electrical) line, this month we are putting things in place that need to be put in place.  This includes plans, links, relationships, projects, ideas, expressions, havens, gatherings - anything and everything that contributes to a world that is aligned with nature.  Sanity returns when we are more naturally-aligned.

Worlds do clash today when people feel that their way is the best and only way.  A "know-it-all" attitude only causes people to turn away.  The goal is acceptance and even reverence for everyone's right to freely make choices and freely speak.  This issue develops all month long and will no doubt be manipulated by anyone dominated by an internal struggle for power and control to maximize propaganda and conflict between people.  This happens at the global level of the world and the individual level of our lives.  Petty tyrants tend to show out.

Today's events foreshadow the issues and experiences of the upcoming month, especially as a "revisiting" of the past or feeling that the past is happening again.  The energy of the Black Moon brings opportunities to do things a different way.  We can get off the merry-go-round.

To do this, we might have to go in a radically different direction - way beyond what we have normally experienced.  Leaps of faith may be in heavy demand.

Today's energy is erratic and somewhat chaotic, so be prepared to ride the electric waves.  And remember what it truly is - energy to create the future.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Balsamic Moon Phase: release, dream

Moon in Capricorn

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali

Skill: allow barriers that are coming down to gently fall

Negative Imprint: narrow-minded, too conservative, emptiness, wasting time, feelings of failure, disillusioned, predictable, exclusive, glorifying violence, living in the past

Positive Imprint: straightening out details, spontaneity, getting on track, courage, history, recognizing that perceived failures are teachers, freedom, unity

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe"

Today is the last day of the lunar cycle that was designed to help us claim more of ourselves, more of our power, and more of our heart's desires.  Much internal work has been done this month, and much wisdom has been gained.

Today, all of the effort, energy, and resources that we have devoted to reach this point serves to break down barriers between people, places, and things.  The underlying drive is to unite people, places, and things.  This is a strong motivator today and a strong support for any endeavors that are intended to uplift the collective of humanity.

Energy to break down barriers within relationships is also winding its way through things.  But there is a special element that addresses our relationship with our self.  The energy wants us to break through illusions that we have about ourselves.  This is especially true regarding our outlook on life.  The energy wants us to switch from focusing on what's impossible to what is possible.  The way things are now is not the way they will remain.  The "year of change" continues until April 17, 2015, so there is much more to come.  Don't put a final judgment on anything.  Don't succumb to gloom.  Radical transformation is still underway.

During Balsamic Moon phases we are preparing the field of consciousness, weeding it of negativity and anything that would choke out the seeds of love that we plant with the New Moon.  The powers of imagination and visualization are most potent during the Balsamic Moon, so we can fertilize the future with our outlook or we can deplete it before it begins.  Watch your mind and don't be taken off course by the signature of energy that tries to trick us into seeing only disappointment and disillusionment.  Infuse good things into the field of your consciousness because good things are trying to crop up next month, which begins tomorrow.

Be aware that there is also a strong "behind the scenes" component to today's energy.  At the lowest octave, this comes in the form of back-door dealings.  The highest octave involves us giving and receiving the help we need.  In particular, assistance from trusted, knowledgeable friends with certain expertise or aptitude in a certain area helps things become better than they are.  Big projects and intentions are most affected by this.

Behind the scenes in the sky, Mercury is preparing to move retrograde on Wednesday.  Mercury is pretty much stationary right now, holding tight at the degree of "a watchdog standing guard, protecting his master and his possessions."  This energetic heightens our vigilance to our surroundings.  It also offers a beacon, a lantern, a guide. 

I will go a step beyond this and say that, ultimately, Mercury is going to be our muse for the next few weeks while he is retrograde.  Maybe he always has been our muse while he moves retrograde, but we fail to see it as such at the time.  Perhaps Mercury retrograde is not mayhem at all but a process of a muse?  It might be amusing to test this idea and review it when Mercury stations direct.

As we break down anything that diminishes the richness of the soil in the field of our personal and collective consciousness today, let's offer appreciation to spiritual forces greater than ourselves that have guided us all month long.  I view this as appreciation for the force of Kali in particular this month, but it is all Oneness and the sentiment is the same regardless of how it is packaged. 

It is good to recognize our place in the assembled tribe of creation, but better to recognize that the creation is much bigger than us.

Saturday, January 17 - Sunday, January 18, 2015

Balsamic Moon Phase: release, dream

Moon in Sagittarius (enters Capricorn Sunday at 7:00 am ET/noon UT)

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali

Skill: bring things together

Negative Imprint: self-defeating behavior, superficial comparison, judgmental, melodrama, quitting, confusion, sabotage

Positive Imprint: catalysts for change, whirlwinds of activity and expression, cooperation, exchanging knowledge or expertise, acceptance, mutual respect, self-worth

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe"

The last Moon phase of the lunar cycle, the Balsamic phase, is the mystical time.  It's the time of heightened connection with spirit.  Our inner world comes alive.

Our inner world has been quite active this entire month, courtesy of the energy that would cause an Indian chief, theretofore unrecognized, to claim power from his assembled tribe.  This month has been about something deep inside of us changing, causing us to stand up for ourselves - to see more of ourselves or see ourselves more clearly, to take better care of ourselves, to try and do the right thing, to be greater than we are.  This upright movement continues our proper alignment with destiny.

The weekend's energy brings opportunities to bring people, places, and things together - even people, places, and things that are very far apart.  We can close the gap.  Finding common ground and acceptance is a good start for this.

Other elements strongly challenge the status quo.   Disruptions and conflicts are riding just under the surface.  Chain reactions are easily set off.

The power of words is enhanced under this weekend's energetics.  We are also more inclined to blurt things out.  This combination means we need to be extra aware of what we are saying.  Don't get carried away.  The power of propaganda is heightened.

Heights of spiritual connection are also attained with the astrological aspects underway.  Flurries of inspiration and insight fill the air.  We catch more of them when we spend time outdoors.  Mental confusion and cloudiness is also helped.

Decision-making is, once again this week, not highlighted.  The differences between choices is not clear or maybe not even present at this time.  Our skills of discernment are not sharp right now, so wait until things become clearer before taking action, if possible.

Happy Balsamic Moon weekend!

(Note: The audio overview for the next lunar month is now posted on the homepage of oraclereport.com.)

Friday, January 16, 2015

Balsamic Moon Phase: release, dream

Moon in Sagittarius

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali

Skill: know when enough is enough

Negative Imprint:  road rage, suspicion, guarded, moral posturing, thinking the uncontrollable is controllable, conflict, war, paranoia, trust issues, walls and barriers, turbulence, panic

Positive Imprint: patience, loyalty, compromise, trust, communication, links with the spirit world, insight, effort and reward, guardianship, self-awareness, exchanging with others, inner fulfillment

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe"

Today's energetics tend to cause things to become a bit chaotic, congested, and confused.  Wise owls strive for calm, cool, and collected.

It helps to understand that a powerful astrological dynamic is in place (the "window of time" I referred to earlier this week).  This dynamic comes from Mars' conjunction with Neptune and the Black Moon opposing both of them.

I will discuss this in more detail in the audio recording scheduled to go up later today because the dynamic will still be in place at the New Moon on Tuesday.  This means the imprint will last throughout the upcoming lunar month.  So what is happening now is going to unfold through February 17, 2015.

In particular, whatever transpires today foreshadows what we will be "revising" and "reworking" during Mercury's retrograde because today Venus reaches the degree in the sky where Mercury will turn retrograde.  Venus will "tip" things off that will unfold through February 11, 2015.

All of this means we note the themes, patterns, and imprints today because these things will develop and evolve over the next month.  We are getting a look ahead - a look through a window in time.

Keep in mind that when Mars and the Black Moon come together in the way they are now, tremendous energy to either battle or create is unleashed.  Mars and the Black Moon are god and goddess of the battlefield AND the god and goddess of the creation field.  Oftentimes the two overlap, especially in a lunar month ruled by the Wisdom Goddess Kali, who is prone to destroy and recreate. 

The combination of Mars and the Black Moon often sparks arguments and confrontations between people.  It can be quite volcanic.  The eruptions usually clear the air, but with Neptune involved, this is not the case.  The situation will turn into something else by the end of the next lunar month.  The watery nebulousness of Neptune morphs things and takes them to new places.

The complexity of today's energy is enhanced by feelings of needing to push thing farther.  This all too easily gets us in over our heads today because we want to do or know or experience more.  It is best to maintain perspective and not take things to an extreme.  Striving for some "ideal" or "ultimate" will box us in and reinforce the chaos, confusion, and congestion elements in effect.  Wise owls keep it real.

Remember that the skill we practice today in order to bring balance is to know when enough is enough.  Enough said for now, but check back for the audio update of the overview of the next lunar month, and of course, the weekend report.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Third Quarter Moon Phase: reassess, revise, realign

Moon in Scorpio

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali

Skill: lighten up

Negative Imprint: dissociated, bossing people around, avoidance, pressure, cut off from reality, division, addressing only the surface issues not the core issue

Positive Imprint: faith, signs and signals, organization, enjoying life, creating/appreciating art and music, love, love of life, conviction, mentoring, the fairy realm, access to higher consciousness

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe" (self-empowerment, personal sovereignty)

A general lightening of the Capricorn energy comes today with the Sun moving to the degree in the sky of the symbol "a nature spirit dancing in the mist of a waterfall."  A certain effervescence pervades the day, and along with it an offering of wisdom that we need about ourselves and our lives.

At any point today, if things start to become heavy, cumbersome, or stuck, shift the energy by lightening up the situation in some way.  Humor, creativity, playfulness, and fun are good ways to do this.  Balance will return and progress can be made.  But first we have to recognize that things are becoming mired and weighed down before we can shift out of it.  It's an excellent opportunity to practice "merging the two worlds" in a real way.

In many ways, there are two worlds in play today.  One "world" asks that we be ultra-responsible, decisive, and efficient.  The other "world" wants us to share, express, deliberate, and then create.  Conflicts and push/pull dynamics can result from the collision of the two worlds.  Today's misty waterfall could become an outright deluge.  Maintaining respect for others and their beliefs and opinions will alleviate the potential flood.

But it's really not a good day to have to make big decisions or moves.  There is a lot of fence sitting and mending of fences with things up in the air.  But if you must make a decision or move, call for reinforcements - for back-up.  Talk it over with someone first to make sure you are seeing things as clearly as possible. 

Clarity about external, worldly things is hard to reach today.  Clarity about internal, spiritual things abounds because key information that we need is floating in the air like bubbles.

Mercury and Venus remain in conjunction until Mercury stations retrograde next week on Wednesday, January 21, 2015.  When Venus and Mercury are conjunct (in the same place in the sky), we re-evaluate our relationships.  Thoughts, feelings, and projections about our relationships are in focus.  The ways we balance and nurture our relationships undergo revision.  Power and control dynamics within relationships try to equalize.  This will continue while Mercury is retrograde through February 11, 2015, just in time for Valentine's Day.

What will effervesce for you today?  Lighten up and see what happens.

(A side note to today's energy is that the banksters historically use an energetic signature that is in effect today to manipulate markets.)

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Third Quarter Moon Phase: take responsibility

Moon in Scorpio

Ruling Wisdom Goddess: Kali (with Shodashi)

Sabian Symbol for the Lunar Month: "an Indian chief claims power from the assembled tribe"

Skill: do something lasting

Negative Imprint: immobile, inflexible, underestimating others, presumption, stealing, giving more worth than is deserved, way too long, displays of domination, ageism, impulsivity

Positive Imprint: leadership and the responsibilities of leadership, plans, refined people and action, cutting through details, motivation and drive, persistence, divine assistance with unseen challenges, holding the line

Today, an astrological configuration opens a window of time when action that is undertaken has deep, lasting effects on the future.

The astrological configuration responsible for this is a square between Mars and Saturn.  The key to understanding the nature of the configuration comes from looking at two things: the Sabian symbols of the degrees in the sky where the planets are located and the type of square the planets are making.

The Sabian symbol for Mars is "a petrified forest" and the Sabian symbol for Saturn is "two men playing chess."  This combination gives us the energy of lasting moves, monumental plans, and long-term strategy.  The energetic "imprints" the present into the future.

But deeper wisdom tells us more about the nature of the astrological event.  The type of astrological square that two planets are making is a First Quarter square - and all you need to know about that is it is the energy of stepping out.  It's about taking action and implementing ideas.  The ideas aren't new - the action is.  The energetic is just like a First Quarter Moon phase when the mission is to step out and take action.  We go out on branches and do dances.  We break away.  In the cycle of life, this is when we begin to see change and growth.  It's a powerful time, but also a vulnerable time, because we step away from the way things have been - the way of the past.  This past is known.  The future is only somewhat known.

Because Mars and Saturn are the planets most in effect today, the essence of the energy is masculine and can become aggressive and controlling.  The window of time that opens is in effect until the New Moon (Tuesday, January 20, 2015).  The window can intensify war/terror/control dynamics that have already been present this month.  Paris is highlighted again.  Tunnels are also highlighted.  "Attack on or by the feminine in tunnels in Paris for the strategic purposes of assuming power and resources" would be my exact interpretation of the Sabian symbols in play.  Keep in mind that the energy is archetypal.

The unknown component of the energetic is it has strong spiritual elements and that there two "guardian angels" bringing protection.  These are the emissaries or faces of the goddess embodied as the Earth, Gaia Sophia.  The emissaries are the Wisdom Goddesses Kali and Shodashi.  They are bringing a special kind of enlightenment to the scene.  This light is invisible to us, but nonetheless potent.  It stirs the "inner chief" inside each of us to claim our personal power and our personal place.  It helps us make the changes we need to make.  It helps us live happier.  It helps us paint the Second Renaissance.  It helps us connect more deeply with the source of our collective dream - the planet herself.

So deep, lasting changes are underway as yet one more window in time opens.  We focus on the positive imprint that we make on the future today.  Since this report is about what is going on behind the scenes, please rely on the keywords listed above to anticipate the nature of events and energies we are likely to experience or encounter in our lives.  Keep things framed in the mindset of stepping out of the old boundaries and limitations and stepping into action for greater fulfillment of plans, dreams, and intentions.

(Note:  Mars is also in conjunction with Neptune and opposition with the Black Moon, so there is more going on here than I can detail in this report, but I will address it in the audio recording of the overview of the next lunar cycle.  Look for this at the end of the week.)