The Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius 2012 Pt. 2

Getting Clear About New Potential Futures Through Dynamic Events  Good stuff from Aquarius Papers.  Excerpts:

This Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon at 15 Sagittarius-Gemini will bring opportunities to exchange information to understand better how to move through limiting circumstances, as well as insights into other ways to interpret this Venus retrograde period and how it’s impacting our present and future. This period begins 4 1/2 months of mental metamorphosis and turning major corners of life!


As a result of the FOUR Solar Eclipses in 2011, coupled with the recent May Solar Eclipse and this Lunar Eclipse, we are in a period where we have been and continue to be shutting down old Gemini energies while growing toward new Sagittarius energies, thanks to the North Node being the line of greatest development during 2011 and 2012.

That continues to put the growth on exploring truth from many angles while adapting the mind to occasional perceptual conflicts. With Jupiter in Taurus ruling the Moon and North Node, try to open to a more tender, less mentally-driven way of growth. Keep it slow, steady, simple, and straightforward so that your mind doesn’t outrace your ability to enjoy the ride! After all, there are many paths to truth, and part of life’s requirement is that we enjoy ourselves as our minds dance all over the map.

This Partial Lunar Eclipse will begin a several month "shut down" in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens during the period Neptune is stationary retrograde, you can bet that this point marks a major shift in collective consciousness, where we will begin to reverse recent trends by exchanging information to get clearer about what is and could be.
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From these symbols it seems we can see the light of seeing the need to share our discoveries with others, so that we can get clear about spiritual true and “underlying meanings.” These can express as forms that move us to a greater vision of our life purpose and the “universal patterning of life relationships.


We can find illumination in finding new ways to communicate and share our discoveries, and through “self-confidence of spirit” we can establish ourselves to our advantage in life situations. This can take shape through a greater openness to the drift of potentials, and through self-adjustment, find reassurance through knowing how to be and what to do in those life situations.”

For now, enjoy seeing the many ways to understand your "path to Illumination," and be willing to acknowledge greater potential futures based in trends you’re seeing right now. Move into a greater skill and truth while letting go of old distractions in the mind. This is a time for discussions that illuminate things from multiple perspectives to dispel intellectual shadows so that we can become more objective. Move into a greater set of truths while staying in touch with your need for tenderness.

Whether or not you believe in astrology, this is pretty sage advice.  Encouraging, and very resonant.  To Robert Wilkinson:  Thanks again for your unrelenting positivity regarding humanity's future development.  It's nice to know people like you exist.

Long Wave Astrology in February 2012 As Neptune Leaves Aquarius and Enters Pisces – Changing Global Mythologies In A 150 Year Dreamscape

Astrological History Happens Today.  From Robert Wilkinson's Aquarius Papers.  Excerpts: 

Neptune will re-enter Pisces on February 3, 11:03 am PST, 2:03 pm EST, 7:03 pm Greenwich. This begins a 14 year long, strange journey that will lead humanity along spiritual lines that happen only once every 164-180 years. It is also where we first turn the corner in a 500 year sub-Age that began 1888-1894.
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Still, April and May gave us the first sense of the impending plunge into a great oceanic dreamscape that confronts humanity. In those months we got a front end experience of the larger collective atmosphere about to commence.
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The end of Aquarius represents a culmination point of managed collective energies. It is where we go through spiritual transfigurations, emerge from a chrysalis, and transform our lives forever within a larger collective consciousness. Through Neptune we have all experienced this on some level, subtle or obvious.



It is a point where our understanding of ourselves as a collection of congealed light particles can be seen from a holistic angle of vision, where we see ourselves as “merest specks in the ocean of light.” Perhaps that’s why the reality of Light as the composing energetic factor in all material creation is now an accepted fact. All material creations derive from light, both in waves and particles. Those who have been open to these energies are now experiencing their “light nature,” whether they know it or not.
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So as Neptune says goodbye to Aquarius for about 135 years, take a moment to reflect on the fact that you’ve now experienced the exact point of "the cusp of the Age," where our past 2000 year Age of Pisces will soon give way to the coming 2000 year Age of Aquarius. This is a profound moment in the past and future history of humanity, and by understanding what we’ve felt about our Higher Self and purpose these past 22 months, we’ve tuned into the very first impressions of the coming Great Age of Aquarius.

It all starts today!  Neptune has come home, and Pisces is In Full Effect.  Don't dream it:  Be it.

Mercury Slowing Down, Preparing to go Retrograde at 25 Aries Gathering the Cluster

Mercury goes retrograde April 30th, so Aquarius Papers details the aspects and implications. Short answer?

..adapt to the slowing pace of things, be willing to put some things on hold for a little while, and take a look at what's been set into motion up to now with an eye to seeing what has to be done before things can again move forward in 2011.
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This period will be highly energized due to Mercury conjunct the Sun, both conjunct Jupiter during the entire retrograde period. Add that these will also oppose Saturn, as will Mars, during the 3 week retrograde and many hard realities and/or concrete opportunities will be very evident by the end of April. Just be willing to let go of lesser duties and limitations, and concentrate on learning, since this retrograde is one where we can train our mind and speech in very favorable ways.

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For all of us, during the next several weeks the future that's already rolling forward will slow a little so we can get a new look at crucial elements of the process we cannot afford to ignore. This will help us shape our expectations of types of future fulfillment, and many will see one or more promises redeemed. This one helps us rehearse or do the research we need to get ready to spring forward at the end of April. And of course, more on this very important Mercury retrograde period will come soon!

New Moon in Pisces Pt. 1 - What's Happening in March 2011

Another great article from Robert Wilkinson at Aquarius Papers.    Short, SHORT summation:

Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Pisces will illuminate our worth, our merit, and forms of protection as we "pursue our work of Destiny." It's part of a cluster of planets in Pisces, so expect to say goodbye to parts of your past, blessing and forgiving what cannot be taken with you while moving forward into the revolutionary period shown by Uranus about to enter Aries.

Give yourself some time, but part 1 is worth the read.

Astrology: An Overview of What 2011 Will Bring

From Robert Wilkinson at Aquarius Papers.  One of my favorite Internet author/personalities, Wilkinson's style is accessible to astrology fans, beginners, or the merely curious.  Excerpts in italics:

A tremendous amount of change, new beginnings that rapidly become solid, confronting the consequences of one's willingness to become response-able, and a shift in collective consciousness across the current degree span representing the cusp of where the Age of Pisces slips into the Age of Aquarius. Of course, there's more.
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The first half of the year will be radically different than the second half. The first half shows harvests and entryways, as well as the resumption of what we all saw or realized "for the first time" between June and August 2010. Whatever we've said goodbye to, whatever we've had to forgive, let go of, or view with the eyes of radical compassion, whether for others or ourselves, will rapidly give way to a highly energetic period that will crest in May.

The second half of the year will give substance to, or confirm in some way, the new vision of Summer 2010 that rapidly develops during the first half of the coming year. We will initiate some management forms and skills in February which will be needed to deal with the substantial forms presenting themselves at the end of the first half of 2011.

The first half of the year will show everyone the power inherent in the natural roles we've accepted as part of our transformational process, while the second half of 2011 will give substance to the responsibilities or duties that have been strongly activated in December 2010. We've all been shown ways to "pick up and deliver spiritual power," and this emergence from an old "cocoon" state will be finalized in February and March 2011.
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A few things to consider as we move into a new Era: Though these times are very unstable, the potential is enormous. A broader view of our ability to respond will lead us to new power, resources, and clarity about what will sustain us into the future. Find your vision and tie yourself to that pillar of clarity, since that will help ground your vision in practical, natural, substantial forms.

While there are always limiting conditions, these show us what we do and do not need to deal with as we maintain our inner center of equipoise. Sometimes in history we must rise to our more effective Self regardless of how tough outer conditions can become. The striving is everything, as the creative tension finds an echo in the greater space we all share together.

I hope for each and every one of you every bit of your personal potential realized in amazing, unusual, and specific-to-you ways, thereby re-enforcing the wonder of our collective universe.  Happy 2011!

Reinventing Your Life, Your Profession, Your Relationships, and Your Purpose

From Robert Wilkinson at Aquarius Papers  In an article full of perfect passages, these are my two favorites:

So if you struggle with endings, of unknowns and apprehensions of what will or will not be, detach from the "not knowing" and contemplate your life as a timestream of experiences coaxing forth skills, strengths, realizations and talents throughout the difficulties and endings. You are an eternally evolving Consciousness, collecting forms of understanding to apply in your world the best you are able.

You have imagination and an ability to be creative in ways you've never known. You have a mind that when trained can easily cut through illusions and fears and express the strength of your heart's direct knowing. With an open mind and a strong heart you can move into unknown futures and find yourself doing your Being in excellent ways.

Read the whole thing.  Good stuff.