D.L. Zeta: Summer’s Sound and Fury: the Cancer Solar Eclipse joins Retrograde Blitz | Celestial Vision

Summer’s Sound and Fury: the Cancer Solar Eclipse joins Retrograde Blitz by D.L. Zeta | Celestial Vision

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The energies of today’s partial solar eclipse in Cancer are in full force now, bouncing off this summer’s powerful retrogrades and other energies. These energies are bringing life-altering change to our doorsteps while tossing new potentials and challenges into the mix. The energies of the solar eclipse have been filtering in these past few weeks and will dominate until the August 11 solar eclipse. The July 27 lunar eclipse will amplify the themes of this week’s solar eclipse.
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Mercury joins a slate of other retrograde planets from July 25 to August 19, adding issues of communication, scheduling, transportation and judgment to the mix. There is the potential to become vague and error prone during this time and the energies could sideswipe us in any areas where we are out of balance. We are asked during Mercury retrograde to go within and commune with our higher self.
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There is a bigger picture to the major shifts taking place this summer. We are truly entering a new phase of the changes that began in recent years, manifesting the next level of the new earth.
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Manifestation is a big word this year.  This is truly a time to remember that when you ask you shall receive.  You will need to see through the swirling chaos and shifting energies with your inner eyes to step past the illusion that may feel more dense than usual.
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Manifesting works when you ask for what you see for yourself and acknowledge that what you seek is for the highest good of all.  Align your dreams and wishes with the highest good, ask and open to receive.  Be sure to include the well-being of all living things in your requests.  Hold ill will toward no one.  Allow the universe to conspire on your behalf. When you stand firmly in your purpose everything is possible now.
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This is a good time to study your astrology chart to gain insights into your purpose and understand the possibilities and challenges currently on your individual path. This year’s planetary retrogrades make for a time of spiritual contemplation.  Fast, go on retreats, set off on a journey to discover your true path. Ask your higher self to bring you daily guidance and wisdom.  When you ask for answers to the issues before you and open to receive the universe will bring what you need.
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This is a year for generous deeds and doing good work.  Forgive the past, forgive yourself.  Neptune is currently retrograde, providing a wonderful opportunity to see the world with new eyes.  Crystal clarity brings certainty.  Light shines through clouds of self-doubt.  Meditate to see the world with your inner eyes.  Everything that seemed daunting and complex in the past appears simple from this perspective.  Any way in which you have been deluding yourself falls away.  Truth shines on us like the morning sun.  During this time it’s important to be willing to see what lies beneath the surface.  Read between the lines, listen to the spaces between words.  Expand your field of vision.  Things are possible now that may have seemed beyond your reach in the past.
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The fiery Mars retrograde brings the potential for flare ups and eruptions.  Mars retrograde combined with this week’s partial solar eclipse in Cancer sets the stage for a possible crisis that affects a relationship, an event or your sense of self.  This potent cocktail of energies could trigger deeply buried subconscious fears from earlier in this life and from past lives.
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Events unfolding now may seem fated.  Old patterns may reappear.  Everyone now will need to practice patience as the heated energies push our buttons. This can be an emotionally painful time. On the other side of this period we will enter an energetically tranquil time that resembles the calm after the storm.
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This week’s solar eclipse is powerfully opposed by Pluto, the planet of transformation.  This is the time to transform things in your life that are holding you back.  With this eclipse in Cancer, we may find its affects centered on our home life, relationships, intimacy, safety and security and creativity. Emotional sensitivity may rule this passage and we may find our intuition off the charts.   This is a time for hard work and perseverance in order to activate the potentials of this eclipse.
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This solar eclipse signals the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one.  The influence of a solar eclipse generally lasts six months but the August 11 solar eclipse will supersede this week’s eclipse.
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This is a good time to examine old patterns and behaviors that are no longer serving your highest good.  You’re able to gain traction in leaving behind old ways of being and start anew.  When you release limitation and open to new, creative ways of moving forward, the universe supports and assists you.  Writing down intentions and desires can be especially powerful during this time.
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It is important during this time to welcome changes that arise.  Events now are helping you gain awareness of destructive habits and behaviors.  Some events now will happen outside your control.  This is to help you realize you don’t need complete control over others or your environment.  You may feel a bit bruised by this eclipse and the energies of this time but if you open to the changes unfolding you will find blessings beyond what you may have imagined.
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The fact that opposing Pluto is in retrograde figures into the mix. Pluto urges you to transform the negative, destructive or limiting part of your life. Right now, Pluto is asking us to reflect on issues of power and control.  Let go of any ways you have controlled or manipulated others. Let go of others who have sought to control or manipulate you.  This is not the time to indulge in power trips.  This is a time to release.  It will come become clear this month which habits, addictions or prejudices you need to release.
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It becomes more important than ever to stand up for your rights.  Overcome adversity, addiction or illness.  This is a time when you are able to transform a personal crisis into a success and a turning point that changes the course of your life.  A crisis could bring awareness of ways you have held yourself back from realizing the happiness and success you seek.  Powerful forces are playing a role in our lives now. The way forward is to surrender your power and control to a higher force.  Trust your instincts and higher guidance.
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10 Facts About Being Homeless in the USA: As the Crisis Deepens, the Government is Doing Less to Help

If, like me, you sometimes lose perspective, this article has several short stories and plenty of sobering statistics (with embedded links) that will have you counting your blessings again rather quickly...  -PB

 

Reblogged from http://kielarowski.net

10 Facts About Being Homeless in the USA

by BILL QUIGLEY

October 14, 2014

As the Crisis Deepens, the Government is Doing Less to Help

Three True Stories
Renee Delisle was one of over 3500 homeless people in Santa Cruz when she found out she was pregnant.  The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported she was turned away from a shelter because they did not have space for her.  While other homeless people slept in cars or under culverts, Renee ended up living in an abandoned elevator shaft until her water broke.
Jerome Murdough, 56, a homeless former Marine, was arrested for trespass in New York because he was found sleeping in a public housing stairwell on a cold night.  The New York Times reported that one week later, Jerome died of hypothermia in a jail cell heated to over 100 degrees.
Paula Corb and her two daughters lost their home and have lived in their minivan for four years.  They did laundry in a church annex, went to the bathroom at gas stations, and did their studies under street lamps, according to America Tonight.


Fact One.  Over half a million people are homeless
On any given night, there are over 600,000 homeless people in the US according to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  Most people are either spending the night in homeless shelters or in some sort of short term transitional housing.  Slightly more than a third are living in cars, under bridges or in some other way living unsheltered.


Fact Two.  One quarter of homeless people are children
HUD reports that on any given night over 138,000 of the homeless in the US are children under the age of 18. Thousands of these homeless children are unaccompanied according to HUD.  Another federal program, No Child Left Behind, defines homeless children more broadly and includes not just those living in shelters or transitional housing but also those who are sharing the housing of other persons due to economic hardship, living in cars, parks, bus or train stations, or awaiting foster care placement.  Under this definition, the National Center for Homeless Education reported in September 2014 that local school districts reported there are over one million homeless children in public schools.


Fact Three.  Tens of thousands of veterans are homeless

Over 57,000 veterans are homeless each night.  Sixty percent of them were in shelters, the rest unsheltered.  Nearly 5000 are female.


Fact Four.  Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness in women
More than 90% of homeless women are victims of severe physical or sexual abuse and escaping that abuse is a leading cause of their homelessness.


Fact Five. Many people are homeless because they cannot afford rent
The lack of affordable housing is a primary cause of homelessness according to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.  HUD has seen its budget slashed by over 50% in recent decades resulting in the loss of 10,000 units of subsidized low income housing each and every year.


Fact Six.  There are fewer places for poor people to rent than before.
One eighth of the nation’s supply of low income housing has been permanently lost since 2001.  The US needs at least 7 million more affordable apartments for low income families and as a result millions of families spend more than half their monthly income on rent.


Fact Seven.  In the last few years millions have lost their homes
Over five million homes have been foreclosed on since 2008, one out of every ten homes with a mortgage.  This has caused even more people to search for affordable rental property.


Fact Eight.  The Government does not help as much as you think
There is enough public rental assistance to help about one out of every four extremely low income households.  Those who do not receive help are on multi-year waiting lists.  For example, Charlotte just opened up their applications for public housing assistance for the first time in 14 years and over 10,000 people applied.
Fact Nine.  One in five homeless people suffer from untreated severe mental illness
While about 6% of the general population suffers from severe mental illness, 20 to 25% of the homeless suffer from severe mental illness according to government studies.  Half of this population self-medicate and are at further risk of addiction and poor physical health.  A University of Pennsylvania study tracking nearly 5000 homeless people for two years discovered that investing in comprehensive health support and treatment of physical and mental illnesses is less costly than incarceration, shelter and hospital services for the untreated homeless.


Fact Ten.  Cities are increasingly making homelessness a crime
A 2014 survey of 187 cities by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty found: 24% make it a city-wide crime to beg in public; 33% make it illegal to stand around or loiter anyplace in the city; 18% make it a crime to sleep anywhere in public; 43% make it illegal to sleep in your car; and 53% make it illegal to sit or lay down in particular public places.   And the number of cities criminalizing homelessness is steadily increasing.


For more information look to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the National Center for Homeless Education and the National Coalition on the Homeless.

Bill Quigley teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans.  You can reach Bill at quigley77@gmail.com