April 2015 Astro-Energy Report: Keeping It Real By Sarah Varcas

 

 

April 2015 Astro-Energy Report: Keeping It Real
By Sarah Varcas


This month’s astrology has the feel of Fresher’s Week at university, when arriving students are oriented to their new life. Choices abound and the air is heavy with potential and possibility. Excitement is everywhere, fueled by a new-found freedom alongside anxiety, homesickness and sometimes a hefty dose of fear. We are those students and life the university. Last month’s solar eclipse on 20th reshaped our future by shutting off paths not chosen and potential not realised, not as punishment for our not grasping the nettle but because life itself must move in cycles of becoming, fulfilment and demise, whether or not we join in. What was once an option becomes out of reach, hopes not yet fulfilled begin to fade, potential once vibrant becomes jaded. Last month saw an unequivocal completion of a cycle begun in 1997. This month sets the new one off on its travels. Where will it take us? Who will we become? What will be asked of and offered to us? April 2015 is a month of questions and learning to live with them is key to how it unfolds for each one of us.


Pluto and Uranus bring their influence to bear upon the Sun as the month begins. They remind us that wherever we find ourselves now bears the hallmark of who we are, whatever we make of our current circumstances. Astrology teaches that the life which ebbs and flows around us is characteristic of the life which dwells within. We each bear our own unique energy signature which we both offer to life and receive from it. The better we know the particular ‘key’ in which is played our life’s music, the more able we are to shape our experience into one of authentic fulfilment. We must know every note and every tone to be in alignment with the sacred field as it runs its hand across our strings, bringing to life their melody. Discovering and claiming as our own the harmonics of our unique key is the central task of human incarnation. Bringing into consciousness every subtle harmonic nuance and each discordant clash, we become ever more deeply anchored into our life’s special melody, playing it with insightful intention not the desperate need of an ego under siege.


The first week of April is a good time to review the landscape of our life: material circumstances, relationships, activities, anything and everything which populates the space of our everyday existence. Having done so we can ask ourselves ‘What of me is reflected in this?’. It is no longer enough to point the finger out there, be it at other people, fate or plain old bad luck and divest oneself of agency in one’s own life. What we see when we look out reflects aspects of what we see when we look in. The more willing we are to observe in this way the greater the insight gained into what this new cycle asks of us in the coming years. We encounter nothing in life which does not have the capacity to wake us up to who we are, to reveal and unfold aspects of both our false and real selves. Whatever we encounter, be it welcome or otherwise, can be used as a mirror to show us something of who we are and how we can edge ever deeper into the field of the sacred in which true power resides. Power to relinquish all that holds us back from expressing our authentic self and allowing others to do the same.


A Lunar Eclipse in Libra on 4th April bids us reflect rather than respond. It highlights instinctive behaviours born of old habits and past experience. The discomfort of not quite knowing where we’re headed at the moment, the blank slate of possibility or a sense of restlessness that demands a response, can all seduce us into action now, regretted further down the line. Temperance is needed, patience, and a willingness to allow life its own timing. This is a time for deep listening not rash decisions. A time to sit in the silence and allow inner wisdom to bubble to the surface, for it knows all that we need and is the most compassionate arbiter of our life. This new cycle, so fresh in its infancy, will require a deep and abiding relationship with our inner sage and this eclipse is our first opportunity to demonstrate just how committed we are to our side of the bargain!


Jupiter stations direct in Leo on 8th April, after four months retrograde. This time has offered ample opportunity to observe ourselves as both ego and divine, to embrace the fact of both and discover our true identity as a fusion: ego shot through with divine essence, sacred presence filtered through the self in all its unique richness of personality and identity. As Jupiter prepares to move forward once more we can more powerfully commit our egoic self to sacred service. The eradication of ego is not the agenda here, but instead its purification, bringing it into alignment with a deeper source of wisdom that shapes its expression and activity for a greater, more transformational end. This integral aspect of conscious evolution will be under an increasingly bright spotlight in this new creative cycle. Too long has ego either held sway to its own ends or been battered into submission by itself! The evolutionary imperative now is one of offering ego up to sacred service, allowing it to shine a light on the path ahead, enabling us all to walk it together.


We may encounter inner resistance to change this month, alongside an internal imperative to do exactly that! This paradoxical state reveals how our minds work when we’re not really sure what’s going on! We either want things to stay the same, affording the comfortable familiarity of the known, or we want to be at the outcome of the change process, fully fledged into our new life. We don’t, however, feel quite so excited about the process in between! It confuses us. We feel lost, especially at the start when old ways are no longer possible but the new path has yet to reveal itself. We are uncomfortable with being a work in progress unless we know what that work will look like eventually. Trouble is, right now we simply cannot know that. It is way too early to envision where we are headed from here. So abide in the confusion and unknowing we must, resting there in faith, allowing the questions, anxieties and fears born of uncertainty to rise up and speak before fading once more into the silence.


Between 12th and 15th April a Yod formed by Neptune, Mars, the North Node and Black Moon Lilith alerts us to the power available when we anchor deep truth into our every day consciousness. Together, Neptune and Mars exhort us to commit to the long haul of conscious evolution, not seeking a short cut to escape the fray of challenge and change. By embracing exactly where we now find ourselves, whatever form our present takes, we are signalling to the cosmos our willingness to do what is necessary to further the interests of the global community as a whole; to honour Mother Earth and all her creatures, and to walk this path together for ourselves and each other. Power lies now in recognising that we simply cannot do this alone, that we must each do our part for the continued awakening of the Sacred Self in the everyday. It is not necessary to escape elsewhere to realise our divinity. We can know it fully, here and now, in physical form in this material world. The duality of this paradoxical realm is fuel for the fire of awakening not a distraction from it. Its rough edges and sharp corners serve to remind us where work is still to be done, truths to be uncovered, wisdom to be lived and breathed as we do the very oxygen needed to survive. When Pluto begins a five month retrograde passage through Capricorn on 16th April we will be left in no doubt that escapist tendencies will get us nowhere and getting to grips with the world in which we live, its environmental challenges, interpersonal struggles and practical paradoxes, is now paramount.


A New Moon in Aries on 18th/19th April reiterates the importance of knowing the ‘key’ in which the song of our life is played and the ability to recognise when something or someone is in tune with it. We can know this by just the kind of deep listening required at the lunar eclipse. This practice of careful attention to our inner knowing must continue as a feature of our everyday life if we are to navigate the coming months with the level of discernment necessary to liberate the Real Self further. This new cycle of becoming requires deep anchoring into the earth plane even as we expand our knowledge of life’s multi-dimensional nature. The ability to know what and who will assist us in this process is vital. Identifying those places, circumstances and people who will support us to ‘keep it real’ rather than live a spiritual lie, has never been more important than it is now.


The final ten days of April provide ample opportunity to get back down to earth if we still need it! With the Sun, Mercury and Mars in Taurus it is time to feel our feet on the ground and honour the deep and abiding support that our planetary mother provides us every day. Ultimately we do this for her. All of it. For if we cannot live in a manner that honours and supports Mother Earth we cannot live, end of, and past exploitation and disrespect is coming back to haunt us now. So whilst we may not know on a personal level quite where we’re heading, on a planetary one we can be very clear: we are heading further into crisis if we do not own the part we play in the protection or destruction of our beautiful home. If we focus on nothing else at this time, we can focus on that: loving our Mother, thanking her, honouring her, recognising her awesome power and heart-wrenching beauty. As we do this we bring ourselves back home, extricated from future fantasy and self-deception into a vibrant, earthed relationship with the circumstances of our lives and all beings within it. Only once we have done this can we truly know where the next step needs to be taken, for it is in the present moment, earthed and grounded, that we now receive the deepest guidance from the divine within.


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Sarah Varcas



Tagged as: Black Moon Lilith, Conscious Evolution, Conscious Relationships, Coping with emotions, Deep Truth, earthed spirituality, embodied spirituality, embracing the shadow, facing fear, Lunar Eclipse, managing change, managing the mind, Mars, Mars in Taurus, Mercury, Mercury in Taurus, Moon cycles, Neptune in Pisces, North Node in Libra, Personal healing, planetary healing, Sun, Sun in Taurus, unity consciousness

 

The manuscript of survival – part 432 | Aisha North December 30, 2014

The manuscript of survival – part 432 | Aisha North
December 30, 2014


"Let us serve up some more information on the matter that you are all created from. For this is in every way all about matter, and about how this matter comes into being and indeed seemingly ceases to exist. For as you know already, this is in actual fact all about energy and of the transformation of such, for there is never anything that ceases to exist, it is simply transposed into another stage of being. In other words, what was once created will always BE, but it will never be the same for eternity. That goes for all of you, but it also goes for all of the stars on the firmament, and indeed, the very firmament itself. For the firmament is no such thing as “firm” or intransient, it is at all times a living organism fluctuating between the different stages of creation, going from “birth” to “death” and all of the stages in between simultaneously. And you are a part of this at all time fluctuating mass of matter, blinking in and out of “existence” – or rather – perception – on a regular basis.


For this Creation that you see before you is nothing more than an illusion, created of a myriad of dancing particles coming together to form different forms, whether that be of the gaseous, the liquid or the solid kind, and then, it will change back into its individual particles when the time is right for it to do so. And so, on and on it goes, and from as early as you can cast your minds back, mankind has been searching for that elusive template that can explain all of this in a logical manner. And so, you have searched ever outwards and the ever inwards as your abilities to reach further than your own inborn senses have allowed, and you have found much, but the more you discovered the more perplexed you became, for it became more and more clear to all that what you found merely confirmed that this answer was even better hidden than what you thought it was.


But now, you are indeed approaching a time in space that will bring you closer and closer to this secret, for now, you are beginning to become mature enough to seek in the right direction instead of sending off inquiries into all of the blind corners. For now, mankind stands before a golden age of true discoveries, discoveries that will not simply supply you with so many of the answers that you have searched for for eons, it will also supply you with the answers to questions you have not even thought to ask. And so we say, prepare yourselves for an age of discoveries that far surpasses anything you have ever experienced before, and where you will make those fabled quantum leaps in all areas of your lives, and you will not just do them once, you will do them repeatedly. For now, you will leave behind all of the outmoded models of thinking, and when you do that and allow the information to flow freely, not just for you as individuals but between you all as a collective, then you will truly begin to tap into that vast ocean of light that will literally sustain you forever. For then, you will not only dream of solutions to your problems in a very literal sense, you will also find a way to create them by allowing your individual resources to be pooled together in such a manner it will make all of the old inhibitions melt away. And with them, any restrictions as to what you as a species can be capable of will fall to the wayside, and you will rise again as the golden ones you really are.


For you are no longer the creatures of habit that you used to be, the ones that disallowed themselves from entering their own greatness, the ones that clung to the same old, same old in every aspect of their lives and through that, served to uphold and feed a form of civilization that was untenable for all, so too the very planet on which you live. For now, you have stepped away from that, and soon, you will step fully into your true roles as re-creators not just for yourselves, but your whole civilization in such a way, there will be little or no remnants left of the old, except perhaps in a museum here and there. For now, you stand poised before an age of expansion, and expansion that will bring with it more light, more space and more freedom for all. And it will be given freely to all, and there is no way that any of these gifts can be hoarded by a few. For you can have all that you need, but you will not be able to take more than you need, not at the expense of others, nor at the expense of the world in which you live in. And so, what you will begin to realize is that you have literally moved from an existence based on the archaic idea of lack, an idea that has only served to bring you all including your planet into a state of total imbalance, and now, you will begin to notice that you have moved fully into a state of being that is all about balance, because it is all about abundance for ALL.


Of course, this will not be apparent to all, neither will it become fully apparent to any of you from the very onset, for it takes time to readjust yourselves after eons of living in a very different atmosphere indeed. But this is what you have already created, and so, it will come to you, like drops of golden light that will slowly but surely permeate every single particle of your being. And yes, we do mean that in a very literal sense, for this change is one that occurs on a cellular level, by changing the very forces of nature that are the building blocks that your human body and indeed everything that surrounds you are made of. For you are all matter, matter made from the dynamic movement of energy, a dance of life, created from particles that again are created from energy interacting with itself in such a way, it begins to coalesce into the tiniest fragments of Creation, and these again come together to form atoms, molecules and then on and on until you stand there complete. As a human being, as a plant or a rock or a drop of water or what have you – you are all cut from the same cloth, the very fabric that everything in your universe is made from. And now, thanks to what you and so many like minded souls have taken upon you to do, this very fabric in itself has changed, because the very frequency it carries has been reset and retuned in such a way, everything that it again creates will be different from what it used to be.


For now, you are all singing to a very new tune, and this is the tune of abundance and light, and because of that, what you again create will all carry this same signature, the brand new signature of the brand New World, and through you, all of this new will come about. And so we say know that even if you will still hear the echoes of the past ringing in your ears, and even if you will still see the shimmering shadows of the old world paraded before your eyes, know that this is simply the remnants of the old vibrations fading away. Granted, they might linger on longer than you perhaps thought would be possible at this stage, but know that it is all fading away even as you yourselves will begin to feel more and more of your own new existence literally solidify into a tangible form that you will be able to see, feel, taste and touch instead of just detecting the energetic presence of it through your own heart. But again, know that this is indeed an ongoing process, one that will have to take the time it needs to take in order for everything and everyone to be able to fully function within it.


For this is not something that will be an “overnight sensation”, or rather, the energetic sensation of it will indeed be felt instantaneously by all, and for many of you, it has already been felt as a very tangible presence within, while for others, this new arrival has yet to make itself heard. But as a collective, it will take some time before it all literally sinks in all the way, or rather, before it fully emerges in all of its glory on all sides around you. So remember to check in with yourself every time you seem to be adrift on that old sea of despondency and despair, for it is merely the dying embers of yesteryear still casting its shadows over you from the theater of broken dreams still being played out on the outside. For we cannot repeat often enough that it is your inner vision you must hold on to, the one that will never fade away, the one that will only continue to grow bolder and more prominent as the days and weeks continue to unfold. For that is your true world now, and it will begin to materialize in so many ways now that you have finally decided to let go of the ever weakening illusion that used to be your old habitual haunts, but is now no more than a relic of the old and misguided intentions of mankind.


So step aside and let that bedraggled train of limiting thoughts pass you by, and instead step inside that golden chariot you have created for yourself, for that is the one that will allow you to serve your true purpose of helping the New to unfold fully by letting the very essence of your being take the driver’s seat. And this chariot will take you all away from the lower reaches and all the way into the lofty spheres that will enable you as a collective to make all your dreams literally come true – in every sense of the word and in every aspect of Creation. For remember, what you do, you do for ALL, and through you, the New Man, the New World and indeed the New Universe will be created from the vibration you have already set. For you have set the tune, and now, everything will fall into place like a magnificent orchestra creating a masterpiece of a symphony by allowing themselves to literally fall into step and tune with everyone else. And as a glorious collective you will rise from the ashes created by the very idea of separation, for in this, you will once again become ONE, not just with yourself, but with All of creation."





Beloved family of light!


Tomorrow will be the last day in a year that seems to have gone by in a flash, while at the same time it has been so full of transformative moments and profound experiences it feels as if it has contained more than a lifetime’s worth of powerful energetic shifts, magical encounters and incredible events. We have not yet exited 2014, but everything in me tells me that we have already stepped into the New – in every sense of the word as the CCs like to say. For as 2014 went by, we shed more and more of the old, and over the last few months we have been through such a deep transformation I can only liken it to a rebirth – of me, of you, of this Pond and the world we live in.


What a ride it has been, and what a joy it has been to take this ride by your side! One of the high points for me this year was to finally meet some of you face to face during that magical week in Crete, for then, I could see with my own eyes that what is taking place here at the Pond – and in this world – is real. For YOU are real, this is real, this community that we have created here is made up of living, breathing, shining souls, and together we will continue to make the world of our dreams become a reality. And I know in my heart of hearts that 2015 is the year when we will begin to see this New World literally come into life – and it will come into life because WE will make it happen.


As the Sun sets for the very last time in 2014, I will raise my glass in a toast for us all and for everything we have achieved this year. For we are the true pioneers, the ones who have chosen to “go where no man has gone before” by daring to step away from the old and allowing ourselves to begin to acknowledge our own greatness and to BE the Gods and Goddesses we really are. And I will raise my glass in a toast for everything we will achieve in the upcoming year. For our work is not over, but my heart is already singing with joy when I think about the magic we will create together in the days, the weeks and the months ahead.


What a blessing it is to be a part of this family of light, this wonderful collective of shining souls! Thank you all for BEing here at this moment in time, thank you for stepping into you, and for sharing that ever brightening light with us all! For without you, this Pond would not be the vibrant hub it is now, and without you, this world would not be changing the way it is changing.


I want to end this last message of 2014 by inviting you all to the very first Gathering around the Pond of 2015. For this upcoming Sunday, January 4, we get the chance to breathe even more life into the New World and to do it in the way that only we as a collective can do. I wish you all a wonderful, light-filled New Year, and hopefully I will have to chance to meet you all in person soon. Until then, I send my love, my joy and my gratitude all wrapped up in a warm winter hug from me to every single one of you. You are amazing – WE are amazing, and this world is going to become even more amazing than we can imagine because we are all here and we will do all we can to make it so.


With all my love – always, forever


Aisha <3