When Uranus, the night sky that shows us the Universe we are part of, first encountered the vast Piscean oceans of the Earth, Aphrodite was born of his phallus, the Cosmic potency of Life. The Force that is the basis of all life in the Universe created with our beautiful planet the possibility of Love and Connection, of Beauty and Truth, of Sexuality and Spirituality. For Aphrodite is all that and more. Like Christ and the Holy Spirit, which is the symbol of Aphrodite's sacred bird, the Dove, our purpose here on Earth is to learn how to Love and how to create Peace. This is the new Piscean/Aquarian vision Uranus is offering us.
At the same time, Saturn is now in Virgo, the sign of service to humanity, of health and practical mental analysis. Virgo wants to embody what Spirit creates. Virgo is one of the oldest constellations, and is named the Virgin, the Goddess of the harvest. She is the ancient earth goddess Rhea, Demeter/Ceres, Isis, Istar, Aphrodite, Ashtoreth, Astarte, the Virgin Mary, and Greek Astraea, the goddess of Justice, whose scales form the constellation of Libra. In all cultures, She carries ears of wheat or grapes on the vine to symbolize the good things in life that we harvest.
Virgo wants us to harvest our talents and our energies in service to others and to the Divine. Saturn in Virgo wants us to get healthy, get disciplined, and to be of service to others. Saturn in the same degrees of Virgo as Uranus and Pluto were in the 60s can give us the discipline and purpose to carry on the revolutionary/evolutionary changes that our society needs to make if we are to create peaceful change rather than death and destruction.
We can see everywhere in the news,
though, Saturn's other side, the regressive side that doesn't like change, that
would rather à ‚¬Ëœeat' his own children than allow one of them to take over his
power. The saddest part of this is that the many Americans who are
succumbing to Saturn's crystallizing fear of change are all being manipulated
by the power elite who DON'T want to give up their power. These
corporations and their media outlets whip up unconscious people into a frenzy
with political slogans so people end up acting against their own interests.
They stand up for the very corporate interests which are hurting them.
And so we see people fall for the line that universal health insurance will
ruin their lives and our country.
Saturn in Virgo wants health care reform, and if the country doesn't do it, then we each have to be responsible for our own health issues, which means dropping health insurance and saving our money to use alternative health modalities. If everyone decided to only get catastrophic health insurance, stopped taking drugs and instead found herbal or homeopathic remedies as well as learning healthy nutrition, we could bring down the whole medical/pharmaceutical/insurance scam.
The ruler of Virgo is Mercury, which is slowing down to turn retrograde on September 6-7, so watch out over the holiday weekend. It's never a good time to travel when Mercury stations (slows down and seemingly stop so it can go backwards) à ‚¬" things seem to just stop.
With Mercury going retrograde in the beginning degrees of Libra, it forms a cardinal grand cross with Mars in Cancer and Pluto in Capricorn and Juno in Aries. This configuration suggests that we have to re-examine how we THINK and ANALYZE and COMMUNICATE with others. It gives us the energy to integrate new knowledge if we have patience and persistence. We're trying to learn to think and then communicate a whole new paradigm, which takes into consideration our intuition and our instincts.
Juno in Aries demands that we find new ways to relate with others that allows each person their freedom. Pluto in Capricorn is exposing the big flaws in our business, financial and government structures. Mars in Cancer demands that we get our share of nurturing, because our security is most important. But until we realize that our only real security comes from within us, there will be people who are afraid to make the changes we need to make (Pluto in Capricorn). So freely take your courage in hand, find your center, and speak your truth as often as necessary. It's time to show the world who you really are!
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