1. As mama gives birth she pushes through pain,
Astrology Today: Oracle for Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012
Posted on December 20, 2012 by Eric Francis
The recent New Moon in your opposite sign will start to show you some results this weekend,
though it would help if you would get yourself out of the house, out of the shell, and into the
mood to take some chances with people. You like to think of yourself as cautious by nature, but
we both know that’s only a small aspect of who you are, and certainly not the dominant aspect
of your character. Now, if you choose to take a chance, be mindful that any interaction with
others you don’t know can bristle you the wrong way. You don’t need to wear your raincoat or
a suit of psychic armor, but do be mindful of the fact that you’re open and receptive. If you
choose who to be receptive to — mainly by who you notice feels you — the possibilities for
unusual pleasure, exotic dalliances and the kind of stuff you only read about in Kama Sutra
books is possible.
“The future is pulling me to the unknown,
Away from the comfort and safety of home,
As mama gives birth she pushes thru pain,
Her strength lies in knowing love reigns in the end.”
These are the final days so to speak when the intensity is pushing so much up to the surface to
be seen, felt, and moved through….. I encourage you to move through it with all your might! We
are at the birth! Don’t forget the absolute rush of joyous exhilaration after that baby is born!….
Push it out!!!!! Aloha…. Kaypacha
Seth Speaks
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2. Remembering to breathe: the 2012 Capricorn solstice
Posted on December 20, 2012 by Amanda Painter
Today is the eve of the Capricorn solstice 2012. When the Sun changes signs tomorrow at 6:11
am EST, we will directly encounter the most-hyped moment in the history of astrology, the New
Age or amateur archeology.
Simplified chart section for the Sun’s ingress of Capricorn: the solstice. The Sun is conjunct
Juno (purple asterisk), bringing a message about relationships into our consciousness. The Sun
is also about to enter the square between Uranus (blue ‘H’) and Pluto (red golf tee). We’ll
have more about that next week.
Between ‘Maya Fever’, End Times jokes, and one of the most gut-wrenching mass killings in
recent memory, it would not surprise me if a lot of us are feeling a little ungrounded, stretched
thin, fractured or just generally apprehensive.
Even the idea of ‘how do I observe such an important astrological moment?’ may feel more
stressful than exciting — though hopefully it is serving as a focal point and psychic touchstone for
you.
I was trying to get a sense of just why this solstice feels so different to me; not just what I know
intellectually to be different (13th baktun of Mayan calendar ends, we’ve all been in shock for a
few days) but what feels different.
Aside from the particulars of the shifts in our individual personal lives, there seems to be a
collective shift in how a lot of us are approaching this solstice.
I decided to take a look at what I had written around this time last year for a clue. Here is some
of what popped out at me:
Points of greatest expansion lead to contraction; moments of constriction give way to
release. It’s a bit like breathing in its cyclical rhythm but it is happening on multiple
scales all at once. …
In the case of the Capricorn solstice, this shift in vital force — in a sense, the Earth’s
deepest in-breath before beginning to exhale — has been something to set calendars
and myths to. …
The palpable link to natural cycles and turning points may be what really draws so many
of us to astrology. … That’s the part that lets us know we’re safe, we’re home, we can
depend on this art to show us truth — because it links us to Earth’s in-breath and
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3. out-breath.
Reading that, I understood something: I think a lot of us have been holding our breath in some
sense — maybe just for the last few days, maybe ever since the first day of 2012, psychically
and at times physically.
Seasonally speaking, we’ve been engaged in a long, slow in-breath ever since the summer
solstice (at least, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, though even in the southern half,
the Sun is still moving into Capricorn, ruled by Saturn which is about structure, boundaries and
constriction). Now here we are on the verge of the most highly anticipated of the Earth’s
out-breaths ever, thanks to the turning of the Mayan calendar. And suddenly, we are more
aware than ever that we have no idea what we will be breathing into — or what may in fact
breathe into us.
We have no idea what to expect after tomorrow’s solstice. Of course, we never do. But we’ve
worked ourselves into a state of collective anticipation more than usual — even many of us who
have tried not to get caught up in ‘Maya Fever’.
“In truth, the Mayan calendar is the product of the most advanced ancient civilization known to
have lived in the Americas, and this does indeed seem to be a turning point in consciousness,”
wrote Eric recently. “It’s not spontaneous enlightenment, but rather seems to be a fulcrum point
of awakening.” Perhaps we could think of it as a chance to learn how to breathe more deeply —
or to remember how.
Eric has been emphasizing that the theme of this solstice, and the turnover of the Mayan
calendar, is about relationships. The asteroid associated with marriage and jealousy comes up
as one of the most prominent symbols in the chart — conjunct the Sun on the solstice point. It’s
in a powerful (exact) square aspect to Atlantis, which is the asteroid about fear of The End. That
shows up on the Aries Point, where ‘the personal is political’.
No wonder we’re collectively holding our breath a little, if in our psychic bodies we have had
some sense of this astrology. Eric asked recently:
Have you considered that there’s a connection between jealous and controlling
emotions and the feeling that the world is crashing down? Have you considered that in
order to save the world from its privatized, competitive, possessive and generally
freaked-out state, we have to love one another with a greater sense of freedom?
If you haven’t, that’s what astrology is for — to remind us of the obvious connections we
might not have noticed.
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4. I would say that this Astrology — this Capricorn solstice — in the aftermath of the tragedy in
Newtown, CT and in the midst of the ongoing Uranus-Pluto square, is also about remembering
how to ground ourselves in the simple, predicable rhythms of the Earth. I’m not talking about
the increasingly unpredictable weather patterns due to global warming. I mean the seasons,
with their progression of light and dark, fertile and fallow, in-breath and out-breath.
The Mayans may not have chiseled a tablet of hieroglyphics about creating space in our
relationships to ourselves, so that we might allow greater space and true contact in our
relationships with others. But they knew something about cycles. On Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012,
we get to begin breathing into a whole new space, grounding a new cycle here on Earth. If we
are allowing more freedom within our relationships and within ourselves to love, that breath
cannot help but go where it’s most needed.
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