On the Astrological Up-side

Astrologically speaking, the up-sides can (and will!) be everywhere throughout 2009. Just how high those up-sides will be, or what they’ll be looking like, is fully dependent upon how well we’ll be able to heed the timeless wisdom laid out seventy-five years ago at a very similar time of economic turmoil, when then US President Franklin D Roosevelt stated; “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Living in fear keeps us stuck into believing we’re powerless to do anything about our current situations, while living a fearless life can allow us to find positive solutions for all of our challenges

The opposites of fear are of course courage, determination, the love of knowledge, the love of love, and reclaiming the birthright of our limitless imaginations to turn that same loving knowledge into the wisdom of knowingness that all things are connected. As above, so below - our beloved planets will be showing us the way, so stay tuned-in.

Further details will be outlined in upcoming forecasts, but the overriding energetic of 2009 is the continuing Saturn/Uranus oppositions, an ongoing Saturnian mystery school into advanced wisdom by redefining the word “change.” Living in fear of change means that change will be happening to us, as opposed to us becoming the changes we need to see happening in the world. Learning how to become agents for positive change is what our Souls have signed us up for in this life, otherwise we wouldn’t be here at this pivotal moment in history.

Second is Jupiter’s entrance into inventive Aquarius to start off the new year (exact on January 5) signaling a year-long push for us to remember that “necessity is the mother of invention.” We’ll all be able to channel the creative genius in our DNA as seen in the resurgent energetics of Thomas Edison and Leonardo Da Vinci (and many other examples of creative brilliance), but again - only if we’ve first been doing the necessary work of releasing the negative impact of fear in our lives.

Helping us to remember our karmic responsibilities will be the Venus retrograde cycle of March and April, a time when we can reconnect with soul essences from our past-lives. Seemingly new associations with people in the arts, sciences and technologies can be made that will trigger “forgotten” memories, especially reminders of the energetics of the Great European Renaissance of the 15^th and 16^th centuries - memories and associations that can help us become co-creators of the next Great Renaissance - elements of which have already been taking shape.

And then there’s the Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune combustion of mid May and early June, with all three joining together in the same degree of unconventional Aquarius. Look for a call-out to join in on a global meditation for big-time (Jupiter) spiritual (Neptune) healing (Chiron) - a three week-long communal celebration of knowing that we’re all in this thing called life together. If my research is correct, such a combustion never happened in the past two millennia.

Again, stay tuned!

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