• It’s a whole new beginning for a wisdom that lies beyond the reality paradigms of the status quo. The Aries Sun and Moon are conjoined with a cosmic triad of specialists in tapping breakthrough wisdom: (1) the centaur planet Chiron, “the wounded healer” who activates the sacred gift within the gateways of our wounds; (2) the asteroid Tara, “the female Buddha” in the Vajryana traditions of India and Tibet, and the healer of plagues and epidemics in her final, 20th expression, and (3) Black Moon Lilith, who’s the furthest point from Earth in the Moon’s orbit, where the wild, untamed feminine intelligence — all that the culture of domination cannot accept in the Cosmic Feminine — lives within and around you. 

• The fire — the one from whose ashes the phoenix rises — has now been lit. The more we can ignite its flames in our own hearts, the less violently they will need to burn in the bodies of our sisters and mothers, brothers and fathers. Mars, the dynamic ruler of Aries who energizes all he touches, is conjunct both Pluto and Jupiter — igniting an intense, extreme, and ultimately life-renewing crisis that will unfold in several waves over the next 18 months, setting the stage for the US Pluto return in 2022. 

• The preparation phase for this global healing crisis is almost over. This is the third of three consecutive new moons unfolding in the intensely focused bundle chart pattern, where all core celestial bodies grouped within 120 degrees. That tells us that a process that began on January 24, at the Aquarius New Moon — the day after Chinese authorities closed off the city of Wuhan from the rest of the world — is now completing. Your real work (and play, for in truth, if they are real and true, they are the same) is about to begin

• A powerful stellium of planets in Capricorn, sign of the bones, is still transforming the bones of your body, your life, and our world. It was here that, just 10 weeks ago, Capricorn’s ruler, our reality gatekeeper Saturn, seeded a new and transformative reality structure with our metamorphosis catalyst Pluto. That was only the third time since the 8th century they’ve come together in Capricorn, where things become both real and lasting. 

• Our reality gatekeeper is already exploring what it’s going to take to go where we’re all being allied — seriously visionary. Two days ago, Saturn entered Aquarius. For the next three months, he’s scouting for what’s going to be required when he returns in December. This time is precious. Every obstacle you encounter, every gap between what is and what might be is showing you where your greatest opportunity actually lies.

• The power that’s now in play invites you to break new emotional  and intuitive ground in transforming trauma and fear into multidimensional grace that is your birthright.  In the New Moon chart for the US, Luna’s own sign of Cancer — the sign of the people, and of our emotions — rules the 6th House of Health. The Moon herself, along with the magical healing triad of Chiron, Tara, and the Black Moon, are in the US New Moon chart’s 1st House, which includes the physical body. Your body like the body of the Earth herself, is full of the magic and power of the cosmic and the wild. It’s time to give that magical power more room in your life. Much more room. 

• For it’s not “just” physical bodies being transformed by the corona virus. It’s consciousness — which is what everything, including your body, is made of. At the Midheaven — the vocation point — of the US Chart is the asteroid Isis, who connects us to the Cosmic Feminine frequencies of magic and regeneration that the Egyptians called Isis. The catalyst of ancient Egypt’s transformation from a superficial, strife-ridden society into one of the greatest wisdom cultures the world has ever seen, Isis’ name reverberates through the Universe. The asteroid of her murdered beloved, Osiris, who presides over the seamless wholeness of life and death, is tightly conjunct a centaur planet named Pholus. While you may never have heard of him, his gift is now your boon — transforming awareness by freeing you from ancestral limitation, often in ways that seem at first traumatic. For the first time in nearly 3,000 years, Pholus has just begun a four decades-long conjunction with the edge-dweller Quaoar, who sings and dances new consciousness into being. It’s time to become the New Earth that’s already waking up within you — and to give her the room she needs to be visionary, not toxic, in you and as you.

• An ancient cosmic healing lineage is now fully activated — one that links healing to creativity, beauty, and wisdom. The entire healing lineage of the mighty Apollo, the god of healing, prophecy, music, and art is infused into this sky. Apollo raised the centaur Chiron from an abandoned child to the greatest of all the Deep Time healers, and was himself known to the ancients as a protector from plagues and epidemics. Today, his asteroid is in Venus’ sign of Taurus, where Earth’s sister planet has just reached her highest possible position in the evening sky. Here, shining at her brightest, she takes her throne as Queen of Heaven and Earth — and she is conjunct Apollo, one with both the healing, prophetic power of music and art and the creative power of prophecy and deep healing.

• It’s time to break new ground for healing our connection with the great web of being that we’re woven into — the Cosmos. The asteroid Asclepius is conjunct the asteroid Atlantis, in Gemini. Apollo’s son, and the greatest of Chiron’s students, Asclepius is the ancient Greek god of medicine. In this New Moon sky, the asteroid Koronis — wife of Asclepius — is conjunct Neptune. Koronis/Corona is our gateway to the Oneness. 

• The daughters of Koronis and Asclepius — Hygeia and Panacea, legendary healers in their own right — are also powerfully activated in this lunar cycle: (1) The asteroid Hygeia, goddess of hygiene (the self-responsible, “wash your hands” medicine) is conjunct the asteroid Sphinx, a mythical creature with a human head and a lion’s body who symbolized strength and wisdom. (In the Greek tradition, the sphinx had the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird.) (2) Hygeia’s sister Panacea — “the universal remedy” that connects us to powers beyond our selves– forms a powerful and auspicious grand trine with the Moon-Chiron-Tara-Black Moon and with Isis and the MIdheaven in the US chart. This lineage at the root of our own Western medical tradition is asking us to re-connect with “the healing power beneath  the healing.”

• A six-month process of structural preparation for new realities is now almost complete. This the last of six consecutive new moons in 4 degrees, beginning with the Libra New Moon on September 28. In the wisdom tradition of numerology, as old as astrology, 4 is the number of materiality, structure, and stability. New reality structures are now able to enter our consciousness. They aren’t being created from what already is, but rather from what is arising in the space created by all that is collapsing,

• Stop. Turn off your phone. Do nothing. Be silent. Pause long enough, and deeply enough, to open the pathway within you for what is not yet here — by embracing what is already here.  Just as the pause in activity has cleared the skies over China and the US, and the water in Venice’s canals, where dolphins now frolic, it can clear weary hearts and exhausted minds — not just your heart and mind, but heart of the world, so that we can remember how to receive.

• Welcome everything that arises — for everything that is outworn must now be up-leveled, and who is here to do it but us? Not everyone has awareness of what is happening now. If you’re reading this letter, you’re here to open the way.  Some of us are scouting out the future, with Saturn. Others are transforming wounds into gaeways, with Chiron, Tara, and the Black Moon.  Some are drawing up the toxins and beginning the alchemy of the phoenix. Still others are magnetizing the creative power of color and sound into the world. All of it is necessary. All of it is essential to the sacred work of the Now, which is why we are here. Give yourself the mercy of meeting yourself right where you are, moment to moment, and honoring your part of the great work of Now. Nothing that is coming up for you is wrong.  At this Now moment, there is no other greater service to meet fear, not with denial, shame, and judgment, but with enough compassion that you can transform it. Meeting your own fear is service to a suffering world.  As you meet the moment, in all its fear or confusion, you’re not only allowing the moment to transform itself in you. You’re also transforming whatever arises — and most especially fear — for the world.

• Don’t run away from your triggers. They’re the raw material you’re working with, the hiding place of  the power you haven’t yet reclaimed. The ancient Buddhist practice of tonglen — breathing in fear, worry, or anxiety, and bringing it into your heart and allowing it to uplevel into love, or calm, or trust — has been around for millennia for a reason: it works. So is an 800-year old practice of transmuting the demons of fear and panic, transformed by Lama Tulstrim Allione into the “Feeding Your Demons” practice. Use these, or any other practice you know of,  to take my friend Wanda Vitale’s advice and use your triggers to level up — for yourself and for all those who aren’t quite there yet.

• Honor and cherish the wild healing power of what and why and how you love. Venus is on her throne and in full command of her power, which is also yours. It’s the power of your love. The ancients were clear of something we’ve forgotten — the power of your love is reality-changing. 

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