Great Spirit, thank you for granting me the serenity and grace to accept life… on life’s terms;
Along with the courage to graciously and easily change what is mine to change;
And the supreme wisdom to trust the perfection of what is happening in every moment ~ Cayelin K Castell Read More
Jupiter moved into the sign of Aquarius on January 5 and will remain in Aquarius until January 19, 2010. In some cultures, Jupiter was known as the “year star” since it took almost exactly a year to move through a sign or constellation. It is interesting to note that the original Chinese calendar was based on the movement of Jupiter through the 12 constellations along the Celestial Equator (or where the Earth’s Equator is located in Space). In Shamanic Astrology, Jupiter activates and expands anything it contacts and by sign is illuminating the year’s leading edge for Global Humanity.
The glyph or symbol for Aquarius shows two waves . One wave represents the zeal for radical uniqueness, which historically has almost always aligned with the progressive, avant-garde, egalitarian, and universal ideals of humanity. The other wave represents the specific spiritual orientation of Aquarius: objective awareness, or the ability to locate the cosmic overview, the “high” or fair witness, like a great eagle that flies closest to Great Spirit.
I am perceiving the purpose of Jupiter in Aquarius, the dharma of this year, to be mature “grown-up” idealism (see Elizabeth Debold’s article in Enlighten NEXT magazine). May humanity awaken, to higher love, higher law, and higher truth with universal ideals! Allegiance to these values is neither childish or naïve at this time of the Turning of the Ages. Rather, it is the objective and realistic perception of the truth of who we are.
2008 marks the first full year of Saturn in Virgo since 1979 and Jupiter travels through Capricorn the entirety of 2008, for the first time in 12 years. Amazingly, a trine relationship illuminates the entire year. There will be three exact trines:
Venus
The initiatory energy that was activated in June 2004when Venus crossed the face of the Sun underwent a deepening on June 8,2008 when Venus met with the Sun in the exact area of the sky where the 2004 transit/initiation occurred. This was exactly four years after the first transit and four years until the next transit in June of 2012.
by Daniel Giamario
Shamanic Astrology occupies a niche within the larger context of the astrological world. Whilst rejecting many of the dogma’s of western traditional astrology, it frequently will incorporate useful elements of many astrological and shamanic traditions, Eastern, Western, Mayan or aboriginal. The Mayans, for example, in their sacred calendrics, reset to 0 at 52 years as that is where the sacred and secular calendars intersect. Their ideas seem to be a convergence of starting over and of entering into the ‘Council of Elders’. Read More