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Meet Our Recent Graduate – Sean Imler

Posted by Awen Labow on
 June 13, 2022
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Hello SAMS,

I didn’t want my letter to sound like a bio so I scrapped all of my professional blurbs and am writing to you personally about who I am on a soul level.  I was born in Hollywood, CA, 6/8/69, 6:57am.

I came here to express myself artistically, have adventure and travel, and study study study!  So far, that’s come out in various ways.  I learned to meditate when I was 17yo, and started studying astrology when I was 18yo.  I got really interested in symbolism of various sorts including the tarot.  These led me to studying esoteric philosophy at Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Society when I was around 19-20yo.  I got so into it that I traveled to London to visit the Theosophical Society’s library where I made friends with the librarian which led to various great adventures including working for the non-duality writer, Rupert Spira.

I have a deep passion for music and have played in a professional marimba ensemble, “Kuzanga”, written and engineered two singer/songwriter CDs as “Rhythma”, and have sung for a couple dozen sun dances and probably 100 Inipi ceremonies (sweat lodges).  I love to sing and lead ceremonies.  It’s where my life work has led me, and I get deep rewards from engaging in bringing music and song to people.

Professionally, I’ve been working as a coach / hypnotherapist / energy medicine practitioner for the last 10 years.  You can see more at bluebearhealing.com.  I do house clearings and actually was just filmed for a documentary in Santa Cruz, CA just yesterday.  I do soul’s purpose astrology readings and teach shamanic practices.  I’ve written a book called, “Living a Sacred Life: The Path to the Superconscious Through Meditation and Spirit Contact”, available on Amazon.  There’s a web site livingasacredlife.com where my online classes are and I’ll be posting more classes there soon on Sacred Sound Healing and Compassionate Forgiveness.

Before that, I worked in tech at various startups in Silicon Valley, and did 8 years back at Yahoo!  when it was still cool.  I do all my own web site work and on occasion, still help others with the web sties and business.  In fact, I have another mastermind called Building a Sacred Business where I have a group that I help with their businesses, and do bi-monthly ceremonies aligning people’s businesses with the cycles of the moon and their natal astrology and transits.

I love Shamanic Astrology!  I found out about Daniel about 8 years ago through Cal Garrison, a great astrologer in Sedona, AZ.  I waited WAY too long to actual dip my toe in but I’m happy to have become certified, and hopefully my life will settle down enough that I can devote more time to it.  My partner and I just bought a house in Northern San Diego county and moved our 30 history from Northern to Southern California in the past 3 months, so my life has been incredibly busy.

Thank you for taking the time to read this!!  Blessings to you and yours!

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In Memoriam: Margaret Curtis – June 7, 1941 — March 26, 2022

Posted by Awen Labow on
 June 13, 2022
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By Daniel Giamario

Ramblings, Reflections and Ruminations

I recently received the sad news that Margaret Curtis, whom I think of as the “Keeper” of the standing stones of Callanish (Callanais) on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis, had passed on March 26th.  I am not the only one who has recognized her unique role and contribution over many decades.  Some have deemed her the “Queen” of Callanish and its Guardian.  Others have dubbed her its “High Priestess”.  All titles are equally true.  Margaret lived in the vicinity of the stone circles of Callanish since 1973, dedicating her life to learning everything she could about this remarkable and ubiquitous ancient site, much of it 6,000 years old.  She was 80 years of age this spring when she died.

I witnessed a shift in Margaret over the years I knew her.  When she was first living in the village of Callanish, she was very much a rational scientist, certainly not a “New Ager”.  It was as if each year revealed to her greater and greater wonders and mystery to do with the site.  On many occasions she was able to sense into where additional stone circles remained covered, including locating a key missing stone buried in the peat at Callanish I.

The Standing Stones of Callanish

Callanish is a massive ancient sacred landscape consisting of more than 20 separate locations woven together for a variety of ceremonial purposes.  Margaret quickly learned about the many ancient mythic stories about Callanish that still permeated the area.  With each successive year she slowly, but surely, became more and more open to the old stories.  As I see it, her objective and rational scientific biases were incrementally being overturned.

Margaret’s Contribution and Legacy

The two main mythic perspectives that came to dominate Margaret’s research are:

  1. A nearby mountain range was, for the ancients, the representation of the Great Mother Goddess.  In Gaelic, she was known as the Cailleach, or “The Old Woman of the Moors”, or even more often, as the “Sleeping Beauty”.  The stone circles were oriented in a variety of ways to her.
  2. Due to the latitude of this part of the Island of Lewis (58N10), when the Moon was at its Southern extreme declination every 19 years, it would be seen to literally skim the horizon, passing directly over the body of the Cailleach, and then continuing its passage along behind the stones at many of the sites.  At one site, the Moon would set into what would visually appear to be the pregnant belly of the Cailleach.

Other aspects of her research included continuing the great work of Scottish archeoastronomer Alexander Thom.  Margaret was able to validate Thom’s discovery of the measurement unit known as the megalithic yard.  She also discovered previously unknown solar alignments, as well as Minor Lunar Standstill back-sites.  In concert with her ever expanding openness to the ancient themes of a Mother Goddess, she remained a diligent scientist, carefully documenting all her discoveries.  She was ably assisted by her second husband, the amazing Ron Curtis, whom I had the pleasure of meeting on numerous occasions.  Ron and Margaret married in 1989.  He died, quite unexpectedly and tragically in 2008.

First Encounters

I first experienced the standing stones of Callanish in the summer of 1984, when my friend, Howard Hansen, and I explored Scotland.  This was a time before the main site (known as Callanish I) was enclosed by a fence.  We actually spent the night in the center of the circle.  It was that night that we encountered a group of Scottish witches in full regalia conducting a Llamas ceremony.  From them, I heard for the first time about the mythic event of the “Moon Walking on the Land”.  Soon after, I met Margaret Curtis for the first time.  We learned that the Moon would next walk on the land at a Major Lunar Standstill in June of 1987.  Coinciding with the approach of the 1987 event known as the “Harmonic Convergence”, I was hired to co-facilitate a sacred journey to Scotland and England.  I was able to convince the organizer to be at Callanish for the Full Moon closest to the Summer Solstice, when the most Southern Moon would skim the horizon.  We would see first-hand if, indeed, the Moon would “walk on the land”.  I coordinated with Margaret to be our guide.  Our main intention was to see if the old stories were true.  We soon discovered that they are!  Those events will be detailed in future seminars that Gemini Brett and I will conduct later this year, as the next standstill season approaches.

Since that first visit in 1984, I have been back to my beloved Callanish more than a dozen times, often with groups of Shamanic Astrologers, and many times with Anyaa McAndrew and our Renaissance of the Sacred groups.  Each visit always included spending time with Margaret and learning from her, often as a guest facilitator for our groups.

With Gratitude: Honouring Margaret’s Legacy

I consider Margaret to be one of my most important teachers.  The experiences with her, and with the Callanish sacred landscape, as well as with the Lunar Standstill itself, have been foundational to the development of our school, and of the astrological paradigm that we use.  I had hoped that Margaret and I would have been able to experience three lunar standstills together (1987, 2006, and 2024-2025).  I intend to be there, and to carry on her work in any way I can.

Included with this article is Margaret’s natal chart, with no known birth time.  Also I found it most interesting that on the day she died, March 26th, 2022, the Moon, in Capricorn, was substantially out-of-bounds at -26S13 declination, a very low Southern Moon!  Margaret, to the end, as a Scorpio/Gemini blend, remained an unassimilated eccentric, and a maverick genius.  She was largely unrecognized by the mainstream, yet I believe her contributions to be immense.  I will always continue to honor her work and legacy.

To my surprise, I did discover that the Guardian offered a lengthy obituary that did honor her in a good way.  The link is here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/07/margaret-curtis-obituary.  I also discovered another fine article honoring her: https://www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/articles-auto-3/23922-passing-of-queen-of-callanish

Here is a partial list of her many publications.  To note, almost everything she put out to the world was self-published. A potential source is Waterstones in the UK.  I am fortunate to have all of her publications.

Callanish Stones, Moon and Sacred Landscape

Callanish Stones, Moon and Sacred Landscape, 2009 Extrapolation

Celebrations in Stone of the Sun’s annual Cycle at Callanish

The Stones around Callanish

 

With editorial and photo submission assistance by Beau Taylor.

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Full Moon at the Galactic Center

Posted by Awen Labow on
 June 10, 2022
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Full Moon at the Galactic Center

By Erik Roth

The Full Moon this month takes place on June 14th at 23°25’ Sagittarius, very close to the Galactic Center, which rests between the Scorpion and Archer constellations. The Earth is roughly between the Sun and Moon, each of which appear at opposite sides of the sky. The Sun is nearing the opposite of the Galactic Center, the Galactic Edge (or extreme) and about a week from the Solstice point.

This Full Moon helps us dive into the deep waters of the skyscape, the billowing star clouds and densest population of stars. It reflects the light of the Sun in Gemini in its own quest beyond our duality as the Moon’s placement activates the quest for a higher or greater truth in Sagittarius.

At the same time of this Full Moon, Mars is moving into a conjunction with Chiron in Aries, Mercury will have just moved back into the sign of Gemini and Venus with Uranus in the sign of Taurus. Combined, this shows a promise or intent for an opportunity to grieve (and gather the needed medicine) what was lost through destructive missions, an opening to the pleasures and treasures novel change and invoke one’s creative imagination to see beyond where we may be fixed.

The Full Moon activates this fiery archetype of Sagittarius. Its essence is the ongoing journey itself for meaning and truth. It is not to stop at one specific truth, but to be open to the unfoldment of the truth through the journey. This can be paved by actual roads, trails and pathways we travel along, including the inner ones in the subconscious and astral realm. The journey itself can be its own tangible, precious thing for the Sagittarian archetype, learning, exploring, and reaching out past the horizon into ever new territory.

Gateways could be opened during this Full Moon, to welcome the truth wherever it may come from and whatever it results in. Heavily inspired and drawn from the wisdom of Marc Edmund Jones and Dane Rudhyar, Lynda Hill’s book, The Sabian Oracle, shares about each degree of the zodiac corresponding to an image or symbol. For this Sagittarius Full Moon at 23°25’, we add one to come up with the symbol of 24 Sagittarius. This gives us the image of “A Bluebird, a sign of good luck and happiness, is standing at the door of the house”.

The keywords of 24 Sagittarius and hence, this phase of the Moon are, “Calmness and rewards. Promise of happiness. Love and happiness available by acknowledging its presence. Real estate. House boundaries. Reminders of joy. Cottages and picket fences. Waiting for invitations to enter. Omens of good luck. Front doors and back doors.” (pg 264)

The meaning of all of this I intuit is something of new breath of life appearing on wings of potential. Have we locked ourselves in or are we waking up to a longing beyond the door? The blue color of the bird can symbolize the sky and seemingly infinite vastness to explore. Sagittarius wants to hop onto the trail or cosmic pathway beyond where it is. And the bluebird could be a messenger delivering an open-ended message that invites us to enter a new phase of ourselves.

The Galactic Center at 27° Sagittarius, a mere four degrees from the Full Moon (the center of the great Galactic Bulge with its billions of stars) has been seen in a variety of ancient cultures as a “golden gate” where souls travel to after departing the Earth. They go to their next life to be rebirthed in the mysteries of the supermassive black hole residing there, where time and physics tend to break down into the unknown. This acts as a backdrop of this Full Moon.

In addition, the Scorpion constellation, a guardian of the Galactic Center, with its outstretched tail and stingers sitting below the Full Moon can help us pierce the mysteries if we surrender the mind and ego to experience the limitless of what could, perhaps, be co-created with Great Mystery and each other.

On the other side of the Galactic Center is the Archer constellation, whose arrow roughly points to that center. Bordered by the tip of the Scorpion’s tail and the Archer’s arrow, we can draw in imagery of creation as the Galactic Center region gives birth to innumerable stars in the fire that resides there.

The Full Moon activates all of this plus the Sagittarian quest for meaning. It is a great longing for humanity to find meaning and purpose on the planet. We are in relationship with all that is and we have a deep desire to know what that means for us personally and at times for humanity. It could be this Moon that offers us a little hope to light the way, revealing the shadow and the treasures that await discovery.

The Full Moon is an important marker this year but is also at the same time is small part of the much, much larger wave of cycles of planets this decade and more that guide humanity. Sagittarius is an archetype that can show us the way ahead and the territory we can yet to encounter. It lights the way ahead in the cradle of the Milky Way.

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A Rare Morning Sky and Heliocentric Neptune

Posted by Awen Labow on
 June 5, 2022
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By Daniel Giamario

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Today’s beautiful morning sky alignment,  containing all five visible planets, has something unusual and extraordinary about it.  Namely, all five planets are in their natural order: Mercury—Venus—Mars—Jupiter—Saturn.  The last time this alignment happened was in December 2004; now, nearly 20 years later, the gap is visibly smaller between Mercury and Saturn.  We will have to wait until 2040 to see this ordered arrangement once more in the morning sky.

The entire lineup is separated by only 91degrees.  This is now their tightest grouping, visible in just over a quarter of the sky.

Saturn     25Aquarius15     magnitude +0.8   near the tail of the Goatfish

Jupiter     04Aries34           magnitude -2.3     under Pegasus and above Cetus

Mars         09Aries07          magnitude +0.7     under Pegasus and above Cetus

Venus       10Taurus26        magnitude -3.9     near Hamal in the Ram

Mercury   26Taurus27        magnitude +1.0    conjunct Algol and approaching the Pleiades

You will have a chance to witness this all of June, with the waning crescent Moon joining them, beginning with Saturn on June 18th, and ending with Mercury on June 27th.  By then, the grouping will stretch out to cover over 130 degrees.  These days early this week are the closest grouping, just over a quarter of the sky.  Take advantage, if you can, this week to view this spectacle in the sky.

Jupiter’s heliocentric conjunction with Neptune

I have recently speculated that the April 12th Jupiter/Neptune conjunction at 23Pisces58 was the “seed point” for the next 166 years, relative to the expansion of Neptune in its home sign: CLICK HERE Over the course of my 52 years of astrological practice I have seldom been much interested in heliocentric charts (a chart with the Sun at the center).  However, the heliocentric chart of the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction has rekindled an interest, since it turns out that Monday June 6th is the exact conjunction at 23Pisces24.  I am sensing that global outer planet configurations are worthy of a heliocentric inquiry, encompassing the entire solar system.  Therefore, even though Jupiter is now well beyond its conjunction with Neptune that took place back on April 12th, and will not return to 23Pisces for another 12 years, this heliocentric conjunction, at the same 23rd degree, indicates that most everything else in 2022 is held in the larger context of this greatly expanded Neptune in Pisces time-frame.

This is good news, considering all the really intense middle world and underworld activations that are currently taking place.  I believe this provides an easier access to the celestial transmissions from the spiritual realms that are now available to those who open to them.  For myself, I invite the guidance and support of the Guardian Host of the Emerald Order that upholds and aligns with the Law of One.

 

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Saturn Stations Retrograde June 4/5, 2022

Posted by Awen Labow on
 June 2, 2022
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By Erik M Roth of Inspiral Nexus

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Saturn Stations Retrograde June 4/5, 2022

The ringed planet Saturn makes its annual station retrograde point June 4/5 at 25°15’ Aquarius.  Anytime a planet stations retrograde (or direct), it is not a one-day affair and can take about 2 days to complete the standstill point before moving in the other direction.  This will be the third year (and last year) in a row its station retrograde point takes place in the sign of Aquarius.  Next year, Saturn will go right into Pisces to stay for almost three years.

A retrograde motion for a planet or other celestial body is an “appearance” of the planet moving backwards against the backdrop of the stars.  In Saturn’s case, this is due to Earth catching up with Saturn in its orbit.  Saturn will continue to brighten faster after this point, though not all that much.  But it will be more prominent to see in the sky and quicken its pace to finally be seen in the late evening sky by July and mid-evening by August.

Saturn represents our middle world with all its laws, structures, relationships, resources, systems and forms along with the concept of human time.  Saturn assists us in building our future by laying down a new foundation and “operating manual” that is in harmony with humanity.

Since it is working with the sign of Aquarius, it is about applications of the Aquarian themes such as new technologies, approaches to consciousness and its expansion, social justice and laws that provide greater equality and a greater awareness of humanitarianism and the need for all to contribute in a meaningful and difference-making way.

Retrograde motion for Saturn will be to place emphasis on the Saturnian initiation in that area of the sky in which it traces back and forth.  Saturn stays retrograde through October 22/23, 2022 and all the way back to 18°35’ Aquarius.  That means that the degrees of 18-25+ Aquarius will experience two more transits of Saturn.

This area of the sky activates the stars of the Goat-Fish constellation’s tail.  Nashira and Deneb Algedi are the two stars of prominence here along with the outstretched arm of the Water-Bearer pouring the infinite cosmic waters down to Earth.  This is the area that Jupiter activated in 2021, especially in the Sept-Dec period.  Saturn is helping to solidify the framework uncovered by Jupiter at that time as it relates to Aquarian archetypal themes.

Nashira and Deneb Algedi connect all of humanity to the transitional waters of our era.  Between the Earth and Water, Sky and Land.  It is Saturn assisting us in building a container for an emergence and expansion of consciousness.  But it is one that isn’t about any bypass to ascension but a genuine cosmic temple within ourselves, recognizing we are all one people when seen from the sky.

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