Venus, Queen of Heaven, brightest of the visible planets, has her own magical and mysterious cycle that repeats itself every 584 days. The Venus retrograde cycle signals the completion of one Venus cycle and the preparation for, and the beginning of, a new archetypal integration cycle for the world feminine principle. More…
(The first part of this article is a bit more technical so please feel free to skip to the last four paragraphs for the essence)
Feb 21, 2005 Chiron enters Aquarius for the first time since Jan 28, 1955 and for the first time since Chiron was discovered in 1977. Chiron will dance in and out of Aquarius until Feb 9, 2011. (See data below). It is interesting to note that in 1977 Saturn began the year at 15 Leo and this summer Saturn moves into Leo for the first time in about 28 years making two more exact oppositions to Chiron over the next couple of years. On March 29, 1977 Chiron moved into Taurus (a fixed sign that squares Aquarius and Leo) three quarters of a turn from where Chiron is now entering Aquarius. More…
The fast pace of change and intensity of events in our everyday lives is a reflection of the changing times. In Shamanic Astrology we referred to this as The Turning Of The Ages and we are not talking about the age of Aquarius as that is a debatable reference point at best. What we are referring to is the 26,000 year turning of the Great Wheel of time. Ancients including Plato referred to this as the “Great Year” describing the length of time it takes the Solstices and Equinoxes to pass through all the constellations and return to a starting point. More…
For those who track Internet communications, there have been a lot of suggestions recently about how and what to consciously energize in these really intense times of the Turning of the Ages. From the perspective of Shamanic Astrology, it’s tremendously exciting when there is a visible planetary event of transformational significance. Such an event is coming soon. More…
On the night of the summer solstice June 20, 1997, I again had the pleasure and great privilege of witnessing the Full Moon rise over the magical, sacred landscape of the Callanish Complex on the Scottish Hebridean Isle of Lewis. Along with Haleakala crater of Maui, Mt. Shasta’s upper valleys, and a certain area of Joshua Tree’s Wonderland of Rocks, Callanish has been my most powerful personal place of spiritual initiation. However, unlike the other three sites, which are wholly natural formations, Callanish was geomantically constructed in Neolithic times (circa 25000-3000 B.C.E.) to be an initiatory and ceremonial arena. More…
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