by Kim Gould on March 10, 2010
We’re moving towards the second half of March with some powerful activations coming up. Hope you’ve been enjoying the stretches and warm up exercises 
. I know some people are very stressed at the moment. I find this Gate 22 / Gate 47 combination – where the Sun and Earth are right now – can be a difficult one. We manifest (Earth) from our clear mental intentions (47) this week, so it’s a very, very good time to be letting go of any thinking that isn’t on the upside.
Today’s I Ching line for this gate reads: “He butts his head against the wall and in consequence feels oppressed by the wall.” May I suggest (1) no head butting of walls, and (2) if you do head butt a wall, be aware that it was your choice to do so even if it goes against very long standing thinking that tells you the wall is most definitely oppressing you. There’s more: if you rush forward and thereby create obstacles, you may experience them as oppression. Here’s a great question for this week: How am I contributing to this problem? What are two alternative approaches that I haven’t yet tried? (perhaps that’s 2 questions, but who’s counting!).
And speaking of thinking, Mercury and Jupiter are in the Crown Chakra, in Gate 63. This is the Gate of After Completion. The I Ching is the Book of Changes. It’s an ancient book of wisdom that explains the universal pattern of change and how to flow with it. Gate 63 (After Completion) and Gate 64 (Before Completion) are the final two hexagrams, both in the Head Centre, or Crown Chakra, both dealing with the transitional period just before birth.
Gate 63 – remember, Mercury and Jupiter are there today – gives us an inspired understanding of what is not quite right in the pattern of our lives. There’s a tendency to worry, to identify with our own oppression that’s inherent in the Piscean element of this Gate, but we can relax into a trust of our natural intuitive self which is dissolving much that is no longer needed on the mental plane. Through this process we will come to a higher level of personal spiritual responsibility.
I saw a sign outside a church yesterday that said “What Will You Give Up For Lent?” and I wanted to get up there and write “Religion”. This Crown Chakra activation is bringing us a taste of our own religion, our own personal meaning, our own unique way of seeing the world.
I mentioned Venus in the Gate of Innocence yesterday. What I didn’t mention is that Saturn is sitting directly opposite in the Gate of Determination. Both in the Heart Chakra (Self or G Centre). Saturn is all about calm steady determined progress, “overleaping nothing”. You have been warned! No overleaping! And Venus is in a most wonderful line that says – don’t try to fix yourself when there’s nothing wrong with you!
All together now – calm steady progress towards our own inspired personal vision and setting aside our desire to try to shove our innocent heartfelt selves into very small and oddly shaped boxes made by someone else because we think there’s something wrong with us if we’re ‘out of the box’.
by Kim Gould on March 9, 2010
It’s an interesting combination – Innocence, Joy, Exhaustion, Grace. …. Hey wait a minute .. exhaustion! How did that get in there?
It’s always interesting to have the Sun in the Gate of Grace in the Solar Plexus Centre and the Earth in the Gate of Exhaustion in the Ajna Centre. Grace isn’t all she’s cracked up to be, having a few minor social issues.
Like gritting her teeth because she should be nice to everyone all the time, go to that party whether she wants to or not, help out a sick friend even though she’s really really really not in the mood. In other words, Grace can be a bitch! And that’s the point really. If you’re not in the mood … well you’re not in the mood. Better off at home singing and dancing by yourself than out in the world suppressing a yawn or a smart ass remark because you’d rather be at home singing and dancing by yourself. But when you do what you’re really in the mood to do … magic happens and you are the most delightful creature on the planet.
Grace tends to follow form rather than substance and while that’s okay sometimes, it’s not a particularly nourishing meal when taken 3 times daily. Doing the right thing has it’s down side when it’s not the thing you want. And the result of ‘doing the right thing’ when it doesn’t align with your own personal emotional journey? Exhaustion! And a whole raft of ideas about life that make you feel bad. As in you’re a bad person because if you were a good person you’d WANT to do the right thing.
This week we are grounding our true nature, bringing form and substance into alignment by clearing old ideas about having to do the right thing.
Anyway, enough of that, I’m not in the mood to write about that for a moment longer!!
Venus moved into the Gate of Innocence (25) a day or so ago. She’s paving the way for Uranus’s shift on 17th April. Innocence is pure, simple, direct, loving. Innocence is easily shocked by the world and all it’s horrors and challenges. Over the next 12 months we will be turning up to face life from the place of our own innocence and joy (Pluto in the Gate of Joy). It may be challenging at times to maintain our simplicity and trust in some circumstances, but Uranus is also the planet ruling the networking genius of collective Aquarius. So we’re not going to be doing it alone. Ever again.
by Kim Gould on March 5, 2010
Now is the time to lay the foundations of power and mastery for the future. So says the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the I Ching.
The Sun and Earth are in the Crown Chakra – the Sun in the masculine logical channel and the Earth in the feminine abstract channel, which is perfect. If you have either of the Ajna Centre gates - Gate 47 (Exhaustion) or Gate 4 (Youthful Folly) - in your design, you are acting as a portal just now for new information flowing through from other dimensions. The Gate of Exhaustion shows us how to be tranquil in the face of adversity, by connecting with the deepest truth within us and using it as an anchor against the untruth without. The Gate of Youthful Folly takes our inexperienced selves and guides them on the journey to maturity in the new reality.
Anyone with the 61/24 Crown-Ajna channel is acting as an integrative force just now, balancing and stabilising the two poles of new masculine thinking and new feminine thinking.
5th March 2010
Ceres is conjunct the Galactic Centre in the Ajna Centre and all of this is connecting to the Throat for expression via the retrograde Mars. There is nothing transiting in the Gates of Exhaustion or Youthful Folly, or the 61/24 channe,l so if you have these in your chart, you are providing a bridge for humanity just now to get this energy flowing.
Ceres is just above the blue gate at the top of the Throat Chakra, although you can’t see her. The Galactic Centre is always there – it’s a fixed point.
Ceres and Mars are triggering the feminine mind and expression. If you have the 17/62 – the logical, masculine channel – you may be feeling a tad confused and bemused just now. Your old exhausted logical mental faculties feel puny in the face of something incomprehensible – the power of the Galactic Centre. It gives you a time of access to another way of thinking and communicating, taking pressure off your logical mind so that the shifts can happen there. It’s a bit like getting a complimentary vehicle when you take your own car into be serviced.
While all this mental shifting has been going on, Mercury (planet of thinking) spent some time aspecting Pluto. Mercury was sitting in the emotional gate that says – your emotions are not a waste of time, they are important energetic data about your life. If you are feeling anxious, perhaps you need to take a look in here and see what the data is trying to tell you.
Pluto is in the Root Centre with the Nodes (letting go of the past and moving into the future) shifting out old family patterns so that we can experience more joy in our lives. And Mercury, still well within the scope of the aspect to Pluto, today meets Jupiter in the emotional gate that says – this is who the family says you are and that’s that! Venus and Uranus are making sure we’re not losing ourselves in relationships of any kind (in Gate 36 in the Solar Plexus).
All in all it gives a boost to our ability to think new thoughts about who we are, how we feel, how we relate in love, business and family.
I’ve recorded a short mp3 for you. In it I share a simple meditation technique to use over the next few days and weeks, as we make first a mental shift and then a cellular shift into a new sense of self. You can listen to it here. It will also be posted on my Facebook page. Enjoy!
by Kim Gould on March 4, 2010
I’ve just been having a wonderful time chatting with UK Astrologer Lana Wooster – www.LanaWooster.co.uk – on my weekly BlogTalkRadio show about past lives.
Lana shared some of her knowledge about past lives, soul contracts and karmic connections in astrology and we discovered some ways of applying those techniques to Human Design. I’m sure I’ll be exploring this topic much more deeply.
You can listen to the archive of the show here.
