Relishing The Ego Self

11th August 2010
With the Sun, Atlantis and Nemesis all in the Gate of the Army and triggered by a New Moon yesterday we can expect some shenanigans.

Nemesis is commonly known as the Goddess of Retribution.  Who wouldn’t shiver at the idea of meeting our Nemesis.  But if my work with the Feminine Mojo Project taught me anything, it was that in the world of myth and archetypes nothing is as it seems and so it is with Nemesis.

Originally a Goddess of Disinterested Fortune, similar to the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot, she is simply the bringer of your personal fate and you get to choose whether you perceive it as good or evil.  However the Greeks shifted her identity to make her the delivery girl for punishment for non-compliance with, if you like, the dominant paradigm.  In her more ancient form she probably represented our fear of punishment or retribution by the gods if we didn’t get it right.

What could we make of her in the transits?  Well, she appears as a winged goddess of fate at a time when there is immense activation to our soul purpose.  And she appears at a time of global flux that threatens to send us into extinction, a time when existing realities are disappearing and we are all doing the soft shoe shuffle in our attempts to find something solid to stand on.

Alongside Nemesis we find the asteroid Atlantis, representative of civilizations lost.  Whether we believe in the mythology of Atlantis or not, it is a powerful archetypal statement of a society that got it wrong.

Fritjof Capra, in his book The Turning Point, talks about the development of the mechanistic world view gone mad, as we specialise more and more everything makes less and less sense because it doesn’t connect to anything else.  In this world of mad science and rational logic we develop solutions that have no basis in reality.

Nemesis and Atlantis both indicate a group of people who benefit at the expense of others, and the attempts to manipulate others in order to maintain that advantage.

At the level of our DNA we hold ‘control mechanisms’ that have us self regulating in alignment with the needs of our family, our tribe or culture, our economy.  It’s simple evolutionary strategy grown dangerous.  Why dangerous?  Because these strategies have been used against us. Consider the advertising industries use of psychology to manipulate our desires and how we’ve been trained into an addiction to ‘edible foodlike substances’ that lead inevitably to disease, malnutrition and a dangerous disconnect with the concept of food.  Did you see Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution?  He had 6 year olds who could not even recognise a potato or tomato, even though they live on fries and pizza.

Paige aka Megan

Watch how others may be interfering in your life, trying to convince you to conform to some apparently agreed upon code of conduct, when it matters not at all to them what you do.  Except in the shadow where we all have to keep each other in line so no one gets into trouble.

My daughter was just telling me a story of the other kids at school begging her to behave in a particular way because they were really uncomfortable with her stepping outside the boundaries.  There was nothing bad at all in what she was doing – she’s experimenting with different names and wanted to write her name in a new piece of concrete as Paige rather than Megan.  Quelle horrreur!

These group survival mechanisms operate in our emotional and mental fields and they go down deeper and deeper.  This Leo New Moon is awakening a spark of soul that takes back control of our own destiny, our desire to interpret our own lives and see clearly that we hold an immensely influential power for good when we have the courage to live from our heart and soul.

This is an ego healing, from the false sick ego self that keeps us small and malleable, to the strong ego which is a container for our soul visions.   The Army (gate 7) supports us to take control of our own inner rabble, to become our own commander, to decide how we interpret what happens to us and how we respond to those events.  In this place we become a powerful force of co-creation.

Yesterday’s Leo New Moon heralds a new era of leadership by the grassroots level of society, a fractal experience of each person leading the way while simultaneously opening to the influence of everyone else they meet on their journey.  In this way secrets are revealed and we rejoice in our common humanity rather than fight over our differences.

This is a profound shift in the concept of leadership and power.

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