7th July 2011

For the past 5 days we’ve had an experience of finding obstruction and opposition and working out whether they do truly threaten our existence or whether we can gracefully move beyond them.  There’s a giving up of the small version of the story here, and a maturation into a part of ourselves with greater scope and vision.  It seems impossible, but somehow today we realise that what seemed yesterday to be a threat is really a blessing.

As a whole slew of planets move into new gates today, there is a complete change of scenery.  Sun, Earth, Mercury, Mars and Venus will all shift from the last line – line 6 –  in this morning’s gates, into the first line – line 1 – in their new gates by this evening.

I suspect it might feel a bit like everything we’ve worked so hard for has come tumbling down and we are having to start from scratch.  Or it could just feel incredibly refreshing!

With Mercury in the Gate of Retreat (33) and Venus in the Gate of Keeping Still (52), it’s not so much about pushing forward.  More like making progress by understanding what has made you feel unsafe and uneasy.  Mars in the Gate of Progress (35) calls for steady determination, rather than fight or flight.

The Sun and Earth are still moving through their Cancer/Capricorn phase in the Root Centre.  They are in slow and steady Gates 53 and 54, looking to find a way to improve their lot.  The Root Centre deals with fear, and just now the theme is progress – fear of progress, fear that blocks progress.  It’s very likely to be an aspect of community or relationship that has been frightening for you up till now, appearing to be a threat.

You have arrived at a border, a transition into new territory where people must create new ways to live together.  For this to become a true home it needs a framework of clear relationships and boundaries.  It is only within that framework that the child – whatever is small, vulnerable and growing – can be cared for and protected.  So though the negotiations may be fraught or defensive, it is certainly not a mistake to work this out.  The child has no safe place until an agreement is reached.

Hilary Barrett – Gate 53 Line 1 (Sun)

As Ceres approaches 0 degrees Aries in the Gate of Innocence she calls forth all the deepest aspects of the mother/child relationship within us to be healed.  It’s the past, but feels like it’s coming around again. This is because anything left, anything we have tried to skip over or haven’t dealt with completely, is giving us another chance to come home to it.

Making progress is not the same thing as clearing blockages – not when you can simply walk past them, disentangled and move on.

Hilary Barrett – Gate 25 line 1 (Ceres)

This is a period of immense healing of the human story.  The family dynamic forms the basis of our consciousness.  Our relationship to God/The Universe is shaped by our experience of the omnipotent mother and father, and our siblings teach us about group relating.  We take this template through our lives and create more from them – communities, governments, economies.  As we slough off the toxicity of layer upon layer of ancient wrongs, we find ourselves flung into a new way of being.

There is a huge energy of waking up just now – Circe in Gate 51, Snow White in 55, Ophelia in 18.  What has been done to us in the past is real, and it can feel terrible.  We may have been lulled into believing it was acceptable, or that it was the only thing we could recognise as love, no matter how abusive or neglectful it truly was.  Perhaps we are only just becoming fully aware of how terrible these experiences have been.  Mars gives us the strength just now to face the emotional issues and make progress on behalf of the child who was left homeless and forced out into the world to make his or her own way.  It’s not the world we thought it was.  New connections create new love, new life.  And the world tips on it’s axis as we find each other.