At Home .. Safe, Well, Happy

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Mercury is stationery, about to move forward over it’s retrograde path, sorting through the rubble for what makes sense.  And rubble it may feel like just now!  It’s not so much what Mercury was up to as what everyone else was doing behind the scenes.

At the moment he is sitting in the Sacral Centre, in Gate 59, which tells us what happens when we allow joy to enter our lives.  Our ego dissolves and the vital energy that was locked up in it’s icy prison is free to disperse in the world.  With so much shift at the level of masculine and feminine, and it’s subtle effects on our economy, culture and relationships, this dissolution is being resisted.

If we lack the fear of the ego self, much of the structure of these institutions will fail.  If we live in joy we’re unlikely to buy KFC, to do a job we hate, to stay in an unhappy relationship, to vote for politicians who offer us more fear and greater control.  Expect some backlash from the powers ‘that be’ over the next month or so as they desperately try to stem their losses.

We’ve just had an election here in Australia and the result was similar to that in the UK, a hung parliament that left the result in the hands of a few independents.  After the slightly left leaning Labour party was sworn into government, the right leaning Liberal party came out all guns blazing, declaring that the new government has ‘no legitimacy’.  As quite a few political commentators pointed out – the government has been formed in accordance with the constitution so it’s quite legal, but it seems they believe it goes against their own perceived divine right to rule.

Psyche and Pan are sitting in the Gate of  Gathering (45), taking down our concepts of any kind of ‘divine right to rule’,  through a grass roots movement (and this gate is literally about grass roots), the control of planetary resources is shifting   When we are simple and true towards each other and bless each other with our authentic presence, we tend to connect with those who bring us exactly what we need.  The brilliance of this is that we no longer need to rely on subjugation to a wealthy and powerful superior for our material needs.  They simply flow to us at the right time.  This is creating a massive shift as the old guard instinctively feel the reins of power slipping from their grasp.

It can feel disconcerting to us too, conditioned as we are to being able to work things out a certain density of experience.  Things seem so whispy, so ephemeral just now, what can we trust?  How will we know what to do?

Over in the Spleen Centre there’s a perfect storm of physical existence going on.  Your body is calling you home.

The Nodes shifted yesterday, out of the Gates of Opposition and Obstruction, and into the Gates of Joy and Keeping Still.  A definite change there!  Since mid April we’ve been discovering new skills for moving through difficulties, letting go of conditioned responses that have had our hackles up and our defences in place before we’ve even worked out friend from foe.   Now we are playing a new game, and this one is a bit more fun.

The South Node shows what we are comfortable with but need to move away from, and the North Node shows new territory where we might be uncomfortable but are irresistibly called to explore.  The South Node is in Gate 52 – Keeping Still.  This carries an evolutionary imperative that adds to the fight or flight response options. This one is called FREEZE!

Did you ever get so scared of something as a kid, a noise outside your window at night perhaps, that you laid so still you weren’t even breathing?  Perhaps you were bullied at school and learnt to make yourself invisible, or had to disappear yourself from a frightening home life.  That’s this gate.  It’s time to flow forward, to take action, to leave this frozen place.

We’re in the Root Centre here, and one of the attributes of the Root Centre is containment.  It contains our calm joyful ability to be present on the earth and to be truly aware of what is going on in our lives in each moment.  It knows when to stay still and when to take action.  It contains within our individual energy field all we need to be safe and secure.  It knows how to live a life that is never out of kilter.  We’ve been drifting at sea on a leaky boat, but as our Root Centre heals, we will come to know how to be absolutely safe and well.  This is another absolutely profound shift that’s happening right now.

We live in a culture that expects us to verify everything we do and measure it up against some objective scale of rationality.  Our minds check back with the past and press relentlessly forward into the future gathering reasons for our current actions.  They press our bodies into a kind of servitude to meet our goals, the goals we ‘think’ will help us get ‘ahead’, or to arrange our lives so they don’t look too mad to outsiders.   The ‘headquarters’ of our decision making tends to be in … our head!  Our heads are the most easily manipulated of our awareness centres.  Did you know that the advertising industry is more skilled in understanding human psychology than any other profession?

Our Root Centre is the place where we experience our natural impulse to engage in life.  There’s both direction and timing in this impulse.   But it’s almost extinct in our culture.  Between now and the 7th November we get to bring it back to life.  As we tune into our natural impulses, this is what repairs the leaky rips and holes in our root chakras.   It’s particularly strong between now and 15th October, as Saturn meets the North Node to connect the Root to the Spleen.

Our Root Centre represents the adrenal energy.  When we are not aligned with our natural impulses, the Root Centre reaches into the adrenal glands for a quick energy boost.  Originally designed to get us out of occasional danger, instead this adrenal based action has become a lifestyle.

Your body holds a wisdom and a magic that operates in a different dimension to your mind.  It is literally a part of the earth.  It is your earth home, and your relationship with your body mirrors your relationship with this planet.  It tcould feel a bit like hacking through impenetrable granite to find life there just now, but gentle trust in your body’s ability to communicate with you is all that is needed.  It is coming to meet you.

There are three powerful points in the chart just now, packed with activations, and all three talk about ice melting and releasing vital energy – emotional , mental/intuitive and body instinct.   Perhaps it might be useful to imagine yourself as a huge ice cube, watching yourself melt in the sun, and observing what releases.

When we are present in the moment we can’t be fooled by our minds calling us out to another place.  We can’t be duped or confused or terrorised.  We can’t be addicted or have our heads turned by false glamours or manipulative ideas.  These are all ways in which we have been put to the service of more powerful forces in our society, kept in a place of exhaustion, oppression, over-exertion, ill health, and these are all ways in which life on this planet is changing in subtle but profound ways just now.

Right now we are being given the tools we need to be at home in our bodies, safe and well and happy.