Clear and Calm Waters

Right on cue, as the Sun opposes Haumea, and Sedna makes aspects to Damocles and Nessus in the emotional Gate of Revolution (49), a news report lets us know that Japan is doing crazy stuff with radioactive water. What have Haumea and Sedna got to do with it? Haumea (57) has a link with the purity of fluids and their ability to provide unlimited nourishment. Sedna (23) rules over the oceans and her creatures, as well as showing us something about ourselves – where we have been sold a lemon, and need to take action to right that wrong no matter what the outcome may be. Kassandra (19) joining Damocles and Nessus (49) indicates that we have tried to speak our truth on this issue but not been believed, the revolution of truth must take place on the inside.

How are we all doing? It’s crazy. I’ve been doing a lot of deep breathing. Five breaths in, five breaths out. It adjusts your heart rhythm to a more peaceful reality. All those places where we have been discombobulated in the past, and subtlely persuaded to allow toxicity into our lives, are becoming oh so clear to us now.

I was reading some ‘expert’ opinions on the nuclear energy debate yesterday. The thing that struck me was the narrow viewpoints. We’ve had minimal deaths, it’s cheaper, new technology will allow nuclear waste to be used as fuel in the reactors, we have to accept some risks for the sake of progress, nuclear power carries a strange dread and fear factor that’s quite irrational. They all make sense if we stay firmly in the mental realm. But no one compared nuclear power to newer and better alternatives. I’d like to see one of the ‘experts’ saying ‘oh you know, it’s crazy that we’re involved in this incredibly complex and potentially dangerous fission when the Sun is doing it for us every day!’ Let’s stop playing God and relax and enjoy the bounty we’ve been provided with rather than destroying it in our silly games!

Back to the Creation Goddess of Hawaii, Haumea. In metaphysical terms, water represents emotions. So when we talk about the purity of water we are also talking about the purity of emotions – calm, clear, deep and non-toxic. There’s been a little noticed revolution going on in the Solar Plexus Centre – our emotional centre. I’ve mentioned it a few times. Ceres, Chiron and Snow White in Gate 55. Eros was there for a while last week as well. And Neptune, although in Gate 30, is within a few degrees and so is exerting a strong influence, especially now he is back in his own watery sign of Pisces. Again, the image of renewed clarity of water with a spiritual twist.

The general idea here is that amidst great abundance we keep choosing things that are toxic. There is ancient trauma being released just now, through all layers of our being. That trauma has been coded into our DNA and has been present as a template in every system in our body – our endocrine system, our nervous system, our digestive system, our skeletal system, and so on. This template is breaking down, and with it our warped view of reality and of what we need to survive.

I was fascinated to see the asteroid Pan in Gate 16.3, exactly conjunct the centaur Thereus. Saturn is in Gate 48 at the Spleen Centre end of the channel and Gate 16 is at the Throat Centre end of the channel.

Pan was a Greek God who ruled over things like nature and sex, or more particularly the abundance of nature and its desire to recreate itself. This includes our own sexual desire. Unsurprisingly, when the christian church decided that creativity belonged solely in the masculine realm, Pan became the prototype for the devil, luring us into the lush forests to cavort naked and free.

The reason I found this fascinating is:

• Pan is related to Saturn and is just now forming a channel with Saturn
• Saturn represents government, business and global economy.
• The story of Peter Pan was based on the Greek God Pan – remember the lost boys? And the childlike quality of Peter? (see note below)
• Pan is conjunct Thereus, which is about our identity getting lost in ideas of status – a fancy job, a good marriage, the latest phone, being important in business and world affairs to the detriment of a personal life and identity.

The thread here is of the creative power of men (and the inner masculine) being co-opted into the world of government and business, the little boy being put to work. Or sent to war and killed in the drive for more …. oil, money, land, power. In this patriarchial world the little boy lost his connection to the great mother, and to the creative principle of the feminine. Cyllarus is conjunct Hades in Gate 15 (a cardinal point being triggered by the Mars / Uranus conjunct). Cyllarus is about using men as fodder for the machine. Hades represents the way we create on the physical plane. This combination speaks to me of using men as fodder to ‘create’ empires.

Saturn and Pan together call the masculine back to the wild forests, the deep dark fens and glades, to dance, sing and play music in creative flow with nature, in concert with the feminine. This is a re-working of our modern understanding of manhood, growth and the expression of our sexuality and creativity.

Remember that Eros was conjunct Ceres, Chiron and Snow White last week? Eros is the pure creative masculine principle. Our prince can’t come wake up the potential fertility of the earth/feminine princess, because he’s off fighting for a nefarious cause, believing, in his innocence, that it is for the benefit of all. There is a separation of the creative principles of the masculine and feminine – we have been scared off from joining those two potent energies within ourselves and instead are making do with factory based nuclear fission – the creative and energetic equivalent to cloning and GMO’s. Living in this way both arises from and continually recreates the illusion of lack of energy.

Also, both Ceres and Snow White speak to the toxic envy of the crone for the beauty and potential of the maiden. A conditioned response to life that blinds us to the power of our own knowing and experience and the inner marriage that has evolved within us over time.

Cyllarus was killed by a spear through his left shoulder, near his neck. Hence many people clearing old ‘war wounds’ from their necks recently. There’s another aspect to this story, another Centaur called Crantor has been conjunct Pluto since February. Crantor was also killed by a blow to the left shoulder/neck. He represents how we can be manipulated by shame and guilt, overpowered by a force that we feel is greater than we are (Pluto). Just take a moment to think about how your creative power is wrested from you, what techniques have been used to get you to give it up? What aspects of your own knowing and experience have you learnt to invalidate?

In addition we also have the beheading thing going on, with Medussa also at the Throat in Gate 35 line 2. The Medussa mask was worn to scare off intruders who strayed too close to sacred places and rituals. She was beheaded and demonised, a thing too frightening for mortal men to look upon. Remember also that Lilith is extremely active in the transits right now – speaking of being demonised.

The extreme sensitivity of the Gate of Innocence has been rendered volatile due to the presence there of Mars and Uranus. Here’s the thing about what’s happening in the Ji Centre right now. It’s not what is happening to us that is dangerous, but our sleepy, mesmeric and demonised responses. You know that fear you experience in dreams when something is happening and you can’t act to save yourself? We’re bringing that through to consciousness right now. Stay present and allow things to unfold. Don’t believe the fearful hype even when it seems to be coming from within you. Begin to make the choices that contain real nourishment. Be wary of reacting out of old guilt, shame or fear and throwing your creative energy away for the benefit of others. We are reaching deep within us to draw out our own power and authority. It will be unassailable when it is released.

Note: JM Barrie, author of Peter Pan, had Pan in Gate 8, creating a channel with his Earth in Gate 1.