Grab your daemon and go find ‘your people’
Well here we are at a New Moon. The last before Christmas, the last before the Solstice, the last before 2021 and the last before the beginning of a new era in history which will shape our future. So this is a big time to decide what new intentions to set on December 14th. And this New Moon in Sagittarius is a big deal – it’s a total Solar Eclipse and, therefore, it’s like a New Moon on steroids. The energy of Sagittarius and Jupiter (Sagittarius’ ruling planet) seeks to expand knowledge so that we can see the bigger picture and live at a level of higher consciousness - some might describe this as elevating from a 3D level up to a 5D level. This higher level of thinking will be much needed as we enter 2021. Very often events just before an eclipse will not pan out quite as expected, whilst those on or very close to the actual eclipse may take on a kind of fated quality.
In the UK chart the Solar Eclipse is reasonably close to Mercury (communication) in the third house of neighbours and siblings. And as I write this we are in last-ditch talks with the EU on Brexit. The USA is undergoing its own transformational time right now (Pluto return) and there the Solar Eclipse opposes Mars – the planet of war, unrest, anger and assertion. The arguments with regard to the election are not yet over and I would expect to see much tension.
At the Solstice on the 21st December there will literally be the brightest light in the sky to guide us – possibly even similar to the star that guided the Three Wise Men, who incidentally back in the day would have been the Astrologers; they knew there was a new era ahead at the birth of Jesus. Jupiter and Saturn will will look like one big bright star. Is this heralding to us the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, just as the birth of Jesus heralded the Age of Pisces? As we move from an era based on Earthly tangibles into an era of Airy intangibles, in many ways mankind is fighting for its very survival.
I think it’s important now to look forward and talk about how we negotiate the new, as opposed to what seems to be the current theme of looking back to see how to retrieve our old normal. There was so much about our ‘old normal’ that was pretty broken. Our old normal was very much based on the continuing need for more ‘stuff’, for the constant hamster wheel of economic growth year on year on year, feeding the ‘always open’ mouths of the greedy corporates and plutocrats.
It doesn’t matter how many nice handbags you have if you haven’t focused on your body and don’t enjoy good health. It doesn’t matter if you have the latest trainers if your friends aren’t really true. And it doesn’t matter how many Facebook friends or Instagram followers you have if there is no one you can call on to scoop you up if you’ve hit the floor. So we may have an illusion of wealth and fullness, but is it an illusion or is it real? And illusions are the province of the planet Neptune
Since 2012 Neptune has been in his own sign of Pisces and whereas, on the one hand, many astrologers hoped that this would mark an era where compassion and kindness would be king, in actual fact it feels that Neptune’s shadow side of confusion, deception, illusion, lies and lack of boundaries has perhaps been more evident. In myth Neptune/Poseidon ruled the seas and the waters from whose chaotic depths it is said that the world was created and from where the Sun first rose out of the storm of the oceans. Neptune represents a world where there is no separation, where we can enter a limitless arena that gives us the potential to transcend reality, seek bliss, understand our dreams and seek some kind of encounter with the divine. Neptune is said to be the higher ‘octave’ or higher expression of Venus – the feminine, the principle of giving of our talents and of our love, and the principle of how we give and receive affection. At its lowest level, however, Neptune pushes us to escape reality via artificial means such as alcohol, drugs, watching TV and living a virtual life on our smart phones. At his very lowest level Neptune veils, confuses, lies, deceives and undermines.
Our lives seem to have so much to do with the nebulousness of Neptune right now, particularly as this outer planet is having much to say in determing the karmic nature of our futures. Everything seems veiled in layers of confusion and deception. Neptune is where we encounter lies and frauds. Right now Neptune is two thirds of the way through Pisces and I am beginning to wonder if we are seeing some of the biggest frauds and lies in history. Neptune is propaganda and where we are ‘propagandised’ to the extent that we think we absolutely know the truth but we really don’t because media and politics are fused.
I find myself keep harking back to the blog I did on the story of Truth and Lies, where Lies stole Truth’s clothes as she was bathing. Truth tried to find her stolen clothes but instead found a world that could only cope with Lies pretending to be the Truth. What Truth had to say appeared to be impossibly shocking and shockingly impossible. All Lies had to do was get people to gang up and mock Truth’s nakedness. Lies, having cloaked himself in Truth’s clothes, was SO convincing because everything he said contained a notion of the Truth. And he succeeded because nearly everyone was so self absorbed that they didn’t really care about the truth anyway. And it was the fact that they didn’t really care that was the biggest problem.
Astrologers were ahead of the game having talked for some while about this period in time as being one of Reset. Thanks to the opportunity provided by the pandemic, other organisations and governing bodies are also now talking about The Great Reset and Build Back Better. We know that our planet needs a Reset more than it has ever done following its depletion during this last Earth cycle. But beware the undermining greed of the corporates and the plutocrats as they seek to cloak themselves in the Truth in a quest for global domination through an appearance of pretending to care about the planet, the ecosystem, food and inclusivity.
As we reach this Reset point we are faced with how to blend the energies of expansion alongside those of being responsible, of lack and of limitation. To get through this we have to come out of our illusory life and actually care what happens so that we can weigh up light, hope and optimism against the dark, guilt and control.
The time and place of our birth determines the ‘fate’, ‘hand’ or kind of luck that we have been dealt in this life. How we determine or live this luck depends on several things, particularly our Soul path (the Sun), our emotional needs and our health (the Moon) and our attitude (the Ascendant). Tied up with this, as I said in my last blog, is the ‘daemon’ (our spirit guide, our power animal or our character – whatever you want to call it) that drives how we live the path of our Soul. This idea of a daemon held great importance within traditional astrology but hasn’t really found its way into more modern, Western astrology. Because my style of astrology is a fusion of the traditional and the modern, I find that the daemon gives another and deeper dimension into what makes an individual ‘tick’ and how they tick.
We have to nurture our daemon because that’s the only way we can direct our Soul’s purpose. And in these uncertain times it’s important that we understand what drives us to create something meaningful so that we can adapt to the new era.
I leave the last words to the great Zach Bush MD because I just couldn’t put it better. “If there were an organized effort to control human beings it fundamentally failed this year, because I see this massive rise in human connection. It’s never been easier than this moment to find your people that you’ve been looking for perhaps lifetimes. It means that for whatever vibrations of fear and vibrations of paranoia may exist within the space, there’s a harmonic happening at this higher level that may be reinforced even by the fear. This harmonic is saying there’s something bigger, there’s something more exciting, there’s a hope. There’s a rise in awareness that is far more infectious than any virus I’ve seen”. So grab your daemon, go find ‘your people’ that you’ve spent lifetimes looking for, find the hope and the excitement that awaits Care about your future and embrace the Great Awakening of walking towards the light.