By Esther Frances
Let’s all try something. What if you were to channel the Earth? Hmmm. Let me give it a try:
“I am alive. MAtter is sacred. There is no such thing as a thing. Every form has within it the “w-hole.” How can you continue to think you are separate from me? What are you going to breathe? to eat? to love? to drink? to live? to share? if you don’t wake up, care, and share your gifts and compassion with the rest of your community?”
Photo Credit: “Beltane” by Amanda Clark via http://earthangelsart.blogspot.com/
Why don’t you give it a try? See what message your inner Earth has to reveal to you.
Astrologically the Earth placement occupies the space 180 degrees across from the Sun’s natal position. If the Sun is in Taurus, your Earth is in Scorpio. Your Earth position MAterializes and grounds your creativity and Spirit. It gives form to your Sun’s vision and brings dynamic balance to your Sun’s proclivities. Scorpio Earth / Taurus Sun could remind us that:
Beauty heals and uplifts us, so please make sure to listen to the birds, the music you love, sing, smell the roses, plant a garden, find your peace, but don’t let comfort, safety and the illusion of security be your god. We must realize our intimate connection to that which surrounds us, and is in us, and act accordingly for us to be fully alive, passionate, and potent people.
Beltane was on May 1st. At this midpoint, between the Vernal Equinox and Summer Solstice, life, eros, fertility, and beauty is celebrated. The May pole is a phallic symbol, the dance around it, a rejoicing of life. Just as the Vernal Equinox was a celebration of fertility in the form of the egg and the hare, Beltane dances around a symbol of the wonder of nature that fertilizes it.
When will we again embrace both the feminine and masculine polarities, as intrinsically complementary, equal and valuable, expressions of “The One Great Life?” The devastation of the Earth, the dominance over women, MAtter, children, the trees, the water, the soil, is all a symptom of the belief that the male, action oriented, air and fire elements, are better or greater than the female polarity, rest and receptivity, water and earth. Light is not better than dark. Activity is not better than Being. They are not separate from each other. Gravity and the in breath are as vitally important as expansion and the outbreath.
We have made light synonymous with good and dark synonymous with bad. The offshoots of this root distortion are many. The obsession with growth and the erosion of happiness and health for humans and the entire Earth community is a manifestation of this delusion. We need a “womb-man-ifestation” of care, compassion and connection if the human species is to continue!
The cardinal cross of change is at our doorstep, knocking on our doors, and it will be let in. As Bob Dylan sang in the Sixties, the times they are a changin’ and these changes are reflected in the continuing square dance of these planets and signs that will continue throughout the year, culminating in 2015.
Mars in Libra calls attention to the need for this equality. The gulf between have and have nots is strangling every part of the world. We witness the basic constitutional foundation of the United States government being dismantled; the right to a lawyer and trial disregarded, anyone now, by law, able to be whisked away on any charge. The location of this transit in your personal chart will provide you with clues to your role in re-establishing equality and balance.
My civics professor would not believe this possible were he still on this Earth. All that he taught us about the safeguards to basic human freedom are now stripped away by our own government, as the populace remains distracted and paralyzed. Yet, in the midst of this breakdown, pockets of people are coming together, like the Native Americans and cowboys, holding ceremony in front of the White House, protesting the tar sands snake that would further denigrate the planet.
Uranus in Aries calls us to find our courage, to take a stand, and jump the frog that is us out of the slowing boiling water before we perish. People are beginning to speak out, to unify, to realize what is at stake for ourselves, our children and the planet if we continue in denial.There is also be the uncorking of frustrations bottled up long ago, as in the Ukraine. All of these placements have a multiplicity of possibility. I’m just mentioning a few. Where do you need to be a pioneer, to assert yourself, to be brave? The position of this transit in your chart will assist you in clarifying the action that you need to take for the renewal of yourself and your world.
Jupiter in Cancer is calling us to recognize the homeless, the women and children, aged and ill, no longer even having a basic shelter. Most of us would be crazy with a week of living without privacy, safety, conveniences of a kitchen, place to sleep in peace and comfort, a place to retreat from the demands of the workday. The tendency to ignore this problem, which is really a symptom of systemic breakdown, is going to become more difficult. Do we want to live in a land – a planet – where people, animals and plants are perishing because of holding on to archaic ideas that do not recognize interdependence, that refuse to connect the dots?
Jupiter in Cancer is calling attention to the deplorable defilement of our food and its production. The horrors of factory farming, the concentration camps where some animals can’t even move, seen only as objects to produce food, are being exposed. GMOs are being outlawed, as the monarch butterfly and the bees are threatened with extinction by the GMO contaminants. People are connecting the dots and realizing that what is poisoned returns to poison us.
The 2014 Food Summit is airing on the web, all this week (http://www.foodrevolutions.org/) educating and informing us of what is really going on behind the scenes and in the fields. (The film on the life of Ceasar Chavez in the theaters also reminds us of our connection to the foods we eat and the people that are part of the process. The upsurge in awareness of permaculture and biodynamic gardening are also resonant with Jupiter in Cancer.)
There’s plenty more to say but I’m going to leave that to another day. All these energies live within the micro of the individual human “cell-f” that we are, in the macro level of consensus reality, as well as in the greater cosmological reality.
You are invited to explore how these energies are showing up in your life, to get a greater navigational perspective, by giving yourself an astrological consultation. It’s true that “you don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows” yet sometimes it is great to have a heads up before it arrives, or another perspective about “what’s blowin in it.” Seems I’m retroing into some lyrics from another time when people were awakening.
Let’s remember that breakdown is also the birth canal for breakthrough. May we awaken and dare to dream the new dream of love for the Earth, love for the sky, love for the mirth of joy into being, now, now, now, yes, right now!!!!!
