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Happy Solstice!

As I shared last week today during the Solstice, December 21 at 11:20 a.m. MST, we will experience a moment in time that has not occurred since 1226 - being lauded as a Bethlehem Star. The fact that this is taking place on the Solstice, a time of opening that heralds the return of the Sun’s light over the next few months, indeed signals a unique moment in time. The Jupiter Saturn alignment as it moves into Air, the Great Mutation, is truly a once in many lifetimes event(every 800 years). For millennia this conjunction was seen as a sign of someone or something powerful being born...what within you is moving into consciousness?  What  dream is waiting to be born?


For more a quarter of a century I have worked to consciously harness the energies symbolically represented by transits and progressions to my own chart.  I view it as participating in an intricate dance with the Universe.  

I have learned a lot, particularly by falling on my face when I just didn’t want to really step forward into the moment.  When I resisted, usually because I was comfortable where I was sometimes because I was a bit intimidated by the next step forward, I still ended up where I needed to be, but, if I am honest, the transition was not even remotely what could be termed graceful.  And it was often very painful. 

On the other hand, when I trust the pattern being revealed in my chart, trust the moment in time(Can you see my back ground in improvisational theater here?), even when it is hard and bravely step forward miracles happen.  Frankly, I remain awestruck at the precision with which this shows up in our charts. I've had the honor and privilege of working with many of you to interpret the breathtaking composition your charts. It never fails to amaze me.  The unfolding mystery of our relationship with the divine is intricately displayed in an enchanting play of mathematical exactitude.

This moment in time offers a powerful invitation to step forward no matter where it falls within your own natal chart.   It is just the beginning of a cycle, Saturn will be in Aquarius until March of 2023 and with Saturn things take time.  But when you focus your energy in the area of your chart that is being transited the rewards will be many, particularly in 2021 when Jupiter is traveling alongside.  

I will highlight each Sun sign below. I invite you to take some time, today if you can, even over the next few days to inquire deeply within through mediation or journaling.  Take a deep breath  light a candle and then ask yourself what is it time to let go of?  What is beckoning you forward?  And then just take the tiniest step.  Take one tiny, and I do mean tiny nothing is too small, action a day and watch the Universe respond over time. In particular over 2021.  

Saturn was last here from 1991-1994.  Try to look back and see what was occurring in your life.  You will see a similar theme repeating over the next two years.  

Aries:

This falls into your solar 11th house where we are connected to tribe, to community, to expressing ourselves through joining with others who have mutual values, beliefs and ideals.   In the 11th, we conceive of a perfect world and try to wake others up to our visions.  It’s the house of the outcast and the rebel, the freethinker, the humanitarian.  Where we build things with others.  The 11th also rules dreams, so what you’ve long envisioned in your heart can now materialize if you work towards it, particularly if you align with others around you.   Find your people.

Taurus:

With Saturn transiting your 10th house, you are being invited to step forward into a place of authentic authority.  Now, this may be a time of apprenticeship as you move toward your place in the Sun.  This is Saturn’s natural house and Saturn moves slowly, building over time.    It is a period of initiation in the arena of how you show up in the world .  Career-wise it is a time of great opportunity but Saturn  demands accountability.   In essence ,you are being asked to show up and get to work.  If you do this consistently there will be many new opportunities available.  Often ones you’ve never imagined.

Gemini:  

This moment in time is inviting you to explore new horizons, to fully engage in what holds deep meaning for you. Saturn and Jupiter are sojourning through your solar 9th house of belief, calling on you to take a leap of faith and step into the world that is beckoning - whether through travel, education or simply sharing something of yourself/beliefs with the world. If you are interested in publishing a book or creating podcast now is the time to set it in motion This is a house of sowing seeds and then taking the leap into the great unknown.

Cancer:

Your 8th house in being activated, the arena of personal intimacy, of inheritance, of what we share with others.  It is deep psychologically-directed house, where our most intimate vulnerabilities are exposed, or it can be primarily about how we use our resources. Ruling both life and death, it is about our ability to burn to the core of our known selves and come back to ourselves renewed.  Here we are focused on what we hold onto beyond it’s lifespan and what we need to let go of in order to boldly step into the future.  On a mundane level shared resources, financially 2021 could bring big gains.  Venture capital, insurance claims, bonuses, prize winnings all fall in this domain.

Leo:
Over the next two years relationships are being put to the test, both personal and professional. The 7th house can represent everyone out there who is close to us and with whom we have to deal on a day to day basis (outside of close relations and family, who are covered by other houses). Close relationships will take on greater importance and many powerful alliances can be created but it will be a learning process.  On a certain level this is the house that might be best characterized by Jung’s statement “What we don’t integrate on the inside shows up on the outside dressed as fate.”  Where have you been giving up your personal authority to someone or something outside of you?

Virgo:

The area of your solar chart being highlighted is your 6th house. It is connected with work, health, daily habits and pets, an earth house  at its core it is about taking our inner world and doing the work of making it real.  It is an arena of discrimination, choice, separating the chaff from the grain. You are being asked to make a choice about  what is truly nourishing to you and  then to set up a daily routine around it.   Strength comes from working out our priorities and then working on them. You are being asked to move on from habits that no longer serve your life.

Libra:

Jupiter and Saturn are taking up residence in the house of true love, children both literal and creative, and learning to enjoy yourself. Your work, particularly in 2021, is to refine  the ability to take up space and receive love. Here you are being asked to take an unabashed risk on yourself.  To let yourself be the beloved, to have fun, to play.    To enjoy yourself and others and to share yourself and let them enjoy you.  In this arena you are being asked to take center stage.   Think of the next two years as an invitation into the art of play.
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Scorpio:

This alignment is lighting up your 4th house which  represents where we live both literally and metaphorically, including our family of origin.  This will be your area of focus.  Your foundation and sense of security are going to be shifting. In essence you are being asked to move. This might be literal, it might be metaphoric.  How have you been rooted in a “home” that no longer fits?  You might find yourself buying a new home, or renovating.  Essentially, you are recreating where you dwell.

Sagittarius:

Saturn is now beginning a tour of your 3rd house.  On a surface level this is the arena of communication, writing, short trips, your neighborhood and all of these activities might be highlighted.  On a deeper level, the 3rd house contains the seeds of our inner background noise, the attitudes and beliefs that are just there and we take for granted.  If this alignment falls here you are being asked to bring unconscious beliefs that have been essentially holding you back to the forefront and release them so that something new can be born.    Look at where you feel contained or stuck in your day to day life for clues.  Journaling/morning pages can be a great tool.   

Capricorn:  

Saturn has been traveling in your sign for a little more than that past two years and you may have a sense of things lightening up just a bit as this transit begins.   He is now entering your 2nd house, and the question becomes, “What is truly important to me?’  This area is about what we value, and our self worth.  It also rules our personal income so you may find yourself considering a new line of work. The next two years present an optimal time for this.  A balanced 2nd house enhances our feelings of security and belonging.  Taking a stand for yourself, for what matters to you, is the foundation of future possibility.  Where have you been rejecting yourself?
Aquarius:

You are the sign that is being called upon to make deep changes over the next couple of years. If there is a siren song within that has been singing now is the time to listen and boldly step forward. This is hitting you at your core and you can expect a powerful evolution to take place between now and 2023.  It is a time of initiation, for something that has been incubating within to be born.   Step into the spotlight. 
Pisces:

Jupiter and Saturn will be traveling through your 12th house through most of 2021, with Jupiter briefly moving into your sign from May13- July 28th before he speeds fully into Pisces in 2022.  The 12th house is often considered to be a place of rest, of going within.  Ultimately it is about connecting to something larger than ourselves, connecting to the divine.   It is great time to reflect, to do research, to work behind the scenes on any project (writing a book for example) before launching it in 2022.  The real secret of the 12th house is that we are being asked to look within and confront any “ghost” that has been haunting us so that we can release it fully and move forward. 

For all of us it is a time of initiation, an opportunity to create a new sense of value, meaning and purpose within our individual lives.  When we consciously harness this time, this energy we help the trajectory not only of our own lives but the lives of those around us and the planet. 

 “If you are healthy, if you are happy, then other forms of life can profit from you. If you are sick, if you suffer, then other species will have to suffer with you. That insight of inter-being helps you see that you are linked to everything else.”   Thich Nhat Hanh 

I took this photo, fuzzy as it is, with my iPhone yesterday evening when I was mesmerized but the beauty of this alignment moving ever closer.  On the 21st, those two planets, Jupiter and Saturn will appear as one in the Western Sky right around 6pm.  For now they grow closer each evening. 

In the Ancient world they experienced a soulful sky, poetically brilliant and full of signs.  At that time everything was seen as intimately connected, we weren't separate.

On December 21st we will experience a moment in time that has not occurred since 1226 - being lauded as a Bethlehem Star.  Every 20 years Jupiter and Saturn align, every 200 years the element they align in changes.  For the past 200 years, with the exception of 1980, the Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions have taken place in Earth Signs.  Next week on they  align and move into Aquarius, an air sign. For the next 200 years each conjunction of these powerful archetypes from now on will take place in one of the air signs Gemini, Libra ad Aquarius.  The last time this happened was 800 years ago in 1226 and yes, it was indeed in the sign of Aquarius. 

Throughout history Jupiter Saturn cycles correlate with changes to the structure of societies and civilizations. These changes follow the pattern of the elements, with the events of one cycle seeding developments in the next and building over time.   These cycles and connections apply to all of us on an individual level.

It is a time of initiation, an opportunity to create a new sense of value, meaning and purpose within our individual lives.  When we consciously harness this time, nourishing this energy, we help the trajectory not only of our own lives but the lives of those around us and the planet.   Our lives are intimately woven together, we are all an instrumental part of the fabric of life. When we heal ourselves we are contributing to the whole. One healthy cell can change the body's trajectory in response to illness. 

Our lives are essentially an expression of evolving consciousness in action.  We are in an ongoing intimate dance with the universe and this gorgeous patterning can be seen through the patterning in our astrological charts. 

This Saturday, December 19, 10-11:30 am MST via Zoom join Mindy for Exploring the Great Mutation. Learn how to harness its energy personally as we head into 2021. The cost of the webinar is $20.  All attending will receive a recording of the class and slides of the material so you do not need to attend in person. We will cover some of the archetypes, energies and stories associated with Aquarius, (in particular through the eyes of Jupiter and Saturn) and how to use them to foster change within your own life.  There will be a brief Q & A session at the end of the session.  To register please reach out to me directly at SedonaAstrologer@gmail.com.

2020, a dramatic year of change that we will all remember, is now speeding to a close. Given how intense it has been for all of us on a global level it is no surprise that we have a breathtaking climax approaching. Today’s solar eclipse in Sagittarius might be seen as its opening act to be followed exactly one week later by the astrologers refer to as the Great Mutation of Jupiter and Saturn into Aquarius.   


Solar Eclipses, which always take place at the New Moon,  are symbolically seen as creating new beginnings and this one in particular offers an energetic gateway to begin truly re-envisioning your own life. In lively Sagittarius we are urged to look within and ask what has been feeling like it has been slowly dying over the past year?  And conversely what dreams and yearnings inside have been waiting to be born?   Now is the time to begin to breathe life into these yearnings.  To fire up your inspiration, harness the brave optimistic journeying quality of the Archer, muster up the courage to expand your horizon and take a leap of faith that has been beckoning.


Eclipses always take place near the nodal axis (for more information about the nodes and in particular the nodes in Gemini/Sagittarius here is a link to my previous blog).  This eclipse aligns with the South Node indicating that it is the for something to end in order to make room something else to start anew. We may be called to release something in order to move forward and enter a new chapter in our lives. It is important to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown to make space bravely move forward towards new frontiers whose vistas may have been beckoning for some time.


Onto the Great Mutation.  


Many of you have seen the articles referring to the “Bethlehem Star” and have asked me what it symbolizes astrologically. Every 20 years Jupiter and Saturn align, every 200 years the element they align in changes.  For the past 200 years, with the exception of 1980, the Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions have taken place in Earth Signs.  Next week on the 21st they move into Aquarius, an air sign. For the next 200 years each alignment from now on will take place in one of the air signs Gemini, Libra ad Aquarius.  The last time this happened was 800 years ago in 1226 and yes, it was indeed in the sign of Aquarius.  


This is an immense shift.  Simply consider the physical difference between earth and air.  Earth might be seen as the Red Rocks of Sedona,   Air could be represented by the currents of the wind from a gentle breeze to a more forceful gale.  The rocks shift and change slowly over time  whereas even a breeze creates movement much more swiftly.   We are being called to swiftly reimagine ourselves and our lives.


The song “Let There be Peace on Earth” has been running through my head as I consider this period we are collectively moving into.  In particular the lyric “let it begin with me” rings true. 


Our charts are the map, our lives the territory.  


When we work with our chart as a guiding spirit we harness its power.  We  are moving along with the current and can use its energy to more easily carries downstream. 


From this space of personal authority I believe we can actively participate in creating magic transforming ourselves, our lives and the lives of those around us. 


From my point of view Saturn and Jupiter need each other.  In essence these two work hand in hand together.  Jupiter dreams and Saturn builds. 


On a very basic level Jupiter represents our beliefs from faith to philosophy.  Jupiter often reminds me of The Fool card (here we are back at Sagittarius whose domain is Jupiter’s) in the Tarot.  Representing the beginning of a journey, the person pictured is about to step off of a cliff.  Essentially he is taking a leap of faith. Wherever Jupiter lays within our chart we will find ourselves again and again being asked to take leap of faith.  To expand and move forward. 


Saturn on the other hand, and he receives far too much bad press in my mind, symbolizes moving to adulthood.  Admittedly where Saturn lies in our chart we often have a sense of fear or inadequacy and he shows  perceived limits both conscious and unconscious.  


But consider this: Before there were telescopes Saturn was the furthest visible planet.  Metaphorically, Saturn describes the visible and invisible boundaries we put on our everyday reality.  The outskirts of the reality we perceive with our inner vision.  The “story” of our limits, not our actual limits.  To own our Saturn is to move into our power to create our own lives and move past these invisible boundaries and traverse into untried territory.  In other words to move beyond our current limits and build something new. 


Jupiter thinks this is all great fun, Saturn on the other hand? He knows there is a lot of work involved.


The word disciple and disciple come from the same root.  What ever action you are taking is actively saying to the universe I am becoming a disciple of of my inner vision.  In essence I am apprenticing to my dream. This is a very powerful thing.  


Aquarius is known as the sign of the visionary, the humanitarian and the rebel. Aquarius’ job is to challenge authority, tear down existing structures, and replace the outdated with something better.  We all have Aquarius somewhere in our charts.


There is simply too much material here for a blog or email post.  With this in mind I am offering a class this Saturday, December 19,  from 10-11:30 am MST via Zoom on the Great Mutation and how to harness its energy personally as we head into 2021. The cost of the webinar is $20.  All attending will receive a recording of the class and slides of the material so you do not need to attend in person. We will cover some of the archetypes, energies and stories associated with Aquarius, (in particular through the eyes of Jupiter and Saturn) and how to use them to foster change within your own life.  There will be a brief Q & A session at the end of the session.  To register please reach out to me directly at SedonaAstrologer@gmail.com.



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