Trust the Planets! Update

tornadophoto taken by Eric Nguyen.

Back in early 2007 I did a reading for a woman whose husband of many years had just left her.  She called me because she wanted some help in figuring out a way to try to get him back. I told her that while I may not be able to help her to get her husband back, we would be able to glean more information about what was going on behind the scenes that caused this to happen.  When we did her reading her transits showed lots of Jupiter events and Uranus influences, indicating liberation and freedom rather than despair and sadness.

In October of that year we did a follow-up session, which I wrote about (rather obliquely) n an article I called “Trust the Planets.” We have done a couple of other sessions since then, and my client told me that she printed out the article and put it right on her desk where she could be constantly reminded that sometimes endings are really new beginnings.

We’ve done a few other follow-up sessions since then to look at the unfolding planetary cycles to see how they might affect the legalities of the divorce and impact on the children, and each time it has been clear that the planets had the wisest advice.  After our most recent session I was so happy to receive this letter.

I am writing to say thank you — your readings have helped me get through an extremely difficult period

When my husband of 27 years walked out unexpectedly, I sought your guidance. My first question was how can you help me bring him back. You read both of our charts and sweetly advised me to move forward. You told me not to look back and you gently encouraged me to start a new life.

A few months later I contacted you again. This time you were more specific, you told me that even though I was feeling devastated and frightened the planets showed that I was about to embark on an incredibly exciting time of change and liberation. You said the planets don’t lie….so I trusted you.

AND YOU WERE RIGHT!!

Now almost 2 years later, my life is better than I could have ever dreamed. My husband’s leaving was a gift to me – the gift of freedom….

Thank you!!

From a 50-something lady who Trusts the Planets

Even for those of us who are not traditionally religious, when we study the movement of the planets and their effect on our lives, we see there is an irrefutable plan to our lives that carries us through all of life’s situations into positive growth and change, if we allow ourselves to believe that such a thing is possible. Each of us has the choice at every moment whether to sink into the morass of despair during difficult times, or to trust in the power of Life to carry us through to greater wisdom and understanding.

It’s true that not every terrible thing occurs during a transit of Jupiter, where liberation and new possibilities await us.  Sometimes we are faced with the devastation of a difficult Pluto cycle, where we are forced to let go of a life that we relied on for stability and comfort.  Even in those times, there is a glimmer of light at the horizon and a new day preparing to begin.  At those times in particular, trust and faith in the wisdom of the Universe will help us to understand the purpose of the challenge and help us to make our way through the darkness toward the light.  It is perhaps no coincidence that rainbows appear after a storm, and not before.

This quote from William Newton Clarke says it beautifully:  ”Faith is the daring of the soul to go father than it can see.”

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A Life of Abundance in a Contracting World

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art by Melanie Weidner

As many of you know, one of the paradigms by which I live is that we are the co-creators of our reality.  A healthy capitalist economic system is based on this premise:  When consumers feel prosperous, they buy stuff.  When they buy stuff, the people who manufacture the goods make more stuff, they create more jobs, and their profits increase and they pay their employees more which causes them to feel more prosperous and they buy more stuff.  The company is stronger and wealthier and the stock price rises, which creates more optimism in the stock market.

When Pluto was in Sagittarius, between 1995 and 2008, this process of optimism creating abundance, which is after all a Sagittarian expansionist theme, became corrupted and rather than a healthy balance of optimism fueling production, we had an economy that was based on sheer optimism and speculation.  The globalization that spread like wildfire under Pluto in Sagittarius (the expansion of Sagittarius also includes travel and exploration of foreign cultures) caused the loss of over 3 million jobs in the United States.  It can be argued that this contraction in the United States produced the expansion of the economies of China and Inda among others, but the point here is that this contraction of the US economy was not reflected in the “relentless optimism” as I called it that we saw here in the US.  As a result, the economy became overinflated and the bubble has now burst and is slowly deflating.

This deflationary period is a natural one, but if we don’t understand the underlying reality we can become fearful and panicky, particularly if we lose our job.  If we aren’t careful we can get caught in a spiral of despair that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as our belief that the economy is crashing creates that reality in our own lives.  Sometimes our personal planetary cycles, especially if we are being visited by Saturn or Pluto, make it easy to slip into a gloom from which it is difficult to escape.

It is during these times that it’s particularly important to focus on the positive and create strong intentions for the life that you want.  It’s easy to be positive when life is going great, but when we’ve lost our job, or our parent has died, or our spouse has left us and taken all of our money – those are times that truly test our faith in life.

Focusing on the positive does not mean ignoring the negative.  It does not mean slapping on a happy face and avoiding real problems that affect us.  But it does mean a willingness to look for the door that is opening as one closes, and to know that we CAN create a life of prosperity and joy.

This is the principle that has guided through many a dark night of the soul, and which has helped me to create an incredible life.  It worked for Barack Obama, whose main message was Yes We Can create change in the world, Yes We Can have a government that serves the people rather than the other way around.  It will work for you too.

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