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FAR SIGHTED

Looking down the road, where would you like to see yourself? What are your plans for the future and what will it take to make them a reality? These are valid questions you actually need to ask yourself. Write your goals down on paper; post them on a visual board but most importantly, believe that it is possible to reach them.

You have to affirm and pursue these objectives wholeheartedly. You have to visualize yourself after these goals have been brought into fruition. You must believe that you will attain these goals. It is important to make these goals or objectives in life reachable. If you pursue a goal that you know is unattainable and out of reach, then you fall short. As a result, you will relate to your pursuit as a failure. If you begin with an attainable pursuit that you know, with some work, that it is reachable, when you reach it, you will gain positive energy and reinforce your attitude towards the next step.

You gain inner strength and although you had to persevere and perhaps undergo some struggles, you achieved your goal. Knowing this will enhance your ability to move forward in your future intentions with confidence and that much more willpower.

It is important to make certain that these aims are not attached to material achievement although you can also attain material things. The universe is open and will supply you with whatever you affirm within yourself regardless of its nature, but material wealth only stimulates you temporarily and leaves you wanting more in the end.

If you can establish that your focus is beyond this worldly existence, you must be willing to give up part of yourself in order to maintain a more spiritual enlightening life. You need to give up or leave behind the ego’s intent to hold dominance over others in your life. By doing so, you open the door to spiritual growth and will begin your journey.

The negative, self fulfilling ego when allowed to flourish and bloom transcends spirit to lower level self-gratification, self-adornment and egocentric behaviours. It provides satisfaction, but of a very temporary nature and shortly after, you feel empty and unfulfilled. As a result, you are filled with want and are never satisfied, always on the hunt and pushing aside anything or anyone that gets in the way.

If you push through egocentric demands and make the spiritual conquest your objective, you will discover contentment and rewards that far outweigh anything offered from ego driven quests. You open the door to perception and can fine tune with clarity the passageway beyond earthly concerns. You let go of the will to control others and are more accepting of your life’s journey. Letting go provides a channel to the innermost dimensions of your true purpose. As they say, “Let go and let God”. Allow this opportunity to enter your life. All you have to do is open the door.

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Happy Thanksgiving to our neighbours to the south!

The Birth or Natal chart is a snapshot of the heavens at the instant of your birth. It is a diagram of the precise planetary placements which is reflective of you and a roadmap of your potential and lessons possible in life. Each planet represents a quality linked directly to you (a character trait if you will) that differentiates between each and every individual. There are no two charts that are precisely the same. Even when someone is born in the same year, on the same day and at the same moment, their location of birth will differ. As a result, the overall personal characteristics change. How much of a change depending on the distance between their birth places.

The planets fall into houses. There are twelve in all, circling the horoscope. Each house is significant as they represent an area of your life’s focus. The planets located within these houses will have an impact in that area of life. With several planets located in a particular house, there will be an emphasis in that area of life.

For that instant at birth, the planets are frozen in time to create the reflection of you. This is your Natal Chart and the location of the plants will never move. Once the Natal or Birth Chart snapshot has been taken, the planets continue to move around the chart. Picture your Natal Chart with a second chart placed over the top indicating the current location of the plants. Planets all move at different speeds. Each planet takes a different length of time to move through the houses. Some of the outer planets (further distance from the Sun) move extremely slowly and will only go through 3-4 houses in your lifetime. When these outer planets (and inner planets to a lesser degree) enter into each house, they move across what is referred to as the house cusp. This cusp point is the strongest area of the chart, unless there are planetary forces located within those houses. This area of life represented by the house will become intensified during these cusp times and the nature of the planet will be enhanced.

If there are planets located in these houses in the Natal chart, the current planet moving through the house will rest on that Natal planet and interconnect, or link with its energies which in turn will influence your life. The current movement of Planets is called Transit and Progression. There are several different connections that they can make with the birth planet location. These connections are known as aspects.

The planetary locations at birth do not change and the angles between these birth planets will not change either. These interconnections define our personality and our challenges and opportunities that we are born into. Over time, they will manifest and when the transits and progressions make aspects to these birth planetary positions, they activate the birth potential.

Some of these birth aspects are challenging and when transiting planets touch these areas in your Chart, they either aggravate the life issues or present opportunities to make amends with these difficulties. When these interlinking planetary influences are in easy aspect with one another, they indicate opportunities that should be taken, or opportunities that just seem to fall into your lap. There are always lessons to be learned and during these transits we are forced or challenged to take a closer look at the alternatives we have and what we can do with these issues at hand that are ready to manifest into our current life.

Astrology never dictates what actions we will take, but does offer suggestions on how to handle the planetary energies and how long they will infiltrate our lives. We always have control of our destiny and Astrology tells what to expect and possible alternatives to situations in our lives.

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Festival of Lights

To those who celebrate, Happy Hanukkah!

PEACE AND TRANQUILITY

Are in search of peace in your life? Do you wonder where peace is found?

First and foremost you must stop searching outside of “self” for peace. It must originate internally before it can be found externally. You generate the peace you experience in life through your reaction to life’s conditions and events.

Our lives are rarely eventless for any length of time. At times, we struggle with life events and our continual unfolding story. Events in life, on occasion, take us by surprise, and we deal with circumstances through spontaneous reaction. The initial reaction is not what is in question, as we are often not mentally prepared for some circumstances but please remember, through practice, we can even take control of our initial reactions.

Once the initial reaction has been experienced, we have time to think things through. We can change our attitudes towards any given situation which in turn helps to take the sharp edge off events. We come to terms more efficiently. We must remind ourselves that we are on course. The act of holding onto hurt or challenges serves no purpose. We are continually training our mental reaction to external stimuli and as time progresses, this mental exercise becomes more automatic and more beneficial.

Our quest for peace and tranquility slowly merges with our reality and we link up with our intended path. Our direction and newly trained instinctual reaction produces a state of peace and tranquility. We no longer attach ourselves to potential shortcomings and release and move away from hurt more quick. Peace and tranquility come from that place within each of us that accepts life and all its bumps and bruises along the way. It comes from knowing that within those challenging experiences lie a place of learning and an uplifting of consciousness.

Peace and tranquility are not places that are found through searching. They are affects experienced by you from discarding old, unacceptable codes of behaviour. They are experienced as a result of your reactions that allow the positive feedback required to meet the demands of peace.

Move into a peaceful state by accepting valuable lessons, by spreading love and by caring for those that you come into contact with daily. Sharing love with close encounters actually spreads the love energy outwards for the greater whole. By doing your part to contain love internally, the automatic response is to release it. Your attitude and generosity of love is the required ingredient to find that place of peace and tranquility.

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PLUTO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MIDHEAVEN

In our last Astrology post, we touched on the Conjunction aspect and its impact on the Birth Chart. Going one step further but staying with the Conjunction, we will touch on the planet Pluto and its Conjunction to the Midheaven or MC. The Midheaven is indicative of your outer goals and aspirations as well as your occupation. At times, it is also connected to the parents.

Pluto as described in a previous post, breaking down structures in order to rebuild them with a stronger, more secure foundation in its place. The action of Pluto is neither insignificant nor restrained and when Pluto is making as aspect, you are well aware that something is going on. It is often connected to power struggles and transformations, as it seeks to change situations and basically takes control on some level.

If your midheaven is between 8-12 degrees of Capricorn, Pluto has been playing havoc with you for at least the past year. It will soon be out of orb, but the ramifications and alterations that have taken place may not be fully understood or completed for another year.

This conjunction of Pluto with your MC is considered an extremely important transit and is often life altering, in that it will affect the direction of your life. It will bring to the forefront personal issues dealing with your life’s direction. Issues connected to where you are going in life and what you are doing with your life have prominent roles now. There is a great deal of internal confrontation that takes place as well as a deep period connected with what you want to do with your life.

Frequently, the areas of career and family, as well as relationships, come under great scrutiny during this aspect and if changes need to take place, these changes will happen under this influence. Often during this aspect, the parents experience great transformations that may affect you personally. The home environment is often a source of irritation and confrontations. There are possible endings of some sort that will take place. Once the changes have happened, there will be a much more solid structure and these changes, as you will understand later, were required changes.

Pluto tears down and removes structured ways of living that are now holding you back from regenerating your life. Many of the changes that will take place are necessary in order for a redirection, if you will, of your life’s course. New interactions and connections will be brought into your life which are necessary in order for you to get where you need to go.

In general, Pluto’s action is very abrupt and difficult. It will demand your attention. There is no escaping its action as it is inevitable. At the same time, this action under this aspect is necessary for continued growth. Find out where Pluto, the planet which tears down and transforms, is empowering you in rebuilding your life.

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