Black Moon Lilith at 22 Leo

(image) Maser M 31 at the core of the Andromeda Galaxy as photographed in X-ray by the Chandra Space Observatory

(photo credit: NASA, January 2000)

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Here’s my thesis for the day: orbits aren’t round. In science, that’s just a fact - orbits tend to be egg-shaped complete with one end of the orbit being pointier than the other. (Which may, with all due respect for chickens and eggs just beg the question ‘which came first, the orbiting object or the orbit it is orbiting along?’ or some such akin to that.)

So we have these egg-ish orbital tracks. And most of them are pretty constant. But some - such as the orbit of our Luna Moon around Planet Earth - do their own little orbital dance, one which in the mind’s eye (provided you’re not feeling blind-sided) might well remind you of that child’s toy known as a Spirograph.

The tracings of a Spirograph

The Moon’s orbit being the Moon’s to moon over, what seems notable to mention at this particular point in time is the fact that the ‘short’ or ‘near’ end of that "rotating" or transiting Spirograph figure is what is known in astrology is known as Black Moon Lilith, a calculated point which like the Ascendant and other axis points (the MC, IC and Descendant) is often difficult to manage simply because this isn't a planet. Or an asteroid. Or a comet, star or dwarf planet. They all have mass. But a calculated point has no mass - and when you watch things astrological for long enough it becomes rather apparent that the metaphysics of 'mass' is related to any form of a very common expression: I'm trying to get hold of it.

Metaphysically, that's about mass. Any attribute denoted or described by an object with mass appears to be something we can develop 'habits' with (or about) - and thus we can change those habits. No one's saying such changes are easy, just that they're possible...with the real idea here being that Black Moon Lilith, in being an astrological symbol of zero mass is very hard to 'get hold of' or otherwise remain constantly and consistently aware of...which in one sense leads to a very consistent kind of perspective on the Black Moon as in the world of energetics it functions something like a ‘shadow effect’ in all of our lives, shifting through the zodiac raising this and daunting us with that, always originating from some area of thought or feeling, ethic, perception, value or awareness which we have ‘pushed away’ or abandoned outright.

As for the reference to Lilith, that would be something which ‘embodies’ something we have - individually or as a culture (or race, perhaps) turned our back on, rejected, or denied in manner which may or may not be obvious to us...or others.

Just to make this all a little more interesting, there are also two forms of Lilith: the calculated point (Black Moon Lilith) and a main belt asteroid (Lilith). And yes, there's a post on that too, if you'd like to read the long form:

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The Two Liliths 

The effects of Black Moon Lilith are not always entirely noticeable in our busy moment-by-moment days, but we do feel them. They're there even if they're that itch you can't quite scratch, that certainty you can’t quite define and that uncertainty which, try as you may, you can’t quite resolve...at least not to the degree of relaxed satisfaction.

As for why Black Moon Lilith seems worth taking time to think through in this moment, that would be because Black Moon Lilith moves into 22 Leo on September 17th (UT/+0)...and 22 Leo just happens to be the degree Jupiter (the desire to get ahead, achieve, expand one’s understanding/ability) will go station/direct in come this December.

Technically... (read: in the short run)... the Black Moon will only be in 22 Leo until early on September 26th (UT/+0). But it still seems worth our while to be on the ‘lookout’ for social and/or societal clues as to where you’re going to be (most of all with your Self) or be facing come mid-late December 2014 - and in this regard, the Black Moon is a metaphysical signpost we are all being given (even if what we do with it is our business).

To understand how this will function in your life, obviously the first place you need to look is at your personal chart, complete with sign, degree, aspects and all the usual contemplation. Then, where does 22 Leo fall in your natal chart?

As for 22 Leo as a degree, it’s a sensitive one - which you may read as ‘emotionally sensitive’ or ‘psychically sensitive’ or any other kind of sensitive as seems applicable, given the rest of your nature (and chart). There is a need to be of use and help in the world, plus a need to learn how to value and be valued properly - which is to say, not too much and not too little. This degree carries with it a quality of anxiety which is often made worse by attempts to ‘cope’ with the problem rather than deal with the reaction to it (the anxiety) which in the long run is really the problem - and as I say that (typing to you as I look up the Sabian Symbol)... well evidently that anxiety could be deserved - at least at some level.

Sabian 23 Leo (Zodiacal 22 Leo):

In a circus, the bareback rider displays her dangerous skill.

Keynote:

 The audacity and perseverance required to control and play with the powerful energies of the vital realm in human existence.

Astrologer Marc Edmund Jones wrote of this degree as one which in being both vital and creative is the driving engine behind spectacular human feats. In commenting on this degree Astrologer Dane Rudhyar typifies it as that which turns ego into imagination and inventiveness, providing us with the insight as to our own potential for dramatic native virtuosity.

And yet this showmanship cannot be ego-aware. The moment it turns into a means to receive those accolades or those longed for rewards and/or advantages, that’s when the shadow of the Black Moon becomes the gaping vulnerability which though perhaps not apparent to others, nonetheless swallows us unimpeded.

Nor is the Black Moon going to be lighting its 22 Leo September-to-December ‘shadow torch’ on its own.

As the Black Moon begins activating needs imbedded beyond conscious perception on September 17th, so too will Europa (getting carried away) and Hestia (structural protection/protection of life structures) move on station to turn retrograde as of September 19th. And since both of these influences originate in Taurus and any turn to retrograde means the symbolic energy is turned ‘inward,’ the whole of this September 17 through 21 station will like as not test our ability to balance control against lack of productive participation, maintaining (or supporting) our personal sense of [Taurus] ‘having things secured’ as part of the process. Mind you, with Hestia (a guardian figure of home, hearth, family and state) in this mix there may be something we need to ‘guard against’ or take proper care of here, whether that thing would be doing our homework, nursing a drippy cold or remaining aware of some job effort, social obligation or merely our erratic temper.

There’s also the idea that the degree Europa is going retrograde in (19 Taurus) is one which tends to get bogged down or which ‘chases around in circles,’ which may well lead to much action and many words while also acting as a ‘symptom’ of the underlying (subconscious, rejected, misunderstood) Black Moon matters. Plus with Hestia on station and conjunct Europa in a degree (14 Taurus) known for beating a full retreat as well as doing much (too much) out of an abundance of instinctive (perhaps spiritual) beliefs there are likely to be more than a few ‘turnabouts’ during this time.

In point of fact, the whole of this week seems to be one long series of patchwork overlays. Europa and Hestia going retrograde on the 17th is not only its own event but also serves to mark a beginning the Cubewano (and possible dwarf planet candidate) station-retrograde moment for TNO Chaos.

Unlike Neptune-influenced Plutinos like Pluto, Ixion and Huya which test our ability to keep our dreams either separate or strongly rooted in fact, Chaos is a [Cubewano] symbol of something which exists apart from all other influences.

And what is that ‘something’? That something is all about possibility. Endless possibilities. Originally a symbol of that sort of fertility which promises there are more ideas yet to be had, and that the Sun will yet come up again tomorrow, the energy of Chaos is generally the proverbial ‘light bulb moment’ which starts some inspirational process. And here? Well, in going direct at 19 Gemini, Chaos presents us with a variety of [Gemini] choices - none of which are likely to utterly delight us... at least not in the short run. The Sabian symbol for this degree (‘A modern cafeteria displays an abundance of food, products of various regions’) being plainly multi-regional, multi-cultural or even international, the image being presented is about nourishment (food) of various kinds, some of which is foreign to us - an idea which fits very well with the endless source which is TNO Chaos.

And then we add in asteroid Apollo, which in overlapping Chaos’ station goes direct at 1 Leo a day after Chaos goes retrograde (on the 22nd, to be exact). Representing truth (the light of truth) and general enlightenment of every informative and curative kind, asteroid Apollo’s station at 1 Leo shines a light on vulnerabilities not as a negative but as something which gives us a chance to relate to others - and maybe more importantly, relate to our Self.

Our oh-so mortal Self.

For reasons mentioned before (read: because of a newly installed back injury) I will mention all this then let you think it all through...pausing only for one moment more to point out how all of this is happening during the run-up to Pluto going station-direct on September 23rd in tandem with the Sun moving into Libra, a fact which gives everything about this Black Moon-Europa-Hestia-Chaos-Apollo sequence something of a hint of ‘cosmic prelude’ preceding the bringing of all into [Libra] balance for good, for bad, for all it can possibly be worth.

So yes, everything about such moments are valid in the moment that they become: individual global transits will evidence their effects in and across all our days in all their symbolic if sometimes subtle manifestation.

And while all that is happening, time and our Black Moon Lilith timings will also be weaving all of this and more together seamlessly, bringing us to a place where no matter who has denied what we are ready to face another round of Plutonic transformations and the chance (or risk) of being transformed as we pursue our relationship to life and our place among others on this planet we call our world.
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The Taurus Solar Eclipse

 The annular solar eclipse of May 2012 (at 0 Gemini) as

 photographed in New Harmony, Utah by makelessnoise

 
This May’s solar eclipse is not a total eclipse. It’s an annular eclipse, meaning that even as the Earth, Moon and Sun come into alignment (with the Moon in the middle), there will still be a “ring” of the Sun – the solar rim – left visible. This means that the brilliant streams, the ‘halo’ which has so awed mankind for thousands of years is not going to be part of this eclipse.

Are annular eclipses thought to function differently than total eclipses in astrological terms? Somewhat, yes, though the basic time period involved is still thirty six months (3 years) and all eclipses, total, annular or otherwise (yes, there are a few more variations on this theme) come with a quirk or ‘twist’ as we get to the end of that time, providing that  eclipse aspects our natal chart (or the chart of a company or whatever else you’re concerned with) with any acuity.

So let’s get to that part. This eclipse is going to be at 19 Taurus and the basic (standard) allowance for any conjunction is within 5 degrees either way. So if in your natal chart (or any other chart which is important to you, be that the chart of a relationship, a child or the chart of your company – even a product) has any point in it which falls between 14 Taurus and 23 Taurus, that point is being eclipsed through conjunction.

 
The diagram above is of the ‘natural’ zodiac wheel – starting with Aries at the Ascendant (“9 o’clock”) and working around the wheel counter-clockwise with Pisces ending up just above the Ascendant, at what we would think of as between 9 and 10 o’clock on the face of a clock.

As you look around this diagram, you’ll see the degrees of each sign which are going to be affected by this eclipse. You’ll also see notations differing approaching from departing signs.

What does that mean? That refers to the a situation or effort pertaining to ‘departing’ from the norm or status quo (or which forces you to depart from the norm or status quo) as opposed to an energetic which is about trying to bring something into being, or learning about something new.

These differences are subtle, yet important. Take the squares to this eclipse. Squares being often the most difficult for most of us to manage, how would the departing square (Leo) differ from the approaching square (Aquarius) apart from the fact that these are two entirely different signs?

The question is the goal (Aquarius) versus the basis upon which one is working (Leo). If you think of the eclipse as a ‘rattling’ force, the ground the Leo effort is being built on is now ‘rattled.’ The goal the Aquarian effort is aiming at? The goal itself may change, or what it takes to get there may change, or this may be a moment when you realize that something you’ve been working towards is not going to scratch that itch or fulfill your true dreams.

Something gets in the way now, and that ‘something’ is the eclipse, which by giving your sense of security a shudder, causes you to think again. Or maybe you just weren’t thinking in sensible terms to begin with? That may happen too.

Conjunctions are the vital force, the ‘I can’t see the forest for the trees, nor would I want to while all the trees are falling on me’ sort of thing. Anyone who has what we’ll refer to as a ‘vitally personal point’ in Taurus is going to feel this eclipse in a very personal way.

What are those vital points? Those would include the personal planets: Sun (life, will, goals, consciousness, intellect), Moon (feelings, money, unconscious, family, culture, home/homeland, past), Mercury (mentality, choices, activities, priorities), Venus (values, resources, security, satisfaction) and Mars (assertion/assertiveness, motivation, energy, drive, actions/activities).

An Aries Wheel (location not specific) of the annular Solar Eclipse

which will take place on May 10, 2012 at 0:30 a.m. (UT/+0) 

This would also include the Ascendant: your personality, physicality and manner of doing things. It would include your Descendant: how your interactions with others and your world creates that which you get as a response from others or the world. Also included here would be the Midheaven or MC (the top of the chart): your worldly status and all that you achieve and/or are ‘seen as,’ and the IC or Nadir, the bottom of the chart which is what you stand on (and for), your basis of operations (mental, physical, financial or emotional) and where you ‘stand’ with yourself.

The last thing on this list would be the Nodes, North and South. They represent relationships and our ability to relate, whether that’s to friends, family, co-workers, the world and it goes ‘round and ‘round – the whole thing.

When you experience an eclipse by conjunction, whether total or annular or any other kind, you will find that there is something which is ‘wiped out’ or taken away from you. Because this eclipse is happening in Taurus, this may at some level be your experience of security or satisfaction with yourself, your life, what you’ve been doing or how you’ve been doing it. The phrase ‘your experience’ is italicized here because your actual security (as in, your life, your ability to survive) may not be endangered in the least bit. But something is amiss. Some part of your world will not be feeling as secure as assured, as satisfying as it had been before this eclipse came along.

These effects have probably been growing on you now for some two months or so. Solar Eclipses are notorious for their ‘lead in’ effects, which I often refer to as a ‘breaking down’ of something. That ‘something’ has to do with the eclipse, which in this case is coming at us from an emotional degree of Taurus (19 Taurus) which lore suggests is a difficult degree many of us will tend to react to with what might be called ‘emotional listlessness.’ For the moment, our gung-ho has been de-gunged, and we aren’t all that happy about it.

Wherever Taurus appears in your chart, by aspect, by house, whatever…this is where the energy of this eclipse is going to come ‘at’ you.

But all is not lost. The Sabian Symbol for 19 Taurus being WISPS OF WINGLIKE CLOUDS STREAMING ACROSS THE SKY, as Dane Rudhyar suggests, many of us are going to be aware of spiritual processes at work. Everything happens for a reason, they say. So if you can, even if this is a difficult time, try to see it as an opportunity not to meet up with greater difficulties in the future. We are being given a ‘check point’ here so we will stop and consider – carefully – what it is going to take to achieve our aims, and if those aims are really the ones we want (or need) to achieve.

Not that we should expect this process to be easy or simple. There is a t-square which comes with this eclipse. It looks like this:

All t-squares present us with a challenge which asks that we get past thinking about the issue in terms of our Self. Generally, the lesson is about taking some stance or insisting on doing something in a manner which doesn’t work for others, that idea coming from the idea that t-squares always involve an ‘opposition point’ which by definition means one end of the t-square is in a public or worldly sign with the other being in a personal sign.

This particular t-square starts with the North Node in Scorpio, a requirement that we understand others and allow for the differences between ourselves and others, forging a platform of alliance. Fighting won’t work, particularly fighting which violates the Deucalion morality clause. TNO Deucalion is an object which seems to embody a joint message about ‘finding our way’ and sorting through questions of morality about ‘building a world.’

Deucalion entered Scorpio back in May of 2003 and will be in Scorpio until September 2027, meaning this is a time when we all are supposed to face issues of morality in building our world, personal and global. BUT…! As we say that, the Scorpio part of this says it’s not up to one person or one segment of life or the world to define what ‘moral’ is. That we – as individuals and nations and various other kinds of factions have a problem with that is obvious.

And this is a time when those difficulties are supposed to become obvious. The problem you never see, after all, is the problem you’ll never confront or contemplate fixing.

The ‘t’ of this t-suare is Juno (self discipline or discipline of the self), Icarus (haste) and Sualocin, a fixed star which is all about the burning desire to be effective, well thought of…let’s just say ‘validated’ or ‘accredited’ or ‘appreciated,’ whichever works best for your situation.

Presented in Aquarius, this sets up some (sigh…) standard Scorpio-Aquarius conflicts.  One rather common form of this conflict frames up as ‘localized’ power not being global power. So just because your ‘group’ thinks you’re the cat’s meow that doesn’t mean everybody is going to agree with you…and thus, if you go out onto the veldt, some lion may bite you.

This is a call to conceive of universality in more universal terms. And that gets to the hard part of this square: thinking in either less OR more precise terms. Aquarius calls for preciseness, clarity and a truth which works across the board, not just as you define it. Just recently someone wrote me suggesting that some asteroids could have ‘localized’ or purely individualized meanings. Their basis for argument was that there are just so darned many of the things!

And yes, there are!

But they’re all part of the same Existence. And that’s the Aquarian point. We are all part of the same existence, and though we may not all become botanists, botany as a concept is part of each of our lives. Any point is in every chart. So astrology has to function from a universal perspective. The emphasis is unique to each chart, the meanings of the points in each and every chart must have a universal meaning.

Typically, Aquarius is the sign of income and worldly success. It is the sign of systems and groups – and acceptance in a group or by a group. Aquarius is the sign of ‘mass markets’ and social bodies from corporations to your local parent/teacher organization to your community to those who belong to your profession – and so on. If you’re marketing, Aquarius is not your audience but it is the acceptance of your product in the greater marketplace.

Aquarius only works when we are able to access and accept being part of the many and finding our unique place in the mass of information and functionality which is life. Life wants us to participate. But life will not accept us when we simply demand that things be the way we want to define them, whether the subject is your relationships, your outlook on life, your behavior, the abilities you bring to your job - whatever.

That’s the ‘hurdle’ in this eclipse t-square. The goal is all that Taurean stuff in the diagram – the freedom to be who we imagine ourselves being (Child), the knowledge (Pallas) that we’re okay and that we have an ability to move forward in life without having to worry about every little step or moment (Sun/Moon/Lilith), our having some conviction in what we’re doing (Mercury) and our ability to tolerate a world which offers us much but which isn’t always what we think it is…or what we’d like it to be (Mars/Menkar).

Yet there is a level at which this ‘solution’ to the t-square is not as described. Yes, it could be that. And maybe we’d like it to be that. But let’s remember – that’s where the eclipse is hitting.

So the goal – as a goal – that goal is being either taken away entirely, or supplanted by some new formulation that we can’t see yet.

At least not clearly. This being an annular eclipse, the image is of a ‘right of fire’ around the darkened disc of the Moon. So there is something awesome and beautiful out there for us. It just requires that we let go of what we have been holding onto on a daily basis (as represented by the Moon) so that we can get there.

And that may hurt. It may be perplexing. Even confusing. Looking back to Juno at the ‘t’ of the t-square, something we have been ‘disciplining’ ourselves or working long and hard to achieve may now be being taken away by some force which is entirely beyond our control.

Life is proving to be bigger than we are. Juno’s presenting it’s ‘hurdle’ in Aquarius suggests a societal or social, group…maybe even income-oriented effort.

A solar map - the path of the eclipse projected onto the map of our world showing

where the eclipse will be visible (greatest visibility will be along the red line in the

center of the image). Those who study eclipse maps say that greatest effects are

along the longitudes where the eclipse starts or ends, and that sometimes we see

connections between these two points or longitudes.

 (Image produced by Solar Fire v8)    

Is the message that we shouldn’t try? Or that we need to change the nature of our trying – or maybe the scope of the outcome?

Probably the latter. That would be consistent with Juno-Sualocin in Aquarius. We want to master something. We want to achieve something. We want to achieve mastery at least over our innermost vulnerabilities.

And maybe we will. We’re just not going to do it right now. Those whose charts have points falling within the ‘sensitive’ degrees indicated above are going to have to make a few changes.

Or…maybe now is when you have the opportunity to make a few changes?

Eclipses aren’t known to be nature’s most genteel force. The conjunction by eclipse is akin to life swallowing you whole for a while. The opposition faces us down with something we had hoped we’d never have to learn. The two inconjuncts tell us that we need to change our attitude about something – the 6th house attitude being all about responsibility, methodology and mental continuity and the 8th house attitude being about questions of risk-versus-power.

Then there is the sextile. Sextiles are always opportunities. Not to be confused with the sextile (60 degrees) is the semi-sextile (30 degrees) which is an ego-bruising aspect which tends to require that we reconsider values and priorities.

Then there are the squares. When an eclipse squares our natal chart placements something throws us off track or derails us. We are challenged to handle a lot of input delivered suddenly from an unexpected direction. If we’re lucky, we learn something intrinsically valuable about ourselves in the process. If we’re not lucky, we hit ‘overload’ and get so overwhelmed we get close to nothing done, if sometimes for totally obvious reasons.

Last are the squares. Though more subtle than other eclipse aspects, the eclipse by trine often alters our life through something ongoing, or something we didn’t know would end. And then it does.

Nor are we done yet. Not only does this eclipse come equipped with a t-square, it also includes two grand trines:

This first one also touches on North Node, House (feeling at home with ourselves or with what we’re doing) and Deucalion – an important idea since this tells us why we will come into this time feeling  so ‘rooted’ in our individual Scorpio forms of how we want things to work.

The trine to Pisces speaks to an underlying and ongoing sense of wanting to fix things (Chiron). We want not to be affected by fears which keep popping up (Achernar/Medusa) and we certainly want to make good on our (Orpheus/Tantalus) promise.

The other trine – to Cancer – speaks of our need to follow the steps which take us from planting to harvest (Ceres) and while on one hand we recognize the need to keep learning, Charybdis/Sirius also has us leaning on whatever long-standing ‘basis of personal emotional operation’ we have built up until now.

Grand Trines are notoriously difficult to break out of. But when we look at the grand trine above in light of its aspects to the eclipse, we see Medusa in Pisces and the North Node and House in Scorpio are both in line to be eclipsed.

That tells us that this eclipse is about moving us past our Medusa fears of what we might have to learn about ourselves and whatever reluctance we have about moving out of our (North Node/House) ‘comfort zone’ in our relationships with others.

Put more plainly: if we want to succeed going forward, things have to change.

The other grand trine which is part of this eclipse is a variation on one we’ve seen before now:

If you didn’t catch these posts, you may want to read them to get the fullest view:

Saturn in Scorpio

Neptune, Fomalhaut, Deneb: Dissolving Walls

Differing from the other two planetary pictures, this one is not aspected to the eclipse. And that’s an interesting metaphysical note since the degree Saturn went retrograde at back in mid-February (11 Scorpio) is the degree of the eclipse we will experience come this November. By itself, that would seem to draw a line from February to November, as if life is giving us this ‘space’ in which to make changes…a ‘space’ which is not being directly altered by the eclipse.

That, on a metaphysical level, would tend to say that while this eclipse may be about something entirely different from that which you’re trying to (Saturn) accomplish this year, it could also be trying to liberate you from some sort of personal ‘sticking point’ which is getting in the way of those things you are trying to accomplish this year.

The one item which probably merits the most commentary in this grand trine however (at least to this astrologer) is the involvement of Vesta in Cancer. Vesta is about our promises, and the ‘cost’ of keeping those promises, whether that means sacrifice, money or having to move away from some long-cherished (or simply comfortable) situation, position or idea.

This grand trine suggests that there is an ‘ongoing’ (grand trine) ‘cost’ which must be paid if we are going to make our (Neptune, Fomalhaut, Deneb) dreams a (Saturn) reality.

And let us not forget the great Neptune/Fomalhaut challenge: corruption and coerciveness are not going to lead to success. If you’re thinking you can ‘get past’ something by insisting or arguing or ignoring someone, you’re certainly free to try. But if you’re doing that because you are trying to shield yourself from your own emotional vulnerabilities (wherever they stem from) or if you are harming anybody (including but not limited to yourself) in the process…if you are trying to ignore standards of acceptable behavior or standards of decency, you’re likely to meet up with more trouble than success.

And that isn’t going to change because of this eclipse. We know that because the eclipse (at 19 Taurus) is not in aspect to Fomalhaut/Neptune - at least not an old-fashioned standard Ptolemaic aspect.

In the eight weeks leading into this eclipse we have all been through many trying moments. We’ve seen terrible things happen, we’ve had tradeoffs in our personal life which feel….okay. But there’s still been an inordinate, overhanging, inescapable sense of being under a microscope of our own devising.

Things may happen. Things have happened. But the fact that we feel them so acutely is at the core of this eclipse. With all the analysis said and done and delved into and delineated, still we are left with the simplest of simple mortal questions: WHY?

Why does life do these kinds of things to us? What good can come from it?

Answer: much good and we need to re-learn a certain kind of emotional awareness, lest we assume there’s nothing left to do.

That would be true because life is not about having everything be easy. That’s the message provided by Menkar being part of this eclipse. And yes, why I made sure to write the post on Menkar so you could read it prior to the eclipse.

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Menkar: Soul, Searching

A couple of years ago we saw Aldebaran, the royal star of integrity, get eclipsed. Immediately in its wake a bunch of public figures take a great tumble for their lack of integrity. We also heard integrity become a huge subject of public conversation.

This year we are likely to hear a lot of Menkar stories. And as that happens, those of us who are not stumbling over our fears (or our denial that we too are vulnerable like the rest of the human race) will take stock of what needs doing and dealing with and begin walking that road.

The good thing there is that we will be walking in the good and human company of all the other people who have also just shed their mental masks in favor of owning their humanity.

And maybe that will help us reach out to each other…and help one another…

…And together, with soulful openness we can achieve our goals without the ego-striving which is so common with the drive to succeed. That well may be the way to turn Juno-Sualocin from detriment and hurdle to glorious, universal power – by getting past whatever our fears are about who we are (or aren't)...or about what we have or don't have - or what someone else has or doesn't have. Our differences are important, no question. And at some level, they define us - especially when we utilize them in becoming respected, supported and even admired by others.

But all that pales into meaningless vapor when we forget that beyond the networking is the realm where we accept being accepted as part of a whole which is only whole when we ourselves are whole. And when in being ourselves, we add to the functionality of the whole.

It is what we do and how we do it which reveals why we do anything. That's the level at which others, consciously or unconsciously and react to us. 

Those barriers, those boundaries, wherever we are blind to our own potentials and limiting factors, those issues are now coming to the fore and being eclipsed.

Where we go from here...? That's up to us.  

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