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A Coping Question: What Else is Going On?

The ending is coming up to the beginning of this post. I was about to end with this but decided it may be better to ‘go here’ first. I often use this question in order to bring myself into a state of wholeness and balance, if not harmony. People are chanting, police are watching, emotions are intense but what else is going on? The breeze is moving through the trees and they sway as if wanting to march too. Its a distraction but a good one to use when I need to remember that this or that moment of intensity, perhaps fear or overwhelming anger threatens to overcome and drown me — I ask, yes this is so, this is what’s happening but what else is going on? Am I breathing? Go there. What is the weather right now? See about it, looking up. What kind of clouds are in the sky? What else is going on? There’s always so much more. It helps. And it has helped me a lot lately.

We can’t Breathe

This first paragraph may be intense but I’d like to end this with some insight or guidance that may be helpful. We’ll see. But first, it takes courage to march, to chant “We Can’t Breathe!” and “Hands up; Don’t Shoot!” In a mask on a hot day in a pandemic and in the midst crying and feeling like so many have felt; how can one pretend to know how it must feel. But we try; we heard his cry along with so many others and we demonstrate and call out his name while on one knee… mask wet with tears.

Insane World

POTIS is out of his mind yet people still think to vote Republican will keep them in the $dough$ somehow — greed over basic humanity? Military in the streets? Global Warming and Environmental Protections deleted by the Trump machine ( and did he really say it’s a great day for George Floyd on the day of his funeral? What?) Hey, if I just arrived here from another world, and observed The Donald and his military minions while knowing what America stands for, I’d say this guy is trying NOT to be re-elected. (Inject Bleach… what?) Looks like he’s doing something more outrageous every day; is it some great experiment to test people’s loyalty to inhumane craziness for the love of their money? their stocks? their 401K? Really? What?

If you were trying to NOT be re-elected and your ego was too big to say you don’t want the job anymore, all that Trump and his machines are doing is one way to achieve that. But then I can’t really try to figure out a crazy mind or I risk craziness myself.

One thing though. Maybe Trump could see that people all over the world were protesting what happened here in America… can he now see how we are all one humanity? Did some of the sleep fall from his eyes?

Tarot Question about the Pandemic

And then there’s the Pandemic. What do my cards say about that? Let’s just go there for a moment. Back in early May, there was a moment when I grabbed my cards and asked a question about having to go back into shut down due to the coronavirus, COVID-19. I used a timeframe in the question, August. If memory serves me, August 1st was how it was worded. The answer that I received was ‘yes’.

I would like to turn to divination again and ask if we will be closing things down again anytime in August or September. I am focused on my area (North Carolina) in what is usually referred to as ‘the south’ so generally this is the area that I have in mind as I pose the question. Circumstances have changed since I first asked this question in early May; many people think that the pandemic is over and have stopped wearing masks and thumb-their-noses, to turn a phrase, at COVID. How much does group-mind create our group experience? If at all?

But for now, the question is will COVID resurge and require shutdowns in August or September? Ace Wands, The High Priestess, Ace of Cups. The YES indicator is the Ace of Cups in the last pile.

Ace of Cups, High Priestess, Ace of Wands — Yes spread

The High Priestess is adding some further information. It may actually be validating the question itself, thus validating the answer. What I mean is that The High Priestess often indicates retreat and being passive; going inward which is what we do when we stay home or our city goes into some level of shut down. Note the eyes being covered in the image of the High Priestess in this deck (Herbal Tarot). The card meaning relates to being non-active, being calm, waiting patiently — that certainly sounds like a lockdown or shut down. This card also alludes to something previously unknown being revealed; something that has been hidden. Secrets being revealed and the unknown future are key focused intuitions that spark when I look at this card. Maybe the group-mind will have some major part to play yet; and let us hope in a positive way. The world is uniting in ways that we might not choose but the world has been uniting through the pandemic, police brutality and economic inequality. Meanwhile, don’t let it depress you, anger you, or make you fearful.

I say this to myself and to anyone who reads this too: Remember, there is always something else going on. When all else fails, remember the big sky consciousness and always look up. Find the moon or stars or even the dark clouds if that’s all you can see for the moment but know that they will pass and the Sun, Moon, and Stars will shine for you again.

The transiting Sun just entered Pisces as I write this post. The exact time was yesterday 2/18/20 at 11:58 pm Eastern. If you were born with your Sun in Pisces, Happy Birthday! What could a Sun transiting through Pisces mean for the rest of us?

Before attempting to answer that, the reply should actually be qualified by what house (s) contain the sign of Pisces in your birth chart and what aspects (connections to) other transiting or birth planets affect its energy.

That said, generally speaking here, I will review transiting Sun in Pisces in common terms so as not to complicate matters.

The basics. The Sun travels around the zodiac (all the houses in the chart) or if you prefer the dictionary definition of zodiac, an imaginary band in the heavens centered on the ecliptic that encompasses the apparent paths of all the planets and is divided into 12 constellations or signs each taken for astrological purposes to extend 30 degrees of longitude.

So Sun has just moved through 30 degrees of the previous constellation of Aquarius and into Pisces. Basic meanings of the Sun itself include phrases such as where a person shines or one’s purpose on an external world/visible level. Sun rules the 5th house of a chart and thus is associated with creativity and vitality. While the Moon relates more to the inner world of moods/emotions, the Sun relates more so to the outer world of personality/ego. The Sun is connected with the archetype of how one identifies one’s self and how one wishes to be seen by others. The Sun is associated with one’s will and determination.

So how do those Sun qualities out-picture the sign of Pisces? What can you or I expect to affect those qualities in our own life when the Sun moves into Pisces?

I will attempt to use my own chart as a reference here and hope that doing so will add to the reader’s understanding of astrology. There is a need for me to sort of meditate, contemplate, or sit with the combination of a Sun/Pisces blend in order to receive some insight about how I can answer that for myself.

Recall that Pisces is ruled by Neptune (ruler of the 12th house) and so those qualities relate to dreaminess, spirituality or higher-consciousness, the subconscious, as well as escapism and confusion. I always think of Pisces in relation to a need for discernment or the flip side of that the delusions associated with a lack of trust.

Here one has to remember that the house of the planet and sign has an influence as well as the ruling planets. Astrology is like synchronizing energy. Personally, that’s why I like it since I enjoy reading those energy signatures. But in this post, I’m going to try to keep it simple if I can.

So a blend of will, determination, and purpose combined with spirituality or spiritual path — for me, that’s how I see the Sun in Pisces energy affecting my life. I used my intuition as I combined those qualities as well as my own current life experience. As I considered the Sun transiting in Pisces in my life now, there has been a shift in how I’m doing daily meditation.

It does require some application of will but not too much since meditation is not to be tight or contain too much concentration. So that will and that purpose (Sun)combined with the mind/higher consciousness and spiritual path (Pisces) makes sense in my life at this time. Revisiting a meditative focus on the jhanas (deeper states of meditative concentration) on more profound levels than at previous times in my life is my overwhelming calling at this time. And a recent intuitive calling to do this does relate with the timing of this Sun in Pisces transit.

You can go to www.astro.com to create your own birth chart for free *(of course, you must know your time of birth) in order to determine where (what house) the Pisces Sun is transiting in your chart.

In my case, the transiting Sun in Pisces has just entered my 7th house (relationships to others) and will touch into my 8th house before the Sun moves into Aries. Issues related to my 7th house of relating to others may come into play for me between now and mid-March when the Sun moves our of Pisces. That last part has to be kind of general leastwise if it isn’t there will be an entire chart interpretation to follow.

One last piece that could be added is that the transit will trigger the birth Sun area and pull that dynamic into the scene. For me, that’s my 2nd house Libra Sun, Neptune, Moon stellium in Libra. So lots of Libra energy connections affecting what I value in the world and how I relate to myself as well as others especially with regard to my spiritual purpose and how I use my will to express it or enhance it.

I hope this reflection on the Pisces Sun Transit blog post will interest readers new to astrology and be helpful to anyone who may stumble upon this.

And may you be happy!