Yes, well, I did put an exclamation point after that word in the heading. I finally figured out how to add a “sign up for blog form” on my newer website (JoyStarPsychicAstro.com). I’ve been told that the Goog likes websites that continually add content. Therefore, I created a blog for astrology on that website but the WordPress theme I’d chosen for that website didn’t have a widget for that. All that means in WordPress terms was that an RSS needed to be created and linked to it. Sounds easy? It wasn’t–not for me anyhow.
Slow brain here (getting old) that’s not to computer savvy resulted in way too many hours invested to achieve the goal. But today? Yes, today! Finally, I have it (mostly) figured out. I signed up for my own astrology blog post and it actually arrived in my email box! Thus the reason for the exclamation point in the header subject.
Below I have included are some of the recent astrology posts that were part of my herculean efforts. I hope someone out there will find them useful.
Once you are on the website, you may like to sign up for the astro blog posts. I’m no astrological whiz kid but share what I know.
I will continue to blog here, however, and will remain at sending out my newsletters “Thoughts Along The Path” as well.
Here are links to the most recent astrology posts . . .
Originally known as the Goddess of Agriculture; thus the wheat in her arms and the harvesting sickle astrological symbol
Both men and women have a fathering function symbolized by Saturn. The Moon symbolizes the maternal function, as well as Ceres. The asteroid centers in my psyche are perhaps newly energized or activated in that I’ve been thinking (and writing) about the goddesses Juno, Pallas and Vesta. Today, I am turning toward Ceres so see what I can learn about this energy as it applies to my life and to incorporate some knowledge. That, then, is the point or focus of this post today. Ceres.
Here’s one archetype of Ceres (AKA Demetris drawn from the mythology of Persephone, her missing daughter take by Pluto). Parent-child complexes are associated with Ceres. C.G. Jung wrote, “Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother; every woman extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter.” On a practical level, in a horoscope, the location of Ceres points to information about the mothering function especially with regard to issues of attachment and freedom.
According to mythology, Ceres was unwilling to allow Persephone to have freedom of choice and it is said that Persephone was overly attached to her mother. Therefore, natural as well as un-natural nurturing are archetypes of Ceres. The House and Sign of Ceres in a natal chart can indicate how we feel about nurturing and maybe even how we nurture ourselves.
As with all planets in a chart, aspects to those points modify them a great deal; therefore in a chart, one must look to the connections Ceres is making to other parts of the psyche.
I’m going to look at my own Ceres in my birth chart now to see what I can determine in my effort to expand this center in my consciousness. My Ceres is in my 9th house, in Taurus, retrograde squaring Mars and Pluto and opposing Venus and Mercury. That’s a mouthful.
Ceres-Pluto aspects relate to the comings and goings and sharing of children. That makes sense in correlation to mythology since Pluto abducted Cere’s daughter Persephone. My life has included a divorce and the sharing of our three daughters—I can see how that particular aspect would fit me personally.
Ceres, in my natal chart, (9th house/Taurus) carries the signature of nurturing through the Earth (nature) and the physical body (in my case, exercise). Taurus is a sign that relates to (Taurus rules 2nd house) of self-worth and self-reliance; therefore, when I provide materially and physically for myself, a high degree of self-acceptance is my reward. As a side piece to this, Aries is on the cusp of my 9th house and Ceres squares it’s ruler Mars which adds that physical exercise piece – the more aggressive the exercise, the more I like it. These are qualities (via aspects, house, and sign) that modify the meaning of my natal Ceres. Much more could be said but that’s what jumps out at this moment.
The Mar/Aries piece of it relates to feeling free and independent feeds my psyche in a positive way and Ceres is expressing that in my chart.
Ceres, Asteroid in space – As above, so below
The 9th house, where my natal Ceres is located, relates not only to freedom but the pursuit of knowledge and truth. The deep feeling of accuracy there is also expansive—it is so very true that study of philosophy and spiritual truths are like a divine mother nurturing me!
Now my intention is to address the oppositions to Ceres from Venus and Mercury in my natal chart. These are oppositional, of course naturally are located in my 3rd house of communication. (For new astrologers, we come to this as 3 opposes 9 in the house system).
Mercury rules the 3rd house and is therefore strong here. (Mercury is in Scorpio and Venus is at 29° Libra). Just a bottom line interpretation here includes this: the nurturing of others through communication that is harmonious while also ‘soul-deep’. This is my work, my profession as a psychic. And it is how (I hope) that I nurture others and when being paid for my services expands the possibility of being able to be self-reliant via being nurtured in return).
Just as a final note about the opposition aspect energy: I see the opposition aspect as energy that merges with one another rather than pulling apart or opposing in a negative way. That’s how I’d like to see the energy that is an opposition aspect in a chart and often attend to the more positive slant on life in other ways, too, when possible.
Just a mini-vent here. In astrology (and what gives it a label of inaccuracy at times) is when one attempts to single out one planet in one sign in one house and make a single determination of meaning. One must take in the entire chart as a whole into consideration, otherwise, it can be so very misleading and confusing. –End Vent
This is much more than was intended to write on Ceres today. I have a client in a few moments and must end this now.
I hope if you have an interest in the Goddess Ceres, that this post was in some way helpful to you.
Here’s a link to another of my blog posts about PALLAS, JUNO, and VESTA that was posted on another site if you are interested in reading about those asteroids too.
Its probably a good day to stay home and write. The Moon is transiting my 12th house and sitting atop of my natal Pluto with Mars nearby. Could get intense in the outer world today–best to keep that intensity within the 4-walls here. Or so says the intuition. The 12th house is about seclusion and withdrawal — or at least that’s one of the archetypes. Or that’s one astrologically accepted classic model of the House 12 pattern anyway–withdrawal.
I think that its good for the soul: withdrawal, going within, terminating connections with the outer world.
Sometimes we withdraw from life or from certain situations for self-protection but what do we really want to protect ourselves from? The same thing that motivates all of us–we either seek pleasure or avoid pain.
Let’s face it. We don’t have to be martyrs in life. I don’t think it’s wrong to disengage from persons, places or things that are unpleasant if we have a choice. Sometimes we don’t but with the blessing of the universe, sometimes we do. Why not exercise the choice and not feel guilty about it?
That’s how my 12th house Moon conjunct Pluto feels about it today. I think that choice is a gift, why not use it and do so so without guilt?
I don’t know about you but sometimes my feelings of guilt, when present, seem to come from worries about what other people will think about me–people that I care about or who are important to me. Sometimes we see ourselves through other people’s eyes and that triggers those old patterns of guilt that we’ve probably carried over a number of lifetimes.
Guilt serves no purpose and is un-necessary self-criticism. Its like allowing those voices of the old Catholic nuns or critical parents or other authority figures to take over our psyche.
It serves one thing that ispurposeful however; it let’s us know that we are still working on resolving something within our own relationship to our self. We always think these things are about us versus them. We think it’s about our connection to the ‘other person’ or ‘the job’, etc. When really its about our own relationship to our own self.
In other words, in my own case, honoring my own tendencies and feelings without concern of being misunderstood or judged as being uncaring or cruel. So in that way we can see that the concern really is self-judgment.
Give self permission to embrace one’s own natural tendencies which are there for a reason and there as much for other people’s benefit as well as our own. And honor that.
One thing we learn when we withdraw is how to experience our feelings fully and to release them in full too because we are giving ourselves the space by withdrawing in order to do so.
To carry guilt is to sabotage ourselves. Withdrawal gives us the space to know ourselves, and to understand our feelings and to release them.
One way to resolve any guilt is to rebuild faith in one’s self and withdrawal creates the space for faith and self-trust to become strengthened.
I always relate the TAROT card of THE HERMIT to 12th house withdrawal energy. I think of an “old soul” (if you will) and someone more comfortable alone than with others and not because of a lack of social skills or anything of the sort. Just someone who values alone time higher than surface or shallow time with others.
The Hermit card relates to the 12th house in another way –or so I think. I liken this energy to someone who has created their own religion or their own rules to live by following the inner guidance or personal conscience. Here is someone with personal dogma and may be seen as eccentric because this is quite different than the consensus rules of society and is seeking spiritual happiness in ways that the consensus cannot understand or does not follow.
Sometimes I feel a lot like THE HERMIT and its animal counterpart THE LEOPARD. Today that feels more intense than usual — it’s one of those times.
But then again, the Moon is setting off my 12th house now highly activating Pluto so I accept that as normal for today. Once a month my inner Hermit and Leopard get kicked up to higher levels as the Moon passes through this area of my psyche.
Thus, I stay home and even write about it! 😉 wink!
Its probably a good day to stay home and write. The Moon is transiting my 12th house and sitting atop of my natal Pluto with Mars nearby. Could get intense in the outer world today–best to keep that intensity within the 4-walls here. Or so says the intuition. The 12th house is about seclusion and withdrawal — or at least that’s one of the archetypes. Or that’s one astrologically accepted classic model of the House 12 pattern anyway–withdrawal.
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