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When the Moon Transits the 11th House

September 18, 2014September 20, 2014Joy Star

The 11th. I was dreading this moment because I just don’t “get” the 11th. I have Uranus there in my personal birth chart, so I should get it and that’s what’s so frustrating. Uranus rules that house! We’re told this house [meaning this common area of our lives] has to do with community and also with hopes and fears and friends. Really? all that? Some of those archetypes come from Horary astrology and some from the opposite of it’s polarity. Makes sense, doesn’t it that if Leo/5th is about “me” then the opposite polarity is about others, the collective–therefore, groups or humanity. Could we think of the 5/11 axis in relation to me and them? And could them be friend or those of like mind? Or those in the community that are a selective group, a singular type identity? Maybe? I’m still trying to understand the “hopes and fears” part of the 11th’s archetype but let’s go with what we’ve got. The group thing. I have a great example of this. The Moon just left my 11th house and something happened in my life that relates to this archetype in a pretty significant way.

Without giving unnecessary details let me summarize by saying that as the Moon was passing through my 11th house of community and selective groups of like nature or like mind, I found myself discussing how I may be of service to a selective group of people in the community. I do have Cancer in the 11th by birth and the Moon there was strongly related to doing a type of nurturing in the community–the Moon/Cancer relates to nurturing, care giving. And in this case, care giving to a particular group of individuals but on a one-to-one basis which relates to the Uranus/Aquarius archetype of individuation or singularity. Remember, Uranus rules this part of our life… group but alone in a group would be a way of saying it or a small or selective group.

Generally speaking, when the Moon moves through your 11th house it is a good time to connect with friends or groups. Giving or receiving “emotional” support–the Moon relates to emotion. Organizations (group energy) may provide helpful perspective on current conditions at this time. Or vice versa, you may provide a helpful perspective to a group or organization at this time as well. That could be a 2-way street, so-to-speak.

An alliance is what the Moon [your emotional nature] is looking for to find it’s comfort, security and happiness at this time. Queen Luna is looking for her tribe and wants to feel some sort of meaningful membership somewhere or somehow i.e. this is who i am and this is my group.

One’s heart can identify with the community at this time to a great extent and the tribe (in whatever way the emotional nature identifies tribe) will be prominent when seeking happiness, security and emotional nurturing. The only red flag with this one would want to be careful not to be overly influenced by group energy–we’re talking about a Uranian house after all and Uranus/Aquarius is pretty much alone in a group.

Just a bit of trivia: Aquarius is thought to have a connection to circulation, the blood circulation in the body. In Horary astrology it is thought to represent the partners ability to have children since it is 5 houses away from the 5th of the other partner. But, that again is trivia.

The hopes and fears archetype originates from the connection with Jupiter (Horary astrology). It is said that Jupiter has it’s joy in the 11th and thus, the house of hopes/fears/wishes comes from this source.

The 11th House is also thought to be the house of the spiritual world servers or servers of humanity–servers of the human race. And therefore the archetype of group consciousness relates to this house as well as “brotherhood”. The Moon here finds strangers to bond with who have shared goals and can make friends who seem more like family than biological family. The 11th house is known to be the house of the ‘soul family’ and finding a niche in relating with humanity or group energy.

I know of some astrologers who start interpreting a chart with the 11th house instead of the 1st house, making the 11th the ascendant. This is because they think of the 11th as the house of the visionary–some people get psychic readings when the Moon is in the 11th because it is though that this house relates to the soul’s vision for the life and the Moon can help them feel the vision as described by the psychic.

Dreams and visions of future can be prominent when the Luna moves through house 11 as well so it is good to pay attention to those on the few days a month that your Moon moves through this house.

The Moon is now in my 12th house and so I will be back to document this last lunar transit through my own houses as a way to help others understand astrology.

Aspiring to the goal of Spiritual Happiness and Wisdom

August 24, 2014August 24, 2014Joy Star

This picture inspired the words in this blog post!

Some of us aspire to this. We understand this as the goal, the intention. And that is the absence of the goal or intention. Sounds like a Zen riddle. Pretty much is I suppose. Seeking NO fulfillment!

Recognizing the vain irrelevancy involved in seeking fulfillment, yet finding it everywhere as we giving up endeavors to acquire it.

Un-petrified, un-paralyzed, un-phased and un-dazed–more than comfortable to stand alone and become eccentric in a spiritual and otherworldly way.

Knowing fully that it is the path itself and not fulfillment of outer world desire that makes the magic.

Understanding reality for its nature and finding spiritual happiness–some of us value this.

As this value is perceived, adversity faced in the outer world holds less meaning than in the past.

Friends disappear but those that remain are high quality spiritual brethren. (non-religious)

Both traveling and staying at home are one and the same–aspiring to live this particular wisdom leading to spiritual happiness!

Some of us yearn for this if we do yearn at all, but we do not seek it.

Back Peddling Lately? March Full Moon Madness and Holographic Double Desire

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014Joy Star

Revisiting that old black magic. Vent. Back to the future! The now is fill with nausea–what? Yeah. Predecessor stiff neck and migraine from (not heaven). Well, what do you want? Got a neighbor again and we share germs through the interconnected ventilation system but in all fairness germ sharing occurs at Wal Mart and the woman’s locker room at the Y too. So, oh you know that post from last week that about guitar man and his singing? Well, the dude just raised the sound like by like double the 1, 000 decibels. Ever see Phoebe from that old TV series, “Friends”-? Remember how she couldn’t carry a tune? Well, meet her song sibling: my downstairs neighbor! Toss in 2 days of solid cold non-stop rain, mixed with headache/nausea laced with the the singer of “smelly cat”‘s sound soul brother and, it was the weekend from not heaven!

Maybe I’m at fault? I did mention in my litany of gratitude to the rental office gal what a nice new neighbor they found for me and how I didn’t mind his guitar–that was before he started to sing out with it and the whole strumming decibel upsurge. Trying to be optimistically positive, the recollection of saying that I sort of enjoyed his guitar came back to haunt me numerous times over the weekend. Really Joy? What WERE you thinking?

Maybe she told him I was a fan! NOT! it’s just that it’s the same song over and over and over again–Dude! do you even know a happy tune? Or any other song at all?

You ever been to Disney’s Magic Kingdom Country Bear Jamboree? Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about–this guy is definitely Country Bear material. Okay, okay; that wasn’t very nice–I’ll admit it. That was me venting my frustration. I can only write this now because the guy is off somewhere; otherwise, i’d not be able to think straight like yesterday and Saturday. I suppose if a person’s going to be down with some sort of ‘whatever this IS’–headache and tummy troubles–may as well have it be on a weekend when its raining and the dude is singing like (not heaven).

I’m not going to go into the talking that I hear at 3 AM… I’d really like to pretend that’s not happening. Back to the future; I feel like I’m back peddling under water. I thought that I was finished with neighbor issues. The universe is testing me–one more time, encore!

Before the weekend of guitar accompanied wailing I saw the guy out in the parking lot. He was sitting in his car in front of the building. I waved. He looked right through me. Am I ghost? Awkward. Whatever dude; just trying to be friendly. Then passed by the 2nd time on my way back from my daughters. Waved again. Still no response. Maybe he has vision problems or maybe I’m really dead and don’t know it yet. That part doesn’t bother me. The wailing does.

Smelly cat oh smelly cat…. i don’t swim in your living room, don’t wail in mine@! (a little light strummen’ and small soft hummen’ maybe, okay, but… turn down the volume dude!) And if they turned this building into a recording studio since last week–I didn’t get the memo on that!

Blogging is healing. And so are very kind daughters; one was going to take off work to drive over an hour to take me to the doctor appointment that the other daughter made. No Way I say! They are remembering the emergency room flu episode on New Years Day–we’are all still mildly traumatized by that one. What else do you need she says? She’s picking me up ginger ale and crackers at the store as I type. I take care of my body–eat well, take vitamins so I don’t get this being whole germ-a-thing since I’ve moved down here. Ahhhh, Life… smelly cat oh smelly cat…. THIS TOO SHALL PASS I hear my mother (dead these many years) say this! (I’m a psychic medium after all–besides, I know when I hear my very own mother) … anyway, I consider this as well as all the advice a friend and my daughters have given me about how I should speak with the dude downstairs.

‘Ain’t nobody got time for that’ another part of me says. I got to get back to transitioning my website! When I think about work: I feel better.

Like I said, blogging is healing. I am reading The Atopia Chronicles by Matthew Mather who resides nearby actually–not certain I understand it all yet… but in this sci-fi futuristic fiction, there are these holographic doubles who can take on some of the undesirable part of your life for you. They can ramp up or scale down any undesirable energy around you–such as eliminating anything you don’t like so it is not in your awareness! I could use one of those right about now!

holographic double Again, blogging is healing. And now, back to LIFE nausea or not! And yeah, I see myself knocking on his door talking about all this soon! My Libra says NO, PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME DO THAT and my Aries says… well, never mind. Maybe after all the Full Moon energy has weakened a bit more. I want to be in the pool swimming; normally that’s where I’d be right now.

Yeah, i think ginger ale and crackers are going to help. Really–I have such kind and caring daughters! Thank you God! Yet, I still wish I had a holographic double who could deal with all this and make the rest go away–unless I ACTUALLY AM (Yikes!) the holographic double!? Geesh, too much sci-fi lately? ya’ think? Well, maybe not… need to talk to my spirit guides about all this!

Speaking of revisiting old black magic–turns out the prescription for nausea given for the January flu was able to be filled here in March. My daughter picked it up for me–that and a few other supplies, sparing me from a nauseous trip out in the cold, cold rain. She was like my holographic double today in that sense. Bless her heart; do you know that those 12 pills cost $58–?? I’d have never given her the prescription paper if I’d known that’d cost that much! Did I mention what good daughters I have?

This day totally feels like back to the future with some kind of flu and neighbor issue–AGAIN. Mom, you sure? It will pass she says again, it will pass.

Okay. I’m naming this blog post March Full Moon Madness because it is and I am…. daydreaming about a holographic double to do my dirty work! Pffffsssssttt!