“ The Heavens declare the glory of God, the sky
proclaims divine craftsmanship. Day
after day they pour forth speech, night after night, they reveal knowledge.
There is no language that does not contain their voice.”
Psalms 19:1
“And
God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs.”
Genesis 1:14
The Star of David in Formation
Genesis and the Psalm of King David of the ancient
Hebrews remind us of our ability to communicate with eternal being through the
mysterious changing patterns we see in the sky. Everybody is asking, “What is the subject of this new
“sign” aligning in the heavens that will influence the world so powerfully
over the next six months?” What
does it mean and what fruit will this cosmic portent bestow upon our magical
lives? With this mythic
configuration, the rhythmic vibrations are pulsating through heaven and earth,
as people are turning their minds heavenward to contemplate the Star of David
configuration.
What Exactly is this thing?
Under
the Full lunar eclipse of November the 8th (8:13 EST), six planets
are gathering to form a hexagonal configuration in the sky.
The ancients called it a Star of David alignment, but it has been dubbed
the Harmonic Concordance this time around.
Technically, it’s called a Grand Sextile by astrologers.
Under a Grand Sextile there is a major opportunity to harness creative
talents, but it requires great effort. Emerson
said, “Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm.”
On the shadow side, people are searching, perplexed, and acting out the
shadow side of the three oppositions involved in the configuration through being
indecisive and squandering the potential.
What’s
so harmonious about this message in the heavens? A Grand Sextile consists of six sextiles (60 degree angles)
and three oppositions (180 degree angles).
Two Grand Trines or Master Triangles interpenetrate each other
symbolizing the union of heaven and earth, yang and yin, creative light and
source wisdom. The fact that it’s
occurring in the Earth and Water elements adds to the expression Body (earth)
and Soul (water) qualities.
A
concordance is defined as a state of agreement or harmony.
In essence this configuration is a harmonic harmony (how harmonic can you
get?) among the planets involved. Usually
during this century when this pattern appears it involves Pluto and Neptune due
to the fact that they are locked into a sextile aspect for 100 years (Pluto
sometimes comes down into Neptune’s realm and they move the same speed for a
century, this time from about 1925 to 2025).
This
concordance of November 2003 is rare in that it does not contain this universal
sextile between Pluto and Neptune, nor does it involve Uranus.
Only Chiron acts as the transpersonal ambassador.
The fact that it’s happening under a lunar eclipse means that it has
been building up for 6 months and that it will continue to have considerable
power over the next six months (until the next Taurus new Moon next May 18th).
The Planets have struck an Accord?
The
great astrologer/mystical mathematician Kepler would be very excited about this
configuration, and we should be too. What
harmonic agreement are the planets striking this fall?
The root “con” means with and “Cord” comes from the Latin root
“cors”, which means heart. So a
harmonic concordance indicates a state of harmony being achieved between the
planets because their hearts or essences are together. Harmony
of hearts. How can you bring harmony into your heart during this season
of the soul? How can you become wholehearted about the images and soulful
desires that reside within your heart? This
is a time of awakening your creative power and your capacity to live from the
deep heart. If you’ve put in the
work and gained your experience, then the universe is ready to elevate you to
the next level of living.
Chiron: Zen
Master of Ceremonies
The
outer planets point to the collective, transpersonal vibes that shape
civilizations and cultures over the long haul.
In this configuration, Chiron is the Zen Master of ceremonies
demonstrating the Tao of Harmonic Living between the five other planets
involved. Let’s have a look at
the other characters being invited into this great play in the sky.
First we have Saturn symbolizing the urge to structure, organize, and
achieve (right ambition). Then there’s Jupiter, the urge to explore, expand
consciousness, and develop culture and religion (right faith). Next comes Mars, the urge to express desire, will, and
motivation (right action). Then our
star, the Sun, symbolizing the urge to shine, create, and live (right purpose).
And lastly, our lady the Moon, symbolizing the urge for emotional
contentment and the experience of inner peace and security (right emotion)
Chiron
asks us to heal our collective soul wounds in all these areas.
It symbolizes the force of devotion within each of us: devotion to pure,
holistic living, devotion to our crafts and life works, and devotion to service
and humility. In Capricorn, it
loves devotion to a path of ambition through integrity.
It likes to see people planning their work and working their plans.
It teaches the wisdom of the proverb:
If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. Chiron wants us to succeed at awakening to our spiritual
purposes. I interpret it as the
higher octave of the luminaries and the lunar nodes, symbolizing the mythic
quest to serve humanity through the fulfillment of a sacred journey of soulful
purpose. People are born in
response to spiritual needs on the planet.
It’s up to each one of us to mobilize our wills so we have the courage
to step up to bat to receive the opportunity to say yes to the journey.
Chiron
governs spiritual healing, training, mentoring, and opens us to sacred gifts
that lie dormant within. If we seek
the inner teacher humbly, the gifts emerge and the lead of the lower self
transforms into the gold of the higher self.
Only then can the elixir be found that will heal your life, and help heal
the world through a life lived authentically.
In this time of chaos, when people prefer side paths to living their
unique dharma (life work), the most important skill we can learn is to know when
we’ve stepped off the path and lost our balance.
Then it’s possible to make adjustments so you can move through life
with the vision of the heart.
The Great Conjunction Matures
In
May 2000, Jupiter met Saturn in the Great Conjunction of Taurus, the last
earth-sign alignment we’ll experience between these two planets for centuries.
Seen from earth, Jupiter and Saturn align in the heavens every 20 years
initiating a new cycle of cultural traditions, faith, and wisdom.
They stay in the same element for about 180 years before they shift.
The last shift from fire signs to earth signs corresponded with the
transition between the Age of Exploration and Discovery (fire) and the
Industrial Revolution (earth). Now
we are shifting from earth back to air signs.
It started with their conjunction in Libra in 1980 (the air sign of
marriage, love, harmony, and social interplay).
Look how mental the world became in 20 years time.
At the midpoint of that Great Conjunction cycle (1990), the Internet was
developed to help connect the world mind field.
The divorce rate went sky high as people sought to regain balance in
their lives after living with illusions for decades.
The
May 2000, the seven classical planets aligned in Taurus for one last Great
Conjunction in an earth sign, before the cycle shifts totally to air sign
alignments. The next series starts
in Aquarius on Dec 21, 2020, brining with it a tide of renaissance in
conceptions, ideas, knowledge, and awareness.
But before that can happen, the heavens are urging us through this
concordance to get Mother Earth (Taurus) back into balance, to literally create
heaven on earth. Heal the earth by
healing thyself is the order of the day. A
society of wholehearted balanced beings is less inclined to continue the cycle
of destruction. It’s time to
abolish the enslavement of the planet we live on.
The
questions in 2000 were: “What do
you value and hold sacred? Do you
feel like you live a life full of presence and a deep sense of belonging or do
you feel alienated and abandoned by existence?
That Great Conjunction fell at 23 degrees Taurus, the Sabian symbol of
VALUATION. The world is
starting to glimpse the value of nature and the earth as a holy place requiring
protectors to keep the worldwide ecosystem in balance.
With our pollution-oriented oil economy we are destroying the balance.
I think the midpoint of this cycle (2010) will bring another shocking
innovation like the Internet in the form of a new technology that will help
clean up and heal the earth. Groups
of investors are already funding research in advanced hydrogen fuel cells and
solar power options.
Individually,
whatever house in your birth chart that was activated by the 23 degree Taurus
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in May of 2000 is the arena of life that needs
to be your primary focus until 2020. You
need a twenty-year plan in that field of life.
Look back at what you initiated during May of 2000 and get ready to take
it to the next level. This Harmonic Concordance features a sextile aspect between
Jupiter and Saturn (60 degrees), symbolizing that the time has arrived to meet
the mythic mentor so that we can start organizing the creative impulse and
crystallizing the vision released and realized in 2000.
The
Star of David is the signature configuration of the Jupiter-Saturn great
Conjunction Cycle. Over a 720-year
period, they trace out two of these beautiful patterns between the earth-water
signs and the fire-air signs. Their
1960’s conjunction in late Capricorn saw both planets traverse through
Aquarius together, even though their exact alignment fell in Capricorn.
In 2020, they meet exactly at the beginning of Aquarius.
If you thought the 1960’s were revolutionary, radical, inventive,
original, alternative, mind-blowing, and life altering, wait ‘til you see
what’s in store on the horizon. The
Sixties were a small glimpse of what will be emerging then.
And this Harmonic Concordance is asking us to pave the pathway to that
enlightening future.
Riddles in the Dark Sky
A Grand Sextile contains six sextiles (60 degree angles)
interweaved with three oppositions (180 degree angles).
Sextiles are angles of crystallization, talent, formation, and
empowerment through synthesis, excitement, opportunity, synchronicity,
communication, and spontaneity. It’s
the stage in the Hero’s Journey where he or she meets the mentor and is
blessed with the knowledge or tools needed to complete the quest.
(Luke, your father was a great pilot and a master Jedi who was destroyed
by the dark side. Here’s his light saber.
You must learn the ways of the force).
That was said to the world the year Chiron was discovered by the way.
Chiron is the Yoda or Obi Wan of astrology.
Sometimes I like to call him Mr. Miyagi.
Since Chiron is the presiding outer planet in this
configuration, consider that for this 20-year conjunction cycle, the mentor has
been met in a major way. He stands
to point the way for humanity, the way into your heart.
Individually, this wise old centaur wants you to awaken to your highest,
most empowering version of yourself. Can
you download the greatest version of you from the cosmic information zone?
To understand the full potential of all those sextiles in
the sky, meditate on their meanings in your birth chart.
Where are the points of the great hexagon in the sky falling in your
chart? Going around the circle from
Chiron we have:
Chiron
(15 Capricorn) sextiles Mars (11 Pisces):
devotion, healing, and awakening excite desire and willpower
Mars sextiles the Full Moon (17 Taurus):
desire and willpower bring formation to soul, inner peace, and security
Moon sextiles Saturn (14 Cancer):
soul and inner peace synchronize spontaneously with responsibility and
wisdom
Saturn sextiles Jupiter (15 Virgo):
responsibility and wisdom crystallize faith through divine inspiration
and culture
Jupiter sextiles Sun (17 Scorpio):
faith, inspiration, and cultures inform and excite life purpose and
creative vitality
Sun sextiles Chiron: life
purpose and creative vitality fuels and empowers devotion, healing, and
awakening
There are also three major oppositions calling for
reconciliation, illumination, and vision. The
opposition calls for reconciliation of opposing polarities.
There’s tension calling for a kind of mutual resonance between the two
planetary forces of consciousness involved. This
vision quest asks for an adjustment leading to unified consciousness.
To unify the dualities shown here with consciousness we must face and
integrate the shadow, the rejected dark parts of our nature that were once cast
into darkness. Starting with Chiron
opposing Saturn we have:
Chiron in Capricorn opposes Saturn in Cancer: devotion,
healing, and awakening through ambition guided by integrity polarizes with
wisdom, responsibility, and structure focused on compassion through
unconditional love and opening of the heart.
The keys include: Embrace
the wisdom of compassion. Overcome
karmic fears through alternative therapies.
Organize your highest vision for your life.
Jupiter in Virgo opposes Mars in Pisces:
faith through divine inspiration, expansion, and culture working through
a process of daily devotion to craft polarizes with willpower and desire focused
on unity consciousness, transcendence, and surrender to divine love.
The Keys include: Practice
Divine Love through service to humanity, one person at a time.
Inspired action in the field of creative imagination.
Work to ground your mythic visions in reality.
Sun in Scorpio opposes Full Moon in Taurus:
Life purpose and creative vitality expressed through passionate intensity
in align with divine will for total rebirth polarizes with soul, inner peace and
security through the archetype of pleasure, abundance, fertility, and belonging.
The Taurus Scorpio polarity is the axis of being and belonging.
It asks us to live and to experience periodic rebirths where we have to
let go and flow with the invisible waters.
Can you rebirth yourself through serenity and the discovery of inner
peace.
The Plot Thickens…
In the summer of 1989, Chiron was in Cancer and Saturn
(along with Uranus and Neptune) was in Capricorn, dignified.
14 years have passed and now we have the same two planets opposing each
other from the other side of the axis. Now
Saturn in Cancer (detriment) faces off with Chiron in Capricorn.
Chiron has more essential dignity in earth than Saturn in Cancer.
Chiron wins the day. Alternative,
maverick forces rise to defeat government corporate powers bent on domination
and control. This period of time we
are in now is a window of opportunity to bring to fulfillment the dreams and
goals we initiated back in 1989. This
Concordance ties directly into that period (89-90) asking us to dissolve another
wall (Berlin wall fell back then).
What barriers can we remove from the path now?
What obstacles need to be dissolved in the world situation?
For me, these past 14 years have been a purifying process of internal
alchemy where the Spirit of Life has asked me to walk through uncertain waters
in no uncertain terms, to go against the grain of popular culture so I can
utilize my creative gifts and to return to the source of light for guidance and
direction. I had to learn to honor
the quiet conversation with eternal being in my heart.
The cycle has come around again asking what karmic residue will you clean
up, what fears will you release, what healing will you give to the world.
The Star of David pattern resembles the Merkaba (Spirit-Light-Body) as a
vehicle of ascension into the Here and Now on purpose.
With Chiron forming a Grand Trine with Jupiter and the
Full moon in the earth signs, we are being asked to embrace practical idealism,
inspiring visions, and otherworldly insights.
The Grand Trine invokes a river of flowing universal energy resulting in
Divine Protection. If used
incorrectly, it can lead to an excessive focus on leisure and self-gratification
at the cost of you missing your destiny, acting as a major defense mechanism.
They give a false feeling of total self-sufficiency in the earthy areas
of life (money, pleasure, security, work, health, career, training, achievement,
etc.) The key to banishing the
laziness is to become aware of the creative powers symbolized by the planets in
the signs and practice visualizing uses for their essences.
The square of Venus to the Jupiter-Mars axis combined
with the Pluto quincunx to the Full Moon promises struggles and conflict in
relationships and on the home front if we can’t iron out differences and find
a communal vision. Relationships
are under considerable developmental tension for the last and the next six
months. People are asking me, “If
this thing is so harmonic, then why am I suffering so much?”
The pain and frustration arising now are indicators of a loss of harmonic
balance and mutual resonance. You
need to take stock of your life and rediscover the elemental forces that bring
you alive and then swim in them. Pursue
your dreams at warp speed, and organize your life to create this vision that has
been deposited in your soul. The
Earth Grand Trine gives gifts of patience, endurance, reliability, seed wisdom,
nature’s power, inner peace and security, lasting stability, and prosperity.
The watery soulful Grand Trine in this concordance
involves the Sun, Mars, and Saturn bringing into creative alliance the forces of
creativity, passion, and discipline. These
planets usually don’t get along so well, so to see them in a grand Trine is
amazing. The situation must be
desperate if the King is working magically with the Advisor and the First
Knight. They are asking people to
become disciples of their creative passions or suffer the consequences.
In my own life I wrote out a schedule of “7 Sacred
Days” where I divided the seven days of the week into four, four-hour periods,
28 four-hour blocks of time per week. At
the top of the page I listed all the activities I want to spend my life pursuing
including my creative projects and continual research and educational
activities. Then I simply filled in
the blanks with one ideal activity plus two back-up activities.
Since I’ve created this new schedule over the last two months I
haven’t lived it everyday perfectly, but I continue to improve and fine-tune
its basic flow. At least each day
when I wake up, I can look at it to gain a creative focus for the day that feels
soulful and enriching. It’s interesting that the Full moon in the Concordance
falls right on my natal Saturn in the 5th house squaring my Sun in
Aquarius, and here I am sharing my version of creative discipline.
The Water Grand Trine bestows healing gifts, psychic vision, emotional
responsiveness, deep imagination, magnetism, soul tranquility, musical artistic
expression, detective/research abilities, and heightened sensitivity.
Mars last made its conjunction to Jupiter in June of
2002. What were you doing then in
terms of opportunities? How were
you planning to expand your life through motivational action inspired by vision?
That last conjunction was at 18 degrees Cancer.
Now Saturn moves to activate that point in the Concordance, bridging the
two oppositions through time (Saturn-Chiron and Jupiter-Mars).
So it’s all wired together: 1989-90,
May 2000, June 2002, to now, Nov 2003. Chiron
was discovered on Nov 1, 1977, 26 years ago.
In Jan 2002, it trined its discovery position during its
own disseminating phase that will last until it goes into Aquarius in May 2005. What
wisdom does Chiron have for the world during this time of fruit bearing?
It will teach us to be sacred warriors of the heart, musicians of the
soul, herbalists and stewards of nature, and oracles of the heavens.
As I am often caught saying, “Argue for your limitations and you get to
keep them, but argue for your possibilities and you get to create them.”
But Wait!
What About the Lunar Eclipse Full Moon?
A full moon always asks if you are fulfilled in the house
(field of life experience) that contains the full moon based on what you
initiated 6 months before when the new moon was in the same zone.
The new moon is the beginning of the cycle asking you to plant seeds of
possibilities I your life that start to bud and flower 6 months later under the
full moon. The fruit-bearing phase
comes two new moons after the full moon (7 ½ months later) under the new moon
that falls in disseminating phase to the previous new moon in question.
The one in question here is the new moon of May 1st, 2003 at
12 degrees Taurus. Where does that
fall in your chart? Notice how it
also tunes into the May 2000 great Conjunction alignment and sextiles the
Jupiter-Mars alignment of June 2002?
Is this all adding up?
Are you ready to eat the fruit of thy labors off the vines of
dissemination on Dec 23rd under the new moon in Capricorn (2
degrees)? Are you prepared to bring
in the harvest and feast on your life works this year?
If not, then take heart in this fact:
the moon governs our impulses, instincts, and habits, good and bad.
It symbolizes our emotional conditioning and how we react to situations.
The full lunar eclipse means that the earth is blocking the moon out.
The sun’s rays can’t reach it. So
make a commitment to banish laziness, procrastination, and bad habits you’ve
wanted to overcome and under this harmonic concordance, you might just transform
your life forever.
The
Journey
Living
is creative joy, but death can be beautiful too if you know that the soul merges
with eternal being like autumn leaves falling, drifting down to land softly in
the calmly flowing river, the sunlight dancing on the surface, the leaf floating
effortlessly, casting its lurking shadow on the bottom of the river over the
swaying algae…just as we cast our lives into the ancestral flow in the end
like fallen leaves adorning the forest floor.
In
our lives, we can be loving, because we need love. And we can be destructive because we thrive on fear.
The soul is nourished by challenge, and what is adversity without the
intensity that evokes our fears, calling them to surface from the abysmal depths
of the unknown…
The
struggle fuels the journey, but the real heroic quest lies within to cultivate
seeds of compassion, to transform wounds into bliss so that finally, when we
face death, even the tiny dyings that happen day by day, the rhythmic vibration
of our souls will echo triumphantly through the blood of those who dwell in
tomorrow, and the future hands and minds that might have wrought more pain will
instead craft wondrous cultures overflowing with art.
Part
of being born is to forget all this, to live fresh and unencumbered by the
creative void of the past. But the
greater being living in you remembers all too well, hoping desperately to mold
you into a creative force of gravitational love during this mighty sojourn of
the soul.
Harmonic Action
I've noticed two major things happening with the concordance so far. With
Uranus turning direct to head into Pisces for good, people are having an acceleration
in consciousness. Whatever house Uranus is transiting through be sure to throw
another log on the fire in that zone of your life. Uranus governs the impulse
to do something for humanity, to take the road less traveled, and to think
in ways that are not taught to think. So let originality flow in the field
of life that Uranus is transiting through and in the house that occupies in
your birth chart. You should bridge these two houses through your action during
this next two weeks.
I noticed another interesting phenomena. In my Harmonic Concordance article
I said it was time for us to begin to live more authentically, to follow our
dharma (truth of being). In my version of chart interpretation I always call
the Ascendant your PhD in this life that points to the path of your dharma
based on the sign on the cusp and the condition of the governing planet of
that sign in the horoscope. As it turns out, I see people doing things under
the Concordance in alignment with their natal Ascendants and the classical
planet that governs their Ascendant.
For instance, someone with Virgo Rising has to work a double-shift. Her first
shift is at a health food coop; her next one is at a catering event for a film
festival. Her sacred work of devotion (Virgo) is being expressed through her
Mercury in Leo in the 12th House as Leo governs actors and the 12th house symbolizes
movies. Another man is a musician who will be playing a gig for humanitarian
awareness and just released his new CD called "Shining From Inside".
He is a spiritual folk performer. His Ascendant is Leo and his Sun (which governs
the Leo Ascendant) is in Aquarius. His music is a new original synthesis of
metaphysical idea and soothing spiritual sounds. Another man who is enrolled
in an alternative healing school begins his first day in the clinic today working
with actual clients, and he has Cancer Rising (Healer archetype governed by
the Moon) with his natal Moon in Virgo (the alternative healer). I have many,
many more examples, but you get the point.
It seems that the universe is aligning circumstance with people's natal Ascendants
so they can live a true expression of their earth missions. What is your natal
Ascendant and how can you make it flow in your life over the next two weeks?
Where is the planet that governs the Ascendant? How can you actively bridge
the symbolism of your rising energies with the position and meaning given by
the planet that governs the Ascendant? Have fun with it and get creative!
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