Friday the 13th

Ugh Oh – Day 732

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Ugh Oh

I just realized that about fifteen minutes from when I’m writing this, it’s going to be Friday the 13th. Normally, I embrace the 13th of anything – and I certainly do not ascribe any ill-fated inclinations to the number. As a matter of fact, I’ve considered the 13th to be a fortunate number in my own life. It is historically associated with women and the moon, and best yet, my eldest son was born on the 13th, albeit not a Friday. That said, when I saw that tomorrow is Friday the 13th, my first thought was, “Ugh oh.”

Let’s not forget: it may be November, but it’s still 2020. I don’t think there’s been much of anything this year that’s not had a little bit of “ugh oh” associated with it. But the next several days are going to be particularly intense.

Jupiter Conjunct Pluto

In fact, one astrological aspect that occurred today and that’s impacting all of us is Jupiter conjuncting Pluto. This is an aspect that occurs every 13 years. It’s generally associated with big death or major (Jupiter) transformation (Pluto).

The unique specialness that we’ve come to know as 2020 brought us the tremendously lovely (eye roll) opportunity to experience this conjunction three times within seven months. Why? Because both planets went retrograde this year right around when they were aspecting each other in Capricorn.

That means that Jupiter and Pluto were conjunct (meaning occupying the same degree and sign at the same time) on April 4, 2020. It may be recalled, that’s right around when the pandemic started exploding in New York.

Both Pluto and Jupiter then stationed (appeared to ‘stop’) and went retrograde (an optical illusion that makes a planet appear to be going backwards in its usual orbit), Pluto at the end of April and then Jupiter in early May. This caused the two planets to meet up with each other and become conjunct again – on June 30th. This coincided with another blip in the coronavirus spread.

And today, we just had the third conjunction of the two planets, as they both are moving forward again and have, once again, caught up with each other. Sad to report, but the pandemic is reaching crisis proportions here. Just today, I believe there were something like 158,000+ new positive cases. That’s more than 10,000 more cases today than yesterday. And hospitalizations and deaths are increasing as well, although they are, as always, ‘lagging’ indicators. (Because people don’t usually get hospitalized and rarely die the same day they’re diagnosed with Covid-19. That takes some time.)

On the Bright Side

We’ll be experiencing a new moon early Sunday morning (late Saturday evening for those on the west coast), so we might want to think about planting some fresh intentions geared toward keeping ourselves, our families, and everyone we come into contact with safer. It feels especially important to set such intentions this weekend because the next two weeks will encompass Thanksgiving. Remember: short term sacrifice for long-term gain.

There are other planetary aspects occurring over the next few days that could portend additional  likelihood of volatility, rage, and acting out. Given that tomorrow is Friday the 13th, then, it might behoove all of us to be mindful of everything that’s going on right now and just chill out.

We didn’t get a chance to walk today because every time we thought about setting out, it started to drizzle. Here’s hoping we get to walk tomorrow. Stay well, everyone.

(T-379)

Of Course It’s Cloudy – Day 306

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Of Course It’s Cloudy!

It’s so frustrating how often it seems to be cloudy outside when a full moon, an eclipse, a meteor shower, or any other such celestial event is taking place.

Mind you, I’ve witnessed some very cool atmospheric and ‘cosmic’ events. So many, I suppose, that I really have no standing to complain. But hey – it’s Friday the 13thand the last time a full moon will take place on this date until I am 90 damn years old.

I would like to have seen it, documented it in my journal, perhaps even made an, albeit woefully inadequate, attempt to snap a shot of it for posterity. But no.

Now I have to do my best to cling to this mortal coil for another 30 years, just so I can point to this cranky-ass blog post and say, “See? I was aware of the last one, and I hung in there another thirty years just to finally SEE this one!”

Another Score for Journaling

One interesting little vignette, though: I checked and found that I did, in fact, make an entry in my journal back on Friday, October 13, 2000. And the very first sentence I wrote was: “FULL MOON (in Aries, no less).” (The ‘no less’ comment was because my sun sign is Aries. Therefore I obviously felt that full moon might be tweaking me a bit more powerfully.)

I didn’t make any reference to the fact that the full moon was also falling on a Friday the 13th. This was early internet days, definitely pre-Google and pre-FB, so the heightened awareness of occurrences like these (and perhaps even more relevantly, their relative either commonplace nature or rarity) were much less well known. I probably didn’t bat an eye at the confluence of these two events. Indeed, had I known that it would not occur again until this day, one month shy of 19 years later, I would have mentioned it in my journal – and pondered what my life might be like all those years in the future.

Twenty Years Ago

I was entering the final stages of publication of Owl Medicine. Good grief, that’s depressing. To think – I published my book that long ago and still haven’t followed up with the sequel(s).

In that entry, I also discuss creating my website, which I initially set up under www.sagebearpress.com. (If you click on that link, you’ll see I’ve kept that name and simply reroute visitors to my Owl Medicine site, which, back then, I was only toying with setting up as a website.

My Reward for the Day: A Reminder

As I’ve found happens more often than I can say, once I went back and started reading my entry for October 13, 2000, I was drawn into indulging my curiosity over what else was going on in our lives and occupying my mind at that time.

And that’s when I discovered quite a surprise.

A week after that Friday the 13th full moon co-incidence, I’d apparently found a bit more time to write in my journal and therefore covered a lot more ground in my entry of October 20th than I had on the 13th.

As background, a year or so earlier, I had scaled down my law practice to a substantial degree in order to focus upon the final stages of writing, editing, and publishing Owl Medicine. Given that OM was nearly ready to ‘hatch,’ I was contemplating my full-bore return to the workforce, and I was weighing whether I wanted to reinvigorate my private law practice or branch into some other (as yet unknown) area.

Without going into the somewhat maudlin self-assessment I was engaged in that day, I have to admit I was astonished to read that I considered “…the stuff I (…) do ‘best’ is listening.”

Of course, I lamented at that time that I probably could never get paid enough to contribute meaningfully to our family’s well-being by just ‘listening.’

Listening – It’s Been the Theme of My Life

What I guess I’m surprised by is how listening has been such a persistent and critically important aspect of my life for so many years. Actually, it’s the underlying theme of my life. And yet – I’m always surprised by how important it’s always been to me.

I wonder why I’m surprised?

All I know is that on this full moon, on this Friday the 13th, I’m deciding to take my love for and commitment to listening to the next level.

(T-805)

Inspiration for this Full Moon – Day 305

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Inspiration for this Full Moon

Tomorrow (Friday, September 13th, 2019) a full moon will occur. It’ll also be, obviously, a ‘Friday the 13th.’ Astrologically, the fact that it is ‘Friday the 13th’ has no bearing on anything. Indeed, in my opinion, the whole ‘Friday the 13th’ frenzy and superstition that occurs is unwarranted.

Personally, I’ve always liked the number 13 and don’t consider it to be unlucky. It’s a number often associated with Goddess energy, as there are actually 13 moons in a year. And my eldest son, Karl, was born on the 13th– albeit not on a Friday. Then again…I suppose an argument could be made… No. I’m not going there.

A Rare Occurrence

Having a full moon, which so many people associate with wacky behavior, increased sensitivity, ‘lunacy,’ etc., land on a Friday the 13th is a pretty rare occurrence. Apparently, the last time it occurred was on October 13, 2000, and the next one won’t occur until August 13th, 2049.

I wonder if I noticed anything particularly difficult or outlandish happening in the world at large or personally 20 years ago. I should check my journals!

A Lot Going On

Astrologically, however, this full moon has a lot of aspects that make tomorrow and the next few days hold a lot of potentially challenging aspects. That’s because the moon is opposite not only the sun (which is what makes it, technically, a ‘full moon’), but it’s also opposite three other planets that are hanging around quite close to (considered ‘conjunct’) the sun.

There are other things going on as well – aspects that, considered together, as I said above, could make things quite challenging.

Believing as I do that forewarned is forearmed, I’m going to once again provide you with a link to the most recent Pele Report. As usual, if your eyes glaze over when the position of planets and their aspects to each other are discussed (which may have been triggered simply by reading my paragraph, above), I strongly encourage you to just be patient and wait for Kaypacha to speak directly to the camera. What he has to say in this report is pretty fascinating and definitely worth considering – not only how it applies to your own life, but also how it plays out in the larger world.

The Past Coming Up…to Bite Us?

All full moons ask us to consider what has come to fruition in our life, reached its fullness, or is perhaps reaching a point where it needs to be shed. At the very least, a full moon asks us to notice whether intentions we set at the new moon have borne fruit.

Obviously, sometimes seeds planted take longer than two weeks to germinate and even begin to grow. So the light shed by the full moon may not be illuminating the product of seeds we planted only two weeks ago. It may be reflecting the culmination of ideas or intentions set at a new moon that occurred months ago. (Yet another resoundingly excellent reason to keep a journal.)

This Full Moon In Particular

But this particular full moon seems to be calling up major lessons from the past. Karma, if you will. Asking us to clear out the accumulation of repercussions of things we said or done in the past, shed it, let it go, surrender to it, so we can move beyond the weight of the past to something entirely new – and much more free.

One major gift we can give ourselves to help us navigate these times is silence.

I encourage you to give yourself the 30 minutes or so it will take to listen to Kaypacha’s Pele Report. He also provides some links to help us all ground the energies that are bombarding us so we can navigate these times without losing our balance.

To be clear, it doesn’t matter that you’re listening to it a few days after September 11th. He discusses aspects that are occurring over the course of several days. And for some reason, when I listened to it today, I got the strong sense that I should share it with all of you.

I hope you have an amazing Friday the 13th, filled with insight and illumination, magic and manifestation of your dreams. Go out and howl at that full moon! Maybe we’ll hear each other.

(T-806)