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Powerful Aspects On Deck – Day 762

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Orion’s Belt – 12/12/2020

Powerful Aspects On Deck

2020 has been an intense year so far no matter how you look at it. I don’t need to recite the myriad ways in which life as we knew it a year ago seems almost like a dream. But applying the concept of ‘as above, so below,’ I’m here to tell you: there remain breathtakingly powerful aspects on deck in our lives. December isn’t over yet.

While experiencing a meteor shower is not an astrological transit (although I believe it’s an astronomical weather event), I have to say my experience of leaning against my car and staring into the vastness of space the past two evenings has felt, I don’t know – deeply significant. Humbling. Perspective enhancing.

It’s easy for us to get lost in the crises that scream for our attention day in and day out. A pandemic. Systemic racism. Shocking threats of violence. Contempt for democracy. Vast swaths of our fellow Americans facing profound food and shelter insecurity.

The pain and chaos surrounds and threatens to drown us.

And yet for the half an hour I spent staring at the sky, talking out loud to the stars, to the cosmos, requesting insight – and absent that, a couple of shooting stars – I felt an odd sense of being re-set. It almost felt like the Universe pulled the plug on my systems for several minutes and just forced everything to recalibrate and calm the hell down. Staring upward and drinking in the incomprehensible, my perspective shifted.

It helped that I saw five meteors.

Monday’s Solar Eclipse

The next major astrological transit we’ll be experiencing will be a new moon on Monday, which is always a great time to plant the seeds for whatever we may desire to manifest in our life. But Monday’s is no ordinary new moon. It will be perfectly aligned with (conjunct) the sun, resulting in a total eclipse. While it will be a total eclipse, with both sun and moon at 23 degrees Sagittarius at 11:00 a.m. ET, the classic experience of the event, complete with a corona, will only be visible from South America and locations in the south of Africa.

Sagittarius classically occupies the 9th house of the zodiac, which highlights higher education, spirituality, beliefs, foreign or long distance travel, and adventure. Something tells me that we might want to consider planting some seeds that will expand our perspectives, broaden our horizons, and encourage us to learn new concepts and ways of approaching old problems.

My sense is that our old ways of dealing with conflict and problems that not only impact but expand far beyond our everyday lives will require strategies that will permit us access to new perspectives.

I’m going to be offering whomever is interested opportunities to learn and incorporate just such strategies as we enter a whole new world.

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Don’t forget the EoP! – Day 323

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Essence of Perelandra – Photo: L. Weikel

Don’t forget the EoP!

By the time I post this, it will be October 1st. As I shared both in late August and on September 1st, there is a pretty cool way to enlist the aid of Nature spirits in bringing our environment into balance.

If any of you have looked into the concept behind Perelandra and possibly purchased a bottle of Essence of Perelandra (EoP) with which to participate, you will realize that this is not some nefarious money-making scheme or anything like that. Yes, you need to purchase a bottle of Essence of Perelandra in order to participate. But the entire process, called the monthly EoP Biodiversity Project only requires use of 10 drops from a dropper and five minutes of your time (at the most).

I encourage you to check out the links I’m providing in this post as well as the ones I provided in my two earlier posts, if you care to learn more about Perelandra.

An Added Bonus

One perq to checking out Perelandra and purchasing some EoP is the fact that you can (and probably should) squirt some of those drops into your mouth as you engage in the Biodiversity Project. (Well – before or afterward would probably be better.) That’s because EoP can be effective in bringing balance to you and your emotions, as well as bringing balance to the systems comprising your environmental biome.

If you poked around the Perelandra website at all, you may have seen reference to ETS, which stands for Emergency Trauma Solution. (This is similar to Rescue Remedy®, which is a product put out by Bach Flower Remedies.) Personally, I’ve found ETS to be really helpful when I’m feeling particularly anxious or upset over something. And it can be something personal or, as is more often the case, something going on in the larger world – such as politics.

With this in mind, I’m thinking it would probably be beneficial for all of us to make sure we have a bottle or two of ETS handy in the coming days and months.

Photo: L. Weikel

Chaos?

I’m not intending to be hyperbolic, but taking into consideration the factors I often keep an eye on, such as major astrological aspects, numerological influences, but even more so my own increasing sensitivity – not to mention just simply paying attention in general – I feel it is incumbent upon all of us right now to do whatever we can to hold our centers and remain balanced and calm in the days and weeks to come. ETS can help. So can EoP. And taking them throughout the day (and keeping them handy) is something simple that can really help you cope – which in turn can influence how you react to others and influence others.

Yes, I feel things are going to get incredibly intense, volatile, and perhaps even take some turns that none of us would have ever imagined possible even last month, before they eventually get better. And if you’ve even been paying attention over the past 12 hours, you may have a sense of the genesis of my concern.

Personal, Local, National, Global

It doesn’t matter where our greatest or most immediate stresses are originating. Indeed, for most of us, I’d wager we’re ‘feeling the love’ from every sector. What matters is how we respond.

What matters is whether we give ourselves strategies – some small scale and some much more complicated, depending upon our resources and connections – to cope with challenges to everything we hold dear: the environment, our families, our health, the rule of law, integrity, and justice, to name a few things that matter (at least to me).

We’re in this together. I’m feeling the agitation in the air. And I’m sure I’m not alone.

Tomorrow/Today

Tomorrow we can take a couple small steps toward creating balance and harmony. We can take five minutes to bring our attention fully to our environment and offer ten drops of EoP to the Nature spirits on our property. And we can take some ETS to help us hold our centers.

Perhaps we might also thank our stars that we’re not personally embroiled in the cluster@#%$ that’s unfolding before our eyes nationally.

I know this may sound sappy, but please: hold a vision in your hearts of the principles our country was founded upon holding firm and carrying us through this crisis. May we learn from what is unfolding before our eyes and use these lessons to all our benefit: personally, locally, nationally, and globally.

Little guy – pre-transformation – crossing the road; Photo: L. Weikel

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Dodged a Bullet – Day Eighty Two

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Dodged a Bullet

We woke up this morning to no water in our house.

Silly as it may seem, we checked the faucets upstairs and down, hoping that one of them might yield a trickle that could, oh, I don’t know – unblock everything else? Yeah…no luck.

I could’ve kicked myself. I’d actually had a conversation with someone just yesterday about the danger, in this weather, of pipes freezing. My friend and I discussed keeping a trickle of water coming out of a faucet, to avoid this very peril, particularly in an old house like we both own. And then, as soon as we had the conversation I forgot it. BOOM. Out of my head entirely.

Whose Fault Was It, Anyway?

So when Karl admitted, chagrined, that he’d not even thought about keeping a little water running through the pipes last night, I had to fess up. It was bad enough that he’d not thought about it at all; but it was far worse that I had thought about it, and then promptly forgot it.

No use in blaming each other. In my experience, blame never improves a situation; it only makes things worse. We’ll be celebrating our 34th year of owning this house on March 15th. In all that time, the pipes have never frozen. There were a couple of years, though, where we had similar frigid snaps. I seem to recall a ‘polar vortex’ hitting us about five or six years ago, if I’m not mistaken. It ended up killing our English walnut in the back yard, the ground froze so deep. Even then, we never had a pipe freeze. Possibly because we kept a little water running through the pipes…

Karl went into the cellar (and yes, we have a cellar, not a basement – dirt floor and everything) to check the pipe that comes into the house from the well. When he came upstairs, he admitted that when he squeezed the pipe, he could feel and hear a ‘crunching’ noise, so he assumed it was ice. Ugh. Lucky for us, though, nothing had broken – yet.

Strategies

We discussed methods of unfreezing the pipe, opting for application of a heating pad. As he was fishing around in our downstairs bathroom cupboard, looking for a heating pad, I was standing in the kitchen, calculating whether there was enough water in my espresso machine’s reservoir to make myself a coffee, when all of a sudden I heard a <<thunk>> and a swoosh.

I called out to Karl, asking if he’d heard it, too. (He hadn’t.) I was really worried that a pipe had just burst and the ‘swoosh’ I’d heard was water cascading onto the dirt floor in the cellar at the front of the house.

Instead, I went to the kitchen sink and tried the faucet once more. Ta da! Water sprang forth, running free and clear. Karl had apparently dislodged enough of the freshly formed ice within the pipe to get it to break free! Huzzah!

Yup. We dodged a bullet. Thank goodness we didn’t have to face either the ordeal of the potential expense of repairing busted pipes, or at the very least, the hassle of no flushing toilets or running water the entire weekend. Lesson learned, we’re keeping the water on at a trickle, and we’re taking the added precaution of wrapping the incoming pipe with a cloth, keeping the heating pad snugly cuddling it securely in place.

I hope all of you are staying warm in the midst of this polar vortex. As a PSA, may I remind you to keep a trickle of water coming out of your faucet until things warm up on Monday.

And may your day be filled with serendipitous breakthroughs such as those we experienced this morning.

Glacial water cascading from high in the Sayan Mountains of Siberia (Photo by L. Weikel)

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