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Updated January 2007

Editorials I've written appearing in the Pathfinder. To find a location near you, visit the link… Jan-Feb 07: Keep Clearing a Path to Victory * Sep-Oct 07: Brighter Shade of Dark Editorial: Eclipse! Brighter Shade of Dark ©by Rose A. Jenkins, Aug. 15, 2007 On the dark day of September 11 this year, there also happens to be a solar eclipse (see chart below), a cosmic reminder of the darkness we hide within and from ourselves, spilling out into our family of nations, and is still part of the Human Kingdom in general. A cosmic Grand Square will be invoked, one that I alluded to in the Jan / Feb issue, in which the Human Kingdom is again being challenged to take up its cross and proceed to a greater perfection… The energies of this Mutable Grand Square are these: Mars (aggression) in the human sign of the Twins, Gemini, square the Sun (purpose to be achieved) in the human sign of Virgo (purification – also associated with the Madonna) square the wide conjunction of Jupiter and Pluto in the half-human sign of Sagittarius (expanded opportunity to penetrate and purge obstacles), finally square Uranus in Pisces, the sign of emotional extremes. With the exception of Jupiter's involvement as "Greater Benefic," this pattern involves hard energies in "hard angles," i.e. squares and oppositions: Mars, Uranus, Sun, (Jupiter), Pluto, Uranus. Saturn in early Virgo can also be grouped with this configuration by whole signs. Again: It is OUR "house" (astral-body-mind) that must be cleaned of its useless and toxic baggage … as well as our COLLECTIVE house(s), ie, governments, institutions, etc. We must take this opportunity to confront the blind spots in our psyches and beliefs, deeds undone or incompleted, with courage, determination, compassion and purpose. Mother Earth is also impelled to continue Her cleansing actions… WE must do everything we can to rid ourselves of illusion, delusion, selfishness, carelessness, greed, ignorance and mindless violence. Only by grasping these cosmic opportunities with "eyes open" can we tap into the creative potential in front of us, but they will not be able to be seized by the timid of spirit, or realized by a luke-warm, passive effort of the partially engaged soul. Courage and backbone are needed to take the reins of the carriage being pulled pell-mell by maddened horses. Good Will, Awareness and Intent, plus Intelligent Perception, Creative Intelligence and Compassion will see us through this trial. Know that our struggles to attain the higher ground are being acknowledged, even if it doesn't seem clear… Let the Greater Good inform our Purpose and galvanize us to greater personal action to assist our brothers and sisters and the Kingdoms of Earth at this time of intensified testing… There is a cautionary note: there are still those who will actively work against this rescue mission. They – the self-deluded, unawakened, corrupt, unrepentant – must not deter us from this cosmically ordained return to a more conscious and balanced Humanity. Call on Divine Helpers, Guardians and Master Spirits to protect and assist us NOW. Let more and more of the Human Kingdom awaken to take part in this rescue mission. Note: Sep 11 2007  top Chart calculated for Washington, DC: Sept. 11, 2007, 8:44 pm (Placidus Houses) – The Mutable Cross will also be sustained by a Fixed Cross (whole signs), if we include asteroids and the Black Moon noted in dotted lines. At least the "Lesser Benefic," Venus (in Leo), will assist the cleansing, purging efforts of idealistic Sagittarian energies (Jupiter - Vesta (ideals) - Pluto)! Something of a "Grand Octagon" with cooperative energies (trines & sextiles)… If we can transmute and integrate these difficult energies, great strides may be made. Squares, oppositions and other "negative" aspects provide huge amounts of energy both physical and spiritual to help overcome inertia, plus a darn good reason to actively work toward resolving the various conflicts and issues that emerge.  top Keep Clearing a Path (to Victory!)  top ©by Rose A. Jenkins, Dec. 2006 (appearing in the Jan/Feb 07 issue) We've seen mighty spiritual assistance in 2006, the year just past. We now reach up and ask our spiritual assistants, helpers and guides for even more help in 2007. The "battle for Earth" has been joined, and millions of beautiful souls answered the call to shift their part of the burden towards deeper and more fundamental healing–not only of themselves, a necessary aspect, but then going on to the plains of Justice beyond. Charged with Free Will, those who are responding to this call for change on the soul and spiritual level are becoming aware that even the substance of our bodies is changing. Glory and Hosanna! to our Angelic helpers and guides–those who are concerned with safeguarding our precious Earth and her Kingdoms… But, you who have chosen to participate in this great moment know that the "battle" has only begun. Much will be needed of us in 2007 and beyond. Debris of broken thought forms–governments that have broken themselves through greed and micro self-interest (more like self-undoing), religions that have forgotten their core message and messengers, health systems that focus on illness and destructive practices rather than well being, replacing cynicism and myopia with thoughtful questions and deep probing for solutions–are some of the energies that should surface in this year, a "9" year. Astrologically … The New Year starts off with Moon in Gemini, filling in the Mutable Grand Cross. Our relationships with everyone and everything will be suitable "grist for the mill" of transformation. Otherwise, major energies and their medium of expression throughout the year are primarily these: Uranian breaking and making in the psychic/psychism of Pisces, coupled with the nodal passage (North Node in Pisces) squaring Pluto, deep and utter transformation, still transiting Sagittarius–sign of the Sage and philosopher, also of unbridled animal urges–purging our religious and moral structures of hypocrisy, or at least revealing the depth of error in these institutions coupled with Jupiter's energy of excess and opportunity; Virgo, where the South Node of accumulated experience in the health, service, environmental, cultivation areas are being tested, and where Saturn will begin its transit in September of this year, pulls and picks at our collective bad habits, asking for remediation, redress and repair. Astrolgers call this pattern a T-square, because planetary energies are effectively 90 degrees from each other by sign. Filling in the square from time to time will be planets and lunations (new moons) from Gemini: Get thee behind me cynicism, but keep probing for answers. (Hale, Sherlock!, or should I say, Sir Arthur!!?) Recapping… Pisces | Uranus + NNode -- [ ] Sagittarius | Pluto + Jupiter -- [ ] Virgo | SNode (and later Saturn) Squares reveal the work to be done; planets show the energies involved. Elementally, the work involves Water, Fire, Earth… Emotionally intense, difficult but "flavored" with opportunity and necessity (Jupiter and Saturn). 2007: A year to continue working on all levels in those areas in need of repair, with an eye towards perfecting the work already begun. Courage, persistance and creativity will make this a more fruitful and productive process. Blessings, Love and Strength!  Top

Comments'06 -- State of the Collective Expression of Humanity  Top Or, "I keep searching for a heart of gold …" (from a Neil Young song) The Grand Fixed Cross 1 (a cosmic pattern emphasizing the work of personal transformation) that we experienced in late January is another "wake up call" in a series of cosmic patterns (mentioned in my column over the past few years) for our Human Kingdom to take up the accelerated pace of transformation during the first half of 2006. It is a veritable "lathe of heaven." Change bites into our baser self–or those conditions that need to be refined or redeemed–ike a metal bit carving a beautiful profile into wood. As evolving Souls, We place ourselves onto this lathe in order to perfect and purify our true nature. Not a time for sleepwalkers–habitual and unconscious–but for rolling up our collective sleeves for deep, intense, inner work. This isn't the only cosmic bell ringing, though. The next test moves from the realm of personal inner "demons" (via the fixed cross) to the area of inter-and intra-personal exchanges, for further refinement of our thinking/knowing or perceptual axis. This occurs primarily through the mutable signs Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius. The Moon's nodes, ever a diviner and marker of universal conditions on Earth, will move backward into the Pisces-Virgo polarity this June. (The nodes are currently completing a tour of Aries-Libra.2) Uranus is transiting Pisces, and Pluto is still trudging through Sagittarius–and with the nodes added to this axis, another Grand Cross, this one in Mutable signs, will seek out our religious, moral, ethical convictions and expressions of faith and see how they are actually working in the "real world." Delusion, derision, demagoguery, dogmatism are some of the weeds we need to remove from the (mutable) Garden… The main challenge is and will continue to be putting our Ideals, the Higher Self's gifts3 (via Neptune) into practice to allow an influx of wisdom into the Human kingdom. And also, to prevent human error from compounding the changes that Mother Earth has authorized. She continues to suffer greatly from the failures of the Human Kingdom, as We fail to recognize the source of our collective pain and suffering… (our combined denial, indifference to the suffering of others, cruelty, selfishness, ignorance, lack of vision and spiritual will). Time is running out to "walk the walk." Mother has already told us what She wants from her Children. Our Father has exhorted us to noble acts of compassion. Yet, we are still seeing too much magnification of the Lower Self, Ego-as-God in the nations of the Earth, though there is an unprecedented number of Souls awakening now and taking up their "cross" of conscious evolution. It is the collective expression of humanity–each by each, one by one–that needs rehabilitation! More clearly, what national "leaders" and governments do in our name is up to each of us… So, it is not in the least surprising that we are seeing events in many nations that are testaments to an intensified "back blast" of human errors, expressed through imbalances and unprecedented destructive storms, fires, earthquakes, floods, disease, civil unrest… These are the more urgent birth pangs we have to deal with… Leaders who cannot find their Conscience and the way to transcend the limitations of Ego, can only compound our collective difficulties and misery. Those who will not stand up for the Greater Good have feet of clay… Indeed, they have no spiritual feet to stand on. Both conditions constitute a State of Emergency in the Human Kingdom. I offer this invocation to assist the awakening: Let those Souls who are still unaware of their opportunities to change the present and give birth to the future awaken now! Those who act with deliberate malice in deforming Truth and withholding Justice are already ensnared in deadly delusion. Their deeds form a leaden cloak that shows where spoiled opportunities are buried… Let the Higher Self work its way in all Humans in all countries and nations. So Be It. –Namaste– top Footnotes: 1The fixed cross will be very much with us this year, as our spiritual work was set out with the planetary array coinciding with the new moon in Aquarius (January 29th): Chiron-Sun-Moon-Mercury-Neptune in Aquarius, Water Bearer, collective humanity opposite Saturn in Leo. Here, Leo is an individual "atom" of the collective being tested–a crucible in which the baser self is purified to spiritual gold. Mars in Taurus, the "cosmic cube" of potential, which unless and until spiritual will awakens, constitutes a reservoir of selfish appetites, and opposes Jupiter in Scorpio, which magnifies the tendency towards manipulation and grandiose gratification of lower desires until the soul force is stirred and the eagle takes flight… [Scorpio, the sign that exemplifies the spiritual crisis of the fixed cross, i.e., the crucifixion of the lower self, reveals the transformation process through three symbols: scorpion, eagle, and finally the dove.] 2 N. Node in Aries, S. Node in Libra: cardinal emphasis, unilateral initiative vs competing interests. 3 Neptune continuing its 14 year transit of Aquarius, is now at the midway point through that transit.  top