Full Moon In Aries

Full Moon in Aries at 9:23pm Pacific, Saturday, October 15th.

The Full Moon was exact last night, but we are experiencing the effect today, Monday and Tuesday. It’s a VERY powerful Full Moon because it’s in a conjunction with Uranus (revolution, truth, rebellion and “shaking things up”).

This will be a dramatic week. The Full Moon will set off more disruptions and drama on the world stage. The last debate takes place this Wednesday – the same day as a conjunction (combining) between Mars (energy, war, men) and Pluto (toxic purification). Should be interesting! Mars and Pluto both rule Scorpio which is Clinton’s sign, so she should be able to ride the wave. Trump will have women coming out of the woodwork to challenge him, and his supporters will stay resolute.

This is a good week to take things a step at a time and be cautious in social interactions. Creativity is highly enhanced, especially if it goes outside of social norms. This is a week for the revolutionary, unconventional, rebellious genius to fully express herself or himself. Expect revelations regarding your life and personal belief systems. Do something physical; push yourself at the gym or exercise in nature. If you have some great truth to impart to someone, I would wait until next week.

The rest of October is about radical transformation, on a personal and social level.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody! Today we burn red candles for life and black candles for letting go.

Celebrate the dead and your ancestors. Send loving thoughts to all the wonderful people we've lost this year!

Burning a yellow candle in the West will bring spirits to your door, and burning wormwood will allow you to see them. 

Take care and have a great Halloween!

Mercury Direct

Mercury Direct today at 16 degrees Libra - right next to the North Node. This gives us glimpses into the future.

Mercury is close to an opposition with Uranus in Aries, bringing big insights to us this weekend. Think before you speak.

Here's some great info on the god Mercury from Manly Hall:

Hermes
 
"His transcendent learning caused Hermes to be identified with many of the early sages and prophets. In his Ancient Mythology, Bryant writes: "I have mentioned that Cadmus was the same as the Egyptian Thoth; and it is manifest from his being Hermes, and from the invention of letters being attributed to him. " (In the chapter on the theory of Pythagorean Mathematics will be found the table of the original Cadmean letters.) Investigators believe that it was Hermes who was known to the Jews as "Enoch," called by Kenealy the "Second Messenger of God." Hermes was accepted into the mythology of the Greeks, later becoming the Mercury of the Latins. He was revered through the form of the planet Mercury because this body is nearest to the sun: Hermes of all creatures was nearest to God, and became known as the Messenger of the Gods.

Serpent worship in some form has permeated nearly all parts of the earth. The serpent mounds of the American Indian; Python, the great snake o the Greeks; the sacred serpents of the Druids; the Midgard snake of Scandinavia; the brazen serpent of the Jews; the snakes at the oracle; of Delphi twining themselves around the tripod upon which the Pythian priestess sat, the tripod itself being in the form of twisted serpents; the sacred serpents preserved in the Egyptian temples; the Uræus coiled upon the foreheads of the Pharaohs and priests etc. The serpent-wound staff of Hermes remains the emblem of the medical profession. Among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as the symbol of wisdom or salvation. The antipathy which Christendom feels towards the snake is based upon the little-understood allegory of the Garden of Eden.

The cock, or rooster, was a symbol of Cashmala (Cadmillus) in the Samothracian Mysteries, and is also a phallic symbol sacred to the sun. It was accepted by the Greeks as the emblem of Ares (Mars) and typified watchfulness and defense. When placed in the center of a weather vane it signifies the sun in the midst of the four corners of creation. The Greeks sacrificed a rooster to the gods at the time of entering the Eleusinian Mysteries; the goat is both a phallic symbol and also an emblem of courage or aspiration because of its surefootedness and ability to scale the loftiest peaks."

Manly P. Hall

The Myth of Columbus

I've never been one to celebrate Columbus Day. The discovery of America was destined to happen, it had already been discovered long before Columbus came along. But the plunder and wholesale destruction of the Native Peoples, wild animals and environments is unconscionable. Absolutely barbaric and tragic.

I studied California Native cultures in college and learned about how the state existed before Spanish settlers came. It was peaceful and the Indians tended the land. They would actually set small fires here and there so brush wouldn't build up so high and the earth would be rejuvenated. One of the reasons have such huge fires here in California now is because the brush has built up so high that fires are blazing too hot. This is just one example! Our state used to be teeming with wildlife! Grizzly bears everywhere. Huge oak trees. Every eucalyptus tree you see in the Bay Area is the result of a seed dropped by a Spanish cow. The toll booths in Oakland was one of the largest bird colonies in the state, with 10,000 migrating birds passing through to roost or raise young.

 

























Anyhow, this article is fantastic and I want to share with everyone today, just to pass along some true history:

6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america_p2.html#ixzz3G3FIVlT8

Full Moon in Aries

Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Extraordinariousness is happening in four hours here on the West Coast.

This Full Moon is in Aries (headstrong impulsive Me Me Me energy) very close to Uranus (shocking, sudden change or insight) and the South Node of the Moon (the Past haunting us).

If there is any sort of upheaval or sudden shifts in relationships going on this week, try to wait until next week or preferably November to take any real action. I MEAN it. Aries has to do with being a maverick and going your own way, but the current emphasis is on Working With Others. Try to be conciliatory and diplomatic with any tiffs that arise.

The ruler of Aries is Mars, currently trining Uranus and stirring up anger and impulsive action - it's a volatile mix. Plus the Sun in Libra squaring Pluto in Capricorn can cause issues with authority.