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Last month’s changes

Last month certainly brought many unexpected changes (Jupiter-expansive square Uranus-sudden and surprising). Many people’s balance was severely challenged. I personally experienced the pain of a slipped disc, which had me flat on my back for three weeks – postponing my return to England, I had to cancel many plans. On the up-side, I surrendered to the spirit of the moment, experiencing love in action expressed by all those who took care of me, and I learned to really appreciate people without wanting to change anything about them. I wonder how many of you also had huge unexpected events that revealed another way of living. Will we take what we learned into the future?

New Moon in Aquarius – towards peaceful relating

This New Moon chart is about the transformation that comes about when truth is realised and accepted (Sun/Moon sextile Pluto in Sagittarius). We are being offered an opportunity to allow last month’s learning to transform our outlook. Aquarian relating includes accepting that people are the way they are, and it’s not for us to try to change them. Maybe what we can aim to do is support our family and friends to do what they really want to do, rather than simply expressing desire and consequent frustration. We help them best by realising who we are ourselves, and not using outside pressure as an excuse for not fulfilling ourselves.

I found a good thing to say to myself when being with another: ‘This person may never change – I wonder who they really are?’ It helped me not interfere, or think I knew better, not judge or try to ‘correct.’ Accepting each person as they are creates much more peaceful relating, more fun, more quiet intimacy.

Emotional checks and balances

The more we try to be free to do our own thing, the more we are likely to feel the pressure of emotions, both individual and en masse, pulling us back and creating inertia, it’s like pushing against water (Venus in Pisces square Pluto). We need to be aware of the ebb and flow of emotional reactions, our own and others’. In society as a whole, these emotions can act as checks and balances for any extreme new projects, so that the changes implemented are appropriate, not just political or religious principles being forced into people’s lives.

On the other hand we need to remember that feelings change, emotions are temporary reactive expressions. So we need to allow the feelings to be simply what they are, letting them flow through, and trust that our spirit knows the ocean’s current beneath the waves, and will bring about the appropriate development, regardless of our fears and anxieties.

Inspiration rather than working things out

The opening of consciousness to global humanitarian (Aquarian) ideals is still being held in check by individuals who are in thrall to the power of authority (Neptune in Aquarius opposite Saturn in Leo). But this New Moon chart offers the opportunity to develop and achieve beyond what has been thought possible (Jupiter in Sagittarius approaching the trine to Saturn and sextile to Neptune), reconciling this tug-of-war. And the flavour is always that the results can be different from what you fear. This is a good time to say to ourselves: ‘Let me see things differently,’ quoting from A Course in Miracles.

This month is not about mentally understanding what’s going on (Mercury in the chart is retrograde, in Pisces, and unaspected). Mentally we are likely to feel fairly unsure, swimming along through the moments – a perfect month for practising ‘beginner’s mind’, or ‘living in the Now’, and allowing the solutions to be inspired for the greater good.

Practise, practise, practise

This is the time for experimentation rather than pinning anything down, and it’s important that we don’t ‘throw the baby out with the bath water’, jettisoning a good idea because the first results of our efforts do not please us. We are continuing to play with the need for space to be individual, even if that looks eccentric or strange (Uranus is approaching the North Node).

It’s also worth noticing that physical partings do not mean separation – what is joined in spirit is always joined. It is safe to practise letting loved ones do their own thing – who we truly love, we cannot lose. Uranus is electrical energy and the reality of our connectedness is being demonstrated through e-mail, texting, camera-phones, satellites. All this is the physical reflection of our expanding consciousness. Practising the inner skills of empathy, telepathy, remote viewing, intuition, will have more success now than ever before.

More importantly, it is now a small step between our everyday world and the awareness of spiritual oneness as the underpinning truth. Practise opening your awareness, softening your focus, lifting your heart as you breath in – and allowing life to be what it is.

Open to love

In May, and again in October, there are likely to be more surprises, shaking off the way things have been so that we can breathe new air (Jupiter will square Uranus twice more). It’s all good stuff really, even when it feels not – situations and lives opening like flower buds. We’re just not sure yet what the flowers will look like. Let your life unfold like a flower – it’s perfume is the love in your heart.