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Heavens Above

Blessings to you all in this month of the Great Mother!

And what a month we have in store, as the final eclipse in the Cancer/Capricorn series bestows us with a great opportunity to clear and release any core beliefs that are limiting our emotional safety and security!

July 1^st brings us a Solar Eclipse at 9 degrees Cancer. Yes I hear you say, “but we just had an eclipse last month.” Yes we did. June also leapt into action with a Solar Eclipse in Gemini followed mid month with a Lunar Eclipse in Gemini and opposite sign Sagittarius. So it’s busy times here on planet earth with 2 sets of energies being triggered, which happens infrequently in the greater scheme of things.

This brings about one new set of doors opening as an old set is closing, as the July 1^st eclipse in Cancer is the final eclipse in this 18 month series over the past few years. Family and career shifts and adjustments have thus been the feature in our individual and collective lives, as the as yet unresolved Global Financial Crisis has challenged us all to wake up to the reality of our broken material system.  The Zeitgeist of fear is now pervading every aspect of global events as revolutions sweep the planet and the threat of chaos lurks in the shadow.

And yet I feel a great excitement also arising in equal measure. Crisis is the wind that feeds the wheel of change, and as we are now firmly in the passage of the Global Transformation Process, the potential for the shift in consciousness so necessary is also heating up.

The Cardinal Crisis

The timing here is quite amazing as this eclipse…see the Sun and Moon together lower right in Cancer…completes a square, as it opposes Pluto in Capricorn –

and Saturn up the top in Libra – and Uranus bottom left in Aries.

This is big in any astrologer’s terms as solar eclipses trigger the planets involved with a great big kick to wake them up.

Since 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn for the first time in 250 years he has been awaiting Uranus to join him so they can their dance of revolution and transformation over the next 4 years. Saturn in Libra since 2009 has already connected with Pluto forging the repressive and protectionist policies of tax payer funded bailouts for failing political and banking systems. The rich are continuing to protect the rich and pulling out all stops to try to keep the old systems under control. But it ain’t working folk, or perhaps it is from their point of view.

My sister is expecting her first grandchild, due this May. Last month we were away together and of course we talked about the baby and the excitement of being a grandmother. This occasion is bittersweet for both of us because our mother passed away 2 years ago. She would have loved to see my niece become a mom and to welcome a new member into the family. We talked about mom a lot on that trip.

While we were away, we also did some shopping, especially for the new baby. We were in a little Irish Imports shop in Vero Beach browsing and as I picked up an item in a box I heard my mothers’ voice say “Buy this for my new great grandson.” In the box was a Baby bonnet that was made from a ladies’ handkerchief. It was beautiful and had shamrocks embroidered all over it. There was also a poem with a blessing. I knew I had to buy it

The baby shower was this past weekend and my niece received many special gifts for the new arrival. My sister took a crochet class and learned how to make a baby blanket. My brother-in-law made a wooden cradle for his new grandson. And there was a gift that I wrapped in blue paper with a card that read ”I whispered in your Aunt Linda’s ear, buy this for my new great grandson, Love and blessings.” I signed it from my mother.