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Shake a tail feather and now wave goodbye to the crazy year of the Yang
Fire Monkey – not to be seen again for another sixty years! And hail a
hearty welcome to the year of the Yin Red Fire Bird, which begins to
crow with the Aquarian New Moon on the 27-28th January at 00:07gmt,
19:07est.
A Fire Bird year can be a controversial and colorful
one with over dramatic scenarios, where the ordinary is given rank of
the extraordinary – and vice versa, depending upon the power of the pecking order in the proverbial chicken coup (i.e. one’s own mind).
The Red Rooster’s organizational abilities are generally stubbornly
applied, although compromise and cooperation would create a greater
sense of union - and harmony, as well create the adulation they desire
and/or deserve for their perfectionism. The challenge in the year of the
loyal and punctual Rooster is to see competition and comparison as
futile and counterproductive to positive personal development,
particularly when partaking and celebrating differences create the
unified whole.
A natural born confident Fire Rooster knows how
to strut one’s glorious every-day stuff with regal style and strength,
without having to prove one’s authority. Those born in 1957 will truly
resonate with this year’s fiery element. It is, however, a time for
everyone to wake-up and cultivate mindfulness with noble intentions in
all spheres of life, honing skills with precision and awareness, which
others may benefit from.
From a spiritual point of view, this
year of the Fire Bird is one of a phoenix in transformation, possessing
the courage to root out any negative minutiae the ego tenaciously holds
onto, in order to fly up to higher sights. In the astrology of the
Tibetan Kalachakra Tantra, it is the mighty and mythic Garuda Bird who
is akin to the zodiac sign Aquarius, the group-oriented sign in which
this Chinese New Year starts – which is also the sign of surprises and
amazement. (Please note Tibetan New Year, Losar, begins with the New
Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces on the 26th of February).
The
soaring Red Garuda is also a King of outrageousness; he emerged from his
cracked egg fully grown, already perfect in his warrior ways, having
overcome hope and fear in order to experience freedom and spaciousness.
This is year is auspicious for Snake; successful for Ox; happy
for Dragon; entertaining for Goat; and good for Tiger, Monkey and Boar;
a fair one for the Horse; and moderate for the Rooster; while Rabbit
and Rat may be happier in a less provocative role, a Dog’s relation to
the Rooster will depend upon how fiery elements dominate his or her
horoscope.
With love & prayers _/|\_ & even though we
don't really need wings to fly to a higher perspective and get our
clearer view (meditation and dharma will do!), best wishes to one &
all!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Bird!
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Strength & Stability ~ Solidarity & Success
Like a
Mother looks after her child, the Moon at home in Cancer provides a
place of protection, a sanctuary from the chaos of fast-changing times,
and an anchor in rough emotional seas. Take comfort with this first full
Moon of 2017, the Full Cancer Moon, as it stimulates our ability to
awaken the Divine Mother (within each of us), to show care and
consideration in love, unconditional and pure, for all beings, at home,
at work, in partnership and with friends.
At home in Cancer, and
exact Thursday 12th January, at 11:34am GMT, this Full Moon is not just
any old reassuring the kids with mom’s apple pie kind-of-moon, as Luna
moves into an extremely rare formation as she culminates, to revisit
historic and astrologically exciting moments of 2010 – reminding us of
the burgeoning stages of this currently spiritual era. For those who
cynically question the validity of the transcendent and mystic, only
giving weight to the plutonic overbearing forces of evil or chaos at
work, be aware that when a light begins to shine, darkness often
mobilises and many obstacles and difficulties come creeping out of the
shadows – as indicated by the Sun currently conjunct Pluto, all of which
is now given the Full Moon spotlight treatment. For a few short days
little can remain hidden, however hard it tries.
Events or
situations around this exceptional Full Moon offer an astral opportunity
to bring light and karma, self and others, into focus; to create safer
boundaries that enable one to work within a sacred space within a
configuration called a ‘Grand Cross’. To give you an idea of the rarity
of any Cross formation, these only happen around four percent of the
time. This Full Moon is therefore rather special, even if such potency
is fleeting, lasting only for the three Full Moon days – and nights,
then the planetary pattern reverts to a tense T-square. Although, it
might be helpful to note here how my teacher, the late great Howard
Sasportas, taught that we extend a T-square into the empty leg when
looking to stabilise, or for ways out of any difficult circumstance. Its
good, therefore, to bear in mind how this Moon position, at 22°Cancer,
while sensitive to aggression also brims with courage and militant
tenacity, so that confronting challenging issues can be made easy with a
bolthole to retreat into.
It’s also worth knowing how every
Cross has one of three different characteristics, representing the
various qualities of the signs of the Zodiac: Cardinal, Fixed and
Mutable. A cross occurs when two sets of planets are in opposition; the
four planets therefore form a perfect square in the heavens, which is
then called a ‘Grand Cross’. This particular Cross is no ordinary Cross
either. In Esoteric Astrology, this particular set of oppositions
carries the glorious title: the ‘Grand Cardinal Cross of the Central
Spiritual Sun’, because four planets are in the four Cardinal signs:
Uranus in Aries, Moon in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra, and Sun with Pluto in
Capricorn. In a Grand Cardinal Cross, revolutionary Uranus is THE agent
of change in self-directed Aries, at 20°; all the while it is Jupiter
at 22°, in harmonious Libra, that offers a compromising synthesis. This
is, without doubt, a dynamic Cross of action, of making things happen,
by oneself, with others, colleagues and loved ones, and of allowing the
power of the Divine within to rise and make itself known (Need I say not
in an egotistical manner? This Cross accents a spiritual Sun, not an
identity driven one). Remember that when you see the Divine in
everything, everything becomes Divine. You see, the heavens are now
asking us to work with greater devotion to the sacred and care for
everything around us, with greater cooperation with others as we
co-create with the universe, noting now how we have moved away from
negative habits and developed more helpful ways of being these past
seven years, since twenty-ten.
Admittedly, a ‘Cardinal Cross of
the Central Spiritual Sun’ is intense – all Crosses are. This one is
about getting to core issues – subjects that affect your very spirit,
the work you are doing and your purpose. And when the Sun and the Moon
are major players within a Grand Cross, most everyone gets to feel the
rising tension of some sort or another, a momentum that peaks with the
Full Moon. But just as soon as Luna culminates the effects will also
begin to diminish as the Moon begins to wane.
The Capricorn Sun
with Pluto also highlights the need for personal and professional
transformation: to be reborn. Rising like a Phoenix from the ashes may
well be the theme for the coming year of the Fire Rooster, as this Full
Moon sets the initial tone for 2017. This, then, is no ordinary Full
Moon: it’s a Full Moon with the potential to awaken personal wisdom, and
to illuminate the (collective) subconscious, which can then empower one
to transform, including innovative ideas into accomplished action. ✫
Image is the Kalachakra Mandala, the 'Time Wheel' Mandala for World
Peace, which His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is conferring over this Full
Moon in Bodhgaya, India, the place of the Buddha's enlightenment.
May all beings be enlightened, finding inner peace, outer peace and peace of mind _/\_ 
Full Moon blessings to One and all!
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