Planetary Alignments October 2018 - The Breath of Venus

The energies of planet Venus are clearly at the center and forefront of this coming months of October and November. From December onwards will start a period of 2 years of very powerful and unusual planetary alignments which will potentially bring many changes in our lives. This month of October especially is a period focused more on inner work, inner changes, shadow work, recalibration, etc, which is in a way a preparation for the coming years.

The energy of planet Venus is leading this inner work as she is about to go retrograde on October 5th, which will last for 40 days until November 16th. This is a powerful time of rebirth, which starts a new Venus cycle of 19 months, known as the Venus synodic cycle.

http://goodvibeastrology.com/mysterious-venus-cycles/

This Venus cycle of 19 months is corresponding to the Moon cycle of New Moons and Full Moons. For Venus, the middle point of Venus retrograde corresponds to the New Moon, this is basically the New Venus, which happens only once every 19 months, and this time it will happen on October 26th, at 2:16pm UTC. At this time, Sun Earth and Venus align, and Venus is at her closest point to Earth.

To understand this process a bit better, let's widen our point of view a little. Everything in creation is breathing. Breathing is basically a flow of energy in and out, and the main breathing of the Universe is usually called the Great Breath, this is the breath of Source, it is a cycle of many trillions of years, which starts with the creation (breathing out) of the Universe out of Source (Source is our state of pure Oneness, pure singularity, no time and space), and then the Universe is breathing back in to Source.

From this Great Breath of Source, everything in creation follows, and breathes too.

Our process of breathing is basically a flow of energy between the lower dimensions including the physical, and the higher Soul spiritual dimensions. Energy appears into the physical by flowing down from the world of Soul, and then ascends away from physical going back to Soul.

When we breathe in, we breathe in energy from Soul into our body. When we breathe out, we breathe out energy from our body back to Soul.

The seasons of Earth are the breathing of Earth. Spring and summer are the breathing in, autumn and winter are the breathing out.

The Moon cycle is the breathing of the Moon, from New Moon to Full Moon is breathing in, from Full Moon to New Moon is breathing out.

So the Breath of Venus lasts for 19 months. Venus is the lover, beauty, harmony, sensual archetype of the Divine Feminine.

At the mid-point of her retrograde phase, Earth Sun and Venus align, Venus is at its closest point to Earth, this is called the inferior conjunction, this is the New Venus. At this time Venus is invisible in our sky. One week later, Venus reappears in our sky, and starts her Morning Star phase which lasts for 9 months, this is the time when Venus is visible in our sky in the morning before sunrise, which is the breathing in, the pouring of Venus energies from Soul to physical. 

Then she is invisible for 2 weeks, and the mid-point of this 2 weeks period is when Venus is aligned with the Sun and Earth, behind the Sun, this is called the superior conjunction, this is the Full Venus. One week after the Full Venus, she reappears in our sky in her Evening Star phase for 9 months, which is the time when Venus is visible in our sky after sunset, this is the time of breathing out, of rising of Venus energies from physical back to Soul.

The New Venus is, like a New Moon, a time of new beginnings, of setting intentions for the next Venus cycle of 19 months. Then as the Morning star phase (inbreath) starts and Venus turns direct again, this is a time of outpouring and renewal of Venus energies of beauty love and sensuality in our lives, which lasts for 9 months. At the end of this comes the Full Venus which is a culmination of the manifestation of Venus energies in our life. Then comes the Evening star phase (out breath) which is a time of letting go, clearing, inner self love, releasing the old, and raising our consciousness regarding our connection to the Venus energies, which lasts for 9 months and ends with a new Venus retrograde which starts a new cycle, a new Venus Breath.

The 19 months of Breath of Venus resonates with the flower of life, as there are 19 circles in a flower of life : 1 in the center and 18 around it. Venus is invisible for 1 month and visible for 18 months during her cycle.

This Venus cycle is the meaning behind the ancient myth of Inana :

https://astrobutterfly.com/2018/09/18/venus-evening-star-venus-morning-star/

The 40 days and 40 nights length of the Venus retrograde is alluded to in many other ancient myths, from Jesus to Buddha.

Friday is Venus day (Freya's day), and Venus will turn retrograde on October 5th (7:04pm UTC) on a Friday. The New Venus on October 26th (2:16pm UTC) is on a Friday, the Morning star phase starts on November 2nd sunrise on a Friday, and she will turn direct on November 16th (10:51am UTC) on a Friday.

The first 20 days of Venus Retrograde from October 5-26 is especially dedicated to inner work, shadow work, release, let go of the old, finding love within and universally. The October 26th New Venus is the turning point, the actual beginning of the new cycle, the best time to make ceremony to set intentions for the next cycle.

During these first 20 days, will be the New Moon on October 9th (3:46am UTC). This will occur in Libra which is one of the zodiac signs of Venus. It will be making a square aspect to planet Pluto which is the planet of death and rebirth, alchemical transformation. This is especially a good day for shadow and inner work, for retreating from the external world, and going far and deep within, into the universal Ocean of Love, where all can be released and renewed.

Around this time of October 9-10, Mars also enters new territory, he finally moves forward, out of the territory he was covering during his last retrograde phase. Also Mars makes a square aspect to Venus around the same time. This is significant and shows that we are moving into new territory although we are working more inwards. The masculine energy review is completing and Mars is 'back to work'. The aspect between Mars and Venus invites us to work more on conciling masculine and feminine energies in our lives.

Around the same time Mercury and Moon enter Scorpio together, and make an opposition to Uranus and asteroid Magdalena (which is signifying downloads of energy and insights especially assisted by the Magdalene archetype), this is amplifying the energy of transformation, deep inner work and rebirth. This period of time around the October 9 New Moon is very much about going inwards, taking responsibility for everything in our life, avoiding external tension and projections, and working more within. This inner work will then reflect in our external life.

A few days before the October 26th New Venus, is the Full Moon on October 24th (4:45pm UTC). This is a Full Moon in Taurus, which is the other zodiac of Venus, this in itself is a powerful coincidence. Additionally, the alignments at this time are significant, as the Sun is conjunct Venus and the Moon is conjunct Uranus. This is a day of more downloads of energy and insights, to especially assist the ending of the old Venus cycle and the beginning of the new.

After the October 26th New Venus, will come the last 20 days of Venus retrograde, during which the Morning star phase begins on November 2nd. This is a time of entering into the new Venus cycle, of preparing and visualizing the new.

As we enter into November we will have more alignments for this whole process which I will post about then.

Until then, I am still available for private readings :

http://recreatingbalance1.blogspot.com/p/galactic-astrology-readings.html

💖 Wishing the best potential manifestation for this shift into a new Divine Feminine cycle to all 💖

"You'll be given love

You'll be taken care of

You'll be given love

You have to trust it

Maybe not from the sources

You have poured yours

Maybe not from the directions

You are staring at

Twist your head around

It's all around you

All is full of love

All around you

All is full of love"

💖

Play of Mirrors Part 2 - Life is a Paradox

Existence is always based on a seeming paradox, that we are One and also appearing separate. Our analytical mental logical capacity is based on having knowledge of facts, which can only be done by isolating things from a certain point of view, to look at an object or a situation or a being as its own individual thing rather than a part of a whole. At the same time, existence, the whole of creation, is One, one organism, one body. We are cells in the One creation just like the cells and organs in a human body. Therefore logic in itself, if genuinely pursued all the way, always ends up in contradiction, the contradiction of Oneness and seeming separation. We can not come in touch with life by mentally understanding its parts. The seeking for a logical answer, for an analytical meaning and understanding of life, is always vain and can never be satisfied.

This is related to my previous post 'Play of Mirrors', in which I was mentioning that from the highest point of view, our Higher Self is One organism, one and the same for all beings and all creation, and symbolically it can be viewed like a Sun, and we as lower selves are all sunrays emanating from it. In truth, the Sun and its rays of Light are One. Another way to symbolically describe this is that the lower self is a reflection of the Higher Self seen in a mirror.

http://recreatingbalance1.blogspot.com/2017/10/play-of-mirrors.html

"Everywhere we look around in the physical, emotional and mental worlds, we see only reflections, as all other people, places, objects, also are only reflections of their own higher selves.

As mere reflections who have forgotten the real self, there has often been this feeling of being incomplete, that our identity is not validated, which is coming from losing sight of the real/higher self. And in this forgetfulness, there has been a widespread tendency to look for that sense of completion in the world of reflections. So people hope to be completed and validate their identity by looking for positive opinions of other people, by hoping that positive experiences and achievements will finally validate their identity, and finally the reflection will not be blur anymore. But this is 
absolutely vain, as completion can never come from the world of reflections, but only from reconnection with one's own higher, real self.

Seeking completion in the world of reflections is like placing two mirrors in front of each other, the reflections reflect each other endlessly. This world where the higher self has been forgotten is a maze of opposing mirrors where it is not possible to understand what is real.

Therefore, for real spiritual breaktroughs to occur, one must unconditionally renounce all hope for validation and completion in the opinions of other people, in one's own achievements, or in any other circumstance from this world of reflections in these lower planes"

The Higher Self, the field and embrace of Oneness, the Light of Source, the One organism which all of existence is, all of these are different words to describe the same thing, and this is who and what we really are. We are cells in this One organism, ripples in the Ocean of life. This presence is eternal and unconditional, it can never be affected, lowered, changed. It is beyond conditions. Therefore it is not something to seek out there, it is not something to achieve, to work towards in a future, it is always there and has always been there and we can never be truly disconnected from it because there is nothing outside of the One, it is only the individual awareness which may forget temporarily, which may then experience the illusion of being disconnected, while the One presence is always there, and truly all there is to do is to relax into it.

To relax into it means that we see this Highest Light as ourselves and as all others and as all situations, always, unconditionally, no matter what is happening in the conditions. To truly see it, automatically we will bring it into the situation, and we will experience it.

To create attachments and investments in scenarios, in expecting or believing that things should be a certain way, automatically hooks the energy in the conditions in the lower self, brings identification with the lower self, because it is an expectation that the lower appearance could complete us, and actually the One Presence that we truly are is always there, everywhere, in every moment, always complete.

And at the same time, the lower self often has accumulated a lot of programs, distortions, all of which are based on the illusion of feeling separate, dislocated. This creates an experience of various pains, especially physically and emotionally, which are always illusions no matter how real they may seem. An enlightened being could stand in an explosion unharmed, get shot by a firearm and just let the bullet go back out of the body unharmed, simply because he or she firmly knows that conditions are always illusions, a play of mirrors, and the One unconditional Presence is always here, always complete to provide unconditional health and wholeness.

At the same time, it can be a journey to regain this full awareness, this full enlightenment, and this has to be acknowledged too. In full enlightenment, there is absolutely no need of anything whatsoever, because our Higher Self presence is always complete and pure Oneness Light and Love, it can not be affected by any of the lower conditions, and in truth the Higher and lower self are One, so the lower self has the destiny to fully embody the Higher and all of its unconditional qualities, and therefore to not be affected by circumstances and always be pure Light.
When this full awareness has not been regained yet, the lower self has many needs, or in other words many addictions, it needs/is addicted to drinking water, breathing air, sunlight, eating food, having meaningful human connections, etc. And here is the paradox, that from a certain perspective and at certain stages of evolution we truly need all of this, and at the same time as the One unconditional presence we truly don't need them.

The journey is to resolve this paradox by addressing all needs and desires, and there is no generic straightforward answer for this. Either they have to be renounced or they have to be experienced and played out, until the lower self is in full awareness of its unconditional Presence of the One, and the Soul has completed its journey in incarnation and has no desire or reason to incarnate anymore. This is dependant on the Divine Plan of the One : certain desires are distorted, for example we don't really need junk food and this can usually be renounced easily. If we believe that we need something then we will experience that need. For example we have genes to make vitamin C, but they are usually turned off because we believe we need to eat it, but they can be turned back on by our awareness that we can make our own vitamin C.

However some desires are reflections of Divine Plan for unfolding of creation, and our Soul may not renounce them for some time but instead it will send the impulse to create that experience in the best way possible, for example the desire to experience Soul family reunion. Here it is important to remember that the Divine Plan is fluid, it changes, it is not something we can tune into with mental planning and beliefs, so we have to release attachments to a specific scenario. We can only tune into Divine Plan in the moment, by living and expressing each moment one by one fully, then the journey unfolds, life is able to build upon each previous moment only if it was lived fully which means that we see the One Presence of Highest Light in each moment, no matter what is happening. These desires, this inner guidance moment by moment, is the fabric that weaves all life into a field of Oneness.
As this journey unfolds, we progressively regain full awareness of our unconditional Presence of the One, and the paradox is reconciled, as Oneness is realized all the way into all degrees of density and separation, then all beings, all cells of the One organism, are fully embraced together in the awareness of Oneness, and life remains a mystery to be experienced, not as something to be attained because there is nothing outside of life itself, but as the expression of the joy of simply existing. This is something which is always there for us to access at any time anywhere, in fact it can only be accessed when we relax into the present moment.



🌟💖 Love to All 🐬🌟