Here we are in a new year - 2021. For some of us last year was a year of euphoric experiences. We got to spend less time commuting, we had more time to ourselves and our families, and perhaps we finally had the opportunity to start doing what we always wanted to do. For others, our lives completely crumbled. Everything we had created for ourselves vanished overnight. We had to go through a grieving process and figure out how to move forward. Whatever your experience was we were each given an opportunity to reflect, to reassess, and really look at what's most important in life. As we step into 2021 let us remain in our hearts and remember what's most treasured about our very precious lives.
Our new year will be no stranger to change. We will continue to shift our social and economic structures. As with any change there will be times of uncertainty, feelings of hesitation and even fear. Although the overall energy doesn't feel nearly as heavy as 2020, it will have a much more positive feel, it is still a time to step forward into what we really want to create. 2020 brought up all our garbage to the surface to look at, and it's important we just don't sweep everything under the rug. We need to look at it all so we can clean house. Collectively we have the power to wash away all of our historical ways of being that weren't helping us collectively, and create something new.
It's going to take great strength, stamina, and stability from within to move forward. At times we are going to feel uncentered and shaken, but this is all a part of the growth process. It's the uncomfortable, uneasiness of it all that forces us into creating something better. So when those feelings show up, because at some point they will, it's important not to turn away from them, but instead to face them. When we face the uncomfortable, destabilizing situations head-on, we become stronger and we make better decisions. Decisions that aren’t based in our own fears. It's important that this year we keep connecting from a very human place. Not just from the mind but also from the heart. If we can keep this connection strong and growing then we will all reach a better way of being. Stay positive. Keep your mind on what you want to see happen, who you want to be in each moment, and how you want to show up. You can’t change anyone else or make anything happen, but you can affect other people and affect what happens by how you show up in every moment and every situation.
We are living in an exciting time but we must remember there are still people suffering, there are still people who are lost and are trying to find their way. Our systems still don't help the majority. Lend a hand to those who need it. Pay a good deed forward. Be a part of the building blocks that will create a stronger society.
I wish you all the best in this new year, and all that you desire to come your way.
- Rachel
-painting by Philip Tsiaras
For more information on the real star time events that reflect what is happening on Earth, scroll down to the bottom where you can read the interpretations of my dear friend and mentor of astrology, Lyn.
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Interpretations
Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction – 20 year cycle – Winter Solstice December 21 2020
Every twenty years, these two planets that govern our social and political realms, unite in a conjunction and plant seeds for the next twenty years of evolutionary change for all of civilization. Jupiter is the optimist and Saturn is the realist (or pessimist) so this alignment carries a perfect balance of both expansive new vision and the desire to bring that vision into form in practical do-able ways. We can all be a practical visionaries in our own unique, creative ways.
Miraculously, the actual conjunction will take place on Winter Solstice, December 21. This means in 2020, we are still bringing to completion the last Jupiter/Saturn Cycle that began in May 2000. That Cycle took place in sidereal Aries which supported individual awakening and empowerment as well as a desire for self-governance. This current Cycle begins in astronomical Sagittarius and Capricorn and will bring long-needed reforms to all our institutions, businesses, organizations and ways we organize our society. Our collective job is to reimagine and create a more vibrant, healthy, equitable world for all.
This cycle will have various acts and attitudes. Jupiter will be transiting both astronomical Sagittarius and Capricorn this year. Jupiter is exalted in Sagittarius, where it is considered to excel exceptionally well. This optimistic, courageous transit brings the LIGHT to our world in a time when other aspects are darker and more challenging. It is a sign of visionary thinking, higher mind, futuristic trends. Sagittarius is a fire sign, which means it activates a desire for a more engaged spiritual life in which we take the dedication of our personal practices to also create world peace and justice for all. Sagittarius can also bring out unbalanced righteousness, dogmatism, god-complexes and spark epic battles between warring factions.
Saturn has now also entered its exalted home in the sign of Capricorn. It is here that Saturn most excels to create real and lasting reform regarding our shared social contracts and infrastructures. Capricorn, as an earth sign, is grounding, productive, solution-oriented, and helps us see what is most probable out of all that is possible. Saturn also manifests as the status-quo, or a more traditional, past-based way of seeing life. Some people will want to hold on authoritarian, patriarchal rule as Capricorn can be super-controlling, power-grabbing, militaristic.
As the two very different energetics of Jupiter and Saturn begin to flow closer and closer together, modifying and affecting each other’s field of influence, some people will align with the progressive fire and vision of Jupiter and others will seek the security of traditional norms that are equated with Saturn, fearful of change. We are in a revolutionary moment where both sides seek to seize dominance or leadership to govern society. Where do you stand? Where will you take a stand?
You can see this rare alignment every night and is not to be missed as it won’t happen again for another twenty years. And remember Pluto is there too, like an invisible third eye nestled between the two eye-orbs of Jupiter and Saturn. Sit under this wonder and seek guidance for yourself regarding your life as you are bathed in this energetic portal of support and shift.
Jupiter/Uranus and Saturn/Uranus Last Quarter Squares – 2021
Last quarter squares between any two planets mark a moment in which we releasing what has been and simultaneously begin to create from our future selves already dreaming us forward. The Jupiter/Uranus square influences technological experimentation, innovations, and importantly sparks the desire for individual freedom, uniqueness and originality of expression infiltrating all aspects of society. The Saturn/Uranus square is fierce, creating volatile battles between the old guard clashing with the revolutionary upstarts, reminiscent of the 1960’s. And given that Pluto is still in play throughout, 2021 will most likely continue to be a year of disruption and revolutionary change.