Eight planets in fixed signs (known for their rigidtiy) this month makes for a tense time, then throw in Mercury-retrograde; but this “big planetary-alignment is occurrng in the sign of Aquarius, which suggests new beginnnings for society”. Mars & Uranus in Taurus form a tense square-aspect to Saturn & Jupiter, which can portend an electrifying response to status quo events. We began the transition from the Piscean Age to the Age of Aquarius around 2000, we saw the financial crash of 2008; we are “now fully in the transition period”, and can expect “chaos, disruption, and uncertainty, as the old age falls away”. Not in doubt: BIG CHANGES are happening! “Uranus is known as the great awakener”, and squaring up to Jupiter & Saturn, we can expect to “see increasing numbers of ordinary people waking up and questioning what is happening in society. The key is not to react with anger or violence. Awakened people simply need to go about their business, knowing that the darkness swamping the light is largely an illusion and cannot hold for much longer.” We need to hold the vision we want to see — for ourselves, our nation and our planet — in our mind’s eye, sending it loving energy, to bring it into fruition.
We all have “a choice between acting recklessly and working toward progressive and creative change”. The fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio & Aquarius), especially, “are being tested and need to hold the tension of opposites”. Instead of acting impulsively, we can count to ten, rethink our impulsive tendencies and choose a wiser course of action, of kinder words. We are all being tested this month, financially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and we can expect tests of our integrity, our priorities & commitments. Are we fit for the evolving New Earth? We can take these opportunities “to balance our karma and cleanse ourselves of lower dense energies to match the rising vibration of Earth”. We must make it a priority to ‘restock our toolboxes’, with the new tools for a New Age, and begin using them NOW! “We can enlist the support of healers of all types, choose nourishing meals, spend time in nature & with the people who love and support us; spending less time in front of screens & gadgets” that can zap our energies, straining “our nervous systems and increasing depression”. We can begin asking our angels to assist us in all ways, to protect and guide us. Invest 5 or 10 minutes a day in quietude, listening for guidance, gradually extend your time of solace to 15 or 20 minues. Keep in mind we’re being tested as the month progresses, and choose the actions and behaviors that assist us in remaining positive, patient, and more relaxed. Make time for simple pleasures and try thinking outside the box. “Aquarius is a revolutionary sign and Uranus squaring Saturn pushes us to think differently.” We might ask ourselves: “how can I approach this situation differently? How can I change my thinking to better thrive & flourish? Where do I have a tendency to be rigid in thoughts & beliefs? When am I inclined to slide toward negative assumptions? If I think differently, can I raise my consciousness on this matter to a higher level? If I need to solve a problem, can I approach it from a different angle or ask for the opinion or wisdom of someone I value? Can I be more creative in my thinking? Collectively we are being asked to raise our thinking so we can transition to this new age with greater ease, but it starts with us as individuals. We need to each illuminate & heal our shadows”, so we can in greater wholeness, join in helping humanity heal.
The above information was quoted or paraphrased from: Donna Taylor, PREDICTIONS magazine article, February 2021, Sedona Journal of Emergence, with added commentary by Trish Forsyth Voss. ****** The information below is quoted or paraphrased from: Mary Elizabeth Hoffman, “Discover Internal & External Harmony”, magazine article, Feb 2021, Sedona Journal of Emergence, with added comments by Trish Forsyth Voss.
“February 2021 begins with Mercury retrograde in the harmonizing sign of Aquarius; the retrograde ends Feb 21st, though the effects will be felt until the New Moon in Pisces on March 13th, when Mercury returns to its original point of beginning retrograde. Beings from all dimensions & spaces will be bringing wisdom, truth and guidance regarding the wise use of energies in attaining and maintaining balanced reciprocity within and without. Toning, drumming, power of the word will carry stronger activations when aligned congruently — and devoid of ego — with the soul-heart’s guidance, love and destiny. Each person will be pressed to discover what internal and external harmony looks and feel like.” Anything out of vibrational-alignment will require adjustment. “Sound, vibration and energy will become more sensitive to the nuances of what is expressed, whether through writing, speaking, or the silent vibration of beingness.” There will be a need to “self-harmonize what is ingested — in body, mind, spirit or emotions — to ease a nervous system overly sensitive to powerful electro-magnetic energies flowing into conciousness. The human nervous system will become more aligned with incoming energies from the cosmos as the harmonization process once again flows full-force to Earth, expanding into five dimensions and beyond.” There will be more focus on all aspects of the body’s health & wholeness, and healing modalities, to harmonize and adjust these vibrations as we go forth.
Three of the four points of avatar activate during this month. “These alignments will bring secret or clandestine situations, groups or organizations to the surface” in early February. Much vibrational-transformation will be possible after the new moon in Aquarius on Feb 11th, and then on Feb 14 – 15th. “The power of the word, sung, toned, spoken, written, will enormously impact the shifting, expanding, and harmonizing of all peoples, beings and energies in this 3-D time-space continuum with the cosmic-divine plan. Awareness of thoughts, words and emotions during this time will determine the ease (or lack thereof) with which people experience this shift of the ages. All is free-will choice. With the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus all in Aquarius this month, the ley lines of Earth’s new crystalline grid are now complete and coming online. As these energy-vibrations increase in amplitude, each living being on Earth will seek to discover harmony within these energies to attain spirit-fire initiation. Otherwise, the nervous system could short-circuit, shutting down completely, affecting physical, mental & emotional wellness. On Feb 11th, a new moon in late Aquarius with the Sun, Moon and Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in stellium, (all in Aquarius) indicates a vibrational attunement & harmonization (hormone rebalance) that will turn on the pineal & pituitary glands as the spiritual regulators of the atonement of love & harmony for all living beings.” Those not in alignment could experience a number of emotional/physical maladies. “These Aquarian vibrational energies are incompatible with greed, control and fear. Anyone accustomed to functioning in these fear-based energies could experience temper tantrums, anger & aggression in their attempts to grasp that no enemy is ‘out there’, fearing the enemy within that becomes disempowered and unafraid when faced. The balanced-reciprocity energies of the universe bring an ease of flow, love and respect for life and all beings. They bring abundance & growth through the expression of each individual’s talents, gifts and offerings. All have much to share, with none better or worse, greater or lesser, than another. Each person is here to contribute to the evolution of the human kingdom in harmony.”
“On Feb 27th, a full moon in early Virgo, makes a wide grand trine to the Moon’s nodes — north in Gemini, south in Sagittarius — on the cosmic manifestation point between thoughts and things. Dreams, meditations, and thoughts of where every member of the human kingdom has been (and is presently, and could be in the future) will pour into every human psyche. Find an expressive outlet through creative endeavor, bridging these energies to avoid overload. This full moon is an excellent time to receive input for alternative paths to restructure, reorder and reorganize internally and externally for wholeness, balance and harmony.” Take this “opportunity to opt for ease of movement and growth through harmony …. by letting go of past philosophies and beliefs that perpetuate separation, differences, and division, while seeking connections, common ground, and similar desires in one another’s soul-hearts.” We are participating in the shift and the birthing of a New Age; we can expect to feel some birthing pangs. Breathe, and focus with intention on our own healings, and sharing our healing-loving energies with ALL. Namaste!
Feb 27 2021
Love looks like Justice!
Implicit bias in our preferences, thinking & feeling have become ingrained or institutionalized in all the systems of our society, codified into laws & regulations. Possibly we’re not even fully-conscious of the deep-rooted, learned responses we’ve assimilated. These systems disproportionately disenfranchise, oppress, criminalize & incarcerate minorities, causing great harm to our society. Bigotry is a cancer raging through our systems, but we’re empowered to excision & healing. Racism starts early; Black infant-mortality rates are twice as high as for Whites; Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to suffer pregnancy-related deaths. We need equal access to affordable, premium healthcare for all Americans, Head-start & daycare-subsidies for working parents.
Statistics show that K-12 schools punish Black children (near 16 percent of student-body) at higher-rates than Whites, comprising near 51 percent of students nationwide. This “suspicion of guilt” follows them throughout their school years; “some schools have a troubling-practice of calling law-enforcement to discipline Black students on schoolgrounds”, creating the “school-to-prison-pipeline”, channeling students into the ‘criminal-justice’ system early, while teaching people-of-color they can expect unfair treatment. Repeated suspensions/expulsions cause spotty-learning, dropouts, lower graduation-rates, ‘unreadiness’ for college; and with the system of racial-profiling, more inclination toward arrest. Black students tend to incur more student-loan debt, and are hired at a lesser-rate.
Racist housing-policies further ‘climate-segregation’ in cities. Housing must be indexed to wages, and workers must receive a living-wage! There’s huge systemic-racism in lending, excluding Blacks from property-ownership & wealth-building. Follow the money, look at the big bankers, willing to build private FOR-PROFIT-prisons to incarcerate millions of Black-Americans. The legacies of slavery & racism more apparent in our legal-penal-system than anywhere else. “Big banks fund police foundations, and Wall Street directly profits from police brutality. We must STOP the extraction of wealth from workers” & extracting people from our communities, by over-incarceration. Whites created these systems and WE ALL need to change them NOW! We must STOP police brutality; STOP police from murdering unarmed-Blacks in our streets, by holding police fully-accountable for their recklessness & extreme-force!
Illinois’ Governor Pritzker set a progressive-example by signing the criminal justice reform bill on 2/22/21, saying “this is going to make policing safer and the public safer”. LOVE looks like JUSTICE! The change begins with ‘US’, a change in consciousness, in our hearts & minds, our speech & actions. We’re amidst a racial-reckoning; we must STOP & Self-reflect …. then act, turning things around for minority-youth, their families, our communities, for ALL OUR SAKES! Responsibility means the ability to respond, appropriately. “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!”
Trish Forsyth Voss
“You didn’t have to be a slave-owner to have benefitted from the results of slaves building up an economy & structure that mainly whites benefitted from. It’s way past time to begin in earnest the reparations for the actions of our ancestors & the structures set in place by the slavers, the slaveholders & all the generations that benefitted” since ’emancipation’ — that should have been set-right long ago. “Advocate, advocate, advocate! Power concedes nothing without a demand”, said Frederick Douglass. IT’S TIME TO CHANGE!
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