A Planetary Recipe for Fear

For several months we have had a transiting opposition of Saturn in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces. While at first I thought this might bring some struggles with rigidity and taking fixed positions in government etc., what I have come to see is something even more insidious: FEAR.

As I work with clients, talk with friends and acquaintances and read or listen to the news what I hear is fear. People are terrified the entire world is about to come crashing down on their heads and they are acting badly because of the fear.

Saturn in Virgo is manifesting as a desire to have the details taken care of but a fear that the excess being revealed by Uranus in Pisces will destroy everything. While the excesses being revealed under Uranus in Pisces are horrendous (especially financial excesses) cracking down rigidly in fear and hoarding or not helping those who ask for your help -- and criticizing them -- is not the way to handle things well. Criticism is a response of fear. It is a fearful attempt to erect boundaries by drawing lines in the sand in order to stop feeling powerless.

Fear can destroy you by winding you up internally with mental obsessions that become physical pains. You cannot think straight so you cannot make good decisions and the bad decisions that result throw you into deeper fear.

Like former President Roosevelt once said, all we have to fear is fear itself. Fear is actually the biggest problem you have.

Let go of the fear!

Start intentionally breathing deeply and planting your feet on the ground. Eat as well as you can afford and regularly. Drink plenty of water. Stop listening to, watching and reading the news if it is upsetting to you. You can actually live your life without being caught up in a constant news stream of negativity. What god does it do you to hear over and over during the day that there was a mass killing, a bank failed and more houses are being foreclosed upon. Take my word -- you already know these things are happening in the world so stop obsessing about it. Read some positive books and watch positive TV shows or listen to positive radio programs. Find a good DVD like "The Secret" or "The Pink Panther and fill you mind with positive thoughts and relaxation. Take a 30 minutes walk once a day.

Where you place your focus is important. The power of focus is the key to success, peace and prosperity. Calm focus helps bring solutions and solutions is what is needed. Use the energy of Saturn in Virgo to make plans and the energy of Uranus in Pisces to break out of old inefficient patterns and do a new thing -- so you can get a new result.

Now is the time you can get your finances straight, learn to budget and get your spending under control, change habits, confess to the excesses (be they financial, sexual, emotional etc) and set things on a better path. Now is the time to make decisions instead of sitting on the fence and doing nothing -- because you now know that doing so only causes more problems and more fear. Once you make a decision to move forward instead of going backwards, you have a new and exciting beginning.

Isn't that what being an evolved human being is all about?!

Do a new thing today! Be a new creation!

Yes!!

Full Moon in Scorpio - April 20, 2008

Full Moon in Scorpio

April 20, 2008
12:25pm CEDT
0º Scorpio 43’

This Full Moon is a powerful transformative lunation that demands honesty, facing of fears and deep change. What do you want in life? Now is the time to peel away the layers that obscure what you desire.

This Full Moon in Scorpio is the signal to see things as they truly are, not as you wish them to be.

Case study: Two years ago a male client of mine was living in a fantasy world, pining resentfully over a woman he liked, who I will call "Abigail". They had a fun and casual acquaintanceship in group social settings but never a romantic relationship. She moved away for work purposes and he spent several months pining over a fantasy of what they could have been in his mind. He deluded himself into thinking she had abandoned him and their great love relationship. All the while he ignored the women he was dating. He held tightly to the fantasy relationship he had in his mind of "Abigail". Because of this, he denied himself a relationship in which he could have a healthy and stable emotional and sexual expression. Fortunately, after nearly a year he finally awakened from his nightmare of denial by admitting there never was and never would be a relationship between him and "Abigail". He opened his eyes to a woman near him, got to know her and eventually married.

What can you do to take full advantage of this lunation from April 20 until the New Moon on May 5?

It is a time to release the past – people, situations and ways of behaving – and open yourself to a new level of compassion, love, possibilities, open-mindedness and spiritual growth.

It is a time for healing of deep wounds that have intense feelings attached to them, as they are only serving to hurt you and prevent you from moving forward into the future.

Chiron in Aquarius, Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces make this a particularly spiritually invigorating New Moon in Scorpio for awakening from the death-like trance of victim and into the powerful stance of the healer (who is also ready and able to heal others who have suffered the same wounding).

Name your fear – and thereby destroy its power over you.

Share the joy and pain of self-disclosure with someone who has been telling you they want to know YOU for who you really are, in all your imperfections. Stop living in denial and lies (whether direct or through omission). Be honest and find yourself making a human connection that could last a lifetime.

Deal with trust issues – especially if there is a secret that you know has been keeping you and another individual from being as close as you could be. It may feel like destruction at first but after the destruction comes the time of healing and rebuilding in relationships. From there you can expect growth, unconditional love and openness that leads to a more solid relationship, one that could endure for eternity.

Do you have a Leo Rising?

Do you have a Leo Ascendant/Leo Rising?

I would like to hear from those of you that do - and in particular to discuss what you are learning in your 2nd, 7th and 8th houses.

Saturn in Virgo would be in your 2nd house, Neptune in Aquarius in your 7th house and Uranus in Pisces in your 8th house -- so issues of earned income and values (2nd house), other's income or money (inheritances, credit, loans etc), sexual and psychological intimacy (8th house), and relationships such as life partnerships, life partners, businsess partners, open enemies and marriages or potential marriage partners (7th house)are highlighted for you now, as they have been since about 1998 when Neptune entered Aquarius.

Send an email and let me know! I will publish some stories as separate posts and look at what is happening there for the benefit of others