The Whole-System Approach

"The seeds of future events are carried
within ourselves. They are implicit in us
and unfold according to the laws of
their own nature."

Lawrence Durrell,    The Alexandria Quartet: Cleo

 

Increasing numbers of people now are using astrology to better understand themselves and their relationships, their place in the world, their deep inner self and their ancestral legacy through family dynamics.  Typically, a client does want to maximize their potential and realize their goals, but most importantly, they want to know what is going to happen to them and when. To what degree can astrology address these natural concerns?

There is still no coherent answer to the ages-old inquiry into how astrology 'works' – after a long, slow, deep evolution of my own work, this wonder has “cooked” in my mind but never caused me much alarm, since I know it works, and that is what matters.  On a purely intellectual level, there are some reasonable conjectures I have about how it works.  It works like any integral system with a core focus and surrounding satellites.

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By Erin Sullivan
Originally published by Alan Oken’s Corner of the Universe 

B:  May 29, 1917, 3:00 pm, Brookline, MA
D:  Nov. 22, 1963, 12:30 pm, Dallas, TX

The horoscope of the United States’ thirty-fifth president is unique.  With all the planets above the horizon, except Uranus in Aquarius (which is a singleton retrograde planet) in his fourth house of family of origins, and family of creation his ultimate leadership in his family, “The Winner”. The Kennedy family remains the most politically influential family in the US, but JFK’s Uranus shows him to be the focus and living symbol of his eccentric, innovative, exclusive, paradoxical, and tragic pioneering family.  Uranus in its own sign is in a square to the Taurus planets in his eighth house, and with that came both opportunity and danger - Wu Chi in the Chinese symbol.  The family created a paradox in his nature, in that he was both an iconoclast AND a conservative.  The fact that he was the first President to be a non-Mason and Catholic was revolutionary, but some of his politics were old school.

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June 2011 Newsletter

On The Threshold of a new Apprenticeship

Hello friends!

As I prepare to leave my island in the Pacific Northwest, for my journey to my heart-home, the great Southwest New Mexico, I share some thoughts with you.

I will be in the Santa Fe area for July and most of August, with my family and seeing friends and clients . . . and doing a couple of afternoon seminars. Keep watch on my website under “Events”. Please feel free to contact me via email.

With planets rolling around in my head, the global configurations delivering complex messages from the heavens, I am all the while in the same place as everyone else. Full of wonder at our collective circumstances – wonder being the operative word – and with a great knowing that “it had to happen”. There is such an element of heartbreak here, through the pain and suffering of so many and so much, that I have to accept that background of grief as a real place and a master teacher.

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Neptune in Pisces 2011 : Into the Mystic

Neptune was first observed by Galileo December 28, 1612, when it was zodiacally exactly conjunct Jupiter at 26° Virgo . . . however, Galileo thought it was a fixed star.  He did not know that Neptune was, in fact, stationary-retrograde on that very day, thus apparently motionless.  Also, he was seeing it with Jupiter, (both at 26° Virgo) a known “wanderer”, thus he could not have realized Neptune was a planet given the circumstances. Also, Neptune only covers a span of about 3 degrees every 18 months. Not a speedy pace.

Galileo observed Neptune, again, January 27th, 1613, but the cosmic shaman was thwarted both by the quality of his telescopes and the fact that Neptune was full into retrograde motion. At both sightings Neptune remained elusive to our collective consciousness, hiding in retrograde motion, disguised as a fixed star.

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April 2011 Newsletter

I now have a proper newsletter format, so the news is easier to read, it is easier for you to forward it on to people of like minds, and it is easy to unsubscribe too without worrying about it!
 
I chose to keep this first newsletter more archetypal, philosophical and informational rather than focusing on specific astrological happenings, which I will do in my video blogs, and also here, as they happen. 
 
I felt that it being Mercury Retrograde, and the “marriage of Mind – Mercury and the Sun – life purpose” occurring on the same day as the transit of Pluto stationed retrograde, meant new levels of depth in our musings need to occur so that we do not feel that our ideas and thoughts are without power. 
 
The inferior conjunction of Mercury and the Sun always occurs midway in the 20-24 day three-times-a-year Mercury Rx cycle . . . and the seed for new ideas and ways for proceeding forward are held in that symbol.  When our mind and our purpose merge, a birth occurs . . . a birth of a new cycle of understanding our own pioneering, proactive, creative, independent, demonstrative selves!  So, plant your seeds now, and nurture them after the 24th April,  and see the full blown results June 12th at the superior conjunction!

My Next Seminar at Royal Roads

I want to let you all know that my next seminar at Royal Roads University is on May 14th, Victoria, BC, Canada . . . and at the most beautiful time of the year for this paradisal island.  

The seminar is truly the “Big Picture” . . . it is about the long cycles of the Tropical Zodiacal Great Year, or also called “The Astrological Ages” . . .  these cycles are long, 2160 years in length, and the full cycle of the earth’s axis rotation around the zodiac circle is about 25,920 years! 

I will be going into the arising of innovation, cultural laying of archetypes which follow on from the previous age, and lead into the next. We are incrementally heading into the Age of Aquarius . . . from the Age of Pisces . . . and the seminar will spend the first part with a great power point of images and times of previous ages, beginning with Virgo and culminating with NOW.

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A Mundane Astrological Study of the Revolution in Egypt

I have taken to calling our current world condition the First Global Guerrilla War (GGW1). .  . where, to greater good or ill, the rules of engagement are non-existent, the front line does not exist, there is no “enemy” or “ally”, there are no protocols being followed, thus leaving an open door to chaos.  Chaos is the genesis of all things.  It is a full void, in which all the elements of creation exist, but are not coherent.  As time evolves, the chaos begins to form small complexes of “order” (Gk. cosmos) and coherence, which constellate around a focus, self-generating a new formation of the old system.  We live in a self-generating universe, and thus, each of us, and the whole of the cosmos are in continual reformation, or revolution.

Today, we are far from a new order, far from a “day in which it will all be organized” . . . and deep in the mystery of metamorphosis.  And, because no moment is ever like another, we have neither model nor memory-chain to guide us.  It is a rich time for astrology, philosophy, sociology, ideology and other human/social orientated thinking, but it is alarming to our limbic brain . . . our emotional non-verbal brain.  And, it is “interesting times”, for sure.

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