Cosmic Weather Patterns!

New Moon in Aquarius Waters

Hi All,

Did you feel the effects of the two solar flares within 2 days just prior to the New Moon in Aquarius energies of Sunday/Monday? WOW! Talk about being on a roller-coaster ride! If you've been feeling unbalanced at all since the Winter Solstice timing, you've had good reason to. Hopefully those flares blasted out what what hidden deep within, creating loving space for new and more optimistic interactions within and without!

Here's the planetary lineup of changes coming our way in the near future:

• Mars turned Rx (retrograde) in the mutable earth sign of Virgo yesterday as of 4:54 p.m. PST. Mars will be going back up into Virgo from 23 degrees Virgo 25 minutes all the way to 3 degrees and 41 minutes when it stations Direct again April 14th! Virgo rules our desire to be of service and the physical health of our bodies. This inward energy time lag gives us TIME to discern the action we wish to assert re: our bodies and Sacred Service. Use this time wisely! Healthier routines in work and exercise are key here!
• Mercury changes signs, going into the fixed air sign of Aquarius January 27th @ 10:12 a.m. PST - where is 0 degrees Aquarius in your chart? Mercury, our planet of communication, thought, and learning will activate my natal Venus as of that date, and all the rest of the planets I have in my 6th House of daily work/service and looking after my physical body! I will have a change of mindset about a few things by then!
• Neptune finally returns to the sign it rules, Pisces, for the next 13 years as of February 3rd @ 10:52 a.m. PST! It has been 164 years since Neptune was last in Pisces and I expect a LOT of us embracing our Divine/Spiritual selves this time around! See my previous blog about Neptune's return to mutable and watery Pisces, April 4th, 2011, to see what was happening in the world back then. Our Faith, Trust and Surrender to and in the Divine realms will ensue, clearing the fog of illusions into the Reality of Now! Be compassionate and love and forgive self and others as we continue to learn to love ourselves and others!
• Saturn turns Rx February 7th @ 6:03 a.m. PST and will be moving back from 29 degrees of Libra 30 minutes to 22 degrees and 46 minutes when it stations Direct again June 25th. Look for these coordinates in your birth chart to see how Saturn is again giving us one last shot at balancing and equalizing our lives - what House is it in for your Life Experience? Saturn has been hovering around and activating the planets in my 3rd House of communication, learning and short-distance travel.
• Venus moves into the cardinal fire sign of Aries February 7th @ 10:01 p.m. PST - look for 0 degrees of Aries in your charts. Watch out for impatience with self and others, where we'll desire action NOW rather than later - think before you leap (via your intuition and heart-sense)! Venus will meet up with Uranus February 9th, adding to this sense of urgency - and desiring FREEDOM from whatever has been suppressing your true independent expression before now. You'll be able to breakthrough walls, resistance, hold ups in moving forward in relationships - evolving a new revolution of sorts!
• Mercury moves into Pisces as of February 13th @ 5:38 p.m. PST - look for 0 degrees of Pisces in your charts, aligning with Neptune briefly. Spiritual talk, communion with your Higher Self, easier connection above and within - feel and intuit your way through. Journal the journey and worry less about the facts - tis the feeling and the intuition that rule now!
• Sun moves into Pisces as of February 18th @ 10:18 p.m. PST - another 0 degrees of Pisces entry! The Sun will join Neptune for a day or so, then move on past (as did Mercury). This is my Sun sign, so lots of action happening for me in my 7th House of 1-to-1 relationships this year! Wherever the Sun shines in our charts, we are asked to respond in kind - SHINE your divine self more clearly, listen to your intuition and feel your emotions! Allow everything to flow, move through and out. Discern your inner path via the heartfelt intentions speaking to you via your Higher Self's whisperings (intuition). Follow the breadcrumbs to your next baby steps - and remember: we are ALL in this together, learning and understanding as we move forward into the Unknown this year. Learning about healthier ENERGETIC boundaries will be key here! Rather than soaking up everyone's emotions (energy), taking on their 'stuff', discern what you truly wish to experience with the people in your life! Co-create this with your Higher Self, "I desire to work with loving, compassionate and joyful people!" or words to that effect. Shine your inner LIGHT out into the world to attract like-hearted persons - your Soul Family!

New Moon Sunlight!

The Earth has undergone a major shift days prior to the Winter Solstice, energetically. Get those movie images out of your minds that are being touted out there! Yes, the weather patterns are more dramatic, and NO, cataclysms aren't the order the day in 2012! What we fear we bring toward us! Ask your angels and guides to take up out of your hearts, minds and spirit ALL thoughts, worries and frets that amount to fear, anxiety, guilt, remorse - feel your way BACK into your heart, and LOVE your present and future self RIGHT NOW! Keep it up - stay positive and optimistic and LOVE YOURSELVES!

The Mayan Calendar for 2012 shows us living 12 weeks worth of Life Experience in ONE WEEK! Yes, a quarter of a year in one week! No wonder we are flying through tonnes of emotion, fear-based thought, losing friends, family and jobs right left and centre! What no longer supports you must die/leave - it is time to stand in LOVE and COMPASSION and forgive self and others along the way!

Winter Solstice Heart Tree!

The old earth grid is dying - and with it our Egos, hence why the self-sabotaging habits of the Ego can seem mighty intense these days - especially since the Winter Solstice. This New Moon in Aquarius heralds a time to write out your DESIRES for your Future Self/Life - dream the truth of what you heartfully desire and BELIEVE IN IT! Love it into fruition, along with allowing your guides and Angels to bring it forward to you! Receive the universal abundance and KNOW we ALL deserve the very BEST of everything - unattached to outcomes or how it 'will happen' - that would be Ego's need to control and get in the way!

Many Blessings and Love Light,

Laurie

(most pictures taken by me Monday, January 23rd during New Moon in Aquarius energies!)

Green Growth and LIGHT amongst the waters

New Moon in Aquarius, January 22, 2012

by Lisa Hunt

Sunday, January 22nd, the New Moon (both the Sun and Moon in are in the same place in the sky) will be at 2 degrees of Aquarius 42 minutes as of 11:39 p.m. PST. East-coasters will enjoy the energies three hours later, on the 23rd.

The Chinese New Year of the Water Dragon also begins on January 23rd - beckoning in timely action, passionate creativity, moving forward deeply with heartfelt intention and intuition. Insights into memories and dreams long hidden, brought out into the Light of day. Also: healing deeply buried emotional wounds is more easily attained this year. Connection with everyone is via the emotions and intuition - keep your heart open, to yourself and others - and be honest with those connections! Feel your way through this year - which will also bring challenges in, and of, itself. Hiding or escaping isn't a solution - riding the waves of Love and forgiveness, of others and self, is key this year. Along with taking timely Action when Divinely intuited to do so (Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine powers at work in equanimity).

The Aquarian themes this New Moon are:

• Individuation - being your truest You you can be! Every decision, feeling, intuition - are you following your inner Heart's desire (Soul-self guidance) every moment of every day? Are you being true to You?
• Humanitarianism - the Age of Aquarius is all about being true to self AND remembering that we are also connected to community, that we do indeed need others to help us move forward on our paths. We, in turn, will be assisting others along theirs, as the path forward instructs us to. Be there for others, as others show up to be there for us!
• Your Future Self - the 11th House in the horoscope chart is where Aquarius resides in the natural wheel of the Zodiac. This is our goal-setting House of Life Experience - putting forth what we intend for ourselves in the near future. This New Moon gives us all another opportunity to plant more new seeds in this regard. And, the sign Aquarius is where we intuit/dream/gather insight from The Future to be used in the Now for the greater good of all. Again, sharing future knowledge with the community around you.
• Your Social Network - locating the group of friends and allies that align with who you want to be in the future - who support you in that venture/dream/wish. Are you connected to the right and proper support already or do you need to find a truer network that reflects your inner spiritual self? Take timely action this month in doing so, to get on with working together for a better future for all involved.
• Communication -  as an Air sign, talk your walk! Stand up and be heard for who you truly are and what you believe in - otherwise, how will others of like mind find you? Or you, them? Your ideas may be 'out of this world' yet we are now in 2012 - so this is exactly 'where' we need to be focusing! Multi-dimensionally and spiritually and Divinely - through the heart.
• Connection to your Heart's Emotions - usually the Aquarius energies can tend to make us be unemotionally attached, coming from the mind rather than the heart. Here is where we can stand up and be strong in emergencies, not falling apart, being strong in mind. However, too much mind over heart will cause a dam-up of emotions. We need to ensure that we keep in touch with those emotions, and allow them to flow through, honour them and release what needs to be.
• Physical Health -  Aquarius rules the nervous system, circulation, ankles and calves, cramps and spasms, and varicose veins. Keep moving your limbs, avoid the toxic chemicals of caffeine and alcohol and sugar as much as possible. Love your body, show it respect and know, especially this year of 2012, that the health of our bodies is paramount now!

The Sabian Symbol for 3 degrees of Aquarius is: A Deserter from the Navy - finding the rigorous restraints and rules of the situation are no longer bearable. A decision to opt out may be moral or to maintain free spirit. There are always consequences for not playing the game. Are you prepared for them? Feeling as though you are being taken away from home and family for a reason you don't really understand and not wanting to accept the pressures. REBELLION. If operating from Ego's negativity: not being prepared to play by the rules of any socially structured game.

Rebel as your inner heart beckons you to - as long as it is not hurting self or others or breaking the law! 'Playing the game' has its own costs to our Soul, if we suppress that which needs to be expressed and revealed to self and others! Not being true to self has the consequence of not living a purposeful and heartfelt life. Wasting your true potential with excuses or protestations from others who wish to keep us from 'moving on' as our Soul beckons us to. Do not hold back others, or allow others to hold you back. 2012 is the year of the Water Dragon - bring your inner dragon forth in trust and faith, love and honesty!

Many Blessings this month to you all!

2012 ASTRO-Spiritual Tour of Egypt!

Laurie @ Giza Plateau 2011
Join Laurie Rezanoff, Astrologer, and Elia Takla, Egyptologist, of A La Carte Travel and Tours, for a truly spiritual and life-changing tour of the ancient sites and peoples of Egypt. 
Answer your Soul's call to be there in 2012!

Elia's extensive knowledge and passion of his homeland's 5,000 year history surrounding the pyramids, the Sphinx and other sacred temples and funerary sites will inspire spiritual changes within. It is said that one third of the true spiritual teachings are missing from what we know of the Bible today. 

The missing piece is the ancient Egyptian spiritual connection. Join us as we walk in the footsteps of ancient peoples, view the marvellous artistic treasures created by today's Egyptian craftspeople, and with Laurie's timely astrological insights at each sacred site visited, you will surely experience a ONCE IN A LIFETIME journey that beckons your Soul in 2012!

Tour dates:  September 17-30, 2012

Tour Includes:

• New Moon Gathering with Laurie, showing everyone where September's New Moon themes will be activated in your birth chart (birth data to be sent to Laurie prior to tour to ensure you receive your chart). NB: if you DO NOT know your Birth Time, we have a way to find it out. Don't miss out on this opportunity to look deeper into your Soul's Sacred Contract!
• Spend the Autumnal Equinox touring Alexandria and doing ceremony by the Mediterranean Sea!
• Cruise down the Nile, from Luxor to Aswan, on one of Egypt's fabulous cruise ships, with day trips and other excursions planned daily/nightly along the way.
• See Cairo's close proximity to the Giza Plateau's Pyramids and the Sphinx! Climb up into the Great Pyramid (Cheops) and experience a physical rebirth of your Soul.
• Included in the package is a full Astrology chart reading at some point along the journey. Again, pre-trip birth information will be required for Laurie to prep each reading ahead of time
• Laurie will have on hand daily astrology charts for each sacred site visited, adding yet another layer of themes and Soul/Self growth potential along the way.



Starry Temple Ceilings

• EXPECT to be forever changed along this tour - past-life memories, Soul healing, ceremonies around the Divine Feminine/Divine Masculine Power energies themes to be conducted by both Elia and Laurie - will bring about deep transformative change within for all tour members.

 Egypt 2012 ASTRO-Spiritual Tour Details:

17 Sept: Depart Country of Origin (International Flight tickets to Egypt not included) 

18 Sept: Arrive in Cairo and transfer to hotel for overnight 

19 Sept: Free morning; Lunch and half day city tour of the Old City to the Egyptian Museum and Coptic Cairo; Evening New Moon Gathering 

20 Sept: Full day tour to Saqqara and Dahshur; Optional evening Sound & Light Show at the Pyramids 

21 Sept: Half day tour Sphinx and Pyramids; drive to Alexandria for overnight 

22 Sept: Full day tour Alexandria (Roman Theatre, Catacombs, Site of the Lighthouse, Pompey’s Pillar and New Library); sunrise / sunset Autumnal Equinox Ceremonies on the beach of the Mediterranean Sea 

23 Sept: Morning drive from Alexandria to Cairo airport for your afternoon flight to Luxor; transfer to hotel for overnight 

24 Sept: Full day tour to Dendera, and Abydos (“If conditions permit”) with lunch in Abydos; back to Luxor for overnight 

25 Sept: Transfer to your cruise ship, tour Karnak and Luxor temples 

26 Sept: Optional Dawn Hot Air Balloon ride; Tour West Bank of Luxor (Valley of the Kings and Hatshepsut Temple); back to cruise ship to sail down the Nile 

27 Sept: Sailing down the Nile; Edfu and KomOmbo tours; arrive in Aswan at night 

28 Sept: Aswan Tour (Philae Temple, High Dam, Aromatherapy Shop); overnight Aswan 

29 Sep: Abu-Simbel tour;  evening flight to Cairo for overnight at airport hotel 

30 Sep: International Flight back to origin or connect to Greece Goddess Tour

 Tour Package Prices:  

(not including international flights, insurance, visa entry, tips, meals and drinks not included in tour)

• 8-9 persons in tour: $3700 based on double occupancy* 
• 10 or more in tour: $3330 based on double occupancy*
• * Additional Single Supplement fee of $875 for those wanting their own room

If you are 'called' to join us in Egypt in 2012, 

please email Laurie at starseekerconnection at shaw.ca for the 

Booking Form and Terms and Conditions pdf. 

Deposit of $750 is due upon registration to hold your place; 

balance is due 60 days prior to trip - July 15th, 2012. 

Come join us on a truly incredible Spiritual journey home!

Aswan Sunset + ORBS!

Full Moon in Cancer January 8, 2012

Nanaimo Full Moon 2011

Sunday's Full Moon in Cancer will occur at 11:30 pm PST at 18 degrees of Cancer 26 minutes (and at the same time the Sun will be in direct opposition to the Moon at 18 degrees of Capricorn 26 minutes). Check your charts to see where these coordinates fall, indicating how this Full Moon is illuminating your life since the New Moon of December 24th!

Cancer, the water sign, themes are:

• Self-nurturance - we have to look after and love ourselves FIRST, making us the first priority so that we have the energy and solid power centre from which to help others next! Key key key!
• Family values, family of origin issues, Mom/mothering, and long-remembered emotional threads into the distant past of previous generations - all on an emotional/intuitional level. What is this Full Moon spotlighting in your life that needs to be addressed emotionally? Are you listening to your inner wisdom via your intuition to KNOW what is calling for your attention at this time?
• Emotions - whatever you've been working on since the December New Moon, allow those emotions to surface and be dealt with! Emotional eating/drinking/shopping etc isn't what works for us anymore - DEAL with what is showing, WHEN it shows up, then move along.
• Intuition - Cancer is the most sensitive sign of the Zodiac - honour your inner wisdom (the Divine Feminine Power energy) and allow it to lead you into the Unknown, which most likely is your true Destiny at this time. Know that the angels, archangels, ascended masters and gods/goddesses KNOW more than we do about the Bigger Divine Plan - allowing your Ego to think it knows best isn't the best strategy right now.
• Confrontation - Cancer is the Crab glyph, where it can go running, exit stage left, or dig itself deep into the sand where it is standing - all in the response to avoiding confrontation! Confronting yourself, or others, can be done lovingly, compassionately and with much forgiveness now. Come from your heart if you know there is an important conversation to be spoken - and be honest and truthful to both yourself and the other while speaking it.
• House and Home - during the winter months so far, has your home shown you how IT needs to be nurtured? I called the handyman in this week already to deal with rotting boards on my balcony that have been waving in the raging winds and rain we've had lately. Deal with it all now, when you notice it.

The other players in this Full Moon picture are:

Ferry to Philae Temple, Egypt

• Mercury and Pluto holding hands in Capricorn, creating powerful conversations that get to the root of the problem! Unearth that which has eluded you before now. Call up a friend, colleague, or loved one and speak your mind. Watch out for power and control issues if you feel that confrontation fear coming on - allow Pluto to transform your words and heal the situation while sticking to the plan. Expect a renewed vision for your relationship(s) as a result! Integrity issues can be resolved when both parties agree to play fair.
• Saturn in Libra and Venus with Neptune in Aquarius are also enjoying an easy connection right now. Bring your Spiritual Love out from your unique individual self and allow Saturn to help guide the balance of it, with proper boundaries and seeing any limitations you may have put on yourself. Authority figures want to play fair right now, so bring in that Higher Mindset of what you want for the future, and dispel any unclear situations at the same time. If you receive a niggling feeling that you don't have ALL the information at hand, you most likely do not. Ask and search for what is missing so that you 'see' the whole picture.
• The Moon's Nodes are halfway through Sagittarius (North Node) and Gemini (South Node) @ 13 degrees and 59 minutes. Remember that the North Node is beckoning us to take steps forward in a direction of our life purpose while the South Node is helping us to clean up our acts from the past re: what we do with the information and data gathering we collect along the way. Do you use it or store it away for another rainy day? Take all those workshops, then file it under 'G' for "goodness that seems like a lot of work!"??? Time's a-wasting people! Get on with what you need to deal with and ensure you are clear about ALL your intentions these days. Otherwise you'll be wondering later why you procrastinated so much!
• Mars is still helping out the Sun to take some action in what you intend on building this year re: your Sacred Service. Ensure you are looking out for your health as well. Mars can heat things up with our physical health if we haven't been looking after ourselves properly over the holidays. Or cause accidents more than per usual because you've not been exercising and allowing that buildup of energy to be channelled well, up and out of you.
• Cancer rules the stomach, breasts, pancreas, tumors: watch what you eat and when and how. Do you rush through your meals to get back to work already? Watch action shows on TV? How about silence, simple conversation, classical music to soothe the digestive juices into action while you actually pay attention to what you are eating? Be careful of the sugar habit - aren't you sweet enough just as you are? Do you have JOY in your life? Do you ALLOW to FEEL the JOY in your life? Watching a sunrise with the fading Full Moon does it for me every time!

Morning Full Moon and Orbs!

That's about it for this Full Moon! Nurture your crystals and sacred objects by putting them out into the Moon's light tonight and all day tomorrow in the Sun, to heal them all and inject positive nurturance and love for the next month of use!

Happy New Year and enjoy whatever comes up for you these next several days. Honour your inner wisdom (men and women!), cry if you need to, take a good long salt bath, and FEEL your way through these next two weeks as the Moon wanes back to the seed of new potential at the next New Moon!

Blessed Be!

2012: Endings and New Beginnings!

Out with the Old and In with the New! Happy New Year everyone!

Many interesting themes will be occurring this year:

• The Year of the Water Dragon (Chinese Astrology) as of January 23rd - taking creative and intuitive action - so listen to your inner guidance system as to WHAT and WHEN to take action in your life.
• The Year of Astrology - bringing more awareness to the masses of this ancient art/science tool of self-transformation. It is indeed much MORE than the Sun sign Astrology you read about in the magazines and newspapers!
• Key endings: the 26,000 year cycle of the earth's rotation around its axis returning to where it began (called precession), plus the end of Duality Consciousness and the beginning of Unity Consciousness with the end of the Mayan Calendar as of October 28, 2011. This year may well bring with it economic crisis and changes in how, and why, we work to make money.
• Uranus in Aries squaring Pluto in Capricorn 7 times, starting this year, for the next several years: squares create a tension that insists on direct action being taken; if this action isn't taken, all hell can break loose OR expect the unexpected! That pent up energy has to be released somehow, in some way - be it directed in a heartfelt conscious way or unconsciously allowing it to take action willy-nilly. The more the tension is allowed to build without action, the more tendency there is for a wild ride! Be forewarned! This first exact square will occur shortly after the Summer Solstice, June 24th, then again around the Autumnal Equinox, then three times in 2013, and twice in 2014.
• Venus transits over the face of the Sun (conjunction) as of June 5-6th (visible to people living in Hawaii, northwestern North America, western Pacific, northern Asia, Japan, Korea, east China, Philippines, east Australia and New Zealand) with a Partial Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius occurring with the Full Moon the day before. This also begins Venus' new 584 day cycle, within the sign of Gemini, the Twins, in Rx (Retrograde motion) since May 16th until June 28th when it stations Direct. Venus conjunct the Sun activates the Divine Feminine Power/energy to SHINE out in the world this year, creating greater balance, harmony and peace within and then without. The Rx portion of her cycle brings a need to illuminate your inner Divine Feminine Power/energy (women AND men) and allow it to glow and grow before taking it out into the world late June.
• Mars goes Rx from January 24th until April 14th when it stations Direct again - which happens every 26 months, this time in Virgo. Mars began its journey through Virgo November 12, 2011 and will exit as of July 4th. This long Rx period creates a longer journey of Mars through Virgo, accentuating how we connect with Nature, our bodies, our physical health and the Sacred Service we wish to do for now on. Take advantage of the Rx period to hone into what truly is YOUR Sacred Service for the highest good of all. This can be your daily job or volunteer service or other work that inspires passion and gets you out of bed every morning.
• Total Solar Eclipse in Scorpio November 13th: shining the Light into the powerful emotional depths of our Soul/Ego self. The four levels of Scorpio are: the Scorpion, the Snake or Serpent, the Eagle and the Phoenix. Where are you in the evolution of letting go of Ego's fears and anxieties about moving forward on your Life Purpose? Self-sabotaging along the way, or rising forth from the ashes of what used to be, allowing your truer YOU to shine out in the world?

Early Morning Moon & Orbs

I advise everyone to take a look at your charts to discern where these players will be challenging you for evolving inner growth:

• Uranus at 8 degrees of Aries 24 minutes squaring Pluto at 8 degrees Capricorn 23 minutes.
• Venus travelling through Gemini, and as of the Partial Lunar Eclipse June 4th is at 16 degrees Gemini 43 minutes, Rx motion, moving back to 15 degrees and 38 minutes by June 6th.
• Mars travelling through Virgo, with his Rx motion retreating from 23 degrees of Virgo 5 minutes all the way to 3 degrees Gemini 41 minutes when he stations Direct again.
• November's Total Solar Eclipse at 21 degrees Scorpio 57 minutes.

Stay tuned for the monthly 2012 New and Full Moon timings as well as updates on the above-mentioned planetary dancing we'll all be undergoing this year.

Nanaimo Sunrise Pink Light!

Remember: the only thing dying is our Consciousness of this past 26,000 year cycle! We are beginning to embrace, with the heralding of Venus' new cycle in Gemini, a reconnection to our Divine Feminine Power/energy within ALL persons, leading to a rebalancing with the Divine Masculine Power/energy (hence the Twins). None of us can successfully live full and loving lives WITHOUT a balance between these two inner powers. This is a huge part of the New Age of Aquarius that we are travelling into and the next 36-72 years will bring key changes to Mother Earth and each of us.

Are you ready? Breathe, take time to listen to your inner guidance (Divine Feminine), and then take timely action from that guidance (Divine Masculine) to make your way into this new World Consciousness we are slowly birthing along. Uranus can mean sudden unexpected changes, with Pluto pulling back that carpet, revealing what we've hidden underneath that needs to come out of the closet to be seen and healed and most likely to let go of. Gather your courage, your self-love, your compassion, and forgiveness and take it one step forward at a time!

BLESSED BE!

Nanaimo pictures taken by Laurie Rezanoff December 2011

A New Dawn in Nanaimo...

Winter Solstice/Yule December 21, 2011 PST

Nile Carpet School Instruction

Our annual Winter Solstice/Yule is upon us - three days in a row when the Sun seems to 'stand still' on the horizon which is what Solstice means. So today, tomorrow and Thursday is when the standing still occurs. Please note that Solstice occurs when the Sun moves into 0 degrees of Capricorn, and for us on the West Coast this occurs at 9:30 p.m. PST on December 21st, 2011. In the East this will occur at 12:30 a.m. December 22nd.

With the Sun's vital energies moving from the fiery and creative and jovial sign of Sagittarius into the more serious, slow-moving earth sign of Capricorn, you'll be wondering where all your get-up and go got-up and went! The themes of Capricorn begin anew: integrity of building a solid foundation with the current resources already at hand. Building something tangible that is needed by the community at large that hasn't been created before.

Think of all the possibilities this can bring with all the unique imaginations out there, co-creating with their Higher Selves, bringing about new enterprise and new work for the greater good of all! As unique and countless as there are humans living right at this moment in time! What is it your Soul (the Sun) is beckoning you to co-create now? Check your birth charts / star maps for the location of 0 degrees of Capricorn.

Bent Pyramid, Egypt 2011

I look to my chart and see this earthy and potentially ground-breaking energy activating my 5th House of creativity, fun and play, children/inner child and romance. I have noticed an increase in my creative thought process already since the weekend, bringing forth tangible ideas and results already! If we listen to the intuitional ideas and allow the Universe to connect us with our next steps, anything is possible! BELIEVE IT!

Traditionally, the Winter Solstice is, at the same moment, the dying of the Old Year and the birthing of the New Year. Tomorrow, if you plan on doing a ceremony, take stock of what your heart consciously wishes to LET GO OF from this past year. Any habits, thought processes, or actions/lack thereof you wish to release? Write them down on a piece of paper, then thoughtfully and heartfully bless their teachings and healings, then burn the paper and give thanks for the lessons they have taught you. Let them go in order to make room for the birthing of this next New Year's round of endless possibilities and limitless creativity! We only limit these possibilities by our Ego's fears and anxieties and thoughts of desired outcomes! Think about this for a moment: how are you limiting your expansiveness via thought, word or deed?

Desert Sunrise, Egypt 2011

The Winter Solstice also marks the longest night and shortest day of the year. A great time to take stock of what has been this year, where you are now, and what you wish to come forward in the near future. Light a candle or a fire in the fireplace and allow that flame of light to lead your heart's desire out from within! See the potential, feel it, then allow it to come forth. Love it and bless it, then leave it alone for the Angels, Ascended Masters, Gods and Goddesses and ArchAngels to address for you.

Take time this Solstice for merriment, laughter, dance, giving thanks and being truly grateful for ALL that has transpired for you and your loved ones this year - the good with the not so good - because without one or the other we do not have balance. We learn equally from the dark and the light - bless them both this Yule season!

May you and yours be safe, warm, well-fed, inspired and inspiring, as you all step forth into this new year of co-creating your inner dreams and Soul urgings into outer reality!

Blessed Be!

Orange Sunset in Aswan, Egypt 2011

All pictures taken in Egypt 2011 by Lois Christensen and Laurie Rezanoff

New Moon in Capricorn, December 24, 2011

The last New Moon of 2011, when both the Moon and Sun are standing together at 2 degrees of Capricorn and 34 minutes, occurs at 10:06 a.m. PST on Christmas Eve. Look to your charts to see where this new Moon cycle is activating yet another tangible opportunity of new starts, initiatives and projects. This New Moon carries on the energies of of the Winter Solstice, grounding, creating a sold foundation, utilizing current resources to create something totally new that is needed by the community around you.

The added player in this New Moon is Pluto alongside the Moon and Sun at 7 degrees of Capricorn 4 minutes. He brings Transformation - big time! - into our lives. Pulling back that carpet to see what we've hidden underneath re: the Capricorn themes of:

• The integrity of our material gains - did we sow seeds of solidity or liquidity? 
• How we set goals for ourselves to achieve the success and recognition of our worldly work via the career we have chosen for ourselves. Doing so monthly with the Moon cycle is certainly a good start!
• How well do you deal with authority, and what are you an authority of?
• Management skills - time management, people management, you name it - what skill set needs a transformational boost by Pluto this month?

Uranus in Aries is squaring off to this earthy Capricorn triplet of planets, bringing in sudden change, sometimes on a dime, creating either chaos or timely change - depends on how well we've been listening to that inner voice hinting at how to move ourselves forward into opportunity and new connections that put us where our next step is waiting for us to be.

The only opposition during this New Moon timing is between the North Node + Mercury in Sagittarius and the South Node in Gemini - those same themes from the last Solar/Lunar eclipse set of late November, early December: bringing in data and information from the past to help us figure out where our Souls want us to venture forth now. Oppositions are tricky - we can end up polarized if our Egos fear to tread forward. Stagnation can result and rushing back to live in the data room (Gemini South Node) because we just love love love reading about life, rather than shooting our arrows out into the big wide world to venture forth and showing that world what we're truly made of (Sagittarius North Node). The key aim is to be in the middle of this opposition, keeping centred, grounded and balanced, bringing in the data/information as it shows itself, and using it with timely and purposeful Soul action! Use your heartfelt discernment as to what and when and where.

Saturn and Neptune are in an easy, "Hi, how you doing?" kind of connection, both in air signs, bringing to us conversation and strategies on how to structure our lives within this newly forming equality framework (Saturn in Libra) of spiritual innovation and individuation (Neptune in Aquarius). Slow and steady, Saturn forces us to take a long look at what is truly real in our lives re: our spiritual connection to our Divine self. If there is any clarity to be had, Neptune will be asking us to look through the fog long enough to 'see' where we are truly heading. So if you're finding there is or has been a situation that is unclear to you, go back for a second and third look or conversation about it. Don't leave any stone unturned now. Confusion will prevail if you do.

Chiron, lying next to Neptune, in the early degrees of Pisces, will add heightened sensitivity to how well our energetic boundaries are working within our one-on-one relationships (Libra where Saturn is sitting). Saturn slows down this process as well, giving us time to really 'see' what is going on there, and may need to be mended or healed along the way, from deep within. Spiritual harmony and peace is a goal (Pisces + Libra).

Mars in Virgo is still squaring off with the Nodes, creating tension about where to apply our assertiveness - do I take aim into the future, or do I sit with what's coming up from the past? Aaaaahhh! You mean I have to make a choice? And maybe we have to do both, as beckoned from within. Organizing ourselves (Virgo) and taking action (Mars) as our Soul beckons will be the key here.

The Sabian Symbol of this New Moon @ 3 degrees of Capricorn reads: The human Soul, in its eagerness for new experiences, seeks embodiment. You may feel very open to the messages of the world around you. This is a quiet time of inner contemplation and outer observance. Regardless of your more immediate, physical circumstances, there is an evolution of understanding going on. Unbounded enthusiasm. Inner motivation leading to expansion. If operating from the Ego Shadow: denying growth in favour of social responsibility. [From: 'The Sabian Symbols as an Oracle' by Lynda Hill & Richard Hill]

Connect with Mother Nature, keep grounded, and assert and transform yourself along the way. These dark days, even as the Light starts to return little by little, gives us a chance to really take stock of each step we take forward toward our inner goals via our Soul's direction, keeping tabs on the past information that we may have forgotten (or swept under that carpet hoping to totally keep buried!). Measure your steps, slowly, with determination, authority and dominion over your own square of Mother Earth. Remember to connect with your Spiritual/Divine self for further clarification, while asserting yourself as required. Not all tasks are ours to take on at this time. Keep true to your unique way of being an individual, without hurting self or others. Heartfelt discernment is key, as always.

I wish all of you many hours of joyful, playful and loving connection with loved ones and humankind in general this Solstice/Yule/Christmastide. Many Blessings to All, and to All a good night's sleep too!

Blessed Be!

All pictures taken by Laurie Rezanoff at Beach Estates Park, Nanaimo, BC, Vancouver Island November 2011