Blood Moon in Taurus

Astro-Kinetic Reflection  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation    In the heavens today Mercury, the communicator, conjuncts with Mars, cosmic masculinity in the house of Scorpio.  Today is also the commemoration of the Basilica of John Lateren. The liturgical sources are heavy with reminders that “the church” is a temple constructed of human bodies. When lined up with our sources this configuration symbolizes a communicative motion from the inner to the outer. The sacred building is an external structure, but inside this structure is hidden the true church, constructed with living stones.  The celestial pattern speaks to an inner masculine force that is revealed to the world.   The Liturgy of the Word marks a progression from the external to the internal. In Ezekiel we hear a vision explaining the physical structure of the third temple.  Then the journey inward takes us to Paul who remind...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation    Today the Moon habits the House of Leo, placing intuition in an environment of zeal for vocation.  Here the moon stands in opposition to the abiding and powerful configuration of  Saturn and Jupiter in the House of Aquarius.  These two planets symbolize the deep and hidden foundations of our experience [Saturn] and the current systematic structure of experience as we consciously perceive it [Jupiter]. Abiding in Aquarius as they currently do, they combine to symbolize a harmonious outpouring of pedagogy and calculated benevolence that hopes for an ordered and stable environment of growth and success.  The Moon’s opposition speaks to discomfort with this otherwise healthy status quo.  We can see this exact discomfort in today’s gospel . It begins, “On a sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, a...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   October 5th begins a rapid series of impressive conjunctions in the house of Libra.  The Sun in now in conjunction with Mars, but over the next 24 hours, the moon will pass in file with these two making a powerful but fleeting alignment.  Over the next 48 hours, as the Moon speeds away, Mercury will come into alignment with Mars as it slowly moves out of conjunction with the Sun.  The Primary alignment of the Sun and Mars speaks to a powerful cosmic [Sun] and Personal [Mars] masculine energy.  The Astro-Kinetic dance that takes place clearly reveals a brush with a cosmic feminine force [The Moon] that opens the contemplative to a new way of conceiving things, thus Mercury [the communicator] comes into alignment with Mars. According to the typologies laid out in the treatise, Astro-Kinetic Contemplation     Jesus; the Sun, o...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation    Today Mars resides in the House of Virgo and is in sextile with Venus in the House of Scorpio.  Mars as a symbol of tumultuous upheaval aiming at a new order (war to empire, plowing to crops) is in a reciprocal relationship with Venus as the emotive actualizer and motivator.  This reciprocation moves between a Virgo, an earth sign (a sign of physical and material engagement) to Scorpio, a water sign (a sign of deep unconscious intuition and emotion).  We see a juxtaposition between the earth and the water, but they find their harmony in the feminine nature of nurturing and giving life, a watered earth grows. This celestial dance harmonizes well with today’s gospel.  In it, the penitent woman, washing Jesus’ feet with her tears and drying them with her hair, is judged harshly by Simon the Pharisee as is Jesus for allowing a si...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   At present, the Earth is passing through the debris trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle.  This motion creates the Perseid Meteor Shower, a celestial event also known as the tears of Saint Lawrence because it happens annually within the days after his feast day.  The tears always appear to be coming from the constellation Perseus, situated between the Houses of Aries and Taurus.  Aries as a house can be contrasted with Mars as a plant.  They are both manifestations of the same concept, destructive conflict.  Mars, as a Roman god, focuses more on the conflict as a dialectic or domination that ends in order, thus Mars has a teleological thrust.  Aries, in Greek mythology, is more of a troublemaker.  The conflict he manifests reflects the differing experience of conflict between Rome (which uses conflict to create empire) and Greece...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   Today Jupiter in Retrograde returns to the house of Aquarius to revisit Saturn. This return coupled with our source evidence implies a return of the current order to its roots or foundations.  Across the heavens in the house of Leo, over the next few hours, Mercury will come into conjunction with the Sun.  A conjunction of two planets generally indicates a confluence or coming together, of what they symbolize.  The Sun, symbolizing the cosmic masculine, and is presenting strongly in the house that it rules, a conjunction with Mercury, the great communicator, amplifies order dictated by formula and rules, and systems of organization constructed for best practices formulated by experience and wisely applied.  But this conjunction dances across the sky oppositional from Saturn, just as Jupiter makes its return.  An opposition bring...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   In the next few hours, Mars will come into conjunction with Venus in the House of Leo, all under the watchful eye of the Moon, which at present occupies the same house. This configuration brings the observer to contemplation of the compatibility and mutual support of masculinity and femininity. The Cosmic Feminine Moon occupies Leo, a house ruled by the Sun (the Cosmic Masculine). The personal Feminine and Masculine (Venus and Mars) conjunct. Generally, when conjunctions occur it is seen as an opportunity to consider confluential traits.  It is as if all signs are pointing to a recognition that duality exists in paradoxical tension. Creation is constructed this way in order to supply cross-spectral mutual pedagogy and to create and influence as a whole. In the office of Readings, we see how things can go wrong when one lacks cross-spectral influence,...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   Tonight, the Moon is full, and just on the cusp of leaving the House of Sagittarius for the House of Capricorn.  Interpreted by our three sources, the full reflective light of the Moon is emanating from a palace of wisdom and reflection, and over the next few days moves to a place of putting that wisdom to act in a ritual or sacrificial manner.  The light decreases because the mode of action may not be exactly as expected. Often we think we have a perfect grasp on wisdom only to find that we must now adapt to the abstract to life experience. Today is the Solemnity of The Nativity of John the Baptist.  In the gospel we see John leaping in the womb of Elizabeth because he encounters the fulfillment of the wisdom he carries, even before he himself has fully developed in that wisdom.  John is a harbinger of something new. When Elizabeth ...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   Today’s reflection mostly concerns Mercury, which has recently been left alone in the House of Gemini.  The celestial body of communication standing strong in the house of mutual regard is an excellent stimulus for considering friendship and filial bonds. We have three examples of this from our source readings today. The first is Abraham and his friendship with God in the First Reading of the Liturgy of the Word.  The reading shows the covenant between God and Abraham and their mutual regard.  All of Humanity has turned away from God.  God has once nearly obliterated humanity in response, but this time he takes a new tact.  He chooses one person and seeks to repair the damage from this man and his lineage.  Abraham offers sacrifice, giving over possessions that he may be tempted to hold as more valuable than God.  God ...

Astro-Kinetic Reflection:  Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts  Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation   Today Saturn remains lodged in the House of Aquarius.  Saturn symbolizes the connection to the deep recesses of time, for today’s theme especially as time devours memory.  Saturn pours deep knowledge of the unobservable past onto the entire chart.  With that backdrop, we can look to the moon as it maneuvers into the house of Virgo.  Virgo is an active and dynamic house that demands accomplishments of feats at a heroic level.  With today’s source readings, we are directed to the Moon as a symbol taking on the symbol of humility and reflection of greater glory.  It is in this humility that we work and strive.  If it is required of us, we can even cease activities we (in “our” wisdom) deem necessary if a higher power deems otherwise. Every aspect of our source materials today implies that we work in humility, and be ready...