THE LAMP (ARIES) IS LIT

Jupiter and Mercury station direct today 18th.

Jupiter is in sign of Aquarius.

Mercury is in Libra.

Mars in Libra in trine with Jupiter in Aquarius

Mars in Libra officially squares Pluto in Capricorn!

Give a voice to your heart.

In a quiet corner of your mind your heart called to you through the corridors of time.

Did you listen? Can you listen now? The coming days as we move ever more into the sign of Scorpio (Pluto) you may just hear the voice of the ancients if you can still the thoughts of what you must do or take action with.

How do we bring their message through to our own consciousness? Are we to listen to the teachings of those who left their words for us to follow? Or are we to trust that those very teachings go very deep within the consciousness of the Earth and our own soul that will come through as a new understanding.

If we can travel the internal/eternal landscape of our own minds and hearts and see it for the Holy land it is we can now start to walk back/forward to a time of remembrance where other journies will become clear again. How to navigate a world that we are told is changing so dramatically that we must wait for what is to come next. The chaos of the external is the stepping stone of our journey. There will always be chaos to a greater or lesser degree. But for you, the true student of alchemy, the journey is about overcoming the Self and the world becomes the mirror of what we have mastered within ourselves.

Over two thousand years ago the Master Essene astrologers followed the conjunctions (Stars) to be present for the birth of new Hope (the Christ). The Hope came in the birth of the Messiah. The Essenes had been taught to overcome prejudices, ignorance and oppression to live in a time where all of these things may have been present in the outside world, but their role of Wayshowers and Teachers meant the change needed to happen manifested through their own journey first. There is no other way to change a world other changing your role in it first. It does not happen the other way around.

The Symbol of the Egg in the Teachings of Mary is shown as the Way in these times. The Egg cracks from within to be born and to face the world as a chicken or it is cracked from the outside to be destroyed and then the fate of the chicken becomes that of the World rather than the journey of Self (Christ).

These days lead us to the Full Moon on the 20th (which I will write more about later this week) and into the light of Christ within us, if we can but see our journey in a different perspective. One where you are the hero of your story. But that will take honesty, openness and responsibility. It is a grown up time for the Child of the Universe and one where the heart is lit by the flame of the Christ (Aries).

Caroline K. Plunkett

Aphrodite 2021