Dear Friends,
On Sunday, with celebrated enthusiasm, Mars jumps into the zodiacal realm of Leo: To firmly willed existence. For any planet, reaching Leo after a turn in Cancer might feel a little like spreading out on the sun-drenched sand after staying in the water too long. But beware! Leo’s etheric inclination to fight has the power to work our beloved warrior into a froth. Likewise, the fallen Lion can sometimes lose control over the vagaries of its emotions.
However, when we’re able to resist the destructive possibilities of this combination, we might take hold of its potential to inspire deeds of compassion. The soul warmth of this placement is exemplified by its presence at the birth of the Solomon Mary as well as at that of the Nathan Mary.
Mercury and Jupiter meet at 4° Gemini late on Sunday. As they do so, these planets, which represent human intelligence (Mercury) and cosmic wisdom (Jupiter), will align with two important stars: Polaris, of Ursa Minor; and Betelgeuse, the star at Orion’s right shoulder.
Polaris, of course, is our North Star, but it has not always had that honor! The slow wobble of the Earth’s axis means that a whole circle of stars passes the baton to one another in an equally slow fashion. (The completion of one wobble requires 25,920 years.) And in Betelgeuse, we encounter a connection to the sphere of the Tree of Life known as Chokmah—which signifies divine wisdom: the ordering principle for the divine source of creation. Indeed, within Robert Powell’s work known as ‘astrogeographia’—in which he reveals precise correspondences between the starry heavens and locations upon the Earth—Betelgeuse holds sway over the earthly longitude (35 E 13) where stood the Temple of Solomon.
The Mercury-Jupiter conjunction has the power to raise earthly intelligence to moral heights. On the following day, we’ll find Mercury (already at 6° Gemini) in a square aspect to Saturn (6° Pisces)—a planetary relationship that, when karmic necessity has been received with understanding, can be a source of healing. This aspect was present on 28/Sep/32, at the healing of Theokeno—the name Anne Catherine gave to the ‘frankincense king’. Accompanied by Mensor (the ‘gold king’), Jesus bade Theokeno to arise:
[Jesus] took him by the hand and Theokeno, doubting nothing, rose up, at once able to walk. Jesus led him to the temple. And from that time forward, Theokeno retained the use of his limbs. [Visions, vol. 2, p. 507]
Before Tuesday dawns at midnight, Venus (8° Aries) will form a square aspect to Pluto (in Capricorn). This is a dynamic relationship that draws soul-nourishment from the river of love that streams toward us from the Father in heaven! Indeed, within the Christ chronicle, Venus and Pluto were square when Jesus taught regarding the bread of life (2/Feb/31). From Anne Catherine:
[Jesus] said, “The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” At these words, murmurs and whispers ran through the crowd. . . . “Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. But he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up on the last day. . . . As the living Father had sent me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. It is not bread like the manna, of which your fathers did eat—and yet died! He that eateth this bread shall live forever.” [Ibid, p. 305]
The body that ‘lives forever’ is the resurrection (phantom) body: the creative, spiritual form—the ‘divine sculptor’—of the physical form. From St. Paul:
This is the world in which the resurrection of the dead takes place.
The seed is sown in the realm of decay, the life is awakened in the realm in which there is no decay. . .
This I speak out clearly, dear brothers: if we were only physical beings of flesh and blood, we could not become partakers of the Kingdom of God. The perishable cannot, out of itself, become a partaker of the realm in which there is no decay.
See, I speak out a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all go through a great transformation, when space becomes an atom and time becomes a flash of lightning at the sound of the last trumpet.
At the sound of the trumpet, the dead shall be called to life as imperishable beings, and we shall be transformed; for that which now bears decay must clothe itself with imperishable being, and that which now bears mortality must clothe itself with immortal being. . .
Death is destroyed by the victory of life.
Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting? (1 Corinthians 15: 42–54)
Peter Tradowsky added that we begin to ‘wear’ the resurrection body as we receive Christ into ourselves:
As the renewed archetypal form of the physical body, the phantom body will be the ‘garment’ of the self in a more perfect and ideal way than any material-physical body stemming from the line of heredity can be. The Christ Being provides humans with the power to develop their individual self, but also, at the same time, the possibility to transform, to spiritualize and individualize the sheaths of their being. [And If He Has Not Been Raised, p. 19]
The Full Scorpio Moon (now at 25°, approaching Lesath) will rise at sunset on Wednesday the 11th. The Taurus Sun (25°) thereby recalls the disciple Peter as he posed a question to Jesus:
Then Peter said to him, ‘See, we have given up everything and have followed you. What will that mean for us?’ Jesus answered, ‘Yes, I say to you, in the sphere of new birth where the Son of Man sits on the throne of his light-revelation, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones and be the guides of destiny for the twelve tribes of Israel.’ (Matthew 19: 27–28)
And, above us, the twelve thrones of the zodiac are gathered around the enthroned Christ-Sun at their center.
Many blessings on your week!
~ Julie H.
Image: Grünewald, The Resurrection of Christ, 1515