New chapters need new words...

A poem of sorts on maturing into greater depths of who we are constantly becoming...

Seasons, stories, cycles

Beginnings, unfoldings, conclusions

Climaxes

Death

But wait…

Uranus discovered seventeen eighty one

Now Earthlings have an archetype

That breaks Chronus's chains of

Our once allotted time and roles

Now comes revolutions, breakthroughs

Prometheus is unbound

Rewires a resurgence

Regenerating new possibilities

And Neptune dreams new visions

Dissolution of the old

While Phoenix empowered Pluto

Takes us to new depths

A more inclusive, expansive

Interconnected mission

So many new chapters - new roles

To this unfolding story behold!

This was written after a discussion about how baby becomes toddler, becomes child becomes tween and then teenager before young adult.  Then after we have our Saturn return at 29 we become adults, and middle age happens somewhere in our forties. Every five to ten years words denote a new stage of development.

And then there appears to be no accurate words that point to various rich and fertile chapters into which we breathe life post middle age?  I look at vibrant friends in my immediate community -Mechtild at eighty and Imogene at ninety - and think of how new businesses, travel, new skills and hobbies, and reinventing their lives happened in the period post forty.  

I think of futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, tv icon Barbara Walters, actors Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Judy Dench; artist Georgia O'Keefe; Mother Theresa...and I know there are so many other inspiring wemoon who are redefining and breaking open the possibilities of what we can become in the thirty to fifty years post middle age. 

In asking others for words to describe our fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties I have heard suggestions like regenerators, luminaries, re-emergents, phoenixes, cougars, directors, conductors; or to use colors -copper, silver, gold, platinum…What suggestions - even new words can we conjure into being to better describe these new chapters?

Gemini New Moon

What thoughts and perceptions cross your mind when you look at this photo? 

What connection does this image have to GEMINI?

I chose this image for our Gemini New Moon Oracle for two reasons:

1) The myth explains the origin of the twins, the symbol associated with Gemini, and

2)Gemini is also associated with an open, curious, versatile mind. Track your thoughts as you learn more about this image.

This photo illustrates the myth of Leda, Queen of Sparta, when seduced by  Zeus in the form of a swan.  Later twins are born: Pollux and Castor (males); and Helen and Clyteamnestra (females).  Pollux and Helen are immortal, while the other two are mortal. Gemini is associated with this and that thinking – black and white – male and female – mortal and immortal.  Perhaps your perception of the photo shifted with this information.

Eight of us met on Wednesday, 1 June 2011. Each had a question.  The energy of this Gemini new moon was used to shed light on these questions and issues.

Why do I need the exact time I was born?

Often I am asked, "Why do you need the exact time I was born?"

It's like directions to a place...knowing the right day is like knowing the right neighborhood...knowing the hour, gets you to the street, and knowing the right minute and second gets you to the specific address...

This means knowing the date and place of your birth can open the storystrology book; and give broad hints as to what your unfolding story is going to be about but when you want to know about specifics like love, money, health or family the storystrologer needs to go to that particular chapter. To do this the time of your birth is important.

When you take that first breath your cells imprint with the energy of that moment. As C J Jung said, "We are born at a certain hour, at a certain place, and, just like the wine of a certain vintage, we carry the quality of that year and the season within us. That is what astrology claims, nothing more, nothing less"

That 'C' word ...the Reality Police ... and Partnership

Commitment

That ‘C’ word. The realization that commitment brings responsible action.

When we make a choice we are saying YES to something.  

By making this choice we are saying that this is important and we want this ‘something’ in our life. It is worthy of our attention.  We harness our energy and focus.

What have you recently committed to doing?

How are you doing with your  ‘commitment’?

For a train to function effectively, it needs tracks or railway lines.  This is Saturn energy. The trick is to make sure that the tracks, the inner ‘shoulds’, rules and laws, are in sync with what we value. If we neglect to create tracks or rules that build the kind of world we want, we may unconsciously adopt ‘other people’s ‘ rules or society’s rules. This is when we may feel weighed down and limited with responsibility and judgment.

What do your commitments say about what you value?

This archetype in storystrology is Saturn, also known as ‘The Reality Police’. (See the collage of Saturn above for extra description)

Our

‘Inner Reality Police’ can keep us on target; can give us the energy to end that which has run its course and no longer serves us; can remind us what happened when we previously tried a similar thing – this is why Saturn is also associated with time and wisdom.

What is your relationship with Saturn?

How are you reaping the rewards for what you have sown, and nourished through concentrated effort and dedication?