Gemini Solar Eclipse

by Michael Beard on June 1, 2011

in Esoteric Astrology

British explorer, James Clark Ross, led an expe­di­tion that dis­cov­ered the loca­tion of the Earth’s north mag­netic pole on June 1, 1831. That was 180 years ago today. This I see as sym­bolic of an 180 degree shift in direc­tion, in that we are leav­ing behind old and worn out ideals and dis­cov­er­ing a new direc­tion for humanity.

Today is the Gem­ini new moon which is also a par­tial solar eclipse. Polaris, the Pole Star, is in the sign Gem­ini. It is also con­nected with another air sign Aquar­ius. The Pole Star is called the star of direc­tion and the star of re-orientation. We have an oppor­tu­nity to reori­ent our direc­tion toward our Higher mind (air) and toward the ideals of the Aquar­ian Age some of which are unity, kind­ness and ser­vice to human­ity.
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Meaning of Memorial Day

by Nicolette Beard on May 31, 2011

in Other Worlds



The spir­i­tual facts of Memo­r­ial Day are lit­tle known.

When a few women placed flow­ers on the graves of sol­diers who died dur­ing the Amer­i­can Civil War, Union and Con­fed­er­ate, there pur­pose was to heal both the liv­ing and the dead. By hon­or­ing both sides of the con­flict, they cre­ated a con­struc­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion line between the dead soldier’s loved ones AND between the two war­ring parties.

Acknowl­edg­ing the pain and sor­row to all who had suf­fered was the begin­ning of a deep heal­ing process and the first in time of war.
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The Day of Rapture

by Michael Beard on May 21, 2011

in Spirituality

In the news we read that some peo­ple are con­sid­er­ing today “Judg­ment Day” or the “Day of Rapture.”

The word “rap­ture” is from the Latin rap­tus mean­ing “a car­ry­ing off”. It seems that many of us wish to be car­ried off to some heaven or higher dimen­sion in order to leave this trou­bled world behind. Some of us waited for the new mil­len­nium to per­form its magic and trans­port us into the new higher realm. Oth­ers are wait­ing to see if Decem­ber 2012 may do the same.

From an astro­log­i­cal per­spec­tive, all the indi­ca­tions are that a vast new wave of higher ener­gies are open­ing up to human­ity. Dis­cov­er­ies of new plan­ets are an indi­ca­tion and a reflec­tion of humanity’s rapidly expand­ing aware­ness. All of us, who have seen the fail­ure of the old ways, yearn for some­thing new.

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Taurus: The Sign of Illumination

by Michael Beard on May 16, 2011

in Esoteric Astrology

Bud­dha was said to have been born, enlight­ened and died in the month of May. He has long been asso­ci­ated with the sign Tau­rus. His enlight­en­ment is seen in the theme of Tau­rus, which is illumination.

Vul­can rules Tau­rus on the Soul and Spir­i­tual level. He is the Roman equiv­a­lent of the Greek god Hephaestus.

Hep­haes­tus was the limp­ing black­smith god twice thrown out of Mount Olym­pus. The first time was at birth when his mother, Hera, not being able to stand to look at such a mis­er­able crea­ture, threw him off the top of the moun­tain. He landed in the sea and was res­cued by two com­pas­sion­ate god­desses who cared for him in an under­wa­ter cav­ern. There he took up his nat­ural gift of cre­at­ing items from the met­als of the earth.

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