Feast of Love

"You say you want a revolution?"

- The Beatles

With this week's New Moon, the table is set for a feast of Aquarian love.

On Wednesday, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Chiron and Neptune all meet in the sign of the next astrological age.

With this celebratory lineup, Mars joins the Sun and Moon at 14 Aquarius. This cheery conjunction is symbolized by lovebirds sitting on a fence, singing happily. Saturn in Libra trines the Sun-Moon-Mars triple conjunction, urging us to wage peace and stand up for justice.

At the same time, Venus aligns with the Galactic Center in late Sagittarius and squares volatile Uranus. Expect the unexpected with this cosmic configuration.

This lunation is about personal love and spiritual agape, the birthing of a new galactic consciousness. It's also about upheaval and chaos. Though disruptive, there's enormous potential for healing and empowerment of the self, and the establishment of a new order rooted in love.

Here's a shining example of how these energies are playing out.

Chaos erupted last week in a historic display of solidarity in Egypt. Patterned after a similar revolution in Tunisia earlier this month, the turmoil escalated over the weekend with headlines screaming "Egyptians defy curfew as chaos rocks Cairo" and "Cairo airport a scene of chaos as foreigners flee."

Their spirits worn thin by generations of oppression, the people are stepping up, suddenly emboldened and assisted by lightning-fast communication via the Internet (a Uranian invention). Today's turnout of a quarter-million Egyptians in Cairo is described as "jubilant." And it's happening in the land of the Sphinx and great pyramids. Hmm.

If you think this is wild, just wait till March when the Mayan Universal Underworld begins and Uranus enters Aries, sign of the warrior. Talk about chaos. Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is already playing with revolution as Pluto, the Transformer, persistently pushes for evolution. Now in Aries, Jupiter carries the flag for higher consciousness.

As we said at the beginning of the year in my Astro Forecast, life on Earth will be radically different in 2011. It already is.


Aquarian Rebirth

New moons are about new beginnings. This one coincides with the cross-quarter gateway of Imbolc (Lammas in the southern hemisphere), midpoint between the Solstice and Equinox. Meaning "in the belly," Imbolc marks the turning of the seasons as new life gestates deep within Earth's womb.

Themes are purification and renewal in preparation for rebirth in spring. Relationships are due for an overhaul, too...relationships with self, with the divine, with the Earth and her creatures, the cosmos and each other. This includes partners, family, friends, neighbors, villages and humanity as a whole.

Is it time for a relationship inventory? What's incubating inside you? The New Moon is exact at 9:31 PM Eastern on February 2. Imbolc is February 2-4.

Under this configuration it's time for radical love and forgiveness. Allow the innate power of love to transform and heal. Prepare for rebirth.



Galactic Awakening

Join others from around the world in celebration of this auspicious New Moon-Imbolc gateway with a new tele-gathering on February 2, hosted by my dear star sister Leah McCullough. Details are posted in Leah's blog:

http://www.galacticawakening.blogspot.com


2011 Astro Forecast PDF

My free 20-page (plus) 2011 Astro Forecast is available to read and download here:

http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf


2011 Astro Forecast Teleconference mp3

Join others from around the world for an in-depth look at the celestial and Earth energies in 2011. Find out the hotspots, what to expect and how to navigate the intensely transformative energies of this exciting year.

http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast


More blog posts:

Timeshift 2011
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/timeshift-2011.html

The Ninth Wave
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/ninth-wave.html

Surf's Up
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2011/01/surfs-up.html

Away We Go
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/away-we-go.html

The Year Ahead
http://starpriestess.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-ahead.html




Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved

Timeshift 2011

"It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change." - Charles Darwin


Ready or not, here comes the next big wave.

If you're feeling edgy, apprehensive, maybe a bit fearful and sometimes ecstatic, you're tuned in to the next phase in the quantum evolutionary journey that is 2011.

With six eclipses this year, four planets changing signs and volatile outer-planet configurations on the way, 2011 is bursting with potential and equally enormous challenges.

Notice the massive upheaval we've already seen in the first few weeks of the new year, including historic flooding in Australia, political revolution in Tunisia, and tragic loss in an attempted assassination in the United States. And then there's the mysterious "aflockalypse" afflicting land, sky and sea creatures around the world as the environment continues to deteriorate.

The challenges are great, but we're up to it. As the waves of change come faster and faster, this year offers a rare opportunity to revolutionize our reality, and it's going to require vigilant focus and great love to do it.

The next two months will give us an idea how all this volatility will play out.


The Line-Up

Today the gas giant Jupiter completed his journey in the spiritual depths of Pisces and entered the initiating fire of Aries. On March 11, Uranus, planet of chaos, will follow. Between now and then, Saturn turns retrograde in Libra, Chiron enters Pisces, and the final underworld of the Mayan calendar begins.

The period of February 2-4 is especially potent with the Aquarius New Moon aligning with the cross-quarter gateway of Imbolc (or Lammas if you're in the southern hemisphere) and leading into a potent Full Moon in Leo/Aquarius on February 17/18.

In March the energies ramp up when Uranus blazes into Aries, igniting the Leo Full Moon just before the March 20 Equinox. On April 4, transiting Neptune joins brother Chiron in Pisces, opening a multidimensional gateway of illumination that will be confusing as well as enlightening.

And that's just the next two months!

The Universal Underworld in Carl Johan Calleman's interpretation of the Mayan calendar is the single most intriguing element of the 2011 landscape. Beginning March 9, the rate of consciousness evolution speeds up by a factor of 20, so a shift in consciousness that took a whole year from 1999 until now (or 20 years prior to 1999) will take only 20 days. This phase, and all nine underworlds in Calleman's system, end on October 28 of this year.

If Calleman's right, and I believe he is, life on Earth will look radically different before the end of the year.

Time as we've known it is collapsing, and we'll notice the biggest shift yet beginning in March. So thoughts turn into reality faster, and we're flooded with possibilities each moment. This new way of being is chaotic, but also exhilarating once we get the hang of it.


The Big Picture

As I wrote in my 2011 Astro Forecast, 2011 is a tipping point, a huge new beginning for humanity and the Earth. If you wait around for 2012, you’ll miss it.

Are there areas of your life that are due for an overhaul? Now's the time. In 2011, you can ride the energy waves and make changes very quickly. On the flip side, if you don't participate in your evolutionary process, the energies will initiate the changes anyway, and it will be even less comfortable.

The trick to navigating the energies is to stay slightly ahead of the wave, like these surfers in Hawaii.

Below are some materials to help you navigate the intense energies of 2011. I've spent much of the past three months in deep communion with what's on the horizon to be able to put this together. If you care to join others around the world who are finding these helpful, just follow the links below.

2011 Astro Forecast mp3
http://www.starpriestess.com/events.html#forecast

2011 Astro Forecast PDF
http://www.starpriestess.com/AllisonRae2011AstroForecast.pdf

You'll learn more about the Mayan underworlds as well as the planetary alignments of 2011, and how to surf the cosmic energies into a brighter future.

Away we go!



Copyright 2011 Allison Rae/StarPriestess.com All rights reserved