On Tuesday last, 20th May, Mars went stationary at 9 degrees of Libra to begin his forward motion out of Libra. Many people have told me that for them, Tuesday was a contentious day for some and downright argumentative for others. That’s Mars for you!

This forward motion once again feeds into the now Cardinal T-Square between Mars opposite Uranus and both squaring Pluto. The good news here is that the CardinalGrand Cross has now dissipated as the 4th leg Jupiter is moving swiftly on to finish his sojourn in Cancer, thus leaving us with just three planets making a T bar – a bit like a T junction on the road.

Mars will complete this process of opposing UR and squaring PL in mid-June to the end of the month. It will not catch up with Jupiter by aspect until they are both in their new signs: Jupiter enters Leo on 15th July and Mars enters Scorpio on 26th July. They briefly aspect each other at the end of July beginning of August. More on that at the relevant time.

However, the times they are a-changing and many countries are hotting up their aggressions towards each other, even without Jupiter inflaming them. The effects are likely to be long in maturing, so we can expect reading about them for a few years yet – basically until Uranus and Pluto move away from each other’s influence by 2017. By that time, the world could look very different from the way it looks right now.

It does seem amazing that the human race reacts in such wild and cruel ways when the planets meet up and stir our energy patterns. Had Neptune been involved we would have had heavy action towards peace and spirituality not heavy action towards killing innocents in the name of “religion”.

The station of Mars at 9 Libra will have pushed many of you Libran Sun, Moon or Ascendant people into action, maybe even aggression, which is not like you at all. This is because Mars rules Aries, the sign of relationships for Libra. You may have had others causing the need for your action, by challenging your stance on various issues. And that may have been no bad thing in the long run as you will now be able to clarify exactly what it is you want out of all your relationships. While you would much rather be reasonable and kind to everyone, you will have learned to fight your corner, maybe for the first time in years

Equally for you, Aries Sun, Moon or Ascendant, you will have put a lot of energy into others during this period, which has directed your focus from yourself onto them. Again, no bad thing, however frustrating at times this may have been for you. You will have learned how to support others with your abilities to push for what they want and make their projects work out as they would wish.

For Cancer Sun, Moon or Ascendant, the arena of all the action has been in your domestic and family life. There will likely have been challenges coming from parents, if you’re still living at home, and/or children if you have them. Elderly parents may have been demanding action from you that you don’t feel able to give right now. This is a period of reassessing just exactly what family actually means to you, and just how much you are prepared to do for the various people who make up your own wonderful collection of humanity that you call your own.

For Capricorn Sun, Moon or Ascendant, the workplace will have been your source of argument and frustration. Your boss will likely be making demands of you that have you questioning your reasons for working there; likewise your workmates are likely to be creating their own ten-act operas around you. Not a comfortable place for you to be trying to get your work done to your satisfaction. This aggro raises more questions than it answers for you right now.

Dr Wayne Dyer’s Autobiography

I am reading Dr Wayne Dyer’s autobiography “I can see clearly now” as it came recommended. The friend who suggested that I would enjoy it did say that it took a while to gather pace to develop the origins of his ideas. As his early life is freely available to read on Wikipedia, there are no surprises in terms of the very painful events that he experienced as a very young child. However, his way of looking back on them and reframing them in order to gain meaning and understanding of them is truly extraordinary and liberating.

Each chapter is written in two parts: chronologically with the various events described exactly as they happened; followed by the heading “I can see clearly now” which is his understanding of the events thus described on his growing psyche and his journey to where he is now as a world teacher of both psychology and spirituality.

The beauty of his technique is a model that we can all use to gain insight into the why and wherefore of our own lives; to be able to recognise the value of certain relationships in our past; and to see how the way we were treated as children by our care-givers and educators were part of a bigger picture that is our life lessons. All of these were inevitable for our own inner journeys, so that we can let them go while extracting the juice out of them i.e. the inner meaning. By doing this we can all honour the things that happened to us whether “good” or “bad”, particularly the latter and we can see from the meta-level (the Higher Self) that it can all serve us to learn forgiveness and compassion towards them all.

We all come with a back story which is not necessarily nice or supportive of our younger selves, and as we grow we can either let it run us in a negative way, so that we treat others as we were treated; or we can begin to see it from the standpoint that everything that happens to us has meaning and a reason in order that we can develop our hearts and our spirituality.

There is no such thing as accident as far as being on this wonderful planet of ours, in the place we live and the time we were born. We are here for a reason and if we can employ Dr Dyer’s meta-level overview of it all, we can begin to free ourselves of our small neuroses and self-defeating actions and become the magnificent beings that we truly are underneath that “stuff”. In other words, live out our true potential.

A good read and a very moving one as well. Although not a book to read unless you are prepared to really think hard about what he says. The gift of his words is that it isn’t just about him, it’s about each and every one of us. That’s what makes him such a magnificent teacher – and I thank him for it.

Dr Wayne Dyer: I Can See Clearly Now. Published by Hay House, of course.

Print or Email