360 Degrees of Your Star Destiny: A Zodiac Oracle

By Ellias Lonsdale

• Explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings

• Provides detailed write-ups for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac

• Details how to use the degrees for personal chart interpretation and as an oracle for guidance and inspiration

In this extraordinary synthesis of 50 years in star work, astrologer Ellias Lonsdale explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings. Inspired by the Chandra Symbols--evocative images for each degree channeled by John Sandbach nearly 40 years ago--as well as his studies with master astrologers Dane Rudhyar and Marc Edmund Jones, Lonsdale explores the deeper story, or Star Spark, of each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac, providing detailed write-ups for each degree.

The author explains how to use the degree of your Sun sign and other planets from your birth chart for personal chart interpretation. Offering a way to tune in to your future star cycles as well as analyze a past event, he discusses how you can learn about personal cycles from studying the degree of a transiting or progressed planet at a specific time, such as Mercury Retrograde, or by following the degree meanings for successive New Moons or Solar Returns, revealing collective as well as personal timings. He also details how to use the 360 Star Sparks as an astrological oracle to consult when you need guidance or support for your awakening process as well as how they can be used as a source for daily contemplation by following the Sun through each degree day by day throughout the year.

Providing an astrological tool to help you see deeply inside your life, your shadow, what you are questioning, and where you are being guided, this key to the symbolic power of the 360 degrees of the zodiac shows that by embracing our star cycles, we can discover our unique life path and light up the stars within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Release date: Jul 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781644112830

Ellias Lonsdale

Ellias Longsdale is a Star Master and New Earth Visionary. He developed a distinctive system of living astrology in the 1970s and 1980s under masters Dane Rudhyar and Marc Edmund Jones as well as through involvement with the Rudolf Steiner movement. He offers teleclasses and star readings and is the author of several books, including The Book of Theanna.

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INTRODUCTION

The Creation of Star Sparks

This book is a collaboration between myself, Ellias; my current life partner, Sharuna; and the spirit guide we call Haven, who in life was my partner, Sara; as well as a few other key people.

Sara was a Waldorf teacher and then a Wellsprings practitioner (massage and movement to music) and also a full-on partner in the star work, including exploring the degrees together. She was very active in living the spiritual life in depth and substance. Six years after Sara’s death from breast cancer in 1993, she became the focal point for this book to come through. As the spirit guide Haven, she spoke from the depths of the Divine Feminine to continue her work with the Chandra symbols, illuminating even deeper the messages contained within them. These channeled messages we called star sparks. This book wasn’t channeled in an ordinary mediumistic way. Haven was a lucid and wakeful spirit presence who came through the veil to speak in the form of the pages you now read.

We transcribed the original channeled messages in a white heat, from 2000 through 2001. To sustain this work, Sharuna and I had to be in a primal setting in nature so we could find a rhythm and hold to it. We were aware then that this information would be crucial at this time, during the present transition into the Age of Aquaria (Aquarius). Our challenge was to sustain our attunement to this natural pulse throughout an extended writing cycle, making sure it was free and clear. As the degree messages tumbled out, it was Sharuna’s task to ground them in her body, to know them in their truth, and to nourish herself through their teachings. Her contribution made it all possible.

The original channeled transmissions came through at a place we call Singing Hill, in the bluffs above the Pacific Coast Highway, near quaint Davenport, California, the home of magical whale-watching. The timing and the setting were essential to the work. Sharuna and I were in a wildly open state, living in a yurt in the woods, in a faeries-parked spot with bobcats and owls and coyotes and deer all around us. It was the optimal setting for an immense work such as this to arise.

We were on fire with what Haven would pluck from the future and deposit in the now. Though Sharuna and I were living in a pristine place, nothing that was unfolding was familiar or even manageable by ordinary standards. It would take another twenty-five years before we could publish this channeled information in the form of this book. We had to first live it ourselves in order to share it more broadly. The journey took us to the core of existence, beyond the greater universe, as far as we could travel. It was a sacred, magical glory train. This venture was going to set the tone for a generation in this very lifetime and beyond, for future generations.

The truth is that nobody ever feels up to a project such as this. We had to keep bolstering our sense of confidence, rapport, and wakefulness as to what was happening. As the original transmissions continued, each degree would speak to us, confirming that this was what we were born to do. The work stirred up quite a bit in our souls. It seemingly took forever to settle down enough to know that we could in good conscience and with confidence cast this star vision out into the four winds.

Besides Haven, Sharuna, and myself, two others were closely involved in bringing forth this work, helping to make it all possible.

Alita Safiya, a close friend who was strongly involved in Sara’s death and beyond, was in the flow of the sessions as well. She could feel where they were taking us, from a deep, faerie-rooted place that is linked to the heights of Venutia, or Venus. She was receptive and open and willing to take the journey all the way through.

Sheila ~ Shestarah, editor and copublisher of a few of our books and a lively friend in more recent years, has a way of making the uncanny visible and tangible, weaving between the worlds in what we call the core editing of this work, essentially making her a contributing author. It was a task that required wholehearted dedication. Shestarah and her crew of elven helpers refined the final product of 360 Degrees of Your Star Destiny, insuring its precision.

Many others who became part of this star journey have given this book its destiny presence as well. And now those who work with this material across the globe will be enhancing and amplifying what this work has opened within us. We invite you to discover for yourself how these star sparks can open future doors for us all.

The Chandra Symbols and the Planetary Energies

There is a long history of using degree symbology in astrology, a subject that has greatly influenced my star research from the beginning, in 1970. It was right away in that summer that I came across the Sabian symbols, a fascinating lens for interpreting the stars, discovered in 1925 by occultist and astrologer Marc Edmund Jones and clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler. In their work together they tapped the ancient mind matrix of the Sabian alchemists of ancient Mesopotamia. The Sabian symbols consist of a set of 360 image-laden words and phrases that correspond to each of the 360 degrees of the wheel of the zodiac. These images hold meaning for those degrees of the signs. Although the symbols have their foundations in astrology, absolutely no knowledge of astrology is needed to use them.

I studied this system with Marc Edmund Jones and humanistic astrologer Dane Rudhyar, another great interpreter of the Sabian symbols, and as a result I became ever more attuned to how to work with the degree symbols. Hence degree symbols have been central to my astrological work from the get-go; they speak from the ancient past to the future now.

In the 1980s, another significant influence crossed my path when I encountered the Chandra symbols. This was right around the same time that poet, artist, and master astrologer John Sandbach tuned in to a spirit guide named Chandra, who is also a lunar goddess in Vedic astrology, who transmitted these symbols, which are 360 dreamlike, almost supernatural images, one for each degree of the zodiac. Sandbach’s interpretations, facilitated by his spirit guide, Chandra, are brilliant, full of foresight and subtle sensibilities. Upon receiving the transmissions, Sandbach immediately put out a book on the symbols and their interpretations, which I felt an instant, deep resonance with, and which have since been a major influence in my astrological work. These symbols and their images express an intuitive, magical feeling that seems to come to us from the very origins of the world. There are deep levels and layers, both spiritual and psychological, to these frequencies that hit the mark, that hit the bull’s-eye to the call of life and that point to the underlying patterns of one’s existence to reveal one’s soul destiny.

Sara and I, along with our collaborators Sharuna and Alita Safiya, were taken with the Chandra symbols from the very first. After Sara came to the inside after death, as the spirit guide Haven, she continued to enlighten us by providing the deep meaning hidden in the symbols. John Sandbach had, by his own admission, only lightly and mentally gone into degree interpretation. We felt drawn to take it deep and far at every turn. We’ve been checking them out ever since, and they more than simply hold up—they actually age exceedingly well. We’ve written a lot about them over the years and have tuned in to their deep meanings in our star sparks sessions. Now we find that they are so relevant we must release this knowledge to the wider world.

THE METHOD EXPLAINED

To use this system, let’s review some basics. Think of the zodiac as a circle that’s cut into twelve pieces. Each piece is ruled by one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, with each sign in turn governed by one of the twelve planets—also called stars—in our solar system. Each of the twelve signs has 30 degrees in it, therefore there are 360 degrees in the zodiac. The zodiac is thus a reference point for embodying the full potential that the stars—that is, the planets—offer, in a form that reflects the whole sky at a given place and time.

Activating the Planets

If you wish to draw from this book its golden, bright essence, you’ll want to first tap into what we have to share about the energy frequencies of each of the planets, their true nature and their evolutionary voice, so that what you may have already learned about the planets up till now does not block you from a direct, intuitive experience of the planets as revealed by studying our descriptions of the esoteric meanings of each of the planets of the zodiac. After reading these descriptions of each of the planets you can then apply the Chandra symbols and their star sparks to the degree of each planet in your chart.

The most obvious place to start is the Sun sign, but there is also the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Rising Sign or Ascendant or In Breath Signature is another pivotal degree to work with, especially in characterizing both our persona and our internal source sensibility, standing behind the persona. There are also the four main asteroids: Vesta, Juno, Ceres, and Pallas. Each of these celestial bodies represents a certain energy frequency.

For example, if you look up the description in this book for the Sun, it says elixir next to it. This word image is what we call a core activator. Starting in 2012 in a pattern that Sharuna was guided to take up and we have worked with ever since, we began working with the core activators of each of the planets. So the core activator of the Sun is an elixir, the Moon a chalice, and so on, as you will see in the descriptions of the planets. In this way you can intuitively feel your way through the deep, esoteric meaning of each planet. For example, when you’re looking at Mars in the birth chart and you read the section titled Mars as Being and Becoming, it will take you to a greatly enhanced feeling for Mars, one that will more deeply resonate with the star spark for the specific degree your Mars is in, since the esoteric meanings of the planets are closely correlated with their Chandra symbols and star sparks.

It might be helpful to let you in on our process with the planets. Our vantage point is raw, direct, and straightforward. The planets light up the night sky. All of us want to feel that the stars are lining up for us, that we’ve been here before and will always be here. We find that solid identity of a continuous karmic outworking is not the ultimate reality, but is just one way to track the soul.

The planets are portals into realms of life that we are pervasively aware of when we get free and clear of our separative mental containers. They are elevators, accelerators, points of departure. If we are willing to move with a planet and its degree imaginatively and creatively, with guts and enthusiasm, something starts to reveal itself that we might never have discovered any other way.

The Sun, Mercury and Mars, Venus and the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Pluto and the Moon take us on a journey through our soul’s evolvement. It is a vibrant, letting-go journey. We need to clear the mind, center our energies, and ground into a deep presence if we wish to tap into the power of the star sparks through the planets in our chart. It is a disciplined practice, and it makes us more respectful of who we came here to be.

In this way each planet opens as a portal and an evolutionary impulse into unchartered waters. So the planets don’t just tell us how it has always been. They reveal the mystery of what can be, as all is moving forward and deeply through us at any given time.

Applying the Chandra Symbols and Star Sparks

After reading the descriptions of the esoteric meanings of the planets, you can then read the Chandra symbol and star spark for each planet in your chart, to get a full picture of the celestial energies impacting your destiny. In this way you can move into this material intuitively, free of any previous concepts you may have held about the planets and your chart. To do this you will need a copy of your natal (birth) chart to learn the degrees of each of your planets. Many other charts can also be explored with the Chandra symbols. Most get their charts from the internet. I do them by hand, and this is like a medieval guild at this point but still my preferred method and the one I would most recommend.

When using the Chandra symbols, degree calculation is critical. Each degree of the zodiac represents an energy wave or frequency. When using this system, always round the degree up. For example, if your Sun is 12 degrees 15 minutes of Aquarius, you will round the degree frequency up to 13. If your Mercury is 4 degrees 2 minutes, round up to 5. That goes for all the rest of the planets in the chart—always round up. The first degree of a sign starts at, for example, 00 degrees 01 minutes Aries and on from there.

For example, the Chandra symbol associated with Aries 1 is A man repairing and extending a stone wall in the spring. The interpretation that follows the Chandra symbol is what we call its star spark. In this way, anyone can enjoy this book as a readout on each degree of the zodiac, one that provides an alternative feel for what is possible in human destiny.

You can use this book in an oracular fashion if you want a prophetic intimation of what’s happening in your life in the present moment. Simply enter into silence and ask to be shown what you most need to know at this juncture, and then open this book at random. In this way you can allow the degree symbols to speak from deep within yourself. If you are struggling mightily and lack perspective altogether, simply surrender to the moment and allow the book to open to the answer to your prayers, to the confirmation of your intuition, or to the passage through and beyond a given cycle. By this method Spirit speaks to us through the medium of the degree frequencies and their symbolic power.

On the other hand, you may be called to research your natal chart or some incident in the past to find out why that special time was so very unusual and distinctive. You may want to get inside to the heart of a planet as you experience eclipses, a planet turning retrograde or direct, an outer planet in one degree for a long time, or a current cycle that is more personal and impactful. For this kind of research you should look up the degree of whichever planet or planets you are curious about. The Chandra symbol for that degree and the associated star spark will yield the kind of insight you are seeking.

Each degree of the zodiac is one of 360 windows into your life, your situation, your shadow, what you are questioning, and where you are guided. The Chandra symbols will bring you to the inside of the inside. Start your day with morning coffee or tea and simply open the book in an oracular fashion to whichever star spark is revealed, and see what happens! See how the day opens and the night closes you inside the cocoon of that spark. Let the stars work their insights and epiphanies. Be prepared to realize that you yourself are holy ground, and these star frequencies will allow you to change, heal, grow, and evolve. In short, the degree frequencies help put the whole picture of you together. 360 Degrees of Your Star Destiny encompasses Heaven and Earth and all the realms in between. This is the star stuff of which we are made.

Activating the Planets

The planets are a comingling of star essences. They are the composition of you, of us. May we realize the vastness and expanse of soul we carry with each step, with each breath. May the planets speak to us in their healing voice and bring us to the great edge of evolution, making straight and clear our way through and into our sweet Earth.

One step at a time, let us enter the great matrix of who we really are and live from that space with open eyes and an open heart, absorbing all the beauty and joy and goodness life on Earth freely offers us. For the planets and their essences surely are there to guide and light our footprints on this sacred journey. May we all go forth renewed and open to life calling us onward into fresh days and restored nights, allowing the soul to fly free in its rightful dance of oneness.

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Sun as Elixir

The Sun degree wants to get inside our heart and bring active expression to our heart’s desires and aspirations. This is a motivating spark. It ignites the will to become entirely who we are in this life. When we are on with the Sun we are centered in vital essentials. We begin to know who we are and can feel our way forward—that is, after the internal and external critics have made a wasteland of our intimate, individual territory and taken away any basis for continuing onward out of past habits and memory continuities.

We rally to rise to what our Sun degree invokes as a path, a journey, a thematic direction. Superficial astrology wants to say that this track is a given, is already and always what looms before us. This is not the real thing.

To become our Sun is great attainment. We can recognize the feel of it innately, but to incarnate our solar expression in this life, at this time, is a challenge and a big stretch. Warmed by the rays of the Sun, drawn to the light that emanates from the Sun, we have a lifelong love affair with the solar way of being. Its radiance allows us to develop confidence and strength in putting ourselves out there. We can be at our most extroverted and our most overextended, yet when we mature and follow more of a wisdom path in life, the Sun becomes embodiment material and orchestrates our return to the center and a revival of the will to live.

The solar path is ultimately stripped of complications and dualities. It is where we can know ourselves to be the whole of who we are and nothing less. And if we find that place and develop it with grace and humility, we will recognize the one we started out to be before we fell into ingrained assumptions about the context that housed us and gave us such limited and distorted reflections.

Each of us has a yearning, a craving, a resolve, a commitment to walk in our own shoes, to expand into our vision of ourselves this time around. We cannot bear to be less than what our solar potential makes possible. As we vibe this, our central channel, our activating spark, we get closer to the mark and catch fire with the truth of our infinitely familiar heart essence, vision, and motivation. For the one who is launched on the great adventure of self-realization, of awakening and rebirth, the Sun illuminates the path ahead and is dependably right there.

We ardently seek what we may have lost touch with along the way and need to align with once again. We are many and we are one. We have gone too far and we haven’t gone far enough. We are getting warm, close to the Source. The ego we have mocked up along the way is self-important and imposes separation and ego-bound tests and trials. We cut through the crap and return to the center, the Sun, to dig in.

Moon as Chalice

The Moon degree is so close to who we have always been. We will, if we can, gravitate again toward being that way, feeling safe and protected, even if somebody else might see a disaster. We have such an affinity for the Moon that living in her embrace is our home territory, beyond form and outer definition. We usually have a lot to learn within the confines of our lunar instincts and impulses. This is where we set ourselves the task of growing and evolving in the thick of customary states. It’s meant to be a struggle. It needs to be a grappling with what we initially reject or flee from, and it is a great relief when we can return to Source and discover that we have become more Earth-alive in the thick of our sufferings and deaths, losses and shadow play.

Our Moon is natural, inevitable, and often not very conscious and not entirely aware of itself. It can be trancelike to follow what the Moon in the sky cycles through. When we get down that far into the sensate, into emotional and physical Earth existence, we can follow our course to claim our inheritance, reckoning with our most pivotal sensibility, cultivating and fostering the path of choice. We can wish upon the Moon if we want to find the life wisdom to curb excess and cultivate a free-flowing way to weave the pattern wakefully. This is often a question of outlasting our own lost places and waking up inside the collective undersoul and our own cultural patterns and syndromes.

The Moon will not make it easy for us. There is a certain adamant, tenacious quality of wandering back into what was remembered as secure, stable, and safe. The Moon often wants to hide, needs to wait awhile, and isn’t ready. We gestate and germinate. We take up a track that may take a long time to work itself out, but our Moon degree throughout will be a trusty guide to our personal nature, our underlying values, the part of our soul that is intensely involved in the drama of subverting rationalistic and mechanistic distances and skepticisms to get at how we really feel inside.

When we are naked, vulnerable, receptive, and given over to life’s spells, most often the Moon will meet us at many different points along the way. Our Moon waxes and wanes, following multiple cycles. At her most internal, she cradles us in soul remembrance and sustains us while following our nose and sticking to what resonates as our deeper purpose. At her most externalized, she emerges in the open light and feels her way through to optimize her charm, her charisma, her vital pulse.

Each Moon degree is distinctive and homegrown, calling to us to give over what have become false attachments and earthbound identifications. We are lunar beings when we give ourselves the chance to drop out of the sky and into Earth life in all its vibrancies and its deeper, darker invitations and welcomings. We can never get away from the Moon. If estrangement and exile force us out of sync, the Moon is still humming as the most nurturing place to be.

Mercury as Intonement

The Mercury degree catalyzes and instruments the expression of taking on the common mind and walking in the stream, which comes to lead us each day and night and conditions us to join in the fun. This is where we are so stimulated, so actively moving with excitement of what is moving through this world, that we can never get enough of it.

The urge is to communicate, to share, to find kindred spirits and join with them for the purpose of getting on with our interests and capabilities. If the way of life is fast and demanding, strident and multifaceted, we will have to learn how to shape-shift fluently, how to navigate impossible passages, and how to enjoy the entire process and make it our own. Once we are launched on our characteristic, persistent style and vibratory frequency, it shows up everywhere.

Mercury is where we learn what it takes to thrive in a chaotic and permeable world. It’s all a question of attitude. Learning the ropes is the outer part. We are becoming contributing members of a dying and reborning culture and civilization. Speed, multiplicity, and protean approaches that make most of the dance as a youthful folly are the things that Mercury promotes and insists on.

It’s hard to resist. We want to keep up. We would love to plunge ahead. Everybody else is tuning in to us and checking us out. Do we have the mindset that can keep adapting, perpetually finding new ways to move through the labyrinth? Mercury is quantitative, mentalized, egoic. Experiences and events, whatever everybody around us wants the most, fill our stream of awareness.

Restless agitation accompanies this way of life. We are everywhere, always. Yet to be skillful, even masterful, demands initiation. We have to accelerate our evolutionary dynamism. We have the body that matches the mind for it when we recover our gut instincts and get in a position to improvise effectively. While we must initially learn all the steps, every one, it’s when we can take the model further that we feel connected and really on course.

Mercury spreads us out to the periphery, to the places on the edge. There we can fill to the brim with sense impressions and compelling themes. We must make our way through to survive and thrive. In competitive situations we are provoked to excel, as our Mercury is thirsty and hungry for showing the self to be somebody to reckon with. Most often, Mercury will be busy and engaged in the midst.

If we do fulfill our Mercury degree, it will show up as a recharged ability to flow with the current, wherever it might take us. Mercury has to become awake to itself in order to get beyond a certain point, but this kind of awareness is at a premium. When outer life takes over, we key in on staying on top of each next challenge. To be on course and fully present, on the ride of our life, represents the advanced level of Mercury.

Mars as Being and Becoming

The Mars degree forges in this world our physical life-force expenditures. This demands the utmost of us and signifies the primal state of pre-becoming. If we can embody our life impulse substantively and enduringly, we can get all the way down to it, even to battle. This is a fiercely contested territory. We are torn apart by it relentlessly, with little mercy. We have to dive in, make mistakes, lose our way, and risk everything over and over again. We’ll be humiliated. We’ll be defeated and put down. Resourcefulness and resiliency are the crucial factors.

The only place we can turn to is our own force of conviction. Mars in us has what it takes, mobilizing and demonstrating and proving the self in the trenches, providing the components that take us through. We often feel with our Mars that everybody else has it together and that we are lacking. This feeling spurs us to renew our efforts and prove the critics, including the internal one, wrong. We don’t want to be a loser. Mars will show us the track that asserts the priority of physical-plane energetic activation that yields results.

We pull and push to become somebody with impact and clout. It’s a fierce passion, and it so easily becomes abused, taking us on destructive binges where we forget our perspective or truth, leaving us in the most externalized, worldly, seductive traps and pitfalls. We fight with ourselves and with others. We exhibit all the signs of pride and lust, addiction and betrayal.

To find what we left behind in our zeal to make it in the world usually requires cycles of downfall and ruin. Maximum impact is needed, but we have turned into a tough, dense, and thick force of nature. The only thing that can get through to us is losing everything and finding our soul. If we can keep the world out in front of us and our situation in a manageable and controllable pattern, Mars becomes charged to become something extraordinary, heroic, remarkable.

But it does tend to be within the context of a narrow and tight enclosure. Freedom gets lost in the translation. Joy, delight, and simplicity are no longer circulating through us, for we are now a foundational, active agent for change or for perpetuating the status quo.

Metamorphosis, transmutation, and initiation bring Mars into its ultimate resonance. This is where we can become an evolutionary agent, moving with the shifts and getting everybody else in on it as well. It takes a lot of guts to get down this far. From the sacred, magical vantage point, it’s the only place to be.

Our Mars degree generates friction, stress, and drive. If we can be on fire with destiny in the deeper spaces of this life, our Mars will then turn around to be impeccable. Then we can become what we set out to be. It is immensely gratifying. It is the full-circle fruition. It is a rough passage. It can even be brutal. We wish to explore our nature and optimize what it can yield. We can’t stop now.

Venus as Heart Star

The Venus degree is meant to offer us a way to be bonded to the core of life on Earth. We ask for an inspiration, something to sweep us off our feet and fire us up to become the presence of love. It is a gift and a treasure that we have a natural in on, but many factors conspire to thwart this gift from its full-scale presence. So we are sent on a path that demands that we recover our soul after losing it to narcissistic, self-flattering ways of pretending to be somebody special.

Our essential impulse in life, traditionally feminine, has during childhood usually been wrapped up in many kinds of protective insulation. But we have found that what is full to bursting with manna as a form of loving radiance is in great demand and draws on all kinds of masculine attention.

The version of Venus we typically move with later in life is covered-over, hidden, subtle. To become genuinely creative and joyously, lovingly present on an intimate level—if this is a priority—we will be sent on a special journey to salvage and retrieve our well-guarded soul. We will have to pass tests and take up trials in order to once again be an in-touch and in-tune voice of the inner soul. Once we get behind this quest and take it up with all our heart, it is likely to flourish.

Soon we find that we are recovering and learning how to cherish and honor what came so naturally early on. It was at first naïve and innocent. Now it is seasoned and tempered, but there is still that twinkle, that sign of being an artist and a lover, a magically endowed being and a qualitative presence who cares, who lights up the world, who attains the seed of a new life that will emerge in the future when all is at the ready.

The recovered Venusian is a force for good in this world. She has found a strength within herself that is substance for others she loves, and this strength can blossom in many directions. All depends on what motivates her. She can readily flow through to whatever is most vital to her vision, her perception, her course of civility. She still may carry the spell of having many times been exploited or misunderstood, taken as a package deal, treated like somebody’s fantasy. And she may well wish to throw off all such vulnerabilities and sensitivities, for it is socially unbearable to play the victim any longer.

Venus needs a way of sovereignty and an intact, internal presence and sense of her own truth and reality, no longer up for grabs or rawly exposed. She has this hearty synchronization with her own inner source. Once she has found its feeling tone and learned to express it, she demonstrates resiliency and immense resourcefulness. It is natural for her to feel confident and steady.

Venus owes nothing to anybody on the outside. Still, being this way pushes buttons. The collective hasn’t yet awakened to the true Venus, so she perpetually stands out as a free individual who no longer shames herself or keeps herself back and down. It is the Venus in us who leads the charge toward full power for each and all. She has no limit to her feelings for the sisterhood of souls, and so she walks on ahead and invites a similar advance in those with eyes to see.

Earth Resurgent and the Asteroid Belt as a Co-Presence

In every chart, directly opposite the Sun is the Earth, which we call Earth Resurgent, also known as Earth Under. Together with the four main asteroids, the Earth influence is a stopping point, a barrier, one that we have to work out for ourselves in order to move through copresencing into the next point in the twelvefold pattern.

When we first find our Sun to be the very best of who we truly are, we are usually burdened by the judgment that we have turned against our solar potential too many times, so we stand self-accused. The Earth holds us under until we can become Earth Resurgent by walking steadily onward.

We are tempered here by casting a shadow over our own intentions and capacities. The one in us who doubts that we can ever get it together and move beyond the limitations of the past hides behind the shadow of Earth. Yet for those of us who pass this test, the Earth influence turns around and becomes Earth Resurgent. This will reveal itself as becoming fully willing to bear the responsibility for our own awareness, our own paths, even dedicating ourselves to freeing these up, wherever this takes us. We are seeking here to be congruent. Then we can use our mind for better purposes than shutting the self down endlessly.

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There are also many asteroids to work through. We will list here the four main asteroids and depict an especially pivotal aspect of their journey.

Vesta

In its critical-mind phase, it is Vesta’s huge conviction that we need to hole up in specially constructed, optimally put-together containers and structural hiding places. These are especially keyed to verbally defending ourselves and systematically keeping the self inside for waiting and long-term purposes. In its self-liberating cycle, Vesta discovers that the very best way to keep oneself intact and our world safe and sound is to remain life-affirmative and crystal-clear in our vibrational field. All we have to do is amplify that within us which knows how to be here and let go of all false buffers and intangible negatives.

Juno

The critical-mind aspect of Juno fiercely and stalwartly helps us keep our wits about us, our razor-sharp intellect at the ready. We learn to be prepared for all eventualities, for we don’t want to show up in conditions that invite more personal melodramas. Its self-liberation aspect generates a great awakening to the collective need for us to give of our skills and services in a dimension stretching beyond mechanized rationalisms. We come back to life and evolve in just the way the whole system requires.

Ceres

The critical-mind aspect of Ceres takes on the belief systems of the overriding program that keeps humanity in chains. We take it as a necessity to keep all conditions strong, clear, and unbudgeable. This is where we fall for the program big-time. The self-liberation aspect wakes us up to what it means to be so staunch and deluded. We’ve been in the paradigm-shifting dimensions, and we cut loose from every way of perpetuating what we can no longer buy into at any level.

Pallas

The critical-mind aspect of Pallas sets us up against the world around us and asserts the primacy of our own assumptions, beliefs, and expectations. We want to be considered independent, autonomous, and exempt from what everybody else is going through. The self-liberation aspect cuts through our separative egoic mindset with insights and revelations that make it possible to provide a radical alternative to the false world system. We are no longer under the sway of lies and deceptions.

Jupiter as Opening Spark

The Jupiter degree gives each one of us an open sesame to becoming responsive to what is arising in the expanding fields of the shared life. We can be aware of the part that we play in the dance, and we can enhance it by seeing what’s happening for what it is. We open wide the inner gates, walk through hand-in-hand with our twins, our beloveds, all who are going our way.

Consciousness dreams us up to be in a liberating stream. It is a progressive, evolutionary vista. We come to this when we have cast off the chains of surface mentality and built bridges that connect with multiple realms. It is such an amazing level of engagement. Once we can