Good afternoon Cosmic Confidential Diary readers!
Today’s investigation into the archives has been a bit more thwarted than most, but I think I finally found an old post with a bit of timeliness. Part of the mission of Planet Waves/Cosmic Confidential is to teach astrology rather than simply make mystic pronouncements from on high. We really value a hands-on, centered-in-the-body, aware-of-nature approach (Len Wallick, over on the Planet Waves blog, has been doing a fine job of getting us to look at the skies and embody the planets).
Given that the Sun is currently in Virgo (an earth sign), tomorrow is the New Moon in the same, and we’re coming up on the Libra equinox (an important marker in our yearly cycle, as we change seasons), I thought this old article on learning astrology through Earth-centered practices would be a good choice for today. It’s from Astrology Secrets revealed. Eric writes toward the end of the piece:
Building a direct relationship with the Earth and its elements, and living astrology through ritual and experience of aspects, makes it a lot easier to experience ‘symbols’ as intelligent entities who provide the actual source of information or, at least, grounding, when we are working on a chart or reading a spread. It takes astrology out of the abstract and helps us to live and breathe it as a natural and fully integrated part of life. This includes experiencing and marking in time the passage of the seasons, the high sabbats at the Cross Quarter days, and the phases of the Moon.
In a time when we live more and more of our lives ‘virtually,’ it can take extra effort to get back in to sync with natural rhythms — from the long-term cycles of seasons to the shorter cycles of tides and sunrise/sunset. But from what this investigator can tell, the sense of grounding and connection are well worth it; and we can start simply.
