Scorpio – Contemplating finances & resources: Asking What Sustains & Stabilizes Us?
In our last week of Scorpio – Sagittarius Sun begins Friday, November 21 – writing about astrology, finances and money. Traditional money structures, what we have relied on, that were traditionally safe, may shift due to Uranus in Taurus. When looking at finances, think outside the box, not just relying on traditional ways of investing one’s money. Uranus in Taurus – Taurus wants safety, traditional. But with Uranus in Taurus – Uranus calls for innovation, radical new thinking. Not easy but it’s good to consider this. Now we know. And we are to continue to educate ourselves. Balancing risk with safety.
Being practical. Crypto (some call it klepto currency, collateralizing money, stealing funds, tech control, etc.) is not tangible. In these times, it’s most important to invest in tangibles. Something in form and matter. Land, greenhouse, animals, farms, tractors for farming, seeds, building communities together, etc.). Electric cars are not practical.
Using our esoteric knowledge, we know there will be land shifts, geological events where we may not have power. Preparing for major shifts. We are in a deteriorating phase of livingness (before a new creation, the old creation falls away), in between two Ages (Pisces/Aquarius) and in the Kali Yuga (darkness expanding, ignorance, violence, etc., all around). And so, we need practical considerations, practical ways of seeing and doing now. If buying precious metals, silver is best – silver thread, silver cord, etc., money is energy). However, we can’t eat precious metals. Growing food is the truest currency now and later. Our first question must be, as the world shifts and changes, “What will sustain us?”
And then to consider, “What will stabilize us?” The door to stability is the heart. When we consciously dwell in the heart (a lotus with its 12 petals – will/sacrifice, love, wisdom and intelligence petals), we are led from our heart to the heart of everything and everyone. Everything in heaven and on earth is connected by heart threads of kindness, love and cordiality. When we are connected, heart to heart, joy and helpfulness result. The light of the heart knows no boundaries. It is where we are able to remain calm, peaceful, stable and connected.
The heart also knows gratitude – the theme of Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 27). Note: due to the 7 planets retrograde, Thanksgiving may be a bit different this year. More about that next week (maybe). ‘Til then, to all my readers – my heart to your heart! Love, Risa
ARIES: With seven lights in the heavens retrograde, it’s possible you will review many things from the past that affect you deeply – a person, resource, marriage, an intimacy, a friend. Observe, feel and review this loss and then turn it around towards gratitude. Make it a gift, a power received, something of great value to you. Review present desires and aspirations. Learn the difference between the two. Ask everyone what they value in you. You learn new realities about yourself.
TAURUS: You will see the need to ponder upon new, very different, more kind and inclusive ways of communicating. You will realize that you must listen now with curiosity, asking penetrating questions (instead of solving problems) when others speak. With deep listening, great insights occur for both speaker and listener. Search for ways also to have more trust. Then you can reveal the sterling truths about yourself without fear of retaliation. Transparency purifies the emotional body.
GEMINI: Care for your health in all ways, from morning ‘til night. Make this your priority. Begin by being in the sun and fresh air morning and evening. Then continue with morning exercise before breaking the night’s fast. Move onto green smoothies (almond milk, kale, lemon, beets, parsley, apple, pear, spirulina). Make cilantro pesto. Eat an avocado a day. Something, both dissolving and refining, occurs within. Seek to understand a partner’s sorrows. Listen and observe. Maintain quiet. Pray.
CANCER: You consider what in the past brought you joy, what helped you be creative, and what you used to be enthusiastic (filled with God) about. You will see how you’ve become more than you thought you would be. Non-verbal ways of expressing yourself seem more appropriate now. Spend most time in gardens, museums, places with art, creativity and beauty. Explore all of nature. Explore what it means to be your natural self.
LEO: You may see family and friends from the past, perhaps from childhood. Family may seek to include you in celebrations, attempting to relive their past and offering traditions, which you have set aside. You remember younger years, when you were free and wandering, when the light you lived under came only from the sky, sun and stars. You sense impressions from the past seeking new interpretations. Plant blue morning glories inside the home and outside, too.
VIRGO: Over and over, the same thoughts and ideas circulate through your mind. You want to discover all aspects of a puzzle, attempting to put all the pieces together. Thoughts come to mind but there’s an inability to articulate many of them. In this unusual retrograde silence, your eyes see more than ever before. It’s as if your senses shifted. As one sings, the other doesn’t. Seek to understand everyone’s truths. Let them stand equally with your truths. There is nothing higher than the truth.
LIBRA: When you look around at your living, working and garden environments, you realize you’ve come to love and appreciate and value all of them. Each offers a specific orderliness that you need. They calm and soothe your spirit and provide your life with a daily purpose and context. They relieve anxiety, provide stability. You realize these have been within you all along, since birth. This ability to see reality and your own strength and beauty has occurred within. Have gratitude for the past. It built your present/future. You have been loved all along.
SCORPIO: Over the next several weeks and a bit beyond you assess your self-image and ways of thinking and feeling. The reality is not what others think of you but what you think of and truly recognize as yourself. And then you begin to create a new image. No longer an outer persona, but one more in depth is presented to the world. You no longer need to veil, arm or protect a self-image that’s no longer real. You become more and more authentic. There’s nothing to lose, nothing to gain. You’re the Buddha on the road, collecting sadness and sorrows of those you encounter, placing them in your sack.
SAGITTARIUS: Sorrows and sadness from the past seek to be replaced with a new state of joy and gladness. All thoughts begin to be clothed in the light of compassion. There’s no longer the question of why. There’s only the feeling of goodness, that life’s precious and beautiful and paradox is acceptable. You will walk to a door in the next several weeks. You will open that door and then shut it behind you. You will see a mountain with an ascending light. You glimpse scenes from your life ahead. Have good sturdy shoes. It’s the Path to the snowy mountains hiding the land of Shamballa.
CAPRICORN: This retrograde time has quite an intense storyline. You have accomplished much in the retrograde and it is continuing. Within events that have come to a close, be aware of new insights, understandings and revelations appearing subtly. All previous experiences, especially sadness, coalesce into new states of knowledge. An old friend makes contact; strange twists and turns of relationships begin to ease. Defeat becomes triumph. Speak your mind with truth about your experiences. Someone cries. You comfort them. Others adapt to you. Frustration turns to opportunity. Art finally calls.
AQUARIUS: You don’t allow any glamorous nonsense to be in your life and environments. You only want practicality. Because everything seems to be changing every moment. This will continue. You will seek stability wherever you find it. New revelations occur. New thinking. You are inventive. Use all of these in your work then present them to the world. Allow others to respond (or not). You seek collaboration. You know your path. It’s always the surprising, unusual view. Community calls. You create it.
PISCES: Up ‘til now you’ve had hopes, dreams and wishes of what you want in your future. All of these you wish to share with others. These may change in the coming months. You will accept where you are and the situations you’re in. An old dilemma becomes a great Truth. A philosophy is differently interpreted, and you cherish it like a golden apple, a golden iChing coin. Old friends drop away seeking a different path. Your work expands. You build within the crystal square. A triangle of a village appears complete with trees.
Risa – writer, editor, educator, teacher, psychological-spiritual counselor, mentor, astrologer & esotericist, home chef. Founder & Director of The Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute/College, a contemporary Wisdom School (center for spiritual discourse & study) for the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Foundations of the Teachings are the study & application of exoteric & esoteric Astrology, the Seven Rays, Theosophy, Esotericism, all religions, art, science & Raja Yoga meditation. risagoodwill@gmail.com nightlightnews.org