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Energy Astrology: December Column

Lassoing the Stars for a Better Life

By Cyndi Dale

The Year Closes.

What Are You Opening?

We all look to the stars for dreams. The metaphor of searching the skies for insight and hope is beautiful ­ but faulty. December presents the paradox of astrology. You can search the heavens for truth, but ultimately, you have to close your eyes to find it.

This month, two major planets stop pushing us backward and finally get behind us. Mars and Mercury, planets in charge of movement and communication respectively, shift from reactive to proactive, tossing us forward. Where are we heading? Pin your ticket on December 15^th, when the Sun meets with Pluto at 24 degrees Sagittarius. Many scientists and astrologists believe that the center of the solar system is found at 26 degrees Sagittarius. On December 15^th, the curtains of the physical universe part, and we’re invited into the center of the spiritual universe. We’re welcomed into our own deepest selves.

Imagine finding yourself in the middle of the universe, all the angels and stars circled around you, ready to support you. What would you do? What goals would you set? What kind of person would you want to become? December welcomes these questions ­ and encourages the answers.

The Spiritual Backdrop

In Energy Astrology, we acknowledge the impact of heavenly events on our daily lives. We also look underneath the obvious for the spiritual truth that is shaping and forming the constellations. In December, we’re summoned to the altar of Truth.

Truth isn’t as easy to understand as we might think. It has more shades and gradients than a concept like Honesty. When we’re honest, we tell the facts and details as completely as possible. Telling the “whole truth and nothing but the truth” doesn’t always add to Truth. You can admit to doing a wrong, but might not be responsible for the conditions that “forced” you to act inappropriately. You might insist that you did nothing wrong, but if you didn’t stop an obvious abuse, you are an accomplice. We all remember being kids and being asked to tell the truth. We knew if we were honest and guilty, we’d be punished. Sometimes if we were honest and not guilty, we might get punished anyway! Our sense of truth is often distorted by the time we reach adulthood. 

Recently my oldest son went through a difficult choice. He and his football team had just lost a major game to another school. Representatives of the other team showed up at a party in my son’s school district. Full of teenage chutzpah, my son’s team chased off the other team, damaging a student’s car in the process. When the school officials tried to figure out the guilty party, no one stepped forward. When the school officials pinned the wrong guy, my son stepped forward.

He was the only one of the guilty party to admit guilt. By coming forward with his actions, he was being Honest. However, he refused to “rat” on his friends. No, he wasn’t being Honest, but in refraining from telling all the tales, he was being Truthful. He knew that he was only responsible for his own behavior. He knew that it was right to pay his own penalty and to save an innocent party from the same, but it wasn’t truthful to expose someone else.

It’s actually very difficult to get to the truth of a matter or to live in Truth, because we all hold different perspectives and values. We know reality through the lens of our own perceptions. What is true for ourselves might not be true to someone else, what is true to a number of people isn’t necessarily true to a single person, what is true to a country might not be true in the Greater Reality. It’s hard to figure out what’s True in the world, much less what’s true about ourselves.

I am learning that living in Truth is a blend of coordinating many, many factors, such as being compassionate and empathetic, being forgiving, accepting imperfection, refusing to indulge in shame, accepting mistakes, and honoring differences. While I can’t impose my values and truths on other people, I do need to figure out if I can successfully live my values and truths in relationship with each individual. When I make a mistake and hurt someone, I’m trying to own the Truth but refrain from drama. I try and do the same when someone else “hurts” me. Just because someone makes a mistake doesn’t mean that he or she is responsible for the other person’s reactions. Most of us overreact, personalizing others’ words and behaviors when they aren’t personal. If we could stay out of shame, we could love each other with compassion instead of judgment. We could stop seeking revenge and try initiating understanding. We could stop being hurt and start healing. We could accept others’ mistakes and feel better about using Truth to admit our own.

December initiates us into the deepest level of Truth. On December 15^th, we are energetically welcomed into the center circle of the universe. In this place, we’re asked to look the mirrors of our own eyes and see ourselves in Truth. Most of us avoid this, as I have during most of my life, because we don’t want to see the badness that we’re sure lies within. Other people are all-too eager to point out our faults, aren’t they? We internalize these judgments, make our own, and bury the ensuing self-hatred in the darkest corner of our heart. When we gaze at ourselves in Truth, often the first self to step forward is the most wounded, worthless-feeling self. Our primary response is either to blame others for the damage or to shame ourselves for having been too vulnerable. What if we could stand in the middle of the universe and see underneath this exposed and scared self? What if we could see our own spirits, and allow a greater Truth to reveal our inner beauty, resilience, and gifts? What if…

Astronomical Energies: Jumping Center Stage

Here are three excellent events that promise to make December an excellent month.

1. Mercury goes out of retrograde on December 3^rd. We’ve all been a little stymied and stopped by the backward and wayward communication that occurs when Mercury takes a vacation. On any given day, my computer would work ­ or not work. My Internet server would accommodate my desires ­ or those of the genius jinn, who had their own ideas of fun. I finally gave up on nagging people to meet my deadlines and instead decided to help them meet theirs. As Mercury moves forward, you’ll probably experience expansion in the fifth chakra, the energy center that regulates psychic and sensory communication. You might suddenly be provided the guidance or insight you’ve needed. Words lost in your head might pop into your mind. Speak your Truth while acknowledging others’ Truths, and you can permanently move into a place of greater wisdom and power.
2. Mars slams forward on December 9^th. Mars, the planet of movement and a certain amount of mayhem, forces forward again, catapulting your first chakra into high gear. Your first chakra manages life’s most basic needs, such as physical health, sexuality, money, and sustenance. If you’ve been experiencing lack of any form, you’ll most likely feel empowered to make a difference in your own life. Hopefully you spent some time in self-reflection in November, owning responsibility for your own needs and problems. Acceptance of your own patterns and habits can now unearth a deeper Truth, that of personal power and brilliance. You can do it ­ whatever it is!
3. The Sun meets with Pluto in conjunction on December 15 at 24 degrees Sagittarius. The Sun represents the core of our true selves. Its beams penetrate into our innermost being, lighting up the dark and the light aspects of ourselves. It’s always tempting to analyze the good and the bad of someone else. Truth insists that we concentrate on ourselves, rather than on others.

To reflect with courage, we’re provided the assistance of Pluto. Pluto is

the planet of transformation. We relate to it through the eighth chakra, an energy center atop the head. Herein lies your shaman self, the priest-healer able to interconnect and mediate all dimensions, worlds, and spacetime zones. Your shaman self is able to convert dark to light and bad to good. Look really Truthfully into yourself, even at the parts of yourself that you might judge as weak, sinful, or hurt beyond salvation. Within the so-called acceptable and unacceptable parts of you lies the same self. The Christ child. We are all infused with the Truth of Christ, no matter our spirituality, religion, or beliefs. Underneath, we are all children who need Love to know our true place in the universe. And we are all loved and lovable.

      Sagittarius is a scholarly sign. It rules your values and attitudes. December 15^th asks this crucial and life-changing question. How are you going to value yourself? What is the Truth about you? Can you see and accept yourself as a true Christ, a specially blessed and loved child of God? Can you see and accept ALL parts of yourself through this Truth? Don’t get caught up in mistakes made by you or others, in what you perceive as damage. By accepting your true nature, everything unlike it automatically heals. Errors transform into lessons learned, wounds into channels of compassion, destructive behaviors into new goals. As Jesus said, “The Truth shall set you free.”

Lassoing These Energies for Your Life

      There’s a simple exercise that might help you benefit from the truth of Truth and emerge with renewed purpose by the end of December. Picture yourself standing in the middle of a hall of mirrors. Each mirror reflects a different part of you. There is the skinny self, there’s the fat self. There’s the beautiful self, and over there, the unfortunate ugly self. Feel your reactions to these different selves. Which ones call forth shame? Acceptance? Pride? Self-hatred? Joy? All of these separate identities are real ­ and yet they are all false. Unless they are gathered together in love, they reflect only a viewpoint of truth, not the totality of Truth.

      Now close your eyes. Ask God to gently gather each of these selves and then bring them into the center of your heart. Allow God to infuse your entire heart with love, the type of love that Christ as teacher taught the world about. Now how do you feel about yourself? Open your eyes and imagine yourself staring into the eyes of God. How does God reflect you back to yourself? Claim this knowing as true, and dismiss all others.