This morning there was an interesting New Moon at 28 degrees of Capricorn, accompanied by a stellium of personal planets. The Moon moves fairly quickly but this is where it was around 11amNZT when I started to write.
This chart shows Mars, Mercury, Sun, Moon and Venus in consecutive degrees and Pluto sitting at 3 Aquarius. One by one these personal planets will conjunct Pluto over the next 10 days until they look like this on Jan 29th.
The intensity building up in the geo-political space cannot be understated and will continue to be reflected over the next couple of months.
For example….
I read this morning that the ‘official’ Iranian count of fatalities from last weeks street protests is over 3300 and the unofficial estimation is at around 12000 with injured well above. ( update - 4500 confirmed and 9000 under review on 22 Jan https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884071 )
The dystopian tragicomic news coming out of the USA is not something I am going to comment on here but I’m not giving out any medals for not knowing what’s going on over there because it’s ‘stressful’. I can imagine that the living reality is a nightmare.
Now is a great time to stay in Oceania.
So how to do we open the portal for Expansive Openings for the Heart and Mind in the midst of this? Do we dare? Is it uncaring to do this? Or is it a question of focusing on the world we want to inhabit so we can put our precious attention on what we want to expand?
Can we hold the many who are suffering in our hearts while we do this?
This is my intention today. Breathe In, Hold, Breath Out, Hold and repeat.
SO… Welcome to a piece of writing by a Human.
We are awash, the rules are confusing. The structures are dissolving as an era of fluid and free flowing boundaries is ending. One small example of this is the recent change in rules around dual NZ/UK passport holders no longer being able to enter the UK on their NZ passports. (They will now need to pay over $1300NZD to get a blahblah .... ) https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/news/united-kingdom-information-for-dual-nationals
Not to mention the possibility of various northern regions of the World Map changing colour this year. How’s that Greenland ‘situation’ as an example of blurred borders and changing boundaries? ( shudder ). Greenland is an island surrounded by sea. Saturn is a structure presently floating in the last degrees of oceanic Pisces. Neptune brings illusion, confusion and chaos and ingresses from Pisces into the fiery combative Aries on January 29th. Neptune and Saturn conjunct at 0 degrees of Aries on February 21st NZT.
This is not a good time to look away.
Here’s an example of something truly weird....
During the Lockdowns I used to watch the YouTube channel of Astrologer, Bracha Goldsmith, a nice middle-aged English lady living in Greece. She was interesting because she painted colourful splotchy paintings each week that were inspired by the transits, and then she would improvise earnest melodies on an electric piano. She did ‘Lives’ with the famous and much loved Pam Gregory. She was borderline Woo for me, but there was something so authentic about her voice, her enthusiasm and her zest for life that I found her good company anyway. She reminded me of my singing teacher from Intermediate School who would spit well into the 12th row while leading the choir at assembly. It was a bit gross but I did love the choir.
Bracha left her regular Youtube channel due to an illness several years ago. So I was surprised to see several new videos appear last week. I eagerly headed over to find several new videos of her speaking about the up-coming 2026 transits. But there was ...something.... amiss, the paintings were there, the childlike chart drawing on the easel beside her, but she wasn’t moving much and .... just something about her facial expressions wasn’t quite as spontaneous....
You guessed it, she’s been cloned. There is another account running an AI version of this unique human. They have scrubbed and absorbed her content and are now releasing dozens of Astrology videos using her ideas and approaches. It’s unclear if Bracha has given permission for this, and perhaps for some people it’s all good if it ‘lands’, but it’s made me really think about...
Growing and changing.
Surrender
Humility / humiliation.
Working with ego / projection / responsibility
Desire / touch
Hunger
Making do with what we have
Mistakes
Shedding and purging addictions
Rising above obstacles
Deep listening to what is really being said and reflecting
Honesty even when it’s unpopular
Being OK with not be ‘liked’ by everyone
Self honesty
Sharing food and music
Walking in the mud, in the rain
Swimming in fresh water
Singing because it feels good
Teaching others to do something we’re good at
Seeing the potential in our students, in the youth around us
Learning when our peak time has passed and there are younger people to take it from here
Ceremonies and ritual
Learning to play music
Getting over our fear of being seen and heard
Making mistakes and keeping on going
Resilience
Getting up and trying again
Sitting around a fire
Listening to the crackle of the flames and the smell of the melting sap
Eating too fast and trying to learn to slow down and chew
Spontaneous tears when someone else does something hard for the first time
Admiring other people
Learning not to put them on a pedestal
Learning a new instrument, knowing it takes years and you will never master it
Keeping on with your original instrument knowing it has taken years and you have not mastered it
Playing anyway
Playing when happy
Playing when bored
Feeling gratitude for having a body, for having two hands, or one ...
Getting old and falling apart like your grandparents / parents did
Feeling empathy for other people, far across the world, who are being oppressed and abused even though you can’t do anything about it
Having an opinion and defending it
Changing your opinion after listening to other people defending their opinions
Being in Love
Losing in love
Loving another
Knowing when a friendship has completed
Conscious completion / uncoupling
Receiving massage and healing
Believing that healing is possible
Miracles and synchronicity
Breathing into anxiety and fear
Nightmares and dreams
Waking up still sleepy and lying still for a while
feeling
feeling
feeling
listening
breathing
You can hear me reading this ‘poem’ along with some improvised acoustic guitar on the accompanying audio podcast at the top of this post.Thank you for reading and listening. I appreciate your support so very much. Comments, likes and all the things in all the ways are the main energy exchange I receive for this work. My precious paid subscribers are each one a gem x x x My books are now open for readings and I have several workshops coming up in February.
Study Group February - Outer Planet Combinations
Online and in person - 4x Wednesday evenings 7-8:30NZT
February 6-8. Shipwrecked Festival - Waitangi weekend
Monday February 23rd. 7-8:30 pm. Button Factory - Auckland Central.
March 20-22. Resonance Festival. South Head. Kaipara.
March 26-29th. Morph Festival. Kumeu Showgrounds.
I’ll leave you with this ‘stop time’ video written, recorded, shot and edited on a roadie with Yvan Calvignac in the Gorges de l’Ardèche in France in 2013. We were being human and we thought it would be fun to play each others instruments instead of our own :) so I am playing violin, Yvan is singing, and the looper is looping something so obscure I can’t even remember how we made the loop.
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