Dear Clarence, I thought we were through and it was over between us but your face is back on TV and you’re talking about it again. The comments you made on 60 minutes about Anita Hill just brought it all back up. I hadn’t thought about you and those dang hearings for a very long time. Well it was no coincidence that I just happened to tune in at the exact moment you slipped into your own denial to say “she’s lying.”
I fumed about it for the next 24 hours, mulling it over, wondering why. Why am I reacting? Ah it brought up my own journey with the joys of being stalked. You mirrored for me yet again how people spin their shadow back into the dark so they can’t be seen, and deny, deny, deny.
One too many men in my life wore their lies like a truth. It’s crazy making at it’s best for women. When we allow the energy in those lies negate our power, dull the senses and dumbs down our intuition. Destroys creativity. Quite frankly sir with the war, the environment in chaos and the children suffering I have had enough. I am grateful though, another layer is revealed reminding me how far I have come. I appreciate that.
From the expression on your face while driving that RV you’re having some anger issues, a good dose of therapy might be in order. Ditch the book tour, book a session with your therapist, go put your robe on and get back to work, there are problems that need solving. Yours truly, Michele
"If I am not laughing at it, then it’s not healed."
I was not laughing Sunday night. In the early eighties when I entered the business world no one did anything about sexual harassment at work. Professor Hill and I are the same age. Most of us were numb to the psychic abuse and tolerated a ’boys will be boys’ mentality that ruled the business world. Glass ceiling.
For you youngsters just watch a few episodes of AMC’s Mad Men to get the flavor that energy. On a personal level I witnessed my sister get a great internship and become a news producer at the NBC station. One day she innocently answered the apartment door and there stood her boss in his underwear ready to get it on; he harassed her for months and nothing was done. She wanted to work in her industry, get paid a fair wage and not be stalked. In the end she filed a lawsuit, went to court, the case got dismissed. They said versus she said. Dear Sis walked away from television. I have other stories but I won’t bore you with them. Who do I believe? You got it.
Libra is about the fine art of relating. Last month while clearing clutter I found this book left
over from my teenage years (that’s a 1970 baby blue eye-shadowed Cheryl Tiegs on the cover). And strange enough there aren’t any chapters that read...
When a boy is interested in you, he’ll make all sorts of unwanted advances while you play coy, but the ultimate compliment is he’ll get up from the table at which the two of you are working, go over to his desk to get a soda and ask, "Who has [put a] pubic hair on my Coke?" Now you know he’s available and interested.
What it does say- "Grown men seldom gab this way. Adult guys know they’re men. They don’t have to show it off or talk it up." This whole historic incident is so what happens when Libra and Scorpio collide.
Time to put out the welcome mat for the New Moon in Libra and Mercury retrograding in Scorpio. The keyword for this lunation is Sovereignty- a woman’s right to self-govern.
Mercury retrograde in Scorpio October 11- November 1, 2007 Just after the New Moon in Libra Mercury retrograde begins at 10 degrees of Scorpio at 9:00 pm est. We are already in it people. Two weeks prior to any Mercury retrograde the call is to become aware of what is tweaking you, that is where the learning is. It’s a time to de-clutter your toxic thoughts. This transformation of thought is what The Secret and The Law of Attraction speaks to. A Mercury retrograde offers us both a challenge and an opportunity to slow down, figure out the internal chatter- is it serving or diminishing my life plan and make the necessary changes to get back on track. For more about Mercury retrograde in Scorpio -there you’ll find a ritual to help things along.
Mercury, the alchemical change agent, asks how do I digest the information I take in? Mercury retrograde gives us a do-over period, it’s the Universe’s way to say stop the car and look at the map- am I heading in the right direction. While Mercury is retrograding our conscious mind is out to lunch and collectively we are not operating at full steam- it’s a time of "introspection and investigation." (Wickenburg, p. 123) There’s a reason why you don’t start projects or sign contracts, or start a book tour. And why it gets a bit chaotic, everyone’s unconsciously checking their road map.
New Moon October 11, 2007, 1:01 am est at 18 degrees of Libra. Read more about Libra here. In the Libra Mysteries we are called to balance even though things seem out of balance. Balance related to truth telling. A woman’s truth is hardwired into the practical and mystical, the intuitive. The seat of those intuitive powers lie within the three archetypal waters of Cancer[home/mother], Scorpio [death/rebirth] and Pisces [Spirit, the Muse].
< Here’s my SoulCollage for Libra-I am the One who Partners. First wed Self to Spirit then to the sacred other. In my own birth chart watery Neptune sits at 29 degrees of Libra in the 12th house square Uranus in Cancer at 29 degrees both retrograde. Inward before going outward.
Any of you come from a dysfunctional family? Then your truth meter is out of whack and it may be up for some re-adjustments at this new moon. Within every family children are finely attuned to the energies at play...they know what others deny. The mind and heart get conflicted, and the inner balance goes out of whack. Not good for a girl trying to "get a boy" or entering a marriage.
How do you distill truth in your body? Watch for power leaks this month and frauds being unmasked. Be prepared for your own mask to come off. We’ll see this play out in the media and with people in authority being spotlighted. How is this tweaking you? Embodying spirit invites sovereignty- the inner authority to co-create with Spirit, a holiness that recognizes truth and follows the mystery.
The Libra mysteries speak to the importance of all our relationships within and without. Libra is the seventh sign of the zodiac. It is an air sign and it is cardinal. Air signs are intellectual and social. Cardinal signs are action oriented, with Mercury retrograding action may be a bit premature. So sit a moment before you react. Libra’s energy invokes your shadow for healing; we see the illusion of someone else’s projection [shadow] and fear [ego] in relationship. Libra offers the sacred mirror. When I come from my lower nature, and the energy is blocked I find myself picking up a sword [words, actions, deeds] for self-protection.
What sword are you holding? To experience this sit quietly a moment and tell yourself a truth. Breathe into that truth and see where the energy flows and how the truth affects you. Make a note of this experience.
Now get up, move around and sit down again. Tell yourself a lie . . . where did the lie hit you? How did it affect your energy? Play with this. Begin to understand the balance of this energy and truth in your body, and how truth communicates with you.
Truth. This energy comes into the fifth chakra [throat] from the forces of the lower natures- 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th chakras. Self expression in the fifth chakra is counterpart to the sensate reception coming in through the second chakra. In the second chakra we open to allow the world in through our senses. If this journey was negotiated [as a child] with love and compassion, the second chakra speaks to the 5th and our inner self is expressed outward to the world. -Anodea Judith.
Not defended, we merge. We forgive. Our creativity soars. What messages did you get as a boy or a girl that no longer serves the Divine Self. At this new moon we greet those messages in partnership with someone else. Mercury rules our thinking mind while retrograding through Scorpio our initial programming around sexuality and creativity is coming forward for clearing/renewal. The urge to merge.
Libra’s trait’s- harmony, beauty, wisdom, truth, balance is
the etheric template formed in childhood from patterning and programming, conscious or unconscious. We bring that template into all of our relationships for healing, growth and empowerment. Marriage of the self as it relates to the other. We call the sacred other by various names- my colleague, my husband, my daughter, my father/mother, friend and lover. Who and whatever I meet reflects of my essence, it’s part of the "One and the many" Seena Frost discusses in her book SoulCollage®.
Here is Diane’s SoulCollage for Libra "I am the One who is balanced between heaven and earth, between night and day and on the edge of infinity."
It’s time to walk the razors edge, the balance of opposites with faith, hope and trust; like the Goddess of Justice [Pallas Athene] in the Tarot deck who can stand blindfolded. She depends on her intuitive inner sight to weave truth within and without; balances the polarity of light/dark, good/evil, rich/poor with compassion, wisdom and grace. The Goddess of Justice represents the Libra energies, the energy of Order and Harmony expressed at the threshold of one’s divine consciousness and one’s personality [ego]. Then again Libra also represents war.
"How can this energy be associated with war and be considered a Goddess of Order and Harmony? Because divine order, the first law of the universe, can only be achieved through destruction of that which is in disorder. . . .the ego says- don’t express your truth or inner knowing, just go along with the insanity in the name of peace. However, peace at any price is not the way of this Goddess. She is a warrior and she will not accept chaos, confusion and turmoil. She doesn’t think twice about blowing away these problems in a very positive and powerful way. When Christ said that he does not come to bring peace but a sword (right thought), he proclaimed a great truth. No one can have peace until she reaches a state of balance, a state of equilibrium, in which her spiritual process is not hindered by any physical, emotional, mental, personal or social problems."- John Price
How are you currently defended? Have picked up your own sword for protection through your words, emotions and/or thoughts? Force calls for offense. Power calls for nothing- it knows the best defense is no defense- because there is no fear of merging, no loss of self. Surrender. Trust. Love. Compassion. Hope and joy.
Carpe Diem- seize the day. People born or influenced by the Libran urge are the people that seize an opportunity. They are in the moment. A person moving through their fears, understanding their own duality and shadow can see the truth in both their inner and their outer worlds. The power to relate to others is this sign greatest concern.
Beauty, balance, harmony, equality and justice are important where Libra is in your chart. All lessons of Libra involve the realization and integration of opposites, particularly those contrasts found within personal relationships.
The primary purpose of this sign is one of sharing ideas, experiences your life-with others. The house that Libra is on in your chart is where you need to develop a healthy balance between personal goals and respect for the goals of others. Libra shows where you need relationships, which offer feedback, which, in turn, help you develop into a more objective, "other-oriented" individual. Where is Libra in your birth chart? Venus rules Libra and this lunation along with Mercury.
Cooperation is required. Compromise is necessary. Change is inevitable.
Venus rules Libra, she represents beauty and harmony, the law of attraction, ruler of the Greater Mysteries representing love and compassion. In Libra rules the love nature- of sex and passion from an ego [Aries] and a soul level [Libra]. Through the art of relating she brings the ability to both imagine and vision, to change things for the better.
Where does Venus sit in your birth chart? Where is Virgo? At the time of this New Moon Venus and Saturn are holding a meeting in the 2nd house. Edit and sort through your own issues of Self-worth and making money. Take responsibility. Remember Saturn’s there demanding change. Ground the lessons in and respond.
What do you still battle? What has been slaying you for the last 29 years that now calls for order? What is seeking balance that first appeared in the late seventies?
For more information about your chakra system and healing I suggest reading Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith. This month focus on the 5th and 2nd chakras. Our chakra system is a computer system within our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Start tracking these energies in sacred relationship- new insights are born. I walk the middle way through Libra (any sign) and "poof" your own Magician appears!
Remember to laugh loud and full from your belly because you now know
"If I am not laughing at it, then it’s not healed."
And Clarence certainly isn’t laughing.
Thanks to all who shared their SoulCollage® for the Libra energies:
One of my year end rituals is ordering an astrology calendar for the coming year. My choice is the 2008 Celestial Influences Calendar by Jim Maynard.
Every astrologer seems to have their favorite calendar. Llewellyn’s 2008 Astrological Calendar: With Horoscopes for Everyone (Calendar) and We’moon 2008 Calendar: Gaia Rhythms for Womyn also have a date books and wall calendars, but I always come back to Celestial Influences. I do buy a We’Moon Date book because I love the text, poetry and art.
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Mark your 2007 calendars because here are the Mercury Retrograde Periods for 2007:
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