Early one morning walking into Home Depot I saw rows and rows of orange lumber carts stacked two deep on the sidewalk. At this time of day those carts are taken by local tradespeople. The image of those carts is still with me six months later. Trickle down economics. It was a standstill moment for me.
When the housing market slows to a stop, contractors don’t need to go to Home Depot for building supplies. Inventory rises. No building, no orders, no jobs. Read any Craig’s list to see good quality tradespeople looking for any type of work. This has been going on for months, is it happening in the rest of the country? I don’t know.
Florida is in a recession. BailOut or not, Floridians already feel the pain. After reading this article on trust in the New York Times When Trust Vanishes, Worry I wanted to share from my life experience.
The Market, the Dow Jones, S&P has been part of my day-to-day life since childhood. Events going on seem so complicated, but it’s really simple. How much do I trust myself and the sacred other [Libra] to make the right choices. Faith, hope and trust that translates to self esteem and self worth issues on a global level.
How can they expect to hammer out a deal in the middle of a Mercury retrograde? It leaves me scratching my head and wondering. As a stock broker’s daughter, sister of a financial planner, wife of a sales executive in the financial services business I know The Market goes up and it always goes down.
My father lost his shirt in a 1969 market correction and for two decades I watched him struggle. It’s hard to see a loved one come home from work on one of the worst days of trading to hit the financial markets. It happened on Black Monday in 1987, again in 2000, and then again last week. During the Reagan era we saw trickle down economics, S&L banks failed [banks, yes I said banks!!], corporations like AT&T deemed a monopoly then broken up by regulators into little Bells (BellSouth).
Today AT&T now is merged with BellSouth again, banks are failing again. Cycles.
Astrology helps me understand where I am in the various cycles, personally and collectively. SoulCollage is helps me work with the cycle’s energy in a proactive way, rather than reacting, to be in the world not of it. Cycles spiral in four stages- a time of hope, a time of growth, a time of completion and a time of standstill.
How do you deal with those standstill moments in your own life? Pluto entering Capricorn is forcing us to deal with the death of the old structures. That means change. It’s a time when the shadow wants to be acknowledged; so Pluto delightfully stirs the pot so the Shadow can be seen. Too often we discount the richest part of the journey...the death of the old ways, the death of the old self. The moments of stand still. We may procrastinate, stick our heads in the sand, yell at another person, trying to keep things the same. We may project these unconscious fears onto another. This type of resistance doesn’t work, and eventually we get on the bus. That is what I see unfolding now.
Chaos and how to deal with it: With so much talk of greed and ’fat cat’s’, them versus me attitudes; I am wondering about yours, mine and our shadow issues relating to money. What are my values as a person and how do I label others as greedy? How am I greedy? How does this money relationship advance or negate my Spirit self. We are entering a time of spiritual economics and this current drama is calling each of us to task.
When one is in fear (contraction) around money, you project that unconscious fear onto the other person, be it in marriage, business and Presidential candidate. This fear is like a hot potato no one wants to hold onto for very long. If you have the same issue/vibration you are in a shadow dance with the other person [be it spouse, media spokesman, politician].
Wall Street versus Main Street then takes on a whole new meaning.
Where is Pluto in Capricorn in your chart? Pluto transforms us from the outside in. Outside events shake us up. Pluto’s been traveling through Sagittarius since 1995 and moved into the sign Capricorn earlier this year. Pluto is in the sign Capricorn for the first time since the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary war was some change.
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy decade!
Pluto as a change agent is known as the Destroyer, he renders the old ways, takes out the garbage that no longer works in your life...even though you are kicking and screaming about it. He just doesn’t care. Hey look we all survived Pluto in Scorpio, then Pluto in Sagittarius. You're older and wiser. When I hear doom and gloom I gently remind myself-no one knows exactly what this next Pluto cycle will reveal.
It is a time to watch my own shadow dance, and observe how others are reacting [seeing the truth of their shadow issues] with a dose of faith, hope and trust.
The Capricorn area of our life path, the area in the birth chart where Pluto is moving into, is about to undergo deep transformation. Rock and roll. Transpersonal in nature, it's both personal and global. In the beginning it may feel like life and death, but then the energy all evens out. Just get ready.
Capricorn is an action energy, so it’s not 'a sit around and do nothing" experience. Saturn in Virgo (Earth) since last fall, has been turning the ground, making it ready for Pluto in Capricorn (Earth). We are in the season of harvest, this month you’ll see new insights into how you relate to others; your issues with money, social security, the structure that is in place. Father issues. That laundry list deals with Capricorn issues, 1st chakra, earth, survival skills. How the standstill is hindering or empowering you!
Where is Taurus in your chart? Taurus asks you to value yourself, shadow issues, warts and all. Remember way back to May of 2000 Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted in the sign of Taurus starting a new 20 year business cycle. Taurus represents your relationship to money, law of attraction (Venus). Saturn contracts, Jupiter expands. Saturn and Jupiter’s meet-up started a 20 year cycle in which we collectively come to a new understanding about what has heart and meaning for us. Greed and hoarding is one of the sins of Taurus. Now is the time to understand your Taurus energy, because that shadow self is lurking, wanting to share her gifts. Here is a post to help you understand the Taurus energies.
So where are you at in this standstill moment?
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