Rejoining Astrological Journeying/Journaling

I took time out for 5 years busy doing other things (and having some major transits! Mostly Pluto/Ascendant but that’s for another post) but now we are in the grip of a global pandemic, Covid-19 I want to research and journal how astrology might inform how we got here and how we will get through it. 2020 was predicted to be a big year of change for the world, by many astrologers, though very few saw a pandemic on the horizon. I saw that some suggested the whole world would be disrupted by the internet, perhaps computer VIRUSES or issues with cryptocurrency but there are repeating patterns in 2020 that echo the astrology during other pandemics, the Russian flu, Spanish Flu, the black death, SARS, AIDS. We are in the grip of a conjunction between Pluto and Jupiter but also Saturn and Mars has made contacts this year and will remain in one sign for 6 months, which is unusual (normally it transits a sign for around 6 weeks). There are some fascinating astrological events linked to major events on earth, such as at one point in April 4.5 billion people on the planet were on a stay at home order, confined to their homes. This is the start of astrological journaling about coronavirus, covid-19, 2020 and beyond.

What has drawn me back to this astrological public blog today? I see that the New Moon is in Virgo, opposite my Pisces Sun. Priya Kale says of this New Moon:
“With the New Moon in Virgo: Get organised, introduce healthier habits, and check-in with your life, work, and daily routines. You needn’t reinvent the wheel, but take stock of the goals you’ve outgrown and those you are working towards, then you can make necessary adjustments. There’s a sense of effortlessness here. The kind when you’re so absorbed in a task that hours go by and it feels like seconds. But what you feed will grow – whether that’s fear, worry, and resentment; or your efforts towards healing. With awareness, you can direct the energy constructively and consciously to make tangible, solid progress over the next two weeks towards something that has long been a life-goal. Virgo is the sign opposite Pisces on the zodiac wheel. If Pisces (water sign) represents cosmic consciousness, spirituality, and divinity, Virgo is a manifestation of this divinity in earthly form. It speaks of selfless service and a divine plan. Virgo can often strive for perfection, but the key is to remember there is no such thing. The Universe is in a state of continuous expansion, there’s always room for improvement, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. This is the school of life, we live, we learn, we learn to forgive ourselves and others, and that’s how we grow.”

So now to learn about the astrology of late 2019, 2020 and beyond and how we find ourselves in a new reality faced by the whole of the world and humanity. I have heard it called “The Great Reset”

Mars in Virgo Opposite Neptune in Pisces

Neptune is still retrograding in Pisces and for the past few days and until tomorrow, it is opposite Mars in Virgo. This transit will be felt most by anyone with planets, angles or nodes between 4 and 8 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces (the mutable signs). This transit it currently exactly trining my Neptune/Jupiter conjunction in the 10th house of careers. At the same time, Saturn is exactly conjunct that Neptune/Jupiter. I’m working hard and learning a lot.

For the past few days and especially today, I am actively chasing a dream. Formation of a new company and new income, something I have wanted to do for the past few years, but I couldn’t see how to before. So far the new business has been under the radar, but I hope to go public with it THIS WEEK. I now have a vision of the future (Neptune in Pisces) and I’ve been fastidiously correcting all the details (Mars in Virgo). Will my idealism be elevated by an active square from Mars, or will I be disappointed? I’m taking a leap of faith on what feels right in my gut to pursue a dream (I am after all, a Piscean!) I wasn’t sure if this was the right way forward, until I received a call out of the blue (Neptune!) today asking to join my endeavour. Its the clue I needed to carry on.

Listen out for clues and messages in dreams, rumours, whispers on the breeze and follow your heart. The devil is in the details (Mars in Virgo), so try not to get obsessively bogged down in those whilst you hold onto your vision. Neptune can deceive though, so be sure of your sources and intentions and know your enemies. Don’t ignore your gut instincts. The energy seems to be picking up today so use it wisely.

Does the future already exist ? Einstein’s classical theory and quantum physics

I have just been watching a program by the excellent Professor Brian Cox – Horizon (2008-2009: 4) Do You Know What Time It Is? In it, he attempts to work out what time it is now and whether time has always existed now, in the past and in the future.

Maybe there is something here that can go someway towards explaining how astrology works? The program talks about Einstein’s famous theory of time. As Professor Brian explains:

“According to Einstein, the past, present and future, all exist”. He goes on to explain that time is on a continuum (a bit like in Back to the Future!?) “all of space and all of time are there and your life would be there too, like a line, or a piece of string, a route through space time. So on this line, you’re birth would be here, your death would be there and there’s your life. So at face value, time doesn’t pass, there’s no such thing as the passing of time, there’s just a line, a path through space time, that you took. According to Einstein, my birth, my first day at school, my graduation, all these events still exist in space time. A week next Tuesday, my 70th birthday, even my death, all these future moments in time, already exist.”

Professor Brian Cox explains that Einstein saw time as a dimension where the future is already mapped out and we simply career headlong into it. This is what is known as a classical theory, but one which ignores modern Quantum Physics, which sees the world as one of probabilities where nothing is predetermined. The challenge of current physicists is to get Einstein’s classical theory to work with the edicts of quantum physics.

In terms of astrology, I can only agree with Einstein that the future is already mapped out and events already exist. But there is an element of free will (most astrologers will point this out) in how we react and act to planetary influences on us, which therefore introduces probability. In terms of astrology, outcomes can be seen as two sides of the same coin. What can be determined though, is that something will occur in the realm of the planet aspected, or the house ruled by that planet.

The latest theory of time, as explained by Dr Fay Dowker, is that space time is not a smooth structure, but ‘grainy’ and made up of individual events. The theory states that the future isn’t set in stone, but that every event is a time grain and the future grows out of the past from these grains of time. A grainy reality could therefore come into being and grow and that growth itself could be the passage of time. “The future isn’t set in stone, it grows out of the past.”

This is the best explanation yet, I have heard to go someway towards explaining how astrology can exist. That the event I predicted would happen on the eclipse of 11th September 2007 would in fact come true and that it could not have happened, had a past event not occurred on the timeline of my life..when my then friend, the Leo turned to me on the eclipse of August 22nd 1998 and said those words, “you’re beautiful”. And present events, when we married on July 10th, aptly, in the shadow of an eclipse, grew out of those past events.

Its extraordinary that I found this program, now, just as I have decided to start writing this blog to try and understand and find an explanation of how events in space seem to have observed personal effects on my life. Professor Brian Cox often says that he regards astrology as “woo woo” and yet he concludes the program by asking “Do we create our own future, or is it already written?”. Indeed ! I await the answer Brian…

Astrological Journeying/Journaling

This is my attempt at recording, understanding and making sense of the link between astronomical events and how they relate to life on earth. My life. And that of those nearest to me.

My intention is to try and record some of the things I observe happening during major planetary events. I will also try and record any predictions for coming events and see if any do occur as predicted. In doing so I seek to see if there is some truth in astrology. I will also cover anything astrological that is of interest.