View the entire article with January Astro for each sign at:  http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/January-2012/Horoscopes/

Glamor, Illusion, and Maya (the Sanskrit Maya, not the people) are serious traps for any truth seeking Soul. I truly believe it’s best to develop our “glamor dispelling mechanism” so we can see things without that world problem intruding on our perception and understanding.” www.aquariuspapers.com

So today we’re going to re-examine the nature of time, perception, and how our minds work. By understanding how these work, we can keep some things in mind as we move through experience and adapt to what is, and what’s coming.

Time is a funny thing. It is a one-way street, and is the means by which we measure movement in perceptual experience through the 3 denser dimensions. Time is also infinitely fluid, and as such has no beginning or end.

As someone recently pointed out, an odometer is a good metaphor for how we have come to measure space and time as functions of each other’s movement. Rolling ever forward, every end is followed naturally by a new beginning showing the next phase of an unending process. If the dimension of time is never-ending, then though calendars end, consciousness is forever.

Humanity, barely understanding a few of the principles of the 3 dense dimensions of human reality, usually do make stuff up to explain time and how it relates to experience. Mostly these are attempts to find metaphors to classify what hasn’t been confirmed within conventional means. I believe that’s why a lot of what is asserted these days does seem disconnected, or weaves together highly speculative assertions that require us to accept a lot on faith. The human imagination does wonderful things to cover up holes in its incomplete understanding.

While I’m big on faith when it is needed, it has no place in any serious study where thorough scholarship is needed. Devotion is good, but it’s an entirely different field of energy than Knowledge. It’s somewhat like trying to use cooked spaghetti to hammer a nail. Both are perfectly fine in their realms, but ultimately have different purposes, methods, and outcomes.

Many sites offer speculations about the current and coming transitions, and try to tie them to the Mayan calendar, the Great Pyramid timeline, the prophesies of Nostradamus or the Book of Revelations. I have found they require us to assume quite a few things, some plausible, some wildly implausible. Much of it seems like a game of “Telephone,” where each successive retelling becomes more and more elaborate, usually for the purpose of convincing people to suspend reason and join, surrender, or repent something.

All interpretations of prophesies make assumptions. We all make assumptions. That includes you and me, as well as the Mayan, Nostradamus, and Pyramid timeline scholars. In fact all groups studying anything, including the fields of art, science, philosophy and religions, make assumptions. We can extend this to all societies and cultures, since humanity has been trying to classify reality and experience since its infancy 3 million years ago.

Even when certain assumptions are “proved true,” they are usually within local conditions and may not be an absolute. For example, we assume gravity to affect everything that has mass and density. However, countless Eastern Yogis have demonstrated that sometimes gravity does not affect the human body when certain levels of consciousness are achieved.

In terms of the larger “paradigm shift,” right now, due to a lack of true scholarship in the field of metaphysics and the Ageless Wisdom accumulated through many civilizations over millennia, collectively we are somewhat like the proverbial 7 blind men trying to describe the elephant. So many see the parts and assume them to be the whole, or that somehow the trunk is “more important” than the leg. Mostly people have fallen under the delusion that forms have permanence and that getting attached to those forms is sustainable.

We do have an accumulation of wisdom of the ages available if we research it. Then we can relate the many derived, more recent local forms of that knowledge to the source material. There’s a lot of speculation about the New Era, but most newer “experts” on the subject never studied the older larger and smaller eras preceding this one to get context or a sense of the continuity of what each successive age represented in terms of the spiritual evolution of humanity. One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge. Critical thinking skills are essential if we are to transcend superstitions and half-truths based in limitations of perception.

This all serves the evolution of the race across larger sweeps of time. Each successive sub-race within the larger Root Race contributes to a new understanding of “God,” which serves the needs of that space-time continuum. This requires new metaphors, new approaches, new ways of regarding what IS. However, evolution is a continuity and usually builds upon itself, with occasional mutations.

I tend to doubt the veracity of new material when it tries to negate the established spiritual principles of accumulated human wisdom. Legitimate newer forms of understanding never negate the sum total of the accumulated Truth, Love, Wisdom, and Intelligence of the larger evolutionary trajectory. They do, however, add to the total understanding of All-That-Is, and usually offer hope for the inherent freedom of the Soul to come forth. Evolution is inherently inclusive and liberating.

In part 2 we’ll continue exploring the nature of the Soul, false dualities that lead us into confusion, the problem of fear-based thinking, New Age cheerleading, Root Races and sub-races, and what we’ve been told by oracles past about 2012 and the nature of the coming Aquarian Age.”

© Copyright 2008, 2011 Robert Wilkinson

Life In The 21st Century – An Age in Transition
by Robert Wilkinson

We have entered a period of living on the edge of change like few other generations in history. There are global forces in motion affecting us all that will alter the course of destiny on every continent in ways unimaginable to our grandparents. By the time this transitional period is done, we will confront a new world, a new way of viewing matter and energy, and a new sense of the interrelatedness of life.

Due to a number of factors, both physical and metaphysical, it is evident that we’re in the heart of a 22 year rendezvous with making the history of the future as we sort through the creation, preservation, and transformation of our assumptions about matter, time, space, electricity, magnetism, life, our planet, and each other. The good news is that everything points to a much better world in the future, despite the many current vectors showing us the need to learn, adapt, and become skilled in new ways to move safely through the difficult times ahead as the old systems crumble and die.

Very often in our world, surviving is less determined by who is “the fittest” than by who is learning to “think in the future.” We may be doing well in the present, but time and conditions always change, and much that we assume today will be irrelevant in the future.

It is through our ability to anticipate changes that we move toward models of sustainability that will endure despite the radical events going on around us. Collectively, this will bring forth the environmental, economic, and political solutions we so desperately need to correct the on-going wreckage of the obsolete models of war, harsh competition, and wasteful pollution that poisons our land, air and water and threatens the very existence of entire nations.

There are on-going breakthroughs in every field of study in the world. Old ideas about the environment, economics, religion, health, government, and what constitutes social sustainability are being discarded as never before. New ideas never imagined present themselves every month, sometimes as solutions to our pressing problems, sometimes a new ways of valuing things, and sometimes just the spur of necessity showing us we must adapt or face dire consequences.

While some of these ideas are “bridge forms,” and not meant to endure past this transitional era, others are “seed forms” that will form the basis of things to come. Over time, many apparently separate systems will be seen in the light of synergistic, holistic understanding, and assist the development of more integrated ways of approaching the material creation.

Thanks to such things as the Internet, Quantum Mechanics, mind-body medical breakthroughs, and an ever-increasing global knowledge base showing us we are interconnected in astonishing ways, the inevitable conclusion is that millions are embracing the power found in community and shared knowledge and skills as antidotes to the avarice and separateness of the old era. Utilizing the principles of economy of energy, magnetic attraction, and synthesis, the cooperation of various beings coming together in the next decade will create a radically transformed Earth and humanity.

Now is the only time there is. Now is the only time to learn, to know, to dare, to embrace, and to break free of the inertia of the past. Now is the time to prepare for what is, and what is coming.

By moving beyond old assumptions and limitations, we can recognize and accept a greater wisdom, intelligence, and effectiveness, and find our community within which we can live well and contribute our gifts to our world. As we move through this heart of “the Winter of the 21st Century,” this is the joyous challenge.

We only have about 2500 days to go before it will be evident that we’re all living a radically transformed reality that is the beginning of a 2100 year era where we will remember more about the nature of the electromagnetic creation than we can currently imagine. Enjoy the ride!!

© Copyright 2007, 2011 Robert Wilkinson

Read your Sun sign and Rising sign, if you don’t know what they are, ask me!

“This New Moon at 4 Libra triggers the on-going Cardinal T-square in effect for the entire last half of September, and again forces us to examine our habits, how we want to feel as we move in our everyday lives, and what we do and do not care about. This involves the supply of future needs, and we are again at a point where we shall see wreckage of all that we cannot or should not bring with us into the new ideal that began late 2009, and took flight in new initiatives during the Spring of 2011.

This Lunation jumpstarts Libra energy wherever it falls in our chart. This period involves learning techniques of balancing perspectives in how to act, and whether we should be acting a certain way or not. Here we take a new look at our attainable ideals, and find new views of opportunities to fulfill them. While Libra is known for trying to find harmony and balance in situations, due to the Cardinal T-square this Lunation probably will be more dynamic and even frictional than harmonious.” -Wilkinson

And this from the Great Wilkinson:  http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2011/09/the-full-moon-of-virgo-pisces-2011-pt-2-destiny-still-on-the-move-major-rewards-on-the-way.html

Heads up people!

Robert Wilkinson states in his long treatise on this full moon:  “We are all being moved into a newer, simpler, more enjoyable dedication of self in a greater service. This is where we find a larger “consecration,” and can “hurry on our errands of mercy” even as we open to sensing a more fortuitous connection between the visible and invisible worlds and our helpers in both. The “traffic jams” can help us all heal into our Higher Self, and prepare us for deciding what parts of our gardens we want to cultivate while seeing how Nature is rewarding us for past effort.

So expect a lot of weirdness, friction, ego crashes, and disappointments that will show us the way to let go of our lower self and embrace the fire of our Higher Self and its Truths. The difficulties may not necessarily manifest in our lives, and so may happen around us, showing us to an effective Soul expression. This is a time of rebalancing our Soul’s needs and expression freed of lower ego and its assumptions.

Follow your feelings into decisions and actions that help you integrate what need integrating, and then get more information and new ideas to come to a clear vision. Allow your information files to be updated, and follow the flow into new actions.

This is a very active and diverse time, with developments spanning all 12 signs. Take a larger view, stabilize what is valuable and beautiful, use your imagination, be gently and sweetly determined, keep it simple and straightforward, and move step by careful step into walking the way into a new life, while anticipating a freer, more playful life to come.” -www.aquariuspapers.com

And this from Robert Wilkinson: 

“That’s right – we’re now in the heart of a few very volatile days. It began when Mars entered Cancer August 3, setting the square to Uranus and opposition to Pluto into motion. These are very challenging and dynamic aspects to two of the most powerful disruptive energies in creation.”

I was describing the Grand Cross experience from a past life image I have of ancient Rome,  a man has his arms and legs tied to 4 stallions and they charge in oppositie directions.  (Who thought that stuff up?!)  However, it is a pretty good description of how the Grand Cross is affecting some.  So what is the point ?  To break through our very rigid patterns which will allow the light of creativity to create something new and hopefully better in our lives.

This was a partial eclipse, and unless you were a penguin in Antactica and parts of the ocean there, no one actually saw it.  That doesn’t really lessen it’s power due to it being the 3rd eclipse in 4 weeks.  This one was in the sign of Cancer and closes down a series of Capricorn/Cancer eclipses of the past few years.  We get a chance to finish off and tie up loose ends and lay somethings to rest.  Maybe it can all just be “good enough” for now as destiny is swirling in for dramatic and long lasting regeneration thanks to Pluto in Capricorn till 2025.

We will all be experiencing the whirling dervish dance of 3 eclipses for many months to come.  You have time to sit and organize your thoughts, what would you like to have instead?  Who would you like to be with more? These energies want you to be your highest in all that you are.  It’s about you being you and being grounded in the moment and no longer living in denial or fear or anger or fill in the blank.  It really is a time for rejoicing and throwing off the chains of the past.  Allelujah!  Jai!

Many cultures celebrate various combinations of the winter and summer solstices, the equinoxes, and the midpoints between them, leading to various holidays arising around these events. For the winter solstice, Christmas is the most popular holiday to have arisen. In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule (see winter solstice for more) are also celebrated around this time. For the summer solstice, Christian Catholic cultures and Nordic Christian Protestant cultures celebrate the feast of St. John from June 23 to June 24 (see St. John’s Eve, Ivan Kupala Day, Midsummer), while the Wiccan culture observes Litha. For the vernal (spring) equinox, several spring-time festivals are celebrated, such as the observance in Judaism of Passover. The autumnal equinox has also given rise to various holidays, such as the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. At the midpoints between these four solar events, cross-quarter days are celebrated.

In most cultures the solstices and equinoxes also determine the midpoint of the seasons, which can be seen in the celebrations called midsummer and midwinter. Along this vein, the Japanese celebrate the start of each season with an occurrence known as Setsubun.

In Hinduism, the solstices are termed as Uttarayana and Dakshinayana. The former occurs around January 14th of each year, while the latter occurs around June 21st each year. According to the Vedic Calendar, Uttarayana is termed as auspicious while Dakshinayana is inauspicious for deaths and births, while for festivals the reverse stands true. The offerings to ancestors and the dead occurs in Dakshinayana.

This very bright Total Lunar Eclipse will begin a several month “shut down” in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens during the period Saturn is going stationary direct, you can bet that your evolving archetypal role is on the move, so be kind, be understanding, and be willing to get beyond terms, language, and specific forms of ideas and see people for the human beings they are.

We had a prelude to what’s happening in this one in the Lunar Eclipse of December 2010, and began to release or demonstrate patterns directly associated with this one. The clearance we began then anticipated the bigger, longer-term endings set into motion at the Solar Eclipse in January 2011 that was boosted by the Solar Eclipse of 2 weeks ago.

So like most Lunar Eclipses, this one ushers in a transitional period of about 3 2/3 months that will clear things out of our lives, and especially our past (the Moon). The space created can attract circumstances and people through which we can develop skills helping us deal with the wild ride of The Grand Irrationality that’s in continuous motion during these months and years.

Those around the world who will definitely feel effects of this Full Moon are the places where it falls near the angles of the chart. Places where the Lunation is near the angles and activating energies powerfully are the west coast of North America, eastern South America, the UK and Western Europe, Iran, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.

We’ve all been challenged to choose wisely despite the general weirdness and hard edge to things. The recent New Moon Solar Eclipse stepped the energy up as it fell in the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality, and so many strange and “destiny-producing” events have quickened to warp speed, throwing us all in major new directions. The whole world is at a critical turning point where we must find compassionate ways to link with others to assist the whole to survive through a rough patch.

We can find illumination in being aware of how things are expanding and being communicated as we stand on the threshold of decisions that will reorient us all in different ways to stabilize recent beginnings. This can take shape through how and what we believe to be truth or a greater future, and how we use our imagination to play with skills that will become powers in the future, with the purpose of showing our world our ability to play with rhythms of activity as we keep our eyes on the prize.

With so much already going on in the world and astrologically you would think that the summer might give us a little peace. No, ‘fraid not! We start June with a big old Solar Eclipse in Gemini trining (beneficial) Saturn (better foundations). With eclipses we get to close out the past. Look at your past and see what needs to be eliminated for good and do it yourself before it is done to you. That’s the problem with eclipses, they work with you or without you. June 15 brings us a Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius (philosophy) and all of us will experience a shift in consciousness. How that will affect each individual depends on the placement of it in your chart. Now is a good time to get your chart read by a well rounded astrological counselor. Two weeks after this lunar eclipse, on July 1st we get another solar eclipse, this time in Cancer (nurturing/co-dependent). And the summer is just beginning. What does this all generally mean for us? It is time to get our proverbial heads out of our arse and see the reality of our lives and world. Waking up would be good now. Do good works, be kind and helpful, know your neighbors, start a community garden, help out with local kids (Teammates needs volunteers!), volunteer at a shelter or food pantry. These eclipses ask us if we are doing enough. Are you? It’s time to build a better world, both privately and collectively.

ARIES-How is it feeling with crazy, unusual Uranus running around in your most intimate home-your body? The Moon/eclipse of the 1st will send shivers of electricity over to you. Get a new do or start a workout regime to handle all this power. The Lunar eclipse on the 15th will ask you if you have expanded into your greater, more authentic reality yet. This is a good time to seek higher education, especially philosophy/spirituality.

TAURUS-These eclipses may unearth new talent in you, or accentuate some old ones. The big thing is handling money, either you will understand this or not, but it will be one of the transformative energies at work this month for you. Letting go of the past isn’t just a novel idea anymore, it is a survival issue.

GEMINI-All eyes are looking your way, can you stand in the spotlight this month? Not much choice, so strut your stuff. A few relationships might need re-examining and after the 15th some may go the way of the dinosaur. Destiny, yours, is calling you to make your mark in the world and do it with more spirituality. Than means, more heart and tender loving care in all you achieve.

CANCER-There is some pretty deep transformational work going on in your subconscious that might affect your health if you aren’t processing all that is happening in your life right now. It isn’t an especially easy time for you, but if you do the work, it will pay off in happiness later……………..nose to the grindstone!

LEO-Roar your way into just about anything you want. The planets aren’t exactly easy in your chart, but if you are careful they can certainly be productive and yield success in whatever you are undertaking. Friends may need your help, or you theirs at months beginning, by the end of the month get ready for a bomb to go off in your karmic sector. Hopefully it will be good karma.

VIRGO-Home and career are your focus this month. Starting with career/achievements at months end you will need to be ready for whatever comes your way. Old doors close as new ones are about to open. The 15th brings an awareness for a needed change in your home and personal surroundings. Some Virgos will move or change careers this summer.

LIBRA-The Solar Eclipse on the 1st happens in your 9th House which is like your research library and travel agency rolled into one and the 2nd Eclipse on the 15th hits your 3rd house which is like your mail/phone room or communication center. This month you will be busy examining your beliefs and the way you communicate in all areas. You will be changing in dramatic ways at fundamental levels. And it looks like you will be getting a little get-a-way in too.

SCORPIO-You like it intense and so it is this month. You will be preoccupied with yours and other people’s “stuff”! Dramatic change starts on the 1st. What can you let go of or rebuild or build anew? With Pluto hanging out for many more years to come in your daily life house, you are capable of sustained planning and change now. Committed relationships are a sensual delight this month.

SAGITTARIUS-These eclipses will have you looking long and hard at your relationship to yourself and to other very special people in your life. You may even decide to commit to one in particular. If you are already in a committed relationship it may need some tweaking this month.

CAPRICORN-The Eclipses happen in your 12th and 6th houses this month and will have you scrambling to understand how to take better care of yourself and how you earn a living. Business is highlighted and needing some better direction from you. Time to meditate/reflect and get insight on how to improve your earthly existence.

AQUARIUS-The highlight for you is friends, having fun and just hanging out. Have you been getting enough of that? You need to feel special and unique now and you need to share that with people who think you are too. Be sure to take advantage of bountiful Jupiter as it is ready to move into your home sector. Bright colors, bigger furniture, maybe move to a larger place! Jupiter decorates and makes everything bigger than life.

PISCES-The month starts out with an eclipse in your home-don’t yell at each other! Halfway through the eclipse hits your career, calling for needed change in that area. Something could be opening up for you at last. Lots of activity in your daily living sector too and hopefully some fun with the neighbors.

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Found this piece from a very respected astrologer, April Kent on her site at Big Sky Astrology:
“•Eclipse aspecting the natal Sun: If life is a movie, the Sun is the protagonist – however flawed – for whom we cheer. Each of us is born to be the hero of our own life story; but often, timidity or false modesty persuades us to hand over that role to others. When eclipses aspect your natal Sun, you are thrust into the starring role – and if you’re not used to it, that can be uncomfortable.
•Eclipses aspecting the natal Moon – From the moment we’re ripped from mom’s womb, we seek to reclaim the security and safety that we knew there. We feather our nests, stock the pantry with foods we like, and surround ourselves with people who make us feel comfortable. But when eclipses aspect the natal Moon, something – a new living situation, a change in health – may leave you feeling as exposed as a crab with her shell cracked open.
•Eclipses aspecting Mercury: How do you define yourself? Usually, it begins with a name. Then, with your rank in the family pecking order, on the playground, in the workplace. Finally, numbers (grades in school, numbers on a paycheck) define you. When eclipses aspect natal Mercury, the god of definition, prepare for a change in your name, rank, or serial number – and for a change in how you define yourself.
•Eclipses aspecting Venus: If only each of us were endowed with flawless confidence, great relationships, bountiful self-esteem, and oodles of cash! Eclipse aspects to Venus remind us that world will not always give us the treatment, whether kind or cruel, that we think we deserve.
•Eclipses aspecting Mars: Mars is a trained, ruthless guard dog that answers only to you. He guards you and your home, defends your reputation, and helps you get all the cool things that you want. When eclipses aspect natal Mars, the watch dog is stirred up and straining at his leash; get what’s yours, but don’t let anyone get hurt.
•Eclipses aspecting Jupiter: When was the last time you had an adventure? When eclipses aspect Jupiter, you’re itching to take a chance, to feel the thrill of being completely alive. These can be times when you overreach out of sheer optimism; but they are also moments when your life jumps tracks and starts moving in a new direction.
•Eclipses aspecting Saturn: When eclipses aspect Saturn, you may feel worn out and discouraged. Probably, you’ve outgrown your life or are playing by outdated rules. But you’ll never get anywhere by blaming others for your problems. Regardless of how things got this way, what are you going to do to make your life better?
•Eclipses aspecting Uranus: When eclipses aspect Uranus, you may feel like a misfit – and that can hurt. Recognizing who your friends are (and aren’t), and looking for a tribe that lets you be yourself, is the challenge of these eclipses.
•Eclipses aspecting Neptune: These eclipses compel you to examine your blind spots, question your faith, and dispute what you previously thought was indisputable. If you’ve been fooling yourself – like a wife who ignores the signs that her husband has strayed, or the man who is disillusioned by his womanizing guru – these eclipses can deliver a wakeup call.
•Eclipses aspecting Pluto: In each of us, there is a dark side. There are feelings that are unworthy of us – rage, jealousy, fear, covetousness. They weaken us, making us slaves to our emotions and to people who are more self-possessed. When eclipses aspect Pluto, we meet that dark self and the others who embody it for us, grappling with power and the need for control.
Combine these descriptions to better understand the sensitive points in your own chart that will be awakened by the upcoming eclipses on June 1 (solar eclipse at 11.02 Gemini), June 15, 2011 (lunar eclipse 24.23 Sagittarius), and July 1 (9 Cancer). If a planet in your birth chart, or the Ascendant/Midheaven, falls:

•between about 7 and 15 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces (June 1 eclipse) or
•between about 20 and 28 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces (June 15 eclipse), or
•between about 5 and 13 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn (July 1 eclipse),
your reflexes will be working overtime… and that arthritic knee is going to be really, really sore.”

The next two weeks offer us opportunities to see a clear way to express our wisdom in a way the world can see our culture or social values, and we can be fulfilled through a greater connected compassion. Follow your feelings into ideas and visions, and then get more information before you decide or act. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, see clearly what needs to cook a while before it matures, and say goodbye to the past.

We now enter a time to finish breaking free of old rules, limitations, fears, and “shoulds.” Keep letting go of being seduced or distracted by dire visions, false equivalencies, skewed senses of perception or proportion, or a senseless defeatism. Take the initiative, use your imagination, be gently and sweetly determined, keep it simple and straightforward, and move step by careful step into walking the way into a new life, while anticipating a freer, more playful life to come.

Let go of perceptions and relationships that divert you from the ideals, values, and visions you really care about. As with past weeks, the coming two weeks are about clarity and compassion, simplicity and new openings, and grounding the new initiatives of the past dozen weeks. The peaceful, gentle wisdom patterns we’ve been generating since the New Moon will show us the results of our faith, and release powerful energies to attract and ground our current requirements.

We’ve already ended most of what needed ending and gotten rewards for doing so. Now we have new revelations, new events that will electrify everyone, and new dedications to collective ideals. Again, the peace we’ve found will result in releases of faith, and faith that helps us release old patterns.

Keep acting from your new identity, accept what you can do, and accept what you cannot influence. To echo last month, there are greater possibilities ahead than we may have suspected, or as the English Bard so aptly put it, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy….”

Walk on, accept the transforming moments that leave you in awe of Divine workings, gently offer your wisdom to others (in grand style!), and monitor your expectancies, since new horizons beckon!

-Robert Wilkinson http://www.aquariuspapers.com

http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/May-2011/Horoscopes/

Expect a few bumps in the road even though it is a lovely month full of flowers and warmer weather.  Uranus (unexpected) is next to Lilith (shadows) and that can bring up some unusual behaviors in people.  Because they are in the sign of Aries, look for brash and rash behaviors to come out of nowhere.  We are feeling the deep pull of Pluto retrograde till 9/16/11.  What this will allow you to do is mull over what the lessons from Pluto are-that you can regenerate from anything if you are willing to put in the work.  There is a nice infusion of planets in Taurus this month that feels a little indulgent even lazy at times and we all deserve that once in a while.  Take advantage of the strength that Jupiter (abundance) and Mars (power) are giving you the first half of the month.  For all there is an awakening happening and that is the Neptune into Pisces for many years to come.  Don’t fight that, let go of what you can, and embrace the future of a kinder and more inclusive planet.  It starts with each of us, no kindness is too small to effect change.  Think kind thoughts for the world and all of it’s peoples.

To view each sign go to:  http://www.spiritofomaha.com/Metro-Magazine/May-2011/Horoscopes/

Continue to break free of old rules, limitations, fears, and “shoulds.” Keep letting go of being seduced or distracted by dire visions, false equivalencies, skewed senses of perception or proportion, or a senseless defeatism. Be creative, be determined, take the first step and keep walking the way into a new life, and keep anticipating a freer, more playful life to come.

Let go of perceptions and relationships that divert you from the ideals and visions you really care about. As with past weeks, the coming two weeks are about clarity and compassion, repair work and new openings, and seeing your unique qualities that the world can recognize and reward consistently.

Accept the endings, accept the rewards, accept the new identity, accept what you can do, and accept what you cannot influence. There are greater possibilities ahead than we may have suspected, or as the English Bard so aptly put it, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy….”

Make sure you’re pointed in the right direction, and then flame on!” -Robert Wilkinson       www.aquariuspapers.com