Adam with the Goddess Guy
Just completed a really rich conversation with Gary Caton, astrologer extraordinaire and host of Goddess Astrology Podcast (Facebook or Gary’s page). We talked about the upcoming Mars Venus conjunctions (8/20, 10/3), Saturn and Venus’ conjunction, and the possible astrological meanings of brightness, velocity and sky appearance. Gary’s also a good friend, so I always feel at home chattin up my Mars Venus work with him.
The piece will be posted early-mid August on the podcast page and we’ll announce it here on our calendar page. Hear from us about it >
The Big Blink
by Adam
In about 33 hours, the much heralded partial lunar eclipse (Full Moon in the path of the Nodal axis) will occur. Here’s my attempt to characterize what it may hold for us in light of our spiritual evolution:
This eclipse occurs amidst a crescendo’ing series of individually impactful transits. As such, it will trigger things. As I’ve chosen not to dip too deeply into mundane astrology (events, predictions, etc.), my focus has instead been on the evolutionary playing field which includes the human spiritual experience but is not limited to it. So, from that lens, I’ve been telling students and clients that this eclipse is occurring in the planetary/race’s soul as an ‘invisible beginning’ or a silent coagulation of mass intentionality. For most of us incarnateds on the planet, the eclipse will remain hidden deep in our unconscious. But for those awakened ones, which definitively does not mean Buddhas, saviors and avatars but anyone who has awoken to the deeper dimension of their creative spiritual potential, this eclipse in Capricorn/Cancer involving Pluto, Mercury, Uranus and Jupiter most prominently, is an opening, a holy blink in the Eye of God newly awakening to itself as us. It/We have the capacity, now finally, to consciously transition this bardo as seemlessly as an eye blinks. The planets involved and their sign positions speak directly to this interpretation of the eclipse event.
It might also be imaged as a collective Blinking – both as our individual selves and as a merged Oneness – of the Eye of God (or Aphatheta/Ka’tiim Sphere) on a scale not yet reached. We’re not only waking up and embodying and being our evolutionary Desire, we’re doing it holographically and holonically with large amounts of others. In all the awe of the Times!
Others who have referred to this post: Zacciah Blackburn
“…in the way of Love”
Gifted spiritual counselor and psychic, Tony Leroy, recently sent this out. I feel it’s such a clear elucidation of a perspective we almost never take: we are the instruments of Life’s love for itself, and not the other way around. Tony’s site is here.
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“In my meditation last Monday I heard the words, “Who are you to get in the way of God’s gifts and love”. Yeah… then everything started to spiral out of control from there. It was quite a bold statement surely in keeping with how my guides tend to hit me over the head with information. I have to say on some level I am still spinning from it. The deeper I get when I meditate on it, the more that is revealed to me (right now I am contemplating Dante’s Inferno and the seven gates of hell. Seriously. Oh, but I digress). Not only did I see how profound the statement is to me, I also saw the ideas of it at work with my clients… And of course – yes, it got them reeling too. I am now more keenly aware on how many levels I have allowed fear to blind my path. {{{Sigh}}}
What an amazing power our minds have over us. It is really interesting if we could step back and become a witness to how much power it has over our daily lives. It really is our most profound love and our worst enemy. The ego fills us with such self-worth and sometimes way too much self-importance. These are mostly generated by an aura of doubt. I say this because the ego-mind truly wants us to feel bliss in accordance with paralyzing fear. We have all seen this at work in the world around us and in those we love. It is time to remember that within each of us there is infinite potential. We are all born of limitless compassion and LOVE. It is in our nature to draw to us what we need to survive and grow. Unfortunately fear, shame, and doubt seep into our very nature and has fogged our vision and our hearts. It’s time to remember… It’s time to channel all of those feelings of confusion and fear to become a way of certainty and unbending truth. The truth is that you are more than you could even imagine. Let us all see you for who you really are.” |
Cardinal T-Square & Essences
I was recently interviewed in a podcast about the upcoming (Summer) cardinal T-square of Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter and the vibrational essences we sell here. Should be up on the Vibration Magazine site soon. Find it on their blog page ->.
Back from Boston
The national astrology conference (NCGR, for National Council for Geocosmic Research) in Boston was big success. My definition of success, here, not the organizers, though i’m sure they’d check the same box but for different reasons. Success, to me, because there was a palpable sense of community, of connection. BIG GRATITUDE to the organizers for their thoughtul and heartful shaping of the weekend for everyone: Madalyn, Gloria and the others whom I don’t know.
For my part, I had a new experience. I was to lecture at the last time slot on the last day, along with my colleagues in other tracks lecturing in different rooms. Yet a few hours before the lecture was to begin, I felt quite tired and ‘complete’ in terms of the weekend experience – with the banquets, dinners and Mikey Lutin’s hysterical-and-profoundly-insightful musical one evening. For this very reason, I was relieved and grateful when about 30 people still managed to make it to my lecture and sit through the whole thing. I was told people really liked it and appreciated the beauty of the slides I prepared – photorealistic images of the night sky, Mars, Venus; new info like the “Mars Flower” – the celestial pattern Mars makes with its retrograde loops; and the astronomical info about the planets themselves. One respected colleague from Chicago later complimented the lecture as being “revolutionary”. My Aquarius Mercury really liked that!
I attended the lectures of some awesome astrologers doing excellent work to illuminate both our past and our future: Gary Caton, Wendy Stacey and Christopher Renstrom.
For someone who’s been largely in a ‘professional closet’ when it comes to interacting with colleagues, the conference experience offers me something I receive nowhere else: a meaningful exchange of ideas with others speaking my language (astrology). It’s like finding the perfect beverage to quench your thirst. I feel fulfilled and supported. HIGHLY recommended for anyone working in a specialized field: make sure to spend time with colleagues to compare notes, check your thinking and offer your insights for others.
Not Enough for Transformation
I recently responded to a post by a fellow Soul counselor whom I don’t know. The post was in response to the 2nd part of an audio conversation of Tami Simon and Ken Wilber on the Sounds True site.
1. Comment by Jo-Ann Triner — December 8, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
Thank You! I am fascinated and thrilled by this integrative process, yet come away from it with many unanswered questions.
For example, an individual may have a high anxiety that is his so-called “monster”. Putting Mr. High Anxiety in the chair and taking a look will not result in the dissipation of that anxiety. So where is the transformation?
As you say, introspection isn’t enough. To be conscious of this problem is not enough. Meditation is not enough. A person may be keenly aware and acutely conscious, yet unable to overcome it.
Such practices may bring us to the tipping point of transformation, but what actually effects it in your opinion?
I understand the 1-2-3 process, but it seems to fall short of true transformation. It merely objectifies our shadows, or so it seems.
Thank you Ken and Tami. Hopefully we will hear more from you on this important work.
In deepest appreciation!
2. Comment by Adam Gainsburg — December 10, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Greatly appreciate your question Jo-Ann; it’s one i’ve been intensely focused on for many years as a counselor.
For what it’s worth, my current understanding is that what pushes us past that tipping point into actual transformation (whatever that looks like and wherever it occurs within the person’s body/mind environment) is the cellular recognition, or vague sense, or even subconscious a-ha that the old way doesn’t work anymore, that the familiar path is now boring, that there’s no juice or evolutionary orgasm-potential. “The Divine Juice has left the building.”
Developmentally, I see this as the ego’s prior need to perpetrate its inexhaustible thirst for safety has become 51% or more extinguished, used up. So naturally there will be more space in precisely those places in the body/mind which formerly housed egoic beliefs and systems of reaction.
In my practice with clients, I’ve greatly benefitted from Ken’s emphasis on the need for authentic post-postmodern shadow work. Lots of material available from Ken and others on their sites. Maybe integrallife.com would be where to start?
Just as the shadow in this context is referencing a whole dimension of self (albeit a thoroughly rejected one), there are large numbers of techniques and expressive exercises which are just waiting for each of us to discover, in that harrowing and intensely-refreshing way that only our shadow offers.
Great blessings!
The Dust that Won’t Leave
3-6-09
“Dusting” doesn’t work sometimes. Go buy the nicest, nanotech duck feather duster and you’ll see – you will – that some dust has a mind of its own….
With the mind-blowing 8-man game of Go Bridge (some weird combination of Go Fish and Bridge) going on in Aquarius, Pluto in Capricorn now, its ruler Saturn retrograding back through Virgo and Venus having stationed to follow suit to quickly bring to end the Venusian Leo Journey of the Feminine (2007-2009), it makes lots of sense to me anyway the collective feeling that we just can’t get our eggs in order….the dust just won’t go away. What we’re supposed to do is either taking longer, feeling real weird, or demanding a herculean effort. Makes one wonder just who’s running the show here.
Well, i have a candidate: it’s the inner voice known alternately as Miss Unsatisfied, Mrs. Unfulfilled or Mr. Can’tFindIt (Jr.) depending on his/her gender prefs du jour.
Make no mistake, as a species we are definitely still in adjustment mode to the Pluto in Capricorn reality – and quite a reality check it is continuing to be! Pluto takes nothing from us we are not actually ready on some level to let go of. Said another way, Pluto only takes from us what is 1. misaligned to our greater growth potential, and 2. what we ALREADY know we’re ready to have taken from us (said material can come from the ‘i never knew’ department deep within our psychology). Here then, Capricorn is the environment wherein our small selves become instruments of collective agreement: how we fit ourselves – or not – into the social architecture we’re a part of.
At worst? This combo produces the acute loss of anything not meeting both 1 and 2 above. Ouch with a good dose amount of why me?, what the hell?!, where’d THAT come from? (Aquarius stellium)
At best? We wake up to who we can be in our community as a promise of our own greater happiness and contribution. But it will take everything from us (Pluto) which is in discord with the actual reality around us (Capricorn).
For this reason, I am giving you a gift in the spirit of Uranus in Pisces – the unexpected gift which lightens your soul and remembers you into your Awe:
Photo by Allen Wallace
This is you, on the awakening that You, just like dust, come from Stars.
Adam’s Blog
Announcements, insights and wonderings from Soulsign founder, Adam Gainsburg.
Feb 13 2009
As an astrologer who has actively, and quite succesfully, avoided astrological columns based exclusively on the Sun or Moon – both writing them and reading them – I am refreshed and shown new possibility by the 2009 Next World Astrology forecasts by astrologer Eric Francis.
I’m also someone who appreciates the devloped idea over the quick turn of a phrase, I feel as if I’m being nourished by the level of delineation he offers each of us. There is a sublime quality to his observations, as if he’s wanting us not only to understand what we’re in store for this year, but to discover for ourselves why and what it’s meant to actually mean for us. His writing here shows his intelligence and a certain creative blending of seemingly unconnected ideas which are often put together to catalyze an “a ha!” insight about ourselves. Reading through the section pertinent to me, I had several of these!
I was first made aware of Eric at the first Blast Conference in 2007 where he espoused to fellow astrologers and astrologers-in-the-making the importance of developing one’s writing skill along with one’s astrological skill. His is a background in legitimate journalism, among others, and he brings a perceptual nuance to a consistently emphasized call to awaken from our dream of who we think we should be and live from who we really are and are becoming.
Then last year, Eric invited me for an interview for his Planet Waves Radio, which you can listen to here. Don’t miss the other conversations he has there with Melanie Reinhart, Philip Sedgwick, Lynda Hill, Alan Oken, Donna Cunningham, and many others.
I offer my strong recommendation for anyone interested in a comprehensive and comprehensively deep analysis of what 2009 holds waiting for you!
[This is a freely written review of Next World Astrology by Eric Francis. Neither Soulsign Publishing nor I receive any financial remuneration from Eric Francis or Planet Waves.]
Feb 12 2009
A new feature of the new Soulsign.com is the “InnerView” series. It’s basically a venue for my curiosity to engage authors, teachers, scientists, healers, etc. in their area of expertise. Sure, i’ll be in over my head most of the time, but if they’re up for a conversation, I’m certainly up for advancing the collective dialogue in this small way.
First two InnerViews have been posted, which you can find under the Tools section at the top of any page. I’m honored to have had time with: Jessica Murray and Ross Bishop. Enjoy!
Feb 11 2009
A new record I’m sure has been achieved, though I’m the last person to be counting. Sincere, heartfelt gratitude to the each Soul who took the time to email their enthusiastic support and helpful suggestions for the launch of this new online home for Soulsign. As with any coordinated endeavor, there will invariably be some tweaking, but the ‘house is up’ and she’s a beauty. We hope you agree! ~Blessings~
Mars Journeys
Maybe I’ve been working with the Mars Journey too long – though I’m not sure such a thing is possible in this Goddess-infused universe, but…..may i suggest visitors to this blog NOT MISS the upcoming Jan 31 – this Saturday – Mars Journey Birth tele-celebration. Astrologer and great friend Gary Caton and I are hosting! Visit the Event Calendar for details.
Evidence That Life is a Hologram First
Have a read of this article on new physics . Then have a think on my recent response to the friend who sent me the article:
“In short, they’re right, ‘reality’ is constructed as, what i call, a ‘projector/screen’ template where there is a projector of information and a screen displaying it. Change any element of either – consciously, unconsciously, personally, collectively, grossly or subtly, and reality changes. Their theory, that the amount of information inside a sphere must equal the amount on the outer surface of the sphere is right. But the rational mind can’t understand that b/c Newtonian formulae disagree.
So my feeling is while they’re right they’re also moving quite slow in realizing the implications of what they’re onto.
As a friend of mine, Steve Benedik, says, “In the end, a human being is nothing more than one big reality-generator. That’s what we’re made to do.”"