On a search for words this morning after watching more of the footage from Japan.  I raced to the poets — their words are guiding stars for me and they can say what I cannot–here is just one that struck me.

As my colleague, Carol Ferris said in her post

The premise that we are all one, that everything touches us, that we are now entering a period where we experience the connectedness of everything, is emerging as reality in our eyes, ears, hearts and minds.

Parabola Magazine Spring 2011: Suffering

THE WORLD IS ON FIRE

by Joshua Boettiger

Stanley Kunitz’s poem “The Layers” is a midrash on suffering.

At the key juncture in the poem, Kunitz writes:

How shall the heart be reconciled

To its feast of losses?

In a rising wind

The manic dust of my friends,

Those who fell along the way,

Bitterly stings my face.

Yet I turn, I turn,

Exulting somewhat,

With my will intact to go

Wherever I need to go,

And every stone on the road

Precious to me.

Listen to him read the whole poem:  Stanley Kunitz reading his poem “The Layers”

please just for today pronounce that Ur-ah-nes 🙂

and yes-we live on the beautiful Oregon coast.

Yesterday, as Susan and I were returning from the vet (our greyhound hurt her skinny back leg), I said:  Ya know what? Tomorrow Uranus moves into Aries for the first time in 84 years–wonder what’ll happen. When the Tsunami warning sirens went off around 4am this morning — I was pretty impressed in addition to getting up and getting busy preparing to take care of folks, rescue cats and dogs, making sure our generator was ready, etc etc There is much to say about this Promethean passage–and I will gather quotes as the day goes on.  BUT–The Great Awakener? Whew–I’ll say.

Where ever in your chart the early degrees of Aries land–you might want to ask yourself–What sirens are you hearing?  Where might you want to stay awake?  Got any safety plans in place?  No?–well get busy. It is 8:30am and the northern seas are calm and no flooding is happening here (Nehalem, Oregon)–but we are still in a Tsunami Warning.  And the earthquake in Japan was/is MASSIVE. back soon couple of articles:

from Eric Francis—

Uranus in Aries Dear Friend and Reader: Later today (overnight Friday in some time zones), Uranus leaves Pisces and enters Aries to stay for the next seven years. As the astrology picture of 2012-2015 assembles, this is one of the biggest pieces — the presence of Uranus representing the energy surge; the impulse to enter the future. This has been warming up for a few years, but now is the moment we go into warp speed. In the words of Richard Tarnas, Uranus is Prometheus, the awakener.

Bringing Uranus into such a prominent place as the first degree of the zodiac amplifies its influence, and Uranus is already pretty hot: its characteristics include fast, surprising developments; future-oriented thinking; moments of revolution; and shocking surges of awareness. As Uranus approaches its first exact square to Pluto in June 2012, we’re only going to see this whole process accelerate, bring in more communities and wake up more people. In a phrase, 2012 is about everything, all at once.

to be continued

Welcome

It has come to this!  A Blog.

On several occasions, I have had questions asked that would apply to more than just one person, or I’ve come across an article I think you might like, or information I think you would want to have———–sooooo I’m setting this up for you, my clients, friends and family.  I plan to invite other Astrologers to write for this as well, so you have some great stuff to look forward to.

And as I watch a revolution take place in Egypt I’m posting the schedule for an amazing series for 2011.
See the next post and I’ll see you next time!

My friend Andrea sends me poems.  And she inspired me to do this blog–by doing her own.  Visit Andrea’s blog: Go Ask Alice

Go inside a stone.
That would be my way.
Let somebody else become a dove
Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth.
I am happy to be a stone.

From the outside the stone is a riddle;
No one knows how to answer it.
Yet within, it must be cool and quiet
Even though a cow steps on it full weight,
Even though a child throws it in a river;
The stone sinks, slow, unperturbed
To the river bottom
Where the fishes come to knock on it
And listen.

I have seen sparks fly out
When two stones are rubbed,
So perhaps it is not dark inside after all;
Perhaps there is a moon shining
From somewhere, as though behind a hill—
Just enough light to make out
The strange writings, the star-charts
On the inner walls.

–Charles Simic

here is a little movie about us in the 70’s