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Resolution: A New Perspective for the New Year
The word resolution often evokes the idea of making a promise or strengthening our commitment to something. We set goals and intentions for the new year, hoping to achieve them with determination and perseverance. However, there is another meaning of resolution: the quality of being clear and detailed, or the act of resolving or clarifying…
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A Most Beautiful Story
XII Commentaries My notes on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s Commentaries. Please see footnote for information on the source of this essay or go to the source: The Magical Carousel. The Magical Carousel reaches an apotheosis in chapter 12, and while the action closes the chapter in one book, it simultaneously opens an entirely new book. In the enormous…
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Solar Ingress into Pisces
“The sudden change of direction invites wondrous feelings of joy, an elated sense of bliss.”
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Illumined
“… the point of these notes is simply for my own edification, and to point seekers in a new direction that they might be open to if pedestrian disputes about methods of astrology have become a bore.”
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Solar Ingress into Aquarius
“The reason for passing through Aquarius is for the elimination of ‘the dead memories which condition the future’.” The past is not to be denied as much as it is to be done away with, put away, and left behind where it belongs. This is an unexpected revelation that is at once heroic as much…
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Peak Consciousness
“This is the true purpose of astrology: to reveal the inherent law of all these dimensions. To use the art for the prediction of the smaller details of life is an incomplete adaptation and can never give really satisfying results, for this is not the true purpose of astrology, its own inherent truth, or dharma.”…
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Solar Ingress into Capricorn
My Notes on The Magical Carousel by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, chapter ten, Capricorn.1 The Universal MotherConquest and Crystallization in Matter The children arrive in Capricorn to a majestic vision of a mountain that reaches up to the sky. It has the appearance of an actual living, breathing person, “a very ancient and wise person.” After the…
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Speed of Consciousness
“We speak of consciousness as if we ‘know’ more than another what it means to be awake and alive.” ~ HVA
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Solar Ingress into Sagittarius
My Notes on The Magical Carousel by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, chapter ninth, Sagittarius.1 The Higher Mind Moving quickly into the land of Sagittarius, the shallow waters and fiery fog fade into the background, leaving certain death behind. The centaur lets out a belly laugh that is half mockery, half bumptious, and reveling in the delight of…
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Lapis Philosophorum
VII Commentaries The children come into balance in Libra by dint of the Golden Sword. A barely noticeable feature, but nevertheless an important one. Without the sword their entrance into Scorpio would have been impossible; their weight would have been unevenly distributed and the Eagle would not have been able to carry them. But the…
Hudson Valley Astrologer
Astrology Rooted in the Reality of the World
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