Mercury-Venus Conjunction
DANIEL: the entire month of March has a rare, unusually long lasting dance between Mercury & Venus, in the morning sky. They are together within 2 degrees essentially through the whole month of March, very low on the horizon in the morning sky.
[At the beginning of] the month, the conjunction of Venus & Mercury in the morning sky, [also joins] with Neptune. Of course, you won’t see Neptune but they’re all together, including an amazing thing we’ll talk more about regarding March 5.
Later in the month Venus and Mercury conjunct Uranus. This is indicating from the inner planet perspective what the larger story is with the mutual reception between Neptune and Uranus… Neptune being in Aquarius and Uranus being in Pisces is one of the larger themes for what’s happening with planetary humanity at this particular point. It also could be seen that what is happening in the early part of the month is a precursor to what will be the really important events of April: the triple conjunction of Chiron, North Node, and Neptune in Aquarius.
Occultation at Venus Gate
On March 5th, something extremely unusual is taking place: the next Venus-Moon conjunction, gate number one, the First Chakra initiation [of Venus and Moon] in the morning sky… The Moon will be occulting both Venus, Mercury… and Neptune…The occultation of Venus is visible in North America. The occultation of Mercury will be seen in South America…. So it’s such a tight conjunction it involves an occultation. Sometimes an entire year can go by without occultation of a planet.
CAYELIN: an entire year can go by and then all of a sudden one day we have the Moon occulting three planets …
DANIEL: ..For a first chakra initiation, it’s occurring with a highlight on Neptune…
Again it’s a precursor for next month and this larger theme of Neptune in Aquarius, Uranus in Pisces, that I’ll speak more of in a while.
CAYELIN: We think of the Moon as a transmitter, and as it’s covering each planet it’s like the [most] direct transmission possible, coming to the Earth at that particular time as it’s covering and uncovering the planet or the star.
The sense I have is it’s like an instant transmission of the current celestial codes or information, especially considering Neptune is a Celestial World planet. When we’re open to that, stepping outside of rational, linear reality and just allowing ourselves to be open to whatever that information is, coming in, then we can help to anchor that in our consciousness and awareness.
Descent of Inanna
DANIEL: the other story line that is activated and in the background of everything we’re talking about is the dance of Venus on her way to the underworld. We are about two months away from her entrance to the underworld, and one of the old storylines on this is that on her way to the underworld she is met by Mercury. And so Mercury is transmitting celestial high witness consciousness to her as she makes her descent into the underworld this summer.
CAYELIN: in the story of Inanna, she asks Mercury (Ninshubar) for assistance, to rescue her if she doesn’t come back. Also in that story, the gate she goes through [a.k.a. first gate] is known as the Gate of Manifestation, according to the translation of the Sumerian myth.
DANIEL: what happens in this case at gate #1 is there are two first gates, including the eighth one [8th Moon-Venus conjunction of the morning star phase] which is called Death by Intent. It’s intriguing that Mercury is hanging out with her for the entire month as she prepares for the Death by Intent gate in early April….
CAYELIN:… in 2004 there was a Venus transit over the face of the Sun and a lot was written about that then. Especially from the perspective of the Mayan calendar and what their understanding of the implications when Venus transits the Sun.
It had been 122 years since the last Venus transit until the one in 2004… 8 years after that there’s a second Venus transit in June of 2012. We are now at the halfway point of that in 2008. I was thinking of this in relation to how, more often than not, there’s 8 Moon-Venus conjunctions, 8 gates. If we’re halfway through at year 4, looking at one day equals one year for progressions then if one year is connected to the gates of Venus we are at the heart of this eight year divine feminine journey.
DANIEL: In 2004 and 2012, Venus is transiting in front of, across the face of the Sun. In June of this year, half way, Venus is in the underworld on the other side of the sun. This is the maximum underworld initiation prior to the 2012.
CAYELIN: so that makes more sense with Mercury and Venus dancing together so closely through the whole month of March – as it indicates a really important preparation for the underworld transit.
New Mars Cycle
DANIEL: the other thing that is happening… right at the point of this Venus-Moon conjunction, the first [Root] Chakra gate, is that on 3rd,4th, 5th of March is when Mars reaches 0 Cancer – the galactic edge, right smack in the middle of the hoop. So Mars is at a point of major reception [with the Moon], transmission, birthing… and Mars at that point will be beginning his journey, the 9, 10, or 11 Labors of Mars. This results in the very powerful Mars-Moon conjunction (Labor 1 of the Mars cycle), at midnight on March 14th. Mars and the Moon are 1 degree from each other. So the Mars cycle is very strongly active during this next lunation.
CAYELIN: the other thing to note is that Mars is still out of bounds (out of bounds from the maximum declination that the sun can go, at the solstices) and Mars is at 26* North, moving back into Cancer. It’s been as far out as 28, and it’s starting to move back in, but is still out of bounds. The last time we had one this close was in 1960 (that far out of bounds near the solstice).
DANIEL: It would have been 32 years ago too, when Mars at the same time of year was occulting that star in Gemini [Mebsuta], so it would have been 32 years ago, 1976….
On March 30th, Mars will reach its quadrature (90 degree separation from Sun), so Mars will be directly overhead at sunset. It’s a repeat of the pattern 32 years ago, when there was exact occultation of Mars [over the star Mebsuta] in the constellation of the Twins… and it’s very close this year…. That’s part of advanced research to tune into what was happening 32 years ago, because both Venus and Mars are at the same point currently as they were 32 years ago.
CAYELIN: and in 1976, it was at 0 Cancer on March 18th, and Venus was at 3 Pisces. And interestingly, Mercury wasn’t as close then…
DANIEL: Mercury doesn’t track the same pattern. One of the discoveries I got in an astronomy magazine… is that every 32 years Venus and Mars will track their pattern together at the same time. It would be interesting to compare newspaper headlines from 1976 to those now, and target the parallels.
Saturn Opposition
DANIEL: we’re only so far talking about the visible phemonena taking place here. Continuing with that theme, it turns out there’s something tonight, Feb. 24th. Tonight, look at Saturn in the evening sky, directly overhead at midnight…. Therefore, the Sun is opposite Saturn. So Saturn will be dominant in the night, and this is the one day of the year for exact opposition of Saturn and the Sun…
I hope you all got to see the eclipse. I was in Mexico and it was totally clear. We got to see the entire eclipse for almost an hour of totality. How this relates to the Saturn opposition is that the eclipse point was almost 2 Virgo, and so that’s basically what’s happening with Saturn, hanging out close to the star Regulus for the entire month of March.
CAYELIN: it stations [direct] May 2 very close to Regulus.
DANIEL: we still have an emphasis on Regulus and it turns out that on March 19th the Moon will occult Regulus. So we’re still in a phase of having these major occultations, due to where the Moon is right now.
Vernal Equinox Full Moon
CAYELIN: We’re going to have a Full Moon very close to the Equinox this year. For people in the Mountain time zone and Pacific, the Equinox will happen late on the 19th. EST and further east it will be on the 20th. The Full Moon will be March 21st at 1*31’ Libra, and Pluto is right there in exact square at 1*31’ Capricorn. So Pluto is squaring the Sun & Moon [at the Full Moon] at the time of the Equinox. This tells us it is going to be a really powerful transformative Equinox window…
At the equinox the Sun is tracking over the equator of the Earth lowering the Earth’s magnetic field. There’s a book on the Golden Dawn ceremonies, and they consider that as a time to access other-dimensional realms more easily, and they do some of their most important ceremonies at this time. Interestingly, we’re going to have this Full Moon happening at the same time, also tracking over the equator at the same time the Sun is magnifying the whole effect.
DANIEL: one of the things I discovered in doing research on Native American calendars is, part of the project of humanity over the last thousands of years, how to integrate lunar and solar cycles. Whenever there would be a New or Full Moon close to the turning points of the solar cycle, that would be considered a really huge ceremonial time.
A New or Full Moon near the Equinox would be just Major. In fact, that’s one of the few times that we have a clear symbol of the turning of the age…. There would be a New Moon or Full Moon within the horns of the Bull [this would have been during the age of the Bull]… which is where Mars is, currently. These are great symbols for the nature of the time that we are in.
CAYELIN: think about some of the places that have been built to track Equinoxes and Solstices, for example in Tucson there is a Sun circle, and the Sun will rise up through a certain window and cast a window of light on the opposite wall of the circle. What’s going to happen is, in a couple days, the Moon will rise in that window too. If you have a place you can see this, you will see how the two are rising in exactly the same place.
DANIEL: which is exactly the opposite of certain solstice windows, in fact it happens again this year, where the greatest extreme will take place, the Sun & Moon at opposite extremes. Now, in this case at the Equinox, they are both coming up in the same place.
CAYELIN: …either the Sun is coming up farthest north and Moon farthest south, or vice versa [at the solstices]. But because the equinoxes come up in the exact same place [that is, the intersection of the ecliptic and the celestial equator at the due east point], it doesn’t matter if it’s Aries or Libra, it rises in the same place [on the horizon].
DANIEL: how rare that is, because you can have the Sun exactly rising east, and the Moon could be somewhere way off. But in this case [due to the Full Moon] it’s rising in exactly the same place [on the horizon]
Uranus-Neptune Mutual Reception
DANIEL: One of the things we’ve seen in Shamanic Astrology is that you can get the same information by putting emphasis on the outer invisible planets or whether you translate it out to the visible planets… they say the same thing.
It’s one of the interesting phenomena of our time, Uranus moving through Pisces and Neptune moving through Aquarius, which provides a theme structure that is also captured by Venus & Mercury together, first in Aquarius and then in Pisces, with these planets that you can’t see.
It’s a theme structure of a completely new take, new paradigm, on how we can help and heal anyone. So the best of Aquarius merges with the best of Pisces. What do I mean by that? The best of Aquarius is having that detachment of seeing things from a higher view and giving whoever is suffering permission to have their own predicament. Not “taking it on”.
The best of Pisces is being able to experience and feel into the sorrow and grief that is taking place. The more I think about this, the more I am aware of the fact that the ability to experience grief and sorrow personally is really no different than being able to experience love. It’s really the same human experience of aliveness and mortality.
Too much Pisces is like… remember the Bill Clinton “I feel your pain”? Too much Pisces is “I am your pain”. Too much Aquarius is just too cold and too detached. “It’s all perfect just the way it is.” Put them together, you have a new healing paradigm.
CAYELIN: Sometimes Pisces feels like they need to do something about it, to fix it, transform it, heal it, take it on. But genuinely operating in a healthy way, it’s just about feeling it and letting it be what it needs to be, not making it something different.
DANIEL: but at the same time, empathically being able to actually feel the grief and suffering, not being somehow only in the celestial state of detachment and not being fully human.
It would seem to me the Mercury-Venus dance all month is part of the First Chakra initiation for Venus, is the transmission of these higher values that come from the union of Aquarius and Pisces being transmitted to her before she disappears into the underworld in May.
Saturn-Pluto Trine
Another important thing in March and April is the trine between Pluto and Saturn. More exact in April, but way close enough in March as a background energy for what’s taking place.
We discussed on the 2008 perspective about the Saturn-Jupiter trine, which is going to happen 3 times this year, but March and April, the emphasis is on Saturn- Pluto. All three are involved in this trine energy all year–Jupiter & Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo… It’s also emphasizing that gateway as highlighted by the eclipse we just went through, that area of 1-2 Virgo very close to Regulus.
Occultations of Regulus
We’re thinking of that a lot today, I was just doing a workshop on the mystery schools, and we were talking about Leo, the heart of the Lion, as the symbol of autonomy and sovereignty, the royalty of the Self. Not just the transcendent self, but our personalness as human beings: that has royalty, sacredness, a connection to the divine, which is now being highlighted by the placement of Saturn.
There are also a number of occultations, three days ago the Moon [occulted] Regulus. In some parts of the world, during the eclipse they saw the occultation… in South America.
March 19th will be the next one, Moon over Regulus, close to Saturn again. There will be no lunar occultation of Saturn itself this year, but pretty close.
CAYELIN: This is significant… because the occultations of Regulus happen because of the Moon in its lunar standstill phase, being farther out in declination. This causes an increase in occulations over Regulus….
Saturn can only be with Regulus every 28-29 years. So the 19 year cycle of the lunar standstill Moon is connecting with the cycle of Saturn in a “this world” activation (Saturn being visible in this world) and Regulus being one of the Behenian magical stars that is activated when a planet is within 6 degrees. Saturn is magnifying the power of Regulus, the heart of the Lion. Then the Moon occultations further amplify the whole thing.
DANIEL: the more you get into the naked eye astronomy, we call that sacred astronomy, the more you can see the strength and importance of the connection to magic, using occultations as a time to amplify intention, prayer, meditation, ceremony.
CAYELIN: and being able to see the eclipse of the Moon right between Saturn and Regulus was calling our attention to the importance of what is going on with Saturn and Regulus.
Passage of a Teacher
CAYELIN: Daniel & I were both involved with transcendental meditation in our past lives, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who was the founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement died on Feb. 5th, in the window just before the eclipse happened. I happened to stumble across a message that he sent, when he was retiring from his work as the founder of the TM movement, in January.
His message was, “I’m done, I’m complete”. He said he was expressing his delight that the world for all millennia would be a happy world, he felt his work was done, the world was now in a place of invincibility, and we are going to have a happy world. I was sharing this with Daniel and he said, “that’s great for a triple Capricorn”!
DANIEL: I had an opportunity when I was involved with that movement to see his chart, and it was a pretty stunning signature, of triple Capricorn. It’s interesting that he chose to leave, just as Pluto moved into Capricorn.
CAYELIN: And right at the eclipse window. I was talking about it to Daniel and was like, “Oh My God, it’s a window that opened for him, he decided that his work was done and off he went.” He had already given his message that whatever he was here to do to raise consciousness… was done and in place, and now he could go.
DANIEL: He was 94…. In the last 20 years he had become very disgruntled. He was actually suing governments for not doing more to implement spiritual programs. So for him to feel that way as a triple Capricorn, right as Pluto goes into Capricorn, was a really important externalization of what we’re seeing in these aspect patterns.
CAYELIN: In a way, it’s giving information about what’s really going on with Pluto in Capricorn, so we can pay attention.
The Circle of Grandmothers
DANIEL: I mentioned that what’s happening in the first part of this February, with Mercury and Venus with Neptune in Aquarius, is a precursor for March, when Neptune-NN-Chiron are together… there is the larger story, since [Venus & Mercury] move through Pisces later in the month, of outer planet mutual reception bringing in the celestial dimension….
We’re having a remarkable transmission of the celestial, both the Piscean and Aquarian version of mutual reception being transmitted into the Goddess as she prepares to make her journey into the underworld. It’s the ability to look at things from the perspective of the high witness, to bring the celestial dimension into the mundane.
When I was in Mexico, I gave several presentations and virtually everyone was older than me…. Mainly 60-70 year old women. When I spoke about the Circle of Grandmothers, and Saturn in Virgo and Pluto [and Jupiter] in Capricorn is the necessity of bringing in that energy, an insight was presented by one of the grandmothers in the circle, who had Aquarius rising.
She suggested that at this time in history, there are way many more women who are conscious that are in their 60s and 70s. In more recent times, it was rare, due to mortality and other things, for such a high proportion of women who could actually be in the circle of grandmothers… This is a higher octave Aquarian dispensation. Leo says “I am God”, but Aquarius says “we all are”. Like esoteric Christianity would say “we are all the second coming.” So instead of 12 or 13 grandmothers, now there are so many women who are grandmothers sharing their insights…. All the grandmothers come together and say “this is what needs to happen on the planet”,..
CAYELIN: In Tucson they have the Desert Crones that meet on a monthly or bimonthly basis … It is open to all women 50 or over. They get together to celebrate their wisdom and how they can share it with the community…
DANIEL: there’s a grand multiplication of the circles of grandmothers everywhere…
CAYELIN: a lot of the women who are reaching their 50s, 60s and 70s now are reaching it with a greater self-love and appreciation for who they are and what they have to offer to the world.
DANIEL:… and there are so many more of you (women reaching these ages!
For those of you following this, I’m interested in hearing about your experiences in working with the Moon-Venus and Moon-Mars conjunctions, Mars at the galactic edge and all the stuff we’ve been talking about. What kinds of experiences come from knowing this material?
CAYELIN: And we highly encourage everyone, if you get a chance to see the Venus-Moon and Mars-Moon conjunctions, to go out and see them…. It will be worth the visual and seeing what you get as a direct transmission….