Latitude 19*40’ North and zenith passage of Sun-Pleiades conjunction
DANIEL: The first thing that I want to bring up as a general overall theme for May: there’s been a great deal of material recently about the significance of the zone 19-20 North or South Latitude: that’s where Hawaii, the Great Pyramids, the red spot of Jupiter are located, etc… Meanwhile there is this phenomena that is a third of the cross checks for the turning of the ages, that has to do with the alignment of either the midnight zenith or the Sun directly overhead at one of the zenith days, directly overhead with the Pleiades. And this is coming up:
On May 19th the sun is conjunct the Pleiades, and the solar zenith between 19-20 degrees latitude is between May 15th-21st…
On November 20th the Sun is opposite the Pleiades, so therefore at midnight, you light a fire, and the Pleiades are directly overhead. And this is one of the cross-checks because it only happens like this at the galactic alignment, the time period we are in now. So actually, May is going to be a phenomenal ground zero time for this.
The significance of solar zenith is that for any place on the planet between 23.5* North or 23.5* South Latitude [from the Equator], equally important to solstices and equinoxes are the days of the solar zenith when there are no shadows cast [at noon]. It cannot happen where we live here, but should anyone be taking a trip to that part of the world: Hawaii, Mexico, Peru, you are in that zone & have the opportunity to directly experience this Pleiadean-Solar alignment… but there’s more: the Full Moon.
Scorpio Full Moon Opposite Pleiades
CAYELIN: On May 19th we will have the second Scorpio Full Moon. You can have two Full Moons in a sign if the first Full Moon is in the first degree, or somewhere around 0* of that sign… then you will have a second at 29 degrees, as is happening on May 19th. So we have two Scorpio Full Moons [this year]. Scorpio is the archetypal energy that has most to do with death & rebirth themes, underworld, embracing & integrating shadow pieces for the purpose of empowering us to live more wholly who we are. We had the first Scorpio Full Moon on April 20th, and the second will happen May 19. It’s also happening during these days of “no shadows”, when the Sun is conjunct the Pleiades….
DANIEL: …at exactly the opposite degree of the Pleiades, located at 29 Taurus!
CAYELIN: So this Full Moon is where the Sun will be at the next solar zenith date in November… That means you can see the part of the sky where the Full Moon is on May 19th will be the part of the Sky the Sun is in November at the second Solar Zenith.
There is at least a 3 day window for the Solar Zenith effect, because the Sun moves 1 degree a day, and the Pleiades actually span 28 Taurus- 0 Gemini. Three of the stars of the Pleiades are actually in the Sign of Gemini, so the Pleiades are straddling both the sign of Gemini and the Sign of Taurus now. The rest of stars precess into Gemini over the next few years.
DANIEL: The other factor, about the same time frame is that Venus will conjoin the Pleiades, on May 24th…. Those few degrees from 28 Taurus to 0 Gemini Venus is aligned with from May 23 to May 26 meaning that Venus (in her underworld journey) is also marking the solar zenith and again that is the third cross-check for the Turning of the Ages.
CAYELIN: As May begins, Mercury is also conjunct the Pleiades and later turns retrograde on May 26. This indicates that Mercury is heralding what will happen later this month drawing our attention to the Pleiades. Plus, Mercury is currently at best visibility in the evening sky, which is happening from April 30th- May 23rd. Then, on May 13th Mercury reaches its greatest elongation or furtherst reach from the Sun (22 degrees). Merucry is giving us the message to pay attention. Saying "Here I am with the Pleiades, pay attention to me!"
40-Year Cycle of Venus & Mercury
DANIEL: Last month on the call we were talking about our re-discovery of the 40 year cycle, that is to say the events of the spring and summer of 1968 are recapitulated in the spring and summer of 2008. What’s happening over this next month as the continuation of the exact same pattern from 40 years ago, is that on May 3, Venus descends into the Underworld, on the other side of the sun [Exterior Underworld], until the end of July. Meanwhile, during May, Mercury will be going through the Sacred Hoop, on its way to a conjunction the Sun. So Venus is in the [Exterior] Underworld at the same time that Mercury is on its way to its next retrograde cycle, going through the Hoop also.
CAYELIN: In fact, Mercury will be inside the Hoop, starting at the 1st of May as it conjuncts the Pleiades, and then due to its retrograde, does not exit the hoop until July 23rd. This means Mercury is inside the Hoop for almost 3 months.
DANIEL: I think it’s really interesting, here we have [Mercury] visible, during one of itsmost visible time periods, in between Earth & Sun, and Venus not visible in the next chapter of this every-40-year dance.
I’m inviting those interested in working with the Shamanic Astrology paradigm to do research around the events of 1968. There were so many dramatic things that happened in summer of 1968. (Google 1968, Check Newspaper Headlines and Time magazine did a special edition on 1968 last month. Now if you really want to do interesting research, 1928 was also the same Venus Mercury pattern.
Mars in Leo
Mars, which is still quite prominent in the sky is going through the Beehive constellation around May 22. This is the significant configuration in the constellation of the Crab (M44). It’s actually an eyesight test to see iif you can actually locate that fuzzy spot in the crab…
Also on May 9, after six months… in Cancer, Mars enters into Leo. That night & the next night, Moon & Mars are conjunct in the evening sky. If we think of the mythos of Mars as the evolving expression of the masculine principle of this time period, after having begun the journey in Cancer, now has his first union with the Moon in the Sign of Leo. I haven’t any idea what that would actually mean, but it’s something to tune into ceremonially, as far as these dramatic events that are happening in May.
CAYELIN: …going back to the Beehive Cluster, one thing to note is that you can’t see it unless your are under a dark night sky. So it may not be that you have bad eyesight, but rather too much light pollution. It is very faint even under a dark clear sky.
Moon Conjunctions & Occultations
DANIEL: Meanwhile as we continue this investigation of what we see in the sky, some aesthetically beautiful configurations will be taking place. On May 9, the Moon makes a nice little triangle with Pollux and Mars. Over the next couple of days, Mars, Pollux, Castor, and Moon make an arc… and a couple days later you can see a tiny 3.5 degree exact triangle of Moon, Saturn and Regulus.
CAYELIN: It happens to be a first quarter Moon as well… a time when the Moon is half full, balanced between light and dark. After the first quarter we start noticing how rapidly the Moon increases in light. So it tends to be an accelaration time, accelerating whatever it is that’s being activated. Having Moon over Regulus & Saturn in first quarter shows acceleration of something that’s going on at that time….
DANIEL: One of the things you’ve been inspired to do a lot of research on, Cayelin, is occultations. The Full Moon is in some parts of the world is occulting Antares, and also their is a Moon occulation over Mars on May 9th… visible in some parts of the world.
CAYELIN: …we won’t be able to see it where we are. … but on May 20th we will see the Moon rising closely aligned with Antares.
DANIEL: …the last event we just did at Gael’s, around midnight a number of the group got to see the grazing occultation of the Moon and Mars. Which really caused quite a profound effect on the awareness of the people who saw it. This is the type of experience that assists us in perceiving the phenomena that are continually updating the Shamanic Astrology paradigm based on how the constellations inform the evolutionary experience of the signs. This is esepcially interesting when you get to see the Moon doing a grazing occultation of Mars. This was happening inside the constellation of the Twins last month. In May Mars & the Moon will have gone past the Hoop, so the occultation is outside the Hoop. It’s quite a profoundly beautiful thing to get to see.
… so, the idea here is that there will be a Full Moon with Antares. If we use this paradigm that all of these events can be perceived from 3 levels: the celestial world, the middle world & the underworld, you can come up with a lot of scenarios that would be middle world or underworld with that configuration….
North Node-Chiron-Neptune
CAYELIN: the whole entire month of May the North Node (NN) is very close to Neptune, making an exact conjunction on May 4th, and moves less than a degree for the entire month.
On June 2,the NN is conjunct Chiron, also very close the entire month of May and into June. Chiron is an underworld planet, Neptune a celestial planet, and the NN has to do with humanity’s destiny [a middle world factor]… We’re now coming to the time of the exact conjunctions of all three.
DANIEL: We’ve been presaging this for the last few months, Neptune, North Node & Chiron in their dance together. Hopefully we can now perceive Chiron not so much as an underworld aspect but as a teacher. A great number of people I know… are having a great deal of middle and under world experiences but not necessarily celestial. I’m seeing this as a welcome reminder that everything is happening just as it should…
Chiron is there with the NN and Neptune to remind us of that, in what otherwise could be looked at as ever-increasing intensities and challenges to our Mother.
Saturn Station Direct
CAYELIN: The other thing that’s happening right as the month begins is Saturn stationing direct on May 2, just about a degree and a half from Regulus. The alchemists saw Regulus as a Behenian Star or one of the magical stars for producing maximum alchemy whenever there are planets within 6 degrees of these stars there power was considered to be magnified. Regulus is the heart of the Lion, so this Timing is working with that heart energy. We also have the occultation of Antares, the heart of the Scorpion [as discussed above] happening later in the month as Saturn is continuing its dance with Regulus, which will last until the first couple weeks of July, when it moves beyond 6 degrees.
DANIEL: An interesting note — I’m in my second Saturn Return & have had lots of clients who have important configurations in the zone 0-6 Virgo or other mutable signs. I have pretty overwhelmingly presented, as a model of interpretation, that when Saturn goes direct, coming up in the first week of May, it represents a point for an actional, “full speed ahead” time. Those of us with planets in the early degrees of mutable signs, it’s like being inside a large lead cauldron, and within that cauldron, the base elements are being transformed into gold. What I’m suggesting and optimistically perceiving from the alchemist’s perspective is during the beginning of May is when the cauldron crumbles; the work of alchemy will have taken place, and it will be full speed ahead for those within the influence of that Saturn cycle, which has been pretty strong.
CAYELIN: it’s happening as we approach the New Moon at the Cross Quarter, the exact astrological cross-quarter being when the sun reaches 15 Taurus, halfway between the Spring Equinox (0 Aries) & Summer Solstice (0 Cancer)… whenever the Sun reaches 15 degrees of the signs of self-interest [Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, & Aquarius], it is that halfway point between the seasonal solar gateways. [The cross quarters] were seen as highly important to Celtic and other cultures… celebrating them often for a whole week or from New Moon to Full Moon or from Full Moon to New Moon… interestingly, we have an exact New Moon on this cross quarter at 15 Taurus.
DANIEL:…Followed by that Full Moon at 29 Scorpio… so it’s just exactly capturing that last 15 degree portion there.
Retrograde Stations
CAYELIN: Jupiter stations retrograde on May 9th at 22*22’ Capricorn. Mercury & Neptune both station retrograde on May 26th. When there are planets shifting directions, especially the visible ones, it creates a shift in our experience as well. I think of retrogrades as the process of pulling an arrow back on a bow… it looks like it’s moving backwards, but what it is doing is gathering strength and gathering power.
DANIEL: Right at the center of the retrograde passage is a birthing where a new archetype relative to that sign is taking shape. In June, the new cycle of Mercury has a Gemini overtone, considered to be the “master” overtone for Mercury (this is closest thing we in Shamanic Astrology will say to the traditional rulership scheme of astrology).
CAYELIN: Another insight of Shamanic Astrology is that when retrogrades are closest to Earth and brightest, they are in a place of greatest strength, rather than weakened. This is a different way of looking at it than traditional astrology.
Summary
CAYELIN: So we have the Cross-Quarter with the New Moon, the “days of no shadow” with the Full Moon, and this two week time period in between [May 5th – 19th]… where the Moon will be with Mars, Castor & Pollux, Saturn, Regulus, Spica, and then Full, and then on to Antares. So there’s this amazing energy happening… during this two week window worth noting, and doing your ceremonies and energizing your intentions.
DANIEL: if we go back to the celestial, the alignment of Neptune with the NN is actually something that goes on for a while, not just this month.
CAYELIN: Their exact conjunction is May 4th, at the cross-quarter time. And it’s really a 3 day window.
DANIEL: The feeling I’m getting is one of extreme contrast: Venus in Underworld at same time as the Neptune-NN conjunction, Saturn stationing direct, and Jupiter turning retrograde all in the same month. Also that amazing contrast between Full Moon with Antares at the time of no shadow, and some of these other symbols are very much about the Underworld and the shadow aspect. This is the most contrast I have seen in a long time.
DANIEL: Most overwhelming to me when I’m trying to bring in every paradigm of the last 10,000 years is the solar zenith-Pleiadean situation. It’s so exciting it makes me want to get to Hawaii before that, especially since I found out that the native Hawaiian civilizations honored the zenith in the same way that the Incas and Mayans did…
CAYELIN: John Major Jenkins talks about the 72 year window of the Sun-Pleiades conjunction… from 1976 to 2048. So 2012 is right in the middle. Also, in 2012 there is a solar eclipse at the same time as the conjunction, on May 20th. That seems to be another major indicator…
DANIEL: So if you happen to be around 19 to 20 degrees North Latitude on that particular da in 2012, the Sun will be conjunct the Pleiades, and there will be a [solar] eclipse: during the middle of the day, meaning you can also see the Pleiades during the eclipse! If there’s anything more dramatic than this, I don’t know what it is…
CAYELIN: Another thing is that as Venus is going into the Underworld, she is exactly halfway between her transits over the face of the sun in 2004 and 2012. We are exactly 4 years, halfway there to the next Venus transit, with Venus going into the Underworld at the halfway point….
DANIEL: In reference to this huge contrast between the Celestial and the Underworld — when we speak of the Underworld, what is happening is the planet is actually blinded by the light because of how near it is to the Sun.
I’m reminded of a favorite political commentator — Sometimes if you go so far right, you end up meeting someone who’s made a left turn. There’s a way that the far right and left come together. Well, there’s a place where the extreme celestial and the extreme underworld meet, which is blinded by the light… how different is that than total darkness? They are the same thing.
DANIEL: we really value your feedback, especially the ceremonial aspect of this paradigm, any experiences you have, positive or negative. We’d love to know about it.
CAYELIN: or whatever you notice going on in the world, regarding this material. The member site is yours, a way to share your insights and discoveries with all of us. This may help to trigger further insights and discoveries as well.
Additional Commentary
DANIEL: [regarding the 40 year cycle]: I just wrote an article about the obvious events of 1968 Including the assisination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the problems with the Democratic convention, with the police riots and all. Anyone my age remembers how intense, on all levels, 1968 was.
For those who want to know more I suggest going to the library and checking out old NY Times articles, you can get any date from 1968…
Musically, scientifically, culturally, 1968 was important. And very different from 1967. In 1968 the Uranian, Neptunian & Plutonian energy all maxed out at the same time.
History does in a sense repeat itself, but there is no reason it has to do it the same way that it did then. [The synodic cycles of Mercury & Venus are the same, but the outer planets are in different configurations.]
We are the ones who are bargaining with spirit. We are the Spirit Lawyers so to speack. All these other things have happened…. But let’s be creative about a solution to this.
If we remember who we’re working for, including the Earth, and the Circle of Grandmothers, we may very well be receiving all the support we could ever conceive of receiving.
Next call: Sunday, June 1
It’s particularly important for me, as that’s day 1 of the completion of my Saturn Return. I’ll be in Hawaii that afternoon.