Holly Alexander Astrology

Starting today, June 19th and continuing through Tuesday, there are a number of significant celestial alignments being activated.  It’s not necessary to understand the technicalities of these alignments.  Having an awareness they are happening, with a desire and intent to connect with them, is what matters most. 

As you read the article written by Daniel Giamario, I invite you to take in whatever resonates with you.  By taking time to still your mind, go into meditation, or simply ask yourself some of the questions and listen to your inner voice’s response, you are co-creating with these alignments.  Performing ceremony in whatever way feels right for you, will enhance the quality of your experience, and serve to ground the energies into your psyche, body – your life.  If you feel like sharing, I would love to hear from you about your experience. 

Sensational Celestial Ceremonials
by Daniel Giamario

Daniel Giamario

Beginning this Friday, June 19, we enter a five day window featuring a series of powerful and observable astrological events. Each day provides unique opportunities to experience these ceremonial applications of Shamanic Astrology.

The Shamanic Astrology Mystery School (SAMS) views “ceremony” as a specific participatory experience in alignment with the perception of “As Above, So Below.” This is not the same as “ritual,” or actions performed the same way each time, over time, such as a Catholic Mass or Lakota Vision Quest. From the SAMS perspective, it is not so important what you actually “do” in this type of ceremony, but rather the emphasis is on the conscious awareness of the main players on the stage of Earth and Sky. This is about allowing the cosmological events to direct the action by tuning in with our awareness and willingness to participate. That means if there is anything beyond the presence of the mystery as it shows up in the Great Above, you are free to make it up on the spot with awareness.

Day One: Friday, June 19. Visible in the morning sky before dawn is the thin waning Crescent Moon aligning with the Venus and Mars conjunction at 13 Taurus. This marks the third Venus morning star gate emphasizing the fifth or throat chakra, center of communication and speaking our truth. What can be communicated if the blocks to telling our truth were surrendered? And what significance can this bring to our cosmic couple, (journeying as Venus in Aries and Mars in Cancer within their current synodic saga) as they journey together through the sign of Taurus?

Summer Solstice Sunrise

Day Two: Saturday June 20. The Summer Solstice is exact at 10:46 pm PDT. The Sun “stands still” at its extreme northern declination, producing the longest days and shortest nights in the northern hemisphere. The Sun, at this time of the Turning of the Ages, is aligned with the Galactic Edge (opposite Galactic Center) and right in the middle of the Sacred Hoop (as the Lakota have called it) star circle. Sunrise and sunset ceremonies are suggested, Saturday and Sunday, although the Sun will be with the Galactic Edge all day long. The Galactic Edge is located in the center of the Sacred Hoop and is considered the place of creation, or the entry point of the soul. We might ask, “what is being birthed? Are we in harmony with and open to, the birth of a New World?”

Day Three: Sunday, June 21. Today marks the last exact Venus and Mars conjunction at 6:10 am PDT. Sunday morning before dawn, the last exact conjunction of Venus and Mars can be seen at about 15 Taurus. By July 19, they will separate beyond ten degrees and there won’t be another long visible Venus Mars union for another six and one half years.

What has been the lesson and teaching of this union? What does the union of the Cancer masculine and the Aries feminine feel like, especially in the sign of Taurus? Can we envision the union of a sensitive, feeling, giving, committed male with an autonomous, actional, mission and purpose directed female? Meanwhile the summer solstice ceremonial continues and the Moon approaches the Galactic Edge.

Day Four: Monday, June 22. The New Moon at the Galactic Edge near summer solstice is exact at 12:35 pm PDT at 1 Cancer 30. Many ancient cultures considered a particularly close New or Full Moon to the Solstice or Equinox to be extremely significant. It represents the union of solar and lunar mysteries, bringing these two uniquely independent cycles into step with one another. And here we have it happening at the Galactic Edge, at the junction of the galactic plane and the solar system’s plane. Galactic Alignment indeed!

I see a day of deep opening to and an allowing of new creation, with profound gratitude to Great Mystery and a possible seeding of a new calendar. A new everything. Meanwhile, all day long, the Sun is continuing to stand still and is approaching its exact opposition to Pluto near the Galactic Center, occurring at 12:39 am PDT Tuesday morning.

Day Five: Tuesday, June 23. This features the ceremonial New Moon or the first visible evening Crescent Moon and it is fully accented by the Sun Pluto opposition. This ceremonial New Moon is called the Hilo Moon in the Hawaiian tradition. It is interesting to note that virtually all shamanically oriented people ceremonialized the “New Moon” by its first visible appearance.

Tuesday evening marks the end of these amazing five days of astrological shamanic ceremonial opportunities, and then a beginning. Inspired by the transmissions from the Galactic Edge, animated by Mars and Venus, and deepened by the Pluto activation near the Galactic Core, the incubated seeds are planted and we set our intent with the first visible Crescent Moon knowing the Earth Mother is in charge. With our deep desire to work together with the Circle of Grandmothers, we are curious to see what happens next.