Fires of Scorpio

The golden days of October are gradually yielding to Winter's dark embrace; it will be 6 months before Sun lovers again adorn the beaches and coves of South Devon - yet a few hardy Winter Swimmers will continue the daily homage to the sea, La Mer.
1 November , to the Celts, was/is the beginning of Winter, a time, when the veil is thin, to remember the departed, the Ancestors. The fires of Scorpio are, of course, a salute to the life-giving Sun, which returns in strength in early May when Taurus hosts the Divine Orb, causing Nature to don her new Gown - and Morris Men to leap and jingle in faithful celebration of Summer reborn.
Death and Rebirth - and change the only constant - the essence of our experience in this, the Physical world. The Eternal self , the still point in the centre of the turning wheel, sits calm, uninvolved in the "struggle", the many lives as spokes, radiating out to touch the rim of close engagement with the gritty old world. A part of us that was never born and has never "died", observing , with compassion, the progress of the Little Self along the varied road of Life.

Still one more Conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune, in 24 Degrees Aquarius, to come, on 21 Dec. 2009, the day of the Winter Solstice, the major turning point of the calendar, with "wounded healer"/inspired Educator Chiron close by. A Day of spectacular aspects, appropriate for affirming the Good, invoking LIGHT, setting forth our intentions for 2010.

Have just become a Grandfather for the first time, on 23 October - my "middle" son Hugh and his partner Ulrika have given life to a baby girl - a new stage of life for all concerned, many lives are touched by a new Arrival. One can only salute the soul who takes the plunge into the Physical world and marvel at the ingenious way in which the God, or Goddess, has devised the means of perpetuating the species/all species on this Planet,which is evidently a great Cosmic Laboratory /Nursery for a multitude of life-forms including our own.
If only we can maintain the Love, on every level for the duration of a lifetime. It's a condition to aspire to, and, while on that subject, I am keeping an eye on the Venus-Jupiter Trine on 29 October, and, later, the Venus-Neptune Trine on 2 November 2009- neither aspect incompatible with gifts and blessings of the Spirit, especially in the case of the latter, Venus being "at home" in the Sign of Libra on both occasions. I am curious as to what, if anything, you notice on/ around those dates?


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All Good Wishes - David.