NIGHT LIGHT NEWS
ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSMarch 2 – 8, 2017
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Preparation and Purification
Jupiter/Uranus – Rulers of the Aquarian Age
Venus Retrogrades
I Leave the Father’s House
and Turning Back
I Save
(Pisces Seed Thought)
Throughout history humanity has created rituals and celebrations that reflect the different seasons. The rituals mirror, indicate and signify the different aspects of light and dark, the elements fire, earth, air & water, allowing humanity to maintain a rhythm with nature, the heavens, past, present & future, with the heavens & with each other. Lent (from “lenctene” – when days lengthen), just before Spring, is one of those ritual times. Lent, begun this Wednesday, is 40 days and 40 nights of purification, preparing us for Spring, Easter, Resurrection, and the Aries Spring Festival full moon time.
Lent always begins the day after Mardi Gras, on a Wednesday, Ash Wednesday. There is a ritual with ashes in the Catholic churches – reminding us that we are spiritual beings clothed (temporarily) in form and matter.
The Ash Wednesday ritual – the priest places a cross of ashes (made from burned palms) on the forehead (Anja center, 3rd eye, place of spiritual direction) of parishioners while saying the words,
“From dust thou art (you were made) and unto dust thou shalt return.”
These words remind us that the physical body, made of elemental (the elements of) matter, will return to the Earth at death. However, within our body (within each cell) the Spirit of God dwells – the spark of Life, the Light of Life, the Pisces Light, that saves the world. During Lent, preparing for the new life of Spring, we cleanse, purify our bodies, we change habits, preparing to make ourselves new.
Astrology this week – Thursday Jupiter opposes Uranus (Libra/Aries). Oppositions tell us things new and expansive (reflecting the new Aquarian Age – Uranus & Jupiter are its rulers) are appearing and we must not resist, but accept and integrate them. They are the new Aquarian energies coming forth, the template of the new world. We are told those who resist will be left behind.
Venus turns stationary retrograde early Saturday morning, retrograding through April 15th. More on Lent and Venus retrograde next week.
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