Reclaim the Cosmic Power
In the last 24 days, we've witnessed something happening that wouldn't have even seemed possible when this year began -- the takeover of the world's largest democracy, with the planet's largest economy, by an unelected billionaire. The wet dream of thousands of years of dominators is playing out before our eyes.
Something so massively destructive, on so many levels, arises from a much larger cycle than a few weeks, years -- or even than a few centuries. And in fact, cycles just that huge are now completing. We're at a great ending -- in the last year of a nearly 4,000-year cycle that began the last time Saturn and Neptune conjoined in 0' Aries.
That's not the only civilizational cycle coming to a close in these opening months of 2025. On March 30, Neptune becomes the first of the four slow-moving, reality-shaping giant planets to change signs. We don't even know when that cycle began. The computational tools used by astrologers don't go back that far.
What we're seeing is not a beginning. It's the ending of a worn-out paradigm-- and it needs our participation to complete. Because while what's happening Washington may seem far away, you're actually part of it. You're part of everything.
We're never powerless. Those who want us to be powerless have to settle for the next best thing -- our belief that we are.
Plotinus, one of the great astronomers and astrologers of ancient Alexandria, taught us the far bigger truth 1700 years ago. "Everything breathes together." Over 700 years before that, the Buddha put it this way: everything is dependent on everything else for its existence.
But we live in a world that makes it easy for us not even to see, much less to value, the power that we have. That’s why I’m writing you tonight. Because it’s not a minute too soon to take our ability to reclaim our power and our agency in new ways.
There's no better time to start than right now -- at the ending phase of the cycle. Right where you are, reading this letter, you can use the power you've learned to overlook, ignore, and underestimate -- that of your attention and your intention, your thoughts and your actions. As the Dalai Lama says, "whoever thinks they're too small to make a difference has never spent a night in a room with a mosquito."
The Kairos moment: Claim the cosmic power of right timing
We were 88 days away from a Neptune sign change – and the emergence of a new and never-before dream -- when the current president of the US was sworn in 24 days ago before a select audience of billionaires. Tomorrow, we’ll be just 44 days away from that shift into the sign that brings spring to the world. In the ancient wisdom tradition of numerology, both 44 and 88 are master numbers, that carry a higher frequency of manifestational potency.
Have you fully weighed in to that field with your intentions? I know that the answer to that is "no." Because I know that the limit to your energetic potency can never be reached. It's ever-expanding -- as long as your intention, and your ongoing pratice, is to expand it.
That Neptune sign change coming in 44 day marks the Cosmic Dreamer's first passage across the zodiac's penultimate Zero Point degree in 164 years. The ends of cycles are times of releasing our attachment to the old, and freeing up room and energy to magnetize something new. With a reality-shaping giant like Neptune, it's never just a personal dream we're co-creating. It' always also a collective one.
What we've been shown these last 44 days is just how much releasing needs to happen. Just how destructive the outworn, and out of date lust for conquest and empire, suffering and domination really are. If you wonder about the desperate haste to dismantle so much, realize that we aren't the only one who realize it’s never been more possible, or more necessary, to release them than now.
Neptune’s entry into Aries on March 30 is a beginning, in more ways than one. It's not only beginning a new 164-year cycle of a great dream for humanity, as important as that is. It also begins three months of the most extraordinary astrology of lifetime.
Between March 30 and July 7, all four of the solar system's giant, reality-shaping planets will change signs. That may not sound especially dramatic. Planets change signs all the time. Until you try and find out how long it's been since that last happened. -- and realize that we do not know.
That’s telling you the most important thing to know about this year of the snake, which begins her 44th day tomorrow. There’s a bigger picture unfolding now than we can see. After years of exhaustive research, Bibu Dev Misra, author of the book Yuga Shift, has concluded that we’re nearing the completion of the great age in Hindu cosmology known as the Kali Yuga, the shortest and most cruel of the four great ages.
In several videos available on the internet (just search for "Yuga Shift"), Misra discusses what happens at the turning of the Kali Yuga -- a time of great chaos and danger as an old pattern of domination and control, greed and power lust, is unveiled and turns its most malicious. During this time, he says, the most important thing we can do is stay in resonance with the Great Mystery, and its vast, creative intelligence.
It's time to prioritize resonance.
That's trickier than it sounds. We were all raised to be out of resonance with the Mystery. We were raised to believe we're separate from the Universe, and that the energy that changes reality comes to us from far away. We weren't taught to learn to recognize that it's all inside of us.
Perhaps that's why the Cosmos is shaking us out of our disconnection. Every day this week, culminating with yesterday's full moon, has brought a square to the Cosmic Disruptor, Uranus. He's famous for resorting to breakdown when he can't find a way in -- because he'll do anything to show us who we really are, and what's really possible for us. This week, he's been pulling out the stops.
And now, for the next two days – until Saturday morning, while the moon is still in her “full phase” -- Luna is inviting you to take a very long, clear look at what’s not working in the relationship between your own star power and the most visionary part of your birth chart. She’s asking you to have the courage to recognize what's standing between you and a breakthrough (and let's be real — in the world that the new president has in mind, there's very little room for your breakthroughs). She's inviting you to embrace the creative power of your own heart -- your own unique star essence -- more fully than ever before.
Every time you see what’s not working, and feel your willingness to let it go, you free up more room for a power that dwarfs that of the world’s richest man to move through you into the world -- that of the Universe. It's the power you're made of.
On Saturday, Luna enters her waning gibbous phase. This is when speaking what is true for us activates its power in the world around us. It's the reason the Book of Genesis says that "And God said let there be light, and there was light." It's the reason the Hindu faith understands the mantras of the deities to carry the complete power of the divine being. When we speak our truth to the Great Mystery we are part of, it becomes a co-creative seed.
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