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The Lazaris Teachings, life experience
When it
comes down to a choice of following astrology or my instincts, my answer
isn’t always that simple. It isn’t always the same, either.
For instance, I researched a good electional day and timing to
launch The Radical Virgo blog. The stars more than
delivered. My new venture was successful out the gate, quickly exceeding the
traffic on my other blog, where I had labored for over two years for relatively
minimal participation. In no time flat, the volume of visits here on The
Radical Virgo was five times those on my first blog.
Like a good astrologer and cosmic soldier, I applied electional
principles to my first meeting with my childhood sweetheart when we reconnected
after 36 years. I lived in Sacramento; he lived in Dallas. Around
Christmas 1996, we knew seeing each other in person was the natural next
step—but Mercury Retrograde was coming up. (I joked that he’d better get used
to the part the stars play in my scheduling!) Waiting till January 18,
1997 paid off. There was an impressive kite pattern in our “first re-meeting”
chart, a Jupiter, Sun and Neptune conjunction—and a Grand Air Trine between
Moon, Uranus and Mars. We alternated traveling between our cities four times
from January to April. On his final visit in April, he said he wanted to come
back to stay. We were married the next year—on another carefully considered
electional day, balancing parameters of romance and practicality (two Virgos
with Venus in Libra). We wanted to get him on my health benefits before his ran
out from his last job.
In 2009, I had another dilemma, speaking of health. I had to have
some rather delicate eye surgery. Like most physicians, my ophthalmologist only
does surgeries on certain days of the week—in her case, Thursdays. She wanted
to do my surgery on July 23. From an electional perspective, it didn’t
look so hot. In fact, some of my astrologer friends were downright worried—one
in particular, a well-known colleague whose opinion I highly respect. Trouble
is, I couldn’t find another Thursday in the foreseeable future that would work
any better. Many of them were worse. I wasn’t sure what to do. And it couldn’t
be put off indefinitely.
So, I did what I always do when cogitating gets me “know where”. I
got quiet, went within, and got a clear answer: I should go for July 23. The
more I sat with it, the more my gut instincts said, keep that date.
I grew increasingly more comfortable with my decision, but I was
very guarded about sharing what was going on, especially on the public wall.
Among people I trusted and told, I insisted that no one send me worried energy
or have any vision except an excellent outcome. This was challenging with one
of my relatives who tends to gasp and go to the worst place in her mind when
any health situation arises. (I can envision the back of her hand on her
forehead in the classic melodrama, damsel-in-distress gesture.) “Please don’t
do that” in a loving way worked!
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| Sirius aka: The Big Dog |
Once I surrendered to this cognitive dissonance between my belief
in astrology and my instincts, the universe rewarded me with a little help from
one of my Twitter friends. A devotee of the channeled teachings of Lazaris, she
told me in a series of tweets about his teachings regarding the most powerful
day of any year—July 23! Since I talked about the lost civilization of Atlantis
in the last post, now it’s Lemuria’s turn:
While Lemurians were present in your world, the Lemurian year revolved around Sirius. The first day of the Lemurian year began on what you now call July 23rd with the Rise of Sirius. That is the day when Sirius rises on your horizon just before the Sun. This brilliant light is immediately swamped, swallowed up by the fires of the Sun, yet an opening has begun. The Rise of Sirius begins a 55-day cycle — July 23 to September 15 — when the Vortex is opened and more fully and widely than at other times. The universe is renewed. It is a time of beginning more profound than spring. ~ Lazaris, Vortex of the Goddess: Birth of the Universe
It calmed my nerves to know that in some system of cosmic thinking
my instincts were validated. The surgery was successful; however, in fairness
to those who worried about it, there was a complication. With gentle patience
and a conservative stance between my doctor and myself to trust it would
resolve itself; it did. All’s well that ends well.
But there’s more. I am going to have to have the same surgery on
my left eye soon. What we learned on that procedure is that I have some
anatomical challenges that make it tricky. The “Sirius surgery” gave my doctor
the knowledge not to do that procedure on me in the future but to do a
different one instead.
There’s nothing for me that overrides the guidance system built
into our bodies. Instinct and intuitions steers us in the right direction when
we learn to listen.
Mark your calendar now for next year’s July 23 opening of the Sirius Vortex. The fixed star Sirius is at 14 Cancer 05. Where does it fit into your chart?
I thought you’d like to know about this potent day of new beginnings. I usually plan something special, and I’d love to hear your Comments about other times you’ve thrown astrological caution to the wind. How did it work out?
In my case, going to the dogs (Dog Star) was a good thing … and at
least so far (hold that vision!), he’s not a seeing-eye dog, either.
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Photo Credit: Sirius © elartico - Fotolia.com; Kids side kicking - keigo1027yasuda @ fotolia.com
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