A time of extraordinary events continues to unfold with sometimes alarming rapidity lately. The world is going through a prolonged period of adjustment to new technologies as well as a parallel dramatic change in the weather as Earth goes through adjustments as well. Whether man made or cosmic makes no difference - for the changes are happening now to our planet and to all of us. We are being awakened and sleep is not an option.
So I was glad to see that the astrology for the Women’s March looked promisingly peaceful with Venus and Mars united by/with Chiron, all together in Pisces. Venus and Mars encounters are most always a time of passionate emotion and can be quite glorious. United by Chiron, the wounded healer of myth, the energy of the day could not have been more loving in its inclusiveness and its need to express the healing energy of love. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and holds the highest expectation for spiritual union between self and other. In essence that union is mother and child, which is all of us.
The millions of women (and men and children and babies) who marched on Saturday did not know what they were going to experience. They went because they were compelled to participate in shared self expression. Even those who were motivated by anger and frustration were transformed by the power of union of purpose. We were all fed up with a belligerant divisiveness thrust upon us that we do not feel ourselves. We had to come together peacefully to express that and we did, all over the world.
It is important to remember that every one of the people who marched knew at least 10 or 20 or 100 more people who would have liked to be there too, but couldn’t. Perhaps they were having their knees or hips replaced, or needed to. Perhaps they were working or caring for children or elders or the sick. Perhaps they were afraid to be themselves and exercise their rights to free speech. Perhaps they were dying. There were many, many more millions of people marching with us on Saturday in their hearts.
Thank you Venus. Thank you Mars. Thank you Chiron. Thank you Cosmos. Thank you for showing us that loving kindness is possible, that we can stand shoulder to shoulder to shoulder with 400,000 others and not be afraid, but smile at everyone and be kind to one another. We showed the world, and ourselves, what is possible. And that is PEACE.
