As a delicacy of souls your thoughts are served at the dinner of those old gods that your world has forgotten.

AUGUST 2019, Mercury in Virgo and second New Moon.

August 2019

Mercury in Virgo & New Moon

Mercury in Virgo / August 29, 2019

To open this cycle we have to take into account an important detail, the trend that is generated by repowering Virgo and this in turn leading to several nearby planets under their order and direction, if just last week we were entering with Venus and Mars in Virgo , and perhaps even more relevant, the Sun in Virgo, because this coming August 29 Mercury (the communicator) enters the sign of the virgin, so before celebrating the new moon and all those projects that we want to sow , we are going to focus on that we have the Sun (the triumph and the light), Mercury (your way of communicating and understanding), Venus (your internal desires) and Mars (your capacity for action) being ordered under the sign of the virgin.

This stellar position is more than convenient to reorder your life from scratch, if the next new moon comes to embark on something new, this planetary position is telling you that before you start something new, you must clean and purify yourself of the old, from which you drag with you and is no longer useful or does not fulfill any more function in your life, apply to this to your love relationships, treatments, projects, processes, and academic studies, it is time to close old cycles that were not properly completed or used to properly focus on the Restart and search for something new.

The position of Mercury, Mars, Venus and the Sun in Virgo opens a door to order and the organization of different aspects of your life that you should focus on before the beginning of September, Mercury in Virgo invites you to debug communications and your understanding, focusing on studying what you really need and not wasting time accumulating unnecessary information, also guides you to stop making decrees about the past and the negative aspects, just focus on decreeing the positive for yourself and your environment, Venus Virgo invites you to clean your relationships to live a restart of them, close cycles, say goodbye to those individuals who are with you but do not contribute anything positive or constructive and eliminate contacts from your network that are there just for nostalgia, Virgo is the sign of order and something that Virgo always does is force us to release everything that brings us nothing.

On the other hand, Mars in Virgo began to feel weeks ago, leading us to activate certain internal processes and motivate us to undertake something new, that if, Mars, the impulsive and ruthless warrior tends to get bored every time he is in Virgo, because while Mars is used to acting like a wild warrior who is always ready to use his spear and sword, Virgo forced him to plan a more elaborate strategy to carry out his action and attack plans, so calm down, that fatigue that you will feel for the Long routines and almost bureaucratic processes for any action you wish to perform are only part of the process to carry out better-planned actions with better long-term results.

A new moon in Virgo / August 30, 2019

As we always say in practical astrology, the new moon is the best time to create or start something new, to immerse ourselves in a new project, to initiate a process of change and renewal or to embrace the next stage of some project. But in this case August has given us a special situation, two new moons in the same month, although it is not something “never seen before”, nor is it something that can go unnoticed, it is a month of beginnings and restarts, a The whole month dedicated to the Renaissance, and the fact of the two new moons next to a next stellar moment directed by the earth signs, will give us the firmness to undertake lasting projects without inconveniences.

Take into account that Virgo is an earth sign, it is also the sign of order, and like all earth signs, its lunar cycles give us firmness, seriousness in our short and long term projects, and clarity for decision making smart. In the case of the moon in Virgo, it is well known for its ability to provide us with space to ingeniously organize and manage our time and our agenda.

The black moon

The black moon is the period of five or six days before the new moon, during this period your body feels a bit more fatigued and bored of returning to the routine, each week start looks more overwhelming than the previous one, but it is a normal process because the moon, who nourishes with your energy your subconscious and your hours of sleep, is plunging into darkness to renew itself from scratch, so as the moon goes dark in the signs of cancer and read, before Reaching fullness at rest, well into the process of the new moon in Virgo, has less energy for you, and this forces you to make use of your own energy reserves to survive.

So as you can imagine all the previous week (between August 25 and August 29) we are living a period of black moon, which is that period where the energy that the moon transmits to us to internally feed our dreams and projects is decreasing, and with that it asks us to focus more on preparation and less on the action prior to the new moon.

This Virgo cycle

This new moon in Virgo opens a six-month cycle until March 9 that will close this cycle with the full moon in Virgo, get ready to show your intentions and projects with this new moon because it is a good time to do it, you have a period six months from here where you will feel a lunar reinforcement that is supporting each of those processes that you are living, so get to work.

Tracking retrograde Uranus in Taurus

While all this is a period of the restart, it is important not to forget that position of Uranus (the king of heaven) retrograde in Taurus until the beginning of 2020. This position of the king of clouds leads us to think that perhaps our goals are far from our reach, that we should put our feet on the ground and focus more on other smaller projects, the latter is noted with great force in the field of politics, where this astrological position strongly affects leaders and rulers, causing them to delay and even cancel all kinds of projects just because they think "they are beyond their reach" and that they should focus more on continuing the processes that had already been initiated previously, thus ignoring all their advisors.

South America

We have previously discussed in my social networks that the movements of the outer planets of the solar system (Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Pluto) have always had a strong and very particular influence in the countries of South America, for example, the position of Saturn and Pluto retrograde in Capricorn, it gives an indomitable firmness to the rulers, but not to their governments, it is noteworthy that the political changes in South America are the order of the day, the political parties live constant changes almost daily but the politicians and state leaders maintain their position, even as countries such as Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, falter in view of the media.

While these planets in the chimeric sign of Capricorn give them some firmness, it also exposes them to the media generating all kinds of changes in their governments, these changes (although they take time to externalize) are strengthened by the position of Uranus in Taurus, The king of kings does not come to change any politician of his position, but he comes to make each next ruler shine, thus motivating his people to make the necessary changes to begin a different 2020 for the countries of South America.

Elhoim Leafar

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HERE Mars, Venus & Sun in Virgo.

HERE Full moon in Aquarius, August 15

And as long as the world is world, we will continue dancing among the names of men we give to those old gods, and we fight for their history, without knowing it, and we fight for their cult, without even venerating them, and we fight for their attention, regardless The honest egida of redemption.

Mars, Venus & Sun in Virgo, The reign of order, self-criticism and focus on the smallest details has arrived here.

Mars, Venus & Sun in Virgo

the reign of order, self-criticism, and focus on the smallest details have arrived here.

This past August 18 Mars entry (your ability to act) in the sign of Virgo (the order), providing energy and clarity to help you make the right decisions in each of your processes, later August 21 was the expected entry of Venus (the lover) in Virgo, implementing all kinds of creative solutions to these present situations, also causing all kinds of doubts in your subconscious as far as personal relationships are concerned.

 But now, after that positive trine of fire with the relationship of 'Mercury-Jupiter', with Mercury in Leo and Jupiter in Sagittarius, which occurred on August 21 (along with the entry of Venus in Virgo), motivating the massive exchange of information in family groups and companies, and forcing you to know new ways of thinking outside the comfort zone.

This August 23 (drum roll), the cycle of the month of Virgo begins, we say to Leo with his eagerness to make us shine and stand out for who we are, and now with Virgo we seek to stand out is for what we do, for our daily work, for the actions we do and for the mountains we move.

The sun in Virgo leads us to order the world, to organize our ideas calmly, to reorder the workplace and home, to count the time we waste on distractions and focus on our work, remember that whenever we begin a cycle of sun in Virgo the first days we see everything disorganized, out of place, and to the point of becoming maniacal, everyone takes this perspective of order according to their priorities, Virgo is the sign of the organization and numbers, that which comes to order, clean, throw away what is not useful and renew what can be done, so be very careful with the control you try to take from things.

Virgo, as a good sign ruled by Mercury (the communicator), is highly critical and perfectionist, certainly lacks filters that soften his criticism and what matters is to make precise corrections and deliver the message, but sometimes he usually does so directly That message may sound like a destructive criticism, a negative or even threatening comment, but don't be exasperated, it's just Virgo trying to correct what he knows isn't right.

It is an ideal time to organize, do detailed work, and improve communications at work.

Those old modern pagan festivities

Those old modern festivities

Samhain, Mabon, Yule, and Lughnasadh, are probably the only festivities of the old cult that I personally practice, and clearly not in that order.


Although the pagan cult is full of festivities that celebrate stellar events as well as the cycles of cultivation, and these, in turn, represent or embody some old myths of the Indo-European world, the counter of pagan festivals and celebrations reaches a total that exceeds the 200 annual festivities, at least 25 of them belong to the Viking festivities and another 10 to the Celtic festivities, of which only 8 seem to have remained to this day.

The theme of pagan festivities is like a small cauldron burning in the middle of a forest in the middle of the night, all pagans, 'polytheists', Wiccans and others, see it shines from afar with a different perspective, they all have their own opinion in this regard and everyone has their own vision of the subject. Trying to have a conversation about any of these festivities with at least 5 or 6 people can often (not always) end up in a big discussion, because if something has damaged the pagan community in the last decade, it is the excessive use of social networks, which under the pretext of "uniting people" have done an admirable job in promoting quite mediocre ideas and in many cases, empowering people with misconceptions to believe that they are right under rather absurd pretexts.

If at the end of the '90s, we all adjust to what the book said, and the arguments were discussed respectfully in every sabbat (face to face), now with blogs and social networks, many of us feel (and obviously I include myself) In this wave of "If I have a blog and write on it, it is clearly because I am right", and many times it is not so, many times social networks just end up empowering and magnifying the noise that someone causes regardless of the practical study or the years of experience, although in my years as a blogger I have perceived many times “this post that I made is quite uplifted”, or “maybe here they are very offensive and I must accommodate it”, also in my years as a blogger I have read countless posts written by people who cite as an only source an article in Wikipedia, and based on it they are considered the "owners of the absolute truth".

I have read entire articles of about six pages that they end by citing up to nine books by different authors and anthropologists, which in many cases are coincidentally the same articles that you can find as quotes to a similar post in Wikipedia, and yes, this happens unfortunately more often than many imagine, because I personally have distanced myself from reading other blogs and I have dedicated myself to reading more books by the most diverse authors before consulting with Wikipedia, that is the vague way of all, the easy and unpretentious way of someone who does not take Seriously your own work.

The same is the case with pagan holidays and the whole ideology around them, although my idea is not to promote the "next return to obscurantism" or anything similar, if I consider that the fact that now everyone can freely express their opinions, It does not always mean that “everyone” has the most correct opinions or even the clearest intentions in sharing these opinions.

The Wheel of the Year

I have mentioned it on several occasions, enter the Wicca quite young, more out of foolishness than out of curiosity, I did not have the maturity at that time to go into something like this and I think the result was that it ends in some way 'burned' the process, quite overwhelmed and boring of the continuous norms, ranks, hierarchies, differences of opinion with the 'elders', etc ... And still, I love the Wiccan way as it really is, (far above what some want to make it seem), and especially because for many as in my case, the Wicca was a door that led us to the pagan path and to meet our own truth, to hear that call.

In the Wicca eight important festivities are celebrated based practically on the cycles of cultivation, cycles that although thousands of years ago could be the most important for humanity, because winter would end the harvests and hide the trade routes, the summer eradicated the fruits and flowers, both for the nourishment of men and women and for the veneration of the gods on their altars, the arrival of spring not only represented nature emerging again from the earth as everything began to bloom, but also represented for many lands of that time, the arrival of plagues, allergies, and diseases for which man was not prepared, and not to forget the Autumn...

In a world where knowledge of meteorology and the cycles of agriculture were not much studied beyond of the most basic, when seeing the trees and the nature in general to foresee, the plagues of worms and mosquitos seizing the fields due to the accelerated worsening of crops, the intense red tone of the trees (associated with blood, war and death back then), and the arrival of carrion birds in these months, even the bravest of warriors would have easily thought that the dreaded end of the world was approaching, the evil that seized the earth, the souls of Hades seizing the world, the signs and omens that a gigantic snake would emerge to devour the sun and the other worlds.

Today we know that harvest cycles are rather a side effect of the meteorological changes associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and although this makes everything sound very scientific, I am one of those who still think that all these cycles are associated with work of forces greater than us that we are just beginning to understand, as well as the Maya who imagined three thousand years ago a dark god in the center of the milky way devouring the light and everything in its path, and only in full 2018 the scientific community has agreed to admit that our entire galaxy revolves around a black hole.

All this without mentioning that the Wicca is more consistent with an Indo-European cult where the main deities are a hunting god and a lunar goddess to represent the balance, although most of the pagan community strives to insist now on making the Wicca as a kind of "resurgence of the primal matriarchy before the arrival of the patriarchate", to the point that the veneration of the male deity is rather a kind of taboo in modern Wicca.

Samhain and Yule.

I in particular only celebrated four of the festivities, more for a customary theme of many years than for religious obligation, though, my cycles are favorites are Lughnasadh, Samhain and Yule.

Lughnasadh

Lughnasadh, for his representation of the triumph of light over darkness at the cost of the most sacred sacrifice, nothing more motivating in politically dark times like these.

Samhain

Samhain, although I did not celebrate it with such devotion in my country of origin because we have practically no autumn, it reminds me a lot of several indigenous celebrations originating from the beautiful Amazon that my grandmother celebrated, also when arriving in the United States to celebrate 'All hallows eve ', and finally knowing the pumpkins, the motivation clearly increases, and much.

Yule

Yule, let's be honest, except for the Grinch (and I know a couple of these) it is quite difficult not to fall in love with Christmas, yes !, it is a pagan holiday that the church used to turn the pagans, yes !, Santa Claus in red and white is rather a marketing invention of Coca-Cola based on the commercial restructuring of a Polish story based on San Nicola Di Bari, and Yes !, Jesus was not born in December, and if the case we are not born in Bethlehem either less at the time they tell us, with a notable difference of 8 years.

Special Mention: When I was in the third semester of Marketing and Advertising at the College University, I made an entire project based on promoting Yule and the image of the so-called 'Old Pascuero', which is something like the Argentine San Nicolas, and after six months of effort Professor Natalia Buenafuente reproached my project for appearing 'very ambitious'. ‘Cheeky’ and ‘against good Catholic customs’, not to mention that he shouted in front of the entire class ‘that’s not God!’ ... And the rest is history from another story.

Samhain celebrates the final season of the harvest cycle in Celtic culture, and is closely associated with other similar festivals of other pagan cultures around the world, although mostly in Europe, though, thanks to the celebration of 'All Hallows Eve' ( I hear some radical witches screaming in the background), this celebration remains, has remained, and is one of those few festivities that people outside paganism understand, and even many of them respect without much explanation, and it is quite charismatic to see Children dress up as witches and ghosts in the streets asking for candy and forcing their parents to go out with them.

However, today Samhain's celebration has changed a lot, and contrary to what some people think, this is good, it has become rather a double aspect celebration, while some go out to celebrate freedom of expression, dressed in their more sorcerers attires, masks, and brooms, organizing parties to meet with the local witches, others take this date in a slightly calmer way as the time to honor those witches who have left this world and who still remain among us, with a silent vigil, or in my case, with small rituals at home, accompanied by a pretty minimalist altar decoration, wine, cheeses, flowers, incense and plates full of fruits, homemade garlands and a lot, but a lot, a lot of light on the altar, to illuminate his path and his return in a next cycle.

Yule, this holiday is, on the other hand, more discreet, many outsiders to paganism still do not understand it, and their association with Christmas complicates the matter quite a bit, although today Yule is rather a kind of intercultural celebration among old Roman traditions (such as give gifts), some Celtic traditions, and it has a lot to do with some Viking festivities, the fact that all this is celebrated at the same time as something as great as the Catholic Christmas holiday, if it makes it quite complicated for some to feel comfortable to celebrate.

In my native Venezuela, Yule is practically something unknown, it is not mentioned beyond the books on paganism and Wicca, and only some very closed pagan circles celebrate it, Christmas is perhaps one of our biggest festivities along with the carnivals, the Devils of Yare (the closest we have to Halloween) and some festivals of different virgins that we have in the Country.

In addition, the popularity of Conny Méndez, founder of Christian metaphysics (a branch of contemporary metaphysics from the Catholic point of view and using Saint Germain as a central figure in her study), helped popularize and further promote the tradition of 'the night of the Christmas Spirit' and a series of ritual complexes that we perform in Venezuela every December 21 (winter solstice day).

The Christmas spirit is a pagan-Christian celebration that became popular since 1986, you can find many books dedicated to the topic in your local bookstore, but if you want a summary of it, every two years I upload a post to this blog updated the topic, so just be aware that this year touches a new one.

So while the pagan festivities have changed a lot, and now they revolve more around (most of them) the celebration of the dead and all those who have left this world, these are still celebrated, but let's be honest , we will never be able to celebrate them with the same devotion that our ancestors did, for them to celebrate the arrival, birth, death and resurrection of the gods was something extremely important on which their food, the weather, and their life depended, to We these celebrations are rather a way of remembering the past, honoring the ancient celebrants, and a beautiful reason to connect with other believers and practitioners like us.

Elhoim Leafar 

Once upon a time in the land of Panthalassa, a god emerged from the first seed that man sowed, and this god created other men, and these men created other gods, and the gods separated the lands and mountains that were once one, and the children of these gods and men were the first to inhabit their star, the first of many stars populated by gods.

The Italian astronomer, and poet who wrote with great philosophical and lyrical insight into the cosmic and spiritual sense of love.

Giordano Bruno, the Italian astronomer, philosopher, and poet who wrote with great philosophical and lyrical insight into the cosmic and spiritual sense of love.

Giordano Bruno was one of the great intellectual figures of the Renaissance. Practicing both philosophy and magic as cosmological speculation, Bruno saw in love the binding force of the cosmos and incorporated into his cosmology a platonic understanding of love. He also applied his theory of love in his magical doctrine, since the magician could use the erotic force of the cosmos to manipulate and attract. Giordano Bruno believed that love was the link of ties -vinculum quippe vinculorum love est- that held the entire universe together and could be used to attract anything.

Like some Platonic philosophers, he considered Eros to be the "daemon magnus," the supreme spirit that magnetized the cosmos - and the first among the divinities. In his book on bonds in general, Bruno writes: "In all things, there is a divine force, that is, love, the father in himself, the source, the divine ocean of all ties." It is through this link, Bruno adds, that lower things rise to higher ones. In this Bruno echoed the neo-Platonic notion of a hierarchy of being, in an emanationist cosmos, in which the soul should climb, as if it were, and undertake a return driven by love and knowledge towards divine intelligence. Marsilio Ficino in his Commentary on The Banquet of Plato had written:

Love is nothing more than a certain virtue of conjugation and unity, which induces the superior things to provide the inferior ones; and reconcile equal things in mutual communion; and also awakens the lower ones, so that they become the noblest.

Bruno differentiates spiritual love from mere animal eros, that is, the heroic love that tends to the spiritual or that takes the material as a platform towards the spiritual, in line with the doctrine of Diotima:

All loves - if they are heroic and not merely animals - are aimed at divinity, tend to divine beauty, which communicates first to souls and shines in them; and from the souls - or, rather, by them -, it is then communicated to the bodies: hence the well-ordered affection loves the bodies or bodily beauty, so that in them there is an indication of spiritual beauty. Moreover, what the body falls in love with is a certain spirituality that we see in it, which is called beauty and that does not consist in the dimensions being greater or less, or in certain colors or shapes, but in a certain harmony and harmony of members and colors. This harmony shows a certain affinity with the spirit, which is perceptible to the most acute and penetrating senses; follow this that those who are endowed with such senses fall in love more easily and intensely and in the same way, more easily fall out of love.

(Of the heroic furores)

After all, love for this tradition, which in the case of Ficino and Bruno has already been mixed with Christianity, which in turn, due to the influence of Alexandrian theologians, was filled with Platonic Logos, is always a deific force Love is in the human being that divine, that same divine flame that rises in its epistrophe towards itself. Love is an anagogic ecstatic rage.

These furores are not oblivion, but a memory, they are not the negligence of oneself, but love and longing for the beautiful and good, with which one seeks to achieve perfection, transforming and resembling the perfect. They are not enthralled in the ties of ferrous conditions, under the laws of an unworthy fatality, but a rational impetus that pursues the intellectual apprehension of the beautiful and good and that he already knows what he would like to please trying to conform to him, in such a way that he inflames its nobility and its light and comes to be covered with quality and condition that make it appear illustrious and dignified. By intellectual contact with that divine object, he becomes a god; No one attends that they are not divine things, being insensitive and impassive to those things that are usually considered more principal and for which so many others are tormented; nothing fears and despises for the sake of divinity the rest of the pleasures, without taking care of life.

... the butterfly advances towards the flame, the deer towards the arrow and the unicorn towards the loop that catches it, but for the lover that flame is the burning desire for divine things, that arrow is the impression of the ray of beauty

(Of the heroic furores)

Alchemy as a sacramental science, a baptism of fire, a spiritual communion and a theophanic transfiguration.

Alchemy as a sacramental science

a baptism of fire, spiritual communion, and a theophanic transfiguration.

The modern narrative tells us that alchemy, despite all its metaphysical speculations and its unbridled pretensions to transform the elements (to make gold from lead and others), was photochemistry and this is what must be rescued. With alchemy it happened, university professors tell us, something similar to what happened with astrology, which in all its madness and superstition ended up, directly and indirectly, generating astronomy, and we can discard everything magical-spiritual and stay with the chemical or physical So then, what Newton did at night in his alchemical laboratory - or his apocalyptic speculations - is just a curious story anecdote to which we should not pay much attention.

But wanting to appropriate alchemy by suggesting that it has historical value but only as an antecedent is to disarm it and steal its own quintessence. For alchemy is not a crazy project that was then redirected to the limits of scientific instrumental reason, which was saved from itself. Alchemy is part of a radically different view from that of modern science, although it shares with it its investigation of the matter. Alchemy is far from certain Platonic and Neoplatonic readings that conceive asceticism or philosophical practice as forgetfulness of the body and as a purely spiritual and celestial direction.

Well, and in this sense, it is similar to tantra and theurgy, alchemy recognizes that for the liberation or redemption of the soul and the world it is necessary to operate in the matter, either in nature as a whole or in the body of the human being. Alchemy is a spiritual science - a science of spiritualizing the world, of creating, as the apostle Paul exhorted, a soma pneumatikon - and therefore a contradiction concerning modern science, which is not science but because it is only material. In this sense, it is obvious that Western alchemy should be considered mostly as a Christian (and Islamic heterodoxy in its transition from antiquity to Renaissance Europe). Already Carl Jung studied extensively the relationship between Christ and the philosopher's loss, being the great work of alchemy in some way the alchemist's christification or, at the same time, the purification of nature - of the sin of the world - so that the spirit can incarnate and vehicular the world towards a paradisiacal state.

Jung's reading of alchemy is well known - and controversial in many ways, although not in the preponderance of Christ in the opus, this being the archetype of the god-man or deification of the alchemist. Less known is the interest in the alchemy of orthodox theologian Olivier Clément (1922-2009), a man of enormous scholarship who became interested in alchemy, cabal and oriental religions in his youth. Clément writes insightfully in his essay L'oeil du feu:

The alchemy contrary to what is repeated in the stories of science has never been, except in its most opaque aspects, a type of infantile and hesitant chemistry. It was a "sacramental" science for which material appearances had no autonomy, but only represented the "condensation" of mental and spiritual realities. Nature, when one penetrates its spontaneity and its mystery, becomes transparent: on the one hand it is transfigured under the luminosity of divine energies and on the other it incorporates and symbolizes the "angelic" states that fallen man can only experience for brief moments, listening to a piece of music and contemplating a face.

This paragraph recalls what was said by Professor Gilles Quispel, who suggested that alchemy was "the yoga of the Gnostics." However, Clément is not so quick to relate alchemy to Gnosticism and considers that in reality alchemy and Christianity grew symbiotically. In this sense, it is worth remembering that, to name just a few examples, Alberto Magno, Roger Bacon, and presumably Thomas Aquinas himself practiced this hermetic art. And Hermes Trismegisto himself had been included in the college of saints in a panel in the Cathedral of Siena.

Clément's reading hits the mark when he points out that alchemy was a sacramental science, where nature itself was seen as a temple in which to celebrate the Eucharist or some other sacrament with which man united with God, and heaven with the Earth. The word sacrament is used to translate "mystery" in Christianity. The sacrament is the encounter with the mystery; For the alchemists, nature was that living temple that contained the mystery of the redemption of the world and the resurrection of the body. And the transmutation of the elements was also a transfiguration of the alchemist, a recapitulation of the creation of the cosmos and the passion of Christ.

Your body is made of stars.

Science confirms that 97% of our body is constituted by Star Powder.

based on the article by Javier del Villar. Science Magazine (September 2017).

Virtually our whole body is made up of matter that comes from the stars, how does that make you feel?

The possibility of being literally made up of "stardust" is one of the most scientifically poetic ideas ever cultivated. Through the centuries more than one voice warned this sidereal constitution in the human being: “Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble because you are made of stars,” says an old Serbian proverb. At the beginning of the 20th century, Aleister Crowley promoted the idea that “every man and every woman is a star”, while short, the rockstar of the cosmos, Carl Sagan, warned: “The cosmos is also within us. We are made of the same substance as the stars.”

pic: Miguel Bruna

While for decades science had already hinted at the truth of this idea, in 2010 an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, Chris Impey, was categorical in confirming that all organic matter containing carbon was originally produced in the stars. The oldest canvas in the universe was mainly made up of helium and hydrogen, while the rest of the components were created, and disseminated, via supernova explosions - and so this stardust would reach Earth. All heavy atoms, including oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, that is, a good part of our raw material, was created by an earlier generation of stars, dormant about 4.5 billion years ago.

We are almost completely stardust

A recent analysis of the information obtained through the Sloan Digital Sky Survey exploration program managed to locate, in 150 thousand stars within the Milky Way, the elements that serve as raw material for life on Earth (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur). This resulted in the conclusion that 97% of the mass of the human body is made up of matter from the stars.

“For the first time, we can study the distribution of elements throughout the galaxy. The elements we measure include the atoms that makeup 97% of the human body's mass, ”he said in a press release from the SDSS Sten Hasselquist of the State University of New Mexico.

How does it feel to be made of stars?

The possibility of intimacy in the deepest of the planes, the constitution itself, with beings that we generally perceive as distant and impersonal as the stars, has important implications in the way in which we self-conceive, as well as in the way in which we understand Our relationship with the cosmos. The cultural precept that everything that "is out there", beginning with nature, exists apart from me, seems to collapse, even rationally, if we consider that we are literally constituted of astral matter.

Taking the reflexive game a few steps further, we can suggest that when we feel someone we are caressing the cosmos and that looking at the mirror there is much more in this reflection than we think. In addition, and from the hand of another premise of Sagan that says "We are stardust that thinks about the stars", we come to the possibility that we are self-enjoying stars, or we can even court the idea that contemplating the stars is an exercise of introspection - which, by the way, makes our existence even more suggestive.

Full moon in Aquarius, August 15

The full moon in Aquarius August 15

the clarity between two eclipse seasons.

The full moon in Aquarius that occurs on August 15, is the closing of a six-month cycle that began on February 4 with the new moon in the aquarium, all the projects, studies and processes initiated at that moment with the blessing of the new moon, they are now living their peak with the clarity that this moon gives us.

This full moon completely closes the six-month lunar cycle that began that magical month of February, it is necessary to remember that that new moon, closed the winter eclipse season, but this full moon also opens the second eclipse season of 2019,

If the new moon in Aquarius during February, focused on taking us to reconsider our circle of friendships and find more like-minded people with our life purpose, to look for light in new faces and find empathy in strangers, this full moon invites us to separate of those "friendships" that continue with us by routine or by obligation, cut ties that we well know that do not benefit us and focus on building that tribe (to tell you in some way) that seeks the same purpose as us, that group of people who they vibrate on our same frequency and are really interested in bringing a positive experience or new knowledge to our lives.

The energy of Aquarius is an innovative and creative energy, liberal, idealistic and ambiguous, aquarium always manifests itself in the democratization of knowledge and transparency in interpersonal relationships, it is a good time, to be honest with yourself and with the people around you , understand that you have no reason to be ashamed to ask others for help, and immerse yourself in a creative process to create or publish something new.

The Full Moon in Aquarius is the time to maintain the balance between our needs and those of others because when we share our world expands wonderfully. This lunation helps us visualize our ideal future, connecting with the right people. In case of doubt, let's take the unconventional route, Aquarius is the sign that governs teamwork and technology.

"This full moon is called the moon of the male deer (or fallow deed) apparently because, according to the natives, at this time they begin to grow their beautiful horns to these animals".

Aquarius is the sign of individualism, of humanism, of freedom, and also has some features of Saturn (according to ancient astrology) that make it a sign of intelligence and mental independence, but also selfish and melancholic. If we take the modern interpretation, it is ruled by Uranus, which is the archetype of Prometheus, the god who steals fire from the gods to deliver it to men. Thus, things change and we have this more humanistic, creative, free and libertine, revolutionary notion. However, for the ancients, this would constitute false freedom: a materialistic, not spiritual freedom.

From this cycle of the full moon we will begin to see how all those results of those intentions of personal and emotional growth arise, that we personally sow with the new moon of February, all those projects and dreams that we plan to start at that moment they have grown, with or without our help, and it is only up to us if we keep them on paper, or get them to take action in one way or another.

While the full moon in the aquarium is about fullness, clarity, and understanding, do not forget that in the next few days we will have a cross of fire with the Sun (internal fire and energy), Mars (your ability to act), Venus ( your desire), and Mercury (the way you communicate) in the sign of Leo, doing an opposite action to this full moon in the aquarium, so be prepared because most likely you will feel intimidated by other entrepreneurs and creatives which seems to be more successful than you, and just as Leo is the sign of will and pride, this opposition to the energy of the full moon in the aquarium will make you feel victim of a pride hurt by that uncontrollable mania of the sun in Leo, who insists on making us compare with others.

But not all this ends here because quite soon we have a second new moon this August, and this moon will come recharged by a pyramid of land signs that we will talk about later.

Blessings to all and much good fortune.

Read too: August 2019, Jupiter direct and Uranus retrograde.

Virgo in August, 2019.

Virgo reloaded to end August 2019.

After a month where the most hedonistic sign of the Zodiac, Leo, prompted us to want to shine with our own light, to be more creative, more original, to focus on the strength of our individuality and to give us that recognition that we owe to ourselves, Now we enter the clear Virgo lands, a solar revolution that leads us to objectively focus on what we are looking for and how to achieve it.

The new direction of Virgo leads us to return to the most basic tools, but at the same time the most essential, good communication and well-structured planning in the short and long term, all in order to achieve success and well-being. Once the sun sets in Virgo this August 23, 2019, we focus on our true goals, no more focus on “how do they see me?”, “Why do they look at me and understand me this way?”, “Because can't I do things just like everyone else? ”in Virgo lands these questions are meaningless trivialities, with the sun in the sign of the winged goddess that is Virgo, we focus more on how we do it, and much less in how others do it, if the sun in Leo led you to find the value of your own ingenuity, now with the sun in Virgo it is time to apply that practical ingenuity in our day to day and lead us to be happy and prosperous in Our own way and our way.

On August 18 Mars enters virgo, the planet of action comes to take you to promote ideas and personal projects that you feared to start with that infamous “what will they say?”, It is your moment to shine with your own light and plan in detail that future How much you are looking for.

On August 21, Venus enters Virgo, the planet that governs your way of initiating, understanding and leading individual relationships focuses on those aspects of you that we must improve, all relationships have aspects that must be worked in one way or another, and The worst of these aspects is not to understand that you must work on them, do not let vanity and pride play you a bad plan, learn to yield and recognize your role in the relationship, Venus in Virgo will guide you on a fast path to know what is your failure in relationships, or why are you jumping from them?

August 23 starts the solar cycle in Virgo, Happy Birthday to all Virgos in their month!, This solar cycle is governed by Mercury (the communicator) and its ability to adapt to new times, although there is some truth in which Virgo tends to focus on highlighting and highlighting the most negative aspects of everything in its path, including situations and people, many times we must recognize that even with its known lack of filters, Virgo is there to help us perfect who we really are and He always presses us because he knows well that we can do better, although many times his dialogues are not the most appropriate, we must be grateful that his intentions are always realistic and more than adequate. let yourself be guided a little!

On August 24 a conjunction of Venus and Mars (the lover and the warrior) occurs at the 4th of Virgo. With Mars and Venus in Virgo and both in conjunction on Saturday, August 24, 2019, begins an internal process that wants to guide us to grow in the field of love relationships, eroticism, sensuality, romance and devotion for feeling loved It leads us to face our own limitations. Eros will be in the air throwing arrows without looking at who or why, and it is no reason to be ashamed, it is rather an astrological union that helps you undress internal desires and invites you to achieve personal ecstasy in new ways and even with new people .

What you swear under the Sun in Leo, it is time to enforce it under the sun in Virgo, desire and desire are served, Mars in Virgo will be the impulse you need to take necessary actions in the field of love, with or without a partner! .

On August 29, Mercury enters Virgo, the planet of languages, understanding and communications enters its sign, and if, suddenly, communications begin to flow positively, matters related to documentation and legal processes begin to flow and it is A good time to plan meetings with lawyers and social services, this is a good cycle to publicize press documents, articles that have suffered some type of censorship in the past and follow up on those news that interest us to better understand them.

And keep very attentive to the next post, that the new moon is coming to us in Virgo, and it will be the second new moon this month.

August 2019, Jupiter direct and Uranus retrograde (until 2020).

AUGUST 2019

Direct Jupiter and Uranus retrograde (until 2020).

I always like to emphasize the fact, that it is we (and not the universe in our environment) who must change and adjust to the reality we live, which is why working with planetary retrogradation is the ideal opportunity that helps us rediscover those internal cycles that influence us and that will guide us to become better people every day, better versions of ourselves.

All planets are regularly retrograde, so we need to embrace these inevitable cycles as a fact of life and an opportunity to build character, each retrograde cycle is a stage of internal rediscovery that leads us to understand the true extent of our character, and The foundation of our intentions.

August 11, Jupiter Direct.

After much waiting, that prodigal son (Jupiter) returned without problems to his ruling sign (Sagittarius), a visit that began on November 2018 and will end on December 2019, hence the cycle that entrepreneurs have enjoyed creativity more emotional and linked to the reality that they live, a less “illusory” or collective creativity, this position has led us to put our feet on the ground, and thus understand that the best projects are born from a long, organic and crowded process of details that we used to ignore before.

Jupiter did not visit his position in the constellation of Sagittarius since that cycle that we lived between December 2007 to January 2009, this cycle brought us a focus on honesty and original beliefs, leading us to understand a much more direct and precise reality, Without so many ornaments or so many lies, this has been a cycle to help us open our eyes, recognize true intentions (both our own and others) and has led us to understand our position in the place where we are.

Although this cycle that we are not going to repeat until another decade was proposed to encourage open dialogues and large-scale teamwork (Countries, Governments, NGOs, Embassies), it has also led us to unify as human beings of different factions and places for the same purpose, and as we had made clear, 'non-resistance' has been the key.

Once the mud opposes resistance, it breaks down and ends up in the garbage dump along with a hundred pieces that the artist could not finish, but when the mud yields and lets the artist mold it in his own way, in this case, Jupiter has taken the position of the artist, the clay is able to become something else, transform and serve a purpose, whether as a plate, cup, vase or even as an ornament in an art gallery.

Those who have shown resistance to this cycle have clearly seen themselves in the painful situation of being in some way, discriminated against, removed or humiliated publicly (media, characters in social networks, public figures, etc.), while those who have consciously or unconsciously delivered to this change of Jupiter, have lived generous cycle in learning and changes of consciousness, here we find organizations that have come together to fight for a specific purpose, bloggers who come together to work together, artists, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs that collaborate unifying their resources, etc...

And now, this retrograde Jupiter cycle that led you to rediscover with greater calm those common mistakes you were making, which led you to cancel and change plans, trips and projects, now abandon this cycle of backward movement that began on April 10, 2019 , and ends on August 11 of the same year, after a total of 123 days, and in case you have not noticed, that direct Jupiter cycle starts the same day that Mercury (communications) enters the sign of Leo to give you a boost of character and force you to promote your ideas and your work with greater control, and just a week before the entry of Mars in Virgo on August 18, to guide your hand and your mind in the term of make good decisions in the area linked to personal growth, especially for those who are deciding between careers and academic courses.

August 12, Uranus retrograde.

Unlike Jupiter (your path to success) that is ending its retrogradation cycle, Uranus (your goals and your perspective of them) is entering its own retrogradation cycle with a difference of only 18 hours, so while Jupiter start walking straight forward and with it your projects begin to move forward, Uranus begins to retrograde, and with that, as your projects move forward you feel anxious to start making immediate changes in them, and if you don't realize this you can easily end up ruining in a very short time what you are taking a long time to create, whether it is well-founded personal relationships, well-planned courses, web pages, digital projects or commercial products.

Maybe you have not noticed if you are a new member of the blog, but, if you are subscribed to it and have done an astrological follow-up of the topic, you will notice that there is an extremely important change here, that until exactly one year ago we had an extensive cycle From the beginning of the year with a retrograde mercury, correct, every December 31 we said goodbye to the old solar year with a mercury retrograde shamelessly, so we had to prepare ourselves to face a complicated year in the subject of communications and personal relationships, the use of networks Social played an important role in this factor. But now, we will receive for the second consecutive year an annual cycle with a direct Mercury, and it will be Uranus (your own expectations) that opens the solar year 2020 incomplete retrogradation, and in this case, it will be in the sign of Taurus.

This cycle of retrograde Uranus in Taurus that begins on August 12, 2019, and ends on January 11, 2020, after 152 days, will lead us to open an entirely different year from all the previous ones, although the use of social networks will continue to be of vital importance to the general community, do not doubt that these will certainly go to the background in terms of promotion and advertising, they have been complex years with Mercury retrograde to make us recognize the power of media communications Modern, but this 2020 is coming to help us regain that value of face-to-face social gatherings, group outings, live and non-online workshops, as well as to remind us of the importance of human contact, something that will soon take place See up to a couple of weeks after finishing the retrogradation of Uranus.

Although the cycle of Uranus in Taurus (2018-2026) has led us to focus on the economic changes that surround us, virtual currencies and digital money as well as new forms of payment that range from payment through the cell phone, to the appearance of virtual Banks without physical headquarters, also this cycle of the ruling planet of the heavens (Uranus) in the firm and stable sign that is Taurus, has led us to understand that difficult lesson, but it does not mean better, and as well as the forms and payment methods are in full revolution, this cycle has also taught us to better invest our money without requiring in many cases the assistance of a financial advisor, taking you for example to spend a good sum of money on many different garments to different occasions, to invest in fewer garments, although this case you opt for a reversible sweater of better quality and with many pockets, instead of buying a sweater and a different bag every two weeks, opting not so much for the economy, but rather for practicality.

Uranus looks to the future, is a visionary planet, always strives to be one step ahead, always strives to make you arrive early to meetings so that you take better advantage of your time and capture the information better, and it is this visionary and entrepreneurial aspect of King of heaven, the one you should take into account, and which you should focus on to embark on a new path and easily adapt to those coming changes that will make you reconsider how much you thought you knew about the world.

Uranus has always been the planet in charge of promoting revolutionary events and large-scale changes, technological advances, the digital era, telecommunications, all this is linked to the movements of Uranus, and this retrograde cycle that will begin this August 12, 2019, it will not be the exception, on the contrary, this retrogradation will lead us to analyze in greater detail the way in which these various changes affect our lifestyle and our daily lives, including changes in government, appearance of new forms and media (which will be subsequently promoted by Mercury).

Additional post that I recommend you read:

Virgo reloaded to end August 2019.

the art of blessing.

“Upon awakening, bless your journey, because it is already overflowing with an abundance of goods that your blessings will make appear. Because blessing means recognizing the infinite good that is an integral part of the very plot of the universe. That good all he expects is a signal from you to manifest.

When you meet people on the street, on the bus, in your workplace, bless everyone. The peace of your blessing will be a companion of your path, and the aura of your discreet perfume will be a light in your itinerary. Bless those you meet, pour out the blessing on their health, their work, their joy, their relationship with God, with themselves and with others.

Bless them in their goods and their resources.

Bless them in every imaginable way, because those blessings not only spread the seeds of healing but someday they will sprout like so many flowers of joy in the arid spaces of your own life.

As you walk, bless your village or your city, bless those who govern it and its educators, their nurses and their sweepers, their priests and their prostitutes. As soon as someone shows you the least aggressiveness, anger or lack of kindness, respond with a silent blessing.

Bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully, because those blessings are a shield that protects them from the ignorance of their evils, and changes the direction of the arrow they have shot at you.

Blessing means wanting and wanting unconditionally, totally and without reservation, the unlimited good — for others and for the events of life — making it emerge from the deepest and most intimate sources of your being.

This means venerating and considering with total admiration what is always a gift from the Creator, whatever the appearances. Who is affected by your blessing is a privileged, consecrated, whole being. Blessing means invoking divine protection over someone or something, thinking about it with deep recognition, evoking it with gratitude. It also means calling happiness to come upon him, since we are never the source of the blessing, but simply the joyful witnesses of the abundance of life.

Blessing everything, blessing everyone, without discrimination, is the supreme form of the gift, because those whom you bless will never know where that sunbeam came from
that suddenly tore the clouds of his sky, and you will rarely witness that light that has illuminated his life.

When an unexpected event arises in your journey that baffles you and throws your plans to the ground, explode in blessings, because then life is about to teach you a lesson, although its cup may seem bitter. Because that event that you think is so undesirable, in fact, you have raised it yourself to learn the lesson that would escape you if you hesitated to bless it. The tests are as many hidden blessings. And legions of angels follow in their footsteps.

Blessing means recognizing an omnipresent beauty, hidden from material eyes. It is to activate the universal law of attraction that, from the bottom of the universe, will bring to your life exactly what you need in the present moment to grow, advance and fill the cup of your joy.

When you pass a prison, pour the blessing on its inhabitants, on its innocence and freedom, on its goodness, on the purity of its intimate essence, on its unconditional forgiveness. Because one can only be a prisoner of one's image of oneself, and a free man can walk without chains through the courtyard of a prison, just as the citizens of a free country can be inmates when fear curls up in their thought.

When you pass in front of a hospital, bless your patients, pour the blessing on the fullness of their health, because even in their suffering and in their illness, that fullness is simply waiting to be discovered. And when you see someone who suffers and cries or shows signs of being shattered by life, bless him in his vitality and joy: because the senses only present the reverse of splendor and ultimate perfection that only the inner eye can perceive.

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. Keep in you, therefore, that desire to bless as an incessant inner resonance and as a perpetual silent prayer, because in that way you will be of those people who are artisans of peace, and one day you will discover everywhere the very face of God.

And above all, do not forget to bless that wonderful person, absolutely beautiful in his true nature and so worthy of love, that you are yourselves. ”


From the book “The art of blessing” by Pierre Pradervand, Ed. Sal Terrae.

Cultural Appropriation

I demand that they pay me a dollar for every time an immigrant wearing jeans and eating cheeseburgers while drinking Coca Cola, comes to give me his absurd, incoherent and lacking speech about "cultural appropriation", at this step these idiots will demand to Native Americans "You can'tspeak English" because they "are embracing the language of their oppressors" 🤷🏻‍♂️ or something like that.

Are we going to tell Asians that they can't eat pizza?  Are you going to tell Latinos not to wear jeans and shirts? Are you going to tell an African-American woman that she can't straighten her hair? You're going to deny a white boy who disguises himself as a Native Indian, Viking, Druid, Samurai,  just because you are an accomplished racist and do not want to admit it?.

Do you want to gather signatures to ask all the peoples and countries of Latin America to adopt the "politically correct native customs of their ancestors" and then stop getting vaccinated, wear modern clothes and wear  Microwave just because you and 2 other idiots (most likely American racists) can't accept the diversity of the world?.

Now all of a sudden "everyone" cares about the colonization, genocide and "Yankee imperialism" that is ending "poor oppressed lands in Latin America," I don't know what book litter they are reading, but they can visit Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina,  Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil at any time, and realize that poverty in our countries is not justified by what happened during the "massive genocide" of the colonizers, but rather is the fault and consequence of the heavy corrupt leaders  that we keep in power, those who win votes under the speech "is that Yankee imperialism wants to end us and we will not leave them" and force people to focus on this nonsense while they steal shamelessly.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with "social assimilation," believe me that many of us comfortably prefer to enjoy the benefits of the modern world and be able to wear jeans and shirts, cook in an electric oven and live in a concrete house with glass windows, which  Confirm with dressing animal skins, eating cooked vegetables in a cauldron and living in an open-air hut.

Where are the limits of cultural appropriation that you claim so much? Where are those limits and who puts them?  The government ?, The ruler on duty ?, A wall that borders two countries just because an orde of racists asks for it ?.

Are we going to ask the presidents on duty to limit the laws just so that you feel better?  That we cannot have another great African-American president in the United States, because "it is a country of white supremacy" ?, Is that what you want ?, Because if I have learned something in history classes it is "there has not been a  First lady in the United States of America more charismatic, intelligent and emblematic than Michelle Obama, "are we going to change that and that African-American presidents can only govern in African countries?

I do not see (and I repeat as I do constantly) nothing wrong with being intercultural, where I come from is something so common that we don't even notice it, in Venezuela the one who sells you coffee is a Colombian, the one who sells you electronic items is  a very nice Chinese who always shouts, the baker is always a Portuguese, the owners of the best restaurants in the country are mostly Italian, the ice cream makers (9 out of 10 of them) are Haitian, many teachers are from Argentina and Chile, and the  clothes you buy from an Ecuadorian while the Salvadoran sells you milkshakes and cotufas, and they all dress the same, they all teach you to say "good morning, please and Thank you" in their languages, and they all send their children to  The same schools.

Where the only ones come from, literally the only ones who live apart from the rest are the Jews, most of them live in very expensive residences in places away from the rest because they want it, they don't speak Spanish and they don't even make a minimum effort to learn it  , they send their children to special schools for them and try not to join with others, but if from time to time you are lucky enough to cross one of them on the street, by good habit you greet him with a smile, and if he takes children  Little ones you greet them too with a big smile, showing that you are willing to be their friend.

Where black and white come from are not at all offensive, and we all understand each other the same, even my sisters call me "negrito" (little black child) and it's a term of love, no, it doesn't have any racist connotation,  no, it has no "history of racism and confrontation in remembrance to the times of slavery" or anything like that garbage that modern keyboard activists want to sell you.

Where I come from, your grandmother tells you "that's Lola's portrait, she was a friend I used to play as a child, she was a granddaughter of a slave who worked for your grandparents' family", and that's it, I just don't know  It puts more hate on the subject, the truth is not worth doing, it is something of the past, my grandmothers are totally different from me, very short, with red skin and very long black straight hair, one of my grandparents is a  German white like milk with beautiful blue eyes, and the other is a Turk with curly hair and brown eyes, and they all get along with each other.

Perhaps my country is one of the worst in terms of economy, but my country is proof that something like "cultural appropriation" only exists in the heads of racists who want to put barriers, limitations and borders on everything  That crosses your path.