Mercury Retrograde, The Wounded Healer, and the 13th Constellation

VENUS in SCORPIO, MERCURY RETROGRADE

This week Venus returns to Scorpio, where she will continue to invite us to probe the lessons learned from her recent retrograde regarding our relationship values and how we blend resources with others on our journey. Meanwhile, Mercury transits the Galactic Center before his upcoming retrograde period once again beginning December 10, 2010. He’ll begin moonwalking backwards at 5 degrees Capricorn and will go direct again on December 30, 2010 at 19 degrees Sagittarius, which means of course the Holidays and New Year travels should be plenty hectic, with a few typical retrograde delays and hassles. Give a doublecheck to all appointments, emails, phone calls, etc during this cycle. It’s also an ideal time to reflect on the last 3 months’ busy activities and strategize the year ahead. What have you learned and how are you integrating? And with Sagittarius, is your perception cosmic enough?

In honor of Mercury’s movement across the Galactic Center, and soon Mars and the Sun to follow, I wanted to present an astromythical perspective of an emergent archetype in the collective consciousness: The Wounded Healer. This article resonates with many of the themes in what may become my next book. I’m looking for guidance from my readers as to what they’re interested in learning about the most. If you can take just a minute to respond to the questionaire in the column on the right, it will help me make some important decisions regarding my next writing project. Just shoot me a quick email, or with any other topics astrological you're fiending to know about. Thank you.

THE 13th CONSTELLATION and SHAMANIC CONSCIOUSNESS

Many of us are aware of the prophecies involving the December 21, 2012 alignment of the solstice sun, the earth, and the galactic center. But if we study the astromythology pertaining to the center of our galaxy, we can understand better the shamanic ramifications of these prophecies.

At the core of our Milky Way galaxy is a trinity of constellations: Scorpius, Ophiuchus, and Sagittarius. Between December 1st and December 17th, the Sun actually travels through the constellation of Ophiucus, the Serpent Bearer. Ophiuchus, often called the 13th constellation for this reason, is a macrocosmic mirror for the figure of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing and dreams, whose birth story gives us much instruction on the experience of transmutation, magic, and medicine so essential in understanding our current spiritual evolution.

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