Earth Living

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Earth Living
Following Nature’s Cycles

Nature, in all its myriad forms, is the most powerful force on earth. Although mankind has tried, we have not found a way to match its awesome power, but we have found ways to work with it. Science often confirms the wisdom of the ancients who observed and then harnessed nature’s rhythms and cycles to shape and enhance their lives. We can begin to do this in our own lives by first paying attention to our own natural rhythms, such as when we wake or when we feel the need to sleep. If possible, we may want to try to rise and sleep with the sun or live without electricity for a weekend and then monitor how we feel. We can make the choice to eat the foods of the seasons and to seek fresher, locally grown, or organic produce whose own cycles have not been tampered with by technology.

We can create harmony in our homes by making a smooth transition between our indoor and outdoor spaces. By bringing some of the outdoors inside and taking some of our indoor décor out, we can simultaneously enjoy nature and the comforts of home and the feeling that our living space is expanded. Then, whether inside or out, we can lounge on a comfortable piece of furniture and feel the wind, inhale the scent of deeply breathing plants, listen for the many songs of life, and observe the moon and the stars. As we do this more often, we may find ourselves noticing the pull of the full moon on bodies of water, as well as the water in bodies, or the music of the night acting as a lullaby.

When we seek balance in our lives, we want to balance not just our roles in life but also the natural elements in our spaces. Having representations of the elements in the colors, shapes, and textures of our homes will appeal to our mind, body, and spirit. We may find that when we sync ourselves with nature’s rhythms, we ride the waves of energy to feel more in harmony with life and the world around us.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell
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"So many dreams at first seem impossible. And then they seem improbable. And then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."– Christopher Reeve
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The Week of June 11-18, 2007

by Robert Wilkinson

This week close things out or finish up agreements or preparations as Mercury goes retrograde for three weeks. It's the end of a larger phase, and we now get a chance to look back on what's happened the past 4 months and see how things are connected from a different angle of understanding. We finish the Grand Fire Trine with the Sun trine Neptune providing a lot of Air to finish launching new initiatives, and many should see their work diversifying in some interesting ways. The first half of the week we can get more done than the last half of the week, so plan accordingly.

The "old Moon" is operative until the New Moon kicks off on June 14 at 8:13 pm, which is June 15 in Atlantic Daylight Time and points east. In America it's also Flag Day, so salute your favorite nationalistic symbol as we use Mercury retrograde to look back with sentimentality on feelings that could have been, never were, or echoes from our genetic patterns.

The New Moon is sextile Mars, trine Neptune, sextile Saturn, and in a wide square to Uranus and wide opposition to Jupiter. Since all of these are separating aspects, it would imply that we have all been given a time to be productive and release powerful new forces reorienting our direction of expansion. The New Moon falls the day before Mercury goes retrograde, so at least things will seem more a standstill at a threshold than a backward falling mirror image of things.

This New Moon in Gemini will help us "triumph over entropy," and learn to apply skill in achieving forward movement despite outer binding conditions. Find ways to use every opportunity to enjoy yourself, relax, and re-create whatever you feel needs it in your mind, view, interpretation, speech or attitude. Wherever this falls in your chart is going to be the focus for the next few weeks.

June 11-13 is the last echo of the Fixed T-squares we've been dealing with off and on for two years. The only other time we'll experience this configuration will be the Blue Full Moon of the Eastern Hemisphere on July 29, 5:48 pm PDT, falling at 7 Aquarius-Leo. The T-square at that time will involve Mars in late Taurus squaring Saturn opposition Neptune, and is the last in the series involving Saturn. Expect radical new developments to stem from that lunation, where we will see what is permanent and what is springing forth from Cosmos Itself. After that, there will be no more Fixed T-square lunations until the Full Moon of November 2008.