In an exciting announcement about the classes next year, we will be offering two Zoom time options on each course, giving morning and daytime options to those who currently only have late night or middle of the night options. More on this below.
But first let's look at the current stars. Today Mercury and the Sun are conjunct, which is the mid-point of the Mercury retrograde. This is actually the point in the Mercury cycle where the winged messenger is closest to us, so the last week and a half of retrograde may have been a time of things coming together despite the internal focus.
This is likely being helped by tomorrow's Jupiter square Saturn, which is the first of three exact squares we will have between now and June next year. We can be sure that, with the current Mercury retrograde, any expansion of our lives that is occurring is meaningful and real. If things are not 'coming together', relax, you'll get another couple of chances at this and you can use this first one to prepare.
Today with Mercury cazimi - in the heart of the Sun - we have to surrender the intellectual lead and be more accepting, and yet still persistent in our essential communication over the next week and a half until he turns direct.
The Sun-Mercury conjunction is closely trine Varda at 26 degrees Sagittarius, giving us courage at this difficult time and enabling us to be receptive in our communication, and remain strong in our conviction while perceiving other’s point of view. So we are blessed with this trine in this challenging period.
Varda is the new planet in our curriculum this year and I have been working on her house interpretations in this break on the classes... the retrograde allows me to focus on the research, which I love. I’ve also been enjoying looking at case studies of Varda conjunct the Sun, Moon and the key angles. This gives us a good view of how the energy manifests.
Varda is about shining our light to dispel the darkness and leading with hope and inspiration. She is the goddess in The Lord of the Rings who leads the Elves away from the domination of the Dark Lord and safely through a transition to a new home.
So let's look at someone currently in the news who has a close Varda Sun conjunction, exemplifying this. Kamala Harris has the conjunction in the fifth house, and she is running a campaign of freedom, hope, and joy, to lead America away from the darkness, doom and domination of Donald Trump.
Here is my early interpretation of Varda in the fifth house:
With Varda in the fifth house, we bring a joyful creative spark to our affairs of the heart, and we see possibility and hope in the things we are passionate about. This light-filled and loving approach to life will inspire others and serve as a beacon of hope and resistance to evil.
At the unconscious level, however, we could have a self serving approach to our children and our lovers, and indulge in strategic games, or arguments, to get our way. Or we might be into risk-taking and depend on pure luck to get us through.
As we develop spiritually, we enable our creative magical abilities and embrace the power to manifest vision into form. We learn to be more objective, more careful, more aware of whole situations — and less impulsive and intent upon side issues.
At the top level, Varda gives us the higher moral ideals and the unwavering strength needed to face insurmountable odds. At this level, we bring a divine love to all our endeavours, which enables our light to shine through each of them.
Varda PriceBuster Sale
If you want to find out what house you have Varda in, come along to our new course starting in October. I talked about this once before during the last Mercury retrograde, and, with just that one mention, we already have an almost full course with 30 students. We can see how the retrograde Mercury works well to preview new things that are coming up, as I do below for the new course structure next year.
Our maximum number of students on Varda is 35, because this gives everyone time in the interactive Zooms. So there are just a few places still available and all the scholarships have been snapped up, but I'm offering these final places on a retrograde Mercury PriceBuster Sale, which means they are available at just NZ$40 above the scholarship price.
News on the Classes!
Next year we are increasing the number of students who can enrol on each course, by offering two Zoom class time options. This will be particularly good for the Europeans and those in the UK, who are getting a morning Zoom option, and those in Western Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and China who are getting a daytime Zoom rather than one in the middle of the night.
As well as the Zooms, the courses comprise on-demand videos and blog-posted assignments on your personal chart. These assignments are consciousness exercises to onboard the planet's energy. Under the new structure both Zoom groups will post their assignments on the same blog, and the recordings of both Zooms will be available to the members of both groups.
The students on the classes have also expanded this year, from astrologers to those with more general spiritual interest. As a result we are changing the course material provided for the assignments to make them more accessible to those without astrological experience. So, if you have found the assignments daunting, next year we will be giving you more preparatory material.
So this announcement is just preparing you for choosing your Zoom time on next year's courses, and we will start selling these options on Ixion (seeker consciousness) and Quaoar (karmic consciousness) around the time that Varda starts.
Join us if you can on Varda, and thanks for your work embracing these new aspects of consciousness.
Love and laughter
Alan
Alan Clay’s work has transformed my thinking—about my chart, about my practice—even about astrology itself. Alan is a born teacher. - Ariel Harper Nave, Canada
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