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blessed selves,

We have been in the midst of the Divine Mother celebration, the nine-day celebration that takes place each year. The first three days are to the goddess Durga, the goddess of destruction. The next three days are to the goddess are Lakshmi, the goddess of sustenance an abundance. The last three days are to the goddess Saraswati, the goddess of learning and creativity.

In Astrology, all forms of the goddess are related to the Moon. The Moon refers to the quality of integration we all wish to experience. We all wish to feel whole. We suffer in life because our wholeness becomes fragmented through our worldly experience. And seeks to feel one. Thus the Moon is the planet of our psychology and its fragmented nature.

We celebrate goddess Durga first because it is she who must destroy our ignorance. There’s no peace with ignorance, fear or hostility. Once these attributes are destroyed, love can settle into our heart as well as peace and prosperity. We can live a happy life and feel at home through the blessings of goddess Lakshmi, the second form of the goddess. It’s not until we feel peaceful and happy that we are able to learn and be creative, the blessings of Mother Saraswati.

When our heart and mind are disturbed with darkness and ignorance, there is no learning possible. Thus we must destroy ignorance first, then we settle into peace, only with a peaceful mind can we learn.

May you enjoy the rest of the nine days. They began last Saturday night and continue until Tuesday of next week, with the 10th day, the day of celebration.

below is a dialogue I recently had with someone about the nature of Saturn and the Moon and the process of integration.

sadasiva wrote:
the sanskrit term for Saturn is “Shani”

the word “Shanti” comes from Saturns name

Shanti means “peace”

we need to make peace with our limitations and not allow them to calcify, crystallize etc.

the heaviness and pressure of Saturn threatens us with this ominous possibility through the painful psyhological complexes and physial fears he generates so as to liberate us - eventually we can laugh at all of the rigid external and feeble structures we/he has erected in hopes of protecting us from,.. from,.. from,.. (what is it again?)

in Vedic thinkin - Saturn is the Goddess Kali - the destrutive and liberating fierce warrior goddess –

Kali is the feminine form of “Kala” - which means time.

the ineveitability of times merciful progress is our greatest fear — we all know where this is leading

I love the saying.. “life is like getting into a boat that is about to set off to sea and sink” –

haha

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Star wrote:
>Shanti means “peace”
>we need to make peace with our limitations and not allow them to calcify, crystallize etc.

ummm, sam… i totally agree with your interpretations of saturn’s threats and pressures….but i’m not talking about making peace with my limitations. i’m talking about doing whatever we need to do with them in order to inegrate them. i’m talking about ‘inegration’, which is not necessarily peaceful or about making peace.
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sadasiva wrote:

dear star,
you wrote:
“but i’m not talking about making peace with my limitations. i’m talking about doing whatever we need to do with them in order to inegrate them. i’m talking about ‘inegration’, which is not necessarily peaceful or about making peace. you can still despise your enemy, and accept it for what it is? does that mean you’ve made peace with it? or integrated it?
i dunno, maybe there is that portion of it? but to me it’s more about ‘recognizing’ that enemy, or whatever, trouble, process, whatever that saturnian energy brings…and inegrating it.
do we need to make peace with it in order to inegrate it?
i’m not sure….”

my feeling is we need to make peace in order to integrate - because there may be only one enemy - and it is more shadow-like that substance - it refers to a past we have lost and a future we only imagine — TIME,,

The moon is the only one that integrates and it is through receptivity and love, the true courage. Saturn grinds our preconceptions to a fine powder so the Moon can do her magic — diluting our solid concepts - so we can pour them into the watery moon - like alka seltzer or Kool-Aid.

I would contend we are already inegrated and merely need to loosen the hold we have on the attachment to something other than perfection.

I am feeling rather mystical as you can see –

i am more speaking in ultimates here, not practical strategies..

taking on water,

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Star writes:
hmmm, not sure i resonate with all of that. i think the platenary energies are a bit more multidimensional as just to assign a task to them specifically.
can saturn not ingegrate itself? is there no higher degrees of saturn?
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Sadasiva writes:

star -
“can saturn not ingegrate itself? is there no higher degrees of saturn? “

there’s nothing lower about doing his job with dignity. In fact this is also quality of Saturn, doing thankless menial jobs. Saturn rules those things. There’s no implied “lower” quality of non integration. In fact Saturn does integrate his own energy in the way we are saying. He takes those boundaries and structures, and in smashes them to bits. But it is the nature of the Moon to integrate our energy and take this dissolved boundary quality of Saturn and harmoniously integrate that into our heart and consciousness. That is what I mean. So of course, each planet integrates and transforms itself. Yet the planet that seeks to make us a whole being in the world is the Moon.

There is nothing undignified about what each planet actually does. We can’t expect Saturn, the planetary force within us that provides structure, heaviness, limitations, etc. to also integrate those things into her heart through selfless love, surrender and nurturing. That is why there are a bunch of different planets with a bunch of different energies. The dignified and magical quality of each one, and how they interrelate, is what astrology is showing. It’s like saying “can Saturn also fight to the death” - well, no - that is the nature of Mars. You will see people with a tendency to violence have Mars as the culprit, not Saturn, not the Moon.

Just like we cannot expect the Moon to erect boundaries. it is the Moon that dissolves boundaries. The Moon is the part of us that wants to feel one with everything. I know this might feel limiting, because we want everything to be everything. But then at that point nothing is anything.

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Star writes:
i find it so strange that you say it does not put up boundries…. when cancers display a range of moodyness and boundries and shells of all sorts. some hard as rock, some a bit more flexible…i thought the moon was directly responsible for this.
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Sadasiva writes:
star,
thanks for sticking with this. I will do my best to try to write this down a little bit. It’s sort of hard in these Internet blips and blaps.

I will start with the example of a cancer sign. Of course you use cancer as an example because they are ruled by the Moon, and they are notorious for boundaries correct?

A few things: every sign is actually 12 signs, read from a specific point. Cancer is actually all 12 signs read from the sign of cancer.

Question, Where do cancer’s biggest insecurities come from?
Answer: other people.

Question, which sign is related to other people from cancer?
Answer, Capricorn, the seventh house, ruled by Saturn –

the sign of cancer provides a very good example to see how and why Saturn creates these boundaries. Especially when you look at the traditional ruler ships. Saturn not only rules the seventh house from cancer he also rules the eight house from cancer, Aquarius. thus, the seventh house of other people and the eight house of our deepest fears and securities, Saturn rules from cancer.

from Aries, Saturn rules the 10th and 11th house. The biggest fears and securities from Aries is not being powerful enough and feeling their individual personality watered-down amongst the masses, 10th and 11th house.

I’m talking about rising signs in the Sidereal zodiac. I’m not sure if it always worked use in the tropical zodiac to be honest with you.

the Moon as integrating.
The Sun and Moon are the two luminaries. They are the most important planets in astrology and in life. There would be no life on earth without the Sun and the Moon. Forget astrology, this is life beyond astrology. This is why there’s life on Earth. Sun’s power, and the Moon’s creative orbit around the earth. These two forces of nature are the reason there’s life on Earth. If either one of them stop doing their thing tomorrow, everything would be dead real quick.

Sun is the planet of consistent power and strength. Every other planet reflects the Sun’s light - each planet is but a smaller portion of Sun’s power.

The Moon is the planet of receptivity, sensitivity and consciousness. It is the creative matrix through which the power of Sun can create beings on Earth.

Sun without the Moon, is simply power without life — the Moon without the Sun would also have no purpose or capacity to create life.

these two arhetypical forces, are the forces of the yin and yang. The other planets express these yin/yong qualities through the other signs they rule.

The signs of Leo and the sign of cancer, each ruled by one of the luminaries, are the source of the masculine and feminine interplay. It is through whatever sign Cancer Falls from your Ascendant that you will be the most challenged to integrate life experiences. It is from whatever sign Leo Falls from your Ascendant that you will have the most confidence and power to act with integrity and strength as the Sun illuminates you from that place.

It is hard to even really understand what the archetypical feminine means, because feminine energy is so misunderstood. Feminine energy does not have to do with women - it has to do with receptivity. Being receptive is not an action, its an allowance - a yielding - a letting go of resistance – a surrender of our protection.

The reason we feel fragmented and unintegrated is because we have resistance to things we are afraid to receive. We are protecting our Moon, that most vulnerable and defenseless part of who we are. The Moon shows our childhood, and time in our life when we were utterly vulnerable and impressionable. We were receptive, we had no choice, and many things we received hurt us and scared us. Now we have a lot of boundaries and protective strategies against things that are hurtful. The fight response, Mars — protection through anger — and the flight response, Saturn — protection through avoidance and fear. Returning to that fearless place of trust and vulnerability is the gateway to being integrated again. This only happens through being receptive, the qualities of the Moon.

This may be a lot take in, and you likely not hear it many other places, because it’s more of my take on things. Influences to the Moon show why we are unintegrated. This is why the Moon is the main planet of our psychology as well, and the protective strategies and coping mechanisms we have based on our childhood.

Running in the woods, being creative, if these type of things help a person integrate their feelings — there will be in influence of those planets on the Moon. Physical exercise is related mainly to the Sun, but also Mars. Mars is more competitive sports, the Sun is physical fitness in general. Venus is creativity and also natural beauty. Mercury is also related to natural beauty.
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awesome food for thought.
munch munch….i’m gonna go digest now like a boa constrictor.

thank you for sharing sam, i appreciate the’time’ you have pulled away from your work to explain it! :-D
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best wishes,
sadasiva
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