The Call to Spirit II
Continuing the thread of my previous post on the call to Spirit, I’d like to offer some ideas about ways to work with anything relevant from that post that you might be working with.
When Mercury stations (appears to stand still as it readies to appear to change direction), the energy of the planet works differently than usual. It can feel like you’re at a cocktail party, amid the normal movement such places offer, yet there’s one person, in this case Mercury, standing across the room staring at you, immobile. There’s a focus the energy takes on because, in contrast to the normal bustle of everything that’s happening, it’s not moving. This can lend what feels like a strength to the energy, that I like to think of as a focused concentration.
In times when our mental energy works differently, or at a different speed than normal, there exists the opportunity to see things differently. In terms of the combo of Chiron and Neptune recently turning direct in Aquarius with this recent Mercury business in Libra, individuals have had the opportunity to grasp in a more-clear way the ahas and opportunities that have been coming through regarding the call to Spirit.
If these posts speak to you at all, you’ve learned something new about, if not how you fit into the fabric of the reality around you, that there is a fabric of reality around you.
Each of the three bodies I mention here, Neptune, Chiron and Mercury, have something to offer about the existence of multiple layers of what we call reality. Neptune is our personal doorway to other realms, Chiron adds a psychological and emotional sensitivity layer onto our normal processing methods, and Mercury is the messenger - the only one in our inherited myths who can travel between the worlds. He’s the messenger, and all versions of Mercury (in various traditions) see him bearing messages between the worlds.
Many of us may not understand what’s happening when the lines between the worlds begin to blur. When approached in a way that allows the symbols to manifest on multiple levels, in multiple dimensions, astrology is a fabulous tool to help put into words and context the sorts of things that happen at these times. I’m talking when dreams are premonitions, when strangers or random newspaper headlines deliver urgent messages designed especially for you, when you begin having flashes of intuition of an unprecedented kind - when things start to get more serious because the sources of information seem not from this world.
But first things first: You have to understand that you’re not nuts. You’re simply having your view stretched or, if you prefer, your operating system upgraded. Making sense of what’s happening is not the first thing to do - grounding and rooting is. Get in your body, and learn to understand what your body is telling you in any given moment. If we’re living in our heads, it can be easy to forget that our bodies are the real-world tools of our living. If we’re out of sync with our bodies, we’re missing something critical about being alive. Get in your body, feel what’s going on there and you’re connecting mind and body. You’ll need both on the same page before you can begin to make sense of things.
Understanding and making the kinds of changes that can be called for when reality’s parameters seem to shift doesn’t happen overnight, and so I’m planning to give some blog space in the coming months to fleshing out different areas of what I seem to be calling the call to Spirit.
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November 14, 2007 By Tom Jacobs