New Year 2021 - Happy Times Ahead?

For a long while, I have been looking forward to an astrological event: the Jupiter and Saturn “Great” Conjunction. Many of us have read about this celestial event and even recently looked at in the south-west evening sky to view these large planets traveling close together.

Many articles have called this event the “Christmas Star” because it occurred close to December 25th, our Christmas holiday.

Actually, the Great Conjunction happened on the same day as the 12/21/2020 Winter Solstice which for me is the official start of my New Year. January 1st is celebrated around the world as the New Year. But, for me it is considered a human-made point of time as opposed to the natural order via the seasons and the movement of our solar system around the Sun. Thus, I look at my own life as a vehicle orbiting the Sun, celebrating the change of seasons. Each solstice point and equinox date allow me to gather my bearings and to honor, even to celebrate my journey.

Using the automobile (self-movement) as a symbol for my life’s journey, I utilized this particular Winter Solstice to look in the rear-view mirror to see what has taken place in my life during this last year. Wow: 2020 was certainly a year to behold in all its trials, turbulence, destruction, yet regeneration, creation, and rebuilding. Pluto in Capricorn was maxing out on its archetypal action, particularly coupled with Saturn in Capricorn. These two planets conjoined together early in 2020 and marked a year that found collapsing structures and brought upheaval in our lives, our country, and our world. The US presidential election was one arena to show how the election process in a democratic republic showed its vulnerabilities. Also, the historic issue of slavery and the spotlight on the systemic racism it has created. Our institutions have not worked for minorities and people of color. No wonder we see the cry for Black Lives Matter. However, the destruction aspects were most pronounced with the specter of Covid-19. Not only did it show the vulnerabilities in our health-care system, it emphasized the huge gap of the “haves and have-nots” within this country and around the world. The pandemic put a spotlight on the destruction of humanity and the absence of the sacred.

For me, this overwhelming disregard for the worth of humanity, sentient beings, and the natural environment that surrounds us and nurtures the very air we breathe . . . crushes my spirit at times. It is not surprising that the mantra of “I can’t breathe” permeates our discourse. Yet, I have found myself uplifted over and over through communing with the beautiful and sacred beings that have graced my life. My interactions with so many people through the work I do, and my everyday existence has been a profound journey of love. Whether the students with whom I tutor or the incredible people that I connect with via my intuitive readings, I have found myself communicating with each person’s higher self: their divine essence. I truly get blissed out. Also, walking in nature, watching birds, and spending time with the sentient beings are positively soul-soothing. Alas, looking in the rearview mirror once more, I witnessed my precious Sadie make her transition this summer. There are those people and our companion animals we have lost this year that become our bittersweet memories.

The positive aspects that have showed up in the world’s rear-view mirroranalogy are less obvious compared to all the horror of the pandemic, but truly worth noting: Advances in technology like the rapid production of a Covid vaccine come to mind. Also, it is the resilience of the front-line and essential workers that for me took center stage. Or in keeping with the automobile metaphor, they became the energetic force that has kept the machine moving forward to get us to a desired destination. Sadly, some cars crashed along the way, but not due to the efforts of those brave mechanics who tried to keep all of our engines running.

My personal look into the rear-view mirror of 2020 brought some of the same issues to bear: my automobile of a life came to almost a standstill with the Covid-19 news. I did not want to go anywhere. There were days during the beginning of the pandemic that I would swear I had this illness. Yet so far, I have remained fairly healthy. Also, my work slowed down with me switching my tutoring business to Zoom. Eventually, my car started to pick up speed and I found students needing support for their online learning programs. Zoom technology fueled my “tank” and this included my intuitive readings with my Soulpath-Astrology business. While I know that many are experiencing Zoom fatigue, I remain enamored with this aspect of technology as I can stay in touch with my clients and personal relationships in meaningful and fulfilling ways.

The surprising aspect of my year was the opportunity that came to move to Santa Monica. How is this explained astrologically? Perhaps, during the times in my life when Saturn visits the sign of Capricorn my life goes into a reorganization. In 1990, things changed in my personal life and by 1991, I dissolved a marriage. (Uranus and Neptune both were in Capricorn at that time as well). This past year 2020, my years of solitary living changed and transformed as I moved closer to my children and grandchildren. It was time for me to leave my long residency in Northern California to relocate to the Los Angeles area. Since arriving to my new place in September, I have rarely looked in the rear-view mirror of my life. Instead, I have been busy focused on the present. Mind you, it is not that I do not miss friends and experiences from my life in Northern California; I just have been staying engaged and happy in my present circumstances.

Thus, the 2020 Winter Solstice and the potent Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction in Aquarius sets up the New Year 2021 and the hope of a new world awakening and re-birth.

Yes: the key theme and actual experience for humanity is an Awakening after a long sleep. A shift in consciousness seemingly evolved on an individual level and then began to inform our Collective Consciousness. Individuals have been waking up and serving as way-showers. Eventually, more and more people will work together and create a new humanity. For those of you reading this message, you are part of this early movement that is co-creating a world that works for ALL.

As Astrologers have postulated: For the last 200 years, every Saturn/Jupiter meeting - the Great Chronocation - was in Earth signs. It brought Capitalism and an emphasis on economics over people – along with all the entitled ways of living we’ve invented over the past two centuries, to which we have become so accustomed and addicted. As consumerism has become our religion, we’ve destroyed the harmony of the natural world by converting too much of the environment away from the life-reinforcing diversity of species habitat and toward our own self-interested uses. On December 21st 2020, the Great Mutation switched to the Air Element for the next 200 years, transitioning us to into an era with an emphasis on global social development – ideas, information, technology, communication, relationships and collaborations.

In the Aquarian Era we are going to be concerned about what is best for all, for the Collective instead of the Me-First entitlement.

We may not feel the impact of this new era or this new elemental energy for a while. We have yet to see all the horrors of 2020 pass away in our rear-view mirrors. There is a long road of recovery ahead. We may be driving forward over bumpy and damaged roads with little opportunities to reflect on the landscape behind us. Yet we are finding fuel to keep our automobiles moving by going to the gas or the electric-plug “stations” of love, hope, and resiliency. Interesting, that these “pumps” are never empty, compared to the stations that fuel us with fear and doubt.