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Now is the time to unite the Soul and the World. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
I love this Rumi quote. It encapsulates our inner longing to infuse the material side of our existence with the Higher Love, Wisdom, and Intuitive Understandings of our Soul.
Of all the help we may receive upon the way, Astrology is one of the most valuable, shining the light of understanding on our quest to know ourselves as Spiritual Beings having an earthly experience. Our quest has always been so: to know ourselves as an earthly personality in service to, and as an expression of, our greater Self, our Soul.
But now there is another layer, another point of growth we feel with a sense of urgency. Yes, we are individuals, wounded, gifted, vulnerable, strong. We are capable of self-interest, catering to our fears, our longings to fill that empty bucket with a hole in it: but equally capable of acts of great selflessness, wisdom, compassion, and sacrifice for the love of other beings.
With the help of astrology and our own inner bravery, we may learn to stand with our feet on the ground and our arms to heaven, in the centre of our own shadow and light. And this is all necessary. But right now, we are learning how to take this even further. We are learning how to be community: how to embrace our unique individuality whilst discovering our connectedness in mind, heart, and soul. Right now, we stand in this special place at the end of our civilization as we have known it. We all, deep within our hearts, know that we must create a better world, a more loving, equal, and inclusive world. Many of us are living with some form of grief, uncertainty, or hope for a better future. And it is bigger than just our personal lives (though it may be manifesting there as well). We truly are living in an end time. What will Pluto in Aquarius bring? What will our own hearts and Souls manifest? To create a different world, we must tell a different story. Firstly, become aware of the stories we are living with. How much has advertising and materialist culture inhabited our brains and set our priorities? How do we step out of the ingrained habits we live by? For me, Mother Earth has whispered to me in the night and the soft light of morning that our healing, planetary healing, requires us to rediscover our deep shamanic connection to the Earth itself. It is rebalance to a more grounded, deeper and more loving reality. Astrology, as part of our story telling, also needs to reconnect with the earth. This is going to become a greater focus with the Astrology Community as we walk on the path together.
A new earth, a better society. It is a task that seems more enormous that we can imagine. But like all tasks, one step at a time. The Astrology Collective, our community, is my first step. In our community we value and support your journey, each of you, as well as the collective. Those of you who have joined or are going to join our community, I love the fact that I am walking this path with you. Much gratitude Lynette
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See all- Let's Look at how Mars Activates our Charts in August.Link visible for attendeesAUD 20.00
August is all about Mars. On the Full Moon of August 8/9 Mars has moved into Libra and is forming a Grand Air Trine with Pluto and Uranus. This significant placement will set the scene and be played out over the next month.
Mars shows the drive we use to direct our energy towards the fulfillment of our desires and our will. This works well when both are aligned. But have you ever tried working towards something that you think you should want, do or be, but in your heart, you don’t really believe in it? Trying to direct your energy into such an endeavour is like sludging through mud. The results too can be muddy. Observing what truly engages your energy is the path to greater self-awareness. What you really want is who you really are or where you really are at. In this sense, Mars is your truth teller as it really only engages in its pure form for things that are authentic for you.
Mars is your driver for worldly achievements and for getting your own emotional needs met. But it is more than what you desire on the physical plain. It may also impel you on your spiritual quest. It is also the driver for your inner quest, battling your inner demons, facing your own nature with faith and courage and forging a path towards the light in service of a greater good for others.
I confess I have never really felt I can get a good grip on Mars. Yet I want to. Perhaps because I am conflicted by an Aries Ascendant that wants to go go go, and a Mars in Pisces that wants to dream, dream, dream. Sometimes I am all Aries, leaping before looking. And sometimes I think I am getting somewhere only to realise I have just been on my couch dreaming about it. I work at managing these two disparate energies thoughtfully: respecting my need for time to dream things into existence and remaining vigilant when action is required.
Libra is another conflictual placement for Mars. Libra is a Venusian sign, opposite to Martian ruled Aries. Where Aries wants decisive action, Libra wants peace and to balance out the needs of all. Aries is the sword of clarity and Libra is the scales of justice. In Libra, the Martian impulse to cut through will be tempered by the need to talk it through and come to a reasonable position that suits most if not all of the people involved. That sounds great but it can be kind of frustrating if you are a Martian type who just wants to get things done and perhaps prefer to go it alone in order to do so. The trick is to not be afraid to make decisions over this time. It is ok to cut away from people who are not a positive force in your life, or situations. How to do this with a Libran Mars, is to employ its super power (every placement has on) which is the ability to negotiate with a very clear goal in mind.
But anyway, that is where we will all be. We are being asked to temper and balance our Mars nature. Mars is sextile Mercury retrograde in Leo, so expect a lot of people and situations coming in the first 3rd of August and then, once Mercury grinds to a halt and goes direct around the 11th. Here is where you will really get your opportunity to cut through and change some old dynamics.
Our August Mars is doing so much more this month though as it is activating All the outer planets. The Grand trine with Uranus and Pluto will give intensity, depth and the ability to see old situations or problems in a new light (Mercury is sextile Uranus and opposite Pluto) and via Mars to find new and more clear solutions with the new information you have gained.
Most importantly, Mars is opposite Saturn and Neptune in Aries, ruled by Mars. There is something here about surrendering, approaching your endeavors with faith and finding a way to express them with a higher vibration into the world.
In this meet up we will look at your Mars. How is it working for you and what is being triggered?
Please let me know if you are coming so I can have your chart ready to go. See you there. Lynette
lynettemalone@astrologycollective.org
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Our Meet Ups are free for Members and $20 for non-members/visitors.
So try us out for AUD $10 monthly for free chart reading meet-ups, book-club, Planet Earth Meet Ups, community discourse, resources and discounted Talks and Workshops. All on our Mighty Networks members pages. Go to our webpage to join: astrologycollective.org
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Have your own chart read by members of the group. Get to read each others' charts - or just sit back and listen. Sharing your chart is optional. This is a chance to both practice reading charts and share with other astrologers. All levels of expertise, advanced to beginners, are welcome. Charts are presented without birth data. Please send your chart or birth details to lynettemalone@astrologycollective.org - Let's Look at how Mars Activates our Charts in August.Link visible for attendeesAUD 20.00
August is all about Mars. On the Full Moon of August 8/9 Mars has moved into Libra and is forming a Grand Air Trine with Pluto and Uranus. This significant placement will set the scene and be played out over the next month.
Mars shows the drive we use to direct our energy towards the fulfillment of our desires and our will. This works well when both are aligned. But have you ever tried working towards something that you think you should want, do or be, but in your heart, you don’t really believe in it? Trying to direct your energy into such an endeavour is like sludging through mud. The results too can be muddy. Observing what truly engages your energy is the path to greater self-awareness. What you really want is who you really are or where you really are at. In this sense, Mars is your truth teller as it really only engages in its pure form for things that are authentic for you.
Mars is your driver for worldly achievements and for getting your own emotional needs met. But it is more than what you desire on the physical plain. It may also impel you on your spiritual quest. It is also the driver for your inner quest, battling your inner demons, facing your own nature with faith and courage and forging a path towards the light in service of a greater good for others.
I confess I have never really felt I can get a good grip on Mars. Yet I want to. Perhaps because I am conflicted by an Aries Ascendant that wants to go go go, and a Mars in Pisces that wants to dream, dream, dream. Sometimes I am all Aries, leaping before looking. And sometimes I think I am getting somewhere only to realise I have just been on my couch dreaming about it. I work at managing these two disparate energies thoughtfully: respecting my need for time to dream things into existence and remaining vigilant when action is required.
Libra is another conflictual placement for Mars. Libra is a Venusian sign, opposite to Martian ruled Aries. Where Aries wants decisive action, Libra wants peace and to balance out the needs of all. Aries is the sword of clarity and Libra is the scales of justice. In Libra, the Martian impulse to cut through will be tempered by the need to talk it through and come to a reasonable position that suits most if not all of the people involved. That sounds great but it can be kind of frustrating if you are a Martian type who just wants to get things done and perhaps prefer to go it alone in order to do so. The trick is to not be afraid to make decisions over this time. It is ok to cut away from people who are not a positive force in your life, or situations. How to do this with a Libran Mars, is to employ its super power (every placement has on) which is the ability to negotiate with a very clear goal in mind.
But anyway, that is where we will all be. We are being asked to temper and balance our Mars nature. Mars is sextile Mercury retrograde in Leo, so expect a lot of people and situations coming in the first 3rd of August and then, once Mercury grinds to a halt and goes direct around the 11th. Here is where you will really get your opportunity to cut through and change some old dynamics.
Our August Mars is doing so much more this month though as it is activating All the outer planets. The Grand trine with Uranus and Pluto will give intensity, depth and the ability to see old situations or problems in a new light (Mercury is sextile Uranus and opposite Pluto) and via Mars to find new and more clear solutions with the new information you have gained.
Most importantly, Mars is opposite Saturn and Neptune in Aries, ruled by Mars. There is something here about surrendering, approaching your endeavors with faith and finding a way to express them with a higher vibration into the world.
In this meet up we will look at your Mars. How is it working for you and what is being triggered?
Please let me know if you are coming so I can have your chart ready to go. See you there. Lynette
lynettemalone@astrologycollective.org
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Our Meet Ups are free for Members and $20 for non-members/visitors.
So try us out for AUD $10 monthly for free chart reading meet-ups, book-club, Planet Earth Meet Ups, community discourse, resources and discounted Talks and Workshops. All on our Mighty Networks members pages. Go to our webpage to join: astrologycollective.org
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Have your own chart read by members of the group. Get to read each others' charts - or just sit back and listen. Sharing your chart is optional. This is a chance to both practice reading charts and share with other astrologers. All levels of expertise, advanced to beginners, are welcome. Charts are presented without birth data. Please send your chart or birth details to lynettemalone@astrologycollective.org - An Astrological Exploration of Ceres through Age Harmonics with Alice PortmanLink visible for attendeesAUD 35.00
Message from Alice: Join me in a Zoom meeting to explore the fascinating dwarf planet Ceres.
Learn about her legend, her qualities, her queenly nature and how she works in your natal chart.
Through using Age Harmonics see how exactly you can time events involving this planet.
I will be using personal charts, and perhaps charts of the royal family, to explore the many facets of Ceres and would love your insights as well.
***Alice Portman ***This Talk will be recorded and sent to all who register.
Alice Portman
Alice has been a student of astrology for 56 years and a Professional Astrologer for 54 years. For much of this time Alice has been a teacher of astrology through classes, tutorials and workshops. Alice is interested in all forms of Astrology and an expert in some. Her area of greatest expertise is modern Tropical Astrology, although she has studied Vedic astrology, Chinese astrology and various forms of astrology from other times and places. Alice discovered Duad charts and this system is now included in Solar Fire and and Astro Gold software. One of her greatest blessings as a student of astrology was to attend Martin Lewiki’s courses of the Astronomy of Astrology at the Planetarium in Adelaide, as this gave her a very clear understanding of the astronomical basis of astrology.
Alice is mostly self-taught yet attended the first classes in Adelaide run by Bonnie Matthes, and learned Cosmobiology from Doris Greaves, going on to graduate from FAA exams and attaining her Professional Membership of the FAA in 1984. Alice has been been a speaker various times at FAA Conferences, the last being in January 2025
I have consulted and taught professionally for over 50 years. In 1984, I received the Professional Member of the Federation of Australian Astrologers (PMFAA) qualification and then became an Examiner for the FAA in 1986-1988.I have spoken at several Federation of Australian Astrologers (FAA) conferences, the most recent being in Melbourne in January 2025.
My major skill is in Tropical Astrology, but I am also a long-term student of Vedic Astrology and Chinese Astrology.
I am a ‘general practitioner’ in astrology as I have been a consultant for people from all walks of life and in almost all situations of life. I am fascinated by all forms of mundane astrology.
Website: aliceportman.comNon-Members - AUD $35 Members AUD $25
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