| Last month, Fiona Philips
looked at how psychology can help us understand our relationships.
Here she examines what astrology has to offer
I found a way out of the familial co-dependency and ‘trapped
spirit’ by becoming independent and an ‘adventurer’.
Astrology has been a major guide for me. It provided me
with a map of my psyche and pointed the way to my shadow
side – the part of myself that lies in the unconscious,
that I must develop in order to become whole. Specifically
a book called Saturn – A New Look at an Old Devil
by Liz Greene was a key to my life. I would recommend
this book to anyone serious about self-knowledge. It explains
that Saturn in the birth chart indicates in which area
of life we will individually experience fear, pain and
restriction. Yet this area of life, once developed, also
contains the potential for happiness, wholeness and achievement.
I had to develop courage, strength and independence –
the very spirit of Aries, thus liberating my trapped spirit
echoed back in time by that of my mother and her mother
before her. It wasn’t easy to develop my strength
and overcome co-dependency, but in doing so it enabled
me to forgive my mum for the pain of my childhood.
At present humanity is undergoing a great leap in consciousness.
The frequency of the planet is increasing as the earth
transforms which means that our life lessons are coming
thick and fast. Some psychotherapists say that what was
taking 10 years of therapy just a few years ago is now
taking a few months to clear. In such a zeitgeist, the
increasing intensity of our relationships is forcing us
to change and clear lifetimes of karma and perhaps our
ancestral karma too – going back through the generations.
My own family karma began to heal radically after I did
a basic ritual on a new moon, asking for the help and
blessings of my ancestors. The shamanic cultures suggest
that white people have so much trouble and mental ill
health in our societies because we do not honour our ancestors.
According to the shamans, if the ancestors are not honoured
they cannot assist us and some may cause trouble for us.
Perhaps in some way their liberation is linked to ours.
But however we see it, our need for healing is taking
us into deeper realms.
Danah Zohar, author of The Quantum Self, states that the
time of spiritual adulthood is upon us. No longer are
we able to hide behind the uncertainties of religious
dogma. We are driven to find our own personal connection
with divinity. I have experienced the increased spiritual
energies on the planet in my ability to ‘manifest’
– ie creating events and experiences using the power
of thought and imagination. Or, in other words, consciously
co-creating my reality. I was thrilled to read a book
called Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan which
tells the true story of a modern American doctor who went
to Australia and spent time with an aboriginal tribe.
She was taught to manifest food and water in the desert
with her thoughts and saw how the tribe practised an extraordinary
conscious group telepathic link.
Manifesting is only one step from synchronicity, which
millions of people are currently experiencing. Manifesting
is consciously placing thoughts for specific outcomes
knowing that synchronicity will deliver. In Morgan’s
book, the tribe speaks about the powers of manifesting
and telepathy as a connection to the ancient divine mind.
The tribe said they were the last ancient link to a way
of being from the deepest past when all who walked upon
the planet lived in total harmony. So, the return of these
abilities is a sign that we can again live in harmony
with each other: the planet and the Great Spirit. The
tribe indicated the reason white people have lost touch
with their powers is because we ‘lie’. I understand
that to mean the way in which we deny our emotional life
and inner life, which has led us to lie to each other
and to create ‘life in imbalance’ –
what the Hopi Indian’s call koyaanisqatsi. But millions
of us are finding that connection again through telepathy,
synchronicities, manifesting and reconnecting to the divinity
within us in a myriad ways.
So what part does our relationships play in all this?
Perhaps, in this modern age, it is the pain of our inability
to find union with another, as well as the loss of community,
which propels us on our spiritual evolution, for it forces
us to look within. And it is within that we find the divine
and eternal part of ourselves which is essential to guide
us at this time, as the planet moves into higher dimensions
where thoughts become manifest, where group telepathy
is becoming more conscious and the future accelerates
into vast new areas of experience. As the saying goes:
“If you don’t go within, you go without.”
In astrology, when a person begins a new relationship,
there is often a planetary configuration on the person’s
birth chart which symbolises the new person. The actual
planet involved will indicate the type of energy a particular
relationship brings in its wake. This, for me, shows that
what comes at a person in their outer life is a mirror
of something emerging from the inner life, and hence that
people are our teachers – perhaps ultimately teaching
us the way to our hearts. And, as we connect to our hearts,
we might just find that soul-mate that we have always
dreamed of. And, who knows, just saying it could even
make it happen!
Fiona is setting up a self-help group for women with relationship
problems who wish to change their patterns by sharing
their stories at regular fortnightly groups. If you would
like to join the group please email her on philipsfiona@hotmail.com
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