DEC. 17TH AND 18TH ALIGNMENT WITH THE BLACK HOLE

Adding to yesterday's burgeoning tension - wherein the Sun in Sagittarius squared Jupiter in Pisces and is now going to square Juno in Virgo - is that our local star is making its annual union with the Galactic Center over the next 2 days.

Every year - on or around December 17 - 18 - the Sun reaches a placement in late Sagittarius which is directly in line with the mass of stars and black hole that form a super-giant magnetic, mysterious aura at the heart center of the Milky Way. We - in this solar system - are traveling in an orbit of approximately 250 million years around the Milky Way central point while we are strung out in a spiral arm some 26,000 light-years from downtown galaxy central.

Right now and into tomorrow the interpersonal themes are ratcheted up to extremely high levels. Therefore, avoid disempowering yourself or a significant other through negative thinking, moodiness or critical comments.

Adding to heightened emotional turbulence are a Moon-Venus opposition and Venus making a potentially frictional, 45-degree contact with Juno. It may be better to zero in on business matters, exercise routines or sprucing up your home environment than in pushing an ego-driven agenda in romance.

We are also just one day away from Venus making an abrasive, 135-degree link to revolutionary Uranus, the Sun squaring Uranus, and the Sun also making a dicey, 45-degree tie to Venus. All of this constitutes another love-social-creativity triangle that may need enhanced flexibility on your part.

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HOW ARE YOU GRATEFUL OF LIFE?

This video moved me, it is so important to see it all not just the front and the mind made label - but all of the story.

THE HANGED MAN CARD

I picked a Card from the Tarot pack today.

I asked what do I need to know today so that I can fullfill today's Highest Purpose?

"The Hanged Man is one of those Major Arcana cards which tend to have a rather poor reputation - undeservedly, in my opinion. He represents the necessary process of surrender and sacrifice, which is probably why he is not greeted with open arms. Yet both actions are a part of everyday life. We just fail to understand that, every time we make a choice between two equally desirable options, we sacrifice one in order to have the other. We surrender one state to achieve another.

In fact, the Hanged Man can often indicate a period of apparent inertia, where new concepts and tenets are being absorbed. Once we have digested this new material, we can emerge from our period of inactivity with a fresh approach to things. So sometimes the Hanged Man presents us with an important method of self-development.

In most Tarot decks, there's an important visual link between the Emperor and the Hanged Man - both these figures are depicted with their legs forming the figure 4. 4 is a number connected to ideas about material stability. The Emperor often represents a man who has achieved much in the material sphere. He is usually a dynamic and energetic person who forcefully directs his will toward the attainment of his desires.
In a sense, we can see the Hanged Man as an outgrowth of the Emperor - though now it is not the material world which is the object of his aspiration - it is the spiritual realm in which he is interested.

So, on a day ruled by the Hanged Man, take a little time out to consider what your current spiritual aspirations are. Write them down and think them over. Think back to the last time you attempted to assess your current journey and see whether you feel you have achieved some of the things you aimed for.
And above all, recognise something. This journey of the spirit is like any other - we achieve it step by step, moment by moment. We will always be surrendering things along the way - and we need always to be open to new input, new concepts, new pages to be written in the book of life.

Affirmation: I pause. And in pausing, I see differently."

From: http://www.angelpaths.com/majors/hanged2.html