Chichen Itza. the Planet Venus, Pluto Transit and Transformation

THE PARABLE OF THE SHIP OF FOOLS

Progreso, Chichen Itza, the Planet Venus, the Pluto Transit (afterglow or fallout?) and Transformation

The three of us were headed for Cozumel on Carnival's Ecstasy but it was synchronicity that, at the end of this Pluto transit which brought agonizing demand for change and letting go to all of us who are conscious, we ended up in the Yucatan, in Progreso, where the mystical Mayan Chichen-Itza is. One of the 7 Wonders of the World. Chichen Itza even includes a worship to the planet Venus and all our concerns were about love. Aren't they always? Love of a place, a thing, a person, a lifestyle, of life, of death, of self-love ... (Take a look at the Mayan Calendar here.)

Yes, we were the Ship of Fools, fools like the Tarot - stepping joyfully forward, not exactly knowing where we would end up.

The Fool Card:

The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off.

And A SHIP OF 'FOOLS' IT WAS -- a young crowd, many happy families, perhaps over 600 children. And that many more adults acting childlike - with wonder.

In our trio, one wanted to live where loved, the other wanted to be loved by another, and the third wanted to do work she loved.

On this Ship of Fools to Chichen Itza, all 3 of us received clear and crucial information about the important decisions we each faced -- for there were angels unawares.

"I would do this if I were choosing a career these days," said the Angel of the Hot Tub ... and pegged the field she needed to be in and was already half-prepared for, all unknowing.

The Angel Cindy Lou Who addressed issues the would-be-mover needed to know. That the moral of the story (The Grinch ... and ours, as well) is precisely that Christmas - or anything else - is not about costly presents and the conspicuous display of wealth, but about the goodwill and peace in your life.

And the Angel who rode Pericles delivered the appropriate Funeral Oration for the one who needed to let go - as Pluto demands. Great orator, leading statesman, who swept away the last traces of aristocratic institutions from Athens, she channeled the words and philosophy of Pericles from his Funeral Oration:

• We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands.
• In the matter of education, whereas [others] from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face.
• We go alone into a neighbor's country [the unknown that Pluto impels us toward] ... and we have seldom any difficulty in overcoming them.
  If then we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it?
• Since we do not anticipate the pain, although, when the hour comes, we can be as brave as those who never allow themselves to rest; thus our city is equally admirable in peace and in war.
  
  Percles adorned Athens with art, museums and poetry which "rejoiced the hearts and cultivated the taste of poor and rich alike," and our Angel Pericles did this for us all - paying for the cruise, giving us a thing of beauty and the rest we needed. Just what WAS that thing up in the sky that night? Was it the Mayan god Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli who embodies the energy of understanding and communication? Cindy Lou Who knew.
  
  "Powerful from the dignity of his character as well as from his wisdom, and known to be incorruptible, [Pericles] restrained the people with a free hand, and was their real leader instead of being led by them. For, not being a seeker of favour from unworthy sources, he did not speak with any view to present favour, but had sufficient sense of dignity to contradict the people on occasion, even braving their displeasure ..." (From "Pericles") Like the Fool in the Shakespeare play - the only one who can speak the Truth.

Facing her own war, and supporting the battles of the others, our Angel Pericles "entered on the Peloponnesian war, which was to end twenty-five years after his death in the ruin of Athens, with cheerful confidence...."

We were presented with the model of abundant charm in Luis Enrique, who convinced the unconvinceable; the charm of Captain Candalero Donato, who showed us how to deliver bad news without delivering bad news ... and the Angel who rode Jonah shored up the one in danger of being swallowed by a whale (one of those formidable Pisces) ...

Jonah? According to wikipedia:

Jonah's passive character then is contrasted with the other main character: God (lit. "I will be what I will be"). God's character is altogether active. While Jonah flees, God pursues. While Jonah falls, God lifts up. The character of God in the story is progressively revealed through the use of irony. In the first part of the book, God is depicted as relentless and wrathful; in the second part of the book, He is revealed to be truly loving and merciful.

And so it is with Pluto, the god to whom there is no altar, no begging for mercy. Pluto actively removes what doesn't work any more and in this, is truly loving and merciful.

Messages were everywhere, Angels abundant. The Grinch who stole Christmas even served us dinner each night; we, who stole away at Christmas for peace, relaxation, and answers ...

Each us us returned in time for Christmas with ... those people and things with which we needed to deal.

And let us not forget the return trip home, where Spirit, I mean the Spirit of Christmas appeared, in the guise of a huge African-American man in a red pickup truck ... showing that help is always available. We need only need it, and be willing to accept it. But that's another story.

Whether you're in the afterglow of the Pluto transit, or the fallout - or both - look for information and look for Angels. Let me read for you at this important time. Email me to schedule your reading. I'm here to help.

Dealing with a Scorpio Now?

What's up with those gorgeous, secretive Scorpios these days?

Found on a website. The topic at hand was how unattractive it is to be needy on any level.

This was the reply:

I agree with this one: "how unattractive it is to be needy on any level"

Neediness is rooted in fear and cowardice & it is a really debilitating and ugly emotion to carry.

I know because I'm fighting temporary neediness right now!! LOL.

And as a Scorp, I hate feeling I need someone... but sometimes you just ache.

Scorpios do have a hard time "admitting" things like needing someone, like they think it's a weakness or something. I don't think it's rooted in fear and cowardice, but that's the way those normally COURGEOUS Scorpios sometimes look at it. Especially during this Pluto transit that's stressing us in points where we need to loosen up and/or change or grow. It could even be some karma in your chart we could take a look at.

We need each other. It's the DESPERATE neediness that needs a second look. And yes, sometimes we do just ache.

Need to talk about this? Email me to schedule a reading - sdunn@susandunn.cc .

I'll be waiting.

Pluto Transit, Whiplash, and Bouncing Back

During this Pluto Transit, which I call "Whiplash," take a moment to watch Pixar's Boundin'.

Pluto Transit - When It's Time to Say Goodbye

What Pluto demands is change. He wants to remove from your life the things that aren't working. This allows you to move forward, sometimes in a totally new direction.

A Pluto Transit cantruly put you at your wit's end. Often the thing you really want will require your giving up something of great value to you. Something you are very attached to. Sometimes the thing you love the most.

Examples:
To get the body you want, you have to give up food.
To get peace of mind, you have to leave your dysfunctional family.
To marry the man you love, you have to leave your Father.
To get your dream job you have to give up being able to tavel every 3 months.
To be able to travel every 3 months, you have to give up a fancy car.
And, when it hits even closer to the core - to grow and transform, you must change and give up past behavior patterns.
To become your own person you have to give up being dependent on other people's thoughts and opinions.

The conflicts and decisions in a Pluto transit can be excruciating. I'm with you in thought and prayer, and ready to guide you on your path. Pluto Transit reading for $50. Email me to order yours. Must have date, time and place of birth.

You can also order one about someone you love, to learn more, or to give it to them.

This if for you, when It's Time to Say Goodbye:

You Learn (Alanis Morissette) From a Pluto Transit

Be as a child, reading under the light of the Full Moon, if that is the only light you have.

Your theme song for this Pluto Transit - You Learn, by Alanis Morissette:



She recommends biting off more you can chew.

For peace during the more difficult times:



And get a massage while you're listening to it. Be patient with your transformations and other people's. It's all for the best.

Pluto Transit: The Change that Nearly Kills You

Pluto is now in transit. (It will arrive in Capricorn November 27-28th.) If you feel like you've been going through hell lately, well, Pluto is the god of the Underworld. It could be said that Pluto gives mastery of the past- what's dead and buried -- or should be, allowing us to come back above ground and live. It's no coincidence that the gates to the Underworld swung both ways for only one individual, the god Mercury, the god of communication, the Messenger of the gods.

There are few renditions of Pluto (Hades) in ancient art. Understandably he was not popular. He took things away. But when he was sculpted or painted, he was always shown with Cerberus, the 3-headed Hound of Hell, that guarded the gates to the Underworld.

Now Pluto was the god of the Underworld and also of wealth, because one thing people have known since time immemorial is that there are things like gold, diamonds, and oil down there. In the literal "underworld." And if you use the information from Mercury and do the work of the Pluto transition, you will receive wealth beyond mreasure. Perhaps even the one thing you've always wanted to have, and never have been able to have.

Now 3 is a magical number. So what might this 3-headed guardian to the gates of entrapment and delivery to freedom and wealth be all about?

Some think Cerberus was guarding the gate to the skull - the brain. After all, the brain is where things are taken away. A hand-clapping in the forest thing: Would you miss anyone or anything if you didn't know it was gone? One thing Pluto will do is make you know what you "almost know."

But lets consider other things about the 3-headed dog. It could represent the triune brain: the reptilian, the limbic and the neocortex. Pluto can force you to give up anything from any of them: Addiction to pornography or being a pedophile or unfaithful (lust from the reptilian brain); an attachment to your mother or child (limbic) that is keeping you from a mature love with someone of your own age; or an idea -- a thought that is, okay, making your life hell. Such as? Such as that you think you should be a lawyer, or that you can't be happy until blah blah, or that although Harriet is driving you nuts, you "can't" divorce her, or that everyone should be nice to you and everyone else or else you can't stand to live int he world.

Another 3 that comes to mind is the mental, the physical, and the emotional. A balanced life attends to the mental, the physical, the emotional and the spiritual, but Spirit is in charge of the spiritual, so lets look at the other three. Perhaps you need to give up obesity or drugs (physical). Perhaps you need to give up thinking you can't manage your anger, or give up repressing your grief over the death of your son, which is suppressing all your emotions (because that's like a rule of physics), or give up denial and get with Reality (emotional). Or perhaps you need to give up devotion to logical, rational thinking as god, or reading books and seeing movies about life instead of getting involved and living life, or give up being lazy and not "doing the math. Or give up ignorance and start learning. (mental)"

The good news is that Pluto's aim is to make your life work. The bad news is that Pluto's aim is to remove what isn't working in your life, and that you are attached to those things or they wouldn't be there.

Because we're humans.

Dogs, for instance … I asked an outspoken Aquarian, who had two old dogs, how the surviving dog was acting after the death of the older one. "Is she grieving?" I asked. "No," said the AQ with Sag, "actually she's relieved."

If only we could be that honest. That honest and that guilt-free. We do not cause deaths and removals. If we could be honest, like Verdi, the great opera composer who said opera was about the most important things in life … love, hate …

Since we are dealing with the magical number 3, here are 3 ways to deal with Pluto transits.

1. Find out what the purpose of the transit is for you and then get to work on it.

And don't try and bargin falsely with Pluto. The faster you get rid of things, WITHOUT LOOKING BACK, the better this will go. About this looking back - the only person who ever almost made it back from the Underworld, in myth, was Eurydice. Her lover, Orpheus made a bargain with Pluto to get her back, and the deal was that Orpheus promised NOT TO LOOK BACK. He did, and Eurydice was lost forever. (See the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Get with Pluto, "the most moralistic planet there is." Get out of denial and see what's going on in your life. This means facing the hell from the past and present: that you WERE wrong, that it WAS incest, that your Mother DOES NOT CARE, that your boss IS a sociopath, that your daughter IS a parasite, that you hate where you live ... And even harder - that your pathetic career is because YOU have created it that way, or that the obstacles in your path have been placed there by YOU. Pack it all up, take it to "goodwill" and then DON'T LOOK BACK.

2. Grieve.

Grieve so that you can move forward. Grieving is part of letting go. GROW through it, don't just GO through it. One great soul-soother at such times is always music. Orpheus was a great musician with his lyre. It was said that with his lyre, he could "move rock, and change the course of streams." He used his music on Pluto (aka Hades), too. He says

With my song
I will charm Demeter's daughter,
I will charm the Lord of the Dead,
Moving their hearts with my melody.
I will bear her away from Hades.

Many of the great musical composers have been to hell and back, and their music can aid you on your journey. See Verdi, below, and Vivo Per Lei for the healing effects of music.


3. Sweat.

It's hard work. Pluto is giving you a rebirth, and the birth process is long, laborious, messy, exhausting …but the the successful outcome is that you are then alive! And like giving birth, where you get the greatest reward on the earthly plane -- your baby -- the sooner you get with Pluto, the quicker He'll reward you.

If you won't or can't, Pluto will kick it up and torture you some more until you finally "get it". He wants to move you from suspecting, and inklings, to knowing for sure. A Pluto transit is when you've been suspecting your lover is unfaithful for years, wanting to 'know' if he's 'really' cheating, and finally step in it like a pile of Cerberus' poop. You are then removed from your state of denial and free to take action. That's Pluto.

And then you have to cry and grieve, because if you don't, and you suppress it, you suppress all the other emotions too. That's like a rule of physics. It's another twist on "no pain, no gain." If you won't feel grief, you will never feel happiness again.

Getting in touch with those raw emotions is how you get your moral compass back, and Pluto is the most moralistic planet of all. It heals us and lets us move on. This doesn't mean you put sugar in his gas tank, it means you cry. Because? You know why. Because you were hoping, pretending, fooling yourself … and Pluto doesn't like that. Get to the core. Let go of the attachment (See Stockholm Syndrome). Quit going back for more abuse pretending that isn't what it is, pretending that it won't happen again.

The quicker you get with Pluto, the quicker he'll reward you.

Do the work of the Pluto transition and you'll say, like Verdi did, and I substitute words: "I adored and adore this art [of living]; and when I am alone and wrestling with my [life], then my heart pounds, tears stream from my eyes, and the emotions and pleasures are beyond description."

Incidentally, when young, Verdi lost his wife and two babies to a disease in a matter of months. Tormented as he was, he went on to write some of the most magnificent operas ever written, which, because of his own monumental losses allow us to bleed our own emotions and heal when listening to his soul-in-music.

Plumb the depths of Pluto for the treasure to be found there.

The power of music? You could not pray to Pluto, beg for mercy, bargain or plead with him. What did Orpheus do? Music.

[Orpheus' music] Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek,
and made Hell grant what Love did seek

How can an astrologer help you? The house that Pluto is in in your chart can give you an idea of where you are going to take the hit. Where you'll have to make the dramatic change, what actions to take, and where your power lies.

PLUTO TRANSIT READING
Let me do your chart and check out the placement of Pluto. I will combine this with your Spiritual Life Path Report to tell you why you are here, and what you are supposed to be doing. In addition, I will recommend the perfect piece of music for you, for healing.

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Sean Conner and Ithaca - Pluto Transit

For all of you, for this Pluto transit, with peace and love
Susan (Semiramis)



The most important way to handle this challenging transit is to know what its PURPOSE is for YOU. Let me look for the Plutonic in your chart to see where the stressors will be and where the change will be the most difficult ... and therefore the most rewarding.

I mean this with all my heart.
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Rough sailing till November 28 when Pluto changes signs

We mourn the loss of Paul Newman who chose this time to cross over. There was much more to him than those blue eyes, and yet there will never again be blue eyes like that.

As with many of our gifts, this one had another side. Those beautiful blue eyes were color blind. He could not appreciate them himself.

Until Pluto changes signs November 23, it will be intense. It already is. It's all about drastic change. By choice or being forced to. Or longing to. Or having 2 "impossible" choices to make. Or 3, but neither of them seems right. Also a time of surprises. Things entering the picture that could not have been conceived of. Things will leave that need to leave. This is a really hard time.

This is a time when you leap over tall buildings, or leap off tall buildings - metaphoroically speaking.

Let me support you during this time with readings. Email me at sdunn@susandunn.cc and lets schedule a reading for you. Special until November 28, if you mention this offer - one hour phone reading for just $45. Email reading, $28, in honor of the 28th.