So here we are now after the shift, after a year of numerous cosmic alignments, Venus transits, end of the Mayan Long Count, Solar storms, and so on. The effect of this is that we have collectively been more sensitized to the world of energy.
Being more sensitized also means awakening our intuition, generally speaking. Of course there are individual variations of this, depending on where we are in our journey. .
I think 2012 was a major catalyst for future evolution. There was a massive ”downloading” of cosmic energy. And 2012 was a Yang, Water
Dragon year, according to Chinese Astrology, so there was as huge turbulence of intense energy.
2012 was an electric year, without much grounding or rest. Imagine that the world of energy might now have surpassed the world of form, meaning that our feeling around a certain thing, person, event or process from now on might be much more significant to us than its form and structure. One can imagine that this will create confusion for some people, when they try acting or thinking in the style of the old paradigm.
Also no doubt many of us were picking up the collective fears that surrounded us during 2012, including the media mass psychosis of “the world going under” on the 21 st of December 2012. By the way, I think it was terribly irresponsible of the media to point out the “Maya Indians” as the source of this Apocalyptic prophesy. In reality no single Mayan has ever made such a statement, so it was nothing but a materialist media artifact.
Maybe it´s in fact the Mainstream media that´s really going under? .
Instead of the world going under, we have been witnessing a shift, a threshold of consciousness, opening up The Void for us, forcing us to face the unknown. For many of us, life is probably filled with unanswered questions right now. But there is a symmetry in the chaos, a pattern, if we´re open to perceive it. .
In The Void we are presented with a world of endless possibilities, a glimpse of the future and a meeting with the world of energy, with everything that is ending and starting. But in a more general sense, we could already have been floating around into the Void for some time, maybe for several years, perhaps even since the
Millenium shift? We might even have been sensing shadows of collective memories dating several 1000 years ago….. .
In any case, as many of you already know, there was an alignment on the Winter Solstice between the Earth – the Sun – and the center of the Milky
Way galaxy. This by the way has been going on for some years, probably until 2016, but it probably got extra power in 2012 from The Shift in the Mayan calendar, the Venus transit and so on. In the middle of the Galaxy there are some huge black holes – this sounds a lot like The Void.
Like in homeopathy, where your body can react to a molecule that has been diluted billions of times, we can also pick up energy from ancient times and energy from the center of the Galaxy!
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A funny synchronicity recently occurred ; scientists have just discovered that the dung
beetle actually navigates with the help of the
Milky Way to make a straight path. Maybe we´re all doing that, subconsciously, in some ways?
Dung Beetles
Millions of people around the world were gathering around the Winter Solstice. According to Mayan legend, their Ceremony God, Bolon
Yokte, would then incarnate and that is what actually happened, since so many people were doing ceremonies! Maybe this was the most famous and well-known date ever over the world that people knew of in advance. This collective focus and come-together has created a shift in itself, a shift of more togetherness, community feeling and attunement. .
So we´re about to face the Year of the Water
Snake now, according to Chinese lore, starting on the 10 th of February. This is a YIN year. Patience
and perseverance will probably be the major

mantras. Big things might happen if we just let them happen. But we have to avoid forcing things to happen or trying to stop necessary changes. If you feel lost, wait until things start to clear up before you act or decide. During this Year of the Snake, we can all shed our skins, by patiently
. letting go of the old.
However, this YIN
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Quetzal Coatl, the Winged Serpent . energy might entail the risk of being addicted to comfort or even slipping into stagnation, but maybe it´s all about looking for some time-out.
Gemini is a really important sign these days, because this is where the Venus transit occurred last year on the 6 th of June, 2012 really being a
This year may help us integrate what happened year of Gemini energy. With Jupiter in Gemini + last year, especially on the emotional plane.
Venus in Gemini (last year and this year between
It s like we have to “incarnate” what happened to early May and early June) we have a unique us last year. If 2012 was full of cosmic alignments, opportunity to integrate polarities, creating a maybe we all in some way became “aligned” to union in our hearts between male and female, something greater than ourselves. 2013 then is a higher and lower. . lesson to really stay “in alignment” with the inner
During 2013 Jupiter is touching the spots where and outer conditions. But make no mistake, the
Venus moved last year around the time of the forces of change are no less than last year, it s passage over the Sun, (an event that won´t be just a feeling that we have to give up the struggle. repeated until the year 2117). Jupiter turned
But like the snake that sheds it´s skin, it can point direct (after a few months of backwards out that our vulnerability can be very prominent.
Thanks to our higher sensitivity, we will probably movement) on January the 30 th , on one of these sensitive “Venus degrees”; The “Sabian symbol” also be much more aware of the world of cycles, degree of the Jupiter direct, is “fundamental trust like the Moon cycle for instance. To follow cycles
& cooperation with life”. . is all about being adaptable, YIN. It has to do with
In mid March Jupiter will make a spectacular accepting the constant variation of energy, conjunction with the “Royal Star” Aldebaran, the including low energy, tension of energy and high major star in the Constellation of Taurus. It is said energy, energy forever waxing and waning. to deal with moral dilemmas. I guess Jupiter, also
Several authors also connect the God Bolon Yokte to the Aztec God Quetzal Coatl, the Winged
Serpent, so there we have the snake again, or the
Kundalini energy. In our Western mind we can probably translate both of them to Jupiter. This giant planet was very prominent in the chart of being associated with moral, would help solve some of those dilemmas around that time, among world leaders and in our personal lives.
In April Jupiter will pass over the exact spot of the Venus transit; So this means that we haven´t yet seen the full consequences of the Venus transit. Venus also has to finish a cycle and return to that degree in late May. . the Winter Solstice, creating a “Finger of God”, suggesting it´s time for higher perspectives and higher guidance. For this reason, it can be meaningful to follow the path of Jupiter in the following years. He will change signs in late June,
Connecting to the integration of the higher and lower, this year counts down to “6” (2+0+1+3). A

energy. Here we can see the higher and lower intertwining. It´s also a reminder of the ongoing dynamics between the Sky God Uranus (the higher/ future) and The God of the Under-world
Pluto (the lower/the past) that has been building
Chiron, Pisces and the Moon on 10-11 th until 12
of March) th of March. Very YIN indeed or confusing!
Maybe it´s cleaning out some old patterns from the Age of Pisces, while at the same time reminding us of the power of compassion. up ever since the mid-60s. Between 2012 and
2015 there are 7 release points of this tension; this year we´ll have the 3 rd one happening on the
Mercury, by the way, stays in psychic Pisces for more than two months, until after Easter holiday.
Mid-February also includes Saturn really
21 st of May and the 4 th on the 1 st slowing down and starting going backwards
(retrograde) until early July; this is about
Also the energy of the “Snake” invokes the
Kundalini power, that connects the lower and an emphasis on Scorpio, thanks to Saturn passing repairing, restructuring, remaking things and patterns in our lives: By July we have a higher through our Chakra system.
Another connection to reptiles can be found in
Interestingly, on the Astrological plane, there is prominence of outer planets in Water signs, also putting the finger on our sensitivity and the the number “13”, with it´s corresponding Tarot
Card “Death” and its connotation to Scorpio,
. power of imagination and empathy. There is also possibly a prominent pattern change after the
Pluto, transformation and also reptiles.
Something is obviously dying this year and
Spring Equinox, culminating in releases of high tensions in April and May. .
This year started out with a scientific discovery about the size of the universe; they just discovered the largest structure in the Universe, a huge cluster of Quasars, stretching 4 billion light through this sign this year. It entered Scorpio in years. Maybe this is also telling us a story of the late 2012 and stays there for the whole year. This size of our own consciousness? .
Saturn placement can really help us come to terms with old problems and making some emotional breakthroughs.
When the huge transformations of our times reach the emotional levels, they open up for
unconditional love. It is also called Christ consciousness, or impersonal love. It is a raising of frequencies, a
I´ll be back later! .
Thomas Jönsson 1st of February . www.astrofool.com higher love, free from attachments. This pattern belongs the new Era that we´re approaching, The
Age of Aquarius. .
We´ll also be having a visitor in mid February, when Asteroid “2012DA14” passes the Earth, even more closely than the Moon does. Luckily, there won´t be a collision. But who knows what this messenger is telling us? The year of the snake also begins in February, on the New Moon on the
10 th..
By the end of February, water energy culminates with 6 out of 10 planets in oceanic Pisces (Sun , Mercury, Venus, Mars,