Transits and ForecastsKen Robinson has been published in the Mountain Astrologer and American Astrology. He also writes a shamanic astrology column at the website, Shaman Portal.Below are a growing list of forecasts. They are posted from the most recent to the oldest. Many of the forecasts will apply to you today, as the transits I described last for years or at least many months. |
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2016 - 2017 Forecasts
New Forecasts Are Added Each Month
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Neptune in Aquarius
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This present time in human history is a particularly extraordinary one. Ancient cultures prophesied this time to be one of profound shifting from a fear-based power-over paradigm to a paradigm of awakening to the heart. During this unstoppable shifting, the Bridge People will be called forth. It is when individuals who want to thrive in their Beingness will freely chose to become aware of their Spirits and their purpose for being here. They will feel strong inspiration to bring forward their unconditional love, gifts, and abilities to help our planet and all life on it. They will feel a powerful desire to touch the lives of others, so that they too may discover their gifts and find direction in their lives.
This is a very exciting time. If you are reading this, you might ask yourself, "Do I want to be a Bridge Person?"There's no pressure here. It is something that you'd discover, like finding a treasure in your heart.
Neptune's position in our birth charts reveals a good deal about our inspirations, spiritual abilities, and gifts. For example, my Neptune is in Libra in the 5th house. It has shown me time after time just how much I delight I experience in helping others discover who they are as wondrous Beings.
When transiting Uranus and Neptune made a square (a 90 degree angle) to my natal Neptune, I felt my strong desire to be a Bridge Person. Then the magic unfolded. I studied shamanism and then applied the tools and knowledge I learned to astrology. After cultivating shamanic star knowledge for many years with the help of the Spirits, I began offering services as a star shaman, or shamanic astrologer. I love my life! There's never a dull moment.
If being a star shaman calls to you, feel free to contact me to explore possibilities and to begin your apprenticeship.
Neptune is presently dancing in the middle of the constellation of Aquarius, or the Water Bearer. I use this sidereal position of Neptune and the other planets because I have found the sidereal astrological system to speak strongly to the spiritual aspects of who and we really are. Sidereal astrology shows us where things are actually in the sky, whereas the tropical system puts things about 24 degrees ahead of where the sun, moon, and planets actually lie in the sky. This may at first sound a bit confusing to people when they find this out. I was amazed when I first learned that there were two different systems for calculating a star chart. Interestingly, when I recalculated my chart from the tropical to sidereal, my natal sun landed in Pisces. I could relate so much more to a Sun in Pisces rather than the tropical position of Aries! My students and clients have felt this way about their changes in sun and moon signs, too! They felt much more at home with the sidereal placements. It was like a confirmation of what they knew deep inside themselves.
Transiting Neptune in Aquarius graciously offers inspiration and guidance. The energy is all about helping people wake up to their own vibrant and capable Spirit, or True Self. When we connect with the Neptune on a spiritual basis, it assists us being all of who we can be, which includes discovering aspects of ourselves that are beyond time and space. When we discover these aspects about ourselves, there is a big shift from within, and this brings a delight that is absolutely delicious. Again, your star chart will reveal more about these aspects of the Real You!
There are many ways you can serve as a Bridge Person. There is no one way that is better than another. If you feel a desire to be a Bridge Person, let the universe and Spirits know you seek guidance. Offer them a gift, such as bee pollen, a song, or something else that comes from your heart. Then see what comes up inside you and what comes to your path. Sense inspiration when you are reading something or when you hear something on the radio, internet, or TV. Let yourself not get attached to preconceived notions on how you will find your direction as a Bridge Person. You will find out.
If you feel called to explore life as a star shaman, an apprenticeship in the Shamanic Star Knowledge Program will give you the opportunity to be a Bridge Person through developing an intimate connection with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars. This will bring healing and knowledge to you first. Then, as you feel guided, you can pass these on to others. If you have already been on a path of healing and knowledge, an apprenticeship will take you into new depths and riches on your journey.
If you feel called in another direction, go with the feeling of that. Seek what lights you up, what gives you the "yes I want that" sensation. As you come to trust your Self on ever new levels, you will be just where you want to be. And when you are there, the journey will just get more and more interesting and extraordinary.
Mars in Sagittarius - Questing For Your Passion and Aiming Your Love
September 27, 2016 (Mars moves relatively quickly in the sky and is in each constellation for about two months.)
Mars now shines as a beacon near the heart of the Milky Way. Look up into the night and you will see the bright planet in the early degrees of Sagittarius, dancing in the galaxy’s vast river of stars that surges above us in the shimmering darkness. As Mars make its way across the field of Sagittarian energies, it will call us to quest for inner knowing about our life purposes. It is a personal quest for something only you yourself can discover. It is an inward journey.
There is a great passion that beats in the center of each and everyone’s Beingness. Mars points our attention to feeling this enormous love. It is a love that wants to fill us and spill over into the world, touching all life.
Our capacity to let love flow like a river might be something we find ourselves resisting. It can bring up fear and old hurts to be so fluid and expressive. We humans tend not to acknowledge the beauty of our Spirits’ feelings and the richness of our love and passion. We have fallen into the trap of toning it all down and forgetting about our splendor. When we let the love flow from our centers, it will wash away any pain and open us to new streams of consciousness and direction.
Sagittarius is often depicted as a centaur, poised with a stellar bow, and pointing its flaming arrow into the heart of the Milky Way. It also can be seen as an archer on horseback. An ancient symbol, it shows us our capacity to ride our passion and purposefully aim our love. When we know precisely where we want to direct our love, we can send it so that it touches ourselves and others with a healing impact. <p>
What is your passion? Where do you want to aim your love?
I live in a neighborhood filled with horses. I hear them talk their own language, whinnying under night skies as if they are communing with the constellations. They will gallop with the wind or stand in trance for hours. Their physical prowess is breathtaking and their consciousness extends beyond time and space. They sense things on subtle levels and bring peace and balance to the world. They understand community and their curiosity is boundless. They have a softness in them that can melt even the most hardened of hearts. Powerful in their bodies and Spirits, horses for millennium have been showing up our planet and interacting with humans.
If you allow it to happen, Mars in Sagittarius will inspire you to learn from the ways of horses and take yourself on a journey into the vast field of your consciousness. It will be a quest to know who and what you really are. It will become your own unique way to find your passion, steady yourself, and discover just how powerful your consciousness is.
September 27, 2016 (Mars moves relatively quickly in the sky and is in each constellation for about two months.)
Mars now shines as a beacon near the heart of the Milky Way. Look up into the night and you will see the bright planet in the early degrees of Sagittarius, dancing in the galaxy’s vast river of stars that surges above us in the shimmering darkness. As Mars make its way across the field of Sagittarian energies, it will call us to quest for inner knowing about our life purposes. It is a personal quest for something only you yourself can discover. It is an inward journey.
There is a great passion that beats in the center of each and everyone’s Beingness. Mars points our attention to feeling this enormous love. It is a love that wants to fill us and spill over into the world, touching all life.
Our capacity to let love flow like a river might be something we find ourselves resisting. It can bring up fear and old hurts to be so fluid and expressive. We humans tend not to acknowledge the beauty of our Spirits’ feelings and the richness of our love and passion. We have fallen into the trap of toning it all down and forgetting about our splendor. When we let the love flow from our centers, it will wash away any pain and open us to new streams of consciousness and direction.
Sagittarius is often depicted as a centaur, poised with a stellar bow, and pointing its flaming arrow into the heart of the Milky Way. It also can be seen as an archer on horseback. An ancient symbol, it shows us our capacity to ride our passion and purposefully aim our love. When we know precisely where we want to direct our love, we can send it so that it touches ourselves and others with a healing impact. <p>
What is your passion? Where do you want to aim your love?
I live in a neighborhood filled with horses. I hear them talk their own language, whinnying under night skies as if they are communing with the constellations. They will gallop with the wind or stand in trance for hours. Their physical prowess is breathtaking and their consciousness extends beyond time and space. They sense things on subtle levels and bring peace and balance to the world. They understand community and their curiosity is boundless. They have a softness in them that can melt even the most hardened of hearts. Powerful in their bodies and Spirits, horses for millennium have been showing up our planet and interacting with humans.
If you allow it to happen, Mars in Sagittarius will inspire you to learn from the ways of horses and take yourself on a journey into the vast field of your consciousness. It will be a quest to know who and what you really are. It will become your own unique way to find your passion, steady yourself, and discover just how powerful your consciousness is.
Jupiter in Virgo - A Journey into Well-Being
August 16, 2016 (Jupiter will be in Virgo during the next year)
What experiences have you had in your life that give you hope for a wonderful existence? Are you now living the life your heart really beats for? Where are you heading and what would you regret not doing in your future?
Your life is your journey. It is personal to you and has the potential to be amazing, filled with love, freedom, and meaning. If it doesn't feel that way, aren’t you telling yourself something? What needs to change?
Jupiter, the planet of seeking and discovering, has just moved into Virgo and will be there for a little over a year.* Virgo speaks to your personal well-being and to the well-being of nature and all life. You now have a window of time to make the most of this life-enhancing energy configuration.
Your well-being certainly is your affair and you can take the matter into your own hands and go for it. By being willing and by answering questions like those above, you will make significant headway into making needed changes. It all starts with the inner awakening of your feeling-awareness. By paying attention to what your awareness feels like, you can learn by trial and error to purposefully direct it. YOU and THE SKILLFUL USE OF YOUR AWARENESS are very important! They are at the HEART OF YOUR POWER to live a full, peaceful, and passionate life.
Your happiness and health depend on how you use your awareness. When you direct it into such feelings like deep caring, endless curiosity, and big wonder, you will feel more alive and new doors will open up for you. You will see things about yourself and life that you never saw before. You will explore uncountable possibilities and express your delicious creativity. Your dance through the days, weeks, and months will grow more exciting and nourishing!
Seeking and discovering your purposefulness and power is the way of Jupiter. As you open your heart to living a quality of life that you may of believed was beyond reach, the magic happens. There will be surprises and unexpected twists and turns and this adds a lot of fun to things! Keep honing your awareness and you will find yourself trusting your inner knowing and guidance. On top of all this, by seeking your own well-being, you will know how you want to impact others. Touching lives with your gifts fills the heart and brings healing to our planet.
August 16, 2016 (Jupiter will be in Virgo during the next year)
What experiences have you had in your life that give you hope for a wonderful existence? Are you now living the life your heart really beats for? Where are you heading and what would you regret not doing in your future?
Your life is your journey. It is personal to you and has the potential to be amazing, filled with love, freedom, and meaning. If it doesn't feel that way, aren’t you telling yourself something? What needs to change?
Jupiter, the planet of seeking and discovering, has just moved into Virgo and will be there for a little over a year.* Virgo speaks to your personal well-being and to the well-being of nature and all life. You now have a window of time to make the most of this life-enhancing energy configuration.
Your well-being certainly is your affair and you can take the matter into your own hands and go for it. By being willing and by answering questions like those above, you will make significant headway into making needed changes. It all starts with the inner awakening of your feeling-awareness. By paying attention to what your awareness feels like, you can learn by trial and error to purposefully direct it. YOU and THE SKILLFUL USE OF YOUR AWARENESS are very important! They are at the HEART OF YOUR POWER to live a full, peaceful, and passionate life.
Your happiness and health depend on how you use your awareness. When you direct it into such feelings like deep caring, endless curiosity, and big wonder, you will feel more alive and new doors will open up for you. You will see things about yourself and life that you never saw before. You will explore uncountable possibilities and express your delicious creativity. Your dance through the days, weeks, and months will grow more exciting and nourishing!
Seeking and discovering your purposefulness and power is the way of Jupiter. As you open your heart to living a quality of life that you may of believed was beyond reach, the magic happens. There will be surprises and unexpected twists and turns and this adds a lot of fun to things! Keep honing your awareness and you will find yourself trusting your inner knowing and guidance. On top of all this, by seeking your own well-being, you will know how you want to impact others. Touching lives with your gifts fills the heart and brings healing to our planet.
Uranus in Pisces, Looking for Truth
June 10, 2016 Uranus will be in Pisces until it moves into Aries in April 2017
What does it take to know truth?
What's it's like when you turn on the TV, open up to a site on the internet, or read the newspaper? Do you feel like you can find truth in any of these places?
Or perhaps guideposts to the truth?
How often have you observed yourself or another say one thing but mean another? Although not much truth is being exchanged, it is understandable that we do such things. We tend to be afraid of truth and the impact it may have. And truth to be truth needs to be communicated with kindness and deep caring. Otherwise truth turns into dogma, judgment, and condemnation. That tears up hearts.
We easily can kid ourselves about truth. We all know what it's like when we are in a snit and our emotions are screaming inside our heads. We think we know the truth and feel justified about our dramas and inner warring. It is so seductive to con ourselves into thinking that we are right.
So where can you find truth?
Indigenous peoples who lived in love and respect knew that real truth or real knowledge comes from first-hand experience, experience that you have while you are feeling your True Spiritual Self. This suggests that the key is to know what the feeling of your Beingness is really like. You knew it as a child. You can find that feeling again and live in it. This will awaken your inner perception in an extraordinary way. You will have insight about your personal truth that is as keen as an owl's perceptiveness and inner knowing.
According to sidereal astrology, Uranus is now in the constellation of Pisces. Uranus speaks to humanity's capability to wake up out of the box of obsolete western cultural thinking. Neptune helps us reveal our illusions so that we can turn our attention to our Spiritual Selves and the Spirit World. In other words, it is a wonderful time to seek and bring back the feeling of your Beingness and live in close connection with all kinds of Spirit Helpers, the way the ancients did.
As you come to know yourself more fully, your sense of truth is very personal and very rich. It is not better or less than the truth of another. It is amazing and fulfilling to know and live your truth. When you live it you share it. You will have a glow about you that comes from the inner knowing that resides in your center. You become a gift to others because you are willing to allow them to discover and live their own truths. This adds to the collective truth of humanity and inspires a whole new level of consciousness on our planet.
June 10, 2016 Uranus will be in Pisces until it moves into Aries in April 2017
What does it take to know truth?
What's it's like when you turn on the TV, open up to a site on the internet, or read the newspaper? Do you feel like you can find truth in any of these places?
Or perhaps guideposts to the truth?
How often have you observed yourself or another say one thing but mean another? Although not much truth is being exchanged, it is understandable that we do such things. We tend to be afraid of truth and the impact it may have. And truth to be truth needs to be communicated with kindness and deep caring. Otherwise truth turns into dogma, judgment, and condemnation. That tears up hearts.
We easily can kid ourselves about truth. We all know what it's like when we are in a snit and our emotions are screaming inside our heads. We think we know the truth and feel justified about our dramas and inner warring. It is so seductive to con ourselves into thinking that we are right.
So where can you find truth?
Indigenous peoples who lived in love and respect knew that real truth or real knowledge comes from first-hand experience, experience that you have while you are feeling your True Spiritual Self. This suggests that the key is to know what the feeling of your Beingness is really like. You knew it as a child. You can find that feeling again and live in it. This will awaken your inner perception in an extraordinary way. You will have insight about your personal truth that is as keen as an owl's perceptiveness and inner knowing.
According to sidereal astrology, Uranus is now in the constellation of Pisces. Uranus speaks to humanity's capability to wake up out of the box of obsolete western cultural thinking. Neptune helps us reveal our illusions so that we can turn our attention to our Spiritual Selves and the Spirit World. In other words, it is a wonderful time to seek and bring back the feeling of your Beingness and live in close connection with all kinds of Spirit Helpers, the way the ancients did.
As you come to know yourself more fully, your sense of truth is very personal and very rich. It is not better or less than the truth of another. It is amazing and fulfilling to know and live your truth. When you live it you share it. You will have a glow about you that comes from the inner knowing that resides in your center. You become a gift to others because you are willing to allow them to discover and live their own truths. This adds to the collective truth of humanity and inspires a whole new level of consciousness on our planet.