Who are you....really? Do you feel really seen by others?

2012-01-16

Do you know beyond a doubt who you really are? Or are you, like millions of others, finding yourself coiled up in anxiousness and uncertainty about yourself and your future. Do you know how to be your own best friend? Do you feel really seen in your relationships? With the Sun moving into a square with Saturn and Jupiter, this is an opportune time to get right to the heart of the matter. No more dilly-dallying and putting off the challenge of true Self discovery. There is a Real You waiting to be found, loved, and lived! If you don't seek and see You, no one else will. Copyright 2012 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

2012 - Who Do You Want To Be Now? - Inspirations from Jupiter and Mars

2011-12-31

We have only the now. We have only the day. When we wake up tomorrow, we still have only the moment, the day. Our universe births itself every new moment. It is where the power, potency, and beauty of life lie. When we push away from the present, we separate ourselves from the pulse of life. And we throw away our aliveness and our innate connection to all that is. Who do you want to be now and throughout this day? How do you want to live in this second, minute, and hour? This New Year? Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

The Gutsy Big Question!

2011-12-21

Putting aside any pretenses and half-truths, what do you hear inside your heart of hearts when you ask yourself, "Am I happy with my life? Am I living the life that I dreamed I could live?" Get as real and honest as you can, no beating around the bush. Spill it out - is your life passing you by? Do you wake up with a great eagerness and passion for the coming day? Or are you chewing on the same old bone of ho-hum and blindly hoping for something magically to come along and make it all different? The Moon is in Scorpio at the Solstice. She is strong, relentless, and unconditionally loving at the dawn of the growing light. Bottom line, this New Year of Light and Love is emotionally aligned with getting gutsy about who you are. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

Winter Solstice and Your Dance With the Stars

2011-12-11

As Winter Solstice of 2011 approaches, the nights continue to grow longer, until the deepest night arrives on December 22. The sweet darkening sings to us to gently inward into the beautiful star-filled stillness within. We live in a culture that has forgotten what it means to be truly Human. We tend forget to feel the heart and wholeness of who and what we are. Here lies the root of the loneliness of Spirit that plagues western society. As very small children, we knew and lived our true identities. There was innocence and great curiosity. We played and created in the Now. In Ka Ta See, we refer to the vibrant sensation of our own unique eternal Self as our “Song.” According to Peruvian shamans, Domano and Chea Hetaka, our Songs are as old as Creator - extraordinarily capable, and intelligent, spilling over with unconditional love. During the timeless Solstice nights, we are invited to remember how intensely alive, potent, and safe our Songs naturally feel. We are worthy of great respect. It is time to take our place is among the stars. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

Stuck in Remote Control - Saturn in Virgo in the Sky

2011-11-22

So often we humans tend to run about throughout our days stuck inside our minds. We get so consumed with thoughts that have nothing to with our aliveness or with our love for life. Instead we become entrapped in the extra-busy machinery of routine and “head-tripping,” walking through our schedules and tasks in a stupor of asleepness. In doing so, we remain separate from our center and power, forgetful of the exquisite feeling of who we really are, and removed from the beautiful and easeful flow of life. If you are operating in “remote control,” you are no longer allowing your true Self to experience the love that it is in and around you. You do not have to live this way. You can chose differently. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved. About the author: Ken offers services in Ka Ta See, including Bone Throws, teaching, counseling, and energy balancing and healing, as well as shamanic astrology.

Being the Real You in Relationships: Beautifully Refreshing, Real, and Safe

2011-09-29

With the Sun moving through the constellation of Virgo and with Venus conjoining Saturn (western sidereal calculations), this is a great time to observe when we are making ourselves uptight or uncertain when around others. Most of us who were brought up in the power-over oriented western culture, which now spans much of the world, often carry about a big old unnerving fear about personal safety around other humans. The fear easily can get triggered in any social encounter. So often we try to pretend its not there because we think we might appear more ridiculous if we admitted it.The fear for our well-being may grab us just prior to a job interview or before a review by a supervisor. Or maybe it will create a pit in our stomach when we think that we’re “running behind schedule,” as if some almighty judge was about to look down at us with condemning eyes and punish us for being late or for not having everything done on time. While the fear in some way served us in the past, it may no longer be serving our best interests anymore. It certainly is creating stress. From a very early age, we were taught by authority figures that we must live up to a picture of who or what others think we should be. They held up expectations of how we should think, feel, and act so that we can fit into the world they think is safe and normal. If we do not become who they believe we should be, we often were punished, humiliated, for criticized, or shunned. If we went along with their pictures, we got the praise and the smile and stamp of approval. The Sun and Saturn in our birth charts speak to being in our own driver’s seat when it comes to running our lives and interacting with others. Our Essences are our inner authorities, just as a wolf, elephant, or tiger take charge of their own daily agendas with confidence and keen awareness. They are alive, untamed, unregulated, and definitely not bored. Inside our true Selves, we know what really nourishes us. We have profound inner guidance to rely upon. Our Spirits are brimming over with unconditional love and kindness. We each have a purpose and we come alive when being purposeful in ways that are keeping with who we really are. By turning within and checking in with our hearts, senses, and unique intelligence, we readily choose how to respond to life and others from a place of honesty, which is so beautifully refreshing and real. No pretenses. This is our birthright and it makes us feel authentic and safe in relationship. Copyrighted 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved. To further awaken your awareness about your path and gifts, contact Ken for a shamanic astrology reading or a Ka Ta See Bone Throw, a profound and delicate ancient divination Ceremony of Calling The Spirits. He can be reached at ken@eraoftheheart.com

World without Judgement and Hierarchy

2011-09-03

Imagine a world without judgement. No fears of being criticized, blamed, ostracized, or damned. No better thans or less thans. No killing of inspiration and tenderness. No one being more or less significant than another. A world of unconditional love. Everything and everyone considered as equals. Endless appreciation of the uniqueness and wondrousness in each life form. There would be no taking, but instead continuos giving and receiving. This is living from the heart, a balance within and with each other. This is the world of the indigenous people of Peru who lived and protected the ancient shamanic knowledge of Ka Ta See. They are a thriving people who have kept clear of the ways of judgment. Instead they live the sacred ways of total acceptance. These ways breed a freedom that invite each tribal member to be all of who she or he is and to explore life without the worries of being rejected or oppressed. As Uranus squares Pluto in the Sky, we are called to identify and easefully release any forms of condemning and criticizing whether it be judging ourselves, situations, or others. When you catch a judgement arise in your thoughts or feelings, thank it for showing you that it was there and let it go it into the Earth. She will take it and recycle it into something that helps life along. Stay with the process and allow all the damning to leave you and your body. As it leaves allow yourself to fill up with the breath and lightness of your Song, your Spirit's signature of aliveness, and enjoy the wonder of experiencing fresh perspectives. Copyrighted 2011 by Ken Robinson. Ken provides services in Ka Ta See, including Bone Throws, Counseling, Teaching, and Energy Healings. He also provides shamanic astrology readings. For more information, please contact him at ken@eraoftheheart.com. Sessions are $90/hr. Please inquire if you need a sliding fee scale, which I am happy to offer in the range of $40 to the regular hourly rate.

Prayer - A Two Way Communication

2011-08-19

Mercury retrograde is an opportunity to explore the feeling and content of your prayers. It is a time to turn inward to observe the power of your thoughts and feelings and how they are the basis for manifesting your present realities. Your thoughts and feelings are essentially your conversations with the Great Mystery, with Life Itself. What you think, image, and feel into is what the universe understands as your intent to create, and it responds accordingly, with great precision. Life will help you build whatever you are focusing upon because it listens to your inner world. As Mercury moves toward a powerful angular relationship with Neptune, relax into your heart and let yourself dream what it is that your Essence, your Song, really wants to create. And then reach out to the Source or Creator or however you prefer to call the Presence that Permeates all things, and talk informally, intimately, and with genuineness with this Presence. This opens the doorway of communication that moves beyond words and worlds. This communication is two way, so listen and feel and allow there to be a flow between you two. When your prayers come from the heart, they bring love, healing, perspective, and gratitude. The prayers shift something in You and Life notices. Allow things to unfold and learn to trust the process. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

From Shoulds to Heartfelt Desires

2011-07-17

"Identify, honor, and drop the 'shoulds,' and instead, acknowledge your deeper desires and engage in them. Your personal heartfelt desires are your doorways to your joy and they reflect your true Essence.They are the substance of how your Self guides you. They lead to abundance in all aspects of your life." This is one of the key messages that I hear in the Planetary Sky at this time. Humanity has long been indoctrinated to live a life of shoulds. I should do this. I should do that. Should, should, should. Try catching how many times and ways you find yourself silently thinking a should. Have fun with the introspection. No need to get heavy about it. Shoulds are yokes of oppression that are rooted in millennium-old ways of thinking. We tend to believe that shoulds are keeping us safe and making us 'good' people. In reality, the shoulds weigh us down, adding unbearable heaviness upon our shoulders and hearts. Shoulds are the basis for anxiety, because if we do not live up to them, we believe and fear that something 'bad' will happen. So, gently and with lots of unconditional love, let the shoulds know that they do not need to protect you any longer. Let them drift off your back. If they really want to stay, give them a new job description where they can help you identify, embrace, and live the desires that make your heart sing and expand. It's your life! Your astrology chart reveals passions and desires with which you have come into the world. It would be a pleasure to offer you a reading that helps you see the gifts of who you are. Let me know if you read this article on Shaman Portal and you will receive a 10% discount. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

Transforming Your Life into Who Your Heart Knows You to Be

2011-06-24

The Sun, a symbol of our Unique Wondrous Eternal Spirits, is moving into a position in the zodiac where it makes a great geometric square-like shape in the Sky with Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus. It is a Diamond Floating in the Above, a time for personal and collective realization and shifting. What does this signal and mean? Just as I was pondering what to write in this forecast, an elegant black and yellow Butterfly floated in through the open front door of my home here in Santa Fe. It fluttered about and settled on a window high above my reach in the kitchen. In response to its gentle and unexpected entry, my first thoughts were concerned with how I may tenderly help it on its way back out the door again, back into the garden of life-giving flowers where it could dance in the light of the Sun and feast among the nectars of the plants. As I quietly watched, it slowly opened and closed its delicate wings, and a feeling came to heart - it had come with a purpose. As I tuned in further to its presence, I understood that it had journeyed into the casita in order to speak about this time in Humanity's transformation. Spirits and Nature Beings convey information intelligently through non-linear and symbolic means. They emanate this knowledge from their own Essences through an internal radar-like broadcast of subtle energy. We can pick up the extrasensory communication with our own internal subtle or Spirit senses, which translate the information into something understandable to us. This is the old ancient way of interacting intimately with these amazing beings of Nature and the unseen worlds. We did this as young children, but we often forget that we did. The Butterfly talks of our personal transformation, where we no longer need to constrict ourselves in our old suffocating cocoons of habit. In the wake of the summer solstice, we are being reminded to identify with who we really are as beautiful and gentle Beings who can flourish on the Earth together. The Butterfly speaks to releasing false beliefs, fears, pains, and habits that make us squelch our fun, joy, and inner guidance. This is a rich and enlightening movement into the wholeness of our Spirits, learning how to embody them just as the Butterfly freely embodies and shares its Essence. The personal transformation feeds our well-being because we are aligning ourselves with who our hearts know us to really be. Our emotions and physical bodies like this and in turn, we feel stronger and clearer! As the Sun and planets make their Diamond in the Above, Butterfly brings the message home: "It is safe and beautiful to feel and be the Genuine You." Copyrighted in 2011 by Ken Robinson. For more a Shamanic Astrology Reading or Calling of the Spirits Ceremony (a profound and ancient form of Bone Throwing) contact Ken at ken@eraoftheheart.com.

Allowing Our Selves to Awaken - A Tool for Living in Easeful Aliveness

2011-06-10

The Earth and Solar System are in active state of change. They are moving into the ecliptic of the Milky Way, where energy fields are magnetic and strong. Entry into these fields effect us as individuals, prompting us to shift, too. There is no stopping this momentum. It is a calling us to awaken, to no longer "live" asleep to our true identities. All the old ways we did things will work less and less effectively. All the facades we have been wearing will no longer feel so comfortable and fit so well over our faces. This is an exciting time to learn how to find who we really are, to know and claim the vibrant feeling sensation of our Essences, to embody our truth, and shed the old limiting skins of resistance. Neptune is a planet that speaks to unconditional acceptance, which is an innate dimension of our natural state of beingness. In accepting where we are in our lives and in our search for the true Self, we make the journey a smoother one. We free our our minds and emotions so that we may grasp deeper more nourishing realities. Allowing ourselves to discover what our true Self feels like, what gifts and abilities we have, and what we really want brings a delightful easefulness to the walk. Allowing our Selves to awaken in our own unique ways and pace becomes a tool to dance and see clearly from the heart. Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. About the author: Ken is a shamanic astrologer who also provides services as a teacher, seer, and healer in the Peruvian shamanic tradition of Ka Ta See.

Romantic Relationships - Finding the Dance of Love

2011-05-09

How many love relationships have you witnessed that thrive in ease, delight, and joy? Way to few, eh! It's not just a fantasy to want to to live in that in-love feeling all of the time, it's just often approached unrealistically. Saturn being strong in its stand-out position in the sky, this is a good time to get real with ourselves about what we bring to the dance of love. Across from Saturn in the zodiac, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus are clustered together. Jupiter and Mercury are sandwiched in between the male and female planets of Mars and Venus. They are the planets of knowledge and communication and are the clues to creating a nice dance in relationship, whatever gender preferences you have. When it comes to our connections with others, the Spirits say that we need to be intimate friends with our Selves first and this sets the solid ground for being friends with another. Romance goes nowhere but into a dark hole when we are do not know and like ourselves from top to bottom. True love and lovemaking is a top to the bottom kind of thing. Every cell in our body wants to talk to us about who we are. In Ka Ta See, we come to know our true identity by the unique vibratory feeling sensation of our aliveness. This wondrous feeling is who we really are, and by our very own natures, with no exceptions, we are content, kind, curious, sensual, and eager. Our bodies thrive in this sensation. This knowledge and encouragement from the Spirits might stir your passion to become totally aware and accepting of your Real Self. You can't lose with the Real You. It's just too much fun! With Self in tact, then the touching of another comes into play. What a dynamo you are then! In your exquisite wholeness, without fear chasing your back, you avoid the holes and pitfalls of most relationships which tend to spiral down due to nagging criticisms, letdowns, and big tensions. If stress is a problem, try visiting my other blog at http://eraoftheheart.blogspot.com/ for some more inspiration. Do yourself a big favor, because you deserve it - enjoy You. Find the childhood kid you left behind, who knew how to play for hours on end. And dance your way into the romance of life. Love in relationships are sure to follow! A year ago the unexpected happened. I couldn't sleep. The days without any rest started adding up; more than I could believe possible. My legs had begun to swell and eventually they took on the shapes of tree trunks. I no longer had the strength to get to the woodshed or put a log into the wood stove. I needed help. My ex-wife came by to check in on me. She took me to see her doctor, who sent me off to the hospital. Walking into the emergency room was my last resort. I had no insurance. Once I signed the papers, it was a walk into mayhem. My pulse and blood pressure were checked. X-rays were taken. Blood was drawn and tested. Doctors told me that my heart was beating twice its normal rhythm, but they didn't know what was causing the problem. Nurses hooked me up to an IV and wired me to a heart monitor. It was all so technical and impersonal. I was crying behind my tired exterior. I wanted someone to take notice of my feelings, to put on hand on my heart and shoulder, to be with All of Me, not just my symptoms. In the pandemonium, I struggled to keep my center. Intense fear was trying to take me over. "Am I going to die?" - I couldn't hide from the question, waves of despair washing over me. I was grateful for my ex-wife, who was keeping me company through the ordeal; and the voice of a close friend and healer, with whom I briefly talked on the phone, was most comforting. The doctors finally disclosed that they couldn't help me and they sent for a helicopter to transport me up to a regional hospital immediately. Flying off into an uncertain future, I wondered where my destiny was taking me. I had been a long-time student and teacher of the ancient knowledge of Ka Ta See, which means "living in balance from the heart;" and here I was, ironically, having heart problems. I was between worlds. In the sky even farther above me, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius were also in transit, moving into an auspicious position in the zodiac, exactly opposite from where Pluto is located in my birth chart - in the sign of Leo, the sign of the heart. My astrology chart was hanging on my refrigerator door at home, but I never thought that I would be heading into this madness. After checking in and signing the release forms at the well-known regional hospital, I was given pharmaceuticals to decrease my fluid retention. I urinated seventeen pounds of extra weight that night! The next day doctors suggested that I try a cardioversion treatment, in which a measured electrical shock would be directed to my heart to reset its pulse. The procedure sounded cold and technological, but I wanted a quick cure, and so I decided to go for it. After I had done a private ceremony to prepare myself, the medical team did the procedure, and my heart was beating regularly! However, the effect was short-lived. It lasted for only 10 days and I was back into the ER and hospital all over again. After more tests and observation, my diagnosis was changed to "a-flutter." Doctors believed that there was misfiring nerve tissue in my heart and it was triggering it to go into a doubled pace. They prescribed an ablation, in which the disruptive tissue would be burnt out with a high frequency radio wave transmitter navigated into the heart by a highly trained MD, an electrophysiologist. I was reluctant, concerned that it might as ineffective as the cardioversion; but I also wanted to do what I could to live with a heart that beats strong and steady. I consulted with friends about whether to proceed. Everyone agreed that it seemed to be the most sensible thing to do. But it too would turn out to be insufficient. After twelve days the heart was going in and out of rhythm. During the next five months, I was on low doses of pharmaceuticals to steady the heart, but they weren't doing the trick. I didn't like the idea of taking them either. Finally, I returned to the hospital for another cardioversion and a second ablation. The Spirits were now referring to the procedures as "ceremonies," because, in response to my asking for their help, they had been and would always be present. Many entities, including Beings from the Stars, came to assist me and the medical team during all of the treatments. I was so glad to feel their presence, particularly when I was lying on the operation table, preparing to "go under." Each time I awoke from the anesthesia after the procedures, I emerged out of beautiful golden "places," where the entities had taken and protected me. Sensing so much ease and caring in these safe and unseen realms, it was entirely OK with me if I did not return to my physical body. But somehow I lived! When lying in the recovery room after the last ablation, which cleared up the rest of the misfiring heart tissue, I opened my eyes and saw the Spirits hovering over me, staying close beside me, healing me. So very tangible and reliable they were! I burst into tears when feeling their relentless love and loyalty. They were always there, even when I was too scared to realize it. My journey into the total healing of my heart continues to this day. A second factor behind my irregular heartbeats were heavy metal toxins and other poisons that distort the functioning of my thyroid, nerves, cardiac tissue, and in the endocrine system. To address this issue, I am still on a unique detox protocol. Another major underlying cause behind my cardiac unrest was old unconscious fear and pain. My suppressed and buried emotions of hurt, guilt, and shame needed to get my attention and did so through the mis-beating of my heart. This heartache could no longer be overlooked and so I have sat and listened peacefully to my old pains. I have needed to revisit times when I felt hurt or when I hurt others and bring forgiveness to self and other. Since my first trip into the emergency room, my walk with Ka Ta See has taken me to a deeper level of genuineness, unconditional love, and appreciation. Wondering whether I was going to live or die, I came to value community very deeply. My family, children, and many friends, healers, and medical and financial personnel reached out to me when I was in the hospital and in recovery. Their presence helped me stay on the planet and find a way back to vibrant health. High up In the sky now, Neptune and Chiron continue to dance together, and they are being joined by Venus - a fitting time to bring spiritual healing to our selves and others, including our home planet and all lifeforms. It is a cosmic dance of the heart. (Copyrighted by Ken Robinson 2011)

Search for Your Center, Your Song, and Stand Your Ground Like an Oak Tree. It's Real!

2011-04-30

Up in the sky above us, Saturn is a stand out. It is transiting on one side of the zodiac while almost all of the other planets are transiting on the other side. It's time for you to take your stand, to search for the solid ground inside your heart and body and become centered like a great old gentle oak tree. To do this means turning your attention to your Song - the easeful and unique feeling that resonates inside your core. Open your arms to embrace life and let the soothing winds bring you the gifts and people they want to bring to your path. Find your deep roots in your own authority, as the decision maker of your life, in all aspects of your journey on the planet. No excuses. No blaming. No harsh self-judgments. No looking to others to have the answers for you. Go for it now! Why wait to let life pass you by? The clock is ticking. What are you waiting for? The genie in a bottle to appear? Whatever mess you are experiencing has a purpose, even if it feels like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. It's not an accident that you are in what your are in. When you hang on to the old, the old keeps getting heavier and it teaches you in this way, helps you let go so that you can see the new possibilities. What a nice opportunity! It might help to talk to some friends or practitioners about the situations and the feelings your are having. Listen to their sense of things, but let go of the temptation to give the power away to them. Being grateful for their help is balancing, but claim the awakening in your Self. Being real brings everything in your world into vivid clarity because the illusions disperse when you do so. Then the magic happens because you choose life over pretense. You are the powerful genie you are waiting for! (Copyrighted 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved.)

The Unexpected Turn of Events with Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius

2010-04-06

With Neptune and Chiron gathered in the constellation of the Water-Bearer, allow for the unexpected to come forward with regard to your spirituality and health. There are things going on in and around us of which we simply are not aware until they happen, and that is OK. Total acceptance and unconditional love brings peace and well-being at these times. The stillness of our Songs, our Essences, allows us to perceive our paths through the thickest of unknowns and uncertainties, so that we may find our way. The heart of community and humanity, what is so beautiful about people and life, will assist you in ways that may surprise you, so that you may once again come to trust the nourishment that life and web of all beings naturally offer with open hands, even at moments when we think that nothing in the world could help us. Just around the corner of our awareness is hidden assistance and a love of great power and depth.

Dance your Way into New Beginnings!

2010-03-14

With the New Moon on Tuesday the 15th, its time to dance your way into some new adventure. Risk to identify what your heart really wants. The New Moon invites us to feel fresh rhythms of our Spirit's feelings ripple into embodiment. This can lead us trying a fresh approach to a matter at hand. The three days of the New Moon (the day before, the day of, and the day after) the new moon create a Moon Vessel for your wants. When you identify what you really desire, put it into the symbolic Moon Vessel and allow the desire to become a reality in the month to come. Feed it a little each day with the love of your attention by dreaming of the details of your deep desire.

The Intelligence of our Hearts

2010-02-27

This week the Spirits want to address the quest for personal transformation. They say that a key to our becoming who we really are as individuals and as a people, has to do with what we came into this life. When we were born, we carried in our hearts a profound intelligence, which allows us to perceive and live our purpose and our gifts, a special knowledge that was unique to each of us. Most of us forget this essential part of ourselves as we become indoctrinated into the numbing and dulling ways of our modern society. The innate intelligence remains dormant until we awaken to our hearts and follow our inner inspiration to discover it again. Seeking begins with looking and wondering. As we give energy to the looking, the universe responds to help us find what we seek. With seven planets stationed within about one-twelfth of the sky right now, there is a strong focused pulse of energy that invites a shake-up of how we hide our heart's intelligence. Uranus is the lead planet in this line-up, the Great Awakener of the Heart's Eyes. Now, like a time-release capsule, the beautiful and fun-loving contents of our own hearts are seeking our attention so that we can see and fulfill our wondrous destinies.

For the Week Following February 20: Human Potential and Stillness

2010-02-20

The Spirit World is very real. It is not a fantasy kingdom nor a figment of our imagination. There is a feeling and a signature to the Spirit World that is uniquely different than something we might make up in our heads. The Spirit World is a wondrous powerful realm to which the ancient peoples of Ka Ta See turned without hesitation for guidance. These peoples offered their gifts of love and gratitude to the unseen beings with whom they lived in harmonious communion. Ignoring the realm today is ignoring entities who provide unlimited unconditional love and amazing assistance - things of true substance that have a healing and aligning impact in our everyday lives. In this column, the Spirits offer a perspective as a kind of Astrological Council, a fitting symbol for Neptune's present position in the constellation of the Water Bearer, often referred to as Aquarius, the sign of friendship. The Spirits want to share the following for the week: "Individual and collective human potential are extraordinary. It is not appropriate any longer for us to underestimate ourselves. To tap into our potential, we must first receive ourselves and our gifts with open arms, releasing all addictive tendencies that limit our perceptions of who we are and what we can do as a species. A key to clear perception is being STILL - quieting our inner chatter, distractions, and dramas so that our gifts of seeing can be recognized and utilized. In observing ourselves and life without judgments and blind beliefs, we see truth without distortions. They eyes of our hearts, full of feeling and extensive accuracy, naturally see the riches of human potential so that we may weave these riches into manifestation here on the Earth. Our hearts are clear in our exquisite stillness and hold the doors open for a new paradigm of world healing."

Valentine's Week and the Power of Love

2010-02-14

Valentine's Day is a time that our western culture has chosen to highlight romance. In astrological circles, romance is often associated with Venus. It so happens that the "love planet" dances in close proximity with the Moon and Jupiter on February 14. There is a a feeling-based knowledge to discover here, where our feelings become the eyes of our hearts so that we can see-feel the truth and wonders of authentic relatedness. Here is what the Spirits want to reveal about the great matter of love: "Real Love has the power to ever awaken. Like a thunderstorm, it shakes us out of our asleepness, dullness, and old patterns. Love offers us the opportunity to discover the truth of our Self and Another. Being in love stimulates the feeling signature of our own individual aliveness, bringing thunderous delights and downpours of pleasures." The Spirits go on to share a few guidelines about helping romance grow: "Let go of the tendency to grip tightly onto a relationship or onto fears about them. Give the relationship room to find its own way. Love is part of our individual power. It gives us balance with another. It is something that inspires giving and receiving without keeping count or knowing how things will turn out. Love is a continual exchange of gifts, not an imprisonment of them." The Spirits say that a key to attracting and finding love is to "feel our personal lovableness. Our dog and cat friends do this instinctively. They attract love and caresses by simply being who and what they are." To close, the Spirits suggested that we "engage in and enjoy the personal changes that come with love. Love brings us out of ourselves so that we may be creative. Love likewise inspires us to look courageously at what we have created with another with our thoughts, feelings, and actions. What we see as beneficial, we continue. What we see as detrimental, we end. Transformation is a natural outcome of movement into undisturbed relatedness. In reaching in and out with the love feeling, the dance never ends. It becomes pure hopping around and playing."

February 7 - 13: Shifting with the Solar System

2010-02-07

The Spirits again point to Saturn as the planet to address in our astrology charts this week. Saturn speaks to the way we structure our precious time on the Earth so that we may experience all the richness of each moment. The Spirits suggest that we observe with keen interest and stillness the way we presently structure our hours, days, weeks, and months, seeing the structure for what it really offers or does not offer us, without judgment or criticism. Then ask yourself, is it what you want? Does this structure serve your well-being and the well-being of others? There are other-dimensional beings who live in our universe who have a keen interest in us, as if we were family, and they want to assist us in creating a beautiful existence on our planet. These benevolent beings have access to knowledge and heightened energy fields in the Milky Way Galaxy, into whose ecliptic our Solar System is now moving. The shift requires us to shift with the Solar System into new structures and schedules of living. These beings are here to guide us. They have important perspectives and gifts to share. Welcoming and identifying them is a personal experience. They may feel simply like a presence of love in a moment of stillness. Time can seem different with them, like spending an easeful afternoon in the Sun and wondering where the day went. Receiving with centered love all of their help and guidance is key to creating a new paradigm in our world, where we live with respectfulness and authentic relatedness with all life and beings.

January 31 - February 6: Your Genius Dimension

2010-01-31

This week the Spirits want to point us towards Chiron and Saturn, two travelers in the sky that help create timely opportunities for healing in our personal lives. Sometimes these moments or periods of time can seem like crises, when it looks like things are falling apart. These crises are the indication that we are being called to reclaim our wholeness, where we are balanced and experiencing well-being at all levels. The Spirits say that in each one of us is a "genius dimension," something that is extraordinary and unique. It is a kind of special intelligence that is ours alone. It is a key to our wholeness, as it creates a coherence in our beingness, a feeling that everything is alright and together. The Spirits also say that we discover our genius by noticing what we really love, what we are curious about, and what we have a passion for. In seeking, finding, and understanding our unusual gift, we enter a process of claiming and trusting our virility, our ability to find and feel our potency in all that we do. Our virility is something we sense both in our spirits and bodies. It is as powerful as the aroma of wild elk in a forest or the rumble of thunder on the land. There are no pretenses to our genius, no airs of arrogance or insignificance. It is what it is - truly incredible.(Copyrighted 2010 by Ken Robinson)

For the Week of January 24 - 30: Orchestrate Our Passions

2010-01-24

The Spirits point to Mars this week as a focal point. They say that we can put an end to warring in the world by creating harmony in our inner worlds. We do this by identifying and feeling the passions of our hearts without trying to hide from them. Then by orchestrating these passions into our everyday life, we create individual life-enhancing symphonic fields, which will touch and harmonize with other beings' fields. By asking for Mother Earth's assistance, the symphony of music we make together is amplified. Aligned with her, the music of our passions turns up the volume of inspiration behind humanity's awakening. What a great week to dance!

Forecast for January 17 to 23: Healing Ourselves, Other Beings, and the Earth

2010-01-17

When asking the Spirits about what they'd like to share with you this week, they pointed to Chiron in the Sky, the asteroid in astrology that concerns healing. They say that we humans need to heal ourselves first so that we are whole and capable. Then we need to bring healing to all people, like those in Haiti. Lands, oceans, trees, animals and all other beings of the natural world need healing, as does the Earth. So many toxins are in the air and waters and soils. Lots of healing is needed all around. The Spirits went on to say that we need to communicate more clearly and kindly as humans, both when we initiate and respond in our interactions. They said that too often we react in fear and panic, that we cover up our excitement, like throwing a heavy lid of dread over our buckets of joy and love. To bring healing, we need to explore alternative forms of knowledge like sacred sound and geometry. The sounds and vibrations we make in our minds and conversations make a difference to the quality of life in the world. When we think and feel love, it ripples out in geometric patterns of beauty and touches everyone and everything, inspiring growth, rejuvenation, and true community. It heals us first and extends to all people, plants, and animals. Everybody benefits. The Spirits conclude that humanity's well-being is of utmost importance. Living in close harmony with the Earth goes hand-in-hand with taking care of ourselves and all beings.

Forecast for January 10 - 16: True Knowingness - Jupiter and the Solar Eclipse

2010-01-10

Jupiter moves through the night sky in the constellation of the Water-Bearer, commonly referred to as Aquarius. Here Jupiter invites us to shake-up our mind-cages, so that we can free our spirit-mind-feeling-bodies. It is simply too easy for us in our culture of self-promotional advertising, rhetoric, and propaganda to get caught up in what someone else believes or wants to believe. From the perspective of Katasee, the ancient Peruvian knowledge of "living in balance from the heart," no one 'out there' can possibly have your truth. We know something to be true when we fully have experienced it first-hand while we are in our Songs, our true and vibrant unique essences. When we feel and understand something in our own hearts and bones and muscles, we have true knowingness. We know it on all levels of our beingness. On Friday the 15th, there will be Solar Eclipse in Capricorn. The Moon will move in front of the Sun. Venus will be there with them. While there are many interpretations made about such eclipses, this can be an opportunity for you to direct the attention of your Song to the event and allow yourself to perceive the energies clearly; and what they mean to you. Direct knowledge. Do not limit how you perceive the energies, as everyone's perceptions and symbologies are different. Allow your Song to inform you. Don't worry about being exact in your timing to reach to out the event. Do it when it works for you sometime that day. Enjoy!

Forecast for the New year 2010: Questing for Your Totality

2010-01-02

Happy New Year and what a wonderful year it is to seek the totality of who you are. You are much more than you think you are, much more than healthy-and-broken-parts-somehow-put-together. To be whole means bringing all dimensions and aspects of your unique identity into a content and coherent feeling sense of Self. The vibrant awareness of You was your natural state as a young child, when you lived in your joy and boundless curiosity, riding the wave of one captivating experience into the next. With Mars retrograde and dancing opposite Chiron, take the time to remember the Real Feeling Self that lies engulfed inside your masked and tired "adult" exteriors. Bring back the excitement of living simply in each moment and being Real. Being You initiates the creation of inner wholeness and balance and aligns you with the life energy that is surging from all around us as we enter the Era of the Heart.

Weekly Forecast for Dec 27 - Jan 2: What is Power?

2009-12-27

"What is power?" asked my teacher during my early years of apprenticing with her. Kay Cordell Whitaker, author of "The Reluctant Shaman." was teaching me Katasee, the ancient shamanic knowledge of "living in balance from the heart." She looked right into me as she delivered the question, with that piercing look in her eyes that told me to make sure that I was understanding without a doubt what she was asking. "Attention!" I blurted out, surprised at my own quick response, which seemed to come from deep within my body rather than the lips of my mind. "Exactly," she nodded and continued, "Real power is wrapped up in our attention. Wherever we put it, that is where the energy goes. Remember this." The forecast for this week calls us to pay attention to our attention - how we relate to it, what we do with it, what it feels like. It is with our attention that we make things happen or not happen. Saturn is squaring the Venus-Pluto conjunction in the sky and this is no small potatoes. This is a meaty transit that calls you to get real about your power. Are you owning it or giving it away? Are you personally awakening or are you letting common distractions, paralyzing fears, and old hurts keep you from trying? Are you discovering your gifts each day or are you caught up in comparing yourself to others? Or are you waiting for 2012 or for some "right time" or "better transit?" With this Saturn-Pluto transit, time is everything, so why wait to own your power? You are totally equipped to wake up and collect all of your attention so that you may do amazing things. When you risk, then your passion ignites and runs like a river into your awareness. What a blast that is! And just in time for getting a fresh start to a New Year.

Forecast for December 20 to 26: One of the Secrets to Our Happiness

2009-12-20

The Earth is of central importance in shamanic astrology. One of the secrets to our happiness is living in intimate harmony with our precious home planet. Being so much wiser and more powerful than us, Mother Earth always provides us with a vast array of energies and perspectives that heal and guide us. Without a personal connection to her, we cannot be whole and content. She helps us align with what it means to be fully alive. Our hearts link us directly with her heart, and it is with the clear feelings of our Songs, our Spirit's unique vibrations, that we will feel and understand her guidance. When we are ever falling in love with the Earth, our happiness naturally fills us, such that we want to play and sing like birds in a tree. We let our joy shine without reservation, and such freedom opens the doors to our hearts for authentic giving, for touching others with our beauty and spontaneity. Simply by taking a walk in her forests, sitting by her waters, or watching her snow falls, the Earth calms and rejuvenates us. In our joy and easefulness, life flows through us, such that we can actually feel our true potent Selves again. In this seasonal time of solstice and holiday celebrations, may you discover new depths to your power and love and more fluidly manifest what it is that your Song really wants.

Weekly Forecast for December 13 - 19: Waking Up Requries Uplugging Our Masks

2009-12-13

Do any of the following sound familiar: "In-a-Hurry," "Pissed Off," "Money Worries," "Not Good Enough", or "Doomsday is Coming?" These are some typical kinds of trips we run repetitively through our minds, feelings, and bodies. We often are not aware of the extent of just how often we are consumed by such inner jabber and emotional roller-coasting. Where does it all come from? In Ka Ta See, waking up is a dynamic process in which we free ourselves of these addictive robotic patterns of thinking and feeling. In this ancient Peruvian tradition, we use the word "Masks" to describe the trips and false identities that we unknowingly have taken on from our western power-over culture. Our Masks are what keep us asleep. They seduce us into a stupor where we forget our real purpose and power. In wearing our Masks tightly to our faces, we cannot know who we really are or share the real us. They do everything they can to keep us from living in peace and harmony. Until we tenaciously look at our Masks and unplug from them, they will continue to have power-over our minds and feelings. We will be their puppets and they will be our puppeteers, making us think their addictive thoughts and feeling their reactive feelings, taking us in whatever direction they are addicted to. "Waking up" means waking up out of the slumber and taking care of our well-being. Unplugging our Masks in an essential part of the process. Humanity will not change direction until we unplug. Neptune's present conjunction with Jupiter reveals the deceiving influences of our Masks' programming. As we discover each and everyone of our trips and each of our Masks are found out, they no longer have the power to deceive and control us. Instead, we free our awareness for creating a beautiful and alive way of living. Living in our joy, ease, and clarity, free of Masks, is Ka Ta See.

Forecast from December 6 to 12: Look Up into the Night

2009-12-06

The long nights of winter bring amazing starry skies to the peoples of the northern hemisphere, where thousands of shimmering inspirations sing out from pure spaciousness. Looking into the darkness in the east after sunset, one can see the Great Bull rising, often identified by its brilliant red star 'Aldebaran." Just north and west of Aldebaran are the Pleiades, a bluish star cluster of stars that looks like a little version of the big dipper. Seven of its star can often be seen my the naked eye, while there are actually hundreds of stars dancing all around them. The Pleiades have been honored by different ancient cultures, such as the Hawaiian and Lakota, as the origin of their people. The knowledge of Katasee is known to have come from a parent race there as well. In this time when the Earth and her beings are calling for healing and for an awakened people, we can go outside and look into the Pleiades and remember just how unique and capable a species we are. Allowing ourselves to become as still as the night, we can hear the guidance in the silence. According to the elders of Katasee, we are all wondrous pieces of Creator and therefore as old as Creator. Now what do we want to create together? It begins with dreaming with the stars.

Forecast for the Week of Nov 29 to Dec 5: Bees and the Power of Vibration

2009-11-29

Vibration is the basis for life. Everything alive vibrates and if we pay attention to a living being, we can sense its wondrous vibratory signature. The stars and planets vibrate as well, and through their resonant frequencies, they communicate to us, in both 3-D and non-linear fashions. This week the large asteroid, Ceres, makes an equal-sided triangle with Uranus and the South Node. This configuration in the sky above speaks to the potential harmony and nourishment we can find in vibrational experience here on the Earth. The Bee Nation knows a great deal about this realm of resonance and are in fact dependent on it for their livelihood. Each bee makes its own coherent hum, happily making its way to different flowers to pollinate our gardens, forests, and farms. Making different vibrations with their wings, they communicate with each other and their colonies in clear and distinct ways, which keeps them all interacting cooperatively to achieve their purposes. Our flowers bloom because the bees do what they naturally do - pay attention to vibration. Through their sensory apparatus, Bees continuously tune into the electromagnetic fields of the Earth, using the resonant energy frequencies to navigate to and from their hives. These vast fields generated by our planet have long existed and are the basis for maintaining a healthy state of being for the bees as well as for all beings, us included. With the recent introduction of big profit or defense oriented technologies that disrupt the Earth's natural fields, such as cell phones and towers or military-operated devices like HAARP (which is fueled with billions of watts of electrical energy), strong frequency transmissions are sent constantly out into the atmosphere in and around us, causing a wide array of problems for our plant and animal friends, and for humans. One of these problems is the weakening of the immune systems of all life forms. Becoming aware of field and frequency disturbances in our world is the responsibility of all of us, so that we can create a vibrationally healthy and alive world for all beings, now and far into the future. The Bees will tell us more about the gifts of natural living as we listen closely to their vibes. They will teach us how to hum in our beauty!

Forecast for the Week of November 22-28: Bringing Peace and Ease to a Thanksgiving Holiday

2009-11-22

During early American colonial times, when armies and colonists were pushing and warring their way feverishly to lay claim to the rich lush land long inhabited and treasured by native tribes, Pierre Baird, a Jesuit missionary who lived in this historic period, noticed something unusual about the indigenous people he encountered. In his writings he reveals their leisurely way of experiencing life: "for their days are all nothing but pastime. They are never in a hurry. Quite different from us, who can never do anything without hurry and worry; worry, I say, because our desire tyrannizes over us and banishes peace from our actions." How many of us today would jump at living continuously in such a relaxed manner as the ancestors of this country lived, in sync and in harmony with the land and seasons, feeling like life itself naturally overflows with abundance! In our culture, we instead try to rely on two-week vacations, weekends, sugar, or mind-altering substances to "unwind," or "get away." Things apparently have not changed since colonial times, our western world still remaining snared in the disharmonious rush-and-fret mode. This week is a fitting time to change history and purposefully let your tendency to hurry and worry die away with the falling leaves of autumn. Thanksgiving comes at a time in the solar cycle when the Sun actually lies in the constellation of the Scorpion. Here portrayed in the stars of the sky is an amazing creature that has the ability to shed or molt its thick skin, a fine symbol for reminding us to shed what we have taken on from the dysfunctional colonial past and once again become a people of the land, in balance and in gratitude for beauty of our planet and all beings.

Forecast by Ken for the Week of November 15 to 22: Awakening Song

2009-11-15

The energy behind making personal and collective shifts in our world grows stronger and more intense. This occurs as our solar system moves closer into the Milky Way's ecliptic. With this shift so does humanity's resistance to awakening to our aliveness and potency become more apparent. These resistances show themselves in myriads of ways, including tension, heaviness, panic, emotional dramas, and lashing out at Self and others. It doesn't have to be a rough ride to shift with the galaxy and solar system, but for millennium humanity has grown strangely accustomed to hardship, so much so that we tend not to be aware of the extent of it. From the quiet reaches of the sky, there whispers a guidance of a different kind, so that we may consciously move into rhythms of ease and grace to make the shift gentle and wondrous. Looking upward this week, you can see the waning Moon dance up close to Venus in the constellation of The Balances, often referred to as Libra. The conjunction is a sweet gathering of light and energies that are all about being related to the feelings of our Essences, or "Songs," as they are called in Katasee, the ancient knowledge of awakening to who we really are. When we resist the flow of life in the galaxy we remove ourselves from our abilities to chose a flow of rich and diverse feelings that will nourish us and give us a sense of balance in each moment. Balance is key now. And with Neptune and Chiron also conjoined in the sky, there is a lot of stellar inspiration to pursue healing at all levels of our being. Addictions to using substances or material "goods" to try to soften hardship will be pointed out to us when we are willing to look at them without judgment. Freedom from hardship, addiction,and judgment is the way of Katasee, or "living in balance from the heart." Dancing with the Moon is shifting with the Earth and the Sun.

Forecast for the Week of November 8 - 14: Inner Stirrings

2009-11-08

Among the backdrop of an endless sky, Mars glows now in the soft light of the Crab constellation and calls for a purposeful stirring of our individual passion to pursue what our Songs, our Spirits, really desire. Remaining dormant inside our familiar shells is not working with the energies and ways of the Crab. When we become complacent, we become "crabby" because habitual deadness weighs down our natural flow of energy and movement, making us moody and sour. The Crab is too alive to remain stuck in inertia. Instead it risks leaving its burrow in the sand, goes after what it wants, and then protects what it holds precious, tenaciously standing its ground. If necessary it calmly will station itself with claws raised up before it, never relinquishing what is essential to its peace and well-being. "Surrender" is not and never will be part of its vocabulary. Like the Crab, we are not designed to give up or sacrifice our Song's passions but instead to pursue and embrace them relentlessly and with a vigor that makes our inner world and blood perk with happiness.

Weekly Forecast for the Week of November 1 - 6: Food as Medicine

2009-11-01

"What we put into or upon our bodies needs to be medicine!" These were the words of Chea Hetaka, teacher and seer of Katasee, an elder who brought the ancient knowledge to our culture. Her succinct guidance still resounds through the years to perhaps touch upon us today, as Saturn, the planet of time, moves slowly through the Virgin, the constellation of healing and nourishment. The effective tending to our well-being is profoundly important when considering the disturbing amount of toxicity in our present day environment. Ancient indigenous peoples had diets that were very different than the common modern western diet. In feeding themselves and their children nourishing foods, they protected their health, clarity of attention, and longevity. They understood how difficult it is to walk a spiritual path when the body is not cared for properly. The gut has been referred to as the "second mind" for sound reasons, as our digestive health effects the way we think and feel. Exploring food as spiritual and physical substance is part of out task when it comes to awakening to our potency. The search requires an intent to be aware of how meals effect us. Eating is meant to be pleasurable, sustaining, and relaxing, a tasty boost to our aliveness and peace of mind.

Forecast for October 25 - 31: What are We Teaching Our Ourselves, Our Children?

2009-10-25

Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune continue to be closely aligned in the sky. Jupiter sparkles blue and white in the night now and is beautiful to watch in its journey across the cosmos. An inspiration to life here on the Earth, the planet has lot to do with questing for knowledge and learning how to trust and expand our knowingness, where we claim the importance to be true to ourselves and our unique way of understanding life. This has strong implications regarding how we educate ourselves and our young. Many modern day education programs rely on the concepts that the "teacher knows better" and that "school is where knowledge is found." Through the years, especially with the onset of the science and industrial revolution, most subject matter at school has been conceptually oriented, with a great deal of emphasis on the left brain or analytic logical thinking and the collection of data and information - the male part of us. Reading text after text, doing math problem after math problem, listening to lectures, and being tested is what many of us have and continue to encounter in education today. In this lopsided passive form of schooling, we come to believe that the answers to life reside in a book or in the teacher who stands before us. Such giving away of our knowingness breeds distrust of our own vast feeling Selves and deludes and cripples us into thinking that we are not intelligent. By-passed in such an orientation is our right-brain awareness - the realm of our feelings, intuition, sensuality, connectedness-with-all-life, and dreaming, the feminine dimension of who we are. To bring the feminine into balance with the masculine, we first feel the aliveness in the totality of our Essence, awakening our inner guidance, really listening for it. Here is curiosity and awareness of the "third-kind!" Then ask yourself, "What do you want to know?" and seek the experience that will allow you to bring the knowledge forward from within.

Forecast for October 18 - 24: New Moon in the Sign of Libra

2009-10-18

The New Moon gives a boost to seeing new possibilities for relationships this week. Whether they entail beginning a new relationship of some sort or breathing new energies into an existing relationship, the Moon is there with you. You might not even be able to put into words what these new possibilities are or what they might mean for you, and that's OK, because clear feelings from the heart are all that is needed. Following inner feelings bring you into the mysteries of the new moon, where unknowns feed the intrigue and deliciousness of the unexpected and spontaneous. Let the new and emerging be as quiet as whispers in the night or as uplifting as the early swellings of ocean waves.These subtle beginnings have more power and joy than we first tend to imagine.

Forecast for the Week of October 11: Warming up the Spirit-Heart

2009-10-11

Mars has moved into the constellation of the Crab. The fiery planet of passion is stirring up home. It's a time to move out of inner and outer stagnation and pursue something that the Ancient You really wants for your Self, for your Spirit-Heart. For millennium our western culture has indoctrinated us to think that it is not OK to want for ourselves, and hence we have become a very unhappy society. When we do not know what we want and pursue it, we shrivel up and become hardened, bored, frustrated, or apathetic. Just as the healer must heal her or himself, so we must learn how to identify our wants and go after them with a passion. Then and only then do we become Human again. Risking to identify and pursue our wants gives enormous fuel to our aliveness!

Weekly Forecast: Full Moon in the Constellation of the Dolphins

2009-10-04

This week begins with a Full Moon in the constellation of The Fishes, often portrayed as dolphins swimming in opposite directions, commonly thought of as Pisces. Full Moons move the waters of the Earth, our bodies, and our unfathomable ancientness. To take part in such a grand lunar event in the Fishes, this is a time to expand in intimate connection with an unconditionally loving creator or life source. It is a week to dive into new and richer states of awareness - feeling far far within as well as far far beyond the 3-D in your meditations, while remaining conscious of your wondrous uniqueness. The potential is for an ecstatic merging without loss of Self.

Weekly Forecast: Deleting the Spam with Love

2009-09-27

In the zodiacal sky this week, Saturn is beginning to make a square, a ninety-degree angle, with the slow-moving Pluto, which lies in the early degrees of the constellation of the Centaur, often associated with the sign of Sagittarius. This is a particularly potent planetary alignment which, when people hear of it, tends to make them imagine and fear the worst, as if terribly difficult emotional times were just around the corner. This kind of thinking sets us up for needless worry, tension, and heartache. The real purpose behind the alignment is not at all to induce problems, but instead, give us the awakening opportunities to release old thinking-feeling habits, such as when we get caught up in those nasty little mind-snits of fearing or believing that we are not beautiful, worthy, or good enough or smart enough. Such jabber is just the "mental junk mails" speaking. They always speak like this, cleverly trying to seduce us into believing their "spin." That's all they know. Saturn squaring Pluto calls us to bring forward our unconditional love so that we can give conscious space and acceptance to this kind of old "spam" that we have been formatting and endlessly cycling and around in our heads, the spam which tends to disturb our joy and peace. By kindly and graciously allowing our spam to surface so that we can see it for what it is without judgment, it naturally moves on. And as the old habitual chatter and condemning reactions to it are deleted, space is then provided for incoming messages from our true authentic Self. These messages are inspiring and provide an expansion of our personal delight, stillness, and awareness. Humor goes a long way to letting go of and deleting troublesome thoughts and feelings, so be playful while observing the mental junk mail this week and explore your ability to discover the potency of your perceptiveness and perspective. It can be a lot of fun bringing a loving end to spam in your "inner in-box."

Sept 20 to Sept 26 Forecast - Committing to Your Awakening and Joy

2009-09-20

Saturn has entered the early degrees of the constellation of the Virgin, a symbol of the goddess of natural resources and processes. The ringed planet is also stationed directly opposite Uranus, which can be found in the latter degrees of the Water-Bearer. This configuration sings out a particularly potent call to move out of your asleepness, to shake out any way that you are numb to the vastness of your essence and power of your attention. This is a process that requires a commitment of a profound kind, where there is no back door, no easy escape hatch that lets you to give up and slip into old addictive ways thinking, feeling, and behaving. Commitments in our lives often need frequent re-examination, because it is so easy to fall prey to fear, blind beliefs, apathy, and stagnancy. Our western culture supports such asleepness and that is why things don't change. We tend to resonate with dulled societal energies that hover around us, generally becoming toned down in the familiar deadness. We do not have to succumb to that. It is each of us who can make vibrant enormously satisfying change from within by following our Song's (our Spirit's) desires with unbridled passion. We each have the resources to do so. From the perspective of Katasee, our commitments are really about living our joy, being willing to learn, getting clear on what our essences really want, and being true to our individual paths. They are not at all about suffering and staying in the same-old same-old hardship patterns or following what society dictates about them. Commitment requires bringing forward your aliveness and love for life so that there is absolutely no interest in turning back from what you want. When you really commit in such an authentic honest-to-the-core manner, your awareness and inspiration gain momentum and perspective. Then events, things, and beings come up and alongside your path to assist you and make the magic happen. Do you want to turn away from such an opportunity? The planets are calling you to go for it!

September 13 Forecast: "Honoring the Feminine Dimension of Our Existence"

2009-09-13

This week Venus dances in the constellation of the Crab, where you can see her raise up in the faint star grouping over the eastern horizon of the Earth in the early light of day. Not too long afterward, the Sun can be seen following her into the above. As the "morning star," she is quite a bright glowing visitor and guide in the a.m. sky. Venus in the Crab speaks to intentionally focusing one's feelings and attention into the feminine dimensions of existence. The feminine is that "watery-like" part of life and us which exists within and beyond 3-D time and space. It is therefore very vast, ancient, accepting, and connected to all living and non-living things. The feminine allows us to look into the future as well as instantly touch other beings with our thoughts and feelings, no matter where these beings may be. In ancient cultures that thrived in peace, unconditional love, and community, the feminine was put at the very center of their lives. Our culture is in turmoil now, because we have been forcing our world into an unnatural form. In the feminine realm, there is no hierarchy. Venus also happens to transiting opposite the zodiac from Neptune, Chiron, and Jupiter, which are gathered closely together in the constellation of the Sea Goat. This beautiful balanced alignment of planets invites us to become intimate with the feminine within and around us, where we risk to use our non-linear awareness to perceive what lies behind the physical. In these "unseen dimensions" lies the dream-time, which has been so honored for untold millennium by the aborigines, and it is here that all kinds of knowledge and spiritual entities exist. It is in our innate abilities to relate personally with this vast world and bask in the connection. Shamanism is known as the ecstatic arts because of the sheer delight that comes with embracing the feminine. Similarly, when we identify and acknowledge the feminine, we naturally bring our authentic vast Selves forward to create caring relationships with others in which equality and respect go hand to hand. Every moment of our breathing we can touch into this amazing consciousness!

September 6 to 12 Forecast: Pluto and the Search that Counts

2009-09-06

Pluto continues to make its long transit through the constellation of the Centaur, whose bow and arrow are aimed directly into the center of the Milky Way. The aiming portrays your human destiny to seek knowledge from experience so that you may continually gather and focus your power from your personal center. When you seek and feel your own unique spiritual vibration, the truth of who you really are, you are in touch with your vastness and knowningness, which in turn, will give you balance and guidance on your life path. The Centaur's arrow will ever point you to your purpose and to its fulfillment while simultaneously reminding you to feel your connection with our Galaxy, as she shifts in these long-prophesied dynamic times. Orienting yourself to the heart of the Milky Way brings unexpected perspectives and inspiration, and her quantum energies are blowing strong to help you on your journey. So know where you want to go and enjoy the winds at your back.

Aug 30 to Sep 5 Forecast - Relationship of the Third Kind

2009-08-30

Venus in the constellation of the Crab makes a flowing alignment with the asteroid, Pallas,which is transiting through the Fishes. Relation is in the picture here, inviting you to bring in a fresh, nourishing, and even other-worldly dimension to your relationship life. No need to be dull here - think, imagine, and feel wildly so that what already exists moves to new equilibrium and balance. Home and relationship want to be portals to the beyond, inspiring journeys into the unknown and unexpected.

August 23 to Aug 29 Forecast for Getting Out of the Box

2009-08-23

This week there Mars,Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn-Mercury create a square box in the sky, which is often referred to as a "grand square." This is an opportunity to become aware of some part of your life in which you have "boxed yourself in" through blind beliefs, fears, and limited thinking. To get out of the box, first become aware of entrapping patterns, observe them, and without judgment, honor and release them, allowing them to move off into another dimension. Mother Earth will assist you. Right behind the old difficult patterns are new desires, visions, and clarity that can be allowed forward to replace the trappings. With these lively elements of your authentic self, you can build something new and nourishing.

Aug 15 - 22 Forecast for Receiving Spirit Guidance and Help

2009-08-15

We all know what it is like to go to a party and the energy feels dead, or we don't feel welcomed. We just aren't interested and we tend to move on. Spirits feel the same way about things. They don't spend their time at places that aren't alive and they will not drop in where they are not wanted. With Mars making its way out of the rich starry constellation of the Bull and into the bright lights of the Twins, the red planet makes a trine (a 120 degree angle which represents a natural flow) to Neptune, which is stationed softly in the beginning degree of Water-Bearer. Here is the opportunity to let the Spirits know how much you want their help and to show it with a gift. They appreciate and respond to sincerity and authenticity. One nice way to offer something is to make a Spirit Plate, in which you put together a small plate with little piece of food from every food item that you are eating for your meal. Put the Spirit Plate on the table while you eat or place it somewhere you feel guided to put it. It all is very personal to you and your relationship with these amazing Unseen Helpers. Invite the Spirits in with heart-felt desire, see who shows up, and enjoy the gathering. Spirit Presence does have a unique feeling to it. There is a shift in the atmosphere that is very noticeable, clear, and endearing.

Aug 1 - 8 Forecast for Your Process of Creating

2009-08-01

Mercury in Leo now shines directly across the zodiac from Neptune in the constellation of the Water-Bearer and additionally makes a trine (a 120 degree angle which represents a natural flow) to Pluto in the constellation of the Centaur. In this striking alignment with two outer planets, Mercury in Leo encourages us to purposefully move our linear minds into the non-linear realms that exist eternally beyond our 3-D time and space. This personal joining of the Here-and-Now with the Beyond is what allows us to birth new ideas, feelings, and spirit communication. Bringing your left and right parts of your brain into sync within your Spirit's vibration offers you limitless creativity. No matter what you want to ask about or do, the answers and guidance come from the inner joining! Focus on the feeling vibration of your Song and the magic happens. The intent here is to have lots of fun. Happy Creating this week!

July 26 to August 1 Forecast for Awakening - Healing the Old Brings in the New

2009-07-26

Due to the way they orbit the Sun in relation to the Earth, Chiron and Jupiter now appear in the final degree of Capricorn, calling us to return to effective ways of healing old hurts and wounds that we have experienced in living in a warring power-over society, where we have been indoctrinated to avoid cultural constructs of punishment, pain, and lost by giving our power away to authority figures and institutions, what they believe, and how they expect us to exist, which often includes relinquishing our totality and independence in order to follow whatever rules, schedules, and routines that they manufacture for us to follow. To adapt to such emotional and spiritual conditioning, we tend to compress our hearts and self-worth and simply go along with the familiar oppressive programming. Healing our wounds means reclaiming our birth right to be who we really are and to live according to the profound intelligence and inner guidance of our unique spirits. In the process we are being called to end self-oppression and self-diminishing by allowing our old pains to soften and leave, which in turn, gives room for our soul pieces and personal power to return. In engaging in this healing shift for ourselves, we build a fresh vibrant foundation for manifesting desired realities, where the painful past can no longer control us or re-shape itself in relationship dynamics and everyday events of the present and future. Healing the old brings in the new!

July 19 to 25 Forecast for Awakening - Expressing the Medicines of You

2009-07-19

Venus moves into the latter part of the Bull this week and makes a right angle with Saturn in the constellation of the Lion. This planetary arrangement inspires us to become conscious and committed with respect to expressing something of our spiritual makeup, so that this part of us is creatively and thoroughly brought into the here and now of our 3-D physical existence. This is a commitment to personal joy and satisfaction, with no need for dive-bombing ourselves into hardship, turbulence, or routine, or being driven mercilessly by the clock, or pushing our agendas onto others. From the perspective of star shamanism, a central aspect of being human is to bring all of the wonders and medicines of who we are into full gentle embodiment on the Earth, which takes planning and attentive balanced use of our precious time and attention. In this manner we come to share who we are with others in the authentic naturally harmonious rhythms of our essences.

July 12 to 18 Forecast for Awakening - Psychic Perception and the Spirit World

2009-07-12

Pluto in the constellation of the Centaur or Archer continues to make a ninety degree angle with Uranus in the Fishes. This geometric configuration alerts us to enter the cave within to examine our blind beliefs and the cultural dogma that makes us forget and distort our abilities to be psychically curious, perceptive, and clear. Here is the opportunity to clear out old limiting beliefs and assumptions that keep us separate from the wonders of the Spirit World, where there are countless, extraordinarily powerful, and diverse benevolent beings who are so very willing to assist humanity in our awakening and shifting into a new galactic paradigm.

July 5 to 11 Forecast for Awakening - Feeding What is Beautiful

2009-07-05

Mars and Venus have moved into the early part of the Bull, near the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, inviting us to explore our sensuality and our innate capacity to welcome with gratitude all that life brings us, even when situations and conditions at first appear most unwanted and stressful. We each attract everything that happens to our doorstep and it is a matter of listening to our bodies and senses to receive the underlying messages that will bring out our passionate relationship with life itself, so that we may feed and embody what is beautiful with our awareness and actions. Giving emotional and bodily space around our fear, anger, and frenzy allows them to move on and for ease, abundance, and relatedness to move in.

June 28 to July 4 Forecast for Awakening - The Search for Ancient Teachings

2009-06-28

The Water-Bearer continues to be an active energy center in the sky. Jupiter's close alignment with Neptune in the early degrees of the constellation calls us to search for ancient teachings that have been buried in the trappings of the asleep western culture. These teachings will help us be the unique kindhearted individuals we really are and create an inclusive community that honors freedom, diversity, and peaceful co-existence with all life-forms. A clear conscious holding of the picture and feeling of a truly loving and playful community will help it manifest, such that the swirling disconnectedness, misdirection, and coldness of our society will disappear quietly into the past.

June 21-27

2009-06-21

During this week the Sun will be moving directly opposite of Pluto, creating an alignment that calls us into our Bear Caves for deep introspection about our spiritual identity to explore who we are and how we may tend to hide our true beingness. There is a wondrous alive feeling to our Spirit’s vibration, and knowing it is the basis for our individual power. And as it is said in Katasee, "It is our birthright to know and live who we really are." Enjoy the journey within!!

June 14-20

2009-06-14

Venus and Mars are also joined together throughout the month, in the constellation of the Ram. The dance between the planet of relatedness and the planet of passion offers us the opportunity to put aside the inner warring that leads to relationship struggles, conflicts, and head-butting competition. By eagerly identifying and directly pursuing what our Spirits want while respecting others and what they want, we put an end to forcefulness and power over, thus finally curbing the life-squelching battles between the feminine and the masculine. This is a beautiful preparation for celebrating the solstice on June 20. Like the Sun that shines in its stillness, we naturally radiate our smile to other beings when we find our inner peace

June 7-13

2009-06-07

Chiron, Neptune, and Jupiter are gathered together in the first two degrees of the Water Bearer throughout the month and beyond. The three invite us to make personal connections with the Aquarian web of life, to choice-fully create a community of kindness and healing with others, including the trees, plants, animals, and the Earth. Nature is amazing in how she overflows with rivers of life energy that can heal us on all levels. We can also create community with beings from the unseen dimensions, who have much to teach us. They are but a breath away from our consciousness.

2009-03-22

Dance your Way into New !

2009-03-04

Neptune dances with Chiron in the sky