By Mira Cosic, astrologija.com

“Ayftozä lefpom ayngaru nìwotx!”

This is not me speaking Bosnian. This is not Klingon either. That’s “Happy Holidays to You All” in Na’vi, the language that was created for the sci-fi movie “Avatar”. The movie that presents future humans who intend to exploit energy resources at the fictional Moon Pandora. Human beings are faced to learn how to connect with Eywa, the Mother Nature, after they realize that wars, killing and military options can’t bring an acceptable outcome.

No matter what language you consider your own, this is a good time to exercise your sleepy brain cells and to discover a few new words so you may express your opinions and your soul desires. Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. It’s a great moment to learn how to spell words correctly, what we believe we already know. Repeat some processes. Repetitio est mater studiorum. Think and learn. “Learn without thinking begets ignorance. Think without learning is dangerous”, says Confucius.

Talk to some people from your past. Solve the unsolved karma. But, try not to identify yourself with your thinking. You are not your thinking. Let your higher self, your soul observe this process and make the decisions instead.

Mercury is retrograde until January 15th and it will stay in the “shadow” area for three more weeks after that, until it reaches 21 degrees of Capricorn on February 4th.

Are we patient enough? Do we understand the significance of safety measures in different areas of life? In astrology, Capricorn and Saturn regulate boundaries, laws and safety.

Do we personally and collectively feel that we live in a protected and secure society? What are we afraid of? Humiliation? Spiders, snakes, heights, water, elevators? Al-Qaida? Kim Jong Il? Ahmadinejad? N1H1? Trojan viruses? 2012?

Are we organized and well prepared? What are the consequences going to be, if we find out that we’ve missed some vital steps in the past and the dog ate our homework? What are we going to do differently from now on?

As I write this, Mercury the planet trickster and the clown of the Solar system, is positioned at the Midpoint of its retrograde phase, having an inferior conjunction with the Sun. My daughter just came to me, asking for a horary chart. She lost two important papers yesterday. Where are they? “You will find them”, I answered. “Mercury is retrograde, conjunct the Sun. They are sitting turned over in the corner, next to your lamp”. She went back to her room and found them there.

These days, my friends forward e-mails with misspelled words, this gets very funny sometimes… “I’m racking my braid”, instead of “brain”.

Someone I know took a trip to another city last weekend. He wanted to bring a few of his books and his computer here to Dallas, and he forgot the computer. El, o, el. LOL. lol.

Any astrologer can give you numerous examples of similar events during any Mercury retrograde period. What kind of energy are we dealing with here? What type of chemical reactions occur in our heads, what is going on with our brain cells, our neurons and neurotransmitters so that we tend to forget and overlook so many things?

So far, Mercury was very vigorous in my area. My personal computer caught a virus on the day planet was stationed retrograde, while I was mentally traveling, browsing Eastern European news web sites. I got a virus called “Trojan”. In mythology, Mercury assisted Odysseus in his travels as that wanderer returned from the siege of Troy. Me though, I felt like I was betrayed.

I had to install my Windows XP four times, my web site software was erased, I had to go through the PC directories and delete old files and photos that I did not need any longer. I spent a week cleaning my folders, saving files, reorganizing everything, trying to save my clients charts data. Think, think, think. How to solve this? Find another way, there must be another way!

Some records from several years ago, were taking valuable space on the disk, creating dusty cobwebs in my PC memory sectors. Little nasty digital spiders lived there for so long, they got comfortable and had late night spider parties. Now with Trojans there, things got really crazy.

Did Mercury really let me down, or was this situation teaching me anything?

It seemed to me that this Capricorn Mercury retrograde did not start on December 26, 2009. For me, its effect had begun in 2006 and 2007 when I first bought this machine, after my previous one, purchased under Mercury retrograde, got stolen. Like every genuine Cancer woman, I was carefully preserving my sweet data, same way my late grandmother saved her jars of homemade plum and cherry jam in the summer. I had gazillions of documents and a jillion of pictures, uncountabillion gigabytes of jpg’s, gif’s, text’s, and pdf’s and it was about time to clean up this digital mess, this horrific Microsoft information clutter. Yuk! Mercury kindly reminded me of the necessity of that move. Be a Virgo. Clean up!

Capricorn Equals (In)Security

Thanks to the Saturnian influence over Mercury in Capricorn, I’ve learned how to reboot the system in the safe mode, how to access registries, I learned about the danger of Trojans and other computer worms, and the hazards and risks that you take when your antivirus software is out of date. You have to keep up with the new technology. The old Mr. Norton is getting too old to take care of everything.

The question is, how is this going to manifest in the world on a larger level? If our brains go bizerk this month, is anyone going to survive?

In The News: There must be another way      

“Some people traveling to the United States from or through Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries were subjected to extra security screening, including full body pat-downs, as U.S. officials refined their response to a failed terrorist attack in Detroit on Christmas.” (AP)

“The new security measures come in response to the failed Christmas Day attempt to bomb a jetliner as it approached Detroit after a flight from Amsterdam. Witnesses said a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ignited an explosive mixture but it failed to do serious damage to the Northwest jetliner or its passengers. He has told U.S. investigators he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.” (AP)

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (also referred to as Umar Abdulmutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri; was born December 22, 1986, in Lagos, Nigeria. Sun at zero degrees Capricorn, neptune at five. Bingo. Pluto is a planet. Grin.

“The Internal Revenue Service said Monday it will require registration and competency exams for legions of tax-return preparers that now largely escape regulation. Besides passing a competency test, paid preparers will also have to meet continuing education requirements.” (wsj.com) IRS has been formed July 9, 1953. with Saturn conjunct Neptune in Libra.

“A power outage on Monday temporarily halted flights and security operations at Washington Reagan National Airport, airport officials said. The midday power failure affected all terminals and departing flights at the suburban Virginia airport across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Security screening was halted for about 50 minutes. It was the second disruption in as many days at a big U.S. airport. On Sunday night, a security breach prompted authorities at Newark airport in New Jersey to evacuate a terminal and rescreen passengers. Flight delays at Newark over the incident stretched into Monday.” (Reuters)

“Continental Airlines has offered to refund fares and waive change fees for passengers who got stuck at Newark (N.J.) International Airport (EWR) Sunday night for hours after an apparent security breach at its terminal caused flights to be delayed or canceled and passengers to be evacuated, inconveniencing thousands. The actions, which disrupted traffic at Continental’s busy East Coast hub for travelers returning home from the holidays, were taken by authorities after a man was spotted walking through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of Terminal C at about 5:30 p.m., according to the Associated Press. Outgoing flights were grounded, and passengers were forced to go through security again while authorities spent hours searching for the man.” (LA Times)

“The unprecedented closure of a South Carolina interstate has begun this morning as vehicles looking to travel north into Greenville on Interstate 385 must find another way to get here. The main route to Greenville, Department of Transportation planners say, is to meet with I-85 in Spartanburg, though other rural highways are open. Southbound lanes will remain open during the $60.9 million project expected to end in August. The closure stretches from I-26 in Clinton to Gray Court where State 92, 101 and 14 meet.” (greenvilleonline.com)

Why did ancient Greeks and their gods of Olymp need a messenger, after all?

To take better control of the world.

They too needed a mediator and someone who would interpret the hidden meanings of the words, someone to take them across the borders and to help them communicate.

Gods need to speak and so do we. Our neurons and their transmitters always send information somewhere. Electrons travel, they circle around their home atoms, like the planet Earth circling around the Sun. Mercury will give us the opportunity to discover more, to bring our projects closer to perfection. Some other times, everything will go “backwards”. The purpose of it is to educate us about endurance, patience, problem solving and better organization.

As the Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith said, this life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

It does not matter if the road is bumpy from time to time.

We are here to learn about ourselves and about each other and to understand needs of others. Even if we have to speak Na’vi. Focus, try to enjoy yourself, create, live, love, learn, reboot. And when things seem to get out of control, believe.

Believe in the higher power of the Universe and the harmony of Nature, believe that somewhere out there, there is a powerful and good hearted Mother Eywa in charge, watching over you and all your earthly endeavors. 

Mira Cosic

(from how-to-meditate.org)

Meditation is a method for acquainting our mind with virtue. The more familiar our mind is with virtue, the calmer and more peaceful it becomes. When our mind is peaceful we are free from worries and mental discomfort, and we experience true happiness. If we train our mind to become peaceful we shall be happy all the time, even in the most adverse conditions, but if our mind is not peaceful, then even if we have the most pleasant external conditions we shall not be happy. Therefore it is important to train our mind through meditation.

There are two types of meditation: analytical meditation and placement meditation. When we contemplate the meaning of a Dharma instruction that we have heard or read we are doing analytical meditation. By deeply contemplating the instruction, eventually we reach a conclusion or cause a specific virtuous state of mind to arise. This is the object of placement meditation. Having found our object through analytical meditation, we then concentrate on it single-pointedly for as long as possible to become deeply acquainted with it. This single-pointed concentration is placement meditation. Often, analytical meditation is called simply `contemplation’, and placement meditation simply `meditation’. Placement meditation depends upon contemplation, and contemplation depends upon listening to or reading Dharma instructions.

Since most of the problems we experience when we are new to meditation come from overstraining at placement meditation, it is important to be moderate and avoid becoming tense from exerting too much pressure. The effort we apply should be relaxed and steady, and whenever we become tired we should rest.

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Know that although our evolutionary process is rapidly accelerating, along with the New higher energies, we are all experiencing these changes in our own way and in our own time, according to who we are and according to our coding and plan before birth.

In addition, generally speaking, our ascension process relates to how we each run our own individual energy, and what our beliefs and experiences are. In other words, how we are wired and how we vibrate.

These things can be changed and will also change automatically as we clear and embody more light within ourselves.

For me, all of my interesting and ‘strange’ symptoms disappeared after I completely ‘arrived’ in a higher realm; and they will for you as well. These symptoms seem to occur while we are going through the transition, or what I liken to the ‘tunnel’.

Know that there is an end, and an incredibly beautiful, peaceful and loved filled reality awaiting you. May your evolutionary process be joyous, peaceful and filled with light and wonder.

1. Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. Remember, you are adjusting to a higher vibration and you will eventually adjust. Old patterns, behaviours and beliefs are also being pushed to the surface. There is a lot going on inside of you.
2. A feeling of disorientation; not knowing where you are; a loss of a sense of place. You are not in 3D anymore, as you have moved or in the process of moving into the higher realms.

3. Unusual aches and pains throughout different parts of your body. You are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D, while you are vibrating in a higher dimension.

4. Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can’t be there for long lengths of time and need a break. This is also the ‘cleansing and releasing’ hour.

5. Memory loss. A great abundance of short term memory loss and only vague remembrances of your past. You are in more than one dimension at a time, and going back and forth as part of the transition, you are experiencing a ‘disconnect’. Also, your past is part of the Old, and the Old is forever gone. Being in the Now is the way of the New World.

6. ‘Seeing’ and ‘hearing’ things. You are experiencing different dimensions as you transition, all according to how sensitive you are and how you are wired.

7. Loss of identity. You try to access the Old you, but it is no longer there. You may not know who you are looking at in the mirror. You have cleared much of your old patterns and are now embodying much more light and a simpler, more purified divine you. All is in order, You are okay.

8. Feeling ‘out of body’. You may feel as though someone is talking, but it is not you. This is our natural defence mechanism of survival when we are under acute stress or feeling traumatized or out of control. Your body is going through a lot and you may not want to be in it. My ascension guide told me that this was a way of easing the transition process, and that I did not need to experience what my body was going through. This only lasted a short time. It passes.

9. Periods of deep sleeping. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.

10. Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up. Know that this will eventually pass.

11. You don’t feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period, ‘rebooting’. Your body knows what it needs. In addition, when you begin reaching the higher realms, ‘doing’ and ‘making things happen’ becomes obsolete as the New energies support the feminine of basking, receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to ‘bring’ you what you want while you are enjoying yourself and having fun.

12. An intolerance for lower vibrational things of the 3D, reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel ‘sick’ inside. You are in a higher vibration and your energies are no longer in alignment. You are being ‘pushed, to move forward; to ‘be’ and create the New.

13. A loss of desire for food. Your body is adjusting to a new, higher state of being. Also, part of you does not want to be here anymore in the Old.

14. A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.

15. You absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. When you try to do your usual routine and activities, it feels downright awful. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration. The New will soon arrive and feel so-o-o-o much better.

16. Days of extreme fatigue. Your body is losing density and going through intense restructuring.

17. A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. Weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. A craving for protein. You are requiring an enormous amount of fuel for this ascension process. Weight gain with an inability to loose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing.

18. Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and we are releasing a lot.

19. A wanting to go Home, as if everything is over and you don’t belong here anymore. We are returning to Source. Everything is over, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.

20. Feeling you are going insane, or must be developing a mental illness of some sort. You are rapidly experiencing several dimensions and greatly opening. Much is available to you now. You are just not used to it. Your awareness has been heightened and your barriers are gone. This will pass and you will eventually feel very at Home like you have never felt before, as Home is now here.

21. Anxiety and panic. Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behaviour patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviours you are losing are not needed in the higher realms. This will pass and you will eventually feel so much love, safety and unity. Just wait.

22. Depression. The outer world may not be in alignment with the New, higher vibrational you. It doesn’t feel so good out there. You are also releasing lower, darker energies and you are ‘seeing’ through them. Hang in there.

23. Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. You are releasing many, many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting that they are experiencing beautiful dreams. Your dream state will eventually improve and you will enjoy it again. Some experience this releasing while awake. My mother commented one day that she believed I was having nightmares in the daytime.

24. Night sweats and hot flashes. Your body is ‘heating’ up as it burns off residue.

25. Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. Your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do. It is breaking your ‘rut’ choices and vibration.

26. You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many ‘worst nightmare’ aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into ‘stretching’ into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into ‘toning down’ aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is your journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren’t ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.

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I have recorded a short interview with Mary – this is going to be available online as a podcast soon. Mary Buckner has been an astrologer for several decades and she is a member of all major astrological organizations in US.

* * * NOVEMBER * * *

Our November Speaker is Susie Patterson, who has long been a popular speaker at ASNT.

Program title: The Perfect Storm

Susie will be taking us on a weather tour of what’s brewing in the heavens early next year when Saturn, Pluto and Uranus all align in a T-square in the early degrees of cardinal signs to form veritable storm of discordant energy. Find out what it portends nationally, globally, and where it is hitting your chart.

* * * December * * *

Speaker: Anne Beversdorf of Austin

Program: Forecast for 2010 – Anne will be giving us her take on what kinds of energies are going to coming at us during 2010, giving our annual Forecast program.

Anne is a Joytish (Vedic) practitioner and a very accomplished astrologer and speaker.

* * * ANNUAL WORKSHOP * * * APRIL 2010.

Robert Blaschke will be our April Speaker for the ASNT Annual Workshop. We’re excited about Robert, and in fact, he is the first speaker we’ve invited back. He spoke to ASFW in 2001 and some of you may remember him. He is a wonderful astrologer who speaks from the heart and with a deep passion for his subject.

He has been in astrological practice since 1979 and is the founder of Earthwalk School of Astrology. He isan internationally respected professional consulting, lecturing and teaching astrologer. Past-president of both the Washington State and Oregon Astrological Associations, and past National Coordinator for the ISAR Professional Astrology Speakers Bureau, he has lectured at regional and international astrology conferences in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Africa, Serbia and Romania.

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Have a great week,

Mira Cosic
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