Lynn Wilson Astrology

“Slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change…deep changes in life follow movements in imagination.”

                                         Thomas Moore

We’re in a very interesting and vulnerable time period. Many of the previous newsletters have addressed this cultural shift referred to by many names – the Aquarian Age, the New Age, the end of the Mayan Calendar, and more. Periods of cultural change are much like the healing crises experienced during periods of physical change. As our body heals, symptoms often intensify, like a boil bursting. And things often look worse just when they are improving. Symptoms seem to surface and move out of the body as they are being released, thereby becoming more visible. The current financial crisis can be seen as an example of this in the world body. The old order (free markets driven by a profit motive) clearly hasn’t worked. And many of the actions currently being taken in this and other countries are an attempt to prop up that old system. It’s vital that we use our powers of imagination to picture what can be rather than trying to hold onto what has been. The severity of the healing crisis is tied to our outlook. Those who imagine a very different future with what could be considered a healthier outlook, are quite excited about the current possibilities. Those who are tied to the current mindset are quite fearful. I think it’s important for all of us to see this as a time of incredible opportunity. A time when the old rules no longer apply and when we can imagine a new, more authentic way of living.

It is useful to look at both individuals and cultures from a developmental point of view. We are on the verge of a major leap forward in terms of human capabilities. It has been shown that most of us utilize a mere ten percent of our brains. It is in these times of transition, when we’re facing the unknown, that our brain-bodies need to stretch and function in new ways. It’s time to resurrect the dreams we had as young people. Research shows that girls know exactly who they are and what they want to “be” as grown-ups, when they are between nine and twelve years old. My hunch is the same is true for boys. This is a perfect time to pause and reach back to that period of time in our lives when all things were possible. It is exactly this kind of exercise that will stretch the brain, and there is a universal, metaphysical truth that says we magnetize (or attract) that which we think about.

  “If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has
   been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought
   to be living is the one you are living.  When you can see that, you 
   begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they
   open the doors to you.  I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid,
   and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be."

                                                         Joseph Campbell
                                                        The Power of Myth

This is also referred to as synchronicity, a coin termed by the psychiatrist Carl Jung. And it is the stretching of our brain, and living in the field of possibility, that increases the level of synchronicity in our lives. It is important for our planet that each and every one of us lives this period in a state of hope, tied to the realm of the possible, rather than being mired in the fear of what is. I think we have a very tough two year period ahead of us but I am extremely hopeful about what I “see” on the other side of those two years. My friend Chris Wiltz was the first person to use the term “memories of the future” and this is a very strong memory indeed.

          "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
           Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."

                          attributed to Goethe