Saturn conjoined Galactic Center – The Golden Ray Center, Inc.

The Grand Finale of 2017

WOW!!! What a Cosmic year 2017 has been, and December is like the finale of a fireworks show! I could not resist including Lady Liberty (above) in honor of the magnificent supporting roles of Uranus (Cosmic Liberator) and Eris (Goddess of Radical Truth) for this year’s main event who, in my opinion, is Saturn ~ our Cosmic Gatekeeper.

In March, I wrote about the significance of Saturn’s dance with our Galactic Center that has been in motion all year:

Saturn is conjoined with our Galactic Center! Our Galactic Center is located at 26° of Sagittarius. It is the second most powerful point on your natal chart next to the Sun. Just as the Sun represents our Heart, the Galactic Center represents the Heart of our Galaxy. It is the Sun of our Sun.

Saturn has been exactly conjoined with the Galactic Center (GC) since February 18th. On March 6th, Saturn moved to 27°. However, Saturn will retrograde back over the GC in May and November before moving out of Sagittarius and into Capricorn. Keywords for Saturn that are often overlooked are WISDOM and DESTINY. Saturn requires patience, and through patience, we will be receiving The Gifts from the Goddess, as the reemergence of Goddess Wisdom through NEW Aquarian Goddess Archetypes, directly from the Sacred Feminine right through our Galactic Center ALL YEAR!

Saturn is our Cosmic Gatekeeper. He allows all things from the Cosmos to come through and be made manifest on Earth. He provides the foundation for that which we create in the same way that a loom is the foundation for a tapestry, a canvas is the foundation for a painting, a choreography is the foundation for a dance, or an architectural design is the foundation for a building.

With Saturn conjoined the Galactic Center, a cosmic gateway has been opened to allow us to receive the FIRE (Wisdom) from “the Gods.” This FIRE is initiating our Inner Masculine and Inner Feminine into an energetically NEW foundation ~ a foundation of Higher Resonance ~ from which to engage with the world and Humanity. ALL of this Expansion of the Collective Consciousness is connected. They are fractals of our Ascension Process. ~ excerpt from The Illuminating Gift of the Goddess.

We began 2017 with a Full Moon in Cancer, one corner of a transformative Grand Cross which I envisioned as a Shamanic Initiation from the Great Mother. I did not see then, as I do now in hindsight, that the Grand Cross energies were preparing us AND Saturn for His(Her) journey Home to Capricorn at this Winter SOLstice:

What are we “to do” to receive this Shamanic Initiation by the Great Mother? We BREATHE. Our breath is our most “tangible” expression of our Spirit ~ our Soul. We ALLOW. Allowing is how we Surrender to Her. Our Spirit’s deepest desire is to co-create with Source. Our surrender to the Goddess facilitates the co-creative process. In our allowing, we become AWARE. By being AWARE, we consciously experience the re-balancing of our Inner Feminine.

In our personal lives, our families and our communities, we have been in relationship with the Great Mother through Nature (Earth – Gaia) and our Elders, our Grandmothers. It is a relationship that hangs on by a thread. The Spider is a symbol of the Grandmother:

As the weaver of the web, the spider symbolizes the spirit of creation. In several traditions, she’s the totemic symbol of the Mother, strong feminine energy. In Ancient Egypt, the spider was used as a symbol to represent the goddess of the Divine Mother, Neith. In some American Indian tribes, it is considered as the symbol for the creator of the world and by extension is associated with the female creative energy. ~ www.spiritanimalinfo.com

The Great Mother’s Shamanic Initiation is prompting us and inspiring us to reweave our relationship with Her. The Grand Cross provides an exquisite foundation for us upon which we can take the frayed and lost threads to begin reweaving our new interconnection ~ where that which was once severed becomes reunited. ~ excerpt from Shamanic Initiation from the Great Mother.

So, this is what the entire year of 2017 has been about ~ discovering the Truth about Saturn before She returns to Her Home in Capricorn to help us climb the Mountain that each of us came to scale in our process of reweaving our new interconnection with the Great Mother and Her Daughter ~ Gaia ~ our home.

“SHE,” some may be asking and scratching their head??!!

Yes … She. It should come as no surprise, that like many aspects and representations of the Goddess that were usurped or annihilated by the Patriarchy, Saturn is a Goddess, very likely known as Saturnia prior to the Etruscan civilization (originating in the 7th century BC), not a God.

There is an ancient village in Tuscany, Italy by the name of Saturnia, a spa town. They say the village was named for the Roman God, Saturn, yet I propose this is just another plot twist that has been handed down by Patriarchy. The clues to Saturnia’s ancient past lie in its legend that Saturn, having grown tired of humanity’s constant warring, “sent a thunderbolt to earth that created a magic spring of warm sulphurous water which would pacify mankind.” Further, the main church in Saturnia is The Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, another strong tie to the Sacred Feminine.

Menrfa, Goddess of Wisdom, is one of the MAJOR Etruscan Goddesses with a temple in every Etruscan city. She was often portrayed as a “lightning thrower!” Like the Greek God Saturn, whose parents are the Sky and the Earth, Menrfa is the daughter of Tinia (Sky Father) and Uni (Earth Mother), all three of whom had the power to “wield thunderbolts.” Interestingly, Tinia, Uni and Menrfa are considered a triple deity, very much like a triple moon Goddess (maiden ~ mother ~ crone), and it is said that Menrfa’s name came from the Moon Goddess, Meneswā, “She who measures.”

“She who measures” is another clue leading us to the Truth of Saturn being a Goddess as Saturn in Greek is known as Cronus, the God of Time, subsequently giving us Father Time, a marker or “measurer” of time. I find it interesting that in the Greek mythology, Saturn was expelled from the home of the Greek Gods and banished. I believe this is really a smoke screen for the banishment, by the Patriarchy, of Goddess Saturn from Her connection to the Sacred Feminine.

The name “Cronus” provides another clue for us as a derivative of the word “crone” ~ the Archetypal Wise Woman. Speaking of wise women, Menerfa is depicted with Her Sacred Animal, the Owl ~ strongly associated with the moon and feminine energy. The Owl is a symbol found, too, in the indigenous cultures and associated with the Grandmothers (the crones ~ the elders ~ the wisdom keepers).

The word crone has been given a negative connotation by Patriarchy to evoke an image of an old, ugly woman or a hag, and has stripped the crone of the respect once afforded her for her wisdom. The word crone originates from the old word for crown ~ crowen ~ to represent the wisdom emanating from their heads like a halo. Other Wisdom Goddesses that may give us clues to Saturn’s original Sacred Feminine identity are:

Mother Holle (German) ~ The Wise Queen of Winter
Cerridwen (Celtic) ~ The Wisdom Keeper, the Keeper of the Cauldron (which represents the wisdom of old age)
Lilith (Hebrew) ~ Guardian of Women’s Mysteries

We seek out knowledge to guide us during life’s hardships and transitions. I believe this is the authentic role of Saturn rather than rigidity, hardship and obstruction that have been laid upon Her. Just as an Olympic Coach is dedicated to the success of her athlete, Saturn is dedicated to our success. She is determined to get us to the top of our Mountain.

True to Her dedication, I have received some inspirations from Saturn during this current Mercury Retrograde period regarding Her higher frequencies:

She supports us in letting go of control, so that we can allow the Creative Life Force to flow through us and into manifestation.
She creates new Sacred Vessels to hold the Sacred Feminine.
She renovates damaged structures and restores old ones.
She rebuilds destroyed structures to provide new foundations in Service to Home, Family and Community.

While Saturn has been journeying through the realm of Sagittarius (the sign of Truth and Integrity), She has been doing all of those things within us and on the planet in Service to the Great Mother. She has been guiding us into a new way of living in Truth. She has been bringing us into integrity by inspiring us to align our thoughts, words and deeds.

During the Holiday Season, we decorate our homes with lights. Likewise, in preparation for the Winter SOLstice (12/21), Saturn will stand at the threshold of Her Home, 0° Capricorn, tomorrow (12/20) and hold open Its gateway, so that the Sun’s brilliant rays of Light can Illuminate Her and the Circle of Grandmothers. Saturn has waited 29 years for this Cosmic Event, and the Galactic Center has prepared Her well.

For the next 2 1/2 – 3 years, Saturn will be ushering us into a more mature level of Consciousness that will elicit a new found responsibility for creating Home, Family and Community that is INCLUSIVE ~ building cultural structures with everyone in mind … our natural resources (land, air & water), our animals and our children.

We are being moved beyond the conditioning patterns of conformity to consensus reality (the old Capricorn paradigm) and into realignment and balance with natural laws and nature (the Great Mother of Cancer). ~ Mark Jones (NOTE: parenthetical remarks are my own.)

This brings us full circle to my very first post of the year where I foretold the reweaving of our new interconnection with the Great Mother and Her Daughter ~ Gaia ~ our home.

There are so many examples in our daily news cycle that highlight how Humanity is not living in integrity among ourselves or with our planet. One of the most vile ways we have shirked our responsibility is with the lack of respect for our children and our disregard for their safety. The Goddess Saturn and the Circle of Grandmothers (Capricorn) are asking us to step up and create a culture where it is safe for our children to live. This is a crucial piece of the reweaving that Humanity must accomplish. Will we finally put our children’s well-being above politics and economics? We can be assured that Pluto, who has been travelling through Capricorn since 2008, will make sure that we do. And, by the end of next year, Jupiter will move into Capricorn to expand Saturn’s and Pluto’s efforts.

Meanwhile, towards that end, on December 13th, NINE days before the Winter SOLstice, the planet Eris (Goddess of Radical Truth) conjoined Uranus (Cosmic Liberator) in Aries were in trine to our Sun conjoined Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius.

Eris holds the Golden Apple, a symbol for Knowledge of our True SELF and Its deepest Values ~ that place within us that calls us to Action ~ a Call we cannot and will not deny. She has been moving back and forth over 23 degrees of Aries since 6/21/2014 and will continue to do so until 2/5/2023. For nearly 9 years, She is holding this Sacred Space for us within the Sky bringing significant activations to our Multidimensional Selves. While Uranus is dancing with Her (from 4/12/2014 – 3/11/2026) over the course of 12 years, Eris is empowering Him, bringing a sense of “shock & awe” to our liberating breakthroughs, breakthroughs that include important knowledge about our deep Soul intentions for our personal evolution.

ALL OF THAT was being encoded into our Heart Consciousness, by the Sun (your Heart Portal) / Mercury (Cosmic Messenger) Retrograde conjunction, as a deep recognition of Self-Integration and Self-Expression.

At the Total SOLar Eclipse in Leo back in August, our Hearts which had been remolded to mirror our Evolving Souls’ Expansion, essentially underwent Their first firing in the kiln. At the POWERFUL December 13th Trine, our Newly Molded Hearts received the Glaze ~ the information that Eris and Uranus have been sending us about our Selves ~ the Truth about our deep values ~ which will permanently be emblazoned upon our newly expanded Hearts through the second kiln firing during the upcoming 2018 SOLar Eclipse on February 15th.

This is it, Beloveds! We are READY. This Winter SOLstice marks the BEGINNING! The New Earth IS taking form now. We are the Ones Humanity has been waiting for. We have been seeding our Hearts and the Collective Consciousness with Unity Consciousness for 23,765 years, since the last Capricorn Age. We will put our egoic-selves aside, and work together as a global community to acknowledge the Creative Value and Potential of every Individual.

The spiritual sun is a living and divine fire, and the source of creation, as explained in ancient sacred texts from around the world. However, as creation follows universal principles, the birth of the sun as the light of the first day also represents the birth of the light of our spiritual sun within us. It is born into the time of most darkness ~ the physical sun gives life to the external world, the spiritual sun gives spiritual life to the individual. ~ The Path of the Spiritual Sun, by Belsebuub

We are living in such glorious times and are co-creating such Beauty with the Luminous Bodies of our Galactic Home. At this Winter SOLstice, I bow to our Sun and to Goddess Saturn for shining Their Lights within and without as we “fulfill the cycle of discovery and expansion and unfolding and coming together.” ~ Abraham-Hicks

For those who desire assistance with their Soul Expansion Journey, I invite you to schedule a Shamanic AstroSOL™ reading.

May your Hearts be filled with the Peace and Joy of the Season.
Many blessings to you, Beloveds!
Sofia Mona Lisa

©SOL SPEAKS™, 2017

Cardinal Grand Cross: Expanding our State of EMPOWERMENT

(Originally published April 2, 2017 here.)

Right now, in the sky and in your inner world, we are experiencing what is known as a Grand Cross. For those who are not familiar with a Grand Cross, there are three different kinds. The astrological signs are known as being fixed signs, mutable signs and cardinal signs. So, depending on which astrological signs the Grand Cross occurs in, the fixed, mutable or cardinal energies influence the opportunity for expansion that the Grand Cross is making available for us. Our current Grand Cross is happening in the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. These are the signs of ACTION, and that is what is meant by “cardinal” signs. When we have a Grand Cross, we are being activated by two sets of polarities that are intersecting each other through the center of their axes which looks like an actual cross in the sky.

In this Grand Cross, the axes that are being powerfully activated are the:

Aries/Libra Axis ~ Relationship Path of Conscious Equal Partnership
- Aries ~ The Fierce Safeguarder (feminine) and The Fierce Protector (masculine)
- Libra ~ The Peacekeeper (feminine) and The Beloved (masculine)
Cancer/Capricorn Axis ~ Relationship Path of Home, Family and Community
- Cancer ~ The Great Mother (feminine) and The Good Father (masculine)
- Capricorn ~ The Tribal Elders: Wise Woman (Grandmother – feminine) and Wise Man (Grandfather – masculine)

The energies in the Grand Cross are creating a significant amount of tension. We have the tension from the opposition of the polarities, tension between the two energies on each side of the axis.

Aries opposite Libra
Cancer opposite Capricorn

And, we have another kind of tension being created between the energies that are at 90° angles to each other:

Uranus/Eris square Pluto
Uranus/Eris square Vesta
Jupiter square Pluto
Jupiter square Vesta

So, there are TWO kinds of tension, two kinds of force, being put on these energies. This is NOT a bad thing! Think about when you are giving birth, the baby is coming through the birth canal. The tension and force that is used to push the baby through the birth canal is the same kind of force, the force of “active labor,” in a cardinal Grand Cross. Then, on the other side, you have a beautiful GIFT ~ your baby. Another example of this kind of energy is the force that Earth uses to create a diamond. First, pressure turns decaying carbon-based life forms like plants into coal. Then, that same kind of pressure turns the coal into a diamond. In this instance, the diamond is the beautiful GIFT.

All of these energies of force and pressure in this Grand Cross are opening a Gateway for something new to come through you and to manifest in your life. With a cardinal Grand Cross, whatever is getting ready to come through you has to do with building your character.

Before I continue discussing the significance of this Grand Cross, I am taking a moment here to bring your attention to the TWO (2) Goddesses who are Present: ERIS and VESTA.

Since the time of Patriarchy, Eris has been known as The Goddess of Discord. In actuality, She is The Goddess of Fierce Truth. Her presence allows you to speak your deep soul level truth about the subject matter of the House you will find Her in on your natal chart. For me, She is conjunct my MidHeaven in the sign of Aries. Thus, all the Sacred Work that I am known for in our world is birthed from my deepest Soul level of Truth.

Since the time of Patriarchy, Vesta has been known as The Goddess of Hearth and Home. In the past, when communities cooked and communed around the fire, Vesta was present. As our communities began to evolve and build homes with fireplaces, people began cooking in doors and the family gathered around the hearth. Here, Vesta was present as well, and statues of Vesta could be found on the mantle of the fireplace. In more modern times, with electrical and microwave ovens available to us for cooking, you will find statues of Vesta in a kitchen. In truth, Vesta is The Goddess of Creative Life Force ~ that creative energy which is also known as Shakti and Kundalini. The House of your natal chart in which She resides is continuously being infused by Her Shakti. Because of this, Vesta represents your deepest passion (2nd chakra) and also that to which you are most devoted. We tend to be devoted to those things about which we are most passionate! For me, Vesta is in my 3rd house in the sign of Virgo ~ the sign of the Goddess. Virgo is also known as the sign of the Virgin, and this ascription derives from the Vestal Virgins in the ancient Goddess Temples. Thus, I am passionate about the Goddess. I am devoted to the Goddess, and I am devoted to the reemergence of the Sacred Feminine on our Earth. I am passionate about and devoted to being in Service to the Goddess, so that She can bring Her work to my community through me.

Now, let’s look at what is going on with the energies in our current Grand Cross:

Uranus and Eris have been dancing closely with each other since June 2015. Over the past two years, they have danced closer and closer to each other until they both reached 23° Aries on March 28, 2017, they day after the New Moon in Aries at 7°. Eris will stay at 23° Aries until November 22nd this year, when She will dip back to reactivate 22° through March 2, 2018. She will return to 23° Aries on March 3, 2018. While Eris will activate 24° in June 2018 and 25° in July 2022, She will dance back and forth over the 23° point in the sky until February 10, 2023. She continues to stay in Aries for at least another 20+ years. Uranus (The Cosmic Liberator for Quantum Consciousness) will move out of Aries and into Taurus on May 16, 2018. Between now and the time Uranus moves into Taurus, he will continue dancing with Eris. Still, Uranus and Eris are sharing a close embrace (exact degree) since our recent New Moon in Aries until this Thursday, April 6, 2017.

The Uranus/Eris energies have been in opposition to Jupiter since 3 days after last year’s Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2016. The opposition became exact on the day after Christmas, December 26, 2017 and again on March 3, 2017. Their next exact opposition will be on September 28, 2017. Jupiter will move out of the sign of Libra and into the sign of Taurus, where he will stay for the remainder of they year, on October 11, 2017. With each exact opposition, we receive Jupiter’s gift more deeply into the core of ourselves and more expansively into our multidimensional Self.

Jupiter is the Cosmic Guru, so anything he touches will expand. As long as Jupiter stays in a Conscious space, anything that he expands will be a blessing and will be for your benefit. Jupiter’s intention is to be a Gift-Giver, so he is desiring to expand your blessings and expand your gifts. Thus, through the Cosmic Dance of Uranus (Cosmic Liberator) and Eris (Fierce Truthteller), we are experiencing within the depths of ourselves, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32 ISV) Jupiter, who is witnessing their dance from across the sky, is blessing us with the expansion of our inner freedom ~ moving us into Sovereignty ~ through the gift of realizing our deepest Soul Truth. On the relationship Path of Conscious Equal Partnership, Eris dances as the Aries Archetype of The Fierce Safeguarder while Uranus dances as the Aries Archetype of The Fierce Protector and Jupiter steps into the Libra Archetype of The Beloved. The most exciting part of this is that while you are stepping into the Greatness of your Sovereignty as an individual, simultaneously the Collective Consciousness of Humanity is also stepping into the Consciousness of SOVEREIGNTY!

Meanwhile, Pluto and Vesta have been dancing their own unique choreography since the beginning of February and will continue to do so until April 10, 2017. Vesta moves from Cancer into Leo on May 3, 2017. Pluto begins to retrograde through Capricorn on April 26th until October 2nd. He will have moved almost imperceptibly from 19°CP23′ to 16°CP51′, barely over 2 1/2°s. He will not return to 19°CP23′ until January 23, 2018.

The Pluto (Cosmic Transformer) energy is regenerating (making new) your energy of Passion and Devotion and re-birthing Vesta’s Creative Life Force within you, onto the planet and into the Collective Consciousness. We are receiving the long-awaited medicine for the Wound of the Patriarchy! On the Relationship Path of Home, Family and Community, Pluto dances as the Capricorn Archetype of the Tribal Elder ~ The Grandfather who remembers the ancient Sacred Masculine before the culture of domination, which we know as Patriarchy, usurped the Power of the Sacred Masculine and perverted it out of its greed and selfishness. Vesta dances as the Cancer Archetype of the Great Mother. The Great Mother is all-forgiving and has no desire to punish the abuses of Patriarchy that have transpired over the past 50,000 years, since the fall of Atlantis. She desires to HEAL the Wound of the Patriarchy through Unconditional LOVE. The Wound of the Patriarchy is festering in the Unconsciousness (Shadow) of every man, woman and child on the planet. Its resonance remains embedded within the Collective Consciousness of Humanity. We come to know the presence of this wound through our Inner Child. As important as it is for the Inner Child to be LOVED, it is more important for the Inner Child to know that it has been forgiven for just being itself. It is through the Sacred Masculine energy that the Great Mother can offer healing to Her children. I offer this Sacred Work through the mirror of the father/daughter relationship. You can read about the profound experiences some of my clients are having on my TESTIMONIALS page. (PERSONAL NOTE: As an aside, my personal relationship path is the Path of Home, Family and Community. My Sun is in Capricorn, thus I am an Elder, and my Moon and North Node are in Cancer, my ancient lineage is from The Great Mother. This Sacred Work of healing the Wound of the Patriarchy through the mirror of the father/daughter relationship aligns with both my relationship path AND my passion and devotion from Vesta in Virgo/3rd house.)

SO … what is the BIG PICTURE of our current Grand Cross? Simply stated, by healing the Wound of the Patriarchy we can reclaim our deepest Soul Truth and step into the Greatness of our SOVEREIGNTY! We are being given every frequency we require to achieve this expanded state of EMPOWERMENT.

By the way, this directive cannot and will not fail! I remind you that Saturn is conjoined with our Galactic Center in Sagittarius (the sign of Truth and Integrity). Saturn is building the foundation upon which the Wound of the Patriarchy will be healed gracefully through love, compassion and forgiveness, so that the re-emergence of the Sacred Feminine can be fully actualized. With the restoration of the Sacred Masculine energy and the re-emergence of the Sacred Feminine energy, the Inner Masculine and the Inner Feminine within all of Humanity will once more be balanced. Just to ensure the success of this Cosmic Decree, the Sophia-Christ Consciousness is being poured into us individually and globally through the Heart of our Galaxy.

If you would like to know how this current Grand Cross is impacting you, I invite you schedule a Shamanic AstroSOL™ reading with me. When you use the CODE: GRAND CROSS, I will give you a 20% discount. This offer expires on the Full Moon in Libra, April 11th.

Many blessings to each of you!
Sofia Mona Lisa