This entire web site is an educational resource for those interested in art-sciences including Astronomy, Sidereal Astrology, the relation between Tropical and Sidereal Zodiacs; Planetary Synodic Cycles; Venus Transits, asteroids, new planets, Earth Resonances, Earth's Precessional Cycle & the Evolutionary Cycle of the Soul, Solar Cycles, Bio-Harmonics, Health & Healing, and the Evolution of Human Consciousness. Please Enjoy!
There are several sections to this web site. The two main sections are: The Lunar Planner, and Earth's Precessional Holy Cross. You are on the Lunar Planner section. The Precessional Cross section has its own table of contents.
The Lunar Planner section includes the Monthly Lunar Planner and many other related areas. Links are below. A part of the Lunar Planner (the Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary) is available to subscribers, while the rest of this web site, which is quite voluminous, is FREE.
"The stars would not be in the heavens if we
were meant to walk in darkness."
Nick Anthony Fiorenza
A Synopsis of this month's Lunar Planner
Our New Moon of January 23, 2012 occurs in early sidereal Capricorn, which begins the first lunar cycle of 2012. The New Moon conjoins Altair, Eye of the Eagle.
This area of the zodiak can involve a diversely-intented group of individuals and levels of consciousness, those either covert, manipulative and driven from self-interest (as the character of the old business & military paradigms), and those spiritually aware, of integrity, and who are attuned to the land and environment, including shamans and keepers of sacred knowledge and sacred ways.
Early sidereal Capricorn is of personal motive and secrecy, of esoteric knowledge, religion, higher education, and science; as well as the secret places and orders associated with such, or merely places of personal retreat and seclusion--but places strategic to one's purpose. Here we find locations such as military-scientific-extraterrestrial bases, hermitages, exclusive retreats, or isolated places with a spiritual focus--sacred sites or places of power under the care of their mysterious stewards. We also find an arsenal of strategic tools (technological or magikal), to either aid or control humanity as well as the skill to use them; and this includes our personal arsenals of strategic tools.
This is also where an eloquent and artful play of seduction and consent co-exists; but also one that can be insidiously cunning or even voraciously violent. Hear lies the nature of the tools of business and war: the interplay of people in their sexy disguises, whether cloaked in the eloquent and sleek stealth jet, particle beam laser based satellites; or merely dressed in seductive leather and lace.
Mars begins a significant 12-week retrograde in sidereal Leo on the New Moon. This begins the transition from the previous 780-day Earth-Mars synodic cycle into the next cycle. The new synodic cycle starts in the midst of the retrograde on March 3, in the following lunar cycle. The theme of the new cycle will fully engage when Mars returns direct in mid-April. Mars will then move onward to make its synchronistic square with the Venus Transit in early June. The retrograde period, starting now, provides a time to redefine our vitality and passion, and how we are using our creative power in the world. It invites us to set a new direction in our lives with momentous ramifications that will effect the evolutionary course for Earth and humanity.
Saturn also begins its retrograde in this lunar cycle, on the Full Moon of February 7. Earth and Saturn will engage in a new 378-day synodic cycle in the midst of its retrograde in mid-April, at the same time that Mars completes its retrograde. The new Earth-Saturn synod will align with the significant stars, Spica of Virgo and Archturus of Bootes, which will define the theme of this new year-long synodic cycle.
These are just a few of many events occurring in this lunar cycle that will kick off what should be dynamic and transformative New Year. The Monthly Lunar Planner explores the details of these events and more--the underlying cosmic currents upon which we evolve and which guide our daily lives--based in star-level astronomical astrology and synodic astrology.
This year, 2012, merely begins what will become a dynamic few year period of radical transformation--initiated by the people and for the people--that is, for all of us to take the lead to re-invent our lives and our world. This year, it matters not where we have been, nor where we are. It matters where we are going.
"The stars would not be in the heavens if we were meant to walk in darkness."
The New Moon of January 23, 2012 also marks the start of the "Lunar New Year." In Chinese astrology, this begins the year of the Dragon, occurring in the Water Element of the Chinese five elements--thus 2012 is of the Water Dragon. The last Water Dragon occurred in 1952.
The Dragon is a revered divine creature, a symbol of abundance, prosperity, great fortune and of intense power and authority. The Dragon is fearless, self-confident, non-conforming and demands freedom and respect. The Dragon impels enterprising accomplishment and success on a grand scale. Dragon in the water element is somewhat softened. Water Dragon is innovative, imaginative, perceptive and artful. It is compassionate and caring for the needs of the people.
In astronomical myth, the Dragon encircles the North Ecliptic Pole, the crown of the soul. The head of Dorado, the Golden Fish, lies at the South Ecliptic Pole, the foundational seat of the soul. Dorado is of the large coryphaena family of the tropical seas, of changing colors at death. Dorado articulates the golden light of the soul. The Dragon is protector of the ecliptic pole, the axis of the soul. The Dragon, adorned in golden riches, articulates the true wealth of the soul, the golden light it protects.
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exploration of each Lunar Cycle and the planetary cycles ahead.
Sample Monthly Lunar Planners
Lunar Clock (LST)
by LunarClock.org
NASA Science News for Dec. 13, 2011
The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th. Bright moonlight will interfere with the display, but not obliterate it. Forecasters expect observers with clear skies to see as many as 40 meteors per hour.
NASA Science News for Dec. 9, 2011
NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."
Some new articles include:
• 2012 Graphic Ephemeris
Non-subscriber Lunar Planner issues and many other articles can be found in the Lunar Planner Archive. Lunar Planners older than six months are available to non-subscribers.
January 2012 Solar Cycle Update
Solar image credit: SIDC, RWC Belgium, World Data Center for the Sunspot Index,Royal Observatory of Belgium, `May 2003 Image'.
"It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life.
Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me."
Kahlil Gibran
The stars would not be in the Heavens
if we were meant to walk in darkness.
Nick Anthony Fiorenza
Planetary cycles create the evolutionary currents of growth occurring within ourselves and our lives. To know what these cycles of life are asking of us is to consciously participate in life from a place of personal empowerment and inner peace. In this awareness and attunement, we can walk the path leading to our highest fulfillment-- physically, emotionally and spiritually.
The Lunar Planner is an experiential tool teaching how to live in attunement to the natural Lunar & Planetary Cycles--supplemented with astronomical star-level astrology and much more.
There are three parts to the Monthly Lunar Planner Publication:
• The Lunar Planner Introduction
• The Monthly Lunar Calendar
• The Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary
The Monthly "Lunar Calendar" and the "Lunar Planner Introduction" PDF downloads are FREE to all visitors to this web site. These two documents will teach you how to live in attunement to the Lunar Cycles. (Links to these files can be found below.) A new "Lunar Calendar" is made available just before each New Moon. If you use the Monthly Lunar Calendar like a daily journal while using the Lunar Planner Introduction as guide, you can quickly learn how to participate in harmony with the natural lunar spiral of growth and gain an entirely new understanding and perspective of your life experience.
The "Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary," also made available just before each New Moon, is available by subscription. This monthly publication articulates the opportunity for growth in consciousness each lunar month offers and how each month's lunar theme unfolds throughout the changing phases of the Lunar Calendar. I explore the theme of each lunar month and its unfoldment in our lives with "astronomical star-level astrology" which I have evolved over many years. This is not sign-based astrology (topical or sidereal), but is experientially-based astrology exploring alignments with individual stars and constellations much like one would naturally learn by living and sleeping under the starry heavens.
The rest of the Lunar Planner web site including the "Lunar Planner Forum," and many other educational resources are free and are available to everyone.
I also offer a few other publications available to purchase: Planetary Bio-harmonic Audio Meditations, Personalized Star Charts, and other educational material.
The Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary available on each New Moon (based in sidereal / star level astrology) is available for a small subscription fee--merely the price of one good Cappuccino per month.
I hope my existing visitors, as well as new visitors, find the subscription of value. After offering the monthly Lunar Planner Commentary for free for many years, I now ask for this small subscription fee to allow me the ability to continue to host and evolve what has become a rather voluminous web site.
The Lunar Planner Forum is an exciting addition to the Lunar Planner Web Site available to everyone--to subscribers and non-subscribers.
The Lunar Planner Forum is intended to be a fun and educational way for Lunar Planner visitors to learn from each other's experiences.
Discuss the Lunar Planner, Sidereal Astrology, Earth's Precessional Holy Cross, and all other Lunar Planner related topics--from bio-harmonics to the stars; private messaging for forum participants, and much more.
New subscribes have a seven-day trial period to explore the current Monthly Lunar Planner before committing to the 6-month subscription. You can also visit the Lunar Planner Archive to view previous issues of the Lunar Planner so you can get a feel for what the monthly Lunar Planners are all about--a continuing story-line revealing the monthly energetics creating our evolutionary spiral of growth, articulated through sidereal star-level astrology, synodic astrology, and astronomical mythology, the picture-language of the Greater Heavens. Lunar Planners older than 6 months are available to non-subscribers.
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And of course, whether you subscribe to the Monthly Lunar Planner or not, the rest of this site is a FREE educational resource. So please feel welcome to explore.
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The Lunar Planner's Interactive Moon Calendar
The "Earth's Precessional Holy Cross" section has its own table of contents.
How to live in attunement to the Lunar Cycle and the eight Lunar Phases.
The Lunar Planner Introduction & the Monthly Lunar Calendar.
About Astronomical Astrology and the Monthly Lunar Planner Commentary.
Soul Infusion and DNA Illumination - getting grounded.
There are three parts to the Monthly Lunar Planner:
This printable document provides simple and empowering instructions on how to live in attunement to the natural lunar phases. Includes a detailed explanation of the characteristics of each lunar phase, how one lunar phase shifts to another, creating an experiential monthly rhythm of our personal growth.
The Lunar Planner Introduction is not something to just read, it is an experiential and participatory tool that can empower you to live in harmony and balance with your emotional and physical experience. To gain full benefit from the Lunar Planner, use it along with each month's lunar calendar on a daily basis: write down your experiences and feelings in each month's calendar, especially before and after each lunar phase shift. Noting and observing your experiences and feelings on a daily basis--in the context of the lunar phase characteristics as presented in this Introduction--is the key. Doing so quickly reveals how your life experience, inner feelings, and realizations already occur in tune with the lunar phases. As you observe the synchronicity between your life experience, inner feelings, and the changing lunar phases, you can then learn to consciously live attuned to the natural spiral of growth rather than just observe it, not only scheduling your activities within the lunar spiral of growth, but more importantly, embracing your life experience in its fullness, living in the present and thus gaining greater self-empowerment through the inner growth your life experience has to offer.
The Introduction is a 7 page PDF file available to view or download (~200 kb).
PDF (portable document format) files are a standard, cross-platform, easy to download, printable file format. Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or greater (or an equivalent PDF reader like MAC's Preview) is required to view and print the Lunar Planner PDF files. Acrobat Reader is available to download FREE for any platform (MAC, Windows...) from Adobe Software.
The two page Lunar Calendar is posted just before each NEW MOON. The Lunar Calendar reveals the dates and times of each lunar phase shift and their changing characteristics. You can use the lunar calendar as a daily planner as well as a journal to record your experiences and feelings as the changing lunar phase occur.
Writing your experiences in the Lunar Calendar and correlating them with the changing lunar phases is the best way to learn how the lunar cycles and their changes phases work at an experiential level. Working with the Lunar Planner Introduction along with each month's lunar calendar can help you to become consciously aware of the lunar rhythm in your life and how to participate with it in empowerment. The Lunar Calendar goes hand-in-hand with the above Lunar Planner Introductory pdf file.
• An "Aspects Version" of the Lunar Calendar is still available to subscribers, It has the principal lunar aspects and other planetary cycles listed under each lunar phase, for those wishing to have this additional information.
• The "Journal Version" of the Lunar Calendar is FREE to all visitors. It has all aspects removed, thus making room to use it as a journal. Writing your experiences in the Lunar Calendar and correlating them with the changing lunar phases is the best way to learn how the lunar cycle of growth works at an experiential level.
The January 23, 2012 Lunar Calendar
The monthly Lunar Planner is based in star level, Sidereal Astrology and Synodic Astrology with unique and original Galactic Star Lore--the mythology (picture language) of the Greater Heavens. Each New Moon Theme articulates the cycles of growth unfolding in our lives. The theme of each lunar month weaves a story line of our evolutionary unfoldment and spiritual awakening. Each New Moon theme is posted just before each New Moon, along with the new month's Lunar Calendar.
Looking at the astrology of individual stars rather than that of mere astrological signs (whether tropical or sidereal), is like adjusting an out of focus camera lens into crystal clarity.
Although each lunar month's astrological commentary reveals the dynamics of the unfolding lunar theme and provides an embracing context to our experience, it is adjunct material. It is not necessary to read the monthly astrology to learn to live in attunement to the lunar calendar as offered in the above free Lunar Planner Introduction and by using each month's free Lunar Calendar. The monthly lunar theme is also a wonderful educational tool for the sidereal astrologer wishing to learn more about astronomy, synodic cycles, the fixed stars and their influence in astrology.
Previous Lunar Month Comentaries can found here.
Lunar Planners older than six months become availabe to non-subscribers.
Links to all articles about astrological and astronoimcal events.
All other educational material can be found here.
Learn about Earth's Precession; the relationship between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs; the astrological ages, the intercession of Earth's Precessional Holy Cross; measurement of the precessional rate, and introducing the Galactic Ayanamsa: Reckoning of the sidereal zodiak to the galactic axis of Earth's Precessional Holy Cross is based upon the spherical geometry created by Earth's precessional orientation in the solar system and our solar system's current location and orientation in the galaxy), rather than merely on star locations as seen from Earth.
A retrograde period of a planet marks the time when we disengage from a planet's previous synodic cycle and engage in its next one. Learn more about these underlying cycles of growth--the musical score creating the symphony upon which we evolve. In addition to an introduction to Synodic Cycles, there are links to several articles about specific synodic cycles with the main planets as well as with the newly discover dwarf planets: Eris, Quaoar, Ixion, Orcus, etc.
Getting to know the heavens: This is a sky map of the heavens that shows the stars, constellations, and the sidereal signs. Visually learn how the stars and constellations interrelate and blend to create each sidereal sign. This is a wonderful tool for the novice or seasoned sidereal astrologer, for the astronomer, for the casual sky watcher, or simply for those wishing to know more of the Greater Heavens under which we live. The Sky Chart is also a wonderful reference for the material presented in each month's Lunar Planner.
Learn about the four primary Asteroids - Ceres, Juno, Vesta, and Pallas; the Centaurs - Chiron, Phollus and Nessus; and the recently discovered "Dwarf Planets of the Kuiper Belt" - The Friends of Pluto: Quaoar, Ixion, Varuna, Orcus and Eris (which was discovered on January 5, 2005 and is larger than Pluto), Sedna, Haumea & Makemake
There are two Venus Transit occurring in this millennium, also called a Venus Passage. The Venus Transit presently upon us comes in a pair, with each transit in the pair spaced eight years apart. One transit occurs on June 8, 2004 and the other on June 6, 2012. This is a rare once in a life time event. The last Venus Transit (pair) occurred 129.5 years ago in 1874 and 1882. The next pair will occur 113.5 years from this one, in 2117 and 2125.
During a Venus Transit, Venus lies directly in front of the Sun and in line with Earth, at which time Venus acts like a gravitational lens focusing the sun's rays through Venus onto Earth. Thus, the Venus Transit creates a condition where the harmonizing and beneficent resonances of Venus are highly focused (emblazoned) upon the Earth--inspiring a new level of Venusian qualities to permeate Earth and spread throughout human consciousness. This specific transit pair (2004-2012), because it coincides with Earth's current Precessional Cross, strongly supports the reintegration and emergence of the Divine Feminine in our world--which desperately awaits the guidance and balance of the Goddess. In addition, the direct Sun-Earth-Venus alignemnet makes the new Earth-Venus 584-day synodic cycle of extra significance.
This article explores the eight-year pentagonal cycle of Venus; how the retrogrades of Venus are created; the 243-year Venus Passage cycle; why the transits in this cycle come in pairs for a while and why they then become singular; the drift of this cycle through the zodiak; the star alignments of the 2004/2012 transits in the sidereal zodiak; the psychophysiology (mental-emotional-physical facets) of Venus in our lives; and the astrophysical resonances of Venus in light (color), sound, and brain wave frequencies.
Learn about the Venus Elongations and their correspondences with the Crescent and Balsamic Moons.
The Astronomy and the Astrology: In August 2003, Mars was closer to Earth than it has ever been in about 73,000 years. It appeared more than six times larger than normal and 85 times brighter--brighter than Jupiter. Learn about the significance and astronomy of this event, and about the future cycles of Mars.
There is an email that seems to circulate about this 2003 event, erroneously claiming it is occurring each year the email circulates; as well as a statement that Mars will appear larger than the moon - pretty silly eh?. Learn the facts here.
A reference list of books on Star Names, Star Lore, Sidereal Astrology, and associated topics.
Get Attuned: A planet does not merely resonate to one frequency, as is sometimes thought, it is a complex rotating dynamic system composed of many astrophysical parameters that together create a planet's unique "harmonic signature."
The entire composition created by all of the individual planetary harmonic signatures, as well as the cycles they create with each other, establishes the musical symphony of our solar system, the harmonic environment in which life on Earth evolves. Thus we are not separate from these harmonic resonances, our biological and neurological systems function in attunement to this astrophysical symphony. Each planetary harmonic signature thus resonates with its corresponding neurological aspect of our selves--our entire mental, emotional and physical composition--the science behind the astrology.
Each 15-minute audio meditation is meticulously designed to incorporate a planet's harmonic signature in a way that brings the listener through a profound inner journey. Get in touch with and resolve issues you may have surrounding a specific planetary quality, strength and harmonize that planetary quality within self and in your life.
The Star Catalog has 2 parts: It is a step-by-step instruction manual teaching how to create a Sidereal Astrology Chart, complete with fixed stars and deep-space objects.
The Star Catalog also lists the sidereal longitudes and latitudes of over 600 stars and deep-space objects in a unique format making it easy for the astrologer to add stars to any astrology chart .
Did you ever wonder where the planets and asteroids were in the heavens when you were born? This made to order chart of the sidereal heavens shows their actual location at the time of YOUR birth. Visually learn which stars conjoin your natal planets; and see where they reside in the constellations and sidereal signs. Learn about your Horizon Plane, Meridian, and Prime Vertical, how these great circles create your Personal (Natal Cross), and how it nests upon Earth's Precessional Holy Cross--all creating your personal sacred geometry. This is your personal astronomy from which an astrology chart is derived. These great circles create your Ascendant, Descendant, Mid-heaven, Anti-Mid-heaven, Zenith, Nadir, East Point, and Vertex. Your Personalized Star Chart reveals exactly where these great circles and points lie in the heavens, and which stars and constellations they align with. This chart will provide insight into your greater self for years to come--and it prints as a beautiful high-resolution poster. You can also learn about the Great Circles and Personal Points in the Star Chart via this link.
The cross in a circle, is not only a spiritual symbol, it is also the astronomical symbol for planet Earth. The cosmic significance of this symbol is that it marks the timing of a primary transition or turning in the natural evolutionary cycle of the Earth. hidden within this symbol is a map referring to a unique occurrence of a specific geometric relationship between Earth, the solar system, and our galaxy--an astrophysical event occurring NOW, within Earth's ~25,000 year, precessional cycle. The precessional movement of the Earth governs the evolutionary unfoldment of consciousness on Earth. This portal of evolutionary change, occurring now in Earth's Precessional Cycle of the Holy Cross, propels human consciousness into Galactic (Unified Field) Awareness.
Earth's Precessional Holy Cross WEB page has its own Table of Contents
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