Astrology of Now: Angels, Ghosts & Other Worlds
Orchid, fairy tree, Montaigne Noir, Aude.
There are other worlds. Of course there are. We are more, or less, aware of them.
If you get down to cat-level and look between blades of grass, a new world opens for you, where a bug is sheep-size and orchids are trees, or look into the heart of an orchid and you are a bee. These are easy to see, these worlds folding into and over each other. We shapeshift: human to cat to bee.
Put on a mask and dive below the surface of the sea, climb a tree to the clouds. We change our point of view and we see worlds within worlds — we see world outside our world, in the farthest reaches of the night sky. We are living in many over-lapping and interweaving worlds, curled around each other like bracken heads, interpenetrating like shafts of light through water. On starry nights, our minds take us flying through the still spray of the Milky Way.
Or you can close your eyes and conjure angels.
Sometimes, these overlapping worlds are simultaneously vivid, inner, outer, microscopic, telescopic. The angel is at the foot of your bed, the bird’s eye vision is your dreaming, the starry sky is in your heart… and yet you are awake and the bedside lamp is lit and the cat purrs at the end of the bed. All is happening at once, because there is no time except right now.
The Angel of Illness
I have been slipping in and out of worlds since 12 April — thanks to fever, or a visitation from the gods of expansion and dreaming, Jupiter and Neptune.
Of course, it was textbook astrology. The mighty conjunction on that day took place on my Piscean Mars, my vitality or life force, and pulled me under. I came down with flu — combined with food poisoning, so the gods were making extra-sure to take me into the water. In fact, Neptune has been sitting on my Mars for a while now, and I have been feeling fine. It took the arrival of Jupiter to overwhelm me, and take me to the other places.
It has been, as you have just read, mystical — in the way of fever dreams. The illness reached a peak at the Full Moon, when I felt myself transparent with not just skies within, but whole universes swirling through my body, a body that had no edges at all. For much of the time, I have not been able to speak, and I have had to let go of many obligations and float untethered, dreaming of spinners turning my viral visitors into nets of light to diffuse into the heavens.
I recall just two other times when an influenza put me in bed for days like this. The last was over 20 years ago, in the mid-90s. I know the exact day because it was New Year’s. I looked back: a conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune in 1997, which was at 26° Capricorn, sextiling our current one.
Of course, it’s not over yet, as this conjunction will be woven with Venus over the next 10 days, and the two mighty teachers are still close together anyway.
Ghosts
You may be wondering about my ghosts, since I mentioned in my newsletter that I’d be down here in my parents’ old stone presbytery outside Carcassonne. As some of you know, it’s haunted.
In November, we did a big house clearance here, guiding spirits to the light gently. It seems to have worked. The house is still crowded, but the very difficult energy has gone.
As my friend Liz Rooke pointed out, it might not be so surprising that I grew up in haunted houses, since I have Neptune on the IC in Scorpio. This house was not the first my parent’s chose which has other occupants. The one where I spent a large chunk of my childhood was full of whispering spirits, rustling up and down the long stairs.
My natal Neptune was trined by the 12 April conjunction, and on the day, before taking to me bed, I saw two people, both of whom, “coincidentally”, were unusually psychic, and one of whom has the conjunction on her midheaven. She said: “I want to fill your house with fire and flowers.” So that is what we have been creating, a fiery path of flowers to the heavens for our friends in the world of spirit who need to untether themselves.
How has this strange time worked for you? Sally has moved into a big flat (Jupiter), near the sea (Neptune). Another friend has become a yoga master… Has it been mystical or did it just rain a lot?
I don’t think I would be as calm as you about this! I did a two day tarot reading course just before the conjunction and on the day impulse bought a painting of a swirling school of silver fish. Just need a house to put it in now!
Have painting: house will follow.
Hope you feel better soon! ❤️😊
I tried to write something last night, but finding words is a bit strange right now. 😅 I was going to say I found I couldn’t get traction on news and current events like I usually do, that I realised there was more to learn and I should wait and see. You said the same in your podcast, so it’s not just me then. Things are not as they seem. People are claiming all sorts, which makes the truth harder to see. It’s still there, but whatever is true has more behind it, if that makes sense.
Jupiter and Neptune are trine my Scorpio Neptune and Mercury. They also oppose my Uranus/Pluto which means they square my Venus/Mars. The whole t-square is activated. So it’s been a very strange time for me. I don’t feel grounded. At first, I tried really hard to fight it, then I just stopped, especially as there’s more to learn anyway and we have to wait and see. Luckily, I don’t have anything urgent to attend to, so I am enjoying very boring, peaceful days at long last! Hurrah for a normal day where nothing major happens and I can have some peace of mind, sleep ok, and relax with a film. I can finally breathe. 😊
I had a very hard time over the last decade or so, I really appreciate where I am right now, in this moment. I never thought I would treasure a boring day.
I also realised I am learning to do this as we collectively go through crisis upon crisis. I am well aware of them and keeping up as much as I can. I was one of the early group of people to protest what was happening in the world since Pluto went into Capricorn. My 4th house.
I’ve gone from anger, confusion, working out what was wrong, trying to see what we should be doing, getting behind policies that would actually help us, seeing the powerful stop us at every turn, seeing the powerful go from nasty to just plain evil, and realising we need a different approach. I see the sheer scale of the power they have, and I see we’re in terrible danger. We can’t disempower the powerful if we’re burnt out ourselves. It’s the airplane analogy, we need to get our oxygen mask first, then we can do what needs to be done.
So many people, especially the young, are frozen in fear and anxiety. The fight, flight, freeze response. We need to find a way to help them. I think we do that by showing up and just being there. No big conversations. Just a hello. Bring down the anxiety so they can function again. And we can only do that if we’re ok in ourselves. That means stepping up self-care.
Jupiter and Neptune are in my 6th house. As if you hadn’t guessed! How can I be of service to others, and also my own well-being. I already know you don’t need a big platform to influence others, your energy is picked up the moment you show up. So by enjoying my boring days, all nice and dreamy, getting my strength back from burn out, aiming for calm, I am helping others. I think that’s really nice, myself! 😊
I had awful headaches the whole week of the actual conjunction. I was very irritable and sharp-tongued. But I was just tired, burnt out from the news, worried about the threat of nuclear war. My body was telling me to stop, go and rest. So I did.
I’ve written a long reply hoping others will read it and maybe be inspired by my ideas of how we can help each other, and maybe think of more ideas we could do. While so many are burnt out – it’s a huge problem right now collectively – and others are frozen or lost in anger, it’s up to the rest of us to help if we can. Even if all we do is show up and just be nice. ❤️
I think it’s really important to be mindful of what energy we’re in, because whatever it is radiates out, gets picked up by others who in turn radiate their energy out, and so on. Your energy never stops with you. We have to forget about ‘individualism’, which never existed in the first place, and relearn how to be civic-minded. So many people are worried sick or just simply scared. I am too. But that’s not a good energy to be in. I have learnt to choose my energy. I learnt in that horrible decade. So I feel it’s on me to at least make a start.
I don’t know if this is practical or spiritual, or if there’s another term for it. But it feels right so I’m going with it.
No ghosts, sorry to report. I grew up in a haunted house too and lived and worked in places that were haunted, but nothing of late.
Thanks, Christina 😊 xx
Yes. My own house is not haunted. I wouldn’t choose that after having grown up in one. But my 1970s brutalist London flat was! Even though built in the early 70s, it had ghosts which may have been from the monastery or the slum that had been there before.
I’ve been waiting out a resurgence of Epstein-Barr. Very peaceful. I’ve re-learned how to rest.
Last week, many beloved ghosts came so near I could hear them. They were lovely visits, with not too many tears.
I’ve been remembering. The backstop is, I took on medical PTSD as my primary focus in psychotherapy last Fall, and the more it yields to determined treatment, the more I remember from my youth and childhood — just silly things, lovely or ordinary or the contention of kids at a distance of 40-odd years.
Also, I’ve finally found a theme to weave stories around, with plenty of room for a handful of characters I’ve been mulling for ages.
I’m feeling more here, more at home in my skin. Also, more free, whatever that means.
Been practicing radical presence regarding the news. It’s bizarre to hear world leaders saying they don’t want to provoke Poo tin — as if he needed any excuses. This passive-aggressive assumption that they can backlead him into peace, oy. If only.
So yes, it has been a large and watery time, with ghosts and angels and meaningful voices in my head!
All this sounds very familiar to me too, Isy. Interesting that you also have had viral resurgence.
I have Neptune exactly conjunct Moon in Scorpio in the 8th which closely trine Jupiter in Pisces in the 12th and although not ill at this time, I feel physically weak. My finances are also a mess and I can’t do much about it but plan for better times. As you and Sally discussed in the podcast, I am being forced to let go of a material lifestyle, but to what end I know not.
On the ghost side of things, I dreamt of a visit from a dear mentor the night before he died in early April. He was helpful to me at a time of personal crisis 25 years ago. Another time when I was forced to let go of what I thought my life would be.
I am turning 60 quite soon and have never felt more confused about life’s purpose. Perhaps the beginning of wisdom?!
Certainly the beginning of a new phase. We are all shedding…
Wishing you a return to full health, Christina!
This time has not been especially dramatically mystical, compared to other times in my life. I have Venus at 23 Pisces, descendant at 26 Pisces, and vertex at 20 Pisces, so I was taking note. I can say that for some time it has been difficult to focus on doing more than a couple things each day. I am retired, so I do have that luxury, but as a result my house and garden are a mess.
My parents, neither of whom have bodies at present, are around and I feel their presence strongly sometimes. April 14 was one of those evenings – my house was filled with their joyful presence. I thought it was possibly because my brother had received the gift I sent him that day. The ghost of the man who used to own the house my brother lives in remains there – it’s been at least 15 years since he passed. He and my brother were good friends. So whenever my brother goes out to the garage workshop, Tom makes his presence known by tapping on a metal coffee can. Twice this past week when I was on the phone with my brother I heard this happen. I have often wondered about why this guy is still hanging around, but it does please my brother to have the contact.
It seems noteworthy that this conjunction was the same week as Easter, Passover, and Ramadan, all of which were being celebrated at the same time. And now the dawn lineup of planets. Such a contrast to so much of what is going on in the world.
Ah, my iTunes random mix just gave me the final movement of Michael Kamen’s Concerto for Saxophone – beautiful and very oceanic – that music came to me in 1993, another big Neptune time. Gotta love synchronicity.
That all sound rather loving/kind – Venusian. Maybe Tom hangs around because he knows your brother likes his company or simply because he likes your brother.
I agree about the triple Abrahamic alignment, and it flows on. We’re still in Ramadan and Orthodox Easter is today, 24 April: a holy month for some.
Astrology of Now: Angels, Ghosts & Other Worlds
Tuesday April 19th 2022
Hello: What an interesting article and how informative as well. I like learning about psychics and their godly gift, I have this as well but I fight it profusely, not wanting to know things on one hand but always curious about it at the same time. I am the proverbial human with one foot in and one foot out, and that does not work very well either. I have been dinged so many times about my visions and seeing that I am wrong and that I am paranoid, I need to strongly believe in myself. My dreams are prognostic at time and talk to me, I find it astonishing and don’t always understand it until it passes. *** I do live with something, I feel it has inhabited my body as my feet are numb all the time and something is always pulling my socks off my feet. Also it always uncovers my feet as well even though I do not feel it happening. Sorry to bring this all up here but I need a safe place to talk and share, but mostly to understand. I need help, and the things I could say about it would make a great page-turning book. Thanks for listening.
I know someone who might be able to help you. Drop me an email and I can put you in touch.
Dear Christina, I just reread your article on Angels, Ghosts & Other Worlds . I have shared it with spiritual friends who can relate and while reading it again I recalled all the ghosts that have visited me in my lifetime…and there are many. I have found ghosts in every place I’ve lived since I was 5, when the ghost of my best friend woke me up on Christmas eve extending her hand to me and frightening me too. The next morning when I told my mom what happened she said “Oh Mary, it was Sharon, your friend went to heaven last night.” Well that was the beginning of ghosts appearing to me in my house and even at work. Once in the 90ies I worked in an old office building built in the 1800’s, when in my cubical I turned around and a woman with a Gibson hair do and mutton sleeved blouse w/a skirt down to the floor was standing there right behind me. Another was when I was searching for a black cat and a ghost animal walked right in front of me in my house. It was the size of a cat but walked like a dog….a few days later I found Lulu, my little 5lb. black yorkie at a shelter. Five years ago I saw my neighbors dog playing in their back yard and the next day the neighbor told me he had died a month prior. Two little girls were wrapped in a green wool army blanket next to the fireplace in my bedroom and woke me at 2am. I thought why are they next to the fireplace it doesn’t work but there was an orange glow coming from the logs. As soon as I opened my eyes they disappeared but the experience left me in high spirits for days. My house was built in 1913 and I love it, I love & cherish it on a spiritual level like you would love your pets or even a close friend. I have natal Neptune on my MD and Pisces on my 4th house cusp. (my father was an alcoholic.) I also have NN in my 8th along with Saturn.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us as it validates what some of us deal with. I feel very connected to the “other world” as my Mercury is at 26 Sag. so I am in constant communication with them.
Thank you for sharing those stories. I love the mystery of “why” to which there is no real answer…