Uranus Stationed Direct today 1/27/24 at 12:35a MST. 11:35a PST 1/26. 2:35a EST 1/27.
Allow The Tower + Chariot of Uranus SD to Become Your NO BS Queen of Swords
Allow yourself to forget the expectation of familiar hells of the undercurrents you are used to. If you do not inspect your expectations, aka the home of your blind spots, moving forward you may be play the victim by accident ~ the bird faking a broken wing for attention just by the circumstance of not keeping up with you now. The Tower’s intensity harmonized and naturalized becomes The Chariot. Together, they integrate into the No Bullshit card, aka the Queen of Swords. She sees. She always sees. Though like Pallas-Athena aka Minerva, or Astraea, she only responds when she does. Only move yourself when you move yourself. Don’t be moved by others unless you resonate with their influence. Otherwise, open up a crack in your Earth with Uranus SD newly in your toolbox. You can let gravity do the rest as you continue.
Roadblocks
Roadblocks are a nope right now. If you come to a road block or speed bump. Mind their fictional nature. You may simply not have the tools to solve for them right now. Rather than interrupting your momentum, just pick them up on the fly. Put them in your pocket. You’ll solve them when you are ready, though not now. Right now anything that gets in your way means you allowed it to get in your way. Don’t reason with every little thing. Stick to spending the value of your attention on your priorities. Tickets are sold out and the train has left the station. Where are you conducting your train to go today?
Pay Attention
Pay attention to Uranus being Direct now. Pay attention to the unfamiliar heaven of undercurrents and tectonic inner volcano rumbles ceasing and/or easing. Adjust to solid footing today and own it. Mind your ankles, though, as they may still have sea legs spo to speak from all the seismic going-son in your life you’ve been continually trying to stay balanced in. Don’t allow the play of the independent suspension to you temporarily fool you that it’s still actually there. Similar to getting off a bike when your legs are still wanting to go round and round rather than walking or running. Similar to getting off a ship and wobbling. Settle into the new balance of where you are. Smile with humor as you adjust. Keep wits and fun in your temp-wobble.
Wonderfully Terrifying
Use the wonderfully terrifying time of this poyentially unfamiliar heaven to reset your solid footing with traction and verve YOUR WAY. Uranus, the planet of individuation loves that. You know what Uranus loves more than individuation? Uranus loves that individuation is a gas station. Before you leave the gas station, you secure the cap tightly. When you leave the gas station… no talk about gas and process… in that regard you just drive. Don’t talk about what you need to do. Do it! Whose permission are you asking for anyway when you voice it? Do it. You know what you need to do. It’s ok to know what you are going to do. It’s also ok to keep it to yourself to fuel your actions instead. Why scoop yourself and leak it? Share it actionably. The only person making your footing slippery is looking right at this screen.
Opportunity Presents
Uranus SD (Stationed Direct) presents the opportunity to get out of your ‘Why’ and live the substance of your What. Why care about the Why anymore?! You have your reasons, though don’t get hung up anymore on things that already are. Say No. Say Yes. Ignore. Amplify. Whatever you do today, even small actions, will set a brick or stone or building blocks as a cornerstone. Cathedrals are built from just the consistency of setting stone after building block stone for a very very very intensely long time. Welcome to your very long time.
What Actionable
What actionable things will you do with all this future in front of you?… right now here in your present? And “very.” Let’s bring back very. It’s so very… it’s so very intensely very. Very sidesteps ostentatious for the win.
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From my Astro perspective eclipses are Faded Events. What are Faded Events? There is somewhat of a strobe light quality where time feels to speed up, though nothing, or very little, is missed in the interstice, those little voids of the spaces between. Interestingly, time feels to speed up in Faded Events, though in actuality I see it as slowing down. Slowing down to sync with the everything of what is happening such that one actually experiences the synapses, too, the space between the notes. And, I see the interstice, the space between the notes, or better the Psychic Synapse as 50% of each neural act. The neuron loads, fires leap-of-faith-style across the synapse. The unseen in the void is 50% of the heart of the matter, and may very well BE the heart of the matter. Then, the neural leap lands on the next neuron, and a connection is made. Then, the unseen heart of the matter from the Unconscious, from the synapse AS the heart of the matter is one-third of the whole deal.
Back to the Eclipse
Back to the Eclipse. With the Eclipse conjunct Uranus in Taurus the status quo opens up, may even tectonically explode with Uranus being the Shaker-Upper. The gloves may be on, though the mask or persona is off. The natural Nature, whatever it is, emerges. Period. You may be surprised. Maybe even terrified at the newness, may even feel blind-sided by it. Though, almost for certain, you will birth something new within that has a Must Urge to be brought into your external reality.
There are lots of butterfly-emerging-from-the-chrysalis indications. Lots of birth metaphors are present in the Eclipse in Taurus. The High Priestess, herself the temple AND that which is within the temple, may be a wondrous ally. Think and feel Pallas~Athena, aka Minerva nestling into your life under Astraea. They are the ultimate strategists. They tend to make Mars’ warring tendencies look like he is playing Tiddly Winks or checkers to their 3-level chess. Use this to make your actions more robust. Use this to discern value by making sure that whatever the heart of the matter is for you is rolled in as the driver for the actions you choose to take, or that occur to you. Being present and unthreatened without explanation are keys here.
Humpty Dumpty comes to mind. And, what will you do with what emerges after any given fall? And, more importantly, how will you facilitate the birth, the post-fall discovery? Humpy Dumpty fell from the wall, though isn’t that where the story really begins? What happens afterwards? What do you make happen? And/or, what simply happens?
Take Care with Uranus Present in the Mix
Take care with creative births in your life today and tomorrow and through the coming week. Odds are, they will stick around to be drivers in the next several years of your life and work. If you work with them like a gardener adjusts the walking path for special, new sprouts from naturalized perennials, you may very well reap wonders in your life in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
There is a naturalized perennial quality to this Uranian Eclipse in Taurus.
Back to the Births of the Eclipse
~ Do you see the head of your creation crowning? Excellent! Proceed. Don’t waste trouble, and complete the newnesses into being.
~ Is the placenta wrapped around the neck of your new birth? Well, take care to untangle that thing with zeal and haste, though sync with just the right speed as you do. Play well in the sandbox with Uranus to induce the Water Bearer Magician of Aquarius. Nod in your magic as you literally pull the water out of thin air. Literally, be The Magician who pulls water out of thin air. Aquarius is the Water Bearer, though astrologically, it is an Air sign. Dial into the Both~And of that Aquarius quality with Air and Water. Nourish both the breath of life and water of life. Also, take care not to get overwhelmed by FICP. Functionally-Interrelated-Component-Part. There is complexity present. Though, navigate as you mind all the parts as they are interdependent. A change in one will affect a change in another. I suggest to take a nod to this thought: when you move, when you act, inside or out, be aware that when you shift focus you might also change scale. Roll with that.
~ Is your birth breach? Well, stay in there. It’s not birthed until it’s birthed. And, it’s most likely important to complete the birth process. Allow expectations to unfold and reconfigure your priorities. Stay in there and work to bring this new birth into life. The Operating Room may be messy, though your creative birth may thank you both soon and also long from now.
So, What’s Going to Happen with the Eclipse?
With the Eclipse, all in all be your own OB-GYN for your creativity, for your life. And/or be your own Birth Doula to stay in there and assure your births nourish Your Life, Your Way. Respect new ways to develop your growth as newly influenced by what comes into being. You may not know what it is until it’s born. Can you simply, with the Uranian concept of reasons being unreasonable, birth whatever is, and then nurture it into its own robust Nature to inform you differently?
Here’s a Double-Image, Visual Eclipse Story
Here are two images I find resonant with this Eclipse and being comfortable with the beautiful Uranian not-knowing. How do these two visual stories play along in the truth of your birth(s) beyond expectation(s)? How can you incorporate the space between the notes and synapses?
Uranus Breaking Through, Robustly Hatching, from Under Saturn’s Throne,
The Volcano Teaches About This Eclipse
The Volcano.
Its head in the clouds,
continually making new lands when it does,
its feet firmly planted in the abyss.
(paraphrased from The Life of Firedocumentary [seen on Amazon Prime rather than PBS])
Inception, first-spark having all of your tools on the ready at your disposal. Head and heart married, so the heart consciously has enough breathing room, so the heart can be buoyant enough to unweight the scale and balance on the Scales of Justice with the feather.“The Coming of the Faeries.” Tom O’Bedlam 1918~Norman Lyndsay
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Load up your cart at the Shop with eProducts, complete your order, and then have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive. Drag and drop the eAstro Art Chart(s) and other eProducts onto it, and smile as you slip it into Holiday stockings. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Art Chart And other cool PDF gifts opens right up on your/their device of choice.
Or, No thumb drive required. Try this! Set up draft Santa emails with your eGifts attached, sit around the tree, and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? Send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room or on ZOOM. All can watch and share in the joy as each person’s eyes light up with colorful feasts of music for the eyes and imagination to spark dialing into inspiration are served up. Great gifts here that last long beyond the holidays!
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I now offer an Astro Art Chart service where I meditate with your Chart and/or the person‘s Astro Art Chart you commission and Art your Chart to make a visual reading. A gift that may very well keep on giving. Your Chart becomes an Astrology Reading with no words, a visual story told to you by you from your Chart full of messages for you to explore and discover and unpack.
Music for your eyes. ~ Karen Sealey
Here Are Some Examples:
Base Chart Sketch
FInished Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Focus Chart. Mercury~Neptune conjunction in 10th House Scorpio
What You Will Receive
A one of a kind, original, high res PDF image By email of the Chart or Charts you commission Then, More fun begins. Have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive, drag and drop the Astro Art Chart(s) onto it, and smile as you slip it in the stocking. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Chart opens right up on your/their device of choice. Or, Santa Set up draft emails, then sit around the tree and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? and send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room so all can share in the joy as eyes light up and colorful music for the eyes begins to play into their world. Gift Certificates also available. Email me at Jordan@jordanhoggard.com to set up your custom amount.
Maybe you want an Astro Art Chart and Astro Art Focus Chart Focus Art together for deeper exploration and discovery?
What’s an Astro Focus Art Chart?
An Astro Focus Art Chart is when you indicate a particular part of your Chart you would like to focus in on. For example: I wanted to open up and unpack more of the messages in my 10th House Scorpio Mercury~Neptune conjunction. And, it turned into quite the Site Plan (top view) of what I saw as a Temple Complex like the Akropolis.
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A link to Taschen Books to purchase Jessica Hundley’s Library of Esoterica published this Summer, 2020. I Am proud to have a legacy level honor with The Library of Esoterica. 2 of my Mystereum card images were included! ~ XVII The Star and the 6 of Wands Shown below.
Last but not least, there’s the old standby of Tips and Donations. I make this FUN! How? You get to tip in the currency of COFFEE. Please accept my thanks in advance when you tip your server and buy me a coffee or 2 or 3. Thank you! Will you Buy me a coffee?
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Blog (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
ImaginAction (c) 2008 – 2020Jordan Hoggard
LIbrary of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley. Taschen Books, 2020
All 6 Downloads in the Shop for $15, a $49.32 value. And, don’t forget. You get to download 3 copies of each one. 1 for you and 2 for gifts? Heck, Order 2, and You’ll have 6 copies. 123 and you’ve filled 5 stockings. Heck, order 3 at these prices and 8 stockings are wonderfully graced with smiles.
With the eSuper Stocking you’ll receive all 6 downloads below!
ImaginAction PDF multi-page
ImaginAction 2.0 ~ The Unplugged Sessions PDF multi-page
The Treasure of the Stones Reading Method PDF multi-page
Learn Turbo Tarot Reading PDF multi-page
The “Constructing the Center Night & Day Series” monograph PDF multi-page
The “Prescient Remembrance: Dialogue of a Vampire” poetry collection PDF multi-page
Load up your cart at the Shop with eProducts, complete your order, and then have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive. Drag and drop the eAstro Art Chart(s) and other eProducts onto it, and smile as you slip it into Holiday stockings. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Art Chart And other cool PDF gifts opens right up on your/their device of choice.
Or, No thumb drive required. Try this! Set up draft Santa emails with your eGifts attached, sit around the tree, and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? Send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room or on ZOOM. All can watch and share in the joy as each person’s eyes light up with colorful feasts of music for the eyes and imagination to spark dialing into inspiration are served up. Great gifts here that last long beyond the holidays!
Which Holiday eProducts do your friends and family receive this year?
My Newest Offering
Astro Art Charts
I now offer an Astro Art Chart service where I meditate with your Chart and/or the person‘s Astro Art Chart you commission and Art your Chart to make a visual reading. A gift that may very well keep on giving. Your Chart becomes an Astrology Reading with no words, a visual story told to you by you from your Chart full of messages for you to explore and discover and unpack.
Music for your eyes. ~ Karen Sealey
Here Are Some Examples:
Base Chart Sketch
FInished Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Focus Chart. Mercury~Neptune conjunction in 10th House Scorpio
What You Will Receive
A one of a kind, original, high res PDF image By email of the Chart or Charts you commission Then, More fun begins. Have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive, drag and drop the Astro Art Chart(s) onto it, and smile as you slip it in the stocking. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Chart opens right up on your/their device of choice. Or, Santa Set up draft emails, then sit around the tree and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? and send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room so all can share in the joy as eyes light up and colorful music for the eyes begins to play into their world. Gift Certificates also available. Email me at Jordan@jordanhoggard.com to set up your custom amount.
Maybe you want an Astro Art Chart and Astro Art Focus Chart Focus Art together for deeper exploration and discovery?
What’s an Astro Focus Art Chart?
An Astro Focus Art Chart is when you indicate a particular part of your Chart you would like to focus in on. For example: I wanted to open up and unpack more of the messages in my 10th House Scorpio Mercury~Neptune conjunction. And, it turned into quite the Site Plan (top view) of what I saw as a Temple Complex like the Akropolis. Here are 2 of my Astro Focus Art Charts to visually give you a further description. The 1st is the Focus Chart for my 10th House Scorpio Mercurius~Neptune conjunction, and the second is a current Age Harmonic Focus Chart:
Astro Art Focus Chart for my 10th House Scorpio Mercury~Neptune conjunction. Orb = less than 4 degrees
Astro Art Focus Chart for a current Age Harmonic I wanted to explore
When you place your order for Art Your Chart, include:
your name or the gift recipient’s name
birthday
birth time. I’ll use Noon if you do not have a specific birth time
birth place
If your browser does not show the text block to fill in the above, not to worry. I’ll email you when I receive your order and you can provide the info then.
Santa’s Astro Art Workshop is Open!
Part of my process is to sit with your Chart and steep in it to full immersion as I feel it fill my art tools to flow back out on the page to create an intensely personal gift With Art Your Chart. They each take care and attention and time. They are each one of a kind, delivered right to your email in high res PDFs Please plan ahead and order now as there is a 3 to 5-day process to complete them once started. These super full and robust creations are filling my Santa’s workshop, though I have room for several more.
Astro Art Charts are also a solid way to periodically check in and explore your Chart in a fresh way. Get yours for yourself, too!
There are also my eBooks in PDF format available to purchase and download. No Kindle required. You get to download 3 copies of each eBook PDF you purchase. One copy for yourself, and two to give as gifts for special times or simply when the serendipity of an encounter moves you? Have 6 people to gift, simply buy 2 eStocking stuffers, and you’re covered! Light up your loved one’s phone. Light up their phone AS their stocking this year!
Load Up Those Thumb Drives and Around-The-Tree-Emails This Holiday Season with These eStocking Stuffers
ImaginAction 103-page PDF with 78 full color visual ablution pools. Holiday Special includes ImaginAction 2.0 ~ The Unplugged Sessions. You get both for $10.00. A $24 value.
ImaginAction 2.0 ~ The Unplugged Divination Sessions. 98-page PDF with 78 full color visual ablution pools. ($12.00 value. INCLUDED for the Holidays through 2020 with ImaginAction purchase above.
The Treasure of the Stones Reading Method. PDF $6.00. Holiday special BOGO. You’ll also receive Learn Turbo Tarot Reading for FREE ($6 value) with your Treasure of the Stones purchase. Buy One Get One FREE
A link to Taschen Books to purchase Jessica Hundley’s Library of Esoterica published this Summer, 2020. I Am proud to have a legacy level honor with The Library of Esoterica. 2 of my Mystereum card images were included! ~ XVII The Star and the 6 of Wands Shown below.
cosmic grooves, eternal hope, inspiration
victory, glory, overcoming obstacles so new energies cascade in
The exchange of the energetic steps in the 6 of Wands
Also, I’m Pleased to Announce 2 New Offerings In Advance of the Holidays
Last but not least, there’s the old standby of Tips and Donations. I make this FUN! How? You get to tip in the currency of COFFEE. Please accept my thanks in advance when you tip your server and buy me a coffee or 2 or 3. Thank you! Will you Buy me a coffee?
Have fun as my Shop help you get set up for the Holidays in fun and exciting ways!
Kintsukuroi of Self
Jordan’s Shop Supports This Blog. Check out the great eStocking Stuffers to add that special flourish of visual music for the eyes and the soul to complement your gifting.
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Which music-for-your-eyes eProducts from the Shop do you give this year?
Blog (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
ImaginAction (c) 2008 – 2020Jordan Hoggard
LIbrary of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley. Taschen Books, 2020
Elizabeth Rose Psychic and Tarot.This post with the image of the painting with Echo and Narcissus + Liz’s mention of the Phoenix catalyzed me to forget the story for getting the gift of telling it differently. Visit her site for the Astrology, though don’t be surprised when you receive a larger takeaway than just that. I received a re-telling from myself of a story that brought it into a different light, and may soon apply to modern discussions of Narcissism… as Psychopaths are (most likely) born (and/or experience trauma from Day 1 as their only context?), though what about Sociopaths? Common work in the Psych community often indicates that Sociopaths are made rather than born. From what are they made? Typically, it is my understanding that Sociopaths are made by trauma over decades that goes unresolved, unreleased such that it that lives deep within and in miscellaneous places that often hide in plain sight. Personally, the tell that I notice — and this is anecdotal from multiple experiences rather than from scientific study or professional Psych community papers — the tell I notice is most often a combination of shaming behavior that couples with a more insidious trait. The latter is that when they ask you a question, and you answer from your perspective as we are want to do… as, well… you asked me a question. Then, in the latter tell, they launch into triggered tirades, of, yes, shaming behavior as if their question came from a professional Angler fish that baits people in with questions. The evolution of that, though, comes from an Empathic Silence I began to notice myself experience in this type of interaction. I would notice, and yes it was a bit manipulative and not truth in an air of truthfulness on my part, that if I answered something more from a place of their perspective, all was well. Well, all was not well, as then I was simply playing the marionettes counterpart of their projection, and in some cases actual Projective Identity.
What I came to is this. Rather than judgment, I chose discernment, and again, Empathic listening, carefully and thoughtfully watch the triggered behavior AS it began to unfold. How did it feel to me? Well, it felt like this. It felt that when forces and influences and responses came from outside of them, it was danger they experienced. It made sense. Their intense traumas mostly all came from external forces. People. Experiences. And, when I did what people do under interrogative circumstances, a different way of saying ‘when asked a question,’ and I responded wholeheartedly from my perspective, out came the psyche-knives with ground fire blazing. Vicious is a word, though I have to say. Don’t get me wrong. I found it not only empathic and compassionate to understand that they then operate from a place of pain. I found it simply considerate to respect that that is the case, and to do my part to get that even in their dosed up and potent nightshade belladonna venom and vitriol, they may be the person who needs to be heard the most. And as well, I am not Saint Jordan of Naïveté. Nor, am I a Psych professional. So, there is only so far that can go, unless they are willing to at least attempt to check the ordinance at the door in the understanding that I will view them as shooting blanks in regards to me.
Now, under those circumstances, I find it more compassionate all around when I discern and groc that this is that kind of scenario, to first respond to the question with a clarification question to at least quell the hair trigger sawed off shotgun that is unsnapped and with the safety off that leans in to point in my general direction. How it goes from there? Ask me again tomorrow. I simply offer the above from a laymen’s perspective from someone who has worked openly outside and within his own psyche with the hood open while active in the creative process. So, on to the article, Part 1 of 2. And, as it goes in theatre and fighting, the above warm-up is substantially shorter than the one-act performance below. Plus, There’s a link to Part 2 below… Comments welcome.
Trees with strong roots laugh at storms.
~ Malay Proverb
Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse
J: Excellent image for this post today. Echo hears herself, and that hearing comes from echoes outside in response to her voice from within. Chords are struck to resonate. She begins to connect. Narcissus sees himself, is hypnotized from within, magnetized and pulled inside to orbit only in that world where the external more and more falls away. He gets lost in there, chases false horizons in his unconscious isolation. She gets found. She finds herself connecting. Echo is the potential spark that lights his Phoenix to fire back up within and push his head out of his heart and resurrect out here, most likely with epic experiences from traumas he tilled that then unfold.
E: fantastic insight, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
J: You’re very welcome. Thank you for the resonance in your accolade. Much appreciated. I had not thought of it this way before, though the image and your mention of the Phoenix made a perfect catalyst to pair, where the painting began to re-tell the story for me from another perspective… mine now… and, in an informed, intuitive reading format… could be called Beginner’s Mind fueled by a bank of experience… which I could pen as simply expectations inspected and left at the door to evaporate blind spots and see and experience what actually is, right in front of us, for more robust clarity and connections. I received the gift to teach myself a new self-created version of the story of Echo and Narcissus today catalyzed by your post. It brought me to forget the story of Echo and Narcissus as I knew it. It brought me to forget in that way of forgetting is for getting… makes more room for the good stuff. Thank you. Thank me. Thanks much. This feels to apply to the larger sociological and psychological landscape of today. We talk about and hear much about Narcissus and Narcissists and trauma and sociopathy and Psychological Projection and Projective Identity. Though, how many of us do the work to find and develop our Inner Nature as did Echo To connect, with ourselves and others and Nature itself?
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