a while back i heard about ophiuchus, the hidden or forgotten about 13th sign. the idea of a missing sign intrigued me and the fact that it was the 13th- a number that is sacred to the goddess but feared by man and made to be evil- made me wonder about the potential 'conspiracy' of hiding said 13th sign. as i explored the myth of ophiuchus i found it compelling. ophiuchus is also know as asklepios- he was a healer, said to have really existed, who was so powerful he could raise people from the dead. this angered hades- the god of the underworld who up until that point had the final say on who died and who remained alive.

i have noticed something in the air of late- and of course it is tied into the cardinal grand cross of the summer ;) between all the nutty astrology that began in late 2008 (saturn opposite uranus), built up throughout last year (jupiter/neptune/chiron conjunction, saturn square pluto) and is getting going this year (jupiter opposite saturn, jupiter/uranus conjunct at the aries point, jupiter square pluto and the last saturn/uranus opposition and saturn/pluto square) our personal and collective spheres have been under fire! fire is a means for transformation- but too much of it can feel overwhelming and destructive.

this coming summer- set to officially begin on monday june 21st at 4:30am PST- is definitely one for the books. the fast-approaching cardinal grand cross that is being formed by the social and transpersonal planets (jupiter, saturn, uranus and pluto) at the aries point degrees of 0 aries, libra and capricorn is something astrologers have been talking about for YEARS!

many of you have read my article on the new paradigm of partnership and emailed me to tell me how much it resonated with the deepest aspects of your being. the response was overwhelming and very gratifying because i only write what i feel deeply within and to hear from so many people about how my words resonated let me know that many of us out there are feeling this call. it truly is a paradigm shift of massive proportions!

there is a new paradigm of partnership that is being birthed right now and there are many who are being called to step up and midwife it by bringing it into their conscious experience and living it by example. these are the way showers for others who feel called down the road to do this inner and outer Union work. and it truly is work- of the Soul/Spirit variety. for those who have been conditioned to believe that relationship is based on security, ownership and fusion- this kind of relationship will necessarily shatter the foundations upon which they have built much of their understanding of love and partnership.

as many of you know based on my astrology writing and horoscopes- i am very much about attaining wholeness rather than perfection. in wholeness one embraces both their light and their dark, their masculine and their feminine. my passionate interest in the dark feminine stems from this interest in wholeness. since the dark has been demonized for millennia and the feminine has been repressed since patriarchy took over 5,000 years ago- it is the dark feminine that has been the most misunderstood and the most disconnected from.