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PLUTO TRANSFORMATIONAL TRANSITS     Sunday, August 11, 2013

8/4/2013

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During this 2 hour SKYPE session with Master Astrologer, Genevieve, The Blue Light Lady (www.bluelightlady.com), we will peer in on how Pluto Transits are transforming each individual in attendance and learn from each other about how we are evolving collectively.

From Cafe Astrology (www.cafeastrology.com), here is a good summary of what a Pluto transit may mean for us personally:

How Pluto affects our lives depends very much on whether we resist its influences or we try to work with the planet of rebirth and destiny.


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Whatever part of our lives and of our psyches that Pluto touches, especially by hard transit, is an area that Pluto compels us to explore more deeply. Superficiality is not acceptable for Pluto. Pluto transits insist that we get in touch with our core purpose and our deep sense of power. New levels of intimacy, not only with others but also with ourselves, are discovered and uncovered.

Transiting Pluto brings intensity and focus to our lives. Pluto breaks through illusions, in search of the utter truth. These are not Saturn truths, when we see things for what they are in a mundane or material sense. Pluto probes much deeper, shining light on our darkness. Transiting Pluto offers us the chance to evolve and to rebirth. Pluto acts to strip away what is unnecessary or superficial in our lives. Pluto wants deep experience, of the transformational kind. Things that are not working for us, whether they are thought processes or lifestyles, undergo a transformation. Pluto transits bring about rebirths of sorts in the areas of life affected. Pluto transits are about letting go of things that are holding us back from deep and meaningful experience.
Fear—sometimes intense fear—can reveal itself at the beginning of a challenging Pluto transit. We confront our "dark" side—those parts of us that are raw, primal, and instinctive. Resisting this process can cause us to externalize or project these parts of ourselves. If we do this, Pluto's energy has to go somewhere, so we end up meeting Pluto in our lives in the guise of events and people. If we are attracting jealous, manipulative, and controlling people or situations, we can ask ourselves why this is happening. Is there something in ourselves that is provoking this kind of behavior or circumstance?

Although transiting Pluto is often associated with such things as separation and deaths, it is important to note that Pluto's action is to revolutionize parts of ourselves, and events that take place at this time can just as easily be new relationships, births, and new beginnings in general. For example, a woman who had decided she would never marry and have children developed a relationship under a heavy Pluto transit that changed her conviction completely. By transit's end, she recognized that her conviction to not "settle down" was actually based on her own fear that she would never find a deep and meaningful relationship.

Possible influences and experiences with transiting Pluto:

  • Emotionally and sexually rewarding relationships, intimacy.
  • Psychological healing.
  • Relationship problems, separation, manipulative behavior, jealousy and possessiveness.
  • Resistance to change and holding onto negative attachments.
  • Self-destructive behavior, obsessions.
  • Looking for truth and meaning.
  • Beginning new, intense relationships.
  • Psychological insight, intolerance for superficiality.
  • Soul-to-soul connections with partners.
  • Fateful encounters, timely new relationships and/or separations.
  • Discovering one's power.
  • Unloading burdens and obligations.


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The Tower Lays Waste to All That Does Not Support Us by Christine Danielle Vierling

1/26/2013

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Law 16 (The Tower/Destiny/All Elements but mostly Earth/Fire)

External circumstances beyond our control will bring on a break-down into the raw simplicity of being, if we abide in rigid, out-dated beliefs, traditions, and structures (lessons posed by the Devil/Law 15 in Tarot).

You will have to face yourself in your raw truth sooner or later. 
 Rigid structures/corporations/empires/relationships will fall apart and may break-down or break-up; you may suffer a break-down or identity crisis; your health may suffer or even the world around you may appear to fall apart.  Natural disasters (for example the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile), acts of terrorism, the crashing of the western economy, and fall of governments are all examples of Tower events. The typical image of the Tower in Tarot is exactly that of a Tower falling and crumbling with people and flames flying out the windows and could easily be represented by the Twin Towers of New York on September 11, 2001.
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Also pictured in this Tarot image is a crown falling.  All Empires that fail to keep the balance fair will fall.  All that does not support the raw truth of what it is to be human with a heart on this planet will be lain to waste in due course.  Now not to preach all doom and gloom, as there is always a positive way out and the Tarot gives some guideposts.

The best we humans can do when the Tower crumbles in our path is to re-build with more sound and sustainable materials that will support us in the long-run.  Alternatively, we can choose to walk away from the material form that no longer supports us and forge a new path in a new direction.  A crisis in our environment or consciousness can bring out the heroes and heroines amongst us and bring community and charity to the fore.  Such a crisis can catapult us into individual or collective change that will hopefully be for the better. 

In the movie, Avatar,the imperialistic advance of the Earthlings upon the beings of Pandora sets the stage for a “Tower” that must fall.  Ultimately, the beauty of a collective effort to consciously topple the corporate power is realized. 

The Tower experience, therefore, can trigger tremendous, life-changing revelations and encourage positive evolution.

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Zodiac and the Tarot : Capricorn relates to the Devil tarot card                                                 The Devil Challenges Us to Face our Fears   by Christine Danielle Vierling                          

1/19/2013

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Law 15 (The Devil/Capricorn/Earth) When you face and own your weaknesses and Shadow without fear, you liberate yourself from potential harm.

If you fear that Negative forces outside of you are out to get you, they will.  If you believe you are a victim of circumstances or of Evil, then you will become one.  If you fear your own success and empowerment, you will unconsciously sabotage it.   If you do not acknowledge your own shadow side or weakness, you will project it outwards.  The Shadow will grow around you.  What you fear, you may eventually become in a twisted way of overcoming the fear.  At heart, we humans strive to overcome and survive all difficulty in our path.  Sometimes, to overcome the fear, people unwittingly become what they fear. The Nineties’ film, Fight Club aptly depicts this phenomenon.  The “Abused” becomes or is unconsciously one with the “Abuser”.

The typical Devil card in the Tarot is in fact quite scary looking as it portrays the classic image of a horned half man, half beast with forked tongue and pointed tail.  Chained to this beast are two humans appearing naked and vulnerable and above the beast is an inverted five pointed star indicating separation from God or the Divine Spirit. The symbolic key to liberation inherent in this image is found in the fact that the chains that hold the humans are loose and even cracked open showing that if they are mentally and emotionally empowered, they are physically free to walk away from the influence of the Devil.

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Another Tarot image of this 15th Major Arcana pictured here is from the Osho Zen deck which portrays the Devil as a fierce Lion to which sheep are bound and tethered.  Here we get the sense of being bound to a conditional relationship of domination and subjugation where the prowess and violent potential of one overpowers the gentleness and meekness of the other.  From the birth of Christ up until 2012 (the Piscean era) many have found themselves disempowered in the nets of oppressive governments, greedy corporations as well as financial and even religious institutions not to mention controlling, self-serving bullies in various forms of relationship.  There has been an unconscious willingness to trust Authority over the self, essentially a misunderstanding of Christ’s message to relinquish the self in service to God or the Divine.

In contrast, the image of Pan, the nature god playing a reed flute in Liz Greene’s Mythic Tarot represents the earthy goat of sensual delight and fertility that preceded the traditional Devil.  This playful deity (originating from Roman mythology) became transfigured  into a grotesque and vile devil to turn the common people away from paganism and towards Christianity.  The early Christian religious authorities can be attributed with demonizing paganism as such, beginning with Constantine, the Roman Emperor who institutionalized Christianity on a mass scale from 306 AD to 337 AD and then taking full effect in the early Middle Ages.    Once the common people held fear in their hearts for their own basic sexual and natural way of being and feeling, the “authorities” could easily control them.  Sexuality became perverse in the Western world and another arena for domination, subjugation and abuse.

When the Devil card appears in a reading, it puts up the red flag of danger for most people.  So, firstly it is important to know that the “Devil” whether externalized or internalized can always be overcome.  The key significance of this card is to recognize your own Shadow and to embrace your sexuality as something natural and delightful rather than  as “dirty” or perverse.  In the Jungian sense, you must own and integrate your Shadow as part of yourself so that you master and control it rather than allowing it to unconsciously influence you.  Like the yin/yang symbol, the shadow/yin side is equally significant to the whole as the light/yang side; the two must exist in perfect balance with a spot of shadow in the light and a proportional spot of light in the shadow.

In my own life, I fully embodied the meaning of the Devil in confronting my deep-rooted fear of betrayal.  From a very young age, I experienced the emotional pain of betrayal as my birth father betrayed the trust of my mother, and also my grandfather, despite being the Minister of a church, betrayed the trust of my grandmother and later the trust of our entire family.  I then carried this imprint of mistrust, emotional insecurity, and fear of betrayal into my intimate relationships with men from 16 years on until I finally overcame and integrated this “Devil” by the time I reached 40.  For a long time, in the vein of feminism, I pointed my finger outwards blaming the men and society for perpetuating men’s reputed betrayal and mistreatment of women.  Then in response to the men that betrayed me, I betrayed them in turn, not out of revenge as some of them thought, but purely in my effort to gain back self-esteem.  I wanted to be equal to the men and have the power to attract, seduce, and hold the attention of more than one man at a time if I so desired.  So it was, though I am not proud to admit it, that I became the “Betrayer” I had so feared.  In my full awareness of my own fall from virtue, I acknowledged my Shadow and allowed its place alongside my inner Light.  At the moment I no longer feared this Shadow as an external force beyond my control, the phenomena of betrayal evaporated from my life. So it was I could suddenly trust that men could be honest and forthright and so it was that I recognized who would be my noble husband.

Onthe collective level, the Devil must also be confronted and integrated.  Fear-based beliefs have been rampant in the forms of Nazism, Fascism, and Racism to name a few on our planet.  The behavior of addiction is another “devil” that consumes many.  Few on our planet are or have been truly fearless, save Ghandi and Jesus.

When we take Mary Greer’s method of calculating Tarot card cycles and apply them to past generational cycles, the appearance of the Devil has coincided with war.  The last time this Major Arcana was prominent in its cycle was during World War II and Hitler’s extreme abuse of humanity.  Now again, the Devil is emerging in collective consciousness cycles as something that must be overcome.  Those of us born after World War II will be getting the Devil card initially side by side with the Chariot (the 7th Major Arcana) indicating that we collectively and individually have the opportunity to overcome the fears and vices it represents.  We can overcome the corruption, avarice, greed and betrayal of institutions that have abused and chained us with their deceptions and control through fear.

To accelerate your awareness of how to overcome the fears associated with your own Shadow or sexuality, seek healing or counseling assistance.  Spiritual tarot counseling, astrology, and intuitive guidance can of course be helpful as offered by myself (www.cdvierling.com and Genevieve on this blog site).  Also you may consider ancestral healing or family constellations work to release you from the Shadow conditioning unconsciously held among your relatives.

As each of us integrates our own Shadow and does not allow it to overpower our Light, we bring the Shadow into balance on the planet so that it does not overtake humanity as a whole.


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ARCHETYPAL INTEGRATION IN THE TAROT  ; BEYOND DEATH, THE TOWER,  & THE JUDGEMENT    By Christine Danielle Vierling (Published in Network Ireland, October 2012)

10/27/2012

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Get the Balance Right with Justice  by Christine Danielle Vierling

10/1/2012

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Law 11 (Justice/Libra/Air): Take responsibility for your relationships with others; choose fair and equal partnerships

 Justice is represented by a formidable robed figure sitting authoritatively upon a throne with a sword held in her one hand and the scales in the other.  She can easily be compared to the Greek Warrior Goddess of Wisdom, Athena,  or to the American Statue of Liberty.  She stands ready to defend and fight for truth, justice and liberty for all.  She governs legal rights that may take form in contracts relating to citizenship, marriage, or business.  The card is favorable when accompanied by supportive cards such as the Ace of Swords, The Hermit, or the Sun where truth is illuminated and otherwise challenging when accompanied by ones such as the 7 of Swords, The Devil, or 3 of swords where the truth may be evaded or kept hidden.


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Following astrologically on from The Lovers, the Gemini/Air card, which represents the merging and balancing of male and female energies within, the Justice/Libra/Air card allows us to merge and balance with people or prospects outside of ourselves.  When this card arises in a reading, take it as an optimal sign to make commitments to whom and what matters most to you. These commitments ideally will be based on a fair give and take or exchange of energies, and open and honest communication that allows one to both speak and be heard equally in respect to others.

For a more in-depth understanding of the Libran/Air elements of Justice, look to Genevieve’s beautifully written blog on Libra found in the in left hand column archive of this site.  You can gain further insight into how this card has either swept you off your feet in relationship or swept you out of relationship by calculating your annual year cards as set out by Mary K. Greer in her Tarot for Yourself workbook.  Essentially, you get the same Major Arcana every 10 years and each time you get it you become a little closer to understanding and mastering its lessons.

 In my case, Justice repeatedly has marked the breaking-up of my commitments and ultimately has increased my awareness about myinability to get the balance right in my relationships. I first got the Justice card in 1976 when I had broken up with a best girlfriend and entered a new school; in 1985 when Justice appeared again, I had just broken up with my first love and began college; in 1994 Justice signified yet another break-up from a serious 9 year relationship and graduation from my Masters program.  So interestingly in these first 3 decades of my life, just when I realized I could not keep a commitment in relationship, I concurrently was able to commit to my own education and pursuit of personal truth.  Accordingly, Justice is also about our commitment to our own truth.  Most recently, in 2003 I got the balance right with Justice.  Firstly, I made a separation from my eldest daughter’s father official and since have been able to co-parent with him amiably and fairly.  At the end of that year, I also became involved with the man who demonstrated that he was willing to be equal partners with me.  I was later to marry him in 2006, which was my Temperance card year (signifying a true alchemy and blessing in relationship as I will write about in December). I won’t speculate about what my next experience of Justice will be in 2012, but as the Mayan calendar comes to a close and we begin the Aquarian Age, I expect to reckon with my own truth in amazing new ways.

 The truth of Justice is you can’t be true to another  until you are completely true to yourself.

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"ARCHETYPAL INTEGRATION IN THE TAROT" ;  Honoring our Higher Truth ;  The High Priestess, The Hermit, & The Hanged Man ;  By Christine Danielle Vierling (Published in Network Ireland July 2012)

7/28/2012

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"ARCHETYPAL INTEGRATION IN THE TAROT" Exploring the Magician,Lovers,Temperance By Christine Danielle Vierling (Published in Network Magazine, April 2012)

4/24/2012

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Exploring the Tarot : Portal to Consciousness by Christine Danielle Vierling (Published in Network magazine, January 2012)

2/12/2012

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The Emperor Commands Us to Be Responsible for Our Own Actions

12/27/2011

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Law 4 (The Emperor/Aries/Fire): Take charge of yourself; move forward with confidence. 
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The Emperor of the Tarot represents absolute authority as he sits confidently upon a throne. He also symbolizes an expression of male energy. Most men innately have a drive to take action to get or win what they want. When my elder daughter was only 5 years old, she astutely observed that “boys have winning power while girls have healing power.” Having acknowledged that, I believe we also can embody both male and female qualities and energies. So, as a woman, if you do not embody the male qualities in yourself, the men in your life will hold their power over you. If you don’t take charge of yourself, then others will direct or control you in ways that suit them more than you. So when the Emperor appears in a reading, it is important to take the power in your own hands, take initiative, and carpe diem!

Until I learned to take more responsibility for my own actions, I found myself always second to the men in my life. I was surrounded by male bosses from early on. Both my birth and step-fathers owned and ran companies which put them in the habit of dictating how life should be lived from the moment you woke up in the morning and that ought to be bright and early they insisted! I clearly had something to learn about my own male energy from men in positions of power. Whether in love or in work, the best of men wanted me by their side supporting and respecting them, but they did not necessarily turn around to be supportive and respectful of me. Eventually after much blaming of the men for my heartache and loss of self-esteem, I realized I should look more closely at the philosophical mirror. What did this mirror reflect back about my own male energy? On the positive side, I saw confidence, freedom, and independence. On the negative side, I saw emotional selfishness. So I said to myself, ok it is time for me to take charge of my own male energy, and to quit being so emotionally self-centered. As soon I made this affirmation to myself, miraculously all the men in life from fathers, to bosses, to partners started to be supportive and respectful towards me and they remain so to this day.

Now that I’ve achieved that much, I’m asking myself why I haven’t become a boss IF I have had so many bosses in my immediate mirror? At 42, many of my friends with similar education and experience to myself are in positions of authority. Upon reflection, I realize that the mirror shows you what you are capable of becoming but equally as much shows you what you might want to avoid becoming. I’ve observed that being a boss is not as wonderful as it might seem. Your business becomes like your child and you must mind it constantly. The burdens of overheads, employee reliability, and financial sustainability weigh on business owners and bosses greatly. For many years, I considered running my own creative and intuitive arts center, but then with meditation on the Emperor I realized I could do my own creative and independent work without the burdens. As a tarot reader and teacher for example, I am happy enough renting space for my work in direct correlation to client demand so there is never a pressure of overheads.

So when you draw the Emperor card, examine your own male energy and make an affirmation of how you would like to confidently move forward and behold the emperor in yourself!


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The Empress Calls Us to Embody our Creative Power

11/13/2011

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Law 3 (The Empress/Destiny/All Elements): Know that you embody the creative ability to bring what you desire into being.

The Empress represents an embodiment of creative power as you’ll notice most tarot decks portray her as a pregnant figure settled comfortably amongst verdant fields.  When she appears in a reading, her earthy energies can be indicative of fertility and birth, but also they can call you to express your creativity.  It’s easy for women to know their creative purpose as birthing mothers, but perhaps much harder to define creative roles in other capacities.  Creativity takes many forms and can be expressed in many ways, not just in the creation of babies and the arts.  Creativity is simply defined as the ability to bring something into being.  For example, you may have a creative way of thinking or communicating that helps you and others to bring about a solution to a problem.


The primary block to creativity and the joy it brings is anger as such fiery energy originates from the solar plexus.  Until my thirties, I did not believe I possessed any anger; equally I did not express any great passion towards anything and hardly ever laughed.  Then one day when in the throws of writing a Masters Thesis in International Communications, I hit a mental road block and it so happens I was also experiencing an emotional block with a relationship that was bringing me down.  So, to clear my head, I took a walk near my University and came across these beautiful 14 foot arched windows.  As the room beyond was softly lit, I could see arms gracefully waving about as if magically beckoning me.  As I walked closer I saw a sign that read SynergyDance and as I had been dancing since the age of 5 (though had let academia push it out of my schedule for several years), I was compelled to go in.  In that enchanting place, I immediately signed up for a class and discovered that here I could meld mind, body, heart, and spirit and release all my blockages.

The Empress appeared in my path as the founder and teacher of SynergyDance, Charmaine, an Aries beaming with life-force energy.  She ignited my inner fire with solar-plexus activating movements. The night after my first class, I went home and nearly started a fire when cooking and then soon found myself blazing with a rage at all the wrongs I had witnessed in my path.  SynergyDance helped me to clear an unconscious anger that had been blocked up inside me since my parents divorced when I was one and that had been passively destructive in all of my relationships with men. Soon after, I began to feel the glow of joy to be kindled in my heart.  I vowed to never let dance out of my life again and sought certification to teach this inspiring energizing form of dance.   Twelve years on, I’m still teaching and find myself more joyful and full of laughter and love than ever.  See www.SynergyDance.com for further details.

Tap into your creative spark by placing one hand on your temple and the other on your solar plexus (just between your lowest rib and naval) and visualize a sunny spiral of your energy radiating out in the space around you.  Watch what magically comes into being in your life!




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    Christine Danielle’s intuitive counselling (essentially life coaching via tarot) ability has been validated by on-going client returnees and referrals over her past 14 years in Ireland.  In her practice as an intuitive Tarot/astrology reader and teacher, she has worked for Irish television, RTE (Laura Wood’s Programming) giving astrology briefings and for Ireland ’s KISS magazine doing a monthly astrology column.  Christine Danielle also serves as guest columnist on the Blue Light Lady blog.In the past several months, Dublin City Fm (103.2) Radio has interviewed Christine several times to share her intuitive gifts.
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