Meditations for January/February 2001
by Pythia Peay

AQUARIUS NEW MOON MEDITATION
Astrologers may disagree about whether we have entered the Age of Aquarius. 
But this months' line-up of 5 planets in Aquarius -- Sun, Moon, Neptune, Uranus, 
and Mercury-surely make this the "Month of Aquarius," at least. Uranus, the 
eccentric ruler of Aquarius, jolts rather soothes, stirs up rather than 
pacifies, and electrifies the ethers with a clarion call to AWAKEN! Indeed, 
it was no accident that I helped pen a book entitled "Awakening," under a 
Uranus transit! 

Thus this New Moon is a cosmically ordered moment to shake loose the 
restrictions that limit us from fulfilling our potentials. It is a time to 
awaken from the dull slumber of winter's comfortable hibernation. It is a 
time to set the world on fire, symbolically speaking -- to take risks, rather 
than remain safe. Look to your individual astrological chart to the house 
with Uranus in it, or that is ruled by the sign of Aquarius, to see where the 
trickster god might be hurtling lightning bolts and overturning entrenched 
convictions. With Uranus, it is out with the old -- and in with the new.

CHANNELLING THE LIGHTNING BOLT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL ENERGY

In order to channel Uranus' lightning-like energy in a way that creatively reconfigures, 
rather than negatively destroys, imagine yourself in a place where you have 
felt most stuck. Maybe you are limited by lack of financial resources; 
perhaps you are blocked in love. It might be that you are restricted by a job 
you have outgrown. Or, your creativity might be stifled by doubt, or your 
relationship with a loved one might be at a dead end. Whatever it is, picture 
that situation as a darkened room that you can't see your way out of.

Now, imagine that this room is suddenly illuminated by a flash of 
lightning-crackling with energy, sizzling the airwaves with heat, this bolt 
from the skies lights up every corner and crevice. Suddenly, the narrow 
perspectives that have limited you are revealed.  Another crack of lightning, 
and doors, windows, and archways appear. Through the openings they provide 
you glimpse large rooms filled with beautiful and unusual furniture and art. 
Outside the open windows, endless vistas roll toward distant horizons. 

Catapulted into a visionary landscape teeming with colors, shapes, and 
structures, your mind feels electrified with insight and clarity; you are 
flooded with creative ideas. Your whole body tingles with light; your very 
cells are luminous with awareness. What had been dark, now melts in the glow 
of understanding. New patterns and possibilities that you had never 
considered before emerge into the light of your newly expanded consciousness. 
Brilliant solutions to your problems arise. 

As you sit in this state of awakened intelligence, savor the miracle of 
creation. Receive into your soul the magnetic life force permeating the 
universe. And wake up to your true, limitless nature as a divine creature of 
the infinite cosmos.