The Gutsy Big Question!

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Putting aside any pretenses and half-truths, what do you hear inside your heart of hearts when you ask yourself, "Am I happy with my life? Am I living the life that I dreamed I could live?"

Get as real and honest as you can, no beating around the bush. Spill it out - is your life passing you by? 


Do you wake up with a great eagerness and passion for the coming day? Or are you chewing on the same old bone of ho-hum and blindly hoping for something magically to come along and make it all different? 

The Moon is in Scorpio at the Solstice. She is strong, relentless, and unconditionally loving at the dawn of the growing light. Bottom line, this New Year of Light and Love is emotionally aligned with getting gutsy about who you are. 

Copyrighted 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved.

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Winter Solstice and Your Song’s Dance With the Stars

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As Winter Solstice of 2011 approaches, the nights continue to grow longer, until the deepest night arrives on December 22. The sweet darkening sings to us to gently turn our attention inward into the beautiful star-filled stillness within. 

We live in a culture that has forgotten what it means to be truly Human. We tend forget to feel the heart and wholeness of who and what we are. Here lies the root of the loneliness of Spirit that plagues western society.

As very small children, we knew and lived our true identities. There was innocence and great curiosity. We played and created in the Now.

In Ka Ta See, we refer to the vibrant sensation of our own unique eternal Self as our “Song.” According to Peruvian shamans, Domano and Chea Hetaka, our Songs are as old as Creator - extraordinarily capable, and intelligent, spilling over with unconditional love.

During the timeless Solstice nights, we are invited to remember how intensely alive, potent, and safe our Songs naturally feel. Worthy of great respect, it is time to take our place is among the stars.

Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved. 

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Stuck in Remote Control - Saturn in Virgo

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When looking into the Sky now, Saturn is completing its transit through the constellation of the Virgin, also often referred to as 
Virgo. This alignment speaks to calling humanity out of its asleepness.


So often we humans tend to run about throughout our days stuck inside our minds. We get so consumed with thoughts that have nothing to with our aliveness or with our love for life. 

Instead we become entrapped in the extra-busy machinery of routine and “head-tripping,” walking through our schedules and tasks in a stupor of asleepness. In doing so, we remain separate from our center and power, forgetful of the exquisite feeling of who we really are, and removed from the beautiful and easeful flow of life.

When we are in “disconnect,” we do not really feel the clear feelings of our Essence, like the joy, wonder, or stillness that can fill our hearts and spill over into the world around us. We are isolated in our own little boxes when we have become cut off from our pure wondrous beingness and from the hearts of others. This is being numbed out. 

In “disconnect” there also is no way we can see and consider other beings. They become lost in the background of our inner static. We are not able to relate authentically with anyone or anything. 

If you are operating in “remote control,” you are no longer allowing your true Self to experience the love that it is in and around you. You do not have to live this way. You can chose differently.

Copyright 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved.

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Being the Real You in Relationships: Beautifully Refreshing, Real, and Safe

With the Sun moving through the constellation of Virgo and with Venus conjoining Saturn (western sidereal calculations), this is a great time to observe when we are making ourselves uptight or uncertain when around others. 


Most of us who were brought up in the power-over oriented western culture, which now spans much of the world, often carry about a big old unnerving fear about personal safety around other humans. The fear easily can get triggered in any social encounter. So often we try to pretend its not there because we think we might appear more ridiculous if we admitted it.

The fear for our well-being may grab us just prior to a job interview or before a review by a supervisor. Or maybe it will create a pit in our stomach when we think that we’re “running behind schedule,” as if some almighty judge was about to look down at us with condemning eyes and punish us for being late or for not having everything done on time. 


While the fear in some way served us in the past, it may no longer be serving our best interests anymore. It certainly is creating stress. 

From a very early age, we were taught by authority figures that we must live up to a picture of who or what others think we should be. They held up expectations of how we should think, feel, and act so that we can fit into the world they think is safe and normal. 


If we do not become who they believe we should be, we often were punished, humiliated, for criticized, or shunned. If we went along with their pictures, we got the praise and the smile and stamp of approval. 

The Sun and Saturn in our birth charts speak to being in our own driver’s seat when it comes to running our lives and interacting with others. Our Essences are our inner authorities, just as a wolf, elephant, or tiger take charge of their own daily agendas with confidence and keen awareness. They are alive, untamed, unregulated, and definitely not bored. 

Inside our true Selves, we know what really nourishes us. We have profound inner guidance to rely upon. Our Spirits are brimming over with unconditional love and kindness. We each have a purpose and we come alive when being purposeful in ways that are keeping with who we really are. 

By turning within and checking in with our hearts, senses, and unique intelligence, we readily choose how to respond to life and others from a place of honesty, which is so beautifully refreshing and real. No pretenses. This is our birthright and it makes us feel authentic and safe in relationship. 

Copyrighted 2011 by Ken Robinson. All rights reserved. 

To further awaken your awareness about your path and gifts, contact Ken for a shamanic astrology reading or a Ka Ta See Bone Throw, a profound and delicate ancient divination Ceremony of Calling The Spirits. He can be reached at ken@eraoftheheart.com 

A World without Judgement

Imagine a world without judgement. No fears of being criticized, blamed, ostracized, or damned. No better thans or less thans. No killing of inspiration and tenderness. No one being more or less significant than another. 

A world of unconditional love. Everything and everyone considered as equals. Endless appreciation of the uniqueness and wondrousness in each life form. There would be no taking, but instead continuos giving and receiving. 

This is living from the heart, a balance within and with each other. This is the world of the indigenous people of Peru who lived and protected the ancient shamanic knowledge of Ka Ta See. They are a thriving people who have kept clear of the ways of judgment. 

Instead they live the sacred ways of total acceptance. These ways breed a freedom that invite each tribal member to be all of who she or he is and to explore life without the worries of being rejected or oppressed. 

As Uranus squares Pluto in the Sky, we are called to identify and easefully release any forms of condemning and criticizing whether it be judging ourselves, situations, or others. When you catch a judgement arise in your thoughts or feelings, thank it for showing you that it was there and let it go it into the Earth. She will take it and recycle it into something that helps life along. 

Stay with the process and allow all the damning to leave you and your body. As it leaves allow yourself to fill up with the breath and lightness of your Song, your Spirit's signature of aliveness, and enjoy the wonder of experiencing fresh perspectives. 

Ken offers services in Ka Ta See, including Bone Throws, Counseling, Teaching, and Energy Healings. He also offers shamanic astrology readings. Session rates are $90/hr. Please inquire if you need a sliding fee scale, wish I am happy to offer in the range of $40 to the regular hourly rate.

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Prayer - Two Way Communication - Mercury Retrograde

Mercury retrograde is an opportunity to explore the feeling and content of your prayers. It is a time to turn inward to observe the power of your thoughts and feelings and how they are the basis for manifesting your present realities. Your thoughts and feelings are essentially your conversations with the Great Mystery, with Life Itself.

What you think, image, and feel into is what the universe understands as your intent to create, and it responds accordingly, with great precision. Life will help you build whatever you are focusing upon because it listens to your inner world.

As Mercury moves toward a powerful angular relationship with Neptune, relax into your heart and let yourself dream what it is that your Essence, your Song, really wants to create. And then reach out to the Source or Creator or however you prefer to call the Presence that Permeates all things, and talk informally, intimately, and with genuineness with this Presence.

This feeling connection opens the doorway of communication that moves beyond words and worlds. This communication is two way, so listen and feel and allow there to be a flow between you two. When your prayers come from the heart, they bring love, healing, perspective, and gratitude. The prayers shift something in You and Life notices.

Allow things to unfold and learn to trust the process. Life has so much to offer!

From Shoulds to Heartfelt Desires

"Identify, honor, and drop the 'shoulds,' and instead, acknowledge your deeper desires and engage in them. Your personal heartfelt desires are your doorways to your joy and they reflect your true Essence.They are the substance of how your Self guides you. They lead to abundance in all aspects of your life."

This is one of the key messages that I hear in the Planetary Sky at this time. Humanity has long been indoctrinated to live a life of shoulds. I should do this. I should do that. Should, should, should. Try catching how many times and ways you find yourself silently thinking a should. Have fun with the introspection. No need to get heavy about it. Shoulds are yokes of oppression that are rooted in millennium-old ways of thinking.

We tend to believe that shoulds are keeping us safe and making us 'good' people. In reality, the shoulds weigh us down, adding unbearable heaviness upon our shoulders and hearts. Shoulds are the basis for anxiety, because if we do not live up to them, we believe and fear that something 'bad' will happen. So, gently and with lots of unconditional love, let the shoulds know that they do not need to protect you any longer. Let them drift off your back. If they really want to stay, give them a new job description where they can help you identify, embrace, and live the desires that make your heart sing and expand. It's your life!

Your astrology chart reveals passions and desires with which you have come into the world. It would be a pleasure to offer you a reading that helps you see the gifts of who you are. Let me know if you read this article on my blog and you will receive a 10% discount.

You can contact me at ken@eraoftheheart.com.

Until then, happy travels within,
Ken

Transforming Your Self into Who Your Heart Knows You Are

The Sun is a symbol of our Unique Wondrous Eternal Spirits. It is now moving into a position in the zodiac where it makes a great geometric square-like shape in the Sky with Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus. This configuration is a Diamond Floating in the Above, a time for personal and collective realization and shifting. What does this signal and mean? 

Just as I was pondering what to write in this forecast, an elegant black and yellow Butterfly floated in through the open front door of my home here in Santa Fe. It fluttered about and settled on a window high above my reach in the kitchen. There was a stillness in the air.

In response to its gentle and unexpected entry, my first thoughts were concerned with how I might tenderly help the Butterfly on its way back out the door, back again into the garden of flowers. There it could dance in the light of the Sun and feast among the nectars of the life-giving plants. 

As I quietly watched, it slowly opened and closed its delicate wings, and a feeling came to heart - it had come with a purpose. As I tuned in further to its presence, I understood that it had journeyed into the casita in order to speak about this time in Humanity's transformation. It was a messenger.

Spirits and Nature Beings convey information intelligently through non-linear and symbolic means. They emanate this knowledge from their own Essences through an internal radar-like broadcast of subtle energy. We can pick up the extrasensory communication with our own internal subtle or Spirit senses, which translate the information into something understandable to us. 

This unconventional form of communication is the old ancient way of interacting intimately with these amazing beings of Nature and the unseen worlds. We did this as young children, but we often forget that we did. We can learn to remember this natural gift.

The Butterfly talks of the personal transformation that is available to us. We no longer need to constrict ourselves in our old suffocating cocoons of habit. In the wake of the summer solstice of June 21, we are being reminded to identify with who we really are as beautiful and gentle Beings who can flourish on the Earth together. 

The Butterfly speaks to releasing false beliefs, fears, pains, and habits that make us squelch our fun, joy, and inner guidance. This is a rich and enlightening movement into the wholeness of our individual Spirits. It is learning how to embody our Essences just as the Butterfly freely embodies and shares its Essence. 

Personal transformation feeds our well-being because we are aligning ourselves with who our hearts know us to really be. Our emotions and physical bodies like this and in turn, we feel stronger and clearer. As the Sun and planets make their Diamond in the Above, Butterfly brings the message home: "It is safe and beautiful to feel and be the Genuine You." 

Copyrighted in 2011 by Ken Robinson. 

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Romantic Relationships - Finding the Dance of Love

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How many love relationships have you witnessed that thrive in ease, delight, and joy? Way to few, eh!

It's not just a fantasy to want to to live in that in-love feeling all of the time, it's just often approached unrealistically. Saturn being strong in its stand-out position in the sky, this is a good time to get real with ourselves about what we bring to the dance of love.

Across from Saturn in the zodiac, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus are clustered together. Jupiter and Mercury are sandwiched in between the male and female planets of Mars and Venus. They are the planets of knowledge and communication and are the clues to creating a nice dance in relationship, whatever gender preferences you have.

When it comes to our connections with others, the Spirits say that we need to be intimate friends with our Selves first and this sets the solid ground for being friends with another. Romance goes nowhere but into a dark hole when we are do not know and like ourselves from top to bottom. True love and lovemaking is a top to the bottom kind of thing. Every cell in our body wants to talk to us about who we are.

In Ka Ta See, we come to know our true identity by the unique vibratory feeling sensation of our aliveness. This wondrous feeling is who we really are, and by our very own natures, with no exceptions, we are content, kind, curious, sensual, and eager. Our bodies thrive in this sensation. This knowledge and encouragement from the Spirits might stir your passion to become totally aware and accepting of your Real Self. You can't lose with the Real You. It's just too much fun!

With Self in tact, then the touching of another comes into play. What a dynamo you are then! In your exquisite wholeness, without fear chasing your back, you avoid the holes and pitfalls of most relationships which tend to spiral down due to nagging criticisms, letdowns, and big tensions. If stress is a problem, try visiting my other blog at http://eraoftheheart.blogspot.com/ for some more inspiration.

Do yourself a big favor, because you deserve it - enjoy You. Find the childhood kid you left behind, who knew how to play for hours on end. And dance your way into the romance of life. Love in relationships are sure to follow!

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Saturn and Finding your Center - April 30, 2011

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Up in the sky above us, Saturn is a stand out. It is transiting on one side of the zodiac while almost all of the other planets are transiting on the other side. It's time for you to take your stand, to search for the solid ground inside your heart and body and become centered like a great old oak tree.

To do this means turning your attention to your Song - the easeful and unique feeling that resonates inside your core. Open your arms to embrace life and let life bring you the gifts and people it wants to bring to you.

Find your deep roots in your own authority, as the decision maker of your life, in all aspects of your journey on the planet. No excuses. No blaming. No looking to others to have the answers for you. 


Go for it now! Why wait to let life pass you by? The clock is ticking. What are you waiting for? The genie in a bottle to appear?  


Whatever mess you are experiencing has a purpose, even if it feels like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. It's not an accident that you are in what your are in.  When you hang on to the old, the old keeps getting heavier and it teaches you in this way, helps you let go so that you can see the new possibilities.  What a nice opportunity! 


It might help to talk to some friends or practitioners about the situations and the feelings your are having. Listen to their sense of things, but let go of the temptation to give the power away to them. Being grateful for their help is balancing, but claim the awakening in your Self. 


Being real brings everything in your world into vivid clarity because the illusions disperse when you do so. Then the magic happens because you choose life over pretense. You are the powerful genie you are waiting for!