Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Tips and Tools, tagged cardinal-grand-cross, cardinal-tsquares, free-tools, international-astrology-day, pluto, pluto-transits, saturn, saturn-transits, uranus, uranus-transits on March 7, 2010| 6 Comments »
The 1st International Astrology Day Blog Carnival
The Cardinal T-Square:
Personal Challenges – Practical Solutions
Find out how you and your loved ones may be affected by the T-Square!
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Healing,Energy Work,Conscious Development, Tips and Tools, tagged boundaries, cardinal-grand-cross, cardinal-tsquares, challenging-transits, conscious-development, empowerment, pluto-transits, saturn-square-pluto-transit, saturn-transits, self-healing, self-love, uranus-transits on March 6, 2010| 25 Comments »
Transitional times can be wearying even for those that are well accustomed to transformation through challenge.
As we approach the forthcoming Cardinal Squares and Crosses of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, it is of great importance that we seek to hold our balance and attend our situations as they arise, keeping our lives as streamlined and simple as is possible.
When in periods of change, especially when there is such a large amount of outer planet involvement, much can feel as if it is spinning out of control and this can lead to feelings of despair, anger, resentment and loss of faith and belief.
While transformation due to challenging circumstances is seldom pain free we needn’t go through unnecessary struggle. By practicing conscious awareness and making choices based upon our well-being we can effectively prevent the arising of situations that will only serve to hinder our progression and growth.
For those that are struggling during these times I offer these insights and tips on what has sustained and assisted me through the more difficult periods. (more…)
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Healing,Energy Work,Conscious Development, Tips and Tools, tagged cardinal-grand-cross, empowerment, energy, energy-working, saturn-square-pluto-transit, self-healing, uranus-conj-jupiter-aries, uranus-jupiter-conjunction on February 17, 2010| 6 Comments »
In a previous post: The Concepts of Energy Working, Transmutation and Release Work of Negative Imprints and… I introduced how 
negative messages/energy imprints can function as blockages preventing us from achieving our full potential and success in life.
This is the second installment in a series of articles that I am sharing to assist those that have difficulty taking leaps of faith and accepting opportunities in a timely fashion that could lead them on a path to fulfilling their desires of personal success.
Astrologically we are approaching a time of very dynamic energies that shall offer productive opportunities for those that have the courage to utilize these energies and opportunities in a timely fashion.
These forthcoming transits are of special interest to those with planets/angles in the late mutable and early cardinal signs for they have been intensely impacted by the Saturn square Pluto transit and much of their personal world has been deconstructed in preparation for new growth, expression and function to come forth.
If you have been doing self-work in the area’s related to self-esteem, trust and/or change and have yet to achieve your desired results then what I am presenting here may be what you need to shine some light on issues that you may have not yet seen as possibilities as to why you find it difficult to accept changes with ease.
This article expands upon negative imprints that were received via messages in childhood that can hamper our achieving success in our adult years.
Posted in Healing,Energy Work,Conscious Development, Tips and Tools, tagged energy-working, sensitives on February 6, 2010| 2 Comments »
When in the midst of deep, collective energy clearings the energy of our sanctuaries can become quite gunked up and lack that all-so-fresh 
feeling.
There are many ways to approach space clearing, yet one that I recommend often to others is quite simple and requires no supplies whatsoever.
The secret, as with anything, is in decisive intent.
If your space is gunked up, try this:
Open a window or door.
Put on some music that brings you a lighter, happier feeling.
Envision the discordance that you feel around you as being solid, metallic shards floating within your space.
Dance your way through the rooms of your home and with your arms ‘sweep’ all of that debris towards and out the open window/door.
When you are finished clearing your home, spin any debris that has caught on you, right out of the windows/doors too.
Close the windows/doors and intend that your home now be filled with fresh energy (I like to bring in lemon yellow light and the scent of fresh lemons).
That’s all there is to it and it works quickly and efficiently.
Happy Cleaning! 🙂 ~Kachina Houska
Posted in Tips and Tools, tagged boundaries, conscious-development, energy, energy-working, free-will, information, relationship, saturn-transit-libra, self-healing on January 21, 2010| 1 Comment »
There is a new addition to the Healing and Energy Working section:
With Saturn (responsibility) now transiting Libra (relationships,balance) there are many people now consciously working to improve their relationships and this technique can assist in that area.
If you carry any wounds (shame, guilt, regret etc.) related to the past involvements with an individual, group or ideal, you should also find benefit with this technique.
Best Wishes All! Kachina
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Healing,Energy Work,Conscious Development, Tips and Tools, tagged health-maintenance-transits-astrology, holistic, pluto, pluto-transit-capricorn, saturn, saturn-square-pluto-transit, saturn-transit-libra on January 12, 2010| 2 Comments »
With Saturn square Pluto remaining an influence in our lives through most of this year, we continue to receive stressful energies from this match up that can leave not only our emotional and mental bodies stressed but also our physical body.
When one body of the human system is compromised so are the others to some degree as all three bodies are interrelated.
When we are subjected to longer term frictional transits (those of a square for instance), chronic stressing of the physical body gone unchecked can later lead to dis-ease, sometimes many months or even years after the transit has concluded.
By looking to the physical governorship of the signs and planets within a particular transit we are able to define what area’s of our physical health we should be placing our attention on and practicing preventative care during a frictional transit.
In this post, while I am directly addressing the current square of Saturn in Libra to Pluto in Capricorn, these tips still shall remain of benefit for the entire duration that Saturn and Pluto remain in these signs.
These tips are of special importance for those with natal late mutable/early cardinal placements (as the Saturn/Pluto square places the most focus in these degrees) and also for those with placements in other signs that are/will be receiving a square or oppositional aspect to your natal placement from either Saturn or Pluto during their Libra and Capricorn transits.
Taurus and Leo Ascendants: This is of particular importance to you also as your 6th houses of health are governed by Libra and Capricorn respectively.
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Tips and Tools, tagged empowerment, energy, energy-working, mars, mars-retrograde, mars-retrograde-leo on December 23, 2009| 10 Comments »
Anger.
A subject that in many ways I feel has become almost taboo to speak on in public venues, and even in close circles.
Mention anger in certain company and you will likely find yourself “Loved, Lighted, and Blessed” to a degree you will feel like you’ve been mistaken for the Blessed Mother herself. ((smiles))
I adore the Blessed Mother and yet apparently I have a long way to go to Sainthood for all of that Blessing others have gifted me with to attempt to diffuse my anger at times, well, it just didn’t work.
It has also been recommended to me a million and one times that I just ‘let it go’ and while I agree 100% percent with the letting it go and I strongly advocate Release Work in self-healing, to let something go you first must have some idea of what that something is.
Hence, I’ve had to learn to embrace my anger and listen to that which it was speaking to me to then be able to master and redirect this emotion/energy of anger just as I do with all emotions/energies if I find them manifesting in an undesirable form.
The first step to learning to utilize your anger, or any energy for that matter, is acknowledging that it really does exist.
The second step is not judging the emotion/energy as bad or harmful for it is simply something you are feeling at the moment and does not necessarily identify who you truly are.
No energy or emotion is bad or harmful in and of itself, these energies that comprise the emotional scale are merely tools, and there is nothing to fear in utilizing these tools we were gifted with for navigating our journeys within this human experience.
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We currently live in societies that I feel have made it quite unpopular to express “undesirable” emotions in a healthy manner and we have been encouraged to put a shiny veneer on everything and anything, including ourselves, and to not allow anything deemed ugly in some manner to be displayed for the view of others.
Some might argue that I am incorrect in my statement citing the premise that we view lot’s of emotion daily on news reels, tabloid venues, and reality-based TV shows and yes!, we do see lot’s of something in those arena’s yet in many cases it is not what I would call healthy emotional expression.
Anger, is an emotion, it is not an action.
Anger is an energy and actions come forth from one applying their Will to an energy.
Anger is one of many energies categorized as emotion and energies are neither good nor bad, they just ARE, until they are utilized by one’s Will and directed for manifestation therefore any energy can be utilized in any manner.
Energy-workers understand this quite well and simply term it transmuting energies and the first step in transmuting energies is to first drop the label off an energy and just feel the vibration.
Energies have many different levels of mass and the more compacted the mass, the denser an energy feels to the human system, hence the labels of low and high vibration/energies.
Anger just happens to be a more dense energy and can pack a real punch to someone that is not accustomed to working energies or does not find the intensity appealing, and yet the quantity of energy contained within anger if utilized in the proper manner, can deliver huge results for beneficial purposes.
By acknowledging the presence of one’s anger and by not denying the existence of this energy (which in effect will only repress it and will not make it go away) you can take steps to utilize your anger as the fuel for meaningful purposes and lessen the possibility of your anger having negative ramifications for yourself and/or others.
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Healing,Energy Work,Conscious Development, Tips and Tools, tagged boundaries, empowerment, energy-working, libra, relationship, respect, saturn, saturn-in-libra, self-healing, self-love on December 19, 2009| 9 Comments »
Saturn (boundaries) is now transiting Libra, the sign of relationship, balance and justice, and boundaries in relationship have become the 
hot topic of the season.
Boundaries and relationship go hand-in-hand and you just can’t have one without the other.
As Saturn transiting Libra is a collective influence, unless you plan to become a Hermit, this is an area everyone has to come to terms with these next 2+ years.
As I have stated previously in other articles I do not see boundaries as ever being about the other person.
Boundaries are always personal and solely about you.
When lacking healthy boundaries we are often inclined to acting out the victim archetype and playing the ‘blame game’ for we feel that everything that occurs in their life is the result of an others actions.
There is no happiness, joy, nor self-fulfillment within the state of victim-hood and it is not a pleasant place to be .
Victim-hood is the residence of stress, anxiety and anger.
Victim-hood harbors guilt, shame and self-disappointment within it’s walls.
Yet if you find yourself residing within victim-hood, you can make the choice to step out of those walls, and it really is much easier than you may believe.
I am a firm believer that, “No One or Thing can cause us harm nor control us in any manner unless we allow it to be so”.
This, is where boundaries come in.
When assisting clients in the area of boundary development I often offer a visualization that makes it quite easy to immediately start building boundaries in your life and enforcing them with others, even if you have previously struggled with understanding or utilizing boundaries and are currently feeling dis-empowered your relationships.
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Tips and Tools, tagged mars-retrograde-09, mars-retrograde-leo, retrograde on December 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We are now one week shy of Mars going retrograde, and I have found myself putting my inspiration for any new projects/creations, into 
solid foundations at lightening speed this past week.
How about you? Have you suddenly felt the need to jump start any endeavors, laying the ground work, at a frantic pace?
If you have, you likely have been sensing the forthcoming Mars retrograde, and have been acting on your Astro impulses and are more in-tune then maybe you realized. 🙂
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A brief overview of what Mars retrograde is all about and what you may experience during this roughly 10 week period, while Mars is in retrograde:
Posted in Astrology in Daily Life, Tips and Tools, tagged 12th-house, 7th-house, boundaries, empowerment, libra, neptune, pisces, relationship, saturn, saturn-transit-libra, self-healing, virgo on December 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Saturn is currently transiting Libra, bringing to center stage the issue of boundaries and balance, within relationships.
Some seem to be born with an understanding of what boundaries are, and utilize them with ease, throughout their lives.
Others, myself included, have had to work quite diligently to understand the meaning of boundaries and to utilize them in a manner that is non-projective.
Years past, I attended a Spiritual School of Healing for a time.
It was the philosophy of the founders of this school, that to become an effective conduit for healing for others, one must first heal, thyself.
When I entered this school, one of the issues that was constantly stressed to me during our self-work sessions, was BOUNDARIES.
Quite honestly, back then, I didn’t have any.
The word, meant nothing to me whatsoever, no matter how many times it was defined to me.
Yet others could see, even if I could not, that I was in desperate need of boundaries, and I am thankful for their daily enforcement of the necessity of developing boundaries for myself.
Many wise souls planted seeds with me back then, and while I did not have those seeds sprout until after my attendance period at this school, they did eventually come fully to flower, and I am so very thankful for those that cared enough about me, to badger me ceaselessly, on boundaries.
Setting boundaries really is about you, not, about any other.
I do not perceive boundaries as “walls or shields”, as I believe is quite a common perception in the collective.
If you truly have strong boundaries, and maintain them, there is never a need to deflect or prevent an energy of any nature from entering your space, nor is there a need to concern yourself with how another is utilizing their personal energy.
Boundaries are, a clean and concise definition, of your personal space.
They allow you to set within your energy patterns, what comes in, what goes out, and how you wish to utilize or bypass any energy incoming, regardless of if you should label it as “negative or positive, high or low”.
It simply does not matter, for you yourself, through boundaries, determine the qualities of any energy within your space.
Keep your space tidy, and do not trespass the personal space of an other, and you shall master boundaries amazingly fast!
Following is an article I wrote a while ago, and I feel it is in context to developing and maintaining boundaries, and is an issue that tends to be overlooked, when doing depth work in the boundaries arena, for oneself.
If you are interested in developing better boundaries in your life, this article may be helpful to you, as there are many subjects that are not always easily identified as being directly connected to the area of boundaries, and I feel this is one of them.
If you have a lot of challenging aspects in your chart concerning relationships with others, or, if you are loaded up on Pisces, 12th house, or Neptune aspects, you too, should find this article of benefit. Service-oriented Virgo, this also could serve you.
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