Sedona and The Blast Conference

Some of the most creative minds in astrology are meeting this week for the Blast Conference in Sedona, Arizona. When I see all the brilliant thinkers that will be there, and imagine being in that red rock landscape, I wonder, "Why am I here and not there!" It's not to be this year, but I'll make it to the next one. Sedona is one of the few places that I feel a calling to visit, and haven't been yet. It's known as the spiritual Mecca of the West with an undeniable energy that attracts seekers from all over the world. The four main vortexes of energy swirls around in your chakras, something that people say lasts for days. An astrology conference with this caliber of speakers, in a power spot on the Earth sounds like heaven to me.

Jessica Murray, who I consider an astrology mentor, will be attending the Blast Conference this week. She's given me permission to post an excerpt of her presentation that deals with fear in the collective. When you start to really see fear itself, it's havoc as Public Enemy #1 becomes more clear. Jessica relates the fear of "the other" as a product of reactive Saturn, the one that believes in the illusion of separation.

In polarized America, it feels freeing to be a trans-partisan (my new affiliation), because it allows you to just call it like you see it. Murray's work is alive with provocation because it looks at the nation's soul sickness in astrological terms, which seeks the higher spiritual lessons. Sometimes the probing of the shadow, is misread as yet another voice from one of the sides (in this case, the Left). Writes Jessica, My intention is to get people to leave the narrow assumptions of "politics" behind and just listen to the truths about the state of the planet: to wake up to what they don't hear on TV about the greater world. We have an opportunity now, to bust out of the matrix of how we frame what's happening in the world. And to draw on what's being directly perceived through experience, a gift of Pluto's journey through Sagittarius. It could potentially empower citizens to reclaim what's brushed off as "politics," as the very important work of engaging in what's happening in our world. It's an attempt to liberate perspective itself from these restricting boxes in American discourse. Jessica writes, It may be a blessing in disguise for those of us who want people to listen with their hearts instead of their minds. The challenge to avoid the trap of being pegged as a member of one team or another forces one to appeal to the biggest possible viewpoint: the spiritual.