MAY THEME: BIRTH YOURSELF ANEW
by Simone Butler

Spring is the season of birth. Even more so this year, with Pluto at the Galactic Center transmitting powerful energies of transformation. Like snakes, we're shedding our old skins to reveal fresh life underneath.

As we approach the "end of time as we know it" in 2012 foretold by the Mayan Calendar, the Earth itself is undergoing an unprecedented death-and-rebirth process. You may be sensing changes in your body-feelings of frustration, heaviness or overwhelm. You're pregnant, full to bursting with something-yet perhaps unsure of what. Rather than fear this feeling, embrace it. You're about to give birth, a process that's intensely pleasurable when you surrender to it. Some women find birthing a baby as ecstatic as sex.

Beltane, the ancient pagan fertility rite of May 1, begins the birthing process, which culminates at the Taurus/Scorpio full moon of May 12 (11:51 pm, PDT). Taurus represents the body and the earth. Its natural polarity, Scorpio, symbolizes sexuality and transformation. Together, they form the axis of magic: Scorpio conjures and Taurus manifests. Whatever area of your chart this full moon triggers shows where something is coming to fruition for you (if you don't know, ask your intuition or contact me for a Quickie reading.)

The energy will build the week leading up to the full moon, so be receptive. You may even want to stay up till midnight on the 12th and howl at the moon! With all the birthing energies afoot, it's synchronistic that this full moon happens on the Mother's Day weekend. This will be a poignant holiday for me, the first since my mother's passing. Last Mother's Day, just before she went into the hospice, my sister and I serenaded her with one of her childhood favorites, "Climb, Climb Up Sunshine Mountain." She clapped along as best she could. It was the last time I saw her smile.

The Mother Goddess is definitely showing her face this month. Jupiter in Scorpio and Uranus in Pisces (powerful planets in feminine water signs) make a harmonious trine to each other, facilitating spiritual guidance and breakthroughs. On May 19, The Da Vinci Code movie premiers. Bookstores are brimming with a new soft-cover edition of the book in anticipation of renewed interest. Director Ron Howard promised he would stick closely to Dan Brown's novel, which tells a story of Mary Magdalen that restores the Sacred Feminine to her rightful place of power.

The Mayan Calendar, a timeline of the evolution of consciousness, marks an outpouring of Sacred Feminine energy on May 27-28. This is the midpoint of the Fourth Night of the Galactic Underworld, a "preview" of what's coming in 2007 with the influx of light on the collective right (feminine, intuitive) brain. At the Fifth Day, a one-year period beginning on Nov. 24, 2006, the Christ-like consciousness of Quetzalcoatl returns, making it much easier to merge with our higher selves. This period corresponds, in earlier days, with the time of Jesus and the Renaissance. Dr. Carl Calleman has called for a Breakthrough Celebration to mark the midpoint on May 27-28.

So, pull yourself out of the doldrums and revel in nature during the sensual season of Spring. Let the Great Mother assist you to birth yourself anew and love yourself deeply. Staying centered in the ecstatic frequencies of the heart is the key to navigating the accelerating evolutionary changes with grace and ease.

© 2006 Simone Butler.

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