Cosmic Weather Forecast

This Harvest Moon, occurring at 16º Pisces, is ideally placed to mediate between the conflicting stellar influences, to open the hearts of all Lightworkers to the ocean of love and compassion known to the Bodhisattvas, and to provide a glowing nocturnal link to the wisdom teachings, inspiration, grace and guidance embodied in Higher Mind, Higher Self and our Spiritual Guides and Teachers.

In the northern hemisphere, the Moon will rise around sunset tonight--and not long after sunset for the next few evenings. Northern farmers who are working long days to harvest their crops before autumn take advantage of this phenomenon, which is what gives the Harvest Moon its name.

In Rome, April 1 was the date of the Festival of Veneralia, dedicated to Venus, goddess of love, death, orchards, waters and sexuality. Women washed a statue or image of Venus in rivers and lakes, adorned her with precious jewels and long robes, then burned incense in honor of the Goddess.

Ask and it shall be made known to you, make a request and it shall be granted to you, open your heart and the chains of ego will fall away. Ask for your freedom and you shall be freed. This is Christ’s Easter promise.

The Holy Spirit is equivalent to the kundalini energy Eastern adepts in the yoga tradition raise within themselves in the process of enlightenment. European Alchemists called this energy Mercury, the Strength of All Strengths.

We are in the twilight of the age of mass industrialization and consumption, of a long spiritual cycle focused on the development of the individual sense of self. The Aquarian age of community is coming soon.

The majority of the American people stand for definite moral values – but not the values of right-wing fundamentalists, Republican globalizers and imperialists.

Now's the time to ask Michael for help! The changes we are experiencing are so powerful that we’ve gone beyond a crisis of confidence in the system, and now face a crisis of faith. Faith in ourselves, faith in humanity’s spiritual evolution and faith in Spirit. The test now is to keep the faith that we have the power to create effective and required changes we know we need but which we don’t know how to implement before our present way of life destroys our hopes for the future.

March is the month most suited to begin a process of healing. For this is the month Archangel Raphael’s presence appears on planet Earth, and Raphael is above all the Archangel of healing. So this full moon is the ideal time to connect with Archangel Raphael and to seek healing.

Many thanks to the Satya Center community for your support since our launch in November 2004. In 2007, astrologers predict that the seeds of future political, economic, religious and cultural transformations of epochal magnitude will be sown.

We all need a break from the Long Emergency. We are in a marathon run, not a sprint. There are no fast fixes to humanity's problems, only long-range solutions will be viable. So let us take the time this Full Moon to be gentle with ourselves and our loved ones.