Dear wonderful souls,
Here’s a two-parter for you this month.

Headline 1: Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron Go Retro

Some comments about the Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron stellium in late Aquarius now in retrograde (read my thoughts on what the stellium asks of us here: http://www.thecosmicpath.com/2009/05/25/evolutionary-astrology):

Retros are for revisiting something. Taking a new look, getting inside our regular thinking about it to see the issue in new ways. Our thinking on an issue/part of life is turned inside out, and we have the opportunity to see into things in spectacular new ways and, usually, grasp new resolutions to persistent bruises, blocks and knots.

Given what exciting Aquarian thing you’ve been asked to do by this stellium, your willingness to take the intuitive+faith+healing leap is now up for review. If you leapt, the retro’s good for checking your opening stance and motivation. This can be a course correction just after you launch into the new thing or way of being. It’s good to re-evaluate everything at one time or another, even the best things we can do for ourselves. I encourage you to take more risks by continuing to trust yourself and on deeper levels.

If you didn’t leap, the retro will be for uncovering the reasons behind the reasons you gave yourself that you didn’t. No judgment here on this. At any given time, each of us does the best with what resources and understanding he or she has in that moment. Catch any inner voice of self-criticism and hear it, but know that it’s not the real you. The real you is at all times loving.

Whatever the reason you didn’t jump, you weren’t ready, and it’s perfect. Often we measure ourselves against some kind of yardstick of progress, forgetting that the human journey is about exploring the fact that we have choice. Not even just making choices, but having the freedom to make choices that might not be right/fair/healthy for us and learning as a result about the multitudinous wonderment of possibilities life offers.

Why don’t you trust? In whom do you lack faith? How much faith do you have in yourself? How comfortable are you trusting your intuition? How comfortable are you trusting your emotional side? What would you have to give up if you leapt into more self-trust? Is it something you really want to keep around? Does this thing you think you’d lose really serving you on any level? Do you understand that you can be emotionally and energetically free from your old constraints? Do you understand that your past methods of and motivations for self-definition are outmoded? How long will you choose to remain outside the inside of yourself?

Life is an experiment. Give yourself the freedom to make whatever choice feels right to you in any given moment, and understand as you go why you choose what you choose (this is how we learn, not by slapping ourselves on the wrist). Make the commitment to reach into you for more self-love, to figure out what that looks like and means, and hold the intention to continuously deepen your trust in yourself. These planets’ retros over the next few months can give you some room to be good to yourself in the form of more self-understanding, more self-acceptance, and more grounding into yourself given who you really are once you choose to see behind the what you’ve thought or been told you are.

Headline 2: History, Let’s You And Me Call It Quits
My work to bring through tools and strategies to adjust to the current energetic shifts taking place on Earth (that culminate in the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar) continues. This past week, I spent a good deal of time exploring deeper ways of understanding karmic astrology in terms of 5th-dimensional reality (4D is where we relate to ourselves and others in terms of space-time; 5D is a level of connectedness to all of creation & our Higher Selves that understands and can work within but is not dependent upon time). This level of consciousness is what awaits those of us willing to adjust the what’s up on planet Earth at present – the entire Earth and all its inhabitants are poised to choose to make this shift in consciousness…or remain where they are.

Some karmic/evolutionary astrologers will fashion a story about your past lives, given certain symbols in your chart. I have done this extensively, to bring to life for a client the energy dynamics present in his or her past lives, what he or she is currently trying to resolve. For many clients, it provides a context for their current attitudes, beliefs and choices, and makes obvious new choices they usually hadn’t thought of before but that can make all the difference in changing deeply-embedded belief structures, which are after all what karma is.

What came through this week has to do with how to understand from the 5D perspective that everything’s happening all at once. Each life you’ve ever had is happening right now. This will alter how I work with clients, especially how I talk about past lives. Past lives are only possible if you (choose to) live in 4D, yet my commitment is to help as many people who want to shift into 5D do so…provided they decide to locate me and my phone number.

The truth is that soul healing in any life is healing for the soul in all lives.

Being in the 5D space so intensely with my Guide and being shown this, I admit that the socks on parts of me were blown clear off. Like, maybe a couple of them only went as far as Australia – clean off, people, I mean it. Like, parts of me are still sitting here, days later, totally and utterly sockless.

I was shown how each incarnation is an eruption of the soul into 4D, yet the eternal nature of the soul, which exists beyond 4D (outside time and our incarnatedness), has the soul receiving input from all incarnations simultaneously. I’m sure you’ll hear more on this from me in time, but this much shared here for context about our tendency to identify with our histories.

The Good News
I’m happy to report that we’re all headed for 5D awareness…if we choose it. The shifts happening now and those that will mark the end of the Mayan Calendar are to take us from 4D, where we’re part and parcel of space-time, into 5D, which can observe space-time but is connected to the Higher Self in a way not possible in 4D, and which makes time in a way irrelevant. Or makes it a tool instead of the thing that defines us.

What I’m getting at is that if you’re going to live in 5D, you have to let go of history. You are no longer served by identifying as the sum of your experiences. You are no longer served by holding on to the events of your life as indicative of who you are.

In other words, you have to break up with your history.

Make peace with it – thank it for all it’s given you (identity, security and the like), and then say goodbye by making the commitment to raise above the limiting conceptions of self that are all the 4D-historical mode can offer you. Make the commitment to rediscover yourself as Divine Love having a human experience, and choose to remember every day who it is that you really are. “Look, 4D,” you can say, “there’s nothing wrong with either of us. It’s just that we’re headed in different directions. Staying together no longer serves either of us.” And when 4D begins weeping and says something dramatic meant to entrap you in just one more go around, you say, “Hey, it’ll be hard for me, too, but each of us just has to move on. It’s time.” If it’s any consolation, you’ll still be friends (you’ll still be embodied and moving around through space-time); you’re just ready to experience more than it can offer.

Once that commitment is made, you will find it easier to uncover the patterns in your life that you use to keep you where you are, as well as the beliefs behind them. You’ll need to process the emotions you’re carrying from your history, and this can be quite a job. But, as I tell my students, moving into multidimensionality requires a willingness to feel all we can feel. And this means not just having our emotive function online, but also working through all the emotions we at different points in our lives stuffed inside ourselves because they seemed too much to deal with, or when we felt alone and had no support to deal with difficult or traumatic events in our lives.

All of it needs to come up to be worked with. I think of it as coming back to life, as we’re in some ways deadened by having stuffed pain and suffering deep down into ourselves. Many do it until that part of them gets so crowded, so dense, that no one in there has any room to move. It can get so dense in our hearts that they go offline or shut down, unsure how to process what’s there or deal with new input. Living in the present tense, however, requires true self-knowledge, and this includes everything we’re carrying around inside us we haven’t yet learned to process and release.

Moving into 5D is a shift in consciousness, and it’s not – I suppose – easy. It’s simple, but maybe not so easy. Among other things, we have to learn to see our lives through our spiritual eyes. This involves taking responsibility for everything that’s happened to us, especially the most horrific things we’d rather think someone else did to us. All experience is useful for the soul’s journey. All of it serves your soul mission, which is to learn to live in 4D incarnated in one of these neato bodies and bounce off of tons of other souls on the same adventure…all just to learn about what it is to do so.

The next step for human evolution is to transcend our relationship with history, both personal and collective, and time. The Aquarian Age, to which we’re so close I pretend that I’m living in it now, is the Age of a major upgrade of consciousness. Feeling the call to upgrade from 4D to 5D, and engage in all the responsibility-taking, processing, releasing, and self-loving doing so entails? Accept that the old ways of defining yourself are no longer adequate. Understand that you’re more than the sum of your history.

And yet to some of us it might not make sense to just all of a sudden drop history, our identity, our ties to those from whom we come, etc. But the deal is not about cutting those ties. It’s about reaching into yourself to find and connect with the divinity you carry. It’s about understanding yourself as part of the universal whole first, as created from and part of Divine Love, and those other ties and relationships as necessary features of the experiment you’re engaged in as you live out your time in your wonderful human form, bumping into the rest of us with exciting (and varied) results.

Moving into higher states of consciousness is a process, and takes intentional, methodical work. There are guides along the way who can show you how to create your particular resolution to your relationship with history. Reach out to them when you’re ready to make peace and make a break with self-limiting conceptions of yourself that have you believe you add up to the sum of your experiences, when you’re ready to move into greater, deeper, richer knowledge and experience of your true nature.

To support you in beginning or continuing your trek into this new level of multidimensionality, until the end of July I will continue my offer to Cosmic Path readers of a 15% discount on private consultations. Just mention the Cosmic Path when you book your consultation.

In love,
Tom Jacobs
Evolutionary Astrologer & Psychic Medium
http://www.tdjacobs.com
(213) 925-6019