Greetings beautiful souls,
“The human heart is the first home of democracy”, said Terry Tempest Williams. And our hearts are being broken daily by the stream of unjust, illegal, cruel policies from this Administration. It is a time of American reckoning which shakes us to the core. How do we go on? And what is our place in this terrible testing time of initiation? We grieve. We resist. We create. We love. We gather together for strength.
We are in a mythic time, with mythic characters on the national and world stage destroying and dissembling in a dizzying, heartbreaking way. On mainstream media, there is photo of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a tight white jersey top, sporting a $60,000 watch, in front of a notorious El Salvadorian prison. Behind her, a cage of bare-chested heavily tattooed male prisoners who were illegally rounded up and deported from the US for alleged (unproven) gang affiliation. It is obscene. Pornographic. The juxtaposition of a beautiful, manicured woman in power controlling the fate of these half-naked men like a sadistic dominatrix. Themes of this Administration are played out as in a movie. She is a favorite character who often wears costumes to immigration raids, to mass deportations. A Border patrol uniform. A bulletproof vest. A cowboy hat at the Texas border. Her hair and makeup are always immaculate. As an example of a “tough girl”, a dominant female, part of her appeal to trump was probably that she shot her puppy who wasn’t a proper hunter. She is, of course, 100% “loyal’ to trump. Trump embodies to an extreme almost cartoonish degree the shadow of USA history. He with his team of cruel and corrupt have a purpose deeper than the visible flood of destruction: To wake us up and to call us to action for a more beautiful and loving world.
The mythic themes of violence and brutality, total ruthlessness, hatred of women and minorities, and extreme financial wealth are the shadow values being imposed on us. Shown to us, by a master showman and conman. Unfortunately, this is not a movie. Not theater. And not a video game. These are real people. We need to help where we can and continue to witness and speak up as we can. This is a story, a very American story, to a caricaturist degree. In the exaltation of cruelty and injustice, we are being shown the shadow of American history. The shadow of old patriarchal beliefs about power. A deep hatred and fear of feminine power, of empathy and compassion as “weak”. We must strongly resist. Alongside our resistance and refusal to deny what we know to be true, we need to grow the stories that are life-giving. For ourselves, our children, our communities, and this beautiful planet.
March 29 was a solar eclipse in Aries, followed by Neptune’s ingress into Aries for the first time in 165 years. At the beginning of the American Civil War. Are we at that point again? The Sabian symbol for Neptune at one degree Aries is: Individuation. A woman just risen from the sea. A seal is embracing her. It is a precarious time for our democracy. The country is extremely divided, as it was then. But now we have the energies of the emergence of Feminine power, the woman rising from the sea to be embraced by a seal. This is the myth of Sedna, betrayed and grievously wounded by her father, thrown into the sea to drown, whi becomes a Goddess of the deep, creating all life. It is the story of the Selkie woman, Seal Woman, who is reclaiming her skin. It is you, in your daily life, doing what you can to keep your heart open, to witness, to help, and to insist on a better story for yourself and this country. Ancient indigenous prophecies and evolutionary astrology can ground and guide us in new ways. To new stories.
We can bring the medicine, magic and mythmaking of Feminine power to map a new future. We are at a massive crossroads. We need a new mythology, a new planetary cosmology. As storyteller Martin Shaw says: The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking.”
This is a time of great endings. It is also a time fortunate for great beginnings, new adventures, and new chapters. We are being called to an expanded, more spiritual and multidimensional experience of what it means to be human. To becoming homo luminous. Rebirthing our highest spiritual selves (Neptune) with the fiery confidence of Aries (who was originally a protector of the land and of women). Life is starting over. There are new opportunities for a reconciliation of the sacred Masculine with the sacred Feminine, both within our personal psyches and in the outer world.
There’s no way we can’t create stories, which are the things that really feed our bones. Stories bring in what is at the edge of our vision and not right at the center…A mythological move is to be aware of all the hundred trembling secrets at the edge of your vision. Because they are the things that want to secrete their intelligence into you about the problem that is right in front of you.” – Martin Shaw
As Rebecca Solnit said in a recent interview: “They [trump-musk regime] are on a campaign of organized forgetting.” Don’t forget what you know. what you can see with your own eyes. We are chin deep in a revolution. A shift in our understanding of what it means to be human, as we witness so many ugly, harsh examples of what being human is not. Take good care of yourself. Go to Nature, to what and who you love.
Below are two meditations for this portal time, opening a very long new chapter in all our lives.
LISTEN TO PLUTO IN AQUARIUS 4 DEGREES
LISTEN TO PIECES 30 DEGREES INTRO
For individual consultations or a consultation package to gain clarity on how your story is changing, and how your dreams are showing you the path forward, please contact me at drmsteele@gmail.com. You can also join a Dream Circle in April. Fridays at 10:30 am Pacific.
DREAMING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD:MAPPING A-MOTHERWORD
The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows up out of you like the green seed from the dark earth. CG Jung, The Red Book
Let’s gather as Dreamers. Dreaming into being a new mythology for a regenerative culture. An initiation culture, healing the trauma culture of our history. Bring your nightmares. They can be alchemized. We will write. We will share our dreams. We will do drawing or painting of these dreams if we are called to. If it seems fun. We will help each other ground and birth our beautiful visions for a world in which it is easier to love. The power of our imagination, our creativity, the power of our hearts, is the power to make and remake worlds. It is a true power not built on the shaky legs of fear and insecurity and hate.
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, and patience, and passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
We are the Dreamweavers. We are mythmakers. We are dreaming new maps of the world from the compass of our hearts. It is time to make those dreams real.
April Dream Circles begin in the West, from the direction of water, the sea. It is the land of darkness, the land of the Dreamtime where form is created out of chaos.
This is an Aries, world point, ignition point to reconsider the old story. Power up new regenerative, humanitarian stories. Connect to your inner shaman. One of the most direct ways to do that is through your dreaming. By paying attention to intuition, synchronicities, symbols in your everyday life. The world is speaking to you at every moment.
DREAM CIRCLES are held APRIL 4, 11, 18, 25, 2025. The month of 4 in April is $177. Zoom link will be sent after registration.
There’s a secret name inside you
That belongs to the stars
Wind, trees, waves, soul
Take what is yours and live it.
– Veronica Goodchild, Songlines for the Soul
