Thank you so much for this. I have a new passion for astrology as I recognize the significance it plays in our lives. The eclipse season of December/January of 2018-19 initiated my spiritual awakening as I finally faced my issues with abandonment and my need for acceptance and validation. It began my ability to heal my mother wounds. I fully believe that this July 2019 eclipse season is bringing that full circle. My mother passed away when I was 6 from addiction. My father remarried a very abusive woman, who a month ago, has decided to leave my father and our family. 35 years of walking on eggshells and a significant amount of anxiety is coming to a resolution of peace. The Saturn and Pluto placements will make for an interesting next 6 months. As a therapist/counselor, astrology has also significantly improved my intuition, empathy, and compassion.
Adam I love this message so much. What began in the fall with a total stripping of my compartmentalism in love led me to being drawn towards learning of/finding my heart’s true yearnings for utter devotion to the other through the loving guidance of Parvati. I realized my desired path to god in the weeks following mahashivrathri (when mercury went retrograde in my 12th house), after which I then began to understand the familial trauma that had programmed a feeling of unworthiness and fear that had prevented feeling safe in the strength of my love and devotion. As my ego was dissolving and Chiron inched towards my 6 degrees Aries Ascendant, I fell into the deepest depression of my life. Watching as so many of the relationships and role identities I held dissolved into an utter chaos, by mid April (2 weeks after my solar return) the threats of letting go of control brought me to my knees and into fantasies of suicide by stabbing myself in the heart. Feeling pulled to move only from my space of love and joy I was forced to soften my way with myself and those around me and embrace deeper compassion. I have realized the familial framework from which I have been functioning for my 39 years must be abandoned in order to reach the dreams I hold for this life. I am working to build support in the knowingness of goodness and developing a deeper trust in a more gentle peaceful supporting World.🙏 Thank you so much for bringing resonance to my soul’s experience and words to a journey I have felt shaking all that I am in order to evolve to the space my soul yearns to fearlessly embrace.
Thank you Adam for your encouraging words towards women in astrology. I have been studying astrology fro 20 years on my own and I have been hesitant to share my personal p.o.v on it because I haven't been classically trained and listening to this has made me feel more empowered about coming forward with my knowledge. Namaste.
I totally Love this video. I am recently subscribed to your channel and I am feeling very blessed to have found you. You also are quite advanced. Thank you for another great video. Blessings...hope you pass that stone soon.
Adam, you’re the most poetic and metaphorical of astrologers that I’m aware of. And this language speaks to me. Imagination, poetry, metaphor and symbolism gently guides conclusion; unpatronising. Wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you. I would suggest it isn’t gender or hormonal but rather, energetic. The Sacred Marriage (alchemical Heiros Gamos) consists of healing and uniting the Divine Masculine Conscious (outer-directed/object oriented left-brain) and Divine Feminine unconscious (inner-directed/subject oriented right-brain) aspects of ourselves, what Jung described as “Two Kinds of Thinking”. I.e., uniting the head and heart. A fundamental tenet of alchemy is, As Above, so Below; as Within, so Without). I normally wouldn’t do this but you asked for comments. And this is something I am vitally passionate about and so wanted to share.
Beautifully integrated. Yes, the messages are very profound whereas the feminine and masculine energies are becoming much more well balance, bringing forth enlightenment, peace and unconditional love within our Universe's humanity. I am grateful 🙏 for the awakening we are all capable of allowing, honoring our highest state of being as well as accepting this offering of expansion. It's like receiving the olive branch, or the bridge to the 🌈 Thank you for your divinity🙏
Thank you Adam, for permission to focus on cultivating love through mystical experience and a growing relationship with the divine as opposed to a worried focus on finding (acquiring) worth through "meeting someone."
Fairly new subscriber, so happy to have found your channel. I resonated deeply with the Avila material you presented. Synchronistically, there is a street in the city I now reside called Ávila. With no prior knowledge, a quick Wiki read showed she was of Spanish/Jewish decent. I’m a Rabbi’s daughter. And like my father, always a rebel. But seeking and observing, like many of us. I just returned from an Ayahuasca retreat where I connected with so many amazing souls, yet I still felt apart from the belief system in place. Meaning, from what I saw, it’s still giving power away to something outside ourselves. But the contrast of good intention negated any ideas that it wasn’t a good thing. This slow acceptance, call it patience, of the harmonization of all things true, and that everything in its time, has been a long journey for me. It applies to anything and everything including our closest personal relationships. I loved the phallic references btw. Keepin it real ✌🏼The theme of humility is an important one, and I’ve tried to hold myself to it while keeping the innate truths that have come to me thus far. If you haven’t already, check out Buddha at the Gas Pump’s channel. It’s a recent find as well, and so aligned. I especially liked the recent Georgi Y Johnson interview. Thanks, Adam! 💚🌻
The bride and groom meeting and the intertwining of one from two reminded me a lot of the Sabbath in the (my) Jewish tradition being considered a bride and every Friday night during services we turn to greet her and embrace her when she comes in through the door.
Me too! AND this notion of Kabbalat shabbat (even the words - "receiving shabbat" - have a yin quality) as divine union of bride and bridegroom originates with the mystics of Zfat who were weaving the divine feminine, the circular, the experiential and ecstatic back into what had become a fairly masculine/saturnized liturgy. In the 16th century, parallel to Avila:)
It’s been in the collective the last few days, a conscious download if you will, not new, but gaining traction; that Source split itself into fractals. One masculine, one feminine...to eventually come back together to fully know itself. We are literally, Source experiencing itself. The concepts of time as a standing wave in eternity (referenced initially by Plato and brought forth to me through Terrence McKenna) The serpents tail eating itself, zero point, oneness. With each passing day I feel I’m climbing, but as always, knowing I can’t possibly fathom the infinity of it. The deep well of existence. I think of all the shelves of books in all the libraries around the world. How much we’ve yet to discover. Revisit...
Please see my comment, above, about the likely Jewish and Sufi influences upon Teresa of Avila, particularly in the structure and tone of the _Interior Castle,_ which was preceded by the _Zohar_ and earlier Jewish mystical writings, as well as by Sufi writings. Teresa's paternal grandfather was a _converso._
Thank you for sharing! I listen to Molly McCord here on YT for refreshingly feminine infused astrology! Like your thoughtful take on being human too Adam!
Beautiful how the light at the back of the room changes, appearing and then disappearing, playing hide and seek while listening to the words of Love. Here's to more diamonds💎🙏💖
I have this natally and I so appreciate your sharing the more positive aspects of this aspect! I feel this unfolding in my own life in a beautiful way.
I had a huge release today from past program in my past realationship with my ex ...I let the tears flow and asked angels to help me clear and let go this huge karmic cycle felt so much better like a big shift in my body and felt like a burden lifted. Thats awsome about what you said about the Feminine and learning about it .I have learning to manage both the masculine and feminine side of this .Thank you for sharin your thoughts. I really would love to read that book.
I appreciate this very much! If the feminine in our nature thrives on harmonizing, it takes acceptance from the masculine for it to feel safe enough to expose itself. As mystics we remember vividly being killed for our feminine power. It’s also interesting how feminine power feels like a knowing- our masculine nature articulates it into language. Astrology is such a unique blending of the two energies!
I decided to learn to cast the I Ching, mainly after hearing your readings from it in some of you posts. I have been doing so daily as a new part of my studies for a few weeks now. I cast hexagram 5 yesterday and after hearing this message, I feel that for me it reflects the Venus opposition Saturn energy as well. Submission through yielding that leads to enlightenment. Very cursor description there, but it felt synchronous to me.
That was beautiful Adam. What I feel is such a fine line between the masculine and feminine energy. I suppose at this point in my life I'm close to the last Spiritual Birth. Of Allowing the Birth to occur. As you have seen the last aspects of a Physical Birth are the most intense the unknowing yet unable to turn back. Such as your Kidney stone still not passed/ birthed. You thought after all that " pain" I use that loosely you are not finished. That is how we feel when we are about to push our babies out. I call this a " Birthing Grace". There is no turning back. The Baby must be born. Get well soon and how blessed you are to experience both the Divine Feminine and Masculine. We need both...✌❤
I love your perspective on astrology, it’s so different than all the other mundane perspectives that we’ve heard over and over again. Yes you’re right ! I’m one of those people that believe astrology is spiritual and should move your soul, so thank you 🙏
So glad to have found you Afam.. thanks for a brilliant chst.informative, .intelligent, clear, and very inspirational I love the depth of your conversation.
Thank you Adam for such a wonderful reminder of the feminine and seeing it as important. The story of Teresa of Avila is prompting me to find her writings. I agree - traditional astrology has a very heavy male perspective. Like the Bible we have to consider the social context in which it was devised. Were men more mystical at that time or not? Will all the up and coming astrologers now able to cut their teeth on Hellenistic astrology error to the side of being technicians as an over compensatory swing from the anything goes, new age, all is positive, make-your-own meaning approach? A great video - may diamonds rain on you, and all of us this. LOVE that visual connection to Saturn. Makes so much sense.
I undertook two years of formation training in Spiritual Direction w/ the Dominicans (their Mother House in Grand Rapids, MI) where we studied and reflected on Teresa de Avila quite intensely. Thank you so much Adam for weaving a tapestry here of her mysticism as expressed in the Interior Castle with the relationship of how we fluctuate with Venus and Saturn. Thank you also for acknowledging the importance of expressing more feminine dimension within the context of Ancient Astrology! May your stone pass soon. Peace.
I immediately thought of a similitude between the chambers of the mansion and the chakras system?! Was moved by both the story and your gentle narration, 🙏 your feminine side shines through brilliantly in spite of your gender! The “in spite” of meant kindly, that is. ♏️ ♐️ ♉️
Wow. I can relate to these themes through my actual romantic relationship - my partner is a capi sun and I'm a taurus sun (cancer rising). We are long distance but see each other fairly often. Still, I'm always trying to just ride the feeling of missing them and use that energy to increase our connection. The alternative is that I use the energy to thoughtlessly act out and create friction, which can sometimes feel like intimacy for a few short minutes, but isn't worth it. Might have to replay this video a few times this week....thanks, Adam!
Thiis was exquisite Adam, thank you for sharing. This has precisely been my experience, on many levels, over the past 2 weeks. I have Chiron in my 7th house conjunct Venus and Mars. Opposite Uranus in Scorpio. I’m deeply intimate, with a love of stability and loyalty, and my relationships pertaining to this house have been where my deepest wounds and deepest healing lie. I’ve Saturn in Virgo in my 11th house conjunct my North Node, trine Chiron sextile my Ascendant and I’ve been deeply conscious of the new rhythm, and pause for reflection Saturn is offering. Id love to take some time to share with you the diamonds I found on this transit while “moving through the folds”. I realise I’m exiting a 2 year “dark night of the soul” and I’m so grateful for Chiron moving into retrograde, Saturn’s station and the eclipses etc. Just before Chiron stationed retro I had an unexpected re-meeting with someone from my past. It is deeply tantric, healing & transformative. But we are long distance & don’t entertain marriage, in fact we talk about “the other one we may meet”. However, with this meeting, my values around marriage shifted clearly from one of seeking what I’d lost, to what I truly desire, which transcends marriages traditional nature of family to one of experiencing life and seeking our True Source through companionship. I realised I no longer want anymore children at 40 (big one!). But I’d never have any physical sexual relationship outside of marriage; Between us is generally poetry, honesty & talk about sex’s sacred elements in facilitating the Real/Sacred - which has been phenomenally transformative.... I also cherish independence so do not need to live with a partner. I openly shared this realisation with him, since even with energetic penetration there is an opening; with Love a woman naturally becomes more vulnerable. I am loving this vulnerable, and flow with interdependence vs past codependence This idea of marriage totally contradicts a family and culture norm + there is an 11 year age gap. I’m the older woman. There was no direct reply to the question of values of marriage, though “touch” is maintained. I cherish our friendship, deeply. It may end; it may not. Somewhere in the eternal it always was & is. There is a surrender to each moment. I really needed to hear about patience! Though I’m deeply feeling into it. The fact is God has the best plan and presence is taking over me. I have no idea. But what I do know is that I could finally walk into my past, on this very Sunday, through every traumatic relationship and find the diamonds and blessings. I could retrieve myself. I cried and cried, not from pain, but from seeing the Divine Reason, from seeing God there, so directly helping me, Saturn teaching me. I cried because I realised how Loved I was through all of it by Him, and I had been so resentful and “abandoned” and angry!!!. For 7 years! But every traumatic event was the making of these diamonds, of where I find myself now. So I collected them all with my tears and put them in my heart with deep gratitude. Transformed. Today I feel different, more than I’ve ever felt, and I could share this healing with my community/ the world (11th house), specifically about Chiron. So much more coming to light as I’ve written ... it’s raining diamonds! I’d love to read this book. I feel I could write one on these experiences Thank you Adam ... ❤️🙏🏻 God bless you and your family.
Thank you so much for this deeply positive perspective (unusual!) on these two energies, as they literally define my own "true love" and myself in our relationship. It is the only aspect between our two charts; my Venus (Aries 1) on my IC & his MC- his Saturn (Libra2)on his IC- my MC, of course. The traditional delineation is quite unfavorable! And , while the negatives apply (we spend every other month apart due to his work, for example...I hold down the homestead-HA!.There is MUCH more...). Ours is a deeply spiritual tie, as his Chiron conjuncts the north node of my moon...he heals me. My BODY is healed by him, which is , at this moment, welcomed in this most difficult eclipse season (impacting my experience in a big way). I love how you speak of St. Theresa's seven mansions...so good receive the beautiful fruits of your disciplined study astrology...you are a wonderful progression in a field I have loved for 50 years!
Amen on the feminine mystical. More please! Thank you Adam. I do appreciate your wonderful and spot-on insight. All of the Saturn-Pluto-node stuff is on my Jupiter-Saturn in Cap conjunction... yes, this is my Saturn return and I am a feminine mystic. SHE is breaking out of old boxes.
Fabulous that you have a studied background in the religious from an academic and personal perspective, that in itself with Sun in Cancer is a highly spiritual experience that the majority aren't blessed with. With last decan of Sagi rising, Venus in Capricorn in first, and Aquarius Mars and Sun in the second house, Libra on the MC my life has been the wonderful journey through the experiences of various religions (I was a foster child, in and out of foster homes of various faiths, a Catholic mother and an atheist father, and basically no family ties except a younger brother). The wonderful experiences of my foster home lives assisted me to understand the importance that "spirituality" plays in everyone's life, though those experiences may not be considered spiritual. Life is Spiritual and the yin and yang of spirituality will be experienced according to the dominance of those signs and aspects in one's chart. My one question from youth was "Why are things the way they are"? So this female Sagi rising studies the cultures and why the cultures and individual's believe the way they do. My MC ruled by Venus and Venus in Capricorn has lead me to be a representative (image for companies I've worked with), the Capricorn Venus values the building of beauty in my life (working in the business arena both as a 25-year career and the beauty of my home and property (the cancer polarity). I work with three charts: natal, marital and property (home). I have natal Saturn in my 8th house of Leo (shared resources in which I have done all of the investing, purchasing of homes, and retirement finances). I've got Saturn in Pisces in the second house of my own resources and Saturn in Cancer of our property. Saturn in each of these charts represents the arduous labors required for me to receive what it was that I was willing to pay the price to receive. The Capricorn in the first house and the last degree of Capricorn on my second house shows the difficult mountain I had to climb to maintain my 54-year marriage and finances. For all of us the symbolic diamonds that rain upon Saturn are the symbolic "diamonds" of our life. The great heat to create the diamond, is the symbolic great efforts and mastery which Saturn rewards are. Through all of my life I've practiced Bhakti Yoga. I'm 72 (look 45 I've been told), and since retirement I go to bed at 1 pm and arise between 9 - 10 pm for studies, devotionals, 1 1/2 hours walking in my home (we live in an area with long winters, wet springs and this was the best solution for Bhakti walking so that I could do it 365 days! There are three books on the 27 Nakshatras: The Secrets of Nakshatras (by Vishwanathans) very succinct and useful. Myths & Symbols in Vedic Astrology (Bepin Behari), and The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology by Dennis M Harness, Ph.D. These books are exceedingly insightful about the Secrets of each of the 13 degrees of the Moon that gives great depth to the study of astrology!!! Through my studies and as an astrologer I've experienced many male astrologers with a yin, compassionate slant to their books and practice. Further through my studies of numerology (both 30+ years), The book: Numerology and the Divine Triangle (by Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker) is the best I've come across. Mysticism is an exceedingly personal journey, wherein as one comes to understand the spiritual symbolism of the various spiritual traditions, and the journey through one's personal numbers each quarter of the year up through one's annual numbers, one's inner eye begins to see the synchronicity of the connections in one's life. I turned from working for someone else when I was 42, practiced astrology and numerology, and understood that the most important business is one's personal spirituality, but that one's personal business of life coincides with spiritual prosperity. At age four I decided that I would not have children. Through my studies of the difference between Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks and nuns, some of it is also about birth control, it has been for me. I am a number 9, my husband is a 9 the number of our address calculates to a 9. It is the Buddhist's philosophy to be nonattached, I see them as more yin, but the monks have chosen not to give birth to children (there are some who marry and have a family). I am highly feminine and spiritual, but I've never had the desire to have children (Aquarius is often a barren sign). As a quite feminine woman I chose not to be put in the role of child bearing, but to create in every other area of my life. This I believe is the journey of humanity. If you have followed the creation of robotics, you can see where the divine is leading us. The yin and yang is in each of us, we each choose to express it in various ways in various areas of our lives. Hence, I recognize all of the men I come into contact and their yin expression. We look beyond the yang to see the yin, we look beyond the yin to see the yang.
I have.had suffering this past month greatly with my health in general. I remember a Christian friend told me once to, "Suffer well." That said, I hope your kidney stones pass peacefully. Thank you for bringing in the biblical and Theresa of Avila. I am not sure what makes me special other than I have a mostly water chart (grand trine) with a Leo Sun and Scorpio Rising - the two things that keep me afloat in it all. I am learning to truly love myself, let go of the need to control others actions towards me, accept all the sensitivity and suffering that all this feeling causes me (even physically,) and realize that I am not into selling my soul anymore in smaller to larger ways. I have a very mystical mindset and I know that during the Pluto and Saturn thing, especially, that I am finally learning some hard won karmic lessons these days, which leads to an interesting and inner sense of beauty, though all these lessons are scary when you don't do the same things you used to do. May I have the patience not to try and perfect these transformations. Thank you!
Always love your truly exploratory approach to the archetypes and symbolism. Your comments about Saturn’s rain and the transit reminds me of my favorite court card in the Mary-El tarot deck; it’s The Queen of Pentacles, who sheds tears of diamonds. I also think of the carbon atom, how dynamic an arrangement of molecules, where you can have coal or a 💎 under the right conditions. Both have the passing of time and pressure in common. That card connects me to this transit very deeply, so thanks. Please look it up on google images 🙏
Thank you, Adam, for this refreshing and thought-provoking spiritual exploration of the Venus-Saturn opposition. You consistently contribute an important perspective to current discussions in astrology. As a big fan of Teresa of Avila, I'd like to offer the following in order to place _The Interior Castle_ in its historical -- and gender -- context. Teresa was a well-educated woman for her time and place (16th-century Spain), coming from a wealthy merchant family. Teresa's Interior Castle, a major work of Christian mysticism, has its antecedents in prior Christian, Jewish, and Sufi mystical literature, going back at least as far as the biblical _Song of Songs,_ a work Teresa studied and wrote about. The Song, seen by many as an erotic love poem, had long been interpreted by both Christian and Jewish mystics as an analogy for the love of God (in the male role) and either the Christian church or the people of Israel (in the female role). Teresa was well-read in previous works by (male) Christian mystics. Themes such as waiting upon God, and pining/longing for God-as-lover were old before Teresa's time, and their written expressions were most often male productions. In Jewish mystical circles, the image of the Sabbath Bride or Queen, who is greeted every Friday night (the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath), arose out of earlier Jewish mystical trends in texts such as the _Zohar,_ which emerged in 13th-century Spain. (It's perhaps significant that Teresa's paternal grandfather was a _converso,_ a Jewish convert to Christianity.) The Zohar contains erotic imagery concerning the "male" and "female" aspects of God, and may have been influenced by Sufi writings during the flowering of Islamic-Jewish culture in Spain that occurred centuries before Teresa. These writings are widely regarded as having influenced European Christian mysticism. As well, the structure of the (usually seven) concentric circles of rooms or castles as an analogy for the journey of the soul toward God was present in Islamic and Jewish mystical literature centuries prior to Teresa. For a more detailed discussion of Jewish and Sufi influences upon Teresa, see www.kabbalahsociety.org/wp/articles/towards-the-sacred-union-the-mystical-journey-of-the-soul/ (I'm not associated with this organization, but this is a good introductory essay on the subject.)
I believe that the health difficulties, that you are having with the kidney stone, are related to your relationship/s with whichever house your Libra falls on, or the sign on your 7th house... The fact that transiting saturn in ♑ is manifesting as a kidney stone for you, is symbolic of the lack of fluidity between you and your relationship with those areas of your natal chart which are ruled by ♎ There has been a continuous imbalance over a long period of time, in the affairs symbolised by Libra and the houses involved. Namaste 🙏🏻
Krishna is my fathers name and his twin is Rama. For this reason (and its one of many) and given you are a Krishna Bakkthi you are among my favourite astrologers. Thank you for your kind, loving and empowering videos.
Thanks for this. I have this natally i feel that it has a lot to do with integrating more femininity into my overally masculine approach to life. balance is needed between ruthless productivity, and nourishing restful joyful and pleasurable experiences. Not saying the masculine is bad at all of course both are needed. I have been prone to being overally focused on forcing action, and the hard facts and reality of life, not allowing enjoyment of beauty, art and playful joyful activities enough.
I’ve started to experienced Transit saturn opposite to my natal venus which is in 12th house in 29degree. And it seems when saturn will be retrograde in this year he will touch my venus 3 times. This is happening after I experienced my spiritual awakening. Difficult progress is waiting for me but I’m so willing to see the rooms in my castle and reflect more diamond of divinity. Thanks for sharing. This really helped. With love and light,
This is where I’m at Totally aligned Not all day as the physical plane can push n pull a little but this week men have been crazy about my energy.. Crazy 😜
My natal Venus in Gemini is progressing into Cancer and opposing Saturn. It's quite a lifetime lesson and love, relationships, intimacy, and connection. Things don't come as quickly as they used to, but I think slowing down and connecting more fully is something that will make me a better person.
Thanks for posting this! I actually think it’s essential for men to help bring in the feminine perspective. I don’t know how or why. But I feel that is true. Right now especially. So thanks for doing your part 🙏!
@@richmiglio I'd like to read your resources here. I did multiple searches this morning and found many credible studies suggesting that a number of planets, including both Saturn and Jupiter, rain diamonds.
@@Adam-Elenbaas It rains diamonds on Jupiter, however, I did just check NASA site for Saturn's atmospheric conditions and Saturn is also an ice giant, however, it doesn't rain diamonds on Saturn like on Jupiter, only on the rings of Saturn. I was only aware of Jupiter, not Saturn's rings. My apologies.
Interesting how this topic moves you at this moment now Adam, exactly where Venus is in Cancer, a very nurturing sign, where your own Mercury is in CAN (including your Sun) which literally 'screams' ... beautiful thoughts! ;-) So here you ask for how to bring about a softer expression of the planets, meaning their description of energies that they are associated with in astrological terms. I'd say it's different for everyone how one grasps words, especially since each being is an individual and there truly is no homogenization factor with this of how to express, nor how one perceives the energies. After all, planets are a filtering systems of modalities. There is no 'right or wrong' with this in regards to whether one explains astrology in a more technical sense, in a more poetical sense, or uses spiritual terms as long as the frequency of any planet is grasped. In my seeing, Venus opposing Saturn at this moment where Saturn is in its own sign of structuring and wanting to rule in a more rigid style and to also conquer, he wants to possibly 'make a deal' with Venus to give up some of her vulnerability and argues the value of being sensitive and inwardly oriented where 'the world out there' actually isn't of much interest to her, you know. Saturn as 'the great reaper', especially in CAP, who tries to collect souls and he wants to get everything and everybody under his control, so he may find it hard to pull Venus out of her beautiful hermit shell where she is comfortable, where there is focus on joy and pleasure, based in a secure home and she does not want to feed into the suggestions that Saturn makes for that it's very uncomfortable for Venus right now. He may be assertive in some way (in that conversation) where Venus may choose to 'run away' and even hide, because Saturn feels a bit threatening to her security at the moment, barging-in when she just wants to be left alone with no-one to answer to. Hope this makes sense to you and it's helpful.
Thank you for your talk on mysticism. As a person who has expressed my own experiences of the divine, I'm sure you know find that individual subjective experience is scoffed at in theological debate. A book by Joe Hinman called "The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief" argues for large amount of data gathered by researchers where people experience certain consistent markers of mystical experiences. While reading this book, I revisited certain incidents in my life and felt 'a popping experience' like watching a child blow bubbles. It is a little bombastic as it argues against things like mental illness, or experience of God is just a chemical reaction in the brain, but the diamond, the core message is there. People do experience the divine every day without knowing it, in small potent ways, but are often looking for the BIG experience...which can happen, but even if it does, it's not talked about.
Everyhuman being has both masculine n feminine energy. Balancing this is an art. You can find this in the birth charts. Bhakti flourishes in love vibration. Love is being of every human being.
A great opportunity to embrace the twinflame energies to empower self love and tune in to one's true path and higher good to allow for forward movement on a physical plain and in spirit to unite in whole ♂️❤♀️
I've always believed that fire signs are male core water signs are female core air is intellectual and Earth is emotional. I've always been a observer I am a Taurus with a cancer Moon. I taught myself astrology through books before computers. I wouldn't read endlessly book after book like I was in a relationship with them. I couldn't get enough. It made the puzzle come together why I was who I was and it made me understand people more. A deep understanding of their actions or their reactions plus minus their life experiences. Which to me goes back to astrology and how they react. Ive had a few near-death experiences when I was five I was in accident on our Arabian horse then 2017 on Sagittarius full moon I was electrically shocked at work. I can relate to this woman when she talks of pain and the beauty of it I believe pain is good it's our brain that makes us suffer. When you're taken down the darkest road and path and you pull yourself out of it and realize that you can't fight the pain it's going to be there the rest of your life it's a part of you now- you build a relationship with it. I was dx with CRPS. I guess my message is through life's storms,accidents ect.. when your tower is coming down always look for the good because there is some lesson and growth that will come of it. Happy Trine!
ps, as a Christian mystic and tongues speaker, I can tell you that being filled with the Holy Spirit, or Shekinah, requires opening and surrendering, more like the female role in sex than the male. It is an ecstatic experience. I love the study of the Female Divine principle. The Holy Spirit enters. That's male. We surrender, that's female. I really love your spiritual insights, soul brother. On Saturn it rains diamonds. What a wonderful metaphor.
Excellent. so much thanks!!!! Some key words. I m astrology but family members Christian and mom was saturn oppose venus believed in truth and daughter is saturn oppose venus. A cancer and with Neptune in ninth. For me lots of conflict between earth as a taurus/ Aquarius/ gemini and the spirit journey. I must remember not everyone has their third eye open to imagine even if thats hard to imagine. Lol. Great work.
For Venus Opposite Saturn - My first thought: Marriage of the wealthy octogenarian and the sexy starlet gold-digger. This has also been a common theme throughout the ages, old men with young wives, generating sexual frustration, tension, and an uneasy alliance
So synchronous. I opened to this page last night before sleeping, to meditate on lessons in dreamstates: The Gift of Resistance in ‘The Sufi Book of Life’ by Neil Douglas-Klotz
I have a question. Now, in this view I believe the earth is being considered as the center of the galaxy rather than the sun. So these planetary oppositions are a result of the earth being caught in the crossfire, as it were between two planetary energies. If it were the sun being considered, it seems that the energies would simply cancel each other out. Maybe. Maybe not. Anyways, I'm just trying to understand it from an energy exchange perspective. Also, it occurs to me that while two planets may be in opposition, one planet might be closer than the other. I understand that there are probably rules in astrology that might state that doesn't matter, but I have observed for some time that when certian celestial bodies are within a closer proximity to the earth, they do seem to have an effect. This effect also seems to be compounded by sunlight. Take for instance, the full moon. Any nurse, emergency technician or police officer will tell you that crazy things happen on a full moon. Ingo Swann cited Russian research into these planetary effects in several of his books, most notably "your nastradamus factor." which is absolutely amazing if you have not read it. So. I hope my question made some sense. I'm just trying to learn this stuff as throughly as possible.
Thank you so interesting i just started reading "Wild Mercy" by Mirabai Starr talking all about the various mystics and their love affair with God as Saturn has gone retrograde in my 8th house Pisces exactly oppoaite my natal Venus in virgo. Ready for the ectasty of merging with my one true Love.
Adam..... I have a serious question to ask. What's going on with those bookcases? Is that bricks? Very curious. Did you build it? I have a Saturn/sun in the second house. LOL 😇
Isn’t it strange that many women, who have been in a very high political position, were really “hard”.? Take for instance Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice etc. Maybe, in order to survive in a very difficult environment, they have embraced the role of the “tough guy” instead of sowing their more feminine side.
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Thank you so much for this. I have a new passion for astrology as I recognize the significance it plays in our lives. The eclipse season of December/January of 2018-19 initiated my spiritual awakening as I finally faced my issues with abandonment and my need for acceptance and validation. It began my ability to heal my mother wounds. I fully believe that this July 2019 eclipse season is bringing that full circle. My mother passed away when I was 6 from addiction. My father remarried a very abusive woman, who a month ago, has decided to leave my father and our family. 35 years of walking on eggshells and a significant amount of anxiety is coming to a resolution of peace. The Saturn and Pluto placements will make for an interesting next 6 months. As a therapist/counselor, astrology has also significantly improved my intuition, empathy, and compassion.
Adam I love this message so much. What began in the fall with a total stripping of my compartmentalism in love led me to being drawn towards learning of/finding my heart’s true yearnings for utter devotion to the other through the loving guidance of Parvati. I realized my desired path to god in the weeks following mahashivrathri (when mercury went retrograde in my 12th house), after which I then began to understand the familial trauma that had programmed a feeling of unworthiness and fear that had prevented feeling safe in the strength of my love and devotion. As my ego was dissolving and Chiron inched towards my 6 degrees Aries Ascendant, I fell into the deepest depression of my life. Watching as so many of the relationships and role identities I held dissolved into an utter chaos, by mid April (2 weeks after my solar return) the threats of letting go of control brought me to my knees and into fantasies of suicide by stabbing myself in the heart. Feeling pulled to move only from my space of love and joy I was forced to soften my way with myself and those around me and embrace deeper compassion. I have realized the familial framework from which I have been functioning for my 39 years must be abandoned in order to reach the dreams I hold for this life. I am working to build support in the knowingness of goodness and developing a deeper trust in a more gentle peaceful supporting World.🙏
Thank you so much for bringing resonance to my soul’s experience and words to a journey I have felt shaking all that I am in order to evolve to the space my soul yearns to fearlessly embrace.
Wow, awesome Heather! :-)
Thank you Adam for your encouraging words towards women in astrology. I have been studying astrology fro 20 years on my own and I have been hesitant to share my personal p.o.v on it because I haven't been classically trained and listening to this has made me feel more empowered about coming forward with my knowledge. Namaste.
I totally Love this video. I am recently subscribed to your channel and I am feeling very blessed to have found you. You also are quite advanced. Thank you for another great video. Blessings...hope you pass that stone soon.
Adam, you’re the most poetic and metaphorical of astrologers that I’m aware of. And this language speaks to me. Imagination, poetry, metaphor and symbolism gently guides conclusion; unpatronising. Wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you.
I would suggest it isn’t gender or hormonal but rather, energetic. The Sacred Marriage (alchemical Heiros Gamos) consists of healing and uniting the Divine Masculine Conscious (outer-directed/object oriented left-brain) and Divine Feminine unconscious (inner-directed/subject oriented right-brain) aspects of ourselves, what Jung described as “Two Kinds of Thinking”. I.e., uniting the head and heart. A fundamental tenet of alchemy is, As Above, so Below; as Within, so Without).
I normally wouldn’t do this but you asked for comments. And this is something I am vitally passionate about and so wanted to share.
Beautifully integrated. Yes, the messages are very profound whereas the feminine and masculine energies are becoming much more well balance, bringing forth enlightenment, peace and unconditional love within our Universe's humanity. I am grateful 🙏 for the awakening we are all capable of allowing, honoring our highest state of being as well as accepting this offering of expansion. It's like receiving the olive branch, or the bridge to the 🌈 Thank you for your divinity🙏
Thank you Adam, for permission to focus on cultivating love through mystical experience and a growing relationship with the divine as opposed to a worried focus on finding (acquiring) worth through "meeting someone."
Fairly new subscriber, so happy to have found your channel. I resonated deeply with the Avila material you presented. Synchronistically, there is a street in the city I now reside called Ávila. With no prior knowledge, a quick Wiki read showed she was of Spanish/Jewish decent. I’m a Rabbi’s daughter. And like my father, always a rebel. But seeking and observing, like many of us. I just returned from an Ayahuasca retreat where I connected with so many amazing souls, yet I still felt apart from the belief system in place. Meaning, from what I saw, it’s still giving power away to something outside ourselves. But the contrast of good intention negated any ideas that it wasn’t a good thing. This slow acceptance, call it patience, of the harmonization of all things true, and that everything in its time, has been a long journey for me. It applies to anything and everything including our closest personal relationships. I loved the phallic references btw. Keepin it real ✌🏼The theme of humility is an important one, and I’ve tried to hold myself to it while keeping the innate truths that have come to me thus far. If you haven’t already, check out Buddha at the Gas Pump’s channel. It’s a recent find as well, and so aligned. I especially liked the recent Georgi Y Johnson interview. Thanks, Adam! 💚🌻
The bride and groom meeting and the intertwining of one from two reminded me a lot of the Sabbath in the (my) Jewish tradition being considered a bride and every Friday night during services we turn to greet her and embrace her when she comes in through the door.
Me too! AND this notion of Kabbalat shabbat (even the words - "receiving shabbat" - have a yin quality) as divine union of bride and bridegroom originates with the mystics of Zfat who were weaving the divine feminine, the circular, the experiential and ecstatic back into what had become a fairly masculine/saturnized liturgy. In the 16th century, parallel to Avila:)
It’s been in the collective the last few days, a conscious download if you will, not new, but gaining traction; that Source split itself into fractals. One masculine, one feminine...to eventually come back together to fully know itself. We are literally, Source experiencing itself. The concepts of time as a standing wave in eternity (referenced initially by Plato and brought forth to me through Terrence McKenna) The serpents tail eating itself, zero point, oneness. With each passing day I feel I’m climbing, but as always, knowing I can’t possibly fathom the infinity of it. The deep well of existence. I think of all the shelves of books in all the libraries around the world. How much we’ve yet to discover. Revisit...
Please see my comment, above, about the likely Jewish and Sufi influences upon Teresa of Avila, particularly in the structure and tone of the _Interior Castle,_ which was preceded by the _Zohar_ and earlier Jewish mystical writings, as well as by Sufi writings. Teresa's paternal grandfather was a _converso._
Thank you for sharing! I listen to Molly McCord here on YT for refreshingly feminine infused astrology! Like your thoughtful take on being human too Adam!
tabithasbatiks me too! Love MOLLY as well .. these two are the best in their field and on TH-cam platform my opinion.
Yes, Molly and Adam are the only two I always listen to.
Beautiful how the light at the back of the room changes, appearing and then disappearing, playing hide and seek while listening to the words of Love. Here's to more diamonds💎🙏💖
I have this natally and I so appreciate your sharing the more positive aspects of this aspect! I feel this unfolding in my own life in a beautiful way.
I had a huge release today from past program in my past realationship with my ex ...I let the tears flow and asked angels to help me clear and let go this huge karmic cycle felt so much better like a big shift in my body and felt like a burden lifted.
Thats awsome about what you said about the Feminine and learning about it .I have learning to manage both the masculine and feminine side of this .Thank you for sharin your thoughts. I really would love to read that book.
I appreciate this very much! If the feminine in our nature thrives on harmonizing, it takes acceptance from the masculine for it to feel safe enough to expose itself. As mystics we remember vividly being killed for our feminine power. It’s also interesting how feminine power feels like a knowing- our masculine nature articulates it into language. Astrology is such a unique blending of the two energies!
I decided to learn to cast the I Ching, mainly after hearing your readings from it in some of you posts. I have been doing so daily as a new part of my studies for a few weeks now. I cast hexagram 5 yesterday and after hearing this message, I feel that for me it reflects the Venus opposition Saturn energy as well. Submission through yielding that leads to enlightenment. Very cursor description there, but it felt synchronous to me.
That was beautiful Adam. What I feel is such a fine line between the masculine and feminine energy. I suppose at this point in my life I'm close to the last Spiritual Birth. Of Allowing the Birth to occur. As you have seen the last aspects of a Physical Birth are the most intense the unknowing yet unable to turn back. Such as your Kidney stone still not passed/ birthed. You thought after all that " pain" I use that loosely you are not finished. That is how we feel when we are about to push our babies out. I call this a " Birthing Grace". There is no turning back. The Baby must be born. Get well soon and how blessed you are to experience both the Divine Feminine and Masculine. We need both...✌❤
Wow the wrap up of this take on the mystical experience (last 5 minutes) really hit home. Thank you for sharing!
This is a very beautiful talk. I love this talk and description. You did a wonderful job.
I love your perspective on astrology, it’s so different than all the other mundane perspectives that we’ve heard over and over again. Yes you’re right ! I’m one of those people that believe astrology is spiritual and should move your soul, so thank you 🙏
So glad to have found you Afam.. thanks for a brilliant chst.informative,
.intelligent, clear, and very inspirational I love the depth of your conversation.
Thank you Adam for such a wonderful reminder of the feminine and seeing it as important. The story of Teresa of Avila is prompting me to find her writings. I agree - traditional astrology has a very heavy male perspective. Like the Bible we have to consider the social context in which it was devised. Were men more mystical at that time or not? Will all the up and coming astrologers now able to cut their teeth on Hellenistic astrology error to the side of being technicians as an over compensatory swing from the anything goes, new age, all is positive, make-your-own meaning approach? A great video - may diamonds rain on you, and all of us this. LOVE that visual connection to Saturn. Makes so much sense.
I undertook two years of formation training in Spiritual Direction w/ the Dominicans (their Mother House in Grand Rapids, MI) where we studied and reflected on Teresa de Avila quite intensely. Thank you so much Adam for weaving a tapestry here of her mysticism as expressed in the Interior Castle with the relationship of how we fluctuate with Venus and Saturn. Thank you also for acknowledging the importance of expressing more feminine dimension within the context of Ancient Astrology! May your stone pass soon. Peace.
I find this so fascinating as I'm about to launch my new website on Feng Shui this Wednesday.
I immediately thought of a similitude between the chambers of the mansion and the chakras system?! Was moved by both the story and your gentle narration, 🙏 your feminine side shines through brilliantly in spite of your gender! The “in spite” of meant kindly, that is. ♏️ ♐️ ♉️
Wow. I can relate to these themes through my actual romantic relationship - my partner is a capi sun and I'm a taurus sun (cancer rising). We are long distance but see each other fairly often. Still, I'm always trying to just ride the feeling of missing them and use that energy to increase our connection. The alternative is that I use the energy to thoughtlessly act out and create friction, which can sometimes feel like intimacy for a few short minutes, but isn't worth it. Might have to replay this video a few times this week....thanks, Adam!
Thiis was exquisite Adam, thank you for sharing. This has precisely been my experience, on many levels, over the past 2 weeks.
I have Chiron in my 7th house conjunct Venus and Mars. Opposite Uranus in Scorpio. I’m deeply intimate, with a love of stability and loyalty, and my relationships pertaining to this house have been where my deepest wounds and deepest healing lie.
I’ve Saturn in Virgo in my 11th house conjunct my North Node, trine Chiron sextile my Ascendant and I’ve been deeply conscious of the new rhythm, and pause for reflection Saturn is offering.
Id love to take some time to share with you the diamonds I found on this transit while “moving through the folds”. I realise I’m exiting a 2 year “dark night of the soul” and I’m so grateful for Chiron moving into retrograde, Saturn’s station and the eclipses etc.
Just before Chiron stationed retro I had an unexpected re-meeting with someone from my past. It is deeply tantric, healing & transformative. But we are long distance & don’t entertain marriage, in fact we talk about “the other one we may meet”.
However, with this meeting, my values around marriage shifted clearly from one of seeking what I’d lost, to what I truly desire, which transcends marriages traditional nature of family to one of experiencing life and seeking our True Source through companionship. I realised I no longer want anymore children at 40 (big one!). But I’d never have any physical sexual relationship outside of marriage; Between us is generally poetry, honesty & talk about sex’s sacred elements in facilitating the Real/Sacred - which has been phenomenally transformative.... I also cherish independence so do not need to live with a partner.
I openly shared this realisation with him, since even with energetic penetration there is an opening; with Love a woman naturally becomes more vulnerable. I am loving this vulnerable, and flow with interdependence vs past codependence
This idea of marriage totally contradicts a family and culture norm + there is an 11 year age gap. I’m the older woman. There was no direct reply to the question of values of marriage, though “touch” is maintained. I cherish our friendship, deeply. It may end; it may not. Somewhere in the eternal it always was & is. There is a surrender to each moment.
I really needed to hear about patience! Though I’m deeply feeling into it.
The fact is God has the best plan and presence is taking over me. I have no idea. But what I do know is that I could finally walk into my past, on this very Sunday, through every traumatic relationship and find the diamonds and blessings. I could retrieve myself. I cried and cried, not from pain, but from seeing the Divine Reason, from seeing God there, so directly helping me, Saturn teaching me. I cried because I realised how Loved I was through all of it by Him, and I had been so resentful and “abandoned” and angry!!!. For 7 years! But every traumatic event was the making of these diamonds, of where I find myself now. So I collected them all with my tears and put them in my heart with deep gratitude. Transformed.
Today I feel different, more than I’ve ever felt, and I could share this healing with my community/ the world (11th house), specifically about Chiron.
So much more coming to light as I’ve written ... it’s raining diamonds!
I’d love to read this book.
I feel I could write one on these experiences
Thank you Adam ... ❤️🙏🏻 God bless you and your family.
You are just incredible, Adam!!! Thank you for this chat....incredibly insightful.....I believe Carolyn Myss wrote a book about this as well....💜💜💜
Thank you so much for this deeply positive perspective (unusual!) on these two energies, as they literally define my own "true love" and myself in our relationship. It is the only aspect between our two charts; my Venus (Aries 1) on my IC & his MC- his Saturn (Libra2)on his IC- my MC, of course. The traditional delineation is quite unfavorable! And , while the negatives apply (we spend every other month apart due to his work, for example...I hold down the homestead-HA!.There is MUCH more...). Ours is a deeply spiritual tie, as his Chiron conjuncts the north node of my moon...he heals me. My BODY is healed by him, which is , at this moment, welcomed in this most difficult eclipse season (impacting my experience in a big way). I love how you speak of St. Theresa's seven mansions...so good receive the beautiful fruits of your disciplined study astrology...you are a wonderful progression in a field I have loved for 50 years!
love your talks adam keep up the good work so insightful interesting times
Amen on the feminine mystical. More please! Thank you Adam. I do appreciate your wonderful and spot-on insight. All of the Saturn-Pluto-node stuff is on my Jupiter-Saturn in Cap conjunction... yes, this is my Saturn return and I am a feminine mystic. SHE is breaking out of old boxes.
Fabulous that you have a studied background in the religious from an academic and personal perspective, that in itself with Sun in Cancer is a highly spiritual experience that the majority aren't blessed with. With last decan of Sagi rising, Venus in Capricorn in first, and Aquarius Mars and Sun in the second house, Libra on the MC my life has been the wonderful journey through the experiences of various religions (I was a foster child, in and out of foster homes of various faiths, a Catholic mother and an atheist father, and basically no family ties except a younger brother). The wonderful experiences of my foster home lives assisted me to understand the importance that "spirituality" plays in everyone's life, though those experiences may not be considered spiritual. Life is Spiritual and the yin and yang of spirituality will be experienced according to the dominance of those signs and aspects in one's chart. My one question from youth was "Why are things the way they are"? So this female Sagi rising studies the cultures and why the cultures and individual's believe the way they do. My MC ruled by Venus and Venus in Capricorn has lead me to be a representative (image for companies I've worked with), the Capricorn Venus values the building of beauty in my life (working in the business arena both as a 25-year career and the beauty of my home and property (the cancer polarity). I work with three charts: natal, marital and property (home). I have natal Saturn in my 8th house of Leo (shared resources in which I have done all of the investing, purchasing of homes, and retirement finances). I've got Saturn in Pisces in the second house of my own resources and Saturn in Cancer of our property. Saturn in each of these charts represents the arduous labors required for me to receive what it was that I was willing to pay the price to receive. The Capricorn in the first house and the last degree of Capricorn on my second house shows the difficult mountain I had to climb to maintain my 54-year marriage and finances. For all of us the symbolic diamonds that rain upon Saturn are the symbolic "diamonds" of our life. The great heat to create the diamond, is the symbolic great efforts and mastery which Saturn rewards are. Through all of my life I've practiced Bhakti Yoga. I'm 72 (look 45 I've been told), and since retirement I go to bed at 1 pm and arise between 9 - 10 pm for studies, devotionals, 1 1/2 hours walking in my home (we live in an area with long winters, wet springs and this was the best solution for Bhakti walking so that I could do it 365 days! There are three books on the 27 Nakshatras: The Secrets of Nakshatras (by Vishwanathans) very succinct and useful. Myths & Symbols in Vedic Astrology (Bepin Behari), and The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology by Dennis M Harness, Ph.D. These books are exceedingly insightful about the Secrets of each of the 13 degrees of the Moon that gives great depth to the study of astrology!!!
Through my studies and as an astrologer I've experienced many male astrologers with a yin, compassionate slant to their books and practice. Further through my studies of numerology (both 30+ years), The book: Numerology and the Divine Triangle (by Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker) is the best I've come across. Mysticism is an exceedingly personal journey, wherein as one comes to understand the spiritual symbolism of the various spiritual traditions, and the journey through one's personal numbers each quarter of the year up through one's annual numbers, one's inner eye begins to see the synchronicity of the connections in one's life. I turned from working for someone else when I was 42, practiced astrology and numerology, and understood that the most important business is one's personal spirituality, but that one's personal business of life coincides with spiritual prosperity. At age four I decided that I would not have children. Through my studies of the difference between Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks and nuns, some of it is also about birth control, it has been for me. I am a number 9, my husband is a 9 the number of our address calculates to a 9. It is the Buddhist's philosophy to be nonattached, I see them as more yin, but the monks have chosen not to give birth to children (there are some who marry and have a family). I am highly feminine and spiritual, but I've never had the desire to have children (Aquarius is often a barren sign). As a quite feminine woman I chose not to be put in the role of child bearing, but to create in every other area of my life. This I believe is the journey of humanity. If you have followed the creation of robotics, you can see where the divine is leading us. The yin and yang is in each of us, we each choose to express it in various ways in various areas of our lives. Hence, I recognize all of the men I come into contact and their yin expression. We look beyond the yang to see the yin, we look beyond the yin to see the yang.
This really me, the eclipse is mine! Thanks to lead me to understand things that i never know how to explain my self.
I have.had suffering this past month greatly with my health in general. I remember a Christian friend told me once to, "Suffer well." That said, I hope your kidney stones pass peacefully.
Thank you for bringing in the biblical and Theresa of Avila. I am not sure what makes me special other than I have a mostly water chart (grand trine) with a Leo Sun and Scorpio Rising - the two things that keep me afloat in it all. I am learning to truly love myself, let go of the need to control others actions towards me, accept all the sensitivity and suffering that all this feeling causes me (even physically,) and realize that I am not into selling my soul anymore in smaller to larger ways. I have a very mystical mindset and I know that during the Pluto and Saturn thing, especially, that I am finally learning some hard won karmic lessons these days, which leads to an interesting and inner sense of beauty, though all these lessons are scary when you don't do the same things you used to do. May I have the patience not to try and perfect these transformations. Thank you!
Always love your truly exploratory approach to the archetypes and symbolism. Your comments about Saturn’s rain and the transit reminds me of my favorite court card in the Mary-El tarot deck; it’s The Queen of Pentacles, who sheds tears of diamonds. I also think of the carbon atom, how dynamic an arrangement of molecules, where you can have coal or a 💎 under the right conditions. Both have the passing of time and pressure in common. That card connects me to this transit very deeply, so thanks. Please look it up on google images 🙏
I enjoy your work so much. Thank you
Thank you, Adam, for this refreshing and thought-provoking spiritual exploration of the Venus-Saturn opposition. You consistently contribute an important perspective to current discussions in astrology.
As a big fan of Teresa of Avila, I'd like to offer the following in order to place _The Interior Castle_ in its historical -- and gender -- context.
Teresa was a well-educated woman for her time and place (16th-century Spain), coming from a wealthy merchant family. Teresa's Interior Castle, a major work of Christian mysticism, has its antecedents in prior Christian, Jewish, and Sufi mystical literature, going back at least as far as the biblical _Song of Songs,_ a work Teresa studied and wrote about. The Song, seen by many as an erotic love poem, had long been interpreted by both Christian and Jewish mystics as an analogy for the love of God (in the male role) and either the Christian church or the people of Israel (in the female role). Teresa was well-read in previous works by (male) Christian mystics. Themes such as waiting upon God, and pining/longing for God-as-lover were old before Teresa's time, and their written expressions were most often male productions.
In Jewish mystical circles, the image of the Sabbath Bride or Queen, who is greeted every Friday night (the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath), arose out of earlier Jewish mystical trends in texts such as the _Zohar,_ which emerged in 13th-century Spain. (It's perhaps significant that Teresa's paternal grandfather was a _converso,_ a Jewish convert to Christianity.) The Zohar contains erotic imagery concerning the "male" and "female" aspects of God, and may have been influenced by Sufi writings during the flowering of Islamic-Jewish culture in Spain that occurred centuries before Teresa. These writings are widely regarded as having influenced European Christian mysticism.
As well, the structure of the (usually seven) concentric circles of rooms or castles as an analogy for the journey of the soul toward God was present in Islamic and Jewish mystical literature centuries prior to Teresa.
For a more detailed discussion of Jewish and Sufi influences upon Teresa, see www.kabbalahsociety.org/wp/articles/towards-the-sacred-union-the-mystical-journey-of-the-soul/ (I'm not associated with this organization, but this is a good introductory essay on the subject.)
I believe that the health difficulties, that you are having with the kidney stone, are related to your relationship/s with whichever house your Libra falls on, or the sign on your 7th house...
The fact that transiting saturn in ♑ is manifesting as a kidney stone for you, is symbolic of the lack of fluidity between you and your relationship with those areas of your natal chart which are ruled by ♎
There has been a continuous imbalance over a long period of time, in the affairs symbolised by Libra and the houses involved.
Namaste 🙏🏻
I'm finishing up her book right now. Beautiful talk. Thank you.
Krishna is my fathers name and his twin is Rama. For this reason (and its one of many) and given you are a Krishna Bakkthi you are among my favourite astrologers. Thank you for your kind, loving and empowering videos.
So awesome!!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for this. I have this natally i feel that it has a lot to do with integrating more femininity into my overally masculine approach to life. balance is needed between ruthless productivity, and nourishing restful joyful and pleasurable experiences. Not saying the masculine is bad at all of course both are needed. I have been prone to being overally focused on forcing action, and the hard facts and reality of life, not allowing enjoyment of beauty, art and playful joyful activities enough.
Spot on dude..women of the world 🌎 unite
I’ve started to experienced Transit saturn opposite to my natal venus which is in 12th house in 29degree. And it seems when saturn will be retrograde in this year he will touch my venus 3 times. This is happening after I experienced my spiritual awakening. Difficult progress is waiting for me but I’m so willing to see the rooms in my castle and reflect more diamond of divinity.
Thanks for sharing. This really helped.
With love and light,
This is where I’m at
Totally aligned
Not all day as the physical plane can push n pull a little but this week men have been crazy about my energy..
Crazy 😜
My natal Venus in Gemini is progressing into Cancer and opposing Saturn. It's quite a lifetime lesson and love, relationships, intimacy, and connection. Things don't come as quickly as they used to, but I think slowing down and connecting more fully is something that will make me a better person.
This was so immensely beautiful. The other woman mystic that I look forward to see you explore is Hildegard.
Thanks for posting this! I actually think it’s essential for men to help bring in the feminine perspective. I don’t know how or why. But I feel that is true. Right now especially. So thanks for doing your part 🙏!
It rains diamonds on saturn, I will remember that.
Don’t because it’s not correct. It’s rains diamonds on Jupiter.
@@richmiglio I'd like to read your resources here. I did multiple searches this morning and found many credible studies suggesting that a number of planets, including both Saturn and Jupiter, rain diamonds.
@@Adam-Elenbaas It rains diamonds on Jupiter, however, I did just check NASA site for Saturn's atmospheric conditions and Saturn is also an ice giant, however, it doesn't rain diamonds on Saturn like on Jupiter, only on the rings of Saturn. I was only aware of Jupiter, not Saturn's rings. My apologies.
Interesting how this topic moves you at this moment now Adam, exactly where Venus is in Cancer, a very nurturing sign, where your own Mercury is in CAN (including your Sun) which literally 'screams' ... beautiful thoughts! ;-)
So here you ask for how to bring about a softer expression of the planets, meaning their description of energies that they are associated with in astrological terms.
I'd say it's different for everyone how one grasps words, especially since each being is an individual and there truly is no homogenization factor with this of how to express, nor how one perceives the energies. After all, planets are a filtering systems of modalities. There is no 'right or wrong' with this in regards to whether one explains astrology in a more technical sense, in a more poetical sense, or uses spiritual terms as long as the frequency of any planet is grasped.
In my seeing, Venus opposing Saturn at this moment where Saturn is in its own sign of structuring and wanting to rule in a more rigid style and to also conquer, he wants to possibly 'make a deal' with Venus to give up some of her vulnerability and argues the value of being sensitive and inwardly oriented where 'the world out there' actually isn't of much interest to her, you know.
Saturn as 'the great reaper', especially in CAP, who tries to collect souls and he wants to get everything and everybody under his control, so he may find it hard to pull Venus out of her beautiful hermit shell where she is comfortable, where there is focus on joy and pleasure, based in a secure home and she does not want to feed into the suggestions that Saturn makes for that it's very uncomfortable for Venus right now. He may be assertive in some way (in that conversation) where Venus may choose to 'run away' and even hide, because Saturn feels a bit threatening to her security at the moment, barging-in when she just wants to be left alone with no-one to answer to.
Hope this makes sense to you and it's helpful.
Thank you for your talk on mysticism. As a person who has expressed my own experiences of the divine, I'm sure you know find that individual subjective experience is scoffed at in theological debate.
A book by Joe Hinman called "The Trace of God: A Rational Warrant for Belief" argues for large amount of data gathered by researchers where people experience certain consistent markers of mystical experiences.
While reading this book, I revisited certain incidents in my life and felt 'a popping experience' like watching a child blow bubbles. It is a little bombastic as it argues against things like mental illness, or experience of God is just a chemical reaction in the brain, but the diamond, the core message is there.
People do experience the divine every day without knowing it, in small potent ways, but are often looking for the BIG experience...which can happen, but even if it does, it's not talked about.
Excellent sharing! Adam, if you were to assign feminine goddesses or archetypes to Cancer and Saturn which would they be?
Very helpful in this Time. Thank you Adam
Very beautiful analysis. Thank you! God bless you!
OMG how beautiful is the 4th Mansion!!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Thank you for hearing.
Everyhuman being has both masculine n feminine energy. Balancing this is an art. You can find this in the birth charts.
Bhakti flourishes in love vibration. Love is being of every human being.
A great opportunity to embrace the twinflame energies to empower self love and tune in to one's true path and higher good to allow for forward movement on a physical plain and in spirit to unite in whole ♂️❤♀️
I've always believed that fire signs are male core water signs are female core air is intellectual and Earth is emotional. I've always been a observer I am a Taurus with a cancer Moon.
I taught myself astrology through books before computers. I wouldn't read endlessly book after book like I was in a relationship with them. I couldn't get enough. It made the puzzle come together why I was who I was and it made me understand people more. A deep understanding of their actions or their reactions plus minus their life experiences. Which to me goes back to astrology and how they react.
Ive had a few near-death experiences when I was five I was in accident on our Arabian horse then 2017 on Sagittarius
full moon I was electrically shocked at work. I can relate to this woman when she talks of pain and the beauty of it I believe pain is good it's our brain that makes us suffer. When you're taken down the darkest road and path and you pull yourself out of it and realize that you can't fight the pain it's going to be there the rest of your life it's a part of you now- you build a relationship with it. I was dx with CRPS. I guess my message is through life's storms,accidents ect.. when your tower is coming down always look for the good because there is some lesson and growth that will come of it. Happy Trine!
What a lovely insight.
ps, as a Christian mystic and tongues speaker, I can tell you that being filled with the Holy Spirit, or Shekinah, requires opening and surrendering, more like the female role in sex than the male. It is an ecstatic experience. I love the study of the Female Divine principle. The Holy Spirit enters. That's male. We surrender, that's female. I really love your spiritual insights, soul brother. On Saturn it rains diamonds. What a wonderful metaphor.
I have Venus opposite Saturn in my natal chart.
Venus in Scorpio opposite Saturn in Taurus.
Thank you for this video.
Thnx so much Adam 💜
Love St. Therese of Avila! Mystic Goddess! Carolyn Myss has a book about her mystic experience of her- Entering the Castle.
Carolyn Myss has a series called Entering The Castle? which covers This topic in depth as well from a more spiritual perspective.
Excellent. so much thanks!!!! Some key words. I m astrology but family members Christian and mom was saturn oppose venus believed in truth and daughter is saturn oppose venus.
A cancer and with Neptune in ninth.
For me lots of conflict between earth as a taurus/ Aquarius/ gemini and the spirit journey. I must remember not everyone has their third eye open to imagine even if thats hard to imagine.
Lol. Great work.
For Venus Opposite Saturn - My first thought: Marriage of the wealthy octogenarian and the sexy starlet gold-digger. This has also been a common theme throughout the ages, old men with young wives, generating sexual frustration, tension, and an uneasy alliance
So synchronous. I opened to this page last night before sleeping, to meditate on lessons in dreamstates: The Gift of Resistance in ‘The Sufi Book of Life’ by Neil Douglas-Klotz
Great Video! 🖤
I have a question. Now, in this view I believe the earth is being considered as the center of the galaxy rather than the sun. So these planetary oppositions are a result of the earth being caught in the crossfire, as it were between two planetary energies.
If it were the sun being considered, it seems that the energies would simply cancel each other out. Maybe. Maybe not.
Anyways, I'm just trying to understand it from an energy exchange perspective.
Also, it occurs to me that while two planets may be in opposition, one planet might be closer than the other. I understand that there are probably rules in astrology that might state that doesn't matter, but I have observed for some time that when certian celestial bodies are within a closer proximity to the earth, they do seem to have an effect. This effect also seems to be compounded by sunlight. Take for instance, the full moon. Any nurse, emergency technician or police officer will tell you that crazy things happen on a full moon. Ingo Swann cited Russian research into these planetary effects in several of his books, most notably "your nastradamus factor." which is absolutely amazing if you have not read it.
So. I hope my question made some sense. I'm just trying to learn this stuff as throughly as possible.
#DiamondInTheRough 💎
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Harmonizing and blending.
Thank you so interesting i just started reading "Wild Mercy" by Mirabai Starr talking all about the various mystics and their love affair with God as Saturn has gone retrograde in my 8th house Pisces exactly oppoaite my natal Venus in virgo. Ready for the ectasty of merging with my one true Love.
EXCELLENT!
Good stufd! Venus going invisible until October. I'm hearing this is a big deal
Adam..... I have a serious question to ask. What's going on with those bookcases? Is that bricks? Very curious. Did you build it?
I have a Saturn/sun in the second house. LOL 😇
Bricks and boards...I built them
Would the Saturn/ Venus square be simular to the opposition ?
Does anyone know where i can find this book he speaks of? by Saint Tersa Of Avila
Just look up the Interior Castle on Amazon!
Leaders.....Jimmy Carter
More on the Venus-Saturn dynamic please! Anyone have recommendations?
11/19/1965 do you do charm reading
My venus in 4th aries Square saturn in 1st in Capricorn. Sag raising♐😏
Isn’t it strange that many women, who have been in a very high political position, were really “hard”.? Take for instance Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice etc.
Maybe, in order to survive in a very difficult environment, they have embraced the role of the “tough guy” instead of sowing their more feminine side.
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Gracias🙏🧝♀️
Venus exhalts saturn, diamonds are a girls best friend. 🤔
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