From our earthly perspective, whatever Pluto seems to touch as we look into the dark universe is reborn like the phoenix Bird who dives into the ashes to be reborn anew. This Gregorian calendar year of 2007 is when Pluto crosses over the very center of the galaxy herself. In my article Pluto on the Galactic Center there is an overview of some basic interpretations which have at the core the idea that the way we perceive Truth may be radically changed and transformed.
As Pluto is pounding my North Node in opposition to my Mercury / South Node conjunction, which also happens to be conjunct the Galactic Center, I had a startling realization. When I started a MySpace Page this year, I realized that for general interests I had written: music, movies, metaphysics, life and all its beauty, feeling deeply, staying in wonder…
This is shocking, because books would normally be first on the list, and I had without thought not even included them! I have always been a book person, first and foremost. They have been my friends (my only friends at times!) my mentors and my guides. I was the beautiful, but smart and unapproachable girl in high school. At university I was in heaven, and through the years continued to collect books until my house looked like a library. I had special oak bookshelves built in my first Boulder home that stretched from floor to ceiling across a long living room wall, with beautiful books!
Then came an unexpected divorce leaving me with two young daughters (2 and 6) and unbeknownst to me at the time, a long slow journey away from the written word. As I struggled to make ends meet through the years as a single parent, selling my valuable book collection a bit at a time in order to put food on the table, until I am left with perhaps 80 volumes that have huge nostalgic value to me as pivotal spiritual messages when I needed them most. Recently, I was again in a survival mode space and regretfully wiped off the last of my sellable treasures. The universe was protecting me…no one would buy.
One of these treasures is Leonard Shlain’s “The Alphabet Versus The Goddess”. He theorizes that the written word has fundamentally reconfigured the human brain towards an excessive left-brain orientation, which has left the conceptual parts of our brain in atrophy.
Reading this book was a validation of some inner knowing I had been working with for years. I had been on a quest to retrain my mind towards a more holistic and multidimensional approach. When I was 34 I threw away my watch for good, began developing my clairvoyant sense, which for me has always been strong, and delved into the world of symbols. The astrological mandala spiraled with deeper levels of meaning, which I have explored through sacred geometry, images and visions. I sense a paradigm shift coming not just for myself but for us all, as we muster the courage to unshackle any and all censoring and conditioning restraints.
Melody Scott Zindell practices astrology with a focus on the practical, psychological and spiritual aspects of life, synthesizing information from over 30 years of study. Her website is: Depth Astrology
Tags: astrology, Galactic Center, mandala, pluto, Schlain, symbols, words
