EMOTIONAL STORMS ALERT

By Barry Rosen
The complex astrology for the next few days is a bit harrowing. Mars conjunct Saturn April 18–19th creates frustration, indecision, anger, resentment, and stuckness. The Moon in Pisces for the next few days is conjunct Mars, Saturn, Neptune, and Mercury, increasing the confusion, and the new moon on Friday creates emotional depression and low energy. Saving the day is the exalted Sun in Aries and the exchange of signs between Jupiter and Mercury, creating a trap door to get Jupiter back into its own sign of Pisces and Mercury out of debilitation into its own sign of Gemini.

I think the Jupiter in Pisces energy is creating optimism about Iran, but we know those guys are pretty tough to keep their word. Even if we do get a miracle, I suspect they are just buying time to start their next nefarious activity. We do not see a regime change in which the people rise and oust them until 2028.

With a Storm of Emotion, What Do We Do?

Do we go into a bomb shelter?

Most of the world will have a few drinks, take some drugs, smoke a pack of cigarettes, or eat themselves into a numbed-out stupor. That can work for a bit, but it is destructive and takes you out of your deepest being.

If you are on a spiritual path, what do you do? Those of us on a spiritual path have to go through them. Feel them deeply. The process of feeling them can facilitate their deep release. What are we afraid of? Are we really those stupid feelings or something bigger? Go deep into them, and the attention of your consciousness will facilitate their release.

We can always do a bit of spiritual or astrological bypassing, and that can help, too, but remember, you are so much bigger than your emotions if a storm is happening. Be Billy Budd in Herman Melville’s classic. Strap yourself to the mast and go through it. In the end, you will find that your eternal Self is so much bigger than a few waves, and in fact, you are the waves, and you are the ocean. How can you be afraid of the very water that you are made of? Stay strapped to the mast, whatever storms come; say, “I am here,” and let them come through me. How can we run away from a tiny emotion? What power can it really have over us?

Don’t the storms make you deeper and more powerful? Embrace. Realize that you are unchanging and nothing can touch you. You are invincible. Merge with the water and become One.

Practical Steps Through the Storm

So if you are not able to do that, you can always do the following:

1. This is a time to be disciplined about your meditation practice, yoga, and other spiritual practices because these lighten the burden and give us more strength to deal with everything. The tendency is to skip what’s good for us when we are challenged, but that’s like taking off a winter coat when it’s below zero.
2. Donate time and money to help those in need. This is one way to address karma, and by getting out of our own stuff, we feel better and move through our own karma.
3. Be disciplined with diet and exercise. The tendency is to use food to cover up difficult emotions or skip exercise because we feel tired or lazy. So much illness can be overcome if we are disciplined in doing what is good for us. Avoid addictive behaviors and non-life-supporting actions, especially now. The tendency is to escape, but usually this leads to more difficult problems quickly.
4. Spend time with spiritual knowledge, attend spiritual gatherings, and hang around with positive people at this time.
5. Do transformational healing work to move through these energies.

Quick Resources for Emotional Relief

Here are a couple of quick fixes from YouTube.

Master John Douglas — Emotional Repair (takes 3 minutes; if you are really stuck, do it 3 times):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w1JFyZbSHg

Sree Preetaji — Serene Mind (a quick way to clear difficult emotions):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvMdaeAhNJPu0pzynVFKxJ2gIGf3Vu2_5

This Will Pass

Venus moves into Taurus on April 19th, Mercury moves into Aries on April 29th, and Mars moves into Aries on May 12th. All gratitude to the timeless wisdom from the Ashtavakra Gita and my beloved Guru!

About the Author

Barry Rosen has been practicing Vedic astrology since 1988. He has visited and studied in India on four occasions and has spoken numerous times at the Sedona Vedic Astrology Conference since 1999 and also the British Association of Vedic Astrologers in London since 2006. He has been involved in Vedic culture since 1973 and is a longtime meditation and yoga teacher and a published poet.

Recently, he has been pioneering research in other areas of Vedic astrology including Vedic Astro-locality, the effects your current physical location have on your chart, connecting astrology to hatha yoga for therapeutic purposes and developing transformational healing work to move through karma and the spiritual dimensions of Vedic astrology. He is a Neo-Vedic astrologer and uses the outer planets. He is particularly interested in Jaimini astrology and the soul’s journey through the physical world and its karma and purpose and has taken live seminars in London with Sanjay Rath.

For questions, please contact Barry by email at: [email protected] or call Fortucast at 800-788-2796.