
New Moon, New Stories … or the possibility seeds for just that, any time we’re in need of the good remedy of rekindled vision.
Our dominant stories can either grind us down and suck the lifeforce right out of us, or they can inspire, uplift, and energize us into more hallowed ground.
It matters, but we know this already, don’t we?
Here’s a bit of timely mythic-astro story alchemy for you.
After all, ’tis really the season for it.
For those with a tech-overdosed, two-second, flibbertigibbet attention span, here’s the wee gist:
It’s time to become aware of the stories you’re telling, and thus pouring your lifeforce into. Do they work well, or not so much? What (or whom) do they serve?
Need some help figuring that out & shifting it for the better? It’ll require more finely disciplined and honed attention and focus. Start here.
For those who have mastered their flibbertigibbet-mind a bit more and can still focus and concentrate — a necessity for change-catalysts, spiritual warriors, and transformation leader-alchemists — read on for more depth and substance.
ABOUT THOSE DOMINANT STORIES…
It has been said that ‘culture’ and even ‘reality’ are both a sort of ‘normal’ that is created by way of ‘the dominant stories’.
These dominant stories shape the common assumptions, define the common or shared ‘dream’, and thus define ‘normal’ behavior — whether it’s healthy and enlivening, or in service of an altogether different (and not so healthy) agenda.
In a way, that’s what ‘magic’ is about too, or sorcery if it’s used for purely egoic, ‘power over’ (rather than ‘power with’) or outright malefic purposes.

Reality becomes defined and shaped by the predominant stories we assume to be true — the ones we tell day in, and day out — as much as by what’s scientifically verifiable (and so much of ‘reality’ can’t be verified scientifically … yet).
So what are the dominant stories of our culture, and that define our own lives and experiences of life?
THE TIME IS RIPE FOR CHECKING IN WITH JUST THIS …
… and doing some story script re-writes if the Stories of Normal are less than inspired (or are outright life-draining or harmful).
There just might be a new story being born … or wanting to be noticed, acknowledged, and midwifed into being.
In the mythic-archetypal realms, Jupiter is, among other things, an archetype and energy of the inspired, expanded vision, story, theater, and drama.
Jupiter is the mythic part of ourselves that oversees the realm of the epic adventure, the creative — even mythic — exploration — whether in the movie theater or in the theater of your life or the collective life.

With Jupiter now transiting Libra, the sign of the Venusian “Beauty Way of Relating;” and Chiron and Neptune swimming through Piscean waters across the wheel, we have additional cosmic-juju support to pay attention to the details of the story we’re telling — and living.
Once we have a wee look-see at that, we can stir the story-magic and discern whether we might evolve our living stories into something more visionary, inspired, heartful, and healing.
We can ask, like Parsifal finally gets around to asking in the Grail Stories, “Whom does the Grail serve?”
In other words, “Just what am I serving? What stories am I supporting with my very lifeforce … my “one wild and precious life?”

We can inquire into whether we’re living small — being mindful that one can live large in seemingly small, mindful ways, or live small in what our culture might celebrate as ‘big ways’, so it’s not about the fame or the bling or the material scale here.
It’s about saying yes to living into our fuller, more heartful potential — what some traditions have called dharma or one’s destiny.
Dharma or destiny can be lived, cultivated, and fulfilled just as much within our own homes as it might be acted out on a world stage, depending on our unique dharma or purpose (we fine clues in our mythic-archetypal astrology blueprint or chart).
And it feels risky, heart-stirring, and very much alive. It’s at that fierce edge of life that vision-poets David Whyte and the late John O’Donohue have spoken of.
Here’s the thing about the current mythic-astrology, or some of the energetic-archetypal energy pools we’re bobbing about it …
Uranus and Pluto are still well within their Great Shift transformation square dance, and we’ll be living into the effects of those archetypal lightning bolts and earthquakes for the coming years.
But Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron — and the lunar nodes, which just changed signs — are also part of the Alchemical Cocktail of Now, each adding their elixirs to influence the months or years ahead.

And here’s the gist:
Vision and story are lived on the day to day, in the mundane details, in the quality of the questions we’re asking and the words we’re choosing on a regular, day to day, week to week basis.
We can become aware of and change our relationship with certain disempowering, victim-martyr (perpetrator-crucifier) dominant stories that we might have inherited, had drilled into us through conditioning, and likely experienced here and there along the way.
We might choose to cultivate and embrace a renewed vision and ‘leading story’ that’s a bit more inspired, elegant, refined, joyful, alive, magical (pick your adjectives that make your heart leap) … Divine.
We call upon the humility, devotion, discernment, and attentiveness of higher Virgo, and the Divinely inspired Big Love and big vision — the vision that pulls us (vs. the pain of non-aligned being that pushes us) — that is whispered into the ethers (and our hearts and ears, for those with ears to hear!) from the Muses … the messengers of Divine Inspiration.
With the help of Saturn in Sagittarius, we use the discernment and devotion, along with the inspired heartful vision-clues from the Pisces-Neptune Muses, to focus our aim and light the fiery tips of the inner-Archer’s arrows, and release them out into the horizon to make them manifest.

Inspired vision, a renewed heartfulness, focused discernment on a more magical, enlivened story … these are powerful in that that they’re ‘strange attractors’ with their own kind of gravitational field, and ability to magnetize, focus, center.
For the Generation X – MidSixties Babies that I’ve written about before — the soul group that has recently been, are, or soon will be on the Chiron Return Zone, it’s Phoenixing Time, so the above is even more relevant for these Uranus-Pluto-in-Virgo emerging Phoenix Leaders.
How does your Vision & Story Garden grow?
Such inquiries … and knowing some of the answers … can help us to more easily navigate challenges and patches of uncertainty or stress.
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Big Love,
Jamie

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November 12, 2015 at 12:51 am
I’ve enjoyed reading this post Jamie! Much love
November 12, 2015 at 6:34 pm
I’m glad that’s the case, Ashley! Thanks for visiting. 🙂 Lots of love to you as well. xo Jamie
November 12, 2015 at 5:02 am
Great piece. Those stories we have woven so deeply into our tapestries that we don’t even see them are so crucial.
November 12, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Thank you, Leigh, and so true … some of these stories really are woven deeply, so we have to follow the ‘pattern clues’ to track and begin to shift them. Thanks for stopping by. xo, Jamie
November 13, 2015 at 11:28 am
Awesome post. I’m pumped of late. Physically and mentally. I’ve found these unbelievable reserves of energy which I never thought possible. Some martian fighting spirit about no doubt. The main paradox of my story is channeling (not sublimating) this fighting spirit to constructive ends when there is no fight to be had. I’m not content to slow burn, my Phoenixing requires full flamage vanquishing all my former impurities without remorse. Not an easy thing to achieve in mundane life. As a newly inspired long distance athlete I need to to consider the narrative of an ancient Greek marathon runner. Got any good arcetypes in mind?
November 22, 2015 at 6:49 pm
Leeby Geeby … thank you. I enjoyed your comment (as I enjoyed your own blog posts), so thank you for that. This is apt wording, about your unique quality of Phoenixing that “requires full flamage vanquishing all my former impurities without remorse.”
I hear you on that one. 🙂 That’d be more bonfire than candle-flame. It’s not an easy thing to do in mundane life, nor in cultures where it’s been too long forgotten (though being remembered through those called to ‘bring it’ back into the current shared consciousness field).
Hermes-Mercury comes to mind, and Hermes-Mercury seemed often paired with Hestia-Vesta … so there’s a clue there with that pair. Hermes-Mercury — winged sandals on his feet — often stands outside the temples in which Hestia-Vesta’s flame burns at the heart, hearth, or center. I love that pair, I must admit … when I even begin to dip into it, much less sink into it, I really feel it.
See what it brings for you. Perhaps it’s a good one to write more about here at Sophia’s Children … it’s long been on my writing list and I’ve got a few notes already. Hmmmm…perhaps it’s a timely duo? 😉
Happy full-flamage-Phoenixing. 😉
xoxo and Big Love, Jamie
November 23, 2015 at 12:32 am
Wow. Thank you so much for considering my comment so thoughtfully. You mentioned Mercury because he’s associated with writing and lately my fingers have been on fire on the keyboard. After having routed my more personal shadow aspects, I’ve been facing my fears of publicly expressing my feelings about certain really intense shit that’s going on in the world at the moment. Delving into the collective shadow and my relationship with it. While at times a little psychologically harrowing, it’s been liberating. An overcoming of fear, but yeah it took a hell of a lot of fire in the fingers and feet to burn through that fear. Alchemically speaking too, I feel have taken it up a notch. I had an awesome dream about seeing a procession of the Tarot characters descending into the base of a pyramid. The magician seemed very prominent. So the Hermes aspect feels quite resonant also. I’m looking forward to reading more about that Mercury — Hermes duo.
November 23, 2015 at 4:38 pm
You’re most welcome. 🙂 I’ll put that Hermes/Mercury dynamic duo article idea back atop my (always growing) writing list. It’s an apt reflection for this coming season, though it’s always timely in some way.
And speaking of … quite the synchronicity that Monika just shared a post on Hermes-Mercury in her Symbol Reader blog. You’ll find it here:
http://symbolreader.net/2015/11/22/jung-on-alchemy-5-hermes-the-arcane-interpreter-of-all/
xoxo Love,
Jamie
November 24, 2015 at 8:03 am
Cheers for the heads up on that Hermes / Mercury Duo. I’m looking forward to reading your piece on that theme. And BTW here is that piece that I was referring too earlier which had a real sense of Phoenixing to it. My fingers literally burned up the keyboard on this piece. And it came through super-quick. I kind of stunned myself actually. I decided to leave it raw, so it keeps the flow of the creative process. It’s basically unedited and very much about me confronting my shadow. As always, thanks for your support and big love right back at you xoxoxoxo https://sharmarama.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/fuck-em-we-got-choices-part-3/
November 25, 2015 at 5:05 pm
Thanks, LeebyGeeby. The Hermes/Mercury and Cohort duo is back atop my writing list (though the Muse occasionally vetoes it all and insists upon flowing something else out that’s more timely…a dynamic you likely know well!). Stay tuned … 🙂
Thanks too for sharing your blog post …. I’ve been enjoying the series, as I usually do with your musings! When it flows like that it’s more like Spirit writing through you, isn’t it? Like the Muse bit I mentioned earlier. We’re “hollow bones” or chalices, as the various traditions would say.
Hope your keyboard survived that one. 😉
xoxo Love, Jamie
November 25, 2015 at 10:41 pm
Thank you kindly for your continuing support. Yes, when it flows that’s a wonderful feeling. The true joy of being a deeply creative person can he felt at such times, that deep partnership with the unconscious made conscious. A very healing experience too in terms of working through a long repressed shadow aspect. It was a journey through fear, and my inner strength has been very much supported by this process. Stay tuned as it evolves. It’s great to have you along!
November 27, 2015 at 6:10 pm
You’re welcome, and I’ll be staying tuned for sure …. I definitely ‘get’ the whole ‘journey through fear’ thing, for sure. Yea’ though I walk through the Valley … 🙂 xoxo Jamie
November 28, 2015 at 4:31 am
Awesome, your presence is inspiring. When ever I converse with you I can literally feel the fractal expansion opening up and this very stable fire energy flooding into the creative space of our interactions. Fear cannot live in such a space, it’s too light-filled. Many thanks my dear friend. Glad to have someone like you to share the love with. Many blessings! xoxo
November 30, 2015 at 4:26 pm
Very lovely, that. I’m glad it’s the case ~ Believing Mirrors are precious and vital in this chaos-surfing Transformation Time, yes? 🙂 I appreciate your unique magic and Big-Love-sharing, too. xoxo Jamie
December 1, 2015 at 12:15 pm
I hear you. Totally genuine friends are hard to come by. More so here in cyberspace. So this shared mojo is all the more precious indeed. Rock on. Stay strong!
December 6, 2015 at 8:15 pm
True enough, Leeby. We’re scattered far and yon on this beautiful Earth of ours, it seems. Most excellent that we can cross paths in the cyber (and likely the Unseen … though they’re overlapping in a way, aren’t they. 🙂 ). Rockin’ on. xoxo Jamie
December 7, 2015 at 12:31 pm
Indeedy. Funny that you should make that connection. I actually believe that the internet is a model that our conciousness has created in order to help reawaken us back into the fullness of our multi-dimensional nature, to facilitate the dissolution of our boundaries of time space and sense of personal atomisation as we move back up the curve of ascension. There is a connection between the Yin and Yang and binary computing code. What I believe to be an opening of “The Way,” through technology. The much-loved American philosopher and ethno-botanist Terrance McKenna was convinced about the sacred mathematical synchonicities between the I-Ching and the evolution of human conciousness. However I was personally alerted to this idea through the work of Carl Jung in Referencing the work of the German Sinologist Richard Wilhelm. Wow, there we go again, just a casual chat with you, and bammo this beautiful big love and creative mojo comes on through!! Awesome as….many thanks xoxo
December 8, 2015 at 5:28 pm
I can feel the buzz of those insights sparking from where I sit! 🙂 That’s the beauty of a sympatico-kindred conversation, isn’t it. Always a delight. xoxo Love, Jamie
December 10, 2015 at 1:15 am
Right on. Thank you. A definite example of Inspired co-lucidity!