Happy Protomagia, as my Greek friend Marinela says, a.k.a. Beltane or May Day (a traditional “thank God we survived the long Winter” celebratory and abundance-appreciating reference before ‘May Day’ got co-opted for martial purposes! Also connected with Persephone and her return from the Underworld as an Initiated Wise Woman).
With the recent and current astro-retrograde waves, a retrospective dive into the Sophia’s Children treasure vaults stirred up this still very timely (and recently updated) musing.
Written early in the recent Uranus-Pluto Square cycle, it’s one of my first posts after I switched to the WordPress platform, and one of my ‘evergreen’ favorites.
It may be more timely for the Energies of Now than it was when I originally wrote it.

Here you go … See what it stirs in and for you.
I’ve been quite introspective over the last month or so, even more than usual (see my previous post, Hail to the Hermit).
Those who aren’t introvert–contemplative types (most people, seemingly), can’t grok the need for periods of deep introspection, quiet, restoration, and listening-sensing.
But for the true (vs. plastic) “walkers between the worlds,” the artists, the writers, the contemplatives, thoughtful nonconformists … the transformation catalysts … these non-structured (or less-structured) periods of introspection, quiet, listening, sensing are essential to the wisdom, the insight, the healing, the art that depends on them.
As always of late, I sense into and watch what arises, and then track the patterns for themes, ideas, synchronicities, and guidance.
Two key archetypes — and these are just two of a ‘council’ of them right now — are Uranus and Pluto, the Promethean awakener and the ‘resistance is futile’ transformer of the status quo. A lot more people have been, and are being, introduced to The Narrow Path.
We’ve been, and are being, shaken and stirred, and that’s only going to intensify – not because of planets in the sky, but because the status quo has become psychopathic and unsustainable.
Plus, we’re being called to Be. Who. We. Truly. Are.
Faking it, serving superficial or toxic ‘values’ feels more and more intolerable, and becomes more and more of a noticeable energy drain.
Historically, much arises in the wake of the Uranus-Pluto meetups, even as most astrology focuses on the exact conjunctions or squares.Think about the late 1930s and the 1960s to have a sense of it.
We’re in the wake of their most recent meetup now.
For those born and imprinted with the energetics of this Uranus-Pluto dynamic in the mid-Sixties, when the two last met in this particular way, it may feel very familiar (I an my Uranus-Pluto Conjunction in Virgo peeps understand this very well — see Jem Neal’s article on the Uranus-Pluto Magi at his Chirotic Journal).
(See the Sophia’s Children article on this Phoenixing mid-60s, original/core Generation-X group (and a few others facing key Life Milestone passages) here.)
For now …

of The Doors
As I contemplated these various clues and puzzle pieces that have arisen into new clarity, and pattern-tracked for guidance on purpose and mission, a friend with whom I was in conversation on these things sent a quote from Jim Morrison, the very Scorpionic-Aquarian, Venusian lead singer for The Doors in The Sixties — when Uranus and Pluto, that famous duo, were conjunct in Virgo.
And here again these very same themes have been reflected, having seeded and roiled for a stretch of years in The Sixties (and perhaps the 1930s before that), and stirred up once more for a revisitation, deepening, expansion, and extension in recent years.
Key themes? A few of them, anyway …
- Awakening and liberation or ceding our power into ongoing enslavement in one form or another?
- In service to Life, or to short-sighted greed?
- Part of the silent (or not so silent) majority that stays quiet, looks away, justifies away the various misuses and abuses of power, or an intentional, whole-hearted subtle or more overt activist?
Those were the themes in the 1930s and the 1960s, amidst this Uranus-Pluto backdrop, and lo-and-behold, those are the very issues this time around, amidst the Uranus-Pluto and Emerging, Re-Membered Feminine backdrop.
Here is just a snippet of what mystic, shaman, poet, and artist Jim Morrison shared in an interview with Lizzie James back then (link below to full interview):
“I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But that unknown was once very well known – its where our souls belong. The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You ARE free.”
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
“But we can only open the doors – we can’t drag people through. I can’t free them unless they want to be free – more than anything else….Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything – not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught – all society’s brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.”
“The most important freedom is to be what you really are.”
Are you one of the mystics, shaman, artists, writers, or other version of transformation agent who is called to be what you really are?
From the strength with which this theme has arisen again, I’d guess that continuing to live into the question, and experiment with being that is important for these next few defining years.
You’ll find lots of other inspiration on this and related topics; just link-surf through Sophia’s Children, check the categories for what tweaks your heart-and-soul strings, or start with this heartful musing:
Restoring the World’s Lost Heart
It’s easier said than done, so kindred spirits, mentors, and seasoned guides are key to navigating the Way during these epically uncertainty-filled and transformative times.
- What stirs and beckons in your own life?
- What clues mark your path?
- What deep, heart and soul-centered values are your most powerful motivation (and anchor)?
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Big Love,
Read the full interview with Lizzie James and Jim Morrison — there is more insight that very much pertains to now.
Featured Image Credit: Trochilidae, Hummingbird, a traditional symbol of joy and whole-heartedness, by Ernst Haeckle.

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May 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm
Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
May 2, 2018 at 11:13 pm
Thanks for sharing, Eliza. Appreciation streaming back to you. 🙂
May 3, 2018 at 12:06 am
Thank you, Jamie.
May 1, 2018 at 7:53 pm
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May 2, 2018 at 11:12 pm
Thank you for sharing on your Dreamweaver333 blog, Violet Gold.
May 1, 2018 at 10:38 pm
Great post Jamie. Sometimes I have wanted to pull others through that door! Ha But now I know that my souls work is to just open it and shine a light on its possibilities. There is a lot of wisdom in your words today. 🙏🏻💚
May 2, 2018 at 11:12 pm
Thank you, Karen. It’s taken me awhile to keep that “pull ’em through the door” (or push them through the door) impulse as well. As you say, though, we ripen enough to just open it and shine a light on its possibilities, and encourage, affirm, plant ‘remembrance seeds’ (while continuing to remember ourselves!). Many thanks for visiting, and for all the ‘shine’ that you share through your blog.
May 2, 2018 at 11:16 pm
Thanks Jamie! Keep shining too ✨✨⭐️✨
May 2, 2018 at 1:03 am
Such a great interview! Thank you for that link and the rest of your post. Happy Beltane! ❤️
May 2, 2018 at 11:09 pm
Happy Beltane to you as well, Laura. I’m glad you enjoyed the interview, too — I appreciate the insight every time I revisit it! He was a seer and a seeder, to be sure. 🙂 Thanks for all that you share into the world!
May 2, 2018 at 2:52 am
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May 2, 2018 at 11:08 pm
Thank you for sharing this with your Infinite Shift blog-circle!
May 2, 2018 at 7:11 pm
What an inspirational post Jamie.. And yes remembering has taken many year of searching and sifting through the pieces and making sense of what we find.
Seeing who we are takes time.. And even then, we often question, and think we are failing in our missions here, as we doubt what we are doing is making any difference in the world..
But if we each of us understood we only have to make a difference to ourselves.. If we all just opened our own hearts to our own BEING and lived in love and service we would indeed be helping restore the Worlds Lost Heart.
I sense that we are on the cusp of something major, to what that is I have no clues.. I am sure your own insights into the heavenly bodies bring more clarity to what is occurring globally.
And I agree with you, It is easier said than done. Espeically as at every level we are bombarded with negativity to keep us locked down and imprisoned within our own humanness.
But the older I grow, I see many now are joining in the same vibration as they too unravel the puzzle.. Each finding their own particular pieces to add to the whole picture..
Many thanks Jamie for all you add to the Whole my friend..
I appreciate your teachings and inspirations my friend..
Love and Blessings Sue <3
May 2, 2018 at 11:18 pm
Thank you, Sue, for this beautiful and generous-hearted reflection back. Yes, it surely does feel ‘cuspy’, and all that we’re seeding and streaming into the shared field seems vital vibrational medicine (like adding flower essences to water!) towards restoring the world’s lost heart (so many adding their vibrational medicine drops!).
“And I agree with you, It is easier said than done. Especially as at every level we are bombarded with negativity to keep us locked down and imprisoned within our own humanness.”
Oh yes, that’s true … part of the ‘daily work’, it seems.
I so appreciate the pieces-of-the-puzzle metaphor as well. Bit by bit, step by step, piece by piece.
Heartful thanks to you as well for adding your Big Love pieces to the greater puzzle. 🙂
Love, Jamie
May 3, 2018 at 8:05 am
My pleasure Jamie.. Keep on Keeping on the Good Vibes my friend <3
July 4, 2018 at 1:52 pm
Great post 😊😊😊
July 4, 2018 at 2:09 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for visiting! 🙂