Judy Tsafrir
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Thank you Nicole for your response. I loved hearing about your encounter and connection with Trumpet Flower. I like how you wrote about falling in love with the sacred engagement. It has felt sacred, deeply satisfying and compelling.
I met a new flower today on my walk from which I wanted to create another flower essence, but the weather was cloudy. Do you know if it has to be sunny to create a new essence? I thought I would wait. I think tomorrow it is supposed to be a sunny day.
I will write again about my exploration with my new flower friend.
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Thank you, Benjamin. It’s been a kind of second quarantine. Not in terms of social isolation, but the restriction of movement and being at home 24/7. When I thought about the symbolic meaning of the event, Lori’s description of an imbalance of Yi, in terms of pushing and overdoing seemed relevant. Everything is slowed way down now. Simple tasks like showering and going up and down the stairs take much more time and energy than previously. Friends and community have really shown up in a very moving and helpful way. I loved my surgeon, my PT comes to the house twice a week and is a wizard, and I am not in pain, so there are many blessings in this really very difficult circumstance.
I could not see anything in the astrology which seemed to me to be a convincing trigger for the accident. The closest I could surmise was transiting Mars at 15 degrees Gemini square natal Mars in 13 degrees of Pisces. The accident occurred at 6:15 AM on September 5 in Newton, MA . If you see anything in the astrology of the event, I would be interested to hear your thoughts. Maybe the Mars square is sufficient. Pisces represents the feet. My current state sure does not feel like the energy that I would normally associate with Progressed Mars at 0 degrees Aries, or Progressed Sun on the Ascendant. But my IC is at 3 degrees Aries, so maybe it’s highlighting this very deep hidden part of my chart/psyche.
Anyhow, I wish to make lemonade out of lemons. Feeling sorry for myself only makes me feel so much worse. Someone said to me, that I should think of it like, “You don’t have to stay home, you GET TO stay home.” I am trying to live into that, but the beauty of the garden and not being able to be out in it is really painful to me. If all goes well, I will first be permitted to bear weight on my foot again after November 3.
Thanks again. I appreciate your kind wishes.
Judy
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Thank you, Kelli, for taking the time to write and to appreciate my garden. It is exactly as you say. The different installations are like altars, and my whole experience of my garden is a deeply spiritual one. On Labor Day I missed a step and broke bones in my left foot and have been required to be nonweight bearing since then. I had surgery on Friday and must continue to be nonweight bearing for an additional 6 weeks. One of the hardest things about this whole situation is that I cannot go out into the garden, except without a great deal of effort and risk. I look at it from the doorway and windows. Before this happened, I had a daily practice of blessing the garden with my coffee grounds. Thank you again, for seeing it for what it is to me. Many blessings to you. Judy
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Thank you!
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So happy that you like it!
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Hi Benjamin. I am back home and pulled out my PC and Solar Fire and tried to figure out how to calculate the Almutes Figuris and could not figure it out. I have no idea how to do it. I am sorry. I tried.
I did finish Maurice’s course. I learned a lot from him and think that he is a very good astrologer, though a difficult person. A lot of low vibration Scorpionic qualities. That’s a wonderful story about your announcement of your intent to wed Lorie!
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So glad that you like the painting. The squirrel appeared during a Shamanic gathering and was related to preparedness and the owl is a messenger of wisdom from the Beyond. I have many owl sculptures around my home and garden. I love the owl. Yes, I painted the frame. My paintings often feature painted frames.
The podcast was incredibly long-winded and obsessional. The total length was over 3 hours. I listened to over an hour of it on the plane. The main takeaway in over an hour could literally have been said in about 5 minutes. I do not recommend it.
I am traveling now and the computer that has Solar Fire on it is back in Boston. I will see if I can figure it out when I am back home. I know it is possible and I have done it previously, but not for several years. I will try. I also use Astro Gold on my everyday laptop.
I was in Steven’s apprenticeship program in Southern California between 2008-2010 or 2011. He was going through a divorce at the time and seemed pretty stressed. I went on subsequently to study with Maurice Fernandez, who had a different didactic approach. It was much more Socratic and holistic as opposed to sitting and listening to lectures. We met in all sorts of different locations, Sedona, Boulder, Sarasota, all these beautiful places where we would start the day before sunrise with Kundalini Yoga, and go hiking and hours and hours of astrology class. It was really fun and I met all sorts of interesting people. He also gave us a lot of homework that we had to complete in order to be certified by him. Some of his information was different than Steven’s.
I will get back to you when I am home and see if I can figure out how to calculate your Almuten Figuris. I do not mind doing it. I would like to remember how to do that in order to be able to find that out easily for others as well.
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Benjamin, I am so touched by how much care and thought you put into your response to me. Steven Forrest was my first teacher. I went through his whole apprenticeship program in person in California which was shortly after my Chiron Return and coincided with my metamorphosis from a psychoanalyst to a practice that was much more holistic and spiritual. The whole aspect of timing in one’s life with the astrological transits, progressions, and returns is breathtaking and awe-inspiring and creates in me a feeling of tremendous connectedness with the Universe. Have you ever heard of the Almuten Figuris. It’s a concept/technique from traditional astrology that through a complex calculation, identifies the planet in your chart that is your Guardian Angel, or Divine Twin. Solar Fire will do the calculation for you.
I just googled and saw that there is an episode on the Astrology Podcast about it. I have not listened to it yet, but am now at the airport and have a 1.5 hour flight and plan to do so on the plane.
My Almuten Figuris is Venus in Leo. I totally intuitively feel that. I made a painting entitled “The Leo Queen: Almuten Figuris.” It is 48 inches by 60 inches, mixed media on canvas with a painted wooden frame. I will attach a photo of it here. These progressions are supporting the expression of my Leo Queen self in the world.
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Thank you, Benjamin. I was very moved by the care and thought you put into thinking about my chart. It’s interesting to think about the Heavenly Mandate in terms of both the North Node and the Sun. In reality, it feels to me like the whole chart reflects our entelechy. There is not anything that is irrelevant in that regard. I agree with you about the Feminine. I feel like Venus in Leo is at the very heart of my soul’s purpose, in terms of heart-centered creativity, generativity, children, and devotion to future generations. All my life I have been tremendously inhibited by all of that Virgo energy, low vibration Mars in Pisces, Saturn square Venus, but all of that is changing in a big way now. I think about Divine Timing. I believe that it has to do with my Progressed Chart with the Progressed Sun moving into my first house, Progressed Mars at 0 degrees Aries and Progressed Mercury at 28 degrees Sag squaring natal Mercury. It’s a really happening Progressed Chart and I feel it and it is so exciting. I feel like I have been waiting all of my life for this time and I knew it was coming. It’s all amazing.
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Hi Rebecca. Those are little sculptures, they are not alive. I did not need to be quick in order to capture them alighting on the heads of the Buddhas.
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That is funny. I think Rebecca thought they were alive unless she was kidding. I love the symbology of the red bird. It’s very touching to me.
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Hi Benjamin,
I am very interested in hearing your thoughts.
I associate the North Node with the Heavenly Mandate. My North Node is at 0 degrees Sag ruled by Jupiter in Virgo which is opposed by Mars in Pisces. Jupiter in Virgo: big service, holistic health and healing. Mars in Pisces is correlated in my mind with the motivation for spiritual connection, creativity, sacred activism. Saturn in Scorpio is conjunct the north node, and though out of sign, signifies for me a heavenly mandate to own my shamanic authority. That Saturn pulls in the Pluto/Venus conjunction as it is square the nodes. Pluto Saturn is in my mind correlated with paradigm shifts, restructuring the existing order, and Pluto Venus in Leo again the powerful importance of creative self expression.
It’s complex. It pulls in and combines multiple archetypes. And then as you mentioned, my Libra Sun is ruled by that Venus and they are in mutual reception. And the Sun too is, as you mentioned, linked with the heavenly mandate. So it’s very multi faceted.
How do you see it?
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Thank you, Benjamin, for this thoughtful reply. I also see it so clearly in my birth chart. Jupiter in Virgo is opposed by Mars in Pisces. And Venus is conjunct Pluto and square Saturn and the North Node. I adore astrology. It is a never-ending miracle to witness the way the Heavens and our lived Earthly experience mirror each other. If you would like to see other pictures of the garden, here is a link: https://www.judytsafrirmd.com/the-garden/https://www.judytsafrirmd.com/the-garden/
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Glad that his teaching spoke to you. There is something about his energy that is very soothing to me. When I feel jangled and upset and disconnected from my essence, he unfailingly brings me back. There are many of his dharma talks available on YouTube.
This AM I heard something on a podcast that resonated with me. The podcast is called “What Could Possibly Go Right? ” Either the host or the guest said, ” I accept the unacceptable, not because it is acceptable, but because it is what is.” That helped too.
There is so much these days that is utterly unacceptable and stunning, yet not to accept it is to suffer even more. Have you heard Bayo Akomolafe talk about the slave ship? It helps me to frame it like that. To remember that.
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I see it! Thank you!