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Included in the Myss July Newsletter

Robert Ohotto: Strategies for Re-envisioning the Future
Sue Stevens: Turning Up the Heat

Hello Everyone at Myss.com!

It’s certainly been a while since I’ve connected with all of you through Caroline’s newsletter and I have missed you dearly! I had a book come out that I had to dedicate a lot of time and energy to promote and got very busy with many other projects, including launching my radio show ‘Dialogue with Destiny’ on HayHouseRadio.

I can still remember first writing for Myss.com back in 2004 when Caroline asked me to share my particular brand of wisdom with all of you and welcomed me into the CMED and Myss.com family. I used get incredibly excited each time I wrote a Myss.com newsletter and am so pleased to finally be back after a two year hiatus. Wow, it’s been two years!

That said, I realize some of you may not be familiar with who I am. Allow me to introduce myself then! I am Robert Ohotto and work as an Intuitive Life Strategist.

So what’s that? Essentially I intuitively read the psyche of my clients and assess the Fate their soul agreed to work with this lifetime as part of creating their Destiny. Then I devise a strategy for them to actualize their highest potential within their Fate and Destiny such that they are empowered to make choices in harmony with the Divine design of their lives.

To do this I discern what archetypal patterns they are bringing into this world with their soul’s innate energy, what archetypal patterns they incarnate into via their culture and family, and how all of this unfolds as part of their purpose through cycles of time (something I call our Soul’s Schedule).

In doing this work I have pioneered a new tool which I call Intuitive-Archetypal Astrology which can be used like a pair of glasses that allows us to see our lives through symbolic eyes.

So what’s Intuitive-Archetypal Astrology? First of all let me just tell you what I feel astrology to really be – a map of synchronicity…

Astrology was created out of the natural relationship our ancestors had with the sky and nature in which they projected through a mythic imagination their interior psyche onto the stars. In doing so they mapped out exquisitely the creative forces within themselves, which are also the creative forces of life here on earth that unfold via cycles of time. The planets don’t ‘cause’ anything per se; rather mirror what is happening both within and without us. Nor is this about personality traits and who ‘should’ date who folks! This is about how our soul incarnates its inner creative forces into this world as a sacred task through cycles of time that are archetypal.

Having said that, I hope you are as intrigued about this stuff as I have been for the past 18 years. What do you say we get back in the saddle and look at the creative archetypal processes that are directing our lives now and some strategies for working with them consciously? I’ve found that when we work with these patterns consciously it’s like flowing with the current and realizing that there really isn’t anything upstream that we really want anyway! Not to mention with everything going on in the world we need all the help we can get to navigate the changes we are facing, which is exactly why I feel so compelled to share my insights with all of you once again here on Myss.com. Ahhh, so good to be back!

Pluto in Capricorn, Economic Death – Choice or Coercion?

Ok, so this is the part of the newsletter that gets all dark and gloomy, so get ready! We simply must look at the shadow for a spell for only then can we truly see the light. With that in mind, the economic process we are reckoning with now is not something we can avoid. It is in fact our Fate. Furthermore it’s a Fate resulting in part from decades of a collective unconsciousness regarding our limits as mortals living on a planet with limited resources. No matter if you’ve just lost your job, are thinking of moving, are wondering if you’re going to lose your job, or concerned as to whether now is the time to start a new business or if your current business is going to collapse in this economic process we’re in – we can all feel that change is in the air…because, well it is indeed!

This Fate has come on our path to confront us with our own collective shadow and has been exacerbated by many of the choices individually and collectively made the past ten to eight years. But make no mistake, this current economic transformation is not just the result of bad banking and mortgages, it’s the result of a system that could no longer thrive within a change of course mandated by the world’s soul. And though this is just the beginning of the transformation, we can influence how this plays out in the future! We can either choose to accept that we are going through a major bottoming out, not unlike an addict, and chose the hard work of real recovery – or we can stay in denial and try to stay high on another quick fix which will bring us to a harder bottom in the long run.

Let’s face it; recovering from our addiction to the old economy will take hard work and will require at least twelve steps! Not to mention the withdrawal symptoms are painful and remind us that Destiny sometimes hurts. We have to take some time and rewire our values and goals, while we lose aspects of our old lives in the meantime. But from what I can sense in terms of the intention of this cycle, we really don’t have a choice. The Lord of Death and the Underworld, Pluto, is energizing the pattern of Capricorn and bringing all shadow issues up regarding capitalism and power so that something in us dies. Why? So we can lose our jobs and suffer? No, so we can be reborn in alignment with new possibilities of creative renewal through new systems of economy. But something must die no exceptions…

Take a moment and reflect on what you are willing to let die for creative renewal in your life that is associated with the old economic model? What does that look like? What aspect of your lifestyle is being challenged? What shadow issues is this bringing up for you to see in yourself?

I’ll write about this process more extensively in another article, so I won’t belabor this cycle further as its manifestations are readily apparent in our lives and on the nightly news. Which brings me to my good news, whew!

Every death brings a rebirth and other cycles in motion now are inseminating those who are willing to get pregnant…yikes, nice metaphors Robert…lol! But we must remember that pregnancies take time and there are many processes occurring during them that lead to birth. Right now there is an archetypal cyclical process that mirrors that back to us quite well: the current Jupiter Retrograde in Aquarius!

Jupiter Retrograde in Aquarius – Re-envisioning the Future

All the planets in the astrological model symbolize forces within our consciousness. Therefore, before I talk about our current Jupiter Retrograde, I feel we must understand Jupiter as a symbolic aspect in our psyche. Jupiter is the planet that represents the function of intuitive perception in our consciousness. Whereas Mercury represents our capacity to process and gather data via the mind, Jupiter isn’t concerned about data per se, but with what it means. You will find Mercury part of you reading a book in the corner learning lots of facts and figures, while the Jupiter part is in the other corner cracking a book open on Transforming Fate into Destiny (a shameless plug for my book, I know, ha!).

Said another way, Jupiter symbolizes the capacity to perceive life as being symbolically imbued with meaning and purpose. Jupiter is also concerned with the expansion of our lives and of what we could ideally be. In our solar system, Jupiter is the largest planet and this archetype in us seeks to channel the maximum potential of Destiny our lives are designed to hold.

Mythologically and historically, Jupiter has been associated with the king, patriarch, and the chief god in various pantheons. The gods associated with the astrological planet Jupiter, such as Zeus, were known as gods of thunder, learning, wisdom, justice, and prophetic vision. Thus Jupiter is the part of us that seeks to understand the bigger picture of our lives and what Truth means to each of us.

Now let’s look at Jupiter not just as a force within your psyche, but also as a force that co-creates through cycles of time our reality on Earth. When this cosmic force is going direct in the heavens and in us it brings faith, confidence, expansion and optimism to various aspects of our lives as symbolized by the planets and houses it transits in our birth charts with an intuitive trust in future outcome. “This is what you could be if you only take a risk and have a little faith…” Jupiter whispers in our ear when it’s going forward in direct motion as it plants its seeds of visionary potential.

Moving swiftly forward Jupiter entered into the zodiacal sign of Aquarius on January 5th of this year and ignited an urgent and universal need for revolution in our world that incorporates a worldview that what we each do affects others (in synchronicity right around the same time the new President of the USA came on the scene). In this light, as we set goals for the future we must honor our basic humanity as part of the equation lest we fall back into the old model of narcissism that is now dying. There are other cosmic forces currently in the sign of Aquarius (Neptune and Chiron) of which Jupiter has joined in their plight to heal our world through a vision of unity that allows us to honor our oneness and individuality at the same time.

Thus the overall message, impulse, and download now has much to do with re-envisioning how we define our Destiny as we move away from self-serving goals and ambitions toward aspirations that joins us together in the reinvention of the world. In case you haven’t noticed we are and have been globalizing for some time and our new technologies (i.e. the internet and most recently Twitter in Iran) are changing the rules.

From January 5th until June 15th Jupiter was moving right along in Aquarius expanding its energy and themes. As such I saw so many of my clients becoming very concerned about the future of their lives as the economy and job market continued to change. Yet as I intuitively read client after client, I picked up that so many were being inspired with new visions of how they wanted to impact the world through a new sense of purpose. You also are being asked via these cycles what your bigger place in the world is, but as you ask yourself that question you also unconsciously are asking to be shown where you aren’t empowered to embrace the role of what you could be. The realization that ‘we are the ones we’ve been waiting for’ is at hand, but what does that really mean? Furthermore what does it ask each of us to transform to embody it?…here we enter into the intention of the Jupiter Retrograde which began on June 15th and ends on October 12th!

As I proceed further with this article please realize that I’m going to amalgamate other cycles into this assessment because we must also realize that other energies in the world now are asking us to become practical revolutionaries to current changes. There is no “secret” that’s going to magically get us out of this mess folks (how ironic that book, which is about magically thinking your way to abundance, is still a number one seller and yet the economy is at its worst in sixty years!…oops, I digress.)

By way of background astronomically, Jupiter spends about one year in each zodiacal sign as it makes its sojourn through the heavens. During that time Jupiter goes retrograde once and spends about four months in retrogression (retrogression is the apparent movement of a planet backwards in the sky.) That said, what does a Jupiter Retrograde generically ask of us as a process and how can we strategize to harmonize our plans with its energy and intention?

First, as Jupiter is concerned with meaning, when Jupiter goes retrograde inner gravity pulls you inside yourself to investigate deeply the current philosophies or paradigms that you use to perceive your life as meaningful. In the case of Jupiter in Aquarius look at your worldview: Do you consider the bigger picture of your role to humanity in your current plans and goals? Are you being practical with what of your vision is realizable? Do you currently lack the discipline, boundaries, and healthy self-care that can allow you to expand your life into other areas of endeavor?

These are many of the questions I’ve seen client after client confronting. I’ve intuitively read many folks who have been feeling an inner push to move on, but can’t pull it off yet because they currently lack the confidence and self-regard required to energize other risks for expansion. For many clients, trying to extend themselves more will put their health and life at risk. Some are simply lost as they watch the outer world forcing them within and causing the growth and expansion that they’d hoped for withdraw in the area of their natal chart/life in which Jupiter is going retrograde, which will leaves them with the question, “Why?” And then gives them motive to call me!

As an intuitive I’ve discovered in not only the life of my clients, but in my own life, that we often are given a vision of possibility for our lives long before it’s meant to be born. It’s as if there is an organic process to the way in which intuitive inspiration and guidance moves through our energy system from the crown chakra down into the earth of our lives. As whatever you’ve been downloaded with over the past few months makes its way through your system, it’s important to realize that whatever seems to be held up -- whether it was a cherished goal, ideal, career prospect, business venture, relationship, or future vision – simply isn’t mature enough yet to be born because you’re not wired for it yet! There is much more to consider and evaluate, yet you had to get the download so the process of your transformation could begin such that you might eventually be a suitable vessel for them to incarnate through.

Furthermore, the world may not be ready for your vision to be born either. Timing is everything, thus additionally this summer becomes an incubation phase that requires further 6th chakra research. This doesn’t mean you remain idle by any means! But as you look at your goals and ideas you’re asked to consider what is most meaningful to you, what serves the bigger picture of your life in this changing world currently in chaos, and what is being transformed in you to wield greater soul empowerment and esteem in this world.

For example, if you’re considering getting a higher education, what do you feel called to study? Is it meaningful and authentically connected to what you believe about life? Will it position you in the avant-garde of new industry and economy on the other side of our current transformations? Will this new learning be practically usable in new job markets? Think about it…do your research…feel it out…watch how things unfold in the world.

Another thing that I’ve already realized with this summer cycle that I ask you to consider is that none of us are going to get where our souls want us to be without help from each other. This is a HUGE key to your future Destiny. Perhaps never before has our connection to community and those who want to see us shine been more important. Now is a great time evaluate your circle of friends, where you live, and how you’re socially supported in your life. For each of us to achieve our soul’s agenda we need the support of each other. If Destiny is our service to each other, how can we think we can pull it off on our own?

That said, be willing to reach out and ask the appropriate people who can help you for assistance, favors, or their expertise. And be willing to return in kind. I firmly believe we each have something unique to offer each other that can help each of us fulfill our calling in life. It’s become very obvious to me that networking with likeminded and ethically resonate individuals is an absolute necessity for us to move forward both individually and collectively. Additionally, and as a side note, I’ve been doing more relocation readings for people than ever before lately because we all intuitively know that we need to be more mindful of the how our environment and communities nourish (or don’t) us. Not a bad time at all to do research regarding relocation if you are feeling the pull.

Every cycle has a mid-point (that’s defined by a planets angular relationship to the Sun) in which things begin to clarify and crystallize a bit more. For this Jupiter Retrograde that midpoint is August 14th when Jupiter Retrograde in Aquarius aligns exactly opposite in the sky to the Sun with the Earth in the middle. The release of energy at this time may show up for you as a particular breakthrough. That lingering question of what to do next becomes more clear, you may know more consciously what steps are necessary to take next to fulfill your future visions, you may travel to a far exotic land and meet a hottie and elope (ha! Just making sure you’re paying attention!)

I think you get the idea…essentially the intention of this cycle should be more apparent to you around that time. Hopefully this clarity will render you grateful for the suspended animation you’ve found yourself in during the past two months. As I always say, it’s never good to give birth to things prematurely, there will only be complications and lots of damage control!

Speaking of birth, Jupiter will station direct on October 12th. After four months of the annual opportunity we are all given to re-evaluate what has meaning in our life and how we build our morality, goals, and ethics around that, it’s now time to get moving on our Aquarian vision. I sense many of you will solidly be in new higher educational tracks by then, planning assuredly a relocation, or ready to take action on new humanitarian goals!

To be sure the desire to expand and take a few risks will return with renewed vision and enthusiasm. The concept of your life’s purpose should re-emerge with a larger and more expanded definition. With new empowerment I hope you will move forward with a deeper sense of what your future vision is, having based that on the whisperings of your soul.

I’m counting on you to fulfill your Destiny as I know that in doing so you play a part in awakening the connection of our common humanity. Spend this summer evaluating what it will take for you to risk bringing out what’s best in you. Your fellow human beings will more than appreciate the service you offer us as the by-product of your journey

Caroline did a brilliant newsletter not long ago on how to build community and empower each other’s gifts. If you didn’t read that piece please check out her archives.

And finally I’d like to get on your radar a groundbreaking workshop I’ve put together for the CMED Institute this coming January 2010! Please read the write up for that below. I can’t think of a better way to get your coordinates and strategies set for the dynamic year 2010 is going to be!

http://www.myss.com/CMED/workshops/Souls_Schedule/

I’d love to hear any feedback you have regarding this newsletter, please feel free to email me your thoughts at Robert@ohotto.com. And please check out my HayHouseRadio show ‘Dialogue with Destiny’ which airs every Thursday at 9am PDT/12pm EDT, you can even call in for a free reading! If you’d like to find out more about me or my work, please visit my website at www.ohotto.com.

It’s great to be back with all of you! I’ll be in touch soon to discuss more about this Pluto process we’re in and the other cycles ahead. Until then I’m sending you much love, support, and patience for your Jupiter Retrograde in Aquarius process.

Namaste,

Robert Ohotto

Intuitive Life Strategist

Sue Stevens: Turning Up the Heat

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