Last year, with White Rhythmic Wizard we were called to balance seemingly opposite energies within us, bringing them together and bridging them: Our divine male and female selves, our sense of responsibility vs. personal freedom, the need for outer recognition vs. inner recognition and retaining a sense of individuality in all our relationships while still being in a sharing, giving relationship - all the while aligning our heads with our hearts. Sigh...tall order!

This year, with Blue Resonant Storm things have heated up.

I just looked at the astrological chart for July 26th, 2012 and the main aspect that stands out is that Pluto is squaring both Uranus and Mars. (while Uranus and Mars oppose each other in Aries and Libra respectively). How appropriate that these three planets are locked in a battle during a Blue Storm year since Blue Storm is ruled by both Uranus and Pluto: dynamic sudden, lightning-like transformation. The world desires to transform and it starts with each of us individually!

I like how Resonant energy is testing us....Resonant (tone 7) is a very soft, meditative, plugged-in to Source energy but it also encourages us to show our stuff. We have been raising our energies, we have become mystically powerful and now is the time to bring this into the world, to manifest our ideals in a practical manner. One can sit on the mountain plugging in to Source forever but now is the time to bring what we've learned into our lives, make it physical, manifest our mystical power!

Perhaps the transforming energy of Blue Storm is just what is needed to catalyze this powerful individual manifestation...

A Seemingly Insurmountable Wall.....Breakthrough.....Free to Manifest your Power!

Now, let's look more closely at the western astrology aspects of the year. Visualize this: Pluto in Capricorn on the right in the most important position, making a square to Uranus in Aries up top, and also making a square to Mars in Libra down below. The 'missing leg' of the big square shape is in Cancer. What we have is a tippy three-legged table....we need to put some energy into the missing Cancer leg to bring some stability to this energy. Interestingly, the compliment of Blue Resonant Storm is Yellow Sun, which dovetails nicely with Cancer since they both encourage Unconditional Love for yourself and others. So remember this as the year goes on...be kind, first, to your Self!! Don't be so hard on yourself. Give yourself a break. Then, because you are unconditionally loving yourself you will radiate unconditional love to all those around you...

So this T-Square between Uranus, Mars and Pluto encourages all the Blue Storm qualities, listed below (especially for people with planets in Cancer, Capricorn, Aries and Libra)....as well as watching out for ego issues with others and power struggles...there may be some relationship that is pressing your buttons and making you angry. Intense emotions in any of your relationships will show you where you are needing more freedom in your life and Blue Storm (and Pluto) is right there to help you transform and be a positive agent of change. Something that needs to change will...best that you make the changes instead of circumstances making the changes for you (although that can be good, too!)

I like what Robert Hand has to say about the energy of Uranus and Mars opposing: "Uranus opposite Mars can represent a time when your efforts to liberate yourself from unnecessary and inhibiting restrictions start to succeed. Now you can really feel that you are becoming free of these bonds. Your life may take a new tack that represents a radically new direction for you and you will be able to act with mnore freedom and self-determination."

Fits perfectly with Blue Storm energy doesn't it?

Oh and here's what he says about Uranus and Pluto squaring: "The effect of this transit is to sweep away all the old and outworn structures that you have built up in your life. Pluto is the principle of death and regeneration, which is now combined with the Uranian principle of sudden change. The effect of the combination can be to create a total revolution in your life. (very Blue Storm too eh?!)

The drastic changes you encounter now may be partly the result of social and economic forces beyond your control. You may even feel like an unfortunate puppet moved by historical events. But these forces, even though they appear to be impersonal, play a vital role in your individual development. Accept this as a challenge to you as an individual, and allow the old order and old ideas to pass away. This will pave the way for your rebirth into a new way of life, where you will have the opportunity to be more alive."

Wow! You may want to read up on what Uranus in Aries is all about since this energy plays a big part his year (go here to read about Uranus in Aries)

Now, let's go back to visualizing the aspecting planets. From the important Pluto placement comes two more aspects: Pluto sextiling Neptune and Pluto sextiling the Moon in Transformative Scorpio....this kind of makes a Kite shape with Pluto at the nose (all energy directed at Pluto: Transformation) and the tail back in Cancer (Yellow Sun unconditional love) I feel that these harmonious, easy aspects to Neptune and the Moon dovetail well with the Resonant energy available....during these times of intensity, change and deep transformation we can always plug ourselves in to our higher selves, Source, our guides to re-charge our batteries...we are soooooo supported at this time! And the Scorpio Moon shows an emotional curiousity and investigativeness...emotionally, we are ready for this transformation. Yes!

Lastly, let's not forget that Blue Monkey is guiding our whole Blue Resonant Storm year reminding us to lighten up and guiding us towards playfullness and spontaneousness...

Whew, this is quite the year!

Resonant energy encourages time spent in lush, green Nature to plug in and re-charge our batteries.....

This is an opportunity to be more Alive!

Shadow Wisdom of Blue Storm

Do you feel insecure about taking risks? Are you uncertain about making choices? Have you hit a growth edge or an invisible wall? Perhaps you have been experiencing intense feelings or undefined anxieties. That is natural, for you are now in the crucible of evolution. During the major shift that is occurring, every level of your being is transforming. You may be concerned about your physical process and health. Remember to care for yourself. The intensity you feel is the quickening and purification of this time of Blue Storm.

The wisdom offered in this shadow is found in embracing the teachings of your life's experience. Blue Storm brings up core issues and cleans hidden corners, revealing any separation from Source. At times, life may seem unbearably intense or difficult, and you may even desire to escape the reality of this world. This in turn can create denial and addictive patterns, which only intensify the process. In this shadow are found addictions of all kinds: to substances, fear, sex, self-doubt, material comforts, relationships, work, and others.

In the shadow of Blue Storm, you may even experience feelings of despair and the desire to give up. Be encouraged. You are on the frontier of the unknown! You are in the process of transformation, discovering yourself as new sacred ground. Your feelings are magnified so that you will address them and use this energy to create the ecstasy of freedom. Break through your barriers to union! The totality of this transformation challenges everything in your reality. Surrender all that perpetuates the illusion of separation. Cast these things into the fires of Blue Storm, and your true essence will rise from the ashes transformed.

Embrace everything that happens to you and you will regain all the vital energy that can be applied to the purposes of evolution.

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Now is the time to move into the Light of Blue Storm

Qualities of Blue Storm: purification, transformation, reunion, light body, activation for ascension, thunderbeing, lightning path, initiation by fire, ecstasy of freedom.

Blue Storm is ruled by the combination of Aquarius/Uranus/11th house and Scorpio/Pluto/8th house with a little Sagittarius thrown in to the mix.

In receiving Blue Storm, you are entering into a time of profound quickening and transformation. You have come to the edge of what you have known yourself to be. Blue Storm beckons you to step into a fire that changes every level of your being, even the underlying structures of your life. Step into the unknown - your metamorphosis has begun!

Blue Storm helps you move from apparent separation into reunion. You are at a crossroads. You are in the midst of a personal revolution, clearing old patterns, past experiences, judgments, memories, and expectations. You are being purified and quickened into your light body, activated for rebirth.

Blue Storm prepares you to go through an apparently insurmoountable wall, and the intense feelings around this "wall" provide the very fuel that will propel you through it. These feelings are the access to your hidden power and potential. Be purified by the cleansing rain and transmuting lightning of Blue Storm. Feel the embrace of the thunderbeings. Discover the freedom of the true adventurer, the freed "actor" who can play any part at any moment without attachment. Trust your Essence Self to bring this freedom to you. Through Blue Storm, allow yourself to become a master player in the great game.

You give up what you seem to be in order to become fully what you are.

Only your true identity will live through these fires, for you will be reborn in the heart of All That Is.

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Harmonic Wisdom of Blue Storm

The harmonic wisdom embodied in Cauac is freedom, which can be defined as the state of being unconstrained by fate, karma, necessity, or circumstances in one's choices or actions. Freedom is an open reality wherein you know that you are at choice every moment. This state of being originates from an innate perception of reality. It is the understanding that you are an 'actor', free to play any part at any moment without being attached to it. You work with your life's 'scripts', your attachments and perceptions, in order to free them. From this perspective comes the fullest freedom: learning to live in natural harmony and union with divine will.

In music, this concept is expressed by the term 'a piacere', which means "at the pleasure of the performer." As a divine actor aligned with divine will, you are free at any moment to dance the dance of ecstasy.

The musical descriptor of this harmonic is senza, meaning 'without measure.' This refers to a composition that has the feeling of freedom. Since all limitations and separation are illusory, freedom is without measure.

Our Tone for this year is Tone 7 - Resonant - which gives a more meditative, plugged-in to Source, surround-yourself-with-lush-green-nature quietness to Blue Storm's normal deep and lightning-like intensity.

Mystical alignment, self-acceptance, technician of the sacred, direct connection with the Source.

Seven is the ray of Mystical Power, the foundation of the individual self freed within the two points of polarity. Your soul calls forth your ability to decode the hidden mysteries. Claim your mystical wisdom by acknowledging your personal relationshp to the Source. Catalyze the mystical force of your seven chakras to propel you to the region of divine illumination.

The consciousness of seven puts theory to the test, asking for practical application of your mystical power. As a technician of the sacred, you integrate the polarity of worlds into an operant foundation. You wear the seven-pointed star, symbol of the master artisan. Combine your feelings and intellect to transmute matter into mystical consciousness. Standing in simple self-acceptance, craft a light body from the column of light in your spine. Open your lotus to the world. You are the gift. Accept yourself unconditionally. Freed from the need for outside confirmation, stand open to your full mystical power. Align with the spinning mystery of the seven: seven chakras, seven planets, seven rays, seven steps of the pyramid - the seven stages of consciousness conjoined.

These excerpts were taken from the book, "The Mayan Oracle - Return Path to the Stars" by Ariel Spilsbury & Michael Bryner - Click here to email Ariel and purchase a signed copy!