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Source: The Sea of Intuition

The sacred is the emotional force which connects the parts to the whole. —Author unknown

So profoundly does the ocean affect those who live near it that it follows them forever. I couldn’t have been more than a few years old the first time I saw the ocean and went crazy with ecstasy, racing back and forth on the beach, splashing in the shallows. That ecstasy arrived every summer with our return to the ocean, to the same stretch of beach along the South Carolina coast, the town where great-grandparents were buried and their offspring still lived. It was a homecoming for my grandparents, but as I got older I began to understand it more clearly as a different sort of homecoming all my own. When I swam in the ocean, a strange thing happened: My sense of self dissolved and then resurfaced, bigger and emptier, but definitely better. I let go of who I thought I was and then remembered who I really was. It was as simple as that.

This phenomenon came into focus completely the summer I was ten. It was June, and though the sun was hot, the water was cold. I got used to the temperature of the water, moving farther and farther into the breakers. Beyond the breakers, with the water up to my chest, and my feet resting lightly on the ocean floor, my arms floated on either side; I turned my face to the sun and out to sea.

As I did this, I forgot my life story—age, gender, family, everything. As it evaporated, a deep happiness came over me and I lost gravity slightly, the salt water making my body buoyant and lighter, part of the sea. A self returned that knew its own nature, something without boundaries but focused in me. I was both empty and full.

I turned back to watch my grandfather and father fishing down the strand from where I floated in the sea. I could see the bucket of bait and my grandfather’s black Labrador sitting on her haunches next to him. I watched my mother and grandmother and sister and cousins in their folding chairs on the beach, reading and laughing. A straw sun hat caught in the wind and blew down the beach. I watched them all and knew we belonged to one another, but for all the pull and strength of that belonging, I belonged even more to this larger self, this knowing, this inner atmosphere, which felt like an invisible companion with answers to questions I had not yet asked. It did not require that I do anything at all but witness it. As I did, it grew stronger, as if to say: Call upon me, anytime.

These spells of knowing that began in the sea informed me of my own deeper nature in a way nothing else could. They taught me about being in the flow. Eventually, I could find this knowing, this flow, anywhere, but it came most easily when I was around a body of water, whether a small creek or a filled bathtub. Water triggered this ability to forget myself and to return to some essential state that was both empty and full. That space allowed me to understand interrelationship, the exchange of energies between everything. And though I could not know enough to predict the outcome of these exchanges, I could feel their potential, as if they were part of my sea. It was like an extra natural sense, in addition to smell and taste. Much later, I would learn that there was a word for this: intuition.

This extra sense, this intuition, was an inner eye capable of accurately relating parts to a whole. Intuition originated in the heart, not the head. It offered no guarantees, no certain facts, but rather a knowing whose confidence was based upon its capacity to flow—flowing along a pathway with no falsehood in it at all.

Everyone is intuitive. Each of us has his or her own flow, depending on our focus. You may pick up totally different worlds of information from what your spouse or best friend may tune in to.

Each of us has a different method of letting go of who we think we are and remember ourselves as being. Music was my grandfather’s sea of self-forgetting. Stravinsky or Strauss did for him what the ocean did for me. He’d listen to “The Blue Danube” and fall into a light sleep after dinner, and when he woke up, he’d often announce an intention: “Think I better cover those young tomatoes, we could have a cold snap tonight.” His intuition and hunches were about planting and pruning and weather.

By my teens, I felt at least two rivers of intuition operating for me. The first was personal and based on what I cared most deeply about: my horse, my dogs, my family, my friends. The second was impersonal, as if my personal resonance had merged with a larger one and, as a consequence, I received impressions I hadn’t asked for but were simply there. Both rivers of intuition required that I occupy a soft uncertainty—a not knowing—through which the knowing could come. Sometimes it arrived spontaneously, out of nowhere, when I was far from any thought related to the information that came.

For example, as I woke up one morning around age thirteen, I suddenly knew that my dog was down the hill behind our home barking at a poisonous snake that would bite her if I did not intervene. I didn’t even put on shoes or stop to wonder if the impression was right. I leapt from my bed, raced down the hill barefoot in my pajamas, and there was my little terrier, barking fiercely at a snake coiled to strike. I called her to me in my most commanding voice, my heart pounding as she snapped at the snake. She didn’t come, and I grabbed her from behind and carried her back up the hill to the house, leaving the snake to retreat on its own.

Most instances of intuitive flow around my personal life were far less dramatic but instead involved impressions about the soul of things, what was going on emotionally with this person or that. I also began to play with the idea of asking myself—or this deeper self—questions that could be answered yes or no. I found, however, that the intuitive force didn’t care so much about mundanities, like whether I should go to the movies with my friends or stay home, but surged with knowing when I asked about deeper assumptions. Is there more than physical reality? Yes. Am I right that spirit is everywhere? Yes. Will I ever be comfortable being visible to other people in my full sensitivity? Yes. Will I ever find a way to thrive in the world, using my sensitivity as my strength? Yes.

Some intuitive promptings seemed impersonal, beyond the range of my own experience. These seemed to provide friendly guidance, drawing me, for instance, to a book or a movie—the two great doorways for me into the larger world during the 1960s—without explanation. It was as if someone had placed a cue card there for me—encouragement to step into an archetypal schoolroom that was connected to a larger story.

For example, when I was eleven I went to a yard sale and for no apparent reason, opened the bottom drawer of a desk that was for sale. In it I found a book about Edgar Cayce, someone I’d never heard of. He was in fact famous as the “sleeping prophet,” whose extraordinary intuitions enabled him to diagnose diseases and offer detailed information about healing foods and treatments for people who came to consult him. His method of letting go of who he thought he was, was literally to fall asleep—during which time a deeper self surfaced from his psyche. I found Cayce’s life story at a pivotal time, for it reinforced my own intuition that these inner knowings come through recognizing a resonance, a sense of connection to something. Intuition can guide you to make choices.

I began to recognize two styles of flow: One was this larger sea that required dissolving identity, being totally empty. Intuition originated there. From that flow came a second: specific urges or instincts to explore, to act, to do. These instincts were servants to intuition. They directed the intuitive flow; gave it focus and form.

The Twelve Instincts

Life experience develops one’s instincts. We act on the knowing through our instincts—we become a living story. And each individual story includes these twelve instincts:

1.The instinct to shine in your life, from a true center

2.The instinct to have a home

3.The instinct to communicate

4.The instinct to love

5.The instinct to act

6.The instinct to philosophize, to sum it all up

7.The instinct to commit

8.The instinct to heal

9.The instinct to express truth

10.The instinct to express soul

11.The instinct to express power

12.The instinct to gaze at your past and your future

As an astrologer, I saw these same instincts beautifully embodied in the planets. We will explore them in the next chapter.

To Encourage the Intuitive Flow in You . . .

The following exercise will strengthen your intuitive flow. Keep in mind that it is through your beliefs that you create the open doorway through which experience comes. If you do not believe you are intuitive, it is difficult for the flow to give you guidance. It’s like having the radio on with the volume turned off. Use the following exercise to help you turn the volume up.

Prepare: Set aside at least ten minutes to sit in a quiet room where you will not be disturbed. Sit comfortably and breathe deeply for a few moments. Think of your responsibilities and visualize them as a hat you are wearing. Now remove the hat. If you feel you are wearing a mask, that you have to be someone in particular—someone who answers the phone when it rings, or someone who must make dinner later, or someone who must be in control of what comes next—just take off the mask. Set it aside. Take a deep breath.

Imagine: You are at a scene, past or present, in which you are relaxed and aware. There are no obstacles, no sorrows in this moment. It is a scene in which a deep happiness prevails that is not dependent upon anyone or anything. Float there with an open heart for several minutes.

Invite: After a few minutes of floating, ask yourself the following series of questions, to deepen your receptivity to the flow. Consider that you are inviting the flow, the source of this sea of intuition, to come near you, to engage with you, every time you open your heart and voice a yes. Even a few yeses will open the way to your own sea of intuition.

Can I imagine a flow of life that is infinite?

Do I believe that this flow is benevolent?

Do I believe that this flow moves through me?

As I feel this flow, does it accept me, just as I am?

Can I accept me, just as I am, in this moment?

As I do, am I able to flow more fully with this sea?

Will this sea take me to my purpose, even though I cannot fully see that purpose?

Am I willing to take off my mask, my hat of responsibility, once or twice a day to occupy this sea?

As a consequence, will I be happier? Healthier? More creative?

Does stepping into this flow benefit not only me but all life?

Accept: The sea of intuition asks that you do nothing but occupy it. This sea communicates knowing through feeling. Here, your sensitivity is your strength. chapter 2

The Planets: Your Best Instincts It is the day of your birth—square one—the true beginning of your life on Earth. You emerge from your mother, draw your first breath, and all of the presences in the room bombard your senses—from family members to the midwife, doctor, or nurse who helped bring you into this world. You engage immediately with the reality of being here. Sounds, smells, sensations surround you.

Welcome to Earth: A Brief Introduction to the Planets

Your infant body was sensitive not only to the atmosphere of the room, but to the ultimate life giver: the Sun. Imagine the energy of the Sun as it travels at the speed of light, crossing 93 million miles to reach you. Somehow you receive its signature, as well as those of all the planets in the solar system. You have inherited a life code and a cosmic clock from the larger family of the solar system. Like the genetic code you inherited from your family of origin, this code encourages particular styles of growth and instinctual exploration.

Meanwhile, your cosmic clock, following the rhythms of the planets, encourages you to grow, slow down, or speed up at particular times over the rest of your life. The content of what you grow is entirely up to you. Your cosmic family supports that growth through your planetary instincts.

This chapter’s purpose is to familiarize you with the symbolic content of the planets, but you can also begin to become visually familiar with the planetary glyphs through the birthchart below. Take a moment, if you like, to look at each planet’s glyph and then find it in the sample birthchart shown here (or your own birthchart, if available). With each glyph is a brief introduc- tion to the instinct of the planet it represents. The planets will speak their purposes at more length through the rest of this chapter.

3The SUN is your instinct to shine from the center of your life story.*

4The MOON is your instinct to have a home.*

5MERCURY is your instinct to communicate.

6VENUS is your instinct to love.

7MARS is your instinct to act.

8JUPITER is your instinct to philosophize, to sum it all up.

0SATURN is your instinct to commit.

jCHIRON is your instinct to heal.**

-URANUS is your instinct to express truth.

=NEPTUNE is your instinct to express soul.

;PLUTO is your instinct to express power.

The planets above set into motion a life story, answering the question Who am I? in multiple ways. Two seemingly obscure but significant symbols—the north and south nodes of the Moon—reveal two other important instincts. The south node ' symbolizes your instinct to ask, “What have I inherited from my past?” The north node e symbolizes your instinct to ask, “Where am I going?”

* Although the Sun and Moon are not planets, we refer to them as such in astrology.

** Chiron, formerly thought to be an asteroid, has since been declared a planetoid due to the fact that it has characteristics of both a planet and an asteroid. Discovered in 1977 between the orbit of Saturn and Uranus, it is given equal weight to the planets as an influence by astrologers who study it.

3 THE SUN:

The instinct to shine from the center of your life story

When you took on the signature of the Sun at the moment of birth, you became an emissary of that Sun. Just as the Sun is the center of the solar system, the Sun’s placement in your birthchart symbolizes the optimal expression of your true center. It is the guid- ing light of your story. Visualize a wheel with spokes that meet at the center. Within your inner family, the Sun is the “I” in charge of the entire wheel—the gravitational center of self. As you step outside the privacy of your inner family into your village, the Sun is the shaft of light at the center of the town square where everyone instinctively gathers—a central force pulling everyone together as a community, creating the unique identity of that town.

The Sun’s purpose is to convince you that this is the only life you’re ever going to have and so you better occupy it fully, play director. No one else can occupy your director’s chair for you. The Sun is the functional ego. When you wake from a deep sleep, that conscious waking state you enter every day of your life is your Sun—the constant presence of the “I.”

Find the Sun 3 at work in your life by completing this sentence:

Above all else, I want to ___________.

Intuitive assignment:

Now let’s explore the same question with the heart, not the head, to encourage the intuitive voice of the Sun to speak to you about how it operates in your life. Take a moment to relax and...
Présentation de l'éditeur :
Intuitive Astrology is simply wonderful.  I’ve used and studied astrology for many years, and this is one of the most accessible and practical guides ever written.”
— Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdsom and The Wisdom of Menopause


“A user-friendly gift of intelligence, accessibility, and depth.”
—ELIZABETH LESSER
Co-founder of Omega Institute and author of The Seeker’s Guide

Is astrology destiny?
Of course not! Your birth chart does not foresee a future written in stone, and predictive astrology is just a parlor game. The original purpose of astrology was to help you tap into your inner wisdom, ask yourself the right questions, and find your own answers to life’s challenges. Now this unconventional and refreshing guide helps you reconnect with the sea of intuition that flows through each of us—so you can discover your true purpose.

Based upon the author’s nearly twenty years of experience as a professional astrologer, this amazing book gives you a secure orientation in the basic principles of astrology and teaches you highly effective techniques for identifying your talent, your passion, your spiritual support, and your connection to community.

• Clear instructions on technically reading the planets, signs, and houses in your birth chart as well as a primer on the meaning of each
• Easy-to-follow intuitive exercises to connect with your “cosmic database,” a wellspring of creativity that encourages you to trust your potential and to love who you are in the present
• Helpful ways to trust your own limits and use them as inner teachers
• Twelve true life stories that illustrate the inspiring and uniquely brilliant way in which each of us can bring an astrological script to life

If you are drawn to astrology but are intimidated by its apparent complexities, this generous, comprehensive book is the book for you. It presents the basics of astrology with crystal clarity and prepares you to use them with a subtle, finely honed precision that no other source provides. Even if you’re an experienced astrologer, you’ll be enlightened and stimulated by Elizabeth Rose Campbell’s affirmation: When you follow your best instincts, you follow the stars.


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