Lyndall McQuinn

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SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY:

Shamanic Astrology takes you into your natal chart to the centre of the wheel.

This perspective I call the Magicians Seat. Being seated in the middle of the chart we can see the placements of our natal planets from a very different point of view.  Firstly we claim our wheel as our ritual space, our personal choice of who we want to be as symbolised by our planetary placements.

Then we journey via meditation and movement into the placements of each planet beginning with the personal planets. This experience of the wheel tells us how our energy is programmed. We feel where we move around the wheel when we react to our lives. This offers us the opportunity to explore all our options and maybe even re route some of the lesser productive aspects of our patterning.

In doing this work I find Astrology speaks its own language . What an Astrologer may tell us in a reading, we can experience and in turn tell the Astrologer the same concepts through our own self discovery.

I will be offering the experience of Shamanic Astrology in two formats .

FORMAT 1- One on One personal sessions.

I offer six personal ongoing one hour sessions to be completed over a period of 10 weeks.

.FORMAT  2- A Series of Six Workshops

1.Astrology Wheel as a Ritual Wheel-

This workshop introduces the concept of the Magicians Seat and the signs as pure energetic form made up of element and mode. We will explore the four major angles of the chart to discover your own personal ritual wheel.

 2. Earth Walks

Explores the Sun Sign through the concept of what is my purpose?

The polarity of the Sun Sign illuminates our shadow self. We will explore the walk of self and purpose to the opposing side of the wheel; our shadow.

 3. Trilogy of spirit/mind.

In Astrology the Sun, Mercury and Venus journey closely together.Taking the seat of each of these three placements we learn to distinguish the relationship within of purpose, mind and desire.

 4. Core Trilogy

Sun Moon Ascendant . The heart of the being and how it responds emotionally and what we allow others to see. Knowledge gained from this workshop is profound with regarded to self and relating to others

   5…Duality of Love and Achievement

Venus and Mars explain to us how our desire nature  is functioning and how we manifest our desires into actions. This workshop explores sexuality, anger, jealousy  and what success is to us.

  6.     Puppet of the Personal Planets

We have made a journey through the personal planets. We now can walk our whole personal structure.  We begin to understand the concept of circuits and how they are programmed within the chart.

These workshops run for two hours. They do not have to be taken in numerical order however to fully understand the concept of Shamanic Astrology it is advisable to start at the first and continue at your leisure. Even though these workshops focus on the personal planets, the outer planets are considered by the aspects they make to the personal planets. They will be running at various venues and in intensive formats throughout the year . The cost of each individual workshop is $75.For details contact Lyndall  McQuinn    0426425923

NEXT ALL DAY WORKSHOP ON  JUL 24 th 2011 IN DAYLESFORD   and Sep 25th 2011 .

Shamanic Astrology is the union of shamanism and astrology.

Shamanic astrology turns the astrology wheel into a wheel for ritual and magic.

It is important to turn your attention to the centre of the Astrology Wheel and claim this space. I term this space the Magicians Seat.

Most astrology views the astrology wheel from the outside. Shamanic astrology steps inside the astrology wheel and takes hold of the energy as viewed from the centre of the wheel.

This gives a very different perspective to our astrology pattern.

Each planet is an individual energy available for our use.

We tend to program our energy into set patterning. Not everyone will pattern the energy in the same way. By moving along the lines of energies, the aspect lines, we can begin to verbalise how we are manifesting the energies of specific planets. By taking the symbol of a planet we can visualise how to empower or decrease power to various points on a circuit.

For example a Mars square Saturn opposite Pluto; one person may operate this pattern as Mars first straight across to the opposition of Pluto, action which is destructive to others, which then frustrates at Saturn. Mars to Pluto to Saturn

Person two may run this configuration by responding from frustration they create action which causes destruction to others. Saturn to Mars to Pluto.

The shaman understands that there is an energy pattern or circuit operating. The shaman also realises that if energy travels one way it can also travel in an opposite direction. By movement around the circuit the shaman will find ways of rerouting the energy.

Shamanic astrology operates personally. It is deep, introspective and confronting. My classes work through meditation, movement and writing, From symbol to word to movement is the way of the shaman.

Shamanic astrology also teaches timing . When is the best time to take actions.

It has a great understanding of the Lunar Cycle and how to use the energy available monthly. This opens many doorways both personally and for any external action a shaman may wish to undertake.

The impact of the moon on the population is very visible. Understanding this and working with it in flow rather than reactively brings huge changes to your lifestyle.

Understanding which lunar energy at what specific time of the year effects you the most personally helps you prepare for that time and again curb the reactionary response to your life.

The whole aim of shamanic astrology is to walk within the flow of your energy pattern not in reaction to it.

Key ritual times of the year are also apart of Shamanic Astrology. Concentration is on the eight major ritual doorways of the solstices, equinoxes which are termed the Cardinal rituals and the four major Wiccan rituals, which are termed the fixed rituals. These rituals are turned purely into astrological rituals rather than seasonal rituals. This eliminates the endless debate of hemispheres.

Finally when working with the ritual aspect of Shamanic Astrology I leave open the doorway for finding the mutable rituals. Were they ever present? Have we lost them or were they never invented?

Shamanic Astrology classes deal with putting action in to practice in the outer world. The second space where once we can step in flow and reduce reactionary responses of our personal space, we can work to change the course of the flow consciously in our outer world.

Blessed be.
Lyndall McQuinn.

Shamanic Astrology takes you into your natal chart to the centre of the wheel. This perspective I call the Magicians Seat.

Being seated in the middle of the chart we can see the placements of our natal planets from a very different point of view.

Firstly we claim our wheel as our ritual space, our personal choice of who we want to be as symbolised by our planetary placements.

Then we journey via meditation and movement into the placements of each planet beginning with the personal planets.

This experience of the wheel tells us how our energy is programmed. We feel where we move around the wheel when we react to our lives. This offers us the opportunity to explore all our options and maybe even re route some of the lesser productive aspects of our patterning.

In doing this work I find Astrology speaks its own language. What an Astrologer may tell us in a reading, we can experience, and in turn tell the Astrologer the same concepts through our own self discovery.

I will be offering the experience of Shamanic Astrology in two formats throughout 2010.

Format 1- One on One personal sessions
I offer six personal ongoing one hour sessions to be completed over a period of 10 weeks.

The costs of these sessions is $280.Session 1 is $80 followed by 5 sessions @$40 per session

Format 2- A Series of Six Workshops

1. Astrology Wheel as a Ritual Wheel
This workshop introduces the concept of the Magicians Seat and the signs as pure energetic form made up of element and mode. We will explore the four major angles of the chart to discover your own personal ritual wheel.

2. Earth Walks
Explores the Sun Sign through the concept of what is my purpose?

The polarity of the Sun Sign illuminates our shadow self and we explore the walk of self and purpose to the shadow.

3. Trilogy of spirit/mind
In Astrology the Sun, Mercury and Venus journey closely together.

Taking the seat of each of these three placements we learn to distinguish the relationship within of purpose, mind and desire.

4. Core Trilogy
Sun Moon Ascendant
The heart of the being and how it responds emotionally and what we allow others to see. Knowledge gained from this workshop is profound with regarded to self and relating to others

5. Duality of Love and Achievement
Venus and Mars explain to us how our desire nature is functioning and how we manifest our desires into actions. This workshop explores sexuality, anger, jealousy and what success is to us.

6. Puppet of the Personal Planets
We have made a journey through the personal planets. We now can walk our whole personal structure. We begin to understand the concept of circuits and how they are programmed within the chart.

These workshops run for two hours. They do not have to be taken in numerical order however, to fully understand the concept of Shamanic Astrology, it is advisable to start at the first and continue at your leisure.

Even though these workshops focus on the personal planets, the outer planets are considered by the aspects they make to the personal planets.

They will be running at various venues and in intensive formats throughout the year. The cost of each individual workshop is $75.

Contact Lyndall for further details