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January/February 2009 Featured Stories
2009 Predictions: The Year of Change

As we begin the new year, our world faces major hurdles. Expect 2009 to be a time of great world change, as well as an opportunity for enormous personal growth.

Are You an 11 or a 2?

Mark Dodich

If you think the pace of life is already too quick, then you had better strap yourself in for an action-packed new year. Expansive Jupiter moves into quantum-thinking Aquarius on Jan. 5 for a full year.

You are going to need to make a choice about how you react to this quickening. You can step into higher humanitarian service during this time of rapid change, or you can hunker down in a cave in Montana. The numerology of 2009 explains the choice.

In numerology, 2 + 0 + 0 + 9 = 11. You can operate at the higher frequency of this master number or reduce the number 1 + 1 = 2. Eleven is a number of stepping into higher humanitarian service. It is the number of the visionary, the mystic and the disseminator of higher knowledge.

There is no judgment to be made if you prefer to live under the frequency of the number two. Here, you focus on relationship needs, seeing both sides of the situation as a mediator would do, and practicing patient diplomacy. A two is more focused on the personal, subjective world, and an 11 is working in the larger, objective world. Odds are that you will express a bit of both frequencies this year.

Again, there is no judgment on which frequency you choose to make dominant in your life. But you will need to step into your choice fully because transforming Pluto, now passing through Capricorn until 2024, requires that you commit yourself to your path of authentic integrity.

Pluto in Capricorn destroys and rebuilds the very foundation of your life. The world has already had a taste of this energy through infrastructure issues such as bridges badly in need of repair, the outdated structure of the global financial system, and personal and national credit and debt problems.

On a personal level, you already cleaned your closets of clutter in 2008. If you haven't made space in your life, it is important to do so quickly. This rebirthing energy has not been on the planet since the Revolutionary War and Industrial Revolution, and it is ready to make itself known in your life in 2009.

Now you must take pragmatic steps to create the reality that has been in the philosophical "Wouldn't it be nice?" stage for 13 years. And to kick it all off, risk-taking Jupiter moves into revolutionary Aquarius, building toward a triple whammy that will bless your life.

Before explaining the triple whammy that will be strong between May and December, it's best to first understand how Jupiter operates in your life. Jupiter is the beneficial mentor that coaches you into taking a risk on your life, a risk that requires you to expand your belief system. You are urged to go beyond the nice, neat comfort zone that created safe walls for your life experience.

Aquarius is associated with innovative technology, computers, astrology, and the quest to revolutionize your life and your view of the world. Jupiter in Aquarius catalyzes you to break free of your limiting box. Pluto in Capricorn destroys the box so that you cannot go back.

The triple whammy is the alignment of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune bursts through illusions to open to a higher truth. Chiron is a half-horse, half-human centaur known as the wounded healer. He helps you find alternative strategies to come up with a generally workable solution when you are caught between a rock and a hard place. Jupiter wants you to hurry to new heights of expression.

It is difficult to predict the changes that will come because the last time this triple alignment was even close was the year 1523. The first marine insurance was made available, peasants in southern Germany revolted and Portuguese settlers were expelled from China at that time. Oceans, revolutions and suffering people are all a part of this energy.

In 2009, new attempts to help whales and regulate world whaling countries are in the works. The issue of nuclear and wave-driven power methods will be important topics. New drugs, both for healing and recreationally destructive uses, will be introduced this year. The Internet will begin to go to new levels under this influence.

On a personal level, Jupiter wants you to take giant steps to create freedom and prosperity at large levels. Chiron has you feeling caught between responsibility and freedom. Be willing to take half steps to that larger goal in your life in order to blend the two. But first, Neptune asks you to go off on a vision quest to really tune into what your spirit wants to do.

The new year has great potential for rapidly manifesting your creative vision of your new reality. Allow yourself to go beyond your comfort zone while expanding your belief system. Small steps now lead to giant steps later.

Mark Dodich has been a professional astrologer and intuitive consultant since 1980. His specialties include natal astrology, relocation astrology maps and seven ray spiritual purpose astrology. A free Prosperity Enhancement Guide pdf and a Zodiac Signs of U.S. States & Cities pdf can be downloaded at www.astromark.us. For a free copy of his Astromark print newsletter, call 503-252-1558.

World Predictions

Elizabeth Joyce

2009 is a fated year and could prove to be a very difficult one.

There are more crises brewing in the financial department. Congress signed the last bailout package during a Mercury retrograde, which means that trouble will erupt at the next Mercury retrograde in January 2009, leading to a recession.

Pakistan continues to be one of the largest terrorist threats in the world. Early in 2009, Pakistan may have a nuclear exchange with India. There also will be a major terrorist attack in Dubai.

On a positive note, a cure for diabetes will be found this year, helping millions conquer this disease. Our children and our elderly are not cared for well or properly. The U.S. will begin to come together to solve these problems and have positive results. We can expect many medical breakthroughs, as well as hearing about plans to build on Mars.

Elizabeth Joyce, named One of the World's Greatest Psychics, is a spiritual healer and gives readings and workshops world wide. She is a radio and TV personality, appearing on Unsolved Mysteriesand the Psychic Detectives, and heard regularly on The X-Zoneand Beyond Belief Radio. Visit www.new-visions.com.

Dreaming a New Reality

Paul Levy

When we begin to awaken to the dreamlike nature of reality, we realize we are all characters in each other's dream. Like reflections in a mirror, we are all interconnected aspects of each other. Recognizing the dreamlike nature of reality empowers us to become lucid dreamers who can change the world.

To recognize the dreamlike nature of our situation is to recognize that we don't exist as isolated entities separate from the universe, but rather as relational beings who only exist relative to each other. We are all related, parts of a greater family.

The question then becomes: How do we best serve who we have now discovered ourselves to be? How does the dream itself want to unfold through us?

An indigenous elder who is fluent in the dreamtime says, "There's a dream dreaming us, and we must get back to that dream. The vision, the power and the energies at the disposal of man's dreaming self will help us to win the battle."

Awakening in the dream, instead of trying to manipulate and control the dream, we can work together and cooperatively offer ourselves in service to the highest and best good of the world. Moved by something greater than our imagined self, we become an instrument of something greater than our own limited version of ourselves.

Paul Levy, author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence. Visit www.awakeninthedream.com.