Ladies and gentlemen, we’re in the Cardinal Climax. You don’t have to be hip to astrology or a total wonk to know that something is going on with our world. Earthquakes. Unparalleled man made disasters. Awakenings. Major shifts for which there is no return. The show has only started and the headliner — August’s cardinal grand cross — is about to take stage. Are you ready?
For the past decade, if not longer, astrologers have been speculating about this summer’s Cardinal Climax because it is and truly will be a once in a lifetime event. Financial astrologer Ray Merriman first coined this term back in 1999, recognizing that the outer planets aligning in the early cardinal degrees would signal some sort of upheaval and not just for the markets. While we astrologers might nerd out on aspects and modalities, trading theories about what this time might mean for the world, it’s one thing to write about it and another to experience it.
So now that we’re here, what does the Cardinal Climax feel like?
Uranus’s May entry into the sign of Aries was like getting plugged into a wall socket. Never has an ingress from one sign to another felt so palpable, my muscles tensing up and arching against Uranus’s current. Restless and uncharacteristically angry, I struggled to find a channel for this power, discovering in the process a new found appreciation for those born with Mars/Uranus contacts. I’m not the only one who has been feeling this blast of amped up Uranian energy. Green Summit has a great post on other astrologers’ reactions and Donna Cunningham wrote about her thoughts, echoing my own.
However, beyond the physical reactions that some of us are feeling, there seems to be something brewing on the psychic level. InHarmony Astrology describes this crucial time as a “karmic quickening.” I couldn’t have said it better as I’ve been getting a message intuitively about why this time is so important for our souls’ development. On an energetic level, the Cardinal Climax is a rare opportunity to blast through karmic blockages and get big results fast, harnessing Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto towards positive evolution. How do I know? Well for me there’s been a relentless push from spirit to clear out — clear out any of my baggage stemming from early childhood and adolescence, clear old wounds, and heal. In fact I’ve had some incredible healing opportunities arrive in the last couple of months as I push deep into blockages stemming from past life traumas.
This goes to the root of why I do what I do and why it is so important for me to remind you all of the opportunities of empowerment that the Universe is giving us right now — an opportunity that we all signed up for having chose to be born at this potent axis in history. The Cardinal Climax may strike fear in the less enlightened, but right now there is no changing that we’re plugged into a source of rare power. The question is whether we’ll choose to harness it for our karmic good or burn out?
I choose the former.
wow, fantastic article! positive and uplifting. i am using the cycle to my advantage (I hope!) thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome!
For the last month I have been on this quest to change my thinking to change my life. I have been into affirmations, changing how I say things, praying, trying to keep centered and remain in positive energy. Letting go of things, people and situations that are not working or letting situations flow normally allowing itself to continue or end. I notice that I have put myself in the position of observer in that I watch my thoughts not being critical, but just observing. Somehow, despite me being temporarily in between jobs, I have placed myself in a mental oasis. It is like I should pay attention to the storm going on around me, but I have chosen to trust the universe, do what I can to make things better, but to sit in the eye of the storm until it passes over. Is this instinct?
Excellent! Yes, trust the Universe. I’m not sure if you were conscious of the Cardinal Climax as you began your quest, Tammy, but your internal experiences speak of the less dramatic aspects of the CC that we are all feeling. Indeed it’s all about letting go in a big way, whether it’s outworn patterns from this life or patterns from many lives. Don’t let it pass over you, let it pass through. Let yourself be transformed, cleared, healed, and ready to take on the next phase of your life.
Spectacular, I’m doing the same things that “Tammy” said. LOL Between jobs, doing affirmations, focusing on positive growth and development, pursuing soul cleansing, releasing the past, expressing gratefulness for all of life’s experiences, thanking Source that I am able to live as prosperously as I am from day to day, and honing soul transformational skills in psychic intuition and energy healing.
Then, I read your take on the “Cardinal Climax” and thought, “oh, my, so there is some rhyme and reason to how I got to be in this place at this time.” Amazing.
Thanks for your article. It answers many questions for me.