Jewell Starsinger Central
May 9th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Kabbala is Real
March 28th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
The Mystical Kabbala; what is it?
The world is a sexy place. Everyone you know got here from an orgasm. The way I understand it, the Creators of the Universe made everything with sex. If that is true, then wouldn’t it also be true that sex is sacred? After all, the Gods did it, making us the product of it. So what’s our problem? Our problem seems to be “The One God.” We are modern people and as such, we believe in “The One God.” Anything else is considered ridiculous. If we can believe in God, then why can’t we believe in Goddess? It’s old fashioned, right? With all those snakes and what not, how could a Goddess be anything but ridiculous and old fashioned, accepted by illiterate people from the distant stupid past? The absurdity of a female creative power is beyond laughable when we all know that females are beneath males, basically incompetent and undeniably weak. Just look at God’s favorite sex position; missionary, man on top, as it should be. When calling out to God (Oh my god!) we sincerely proclaim, amen. Invoking the Goddess (Oh my goddess!), produces chuckles from women and men. It’s hard to conceive of something that doesn’t exist in regular consciousness, and hey, girl stuff is just silly anyway, right? I mean, that’s Barbie stuff, if you know what I mean.
The most revealing thing I have received from the Kabbala is the reverence for the feminine. To the Kabbalist, creation was made from sex and the world is the domain of the Goddess Shekinah. On Earth, we walk in beauty, just like the Navajo say in their prayers. The Kingdom of God is the physical world. The physical world is sacred and not to be treated with disrespect, because She is Goddess. Yet Her name makes us laugh derisively because the people who “buy into her” are silly hippies who are ridiculous, stoned and obviously deluded. No credibility here.
Most of the modern religions disrespect the Kingdom because they mostly call physicality by unfriendly words of disrespect. They call her “gross” or “heavy vibration.” In meditation we learn to let go of our physical sensations. They weigh us down and are not worthy of our enlightened selves. Their main desire is to transcend the physical and go up to heaven where they can live only with the male principle, leaving the feminine principle to rot, as it should be. That’s a big mistake, because if anything will piss off the father it’s treating his main squeeze badly. Just my opinion. The Kabbalists know that leaving the physical is impossible. We can never live on the masculine side alone, even in spirit.
Many religions hate their bodies so much that the faithful literally beat themselves up. The penitentes are a good example of that. They have small whips that reach their backs to whip themselves bloody all alone. Then there are the young women, cutting and tearing at their own flesh and fingernails just because it hurts so good. This self-loathing in humans is the result of loving the One Male God (OMG) and despising his partner (feminine, earth, water mother).
Adding the feminine into the Creation Equation has been a problem for the past 5,000 years because she is so old fashioned what with all those snakes and creepy rituals. We prefer drinking the blood and eating the body of our man-creator. Yum! The truth is, it’s always all about what you are accustomed to. Grubs are not okay on my plate, but Bushmen love those “little poppers” like chocolate cake. The truth of the palate is as addictive as the truth of ideas. We are every bit as picky with our recipes as we are with our beliefs.
The more I learn about Kabbala, the more I realize that I should balance my beliefs with some reverence for life, and not in equal amounts, but more physical (goddess, reality, feminine) with a tiny dash of god (beliefs, paradigms, faith). Yes, God is a condiment, not to be taken as a full course. Goddess is the turkey, God is the salt.
The Projector is on line!
March 28th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Tuesday night class at Bookmans on Grant from 7-9PM was the first of many exciting evenings of learning by seeing. It was so nice to have the charts projected on the screen. You know I have this great astrology program that moves from minute to minute or year by year. We can look at what’s going on with you by any increment of time. And, after all, thats what astrology is all about. Join me tonight, Wednesday from 6-8PM at Bookmans on Ina for a repeat performance.
Mars is #1
February 12th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Mars, the Number 1
by Jewell Starsinger
Tuesday night Astrology class at Bookmans on Grant in Tucson. 7 PM
As Rome expanded Mars became the soldiers’ God of providence, providing food for an expanding army as the God of spring and growing fields. Eventually he became God of War, which made sense, because in Babylon he was Ninurta, evil and cruel. It seems that Mars hasn’t escaped his bad reputation over millennia, until now. I want to personally save his reputation with a few metaphysical upgrades out of several time-honored disciplines.
The second chakra
The second chakra is the chakra of individuality and sexuality. Now that’s an oxymoronic concept because it takes two for sex and one for individuality. Houston, I think we have a conundrum here. Let’s fish around for some possible answers. How about this one? When we have sex the idea is for the two to become as one. That works for me. Good answer! So our Mars energy rushes out into life seeking some kind of union. But he’s on the loose. On his own until he gets there.
Psychology
The Terrible Twos of psychology expresses Mars at its truest. The boundary-free infantile stage is gone for good and now the child has got her “me” on. She’s hard to hold. She doesn’t listen. She wants to go over “there,” where ever that is. She has learned to talk and say “no” with wild abandon. Why is it so compelling for her to escape the nest? This is how she “finds” herself. Mars pushes, climbs, wiggles and fights and flies its way out of the nest.
Seasons
His month is March/April, when spring is happening. He represents the principle of new growth and first times. He is the beginning of the life cycle, and as such, it requires courage to be a young sprout. Fortitude is the quality needed to grow in spite of late frost and torrential rain. Yet the sprout continues upward, diligently toward the sun.
Roman
Mars was right up there in stature with his father Jupiter. He was considered a more accessible God. His archetype is all about brash, immediate action. He doesn’t fool around, he just follows orders. If the orders of the day are putting out a fire, then he is a fireman. If the castle is on fire and there is no ladder, then he jumps. He doesn’t ask questions, any more than a blade of grass would ask to grow. He lives on instinct, in the moment, in accordance with the situation at hand.
The number 1
The number 1 is first. It is the number, “to be”. It has no conscience and no rationale. It simply goes and does without question or forethought. The impulse that takes you is first. Beginner’s luck is first, innocent action. Have you ever heard someone say, “My first choice is always right!”? For that person, the truth is right there, in front, leading her on.
The First House of Astrology
The first house is angular, cardinal, and fire. Its natural sign ruler is Aries, and planetary ruler is Mars. The first house in your chart tells all about your looks. It is the house of self. Mars rules this house. It is the “me” house and represents all your self-centered concerns, desires and behaviors. It is derived from your birth time, so it is all about your moment of arrival into the air. It is where you begin. The cusp of the first house is a special angle, the Ascendant (also known as the rising sign). When a planet touches this angle, you experience it on a very personal level. For instance, when Saturn travels here, you lose weight, but when Jupiter travels here, you gain weight. When Mars locates here, you argue, with Mercury on the Ascendant, you chat.
Tarot
Mars is the Tower in tarot. Two people leap from a burning tower on to a rocky terrain below. It looks daunting and no one likes it when the thing comes up in a reading, because it has pain written all over it. Why so extreme? The instinct is extreme in that it preceeds thought. One can’t contemplate the burning building without being burned. One does not even consider the rocky conclusion of the action. It is not Mars’ job to consider consequences.
The Tower Card in Tarot
Mars with #1 = is action
Mars with #2 = is sensuality
Mars with #3 = makes conversation
Mars with #4 = seeks to maintain
Mars with #5 = seeks love
Mars with #6 = seeks a plan
Mars With #7 = makes the deal
Mars with #8 = is power
Mars with #9 = seeks a belief
Mars with #10 = seeks authenticity
Mars with #11 = leads the way
Mars with #12 = is versatile
In my humble opinion, Mars is not the man to the Venus woman. Venus’ mate is actually Mercury. Their child was Hermaphroditos. That is beside the point. The point being that when Mars is given to men alone, women lose their second chakra. This may be why women have been in such a crappy place for so many millennia. We lost our desire nature and had to let men do that for us. I strongly urge women to reclaim their desire natures and follow their intuitions, seek their desires and generally go for the things that feel right. Urges are clues to personal identity.
Kabbala
In my humble opinion, your Mars is more personal than any other planet in your array. In Kabbala, it is called Foundation. It’s the “I AM” and the “To Be”. It’s the gasoline that fuels your life/car. Your life is founded on the “I AM”. According to kabbalists, Yesod represents god’s DESIRE to create and so it is for us, our DESIRE to BE. As humans we think we are making it up, but as creations of god, we are following the pattern that she has set down. I am not a god person, but I am a pattern person, first and foremost. These archetypes come from somewhere. I have only scratched the surface of where Mars comes from, but I don’t do all this scratching to prove anything. I am looking for the pure form. The Archetype.
The Kabbalists see god as a man and creator, in that the sperm takes the initiative to penetrate the egg. Today’s science shows that the egg actually chooses the sperm she wants. Yes, they have pictures with the egg casting a slimy net over one single sperm and incorporating the wiggler into herself. So much for patriarchy. My point in pointing all this out is to say that Mars does not equal only a penis and testicles. Women have a perfectly good clitoris with as many nerve endings a the male counterpart. Women don’t sublimate our desires because we are all naturally willing receptacles for the all mighty man-juice. We do it because of 5 millennia of training. Isn’t this what we have learned as astrologers? That within each archetype there exists huge potential for variety.
In conclusion, I believe that Mars is a Human or Life energy, represented by a spring blade of grass emerging from the dark, cold nest of mother earth. Fearless and faithful it pushes through the hard soil to manifest itself into creation. Is is also, a newborn creature, emerging from its mother, fearlessly and faithfully it begins to breath, express and BE. You get my drift!
One more thing lest my masculine readers, if there are any, become uncomfortable. The word “woman” includes man. The word “goddess” includes god. The word “she” contains he. The divine feminine holds and contains the divine spark. She is creator of everything at his request. OK, that’s enough for one day!
Blessings to you All -JS
Of Queen and King
February 12th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
If exhaustion were a drug, I’d be on planet Neptune. Things have eased up a bit and I can at least sit in the chair for an hour to type. Who the heck knows what is going on? Even if I don’t know what is going on with my health, I do know what is going on with spiritual things. It seems that we humans are still lost in a gender wilderness where the dark is feared and the vagina has teeth. In the spirit of that dichotomy I have an offering.
Saturn vs. Jupiter, a natural pair
Mythology is not a religion or a belief system, and if there were another conceptual comonality I could use to express these big-picture ideas, I would. But I can’t because the modern western world is based on Greco-Roman society which lasted from 300BC to 200 AD. Those pesky G-R gods and goddesses have permeated our consciousness right down to our sleeping brain-nubs. If I say, “What does the word ‘hero’ mean to you,” Most older folks will answer, ‘Hercules.’ Maybe the young ones will say it too, because lately the movies have been populated with the G-R Gods. Those characters are true, real. Firemen are herioc. Cops are enforcers. Politicians are liars, etc. Let’s move on.
A Paradigm, or belief system, is your world view. Many of us lead entire lives with one world view. Well, we used to. It’s harder and harder to do that in the Age of Communication because belief is subject to proof and there is a veritable flood of proofs flowing through the internets every second. Beliefs change all the time. They are passionately held and then shamefully dropped like a neglected doll. Paradigm is also belief, but it’s cultural doll to which we all cling, until once again, we leave it in the dirt when the poopie dust hits the fan. Some will give up dumb ideas more readily than others, but huge evidence will bring paradigm to its knees in a snap. A good “for instance” would be the fall of the Berlin wall. Almost over night, everyone agreed to stop playing their roles around the Wall Paradigm. It was amazing.
You believe in Santa until a certain age when you find out …or realize that he doesn’t exist. It’s a point of no return. You don’t see adults going back to believing in Santa, because that would be silly. That’s a paradigm shift. We do it with everything – life, love, religion, politics, everything. We grow up, we adopt new beliefs, we move on. We don’t go back to childhood beliefs. That would be regressive. So what is the appeal to those “traditionalists”? Do they want that secure feeling of being a favored child?
The antithesis of belief is proof. In astrology proof is represented by Saturn and belief is Jupiter. In pre-patriarchal cultures Saturn had the persona of the feminine earth, mountains, crystals and rock. The feminine represented the boundaries of the known Universe. Our bodies are covered in skin, the stuff that holds us together. We need the glue.
In astrology Jupiter rules this particular concept. He is the King of Mt Olympus and even he has paradigms that he adheres to, tests and then disregards. Jupiter is the king of consciousness shift because he always looks far away for answers. He always tries something new. A new nymph, perhaps, yes, he’s a wastrel and a rogue. He’s also the prime archetype for Preachers, especially the ones screaming hell and brimstone while having a mistress on the side.
These two create a crucial balance between energy and matter. The energy component creates a concept. He hands it over to his feminine partner and she makes it real. In doing so, she must make rules, forms and limits. If the thing will manifest then she has to make it stand on its foundation. As humans we often see these structures as obstacles. We believe that it would be more fun to play all day and not have limits, so we like the king better. He’s more fun. But always remember that the Queen keeps the walls of the castle up and when the weather turns bad, we can all appreciate walls.
#4 The Moon
January 9th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
The Number 4- My Family
The Fourth House represents family, home, roots and security. The Number 4 cares for herself and her relatives. She births and nurtures the family. She tirelessly feeds everyone to whom she is related. 4 belongs to the selective group called tribe or family. All the people around her are part of her tradition and her biology. Intimacy is key. With the number 4, you are included because you are born. You don’t do anything to become special. You are special because of genetics. Your birth welcomes you into the tribe.
Children learn to believe what their parents tell them as they feed and care for them. The feeding and touching and smelling of the inside of private rooms that the family shares are the literal domain of 4. Inside the four walls or out on the treacherous path, they inform us of our heritage and they teach us survival. Sometimes they are kind, but sometimes they are harsh, but either way, we feel loyalty toward them because they have taught us that we belong to and with them for better or for worse.
Tribal energy is expanded into greater and greater sections of real estate until we get nationalism at the top. I live in a neighborhood and that identifies me locally, but I also live in a city; Tucson. I am a Tucsonan. I don’t care for Phoenix, two hours away, because of reasons x, y and z. Phoenicians think Tucsonans are provincial and we think Phoenicians are snobs and it’s too hot there anyway. And so it goes, except that we are all Arizonans. When the going gets tough, the tough are all desert rats. This is our state. Then there is our country, right or wrong. But it doesn’t get bigger than that these days. The Global unity thing is still to new for us to identify with. Remember, this is an issue of intimacy. The 4 is about connection and how can I feel connected to some desert rats on the other side of the world that make their women wear bee keeper suits in the summer? Can’t go there.
The Fourth House of Astrology
The cusp of the fourth house is a special angle called the IC (ImmumCoeli) and is also called the nadir. That means “the bottom.” It’s very important in your chart because it tells if you are shy or a homebody.
It embodies psychological foundations and roots, family, home life (both the childhood home & the current home), mother, Matrix, ancestry, sense of security, domestic life, and real estate; family, land, personal foundations (inner emotional security and self-image), your roots. This is also said to rule the conditions at the end of life, and graves. A person’s upbringing is associated with this House.
The Tao of the Moon
Collective memory.
Captured liquid.
Transmitted from breast to mouth.
Eye to tiny eye. Skin to thirsty skin.
Geometry Unspoken
Poetry in motion, meaning in a glance
She told me I am earth, moon, and star
The single aspen
A grove of many
With common root
Moist interior cavern of memory
Now filled with endless liquid Light
- Jewell Starsinger
The Moon/Earth
The vessel of attraction called The Moon represents the autonomic nervous system. It is the part of life that runs on automatic. You don’t need to think to make your heart beat or to draw breath. It also includes muscle memory. In other words, the tasks that you learn and incorporate become unconscious. When learning to drive a car, you have to pay attention to many assorted details, but once you learn and practice, it becomes second nature. All second nature activities are ruled by the Moon.
In astrology we don’t use the Earth as a symbol; we use the Moon to represent our tribal heritage. This archetype is associated with community. The community is the vehicle for survival of the individuals within it. Whether written or spoken, the community contains laws of behavior that support relationships. People are born into community systems that shape their thoughts and behaviors on a subconscious level, making it both the repository of all that is and the source of all we are.
Scientists believe that the Moon was born from the Earth. When the child matures she will replace her mother and become the next mother. Through the millennia, this mystical feeding creates the feeling of belonging, a sense of place. Shekinah is the Soul of the Earth. In Kabbala, Shekinah is the feminine spirit of Earth. When we feel a magical presence of love, she is with us.
The Earth/Moon complex is a powerful cyclic force. Some say that Earth would not work properly without the Moon. Together they represent the symbiotic life support system of the Mother/Child interdependence. A nursing baby receives nutrition and love from its mother as the mother is bathed in delicious hormones of harmony, peace and sensual gratification. So when speaking of the Moon we are also speaking of cycles of life on Earth. Many indigenous peoples would agree with me and would say we are not returning the good hormones to our Mother who feeds us. They would say that She requires gratitude and we are in a state of psychosis because of our disconnection with Her. The realistic manifestation of this psychosis is overpopulation, abuse of resources and unrelenting natural catastrophes.
We walk on Mother Earth and she is our first chakra. She is outside our bodies, but within our magnetic fields. Our souls are connected to Her. The Moon is her child and cannot exist without Her. We cannot know our spiritual parents except through our physical existence on Earth with the Moon circling over our heads.
The astrology chart is calculated to your time and place of birth. As such, it defines you at the core of your collective entry into this Kingdom. It can tell you what you are here for and what you expect to learn in this life. It defines the nature of your communal experience. Were you bottle or breast-fed? Were you left alone to cry it out or were you rocked to sleep? Were you spanked or given time-outs? All these paradigms shaped you and colored your adult perspective.
The urge to protect and nurture has long been assigned to women. That assignment continues to be appropriate, in my opinion. If we looked at a bell curve, most women would be assigned to the nurturing side and some men would. Most men will tell you that, generally speaking, they aren’t interested in babies.
Number 11- Freedom’s Flight
December 21st, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
#11 Aspirations
Archetype: Father Sky
Partner: Mother Ocean
January 19 – February 21
Traveling to the beat of a different drummer
The eleventh house of astrology is succedent (meaning in between), fixed (meaning maintaining), air (meaning intellect) house. Its natural sign ruler is Aquarius and its natural planetary ruler is Uranus/Saturn. Acquaintances and friends, groups, organizations, hopes, wishes, aspirations, personal goals, our sense of our true inner purpose, our sense of the group, humanity.
Although the Aquarian espouses the good of all, he tends toward being available on his own terms. He is there 100% for the revolution, but when the group wins the fight they boot him out and put a bureaucrat in place, A Saturn type. The 11 guy is cutting edge, and that is why he cannot stay for the celebration of stasis. The edge of the Universe continues to move out into the unknown and he is connected to that edge. He rides the “big wave.”
The Tao of Invention
Guiding light
Free fall
Into being
Hokmah
Our freedom-loving fellow is Number 2 in the Tree of Life formation.
“Grant me Wisdom. I am the quickening of realization. I am first idea. I am the light you cannot bear to see.” I just made that up. It seemed appropriate.
Deut 4:12 “And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.”
This bibble quote gives the idea, but not quite. The WORD is truly mystical and cannot be heard by ears. Sound vibration is physical and thus feminine. WORD is heard through non-physical means. His partner, the Goddess hears him and constructs a facsimile of his message in time and space. It’s ridiculous for humans to talk of God the father. Absurd.
So here we go…
Hokmah is the wisdom that knows what to do next. “Hochmah, meaning wisdom, is like a point: no dimension of its own, but the beginning point for dimensionality. From our perspective, hochmah is that “higher wisdom” that some systems call primordial Awareness. It is the first quality to proceed from Nothingness: that Being knows. This noetic quality of the universe — that every leaf “knows” when to fall in the autumn, that every atom “knows” how to organize itself — is, for the Kabbalists, the most refined quality of the manifested world. If you’d like to imagine the emanation of the sefirot in terms of the Big Bang, hochmah is the singularity with no size, but with the “laws of nature” already initiated. There is nothing there, but there is the Divine Wisdom which organizes all of creation.” (Jay Michaelson, “Learn Kabbala.com”)
Uranus

The search to know God the Father is timeless. Humans long for the Unknown, which is He. We adore the mystery and attempt to unravel and know it. We never can, so we have our Eternal Quest for Our Father in Heaven. The Non-physical, Creator.
Uranus/Hokmah is the Unique Light of Inspiration. You experience Uranus when an idea comes to you from out of the blue. People who just know things are Uranian. We all have those transcendent moments, but some have them more frequently than others.
In Greek Mythology, Ouranos, Father of the Universe would lie on his wife, Gaia at night. In the morning she gave birth to many ugly children. Ouranos could not stand to look at these one-eyed monsters and promptly shoved them back into her womb. After a time, she rebelled and enlisted her child Saturn to castrate Ouranos so she would not have to endure this abuse. Now here’s the glitch. The Greek tradition sees Saturn as a man. They have the son castrating the father. I see Saturn as the Crone, feminine. It makes more sense that the feminine principle cuts off the masculine manifestation as she engulfs and solidifies His principles. That would also explain misogyny. But Jupiter helped.
Ouranos hated his children as he saw them embodied, because they were not as he “thought” them. This reaction is a metaphor for energy into matter. The form does not resemble the idea. So the idea maker goes to war with the form maker. Ouranos is pure theory so it stands to reason that solid forms will never live up to his unearthly renderings. Lightening in a bottle will light up a room but it is restricted and that containment is anathema to Our Father. Saturn is the bottle, the limits of reality. Limitation cuts off the freedom of the original spark. The wire directs and uses the electricity. The sudden quality of inspiration is frozen in time when contained in form. This interaction of masculine genius and feminine containment is how the universe is created. IMO.
Aquarius/11th House
Aquarius is the eleventh sign of the Zodiac. It represents anarchy, individuality and group ethics. It is also about freedom and release: hope, trust, friendship, praise, support of friends and benefactors, comfort and fortunate conclusion to any business. In classic (Medieval) times it was know as “the house of freed persons.”
The Aquarian travels to the beat of a different drum, leading the way for a social cause. S/he would rather sacrifice her life for a perceived nirvana than live under a perceived oppression. Thus releasing convention, s/he attains joy and success.
An (Sumerian)
Predating the Greeks, in Sumeria, Uranus would be likened to the Sky God, An. He carried away the heavens and was Lord of the Stars. Over time his popularity waned, His position on the Tree of Life is the top of the Pillar of Mercy, the masculine right. This position is located in a transcendent area and that would explain why our Sumerian An is difficult to explain in regular consciousness. He is one of the original creators and very hard to reach. He is the highest octave on the masculine pillar and it seems that in most cultures we gravitate toward the central level on the pillars on both sides for our accessible deities. In other words, we prefer the guy with a lively story who interacts with us, like Jupiter or the Christian OMG, with their human alliances involving love, rape, murder, deceit, contests, challenges and pillage, oh my.
Aquarius is associated with The Star of the Tarot. The angel is pouring the water of inspiration into the Universe. It represents Thought purified through meditation. Meditation requires mental discipline. Aquarius/The Star requires that you quiet your mind and allow the Ancient Wisdom to inform your actions and goals. This should not be represented by a person, especially a female playing in the water element. IMO, they really got this image wrong. This image must be interpreted metaphorically.
It requires a leap of faith to get into the Uranian mind set. The Tarot Fool card demonstrates the leap of faith. The Fool is about to step off the edge of a cliff. He has a vision of his own materialization and is taking himself into matter. He is above reality. The little dog represents the purified intellect, which is focused on its master, to serve and inform. The purified intellect is servant to Imagination. The sky God cannot fall, so he imagines that he is walking. He really has no body and merely dreams of falling. Wishing it was so.
Why Astrology?
December 15th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
When times are confusing or tough, you need someone to come along with a plan. My plan is to share ancient light spoken to you in a modern voice. The comfort and encouragement that comes with a positive reading is undeniable. And this reading comes with the added bonus that is intimate explanation of your personal journey. I am able to give you time frames for struggle and release, joy and success. When doing a reading for others I am always reminded that there is something connecting all of us that allows for meaning and purpose in our lives.
Astrology is a tool for self-improvement. It didn’t start out that way. In the old days it was designed for people to understand the cycles of nature. People wanted to know what to expect and as we became less instinctive and more rational we needed explanations. That’s why animals don’t talk; they don’t need explanations. They just live; they don’t think. They exist and feel in goddess mind. The goddess mind is illiterate. She dances, sings, runs, pounces, kills, eats and lives without explanation.
As we came more into our god-mind we became linear and purposeful in our reasoning. Astrology is a bridge between the two minds. It is a great comfort to share the two minds. It’s amazing.




