Venus Day blessings to you,

The Stolen Child
by W B Yeats

Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.

I am praying for the sacred Isle of Avalon and the blessed space of Wearyall Hill. In 2010 the holy thorn was vandalized. And then last morning what remained of this sacred tree that is misted in myth was taken away, another act of vandalism. Developers are currently attempting to build a high residential building on this hill. We must ask, at what cost? When do we say enough is enough to development? When do we as humans place that which is sacred and holy before profit?

The current astrological transits are pushing each one of us in a deep way, to go beyond the surface to what is being communicated from the Plutonic forces. Anything that is no longer serving us is being stripped away. And in this, so much is being brought to the light. This stripping is happening as always on a personal ancestral level, a social community level and in the greater collective. This heavy lifting is a great challenge, however the more we can breathe through the process and remain centered, the better.

My dear friend reminded me today that everything is an opportunity for healing. With Chiron in Aries we are healing so much. Saturn, the Karmic South Node and Pluto in Capricorn are breaking up the old paradigms of foundations that no longer serve. Be gentle with yourself and be kind to those whom surround you in your life. Make offerings on behalf of your ancestors and the beauty of Mother Earth. We are right on time in our cosmic evolution.

Infinite blessings,

Ra Ma