Greg Garceau Mars Leo Synodic Personal Return Cycle Phase Four Mars in Taurus in my twelfth house at 13

TaurusMy Personal Reflections on my Mars Return Leo Cycle from

October 17, 2009 to March 3, 2012

Using Daniel Giamario’s delineation of this cycle I compared my daily insights to what was happening in the skies, often sitting and reflecting at night at visual planet Mars in the skies when it was not behind or conjunct the Sun. Because of the ancient symbols used in the actual printout of this cycle I was unable to put the pdf document into this presentation. Please review your Mars Synodic Cycle layouts to follow with me.

Astrological influences during this Mars Return Cycle Today March 19, 2012

Artistic Mandala of Self Created 1996 Two Mars Return Cycles Ago.

4 Planetary Return Cycles for Greg Garceau

• Jupiter Return Cycle--- current See BiWheel Above• Mars Return Cycle • Venus Return Cycle - Will be completed next

month• Mercury Return Cycle – Completed shortly after

April 2010 Synodic Cycle Course taught here in Sahuarita, AZ.

• Metonic Return 2011• Nodal Reversal 2010?

Who I am?

Mars Overtone Leo Synodic Cycle(Giamario, D & Ravens Eye Design, 2010)

Phase Zero Starts October 17, 2009Introduction to the new quest – What I am to learn this

time?October 17, 2009 to December 20, 2009

An Element or theme throughout this cycle that emerged for me was one of the Buddhist fourfold way approach that focused on Right Effort with Non-Attachment the 6th Noble

Tenet of the eightfold Path of the Buddha

Personal Reflections

• October 9, 2009, I am rushed to the hospital emergency room with chest pains, turned out I had developed a Pulmonary Embolism in my right lung.

• Forced to cancel my trip here for Daniels Fall class 2009.

• Mars was in final degrees of Cancer, my 2nd house.

December 2009 Reflections

• Was forced to file Chpt 7 Bankruptcy due to high health care costs related to recovering from a Spiritual Emergency in 1986 and my most recent battle with the Pulmonary Embolism.

• Mars at 19 Leo conjunct my Nadir opposing my MH at 22 Leo and 22 Aquarius respectively on December 20,2009.

• Filed Chpt 7 December 21, 2009 the first day of Phase One of Mars Leo Return Cycle.

Phase One Leo Birth/EmergenceStrategy Council or Training

December 21, 2009 to May 20, 2010• January 20, 2010 Mars rises in the East opposite the Sun

at 0 Leo 50.• Overtone Leo Mars Return Cycle officially starts. My

sister, mother, and I venture to the coast for a wonderful Time-share activity because in December 2009, my mom and I purchased a Time Share. This is our first official visit to the resort with my sister.

• Sounds like this is going to be a good cycle but hold onto your horses folks. This starts a chain of events unparalleled in my life some good, but many challenging experiences for me.

The only constants in Life, Death and Taxes

• March 10, 2010 Had almost $1000 coming in Tax refund for Year 2009, I did not see a penny of it due to:

• CHAPTER SEVEN BANKRUPTCY!!!• WARNING, WARNING!!! AVOID BANKRUPTCY AT ALL

COSTS!! • I would have done better to continue to hold my credit

and let it all charge off. You think you should file Chapter 7, don’t. I think I lost more than I gained with respect to the financial big picture of my life. A Little Mars Teaching I guess.

Wait, wait, there’s more!!

• April 8, 2010 The last class I have been able to participate in due to financial hardships and other significant emotional, mental, and spiritual issues I needed to confront.

• Mars Opposes Sun at 9 Leo 57.• Teeth! What has teeth got to do with anything?• Friends, it’s the metaphor, of chewing up things,

using your mouth, communication, speech. The clenched jaw, speaking your truth.

Grandfather Roy Wilson Clan Meeting April 23, 2010 And so it begins… The Labors of Mars

• Daniel Giamario Supercouncil Meeting. • First Labor of Mars at 9 Leo 14, prepwork for the actual

labors to start May 20, 2010. Leo my third house of friends, siblings, and communication. Hmmmh!! Are we beginning to see a pattern?

• Phase Two: Leo Challenges: “The Labors of Mars” essentially begins.

• Flashing forward to March 6, 2012, I met with my therapist today, we talked about Right effort with Non-attachment the 6th noble path of Buddha. Lots of sixes here, I wonder what that means. Care to comment folks at the end?

Phase Two: Leo Challenges, “The Labors of Mars”

• Each Labor carries us to a new place, knowledge or challenge. How can you rise to meet it?

• Prepwork May 5, 2010 First assignment given to me by Grandfather Roy Wilson Chief, and Medicine Man of the Cowlitz Indians. Listen to the four directions. I went into the woods and did just that, very powerful experience. A good start for my Labors I think. Mars at 14 Leo 22 in third house. In my adventure on this assignment I communed with Nature and the four directions. Communed is related to communication.

• May 18, 2010 applied to Marylhurst MBA program.• May 19, 2010 declined and denied into the program with no reason for cause.• That night Mars, Venus, and Moon were conjunct in the western sky. I guess

Mars, and for that matter Venus had other plans for me. Note: the upcoming Venus Cycle of 2010 – 2012 was my Overtone Scorpio Return cycle.

• May 20, 2010 Phase Two officially begins.

My Metonic Return if anyone cares to research. May 26, 2010.

• I felt a shift in how I deal with emotions my physical body, and my mind. I felt at some deep level that these three aspects of myself were taking on a new integrated form.

• I wonder if its related to the sky stuff on May 20, 2010.

Labor 2 June 17, 2010• Mars moves pretty slow so I am using reflections within one to two days of each

Labor.• June 19, 2010 I did a meditative journey based on the teachings of Barbara

Hand Clow in her book Alchemy of Nine Dimension. (Clow, 2010) This day I explore 1D and felt like I related to a crystalline energy that is at the center of the earth.

• June 20, 2010 I explored in the same fashion the 4D dimension meditation format from Clow’s book (Clow, 2010) related to Length, Width, Height, and the fourth is about Time. And created a spiritual equation using Quantum Theory and Einsteinian theories to come up with the equation QFXQM = QE. Q is quantum, F signifies force as in the four forces of existence, and E signifies Energy as Kinetic/Potential Energy. Interesting to note that Mars conjunct my Natal Uranus in my 4th house of Virgo at 5 Virgo of Home and Family on June 19, 2010, and by June 20, Mars conjunct my Natal Pluto also in the 4th at 11 Virgo.

• This is happening all very close to this 2nd Labor of Mars.

Mars Labor #4 on July 16, 2010 at 21 Virgo 54 opposing my Natal Chiron at 18 Pisces in the tenth house

• July 14, 2010 Motorcycle Dream after world war and disasters have occurred and I am being initiating with Excalibur to my mouth causing profuse bleeding and the loss of all my teeth, only to heal completely and to initiated as a Leader instead of a Follower by a Knight of the Round Table using Excalibur.

• Also I found out that my Tabby cat Kayla might have to undergo surgery to remove a tumor, turned out after getting a second opinion that it was nothing to be concerned about. My power animals are very important to me, I have a Black sexless Panther, Wolves, Cougars, and more recently an Eagle as my guides today. The concern for my cats health and surgery was scary and difficult and most likely financially expensive. That is reflections on the 4th Labor.

The Human Centaur

The Mythical Centaur or Wounded Healer

Mars Labor #5 August 13, 2010 at 8 Libra 59 in my 5th house of Creativity and Children

• Wrote my personalized Creation story on the day of the Labor.

• Got fired from a caregiving job in a long-term care facility due to my emotionally overreacting to abuse and stresses put on me and my patients at this company.

• Forced me to recognize my limitations around being super sensitive with Anxiety Disorder to apply for Disability. Turned out in March 2011 I started receiving Disability benefits. More on that later in the second half of this cycle.

Mars Labor #6 on September 13, 2010 at 27 Libra 43 still in my House of Creativity

• Created a list of financial possibilities as a way to understand how to pay old debts that were still present after the bankruptcy.

• September 17, 2010 Started and became a Volunteer Coordinator and political Activist in the Clark County, WA state for Moveon.org, and helped run a progressive campaign for Denny Heck running for U.S. Congress. Shortly thereafter Mars entered my 6th house of Health, Work, and Service.

Mars Labor #7 at 17 Scorpio 26 on October 10, 2010 conjunct my natal Neptune and trine my natal Chiron

• October 14, 2010 drove to California to see my dad in his deathbed.

• October 20, 2010 My father passed. • October 27, 2010 Went to my dad’s funeral held

at Dixon, CA national Cemetery. • My Sister and I were deeply in mourning and

cried through the entire ceremony. I took a bag of ashes to take to Oregon to be spread on the Coast.

Mars Labor #8 on November 8, 2010 at 8 Sagittarius 06 in my 7th house

in wide opposition to my Sun at 4 Gemini

• November 3, 2010 Went to emergency room for depression, suicide, and anxiety a very challenging day for me.

• November 8, 2010, My eldest brother, mother and I drove to Devil’s Punchbowl on the Oregon Coast and spread my father’s ashes to sea.

Mars Labor #9 at 28 Sagittarius 52 conjunct GC and my descendant opposing my Rising sign Phase

Three has begun on December 8, 2010

• December 8, 2010 Not much to report.• December 12, 2010 My Natal nodal reversal begins. Mars conjunct

transiting Pluto in the underworld at 4 Capricorn 40 • Sometime in this month I applied at the Institute of Transpersonal

Psychology and was accepted into the Global Masters of Transpersonal Psychology Program. I think it was around the time of the start of my Nodal reversal.

• December 21, 2010 Visible Lunar Eclipse at Warm Springs, OR on the Warm Springs Indians Reservation at Kah-Nee-Tah Hot springs. Was extremely fearful and concerned on the journey there through fog, ice, and snow. I had to trust totally in someone else to get me there who drove my mother, and I for 7 hours to view this eclipse. Mars in my 8th house of Death, Transformation, and other people’s money.

Phase Three has begun Leo in the UnderworldSundance, Humility – Letting go – Surrendering attachments December 7, 2010 –May 10, 2011

• January 5, 2011 Mars Underworld conjunct the Moon. I reviewed my strengths I discovered using the test from Strengthfinders.com 5 years prior

• My Strengths are:• Connectedness• Adaptability• Relator• Responsibility• Achiever.

ITP Enrolled and Opening Seminar

• January 23, 2011, Venus was at the third gate of my Natal Overtone Scorpio Venus Return Cycle or 5th chakra gate.

• During seminar I met a charismatic and British Colonial from Libya, who lives in Dubai whom I spent most of my time with at this opening seminar.

• Love is starting to knock on my door.

Started Online classes at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA for my

Global Masters of Transpersonal Psychology degree

• February 11, 2011 Mars conjunct Moon conjunct Sun at 14 Aquarius 34 in my 9th house of Higher education and philosophy.

• February 21, 2011 Transiting Mars and Mercury conjunct at 27 Aquarius 59 also conjunct my MH at 22 Aquarius

• I had an insight in this period about what sometimes keeps me from sharing is others lack of interest, or my own lack of faith in others, my own sense of cynicism and my own thoughts of others expectations of the roles I should play.

March 4, 2011 Mars conjunct Moon at 7 Pisces 28 conjunct my natal Saturn

• March 9, 2011: Evaluation and assessment of the projections I put on others which relates to this Mars Return cycle and the need to own what is mine and to trust. This is emphasizing again the 6th Noble Path of the Buddha, Right effort with non-attachment the theme coming forth in my reflections of the return cycle.

• Once I have a good sense of what is mine and what is not, I can work creatively to develop and create an ever perfecting New changing Greg, and let go of the Old Greg I remember. This is a key message in this report.

April 2, 2011 Mars at 1 Aries 14 conjunct Moon in Aries my 11th house of friendships and groups: e.g. SAMS.

• I had a series of three powerful dreams about marriage.• Dream 1, My love is forced to marry another an arranged

Marriage, but her love is still very strong towards me.• Dream 2, My love and I must be judged by her large extended

family to take over the family lot and business, and she has the last word, we get married and live happily ever after.

• Dream 3, I am honored to be sacrificed in a Mayan Well for the good of the people, the land, and the tribe as my divine loving wife must watch me be boiled alive with grace, power and dignity. Very few are chosen for this grave and powerful sacrifice, I still feel greatly honored. My wife through a glass window, gets my measurements for the coffin.

• Phase Four set to start on May 11, 2011.

Phase Four Leo Rebirth and the Growth of Wisdom my natal Mars Return phase May 11,

2011 to September 18, 2011

• Our wisdom grows as we move through the signs. We are reborn in these areas of our consciousness like never before.

• May 11, 2011, Mars enters Taurus.• May 13, 2011 to May 18, 2011 Arcane School New York City

Conference. Spent three days alone sightseeing in New York. On May 15, I had an Insight about Freedom, the symbol of Statue of Liberty, and 6 million souls attending holy places to pray, meditate, and gather, yet all still very alone people on the island of Manhattan.

Authentic Movement May 22, 2011, two days after stellium conjunction of Mercury, Mars,

and Venus in my 11th house in Taurus

• May 30, 2011, My Natal Mars Return Day at 13 Taurus 21.• On May 22, 2011, my authentic movement journeys took

me from the beginning of time to the present moment as I danced and moved through the eons of my personality’s evolution over the course of the Universe. I did a second movement where I let myself be played by an internal flute, and I became the flute. I felt like Kokopelli the wandering minstrel who lead the southwestern indigenous and Anasazi peoples and tribes to the corn crops. The internal vibration of the flute played me and I played it.

Kokopelli, the Dancing Minstrel

Spiral Dance with Grandfather Roy Wilson in Castle Rock, WA

• August 27, 2011 Two days after last installment of Phase Four, Phase Five starting on September 19, 2011.

• On this day a number of us around fifty or more danced into a labyrinth spiral circle to a center where there stood a huge crystal. We prayed and meditated in the Center and danced our way back out. I felt deeply empowered by this dance of Self. It was a beautiful experience for all involved whites and Indians ceremonially dancing in and then out of the Spiral Labyrinth.

Phase Five: Leo Maturity and Elder Knowledge September 19,2011 to November 10, 2011

• Now with new wisdom gained it is time to integrate and assimilate all that was learned into our current life.

• September 19, 2011, did a body check in through meditation and art project about how I see myself physically, from the tender age of a baby to the hopes and dreams I would like to have about my physical expression into the future.

• Comparing qualities and aspects of myself and physical expression over many different and varying times in my life.

I am King of the World and President of the United States assigned as his successor in the new millenium.

• September 21, 2011. I dream I am assigned as successor to the King and am elected President of the United State in a future world and recognized as a metaphorical King of the World. Mars close to 0 Leo 0.

• September 22, 2011 Went on Vision Quest where I took time to commune with Nature, the sky Gods, and the Land, the Sea, and the Air.

• I think I saw Jupiter rise in Taurus, and possibly Mars setting with the Moon. Mars was at 2 Leo 07 and the Moon was at 23 Cancer 04.

Ode to Loving and Supportive Communication

• October 6, 2011 I wrote and Ode to Loving and Supportive Communication as an art project for my online classes at ITP. If you would like to see the poem let me know and I can print you up a copy. Mars at 9 Leo 56 in my third house of communications, siblings, and close friends.

Return to Phase Zero New Mars Cycle in Virgo – Gestation/Incubation November 11, 2011 – March 3, 2012

• November 11, 2011 I wrote a research paper about my own Personality theory a most revealing and enjoyable exercise.

• December 1, 2011 Went to a meditation with an authentic Chinese Ch’Ing Buddhist Monk who organized and built an Ashram in China. I felt the monks power, he was quite charismatic and energetic.

• January 27, 2012 Created, developed, and started a Full moon Lunar Birthday Ritual Ceremony to enact on every Full Moon which is my Natal Lunar Angle/Cycle. Ceremony involves singing in the six directions, invocation of all those masters, teacher, and mentors who have helped me. Intention is to release all those things, people, emotions, and energies that no longer serve me, and to open myself to be filled with Abundance, energy, and focus for my lifework.

• March 6, 2012. Met with therapist and discussion point was focused again on the 6th noble path of the Buddha, Right Effort with Nonattachment.

Mission Statement Updated March 9, 2012 End of Return to Phase 0 Start of New Virgo Mars Return

Phase One March 3, 2012

Mission Statement Updated March 9, 2012

I am an advocate for the underdog, the environment, and for those who have lost their judicial voice with governmental

agencies in rehabilitation and long-term care facilities. As an empath who cares deeply I offer my voice of change to assist

those who suffer. I feel called to speak out for millions who suffer in places like this. Part of this involves facilitating

workshops that emphasize cooperative effort focused on tapping into individual creative potential. I hope to inspire those

who do not have spiritual strength, or ambition to defend themselves in times of crisis. My experience as a volunteer and

political activist at the Oregon Zoo, Moveon.org, and Washington Public Interest Research Group (WASHPIRG) prepared me

for taking on a public role in community politics. I hope to be a catalyst for change in my career, home, and public life by

running for public office and being a new face for peaceful non-violent activism and environmental sustainability.

I am committed to environmental sustainability and solving human- environmental problems. I hope to create and

develop an international nonprofit to explore relationships between humanity and the environment. I seek to be proactive in

providing physical, emotional, and spiritual space for diverse groups to explore creative environmental solutions. Needs of

corporations, governments, and the privileged few are in conflict with environmental needs. I hope to enter into the fields of

Ecopsychology, and Environmental Science as a business creativity consultant and workshop facilitator. I want to create a

nonprofit with a focus on creating a network of research centers used exclusively in research on the relationship of Humanity

to Gaia in our communities. I seek to make my life’s work an example of co creation and coexistence with essential life force

everywhere.

References

• Design, D. G. R. E. (2010). Shamanic Astrology Members Site Retrieved 3/16/2012, 2010, from members.shamanicastrology.com

• Clow, B. H. (2010). Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, The 2011/2012 Prophecies and Nine Dimensions of Consciousness (First ed.): Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.