Following a powerful Virgo workshop, in which we all moved towards the ideal of self containment, with no need to rely upon anyone else for our sense of self, love and worthiness, Libra immediately throws us into this challenge by reflecting back to us, "The Other".

The other represents anything outside of us which we have a personal relationship with, reflecting back to us what we need to balance. In our personal relationships, we find people who are seemingly perfectly aligned with us and resonating on the same frequency, while others create a sense of discord and imbalance. Our job in Libra is to realize that everything outside of us is a projection of what is inside of us and each person is an external gift to help show us where we are healthy inside and where we still need healing. Mary and Melanie gave us a superb introduction into the human requirements to step through the Libra reflecting mirror into harmony and balance. Our Libra scales in the landscape create the perfect mirror of the feminine and masculine. Our feminine symbol is the Swan, reflected in the still calm waters of Swan Lake. We gathered on a platform out on the lake. The platform was in the shape of an eight pointed star which represents the sacred feminine through abundance and limitless potential. We entered into silent meditation with a rock in our hand in which we placed all of the heaviness, blockages and limiting beliefs which hold us back on this human journey. Once ready we pitched our rocks into the still depths of the lake. It was interesting to see some people throw their rocks as far as they could into the lake, while others simply released them into the still water. It is worth noting that the "Black Swan" has historically been a symbol of the impossible-something that cannot be achieved. On the very first day of Libra, on the equinox, the announcement was made in the news that the ultimate limitation placed upon our known physical science had been released. The discovery that the speed of light had been broken-neutrinos arriving before the light-a classic black swan event. A number of others quickly followed. In fact during the month of Libra, this year's Nobel prize winners were announced, many of whom received their awards for black swan events-achieving the impossible. All the limits are off! We can achieve anything so long as we believe we can!

Having pitched our rocks into the lake, Lisa presented us with a feather to carry from the concave waters of the feminine lake up to the convex masculine energies of Christmas Hill. Before ascending the hill, we first needed to cross the rainbow bridge and remarkably the bridge over Mackenzie Avenue, the axis of the scales in our zodiac, took us from Rainbow Park to Rainbow Street-no doubt about what we were doing! The bridge created the midpoint to our figure of eight walk, spiraling over the traffic and the people going about their daily business, once again reminding us of our elevated journey into higher consciousness, breaking down all limiting beliefs and reaching for the stars. The harmonic balance of Libra includes both the horizontal of masculine and feminine as well as the vertical balance of as above, so below- matter and spirit. Earlier in the day, Ted had encouraged us to try the rebounder, to bounce vertically and experience the still point as we hovered in space, levitated for just a fraction of a second, allowing all our cells to open, only to descend again back to earth, before once again ascending. This reminded me of the very important balance we need to strike between our spiritual and material world, remembering that both are vitally important for our awakening journey.

Christmas Hill is another one of those sacred sites associated with a First Nation's legend. A young baby was picked up from the Inner Harbor from what is now the Legislative Lawn, by a massive black Raven. It was Christmas Eve and the native people and early settlers set out from downtown Victoria to find the baby. They made their way north through swamp land, eventually ascending the slopes of a hill, without finding the child. Early the next morning after dawn, the baby was heard making playful noises, safe and sound atop our mystery hill which, because the baby was found on Christmas morning, became known as Christmas Hill.

Lisa led us in a meditation on the Hill and we released our feather off the top into the air element, representative of Libra. Our task was not complete, however, as we now needed to take the energies of the feminine and masculine together back to the balance point in the center at Rainbow Park.

For the early Chinese settlers, Christmas Hill was the ideal feng shui location in the whole of Victoria. The gentle south facing slope flowing down to the ocean was the perfect spot. They purchased a piece of land to build their cemetery to the elders and ancestors but were prevented from completing this task by the British settlers. Not surprisingly, perhaps then, that the settlers established their Sacred Heart Catholic Church adjacent to the Chinese land on the ideal slopes of Christmas Hill!

Back at Rainbow Park, Lisa led us in our final ceremony at a triple silver birch tree, burying crystals to activate and link in with all of the other astrological sacred sites already activated. The Trinity of trees represented many things on different levels including the Trinity, the Triple Goddess, the three worlds etc. Perhaps at this point on our journey, the most important aspect of the Trinity to understand is the concept of the three worlds. The upper world represents the heavens, celestial realms, where higher aspects of ourselves reside. Part of this journey is to make direct connection with this aspect of ourselves beyond the veil. The lower world is also an unseen world that connects us with the inner realms of Mother Earth, of the nature kingdom and nature spirits. We live in the middle world of the human being on the material surface plane, and our awakening process requires us to act as the bridge between the upper and lower worlds. We cannot move forward on our journey of alchemical transformation unless we acknowledge and connect with these other realms of existence.

Our Scorpio journey on October 30th, requires us to have the courage to take a look inside the realms of the underworld, embrace our shadow and transform through the underworld of the Scorpion and Snake through our physical nature into the soaring Eagle and ultimately the Dove of the Holy Spirit.