Our Capricorn journey began at a beautiful wooded ocean overlook, Anderson Hill Park, where we opened space with a connection to all that is "Good". The view from this spot is spectacular, overlooking the south and east coastal vistas.

This is the area in the south-east corner of our entire landscape zodiac, where the sun begins its illumination from sea to land every morning, very appropriate as our Capricorn effigy is a Goat-Serpent with a goat's head with single horn, goat's body and serpent like tail, wrapping around on itself like an oroborous. This half-sea, half-land creature weaves along the shoreline from the Royal Victoria golf club at Newport and Beach, all the way along Willows Beach and Cattle Point, culminating at the tip of the horn at Loon Park, just south of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, the most affluent part of town.

Capricorn is an earth sign which encourages us through ambition to climb the mountain of materialism . Capricorns are commonly found in the corporate world, moving up from position to position, salary increase to salary increase, until they reach the top of the mountain. Once there, the ambitious goat exclaims, "Now what?" This mountain now dissolves away as the initiate Capricorn begins a second climb on the spiritual mountain, bringing all of the learning and experience from their pragmatic mountain. Turning to service is the way of the enlightened Capricorn.

So we had two metaphorical mountains to climb on this day. The first at Anderson Hill where we acknowledge the "Temptation of Christ" with a magnificent view in front of us. "All this could be yours if you kneel down and worship me!" Worship of the material world. Fortunately our group of pilgrims agreed to continue on their alchemical journey and climb the spiritual peak in Uplands Park later in the day.

Our first act of service was to assist in the return of Lilith.  According to ancient Jewish tradition, Lilith, a wild woman of the forest, a fully realized, self-sustained woman came out of the Woodland to meet Adam.  He tried to control her and so she returned to the forest. Eve was then fashioned out of a rib of Adam and so began our fall from grace. On this day, our job was to return Lilith, a symbol of the sacred feminine, to her full independent sovereign-self free to make her own choices!

Distortions in human relationship are often related to the second chakra and sexual activity, where intimidation and coercion are met with manipulation and trickery. Sexual abuse has been routinely used to pervert and control the victim, disconnecting them from their free spirit. As we walked through the void in the tail of the Goat-Serpent and through the sacral chakra in the landscape of  Linkleas Avenue, we set the intention to transmute all elements of distorted male/female relationships throughout history, reflecting upon our own experiences as well as our knowledge of these ancient distortions. This was a peaceful, gentle walking meditation, releasing into Mother Earth all perversions, miscreations and dark energy patterns. It was an essential process, for later in the day, we were to be rebirthed into a new level of awareness through a perfect, beloved  union between our Celestial Mother and Celestial Father .

We enjoyed our inside discussion with Zia, Melanie and Peter, along with our potluck lunch at Windsor Park Pavilion. We returned to the outdoors on a January afternoon, which was more like a spring day, the children, dogs and their families enjoying playtime frolics along Willows Beach.

At the north end of the beach, we paused for a while to enter into our cave formed by overhanging trees and bushes. This was our journey inside the womb space, preparing us for our rebirth later in the afternoon. We all selected a pine cone from the cave floor and carried it to the head of the goat for our ceremony later in the day. A walk around cattle point in the head of the goat lead us across the road to the Oak Bay War Memorial. This beautiful memorial has a caped woman at the center, "Mother Peace". She was our portal through to the afterlife. Capricorn is the location of the Golden Gate or gate through to the afterlife, often symbolized by St. Peter with the keys.  We all made our commitment to die to our old way of being and let go of those aspects of ourselves that do not serve us on our new enlightened journey. We passed through the Portal of Mother Peace into the afterlife, where we placed our pine cones in a magnificent Arbutus tree, activating our higher functioning brain structures. We then buried our Lemurian Seed Crystal at the pineal gland of the goat in Uplands Park. Now we were ready to be reborn into the world, with a clearer view and insight into our new expanded awareness as initiates on the spiritual path.

Miraculously, as we returned through Mother Peace, the full silvery moon in Cancer shone down upon us. Cancer is the  Silver Gate of incarnation where we enter into this world and now we had arrived-reborn. The single goat horn is symbolic of the Unicorn's horn, taking the practical knowledge of the material world and merging it with our new journey on the spiritual path which is the path of the Unicorn in service. Our "Horn of plenty" in the landscape leads us through the most expensive homes in Victoria to abundance, harmony and balance on this most sacred journey.  

We had a magnificent day in the Capricorn landscape, feeling fully satisfied with our alchemical transformation, and looking forward to full freedom in Aquarius on Sunday, February 5th!