Welcome to Eowyn’s Sword, where we view our personal life Journey & historical cycles through an Astro-Mythic lens. I’m Loralee Scaife, as a consultant & coach, I work with a combination of Jungian Psychology, Mythology & Astrology as means of understanding one’s personal psychology & life path in relation to the current events of our time.
 
Eowyn’s Sword refers to the character of Eowyn in Lord of the Rings.  I’ve done a deep study of LOTR as the Myth of our Time.  Eowyn represents the Indomitable Human Spirit expressed in feminine form.  The essence of the Feminine principle is to be a bearer & protector of Life.  Move the S in sword to the end & you have Words, the swords of our time are words!
Please join me for a monthly overview of the current astrological alignments & lunation cycles.
Each New Moon provides an opportunity to initiate a new process, similar to planting a seed.  That seed gestates through the waxing phase coming to fullness on the Full Moon where we can evaluate what has sprouted or presented itself in our life.  The waning phase is the time of integrating what has come to light in preparation for the next New Moon which is born of the fruits of the previous lunation cycle.  The zodiacal sign of each NM & FM will define the areas of life affected.  In addition we will discuss other notable planetary alignments occurring each month.
Please visit my website for more information about my work including the 5 part video documentary series analysing Lord of the Rings as the The Myth for our Time.

Intro to an Astro-Mythic Perspective:
I consider Astrology to be a language of symbols, where each symbol in the form of the planets, represents a force of nature alive in the human psyche in image form.  The sign of the zodiac a planet is placed in describes how that force of nature wants to be expressed in the individual as well as in the collective.
For eg. Mars, known as the God of War, represents the human expression of anger, aggression & assertion of boundaries in the service of protecting oneself from threat of death or injury.  It is associated with the primal hard wired survival instincts of fight, flight, freeze present in all animals.  In humans f/f/f maps onto the emotions of rage, terror & grief. The sign Mars appears in shows the form through which this is expressed.  It also defines the way in which we can express courage & valour in our own life.
Venus represents the urge to love & be loved associated with bonding hormones such as oxytocin & vasopressin.  The sign Venus is placed in provides insight into how that is expressed in the individual.
 
The planets are named after gods & goddesses, the stories of their behavior are told in the Greco Roman Myths.  I view the horoscope or birth chart as the story of one’s life told in symbols, your personal Myth, portraying the themes & dramas encountered on your unique Hero/Shero Journey.
Carl Jung & Joseph Campbell believed ‘myth is to a culture what dreams are to the individual’, highlighting the importance of the Imaginal Realm in our personal & collective life.  Sadly the rational logical functions have been over emphasized while imagination is deemed less relevant.  As a result the myths & stories that teach us how to be human are lost resulting in increased reliance on controlled information & Artificial Intelligence.
For a deeper understanding of right & left hemisphere brain functions see Ian McGilchrist’s work on the Divided Brain.
 
Bringing Myth into the conversation connects us to the Imaginal thus balancing the functions of intellect & imagination.  If you are here you probably already know there is a War on for our minds but worse than that is the war for our Imagination.  This is the final battleground for human freedom & survival of our species.  The human imagination is being colonized by the implanting of images via marketing, entertainment & AI to disconnect us from nature & access to our innate creative resources & deepest knowing of how to be human.  The colonizers are composed of those who seek to control & dominate all Life. ‘One Ring to rule them All!’  I refer to them as the Forces of Evil (the FOE).  EVIL is LIVE spelled backwards meaning that which is Anti-Life.
This Anti-Life Force operates via a four fold system I call the 4 MICS:
1) the Military Industrial Complex
2) the Money Industrial Complex
3) the Medical/Pharma Industrial Complex
4) the Media Industrial Complex
These interlocking institutions work together to advance the agenda of the “One Ring to Rule them all” organizations such as the UN, WEF, WHO, World Bank, IMF & all the other alphabet agencies inhabited at the top by a collection of psychopaths, banksters, gangsters & criminals.
More details on this can be found on my Blog.
The Media Industrial Complex is the vehicle used to deploy Weaponized Propaganda steering people away from trusting in their own deep knowing of truth.
A perfect example of this is the propagation of trans-gender & transhumanist ideology targeting children & sowing confusion over our most basic human experience, that of male & female. 
 
The good news is we can reclaim the ground of the Imaginal by understanding how the Great Myths teach us the truth of our inner connection between Spirit (Soul/Pysche/Imagination) & Matter, that is, our physical bodies & relationship to the material world in which we all live. 
In the episodes to come we will strive to reconnect to our deep Imaginal roots & by doing so activate Divinely inspired creativity to solve the very challenging problems of our time & build a world that aligns with the Life Force of the Universe & “all that is green & good in this world”!
 
Today March 20 is the Vernal Equinox.  Spring begins with the Sun entering
Aries, the first sign of the zodiac.  The symbol for Aries is the sprouting seed representing the powerful burst of life force that pushes the tiny sprout above the frozen ground to reach for the light that feeds its growth.
So what is being born in the Spring of 2025? This new cycle comes on the heels of the astounding global events of the last few months.  Never before in history have we experienced the magnitude of changes at such a pace. 
 
Opportunities for new beginnings occur every spring, every New Moon, & for each individual every year on your Birthday.  Having awareness of these opportunities enables us to learn from past mistakes & generate creative solutions to challenging issues.
In addition to the 2025 Spring Equinox other astrological events this March signify an unusal emphasis on new beginnings. But before something new can be born anew the waste & debris of the past must be eliminated.  A Lunar Eclipse takes place near midnight PT Mar 13 & early morning Mar 14 for eastern time zones.  Every Lunar Eclipse is a Full Moon, but of much greater potency & its effect operates for about 6 months until the next eclipse cycle.  This one is in Virgo, the sign associated with analyzing, synthesizing & processing information in order to glean what is useful & practical.  Virgo rules the lower digestive system where the food we eat is broken down to assimilate the nutrients & eliminate the waste.  A Lunar Eclipse is always a time to ‘clear away the old dead, rotting ‘stuff’ & balance the opposites emphasized by the signs involved, in this case
Virgo & Pisces.  Here the Sun is in Pisces along with Saturn & Neptune, its planetary ruler.  Neptune is the God of the Sea, thus represents the unfathomable depths of the psyche containing all the dissolved bits of human memory, emotion, dreams, images, all sloshing around in the collective unconscious.  Neptune & Pisces represent forces of dissolution, the breaking down of structures to be reformulated into something with greater creative potential.  If this creative potential is not used mindfully the result is confusion, delusion, susceptibilty to manipulation & emotional infantilization.  Therefore the Virgo/Pisces polarity calls upon all of us to seek a balance of intellect, reason & logic with feeling, intuition, imagination & compassion.  Neptune rules our immune system currently under attack from toxins in the air, water, food & what is deceptively called ‘medicine’.  Be sure to bring extra care & attention to strengthening your immune system this month.
Following the Lunar Eclipse comes a Solar Eclipse March 29.  A Solar Eclipse is an extra powerful New Moon, this time in Aries further emphasizing the powerful themes of sprouting seeds & beginning anew. Mercury & Venus are also situated in Aries for most of the month.  Since Aries is ruled by Mars, the fiery, impatient, impulsive god of war we will need to take extra care in our communications (Mercury) & relationships (Venus) to learn to pause & respond instead of reacting to the words or people we find irritating or in disagreement with our worldview.  Using Words as Swords does NOT mean roaring around chopping off heads but instead learning to wield Words in a way that deters violence by encouraging spirited debate & honest conversation.
 
Mars is now travelling through Cancer, sign of the Moon, connecting to the maternal instincts of nurturing & nourishing, protection of home, family & homeland. The challenge here is to evoke the courage of the Warrior to stand against threats to our life affirming values & the vulnerability of our precious children.
The corrupt Medical/Pharamceutical Industrial Complex enriches itself by  grooming our children via the Transgender Cult to undergo experimental chemical & surgical mutilation.  Sophisticated techniques of Psychological Warfare are used to convince children & their parents that such radical interventions are the ONLY means of saving them from suicide when it is well known that mutilation of the physical body can never make someone into something they are not. The consequences will only lead to a lifetime of physical & mental anguish for those seduced by the Cult & further contribute to the destruction of social norms that underlie a functional society.
See my blog for more on Techniques of Psychological Warfare.
 
But now the Warrior Spirit in all of us is called upon to confront an even greater threat to the children of the world. That is the Enemies of Life consider children their most profitable currency.  Millions of children disappear annually into the Global Child Sex Trafficking Network to be used, abused & murdered for the power, greed & pleasure of those engaged in the distribution & consumption of pornography, human organ harvesting & Satanic Ritual Abuse. 
 
In addition the emphasis on Aries & Mars this month sheds light on the Shadow side of the Warrior archetype.  Here we see the war mongering psychopaths of the world on full display rattling their sabers, threatening to command other peoples children to die in wars that enrich them & the builders of their weaponary.  All to create a fear fueled mass distraction to cover up their egregious crimes.  We the People of the World are now called to overcome petty differences to stand shoulder to shoulder against an Enemy that is coming for us all!
 
This month is a time to reflect on what you want to initiate & set in motion.
Use the energy of the Lunar Eclipse in Virgo to mindfully prepare your planting ground, by clearing out negative thought patterns, toxic self criticism & paralysing perfectionism.  Feed your body & mind with health promoting food & inspiring information.  If you are experiencing symptoms of digestive distress, of course consider dietary changes but don’t forgot to include a look at your mind set, for it is well known that stress & negative thinking can undermine your physical health.
Choose the seeds of what you want to grow in your life with care & don’t forget to tend to them consistently & you will see them come to fruition at the Summer Solstice & the next eclipse cycle coming in September.  All in all this is the best time ever to rise to your Greatness!
 
Finally the coming year will see the 4 outer planets enter new signs marking major shifts in human consciousness consistent with the nature of the signs involved.  Deeper examination of these events can be found in my Blog.
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In the meantime May the Light Earendil be with us all!

​Spring Greetings to all!
The spark that ignited the Promethean torch on the Winter Solstice has now grown to a flame. The Spring Equinox marks the time when day & night are of equal length, from here the Light grows reaching maximum force on the Summer Solstice.
So where do we find ourselves in the Spring of 2021? 
 
While the Saturn/Pluto Boil Lancing of 2020 served to expose the toxins, both literal & figurative, spreading across the land it appears that 2021 is tasked with the cleanup.  
 
Spring is the time of cleaning & clearing the planting ground for sowing seeds that will be ripening at the Summer Solstice.  This also applies to planting the seeds of ideas, plans & projects. As sunlight is the key ingredient for seed growth the Light of consciousness is nourishment to the seeds of mind & imagination.

The torch of Prometheus bears the Sacred Fire that brought heat & light to humanity. The mastery of fire resulted in an evolutionary leap for our humanoid ancestors.  Today the challenge is mastery of Light.  Composed of electricity & magnetism Light has many practical applications from energy production to healing modalities.  Much more on this will be forth coming in the next episode of the LOTR series later this year. ​

For more than a year we’ve been told an invincible virus is rampaging across the planet & vaccinating everyone on Earth is the only way to save us. 
Whether true or not this story has generated enough fear in the populace that Tyranny is embraced, provided it wears the costume of concern for human health.  Our human rights & freedoms continue to be violated with home imprisonment, social distancing, mask mandates & the threat of forced inoculations with experimental ‘treatments’. 

The FOE appears to be advancing with its destructive agenda of domination & control, however another Force is budding like the new green shoots popping up from the frozen ground. An example of this rising Promethean Spirit is evident by the millions of people from around the world who marched on the first day of Spring against the dictatorship of lock downs, masks & experimental injections .
Uranus the planet of Liberation & Rebellion rules Aquarius, the sign associated with the myth of Prometheus.  Saturn represents the force of nature that seeks to uphold old structures even when they have outlived their usefulness.  The clash of these forces will be in effect through out the year with major battles coming mid June just before the Summer Solstice & again a few days after the Winter Solstice.

​With Uranus the Liberator situated in Taurus, a fixed earth sign, we can expect radical upheavals in all things dealing with resources of the earth & land. Uranus rules volcanoes & earthquakes which have been numerous in recent weeks. The value of tangible assets, money & investments, including digital currencies, are likely to fluctuate wildly.  A good time to invest in land, emergency preparedness, developing practical skills especially gardening, agriculture & animal husbandry. Farming & homesteading are already on the rise.   
Technological breakthroughs are also a function of Uranus influence, for better or worse, bringing us closer to Ring of Power capabilities, hence the potential for war & catastrophic destruction of earth & life.  The good news here is we can use the innovative creativity of Uranus to build small scale independent energy systems to power our homes & vehicles reducing reliance on increasingly unreliable large scale energy production & infrastructure.  

All in all its likely to be a rough ride as the Resistance gathers steam & the forces of oppression move to tighten their grip. Be aware of forces that seek to pit members of the Fellowship against each other, divide & conquer is the FOE’s most effective weapon.  This is the Battle at the Black Gate, Galadriel the Lady of Light observes, “The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife, stray but a little & it will fail to the ruin of all.  Yet hope remains while the company is true.”  
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May we all rise to our Greatness to meet the challenge before us!

​Hail & Blessings to all!
I suspect the year 2020 will stand out in history as a year of Mythic changes!  
The following analysis details the events of 2020 in mythological terms using astrology & LOTR as a method of deciphering the meaning of this remarkable time.
 
Astrologically speaking starting Jan 2020 we have endured a major planetary alignment of Saturn & Pluto, a recurring cycle of 35-38 yrs. These planets deal with both personal & collective Shadow. As detailed in the monumental work of Richard Tarnas in ‘Cosmos & Psyche’ where he traces back to 410 BC connections between Saturn & Pluto marking a time where vistigial structures breakdown revealing the venomous rot so transformation & metamorphosis can take place.  In short it is Boil Lancing, both personal & collective, a long, painful & messy process whereby the destructive, poisonous, toxic forces in the human psyche are forced to the surface to be made conscious & cleansed so Healing can take place.  Adding fuel to the Boil Lancing fire of 2020 is the extra influence of Jupiter & Mars. Jupiter represents the force of Nature that brings expansion, amplification, making Bigger whatever it touches.  In other words Bigger more intense Boil Lancing, then Mars god of War, entered the frey in early August to pour gasoline on the flames igniting the Alchemical Calcinatio which serves to burn away the dross to reveal the Gold.  Mars leaves the battlefield in early Jan 2021. 
The sign in which Saturn & Pluto converge reveals the realm of life experience where this cleansing process will take place. In 2020 it was Capricorn, symbolic of the all that provides form & structure to the larger world ie. the economic, political & social structures. On the personal level it shows up as challenges to the ego structure, ones basic sense of self identity, as well as physical health issues related to  what gives form & structure to the body: spine, bones, skin, teeth, joints, especially knees.  With Mars in the mix inflamation in these areas brings attention to underlying rigidity, blockage & repression that must be addressed if liberation from pain is to take place.

As we now stand at the culmination of this cycle another significant transition is about to occur.  At the time of the Winter Solstice Jupiter & Saturn together enter Aquarius.  Here is where mythology opens the door to a deeper understanding of events.  ​