The Sun has now moved into Gate 20, METAMORPHOSIS, ANTICIPATION, THE NOW, PATIENCE, or CHARISMA. In the I-Ching this hexagram is called CONTEMPLATION.

As you can see, there are a lot of keynotes and interpretations of this energy with good reason. METAMORPHOSIS is complicated.

This is the energy for having an awareness of THE NOW. It is also the energy for doing the right thing even when other people are not. It is about integrity.

My teacher Karen Curry Parker calls METAMORPHOSIS "intuitive awareness to right action." GATE 20 is the physical expression of the Integration Circuit. Which may or may not look like what other people are doing. This is as it should be.

But METAMORPHOSIS is also the energy for intuitively recognizing the skills of others and having that special ability of bringing the right people together at the right time for the right cause.

So yes, there is a lot going on here which makes perfect sense. It is part of the Channel of CHARISMA which is a very busy channel. In the right combination this is part of the archetype of the Manifesting Generator.

Bob Dylan and Ralph Waldo Emerson both have METAMORPHOSIS defined by the sun at the time of their birth. Can you see how they were both able to have an awareness of the beauty in this world as well as an acute awareness of where there was absence of beauty; how each were also compelled to express their innate integrity within their observations?

Do you live your life with integrity? Do you have a solid sense of what is right and what is wrong? Do you just intuitively know? Why not? How can you be more focused on right action? What is right action? If this sensibility comes easily to you, are you acting on this awareness of right action or are you just playing the observer? What can you do now to bring the right people together to act on this sense of integrity? Should you?

Are you continually focused on the past or the future? If all we can concentrate on is the future or the past how can we be present for our loved ones now or even have an awareness of the beauty of the present? Do you live your life in THE NOW? Why not? What can you do to be more present in your life right NOW?

“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.” Plato

For those of us with this energy prominently defined in our charts, if we can just stop, take a breath, and take in the beauty of what is NOW, we have the opportunity to METAMORPHOSIS into the people of integrity that we are meant to embody in this lifetime.