By Linda Baker

Important!  This is not a substitute for a clinical abortion, nor does this process guarantee that miscarriage will occur.  In the event of a natural miscarriage, it is important to receive a medical check-up following the termination of the pregnancy.
To use this process, with the intention of creating a natural miscarriage, later than the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy is not recommended.
This process provides emotional/spiritual healing from miscarriage or abortion (both current and/or from the past).  It may also be the catalyst for a natural miscarriage to take place.
During this process, one may decide to continue on with the pregnancy.  That is safe to do as this is a gentle, spiritual process whose intention is to serve the highest good of all concerned.

​For some years now, I have been providing special sessions to women who find themselves pregnant when they do not wish to be.  I call these sessions a spiritual approach to abortion.  I believe that we are spirit and that we have come into the physical realm for learning and experience.  If this is so, then why not communicate with the spirit of the unborn child and let it know that this is not the right time?
This approach enables the spirit of the unborn child to consciously participate in the abortion decision.  It is a loving approach that seems to be tremendously healing.  The basis for the spiritual abortion process comes from the belief that when you enter the physical realm as a baby, your body is small and needs to be taken care of, but your soul may be old and full of wisdom.  If this is true for a baby, then it is also true for the unborn child, the one just beginning to develop a physical body inside the womb that holds it.  We can communicate with this spirit just as we can with a loved one who has passed on.  The spirit of an unborn child is filled with wisdom and always has a powerful lesson to share with the mother and father.
I believe there was a time when women understood the power and the sacredness of their bodies and made conscious choices about when to give or not give birth.  Then that power was taken over by men.  The ability is reawakening in women.  There is a longing to return to this ancient wisdom of the Goddess.
Spiritual Hypnotherapy makes it possible for the mother to connect with the spirit of the unborn child, and together they agree upon a natural miscarriage.  Of the women I have worked with, several have naturally miscarried following their sessions (this may take several days), while others have needed to have clinical abortions.  When women have a clinical abortion scheduled just following their session, and have the clinical abortion, it is impossible to know whether or not the process would have occurred naturally.  My belief is that as more women become aware of this option, it will become easier for them to have natural abortions, and that it will become easier for women to consciously choose when to become pregnant.  When I first began doing this work, I felt that if the miscarriage did not happen naturally, the process did not work.  I no longer feel that way.  I now understand that every woman has her own process to go through, and sometimes that process includes a clinical abortion.  Whether or not miscarriage occurs as a result of this process, the process is always powerful.  The mother heals emotionally from guilt, fear, grief, self-hate, or whatever emotions she is carrying.
There are also times when the mother feels that she cannot bring a child into the world at this time and decides that abortion is the best alternative, but after listening to the session recording or having a session with me, she decides that she really does want the baby.  Because this work is gentle and spiritual in nature, there is no harm that is done to either mother or baby.
Spiritual Hypnotherapy is extremely valuable for both actual abortion and healing from miscarriage.  It is valuable for both women and men.  Although the mother carries the child, there is learning for the father as well.  Sometimes the spirit of the fetus is even more connected to the father than to the mother.  When an abortion or miscarriage takes place, and there is no spiritual healing involved, feelings such as grief, guilt, anger, and fear may become stuck in the body.  In women, these often center on the reproductive organs.  Naturopathic physicians have told me that many women who have ovarian cancer, cysts, fibroid tumors, abnormal bleeding, and other female problems have experienced an abortion or miscarriage at some time in their lives.  In our modern medical environment, a hysterectomy is often offered as the cure.
The womb is the center of the feminine body.  It is the birthing center of creativity, but the beauty of this is little recognized in our society.  In this country, women commonly hear, “You’re not going to have any more children” or, “You’re past the childbearing age, so let’s do a hysterectomy.”  What message does this give to a woman?  I think the message that a woman receives is that her creative worth (the womb being the center of creativity) is defined by bearing children.  I bring this to your attention because claiming personal power and creativity has been a major issue for several of my clients.  Pregnancy fills the womb.  The baby becomes the creation, and the payoff is safety.  Society claims it is acceptable for a woman to focus on birth and babies.  Childbearing can be a good camouflage for those who are afraid to look into themselves and face the fears, doubts, and inadequacies that keep their expression of personal creative force at a distance.  Of course, these women are not aware that they are masking something until they take that journey within the self.
Men also hold unresolved feelings in their bodies.  With respect to childbearing issues, I’m not certain where in the body men hold this energy.  Men who have been partners in abortion/miscarriage have suggested to me that this energy may concentrate in the third chakra, which is the center of power.  In the case of miscarriage, a man might feel that he was not powerful, potent, or many enough to save the baby.  In abortion, it might be that the man feels that he did something wrong, that it was his fault, and he doesn’t deserve to have what he wants.  I’m sure that there are many other possible beliefs or feelings.  If you are a man who has had an experience with miscarriage or abortion, take a moment to close your eyes and imagine the experience.  Feel your feelings around this issue and notice where they live in your body.
Spiritual Hypnosis allows the woman to go deep within the womb to explore core beliefs and judgments held by her as well as by women throughout the fabric of time, past and present.  Some common beliefs are that women:  need to nurture others and not put themselves first; must have children to be worthwhile; need a man to take care of them; are the weaker sex; and are not in control of their bodies.  Many women who perceive themselves as independent, strong, and freethinking have been appalled to discover such beliefs lurking in their innermost psyche.  It is amazing to see how core beliefs that we are consciously unaware of, or thought we had let go of, determine what we attract into our lives.  Through the Spiritual Hypnotherapy process, these hidden elements come to the surface where they can be healed and released.
With every spiritual abortion session, the child’s spirit brings a message of learning to the mother and father.  In many instances, this message involves the importance of nurturing and caring for one’s own inner child.  Women who are questioning whether or not to have a child can contact and support their inner child within.  This liberates them from the need to have an outer child.  With this, they are free to make a healthy choice about pregnancy.
I believe that it would be good for every person who wants a child to do inner-child work prior to conception.  One of the most common issues between parents and children is the desire of the parent to control the child and mold the child into what the parent wants.  When the child (who desires to find a healthy, independent identity) rebels, the pain and separation that result are often blamed on the child.  To avoid this, the child may instead become the good child and live his/her life trying to please the parent, rather than fully becoming his/her own person.  If a parent is not nurturing his/her own inner child, the outer child becomes a substitute and focal point for the parent.  In place of a functional, supportive parent who encourages the child to individuate, we find a dysfunctional parent who controls, either subtly or overtly, to have his or her own needs fulfilled by the child.
When a woman chooses to do a spiritual abortion session prior to having a clinical abortion, she is often able to learn the lesson from the pregnancy as well as speak directly to the spirit of the child.  Some of the most common lessons the spirit comes to teach are about healing the inner child, bringing forth creative energy, empowering the self, healing relationship issues, and healing from past abortions or miscarriages so that the mother may choose a healthy new pregnancy.  Sometimes the connection between the woman and the unborn child runs very deep, and the mother experiences feelings of great love and pain in letting go.  It is important to remember that pain does not equal bad or wrong.  A right choice in our lives can bring feelings of loss, grief, or loneliness, and still be the right choice for us.  For example, leaving an abusive relationship can bring up many painful feelings, but it can still be the best, healthiest choice for us.
The love Spirit has for us is so strong that I have had many clients burst into tears when they feel this energy.  It is the purest love they have ever felt.  There is no demand, no desire, and no judgment.  There is only love.  Over and over, I have been a witness to how loving and forgiving Spirit is.

Linda Baker R.N., B.Msc, CCHT, Master Alchemist, Spiritual Coach, Author, Speaker
Creator of Transformative Hypnotherapy
Innersourceseattle.com

Linda shares this work with professionals and individuals through a day-long, live online experiential workshop called “Unplanned Pregnancy Empowerment:  Empowering a client’s choice based on deep spiritual communication.”
To learn more about the workshop, see: https://www.bridges.academy/unplannedpregnancy.html

​by David A. Wheatley

This review of near-term astrological events starts off with a personal note on the specific relationship in my recent experience and the current transits.
On Thursday, February 19th, the exact Saturn Neptune conjunction was joined precisely by the Moon, transiting in to meet up with these two giant outer planets. The Moon is the first inner planet or luminary to meet them in this conjunction, and the only one while they are exact.
For me, this transit happened on the occasion I had a spinal procedure done, to clear up a disc issue and blocked energy in my spine. The release as a result of the procedure was that throughout that evening and night, I had too much energy to sleep until 5:00 AM the next day, and got up only two hours later at 7:00 AM.  I’d like to say the book I was reading was that compelling, but it was at best a companion through the long night, as I buzzed with new energy that kept me awake. Again, the next night, my body wouldn't retire before midnight, even after missing sleep the night before, and the next morning, I was wide awake even earlier. My walking was achy and unbalanced before the procedure, and now I'm back to normal. No swelling, no irritation, no issues that they had warned could occur after the procedure.
I would describe it astrologically as the Moon brought into the grouping some inherited tendencies which the Moon does, from our family’s inherited tendencies, often through the home and habits provided by the mother. Older patterns of my body’s original programming were restored, including energy patterns I was born with in my Qi.
Fortunately, I had changed the original procedure date from two weeks prior, without any conscious knowledge of the Moon's specific rendezvous date with Saturn/Neptune, to accommodate my ride to the procedure from a dear friend, Laura, who played a supportive role as my Lunar radiance that day, and in the days after. This was preceded on the 17th by an annular solar eclipse of the New Moon passing in front of the Sun. (An annular eclipse is when the Moon is slightly further from Earth, and the disc of the Moon does not fully eclipse the disc of the Sun in the way people imagine an eclipse of the Sun to be.) My friend Laura arrived from out of town on the 17th. Having a strong natal position of the Moon in my natal chart has made me aware of the benefits from women in my life.
My procedure is a two-part operation, with the second appointment three weeks after the first. On that day, as it turns out, transiting Mercury will be conjunct my natal Moon. As the Moon is among other things inherited tendencies and the subconscious patterns derived from them, Mercury brings the influences of other planets (in any aspect) as a catalyst, bringing them into our conscious Earth mind. In myth, the Roman god Mercury, modeled after the Greek god Hermes, is the bearer of messages and the conduit between mortal consciousness and the gods of the heavens, or, astrologically, the outer planets, all of which are other conscious spheres of influence. I call them other conscious, meaning to directly include higher states of consciousness, and also, as in the case of Pluto, the unconscious. 
In modern society, Mercury’s winged feet deliver flowers from the florist's shop, and his staff or caduceus accompanies your pharmacist, producing the prescription you require. The chemist or alchemist. For me, it is likely that I, along with my still supportive friend Laura, will gain some insight into my treatment, or an insight will enter my consciousness when transiting Mercury conjuncts my natal Moon upon the event of the second treatment. I am always open to messages from other consciousness.

​For the world, the timing of the Moon arriving at Saturn/Neptune is the insistence of established or inherited tendencies in the structure (Saturn) of international trade relations being restored, and cut way back from Trump excesses, as Saturn by nature always does. Saturn loves to edit. But in doing so, forcing a renovation, altering the confused, nebulous (Neptune) state of international trade with tariffs that can change in a day or weeks, according to one man’s whims. The Supreme Court completed and presented its decision on Thursday, February 19th, and it hit like a bomb on Friday, even though it is restoring an established centuries-old set of restrictions on US/world trade. This is Saturn correcting something out of line and simplifying things according to the established law. Neptune, having created the chaos while in Pisces, where Saturn was at the time ungrounded and unable to bring order, now suddenly interacts with a more grounded and able Saturn in Aries. Saturn could not have had this typical Saturn impact while in Pisces, as I've been saying for two years. 

The inner planets will follow the Moon’s first rendezvous with the two outer planets Saturn/Neptune in Aries, beginning with Venus on March 7th.
This inner planet parade, beginning with the Moon and then Venus, will bring the restored function of Saturn into play more, tempered by how Aries shapes its influence differently than Pisces did. Venus comes first, reminding those who know mythology that Aphrodite is also the warrior aspect of Venus, especially while in Aries. Aries is not an environment of long, ponderous plotting and deep research. It acts on impulse. We will have short-order wars trying to structure impulsive concepts that may not hold up long-term, but will instigate necessary change. Aries is superb at starting something but short on staying power. 

Saturn in Aries will break borders and boundaries if they obstruct evolution, cluttered up with human overindulgence, but in its wake, leave the more nebulous imprints of Neptune following more slowly behind Saturn. Saturn has passed into Aries and will pass out into Taurus in about two years; Neptune will be there until 2038. Over that period, Saturn moving ahead more quickly will form semi-sextiles, sextiles, and a square to Neptune as either of them tweaks the other's work. This major conjunction at zero degrees of Aries is only the beginning of another chapter, rolling out new emphasis.
Saturn in Aries prompts quick decisions that may not restore clarity in line with humane values, the clearest example being what we will see in Gaza. Whatever existing structures are nebulized and broken won’t be stabilizing into something to build on until Saturn has moved into Taurus, roughly two years or more from now.

​After Venus, Mars catches up to where Saturn was, and Neptune still is, on April 10th. Saturn is beginning to separate from the tight conjunction with Neptune in Aries. Mars hits Neptune as Saturn has begun to pull away, making a less intense but still effective conjunction to Neptune in Aries. A stronger Saturn influence with Mars will follow the traditionally ill-mixed Mars/Neptune conjunction, suggesting to me first a callousness in decisions with Neptune, which immediately afterward runs into the realities of Mars meeting Saturn and their revealing frictions. The Mars in Aries influence on Neptune can produce inhumane acts, Mars soon after arriving at Saturn in Aries produces a militaristic solution, not a humane one. Solving problems with martial/Martian arts. Decisions will be made impatiently seeking an immediate fix, whether costly, necessary, or not. 

​This whole period is like pulling teeth to correct a long-standing infection. The good news is that, because it's in Aries and not Pisces, hard decisions must and will be made. The bad news is that, because it’s in Aries, being considerate, patient, and humane are relegated to a lower priority. Forcing the round peg into the square hole. Pulling teeth without an anesthetic. These are still epochal changes with Saturn and Neptune within orb of a conjunction, though separating. There is also still a jolt from the huge shift of outer and inner planets from Pisces to Aries in substance and style. This is not the execution of a well-thought-out strategy as much as it is simple execution. There may be a great need for hurried decisions, but this need was fully present by the time Saturn and Neptune (and others) were in Pisces.

Pisces is the 12th sign of the Zodiac, in which all other signs can ideally be assimilated. It is the psyche as a whole environment, not split astrologically into 11 other parts. But this is more than can be assimilated and maintained in Earthly consciousness, and for that reason, we have 12 signs and 12 Houses, and created religions and therapists to work through the connection between higher and mundane earthly conscious existence. They all impact our bodies, physical, psychological, and spiritual. Aries, following the sequence after Pisces, is a rebirth because some things cannot be resolved from the prior cycle without starting over, repeating some things, and growing through it all. Sometimes we have to scrap what we made and rebuild; it can’t be saved, though we retain the benefits of the experiences.
​From the USA, the most influential dominant government on Earth at the moment, we have seen and will see more reconstruction over and over again because here we are, in a strong Aries environment where careful research and planning are out the window in favor of impulse. One has to accept that this is the way things have to be for now. It may be we need this experience to enact evolutionary changes on the heels of fresh reminders of how things can be done or why we do them. Mars in Aries, meeting up with Saturn approaching the third week of April, is serious about arresting and jailing. If you are lucky. It could also be a rough and tumble, brutal time. Short heated arguments, fighting. No patience or time to try explaining to those who are shut down to listening.

​An outgoing warlike Venus, followed by the often malcontented Mars in Aries, is followed by Mercury in the second half of April. This is when we have no choice but to realize how well our methods are doing and if any agreements can be imposed. I say 'imposed' because Mercury in Aries isn’t a time for discussion or negotiation. It’s more about issuing orders. All sides, believing they are right, want to establish their rules as Mercury approaches a conjunction with Saturn in Aries in the third week of April. In the United States, a dormant Congress may want to become more active as policymakers, and the administration has its expectations. Everyone wants a voice, but there is no effective discussion. Aries is about action, not words. Emotions are expressed, not so much ideas. 

There’s also the seldom mentioned conjunction of Eris and Chiron in Aries, which all these planets will meet during this year. Very slow-moving, Eris, the sister of Mars, meets up with the “wounded healer” Chiron, the centaur. Archetypal deep-seated psychological wounds and damages come to the surface for healing in 2025-26 with this long-term transit. (The Epstein exploitation delineates the damaged feminine child by supposedly mature men.) When Saturn arrives to meet with Eris and Chiron, reality (Saturn) will pull back the curtain and karma will be served. That will happen over 2027 into 28, an election year in the USA, but it is already a factor with a deep rage that will not go away. 

​In mid-March of this year, Jupiter will return to where it was late last summer before it turned retrograde. This is sometimes called the shadow of the retrograde motion, a planet dwelling over an area for a prolonged period where its projects are held in place until finally it has moved forward and passed the point it had reached before it turned retrograde. In mid-March, Jupiter reaches and passes this degree in mid-Cancer, where it was last August. In everyone's personal chart, any aspect made by Jupiter around 16 degrees of Cancer to any other placement at approximately 16 degrees of any sign will be a part of this shadowy cycle in which we advanced something but were held back from fulfilling it.  In mid-March, Jupiter moves beyond this, and we can stop chasing our tail. Whatever was caught in a loop can now move beyond it.
For the USA this is an expanding realization of the national debt. Jupiter will be moving forward in the 8th house, which is legacy decisions and consequences concerning values and finances in the past. The consequences of past investment. Patterns that began to emerge over the past several months will now crystallize. Trends in the trajectory of the economy, the US dollar falling, inflation rising, declining jobs created compared to the year before, domestic manufacturing losses (down over 100,000 jobs last year) etc over the past several months will now form the basis for Jupiter’s transit of the US 8th house, completing this passage during mid-summer 2027. During Jupiter’s transit of the US 8th house, it will first conjunct natal Mercury at the end of this fiscal year in October, and the report will be what it will be. Being that the 8th house is often about consequences and karma from how we invested energy in the prior cycle, chances are the report is not good. The US natal Mercury is square (90 degrees) to the US natal Saturn in the 10th house. This is a stern reprimand from the Lord of Karma, sourpuss Saturn. In the 10th house, it’s a telling to the world what cannot be hidden. Saturn is always a reminder of the virtues of discipline. Saturn is also keen to acknowledge accomplishment, however the performance of the US economy in the last year was poor. Expenses are higher than ever, the debt is soaring, and obligations to correct perceived imbalances in immigration policy have exploded expenses and diminished a vital labor pool of immigrant workers. Saturn is reality; it doesn’t care about white supremacy as much as running an efficient economy and structuring businesses to work with prudence. These kinds of realities will be very obvious between Jupiter in the 8th house conjuncting natal Mercury and square natal Saturn in the 10th. The whole world will see it. Jupiter’s often over-arching message for humanity is we need each other, not that we need to divide each other. 

​For Ukraine, which is enjoying positive gains on the battlefield, Jupiter will be conjunct its Descendant when it finally moves out of its shadow. (The Descendant is a point 180 degrees opposite the Ascendant.)
Jupiter has been hovering over negotiations since last summer and when Jupiter moves forward out of its shadow, it conjuncts Ukraine’s Descendant.  This is a time for sitting down and having real negotiations, probably because Russia is falling backwards within its own borders because of the war and on the battlefield. Putin won’t like the situation in 2026, though President Trump is likely still predisposed to giving Putin as much as he can.
In 2025, the US cut off the economic benefits it had extended to Ukraine. Those benefits in the form of credit were monies spent on US arms, mostly in Conservative US states. Those states lost jobs and that revenue flow in 2025. Those Senators lost it. The US intelligence agencies ceased providing Ukraine with targeting support early in 2025; this role was taken up by France and the UK and everyone including Putin saw what Ukrainian drones could do that the US-provided missiles and intel did not do.  The US would not provide them or support their use deep inside Russia. Ukraine, with support from the EU and Britain, has done well since President Trump cut them off in 2025. In this regard, the US has also fallen in the esteem of many nations within the EU. 

When Uranus enters Gemini in late April of this year, it will be a couple of years away from a return to where it was when the US was born. A Return to its natal placement. Every time Uranus has returned to this placement since the nation was born (every 84 years more or less) it brings a destabilizing revolt in various segments of society. I will go into this in greater detail at another time, but this Uranus Return begins later in 2026 and culminates by 2029.  This time of the US falling back from its prior role as an exemplary world leader precedes the Uranus return. The fate of the USA within its own borders and in the world will be the struggle for the 2028 election. 

​Another interesting subplot is the arrival of 3I/ATLAS at Jupiter in mid-March. I am convinced that Atlas is a living entity or consciousness, as is the rest of the solar system, including asteroids, planetoids, and Moons. I am not convinced it is from outside our solar system, but maybe that’s because this astrological organism we live within, our solar system, is all that interests me. I’m not too interested in anything outside it, too far away, and unlikely to ever be on my radar.
​Our psyche is here contained in this solar system. That’s got my interest.  

​Comments welcome.
​David can be reached at [email protected] for a personal astrological consultation.
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