Major Phe­nom­e­na

Intro­duc­tion

The winds of the Spir­it remain strong as they sweep across your world, expe­ri­enced most pro­found­ly in the mul­ti-year Uranus/Pluto align­ment (2012–2015) and by Plu­to’s sojourn in the sign of Capri­corn (2008–2024). It is because of these two inte­gral influ­ences that you find your­self now in a time that will bring about sweep­ing changes in your world, for these sub­stan­tial effects sig­nal the end of an age and the dawn­ing of a new world.

Whether in the insti­tu­tions of Gov­ern­ment, Reli­gion and Edu­ca­tion, as wit­nessed in realms Eco­nom­ic, Polit­i­cal or Cul­tur­al, in Worlds both Tem­po­ral and Sec­u­lar, real­ly through­out all aspects of what you may have believed to be the more or less unchang­ing and hard-worn accom­plish­ments that form your present-day Civ­i­liza­tion and Real­i­ty, all of this seems in flux now and you see dis­tress and dis­or­der all around you. And so your world, this won­drous Realm that should be the play­ground for your Love and Cre­ativ­i­ty appears shad­owed and grim, and you will look upon it and won­der how it became like this, for it tru­ly seems as if it has, “been turned upside down and inside out”!

Changes such as these, as I have com­ment­ed upon for sev­er­al years now, have not been seen for over 240 years, and they have always sound­ed the end of an age when things must and will fall apart, for all things must pass when they have out­lived their pur­pos­es. But this, of course, is only the half of it, for these falling tow­ers, these tremors and dis­so­lu­tions also her­ald the birth of what will be a new­er, bet­ter World that is slow­ly com­ing into being, and you are the very instru­ment of mak­ing this happen…for this has always been so, and you have been here before.

Dur­ing the last such peri­od in the 1700’s, what I would call the “Cri­sis of King­doms”, most espe­cial­ly seen by the expe­ri­ences of the Amer­i­can and French Rev­o­lu­tions, the world that had been was torn apart by what was emerg­ing from with­in it. That old­er sys­tem of Mean­ing and Form was super­seded by a new Spir­i­tu­al-Social-Eco­nom­ic order that we call our present day “Mod­ern World”…and it is this very one, your world, that is com­ing undone in your time.

This is not a unique expe­ri­ence, not at all. It is in truth “The Way”, part of how the Jour­ney of Spir­it will man­i­fest again and again, for the one Imper­a­tive that resides at the core of Spir­it, and so at the core of you, is “to grow”. And so it was that 240 years pri­or to that time of rev­o­lu­tions in the 1700’s, turn­ing back then to the 1500’s, to when the world expe­ri­enced anoth­er Cathar­sis of Becom­ing that could be called a “Cri­sis of Faiths”, (named “The Ref­or­ma­tion”), and the Euro­pean Feu­dal sys­tem and the Ide­olo­gies and World Views that helped to form and were formed by that sys­tem fell apart.

Out of that dis­or­der, there arose the cen­tral­ized King­doms or Monar­chies, and with them there arose a new expres­sion of what it meant to be human and a new Reli­gious, Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al world came into being too. Then 240 years lat­er, a sim­i­lar evolution/revolution of Spir­it and Human­i­ty hap­pened in the 1700’s…and now, now here you are and it is hap­pen­ing again.

The changes wrought by these Spi­ral­ing Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gies, weav­ing in and through each indi­vid­ual and fam­i­ly, through vil­lages and towns and cities, seem to be most clear­ly revealed in the dis­rup­tions formed by the loss of mean­ing and func­tion in many insti­tu­tions of your world. The fail­ings and fail­ures of Reli­gion, Gov­ern­ment, Edu­ca­tion, etc., would seem to indi­cate that the prob­lems in the world and your hopes for a bet­ter future must lie out there in these “things”.

But this is not the way of it, no not at all. For in each age and time, through­out the course of your jour­ney in this Earth­ly realm, the real prob­lems to be faced and the real “soul-utions” will be found with­in, and not in or from “some-thing” “out there”. The real source of why the world is chang­ing, and why and how you must be chang­ing too, comes from the true foun­da­tion of any world, from the stir­ring of the Spir­it with­in each and every being.

This Dri­ving Force of His­to­ry aris­es in and streams forth from every Mind and Heart and Soul, it comes from one and every­one, for you are the Liv­ing Spir­it, you and your com­pan­ions are the Dreamer/Makers, and this is the world that you made, and you and this world must now be re-made together.

The dri­ving force of Evolution/Revolution is Spir­it, com­ing through and from Indi­vid­u­als, and Groups of Indi­vid­u­als, who moved by the Pow­er of Spir­it, which streams forth with a renew­al of Ener­gy-Mat­ter, brings about this trans­for­ma­tion for one and all. And it is through this Stream­ing of Spir­it, as always, it is through this that there will dawn a brighter day, com­ing in these very final fruits of the Old Order.

It is in that very “End­ing of the Old”, of what is pass­ing away, it from this Har­vest of Mean­ing and Truth that the New will rise. For it is in this time that you will strive to pre­serve and pass on what must be pro­tect­ed, to trans­form or end what will not stand, and it is in this time of chal­lenge and choice that you will find the Seeds of Promise that you are here to plant and so give birth to The New World.

You are here at this time for a rea­son, to be the bridge between a world that was and a world that is com­ing to be. You are the Har­vesters and you are the Seed­ers, and so you must look back and you must look ahead too, and then you must turn and face your awe­some duty upon this Spir­i­tu­al Razor’s Edge where Free­dom and Will meet, for you can only do your duty in the Here and Now.

This is your spe­cial and most pre­cious gift, to have this respon­si­bil­i­ty to pass on what must be pre­served and to ded­i­cate your Lives and Sacred For­tunes to the Future, which will be your Liv­ing Gift to the gen­er­a­tions that fol­low. Like those known Heroes (and of the many more unsung ones too) who brought a freer form of Spir­it-Life into being 240 years ago, you are here at a most crit­i­cal and chal­leng­ing time. It is at such moments in his­to­ry that you can take your place in this nev­er-end­ing chain of con­se­quences, and choose to make a Sac­ri­fice for those in whom you place your fond­est hopes for a bet­ter world.

Along with the ongo­ing Spir­i­tu­al Trans­for­ma­tion being elicit­ed by Uranus/Pluto, there are two oth­er pow­er­ful align­ments tak­ing place this year that will add to this ongo­ing trans­for­ma­tion. The first in April direct­ly inte­grates with and quick­ens the Uranus/Pluto chal­lenge. The sec­ond in September/October is anoth­er Gift of the Spir­it that may pro­vide Inspi­ra­tion and Hope for the great chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties you face at this time.

 

  

The Uranus-Plu­to Square (April 21 & Decem­ber 14)

The align­ment of Uranus and Plu­to has entered this third year and now bring their focal ener­gies to bear upon all those enti­ties hav­ing sig­nif­i­cant place­ments between 11 and 16 degrees of the Car­di­nal Signs of Aries, Can­cer, Libra and Capricorn…and that means many indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions will feel these effects sweep­ing through them this year, includ­ing such larg­er lev­el enti­ties as the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, Iran, France, Spain, Thai­land, Cam­bo­dia, Myan­mar and Cuba among many others.

Though charts hav­ing those car­di­nal posi­tions will be most affect­ed, these Gifts of Trans­for­ma­tion will con­tin­ue to be felt by one and all. I encour­age you to read my pre­vi­ous post­ings about the mean­ing of this most his­toric align­ment, and I have put them togeth­er and you may find them at this link below:

Uranus/Pluto

The effects of Uranus/Pluto will pre­vail dur­ing this year and into the next (and many years to fol­low as these effects will con­tin­ue to rever­ber­ate with their great import and impact), but there is a peri­od this year when the poten­cy and pow­er of this align­ment may be most clear­ly felt, and that will be dur­ing the Grand Car­di­nal Cross of April 2014.

 

The Grand Car­di­nal Cross (Plu­to, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars) April 2014

Per­haps the most sig­nif­i­cant moment in the great align­ment of Uranus and Plu­to is to be found this year in this very pow­er­ful con­fig­u­ra­tion. Though you have been sub­ject to and feel­ing the pro­found effects of the Uranus/Pluto square for some time, it is tru­ly at times such as this when oth­er plan­ets form up to pro­vide a more artic­u­lat­ed, com­plete and com­plex “res­o­nance of mean­ing”, it is in such a time that you will know that the Winds of the Spir­it are blow­ing strong indeed. The time peri­od of the exact align­ment runs from about April 19 through April 23, but there will be a fore­shad­ow­ing and after-shad­ow­ing for any event of this mag­ni­tude. I will ana­lyze this align­ment in more depth in April, but I will for now offer this overview:

It is in the month of April that you will have the Avatars of Will, of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, of Truth and of Desire each take up posi­tions at the “Four Cor­ners” of the Zodi­ac, or what are known as the Car­di­nal Signs of Capri­corn, Aries, Can­cer and Libra. These four signs begin and mark the four sea­sons of the year, as they also form the gate­ways for the entry or ini­ti­a­tion of the four unique ele­ments or tem­pera­ments of the Zodi­ac of Earth, Fire, Water and Air.

The dynam­ics of a Grand Cross are such that you are being pre­sent­ed with Four Ways of Being/Doing and it would appear at first that you must deny, sup­press or project at least two of these and assume or live out the oth­er two. Of course this is not pos­si­ble or true, for you must instead find and hold to the Spir­i­tu­al Path that is found­ed upon the “Weav­ing-Way”, the Inte­gral Path where­by you will bring these Four Ways, these Four Ele­ments and Pur­pos­es togeth­er and cre­ate and live the com­plete you, to be Whole and Full in your Being and Doing.

PLUTO

At this great align­ment you will have in one cor­ner, Plu­to the Lord of Sacred Space and Will, who has brought again his trans­for­ma­tion­al pow­ers to bear upon the Capri­corn realm of Earth. Every 240 years or so, this pas­sage has brought about the cli­mat­ic end of a Polit­i­cal-Eco­nom­ic-Cul­tur­al order as a new one was ris­ing to take its place. Capri­corn rules Respon­si­bil­i­ty, and these Insti­tu­tions and Order­ings of your world are the sub­stan­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion of what you have formed as the bear­ers and execu­tors of your most sacred trust, which is to assume your place in the Hier­ar­chy of Life and there­by ful­fill your Duty to care for one anoth­er and this Sacred Space you call the World.

The break­ing down of these insti­tu­tions has been met by indi­vid­u­als and groups in a wide range of expectable and not so expectable respons­es. Some indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions have “dou­bled-down” on the exer­cise (and often­times the abuse) of their pow­er, for they have fears about change and what they might lose, and they will try to main­tain their pow­er, posi­tion and the sta­tus quo for they see no oth­er way. While oth­ers have set their inten­tions and efforts against “the sys­tem”, and they are car­ry­ing the torch of Cre­ation by Destruc­tion, rebelling, revolt­ing and chal­leng­ing the old order in an attempt to bring down what they see as a more or less whol­ly cor­rupt and unre­deemable regime.

And then there will be those who will try to walk the mid­dle path. Some will brave­ly strive to do their duty, to keep the sys­tem work­ing by reform­ing or restor­ing it. While oth­ers, whose vision remains fixed upon that far hori­zon, work to build new sys­tems and a new order, striv­ing to inte­grate with or to super­sede the old hierarchy.

What is real­ly being called for here, what is required first by one and all, is that we ful­fill our respon­si­bil­i­ties and duties at this time of cri­sis by hav­ing each indi­vid­ual turn this Plu­ton­ian Pow­er back upon one­self first. That each Indi­vid­ual and then each Group must apply their Will to reform and restore their own sense of Duty, Hon­or and Pur­pose which will then guide their Inten­tions and Actions as they strive to reform, restore and trans­form these Instru­ments of Civ­i­liza­tion and Cul­ture. But how will you find this path, how will you know what to hold and what to let go?

JUPITER

There is the Guid­ance, Hope and a Chal­lenge being prof­fered by the plan­et which stands oppo­site to Plu­to at this time, and it is here that you may find part of your answer. Jupiter is mov­ing through Can­cer and offers you the gift of Water that will help you recon­nect to your Foun­da­tions. Here you will find a refresh­ing renew­al of the deep­er con­nec­tions to the Root-Truth of any per­son, group, insti­tu­tion or society.

The hope and promise offered here is that this re-con­nec­tion to what lies at the cen­ter of one and all will ulti­mate­ly resolve into that Deep­er Under­stand­ing that we are all part of one “Great Fam­i­ly”, all broth­ers and sis­ters on a jour­ney, and that what holds us to one anoth­er is Fin­er and Truer that what divides us. That we should turn to those Prin­ci­ples and Expe­ri­ences that evokes these feel­ings of being of one ori­gin, instead of being pulled into the extreme posi­tions fos­tered by our divi­sions formed by mis­un­der­stand­ings and fears which have divid­ed us one from another.

Yet, the dan­ger of this Divide is always there, and may cer­tain­ly be evoked here again, so that whether in Trib­al, Eth­nic, Reli­gious, Social or Polit­i­cal Iden­ti­ties, the Prej­u­dices found­ed by Fear and Mis­un­der­stand­ing will stream forth and may be stoked by Jupiter instead. It may take hold of var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and groups of indi­vid­u­als, who there­by being sun­dered from the fun­da­men­tal truth that all are one, will break apart and fall into more extreme forms of divi­sive­ness, of “us” ver­sus “them”.

There are two more “cor­ners” that you must con­sid­er here, and each may help to point the way through to help you find and walk that Inte­gral Path…yet, it is equal­ly true that if mis­un­der­stood and mis­ap­plied they may only elic­it and her­ald an even greater degree of dis­ar­ray and dis­or­der for a while.

URANUS

The oth­er Prin­ci­ple Car­di­nal Cor­ner here is held by the Avatar of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, the Lord Uranus who is mov­ing through the first sign of Aries, and form­ing this mul­ti-year Square aspect to Plu­to in Capri­corn. Uranus will move through the sign of Aries every 84 years and stay in any sign for about 7 years, (the last two times in Aries were 1927 to 1935 and 1843–1851). This pas­sage of Uranus through Aries her­alds the release of new Seed-Ideas that accel­er­ate or quick­en the tem­po of Social, Polit­i­cal and Tech­no­log­i­cal change and inno­va­tion. Often­times indi­vid­u­als who are born in this peri­od grow up to be trail­blaz­ing pio­neers in their respec­tive fields, and are most not­ed by oth­er gen­er­a­tions for their high­ly indi­vid­u­al­ized pres­ence, actions and con­tri­bu­tions that often shake and shock their world.

Uranus in Aries is herald­ing a Spir­i­tu­al Imper­a­tive which calls for a re-state­ment or renew­al for the man­ner in which each and every soul meets their world. For as you move through your world you meet each moment with this, with your Pres­ence, Per­sona or Vehi­cle of your Self, and through this way of Enter­ing each Space your sur­round­ing Real­i­ty changes accordingly…and it is this “Lead­ing Edge” of you, your own expe­ri­ence of Bear­ing and Char­ac­ter, of what it means to Lead (or not), that is expe­ri­enc­ing a Ide­al­is­tic Quick­en­ing by Uranus in Aries.

In more gen­er­al terms, both peri­ods pri­or to our own were wit­ness to quite dra­mat­ic erup­tions of Rev­o­lu­tion­ary and Counter-Rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments as the peo­ple of those eras faced their own Spir­i­tu­al Quick­en­ing. In the late 1840’s, Europe was swept by the rise of Lib­er­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic forces chal­leng­ing the old order of Euro­pean eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal pow­er. The peri­od from 1927 to 1935, wit­nessed the rise of very extreme reac­tions to the crises that accom­pa­nied the eco­nom­ic col­lapse of the Great Depres­sion, and these var­ied reac­tions fos­tered the dra­mat­ic polar­iza­tions of Com­mu­nism and Fas­cism, and drove the strug­gle between Democ­ra­cy and Total­i­tar­i­an­ism that encom­passed the entire world and led to World War II.

It does seem eeri­ly famil­iar, the degree to which our time too is expe­ri­enc­ing this deep­en­ing polar­iza­tion between the Left and the Right, as forces of Rev­o­lu­tion and Counter-Rev­o­lu­tion play out in many coun­tries today, as for exam­ple in Egypt, Greece, Thai­land, France, Great Britain, USA and many, many more…in fact, no mat­ter where you might care to observe the state of human con­duct, of how we relate one to anoth­er, the atti­tude, tone or tenor of the debates (or clam­or or rag­ing or armed con­flict) has been grow­ing ever greater since Uranus entered Aries in 2010.

The Burn­ing-Bright Ide­al­ism of Uranus in Aries is pushing/pulling the Reactionary/Revolutionary ener­gies to an ever more fevered pitch, as the strug­gle being waged between the forces of Preser­va­tion ver­sus Trans­for­ma­tion stream through Plu­to in Capri­corn. Uranus stokes these “Fires of Free­dom”, but of course what is held as “free­dom” for one group may often be feared and/or expe­ri­enced as tyran­ny and exploita­tion by anoth­er, and vice ver­sa. These Antipo­dal Posi­tions of one side ver­sus the oth­er dri­ves the dis­course and actions of each to ever greater extremes. What remains of the Cen­ter can­not hold, and the way for­ward, of bridg­ing this divide and forg­ing a way beyond the echoes and fears that hold one and all in thrall to the Old seems to slip and fall before the clam­or of com­pet­ing claims of Free­dom and Truth.

MARS

Stand­ing oppo­site to Uranus in the Grand Square is the plan­et Mars, now mov­ing through the sign of Libra. Mars who is your Avatar of Desire and Action may pro­vide a most wel­come and need­ed coun­ter­point to these high­ly charged ener­gies ema­nat­ing from Uranus. The mes­sage of Mars in Libra sings of your need to always guide your Aims and Actions by an enlight­ened social sen­si­bil­i­ty. Your Means and Ends are to be gov­erned by the mutu­al respect you owe to one anoth­er, because in your heart of hearts you are equal to one anoth­er, for at the core of each of you is the same Divine Spark.

You are here to learn to live with one anoth­er as guid­ed by your ever-unfold­ing and ever-expand­ing Social Con­scious­ness. That by this Greater Under­stand­ing and Love for one anoth­er you will be guid­ed to the Truth. That the One Way, the one true Spir­i­tu­al Path for Self-Ful­fill­ment is found when you Act in and by Love, and exer­cise your Self-Asser­tion in Self­less ways. By this Wis­dom, your actions which serve your­self will equal­ly pro­mote, pre­serve and extend har­mo­ny, jus­tice and fair­ness for One and All.

The Ide­al­ism and Pas­sions of Uranus in Aries are counter-bal­anced here by your Spir­i­tu­al-Social Sen­si­bil­i­ties that encour­age mod­er­a­tion, tem­per­ance and above all that most exquis­ite and req­ui­site sign of Under­stand­ing and Compassion…Tolerance. You are to learn, or to remem­ber that you are to treat one anoth­er as broth­ers and sis­ters, because what is with­in you sur­rounds you too, and that you are here to learn to live by this Truth, by your Love for one another.

Yes, the var­ied beliefs, choic­es and expe­ri­ences have cre­at­ed a soci­ety of mar­velous vari­a­tions, of diverse group­ings and sub-cul­tures that range far and wide in spir­i­tu­al sen­si­bil­i­ty. And it is this very rich­ness of human spir­it that is part of the won­der and beau­ty of your world. Yet, these very diver­si­ties and dif­fer­ences may lead to mis­un­der­stand­ings and con­flict, so that indi­vid­u­als and groups may become arrayed in oppo­si­tion to one anoth­er over cul­tur­al, polit­i­cal and even spir­i­tu­al matters.

And just as with Jupiter to Plu­to, if the echoes of the past which are those fear-based shad­ows born of fail­ures forged by mis­un­der­stand­ing, if these over­whelm the Spir­it of Coop­er­a­tion that Mars in Libra should Inspire, then the neg­a­tive shad­ow-face of Mars may be elicit­ed instead. Then one side or anoth­er (or both) would claim their Aims as Right­eous and their Actions Self­less, when tru­ly their motives and means were suf­fused with Self­ish­ness and Self-Delusion. 

Let us hope that the ener­gies elicit­ed by Jupiter and Mars will be met with Wis­dom and Love dur­ing the Grand Cross. There is much more to under­stand and dis­cuss here, as each plan­et in the Grand Cross also forms a Square to two oth­ers plan­ets in the pat­tern, but I will give more atten­tion to this and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions in April. But there is a greater ray of hope, and that will be evi­dent in the fall when the oth­er major align­ment is formed between Uranus, Jupiter and Mars.

 

The Grand Fire Trine (Uranus, Jupiter and Mars) Sept/Oct 2014

Tru­ly a gift of the spir­it, this beau­ti­ful pat­tern formed by these three will pro­vide a greater mea­sure of hope and inspi­ra­tion for your world. I will write more exten­sive­ly about this pat­tern in Sep­tem­ber and Octo­ber, but for now I will sum­ma­rize it in this overview:

Though form­ing up over the peri­od of about three weeks, you will prob­a­bly feel the fore­shad­ow­ing of this beau­ty when Mars enters into the Fire Ele­ment when he moves into Sagit­tar­ius on Sep­tem­ber 13. Then you most cer­tain­ly will feel the fuller effects when Jupiter and Uranus reach their exact trine align­ment on Sep­tem­ber 25, which is fol­lowed about a week lat­er as Mars joins the pat­tern exact­ly as he aligns first with Uranus and then with Jupiter between Octo­ber 4 and Octo­ber 8.

The Fire Ele­ment con­cerns the Ener­gies of Inspi­ra­tion, Ide­al­ism and Vision. When plan­ets are found in one of each of the three Fire Signs, and equal­ly spaced from one anoth­er, they then form a most beau­ti­ful pat­tern that mir­rors or reflects the beau­ty and bal­ance found by this res­o­nance of ener­gy formed by this par­tic­u­lar ele­ment, in this case a Grand Tri­an­gle of Fire.

From their inter­play and inte­gra­tion with one anoth­er, their Fiery Mes­sage will be artic­u­lat­ed in this manner:

From Uranus in Aries, you will receive a renew­al of Inspi­ra­tion so that you may forge a Freer Pres­ence that will help you to move through your world with Grace and Adept­ness. From Jupiter in Leo, you will receive a benev­o­lent gift of renewed Ide­al­ism so that you may lead from the Truth that lies at the core of you, and so find and release your Courage in Authen­tic Per­for­mances. And from Mars in Sagit­tar­ius, you will be filled by a most vital gift of focused Inten­tion, your Desires being trans­mut­ed into ever Greater Aspi­ra­tions, as right Think­ing and Right Action com­bine to keep you upon the Noble Path of Wisdom.

These three in com­bi­na­tion bring to you a triple Gift of Spir­it so that you and your com­pan­ions may find that Bridge of Light between the Old and the New, between Left and Right, between Fear and Delusion…and find a way to the Greater Truth that there is more that we hold dear and in com­mon than sep­a­rates us from one another.

We need this reminder now more than ever, we need to recall that the guid­ing prin­ci­ple of our Inten­tions and Actions will come to be guid­ed by what binds one to one, and all to the One and that is Love.

I will in the next install­ment of the Gen­er­al Fore­cast list and briefly com­ment on the oth­er major plan­e­tary phe­nom­e­na for 2014.