Podcast—2016 Fore­cast Overview

Part One: The Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary Forces

The fol­low­ing series of pod­casts will exam­ine the major Astro­log­i­cal fac­tors influ­enc­ing our lives and world dur­ing 2016. Today’s pod­cast, Part One, is a brief intro­duc­tion to the Tri-Par­tite Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary forces of the major plan­ets: First­ly, you have Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus. Sec­ond­ly, comes these three inter­re­lat­ing with Sat­urn. Third­ly, you have these four inter­re­lat­ing with Jupiter.

The First lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy is formed by Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus which togeth­er com­prise the Long-Wave or Sub­stan­tial Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion­ary forces for our plan­e­tary sys­tem. Each mov­ing through the signs, and form­ing sig­nif­i­cant aspects to one anoth­er cre­ate the rhyth­mic puls­es of Spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing for our journey.

These Lords of Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion com­bine to form three Plan­e­tary pairs of mean­ing: Neptune/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship of Uncon­di­tion­al Love ver­sus Sacred Space or Love and Will. Uranus/Neptune form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Com­mu­ni­ty or Freer Minds and Uncon­di­tion­al Love. And, Uranus/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Sacred Space or Freer Minds and Will. These long-range evo­lu­tion­ary cycles range from about 500 to 130 years.

The Sec­ond lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these out­er three with the mod­u­la­tions formed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Sat­urn. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary Forces of Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to with the Struc­tures or Objec­tive Realms of Sat­urn, which will often unfold seem­ing­ly through “dis­cords” or “clash­es” of the trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets with the conserving/crystallizing forces of Sat­urn. These three are: Saturn/Uranus form­ing Order and Free Minds or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Inno­va­tion. Saturn/Neptune form­ing Order and Dreams or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Com­pas­sion. And, Saturn/Pluto form­ing Order and Will or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Sacred Space. These mid-range crys­tal­liz­ing cycles range from about 45 to over 30 years.

The Third lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these four with the mod­u­la­tions cre­at­ed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Jupiter. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary and Crys­tal­liz­ing Forces with the Expansionary/Exploring Forces of Jupiter. These four pairs are: Jupiter/Saturn form­ing Truth and Order or Mean­ing and Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Jupiter/Uranus form­ing Truth and Freer Minds or Mean­ing and Lib­er­a­tion. Jupiter/Neptune form­ing Truth and Uni­ver­sal Love or Mean­ing and One­ness. And, Jupiter/Pluto form­ing Truth and Will or Mean­ing and Sacred Space. These short­er wave growth cycles range from 20 to 12 years.

Today’s pod­cast will begin the dis­cus­sion of this tri­par­tite hier­ar­chy, as we begin to try and under­stand these gifts of the spir­it for 2016. The major influ­ences we will look at for this year will be: 1) The wan­ing square of Sat­urn with Nep­tune, 2) the wan­ing square of Jupiter with Sat­urn, and 3) the wan­ing trine of Sat­urn with Uranus. But we will need to look at all these three (and more) with­in the con­text of the greater align­ment that has and still defines our peri­od. This fun­da­men­tal elic­i­ta­tion of Spir­it marks our time as the “end of an age” and the “dawn of a new age”, being her­ald­ed by Uranus in Aries form­ing a wax­ing square to Plu­to in Capricorn.

We have not been wit­ness to changes such as these for over 240 years, not since the 1760’s to the 1770’s, and before that from 1516 to 1532. Much like those indi­vid­u­als, cul­tures and coun­tries in their time, we too now face the awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty of re-mak­ing our­selves and our pre­cious world for the bet­ter, to love not hate, to unite not divide, and so build bridges of under­stand­ing, com­pas­sion and love for one and all.

Here is Part One of the 2016 Forecast