Podcast—2016, Part Two

Sat­urn Nep­tune Cycle

Con­tin­u­ing from Part One, in today’s pod­cast I con­sid­er the con­tri­bu­tion of the Third lev­el in this tri­par­tite Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary forces, the inter­sec­tion of Jupiter’s orbit with the four pre­vi­ous plan­ets of Sat­urn, Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to. The influ­ence of Jupiter, the ruler of Truths, Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion is to bestow the var­i­ous mean­ings for our jour­ney from unself-con­scious sparks of the divine to our even­tu­al awak­en­ing as ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ators of Creation.

These four mod­u­la­tions of Jupiter are: Jupiter/Saturn form­ing Truth and Order or how we bring Mean­ing into Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Jupiter/Uranus form­ing Truth and Freer Minds or how we bring Under­stand­ing into our mutu­al Lib­er­a­tion. Jupiter/Neptune form­ing Truth and Uni­ver­sal Love or how we come to under­stand the Truth of our One­ness. And, Jupiter/Pluto form­ing Truth and Will or how we Live in Truth in our Sacred Spaces.

Then I will con­sid­er one of the sig­na­ture align­ments of this year (actu­al­ly from Fall 2015 through Fall 2016), the Saturn/Neptune wan­ing square. Their rela­tion­ship artic­u­lates the ways and means by which we seek to inte­grate our Real­i­ty and our Dreams, of how we see the align­ment or dis­con­nects between our Visions of our life and the Phys­i­cal facts of our expe­ri­ence. Their Syn­od­ic cycle (from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion,  like a New Moon to New Moon), is about 36 years.

The con­junc­tion of Sat­urn with Nep­tune forms the release of a new state­ment or instance of Dreams becom­ing Real­i­ty. This new impulse is then re-exam­ined, choic­es are faced and we are test­ed at the wax­ing square about 9 years lat­er. The ful­fill­ment and/or so-called fail­ure of this effort is then expe­ri­enced at their oppo­si­tion 9 years lat­er (which is like a Full Moon), when Sat­urn is on one side of Earth and Nep­tune upon the oth­er side. The wan­ing square 9 years lat­er, where we are this year, presents anoth­er moment of choice, but this time the devel­op­ment of Dreams becom­ing Real­i­ty (or Real­i­ty deny­ing Dreams), requires a “let­ting go” in order to grow. For at each wan­ing square, of what­ev­er plan­e­tary pair we are con­sid­er­ing, we are chal­lenged to face our assump­tions, thought-forms and ideals that have brought us to this point. We are giv­en an oppor­tu­ni­ty to see what must be tran­scend­ed or released so that we can con­tin­ue to grow on this path of ful­fill­ment, and/or to change direc­tion alto­geth­er to a bet­ter path if what has been so far real­ized is not true to our dreams.

The par­tic­u­lar focus of this Saturn/Neptune square can be ascer­tained by ref­er­enc­ing their Astro­log­i­cal Sign place­ments as they square one anoth­er. Nep­tune is in its own sign of Pisces, (which we last expe­ri­enced from 1848–8162), and is car­ry­ing the mes­sage of our most pre­cious gift of the Imag­i­na­tion and the pow­er of our Dreams as the source of our Real­i­ty-Mak­ing. That the Pow­er of our Faith can be found in our Spir­i­tu­al Nature, that we are in Truth the cre­ators of our reality.

Sat­urn is in Sagit­tar­ius, (the time before this was 1985–1988), and our deter­mi­na­tions of what is real­ly True, of what is cor­rect or right as artic­u­lat­ed by our Sci­ence, Law, Reli­gion and Phi­los­o­phy is being shaped/challenged in this wan­ing square by our under­stand­ing through Nep­tune. Nep­tune is chal­leng­ing Sat­urn­ian rigid­i­ty and dog­ma by this “Liv­ing Spir­it” of Nep­tune in Pisces, and that through this Greater Under­stand­ing we can re-expe­ri­ence that “we are one” in Truth.

We are one in Spir­it, and so in all things we should be guid­ed by the fun­da­men­tal warn­ing that the Great Illu­sion of any age is the error of Sep­a­ra­tion. That if we allow our­selves to be divid­ed from one anoth­er, if we make some of us into some­thing less, then this will lead to the divi­sion by those who wield a posi­tion of the supe­ri­or, who will then bring harm to those they con­sid­er to be less­er. By this we will reap only bit­ter fruits, as we bring about fear, pain and suf­fer­ing through injus­tice… and we will fall from grace, as we fail to ful­fill our human­i­ty and our spir­i­tu­al promise.

But real­ly, tru­ly, we are all one in Spirit…and so the Uni­ver­sal Teach­ings, the Ancient Wis­dom behind all less­er teach­ings shines forth again in the right align­ment of Sagit­tar­ius and Pisces in the Great Law or Truth:

“Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you….for before you is anoth­er who is as you, you are the same, and what you do to the least of any of these you do to the One.”

There is no oth­er way than the One Way, “Love one another”.

Here is Part Two of the 2016 Fore­cast, the Cycle of Sat­urn and Neptune