Podcast—2016, Part Three

Sat­urn Nep­tune Cycle in Per­son­al Terms

To con­clude the dis­cus­sion regard­ing the Saturn/Neptune square for now, I wish to con­sid­er the impli­ca­tions of this aspect for indi­vid­u­als, groups and soci­ety in general.

The cycle of Sat­urn and Nep­tune, last­ing about 36 years, con­cerns the involutionary/evolutionary inte­gra­tion of our struc­tures of Real­i­ty (Sat­urn) with one of the three won­drous pow­ers that account for our spir­i­tu­al gift of self-unfold­ment, that par­tic­u­lar expe­ri­ence being the process of Illu­mi­na­tion as we exer­cise our Intu­ition­al nature through our Dreaming/Imagination (Nep­tune).

The Saturn/Neptune cycle com­mences with the release of a new impulse at their con­junc­tion and then unfolds over the next 36 years through phas­es of at times more grace­ful and then more chal­leng­ing artic­u­la­tions of inte­gra­tion (or lack there­of) with one another.

For us, from Novem­ber 2015 into Sep­tem­ber 2016, we are seek­ing to under­stand (again) one of the more chal­leng­ing moments in their cycle. Where­as the Con­junc­tion (0°) and cer­tain­ly the Sex­tile (60°) and Trine (120°) can be expe­ri­enced more ele­gant­ly, the Oppo­si­tion (180°) and the Wax­ing or Wan­ing Square (90°) are often more asso­ci­at­ed with fric­tions, frac­tions and schisms. We are encoun­ter­ing the chal­lenge of the Wan­ing Square this year.

Both the Wax­ing and Wan­ing Squares can be under­stood as times of Cri­sis, where this cycle rela­tion­ship of Dreams and Real­i­ty has arrived at a crit­i­cal moment of deci­sion, and we need, or are forced, to face the dilem­mas inward­ly and out­ward­ly regard­ing what­ev­er we encounter at this turn­ing. Giv­en the choic­es met at the Wan­ing Square, there are real­ly two pos­si­ble outcomes:

1) We can rise to the chal­lenge (through Love), face the sit­u­a­tion open­ly and wise­ly, and so lift our­selves up to a high­er lev­el of func­tion­ing. We can choose to face our­selves and our world and make this present dif­fi­cul­ty into an oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow beyond our for­mer self-lim­i­ta­tions, (those very self-lim­i­ta­tions being what actu­al­ly brought us to this very cri­sis), because we resolve, because we are inspired, to move beyond or through the old dichotomies and assump­tions, and this brings us into a high­er lev­el of under­stand­ing and action….or,

2) We fall back (frozen by fear), and cling to the shells of false-mean­ing (and dis­card the ker­nels of truth). We seek refuge in the rigid­i­ty of com­fort­able cer­tain­ties as we deny the “liv­ing spir­it”. We deny our own true self as we fail to hear the Song of Spir­it which is seek­ing to help us break free, to help us move beyond what have become the dog­mas and phar­i­saical prac­tices that have brought us to our self-doubts and despair.

The par­tic­u­lar ques­tion posed by Sat­urn and Nep­tune for each of us this year can be found by their respec­tive posi­tion in Astro­log­i­cal Signs. Sat­urn is mov­ing through Sagit­tar­ius, while Nep­tune is mov­ing through Pisces. Sat­urn, the Teacher/Tester and hold­er of Real­i­ty and Insti­tu­tions, is bring­ing us to exam­ine our rela­tion­ship to Truth, to the Sci­ences, Phi­los­o­phy and Reli­gion. Where­as Nep­tune, the Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent, Dis­solver of Bound­aries, Agent of Uni­ver­sal Love and Com­pas­sion is in its very own sign, and call­ing us to anchor our­selves in the greater Real­i­ty in which we tru­ly abide. That under­ly­ing or True Real­i­ty is this: That we are all sparks of the Divine, we are all relat­ed to one anoth­er and we all abide in the Love of the One. And, it is this Love of and by the One which holds us all togeth­er for­ev­er and ever. And so, there is but one path for­ward (always), and that is to Love one anoth­er. If what­ev­er we feel, or think or do does not fol­low from this fun­da­men­tal Truth, then it will come to noth­ing in the end.

With Nep­tune being the out­er­most plan­et, and being part of the Spir­i­tu­al Tri­ad of our spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing, we should look to it as tak­ing the lead in the elic­i­ta­tion that will move us along the path of our spir­i­tu­al evo­lu­tion. It will help us to dis­pel any notions which seek to divide or sep­a­rate us, counter any actions which seek to make some greater and oth­ers less, and instead lead us out from with­in and inspire us to act with even greater com­pas­sion, under­stand­ing and love for one another.

But if any indi­vid­ual or group face this cri­sis and see only dan­ger and betray­al, it is because they hold to a fear-based real­i­ty of what they believe was lost. They fall into the frac­tured mir­rors of mad­ness that are the inverse of the “Wis­dom that is Love”, and into the pain of Nep­tun­ian Delu­sion and Self-Decep­tion. They will make of them­selves mar­tyrs and heroes, as they blame some “oth­er” for what they see as bro­ken promis­es and decep­tion. They become the “enthralled”, dri­ven by their self-cast fears of Sat­urn, and so become deceived into false­hoods of superior/inferior, whether in terms of beliefs, pol­i­tics or per­son­al behav­iors. They will seek to divide, allo­cate blame and act against the greater good, and so ulti­mate­ly bring great pain to them­selves (but also many oth­ers) by this false faith formed from dis­cord and fear.

The one True path remains the same, year after year, and life after life…and it will bring you, if you remain true to who you real­ly are, out of all such dark­ness and fear. The song of spir­i­tu­al self-awak­en­ing is what you must lis­ten for, the kind­li­ness, gen­tle­ness and love is what your soul lives from, by and for. Your high­er-self, your Spark of the Divine, is for­ev­er singing these Psalms of Love.

The qui­et, steady and lov­ing flame of the One will always remind you to resist those inner and out­er voic­es of fear, doubt, hatred and inse­cu­ri­ty. Instead, you will smile as you remem­ber your true nature. You are here to Dream of a Greater Real­i­ty, to Love every oth­er as you love yourself…And so it will come to pass, you will move steadi­ly and sure­ly out of these shad­ows and into the realm of Light.

In the next pod­cast, I will move on to con­sid­er anoth­er wan­ing square that is defin­ing this year for us, the square of Jupiter and Saturn.

Here is Part Three of the 2016 Fore­cast, Sat­urn and Nep­tune Personally