Whence – Where – Whither

Part 2 – Where

A New Year is upon us, and you need to know what do the signs in the heav­ens por­tend? You can per­ceive the facts or real­i­ty of your world as they appear to you. But what is behind that appear­ance or phe­nom­e­na of real­i­ty. What are the “Noume­na” behind the appear­ances? What are the deep­er forces cours­ing through your world that can inform and guide your jour­ney today? What you need to know is “Where” am I now?

As 2017 begins two major align­ments are in place: Jupiter is Oppo­site to Uranus from Decem­ber 2016 until Sep­tem­ber 2017; and, Jupiter is Squar­ing Plu­to from Novem­ber 2016 through August 2017. What this means is that you are going through some­thing this year that is some­what like what you encoun­tered in 2013. That was when Jupiter was squar­ing Uranus; and Jupiter was Oppo­site Pluto.

This also serves as a reminder that the major aspect from 2012, of Uranus Squar­ing Plu­to, is still here in 2017. The Uranus/Pluto aspect is the major theme of this decade. Their rela­tion­ship, along with Plu­to mov­ing through the sign of Capri­corn, forms the fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Form, the deep­est melody of spir­it, con­sti­tut­ing our chal­lenge and oppor­tu­ni­ty to find a bet­ter inte­gral bal­ance of Free­dom and Order. This ongo­ing chal­lenge is still thrum­ming through your world this year, (just as it did dur­ing their con­junc­tion in the 1960’s, or their pre­vi­ous square in the 1930’s…and yes, many peo­ple have not­ed how sim­i­lar “our” time now is to those two periods…and they are cor­rect to do so).

But for our peri­od there is an added over-tone, the march of Plu­to through Capri­corn, (from 2008 to 2024), also car­ries the echoes of its pre­vi­ous pas­sages through this sign, (1516–1532 and 1762–1778). The ear­li­er peri­od accom­pa­nied the breakup of the Feu­dal Order, the rise of Absolute Monar­chies, and the split­ting of the Catholic Faith; the lat­ter peri­od accom­pa­nied the Fall of Monar­chies and the Rise of Par­lia­men­tary Democ­ra­cies. Each time an old world was super­seded by the emer­gence of a new Spir­i­tu­al-Polit­i­cal-Cul­tur­al-Eco­nom­ic order. Each also wit­nessed the emer­gence of a new kind of “human”, as New Thought-Forms and New Forms of Self-Real­iza­tion co-cre­at­ed a new kind of human, a new human-kind.

The peo­ples of those peri­ods, as we in our time, found them­selves in a “world turned upside down”, with social bonds break­ing, insti­tu­tions col­laps­ing, and the with­er­ing of old sources of influ­ence or pow­er and the emer­gence of new ones. For us, as it was for them, we also find our very way of life, and the insti­tu­tions that are sup­posed to embody, pre­serve and pro­tect our soci­ety and cul­ture, seem­ing­ly falling apart around us.

The good news? Our fore­bears sur­vived, and prospered…and so should we. We have been here in some way many times before, and we will find our way through this trou­ble-filled time too. For this year, (and always), you can rely upon the Wis­dom of the Stars, as con­veyed to you espe­cial­ly now by the twin mes­sag­ing of Jupiter Oppo­site Uranus, and Jupiter Square Pluto.

Jupiter is the Avatar of Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion. It forms and informs how you relate to your world, as it rep­re­sents the beliefs that shape and guide your actions. Dur­ing its three pass­es over Uranus and Plu­to it will be shin­ing this light of under­stand­ing from the Sign of Libra as it is mod­u­lat­ed by Uranus’ posi­tion in Aries, and Pluto’s in Capricorn.

Uranus/Jupiter:
The mes­sage of Uranus/Jupiter address­es the del­i­cate bal­ance (or the neces­si­ty of main­tain­ing an ever-present and dynam­ic equi­lib­ri­um), between, 1) Being more tru­ly one­self as an indi­vid­ual, (Uranus in Aries), while at the same time, 2) Evolv­ing greater social intel­li­gence so that in any rela­tion­ship you can bring about a mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial expe­ri­ence of self-ful­fill­ment in your rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, (Jupiter in Libra).

Uranus in Aries argues for Free­dom for the Self above all; Jupiter in Libra coun­ters with the real­i­ty that “Real­i­ty is Rela­tion­ship”, that the Uni­verse is a web of inter-con­nec­tiv­i­ty and with­out this noth­ing (and no one), could exist. Tak­en to extremes, which oppos­ing plan­ets can often do, you have Absolute Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty opposed by Absolute Com­mu­ni­ty. What are you to do?

As always, the path of truth is found “in-between”, upon that noble mid­dle path of inte­gra­tion. Each of these truths, Indi­vid­u­al­ism vs. Com­mu­nal­ism, each of them depends upon the oth­er, are tru­ly part of one anoth­er. Each tak­en to an extreme is anti-spir­it, anti-truth. Only by hold­ing and bal­anc­ing them, one with one anoth­er, only there can you find the weav­ing-way of your true spir­i­tu­al nature.

Each of us is a unique spark of the Divine; yet each of us is also the very col­lec­tive-cre­ation made from all our interactions/interrelationships with one anoth­er too…We are each a unique “one of a kind”; but we are all of some “kind”, insep­a­ra­bly made by one anoth­er and of one anoth­er, and so out of the many we are also One.

Pluto/Jupiter:
The mes­sage of Pluto/Jupiter address­es the equal­ly del­i­cate bal­ance between, 1) Exer­cis­ing your Will/Power as artic­u­lat­ed by the var­i­ous hier­ar­chi­cal roles in your cul­ture (Plu­to in Capri­corn), while at the same time, 2) Guid­ing that Will’s appli­ca­tion by the social con­tracts (implic­it and explic­it) whose basis is formed by the Beliefs-Truths of your cul­ture that become enshrined/enforced into Laws, and that these Ideals are what shape and deter­mine what is the right­ful exer­cise and lim­its of your will (Jupiter in Libra).

Plu­to in Capri­corn has been exert­ing tremen­dous pres­sures since 2008, and these cathar­tic waves have erod­ed the nor­mal insti­tu­tion­al foun­da­tions as well as con­straints for Will and Pow­er in your world. These trans­for­ma­tion­al forces of Plu­to are dis­rupt­ing the insti­tu­tion­al struc­tures of pow­er, cre­at­ing a loss of con­fi­dence in insti­tu­tions as well encour­ag­ing the emer­gence of new, con­tend­ing sources of Will and Authority.

Reac­tionary forces, seek­ing to pre­serve pow­er and priv­i­lege, by seek­ing to hold onto their pre­rog­a­tives, become ever more abu­sive of their pow­er. Mean­while, the emer­gence of new sources of pow­er and will puts them in con­tention with the old ways, and fur­ther erodes the con­fi­dence in the real­i­ty struc­tures of your world. Both the legit­i­mate and abu­sive attempts to pre­serve the old, and the cre­ative and destruc­tive attempts to replace the old order, lead to ever greater crises in your insti­tu­tions and culture.

Plu­to in Capri­corn is doing what it is sup­posed to do, tear­ing down the old ways so that a New World can come into being. Jupiter in Libra can pro­vide a bea­con of light as you seek to find your way in a world careen­ing through frac­tured realms of reality/myth, fact/falsehood, truth/lies. The prin­ci­ple ques­tions are: from where does any wield­er of pow­er derive their Author­i­ty; and what guides and lim­its their exer­cise of their Will and Power?

In our time, as in those pre­vi­ous peri­ods of trans­for­ma­tion, the answers will not be found in the lat­est iter­a­tions of Right vs. Might. Rather, when­ev­er this cathar­sis and re-birth of soci­ety shakes the foun­da­tions of a world, it shat­ters the appear­ances of things to reveal once again the greater truths upon which your Jour­ney in Spir­it will for­ev­er remain cen­tered and secured.

You are here now to remem­ber…
You are here now because you are to stand in the Light of Uni­ver­sal Spir­i­tu­al Truths.

A world must pass for a new world to emerge, but the core ele­ments that bind togeth­er all the worlds that were, are and are yet to be remain. Look to the Great Ones, the teach­ers who seri­al­ly come forth to re-state the Ancient Wis­dom. More than their thoughts, look at their way of being, how their embod­i­ment of Uni­ver­sal Truths in their lives shine a light for us to fol­low. The teach­ers do not require or need your wor­ship; they have come to inspire you to life a spir­i­tu­al­ly inte­gral life.

With regards to “human” laws, look to the sacred his­to­ry of the great law­givers, the Laws of Manu in India, to Baby­lon and the Codex Ham­mura­bi, to the Laws of Rome, our own Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, to the Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Man and to the Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Human Rights. All these human laws find their Foun­tain-Source of ever­last­ing Truth in the Fun­da­men­tal Teach­ings of all Ages, The Ancient Wisdom.

A core prin­ci­ple, a fun­da­men­tal Law of that Ancient Wis­dom is this:

Every speck and mote of this Cre­ation, every being, world and Galac­tic Sys­tem has at its core a spark of the one Divine Flame. This core of Light and Love anchors the Sacred Space with­in which that being abides. It is by and through this Sacred Cen­ter of Love-Light that every Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it finds their own cen­ter, their own space of Will-Pow­er, and yet this truth equal­ly affirms our essen­tial con­nec­tion to one anoth­er too. For what abides in that cen­ter of one and all is a Divine Spark of the One Divine Light. Tru­ly we are insep­a­ra­ble, because of our ori­gin in the One, and through all our many Lives and Loves we are held togeth­er, all our lit­tle Wills held in lov­ing under­stand­ing by the Love and the Will of the One.

There­fore, whomev­er you encounter is anoth­er just like you. In fact, in their heart of hearts they are already of you and you are of them. This law, found­ed by your ori­gin in and of the One, and bound togeth­er by your sacred cen­ter that is a spark of this One, means that before me is anoth­er self-lumi­nous dew-drop of the one Divine Light. To bring about or cause harm to this or any oth­er is to irrev­o­ca­bly do equal harm to myself.

This is The Law of Kar­ma: That what­ev­er you cre­ate, what­ev­er action, feel­ing or thought you make will return to you. This is the source of the Great Teach­ing regard­ing rela­tion­ship found in all sacred teachings:

“Do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you.
For you are all relat­ed, and what you do to the least of these,
You do unto me, The One.”

This is Sacred Law…

This is the Source of Right and Truth…Love.

Fol­low the Ancient Wis­dom, fol­low your heart.

Love one­self,

Love one another,

Just Love.

 

Next, “Whith­er are we going?”