Whence – Where – Whither

Before we attempt to lift the veil on 2020 and beyond, it is use­ful to review the themes and con­di­tions that pre­vailed dur­ing 2019. Some of these influ­ences were in effect for just that year, but many have been the “movers and shape-shifters” for years past, and most of these will con­tin­ue to shape our years ahead too.

Plu­to in Capri­corn – The End of an Age

The pas­sage of Plu­to through Capri­corn began in 2008 and will con­tin­ue into 2024, and I have not­ed many times that we find our­selves in a peri­od that res­onates with the pre­vi­ous pas­sages of Plu­to in this “Sign of the Insti­tu­tion­al Order”, (1762–1778 and 1516–1532). The Spir­i­tu­al, Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic and Cul­tur­al Insti­tu­tions of our world, rang­ing from the most foun­da­tion­al (the fam­i­ly) to the most encom­pass­ing (Nation­al and Trans-Nation­al orga­ni­za­tions), whose sole pur­pose is to func­tion as the mech­a­nisms we cre­at­ed to meet our needs for one anoth­er, these very instru­ments are being bro­ken down. That is because the very type of world and the very type and struc­ture of needs we addressed through them has changed. We need to renew and reset what our needs tru­ly are; and, we equal­ly need to restruc­ture how we meet our needs for one another.

This is the End of an Age, and the Sys­tem that got us to “here”, can­not take us to “there”. Our present-day Insti­tu­tion­al order “solved” the issues fac­ing humans then. But those very “solu­tions” have become the threat to our human future, and per­haps for much of life on this plan­et too.

A New Order, a new Hier­ar­chy of Insti­tu­tions to meet human needs will even­tu­al­ly be cre­at­ed out of this peri­od of cre­ative destruc­tion. Just like in the 1500’s, and just like in the 1700’s, our time will be the end of an Age and wit­ness the birth of a New Age. Some insti­tu­tions will be reformed, some will be decon­struct­ed, and in many areas, we will need to fash­ion alto­geth­er new vehi­cles of meet­ing human needs just as we did in the 1500’s and in the 1700’s.

Plu­to is the avatar of Will, the vehi­cle for the expres­sion of Pow­er. The key to the right exer­cise of what­ev­er type of pow­er you have is to acknowl­edge that it is not “your” pow­er. Your true Pow­er comes from, starts with, Self-Con­trol, in being a cen­tered, spir­i­tu­al­ly aligned human. What­ev­er pow­er you assume through some office, whether that be as the head of a fam­i­ly, a com­mu­ni­ty, a com­pa­ny, region or nation, what­ev­er that pow­er is, it comes from that office and it is not yours; you are there not for your­self, you are in that posi­tion to work to meet the needs of whomev­er or what­ev­er you serve.

This has always been the test for every human in any age, to devel­op the under­stand­ing that the will is to be use first and fore­most for self-con­trol and for pro­tec­tion of your own sacred space, and it is nev­er to be used to force your way, even for the most right­eous of rea­sons, to nev­er use your pow­er to force anoth­er and bend them to your will. This is the spir­i­tu­al crime known as “Tres­pass­ing”, and while humans fail to abide by this law, we will con­tin­ue to “have hell on Earth”.

Nep­tune in Pisces – Lift­ing the Veil

In a way, the con­cur­rent tran­sit of Nep­tune through Pisces can pro­vide a con­text of mean­ing and a clear­er under­stand­ing with regards to this les­son of Plu­to in Capri­corn. Nep­tune moved into Pisces in 2011 and it will remain there until 2026. If we look at the pre­vi­ous pas­sage (1848–1862), we can bet­ter appre­ci­ate the influ­ence it brings to us at this time. (More­over, it is inter­est­ing to note, that a pre­vi­ous pas­sage of Nep­tune through Pisces over­lapped the Plu­to in Capri­corn peri­od of the 1500’s, so that may indi­cate that our peri­od has some greater res­o­nance with that par­a­digm shift).

As the les­son of Plu­to is to teach us the prop­er use of the Will, which is to use this pow­er and turn it back upon our­selves, to secure our own sacred space and cen­ter, to help us be a sacred, spe­cial one among many ones; while, equal­ly, Plu­to is there to remind us to nev­er use this pow­er to con­trol any oth­er nor let any oth­er con­trol us.

It is then for us to use our sacred­ly cen­tered selves secured by our will, to reach out to one anoth­er. We cre­ate shared sacred spaces of engag­ing with one anoth­er, which makes pos­si­ble our growth through comb­ing one anoth­er, by the use of our wills togeth­er in a mutu­al­ly agree­able and ben­e­fi­cial manner.

Neptune’s mes­sage is almost the “oppo­site”, or per­haps it is bet­ter to say that it reminds us of the para­dox­i­cal nature of true spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing and liv­ing a life guid­ed by spir­i­tu­al­i­ty. While it is cer­tain the we must be respect­ful­ly “sep­a­rate from one anoth­er”, we must at the same time see through all are var­i­ous sep­a­ra­tions, bound­aries and bor­ders between one anoth­er and at the very same time live with the wis­dom an act towards one anoth­er hold­ing to anoth­er great spir­i­tu­al truth, that we are all in essence one with one anoth­er. Or as it is said, “We are all relat­ed”, and that if we bring harm to any­one at all, we will cause equal harm to our own true self too.

Nep­tune is the avatar of the Uni­ver­sal ener­gy-form that holds the entire­ty of cre­ation as it is. This is the Truth: There is but One Life, there is but One Spir­it, and One Mind, and it holds the whole of Cre­ation as one, (the many ones held as One), by the Ener­gy-form you know as Uncon­di­tion­al or Uni­ver­sal Love. Through this Ener­gy-Form, the bound­aries between the hier­ar­chies and ranges of enti­ties are tran­scend­ed, and it is this expe­ri­ence which is the true seed for your expe­ri­ence of com­pas­sion and empa­thy between one anoth­er and real­ly between all life-forms.

But just as the Will of Plu­to can be mis­ap­plied and lead to very destruc­tive con­di­tions, Nep­tun­ian ener­gies may trig­ger and pow­er, (by the mis­un­der­stand­ing or mis­ap­pli­ca­tion of this dissolving/transcending ener­gy-form), the rise of illu­sions, delu­sions and decep­tions. The grow­ing divide between var­i­ous peo­ples with­in com­mu­ni­ties, between regions and coun­tries, has cre­at­ed a cacoph­o­ny of con­fu­sion and mis­un­der­stand­ings, and the loss of agree­ment as to what is real. All of this is the unfor­tu­nate con­se­quence of what we are expe­ri­enc­ing glob­al­ly, which is a par­a­digm shift of under­stand­ing, a break­ing of an old spir­i­tu­al order because a new, more Inclu­sive Con­scious­ness is required now.

We are between an old real­i­ty and the dawn of anoth­er, and until this shift, our shift, is more com­plete, we are expe­ri­enc­ing events through frac­tured lens­es. We are hold­ing to, or being held by, extreme­ly con­trary points of view, and so we live in very dif­fer­ent real­i­ties and our mutu­al under­stand­ing has become bro­ken and sun­dered from one anoth­er. Indeed, as William But­ler Yeats wrote in The Sec­ond Com­ing, “…the “cen­ter can­not hold; mere anar­chy is loosed upon the world…The best lack all con­vic­tion, while the worst are full of pas­sion­ate inten­si­ty”. To those who look upon our careen­ing world, there seems to be no way to cre­ate or find a cen­ter for us all to hold to, for there is none with­in us to be found.

But we have been here before, and our ances­tors found a way, they returned to “The Way”. At times like these, but tru­ly always and for­ev­er, it is very impor­tant to keep your­self cen­tered upon “your True Self”, and to the eter­nal and sacred truths which are in your heart and form the very foun­da­tions for all Ener­gy-Forms through­out this Uni­verse. The Truth is in you, and it sur­rounds you too. Lis­ten to your calm, clear intu­ition when in doubt. Lis­ten to your heart, and you will always take care of your­self and one anoth­er. Fol­low the ways of the “Lone­ly Ones”, who hold true to the path of love and right­eous­ness. You will find the path in the sacred texts at the heart of every reli­gion, and equal­ly in the wise coun­sel shared in the heart-teach­ings of all phi­los­o­phy, and most impor­tant­ly, by lis­ten­ing to you own com­mon sense and lov­ing heart, you will find your way to “the Way”.

As I said last year at this time, and this will always be so:

Be guid­ed by the Wise Ones, who know there is no reli­gion high­er than Truth.
Walk the path of the Great-Souls, who prac­tice the Wis­dom of Love.
Find inspi­ra­tion in the Lone­ly Ones, their Will­ing-Sac­ri­fice hon­ored by
the Angels and Devas above.
Lis­ten for the Voice of the Silence, attend the gen­tle whis­pers in your Heart,
And you will find “The Way”.

Next, “Where are we now?”