Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings – Uranus and Nep­tune, Free­dom and Sac­ri­fice (May 31, 2020)

In my four­teenth show of 2020, I will con­sid­er the cycles of Uranus and Nep­tune, and how their inte­gral rela­tion­ship marks the shift­ing bal­ance between the Indi­vid­ual and the Com­mu­ni­ty in his­to­ry. We are at a crit­i­cal stage now, where the Seed of a new Civ­i­liza­tion that was plant­ed in 1993 has reached the first major cri­sis of becom­ing, and we find our­selves being torn between the hopes for a bet­ter future and the fear­ful ghosts of the past.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on this top­ic or some oth­er mat­ter, includ­ing per­son­al ques­tions about your astro­log­i­cal chart. If you do wish to ask a per­son­al ques­tion, please be ready to pro­vide at least your birth date and birth­place, and time of your birth if you have that too.

If you wish to sug­gest a sub­ject or top­ic for a future show, please email me as I would be hap­py to hear from you. My email is: billattride@gmail.com.

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Here is the link to the show on Sun­day May 31^st @ 2 pm EDT:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/astrologerbillattride/2020/05/31/astrologer-bill-attride-radio-showuranus-and-neptune-individual-and-community

The phone num­ber to call if you wish to ask a ques­tion dur­ing the live show is: (516) 531‑9638.

Please join me on Sun­day May 31^st @ 2 pm EDT as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

Tran­script of Radio Show: Amer­i­ca at a Turn­ing Point — Plu­to and Nep­tune in 2020 and 2021

Our main top­ic today is about the cor­re­spon­dence of ener­gies or res­o­nances regard­ing the plan­ets in terms of their orbital paths, and how long they take to make a cir­cuit around the Sun. The plan­ets form these def­i­nite ratios with one anoth­er, and it is inter­est­ing that the out­er plan­ets of Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to form a ratio of one to two to three.

In oth­er words, Uranus’ orbit is about 84 years and you dou­ble that rough­ly to get to Nep­tune’s orbit of 164 years, and then by three times that we have the orbit of Plu­to which is 245. It is not an exact 1 to 2 to 3, but just like we humans, the plan­ets are indi­vid­u­als too, and they speed up and slow down and bob­ble and weave just like we do. So, every­thing is not a per­fect one thing or anoth­er, but indi­vid­u­at­ed and indi­vid­ual in nature.

But we find this gen­er­al ratio cor­re­spond­ing to many things. Because of these ratios, the plan­ets line up with them­selves, (and with the plan­ets in any chart), and they will have a res­o­nance or har­mon­ic of meet­ing up at the same times or off­set by a cer­tain amount of time, which will rein­force their mes­sag­ing. I found it kind of fas­ci­nat­ing that right now we have in the USA chart two big align­ments hap­pen­ing simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, over­lap­ping with one anoth­er, which they have done in the past.

Plu­to
I have been talk­ing, as you know, quite a bit about Plu­to and in many episodes, and that from 2008 to 2024 Plu­to is march­ing through Capri­corn, (and it has not been back there for 240 years) and indeed this is this what is com­ing up here in 2021 and 2022, which will be Pluto’s return to the USA Plu­to which is the first time it has hap­pened, so it is big.

If we look at Plu­to lin­ing up with Plu­to, and because we have Mer­cury oppo­site to Plu­to in our Natal chart for the USA, there is a res­o­nance of this hap­pen­ing through­out our his­to­ry that seems to deal with our ques­tion about how we think of our­selves (Mer­cury) and how we deal with these ques­tions of val­ue, and in our capac­i­ty to have con­trol, self-con­trol or be under the con­trol of oth­ers (Plu­to).

For instance, if I was to look at this his­tor­i­cal­ly, Plu­to kept mov­ing along after the birth of our coun­try in 1776 and formed its first major aspect to itself and to Mer­cury which hap­pened in the late 1840s into the 1850s. That is when this coun­try was grap­pling with ques­tions about how we were going to devel­op in terms of our econ­o­my and cul­ture, as we were mov­ing towards a crit­i­cal divi­sion between a freer sys­tem in the North and a slaved base sys­tem in the South, that a strug­gle was form­ing in our coun­try between a slave or free econ­o­my, and whether new states would be admit­ted as either slave or free.

When we flash for­ward to the 1930s, that is when Plu­to is oppo­site to Plu­to and con­junct Mer­cury. That is what we have in the 1930s and FDR and the New Deal, and there is once again a restate­ment of eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal, and cul­tur­al life.

We flash for­ward again to when Plu­to squares to Plu­to and Plu­to squares Mer­cury, and that was in the ear­ly 1980s and that is the era of Rea­gan, where the mod­el set in place in the late 1930s into the 1940s was bro­ken, and we had a new way of divid­ing up the wealth and well-being of our coun­try between the var­i­ous sectors.

That brings us to our time, and here in 2020 and 2021 and 2022, Plu­to again lines up with Plu­to and Plu­to lines up with Mer­cury, and again we are address­ing the same ques­tion: Is our soci­ety based upon a clear divi­sion that is equi­table and mean­ing­ful between the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and how they share in the wealth of this coun­try, or have we reached a break­ing point in terms of how unequal the bal­ance is between those who have and those who have not?

Nep­tune
Well, fold­ing that into some­thing else we can look at the pat­tern­ing as revealed by the plan­et Nep­tune. Nep­tune is extreme­ly impor­tant in a chart. (Plu­to rules the will in the sense of integri­ty, and are we respect­ing our own space and keep­ing our­selves with integri­ty in our own inter­nal spir­i­tu­al space, and equal­ly respect­ing and not infring­ing or vio­lat­ing or tres­pass­ing upon the space of oth­ers). Nep­tune is the prin­ci­ple of our vision and dream, of our spir­i­tu­al self. The dream of Amer­i­ca, of any­one, is held by the plan­et Nep­tune. When it is lin­ing up with itself, we are ques­tion­ing or ask­ing, “what is the dream of America?”

We start with Nep­tune in Vir­go in the USA chart, right at the top of the chart, so it is part of this dream struc­ture that is quite strong, and we go from 1776 and by the late 1850s and Nep­tune is oppo­site to Nep­tune. And, we are deal­ing with the first great exam­ple of our coun­try, of com­ing to a head over this divi­sion, will we be a “slave coun­try” or will we be a “free coun­try”? The dream of Amer­i­ca is split between two dif­fer­ent soci­eties, North and South.

And there were great debates and strug­gles over that. And, of course, the great­est speech or one of the great­est speech­es ever giv­en at that time, and peo­ple refer to this again and again through­out our his­to­ry since then, was Lin­col­n’s great “house divid­ed speech” dur­ing the Lincoln/Douglas debates when he was run­ning for Senate.

Abra­ham Lin­coln - “A house Divided”
So, I would just like to quote him in terms of what he was faced with at that time, what the coun­try was faced with at that time, which of course is like our time. Because what is hap­pen­ing here in 2020, in 2020 and 2021 and 2022, Nep­tune is once again oppo­site our Nep­tune. And just like then these words hold true, and the words of Lin­coln are:

“…a house divid­ed against itself can­not stand. I believe this gov­ern­ment can­not endure per­ma­nent­ly half slave and half free. I do not expect the union to be dis­solved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divid­ed. It will either become all one thing or all the oth­er. Either the oppo­nents of slav­ery will arrest the fur­ther spread of it and place it where the pub­lic mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ulti­mate extinc­tion or its advo­cates will push it for­ward till it shall become law­ful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”

And here we find our­selves in the begin­ning of the 2020s, with a coun­try that seems utter­ly divid­ed between cities and the rur­al states, between peo­ple of mixed back­grounds and diver­si­ty and peo­ple who are iden­ti­fy­ing as “white”. And so, we are strug­gling once again with the iden­ti­ty of Amer­i­ca, what is the dream of this coun­try, what shall we do with this dream, is cer­tain­ly some­thing that we are strug­gling with now, just as our great ances­tors strug­gled in their time with their great division.

I hope and believe it will not be resolved by war; I do believe we can find a way through with a call­ing to, as Lin­coln said, “the angels of our bet­ter nature”, but it is cer­tain­ly a time where we see divi­sions with­in and between one anoth­er that are grow­ing and mount­ing. It has reached such a the point where, as Nep­tune would say, “we are all con­fused, we are all dis­il­lu­sioned, and we are sim­ply not under­stand­ing one anoth­er”, because some of the basic fram­ing and visions, the par­a­digms that we are liv­ing through in these dif­fer­ent cul­tures and sub­cul­tures do not hold together.

E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One
We must find our way back to com­mon­ly held views or an agree­ment upon what is com­mon to us, in order bring us togeth­er in this time of great divi­sion and mis­un­der­stand­ing. Whether we can do so or not depends on you and I and every­one else reach­ing across that divide and find­ing ways in which we can work togeth­er to make it bet­ter for one and all; to real­ize that there are more things that we hold togeth­er than hold us apart.

But we are cer­tain­ly being divid­ed from one anoth­er and framed that way by var­i­ous instru­ments and vehi­cles of the mod­ern age, and these are mak­ing use of that divi­sion for their own prof­it and well-being. We must not suc­cumb to that siren call of divi­sion and of mak­ing the oth­er “the oth­er”, but we must see that every­one for the most part wants what we want, and we need to find a way to do that.

Plu­to and Neptune
I would point to anoth­er great moment in our his­to­ry, also when Plu­to was lined up with Mer­cury and Plu­to, and when Nep­tune was lined up also; it was when the Nep­tune con­junc­tion occurred. So, we had Nep­tune start­ing in Vir­go, and it reach­es its first oppo­si­tion to itself that was the great divide of the Civ­il War and it came around back to itself and we had a Nep­tune con­junc­tion, a return of Nep­tune in the late 1930s when FDR was in office. Roo­sevelt put out as one of his great state­ments on how we should try to build a bet­ter world, over­com­ing the divi­sions of the time, between Fas­cism and Social­ism, and the wars that ensued. What he talked about was our need to work at devel­op­ing and hold­ing to the “Four Freedoms”.

FDR and the Four Free­doms – Free­dom from Fear
The Four Free­doms for him were: First is Free­dom of Speech and Expres­sion, and he said for “every­where in the world”; the Sec­ond Free­dom is for every per­son to wor­ship God in their own way, every­where in the world; the third is Free­dom from Want which trans­lat­ed into world terms means eco­nom­ic under­stand­ings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace­time life for its inhab­i­tants, every­where in the world; and his great­est call­ing, of course, and it res­onates down the halls of his­to­ry, the fourth free­dom is the Free­dom from Fear, which trans­lates into world terms means a world­wide reduc­tion of arma­ments, of weapons of war, to such a point that in such a thor­ough fash­ion that no nation will be in a posi­tion to com­mit an act of phys­i­cal aggres­sion against any neigh­bor, any­where in the world.

Well, I know we are far from that free­dom from fear, but it is a goal, it is a dream that we should hold dear in our hearts if we are going to make it through these upcom­ing years. Because cer­tain­ly the world we know is falling apart, and it is not com­plete­ly lost, the world we had. We must pre­serve, pro­tect, and main­tain the val­ues, the struc­tures, and the insti­tu­tions that are still viable and car­ry­ing out their nec­es­sary duties of meet­ing one anoth­er’s needs, which is what we use them for. But cer­tain­ly, right now, we are deal­ing with the shat­ter­ing of our con­sen­sus and under­stand­ing of what our life is to be based upon.

Life, Lib­er­ty and the Pur­suit of Happiness
Much like our ances­tors faced the divi­sion between North and South, we face a divi­sion with­in our­selves and with­in our com­mu­ni­ties, and through­out this coun­try that must be addressed. And it must be addressed by hold­ing high to the ideals that we found­ed this coun­try upon; that we are here in a com­mon fel­low­ship, pledg­ing our­selves to one anoth­er, our “Life, Lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of Happiness”.

We must pre­serve, as much as we can, all Life and pro­tect it; we must have Lib­er­ty, which means to nev­er infringe upon the rights of any oth­er and to hold each oth­er sacred in terms of our sacred selves; to pur­sue Hap­pi­ness which means to encour­age and make pos­si­ble the means by which every per­son is able to meet the great­est degree of their own self-real­iza­tion and self-fulfillment.

Hap­pi­ness is not hav­ing more things, it is being your­self and being able to reach the finest expres­sion of that self by liv­ing in com­mu­ni­ties, by work­ing with one and for anoth­er, so that we cel­e­brate our diver­si­ty, cel­e­brate our indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, and we do not deny or den­i­grate it.

This is the dream of Amer­i­ca and Nep­tune rules our dreams. And right now, we are con­fronting what will be the dream or the restate­ment of dream that will get us through these dark times. I am always hope­ful, that in the long run every­thing is going to work out, but I know things looked dark right now. And every­one should be remind­ed that our ances­tors went through very dark times indeed and they came through it shin­ing, by build­ing a bet­ter world.

We are not done yet of course there is a lot of work to be done but this is our hour to stand and shine for truth, for love, and for one another.

Tran­script of Radio Show: A Deep­er View — Plu­to and the USA Mercury

What I would like to do today is pick up on things I have been talk­ing about for some time. As I did last week, I will talk about these peri­ods and moments in his­to­ry or in the world’s unfold­ing of events, and that there are plan­e­tary cycles with­in cycles. We look prin­ci­pal­ly at the main dri­vers of large and long range cycles, and they are held by the three out­er plan­ets: Plu­to going through Capri­corn from 2008 to 2024; and Nep­tune going through Pisces from 2011 to 2026; and Uranus going through Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026.

All these are quite potent, pow­er­ful forces and have inter­est­ing inter­sec­tions with oth­er his­tor­i­cal peri­ods that I men­tioned last time and with what’s hap­pen­ing now, and you can always lis­ten to that show if you want to hear that or read the tran­script, or find more on the blog about this stuff as well.

I thought today, though I will always keep in mind these uni­ver­sal ener­gies that are affect­ing the plan­et, we are also affect­ed in indi­vid­ual ways. You can also look at a chart of any enti­ty whether it be a com­pa­ny or a leader of a coun­try or a coun­try itself, you can look at their birth chart and get some indi­ca­tion as to what that coun­try or enti­ty may be going through.

Mun­dane Astrology
This kind of astrol­o­gy is called Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy or world­ly astrol­o­gy, not look­ing at humans or humans and their pets and oth­er kinds of things, but look­ing at look­ing at these larg­er enti­ties formed and often last­ing for many more years than a human. We look at these same ener­gies mov­ing through their charts to see what it might indicate.

Plu­to & Mer­cury in USA Chart
What I men­tioned in the last year or two, build­ing up in the USA chart, is a par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant aspect that is occur­ring this year. These long-wave aspects build in like a Bell curve, com­ing as a wax­ing of ener­gies that reach their cli­max at the most exact moments. This year in the USA, we are expe­ri­enc­ing this triple pass of Plu­to going back and forth over the USA Mer­cury. The exact time, not that it mat­ters for our pur­pos­es, is the end of Feb­ru­ary the mid­dle of July and the begin­ning of 2021.

We would expect this ener­gy to hold steadi­ly, since Plu­to hard­ly moves at all dur­ing the year. What is strik­ing about this align­ment is that this same aspect exists in the USA chart. The Unit­ed States was born with the plan­et Plu­to ris­ing in its Sec­ond House of resources and val­ue, (and the val­ue of any­thing is shown by the 2nd house). Where­as in the 8th house, Mer­cury is locat­ed and is oppo­site to Plu­to, (and the 8^th house rules how we join our val­ues togeth­er and com­bine our assets and resources, to do what we can­not do alone). In a Nation­al chart or a mun­dane chart, the 8^th would include things like inter­na­tion­al affairs and inter­na­tion­al trade and inter­na­tion­al finance and activ­i­ties that we are doing not by our­selves but in com­bi­na­tion with oth­ers. For a nation that means with oth­er enti­ties or nations for the most part and how we com­bine with them, and so this very much deals with our under­stand­ing of our own val­ue and wealth and our trade and wealth with oth­er nations and things of that nature.

But more espe­cial­ly, on anoth­er lev­el, Plu­to deals with, as I’ve been talk­ing about, the will and willpow­er. The cen­tral con­cern of Plu­to is to help us as indi­vid­u­als, or any enti­ty, to form and cre­ate its own sacred space that it exists and abides with­in; and, to turn that ener­gy back on itself in order to achieve greater self-mas­tery and self-deter­mi­na­tion. But often these ener­gies are mis­ap­plied and mis­used by those who live in fear or with a more neg­a­tive view­point, and then they will try to use this ener­gy-form to con­trol or vio­late the spaces of oth­ers, which is why we often have “hell on earth”.

Pluto/Mercury Aspect in USA chart
So, in this regard, this is what is hap­pen­ing with­in the USA chart and its rela­tion­ship to the plan­et Mer­cury, which is the plan­et that rules com­mu­ni­ca­tions, the mind, and thought forms. So, this shows a very intense ener­gy form at the out­set of the USA’s con­sti­tu­tion and struc­ture to do with com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and the pas­sion­ate belief we would have in our thought-forms, ideas, and beliefs.

It is some­what quite well known in many cir­cles that Amer­i­cans can be a lit­tle off putting because we think we are right, all the time. We think our way is the best way and the only way; and that is where we make a mis­take. We do have great ideals and great aspi­ra­tions, to be this great exper­i­ment where all peo­ples come togeth­er and blend togeth­er. But then we our­selves can fall into dog­ma­tism and rigid­i­ty in our own think­ing when we press the case for being all know­ing or hav­ing the only answer, which is not true.

Yet, because Plu­to rules trans­for­ma­tion, rebirth and renew­al and Mer­cury brings the mind to bear, this pow­er that the USA does pos­sess is one that is very direct­ly tied to our pow­er in terms of delv­ing deep­er than oth­er peo­ples might do to under­cov­er under­ly­ing truth. That is why this coun­try has always excelled in terms of research and trans­for­ma­tion­al knowl­edge. I would say that with Plu­to ris­ing and Mer­cury oppo­site in our 8th house, and the fact that Plu­to rules the 8th sign of Scor­pio, I would say the USA is a very “Alchem­i­cal Country”.

Alche­my
What does that mean? Alche­my, like our mod­ern term of chem­istry, is how every­thing is made and cre­at­ed through com­bin­ing with oth­er things. Noth­ing exists by itself; every­thing is a com­bi­na­tion with some­thing else to make some­thing greater. And, in that process we elic­it growth and change and the unfold­ment of the entire cos­mos, (as in atoms devel­op­ing into larg­er atoms, and mol­e­cules devel­op­ing into larg­er mol­e­cules, and life­forms devel­op­ing and mul­ti­ply­ing, all through com­bi­na­tions and elic­i­ta­tions of growth and change). So, this is the very pow­er that dri­ves life itself. It is quite fun­da­men­tal, and one could say that in our coun­try we are dis­cov­er­ing the secrets of life (and oth­er coun­tries are as well), which is very amaz­ing (and scary).

But still, what does it mean for us now as a nation to be deal­ing with this Plu­to tran­sit over Mer­cury, what might it tell us? Well it is mak­ing us reex­am­ine, (as Plu­to march­es through our sec­ond house and lines up with Mer­cury), and deal with this ques­tion of our sacred space and each per­son­’s con­scious­ness; and it reminds us that we may mis­use that pow­er if we are not care­ful, when we try to force ideas upon one anoth­er, or one group to anoth­er, so that peo­ple become obsessed with their think­ing and nar­rowed in their under­stand­ing. Then, rather than hold­ing truth and delv­ing to a greater truth through humil­i­ty and open­ness to a greater under­stand­ing, we end up try­ing to beat each oth­er up with our points of view and “truth”, which is cer­tain­ly hap­pen­ing out there in all dif­fer­ent forms and medi­ums in our world right now.

What hap­pens is that nobody is lis­ten­ing, and every­body is shout­ing at one anoth­er, and we do not find the truth because it gets drowned out in all this noise. So, there is a need for all of us to step back as indi­vid­u­als and take con­trol of our own minds; we need to see how our thoughts and ideas are being swayed and pushed by forces bend­ing them beyond our under­stand­ing. And this holds true not just for thoughts but also for our val­ues, because this is the House of the USA val­ues. Of course we all know and have heard about how our tastes and long­ings, our fears and our hopes, are being shaped by oth­ers who are gath­er­ing all this data on us, and they are learn­ing how to shape our own thoughts and aspi­ra­tions and desires and buy­ing habits, they are shap­ing our val­ues through algo­rithms and all this big data.

Val­ue of a Nation
And again, that is what I would want us to con­sid­er, that if the 2nd house is the House of Val­ue: what is the val­ue of a nation? I’ve talked about this many times, and many peo­ple would con­sid­er in a tra­di­tion­al house chart of a nation, that it is that country’s stocks and bonds, and oil and coal and gas, and all the nat­ur­al resources, and that is the wealth and pros­per­i­ty of that nation. And though I would grant, that on a phys­i­cal lev­el there are phys­i­cal facts that can make one nation have more of these so-called “nat­ur­al resources” than anoth­er. But what I would pre­fer to focus upon, giv­en that we’re deal­ing with humans, and look­ing at things spir­i­tu­al­ly, is that the real source of val­ue of course in any­thing is Spirit.

And there­fore, the val­ues of a nation would then come from its peo­ple, in terms of deal­ing with the human con­di­tion. There­fore we would look at this type of hier­ar­chy of val­ues in terms of our expe­ri­ence of one anoth­er as human, and how we work towards bring­ing out the val­ue and self-worth and lead­ing to the self-ful­fill­ment of every per­son in this nation (of course even in this world) in order to reach the high­est lev­el of a cul­ture and an expe­ri­ence for one and all.

So, these nat­ur­al resources can have val­ue, cer­tain­ly. And what is of val­ue to any cul­ture can change. Obvi­ous­ly, if you are in a cer­tain kind of agrar­i­an cul­ture cer­tain things are use­ful to you. But if you are in a very indus­tri­al kind of cul­ture oth­er things that look like they were use­less now take on great val­ue, like min­er­als and such. So, it varies our expe­ri­ence of the val­ues of this world around us, but our fun­da­men­tal val­ue, the source of val­ue, is the val­ue we have for and between one another.

And so, this is what is going through a trans­for­ma­tion right now as we address this ques­tion of how we work this notion of val­ue in our life. We real­ize that indeed, though we saw humans hav­ing val­ue by the sweat of their labor, and com­bin­ing with var­i­ous resources they were able to pro­duce added val­ue through that effort, (and some were then able to accu­mu­late that val­ue to build larg­er orga­ni­za­tions and insti­tu­tions of value).

Com­mod­i­fi­ca­tion of Humans
What is our val­ue, what is your val­ue, in this Amer­i­can econ­o­my? We have come to real­ize this: We are the prod­uct now! There is a whole indus­try devot­ed to exam­in­ing us, to col­lect­ing our “data”, in order to fig­ure out our wants and desires, our fears and long­ings, through all these algo­rithms, so that they can “sell us”. We are what they are sell­ing to others.

So, we have to say: “wait a minute, what is my val­ue and why are you using it in this fash­ion to dri­ve our expe­ri­ences and make us go in this direc­tion ver­sus that direc­tion?” This is a call­ing for all of us to think about how we hold sacred our val­ue and wish to pro­tect our pri­va­cy to what­ev­er extent we wish, and open in oth­er ways to every extent we wish, because these ques­tions have not been addressed but need to be addressed at this time. Because oth­ers may be abus­ing us as a val­ue, and that they seem­ing­ly can own us, and slice up and dice up this infor­ma­tion and share with oth­ers for mon­e­tary gain.

Those are some things that are sort of swirling in my mind about this ques­tion of val­ue for our country.

His­to­ry of Pluto/Mercury Tran­sits in USA Chart
But again, what is also inter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal­ly is to look at oth­er points in his­to­ry in which Plu­to made this align­ment to Mer­cury. And, as I have men­tioned before, there were two such times. The pre­vi­ous two align­ments of Plu­to to Mer­cury was 1933 to 1937, and 1981 to 1983.

1930s
And so, I said to myself well let us com­pare those peri­ods and see what hap­pened at each of those moments. Well, obvi­ous­ly in the ear­ly 1930s, it was the begin­ning of the Great Depres­sion, the world came almost to a com­plete stop, and Amer­i­ca was tee­ter­ing at that moment between going one way and anoth­er. Some oth­er solu­tions through­out the world at that time was a fusion of cap­i­tal­ism and the state in terms of Fas­cism; and some went oth­er way towards a fusion of the state and the econ­o­my with Social­ism and Communism.

Amer­i­ca sort of found a way through, not doing one or the oth­er but try­ing to hold togeth­er you might say the labor move­ment and the cap­i­tal­ists and forge an agree­ment of how we would share the ben­e­fits and pro­tect peo­ple but also allow for rea­son­able growth. And there was a mod­el set in place then in the 1930s into the late 1930s that held until the late 1970s. And if we look at the eco­nom­ic mod­el­ing of that, and how the wealth was shared in our econ­o­my from the late 1940s, let’s say from late 40s after the war on up to 1980, the lines of dif­fer­ent income seg­ments in both the bot­tom per­centiles that the top per­centiles went in step with each oth­er, steadi­ly climb­ing so that pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and the gains and the wealth was being dis­trib­uted more or less fair­ly among the dif­fer­ent sec­tors. One could argue how fair, but fair­ly equitable.

1980s
But when we get to 1980 the lines com­plete­ly diverge. And I said to myself, “isn’t that strik­ing, that we were hav­ing this increas­ing­ly grow­ing but fair econ­o­my that broke down, what changed?” What changed in 1980 was the so-called Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion, where we cut the mar­gin­al rates of tax­es dra­mat­i­cal­ly; we were promised by cut­ting tax­es we would have extra­or­di­nary growth. George Bush the senior at that time, run­ning against Rea­gan for pres­i­den­tial office, said it is “voodoo eco­nom­ics”. He was right, because the promis­es of great growth pay­ing for the tax cuts and every­body would be made whole, every­body would ben­e­fit from this, did not pan out and for the next 40 years, from 1980 to now 2020, these lines have been diverg­ing. And the major­i­ty of peo­ple have had their incomes flat­ten­ing out, and their wealth decrease. And many of them were wiped out in 2008 when econ­o­my was crashed again by the finan­cial “titans” who sup­pos­ed­ly run these things; they broke the eco­nom­ic machine and it was nev­er fixed or made whole.

From 1980 to 2020, we have been expe­ri­enc­ing a grow­ing unfair shar­ing of our wealth that we all pro­duce. In fact in terms of the share of total US income held by the top 1%, it reached its high­est pro­por­tion right before the great crash in 1929, it got to its low­est lev­el and fairest dis­tri­b­u­tion of US income was reached in the late 70s, and ever since then it’s been climbing.

Inequal­i­ty in America
So this is part of what’s dri­ving our divi­sions now, (there are many oth­er changes that took place in terms of eco­nom­ic laws being changed, not just mar­gin­al tax rates, in terms of how invest­ment banks oper­at­ed, how dif­fer­ent things were hap­pen­ing in the econ­o­my) that led to a skew­ing of out­comes. But one fun­da­men­tal fact is, that unlike oth­er advanced indus­tri­al coun­tries, we changed our tax struc­ture in a dra­mat­ic way that dis­al­lowed the gen­er­al shar­ing of wealth in this coun­try and skewed it to the top 1%, to the top .1%, even the top 5%, and so the rest of us were left to strug­gle more and more to make ends meet.

And so, what is hap­pen­ing here in 2020 is we are going to have this con­ver­sa­tion again about what is right. We should be look­ing at what hap­pened in the 1930s and com­pare it to what hap­pened the 1980s and see where we are now in the 2020s and say, “can we do bet­ter than this, how can we do bet­ter than this”?

This is part of the con­ver­sa­tion that is cer­tain­ly hap­pen­ing in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic side; it should be hap­pen­ing on the Repub­li­can side too, because if these increas­ing divides con­tin­ue this coun­try can­not be held togeth­er and we will divide up and fight one anoth­er or it will be imposed upon us, and we should agree to agree as to what is fair.

That is cer­tain­ly an espe­cial­ly impor­tant con­ver­sa­tion, that will be the con­ver­sa­tion here, as the 2020s begin. Just like we had this same reset eco­nom­i­cal­ly in the 1930s and again in the 1980s, count on there being a major reset of US under­stand­ing and rela­tion­ship to how we han­dle our wealth and val­ue, how there­fore we treat our peo­ple in this upcom­ing period.

Sat­urn and Pluto 
What is also strik­ing about this to my mind, is that at the same time that Plu­to is going over our Mer­cury, Sat­urn now every 29 years comes around the solar sys­tem, that’s how long it takes to make a com­plete cir­cuit of the solar sys­tem,  and this is the year that it’s once again lin­ing up with the USA Plu­to. The very plan­et we have been talk­ing about. Sat­urn lin­ing up a Plu­to is deal­ing with ques­tions posed by Sat­urn which is about ques­tions of author­i­ty, and how we struc­ture things in terms of, in this case, state orga­ni­za­tions or busi­ness orga­ni­za­tions or what­ev­er orga­ni­za­tion we are talk­ing about.

Sat­urn is in a sense the ruler and the leader, and the insti­tu­tion itself, the struc­ture of author­i­ty; and Plu­to is the issue of the will. So how does that author­i­ty wield the will that is put at its dis­pos­al. Again, I always say the will is this ener­gy that we have cre­at­ed by hold­ing our­selves with­in a con­tain­er and then direct that ener­gy out­ward to serve that enti­ty, and as long as whether you’re the head of a fam­i­ly, or the head of a com­mu­ni­ty, or the head of a com­pa­ny or coun­try, as long as you serve the ends of that enti­ty then you are safe and can wield that pow­er correctly.

But when you seize it for your own use or mis­use that author­i­ty, that is when you are brought down. What is hap­pen­ing here with Sat­urn going over the USA Plu­to is that we are deal­ing with this issue of how author­i­ties are wield­ing their will appro­pri­ate­ly, nei­ther over or under doing that, or are they in need of being restruc­tured because they have abused that author­i­ty, because the struc­ture or author­i­ties have let us down, which is cer­tain­ly a big com­plaint of late.

His­to­ry of Sat­urn Con­junct Pluto
So, in look­ing at the times that this hap­pened before it will be about every 29 years, the years that come out are strik­ing. It is 1932, that was when Roo­sevelt comes into office to try to heal the coun­try and move it on a path of good growth again, which took quite some time. 1961, when Kennedy came in and brought about cer­tain reforms and changes that that were fore­short­ened by his assas­si­na­tion. 1991, we go from the years of Rea­gan and Bush to the years of Bill Clin­ton. And now, it is hap­pen­ing again in 2020.

Each one seems to be a piv­otal moment in the rela­tion­ship between pow­er and the author­i­ty, between the state and how it wields its pow­er. So, there is a great strug­gle over who will wield pow­er and how pow­er should be exer­cised in our coun­try from the local lev­el to the state lev­el to the nation­al lev­el. In each peri­od, we had to address these ques­tions of how we wield author­i­ty and pow­er: Are the author­i­ties wield­ing it cor­rect­ly, have they done right by their office? These were the ques­tions in the ear­ly 1930s and the ear­ly 1960s and the ear­ly 1990s. In 2020, these very same ques­tions regard­ing the will and the author­i­ty con­front our coun­try once again.

Tran­script of Radio Show: The look ahead for 2020 

For today I thought we would look ahead and see what is com­ing. But of course in look­ing ahead we are always look­ing back because, unlike our civ­il cal­en­dar which we begin on Jan­u­ary 1 and ends on Decem­ber 31^st and every­thing is encap­su­lat­ed with­in that year, the plan­e­tary motions, being what they are, are rather longer than that. For many of them, they last tens if not hun­dreds of years; their “year”, if you will, can be as long as 250 years rough­ly with Plu­to, and 170 years with Nep­tune to get around the solar sys­tem once. Their align­ments are reg­u­lar­ly spaced out with regards to them­selves, and with regards to any indi­vid­ual chart, whether it is a per­son or com­pa­ny or coun­try. A lot of these phe­nom­e­na are what we call “long wave phe­nom­e­na” of the out­er plan­ets, of Uranus and Nep­tune and Plu­to. We con­sid­er them to be the fun­da­men­tal “beats”, set­ting the tone for a peri­od or an age, and so they are espe­cial­ly important.

Then we look at more inter­me­di­ate changes indi­cat­ed by the plan­e­tary motions of Sat­urn, two of those inter­me­di­ate plan­ets, but Sat­urn for itself and then Jupiter of course also; and then the inner plan­ets are much quick­er and get around with­in a year or so if not sooner.

Plu­to
So, we would tend to want to focus on these larg­er wave phe­nom­e­na and work our way in. Again, start­ing with the plan­et that I have been talk­ing about quite a bit now since the mid-2000s, antic­i­pat­ing its move into Capri­corn, and now it has been there for some time , it has been there since 2008 and remains there till 2024, we are deal­ing with Plu­to in Capricorn.

Capri­corn
And it is always impor­tant to under­stand, how do we derive this infor­ma­tion, where does this come from? Capri­corn is the sign of insti­tu­tions, that we take human needs such as they are, because we are deal­ing with humans obvi­ous­ly, and as opposed to spon­ta­neous­ly try­ing to meet the needs on the fly, moment to moment, we learn to sys­tem­atize and orga­nize things and cre­ate struc­tures with­in a fam­i­ly, with­in a com­mu­ni­ty, with­in a com­pa­ny or coun­try, region or coun­try, or inter­na­tion­al­ly, we cre­ate insti­tu­tions that serve to hold these ways of meet­ing needs and offer­ing ser­vices or mean­ing in life that last for a long time.

Giv­en that at the core of every­thing down here, through­out the whole uni­verse, every speck and minor part to the largest sys­tems are all made of one thing fun­da­men­tal­ly, Spir­it; and Spirit’s imper­a­tive is to become, to grow, which means to change. No mat­ter what sys­tem or struc­ture or econ­o­my or cul­ture we cre­ate may last for a very long time, but it does have an “end date”, where things have to be bro­ken down so new forms can take their place. Much like mov­ing from life to life, the spir­it leaves the body, it is not a death but it is a release from that phys­i­cal frame, which could no longer con­tain the spir­it and the need for that spir­it to con­tin­ue to grow.

Sim­i­lar­ly here, with Plu­to going through Capri­corn, since Capri­corn rules insti­tu­tions, (and I have not­ed this by look­ing at his­to­ry, and I was his­to­ri­an long ago and stud­ied many dif­fer­ent approach­es) and when I came across Astrol­o­gy I won­dered how it might pro­vide a way of fram­ing his­to­ry. And it was remark­able how these plan­e­tary motions weav­ing with one anoth­er, char­ac­ter­ize or sort of explained in an Astro­log­i­cal way what was the pur­pose of this change that a cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion was going through.

Plu­to and the Will
It is rel­e­vant for help­ing us under­stand where we are right now. As Capri­corn rules insti­tu­tions, Plu­to is the plan­et, that I say, is the prin­ci­ple of the will, which is one of the three aspects of the divine with­in all of us. The will is there to cre­ate the bound­aries with­in our­selves, where­by we con­tain our­selves and hold our­selves with will, and pro­tect our­selves from any kind of tres­pass­ing or vio­la­tion. And equal­ly, restrain us from try­ing to over­ly influ­ence or affect anoth­er, we want to do this freely and will­ing­ly and choose to work togeth­er, not force our­selves upon one anoth­er. That is the great spir­i­tu­al crime of Tres­pass­ing, which of course, while it pre­vails on this plan­et, we have hell on earth. And when enough peo­ple respect the bound­aries one to anoth­er and help each oth­er, to lift one anoth­er up, and become more cen­tered and will­ful peo­ple in a self-con­trol­ling way, then we begin to estab­lish heav­en on earth.

The pur­pose of the will is to make these bound­aries and struc­tures, but went these Plu­ton­ian ener­gies are mov­ing through a sign it tends to break­down and refor­mu­late that sign. So, Plu­to in Capri­corn, again from 2008 to 2024, like it was from the 1760s to the 1770s, and like the ear­ly 1500s, we have wit­nessed peri­ods where, as it is now, a time when the polit­i­cal, cul­tur­al, and eco­nom­ic order breaks down. Why?  Because it has out­lived its pur­pose. The things it erect­ed to solve cer­tain prob­lems now become the very imped­i­ments to future growth for Spir­it. It must be released so a new form can take hold.

Pre­servers, Cre­ators, Destroyers
We are see­ing insti­tu­tion­al break­downs, from the fam­i­ly on up to the nation­al and transna­tion­al struc­tures, because we are at the end of an age and the birth of a new one. So, as I say repeat­ed­ly, there are peo­ple on the plan­et now who are work­ing might­i­ly to pre­serve what can and should be in our cul­ture and cul­tures; as well as those who are trans­form­ing those mech­a­nisms and means of meet­ing needs and build­ing new insti­tu­tions or reform­ing the old ones; and then the peo­ple who are just destroy­ing, that is their pur­pose, is to expose the cor­rupt, the rot, and the inef­fec­tive­ness of these old struc­tures, as is true, and they take it down or break it apart. Every­body is play­ing their role here, in var­i­ous fashions.

This is the first thing we would con­sid­er, and since Plu­to con­tin­ues to go through Capri­corn now, we would want to see what it is affect­ing most strong­ly at any one time. What we are find­ing right now is that peo­ple are feel­ing this tremen­dous pres­sure of norms being bro­ken, and wills being bro­ken and they are being swayed in var­i­ous ways, through evok­ing our pas­sions and fears, to act in ways that are not as ele­vat­ed in con­scious­ness as they should be, and then we react to each oth­er and break apart from one anoth­er into these var­i­ous group­ings. Basi­cal­ly, it is fear that is dri­ving those who go to the low­er com­mon denom­i­na­tor or level.

Plu­to and the USA Mercury
What is hap­pen­ing this year in the USA chart with this? I spoke about this last year because things build in like a Bell curve over time. An ener­gy form wax­es in and reach­es a cli­max, then fades out again. And we were under this approach­ing ener­gy form of Plu­to com­ing over the USA Mer­cury all dur­ing 2019, and now it is ful­ly in place in 2020. It is a bat­tle with the Will and the Mind; and how we  deal with the neces­si­ty to hold, as a sacred space, each per­son­’s con­scious­ness, ver­sus the mis­use of will and pow­er to sway and influ­ence minds, whether it be “one on one” with­in a fam­i­ly or in groups, or larg­er group­ings of indi­vid­u­als. Peo­ple try­ing to use their pow­er or becom­ing inflamed and pas­sion­ate about some­thing, not try­ing to try to con­vince some­one through rea­soned debate, but real­ly try­ing to force the issue. There is a break­ing down of what we should respect, ulti­mate­ly, which is the sacred space of the oth­er. We should be respect­ing their con­scious­ness. You can­not force truth upon anoth­er; you can only elic­it their growth to reach a high­er lev­el of under­stand­ing, because the truth is all with­in us.

But right now this pow­er of sway­ing minds and hearts, whether through social media and the algo­rithms, whether dif­fer­ent peo­ple spout­ing through their var­i­ous vehi­cles of influ­enc­ing in media in dif­fer­ent forums, are push­ing out ideas and beliefs and sway­ing peo­ple to their side or against oth­ers. We are expe­ri­enc­ing a break­ing down of the integri­ty and sacred­ness of indi­vid­ual con­scious­ness, by hav­ing this forc­ing of ideas and beliefs, and by doing so we are break­ing the most impor­tant fac­ul­ty of “crit­i­cal rea­son”. That fac­ul­ty of rea­son is essen­tial, to build and hold our own minds true and fig­ure out things for our­selves and share with oth­ers. But when it becomes bro­ken, as it has been, there is no com­mon under­stand­ing, and peo­ple are being swayed by appeals to sort of “half-think­ing” or “wrong way think­ing” as opposed to clear­er thinking.

Plu­to to Mer­cury Historically
We have come through times like this before in the USA his­to­ry. We look at oth­er times that Plu­to lined up with Mer­cury, the last two times were 1933 to 1937 and 1981 to 1983. Both were crit­i­cal moments in the US his­to­ry, for vis­it­ing again and look­ing again at how we struc­ture our eco­nom­ic lives and well-being. The 30s with the New Deal and in the 1980s with the Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion, and it is inter­est­ing because in the US chart the Mer­cury and Plu­to are actu­al­ly lined up with each oth­er from the 2nd House of val­ues to the 8th House of col­lec­tive values.

Wealth and Inequality
And so it makes sense that we would, with­in the con­ver­sa­tion of how we hold our minds sacred at a time like this and try to help peo­ple pro­tect their bound­aries, that we are also deal­ing with the issue of how is it that we allo­cate and deal with the wealth of this coun­try and the val­ues of its peo­ple being embod­ied in that, and how they share in that. Our big, big ques­tion of the moment in in terms of our cul­ture and how divid­ed we are in terms of the dis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth and what that means for eco­nom­ic growth and spir­i­tu­al well-being, are very big ques­tions that are front and cen­ter, as they were in the ear­ly 1930s as they were in the ear­ly 1980s. So here we are again. It is nev­er the same con­ver­sa­tion, of course, as plan­ets are lin­ing up, every­thing else is mov­ing around, oth­er plan­ets are in dif­fer­ent places, so there is no exact­ness in terms of the con­fig­u­ra­tion. But the rhyming and the rea­son­ing behind it is remark­ably sim­i­lar, if not the same.

Nep­tune
We will talk again more about this Plu­to and Mer­cury, and I want to get to all your calls. So, the sec­ond most impor­tant fea­ture in any year is of course what is Nep­tune doing? In an inter­est­ing way, Nep­tune also is going through a spe­cial sign, its own sign from 2011 to 2026. The  last time it did this was 1848 to 1862, a very crit­i­cal time, espe­cial­ly in Amer­i­ca, where there was a ris­ing wave of spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and con­cern for the great sin of slav­ery, lead­ing to the “War of the States” over that very issue.

Nep­tune is the plan­et that, in a way, counter to Plu­to which estab­lish­es bound­aries in the sacred­ness of each indi­vid­ual, in their own sacred spir­i­tu­al space, and then shar­ing their spaces with oth­ers, Nep­tune is that counter that says yes, but the force that binds this whole uni­verse togeth­er, the force that breathes and gives life to all life and all con­scious­ness, because the whole uni­verse is con­scious, just on dif­fer­ent lev­els, is the one fun­da­men­tal val­ue or one fun­da­men­tal force, known as Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So, Nep­tune’s role is to help us dis­solve beyond the bound­aries that are fram­ing things and see things more inclu­sive­ly, to see every­thing is part of one great life. So, when Nep­tune is strong it leads to a greater ris­ing in com­pas­sion and social move­ments and visu­al­iza­tions and cre­ativ­i­ty. So it is a won­drous time for peo­ple to become more per­cep­tive, more intu­itive and see things beyond what they were con­scious­ly see­ing; to intu­it and appre­hend things, just beyond the range of our words and knowl­edge as a con­crete fact.

But it also equal­ly, every plan­et has its neg­a­tive. Where Plu­to can lead to the rise of peo­ple abus­ing will and using guilt and manip­u­la­tion to dri­ve the sto­ry, as opposed to try­ing to help peo­ple take con­trol of them­selves. Nep­tune also when mis­ap­plied leads to out rise of delu­sion and escapism and con­fu­sion and decep­tion, these are the neg­a­tive influ­ences of Nep­tune in Pisces. Because we are now mov­ing in a place where there are less bound­aries, and so what is real­ly “real”, how do we deter­mine this?

So we will have moments of great illu­mi­na­tion and clear-see­ing; but also be grap­pling with all these sort of half-truths and things that do not make sense, and we can­not make sense of it, and “what do we believe”, “how do we know what we know” are impor­tant questions.

What is True
I would say we will start with the fun­da­men­tals, start with what we know to be absolute­ly true. Start with the core prin­ci­ples that have been there to guide human­i­ty from the begin­ning of time, in all the ancient teach­ings and all the ancient wis­dom, the sto­ry does not change, the Truth does not change, because they are Truths! We have to look with­in our hearts to find them and see them mir­rored in the world around us, in the plan­ets, in the plant life, and the ani­mal life, and in us, the truths are embod­ied in real life and liv­ing in spir­it. There are ways to get to them, always. “Walk in beau­ty”, Live in beau­ty”, “Be lov­ing” and it is shown to you.

This is the path. But it is a very con­fus­ing time, and so we are try­ing to pierce through that con­fu­sion to see what is real­ly “real”.

Uranus
Then we have Uranus, mov­ing through Tau­rus, from 2018 to 2026 also. The last time it did that was back in the 1930s, which is inter­est­ing. And, before that it was in Tau­rus in the late 1850s, inter­est­ing­ly. Uranus is the plan­et that deals with the need for each of us has to become a unique instance of spir­it, to become a free­think­ing being, to have a freer and freer mind, because we are on this path of self-con­scious­ness, of self-aware­ness, and so we need to free our minds con­stant­ly and be think­ing as a cre­ative spirit.

We want to lib­er­ate our minds and in this case Uranus’ influ­ence is mov­ing through the sign of Tau­rus, the Sign of Val­ue. There is a call now to renew our val­ues, to come up with new approach­es to: What is the val­ue of me; what is the val­ue of you; what is the val­ue of all that we have here? We need to real­ize that the way we had approached val­ues since the 1930s and ear­ly 1940s, that it now needs to be revis­it­ed once again as we restate and form a new sense of pro­por­tion­al­i­ty and val­ue in the world.

Sat­urn in Aquarius
So there these three beats, (Plu­to, Nep­tune, Uranus) mov­ing through and act­ing for many years here, and we will talk about oth­er align­ments that they make. Anoth­er big change com­ing up this year, we will talk a lot about it lat­er on the shows, is Sat­urn begins to make its move into the next sign, from Capri­corn where it has been since the end of 2017, and now moves dur­ing the course of 2020 back and forth from the end of Capri­corn into Aquar­ius and back again. Final­ly lin­ing up in Aquar­ius to stay for over two years in Decem­ber 2020.

We are mov­ing to a time where we go from the “tests of respon­si­bil­i­ty” and the “tests of self-ful­fill­ment” (Capri­corn), and tests of insti­tu­tions, to “tests of social con­scious­ness and com­mu­ni­ty”. So now we will see us all hav­ing to con­sid­er once again: “what is my hope and dream? My hope, my dream is to be hap­py with those who I can share this with, with those who make me hap­py and my hap­pi­ness is theirs.”

It is all about com­mu­ni­ty and friend­ship; it is about com­pan­ion­ship and social con­scious­ness. This is what Sat­urn will now stir up as a test for all of us. The ques­tion will be: Are you par­tic­i­pat­ing in a mean­ing­ful way to pre­serve your way of life, to make for a bet­ter future for your­self and your fel­low trav­el­ers; are you are you in this world as a mem­ber of a com­mu­ni­ty, or com­mu­ni­ties in a sig­nif­i­cant way? That will be very much on point.

Jupiter
Jupiter con­tin­ues to move through Capri­corn now, it entered in Decem­ber of 2019, and will catch up to Sat­urn in Aquar­ius at the end of the year, Decem­ber 2020. That is a sig­nif­i­cant align­ment indeed. Because Jupiter and Sat­urn repeat­ed­ly align every 20 years; it is one of the prin­ci­ple time­keep­ing ele­ments astrologers have used to look at a series of steps in a civ­i­liza­tion before it changes into anoth­er one, which hap­pens peri­od­i­cal­ly whether from inter­nal devel­op­ments and dynam­ics or exter­nal shocks and challenges.

The Great Mutation
For the last 200 years we have had Jupiter and Sat­urn form­ing con­junc­tions in Earth, a time of mate­ri­al­iza­tion. Because this is what they do, Jupiter and Sat­urn will repeat­ed­ly line up in one ele­ment or anoth­er for 200 years, and when they move into the next ele­ment, in this case air, for the next 200 years it is called the Great Muta­tion. And it seems to peri­odize times in his­to­ry where one ele­ment or the oth­er is dom­i­nant. So, this age we are com­ing out of was an age of man­i­fes­ta­tion, of earth­i­ness, of the phys­i­cal world and becom­ing ever more physicalized.

The next age is this age of air, the age of ide­al­iza­tion, often not­ed for great devel­op­ments in thought and rea­son and under­stand­ing. That is what is going to take hold here and last for the next 200 years. It is excit­ing, and many astrologers are think­ing about what this means for us. But cer­tain­ly, changes are com­ing giv­en all these series of alignments.

So, what I want to do in the next few shows is go into more detail, maybe about Plu­to in Capri­corn and how it is play­ing out in the world now, and Nep­tune and Uranus. But also talk about the par­tic­u­lar align­ments oth­er charts, like the USA chart which not only has Plu­to going over Mer­cury but also quite inter­est­ing­ly, Sat­urn is going over Plu­to, and I will take a look at what that might be in future shows.

Sat­urn to Plu­to in USA chart
It is inter­est­ing, that every time Sat­urn con­juncts Plu­to (in the USA Chart), it seems to mark an espe­cial­ly impor­tant peri­od. The last few times was again back in 1932, and then in 1961 and in 1991, and now. So, every 29 to 30 years, this Saturn/Pluto align­ment is sig­nif­i­cant for us. Because in the USA chart the plan­et Plu­to is the ris­ing plan­et; it is the plan­et that sort of defines us. We are a trans­for­ma­tion­al nation, and we look at the val­ues that we have and hold, because Plu­to is in our sec­ond house, and we are con­stant­ly rework­ing these val­ues, con­stant­ly trans­form­ing them, remak­ing and remold­ing things.

We are a coun­try that is deeply involved in what I call the “alchem­i­cal work”, of Alche­my. We are not­ed for this, in terms of our capa­bil­i­ty as a nation dri­ven by this pow­er. When plan­ets are going over that point in our chart it is some­thing to quick­ly take note and ask, what does this mean now for the Amer­i­can story?

This is an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence that we are hav­ing now, because it is about Sat­urn, which is the struc­ture with Plu­to, which is the will; you could say it is about Author­i­ty and the Will, Sat­urn to Plu­to. It is a big issue each time Sat­urn aligns with Plu­to, but espe­cial­ly their con­junc­tion every 29 years. So, we will be talk­ing about that some more.

Again if you have ques­tions you can cer­tain­ly ask me in the show now, or send me an email, and I am going to be writ­ing quite a bit about this in the blog in the next few weeks.

To Know Thyself

The Sto­ry of the Uni­verse is the sto­ry of Spir­it. It is the sto­ry of the unman­i­fest becom­ing Man­i­fest, of absence being filled with Pres­ence, of dark­ness being revealed as the Light. It is in so many ways the sto­ry of the One, “whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere and whose cen­ter is every­where”, and that One becom­ing the many who are the body, the soul, and the mind of that very One.

This sto­ry is your sto­ry; it is you and I and all who came before us. We have made who and what we are by all the many lives and our sto­ries that we shared, by all these mind-forms that we made and formed into one anoth­er and into our world.

Today we cel­e­brate the next gift of Spir­it in the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, today we all begin our once a year jour­ney through the sto­ry that is the Sign of Gem­i­ni. The mean­ings and mes­sages of all the signs are ever-present with­in your con­sti­tu­tion, as you real­ly are made of all of them, just as is all of Cre­ation, as is the One.

But it is also true that each sign will shine a lit­tle stronger in its own very month. So, the ques­tion you must ask your­self now, “what does the Sign of Gem­i­ni mean to me, what does this sto­ry mean to me”? The shin­ing sto­ry of Gem­i­ni is about one of your most pre­cious gifts of spir­it, your Self-Aware­ness, and your fac­ul­ty of Intelligence.

The Ancient Teach­ings hold the Ori­gin Sto­ry: All of Cre­ation, all of Spir­it, in what­ev­er form it may be, is Life and is Con­scious. The very essen­tial essence of Spir­it, of each and every spark of the Divine, of every sin­gle Mon­ad of Spir­it is to grow, to become, and to unfold ever more the inher­ent­ly, almost infi­nite poten­tial of that Mon­ad of Spir­it. Tru­ly, it is said that we come from the stars, and our des­tiny some day is to become a Star.

One of the most pre­cious moments in the becom­ing of each spark of the Divine is when the Light of Self-Aware­ness is reached. The Sto­ry is the much the same through­out the cos­mos, and the ver­sion told of this for us is held by the “myth” of the bringers of the “Flame of Self-Consciousness”.

Once upon a time, the “gods” walked among us; it was the appoint­ed time when we were ready to “wake up”. These ancient myths and tales speak of Prometheus, Lucifer, Quet­zal­coatl, Loki and the Kumaras; what­ev­er their names, they came with a gift, the Light of Self-Aware­ness, the “gift of the gods”, which had also been bestowed upon them long, long ago. This is the Rib­bon of Light and Love, that streams through the hier­ar­chies of Cre­ation, hold­ing the Uni­verse togeth­er as the one Mind of the One.

With this gift of self-aware­ness, with the dawn­ing of objec­tive con­scious­ness, the next step in your jour­ney was tak­en, as you became aware through these twin pil­lars of Gem­i­ni of the way of the Uni­verse, of the dual­i­ties of cre­ation, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Sub­ject and Object, of “this and that”, which began most sim­ply for you as “I am that, I am not that”. And it was this, this unceas­ing, inces­sant need to expe­ri­ence Cre­ation in all its com­plex­i­ties, diver­si­ties, cor­re­spon­dences and con­nec­tions that stirred your glo­ri­ous and self-lumi­nous seed to sprout, you had to know, you had to under­stand “how all of this, how all of that”, is.

And, so what was awak­ened in you was that “sparkle in your eye”, that unquench­able thirst, that need to know your­self and your world, and so the lamp was lit that is known as your “Intel­li­gence”.

Intel­li­gence is part of this gift of spir­it, the fac­ul­ty of com­par­ing-con­trast­ing, of con­sid­er­ing the dual­i­ties that you expe­ri­ence as Subject/Object, and of all the divi­sions with­in and with­out, as your spir­it cease­less­ly seeks to find a way out of sep­a­ra­tion and divi­sion and find your way back to the One. The pow­er of Intel­li­gence is the abil­i­ty to see a sit­u­a­tion more com­plete­ly, to see it whole and make it whole. Between one way of see­ing or approach­ing a prob­lem or ques­tion, and anoth­er way of see­ing the issue at hand, the Intel­li­gence seeks for the “Third Way”, the path that usu­al­ly encom­pass­es some­thing from both those oth­er ways, and by so doing ris­es above them too. And, although you may cer­tain­ly do this by rea­son­ing with­in and for one­self, the process is most cer­tain­ly quick­ened when two or more of you put your minds togeth­er and find a bet­ter way.

Yes, your Intel­li­gence and Know­ing can­not real­ly func­tion by you and for your­self alone or apart from those with whom you jour­ney. As with all of Spir­it, as in all of Life, we are part of a greater whole, which is also part of an even Greater Whole. We are made by and through our inter­re­la­tion­ships with one anoth­er. The way you devel­op and engage your fac­ul­ty of rea­son­ing, an absolute neces­si­ty for your intel­li­gence to func­tion, is through you being able to com­pare, share, con­trast and cor­rect your thought-forms by and through your inter­ac­tions with many, many others.

This Truth of the “Way of Know­ing” is revealed in your very lan­guage. The word “Con­scious­ness” is made of two words, “Con” which means “Togeth­er” and “Scious­ness” which means “Know­ing”. Con­scious­ness means “Know­ing Together”!

Yes, this is your sto­ry, this is our story.

It is in this time of Gem­i­ni, and equal­ly so wher­ev­er Gem­i­ni is found in your own chart, it is here and there that you can­not help but won­der, “who, what, when, where and why?”

When you were born, the Uni­verse asked a question.

You are the answer.

The Key to Life, the Key to the King­dom of Light and Love, is this:

KNOW THYSELF!