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.