Tran­script of Radio Show: Can­cer Sol­stice, The Zodi­ac Explained, Mid-Year Review

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

The Sol­stice
On Sun­day June 20th, we reach one of the “Four Turn­ings” of the Astro­log­i­cal Year, the Sol­stice mark­ing the entrance of the Sun into the sign of Can­cer. In the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar year, we have come through the first set of the three Modal­i­ties of Spir­it Forms which are held by the Car­di­nal, Fixed and Muta­ble Signs of Aries, Tau­rus, and Gem­i­ni; and we have also expe­ri­enced three of the four Ele­ments of the Zodi­ac, which are Fire, Earth, and Air.

On June 20th will we enter the sec­ond Car­di­nal Sign and the first Water Sign of Can­cer. The Car­di­nal Signs begin the Four Sea­sons, and they form what I like to call the Four Cor­ners of Cre­ation, the Four Direc­tions of Iden­ti­ty and Ori­en­ta­tion. The four Ques­tions of Iden­ti­ty are “Who am I” in Aries, and “Who are you” in Libra; and “Where do I come from” by Can­cer and “Where am I going” by Capricorn?

The Zodi­ac
In this Sol­stice of Can­cer, we must turn to the ques­tion of our Roots, to where we come from, what anchors us and lov­ing­ly sup­ports our jour­ney in the stars. But to do this we real­ly need to con­sid­er, what are the Signs, what is the Zodiac?

For me, Astrol­o­gy is a vehi­cle of know­ing for address­ing the fun­da­men­tal ques­tions that we all face. It direct­ly con­cerns those three fun­da­men­tal ques­tions of Life:

Where do we come from; why are we here, and where are we going?

Since humans woke up, when we became self-aware, we won­dered and wan­dered seek­ing to know our­selves and our world, and to share what we under­stood. Yes, we made who we are by these sto­ries we shared, we made our­selves into what we are by this steady accu­mu­la­tion of Knowl­edge and Wis­dom. We are all made of and by one anoth­er, and our some­times sim­ple and often­times pro­found sto­ries of knowl­edge and wis­dom have become this peren­ni­al, liv­ing gift to us from our ances­tors and that we share with one anoth­er as we move through the Eter­nal Now.

It seems obvi­ous to me, that ear­ly in our awak­en­ing, as we sought to make sense of our expe­ri­ences of the world around us, we began to per­ceive and hold togeth­er these expe­ri­ences of our jour­ney here and con­nect them with what we wit­nessed tak­ing place in the sweep­ing pageantry in the heav­ens above.

One fun­da­men­tal ques­tion we must under­stand is How or Why does Astrol­o­gy work? What is it that forms the Zodi­ac, how does it func­tion, why does it work?

Source of The Zodiac
Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, the Zodi­ac is an Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Field of Ener­gy-Forms, what is known as the “Design Body” or Sub­tle Body for any Organ­ism, whether that be an Atom, Mol­e­cule, Being, Plan­et, Star or Galaxy. We need to free our minds and move away from our fix­a­tion on Mat­ter and Sub­stance and think of the real forms behind the appear­ance of things, the noume­na and not the phe­nom­e­na. The Uni­verse, and every­thing in it, is like a Holo­gram, a series of inter­sect­ing ener­gy-forms, which when aligned and formed into cer­tain pat­terns cre­ate the var­i­ous Real­i­ty-Forms or the Mat­ter-Forms that we perceive.

The Zodi­ac is the Ener­gy-Form, which envelops and per­me­ates any organ­ism from the high­est spir­i­tu­al bod­ies all the way down into the denser mate­r­i­al bod­ies like our human “flesh-bod­ies”. The Zodi­ac holds the Twelve Cre­ative Hier­ar­chies of Spir­it; and the Pow­er or Force behind these Twelve is of or from the One, and that is ulti­mate­ly for me the Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Mind of the One.

For any organ­ism or Whole Being, from atoms and mol­e­cules all the way up the Stars, the Zodi­ac is like the Mas­ter Aura, hold­ing, form­ing and inform­ing the cre­ation, devel­op­ment, and expres­sion of that being. Each one of us is formed with­in our own Auric or Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Field. But we humans are sub­ject to the Greater Aura of the Zodi­ac around the Earth. Then our Earth in turn is part of the Auras of the oth­er Plan­ets and our Star, which forms our entire Solar System’s Auric Field or Zodi­a­cal Field. Real­ly, there is but One Zodi­ac whose ulti­mate source is the One.

The Zodi­ac is not “out there” in the so-called Fixed Stars, it is the mas­ter tem­plate in all organ­ism or beings. And, most won­der­ful­ly, each indi­vid­ual Zodi­a­cal field aligns with the next high­er order of wholes or organ­isms or beings, and then those with the next as well. Until we find the entire Solar Sys­tem, and then the Milky Way Galaxy is aligned with this same Zodi­a­cal ori­en­ta­tion. Tru­ly the teach­ings hold that the Divine Order of the Cos­mos can be seen as, “Wheels with­in Wheels” and “As above, so below”. The Zodi­ac of our Solar Sys­tem is also the Zodi­ac of our Galaxy and all of Cre­ation, it is the Mas­ter Architect’s Elec­tro-Mag­net­ic Ener­gy-Field of Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Con­scious­ness which forms and guides all the organ­isms from the small­est to the great­est, who are the very Body of the One.

The Zodi­ac for Earth
What this means for us here on Earth, it that our Zodi­a­cal field is aligned so that when we say for exam­ple that the Sun is going through Gem­i­ni or Can­cer, what we real­ly mean is that the Ener­gy-Form of Gem­i­ni is being acti­vat­ed by the Sun at this time. Any enti­ty born at this time will par­take of that Gem­i­ni Ener­gy-Form with regards to its Root Nature and fun­da­men­tal pur­pos­es. Like­wise, when any oth­er plan­et is mov­ing through Gem­i­ni, like Venus, it means that Venus is act­ing through the Ener­gy-Form of Gem­i­ni and being mod­u­lat­ed accordingly.

The plan­ets are not the “caus­es” or mak­ers of what we do down here. I do not hold to the notion that the plan­ets make things “hap­pen”; rather, they reveal the deep inter­con­nect­ed­ness between all life in our Solar Sys­tem, our Fam­i­ly Sys­tem, and they can through and by their pat­terns of rela­tion­ship, by what I like to call “The Dance of the Plan­ets”, help us to under­stand the cycles and mean­ings of our life here on Earth.

For my ses­sions with clients, I see their chart as form­ing the essen­tial nature of the strengths and chal­lenges a soul is to work with in this life. A read­ing is an encounter with one­self, and when find­ing con­fir­ma­tion of what they have known, felt, or intu­it­ed about them­selves, they expe­ri­ence a warm com­fort and deep­er clar­i­ty about their life and pur­pose. They obtain greater self-accep­tance and self-under­stand­ing, and they can more con­scious­ly live their life in align­ment with their entire being or nature. For many this expe­ri­ence will often elic­it a greater clar­i­ty about the mean­ing and pur­pose of their life, and they take up (once again) the chal­lenge to move with more deter­mi­na­tion towards their self-mas­tery and awakening.

So, for now as we or our Star enter Can­cer on June 20th, we come once again to the ques­tion of our ori­gins or roots. We come to our fam­i­ly and her­itage, our cul­ture, and ances­tors. We can all trace our roots back, but only so far before these paths become blurred and our his­to­ry turns into leg­ends and myths. But we also know, or bet­ter, we also feel the con­nec­tions between one anoth­er that tran­scend these more lim­it­ed phys­i­cal sto­ries. We are human, and we all ulti­mate­ly share in the one Root of our human­i­ty, our one Fam­i­ly, the Fam­i­ly of Human.

We have come a long way, but we also know we have a long way to go. And the Wis­dom con­tained in Astrol­o­gy has always helped us to find our way as it can today. Gen­er­al­ly, or col­lec­tive­ly for us all, we look at the Astro­log­i­cal themes that are most sig­nif­i­cant are held by the three out­er­most plan­ets, Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to, and their Sign posi­tions and rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er pro­vide the fun­da­men­tal mean­ings and mes­sages for any age. Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026; Nep­tune takes 164 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Pisces from 2011 to 2026; and Plu­to takes 245 years to orbit the Sun and is mov­ing through Capri­corn from 2008 to 2024.

Plan­e­tary Align­ments and Seeding
His­tor­i­cal­ly, the most sig­nif­i­cant align­ment these 3 plan­ets will make is when they form a triple con­junc­tion, which is like a mas­ter spir­i­tu­al moment of seed­ing. The last time this hap­pened was in 577 BC in the Sign of Tau­rus and the world was graced by the pres­ence of Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, and Pythago­ras (and many oth­ers). The next such align­ment is not due for over 1300 years in 3,368. But we must remem­ber that in every gen­er­a­tion, Teach­ers will come to remind us of who we are and why we are here. The paths of awak­en­ing are ever before us, and in each and every peri­od many souls will begin or con­tin­ue the steady climb that leads to awak­en­ing and liberation.

Plu­to
For us, the most sig­nif­i­cant ele­ment right now is the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn, which has always indi­cat­ed the end of an Insti­tu­tion­al Era. We are wit­ness­ing the end of our age from 2008 to 2024 which is not unlike the pre­vi­ous pas­sages of 1516–1532 and 1762–1778. That ear­li­er peri­od in Europe accom­pa­nied the Ref­or­ma­tion and move to a new polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al order (and a new kind of human being), and the lat­ter peri­od being what I call the “End of Monar­chies and rise of Democ­ra­cies”, of which the US and French Repub­lic and oth­ers led the way.

And now we find that our polit­i­cal-eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al order is com­ing undone. The rea­son is not “because” of Plu­to, but it does pro­vide con­text and mean­ing (along with the oth­er plan­ets). The rea­son is just it is spir­i­tu­al­ly time for this to hap­pen. The very solu­tions to meet our human needs that our ances­tors forged in the 1700’s and 1800’s have become the very instru­ments of form­ing the exis­ten­tial chal­lenges we face today. Whether in how we source our ener­gy, food, cloth­ing, hous­ing, in all so many ways in which we have met our needs, those very means we cre­at­ed and have relied upon our now destroy­ing the beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chy of life on this planet.

This is how it always is, the solu­tions of one era become the very source of the chal­lenge that we must rise above as we move into a new age. While Plu­to remains in Capri­corn, we will con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence this as more of a time for the break­ing down of old forms in order to pre­pare the way for the new order that will rise from 2024 onwards. With Plu­to as the Avatar of the Will and Instru­ment of Alche­my for our Solar Sys­tem, while it moves through Capri­corn it sig­nals the time that will bring about a Rebirth of Forms for our World.

By work­ing with Plu­to, the plan­et of the Will, we walk the path of the One as we say, “Let Thy Will Be Done”.

Nep­tune
The next major influ­ence of mean­ing is pro­vid­ed by Nep­tune, which is cur­rent­ly mov­ing through its own sign of Pisces from 2011 to 2026. With its role as the dis­solver of bound­aries between ener­gy-fields and forms, this pas­sage of Nep­tune is often accom­pa­nied by the most sub­lime expe­ri­ences of the fun­da­men­tal One­ness of Cre­ation, which is root­ed in the divine light of Uncon­di­tion­al Love that forms and holds all as one in the Cos­mos. Yet this expe­ri­ence of the dis­solv­ing of real­i­ty-forms and the mean­ings behind those forms will equal­ly elic­it some of the most Illu­sion­ary and Delu­sion­al expe­ri­ences for many as well. Both the surge in spir­i­tu­al move­ments and crises of con­flict­ing views of real­i­ty we are expe­ri­enc­ing today can be seen as direct­ly relat­ed to its pre­vi­ous pas­sage in 1848 to 1862. It was then, as now, that our under­stand­ing of how we see and relate to one anoth­er (and to all of life on this plan­et), was revealed as deeply divid­ed; then as now, some humans sep­a­rat­ed them­selves from oth­ers, and believed that oth­er humans were less­er, and even could be deemed to be the “prop­er­ty” of oth­er humans, and that their pos­ses­sions and prop­er­ty rights were above our spir­i­tu­al respon­si­bil­i­ties to one anoth­er and to all life on this planet.

It is Neptune’s role to remind us that we are all made of one anoth­er, that we are all one in a com­mu­ni­ty of fel­low beings we call Human, and that we equal­ly part of the larg­er Com­mu­ni­ty of Life that is our beau­ti­ful Earth. When we turn from the path of Uncon­di­tion­al love for one anoth­er and indeed from all life-forms on this plan­et, that is when we enter into Chaos, Con­fu­sion and Delu­sion. The move­ment of Nep­tune through Pisces sig­nals a time for Illu­mi­na­tion and Awak­en­ing that is always her­ald­ed by the neces­si­ty of con­fu­sion. It is only when we are con­fused that we find we have no choice but to let go of our illu­sions and rise to new lev­el of under­stand­ing by see­ing the truth behind all life-forms here, we are all here because of Uncon­di­tion­al Love, and we are here to steadi­ly move towards liv­ing by this truth as we draw clos­er to being ful­ly awak­ened as Human.

When we hold to the mes­sage of Nep­tune, we fol­low the path of Love and Com­pas­sion and keep to the Mas­ters’ teach­ing that we are here for one thing only, “Love One Another”.

Uranus
Final­ly, we have the last of the out­er plan­ets guid­ing our steps, which is held by the plan­et Uranus. Known as the Awak­en­er, Uranus is mov­ing through the Ener­gy-Form of Tau­rus from 2018 to 2026, and like its pre­vi­ous times there from 1935 to 1942 or from 1851 to 1859 or from 1768 to 1775, it sig­nals a time where old val­ues are shat­tered, and a reimag­i­na­tion and restate­ment of our Hier­ar­chy of Val­ues is at hand.

Cer­tain­ly, I think we can all agree that the expe­ri­ences our world has gone through in just this past year alone, with a world-wide Pan­dem­ic and a resur­gence of Social Jus­tice move­ments, has upend­ed our rela­tion­ships to what is the good, what is valu­able and most cru­cial­ly, how we val­ue one another.

Uranus, as the Avatar of the Mind, is the shaper of our Thought-Real­i­ty-Forms which we can envis­age as Holo­grams. We are each shaped and held by our own Thought-Forms, which in turn are shaped by our Col­lec­tive Holo­grams, which in turn are formed, shaped, and guid­ed by the larg­er Holo­grams of the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies. Once again, wheels with­in wheels,

Uranus, which holds the ener­gy-form of our High­er Mind, is the Quick­en­ing agent on our path of awak­en­ing. We frame our per­cep­tions and under­stand­ings by means of a hier­ar­chy and range of sup­po­si­tions, data, facts, and truths which form our means to move through our Real­i­ty-Forms with Rea­son. But we must equal­ly and per­sis­tent­ly keep test­ing and ques­tion­ing this body of Knowl­edge and Truth as we find our way to the Roy­al Road known as the Path of Awak­en­ing. To that end, Uranus as the Avatar of our Crit­i­cal, Ques­tion­ing, and Pro­tean abil­i­ty of Intel­li­gence, brings us to steadi­ly and con­stant­ly, yet at times more dra­mat­i­cal­ly, to expe­ri­ences that shat­ter the old ways of per­ceiv­ing and defin­ing what we know as real­i­ty. Uranus is our Avatar of the Freer Mind.

When we hold to the guid­ance of our Freer and High­er Mind, we move to the Peace of Under­stand­ing that is the “Mind of the One”.

It is by Uranus and our High­er Mind that we align our Lives with the Path of the Divine, as by Nep­tune feel our­selves and hold one anoth­er in Uncon­di­tion­al Love, which is held true and steady by Plu­to as our will becomes aligned with the Will of the One.

We are here on Earth to make our way to being a ful­ly real­ized and com­plete human, whose Mind is Free, whose Love is Pure and whose Will is True to the Divine Plan of the One.