Pisces — Johfra Bosschart

The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones

What is the essen­tial Truth that holds all the oth­ers as one? It is quite sim­ple real­ly, as are all sacred mat­ters. The whole point of your jour­ney through all these realms, worlds, bod­ies, and lives is to come to live your life as what you essen­tial­ly are. And what is that?

You, and all that we know as Cre­ation, are sim­ply formed, guid­ed, and made by Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love. And that is why the most pro­found truth found at the heart of all teach­ings is this:

The love you receive will for­ev­er equal the love that you give.

Yes, if we could sum up all that a per­son did, or is, or will for­ev­er be, we could not find a bet­ter way to hold the truth of how to under­stand the mean­ing of life than to see it as this, that what is tru­ly shin­ing through and behind one and all is this beau­ti­ful expe­ri­ence we call love.

We have reached the last of the signs of the Zodi­ac, the sign of Pisces. And at this time of year, and some­where in your own Astro­log­i­cal chart, you will find this to be the most pre­cious gift of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones. Pisces holds the trea­sures and fruits of this life, as well as the innu­mer­able series of lives you have lived, as it is the vehi­cle, the Avatar of your fulfillment.

Pisces is the “end that is the begin­ning”, the ves­sel of all your har­vests and fruits of your count­less lives, forged by all the jour­neys you have made by these Twelve Signs. And in this encom­pass­ing Cir­cle of Life that is the Zodi­ac, you are held with your loved ones, and with all crea­tures great and small, along with the Moon, the Sun, and the Stars, indeed with the entire­ty of Cre­ation as what you were and will always be, one with the One.

It is from your pre­cious har­vests of mean­ing­ful­ness, of your lessons learned by your mis­takes cor­rect­ed, your growth in wis­dom matched by your humil­i­ty that deep­ened, it is from this com­pound cre­ation that you con­tin­u­al­ly forge the seeds of your next begin­ning and all your future lives too. Yes, Pisces is the Omega which will become your Alpha of a new day, a new year, and a new life in Aries and beyond.

Here in Pisces, in this realm of com­pas­sion and love for all of life, as you stand upon the eter­nal shore of dreams and won­ders, with visions fired by imag­i­na­tion, com­pas­sion and love, Pisces is the ever-renew­ing foun­tain-source of your faith and hope. Pisces holds the truth, that you are the mak­er of you, in that the dreams you dream, become the thoughts you think, which forge the actions you took and made the real­i­ty you now face.

By this self-under­stand­ing you see the true path of self-mas­tery, by your awak­en­ing you see the Rib­bon of Light and Love that is the path of the cre­ator in you when you hold to your faith with love and understanding.

But even so, here at the end you once again won­der and pon­der, “what is this all about, why am I here and what ques­tions should I ask at this last great por­tal of the Divine?”.

As it was at the begin­ning, it is also at this so-called end­ing too; we remain what we are, look­ing to under­stand who and what we are, and why we are, the ever elu­sive why. And so, from the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, from the Heart of the Lov­ing Ones, we hear the celes­tial notes of the Divine that have come down to us from the very first days of Cre­ation answer:

What is the pur­pose of life?

The Ancient Teach­ings, The Wise Ones tell us, that we are part of great host of beings that began our jour­ney in Space-Time long, long ago. We came as seeds from a pre­vi­ous cos­mic cycle, and it was our turn in the nev­er-end­ing, ever-ascend­ing Hier­ar­chy that form the King­doms of Spir­it and of Life, it was our turn to enter this most spe­cial realm that we call “human”.

What is so spe­cial about this realm of being that we name human?

It is the divine gift of self-aware­ness, of your being able to expe­ri­ence self-con­scious­ness. By this gift you are slow­ly but sure­ly form­ing your­self into a being that is endowed with the poten­tial to ful­fill your lumi­nous Inner Nature, which is for you to become an ever more con­scious co-cre­ator of Creation.

But if I already have the Divine with­in me, why must I strug­gle, why must I suffer?

Because you are on a path of becom­ing, and your Spark of the Divine, your mon­ad, is just the high­est part of all your hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms or bod­ies that par­take in this jour­ney with you. This Divine Light, this Love that is the Divine, shines in every par­ti­cle and mote of Cre­ation, but in you it has been formed into a vehi­cle with a mind and a heart, with an intel­li­gence and love so that you can under­stand and care for one anoth­er and for this Cre­ation too. But this Jew­el of Light, your Causal Body, is only one of your many ener­gy-forms or bod­ies that you are, as there are many planes and dimen­sions, each requir­ing a dif­fer­ent form of being.

You exist in many bod­ies or dimen­sions (not one), which can be arranged from the dens­est to the more ethe­re­al, your Phys­i­cal Ener­gy-Form, your Emo­tion­al Ener­gy-Form, your Men­tal Ener­gy-Form, and your High­er Mon­ad or Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy-Form. Every one of these “bod­ies” jour­neys with you; and you through them and they through you; and, it is by this dance of spir­it that you help one anoth­er walk the lumi­nous path of per­fec­tion, in this life and in life after life.

You are bound to one anoth­er by the Law of Kar­ma, and each of you reaps what you sow. Though you might wish to avoid error and suf­fer­ing, you now real­ize that it was by your error and cor­rec­tion that you forged the way to make the light that is Love. You can accept and smile and for­give your­self and one anoth­er, because you have done the one true work, that you had to learn to choose what is more lov­ing, more car­ing, and more truth­ful. This is the way it is done, because by liv­ing by love you become self-mas­ter­ful, and so ever more guid­ed by wis­dom, humil­i­ty, and compassion.

The Law of Cre­ation is per­fect, and you are here to help one anoth­er. You by and with your bod­ies, through tri­al and error, lift your­self up into a more per­fect form of human; and you with your fel­low humans help one anoth­er to become more wise and lov­ing too; and so that even more tru­ly you come to under­stand that is you, with all the beings that form the hosts of Cre­ation, that you are here quite won­der­ful­ly and sim­ply to be the very Light of Cre­ation that shines with­in each and every king­dom of life too.

This is the Promise and Gift of Pisces. That in the end we will come to know that each of us, and tru­ly every sin­gle part of Cre­ation, is quite pro­found­ly yet tru­ly the Life and Light and Love of the Divine.

Yes, you are one of the ones of the One.

You are a ves­sel filled with the Pow­er of Faith, and that Faith is the Love of the One.

You are on the path, the only path,

You are here to shine as the Love Divine.

Just love one anoth­er, as you are,

Divine.

Tran­script of Radio Show: 2022 — A look ahead, the 2022 Fore­cast – Part 3 — Uranus

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

Today we will com­plete our ini­tial overview of 2022 by con­sid­er­ing the third of the out­er plan­ets, Uranus. In truth, I find it quite impos­si­ble to under­stand any one of the three out­er plan­ets with­out at the very same time hold­ing in my mind the oth­er two. They are for me or form, as I have often men­tioned, what I call the Tri­ad of Spir­it. Their indi­vid­ual mean­ings can only be tru­ly under­stood when you also hold the oth­er two as well, as they each con­tribute to one anoth­er, form­ing an inte­gral whole that inspire and guide our spir­i­tu­al awakening.

Sym­pho­ny of the Planets
One exam­ple of their inter­de­pen­den­cy and inter­re­la­tion­ship is sim­ply to be found in their rel­a­tive posi­tions with one anoth­er. It is quite extra­or­di­nary how their orbital ratios form a per­fect numer­i­cal pro­gres­sion or res­o­nance pat­tern. This is so clear when we arrange them in their rel­a­tive posi­tion from us, that is from Uranus to Nep­tune to Plu­to. Uranus’ orbit is 84 years; Neptune’s orbit is rough­ly twice that at 164 years; and Plu­to is three times Uranus or 248 years; so that means they form a pro­gres­sion in years of 1 to 2 to 3.

Since these plan­ets are what we call the Sacred three beyond Sat­urn, I like to look at them as the Avatars of our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, of becom­ing more than what have been made by our mere con­di­tion­ing from our past suc­cess­es and fail­ures, which is held by Sat­urn. Sat­urn should be held in this con­text as the plan­et of Real­i­ty, of what we have made along with our self-lim­i­ta­tions. Anoth­er Astro­log­i­cal name for Sat­urn is the “Ring Pass Not”, and this means that when we move beyond the rings of Sat­urn we move into a more sub­lime place, a realm beyond seem­ing­ly fixed and mate­ri­al­ized worlds of the more inner planets.

The Three Out­er Plan­ets as a Process 
So, one way to look at these out­er three with regards to our Spir­i­tu­al jour­ney and Con­scious­ness is that they oper­ate simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, but also step by step. From a fixed and formed state of belief and know­ing, we find our­selves by the acti­va­tion of Uranus to be shook or shocked from our more lim­it­ed beliefs and thought forms. Uranus oper­ates like an elec­tri­cal dis­charge or light­ning bolt, and we expe­ri­ence that “Ah-hah”, of sud­den­ly see­ing some­thing beyond what we had hereto­fore imagined.

Then Nep­tune comes along, as the Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent, to dis­solve the bound­aries between one thing, idea or realm and anoth­er, and so it lifts us to see through to a more inclu­sive under­stand­ing (after we have passed through the nec­es­sary state or inter­reg­num that we label confusion).

Final­ly, Plu­to brings the prin­ci­ple of Alche­my, the mag­ic of com­bi­na­tion and recom­bi­na­tion, of birth, death, and rebirth, lead­ing to the for­ma­tion and fusion of a new Understanding.

So, one could say that in many instances in our jour­ney of spir­it we are first shocked out of our cer­tain­ties by Uranus, then we move through a state of won­der and con­fu­sion by Nep­tune, so that we might final­ly arrive in a rebirth of our con­scious­ness and mean­ing at Pluto.

Today, for us, the ques­tion is what does Uranus’ orbital posi­tion con­tribute to our under­stand­ing that we have gath­ered in my two pre­vi­ous shows on Plu­to and Nep­tune? Remem­ber, in the last show I com­ment­ed upon that con­sis­tent pat­tern of Pluto’s pas­sage through Capri­corn every 245 years being coun­ter­point­ed by Neptune’s pas­sage through Pisces (as now), or in Virgo.

Uranus in Aries and Taurus
What is equal­ly fas­ci­nat­ing for us cur­rent­ly is this fact. That just as it was in the 1500’s and in the 1700’s, we also have the plan­et Uranus mov­ing through the signs of Aries and Tau­rus in our peri­od too. But here we have some­thing quite extra­or­di­nary. The res­o­nance pat­tern of Plu­to in Capri­corn cor­re­spond­ing with Nep­tune in either Pisces or Vir­go has held for lit­er­al­ly thou­sands of years, but the orbit of Uranus has formed a pat­tern of Uranus slow­ly mov­ing back­wards through the signs for each pas­sage of Plu­to in Capricorn.

So, maybe this dif­fer­ence may con­tribute to our under­stand­ing of what we have expe­ri­enced in our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney for the past 500 years, which is the fact that Uranus has held steady for the last three pas­sages of Plu­to in Capri­corn, because Uranus has been in Aries/Taurus for the 1500’s, 1700’s and for our peri­od in the 2000’s. But if we look to the 1200’s it was in Taurus/Gemini, then in the pri­or peri­od of the 1000’s it was in Gemini/Cancer, and in the 700’s it was in Cancer/Leo, and so on.

For what­ev­er rea­son, and per­haps this may be play in role in how dif­fer­ent and dis­tinct our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney in awak­en­ing has been since the 1500’s, we have expe­ri­enced a con­sis­tent or insis­tent mes­sag­ing with regards to Uranus being in Aries and Tau­rus. What might this mean?

Though many oth­er his­tor­i­cal approach­es and analy­ses will try to explain why we have had a rather dis­tinc­tive or unique his­tor­i­cal peri­od since the 1500’s, when we con­sid­er our his­to­ry through the lens of an Astro­log­i­cal and/or Spir­i­tu­al per­spec­tive, I firm­ly believe that this pat­tern of Plu­to in Capri­corn, with Nep­tune in Pisces or Vir­go, com­bined with Uranus in Aries and Tau­rus, can be very instruc­tive and illu­mi­nat­ing for us.

What I would argue is with regards to the spir­i­tu­al jour­ney of human­i­ty, and the very real changes we have seen in human self-under­stand­ing, the shift in human con­scious­ness, and the con­comi­tant evo­lu­tion our com­mu­ni­ties and cul­tures, we have most cer­tain­ly wit­nessed the emer­gence of a very dif­fer­ent kind of human over the past 500 years. The ques­tion is why?

We have already dis­cussed some­what the nature of the shift from the 1500’s to the 1700’s and then to our present day when we con­sid­ered the inte­gral influ­ences of Plu­to in Capri­corn com­bined with that of Nep­tune in either Vir­go or Pisces. Now with the addi­tion of Uranus we can per­haps see why these past 500 years have been so very dif­fer­ent from those before.

Where­as Nep­tune will com­plete one and one-half an orbit each time Plu­to goes through Capri­corn, Uranus will have gone around three times. But as I not­ed, it will slow­ly move back­wards through the sign it is in when Plu­to returns to Capri­corn. What might be so very spe­cial about it remain­ing or hold­ing for these past 500 years in the first two signs of the Zodi­ac while Plu­to is in Capricorn?

I would argue that we can under­stand this sig­nif­i­cance by exam­in­ing the mes­sage of Uranus when it is mov­ing through Aries as focus­ing its influ­ence upon the very nature of the “I”, as Aries rules the expe­ri­ence of “Who am I”; and that equal­ly, we can see that while Uranus is in Tau­rus it shakes up the very notion of the sec­ond ques­tion of life, “What am I”?

Uranus’ Role com­bined with Nep­tune and Pluto
While it is true that no mat­ter what sign Uranus is mov­ing through, (and it is in each sign for about 7 years), its pur­pose or role is to indi­vid­u­al­ize, indi­vid­u­ate and free that part of our being or nature so that we may con­tin­ue our spir­i­tu­al jour­ney of becom­ing a quin­tes­sen­tial being, because our true nature is to become our very own unique spark of the Divine. So, with this under­stand­ing, we could see that Uranus in Aries dur­ing each break­down of a pre­vi­ous order in struc­ture and mean­ing (that is by Plu­to in Capri­corn, and Nep­tune in Vir­go or Pisces), would sig­nif­i­cant­ly elic­it a dis­tur­bance and ques­tion­ing of the very notion of “what is this thing” that we expe­ri­ence as the “I”. Many observers have not­ed that our very notion of sub­ject and object, our man­ner or atti­tude by which we think, speak and write has changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly as we moved through the 1500’s and beyond. In fact, many his­to­ri­ans posit that moder­ni­ty itself, and the mod­ern sense of “the self” emerged dur­ing that Plu­to-Nep­tune-Uranus cycle in the 1500s.

Like­wise, Uranus in Tau­rus elic­its or brings shocks to our sec­ond most impor­tant sense of our­selves and our world; that is what is val­ue, what is our val­ue and what is of val­ue for us? We can cer­tain­ly see that by exam­in­ing the con­cep­tion of and the hier­ar­chy of val­ues that exist­ed pri­or to the 1500s and then com­pare that to where we find our­selves today, our expe­ri­ence of val­ue and own knowl­edge of the mate­r­i­al worlds (and those beyond the mate­r­i­al) has been total­ly transformed.

Indeed, that very essen­tial con­struct of “the Sub­ject” ver­sus what­ev­er is “the Object”, the I and the not‑I, has been trans­formed from the 1500s down to this very day.

For our pur­pos­es, in exam­in­ing the spir­i­tu­al jour­ney of human­i­ty from the 1500s onwards, the main con­sid­er­a­tion or shift would be expe­ri­enced in this evo­lu­tion (or rev­o­lu­tion) in our per­spec­tive, our way of see­ing our­selves and our under­stand­ing of the world around us; what has quite fun­da­men­tal­ly dri­ven our his­to­ry for the past 500 years is the rev­o­lu­tion in our con­scious­ness, (which is by no means done of course).

As I men­tioned in Parts 1 and 2 of our 2022 overview, the sig­na­ture shift that has tak­en place in the last 500 years is in how we think, how we know or think we know, and how that has shaped what dreams we dream, and from this what we think of our­selves and how we live our lives.

The Ways of Knowing
Before the shocks that began in the 1500s by Uranus, and the dissolving’s by Nep­tune, and in the renewals of Plu­to, we could under­stand the “way of know­ing” by humans as being derived from one of three approach­es or methods:

• For much of human his­to­ry, and for the great­est num­ber of peo­ple, there is the under­stand­ing estab­lished and enforced by Author­i­ty, where­in the answers to life are deter­mined by those who hold posi­tion and wield pow­er over the many, whether they be from realms sec­u­lar or sec­tar­i­an. And this way of know­ing by force is still quite preva­lent of course for far too many souls.
• Then for some, there is the fix­ing of the answers to life by what one wish­es to believe to be true, a hold­ing of or to a point of view, and to a real­i­ty, by sheer deter­mi­na­tion and often through delib­er­ate or will­ful igno­rance. In effect, one is an author­i­ty to one­self, but with no crit­i­cal or reflec­tive cor­rec­tion pos­si­ble or sought for.
• And then there is the approach for some, and which seems some­what more rea­son­able, and it is known as “a pri­ori” rea­son­ing. It is an approach which is formed by assum­ing that one is being rea­son­able, or that we are being rea­son­able, and that by using our indi­vid­ual rea­son we can form cer­tain assump­tions and approach­es to what we know, and it seems to work for us. But there is no method or prac­tice with­in this approach that pro­vides for test­ing or cor­rec­tions or val­i­da­tion. So, by each of us assum­ing that we are right, and then by our con­fir­ma­tion bias­es in which we keep the data or expe­ri­ence that con­firms what we assumed and ignore the rest, we end up cre­at­ing a thought-real­i­ty struc­ture that makes sense to us, but it can be tru­ly non­sen­si­cal and even dan­ger­ous to our­selves or others.

Rev­o­lu­tion in Consciousness
Final­ly, what emerged in the 1500s was quite extra­or­di­nary and excep­tion­al, and this is what I would call a key part of the Spir­i­tu­al Trans­for­ma­tion brought about via the agency of Pluto/Neptune/Uranus. A sig­nif­i­cant ele­ment of this awak­en­ing forged what we have come to know as a means or process of under­stand­ing our­selves and our world called “the Sci­en­tif­ic Method”.

The Sci­en­tif­ic Method is the crit­i­cal rea­son­ing process where­by we can deter­mine and sep­a­rate fact from fic­tion. And it rests upon this most essen­tial qual­i­ty, that our trans­for­ma­tion­al self-aware­ness cre­at­ed the capac­i­ty for us to be “self-crit­i­cal”. That gift of self-crit­i­cal­ness is bestowed by our devel­op­ment of hav­ing some greater or less­er degree of objec­tiv­i­ty, of our being able to observe not just what we may be try­ing to under­stand, but to hold our­selves as equal­ly objec­tive about our own per­cep­tions and rea­son­ings too.

By this leap in self-aware­ness, Knowl­edge and Truth became some­thing forged and cre­at­ed by our Liv­ing Spir­it. That what we know and believe would not be derived by fiat through some Author­i­ty, nor by igno­rant and will­ful deter­mi­na­tion, nor by rea­son­ing with­out crit­i­cal reflec­tion (the three pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned ways). Now it became pos­si­ble for knowl­edge and truth to be deter­mined by a process of greater self-under­stand­ing and open­ness to the won­der of the world around us.

The Sci­en­tif­ic Method
We would start, as one must if one seeks to tru­ly know, with the knowl­edge that we do not know but we seek to under­stand. And so, we would pro­pose some­thing, a pos­tu­late or hypoth­e­sis about some­thing, and then by obser­va­tion, and test­ing, and re-hypoth­e­siz­ing, and more test­ing, and then the refin­ing of our find­ings we could arrive at a con­clu­sion with a rea­son­able cer­tain­ty about something.

To be able to adopt this method of know­ing, we must start from the first and truest posi­tion of spir­it, that is just like in the mind of a child, we begin with an open mind, a mind unfilled with assump­tions or ideas as such, but rather filled by a curi­ous, inquis­i­tive spir­it that seeks to know more about the world and of ourselves.

The result over the past 500 years has been an ever increas­ing and expo­nen­tial growth in our knowl­edge of the world. We unlocked the secrets of physics, chem­istry, and biol­o­gy and so we became like the gods, with the pro­tean abil­i­ty to rad­i­cal­ly alter our world and our­selves too. The world that was in the 1500s looks noth­ing like the world we have now. And we are cer­tain­ly a very dif­fer­ent type of human than our ancestors.

Yes, it is by this Spir­i­tu­al leap in Con­scious­ness, we found some of the keys to the Uni­verse; we have mag­ni­fied our pow­ers and extend­ed our range of influ­ence over our­selves and all oth­er life-forms on this plan­et. And here­in we made and met our fate, we dis­cov­ered a “ring” of great pow­er, but we did not under­stand how we should use it or what we would create.

This is because, unfor­tu­nate­ly, our leap in pow­er was not matched by an equal­ly greater wis­dom or a deep­er humil­i­ty. It seems we have become the instru­ments of our own undo­ing by har­ness­ing the secrets of the uni­verse. Yes, we face the great­est of per­ils we have ever faced by our own mak­ing, because our knowl­edge was incom­plete, and the con­se­quences of our actions not ful­ly understood.

Lim­it­ed Consciousness
More­over, for many, many souls, and tru­ly for most of us to some greater or less­er degree, the oth­er meth­ods of deter­mi­na­tion of fact and truth or belief still hold sway, either par­tial­ly or whol­ly, in our under­stand­ing of our­selves and our world. Rather than be filled with curios­i­ty, won­der and humil­i­ty, too often many choose to live in cer­tain­ties found­ed in and cir­cum­scribed by fear.

Yes, far, far too many humans place their faith (or real­ly their fear) into some one indi­vid­ual or group of “Author­i­ties” who hold nei­ther Truth nor Wis­dom but mere­ly their Pow­er as the source of mean­ing. And far too many of us think that we are “rea­son­able”, and that we can use our rea­son and our mod­ern index­es of infor­ma­tion to sort fact from fan­ta­sy, and be an island of self-formed knowl­edge, our very own arbiters of truth and rea­son. And so, our feal­ty to author­i­ties, or our ego­tis­ti­cal self-assur­ances blinds us to the Liv­ing Truth that is Spirit.

We Need One Anoth­er to Know Truth
Because our foun­da­tion of under­stand­ing, from the very begin­ning of our awak­en­ing, has been anchored in this fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple of our human know­ing, which is that we are social beings, and we need one anoth­er to find our way to what is rea­son­able, to what may it fac­tu­al and per­haps even True. Our very word for this, “Con­scious­ness”, means “Togeth­er Know­ing”.  Which quite sim­ply means that if we do not share with one anoth­er, and tell our sto­ries, and lis­ten to one anoth­er, we will be lost upon the rag­ing seas of misunderstandings.

That is why we need to help one anoth­er to find our way out of our con­fu­sion and fear by sim­ply being there for one anoth­er; we must lis­ten, we need to offer sup­port and com­fort, to pro­vide insight and crit­i­cism, and we must equal­ly be eager to receive it too. We are one another’s means to the truth, whose fun­da­men­tal source is to be found in the One or Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

More than many may know or under­stand, we make what we are and what we will be by how we think, by what we think and what we share with one anoth­er. To that end I will leave you with some words from a very wise one, Man­ly Palmer Hall, who wrote in his book “Self-Unfold­ment by Dis­ci­plines of Realization”:

“Let your real­iza­tion through all this time be that sim­ply, nat­u­ral­ly, gen­tly, nor­mal­ly and hap­pi­ly, you are grow­ing up through the many to the One, and that you are accom­plish­ing this through the grad­ual process­es of dis­cov­er­ing as a series of joy­ous expe­ri­ences the One in each of the many. Real­iza­tion is the con­scious under­stand­ing of the uni­ty of life, and of the uni­ty of the liv­ing Self with the death­less Cause which abides in the inner­most parts of the world.

Be patient, and in all things be kind – and time and eter­ni­ty will be patient and kind through you.”