Tran­script of Radio Show: The Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary Influ­ences and their Cycles, Jupiter to Plu­to (7/31/2022)

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

I thought it could be use­ful if we stepped back from what we have been doing over the past many shows, that is our look­ing at just one, two or three of the major plan­e­tary cycles, and con­sid­er more of the entire hier­ar­chy of plan­ets and their inter­sect­ing orbits from Jupiter to Plu­to. It is cer­tain­ly most impor­tant to look at the “big three”, Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to. But by includ­ing the fuller range of influ­ences as brought to bear with the addi­tion of Sat­urn and Jupiter, I believe we will find a deep­er appre­ci­a­tion and under­stand­ing of what I have called “The Dance of the Planets”.

What I and many Astrologers do is con­sid­er the com­bi­na­tion of influ­ences from the var­i­ous cat­e­gories of plan­ets, and their var­i­ous inter­weav­ing cycles with one anoth­er, we take these to form a more com­plete pic­ture of the influ­ences we expe­ri­ence here on Earth. We cer­tain­ly look at each plan­et as hav­ing its own realm of mean­ing and influ­ence, but it is also true that just as we are shaped and formed by our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er, the plan­ets and their mes­sages are shaped and formed by their inter­re­la­tion­ships with one anoth­er too.

Now, we can sort or arrange the plan­ets in a num­ber of ways, but what seems most mean­ing­ful for our pur­pos­es is to arrange them by their indi­vid­ual orbital peri­ods from the longest to the short­est, and then to group them into three types or cat­e­gories of influ­ence with regards to their orbital rela­tion­ships and by their syn­od­ic cycles, which is the peri­od from one con­junc­tion to the next con­junc­tion with one another.

Start­ing with the out­er­most plan­ets, which we will type as LONG WAVE TRANSFORMATIONAL, we have Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus. This group­ing gives us the rela­tion­ship pair­ings of Nep­tune with Plu­to form­ing a con­junc­tion rough­ly every 492 years, then Uranus with Nep­tune at 171 years, and final­ly Uranus with Plu­to at 127 years. Giv­en their longer syn­od­ic cycles, we have observed that they rep­re­sent or influ­ence Trans­for­ma­tion­al or Evo­lu­tion­ary pat­terns of human history.

The next set of plan­e­tary pairs we call the MID WAVE CRYSTALLIZING, and they are formed by Sat­urn align­ing with these longer Trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets. Here we have Sat­urn with Uranus at 45 years, Sat­urn with Nep­tune at 36 years, and Sat­urn with Plu­to at 33 years. This set of com­bi­na­tions con­cerns the dynam­ic inter­re­la­tion­ship between con­ti­nu­ity and change, the nec­es­sary strug­gle between the con­serv­ing and pre­serv­ing nature of Sat­urn coun­ter­point­ed to the Spir­i­tu­al Imper­a­tive for Growth and Change held by the out­er three planets.

The final set of plan­e­tary pairs we call the SHORT WAVE GROWTH set, which is formed by Jupiter with both the Trans­for­ma­tion­al out­er three and with the avatar of Order held by Sat­urn, and these range from Jupiter with Sat­urn at 20 years, Jupiter with Uranus at 14 years, Jupiter with Nep­tune at 13 years and Jupiter with Plu­to at 12 years.

Long Wave Transformational
Pluto/Neptune
For the Long Wave Trans­for­ma­tion­al pair­ings, the 492-year cycle of Plu­to and Nep­tune holds the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the Will and Uncon­di­tion­al Love, between Bound­aries that form our Sacred Spaces and the ulti­mate One­ness of Spir­it and Real­i­ty. Each time Plu­to and Nep­tune form a con­junc­tion, one can see the end and begin­ning of how we form our­selves into our spaces with one anoth­er, and those dates are: 83BCE, 411CE, 905, 1398, and 1891.

And then, as they form their series of aspects with one anoth­er after each con­junc­tion, we see the wax­ing square and the Oppo­si­tion, (also the semi-square and SesquiSquare) and then in reverse order back to the next con­junc­tion, as form­ing crit­i­cal moments in the strug­gle for bal­ance between our exer­cise of our Will coun­ter­point­ed to our expe­ri­ence of Love.

Neptune/Uranus
The next pair­ing by syn­od­ic peri­od is the 171-year cycle of Nep­tune and Uranus, and they hold the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between Uncon­di­tion­al Love and Freer Minds, or Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Communality.

The dates for their series of con­junc­tions or the begin­ning of their cycle of rela­tion­ship were: 1478, 1650, 1821 and 1993. And then just like with Pluto/Neptune, the sub­se­quent crit­i­cal moments in their cycle of rela­tion­ship shape and form our human expe­ri­ence of how we rec­on­cile our need to be Free yet equal­ly Inter­de­pen­dent upon one another.

Pluto/Uranus
The final pair by syn­od­ic peri­od length, and of the pure­ly Trans­for­ma­tion­al group, is the 127-year cycle of Plu­to and Uranus, which holds the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between Will and Free­dom, or Sacred Space and Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. The dates for their con­junc­tions were: 1455, 1597, 1710, 1850 and 1965. Again, we can see this play­ing out over the course of their aspects between one con­junc­tion to the next as pro­vid­ing mean­ing and guid­ance for how we must strive to bal­ance our indi­vid­ual Free­dom with the neces­si­ty to not infringe upon the Sacred Space of another.

Mid Wave Crystallizing
But let us now turn and look at the set of align­ments that forge a more focused set of oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges in our jour­ney of Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing, and to the two which are pre­sid­ing over our cur­rent sit­u­a­tion, and these are the series of align­ments of Sat­urn with the Trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets, and the Jupiter pair­ings with them and Sat­urn as well.

The set of align­ments of Sat­urn with the three Out­er and Trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets car­ries the mean­ings and mes­sages of our Spir­i­tu­al Awak­en­ing brought about by the Alchem­i­cal Trans­for­ma­tions when these Evo­lu­tion­ary Forces meet with the Struc­tures and Objec­tive Realms held by Sat­urn. The result is often dis­cord and clash­es with these Evo­lu­tion­ary agents as they inter­act with the con­ser­v­a­tive nature of Saturn.

Saturn/Uranus
The first of these is the 45-year cycle of Sat­urn with Uranus, which holds the dynam­ic con­fronta­tion of what I would call the Prin­ci­ple of Order ver­sus Freer Minds, or we might say Tra­di­tion ver­sus Inno­va­tion. Their most recent con­junc­tions were 1852, 1897, 1942 and 1988, and at each con­junc­tion a new impulse was released in this dynam­ic dance of the old ways and the New.

And here we find our­selves in the last major aspect of that 1988 cycle, which is the wan­ing square, and which is guid­ing us here in 2021 and 2022. The pre­vi­ous sig­nif­i­cant moments from that 1988 seed­ing were the wax­ing square of 1999–2000, the oppo­si­tion of 2008-10, and now the wan­ing square of 2021–2022. Whether you look at these turn­ing points through a Polit­i­cal, Eco­nom­ic or Cul­tur­al lens, you can cer­tain­ly see how what­ev­er was released in 1988 came to a cri­sis or turn­ing point in the year 2000. And that this was fol­lowed by the oppo­si­tion or “Full Moon” rev­e­la­tion of 2008-10; and that was most cer­tain­ly a cli­mac­tic moment in which the forces of progress were so clear­ly revealed and opposed by the forces of fear and dark­ness, and this strug­gle played out dra­mat­i­cal­ly in our social and polit­i­cal polar­iza­tions of the time.

Which brings us to our moment now, which is the wan­ing square of 2021–22. The wax­ing square, like 1999–2000, is a turn­ing point or cri­sis of action; it is a choos­ing between one action or anoth­er, the need to make a com­mit­ment to one thing, or one form or action, to one way of being and not anoth­er. The wan­ing square is once again a cri­sis or turn­ing point, but more in the realm of ideas, thoughts, beliefs, or mean­ings. It takes as it “ref­er­ence point” what­ev­er was revealed at the “Full Moon”, which here was the oppo­si­tion 2008-10, which laid out for all to see the dif­fer­ing mean­ings and mes­sages of that moment. And now, giv­en where we find our­selves in 2021–22, we face a peri­od when we need to choose what we believe, to think through what is true ver­sus false, what is real and what is not real, and so we sort our­selves by the divi­sion between our beliefs, our facts, and our truths.

The oppor­tu­ni­ty (and chal­lenge) of any wan­ing square, like the one we have in 2021 and 2022, is that it brings what is called the “gift of sev­er­ance”, and it calls upon us, it asks of us, to let go of what we must so that we might con­tin­ue to grow; it is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to turn from being held and bound by a neg­a­tive­ly root­ed past, to turn from the husk of dead spir­it and embrace the liv­ing spir­it of love. All of us need to reject any cir­cum­scribed and shad­owed way of think­ing and being, that we leave behind our more instinc­tu­al roots that divide us from one anoth­er, because they bind us by fear and not by hope and love.

But in addi­tion to this Saturn/Uranus De-Crys­tal­liz­ing moment we have one more align­ment that is shap­ing our real­i­ty and deci­sions, and it is one of the final set of align­ments formed by the Short-Wave Growth group­ing, and that is of Jupiter com­bin­ing with either the Evo­lu­tion­ary or the Sat­urn­ian placements.

Short Wave Growth
It seems quite time­ly or for­tu­itous, because what we are expe­ri­enc­ing is the next align­ment of Jupiter with Sat­urn. Their 20-year cycle artic­u­lates the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between Truth or Mean­ing (Jupiter) and Order or Man­i­fes­ta­tion (Sat­urn). We are at a very impor­tant moment in their cycle of rela­tion­ship because it is the first sig­nif­i­cant align­ment in their cycle fol­low­ing the his­toric con­junc­tion in Aquar­ius at the end of 2020.

Jupiter/Saturn
That con­junc­tion Astrologers call The Great Muta­tion, as it began a new series of Jupiter/Saturn con­junc­tions in the Air Signs, sig­nal­ing the end of the pre­vi­ous 200-year cycle of Earth con­junc­tions, and the start of a new Airy Cycle of Jupiter and Sat­urn that will hap­pen for the next 200 years. It was and is a spir­i­tu­al seed that was plant­ed, and it her­ald­ed a turn­ing point; and it was a sign for many that a New Age has begun. And now we have reached a crit­i­cal moment in the birth of a New Age.

The first sig­nif­i­cant aspect in any cycle rela­tion­ship is the wax­ing semi-square or 45 degrees, and this is what we are expe­ri­enc­ing in 2022 into 2023. It was exact on July 21^st, and will repeat on Sep­tem­ber 21^st, with the final exact align­ment be on March 21^st, 2023, but its influ­ence is present dur­ing the entire­ty of this year and into 2023.

Remem­ber, a con­junc­tion is like a New Moon, or very much like the plant­i­ng of a seed. After that begin­ning, for the next many days, weeks, months, or years (depend­ing upon the length of the entire cycle), that first phase takes place sym­bol­i­cal­ly “beneath the sur­face”, like a seed send­ing down roots and equal­ly send­ing up ten­drils to the sur­face. For some greater or less­er time, we must wait for the proof that some­thing has begun. And it is at the wax­ing semi-square that the new life appears vis­i­bly above the soil, it becomes appar­ent that some­thing has indeed “hap­pened”, and we see the first real “test” of this new form of life or being is now to be experienced.

Ide­al­ly, it can and should be a time of quick­en­ing, of mov­ing for­ward with greater urgency and exhil­a­ra­tion, with the joy and pow­er of new begin­nings. But this can also be a time when doubt or fear can rear up to hold back the new life. We must remem­ber that it is always fear that brings about pain. At this crit­i­cal moment in the cycle of life, it may be the uncer­tain­ty regard­ing what­ev­er is this new way of being that leads or caus­es a neg­a­tive reac­tion; or it can be the siren song of the past that calls to return or stay in a more famil­iar time or space, and this too can hold back or lim­it the growth of new life.

The Liv­ing Spir­it is the ulti­mate Root of every­thing and every­one, and each and every par­ti­cle of this Uni­verse is shaped and guid­ed by the pur­pose behind the entire­ty of Cre­ation, which is to grow; and if we are to grow, if we are to be what we are, which is the liv­ing spir­it, we must lov­ing­ly embrace change. And if we are to grow, we must also move towards ever greater inclu­sive­ness and inte­gra­tion with the whole of Cre­ation, so that we might rise and become an ever more com­plete human in our Life of the One.

There is no way to know which way any­one will go; but there is no ques­tion which way we should go.

We should remem­ber, as it has been said before, “beat­en paths are for beat­en peo­ple”. We are here to make our way to the greater light, to live by a more encom­pass­ing love for one anoth­er and all of life on this plan­et. This is the way of Spir­it; this is the way of the One.

So, as this New Age begins, we are being asked to decide right now what will be the future that is com­ing? Will we stand for the future that is ulti­mate­ly des­tined to be?

We real­ly have no choice but to fol­low our hearts and lis­ten to the voice of the silence, to lis­ten for that qui­et, still pres­ence that lives in all our hearts and we will do what is lov­ing and kind and true.

It is quite sim­ply the way.

It is the way of Light and Truth and Love.

It is the Way of the One.