Don­ald Trump – The test of Power

It is most often true that the future of a nation and the for­tunes of its leader are inex­tri­ca­bly bound to one anoth­er. My pre­vi­ous post­ing not­ed that the most sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary tran­sit in the USA chart this year is the tran­sit of Plu­to over the USA Mer­cury. It may come as no sur­prise then that the most sig­nif­i­cant tran­sit in Don­ald Trump’s chart, for this year and for the next, is Plu­to as well.

In 2019 and 2020, Don­ald Trump will have Plu­to form­ing an Incon­junct aspect (150°) to his Sun. More­over, build­ing in dur­ing 2019 and becom­ing ful­ly man­i­fest­ed in 2020, Plu­to will be in oppo­si­tion to his Sat­urn. What do these two pas­sages indi­cate for Trump and the Nation?

Plu­to and The Tri­ad of Spirit

Plu­to is part of what I like to call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”. Uranus is the Avatar or prin­ci­ple of the High­er Mind; Nep­tune the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love; Plu­to the Avatar of the Will. Togeth­er, at the crown of the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy they rep­re­sent the Mind, Love and Will of God. For humans, we are striv­ing to learn to wield these pow­ers cor­rect­ly, as we slow­ly but sure­ly walk the path of awak­en­ing by devel­op­ing freer minds, tru­ly uncon­di­tion­al love and guid­ed by ever more cen­tered wills.

Plu­to rules will-pow­er, and through our will we strive to mas­ter our­selves; we learn that we must focus inward­ly, and to use our will for greater self-con­trol and self-mas­tery. The num­ber one error (or sin) on this Earth is when we use our will and pow­er to con­trol, sub­ju­gate, manip­u­late and vio­late anoth­er (or oth­ers). The great­est spir­i­tu­al crime is tres­pass­ing, where we vio­late the sacred space of another.

We are here to mas­ter our­selves, and by our exam­ple, as well as by offer­ing lov­ing help and guid­ance to oth­ers, we help one anoth­er towards greater self-mas­tery and self-con­trol. By being tru­ly cen­tered by the will, (and guid­ed by Wis­dom and Uncon­di­tion­al Love), we are more able to use what­ev­er per­son­al, social or col­lec­tive pow­ers we hold and to exer­cise them cor­rect­ly; and we will serve the source of that pow­er and direct it in the prop­er man­ner as deter­mined by our roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties. Ulti­mate­ly, any exer­cise of pow­er must be in accor­dance with Spir­i­tu­al truth:

We are here to learn to wield our will in a Transper­son­al man­ner; through our per­son­al will we serve the “source” of that pow­er so that it is nev­er used for self­ish pur­pos­es. The teach­ing will ever be, to remain guid­ed by one’s High­er Self and so by the One; we resolve to serve and so remain true to the path, “Let Thy Will be Done!”

With­in any hier­ar­chy, (Fam­i­ly, Com­mu­ni­ty, Cor­po­ra­tion, State or Nation), the leader, (or lead­ers), the hold­er of any form of exec­u­tive pow­er is invest­ed with the respon­si­bil­i­ty to be the prime exam­ple (the “Exem­plar” or Avatar) of this spir­i­tu­al truth: That the exer­cise of Will and Pow­er must be held and cen­tered, yoked to serve the pur­pose and intent of what­ev­er office that leader is there to serve. That is why in many cas­es, a per­son will take a “oath”, which binds their indi­vid­ual will to the gen­er­al good or pur­pose which they serve; that pow­er is not “theirs”, but it is mere­ly entrust­ed to them while they hold that office.

Don­ald Trump

In 2019 and 2020 Don­ald Trump will expe­ri­ence Plu­to pass­ing over his Sun and over his Sat­urn. What will this mean for him and for the USA? Quite sim­ply and pro­found­ly, Don­ald Trump is going to face a fun­da­men­tal “test of pow­er”. If he has wield­ed the pow­ers of the pres­i­den­cy cor­rect­ly, if he has aligned his will to the office of the pres­i­den­cy, then he may pass this test, though it will be a very chal­leng­ing time. If he has not suf­fi­cient­ly and cor­rect­ly sac­ri­ficed his will to the greater good of his office, if he has not under­stood the nature of his oath and aligned him­self to the true source of the pow­er which he serves, then he will fail and fall one way or another.

The Plu­to align­ment to Trump’s Sun in 2019 and 2020 indi­cates that his exer­cise and expe­ri­ence of pow­er is shift­ing in ways that will bring about a grow­ing sense of unease and con­fu­sion for him. He may ascribe it to forces or per­son­ages out­side of him­self, but it will real­ly be the grow­ing schism between his low­er will and the high­er will to which he swore an oath to serve.

This grow­ing gap between the pow­er of this office and the expe­ri­ence of his per­son­al pow­er erod­ing may cre­ate with­in him, at least in part, a desire to walk away from or give up this posi­tion of pow­er as it has lost its appeal. It is no longer of per­son­al use to him. The rea­son for this will because he has failed to under­stand and serve in the office of the Pres­i­dent as those who came before him.

The align­ment of Plu­to to Trump’s Sat­urn dur­ing 2020 is even more chal­leng­ing, as it will direct­ly threat­en his sense of posi­tion (Sat­urn) and the con­fi­dence he has in main­tain­ing that role. Typ­i­cal­ly, an indi­vid­ual with this tran­sit feels that the effort to wield or main­tain their posi­tion is over­whelm­ing. Author­i­ties, who rep­re­sent oth­er realms and sources of pow­er, are coun­ter­ing or oppos­ing his form of exer­cis­ing his (pres­i­den­tial) power.

These oth­er cen­ters of pow­er may wield such a strong counter-force that he will not be able to per­form his duties, or thwart his attempts to do what he wish­es. He will either have to bend or break under the pres­sure of foes and forces that will appear unshak­able and unbeat­able. Again, as a result of this pres­sure he may wish to with­draw from his posi­tion or if he attempts to remain, he will find that his pow­er is cir­cum­scribed or rescinded.

There are sev­er­al oth­er chal­leng­ing tran­sits in Trump’s chart in 2019 and 2020 (Nep­tune Square his Uranus in 2019 and Square his North Node in 2020, Uranus Semi­Square his Uranus in 2019 and Uranus Square his Plu­to in 2020), and I will address these in future post­ings and radio shows.

But the prin­ci­pal chal­lenge for the next two years will be Trump’s encounter with this test of Plu­to, with this test of Posi­tion and Power.

Astrological Musings – The New Year ­Part 3 – The USA & Donald Trump (February 2, 2019)

In my third show of 2019 I will con­tin­ue our look at the major Astro­log­i­cal themes of 2019 by exam­in­ing the tran­sits in the charts of the USA and Don­ald Trump.

As before, I will answer your ques­tions dur­ing the show, whether on these top­ics 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 birth place, 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 Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 2^nd @ 2 pm EST:

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

Please join me on Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 2^nd at 2 pm EST as we look at the cur­rent astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions and what they mean for you.

The USA

The three pre­vi­ous post­ings for the 2019 fore­cast, (past, present and future) con­cerned the uni­ver­sal ener­gy-forms of plan­e­tary con­di­tions, known as “Tran­sits to Tran­sits”, that reveal and inform our jour­ney in mean­ings and mes­sages for one and for all.

Now I will con­sid­er the con­di­tions for an indi­vid­ual enti­ty and the aspects formed to their chart, or what are termed “Tran­sits to Natal” indi­ca­tions. I will begin by con­sid­er­ing the chart of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, and in the next post­ing con­sid­er the chart of the Pres­i­dent, Don­ald Trump.

Nep­tune and Saturn

The prin­ci­pal tran­sit in the chart of the USA in 2018 was Nep­tune to Sat­urn (an incon­junct aspect or 150°). This tran­sit was exact from 2017 into ear­ly 2019, (although we should always look at all these out­er plan­e­tary align­ments as peri­ods of time, as process­es that build in over sev­er­al years lead­ing to these more exact peri­ods of culmination).

This tran­sit involved the chal­lenge that any cul­ture will face (again and again), between its present-day struc­tures of Civ­il and Polit­i­cal Soci­ety (Sat­urn) and the pres­sure to incor­po­rate ever more Spir­i­tu­al Truths into that struc­ture (Nep­tune). This was the same align­ment for the USA that occurred in the mid 1850’s. That peri­od was char­ac­ter­ized by the strug­gle over the very nature of the USA, of what of kind of econ­o­my, cul­ture and spir­i­tu­al char­ac­ter the USA would have with regards for the prin­ci­pal of human equal­i­ty (as is affirmed in our sacred com­pact, The Con­sti­tu­tion), or turn against the tide of his­to­ry and human rights and con­sid­er some as less deserv­ing, in effect treat­ing some as objects (i.e. slavery).

There cer­tain­ly are major echoes of that strug­gle in our cur­rent peri­od, with the issue of how we view the true his­to­ry ver­sus the lega­cy (memo­ri­als) of the Con­fed­er­a­cy, how we treat var­i­ous groups with­in our soci­ety, (Minori­ties, LGBT, Immi­gra­tion, Refugees), the issue of vot­ing rights and rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and the con­tin­u­ing shad­ows formed by echoes of racism and the vir­tu­al geno­cide of the Native population.

Though this aspect will fade now, the echoes it stirred and the present-day divi­sions it high­light­ed will con­tin­ue to be one of the prin­ci­pal chal­lenges the USA will face for many years to come, as we will and must con­tin­u­al­ly strive to final­ly heal these divides between our dear­est ideals and our less than per­fect union.

Sat­urn in Capricorn

The oth­er major theme of 2018 will per­sist in a mod­u­lat­ed form through 2019, as Sat­urn mov­ing through Capri­corn con­tin­ues to make sig­nif­i­cant align­ments in the USA chart. The tran­sits in 2018 were to Venus and Jupiter, and 2019 begins with Sat­urn Oppo­site to the USA Sun. Then through­out 2019 Sat­urn will Square the USA Sat­urn. As I not­ed last year, this par­tic­u­lar series of align­ments of Sat­urn has his­tor­i­cal­ly been asso­ci­at­ed with eco­nom­ic, and then socio-polit­i­cal dis­rup­tions for the USA, (in 1988–1991, 1959–1962 and 1929–32), where each time not only did strong eco­nom­ic challenges/disruptions occur, but these also trig­gered social and polit­i­cal upheavals.

Steer­ing through such chop­py eco­nom­ic waters, one would hope to have well-found­ed trust in a strong, steady leader and staff to help us avoid the worst eco­nom­ic out­comes. We can only hope that by some for­tune of hap­pen­stance we will get through with­out too much harm, because most would agree that this neces­si­tat­ed form of lead­er­ship is sore­ly lack­ing now.

Plu­to and Mer­cury – A Reckoning

Build­ing in dur­ing 2019 and becom­ing ful­ly man­i­fest in 2020 is a rather pow­er­ful align­ment of Plu­to going over the USA Mer­cury. (I men­tioned this in my radio show this past week (Jan­u­ary 19^th) and will dis­cuss it in more depth for the next show on Feb­ru­ary 2^nd, and I will also con­sid­er Don­ald Trump’s chart and transits). 

This is a very pow­er­ful tran­sit gen­er­al­ly, but even more so as the USA has a Mer­cury Plu­to oppo­si­tion in its natal chart, (Mer­cury is at around 24° of Can­cer and Plu­to around 27° of Capri­corn). This two-year tran­sit will high­light a fun­da­men­tal con­di­tion that has great­ly influ­enced the char­ac­ter of the USA, and we may be able to antic­i­pate by the last two align­ments of Plu­to to the USA Mer­cury what this might mean for us now.

The two pre­vi­ous tran­sits of Plu­to to the USA Mer­cury (and to Plu­to) were 1981–83 and 1933–37. Those two peri­ods mark per­haps the two most sig­nif­i­cant shifts in mod­ern eco­nom­ic poli­cies for the Unit­ed States that led to two very dif­fer­ent types of eco­nom­ic conditions.

Dur­ing the ear­li­er peri­od, when the coun­try (and world) grap­pled with “The Great Depres­sion” the USA was on the “razor’s edge”, much like the rest of the world, between two paths of either Fas­cism or Social­ism. But the USA found anoth­er way with FDR’s New Deal, and oth­er polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic adjust­ments, which cre­at­ed a sus­tain­able path of growth for the next sev­er­al gen­er­a­tions (late 1940’s through the 70’s). Inte­gral to the suc­cess of this path was that the remark­able rise in pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and wealth was more even­ly dis­trib­uted among the var­i­ous stra­ta of the country.

The 1981–83 peri­od was marked by the so-called “Rea­gan Rev­o­lu­tion”, which promised that by cut­ting tax­es dra­mat­i­cal­ly, espe­cial­ly the top mar­gin­al tax rates, the result­ing redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth would cre­ate more growth for one and all. How­ev­er, from the ear­ly 1980’s onward the share of the USA’s pro­duc­tive growth ben­e­fits sharply skewed to the upper­most per­centiles of the pop­u­la­tion. The mid­dle- and low­er-income groups began to steadi­ly fall behind in the degree to which they share and enjoy the ben­e­fits of the growth of pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and wealth.

More and more peo­ple found they had to work hard­er and hard­er, as they received less and less. Oth­er fac­tors also con­tributed to this eco­nom­ic shift away from the more or less equal shar­ing of Amer­i­can pros­per­i­ty of the pre­vi­ous 40 years, (the move from an indus­tri­al to a ser­vice econ­o­my, increas­ing automa­tion, trade deals with­out enough pro­tec­tion or mech­a­nisms to help affect­ed work­ers, the shift to a stock mar­ket dri­ven by the short-term prof­its for invest­ment banks (the “tail wag­ging the dog”) as rais­ing cap­i­tal became an end unto itself rather than for pro­duc­tive and long-term invest­ment, etc.). But it was the change in the mar­gin­al rates of tax­a­tion which dra­mat­i­cal­ly shift­ed the dis­tri­b­u­tion of how equi­tably the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and stra­ta of Amer­i­ca ben­e­fit­ed in the last 40 years.

What hap­pened is that the promise of Amer­i­ca, “of life, lib­er­ty and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness”, began to fade for more and more. This was brought to bear bru­tal­ly in the sec­ond “Great Reces­sion of 2008” where­in mil­lions of Amer­i­cans saw their dream of a brighter future for their chil­dren dis­solve into bank­rupt­cy, fore­clo­sures, bit­ter­ness, fear and anger.

To illus­trate how this shared dis­tri­b­u­tion of growth was bro­ken and cre­at­ed a widen­ing gap in income gains, here is a graph of the shift in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of income gains for the USA from the late 1940’s through 2017:

And this graph shows the skew­ing of the con­cen­tra­tion of US Income for the 1%, which reached its high­est point in 1929, and is now (omi­nous­ly) approach­ing that same degree now, (just as it did in 2008):

Val­ue of a Nation

The Pluto/Mercury oppo­si­tion in the USA chart is from the 2^nd House to the 8^th House. The 2^nd House in the chart of a Nation is said to con­cern the “Wealth” of that nation and many would hold that means the tax rev­enue, stocks, bonds, shares, banks, exchanges, trade and com­merce, nation­al export and cur­ren­cy. It is the gen­er­al “wealth and pros­per­i­ty” of the peo­ple of that nation.

For me, though I agree with much of that on some lev­el, I pre­fer to focus upon the root or true source of val­ue by start­ing from a spir­i­tu­al approach. The 2^nd house will always rule “val­ues” in any chart, and in this case, it rules the “Val­ues of a Nation”. The ques­tion then remains, how do we know and mea­sure (or have a scale of mea­sure­ment) for the hier­ar­chy and types of val­ue in an entire nation?

Spir­i­tu­al­ly speak­ing, the Land and Water, the For­est and the Fields, the entire­ty of what is called “nat­ur­al resources” can cer­tain­ly be under­stood by any cul­ture to have “val­ue”. But the under­stand­ing and rela­tion­ship with that is far dif­fer­ent for a trib­al or hunter-gath­er­er cul­ture ver­sus an agrar­i­an cul­ture, or some oth­er eco­nom­ic-cul­tur­al type.

By stick­ing with the fun­da­men­tal ques­tion, “what is the root source of val­ue for any Nation?”, (or any unit of human soci­ety), I would always start with the premise that our truest mea­sure of val­ue is and must be cen­tered upon what forms the peo­ple of that nation. Yes, it is true that the 2^nd house also con­cerns the phys­i­cal val­ue of a geo­graph­ic space, but what will dis­tin­guish a Nation more than any­thing is the val­ue formed by and through the peo­ple of that land. Equal­ly, and even more impor­tant­ly, any soci­ety will be mea­sured spir­i­tu­al­ly by how it treats or val­ues those humans, and indeed how much it holds to the truth that all of life is sacred.

The Chal­lenge

Con­sid­er­ing this upcom­ing pas­sage of Plu­to over Mer­cury (and then the Plu­to return in 2022), what we are wit­ness­ing is anoth­er crit­i­cal moment where the very nature of our soci­ety is at stake. The ris­ing stress­es and schisms in our cul­ture, soci­ety and pol­i­tics are at the root a strug­gle over how we under­stand the nature of our core val­ues as a nation.

We face a time much like of the 1930’s, and the USA must once again address this most fun­da­men­tal ques­tion: How can we heal the divide that has formed between our var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties? How can we hold to our promise to be “A New Order for the Cen­turies”, (“Novus Ordo Seclo­rum”)? How can we restore our com­mon pur­pose and live by the love, respect and val­ue that we must have for one another?

We can if we remem­ber that our very well-being, “Our Hap­pi­ness”, depends upon one anoth­er. We should remain true to our found­ing doc­u­ment, our Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence, that “…we mutu­al­ly pledge to each oth­er our Lives, our For­tunes, and our sacred Hon­or”. For it is most cer­tain­ly true that none of us can be tru­ly hap­py if we do not strive to make it pos­si­ble for each per­son in our coun­try to achieve their Self-Fulfillment.

Our indi­vid­ual self-ful­fill­ment depends upon one anoth­er. We must restore our com­mon pur­pose to help one anoth­er, for we have come togeth­er, as the most vibrant and diverse mix­ing of peo­ples and cul­tures guid­ed by the fun­da­men­tal Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all “ones of the One”.

Our pledge to one anoth­er is reaf­firmed in our mot­to, and togeth­er they will always point the way and hold us to our path. That mot­to, “Out of Many, One”, (“E Pluribus Unum”), reaf­firms that our very diver­si­ty is our true val­ue and strength.

Yes, we are the future; we are a peo­ple of all peo­ples, cul­tures, creeds and faiths.

Out of Many, we are One.

Next, The Chart of Don­ald Trump

The Way of Happiness

Do you know the pur­pose of your life?
Why are you here? And, where are you going?
What are your Hopes and Dreams?

Today you leave the space of Capri­corn and enter the realm of Aquar­ius. The last 30 days have been about under­stand­ing the pur­pose of your life. It is from this under­stand­ing that you are able to assume your respon­si­bil­i­ties and take your prop­er place in your com­mu­ni­ty and the larg­er world. And, by “doing your duty” you are equal­ly able to enjoy the rights you may claim by the ful­fill­ment of those responsibilities.

You are part of a great Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness, where you find and ful­fill your­self in a vast and inter­de­pen­dent struc­ture of car­ing and being cared for. You are here, in life after life, to reach deep­er into your­self so that you may reach a lit­tle high­er in each life, as you slow­ly but sure­ly approach self-mas­tery through an inte­gral bal­ance of wis­dom and humility.

Along this path of pur­pose­ful­ness, it does not mat­ter “where” you are going; but it very much mat­ters “why” you are going there. You will find that your jour­ney is not about being “suc­cess­ful”; it is about being true to who you are so that you remain on the path of Self-Fulfillment.

But, of course, you do not, you can­not, walk this path alone. You could not be you or become what you will be with­out a host of oth­er souls who walk this path too. You are human, and so you are formed and forged by all those with whom you walk on this path of becoming.

This is the Truth of Aquar­ius, that you are here to be some­one spe­cial, to shine and sparkle with the light of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. But the very mate­ri­als you form into that indi­vid­ual that is you, that spe­cial essence that shines through as “you”, are formed by those build­ing blocks that come from all with whom you have shared this life (and many lives before). What you have, (your feel­ings, thoughts and spir­i­tu­al sen­si­bil­i­ties), and what you share with all with whom you jour­ney, comes from your par­ents, sib­lings, class­mates, friends, col­leagues and of course, most heart­felt, from those dear­est to your heart too.

You are all mixed up in one anoth­er, and your true Hap­pi­ness comes from this being one who is part of many oth­er ones too. You are part of many cir­cles of life, and they are in you, and you are most cer­tain­ly part of them too. Here is what I wrote in my 2019 Fore­cast – Part 3 about the nature of the “Age of Aquarius”:

The prin­ci­ple of Aquar­ius is Fel­low­ship, it is Broth­er­hood and Sis­ter­hood, it is Com­pan­ion­ship and Com­mu­ni­ty and the Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all made of and by one anoth­er. We can­not be, Life can­not be, with­out blend­ing, mix­ing, com­bin­ing, and then shar­ing and grow­ing togeth­er. Life, Con­scious­ness and Spir­it are forged and formed by Inter­re­la­tion­ship, Diver­si­ty, Com­plex­i­ty and our essen­tial Inter­de­pen­dence with one anoth­er and all Life-Forms. Every Par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a Spark of the Divine, formed in its core by its own Quin­tes­sence. Every tree and every leaf on every tree, every being and each cell form­ing that being, every­thing is formed by “ones” formed into a greater One. All of life is part of some­thing greater, yet it is pre­cious­ly and won­drous­ly its own unique instance of that Greater Whole.

Aquar­ius is all about the One and the Many, and we are each a pre­cious part, a unique one of a “Kind”, but formed and held and made pos­si­ble by that Kind, by that whole, and then the next greater whole, which ulti­mate­ly forms the whole of this entire Cre­ation or the ONE.

We are made of one anoth­er, and we see our­selves in each oth­er, as we share our love for this life and for one anoth­er. We can­not be hap­py by our­selves; that is just not pos­si­ble. That is most sim­ply but pro­found­ly because we can­not be our­selves, we can­not be or become human with­out one anoth­er. Our true Hap­pi­ness (our smiles and laugh­ter) are essen­tial­ly human and social expe­ri­ences; we shine with the light of spir­it as we share and show our love for one anoth­er. Our hopes and dreams are made of and by one anoth­er. And our well-being, our true Hap­pi­ness, comes from being with our fel­low-trav­el­ers in this amaz­ing Jour­ney of Spirit.

Yes, your Hap­pi­ness comes from your Self-Ful­fill­ment; but you can only and tru­ly expe­ri­ence this when those whom you love and care for have their Self-Ful­fill­ment and Hap­pi­ness too. You find and extend your hap­pi­ness by help­ing one anoth­er to pre­serve your way of life in your fam­i­ly, through your com­mu­ni­ty and out into the larg­er world too. Then you turn your atten­tion to your dreams of a bet­ter life, as you join togeth­er to improve your world and one anoth­er. And then you look even high­er, and you dream of what might be, and you look to that far hori­zon and say, “Let us strive to make a new Gold­en Age, let us build that Shin­ing City on a Hill, and let us live and love and laugh as we make a bet­ter world for one and for all.”

This is real­ly the deep­er mes­sage of Aquar­ius: That until we cre­ate a world where self-ful­fill­ment is pos­si­ble for one and for all, none of us will be ful­ly or tru­ly happy.

This is the dream of Aquar­ius, this is the far­away look you see in an Aquar­ius’ eyes, (and in your own Aquar­i­an nature that each of you has some­where in your chart). Humans are dream­ers and cre­ators, and we yearn to live (once more) in a gold­en age where the val­ue and worth of each indi­vid­ual is cel­e­brat­ed, hon­ored and fulfilled.

We know and feel in our sacred cen­ter and by the light of our high­est self, that we are here for this: “We are all for one and one for all”.

Your Hap­pi­ness, our hap­pi­ness is found in one anoth­er. We feel it in our smiles and laugh­ter. Because what makes us hap­py is the hap­pi­ness of our fam­i­ly and friends.

And our life is good, true and beau­ti­ful when it is lived with and for one another.

For this is why we came, this is what we are here for.

You are what you are because of love.

And all you have to do,

Is Just love one another.

The First “Earth Rise” for Human­i­ty — Apol­lo 8 mis­sion — Our Beau­ti­ful, Blue Home

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 3 – Whither

So, let us now cast our gaze for­ward to the years that lie ahead. As I have already not­ed, there are sev­er­al plan­e­tary influ­ences that are remain­ing in place now, some for quite a few years, yet their influ­ence will be con­stant­ly influ­enced and mod­u­lat­ed by align­ments and tran­si­tions of oth­er plan­ets too. The Uni­verse is formed by these undu­lat­ing rhythms of Con­stan­cy amidst con­stant Change; for the under­ly­ing essence of Spir­it is formed by these Eter­nal Truths. which play out in these worlds of Being as the pro­found­ly mov­ing res­o­nances of the cos­mos, the eter­nal Songs of Spir­it.

As I men­tioned in last year’s look ahead, we have now, (after Uranus moves into Tau­rus to stay for sev­en years on March 6^th), Sat­urn, Uranus and Plu­to all mov­ing through Earth Signs. It is per­haps a fit­ting and final chap­ter in this “Age of Earth” that we have been mov­ing through since the 1840’s, as indi­cat­ed by one of the sig­na­ture cycles in Astrol­o­gy, the con­junc­tions of Jupiter and Sat­urn every 20 years occur­ring in one ele­ment after another.

Astrologers have always paid very close atten­tion to this series of align­ments, each one defin­ing a peri­od char­ac­ter­ized by a def­i­nite spir­i­tu­al-cul­tur­al res­o­nance, the “tone of the time”. I have named the last 3 ele­men­tal pas­sages, and the upcom­ing 4^th as:

Water             1425–1663 (The Age of Faith) pre­vi­ous was 571–809

Fire                 1663–1842 (The Age of Explo­rations) pre­vi­ous was 809‑1047

Earth              1842–2020 (The Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1047–1226

Air                  2020–2219 (The Age of Ide­al­iza­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1226–1425

This is known as the “Great Muta­tion Cycle”, the series of Jupiter/Saturn con­junc­tions tak­ing place in the Four Ele­ments one after the oth­er, (Water, Fire, Earth, and Air). The com­plete series is formed by 40 con­junc­tions around the zodi­ac, which is divid­ed into rough­ly 4 peri­ods of about 180 to 230 years each, or an entire series last­ing about 800 years.

What this means is that we are on the cusp of some very impor­tant shifts as we move from this Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion (or Mate­ri­al­iza­tion) into an Age of Ide­al­iza­tion (or what I call Ethe­re­al­iza­tion). Per­haps, our pas­sage will mir­ror that of the 1200’s to 1400’s, and that this New Age will equal­ly bring forth a “lit­tle Renais­sance”, (or some­thing even more profound)?

It will begin as 2020 ends, as Sat­urn moves into Aquar­ius and Jupiter joins it on the very day of the Win­ter Sol­stice of Decem­ber 21, 2020. Then in the year 2024, Plu­to will leave Capri­corn and like­wise enter Aquar­ius. And yes, there are some who believe that these shifts, along with oth­er indi­ca­tors, point to the true begin­ning of what many have called the Age of Aquar­ius.

This much longer cycle of Astro­log­i­cal Ages, (which is also known as the Pre­ces­sion of the Equinox­es) is formed by the Earth’s posi­tion as indi­cat­ed by the North Pole being aligned to a series of Polar stars over the course of about 26,000 years, (or about 2,100 years per sign). As these align­ments unfold, the first day of Spring rotates back­wards through the Zodi­ac, (from Aries to Pisces to Aquar­ius…). It forms the dif­fer­ence between what Astrologers know as the Trop­i­cal Zodi­ac (mov­ing) and the Side­re­al Zodi­ac (fixed) which were aligned at 0 Aries around 254 BCE.

We are said to be at end of Pisces and the begin­ning of Aquar­ius, though the tran­si­tion between one to the oth­er is not def­i­nite, and there are var­i­ous dates for when the Aquar­i­an Age will begin (or has already begun). There are seri­ous (but also wild and rather sil­ly) the­o­ries about what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. I hold that we can more clear­ly under­stand what may be com­ing, by look­ing to the most sig­nif­i­cant theme of the past 2,000 years, or what was the root issue that formed this Age of Pisces. It is from this that we may be able to dis­cern what may lie ahead for us all.

Though vol­umes have (and will) be writ­ten about the 20 Cen­turies we have just come through, the most salient fea­ture to me comes from the cen­ter that forms the Sign of Pisces. I like to say that Pisces, being the last sign, (and from a strict­ly “human” per­spec­tive of course), is the sum­ma­tion and com­ple­tion of the jour­ney in spir­it that we humans are all engaged upon.

What dri­ves our sto­ry as human is not our won­der­ful “oppos­able thumb”, (though cer­tain­ly it has spurred the devel­op­ment of our tool-mak­ing nature and the growth of our self-con­scious­ness). Or, some would point to that fea­ture as the key to form­ing our capac­i­ty to make tools, and it was this which led to our defin­ing fea­ture, to our “self-aware­ness”, which then forms the key to what makes us human, and we are cer­tain­ly clos­er to the “truth” with this it seems.

But I am fond of say­ing, that in the end it all comes down to this, and look­ing to this last sign of Pisces, (and we all have Pisces some­where in our chart and nature), what tru­ly makes us human is our Capac­i­ty to Dream, to look at the world and one anoth­er with won­der. We are endowed with Imag­i­na­tion, and so our great­est gift is formed and held by the very heart of Spir­it, we are Cre­ators.

We dream, we imag­ine and so we create…and then we dream again. We encounter the world “as it is”, and we dream of a bet­ter one. We have and find our way through this Liv­ing Faith as Cre­ators, and we under­stand, because we know, that we can form a bet­ter life, and a bet­ter world for us and for those who follow.

We are not so much “human beings” as much as we are “human becoming’s”. It is pre­cise­ly from this essen­tial qual­i­ty of Spir­it, of being “Cre­ators”, that we have brought about remark­able changes in our very nature, and in the world around us. But now our “Ring of Pow­er”, (our Imag­i­na­tion and Intel­li­gence, our Curios­i­ty and Cre­ativ­i­ty), threat­ens to under­mine our very exis­tence, as well as fun­da­men­tal­ly change the com­plex hier­ar­chy of fel­low Life-Forms on our Earth.

Yes, into our “Cre­ations” we have poured our hopes and dreams and revealed the awe­some gift of our Imag­i­na­tion and Dreams. But we are also imper­fect, and we have nei­ther the req­ui­site wis­dom nor humil­i­ty, as yet, to use our pow­er with true under­stand­ing and com­pas­sion. So, the trag­ic result has been that we inevitably wove into our cre­ations the anx­i­eties, doubts and fears that have shad­owed our jour­ney of awakening.

Yes, we had dreams and visions, and we had inven­tive­ness, curios­i­ty and crit­i­cal think­ing and we acquired more and more knowl­edge. But both the Dream and this Knowl­edge were imper­fect and woe­ful­ly inad­e­quate. We lit­er­al­ly opened “Pandora’s Box”, and set so many things in motion that we now threat­en to over­whelm our­selves and the life­forms that share this world with us.

When we exam­ine the his­to­ry of life on Earth, sci­en­tists have deter­mined that sev­er­al Great Extinc­tion events have occurred. Today many observers are not­ing that what they are call­ing the “Sixth Great Extinc­tion” is tak­ing place all around us now…and the rea­son for this tragedy is quite sim­ply us.

For the human part in this Sto­ry of Life we have come through sev­er­al key turn­ing points: What is known as the Cog­ni­tive Rev­o­lu­tion 70,000 years ago, and then the Agri­cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion 12,000 years ago, and most cer­tain­ly since what we know as the Sci­en­tif­ic Rev­o­lu­tion 500 years ago.But nev­er have our future prospects (and the world’s) been so shad­owed by the fear of what may be unfold­ing now and by what lies ahead.

I have hope, that we will find a way to use our amaz­ing gifts, to Dream and Rea­son, to be guid­ed by our Spir­i­tu­al Intu­ition, Com­pas­sion and Wis­dom, and that this will lead to a New Age in the years ahead. Per­haps this is what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. That it will be wit­ness to the next great step in Human Awak­en­ing, and we will come to a Greater Under­stand­ing through the core expe­ri­ence of Aquarius.

The prin­ci­ple of Aquar­ius is Fel­low­ship, it is Broth­er­hood and Sis­ter­hood, it is Com­pan­ion­ship and Com­mu­ni­ty and the Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all made of and by one anoth­er. We can­not be, Life can­not be, with­out blend­ing, mix­ing, com­bin­ing, and then shar­ing and grow­ing togeth­er. Life, Con­scious­ness and Spir­it are forged and formed by Inter­re­la­tion­ship, Diver­si­ty, Com­plex­i­ty and our essen­tial Inter­de­pen­dence with one anoth­er and all Life-Forms. Every Par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a Spark of the Divine, formed in its core by its own Quin­tes­sence. Every tree and every leaf on every tree, every being and each cell form­ing that being, every­thing is formed by “ones” formed into a greater One. All of life is part of some­thing greater, yet it is pre­cious­ly and won­drous­ly its own unique instance of that Greater Whole.

Aquar­ius is all about the One and the Many, and we are each a pre­cious part, a unique one of a “Kind”, but formed and held and made pos­si­ble by that Kind, by that whole, and then the next greater whole, which ulti­mate­ly forms the whole of this entire Cre­ation or the ONE.

Let us make this pledge to one anoth­er, in the spir­it of Human­i­ty, with Love for one anoth­er and for all of Spirit-Life-Consciousness:

May we lis­ten to our High­er Self and find in our hearts the Wis­dom and Love to approach this Sto­ry of Life on Earth as our respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect. May we turn our Dreams and Intel­li­gence to pur­pose­ful preser­va­tion of Life in all its mag­nif­i­cent Diver­si­ty. May we become ever more Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this beau­ti­ful blue Ark of Life. May we take care, and think of our chil­dren, and our children’s chil­dren, and all who will come after us. May we rise and shine as the Stars in the heaven’s above and be tru­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this Creation.

Let us hope, when we are all long gone from this world, that our descen­dants will look back upon us and say that we rose to our chal­lenge, that we faced our fears and found our faith. That we made com­mon cause among our­selves and with all who would fol­low us. We lis­tened to the Winds of the Spir­it, and we passed the torch of Light, Love and Will for the gen­er­a­tions to come.

May it be so.

Next, The Chart of the USA