Podcast—2016 Fore­cast Overview

Part One: The Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary Forces

The fol­low­ing series of pod­casts will exam­ine the major Astro­log­i­cal fac­tors influ­enc­ing our lives and world dur­ing 2016. Today’s pod­cast, Part One, is a brief intro­duc­tion to the Tri-Par­tite Hier­ar­chy of Plan­e­tary forces of the major plan­ets: First­ly, you have Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus. Sec­ond­ly, comes these three inter­re­lat­ing with Sat­urn. Third­ly, you have these four inter­re­lat­ing with Jupiter.

The First lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy is formed by Plu­to, Nep­tune and Uranus which togeth­er com­prise the Long-Wave or Sub­stan­tial Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion­ary forces for our plan­e­tary sys­tem. Each mov­ing through the signs, and form­ing sig­nif­i­cant aspects to one anoth­er cre­ate the rhyth­mic puls­es of Spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing for our journey.

These Lords of Spir­i­tu­al Evo­lu­tion com­bine to form three Plan­e­tary pairs of mean­ing: Neptune/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship of Uncon­di­tion­al Love ver­sus Sacred Space or Love and Will. Uranus/Neptune form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Com­mu­ni­ty or Freer Minds and Uncon­di­tion­al Love. And, Uranus/Pluto form­ing the rela­tion­ship between Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty ver­sus Sacred Space or Freer Minds and Will. These long-range evo­lu­tion­ary cycles range from about 500 to 130 years.

The Sec­ond lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these out­er three with the mod­u­la­tions formed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Sat­urn. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary Forces of Uranus, Nep­tune and Plu­to with the Struc­tures or Objec­tive Realms of Sat­urn, which will often unfold seem­ing­ly through “dis­cords” or “clash­es” of the trans­for­ma­tion­al plan­ets with the conserving/crystallizing forces of Sat­urn. These three are: Saturn/Uranus form­ing Order and Free Minds or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Inno­va­tion. Saturn/Neptune form­ing Order and Dreams or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Com­pas­sion. And, Saturn/Pluto form­ing Order and Will or Tra­di­tion ver­sus Sacred Space. These mid-range crys­tal­liz­ing cycles range from about 45 to over 30 years.

The Third lev­el in this Hier­ar­chy com­bines these four with the mod­u­la­tions cre­at­ed by their respec­tive inter­sec­tions with the plan­et Jupiter. Here you expe­ri­ence the inter­play of the Evo­lu­tion­ary and Crys­tal­liz­ing Forces with the Expansionary/Exploring Forces of Jupiter. These four pairs are: Jupiter/Saturn form­ing Truth and Order or Mean­ing and Man­i­fes­ta­tion. Jupiter/Uranus form­ing Truth and Freer Minds or Mean­ing and Lib­er­a­tion. Jupiter/Neptune form­ing Truth and Uni­ver­sal Love or Mean­ing and One­ness. And, Jupiter/Pluto form­ing Truth and Will or Mean­ing and Sacred Space. These short­er wave growth cycles range from 20 to 12 years.

Today’s pod­cast will begin the dis­cus­sion of this tri­par­tite hier­ar­chy, as we begin to try and under­stand these gifts of the spir­it for 2016. The major influ­ences we will look at for this year will be: 1) The wan­ing square of Sat­urn with Nep­tune, 2) the wan­ing square of Jupiter with Sat­urn, and 3) the wan­ing trine of Sat­urn with Uranus. But we will need to look at all these three (and more) with­in the con­text of the greater align­ment that has and still defines our peri­od. This fun­da­men­tal elic­i­ta­tion of Spir­it marks our time as the “end of an age” and the “dawn of a new age”, being her­ald­ed by Uranus in Aries form­ing a wax­ing square to Plu­to in Capricorn.

We have not been wit­ness to changes such as these for over 240 years, not since the 1760’s to the 1770’s, and before that from 1516 to 1532. Much like those indi­vid­u­als, cul­tures and coun­tries in their time, we too now face the awe­some respon­si­bil­i­ty of re-mak­ing our­selves and our pre­cious world for the bet­ter, to love not hate, to unite not divide, and so build bridges of under­stand­ing, com­pas­sion and love for one and all.

Here is Part One of the 2016 Forecast

Alpha and Omega

The long, spi­ral­ing sto­ry of Spirit,

Turns again.

For you are a most won­drous spark of the Divine,

Reach­ing high­er, shin­ing brighter through,

This Infi­nite Hier­ar­chy of Light.

Mov­ing through Worlds, Bod­ies and Lives,

By Space-Time and through Energy-Forms,

You abide for a while on Earth, as

You are becom­ing human, for now.

 

For­ev­er, you are the “Self-That-Is-Becom­ing”,

Sur­round­ed, formed and inspired by the Heav­en­ly Hosts,

Who form the Warp and Weave of the Cosmos.

They are the Holy of Holies,

The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones,

The Zodi­ac.

You are them, and they are you.

For you are not an “Aries”, or “Tau­rus” or “Gem­i­ni”,

You are them all, oh yes, yes you are.

 

For it is by won­drous ways of spir­i­tu­al alchemy,

That you bring each Sign’s Strengths, Sen­si­bil­i­ties and Love together,

To form your­self and also one anoth­er too.

Each spark, each light that is love,

Is a unique­ly indi­vid­ual and inte­gral com­bi­na­tion of

Each and every Sign.

And it is by these pre­cious blendings,

It is by this that you reveal your Quintessence,

That “spe­cial­ness” that is you.

And so your song, your melody will sound forth,

Truer, fin­er and draw­ing clos­er to the One Path,

That is the Song of Spirit.

 

Today, your year­ly pilgrim’s progress

Through these Twelve Man­sions of Manifestation,

Has brought you from your Alpha in Aries to this Omega of Pisces.

From your Incar­na­tion of Pres­ence to your Transper­son­al Purpose,

Today you enter this Por­tal of The Promise,

Today you come home to Pisces.

 

Your year will always begin in the Fires of Aries,

By the Gift of Spir­it, you rejoice in the resplen­dence of New Beginnings.

And it will always end, as now and for­ev­er after,

By Spir­i­tu­al bless­ings bestowed, by the encom­pass­ing Com­pas­sion of Pisces.

For you are here to bow down in Grace, and so rise up in lumi­nous glory,

Find­ing your way home, to the One through the many,

Return­ing, to these Waters of Faith, Under­stand­ing and Love.

 

It is here that you weave togeth­er your tri­umphs and tragedies,

The gifts of your suc­cess­es and your fail­ures too.

For you will real­ize that you have grown, far, far more from your errors

Than from when you were sup­pos­ed­ly “right”.

 

You learned to pick your­self up, and try again.

You found your courage and faith…and you were humbled,

And so you were lift­ed up too.

You became a bet­ter you, a wis­er you.

You learned the Wis­dom of Love.

You came to under­stand all the teachings,

The Ways of the Lone­ly Ones.

That you are here to love, and be loved.

And your first step is to for­give one another,

But most espe­cial­ly, to for­give your­self too.

 

You now know,

You are what you dreamed.

You are made by what you thought,

And you will always reap what you sow.

The Law is the Law, and it is quite sim­ply this:

You are here to be what you are,

To Love as you are loved…

For all of Cre­ation is this Love of the One.

 

And so Now, now you under­stand and accept.

That it is all about this Journey,

From the One to the many, and back…and so to be as One.

You are the Dream­er, the Self-Cre­ator, and

You are here to choose Light and Life and Love.

 

You will weave your robe of glory,

Abid­ing in Faith and by your Love,

You are free from Fear; You are Immortal.

Grey shad­ows of old will burn away,

Reveal­ing all there is, a sweet super­nal Light.

 

You know there is but one injunction,

As you move from Worlds, Forms and Lives,

You are here to pass through many per­ils and portals,

To find Wis­dom, and so live by the Joy­ful Truth.

For­ev­er and forever,

You are the Alpha and Omega, and

You are here because of Love.

You are here to Love and to be Loved.

You are here to be this Love.

The One, and the Many…We are all related

The Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones is turn­ing once more…
Your time in Earthy Capri­corn must now yield,
To the thought-filled realm that is your time in Airy Aquarius.

Though all these Twelve Fun­da­men­tal Ener­gy-Forms are ever present and active, it is most cer­tain­ly true that dur­ing each astro­log­i­cal month you should pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the lessons and inspi­ra­tions of that sign. After all, you are real­ly not “a sign”, but a unique blend­ing of all these Twelve, formed into inte­gral inter­re­la­tion­ships that in sum cre­ate and express your nature. In any one life, and through count­less worlds, forms and lives, it is by these many expe­ri­ences and myr­i­ad com­bi­na­tions of each of these signs that you slow­ly learn to mas­ter them all. This is the path by which you will ful­fill your destiny…You will awak­en, and you will meet your promise which is to be “ful­ly human”, to be a ful­ly con­scious co-cre­ator of Cre­ation who is inspired and guid­ed by a Free Mind, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and a Cen­tered Will.

Tru­ly there is but one path to follow…but there are many, many ways. Just as there is but One life, One spirit…but many, many sparks of the Divine. You are one, and you are also one of many oth­er ones who togeth­er form this spi­ral­ing jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it. This is the Jour­ney of the One through Time and Space, and each spark of this One is an aspect of the “self-that-is-becom­ing”. Each of you is the “same”, and yet each of you is “different”…special, an indi­vid­ual. You are a unique dew-drop in the Ocean of Spir­it, whose very unfold­ment of Spir­i­tu­al Poten­cy and Promise is dri­ven by your Svab­ha­va, which is the essence of you. That is because this very essence of you is a spark of the Divine, it is your High­er Self, which is the core of you, and it is this which makes you “you”.

But for you to become you, this will not and can­not be done by your­self alone. For how could you? The great Illu­sion that is Sep­a­ra­tion must also be bro­ken by you, time and time again. For though you may seem to be this “one”, unique and sep­a­rate from your fel­low human beings, and indeed may even in some belief sys­tems hold your­self apart from all oth­er life-forms, this is most cer­tain­ly and emphat­i­cal­ly (and empath­i­cal­ly) not true at all Spiritually.

For all humans, and all life-forms, come from the one Divine Source. That is why one of the fun­da­men­tal pre­cepts and cor­ner­stones of the Ancient Wis­dom, and which is to be found in the “heart-teach­ings” or eso­teric cores of all Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion is this most ele­gant Truth:

“WE ARE ALL RELATED”

As humans, we form one anoth­er, we are made of one anoth­er as we are most cer­tain­ly and of neces­si­ty “Social Beings”. From infan­cy by our par­ents and by sib­lings, then on through friends and teach­ers, part­ners and com­peti­tors, col­leagues and com­pa­tri­ots, we are all made from the expe­ri­ences we have cre­at­ed with one anoth­er. We are all “mixed-up” togeth­er so that we have formed with­in each of us inte­gral infu­sions of expe­ri­ence, sen­si­bil­i­ty, likes and loves from all with whom we have con­tact, here and now and in many, many past lives too…and there is no way to sep­a­rate us from one anoth­er at all. All our hopes and dreams are bound up with one anoth­er as we trav­el through these worlds, forms and lives in life after life.

And so like­wise as we enter this time of Aquar­ius, what you dream and wish for your­self has been large­ly shaped by your fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ties, cul­tures and beliefs. These long­ings for a bet­ter world and a truer life have been formed, impart­ed and shared by your jour­ney with one anoth­er. For as much as in Capri­corn you were asked to shoul­der your respon­si­bil­i­ties so as to pre­serve, pro­tect and ful­fill the achieve­ments embod­ied in the great works of civ­i­liza­tion, and there­by hon­or and revere your ances­tors and their gift to you of what was formed through the ages…It is on you now from the Aquar­i­an part of you, and in this time of Aquar­ius, to look out ahead, to imag­ine a bet­ter world for you and yours, and to take up the joy­ful task of build­ing those bet­ter worlds of tomorrow.

And for those bet­ter worlds to be, the only way that they will come into being is if each and every one of us under­stands this: That the truest, most human dreams are made and met by help­ing one anoth­er to make those dreams come true. How could it be oth­er­wise? For at the end of the day, as much as we may need or enjoy var­i­ous “things” in our world, at the end of the day it all comes down to our expe­ri­ences with one anoth­er. To share in the joys and pains, the tri­umphs and tragedies of rich­ly ful­filled lives by help­ing one anoth­er make our dreams come true…this is the heart of Aquar­ius. Just as we have made one anoth­er, are all what we are because of one anoth­er, so too does it fol­low that our dreams are made of one anoth­er too.

You can only become who you are to be by Dream­ing-Cre­at­ing-Being with your fel­low seek­ers, your broth­ers and sis­ters, whose dreams are of you, and yours are for them.

You are all made of and by your love for one another.

Your dream is made of their dreams, their ful­fill­ment yours too.

For tru­ly what you dream, for your­self and for one anoth­er is to Love and be Loved.

Love one another.

 

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Today is the first of 4 Mer­cury ret­ro­grades in 2016. This first ret­ro­grade runs from Jan­u­ary 5th until Jan­u­ary 25th, with most of the ret­ro­grade tak­ing place in the sign of Capri­corn. My com­men­tary in the pod­cast con­cerns the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by this ret­ro­grade with a spe­cial focus upon the nature of our thoughts and speech. The spe­cif­ic and time­ly mes­sage of this ret­ro­grade is to remind us that we must be respon­si­ble for and to one another.

Mer­cury Retrograde