Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Plu­to in Aquar­ius, Plu­to in the signs and what do we mean by an age?

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As many of you know I have been speak­ing and writ­ing about Pluto’s pas­sage through Capri­corn since 2008 as the “end of age”. Nat­u­ral­ly, we might assume that the next pas­sage of Plu­to through Aquar­ius, which tech­ni­cal­ly has begun here in 2023, would mark the begin­ning of a “New Age”. But that rais­es a num­ber of ques­tions, the first ques­tion being what do we mean, or what do I mean by an “age”, or the end of an age, let alone “a new age”?

Many observers of his­to­ry have cat­e­go­rized peri­ods in his­to­ry, in var­i­ous areas and regions in the world as being of a cer­tain type or order, and they char­ac­ter­ized what some call “the tides of his­to­ry”, the rise and fall of civ­i­liza­tions and cul­tures over years, cen­turies and even mil­len­nia. Some eras or ages are rather long, oth­ers much short­er. And you prob­a­bly would not be sur­prised to see that many if not most of these rip­ples in time can be under­stood as being marked, informed, and shaped by the var­i­ous cycles of the plan­ets around the Sun, as well as by their inter­sect­ing cycles with one anoth­er. After all, our Earth is part of this larg­er sys­tem, the solar sys­tem, whose plan­e­tary cycles can be seen much like a giant forge of ener­gy-forms whose cir­cu­la­tions and per­am­bu­la­tions and rota­tions form what I call the “dance of the plan­ets”, and it is this which cre­ates the ener­gy-pat­terns we expe­ri­ence as “time”.

Jupiter/Saturn Muta­tion
For exam­ple, one of the most well-known cycles in Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy is the repeat­ed con­junc­tions of Jupiter and Sat­urn in a cer­tain ele­ment, (Fire, Earth, Air and Water), that demar­cate or indi­cate the type of his­tor­i­cal peri­od that cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions are mov­ing through. We have just fin­ished a 200-year cycle in the ele­ment of Earth at the end of 2020, and we began a 200-year age of Air with Jupiter and Sat­urn meet­ing in Aquar­ius. The com­plete cycle for the Jupiter/Saturn align­ments in the four ele­ments is about 800 years long.

Anoth­er means for peri­odiz­ing his­to­ry comes from the pas­sages of the out­er plan­ets through the Signs indi­vid­u­al­ly, and also by the var­i­ous Syn­od­ic cycles that Uranus, Nep­tune, and Plu­to form with one anoth­er. A Syn­od­ic cycle is the peri­od of one planet’s con­junc­tion with anoth­er and those con­junc­tions can be viewed as being like a “new Moon” or a seed­ing of that’s plan­e­tary pair’s influence.

Pluto’s pas­sage through the Signs takes about 245 years and Nep­tune about 164 years and Uranus about 84 years. The longest Syn­od­ic Cycle is that of Plu­to with Nep­tune, which is approx­i­mate­ly 492 years, then comes Nep­tune with Uranus of around 171 years and final­ly Plu­to with Uranus of around 127 years.

Out­er Plan­ets Syn­od­ic Cycles
With regard to those com­bined syn­od­ic cycles, the most recent Pluto/Neptune cycle began in 1891–92, and the pre­vi­ous seed­ing was in 1398–99. I con­sid­er this influ­ence to be the rec­i­p­ro­cal rela­tion­ship of Divine Will and Divine Love, and for us forms the dynam­ic inter­play of how we man­age the mys­tery of union or of alche­my, as we learn to join togeth­er with­out los­ing our indi­vid­ual selves in one another.

The last Neptune/Uranus cycle began in 1993, and the pre­vi­ous seed­ing was in 1821. This plan­e­tary pair con­cerns the rec­i­p­ro­cal rela­tion­ship between “Freer Minds” or inde­pen­dence and uncon­di­tion­al love or com­mu­ni­ty, it holds the ever-unfold­ing dynam­ic ten­sion between our var­i­ous “kinds” of being and belong­ing to a com­mu­ni­ty as one of many, while also try­ing to live and being true to one­self as a “one of a kind”.

Final­ly, the last Pluto/Uranus cycle began in 1965–66, and the pre­vi­ous seed­ing was in 1850–51. This plan­e­tary pair con­cerns the rec­i­p­ro­cal rela­tion­ship between the Will and Free­dom, or Sacred Space and Freer Minds; it is the ever-unfold­ing dynam­ic ten­sion of striv­ing to being freer with­out caus­ing harm to anoth­er or oth­ers in their sacred space.

What this means is that in just the last 100 years or so we have had each of the three major plan­e­tary pairs begin new cycles, and per­haps that may be anoth­er rea­son as to why we are mov­ing through such a dynam­ic and tumul­tuous peri­od of change.

So, in a way we could say that 1891 was the begin­ning of an age, as was 1965, and also 1993. Indeed, there are realms with­in realms, cir­cles with­in cir­cles and for us to try and sort through and under­stand these mul­ti­ple influ­ences and ener­gy-forms is quite chal­leng­ing. But for our pur­pos­es today, let’s con­sid­er the cycle of Plu­to through the signs and see what mes­sages it might have for us.

Plu­to through the Signs
The pas­sage of Plu­to through the Zodi­ac takes about 245 years, and I believe it marks one of the more sig­nif­i­cant shapers for the series of phas­es in our spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment as we trav­el through the halls of his­to­ry. Plu­to is crit­i­cal, as it holds for us, or is the Avatar for us in our solar sys­tem, for the essen­tial pow­er that is Alche­my, which is the heart of the spir­i­tu­al process that dri­ves Cre­ation. The beat­ing heart of Cre­ation is forged by com­bi­na­tions of the many ones who in their entire­ty form the Life and Body of the One. Spir­it moves into innu­mer­able forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion, which pro­ceeds as a series of cre­ative com­bi­na­tions of trans­for­ma­tions, which we expe­ri­ence and under­stand as Birth, Death, and then Rebirth into new forms. As I like to say, the whole of Cre­ation is the sto­ry of Spir­it danc­ing through Mat­ter-Forms, which are the tem­po­rary forms of mate­ri­al­iza­tions which by their very nature are mor­tal or bound by time.

If we take the “begin­ning” of the jour­ney for Plu­to through the signs, that is start­ing with Aries, then we should under­stand that the pas­sage from Aries to Tau­rus, from Tau­rus to Gem­i­ni and so on, should be viewed as the “sto­ry of Plu­to” in the signs, with the nature and mean­ing of each sign being trans­formed by the agency of Alche­my that is Plu­to. That would mean that a New Age of Plu­to would begin in Aries and would end in Pisces. In each of those pas­sages in a sign, we would expect to find the arche­typ­al-trans­for­ma­tion­al role of Plu­to to take the expe­ri­ences of that realm to the high­est of highs, and equal­ly to the low­est of lows, for us to expe­ri­ence in that sign the alchem­i­cal truth of Birth, Death, and Rebirth if you will. So, why did I des­ig­nate the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn as the “end of an age”?

My des­ig­na­tion or delin­eation comes from what Capri­corn holds or rep­re­sents, which is the Insti­tu­tion­al Hier­ar­chy, whether that be of fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion. In Capri­corn we wit­ness or reach the apex and/or col­lapse of the devel­op­ment for that Plu­to cycle, the ful­fill­ment of what­ev­er ener­gy-form we are exam­in­ing, (which in our case is the broad­er human sto­ry of cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion). What would come after, where we are now in 2023 until 2044, is our chal­lenge to reimag­ine the world we want to pre­serve or cre­ate now (Aquar­ius), and then in the last Sign of Pisces, the final chal­lenge would to be restore our faith and face down our fears. Giv­en our cur­rent cycle of Plu­to, the next new “age of Plu­to” will not tru­ly begin until 2068 when Plu­to enters Aries again.

With that in mind, let us see what the cur­rent cycle of Plu­to through the signs has been. We should arrange this both in date order, but we may also find it use­ful to con­sid­er the four sea­son­al sec­tions of these pas­sages, Aries to Gem­i­ni, Can­cer to Vir­go, Libra to Sagit­tar­ius and Capri­corn to Pisces to be insight­ful as well.

The first three signs, Aries, Tau­rus, and Gem­i­ni, form the begin­ning of the emer­gence of any age.

Plu­to in Aries
The begin­ning of the last pas­sage of Plu­to in Aries was 1823 to 1853, which most cer­tain­ly cor­re­sponds to the emer­gence of a new form of world iden­ti­ty, with the seed­ing of the mod­ern polit­i­cal and indus­tri­al age and the begin­ning of a world-wide glob­al­iza­tion of the polit­i­cal econ­o­my, as Plu­to in Aries her­ald­ed that a new type of order was tak­ing shape in the world. It wit­nessed what his­to­ri­ans call the first “indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion”, includ­ing the spread of the means of con­nect­ing and trav­el­ling that exceed­ed any­thing before that time ever in human his­to­ry, the railroad.

Plu­to in Taurus
The pas­sage of Plu­to through Tau­rus was from 1853 to 1884 and cor­re­spond­ed with the trans­for­ma­tion of the val­ues of the emerg­ing world order of that time, the rise of fac­to­ries and major indus­tri­al pro­duc­tion was the sub­stan­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion that would lead to the car­bon-based world order that we have now. In the USA, this strug­gle over our val­ues came to a cli­max with the Civ­il War, over the very ques­tion of the slav­ery, with the eman­ci­pa­tion of the slaves, and then their vir­tu­al re-enslave­ment with the counter-ref­or­ma­tion as the strug­gle for equal­i­ty and jus­tice in Recon­struc­tion failed, which led to the rise of share­crop­ping and Jim Crow in the south.

Plu­to in Gemini
Pluto’s pas­sage through Gem­i­ni was 1884 to 1914 and this cor­re­spond­ed with the trans­for­ma­tion through a surge of inven­tive­ness and new tech­nolo­gies that formed the spread of the infor­ma­tion net­works of the glob­al order, with lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion that con­nect­ed and encom­passed for the very first time the entire world. In the USA, inven­tions such as the tele­graph, tele­phone, the spread of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion, and the auto­mo­bile and air­plane rev­o­lu­tion­ized the world.

The sec­ond three signs, Can­cer, Leo, and Vir­go, form the sec­ond qua­ter­ni­ty, and rep­re­sent the strug­gle with the foun­da­tions and the via­bil­i­ty of what began in the first quarter.

Plu­to in Cancer
Plu­to moved through Can­cer from 1914 to 1939, and the foun­da­tions of the world and human secu­ri­ty were dis­rupt­ed by World War One, the world-wide Great Depres­sion and the begin­ning of the Sec­ond World War. The very nature of secu­ri­ty which Can­cer rules, of one’s land and ter­ri­to­r­i­al integri­ty, was torn asun­der as peo­ples and nations lost their lives and their homes on a world-wide scale.

Plu­to in Leo
Plu­to passed through Leo from 1939 to 1957, and this pas­sage wit­nessed the epic strug­gles of world cen­ters of lead­er­ship and pow­er (ruled by Leo) vying for world domin­ion in World War II and into the Cold War. The epic con­fronta­tions of com­pet­ing sys­tems of belief led to the devel­op­ment for the very first time in human his­to­ry of a ter­ri­fy­ing real­i­ty, the weapons of war humans had invent­ed formed and still present an exis­ten­tial threat to life itself, in that we could destroy our world with our crafti­ness and tech­nol­o­gy, because our intel­li­gence had sur­passed our wisdom.

Plu­to in Virgo
Plu­to moved through Vir­go from 1957 to 1972, as the world became trans­formed by the devel­op­ment of new tech­nolo­gies and meth­ods of pro­duc­tion, which trans­formed the econ­o­my through sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies and rev­o­lu­tion­ary appli­ca­tions in med­i­cine, food pro­duc­tion, and the nature of work and liv­ing were trans­formed. Dis­eases were con­quered but new sources of human suf­fer­ing were forged by the dis­rup­tions of nat­ur­al sys­tems by the pro­lif­er­a­tion of chem­i­cals and oth­er human-made poi­sons into the world.

The third sec­tor of signs, Libra, Scor­pio, and Sagit­tar­ius forms the third quar­ter of the Astro­log­i­cal cal­en­dar, and it is in this sec­ond half of the Plu­to cycle where we can see that Pluto’s Alchem­i­cal force trans­formed the larg­er struc­tures of human life.

Plu­to in Libra
Plu­to moved through Libra from 1972 to 1984, and the trans­for­ma­tions of the soci­ety and cul­ture of the pre­vi­ous signs led to an erup­tion of changes in the qual­i­ty and the nature of the var­i­ous forms of rela­tion­ships in soci­ety, for sex­u­al rela­tion­ships, for racial and cul­tur­al divi­sions so that the more con­strained def­i­n­i­tions of social norms were bro­ken lead­ing to lib­er­a­tions for many and yet equal­ly the rise of counter-move­ments seek­ing to return to tra­di­tion­al ways of defin­ing hier­ar­chy and power.

Plu­to in Scorpio
Plu­to moved through (its own sign) of Scor­pio from 1984 to 1995, herald­ing trans­for­ma­tions of the world order as the essen­tial divi­sion of East and West was bro­ken down by the col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union and the open­ing of Chi­na to the world econ­o­my, which cre­at­ed the poten­tial for what some called the “end of his­to­ry” and the so-called tri­umph of the lib­er­al polit­i­cal eco­nom­ic order. What real­ly emerged in this so-called “peace div­i­dend”, led to the break­ing up of many of the for­mer alliances of the world in the con­tin­u­ing strug­gle between moder­ni­ty and old­er cul­tures and customs.

Plu­to in Sagittarius
Plu­to passed through Sagit­tar­ius from 1995 to 2008, and the realms of belief, truth, sci­ence, and reli­gion were trans­formed and dis­rupt­ed by advances in sci­ence, in com­put­ers, the spread of the inter­net and oth­er mea­sures that con­nect­ed every­thing and every­one, but equal­ly gave rise to a host of what we know as mil­len­ni­al move­ments, to fun­da­men­tal­ist and author­i­tar­i­an sys­tems seek­ing to base their cul­tures and gov­ern­ments as coun­ter­points to the lib­er­al world order that had been estab­lished in the Amer­i­can and French Rev­o­lu­tions, and their lat­er tri­umph over com­mu­nism. Instead, the rush into the brave new worlds led to cathar­tic erup­tions of a long­ing for a sim­pler order based for some upon what we know as “blood and soil”, as a return to tra­di­tion­al beliefs and prac­tices, and equal­ly to the mis­guid­ed attempts to pro­mote “democ­ra­cy” by impos­ing free­dom through destruction.

Final­ly, Plu­to entered the last quar­ter of the Zodi­ac, and the seed that was plant­ed in the ear­ly 1800’s would bear its final fruits. Here we have expe­ri­enced the tri­umph or fail­ure of over 200 years of his­to­ry and the painful real­i­ties and crises of the present day.

Plu­to in Capricorn
Plu­to moved through Capri­corn from 2008 to 2023, (and actu­al­ly will dip in and out of Capri­corn all this year), and it brought this cycle of Plu­to to its moment of reck­on­ing, with the test­ing of the insti­tu­tion­al orders of the world, with either the prop­er or improp­er wield­ing of Author­i­ty, with the via­bil­i­ty or inef­fec­tive­ness of Sys­tems (which Capri­corn rules) revealed for all to see. As these insti­tu­tions of the world were shook, reformed, or broke apart, as the orders of soci­ety from the fam­i­ly to the com­mu­ni­ty, in realms sec­tar­i­an and sec­u­lar held or crum­bled around the world, to many it seemed as if they were indeed at the end of age, and that the promise of a bet­ter future for human­i­ty was lost.

Plu­to in Aquarius
And now we have Plu­to mov­ing into Aquar­ius from 2023 to 2044, and so we are fac­ing the chal­lenge of the death and rebirth of our hopes and dreams for the future, which are forged and ful­filled by one anoth­er, in the expe­ri­ences of our fel­low­ships, our com­mu­ni­ties, and our social iden­ti­ties. What can we learn from the pre­vi­ous pas­sage of Plu­to in Aquar­ius, which was from 1778 to 1798?

That ear­li­er pas­sage in Aquar­ius encom­passed the peri­od of our Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War and its after­math, with our ances­tors’ failed attempts to form a loose Con­fed­er­a­tion of States, and to final­ly set­tle upon our present Con­sti­tu­tion of a Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. In order to pro­tect the rights of any one indi­vid­ual and the well-being of the many, we formed a com­pact of “checks and bal­ances” to make pos­si­ble the dreams of many, while also pro­tect­ing each indi­vid­ual. But our fore­bears were as we are, imper­fect. And there have been many peri­ods in our his­to­ry since then when we have advanced and also retreat­ed on the cen­tral promise of the dream of self-ful­fill­ment. This was also the peri­od which saw the French Rev­o­lu­tion (1789–99), the pub­li­ca­tion of the Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Man, the Hait­ian Rev­o­lu­tion, and the rise of Napoleon.

What Plu­to is bring­ing now from 2023 to 2044, is the neces­si­ty to reform/reformulate/transform our ideals and prin­ci­ples of com­mu­ni­ty, to under­stand that the strug­gle for a new soci­ety from 1778 to 1798 came out of the col­lapse of the old monar­chial sys­tems and mer­can­tile economies, and that a new order was ris­ing, with new group­ings of peo­ples filled with a dif­fer­ent vision of them­selves and the world they wished to make. Their hopes and dreams were dif­fer­ent than their ances­tors, and they were forced by cir­cum­stances or made the bet­ter choice to face the need to move away from beat­en paths and be path makers.

We, like our ances­tors did 250 years ago, have to face the world that we have made, the dreams we dreamt, the actions we took, which have led to our cur­rent crises and chal­lenges. The pur­suit of our old ways, of our old dreams and goals, by the same means and for the same rea­sons, that path not only makes no sense, but it is also not even pos­si­ble. We have to move away from the abso­lutist and ego­tis­ti­cal approach to this world and towards one anoth­er, where the right do what one wants is unteth­ered to the essen­tial truth of Spir­it, that first and fore­most we must be respon­si­ble, we must take care of one anoth­er, and that we can only live on this beau­ti­ful Earth if we do so in a sus­tain­able and lov­ing man­ner, or we will fail our­selves and our children.

We have to be bold, as Plu­to demands that we renew and trans­form the dreams we have for our­selves, for our chil­dren, and for one another.

Astro­log­i­cal Mus­ings — Plu­to in Aquar­ius, Plu­to in the signs and what do we mean by an age?

In my third show of 2023, I will return to our look at Plu­to in Aquar­ius in order to dis­cuss the mean­ing of his­tor­i­cal peri­ods or “ages”, what forms their begin­ning and end­ing in Astrol­o­gy, and to look at Pluto’s cycle through the signs of the Zodi­ac as being one exam­ple of the cycles for an age.

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Who am I; What am I?

Today we enter the sec­ond realm of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, the “sacred-made-real” home of Tau­rus. For­ev­er some­where in your own chart, and always at this time of the year, we dance and sing and give our thanks to the eter­nal light that shines in the first of the Fixed signs of the Zodiac.

For the past 30 days you have been guid­ed, shaped, and inspired to con­sid­er the fun­da­men­tal truth that forms your exis­tence, that brings your past and your future togeth­er in the only place you exist which is in the “eter­nal now”. And through each and every moment where you redeem your past and cre­ate a bet­ter future for your­self and your world, you come to under­stand that the only thing you can con­trol is this, which is what kind of aware­ness and pres­ence you bring into this next and every sin­gle moment. You need to be “aligned to your high­est pres­ence” yet equal­ly aware of the space you are enter­ing; to be aware of how you must con­stant­ly refine and seek to under­stand the first ques­tion of life, that most pro­found of ques­tions, “who are you?”.

But now the next les­son of life may prove to be even more chal­leng­ing and yet equal­ly rewarding…for now the Lords of Des­tiny will bring you to con­sid­er the nature, qual­i­ty, mean­ing, and pur­pose of the sec­ond Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones which is “what are you?”

It may seem quite obvi­ous, at least at first, that of course I am here is this human body, this won­der­ous phys­i­cal vehi­cle for life on Earth. I am sim­ply that! But looks can be deceiv­ing, and through our tools and meth­ods of rea­son and sci­ence, and from our spir­i­tu­al inspi­ra­tions and insights, we have come to under­stand how very many dimen­sions and “states of mat­ter” or real­i­ty there are!

Whether we approach our­selves and all that sur­rounds us from a pure­ly sci­en­tif­ic approach, or fol­low the path of the ancient wis­dom, or indeed lis­ten to our own high­er intu­itive self, we have come to under­stand that the ques­tion of “what is the ‘what’” is pro­found, and yet when we step back and con­sid­er the very root of things, I believe that it can be very sim­ple to under­stand too.

From the Ancient Wis­dom we have the under­stand­ing that Cre­ation is formed of Ener­gy-Mat­ter, and that Parabrah­man and Mulaprakri­ti are the San­skrit terms for this divi­sion of what is tru­ly an insep­a­ra­ble union and rela­tion­ship of Ener­gy and Form, where­in we can see Spir­it as the most ethe­re­al form of mat­ter, and mat­ter as the dens­est form of Spir­it. From the lat­est rev­e­la­tions in mod­ern sci­ence we find, not sur­pris­ing­ly, that this same notion of Ener­gy and Mat­ter being inter­wo­ven and inte­gral so as to form the essen­tial nature of real­i­ty as ele­gant­ly stat­ed in Einstein’s equa­tion of Ener­gy equals Mass times the speed of Light squared, E = mc² .

What you and I are made of is infi­nite­ly com­plex, and the Peren­ni­al Teach­ings hold that we are formed by hosts of ener­gy-forms that form our twelve lev­els of being, from the most mate­r­i­al to the most ethe­re­al. In mate­r­i­al terms we stretch from the mon­ads and atoms to mol­e­cules and organs, to our entire encom­pass­ing vehi­cle for life on this earth. And, yet equal­ly, each of these is in itself a hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms rang­ing from the phys­i­cal body to the ether­ic body, to the emo­tion­al and low­er men­tal bod­ies, and on up to our divine tri­ad of our high­est self, our Man­as, Bud­dhi, and Atman.

Yes, it can be so com­plex and con­fus­ing to sort through all the var­i­ous realms, forms, bod­ies, and ener­gies, so I believe it helps if we can sim­ply under­stand that all of this, that every­thing and every­one exists or is formed by the one root cause behind Cre­ation. And this essen­tial “that” is the ener­gy-form that was at the begin­ning and sus­tains the entire­ty of Cre­ation, and we know it and we feel it as Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

This is the mes­sage, and this is the sto­ry of Tau­rus. That is what you are, and what every­one and every­thing is, which means that the tree and rock, and the lake and flower, and the bird and plan­et and stars above, that all of this is shin­ing with the light of Divine Love. The whole Uni­verse was made by love and was made to be loved and to be lived with love.

So let us cel­e­brate this gift of Love, this won­der­ous, lumi­nous, and resplen­dent Creation.

Let us move into the space of Tau­rus and know that what we are is love.

That our true nature is price­less, as is every­thing and every­one around us.

Let us be what we are and live as we should.

Let us be,

Love.

The Eter­nal Now

Once again, we find our­selves at the begin­ning; our jour­ney through the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones has brought us back to the first realm of Cre­ation and to the first ques­tion of your life, which is “who are you”?

For the next 30 days, and for­ev­er some­where in your chart, you need to align your body, heart, and mind as one, because you need to feel the wind of the spir­it that springs from the eter­nal fires burn­ing in the realm known as Aries. For the past month of Pisces, we have wan­dered and won­dered, we have looked back and con­sid­ered the whole arc of our lives, and we have found the truth by hold­ing togeth­er our tri­umphs and defeats, so that we might see that that what makes us what we are is found­ed in our faith and for­give­ness, and by our capac­i­ty to imag­ine and dream. Because we are cre­ators, and the ful­fill­ment of that gift is found­ed in our ever­last­ing love of one anoth­er. The great­est illu­sion we have ever faced is our sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, and equal­ly the illu­sion that we are sep­a­rate from the infini­tude formed by the encom­pass­ing hosts of spir­its with whom we journey.

In Pisces, we felt the truth that we are all relat­ed, that there is but One Spir­it form­ing the Uni­verse, and our hearts are held by the fun­da­men­tal root of all of Cre­ation, Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love. This Love forms each and every­thing in Cre­ation, and so we under­stand that the sto­ry of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney will bring forth our true nature as it will ever bend towards liv­ing with love, com­pas­sion, and empa­thy for all of life. We will know in the end that “I am that, that I am”.

But here in Aries, as we emerge out of the one­ness that is Pisces and begin again, we are remind­ed and brought to the essen­tial truth that we are also “sep­a­rate” from one anoth­er too. We are, and until the end of days here to be, a unique instance of the One Spir­it. So, we must find our way to be our own essen­tial self too, which means that for us to be the true and liv­ing spir­it we must strive to be an authen­tic, dis­tinc­tive, radi­ant man­i­fes­ta­tion a “one of a kind” too. The great­est truths are found in these seem­ing con­tra­dic­tions about the nature of cre­ation, and this truth about the One and the Many is at the root of them all. All of Cre­ation is the One, yet all of Cre­ation is formed by the infi­nite hosts of the many, many ones too.

Aries is the sacred space for the begin­ning of all things. At this time every year, and at the begin­ning of any activ­i­ty or endeav­or, you must under­stand the essen­tial truth held by Aries. In Time and Space, in the Hier­ar­chies of the Liv­ing which form Man­i­fest­ed Cre­ation let this be your guid­ing prin­ci­ple, which is you only exist here and now. What you were before, what came before, you can­not change; and what you will make and become tomor­row or a thou­sand tomor­rows from now you can­not know. There is only one place and time that you can redeem your past and forge a bet­ter future too, and it is here, it is at the heart of Cre­ation; and the heart of Cre­ation is only found in the space­time of our real­i­ty called the Eter­nal Now.

But it is equal­ly true that you are not enter­ing a space of empti­ness; you do not move upon a vir­gin can­vas or tab­u­la rasa. For the entire­ty of the hosts of the spir­it, and each and every one of us too, have forged the real­i­ty of the space that you are now enter­ing into. But you must be ready, this is the moment, where you will bring your past expe­ri­ences and com­bine them with your hopes for the future. You find your­self at the cross­ing point between the dark­ness and the light, here in the moment of Cre­ation, the only space you are free to be the cre­ative liv­ing spir­it, it is here that you face the oppor­tu­ni­ty and test of Aries, the test of your Presence.

As you enter the next space of real­i­ty, as you enter any space, it changes. The ques­tion will always be, was this the change you intend­ed to make? Did you come into a dull space and bring it to life; did you come into a dis­turbed space and bring it peace? Do you under­stand that by how you meet the moment, which is root­ed in your moti­va­tions, that form and flow into your inten­tions, which then shape your actions, it is by this that you may be able to heal the world and lift your­self and one anoth­er on the path of awak­en­ing. If you “fail”, if you come in with less of or a lack of aware­ness, if you over­whelm the sit­u­a­tion or under­whelm it, then you will have missed this moment and you will have to try again.

What you face today has been forged by you and all with whom you jour­ney. But what will be your tomor­row is being made by you today. The mot­to of Aries is, “Beat­en paths are for the beat­en, we are here to make a bet­ter future”.

The gift of Aries is forged in the spir­it and pow­er of begin­nings, so that each and every moment of your life holds the promise of light and truth and love. But you must be present, and you must be aware of this, that it is you who is the mak­er of your future, and that you must choose to be the promise keep­er of the Love of the One of which you are.

May all your steps be as those who made the first.

May you walk in beau­ty, and may you live by love.

And may you shine for­ev­er like a bright morn­ing star.

Sat­urn in Pisces and a look at Ukraine and Rus­sia (Feb­ru­ary 26, 2023)

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

I thought it would be help­ful as we approach the entry of Sat­urn into Pisces, and as we have just observed on Feb­ru­ary 24^th the first year of the war of Rus­sia against Ukraine, that we should review the sig­nif­i­cance of Saturn’s pas­sage into Pisces and also con­sid­er the plan­e­tary indi­ca­tions for what 2023 looks like for the Rus­sia-Ukraine War.

Sat­urn in Pisces

When I spoke about Sat­urn mov­ing into the sign of Pisces in my show in Decem­ber 2022, I sug­gest­ed that the pas­sage of Sat­urn through the signs of the Zodi­ac is one of the prin­ci­pal shapers of our expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty. Though I will always con­sid­er that the three out­er­most plan­ets have deep­er and longer-term indi­ca­tions for the qual­i­ty of the peri­od of human his­to­ry we are expe­ri­enc­ing, Sat­urn is impor­tant because it is the avatar or hold­er of the struc­tures of real­i­ty by which we ful­fill our needs, as we make and estab­lish the means to meet our needs and pre­serve our ways of living.

I will always main­tain that the plan­ets do not cause any­thing, that is they do not cre­ate the con­tent of what we are faced with and/or are about to encounter. Those facts and mat­ters of sub­stance are made by us, by our past actions as cre­ators of our present and our future real­i­ties. But the plan­ets can help us under­stand the mean­ings behind a peri­od, help us to under­stand what phase or stage of an expe­ri­ence we are going through indi­vid­u­al­ly and col­lec­tive­ly, and guide us as to how we might best face this moment in any cycle, and by this what we might be able to ful­fill of our spir­i­tu­al des­tiny, what we are meant to be, which is sim­ply to be and become bet­ter humans, to be ever-more con­scious cre­ators of our reality.

And the rea­son Saturn’s pas­sage through Pisces should be under­stood as sig­nif­i­cant sim­ply comes from the fact that in Pisces, (and this is true of whichev­er plan­et is mov­ing through Pisces), we will expe­ri­ence the con­se­quences or reap­ing of what we have sown dur­ing this last 29-year cycle of Sat­urn from Aries through Pisces. For our pur­pos­es, that would mean we are to expe­ri­ence a reap­ing in the realm of real­i­ty of Sat­urn from 1996 until now. (And of course, because the echoes of kar­ma are man­i­fold and deep, there will be many influ­ences that orig­i­nate in the pre­vi­ous cycles begun in 1967 and 1937 and even ear­li­er too).

When a plan­et enters the Sign of Pisces, it enters the Foun­tain-Source of Cre­ation, the seed and heart of all cre­ations, the source of our dreams and equal­ly the fruits of their man­i­fes­ta­tions. Pisces is the Dream, and here at the end of any cycle it is equal­ly the har­vest or fruit of that cycle of expe­ri­ence too. And know this, that what we har­vest is what will form the mate­r­i­al of what we will sow. But it is not a mere repeat or loop­ing of real­i­ty that we will cre­ate. Because what we actu­al­ly sow will be formed by the man­ner in which we receive and work with the fruits of our cre­ation, by how we har­vest those pri­or expe­ri­ences, by what under­stand­ing we can bring to bear upon our Kar­ma, and by this ever-expand­ing exer­cise of our Spir­i­tu­al nature we will form the Dhar­ma, the path, of mak­ing our way in the next cycle of becom­ing in the hous­es of the Holy Ones. It is by our cre­ativ­i­ty, through our imag­i­na­tion and the pow­er of Cre­ation, by our Spir­i­tu­al Will or Alche­my, it is by these spir­i­tu­al gifts that we can form our har­vest into the seeds of the next and hope­ful­ly bet­ter cycle of our lives.

If we face our har­vests with fear, then what we form now as our seeds, and what we will plant in 2026 and beyond, will lead to a more bit­ter­sweet fruit at the end of the upcom­ing cycle, which in our case will be in 2053. But if we can face the har­vest of our con­se­quences with love, humil­i­ty and grace, if we can under­stand why things turned out as they did, to see through to the truths that steered us to cre­ations that we did well and also show us how and why what was more poor­ly done, if we can under­stand what errors of com­mis­sion or omis­sion we need to amend, and if we choose to live by our faith and so act with courage to do and be bet­ter, then we will sow our seeds of a more mean­ing­ful and beau­ti­ful future for one and for all.

It begins with each of us, in our sacred cen­ter where we are held in the wis­dom, love and guid­ance of our high­er self. There is no judge­ment there, no reward or pun­ish­ment to be had. The true nature of the spir­it at the cen­ter of each one of us and of every­thing, is sim­ply pure divine love. It is through this Love and For­give­ness that we can turn our errors into bless­ings, change our doubts into wis­dom, and our fears into the liv­ing faith that we are the mak­ers of what we are and what we will be, because we real­ly do have a choice. We will make many more mis­takes, but we will learn to be bet­ter too.

Then we need in our most inti­mate rela­tion­ships with our loved ones and friends, and then with our fel­low­ships, com­mu­ni­ties and so on, we need to coop­er­a­tive­ly per­form these same re-exam­i­na­tions of the har­vests from our cre­at­ed shared spaces, of all our rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er. We only grow through our com­bi­na­tions with one anoth­er, and depend­ing upon how each of us has con­duct­ed our­selves with one anoth­er, these shared fruits will be sweet or bit­ter­sweet. But here too we must remem­ber that what holds us in our will­ing­ly and lov­ing­ly cre­at­ed unions with each oth­er is this essen­tial ener­gy-form that binds one and all, which is Divine Love. If we remem­ber to form and hold our­selves and our shared sacred spaces by this eter­nal truth, we will for­give one anoth­er our tres­pass­es, and so be able to cre­ate those bet­ter sacred spaces for a deep­er and more com­plete union with one another.

Sat­urn in Pisces brings the final test of Sat­urn, which is our “test of faith”. The ques­tion for us all is what is the source of your faith, what is the source of your hope for a bet­ter future? The Ancient Wis­dom holds that your faith is embed­ded in your true nature, that you are a spark of the Divine Light who is on a jour­ney of self-becom­ing with innu­mer­able fel­low mon­ads of the One, and that your true nature is formed by the light that shines in all the realms of Cre­ation, which is Divine Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

So, as Sat­urn enters Pisces here in March 2023, we must each indi­vid­u­al­ly, and in our com­mu­ni­ties, fel­low­ships, cul­tures, and nations too, we must all use this time of har­vest to con­sid­er what we have made and what we have learned since the present cycle of Sat­urn start­ed in 1996. But it is not only what we did or did not do in 1996, but in all the years that fol­lowed, in 1997 and 1998, in 2008 and 2016, and 2020, yes all of it was made by you and me, made for you and me, and now we have to accept the fruits of our dream­ing and doing. We have to face “the dweller on the thresh­old”, the shad­owed fears of yes­ter­days and yes­ter­years, and choose to turn towards the Light of Love in our hearts.

Just as Sat­urn start­ed a new cycle by mov­ing into Aries 27 years ago, I also would like to note that Putin’s rise to pow­er began in 1996 when he moved from St Peters­burg to Moscow to work with Yeltsin, and then suc­ceed him, first as Prime Min­is­ter in 1999 and then in 2000 as Pres­i­dent. This would mean that as Sat­urn goes through Pisces, that we are watch­ing the entire­ty of Putin’s his­to­ry in lead­ing Rus­sia, both for him and for oth­ers who rose to pow­er then, and that they are to be reap­ing all that they have done since 1996 until now. With that in mind, let us now con­sid­er what the Astro­log­i­cal indi­ca­tions are for Rus­sia and Ukraine in 2023.

Ukraine and Russia

With regards to the sig­nif­i­cance of the plan­e­tary ener­gies for 2023 that help under­stand the influ­ences and mean­ings for Vladimir Putin and Rus­sia, and Volodymyr Zelen­sky and Ukraine, we should review what was indi­cat­ed for 2022 and see what changes lie ahead for 2023.

Putin
For 2022, the “trig­ger­ing” plan­et for Putin’s inva­sion of Ukraine was the same “influ­encer” as his inva­sion and seizure of Crimea 8 years ear­li­er, which was Uranus oppo­site his Sun in 2014. For 2022, Uranus was oppo­site his Sun’s ruler, which is Venus. More­over, the “real­i­ty” plan­et of Sat­urn was squar­ing his Plu­to and oppo­site his Jupiter in 2014, and then in 2022 he had Sat­urn oppo­site his Plu­to and squar­ing his Jupiter, (and we should note that each of these align­ments would trig­ger or acti­vate his propen­si­ty, giv­en his Jupiter/Pluto natal square, to seek to impose or force one’s beliefs upon others).

In 2023, there are sev­er­al major tran­sits in Putin’s chart. Uranus will be on or con­junct his Jupiter while it is also squar­ing his Plu­to, which is the very natal aspect (his Jupiter/Pluto square) that Sat­urn acti­vat­ed last year. This time Putin will be sur­prised, if not expe­ri­ence shocks by this move over his Jupiter, and his emo­tion­al attach­ments will be severe­ly test­ed as Uranus goes over his Plu­to. More­over, Nep­tune will be squar­ing his Mars for the entire year, which will bring about con­fu­sion and mis­guid­ed actions, as well as bring an influ­ence that brings about a loss of ener­gy and vital­i­ty through­out the year. And final­ly, the plan­et of real­i­ty, Sat­urn, will square his Moon all year and as a result he will be emo­tion­al­ly iso­lat­ed and depressed. All in all, I do not think that Putin is going to have a good year at all.

Rus­sia
For 2022, I not­ed that the major influ­ences in Russia’s chart were sim­i­lar also to what hap­pened in 2014 and sim­i­lar to align­ments in Putin’s chart. In 2014 Rus­sia had Plu­to oppo­site Jupiter and Uranus squared Jupiter too, while Sat­urn was semi­square to Uranus. Just like in Putin’s chart, that com­bi­na­tion of Plu­to and Uranus to Jupiter indi­cat­ed the very strong pos­si­bil­i­ty of attempt­ing by the force of Will to impose one’s beliefs upon anoth­er. The Saturn/Uranus aspect added to the ten­sion between the estab­lished order and the desire for free­dom to do as one wish­es. For 2022, that same Saturn/Uranus aspect was back, this time as a wax­ing aspect, but this time it was with Uranus on Venus and Oppo­site Russia’s Plu­to, indi­cat­ing a more extreme exam­ple of the strug­gle between Free­dom, Will and Val­ue. Final­ly, the most elu­sive but most telling tran­sit was the square of Nep­tune to the Mid­heav­en and Nadir of Russia’s chart. I described it as some­thing like an exis­ten­tial cri­sis as with the house of roots and ori­gins, and the house of des­tiny being shaped influ­enced by Nep­tune, there was bound to be a great deal of con­fu­sion for Rus­sians as they ques­tioned the foun­da­tions for their nation, of where it is root­ed and where it finds its secu­ri­ty, and equal­ly on its pur­pose or des­tiny. Dis­il­lu­sion­ment and con­fu­sion would be the result.

In 2023, an even more pow­er­ful align­ment of Nep­tune is hap­pen­ing for Rus­sia, as it now enters the 7^th house, the house of rela­tion­ships. What this means is that the expe­ri­ence and nature of Russia’s rela­tion­ships with the rest of the world will become more con­fused, as they face dis­il­lu­sion­ment and/or decep­tion and self-decep­tion. Com­pound­ing this will be Sat­urn align­ing with Russia’s Mer­cury, so that the state or qual­i­ty of think­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion will become test­ed, shad­owed, and fear­ful, the state of mind in Rus­sia will be con­strained by doubts and fears.

Zelen­sky
For Zelen­sky in 2022, I not­ed that Uranus was oppo­site his own Uranus, which is one of the main indi­ca­tors for any­one of going through the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties of the so-called mid-life cri­sis. It calls upon all of us at such a time, to choose to become a more tru­ly indi­vid­u­at­ed per­son, a more authen­tic ver­sion of one­self. And he also had Sat­urn oppo­site his Moon, which cre­ates a deep sad­ness and fear of being cut off from the sup­port one needs. In 2023, Zelen­sky has Nep­tune squar­ing his Jupiter, (actu­al­ly for 2023 and 2024), and this brings about a peri­od where one must ques­tion and reex­am­ine the truths that guide one’s life, whether those be cul­tur­al, sci­en­tif­ic, or spir­i­tu­al truths. It can bring about a cri­sis of faith but is real­ly an instru­ment to let go of old assump­tions and half-truths and make one’s way to a greater under­stand­ing. More­over, 2023 is the year in which Plu­to, the plan­et of the Will, is oppo­site to Zelensky’s Mars. This is also in effect for 2024, and it indi­cates that Zelen­sky is engaged in a great strug­gle for sur­vival, and he will have to draw upon his deter­mi­na­tion and per­son­al strength to face very great challenges.

Ukraine
Ukraine in 2022 had Uranus enter the 4^th house of Roots and Foun­da­tions, while it also opposed Ukraine’s Plu­to in the 10^th house of Des­tiny. This most cer­tain­ly indi­cat­ed a test of will and deter­mi­na­tion, and the expe­ri­ence of the vio­la­tion of one’s bound­aries or sacred space. And just like Zelen­sky, Ukraine had Sat­urn on its Moon, and the coun­try equal­ly expe­ri­enced a deep sad­ness and a feel­ing of being cut-off from sup­port. For 2023, Ukraine has Uranus squar­ing the Moon, which indi­cates a very unset­tled qual­i­ty for the peo­ple of Ukraine, a high­er degree of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty but equal­ly a time to break reac­tive behav­iors and so that one may be more inno­v­a­tive and sur­pris­ing in one’s respons­es. Also in 2023, Sat­urn is oppo­site the Sun in Ukraine’s chart, which means it is under­go­ing an endurance test, a crit­i­cal test of its char­ac­ter and for­ti­tude. The chal­lenge is to endure, but equal­ly to focus on respon­si­bil­i­ties let go of struc­tures or pat­terns which are not supportive.

The pic­ture for both Putin and Rus­sia, and Zelen­sky and Ukraine is most cer­tain­ly chal­leng­ing, and one would expect this to be the real­i­ty of a bru­tal war of aggres­sion. It is not sur­pris­ing after all, as there is almost no sce­nario where there is a win­ner and a los­er in any war, because the very great­est of spir­i­tu­al crimes is occur­ring on the largest scale imag­in­able, and there is so much pain and suf­fer­ing on both sides that the echoes of this fail­ure to love rather than hate will be with us for many years to come.

The most basic and hor­rif­ic of spir­i­tu­al crimes is the tres­pass­ing or inva­sion of the sacred space of any human. Spir­i­tu­al­ly this is the “first crime”, the ulti­mate sin of not expe­ri­enc­ing and treat­ing any “oth­er” who is before us as a spir­i­tu­al­ly divine pres­ence too. This is why the first “step” for any aggres­sor in a war is to dehu­man­ize, or demo­nize their oppo­nent, as Putin has done by labelling many of the peo­ple of Ukraine, and the Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment as being Nazi’s. As always, the first casu­al­ty in any war is the truth.

But the Light of Truth is with­in every one of us, and “we have eyes that see, and ears that hear”, and we know who is stand­ing for love and who is con­sumed by hate. Our heart and thoughts are for all those who are fac­ing the fear­ful dark­ness of hate that has turned rel­a­tives and neigh­bors against one anoth­er, all because of the hatred and fear that has seized one man and some peo­ple who have cho­sen the dark­ness over the light.

May peace return to Ukraine and her peo­ple and may they and many oth­ers plant the seeds of a bet­ter world in the weeks, months, and years to come.