Aquarius Papers - Global Astrology

Astrology Class - Dispositors and Planetary Influence

by Robert Wilkinson

The sign any planet is in is affected by the sign of the planet that rules that sign. This is called dispositorship. So when Mars is in Cancer, it is heavily affected by the Moon, which rules Cancer. When Mars is in Leo, it will be heavily affected by the sign the Sun is in, since the Sun rules Leo. Mars in Virgo is more influenced by Mercury, and therefore whatever sign Mercury is in. Mars in Libra is affected by whatever sign Venus is in, since Venus rules Libra. When a planet rules the sign another planet is in, we say it “disposes,” or is the dispositor of that planet.

Fire, Earth, Air and Water Element Balance in August-September 2006 Affecting All Signs

by Robert Wilkinson

August and September show rapid shifts in the element balance due to the inner planets changing signs at least twice during the next few weeks, affecting the houses they rule in our charts. Everyone with planets in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio will continue to go through rapid changes in energy related to these signs, so don’t get confused if you feel differently every so often over the next 9 weeks. This will bring rapid and frequent changes in the houses with these signs on the cusps, affecting over half of everyone's reality. Get ready for lots of shifting developments!

How Astrology Works Pt.1 - Belief systems and checks and balances

by Robert Wilkinson

Today's article is a response to a question a friend posited, that being "Why can't someone just rely on their intuition instead of astrology?" I suppose the short answer is that you can, but just be ready to take the consequences of acting with incomplete knowledge. We all make our decisions limited by our blind spots, our prejudices, and our wishful thinking. We all come from a family and culture with dualistic and inconsistent internal belief systems, and have been shaped by others in ways we barely suspect, by friends and foes, loved ones and strangers alike. In this sense it is useful to remember that all are our teachers, and show us how to raise our experience of life and response, human patterns in a forever changing reality leading us to our Higher Self.

Mahatma Gandhi and our Quantum Reality

by Robert Wilkinson

Though the world is gripped in violence and fear, I believe there are concrete signs of a better reality coming. We who seek truth, goodness, and beauty WILL outlast and outlive the barbarians presently creating so much suffering for so much of humanity. We have already seen signs of a greater awareness, and our understanding of time, space, matter, and energy have evolved to a greater degree than ever before. We now know we live in a quantum reality that morphs as we live it.

Mercury Triseptile Neptune July-August 2006 - A Turning Point In The Destiny of the World, You, and Me

by Robert Wilkinson

For the next two weeks, Mercury is triseptile Neptune and will soon be triseptile Pluto, forming a Kite configuration involving the Grand Irrationality. Any septile series aspect indicates irrational or obsessive-compulsive behavior, as well as forks in the road of life, but the triseptile is different than the other septile series aspects in that it always involves factors symbolizing either a 6th or 7th house relationship to the points making a triseptile. Given that Mercury is forming a nozzle to the triseptiles in question, and the Neptune septile Pluto indicates transpersonal forces beyond individual control, we are now collectively at a huge turning point involving the collective consciousness, the destroyer and transformer of worlds, and Mercury, the Guide of Souls and the coordinating principle within each of us.

Cancer - Sensitive Caring Water Spirits

by Robert Wilkinson

July marks the heart of Summer, a period of maximum Solar force assisting us to do our Being with all the power and determination we can muster. This is a month of fundamental reorientations to be consolidated as a feeling-experience to release a new creative impulse when the Sun enters Leo. July expands the externalizing self-gathering that Summer symbolizes. It is a time of decisions and events that will wreck all that blocks the new way of life we've embraced up to now so accept new ways of experiencing life, new needs and habits, and willingly turn the corner, renouncing old ways of feeling.

Einstein On Spirit, Natural Law, and Humanity

by Robert Wilkinson

While going through my archives, I ran across two quotes from Einstein that seem somehow relevant in this weird time of shouting heads. For your consideration:

"The harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

Astrology for July and August 2006 - Some Important Articles That Are Still Relevant

by Robert Wilkinson

There are many powerful forces at work besides those I've outlined in the two previous articles. These two, Galactic Center Conjunctions by Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto - the Newest Influences What's Coming in 2012 and Pluto is conjunct the Galactic Center 2006 Through 2007 discuss conjunctions with the GC and what they mean for all of us. Also, Saturn Opposition Neptune, with Jupiter square Saturn and Neptune and Who is most affected by the Saturn opposed Neptune, Jupiter square Saturn, and Jupiter square Neptune? discuss very important Fixed square energies we're dealing with through September. What follows are more articles of importance in this dynamic time in history!

Advanced Astrology Class – Venus Opposition Pluto Semisquare and Sesquisquare Jupiter Square Saturn

by Robert Wilkinson

I focused on the extremely dynamic time we’re in for the next few days in this article about Venus and Pluto in an opposition sextile trine pattern with Mars in Leo. This powerful and very positive energy field is being released through the other remarkable configuration simultaneously occurring involving four points of a Great Octile, planets in a 45-90-135-180 degree angle pattern. The four planets in the title are dynamically releasing energies that are frictional, crisis producing, and force us to learn “right action.”

Astrology Class – Venus opposition Pluto sextile Mars Trine Pluto

by Robert Wilkinson

We have a very powerful configuration at work for the next few days involving Mars trine Pluto, Venus sextile Mars, and Venus opposition Pluto. The exact opposition sextile trine, as it is called, is a “cut to the chase” configuration, and creates enormous tension with a lot of understanding pushing affairs forward productively. We all have the ability to make progress despite conflicting or opposing forces, many of which are about to lose their power to distract our focus from achieving our larger ambitions.