Spiritual Astrology in May-June 2008 Pt. 3 - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Unknown Zones Still Releasing Eclipse Effects

by Robert Wilkinson

All three outer Transpersonal planets now occupy zones they haven't been in for a long time. Having moved through familiar degree spans in late 2007, Uranus is now in the last decan of Pisces, Neptune is firmly in the last part of Aquarius, and Pluto is in Capricorn for the first time since 1762. These months we're asserting our authority and receiving blessings, being more conscious in choosing our behaviors, and codifying new values so we can greet a new life order.

Since March 2008 we've been learning about the wise use of power, building our methods of delivering spiritual power, and finding that which nourishes us at the end of a larger cycle of manifestation. Now we get to review what's been happening, and take a new look resulting from the blowback resulting from our positioning in previous months.

Pluto in Capricorn is still the big news, since it's shifted the lens of the spiritual ruler of Aries and Scorpio into a new energy we've never known in human memory (unless you're Babaji or the Dalai Lama!;-0) Pluto stays in Capricorn through mid-June, then retrogrades back into Sagittarius giving us one look back while it camps out on the Galactic Center, sending seeds of "black hole consciousness" to Earth and shaking things up for about 250 years to come. You can find more about Pluto conjunct the Galactic Center through a link in part 1 of this Spiritual Astrology series.

Pluto will finally leave Sagittarius in late November 2008. This Summer gives us one last experience of Sag, helping us "get in shape," recognize our blessings, and claim our Higher Power. We're now definitely moving between radically different zones of spiritual influence, and can use the skills learned in 2007 as Spiritual tools in the months to come.

As I wrote in the January-February 2008 Spiritual Astrology article:

In 2007 we "entered the Sanctuary" after which we "took a walk with our wisdom" and were invested with a certain power that we had to practice under difficult conditions to focus skill and valor. We got "rewards from Spirit" by inculcating feelings of appreciation and gratitude during the last half of 2007 while getting in shape and cultivating our "Spiritual vehicle." This prepared us to deliver our version of a higher power in 2008. Welcome to the "jumpstart" of that form of dynamic self-expression during this forecast period.

Through most of this period, Uranus continues to make a binovile to Pluto while semi-sextile Neptune. As you know from Part 1 of this series, Neptune and Pluto continue to anchor The Grand Irrationality. We are now in a time when the inner planets have emerged from their conjunctions with Uranus, Neptune and Pluto which opened new year cycles in terms of the Transpersonal dimension of existence. The Sun, Mercury, and Venus are all in waxing aspects ranging from septiles (51+ degrees) to oppositions (180 degrees) to the outer planets in May and June. This indicates that what's been building will begin to break the surface and move toward culmination the last half of 2008.

Tremendous changes were kicked into gear in December as a result of transits from Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter conjuncting Pluto and septile Neptune. You can find a lot more about this long term irrational strange atmosphere by going to yesterday's article, Spiritual Astrology in May-June 2008 Pt. 1.

As I noted in the March-April Spiritual Astrology series, another important larger factor of significance in the current "changing of the guard" involved the Moon's Nodes leaving Pisces-Virgo and entering Aquarius-Leo in mid-December 2007. To refresh your memory,

This moved the emphasis away from Saturn conjunct the South Node in Virgo and the seemingly endless grind and need to take care of a thousand details into more visionary developments. In fact, there were major transfigurations in many lives between mid-December 2007 and mid-January 2008 which were vitalized and given significant form between mid-February and mid-March.

This Nodal sign shift also turned the emphasis from Uranus and North Node in Pisces to Neptune conjunct North Node in Aquarius. This is important since it set up the Solar Eclipse in February with Pluto at 1 degree Capricorn, promising the emergence of new power figures on the world stage, and new authority to assert ourselves in our world.

Due to 2 Solar Eclipses in the past 16 months square Pluto (along with 4 Lunar Eclipses) and the most recent Solar Eclipse configured with Neptune, we're still within a larger future oriented tide of evolution that is closing life chapters and opening new ones where we can become inspired, enjoy ourselves more, and light up our world in ways everyone can appreciate. The most recent Solar Eclipse will be extraordinarily dynamic in propelling us into our future in a roundabout way, thanks to 5 planets in Aquarius, including Mercury retrograde and Chiron, all trine Mars.

It may be useful here to reconsider some factors about the February 2008 Solar Eclipse. First, remember that all Eclipses shut old things down creating space for new things to appear, so expect new rhythms of activity based on a broader vision of things past and future in years to come. Mercury RX is a "back to the future" type of energy, and shows we'll have to resurrect old forms of protection as a larger unveiling process occurs.

The Aquarius Solar Eclipse will help us focus on what we care for and about, and be more active in demonstrating that. Over the next several years we will learn to see through passing phenomena and glimpse wisdom in the passages. The line of greatest development is in working with foresight, preparing for things to come, having more faith that Spirit will deliver, or protect, or guide us into a state where we can demonstrate appreciation, gratitude, and compassion. Though there was a semisquare from the Aquarius stellium to Pluto, the lunation was favorable to all the other planets except Saturn, which received no aspects from the planets in Aquarius.

Saturn, as the worldly ruler of the Eclipse, will prove very important, as will Uranus, the Spiritual ruler of the Eclipse. These two were in wide opposition, showing a polarization between the two energies that will yield realizations as well as polarizations. Saturn was and is retrograde, thus still receding from its coming opposition with Uranus in Pisces beginning in August 2008. This is giving us all a reprieve for a few months from this polarizing energy between the forces of service and deception on a global level, and between the progressive dreamers and those who would enslave the future in an avalanche of details, worries, and criticisms.

We can use Saturn to express the Uranus in Pisces energies of rebirth within a collective setup, but will have to find a practical use for the times where we must wait wisely. Overall, it seems that we can make tremendous material progress as a result of this eclipse. On a final note, the Eclipse Venus was the degree of January's New Moon, so we should have captured pleasing forms of protection and power over the past few weeks, as well as in years to come.

You can find more about expectable future effects of the eclipse by going to this post.

In Part 4 of this month's Spiritual Astrology series, we will explore more about the spans the outer planets are in as well as the times when planets will make dynamic aspects to the Invisible Triad, being periods when we are most challenged to cooperate with "Spiritual" energies. Part 5 will offer a look at how the present shows us the seeds of the long range future.

Spiritual Astrology in May-June 2008 Pt. 1 - Retrograde Jupiter Bringing Rewards for Courage Dancing With Saturn Direct at the Threshold of A Liberating Ordeal

Spiritual Astrology in May-June 2008 Pt. 2 - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto All Retrograding At Thresholds of New Spiritual Frontiers

Copyright © 2008 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[WINDSOR]

This series is great. I have to constantly come back to the articles to read and reread. Its so densely packed with stuff I find I don't "get" it all in a single reading. I feel the urge to depict your commentary in graphic form somehow... like a zodiacal mapping with keywords, soundbytes and imagos, but I can't quite "see" how to do it yet. If I come up with something, I'll email the jpg to you...
Warmly...

[AceStar]

dear Robert! i love when you said Pluto will retrograde back into Sagittarius (recognize our blessings, and claim our *Higher Power*!)
hehe! beautiful ... PLuto is deep and i love when he do his thing :) its good that we love Planets why dont you make a article on it which planet we love the most? really like i love Moon :)
stay young my friend!

good luck

[Robert]

Hi AceStar - Well, it is an interesting idea. I'll try to post something like that in a few days. I am forever young, though at times I feel as old as Hanuman.

[Larissa]

Hi Robert - this coming full moon in Scorpio on Sunday, at 0 degrees, will be intense? For all? Thank you.

[Robert]

Hi Windsor - I overlooked responding to this earlier. Yes, my writing is like my sessions, e.g. they both are densely packed and yield new insights each time you go back through them. A graphic form might be moving through a photon stream with simultaneous micro and macro vision. Or maybe Cannonball Adderley doing an improv solo. Looking forward to the jpeg of any other image you find fits the bill.

Hi Larissa - Will do an article soon on the coming second Wesak Festival Full Moon.

[bob]

HiRObert
Would help greatly and I say this as an editor of a newspaper, if you could use one idea per sentence and shorter sentences, fewer abstract nouns. It is difficult to read and comprehend a lot of the extremely interesting stuff coz of your writing style. I hope you take this is in the spirit of better communication.
THANX

[Robert]

Hi bob - As an editor across multiple media, I always appreciate it when I am challenged to be a better writer by a peer. That said, well, sometimes I am able to use one idea per sentence. Other times, there are highly complex interrelated concepts that must be communicated that require a dependent clause or conditional set-offs.

Please note I do keep the vast majority of my paragraphs down to no more than three sentences max. As for fewer abstract nouns, sorry - Astrology IS the art and science of turning abstractions into potential reality descriptors. There is no way to discuss higher level concepts using non-abstract nouns.

Any given abstract thing (like a square between planets) can manifest in 10,000 ways. If I am to adequately offer readers the chance to use their imagination, I must offer at least one or two examples of how each planet could manifest, separately and together, along with possible manifestations of what the abstract concept known as "square" could be. You can immediately see that with so many variables, any one thing could take many different pathways.

Readers here are always requesting how a given thing could manifest in their charts or in the world in general. That's a huge task, and impossible without abstract nouns.