Spiritual Astrology in July-August 2008 Pt. 3 - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto All Retrograde Offering A Look Back

by Robert Wilkinson

In the early months of the year the outer planets enter unknown zones of Spiritual futures indicated by degree spans not experienced in close to a century or more. This three-fold series of Higher Pulses each and together give us glimpses of phases of experience we've never known before. In Spring they each go retrograde at various points in time. By mid-Summer, they are all retrograde, bringing newer, deeper insights and connectedness with the Divine Process.

When the outer Triad are retrograde, it's a time when we can receive signals of external Transpersonal paths to our Higher Creativity, Connectedness, and recognition of the Seeds of the Future. We can do this as a result of the contrasting view (RX) of the larger Transpersonal field we confront anew, having experienced it when the planet was direct.

When the outer planets are retrograde, we find ourselves in time periods when we must become more aware of our outer panetary function. This involves adaptations to society's or humanity's needs, opening ourselves to the unusual, strange, or hidden transformative possiblities of experience.

They are "karmic return" periods, since our opportunities to find a higher function are conditioned by past realizations of our Dharmic or Spiritual manifestations. These periods help us find an element of our larger planetary function(s) in order to fulfill our unique purpose within a Solar Systemic frame of reference through living a Transpersonal life.

We can learn how to purify an aspect of self to be of better service to ourselves and others, and/or find others with whom we feel connected in a higher or deeper sense. In concert with others, or communion with our Highest Self, we can demonstrate our creativity or special qualities and generate a "collective pulse."

When any of the Outer Invisible Triad are retrograde, we are given a chance to look back, receive inspiration and Divine idealism, and prepare for future new developments. We then can implement these as each goes direct in motion at their respective stations.

At this point in history, over a span of weeks each Autumn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all go direct in motion anew, retracing the ground they've transitted for the third time. These times finish up that particular span of experience even as the Transpersonal planets gather momentum to enter newer Unknown Zones.

When Uranus and Neptune were retrograde from June to October 2007, it was a time to review the paths and challenges from Spirit that brought us to the threshold of new beginnings. We could take a new look at our ideals, the way we're relating to others and everything that is, consciously and unconsciously, and how we were willing to embrace our uniqueness or genius.

By November 2007 they were both in forward motion, retracing degree spans we were already familiar with, giving us a chance to demonstrate those spiritual lessons and skills in ways that carry us into the future. By April they completed retracing those earlier spans, and entered degree spans not known in our memory, except for Uranus.

In May and June Uranus and Neptune both went stationary retrograde, marking new thresholds of Spiritual lessons we will be reflecting on and showing Spiritual steps to be re-traced through November 2008. Neptune went retrograde at 25 Aquarius on May 26, at almost the same point in time that Mercury went retrograde in close trine to Neptune. Uranus just hit its retrograde station on June 26 at 23 Pisces.

This commenced a period when Neptune puts the awakenings that happened when Uranus crossed this part of Aquarius between April 2001 and November 2002 into collective consciousness. Any Willful misdirections or upheavals of that time can now be dissolved in the light of a greater unified understanding of the higher possibilities in this span of Aquarius.

The Uranus station prepared us all for polarizations to come as Saturn in direct motion approaches the opposition with Uranus. This will affect us all starting September 2008, and will build in intensity for many months afterwards. We will be given opportunities to awaken to new powers beyond our ordinary understanding by learning to cooperate with our immortal reality. This will teach us to pay attention to clear pictures of the end results we want to achieve.

Of course, there will also be difficult consequences for those who are not living their integrity. These forms of failure will result in escalating major confusion, deception, instability, or misperceptions, depending on how they face the mishaps that are a consequence of these things. Those who do not learn from the small things are sure not to understand the larger patterns that determine their suffering or triumph.

Pluto was retrograde between April and September 2007, and retraced familiar territory for the third time from September through December 2007. It entered its Unknown Zone in late December, then entered Capricorn for the first time in about 240 years in January 2008. It continued occupying this new territory through March before going stationary retrograde on April 2, 2008.

In May and June it retrograded back through the first degree of Capricorn and re-entered Sagittarius for the last time on June 13-14. As it continues to conjunct the Galactic Center for many months to come, please reference various articles on this site about this important point in human history.

Though the outers now occupy unknown spans of experience for those presently alive now, these zones of course were known to previous generations. However, most on Earth do not remember the last time Neptune was in Aquarius, or Pluto in Capricorn. Only those in their 80s or older remember the last time Uranus was in Pisces.

As each of the Higher Triad re-enter zones for the first time since their previous cyclic visit, they reawaken that energy in the collective consciousness. This of course affects everyone to some degree or another, just in different forms for this time in history.

As noted, when the outers move forward, we subjectively experience the Unknown Zones as the mystery, the future-in-the-becoming, or the process of Divine Self-transformation. When they are retrograde, we experience those energies from different perspectives.

Now that they all are retrograde we are in a period where we will be doing a spiritual review, and finding new perspectives, understandings, and ways to participate in the larger evolutionary pulses the outer Triad symbolize. Search for your higher purpose and wait for the signals from the Transpersonal Triad to verify the challenges and lessons of your particular Path. We're reviewing what was previously unknown, so regard this as a practicum where we are learning to maneuver within a "living future" of our collective reality.

In future parts of this Spiritual Astrology series we will explore what's going on with the Outer Invisible Triad relative to past and present eclipses, when planets will make dynamic aspects to the Invisible Triad showing periods when we are most challenged to cooperate with "Spiritual" energies, and how the present shows us the seeds of the long range future.

Spiritual Astrology in July-August 2008 Pt. 1 - Jupiter RX Moving Into A Trine to Saturn Stabilizing our Liberation from Old Conditions

Spiritual Astrology in July-August 2008 Pt. 2 - The Grand Irrationality Hot Zones and when they will be triggered

© Copyright 2008 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[AceStar]

beautiful my friend :)

Love

[giverny]

Many thanks for this and may your garden bloom and grow abundantly...take care of your lovely self and family..love and light as always

[Felita]

Hi Robert.....Your Brilliance still shining for all of us.

Gathered money for a reading, Jupiter expanding my Saturn 8th, good thing, in that house of transformation.Pluto now close to my Jupiter Saggitarius helping me understand the retro Jupiter in my natal chart. Pluto also squaring my Natal and progressed moons,and of course Saturn was conj Pluto virgo as Mars passed by opposition that Chiron Pisces natal 9th.

Been a Pluto experience. For weeks before felt like implosion as reactions from asc-ic-mh.
Like I was about to give birth. Vivid and enlightening dreams And then it all burst and sprouted.

And I am extremely grateful and know we are all blessed. I love the Angel of Freedom.
Still Saturn to pass my nth node Virgo, I feel prepared and waiting,surreal as it seems at times.

I feel in the Southern Hemisphere those outer retrogrades work quite intensely observing others as well as we are intospectively caught in winter.

Thanking you kindly Robert,
you truly are a "God send"

Aum Shanti Felita

[Felita]

Hi Giverny,,,, Love burling into the world from Australia at same time. Amazing. I love synchronicity.

[Felita]

Meaning I was writing as you where posting. Aum.

[giverny]

Hi Felita...can feel the love and synchronicity from lovely souls as yourself...we are truly blessed with such a soul as Robert...can't wait to be able to repay him in some way...it will come...om mani padme om to you too...giverny

[mary]

Do you have any insight as to why soooo many people are departing the planet so quickly? In my own aquaintance there have been 5 in the past week, three of them totally unexpected.

Thanks for your thoughts,

mary

[Robert]

Hi Mary - Well, it could be that old karmas are fulfilled. Maybe those who check out now can come back into a body in a fairly short time so everyone is here for what's coming for the human race as a whole. Remember we're all still "escaping from a narrow destiny," since the eclipses of 2006-2007 are still in full force with the squares to Pluto indicated in all of them. Each leaves when a) there's nothing else to learn or do, or b) when they choose not to grow into their Higher possibilities. Perhaps a transit to your own chart could explain why it's happening around you, or even one of the prior eclipses.