Spiritual Astrology in July-August 2008 affecting Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - Part 5

by Robert Wilkinson

In earlier parts of this series we explored general Spiritual factors of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto bringing forth our Higher Self as we stand individually and collectively at the threshold of a new era. I offered points of particular importance due to major aspect patterns going on in 2007 through now. Today we continue to explore more about the pressure we're under and within, what it means, and how this is impacting certain signs directly.

There are many dynamic aspects in July and August made by the inner planets to Pluto in Sagittarius, Neptune in Aquarius, and Uranus in Pisces. Early July featured Venus triggering the Grand Irrationality and Mercury opposed Pluto. Mid-July the Sun triggered the Grand Irrationality, and late July Venus opposed Neptune as Mars moved into the Virgo zone of the Grand Irrationality.

The first half of August Mercury and then Sun opposes Neptune and Mars opposes Uranus, while mid-August Mercury and Venus trigger the Grand Irrationality just before opposing Uranus and squaring Pluto.

As I have noted in other articles, the Sun, Mercury, and Venus each trigger the Grand Irrationality 7 times a year. These periods get fairly wired and edgy, and people are stranger than usual, making crucial decisions whether they realize it or not. It's the obsessive-compulsive factors in people that make these times most difficult, since things make less sense than usual, which makes almost no sense at all.

Frictional aspects from planets to Pluto are showing us elements of our unique song, narrowing our focus to enlarge our vision. These periods help us revise our ideas through the nurturing power of whatever Wisdom-form we were given this year. As things fall apart or get transformed during these times, it's important we take a wide view and show tremendous compassion and if appropriate, forgiveness toward self or others.

Frictional aspects to Neptune during this time help us to ground our spiritual realizations in our magnetic field and concentrate to tame and train our powerful ego energies so we can "put on the show" for our world. We are transmuting primal natural energies into powerful heart manifestations, and can externalize our highest ideals.

Frictional aspects to Uranus are helping us creatively integrate in ways that boost our happiness, rebuild our energies in organic ways that balance our minds and bodies, test us to get the right attitude as we stand at a threshold of transition into a new world of experience, and know who we really are behind the facades we show to the world.

The Cardinal (activating) signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, The Fixed (stabilizing) signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and the Mutable (distributive) signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Planets in Fixed signs configure dynamically with Neptune, while planets in Mutable signs challenge Uranus and Pluto. In 2008 Pluto has begun to put pressure on planets in Cardinal signs and will finish up its challenges to late Mutable signs from mid-June through late November, after which it again puts pressure on the early degrees of the Cardinal signs.

Pluto continues to put long term pressure on people with birthdays in the third and fourth weeks of March, June, September, and December. If you have a birthday during these periods, go to the core of your being and clean up your magnetism to regenerate your heart.

Be a pioneer, show self-control, concentrate, and throw off the chains in your mind that keep you powerless. Let go of obsessive or compulsive feelings and people, and purify however you need to, becoming the "captain of your own fate."

Pluto's nature is "economy of energy," and it tends to make our lives more efficient through annihilating obsolete life factors. Banish the corrupt, corrosive, or dishonest elements in your life, and regenerate the seeds of power in the houses it influences in your charts. Pluto's long range influence is presently most personally disruptive to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 27 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces and the first degree of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and Libra.

In past months, Pluto's powerful transformative energies have been at 29 Sagittarius through 2 Capricorn. We have been offered opportunities to find seeds of a new determination, persistence in getting in shape, a wealth of spiritual resources, and a concrete form of our ideals. Recent radical transformations offered us ways to master situations through purposeful planning, showing self-connfidence as we greeted opportunity, and being faithful to our Higher Self.

The first half of 2007 we evolved toward finding elegant, beautiful, and practical forms to link the best of the past with the need of the present, and were put through forms of exercise to become fit for what's happening now. We were shown what is enduring in community, and should have found ways to stabilize our lives more effectively. The tests of these were from June through November 2007.

The first half of 2007 also helped us build our conscious determination through persistence, expressing a new power and effectiveness in the houses ruled by Aries, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. Whatever we learned that led to our rededication to a larger goal or purpose in 2006 gave us imagination, potency, detachment, and an ability to anticipate what's coming.

From January through June, we were given a heads up on what we can expect beginning December 2008 when Pluto re-enters Capricorn. Now we're getting Pluto at 29 Sag, the point where it goes stationary direct in early September 2008, so get fit for something you'll have to do at that point.

A final note on Pluto relative to its involvement in previous eclipses. As I wrote in a prior Spiritual Astrology article,

When the outer "spiritual" planets are involved in an eclipse, they will exert a very big influence during the time span of that eclipse. Since Pluto went stationary retrograde 29 March 2007, the day of the Solar Eclipse in Aries, (More at this link), we will continue to see powerful social revolutions changing our world dramatically.

These Plutonic influences were unleashed by Mars' transit of late Sag on the eclipse degree and its conjunction with Pluto January 2007. These seeds were expanded in December 2007 when Jupiter transited these degrees. At that time there were multiple conjunctions in late Sag and early Capricorn that portended Pluto's first entry into Capricorn since 1762 between January and June 2008. Since late 2007, the new evolution revolution is taking shape in some fairly specific ways. More at this link.

As has been the case the past year, Neptune continues to make life somewhat strange, unclear, or even very weird for people with birthdays in mid-February, mid-May, mid-August, and mid-November. If you have a birthday during these times, let go of self pity or feelings of inadequacy, and be resolved to do whatever needs to be done to come out of uncertainty, doubt, and confusion.

Get clear about your role, release drifting through things that don't interest you, and find the light of your highest ideal. At this time in history, Neptune's long-range influence is presently most confusing to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 22 and 26 degrees of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio.

In 2006 Neptune's influence showed we had to rise to some occasion and be of indomitable Spirit. We learned how to maintain those skills in mid-2006, and what was unveiled has led and will lead to rewards from Spirit in 2007, 2008, and 2009, especially when Jupiter moves over the span where Neptune has been this past year. For the most part, September through December 2007 confirmed "gifts from Spirit" and rewarded us for our faith, courage, and perseverance.

We've now learned resilience despite difficulties, and our perseverance in finding inner strength served us well in August-September 2007 and December 2007-January 2008. In March, April, and July 2007, we had opportunities to cultivate gratitude and open to opportunities to grow happily into our Higher Self through prayer and meditation. These tools of gratitude and appreciation built our "spiritual vehicle" which are delivering concrete results in 2008.

This forecast period Neptune retrogrades back across the span it first transited from mid-February through late April. These degrees were activated by Uranus March-April 2001, mid-July through early September 2001, and late December 2001 through January 2002.

It is easily seen that this span is associated with the revolutionary upheavals in play since then. Neptune is now encoding this span into collective consciousness, and we can experience this as part of our sense of connectedness with others globally.

Uranus continues to evoke revolutionary developments or needed renovations and creative renewing in the houses in our charts ruled by Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Its influence is associated with disruptive and/or unexpected changes that challenge us to individuate. Uranus currently affects most strongly those with birthdays the middle of March, June, September, and December.

If you have a birthday during these periods, learn cooperation, flexibility, and try to innovate and synthesize things into a newer, broader view. Uranus' long-range influence is presently most disruptive to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 20 and 25 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, very much as it was in May and June.

As noted in past articles,

In early 2006 we quickened, dropped unnecessary considerations, and got ready to live a new way of life. The past two years we've entered new areas of self-dedication and an awakening by the "conscious mind to the intuitive Soul realms." The keynote was "the capacity inherent in every individual to seek at whatever cost entrance to a transcendent realm of reality." We have now been "guided into the sanctuary," and have been tested in our purity of heart, our awareness, our maturity, and our spiritual "self-mobilization."

This led to greater responsibilities and ways to prove a greater courage and fearlessness. In the past 2 years, we’ve all endured ordeals, re-affirmed our purpose through a higher realization of truth, and moved into a new faith. Those who were inconsistent, hypocritical, clutching, fearful, or tried to hide from what was being revealed experienced the "emptiness of dread." We've had to move forward while proving our ability to accept the role we have declared our own.

November and December brought closure, fusion, and new seed forms out of what began early 2007, and brought Uranian processes to forms of fulfillment. In past months we've quickened, opened new initiatives and ways of self expression as well as relationships while consolidating our wisdom and building spiritual vehicles by practicing new skills. Having seen newer, better ways of living and being, we've been eliminating stagnant life materials and finding a new focus that naturally expanded in December.

When Jupiter exactly conjuncted Pluto, we were offered a once-in-12-year point in time to launch a greater Way, Truth, and Life. This helped us to open our vision, our imagination, and our sense of life's adventures in a new freedom to be who we really are and living our heart-fire on our own terms. We have refined our depth experience of life at very profound levels and shown how things are connected, or not, and what part each plays in the greater picture.

We are continuing to receive more rewards from Spirit, so yield to the future that already presents itself. The seeds of the future that took flight between March and June 2007 now stand revealed. Late Summer 2007 we closed out Saturn in Leo lessons and opened new initiatives resulting from our concentration and purification. By Summer 2008 Jupiter in Capricorn favorable to Saturn in Virgo will harmonize whatever work or service begun last September.

Jupiter conjunct Pluto in December 2007 began 12 years of blessings and openings beyond our wildest dreams, so learn to ride this new wave of Fire energy in your life, straight from the Galactic Center! The great wheel has turned, so continue to show appreciation and gratitude for the freedom you're glimpsing, as these seeds will prove to be potent stimulators for years to come. Definitely get inspired, since there's a lot of work to be done now that we've glimpsed the light of the heart of the Galaxy!

So Uranus and Neptune have put everyone at a threshold state, and we are reaping karmic returns from how we've responded to their "unknown zone" transits these past few months. Pluto is retrograding between signs at the Galactic Center, so seeds of radical transformation have been and are in motion whether we perceive them or not.

It's a revolution in what we can make manifest, a collective threshold, and the last look back at over a decade of Pluto in Sag energies. As with the past few months, this is the edge of the future, and we're living it!

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

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

Spiritual Astrology in July-August 2008 Pt. 4 - Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto RX Showing Us Other Views of Unknown Zones Within Larger Cycles

Copyright © 2008 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[chickie]

Your Highness,

In an earlier article about the eclipse, you mentioned those with planets in Scorpio 23-29 could experience a loss. If I am a Leo, Aries rising and my 23 Scorpio moon is on the 7/8 cusp, is that a possible loss of my own mother?

Thank you for your input.

c

[cathy]

God,(not you)you sound like you have a bullhorn today!! alright, already.Yes,Yes.Inquiring mind is looking at contracts for west coast/southwest. Finally got it, Robert thanks for the kick in the buttski.I hope you know, You are fab.

[wild horse running]

Chickie....which article about the eclipse spoke of 23-29 Scorpio expierencing loss? My sun sits at 22 Scorp..in the 2nd...(loss of money-values)...
I looked for it but was unable to find.

Robert...thanks so much for the Alice Bailey suggestion...I recieved it....:-)!!!!!!!!!!

[Henry]

Hi Robert!.

Is this changing-sign Pluto(instead of aspects to other planets & signs)specially remarkable or important for us, Scorpio Ascendants -due to rulership-?. Thanks a lot.

[Chickie]

Sorry WHR,

I made a mistake. If you send me an email I can send you the link. Not sure if we are to be allowed to post other websites on this site blog.

c

[Chickie]

To WHR,

Incidentally this has to do with the lunar eclipse only. Like I said....not sure if I can expose another site that I clashed into.....however the "loss"or "turn into a lesson of forgivness" had to do with 8/16/08 Lunar eclipse and Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius 22-26.

[Wild Horse Running]

Chickie...

I sent you an email...thanks for the added info...of "Loss to forgiveness"....Robert said I could be on the "threshold of a bigger transformation than I realized"....

[Chickie]

Whr

I have not received your email. I'm having some website problems so send it to the email address on my website without USING my website......c

[Robert]

Hi Chickie - Well, what you read is accurate within limits. Losses can take many forms, including the loss of an old living situation that opens the door to new 7th house attractions. As for posting what other sites say, I always allow legit connections to be passed through. My beef is with airhead sites that throw a bunch of spaghetti against the wall hoping some of it will stick, or professional sites that regurgitate thrice chewed pablum.

Hi cathy - Well, some themes are urgent! Things are in particular dynamic motion these days, and every loss leads to a gain accompanied by major relief. Thanx for the acknowledgment.

Hi WHR - I hope you've connected by now. I suspect it could be the beginning of a long friendship of mutual support and respect. I'll be posting on the Lunar Eclipse soon. Until then, stop worrying, since as I've noted, every loss clears out space to attract what is perfect for our evolved consciousness. And of course, what you will find in "Initiation Human and Solar" could lead you places in inner space unimaginable before now. Welcome to where many live and breathe and have our being. It isn't for everyone all the time, but it is perfect for everyone at the right time.

Hi Henry - Yes, Pluto is important on the spiritual level for Aries and Scorpio anything in a chart, since it is the spiritual ruler of those signs. When it changes sign, it indicates a shift in the spiritual lessons we're learning to realize and apply through Plutonic situations and energies.

[Wild Horse Running]

Hi Robert..

Yes!!! I am connected...Thank you...

[Chickie]

Your Highness.

Well how synchronistic is that?...."loss of an old living situation that opens the door to new 7th house attractions".......Whr's sun on my moon...maybe we're s'pose to be married:)?

[H]

Hi Robert & All...

"It's a revolution in what we can make manifest, a collective threshold, and the last look back at over a decade of Pluto in Sag energies. As with the past few months, this is the edge of the future, and we're living it!"
-- Brilliant & Yee Ha, cheers for yet another magical/timely article.... :)

Death, Transformation & Re-birth, i've finally 'got it' with Pluto, what a journey & boy the silver linings are shining know & going to be getting stronger.

Love H

[Robert]

Hi all - There is a quickening that is leading us all to a wild ride. The trick is to enjoy it while mastering what we can and being led to our potential friends and allies. And when Pluto starts moving forward again it's going to get even stranger. "And we all shine on...."