by Robert Wilkinson
Today we complete this series of lessons about outer planet cycles by discussing an entirely different angle of approach to understanding what these “mean” in our lives, and how they work their evolutionary magic on us all.
The transit of one of the Transpersonal planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, TransPluto) through a sign has a particular “meaning,” since each of these Spiritual planets expresses itself a different way during their transit through different signs. A Uranus in Libra expresses a different type of “breakaway and breakthrough” energy than Uranus in Scorpio. Neptune in Capricorn makes different things popular in the collective consciousness than Neptune in Aquarius.
As I noted in a previous part of this series, Jupiter and Saturn are our primary “contact interfaces” with the Transpersonal planets, and help us expand, structure, restructure, and get closure on all the “departments of labor” of the outer planets. As these two move through the signs, things represented by those signs evolve and/or die, making space for new ideas, structures, and truths to come forth.
Besides working their specific magic as they move through signs, making various conjunctions, squares, and oppositions with each other, they also leave hot spots due to the various conjunctions and stations they make throughout the years. These yield results long after they actual transits of a planet through a sign.
Today we shall focus on two examples of how these energies work together to coax forth their evolutionary pulses, using the transits of Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter in signs that are active now and in 2018. As I explained, Pluto and Uranus (and Neptune and TransPluto) represent various “root tones” in the symphony of planetary motion, and have interrelated themes; Uranus awakens, Neptune unifies, Pluto purifies, and TransPluto redeems.
Libra
We’ll begin with the outer planet transits through Libra. Neptune was there between 1942 and 1956. This set Libra energy into the collective field (regardless of the specific forms that took). The next major transit through Libra was Uranus, which awakened and individualized various Libra manifestations between September 1968 and September 1975. Still, because these are “invisible planets,” the effects were still not “visible” in our world.
The next major transit through Libra was Pluto, between October 1971 and August 1984. This period sprouted the seeds of the earlier Neptune energies, awakened by Uranus. You will recall from part 3 that Saturn occupied Libra from September 1980 through August 1983, and again Oct 2009 through April 2010, and again July 2010 through October 2012. These periods Saturn structured and/or restructured how we respond to Libra energy, each time requiring a newer, more mature or responsible approach to how we are being Libra in our lives.
Jupiter transited Libra several times since it made its conjunctions with Saturn in 1981 at 5, 9, and 10 Libra. That began an important Jupiter-Saturn 20 year cycle, since they were opening the visible world to the invisible Libra energies set into motion by Saturn and Neptune in the 50s and awakened and sprouted by Uranus and Pluto between the late 60s and mid-80s.
So the Saturn-Neptune pulse was individualized by Uranus in the late 60s and early 70s, and then restructured and expanded at the Jupiter conjunctions to Saturn in 1981. That’s why the world took radical new directions in the 1980s it never would have considered before then. Fast forward to October 1992 through November 1993, when Jupiter again transited Libra, renewing the expansion, truth, and future possibilities of the structured dream of Neptune (Saturn conjunct Neptune in Libra), awakened by Uranus, and then given form by Jupiter and Saturn in 1980-81.
Parts of this collective dream were closed out during the next transit of Jupiter in Libra between October 2004 and October 2005 so that a new truth and future could be weaved from the remains of the Libra past dreamed since the early 40s. This has happened again between September 2016 and October 2017 with Jupiter’s latest transit through Libra.
We now have navigated the most recent expansion of Libra energy, and have seen the opening of a new 12 year adventure in Libra energy related to the dream of the 40s and 50s, the awakening of the late 60s through mid-70s, the restructuring of the early 80s, and the renewals of 2004 and 2005. This of course impacts the houses where we have Libra in our charts, and we have a new vision, a new motive, a new truth, and a newer, wider future in that area, within the limitations and structures of whatever Saturn taught us between 2009 and 2012.
Scorpio
We now progress the narrative to Scorpio. Neptune was there between Dec 1955 and Nov 1970. This set Scorpio energy into the collective field (regardless of the specific forms that took). The next major transit through Scorpio was Uranus, which awakened and individualized various Scorpio manifestations between November 1974 and November 1981. Again, because these are “invisible planets,” the effects were still not “visible” in our world.
The next major transit through Scorpio was Pluto, between November 1983 and November of 1995. This period sprouted the seeds of the earlier Neptune energies, awakened by Uranus. Saturn occupied Scorpio from November 1982 through May 1983, and again August 1983 through November 1985. These periods Saturn structured and/or restructured how we respond to Scorpio energy, each time requiring a newer, more mature or responsible approach to how we are being Scorpio in our lives.
So you can see that Pluto and Saturn were doing a Scorpio dance during that cycle, which completed that form of Scorpio discipline and lessons with Saturn’s next pass through Scorpio from Oct 2012 through December 2014 and June through September 2015. We got one Scorpio structure in the early 80s, and got a new one 2-3 years ago, all related to the Neptunian dream of the late 50s through 1970 and the Plutonian sprouting from late 83 through late 95.
Jupiter transited Scorpio several times since Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto transited Scorpio. Its transit between Nov 1981 and December 1982 primarily expanded the Neptune pulse individualized by Uranus between the mid-70s and early 80s, with the structuring of that Jupiter energy not happening until Saturn came through between late 1982 and late 1985.
Jupiter again visited Scorpio between Nov 1993 and December 1994. This period renewed the original Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto in Scorpio energy that most recently was restructured by Saturn in the early 80s. Of special note was the Jupiter conjunct Pluto at 29 Scorpio in December 1994, since that was the only Jupiter conjunct Pluto in that sign in an approximate 500 year period!
Each time Jupiter goes through Scorpio, it closes part of the old collective dream in Scorpio left over from 60 years ago, and opens a new facet of the truth of that dream. Each time it closes part of what was awakened by Uranus, and opens a new path to uniqueness. Each time it ends certain seed forms related to Pluto in Scorpio, and awakens new truths about “the Lord of the Underworld” in one of his two domains (the other being Aries.)
Jupiter last visited Scorpio between October 2005 and November 2006, again expanding some things while closing off other Scorpionic influences and manifestations. That period also renewed a new set of possibilities based in the Saturn in Scorpio structures left over from the early 80s and the Plutonic seed forms of the 80s and 90s.
Which brings us to the threshold of yet another transit of Jupiter through Scorpio beginning just a few weeks from now! Only this time, besides renewing the Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto influences active since the late 50s, the coming year will also renew and expand the last Saturn in Scorpio lessons and structures we learned between 2012 and 2014. If you’ve been dealing with a sense of limitation or being bound in your Scorpio houses, the coming year will open things up, and allow movement toward a broader, wider way of using Scorpio energies within the boundaries and limitations defined between 2012 and 2014.
While there is certainly more that could be explored related to this subject of interplanetary cycles and phase relationships between the visible and invisible realms of life, what I’ve offered you this week should be enough to get your imagination working on how the various outer planet transits, cycles, and aspects are working on us all, whether we know it or not! Of course, all of what we’ve discussed is also triggered at various times by Mars, but that’s another article for another time.
Copyright © 2017 Robert Wilkinson
A great explanation that is clear enough to understand by everyone. Thanks Robert.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | October 03, 2017 at 01:50 AM