Astrology in August 2013 - Afterthoughts On the Great Sextile Merkaba Event

by Robert Wilkinson

It seems that many are feeling a bit “let down” by the lack of spectacular or obvious transformational events when the Great Sextile happened. Some are hoping they’ll figure something out in this period after the event. I have some insights.

First, the 6 pointed Star, or Great Sextile, was made up of two Grand Trines, one in Earth, the other in Water. This makes for a lot of sextiles and trines, offering understanding and some degree of productivity, depending on what we were “doing” with the planetary energies. Some things have been stabilized and/or understood in their operation, whether for good or ill.

There were also oppositions creating a line of tension, or “the tension of opposites” as the Master DK puts it in the AAB material. Oppositions generate awareness through the polarity and contrast experienced via the planets in opposition. These oppositions involved the Earth and Water signs, thus focusing the awareness in material and emotional terms.

There was a lot of talk about the Star being a “gateway” to higher awareness, a global experience of some form of higher consciousness, or an “ah ha/eureka!” event. While in fact it did hold a promise of some form of one of these things for those who had prepared for such an intention, remember that higher awareness is in the eye of the beholder. And often we are not trained to see the long term trajectory of seemingly insignificant events in the NOW.

As I explained to someone trying to understand this event, the Star didn't necessarily mean that obvious transformational experiences would be happening globally, or that they would even be noticed or understood as such. I believe that was a misconception spread by spiritual cheerleaders who don't understand how long wave transformation works as a process.

I was asked what I meant by “long wave transformation.” I answered that it is the only real transformation! We all go through lesser transformations, but these are usually superficial reactions to events. Long wave transformation is a process that occurs over time that is consciously managed, at least from time to time.

Some practices in self-realization can only yield results months down the road, and though it may seem like we're wasting time and nothing's happening, in fact things are going on that shift the subconsciousness and its imagery. And referencing “the order of priority,” some things must be done before other things can be done.

The ground must be prepared before we plant. We must plant and tend the garden as it grows. The fruits and vegetables are not evident until after the plant flowers and some length of time passes as the blossom becomes the fruit or vegetable.

It’s the same when it comes to the garden of personality. In any genuine transformation of the personality, we must prepare the ground by eliminating the weeds, breaking up the clay, taking out some rocks that have surfaced since the last time we did this, and put in that which will nourish the evolving personality as it begins to grow into its future.

That’s why I have been most impressed with the quickened flow of the Grand Water Trines going on since early June. These have helped many to a greater emotional intelligence, a clearer understanding of what they feel and why, and has helped to reorient many toward more relevant relationships and actions. This is necessary if we are to experience our self-chosen process of transformation, rather than believe it’s something happening not of our own making.

Too often we act as spectators in the audience, rather than directors of that which acts on the stage of life. Many wait for the “deus ex machina” of external intervention rather than take command of the Great Vehicle. If our bodies, feelings, and minds are not in synch with each other, then who is actually living our life?

We are the God we seek. We are the ones who determine our destiny by our choices to learn or not learn, to feel or not feel, to act or not act, and what we choose to understand about these decisions. Over time we shape our lives consciously at critical points, or choose to turn it over to chance and circumstance. This is where apparently minor decisions and realizations could generate major effects down the road.

As I noted in a previous article, this 6 pointed star energy will come back into focus from time to time on its own, like when the Sun and Mercury transit early Virgo in a few weeks. It will also be activated when anything transits the span of degrees in Earth and Water signs re-triggering the original alignment of 2 days ago.

Perhaps the Merkaba was not so much a gateway to a short term experience, but a check in point where we got a tune up so that our Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces energies could understand and harmonize as a baseline pulse to guide us into the future. And the awarenesses generated by Venus opposed Neptune will be seen in a different light when the Sun and Mercury oppose Venus, just as the Mars-Jupiter opposition Pluto will be seen in a different light when each of these moves forward to make other aspects to Pluto.

Transformation is an on-going process of consciously living life in the NOW. As I noted, often the most seemingly insignificant realizations have long term implications when they are lived out in actions, feelings, and thoughts down the road. Much more about the long range transformational potentials generated by the Grand Water Trine anchored into form by the Grand Earth Trine will become clearer as the various transits of early Virgo, early Scorpio, and early Capricorn take place during the second half of 2013.

We all have been shown emotional understanding and intelligence, both through positive and negative experiences. We are still anchoring this emotional substance through Pluto in Capricorn’s seed form building. The coming Earth transits will continue to ground the process.

This quote seemed relevant for now and the near future:

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. - Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529)

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Jo Garceau]

Robert, thanks for this article! I've been having major cellular healing work since May. The past week to ten days I've been more sick than in years with a summer cold. I decided we may have two grand trines and a grand square...but we should be aware of the six oppositions! It's a big release to have your comment that we are grounding a lot of stuff in a new way. It fits with my thoughts on why I've been so incapacitated.

[Sagars]

"This quote seemed relevant for now and the near future:

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. - Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529)"

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24. Fu / Return (The Turning Point)
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Six in the fifth place means: Noblehearted return. No remorse.
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When the time for return has come, a man should not take shelter in trivial excuses, but should look within and examine himself. And if he has done something wrong he should make a noblehearted resolve to confess his fault. No one will regret having taken this road.
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http://deoxy.org/iching/24
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[Robert]

Hi Jo - May began new Mercury-Jupiter and Venus-Jupiter cycles in Gemini. Then the Grand Water Trines began first thing in June. The flow followed by the plunges of the Cardinal T-square threw the void into Libra. As I've noted, this requires finding the right balance and "proportion" in all things. So perhaps you're "recalibrating" on the cellular level. And yes, the multiple oppositions from Cancer to Capricorn still continue, with Mars the most recent and Jupiter on the way. Avoid extremes and find ways to take care of yourself. I suspect Jupiter in Cancer will favor the "food as medicine" approach to healing and forms of water therapy, including juice therapies.

Hi Sagars - In the I Chine, Hex. 49, top line, seems relevant in describing the process of this Great Sextile:

"The superior man changes like a panther. The inferior man molts in the face.
Starting brings misfortune. To remain persevering brings good fortune.

After the large and fundamental problems are settled, certain minor reforms, and elaborations of these, are necessary. These detailed reforms may be likened to the equally distinct but relatively small marks of the panther's coat. As a consequence, a change also takes place among the inferior people. In conformity with the new order, they likewise 'molt.' This molting, it is true, does not go very deep, but that is not to be expected. We must be satisfied with the attainable. If we should go too far and try to achieve too much, it would lead to unrest and misfortune. For the object of a great revolution is the attainment of clarified, secure conditions ensuring a general stabilization on the basis of what is possible at the moment." (Wilhelm/Baynes ed.)

[Diane]

Hi Robert,
Once again, thanks so much for your insight!
"We are the God we seek...Over time we shape our lives consciously at critical points, or choose to turn it over to chance and circumstance. This is where apparently minor decisions and realizations could generate major effects down the road." Wise words indeed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Blessings to you!

[caliban]

The only frustration I have at present is that I am not releasing as readily or so it seems. There's something I'm working on but it will probably take the mercury rx in scorpio to really get down to what it is. Waaaaahhh!!

[BK]

Thank You Robert for "framing" this time of personal evolution. It's been an unsettling process for many of us, but as you say, the fruits of these changes will soon come to bare. I think that once Mercury passes its final shadow point, Aug 4th and the new moon takes hold Aug 6th, we'll see an anchoring of these new feelings (Cancer) and awareness that have been morphed into our "being" through this period. It's a maturing of consciousness and Mercury has significant role in our understanding of the greater dynamic that this "recalibrating" has and will have in our lives to come. The "Great Sextile" promises a more balanced and spiritually integrated life as we move and and as you say "groove" toward our destiny. Bon Voyage to us All!!!

[Andromeda]

Robert, that quote at the end was just what I needed! Thank you for that.

[Sita]

You articulate the evolution of human consciousness so very finely Robert. Thank you again for your honest guidance.

[Debbie]

To me, the peace and light, goodness I felt during the Merkabah was simply to re-"mind" me of what I am aiming to feel and the clarity of my thoughts by being my natural self, living it and creating my own good world in order to contribute that good "piece" of the puzzel or that good "peace" to the overall whole energy.

My quest this lifetime is definately to learn the philosophy of the true purpose of "the mother" (Cancer sun and mercury in 9th house) part of the triple feminine, to live it and share the philosophy of it. I have lived the philosophy and experienced the cruelty and unfairy of the judgements of a female putting that first no matter what the "reason" and it has brought me to a place where I am experiencing poverty, no place of my own to house my home, rejection and others who would have me believe I "should be ashamed" and I have worked through my own responsibilities on this with the help of the energies of "the divine mother" or transpluto these past years on my sun and my nth node. I lived my truth yet experienced what looks to others, failure in my current situation, yet i Know in my heart i am successful and the outcome as it appears up till now I could get caught up in, yet I take responsibility for that outcome regardless of who did what, because I ended up in this situation because "I was trained in younger days to believe that is what would happen if I didnt hide my "unacceptable gifts and way I saw things" and tried to live them, this of course "stuck" as the final root cause, a self fulfilling prophecy and now I am working on changing that belief. I need to bring into the light the "true lillith" the channel of the power of the sacred feminine who is good and powerful unless infected by fear, then she becomes very dangerous, which is why she retreated to the shadows to me, yet I also have true lillith in leo 10th house, 5 degrees before my transpluto, 5 degrees after my MC and in opposition to my 4th house POF in aquarius. My moon in 12th house libra is quincunx my 7th house Venus, I needed to uncover the negative emotional psychology of "the mother" that grew through many generations in order for my true values to come to light and create good relationship with myself (fem and masc) in order to manifest it in reality either in this lifetime or those ahead. This is simply my understanding' yet it really does make sense to me, it always has, yet now it sits in a peaceful state of realisation, I no longer fear my own mind, my own nature, my pluto at 5' virgo opposing chiron in pisces quincunx my jupiter/IC conjunction is almost at ease now too. with the philosophy I understood and spouted age 8, that I brought with me now that I have lived it and understand it. This is my belief and I do care, yet no longer worry about how others choose see me, almost time to trust my own uninfected channel to let the power flow through and make it so?

I respect my understandings are as different to others as is my individual life path, but hope that how I am piecing my own different process together, may help others see their own way.

Thank you Robert, your sharing your way on this site, has helped support my own courage to be safe in mine. Namaste.

[Debbie]

Hi Caliban, I dont know if what I discovered will help, so I will risk sharing it in case it does. I found asking myself and meditated on it as to whether the "unsettling" feelings are real or simply "ghosts" (imprints on the energy) that are tempting us to redirect energy to the past and re-establish their power? I found they were simply ghosts, so like any good mother (I am cancer/merc sun) I loved that ghost of my old self away in a kind and nurturing way, no conditions for that love, just is and then re directed my thoughts to how I would enjoy life being and feeling and it seems to be working :)

[Sherry]

I feel similarly to Andromeda.

The quote at the end of your article here, is just what I needed. I'm glad to know that as we were told in grade school, "trying counts"