by Robert Wilkinson
I’ve had more than a few emails lately from people who are relieved that the numerous transiting squares we’ve had for quite a while haven’t been as tough as expected. I have a few ideas about this.
As I told one person, transiting squares that make productive aspects to natal planets indicates that though circumstances may be intense and unstable, we can still find the best way to do our Being despite the outer tension. That was specifically directed at why he felt “surviving” the transiting Uranus square Pluto had given him “a kind of driver’s license” to move forward with confidence.
Remember that transit to transit aspects cannot be taken personally, even when they accompany personal changes. These are the gestalt of the times, and show the interrelationships between the planets.
Where they fall in our charts shows the life area of focus, and the aspects they make show when energy builds and when it releases. That’s why the tension of the Uranus square Pluto can be used productively if we understand what is being revolutionized and/or purified, and how to respond appropriately according to our individuality.
My life has certainly been purified and revolutionized these past several years! While some of it has been extremely disruptive to past patterns (T Pluto square N Sun, T Uranus conjunct N Sun), other parts have stabilized, despite unfortunate circumstances leading to peculiarly serendipitous outcomes (T Pluto trine N Venus, biseptile and tredecile N Saturn AND T Uranus sextile N Moon, trine and tredecile N Asc.)
We all began to deal with another transit to transit square earlier this year, with Saturn in early Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces. Consider that a dress rehearsal for what will be in play beginning late September and lasting for many months. While it wasn’t exact earlier this year, it still gave all of us a taste of what a square between early Sag and early Pisces would feel like, if only subtly.
Because it was a transit to transit square, it shows that the ongoing structuring and binding principle (transiting Saturn) has and will hit a “turning point” or “braking point” relative to the collective consciousness (transiting Neptune). This would indicate that the outer circumstances will bring a need for structured freedom of mind (Saturn in Sag) to a culmination point relative to the dreamstate of the collective consciousness (Neptune in Pisces.)
Saturn’s position shows that those with planets in early Aries and Leo, as well as early Cancer and Scorpio, will stabilize those parts of the inner life. Those with planets in early to mid Libra and early to mid-Aquarius will find productive and/or specialized conditions where many good things can be done. These may be not in alignment with the old “drift” to things, but can serve to help us break free of ambivalence and/or procrastination about an ideal we have.
On the other hand, Neptune in Pisces has been and will continue to bring stability, harmony, and/or a sense of understanding about where they fit into the bigger whole to those with planets in early Cancer and Scorpio. Neptune is helping the intuition of those planets or angles in late Sagittarius and early Capricorn, as well as early to mid-Taurus.
If you have planets in these zones, listen to the inner voice, pay attention to your dreams, follow the feeling-flow to a sense of how things really are. And since squares help us turn corners and/or put the brakes on old patterns, while some of these subtle signals from Neptune may not be as clear as you’d like, you can use them to shift the focus of wherever Saturn in early Sag will be transiting this Autumn.
In a more immediate example, in early July we will have the Sun and then Mars opposed Pluto very near the mid-cardinal sign degree span of the Great Fracturing of the Spring of 2014. These oppositions may bring aftershocks of that long wave event that impacted all our lives throughout 2014!
While any opposition can bring tension, it can also bring high realization! Especially this one, since the Sun and Mars trine Neptune a few days before opposing Pluto, throwing a very productive void into early Virgo.
So though the transit to transit aspects show harmony to Neptune AND opposition to Pluto, we can still use the generic flow and intensification to make progress. In other words, the opposition shows us “sailing against the wind,” but the trine to Neptune can help us “tack into the wind” and catch the forward momentum in our sails despite the headwinds.
It’s the same with any other transit to transit opposition that affects a planet or angle in our charts. If we have something in sextile and trine to the opposition, we can make great progress despite outer circumstances. And if the opposition makes a T-square to a planet or angle in our chart, we can use the tension to integrate the power and release it through the void in the configuration.
So please don’t sweat the afflictions to your chart by transits. They can all be used in productive ways. It’s all a question of finding the right point of view and the willingness to learn how to bring love, wisdom, and understanding to the circumstance.
Copyright © 2015 Robert Wilkinson
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