The 21st Century - The Era of TransPluto and Divine Mother Energy

by Robert Wilkinson

Everyone is wondering what the future holds for humanity. While much of what we’re dealing with right now seems pretty grim, much better things are on the way as the century progresses.

I last gave this to you over 3 years ago. Someone recently asked me about why I believe that TransPluto is the planet symbolizing “Divine Mother” energy, and how I came to that conclusion. This article and the next one take a broad brush to the subject, and should offer us hope for the future. I’ve rewritten it in a few places to make it more readable, and expand on some concepts.

40 years ago, the venerable astrologer and philosopher Dane Rudhyar wrote some things related to what he called “the century cycle.” He divided each century into 4 seasons of 25 years each, and made some very persuasive arguments about why he assigned which season to which quarter century.

He also felt that the past few centuries each had a specific planetary association. If what he presumed is true, the human race is on the bleeding edge of its higher potential. Once we deal with the inertial residue of past patterns no longer appropriate given who we are and the larger evolutionary track, we find that the future of humanity and the planet is actually very bright.

So let’s take a look at the planetary associations correlated with the various centuries. We’ll begin with Uranus, and its correspondence with the 18th century. That was a time when the world awakened, and there was a global revolution in consciousness favoring individuality over the order that had existed for millennia before then.

Uranus is the planet associated with revolution, individuation, democracy, freedom, and awakening, and was discovered in that century. It began the modern era with its technology, individualism, electricity, and industrialization. It awakened an era of human spiritual development where individuals began to think for themselves, and were no longer subject to rulers "by divine right" and fiefs of the state or slaves to ancient family codes.

Neptune was correlated with the 19th century, and it too was discovered in that century. Rudhyar wrote of Neptune's influence as being associated with the expanding spiritualist movement and the human desire for contact with "the beyond." He illustrated some very interesting parallels between the Bah'ai and communist movements, both of which were world-wide efforts at utopian social forms.

The 19th century was one of mass movements, all seeking an ideal collective state that in some way “dissolved” the social forms that had existed before the Uranian awakening. Along that line, the 19th century also brought about the global Theosophical movement, which began to exert a world-wide influence through bringing together all the world's sciences, philosophies, and religions under one banner of global culture and wisdom.

He associated Pluto with the recently departed 20th century. Discovered in 1931, this planet of devastation, violence, annihilation and atomic transformation is easily seen to be the ruler of that century, with its absolute destructive quality as well as the unlocking of the secrets of the atom and our natural world. From laser beams that can destroy or heal to microchips that can do the same, Pluto demonstrated the atom as a solar system and the solar system as an atom.

If we take Rudhyar's theory as a model, it implies that our 21st century would have the same qualities as whatever planet is beyond Pluto. Addressing this point, Theodore Landscheidt and colleagues who were astrologer-astronomers said they discovered a trans-Plutonian planet in the 1960's, and published an ephemeris (table of planetary positions) on it.

Though several different names have been proposed for this planet, I have chosen for decades to call it Trans-Pluto, Percephone (more accurately Demeter), or Parvati, all manifestations of “Divine Mother” energy. I originally attributed it to Percephone (Greek) or Proserpine (Latin), as per Rudhyar's proposed association, but later changed it to Demeter, the mother of Percephone. (As an aside, Proserpine is the daughter of Ceres and cannot be an equal to Pluto (Hades in Greek), as she is forced to ascend and descend because of the deal between gods more powerful than she.) If Pluto/Hades symbolizes that absolute Divine force called the "lord of the underworld," Demeter/Ceres is his equal, and at time maybe even more powerful than the force Pluto represents.

The story of Pluto/Hades, Demeter, and Percephone has many elements that seem to be derived from the ancient Indo-aryan myth of Shiva, Parvati, and Ganesha. Studying both stories is highly revealing of the nature of Pluto's mate, or Shiva's consort. Parvati is the feminine energy of Shiva, and apparently somewhat more powerful in her own way, as is illustrated in the story of Ganesh.

For many decades I’ve offered that Percephone (which I subsequently corrected to her mother Demeter), Parvati, or Trans-Pluto represents what I call "Divine Mother." This is a Divine energy, a part of the Absolute, beyond what on Earth is called "the goddess." This aspect of Divine Force is completely beyond what we usually associate with “goddess” energy, and is vast, immutable, and more of a galactic energy than related to qualities of Earth, though it is related to Earth through its all-encompassing redemptive quality.

I see this “Divine Mother” energy as an absolute power of Divine redemption and the return of life after death (as per the story of Shiva, Parvati, and Ganesha.) In nature we see this Divine Power as Spring following the barren "death" of Winter, where life sprouts anew after a time when it has gone dormant.

Regardless of how long the barrenness persists, eventually if there is a germ of life, it begins to renew itself and shows itself in the new "season." It is why new leaves that sprout after a fire are a brighter green, due to the fertilizing power of decayed, broken down waste products transformed so they can feed the field of potential reawakening in the appointed time.

I believe the 21st century will see the dominance of this type of Divine energy of redemption and renewal, and a return to a greater life after the time we spent in the underworld of Pluto in the 20th century. Though this Divine Energy field grows stronger with each passing year, we have not yet come to the time of the reawakening of the life force as a global phenomenon, even though it draws closer day by day. That’s the transition we’re all experiencing during this time period.

As Rudhyar's work was published in 1975, he could only speculate what was to transpire in the last quarter of the century and our current one. In the work where he offered us these ideas, he wrote that the last quarter of any century represented the Autumnal period, where the seeds of the harvest of the century would drop to the ground, and lay dormant through the first quarter of this century, to sprout anew about 2025.

The seeds that will be sprouted in the future will involve the reawakened best potential of the human race, the best seeds of the 20th century and its wisdom forms, reconnected with the source of Life and Light. As it is, we can contact that greater “Divine Mother energy field” through what we now call "spiritual practices," as these are the ways we contact that vaster field of Divine energy. Whether we're practicing prayer, mediation, forgiveness, compassion, loving service, or any other devotional form, we are awakening to, and maintaining our conscious connection to, this infinitely large field of Love, Wisdom, and Redemption.

This implies that we're in a very long wave pattern where 2012 was the midpoint of the "Winter season," and so in the period from 2015-2020 we should be able to sense the approaching transition from "Winter" to "Spring." Though the first 12 years of this century seem to have been a leftover of the incredibly destructive mindset of the 20th century, the tensions we experienced moving through 2012 represented a turning point.

I noted that in late 2012, we all stepped through an evolutionary door, marking the end of an old perceptual separateness in those who opened to leaving that illusion behind. It marked a turning point in the polarization between future oriented beings dedicated to living a more sustainable and loving relationship to our world and each other, and those who cling to the rapidly dying era.

As we have moved out of the mid-point of the Winter of the 21st century and have slowly begun to turn collectively toward the coming Spring that begins in 2025, we have begun to experience a new era and a different approach to the problems of modern existence. In one example, we’re seeing how the poisons of the 20th century are forcing us to confront how we are to sustain life in the 21st. We are seeing social structures that worked for centuries falling apart because basic human needs are not being met. We are confronting how to redeem the promise of global culture in a time when many things of the past are vanishing.

In taking a long view of the forces at work, we will again see better things growing that will show us all that the mindless wanton destruction of 20th century minds and egos is passing and losing its power to dominate. Humanity will come up out of the underworld of 20th century Plutonic destructiveness and death, and will redeem the best of what the 20th century wrought, but only after we go through this fallow and dark period of the Winter of the 21st century.

This can offer us hope for the future despite the present chaos, irrationality, and global OCD authoritarians are exhibiting. Stay on your spiritual practice, and with time you can sense the vaster compassion that allows all of us to redeem the promise of our higher Divine nature, which is who we really are. My Namaskarams to you all.

Copyright © 2005, 2015 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Nic]

"We are seeing social structures that worked for centuries falling apart because basic human needs are not being met."..... " Stay on your spiritual practice, and with time you can sense the vaster compassion that allows all of us to redeem the promise of our higher Divine nature, which is who we really are. "
While the post is based on a theoretical explanation, that of Rudhyar's work, many aspects are evident and obvious. It does provide a good explanation of the current situation, but more than that, it also provides hopes and ways to grow from the present into the new.
Thanks and blessings be to all.

[jon reddish]

interesting.... it seems logical, and what also appears logical is the 'speed bump' into a space from where this spring might arise...

hold on.

[william]

what i hear is there will be apocalypse ( as 'intervention') sure as sunrise..
(anthroposophists, also every single major religous tradition has apocalypse I think, among other things of course) theres hope, but oh man , planet sure is taking it on chin (looking at satellite pics is sobering..) I think it will come in the form of great war (Bush was a 'practice run' ) Im actually content not to live long enough to see it, it would be terrible (esp if your caught in it...) People wont wake up to the reality of living earth so easy... always takes a crises to change ...Awesome to consider, a logic to that... a creation that does not recognize a creator... Ironic how all religions just caused war... and then science taken as liberation (but science is atheistic! haha) Its not easy i guess... all the knowledge required thru the ages... its all true... human consciousness is the mind of the Earth tho', its gotta happen thru us .. and our spiritual capacities... evolving... (a heart on pluto! ha!)

[Robert]

Hi all - Of course there is more that I left out than could be written in a thousand books. This is something I'm writing a book about which should be published by 2017 unless I have a miracle of having more time to write next year!

Right now we're in a "bridging period," where bridge technologies and philosophical approaches and forms of governance are coming forth. It's like we're in an amalgam of what has been, what is barely here, and seeking to find stability in an unstable process of evolving from a fading past to an emergent future. This of course operates on a personal level, and interpersonal level, and a transpersonal level, for each of us.

It's also important to remember that Earth changes have accompanied every shift in a Great Age, as well as the larger shifts between sub-races and Root Races. Right now we're on the very cusp of the shift between Ages that's been in play for over 350 years, and will continue another 350 years.

Old ways must become dis-structured and lose their hold over reality so that new views, new understanding, and new responses to the challenge of being part of life on Earth can come forth. Usually there's friction between those who cling to the old and those who long for the new, especially when the old is making money and is comfortable with what has been. Still, eventually old ways pass, and we find we are living new ways, new ideas, new technologies, and new understanding of the interrelationship between all that is.

War is unnecessary. Though there will be more violence as the old era dies, the new Era will see an end to old conflicts, as all hands pull together for the benefit of the whole. Earth changes will bring forth a new cooperation, and new ways of using imagination to solve the problems that will come with those widespread planetary changes affecting temperature, moisture, and the ability of humans to sustain life, agriculture, manufacturing, and more.

Again, the new Age will see an end to "the heresy of separateness," as the Tibetan Master DK puts it. That means we're all learning to see that we're all sentient sparks in One Life, One Light, and One Love. Eventually we'll have to live the wisdom of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, who famously stated "We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." That's why "Right Relationships" is one of the hallmarks of the new Age and its servants.

[sue]

Storms will rage and oceans roar
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore
As s/he blows her wondrous horn
Old worlds die and new be born...Mother Shipton

Sounds like a wake up not a war!

[Robert]

Hi Sue- That reminds me of part of a song I wrote 30 years ago:

New worlds are a-borning, as the old one dies
Amidst the pain and suffering and the heart felt cries
Will you stop and feel the pain, oh both far and near
Found along with sorrow, on the trail of tears
Found along with sorrow, on the trail of tears.

Their pain is also your pain and if you only knew
The one life that we all share, you'd know just what to do
Give your mind and heart and soul and listen, you will hear
Your sorrow slowing ending on your trail of tears
Your sorrow slowing ending on your trail of tears.

[jon reddish]

change does not always mean war and famine. it could come from a new technology, or a natural event that restructures countries and societies.

im still going to 'hold on'. :)

[Robert]

Hi jon - Well, war and famine are already happening, so I'm holding forth for a world beyond these. War is unnecessarily destructive and an obsolete way of relating to each other. Famine is also unnecessary, given how much food there is in our world. It's just war and famine are the result of an obsession with everything having to "make a profit."

As I noted, there are new technologies that are emerging as we speak, and these bridging technologies will ultimately yield a world with infinite free power and a different way of regarding necessities of life such as food, shelter, clothing, peace, and an education. Right now humanity are like 17 year olds who just got told they have to pay for their own gas and insurance, and they're pitching a fit because things never used to be this way.

And of course Earth changes are happening regardless of whatever we think. We can mitigate the worst effects, or exacerbate them, or pretend that we can't do anything if we can't do everything perfectly. That was the brilliance of Jon Stewart's last "Camera 3" monologue about how to know if something is BS. Just be prepared to rock and roll, and outlast and outlive the chaos of the dying global paradigm while helping participate in the birthing of the new.