Astrology and Relationships - How Do Our Spiritual Planets Affect Others?

by Robert Wilkinson

This is a part of the art of synastry, of seeing how our planets affect others and vise-versa. This subject fills entire books, so today's article won't be exhaustive, but it addresses something mostly overlooked in the texts.

I last gave this to you about 2 years ago. This was inspired by someone who had one of their outer invisible triad conjunct planets in another person’s chart. Any time someone's Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto conjuncts planets in another’s chart expect major transformational energies to predominate, along with some degree of misunderstanding.

Any time our outer invisibles contact the personal planets in the chart of another person, they and we are impacted in ways that are beyond ego controls. Some get unnerved, some get threatened, some move forward despite the uncertainty of dancing into the unknown transpersonal energies we’re releasing within them, and some enthusiastically embrace the Mystery.

Our Uranus shows our uniqueness, and awakens others’ uniqueness when our Uranus conjuncts one of their personality planets. Of course, it may be they who awaken us, depending on the planetary contact and how open they are to individuation.

Neptune shows our openness to collective consciousness on vast levels. It becomes a strong astral body sensitivity as we grow into that energy, and when our Neptune conjuncts a personal planet in another’s chart, we become that collective gateway, or they become that gateway for us.

All the planets impact all our bodies simultaneously. Once we discipline our lower nature to conform to our Higher Self, the ability to BE the living representative of Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto (or a combination of them, since they always work together to a single Divine purpose) in our world gets stronger. And with practice, it becomes more and more evident.

With Pluto rising, I am seen by others to be intense. Since that's my Dharma this life, a long time ago I figured out it was my responsibility to do the best I could with that type of "beyond ego controls" energy. So whether I want to be, or intend to be a Plutonic force, I am that in others’ lives.

I have distributed the seeds of the future, fulfilling one of Pluto’s functions. I have shown up when people are stuck in their private hell, as I am familiar with “the Lord of the Underworld” and am not frightened of going there to do the work I need to do. I have often helped those who need to get to the core of a thing to sprout it or kill it out, also Pluto functions.

However, we must keep in mind that because they’re invisible planets, they are not “seen” by those we are influencing, unless they have an awakened “spiritual sight.” I have observed that when one of our outer planets contacts an inner planet of another, we who trigger those transpersonal invisible responses in them are often seen as a Saturn influence. Those who are not conscious of the Spiritual reality are forever bound by their Saturn.

That's why we must take responsibility (Saturn!) for how we respond to what was triggered in the other. A mature and patient response always helps, as does knowing limits and boundaries when dancing with someone who hasn't learned perfectly healthy responses to their challenges of transpersonal individualization, relatedness, and their seed power of eternal renewal.

Whether we're dealing with Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto, the impact between charts can be fairly intense, and beyond "ego controls." I’ve also seen that those with the outer invisibles on the angles often serve as vehicles for awakening these transpersonal forces in the lives of others. Many responses we encounter when this is active cannot be taken personally.

These are transpersonal energies involving "walking between worlds" (the visible and invisible.) Whether another understands what's being awakened or not, we all occasionally serve as vehicles to other vaster understandings and doors of hither-to-unknown perception being opened. The more we are aware of higher realities, the more likely this is to occur.

We cannot expect that others will "get it." Good if they do, unfortunate if they don't, but once we operate as vehicles of awakening, connectedness, or purification/transformation, we must learn radical detachment, since whether another "gets it" or not cannot be taken personally. Of course, that also works the other way around, in that those who stimulate our outer invisible planets serve to awaken us to greater transpersonal realities.

The unfortunate fact of evolutionary differences is that as we become aware of certain things, then we must learn that many will in fact NOT "get it." It then becomes a question of how willing they are to "get it," or how resistant they are to getting it. That’s usually beyond our pay grade.

In any case (and in every case!) we must choose what is right for us. Those who choose to live a life embracing eternal principles cannot take it personally if another just "doesn't get it." All we can do is take responsibility for our own Dharmic necessity, and leave others to grow into the Eternal at their own pace. Sooner or later, eventually they will.

That's the benefit of being a conscious or unconscious awakener. We all impact each other more than we can imagine, often months or years after the initial stimulus of our outer planet contacting something in their chart. We are all One Life together, and the interrelationships are very complex. That's the amazing quality of being a Spirit in the material world.

© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Diana]

Truth! A person whose Pluto squared my Venus changed my life, and I had only met him five times for short periods. That was 2010 - the year everything changed.
Robert, I hope you're taking care of your health, because I want you to live forever.

[sue]

Thanks Robert... in these times of great relevance, the need for meditation and deep thinking will always be nurtured by learning astrology...

[Christine Macleod]

Deep thanks for this Robert

'With Pluto rising, I am seen by others to be intense. Since that's my Dharma this life, a long time ago I figured out it was my responsibility to do the best I could with that type of "beyond ego controls" energy. So whether I want to be, or intend to be a Plutonic force, I am that in others’ lives. I have distributed the seeds of the future, fulfilling one of Pluto’s functions. I have shown up when people are stuck in their private hell, as I am familiar with “the Lord of the Underworld” and am not frightened of going there to do the work I need to do. I have often helped those who need to get to the core of a thing to sprout it or kill it out, also Pluto functions.'

Being that force in others lives is something I ( Pluto rising, Scorpio sun in 4th house) spent many years reluctant and struggling with, sometimes exhausted. Thankfully over the past couple of years I have come to terms with it and now embrace the responsibility and veracity of being required to fulfill this function, and I'm relieved to be at peace with it.
I guess I have always been, as we say in Scotland, 'Nae Feart' and my lack of trepidation has been commented on. It has never been a battle cry but a living acceptance which I believe came from being brought up among those where acknowledgement of the 'other wordly' was everyday and normal. My peace has come through tuning in to that again and seeing it with new eyes.

Hence I am choosing to follow my nature in making life changing decisions and, as for many, your words gave me the understanding I needed to see right now. Bless you for that and all the vision and wisdom (and the rock n roll) I've been thankful to you for over the years. Chrissy