by Robert Wilkinson
On August 7, Uranus goes stationary retrograde at 3 Taurus. On September 6, Saturn will go stationary direct at 3 Capricorn. Both of these events would be huge if taken separately; the trine (with a brief stop for a serendipitous tredecile) they’ve been making since November 2016 has been and continues to be a harmonizing and stabilizing factor, helping us all integrate the new and innovative with the established structure of our life wherever the trine falls.
Uranus represents our eternal ability in the NOW to individualize our lives and consciousness. It is the Divine Revolutionizer within us that is directly connected with Spirit. It shows us how to live in a truly free way, not reacting to the world’s inertia, but instead moving into the eternal unknown adventure where we are forever free to explore, discover, and revolutionize our lives and consciousness.
Saturn, on the other hand, symbolizes the universal binding force in Nature, the “Ring Pass Not” of Dharma that permits all things if they serve Dharma and no thing if it does not serve Dharma. Saturn is our “skin of personality,” the boundaries of what we are able to master, found through the ten thousand things that temporarily enslave us through various types of mental, emotional, or material inertia.
Uranus is the Higher Law, Saturn is the worldly law. Uranus helps us break free, break out, and break through the binding force Saturn represents. Saturn helps us give structure through discipline to our eternal discoveries along our Path to Truth. In one esoteric system, Saturn is Divine Understanding, whereas Uranus is Divine Wisdom. Both serve each other in the Great Work each of us is here to do. I discuss the dance Saturn and Uranus do in our lives to bring us to spiritual adulthood fully living our individuality and higher purpose in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, where you can find more about this process.
Uranus now begins to re-trace ground it’s covered since it last went direct in January 2018 at 25 Aries. Since then, we’ve explored how to individualize in the span of experience from 25 Aries through 3 Taurus. Now that it’s retrograde, we will take a new look at what Uranus awakened in us the first time in the Summer of 2017 when it went SRX at 29 Aries.
That was the threshold of our beginning to understanding our part to play in “the Cosmic Choir.” It was activated in April 2018 when Uranus again transited 29 Aries, en route to its current SRX point at 3 Taurus. From here it will retrograde back through its “shadow zone,” giving us another retrograde look at the Uranian developments set into motion in April. This will last through January 2019, when it goes SD, again hitting a station at 29 Aries, launching the third transit through its 2018 shadow zone until it begins to transit 4 Taurus in May 2019.
Since last December, we’ve finished redeeming a promise to the extent we shaped our mind into a receptive container for spiritual fulfillment, and then had to move more cautiously in our awakened realm. By March 2018 we awakened our imagination so we could re-claim "an opportunity we thought we had lost,” and then we got a new enlightened view on an old idea. Fearlessness was required, as well as adjustment to further productivity.
April and May gave us another experience of finding our place in the “Cosmic Choir,” and listen to the inner voice so we could see a vaster perspective on our individuality in the Infinity and Eternity of Life itself. The possibility of a form of "At-One-Ment" opened to us all, as well as "an understanding of the harmonics of the greater Life order and meaning" presenting itself.
Once it moved into Taurus in mid-May, we began a new type of individualization, and many were moved by a Divine Demonstration of power in June as we prepared for this retrograde station. From here it retrogrades back through these early Taurus lessons through early November, when it re-enters Aries.
Uranus is now at 3 Taurus, retrograde and on the way to its review the span of degrees between 3 Taurus back to 29 Aries. The last 5 degrees of Aries is about the individual-mental and spiritual face of the sign, while the first 5 degrees of Taurus is the actional-physical face of the sign. So we can expect from August through January to be a time when individual, mental, and spiritual activities will help us awaken and focus our potential in ways that revolutionize our lives, liberate us, and get us ready for relaxing into a genuine authenticity which will predominate the rest of 2018 through April 2019 and beyond.
In January Uranus finishes its retrograde at 29 Aries, where it goes direct and continues to occupy that degree through January. The Summer of 2016 awakened a Uranian promise, 2017 has moved us into the promise, and in early 2018 we re-traced the steps to fulfill the promise, and now have a sense of the part we’re playing in the “Cosmic Choir.”
In part 2 which I’ll post closer to the time Saturn’s going stationary direct, we’ll discuss how Saturn will impact all of us in coming months, along with the dance that Saturn and Uranus are doing at this time.
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
Hard to say my part in Cosmic Choir while have been mystically sick since 18. April 2018. Almost all time since Uranus have been in Taurus (and whole time when Pluto have been retrograde in Capricorn)...
When are the Points to get clearer look?
Posted by: helina | August 05, 2018 at 11:06 AM