by Robert Wilkinson
The planets beyond Saturn all represent factors in the larger spiritual field pervading our solar system. They are invisible to the naked eye, so represent invisible energies which create, preserve, destroy, and redeem all long wave collective processes.
Today will be a brief look at their place in our lives, and ultimately, why we cannot take their energies personally, even when they do affect us personally. However, by understanding how they operate in our individual charts, we can learn how to be the vehicles to translate their divine power into practical effective forms.
The outer Spiritual Triad of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto lead us all through long wave transformations. They are invisible, so they symbolize all we do not sense, but through global or transcendent experiences move us through circumstances which teach us what we can control, and what we cannot.
The other two players beyond Saturn, Chiron and TransPluto, are also important to our spiritual evolution, but in different ways. TransPluto is beyond the Triad, and symbolizes the “Divine Mother” energies of redeeming life after death, Spring after Winter, and renewal after a down time, but on a much vaster level than we imagine. It is truly “nothing personal.”
Chiron represents not simply the “wandering wounded healer” who shows us our greatest wound, it is also our Mentor and Teacher showing us how to use our Sacred Wound to enter into our transpersonal purpose by “healing into our Higher Self.” It is through our various wanderings and wounds that we come to renounce the lower and accept healing so we may become our Higher Self. It is the gateway to and from the outer Triad.
The outer Triad symbolize vaster tides of evolution, whether creative ideas and movements, larger connections between nations, races, and life systems, or the changes that destroy old ideas and eras, making the way open for newer creative ideas and movements. Through their function of emergent phenomena, sustaining systems, and purifying transformation, they eternally create, preserve, and destroy, demonstrating the Three Divine Laws in our Solar System of Economy of Energy, Magnetic Attraction, and Synthesis.
These three planets, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, represent respectively the Transpersonal Individualizer, Transpersonal Unifier, and Transpersonal Transformer. They operate beyond the planetary dualities of the “Sacred Seven” visible planets. However, their “non-dual” transformational energies find expression through their “lower octave” planetary correspondences.
It’s why when Uranus is active in our chart, we will always find it expressed through Mercury and innovative ideas or ways to coordinate something, where the whole can be expressed through the sum of its parts. When Neptune is active, we will find it expressed through Venus and how we bring something of beauty and value out of the collective dream and make it real in our lives or world. When Pluto is active, we will find it expressed through Mars and what needs to be done to activate and/or sever something in the world. And as I offered in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, Jupiter is the “lower octave” of TransPluto, showing that all vast redemptive processes work out on collective and social-cultural levels as the endings, forgiveness, compassion, and promise which is Jupiter’s nature.
The outer spiritual planets work so absolutely that it is impossible to ignore these larger forces of transformation in our lives. Because they move so slowly, they don't go away quickly. Because they work such long range effects, we are forced to take a different view of time, and what we can and cannot accomplish in any given moment given the larger circumstances.
That’s a primary reason we cannot be seduced into thinking that just because Uranus has already transited a planet and is now barely separating from the conjunction that somehow it’s not still revolutionizing and awakening something in that planet. It takes years for Neptune and Pluto to make a conjunction to a planet, and often that long when it comes to major aspects. It can take Pluto many years as it approaches a square, makes the square, and separates from the square. The entire time it’s an influence, usually triggered by other transits to it.
Because Saturn is the outer limit of our ability to respond to circumstances, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto teach us the limitations of believing "we create our reality." If Saturn is the ego's "Ring Pass Not," these Transpersonal invisible forces are outside of that limiting, binding force. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto teach us that ego does not control anything outside its own limitations. This also is discussed in my book on Saturn.
Being very slow, long wave factors in global evolution, the outer Triad represent vast systems that were already in place before we were born. They symbolize those great Beings and movements that set powerful forces into motion across decades and centuries. Within these much larger absolute forces in play, most of us have to learn from a very early age how and when to adapt to our environments.
The challenge for we who would grow toward our higher purpose is to learn to shape our environment, to whatever degree we are able, by our choices in how we experience that circumstance, and how we respond to that circumstance. We can creatively shape our responses to people and the possibilities and difficulties of life. How we respond to life shapes our character and therefore our "destiny."
We did not create our reality as children. We were born and raised within a family and cultural matrix which pre-existed. And our experience of reality changed as we changed, sometimes as a result of what we did, other times a result of what we didn’t, and other times the result of larger forces beyond our control.
It’s important to understand that we do not create the larger reality so that we can be conscious in creating our responses to that reality as we encounter it. As we choose our responses, we co-create our future. That's the true test of being human. We have the ability to live our Higher Self by perceiving the larger patterns of transformation leading us to our special Destiny and our purpose. Then we are able consciously to shape our responses accordingly. As we learn self-discipline of our creature, the Higher Self begins to see the Way clearly.
This is why when widespread revolution or confusion or transformation is in the air, we cannot take it personally. Very often the challenging aspects by outer planets show friction in the field during times of transition from old ways to new ways.
An example of this were the recent squares from Saturn to Uranus. This was a tension between what had been and what was emerging, the forces of inertia rubbing up against the forces of change. The planet structuring the new Aquarian pulses in the real world hit an area of friction with the higher law in the sign of immovability. Many were forced to revise their rules, or find a larger view of what was being awakened and challenged to "right action."
Their first square was from Saturn at 8 Aquarius to Uranus at 8 Taurus in February 2021. There was another square from 14 Aquarius to 14 Taurus in the Summer of 2021, and another at 19 in Autumn 2022. As the midpoints of the Fixed signs semisquare and sesquisquare the Equinoctal and Solstice points, mid-2021 through mid-2022 was a time of tremendous upheaval in the collective field, which is evident from what was happening in the “real world.” Every shift of seasons back then included the square.
This friction in the generic field was a time of upheaval which affected everyone on Earth, one way and another. But because it involved Uranus awakening us to a new way of looking at our Taurus expression, it wasn't personal, because those squares affected everyone in the Taurus and Aquarius sectors. That in turn affected any planets or points we had in Leo and Scorpio. Naturally, the square helped us release our positive potentials of any other planets in the other signs which were sextile, quintile, or trine transiting Saturn and Uranus. So all our other planets were productively impacted, with opportunities to release those favorable expressions through the ongoing circumstances represented by the square. And the entire time, Neptune and Pluto were also active in their respective sectors, triggered by all kinds of aspects from the inner planets out to Jupiter.
The Invisible Triad of Spirit show us how to be economical in our use of energy, and the seeds of life that might provide us a fantastic bounty. They show us who and what ideals we have which attract the people, ideas, and things we are attracted to, and why, via our Sun and Venus power of attraction.
They also show us the invisible transpersonal forces at work when the magnetism just isn't right between us and a person, idea, or situation. And they show us how to put it all together in a larger vision that allows us to remember we're forever free to explore the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. These things are what Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto bring us if we open our eyes to their invisible blessings.
On a final note, we get “flashes of the future” when Pluto enters Aquarius, which I’ll post on in the near future. With Neptune at “the end of the end” of the whole cycles, the past is already slipping away as the future began to be revealed with Jupiter entry into Aries in 2022 and its transit of 2023. This year Uranus finishes its stay in the second decan of Taurus, and prepares to make its way through the last decan of Taurus in 2024 and 2025.
After 2025, we’ll be in “the Spring of the 21st century,” with an entirely different atmosphere in the spiritual field, since Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto will move from their current occupancy of Earth and Water signs into Fire and Air signs. This will bring radical changes in the collective atmosphere and sprout the seeds of the coming Age of Aquarius.
© Copyright 2023 Robert Wilkinson
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