By Philip Sedgwick from Next World Stories, published in January 2009. As part of our annual edition, this article looks at all of 2009 and all of it is relevant for today. Philip Sedgwick is one of the leading minor planet pioneers, one of my most dependable astrology teachers and a longtime friend of Planet Waves.
No doubt the Saturn-Uranus sequence of oppositions and Jupiter conjunctions to Chiron and Neptune shall receive ample play in astrological articles, blogs and lectures. A plethora of promises about changing entrenched doctrines and such shall appear. In the United States it seems perfect that President Obama takes the reigns in the very near future to invoke the planetary promises. There’s a whole world out there, and above, an array of dwarf planets that underscore the more noted trends with exceptional potency. In short, the next three years contain powerful patterns involving classical strong planets and the recently discovered dwarf planets. If humanity plays its collective cards well, 2012 might be a piece of cake, leaving end of the world fear-hype mongers with the egg of the fertile myth of Makemake on their faces. Square one in this progression starts now.
While the Saturn and Uranus patterns represent a template of change, the dwarf planets contribute a deeply rooted substrate that seeks to invoke a series of changes in collective thinking patterns. Without this shift in thinking, those seeking to invoke the potent patterns of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune to the far-reaching, innovative-thinking black holes in Aquarius might go for naught for another decade. So these densely rich, gravitationally succinct dwarf planets enrich our hopes for change that evolves and cannot later be undone and in the next critical era, cannot be missed…especially by those choosing to track.
As January closes, Chiron squares Sedna and days later sextiles Eris, setting the stage for Jupiter’s identical transits in April. Chiron, especially with his proximity to Neptune, favors Sedna with the consciousness of saving the seas, and more specific to Sedna, demands preservation of Arctic and Antarctic regions. A prevailing theme of global restoration commences and on the personal level, Chiron nudges Eris who declares any apple cart of life that prohibits making clear, conscious choices – that would be Sedna’s two cents — be upset and that a person choose a healthy opt-in policy of using all the powers of cognition and physical senses to (re)create a life worth living. Sounds nice, but how?