What a week that was. They seem to be coming one after the next. I’m not writing about half of what I’m experiencing; the half I am writing about is enough for a couple of lives. Many years ago I had a dream that I was on a seashore, and the waves were coming in, bigger and closer. I knew this was a real threat. Off to the back somewhere, on high ground, were my two cats, Ling Ling and William Pen, and my file cabinet — they were all safe and dry. I was on the shore facing the raging sea. I knew that my cats and my files were safe, and I also felt confident that I was just fine where I was.
There is an old saying about there being no atheists in foxholes. We are gradually moving into an astrological dynamic that will recall the wisdom of this adage. By gradually, I mean during the next three years, as Saturn, Uranus and Pluto create a cardinal T-square on the Aries Point. We are close enough to be feeling and seeing the effects of this dynamic now. This came up in a brief email dialog with Rick Tarnas late this week about Kaila’s chart — her natal Saturn-Uranus conjunction, which is being activated now by the current Saturn-Uranus opposition. In 2007, Pluto went over the 1988 Sat/Ur conjunction, setting off an explosive dynamic for all of these 19 year old kids. They are 20 or 21 now and are still under the effects of this transit, because such powerful Pluto transits tend to be among what I call ‘threshold transits’ — they are gateways, rather than transient events; and they have aftershocks.
Here is Kaila’s chart, if you want to see it. From the chart is linked Friday’s full edition of Planet Waves Astrology News.
From one generation to the next, many of the configurations of Saturn and the outer planets change, so one generation is clueless what is happening to the next generation or two, unless somebody asks an astrologer and the astrologer is familiar with some outer planet theory. (I got lucky, because my early teachers [particularly David Arner and Laurie Burnett] were very good at this, and I discovered Rick Tarnas’s writing in 1995, one year after Laurie turned me onto Chiron.)
I would say that to those who want to make helpful use of astrology, to understand Saturn and the outer planets it helps a lot to get an understanding of Chiron. That is a key to opening up Saturn and making the energetic qualities outer planets directly accessible. It’s not entirely necessary — some astrologers do well without it. But Chiron is a potent utility that serves like an interface between ‘normal consciousness’ and the transformative energies of the outer planets, which most people simply do not grasp. That is why they are simply experienced as disruptive or devastating forces; and it’s one picture of why some people appear to have no clue about the deeper levels of consciousness available to their own minds.
This would appear to be one definition of a ‘spiritually aware’ person. Not just ethically aware (which helps a lot), but energetically aware, and dimensionally aware. This is not about having hunches and it’s not about being perfect (Chiron is far from that). It’s about having access to healing energy when you call on it.