{"id":13102,"date":"2009-03-27T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:11:39","slug":"outer-planet-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/outer-planet-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave after wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Eric Francis in his office, the Book of Blue Studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here is Kaila’s chart<\/strong><\/a>, if you want to see it. From the chart is linked Friday’s full edition of Planet Waves Astrology News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

One question is how Spirit manifests for everyone; for each of us as an individual, and for us in relationship to one another. We are going to need new sources of strength other than the ones we have, or think we have. This will be happening during a time when we will be (and in fact are) witnessing a good bit of unnecessary desperation — and more than a good bit of confusion. Actually, my sense is that quite a few people are at the snapping point right now and I’ll say this; if you’re one of them and you don’t want to snap, I suggest you get yourself to a new level. There are a lot of other, less-dense altitudes to fly at than the ones that are jammed up exclusively by fear and its first cousin, hope.<\/p>\n

So yes in my view we have a serious spiritual issue, and we also have an emotional\/biological one. That would be this thing commonly referred to as sex; which is the cosmic creative process. Anything that can spontaneously shuffle the DNA and make a human being would qualify as cosmic and creative. And it would have many other powers as well, and most of the time I think we tend to either play with them like a game of Russian roulette beside a bottle of cheap vodka; or we go into denial. Anyone who tells you that sex or your sexuality is bad is (in my view) evil by definition, because that is a self-destructive concept to plant in someones head. It can take many subtle forms, including programming people to be ignorant; and teaching them things that are subjective values as if they were incontrovertible truths.<\/p>\n

I was just flipping through some TV channels a little while ago and ended up on the Mega Nanny show; about this British chick coming to stay with an American family teaching them how to be great parents. There was a sex ed scene for a teenage boy, wherein they give him the STD and pregnancy lecture as he slumped in his chair and admitted he could get a girl pregnant or catch a really bad disease; fair enough; and then a lecture about how he had to save himself for someone who really, really mattered. That the first sex he had needed to be “special” and with someone special.<\/p>\n

I wonder, would anyone except for me question the wisdom of that instruction? Once we lose the ability to play in our own biology; to explore our feelings for their own sake; once we set the admonition of “importance” on eroticism in young people or in anyone, we deny that there is a vast universe between the two extremes of piety and MTV. We could say to this boy something like, “Sex is a conducting medium for many feelings and it opens doorways to things you’re not expecting. Here’s a few ideas for how to handle the feelings when they come up. Sex can create attachment to people you don’t really know and it can divide you from people you think you do know.”<\/p>\n

When we subtract the full spectrum, the rigidity and bipolarity basically puts us at war with existence and with ourselves, sets up false expectations and either mystifies or profanes something that is perfectly natural. And yes, cosmically creative, just like we are, when we notice.<\/p>\n

And when we don’t — that’s when the creative force can go dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}