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Introduction by Eric Francis
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The cardinal sign alignment we are living through keeps taking new forms. It really consists of many aspects at once, and at different times different aspects come into focus. It’s a little like using a camera on a wide-open f-stop: everything is in the frame, but only certain things are in focus at once. At the moment, the focal point is now the Jupiter-Saturn opposition, which is exact Monday. I haven’t described at this aspect in detail: it’s been a bit lost in the news of outer planets Pluto and Uranus. All Jupiter-Saturn contacts are significant — they are the two largest planets; they are the two transpersonal planets, meaning they are the gateways between the inner and the outer solar system, and are like a vast area of collective experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, who after the long dark ages helped turn the lights back on in 20th century astrology, called this configuration “two lifetimes in one.” The opposition is the peak of the 20-year cycle that began in 2000 — it’s like a Full Moon between Jupiter and Saturn. <\/p>\n

There is potentially a lot of stress in the parallel-worlds alignment of the Earth sitting between these two enormous bodies, approximately like a pea in proportion to two basketballs. That’s what an opposition is — the Earth between two planets. Astrology does not always come with a gravitational effect, but in some cases it clearly does. The distance of the planets does not make a difference — they’re out there, having their effect on the physical and astral levels. <\/p>\n

With Jupiter-Saturn this can feel like two similar but irreconcilable experiences; being pulled apart in two directions; serving two masters or two concepts; needing to integrate two different ideas; or many other varieties of two realities that seem to compete with one another and which really need to be integrated. The Aries Point is involved — this aspect goes from early Aries to early Libra. Part of the integration is about coming out of our small worlds and making contact with the wider world. There is a wake-up call to this aspect.<\/p>\n

Jupiter and Saturn are like brothers — totally the same, totally different. While astronomically similar, gas giants with rings that are like mini solar systems, each represents a different principle, and these are usually seen to be opposite ideas: expansion and containment. Think of humanity, or a person, or the Earth, as a soft pot on a potter’s wheel. The potter’s hand inside the bowl pushing outward is Jupiter — the principle of expansion. The hand on the outside of the wheel is Saturn, providing structure and a sense of necessary limitation. The wheel spins — time moves on — and the pot takes its shape. Right now the Earth, that is us, is sitting on the wheel, being spun around. And man it feels like it.<\/p>\n

Then, we have a third planet within the exact focus of this alignment that is providing a distinct influence — Pluto in early Capricorn. Pluto is square both Jupiter and Saturn. These aspects are currently focused to half of a degree — precise, to a division of the wheel into about 700 thin slices. So, at the moment, we are in three major aspects: Jupiter opposite Saturn; Jupiter square Pluto; and Saturn square Pluto. Uranus is still in the mix, that is true, but it’s about to dip back into Pisces and is out of immediate focus, for now — it comes back into focus later in the year.<\/p>\n

The ‘missing piece’ here is Cancer. Cancer is about nourishment, and our human emotional experience. Cancer is about incarnation. There is a point in Cancer — the South Node of the Moon. That’s telling us about our emotional patterns. I say this because the South Node describes a legacy of the past. It describes what we lean on and where we might be stuck. One thing we must confront is how stuck our emotions can get: how trapped in negativity, in obsession, in self-criticism, in the feeling of not having enough.<\/p>\n

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Pluto in Capricorn provides a point of reconciliation: the evolutionary principle. Whatever it does, Pluto tends to drive evolution forward, whether by focusing consciousness or by taking us kicking and screaming. In aspect to Saturn, though, we tend to contract awareness, and struggle in a kind of ‘conservative’ (which means fearful and reactionary) state. In aspect to Jupiter, we tend to crusade, we get hooked into our beliefs, and have this sense of being right. We can just as meaningfully (if not easily) take Saturn-Pluto and make deep adjustments to the structure of our lives; we can just as easily work with Jupiter-Pluto and make contact with the depths of our innate wisdom, what we think of as our ‘spiritual’ aspect, and put it to work in the world, as a matter of inner necessity for growth.<\/p>\n

But before we get there, we have to sort out all these seemingly competing realities; these worlds and aspects in parallel. We need to see the theme in a long, long story. Seeing theme is one of the most challenging things to do in art or literature because the theme is what is not necessarily being said directly — it must be inferred, implied from events, observed in patterns. It is the ‘meaning’ piece of a series of events, or a circumstance; some would call it the ‘lesson’ but it’s more beautiful than that, and life is about more than lessons (which are a crude form of meaning). We are having an experience on this planet, and it calls for something we rarely offer back, which is to see our journey through all these trials and adventures, all these losses and gains, as one experience or journey, along which we evolve and become.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the challenging point: to see this prior to everything being all worked out and living happily ever after — that is, to begin to pick up the message in the midst of the movement and the flow and to allow the process of growth and change to become a conscious experience. And with these planets all still aligned with the Aries Point, there is something about waking up and feeling the rhythm and dancing in an original way with the collective. There is something here about not being trapped in our heads. I think that one of the things we fear is that by encountering others, we give up our precious supposed individuality. What we would really lose are the limits of this thing we call the ego, which is a fearful identity concept. We would see, feel and experience the common ground, and in that process actually experience who we are as individuals, making a unique contribution to the whole.<\/p>\n

If we’re afraid of losing ourselves, you can be sure we’re doing something other than being ourselves.<\/p>\n

By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At 11:30 pm EDT Friday, Uranus contacts the Aries Point, to the arc minute for the second time in this century. It does so while moving retrograde back into Pisces, where another story awaits: two more contacts of the Jupiter-Uranus opposition. This happens one week to the hour after Venus ingressed Libra and one week to the day before Mercury stations retrograde. The changes, they do go on. This one, however, involves a slow moving planet in an epochal turn. We may want to look back, then forward to get some perspective.<\/p>\n

But first, a word from the rest of the cardinal T-square still in progress. Saturn direct makes the third degree of Libra today with Pluto retrograde in the last minutes of the fourth degree of Capricorn. One week from tomorrow Saturn and Pluto perfect their final square aspect (exactly 90 degrees apart). The same day Mercury stations retrograde and Venus reaches its maximum eastward elongation, catching up with Mars just in time for a conjunction in Libra. Wow, talk about “all together – all at once”.<\/p>\n

Did somebody say that there was some sort of climax before this? No way, Jose. If you think you have seen a climax, you ain’t seen nothing yet.<\/p>\n

Jupiter meantime, is still retrograde, still in Aries for another full month. Now, back to Uranus. Close your eyes and remember, remember…<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that long ago. It only seems that way. Uranus’ first crossing of the Aries threshold started Memorial Day weekend in the United States earlier this year. Jupiter was close behind. Mercury was direct in Taurus, nearly out of the echo phase of its previous retrograde. Mars was also direct, well past its own echo phase and getting out of Leo’s ‘Dodge’. Venus had just finished occupying the early degrees of Cancer in a pioneering completion of the grand cardinal cross. Saturn was about to station direct in Virgo and Neptune was about to station retrograde in Aquarius. As for Pluto? Well, what’s a couple degrees between friends?<\/p>\n

How long ago it seems. The Great Leaper in the sign of self for the first time in nearly 80 years. It was heady. One can still feel it. Self-actualization was the potential and a revision of inter-personal paradigm was the imperative. Still is. But nothing like we thought it would be. There’s something about an unprecedented ecological disaster that tends to rain on any parade. Even one so long in coming.<\/p>\n

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Then Uranus stationed retrograde to end the next big holiday weekend in the USA, the fourth of July — right smack in the middle of an eclipse cycle. Something about the whole cardinal T-square shifted at that point. It was subtle, like a master pickpocket. Something doesn’t feel quite the same, but then we don’t get it quite yet. Now this first foray of Uranus in Aries is about to wind up. A reconnaissance, a toe in the water, an experience felt so personally its now going back to be remixed and made a part of everything else.<\/p>\n

Uranus will station forward again at 26+ degrees Pisces in the first week of December, 2010. That will take place just before some heavy cardinal point action in Capricorn. Between now and then it will have continued to be a functional part of the cardinal T-square but it will have gone through a seasoning process.<\/p>\n

By March of 2011, when Uranus emerges from the Pisces marinade for the last time, you can bet it will a different planet. More mature in its expression, focused, intense, ready for the long rematch with Pluto. Ready to mediate the synchronicity that will replace the unsustainable and untenable with something else. Then another case of the seven-year-itch will set in when Uranus moves on to Taurus in 2018. That’s about the time they’ll give the land away, free for the taking. Maybe I’ll be there to shake your hand.<\/p>\n

Ahh, isn’t it just like Uranus to get us way ahead of ourselves, even as its going backwards? For the present, Uranus’ reunion with Pisces comes just a week before Mercury stations retrograde at 19+ degrees Virgo. By coincidence, that’s about where the Moon starts off today.<\/p>\n

We are now in a period when there is nearly two weeks between the New Moon and the Sun moving on to the next sign. This period sustains the integrated energy of the luminary conjunction for that much longer as Luna moves forward, carrying a bit of Sol along with it. Assuming that one accepts that intuitive assertion, the Moon’s crossing into Libra this evening could serve as a subconscious, emotional anticipation of the upcoming equinox. Shortly after doing so the Moon will become the last object in the solar system to oppose Uranus in Aries until next year.<\/p>\n

That’s a fitting send-off really, for the luminary of our intuitive, emotional child to wax with the day’s light of our mature and creative awareness. It should be the last one to reach across the equinox axis as if to say, “Hey, Uranus, check it out. Good start, actually. See you next year.”<\/p>\n

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