Mars is separating from Pluto but now applying quickly to a conjunction with Uranus and opposition with Jupiter, just as we’re approaching a solar eclipse on Sunday and the Jupiter/Uranus opposition is exact again.
Here’s a deeper look at some of the powers symbolized by the current planetary configurations and some thoughts on how we might work with what’s here:
* With Jupiter retrograde in Libra as a powerful planetary player right now, it’s possible that we are being called to task for previous actions or arrogance. If you find that you are facing authority figures, laws, codes, rules, or any kind of disciplinary/performance-based review, it’s important to look inward right now. Justice doesn’t necessarily require that we suffer penalties…but Justice does require that we adjust our internal attitude. Justice asks us to learn something. Justice asks us to respect due process. Justice asks us to learn to be in harmony with cosmic law, truth, order, and wisdom. And with Jupiter in Libra moving backward, we are in a time of review. Calling on your guides and better angels, calling on the divine forces to evaluate you with grace, dignity, and compassion, and opening your heart to correction, goes a long way right now, and it invites mercy from all figures of judgment.
* With Uranus in Aries, along with Mars, we are also being forced to awaken our senses, mind, and body at a deeper level. These planets together act like strokes of fire, lightning, and electricity rocketing out of the ethereal realms. These planets jolt and drive through us until a clear opening appears. Because these energies are opposite Jupiter in Libra, the process of justice right now is swift, immediate, tense, and pivotal. It’s an incredibly important moment to call for protection and to ask for patience and clarity. The outer planetary influences sometimes feel impersonal, especially Uranus in a cardinal sign like Aries. But in some ways that’s the exact medicine we need right now. The point is that if we don’t recognize the qualities above and we get swept up in them, it’s a lot harder to receive their guidance. If we are shocked into a pattern of action and reaction, constantly, we will certainly learn and grow, but the growth will tend to happen in a way that is less conscious. Whatever is less conscious we tend to experience as external to us, happening “to us,” rather than in and through us.
* With Pluto also in the mix, the “sense of fate” is an integral part of our experience right now. We tend to mistakenly debate within ourselves, in our heads, about how much free-will we have versus how much fate’s hand is controlling everything. Pluto’s perspective, the underworld perspective, calls us to consider everything from the vantage point of the soul, which is death. As long as we stay fixed to the image of birth, as long as we associate our lives with birth, we tend to live regressively and therefore the future is constantly something we are trying to take back with us into the womb. We demand that the future be entirely open, indeterminate, and entirely dependent upon our choices or will power, as though we live in a permanent and potential state of gestation.
But death isn’t a choice. Death is a necessity. All things die. And when we live toward the soul’s meaning, we live toward its inevitability. The question shifts from “what will I create with all these endless possibilities?” to “how will I choose to experience all these inevitabilities?” Pluto teaches us the value of living our lives with a view on the future that is moving toward death and the endless mystery of the soul.
Failure, misery, inevitability, impermanence, and pain, these are not the friends of a radically indeterminate future, rooted in the image of birth. But both perspectives are co-present in our consciousness. It’s not a matter of which one is right, it’s the basic fact that they both exist in consciousness that matters. I think for example of the recent film, “The Arrival,” which plays on the themes of precognition and death. Developing pre-cognitive ability is something rooted in birth. It starts with the open possibilities of the future and our genesis, the divinatory or ritual starting moment we might say….but as we learn to see into the inevitabilities of the future, our consciousness narrows or focuses on it, like a keyhole, which in turn leads us back to the present and puts a question to us: how will you choose to live and experience this inevitability? A circle come round on itself. A keyhole vision of the future that is also the key itself. And this is why the aliens in the film used non-linear scripts…sentences that read from both ends toward the center at once.
That might seem like some far out philosophy, but if you sit long enough with all that’s happening you will recognize the one within yourself who has seen this, known this, and sensed these inevitable events all along. The question we are all faced with right now, in the honesty of this inevitable moment is, “how will I walk through this valley?” “What forces and qualities of consciousness will I call upon to walk with me?”
Prayer: Your rod and staff, they protect and comfort us.
Here’s a deeper look at some of the powers symbolized by the current planetary configurations and some thoughts on how we might work with what’s here:
* With Jupiter retrograde in Libra as a powerful planetary player right now, it’s possible that we are being called to task for previous actions or arrogance. If you find that you are facing authority figures, laws, codes, rules, or any kind of disciplinary/performance-based review, it’s important to look inward right now. Justice doesn’t necessarily require that we suffer penalties…but Justice does require that we adjust our internal attitude. Justice asks us to learn something. Justice asks us to respect due process. Justice asks us to learn to be in harmony with cosmic law, truth, order, and wisdom. And with Jupiter in Libra moving backward, we are in a time of review. Calling on your guides and better angels, calling on the divine forces to evaluate you with grace, dignity, and compassion, and opening your heart to correction, goes a long way right now, and it invites mercy from all figures of judgment.
* With Uranus in Aries, along with Mars, we are also being forced to awaken our senses, mind, and body at a deeper level. These planets together act like strokes of fire, lightning, and electricity rocketing out of the ethereal realms. These planets jolt and drive through us until a clear opening appears. Because these energies are opposite Jupiter in Libra, the process of justice right now is swift, immediate, tense, and pivotal. It’s an incredibly important moment to call for protection and to ask for patience and clarity. The outer planetary influences sometimes feel impersonal, especially Uranus in a cardinal sign like Aries. But in some ways that’s the exact medicine we need right now. The point is that if we don’t recognize the qualities above and we get swept up in them, it’s a lot harder to receive their guidance. If we are shocked into a pattern of action and reaction, constantly, we will certainly learn and grow, but the growth will tend to happen in a way that is less conscious. Whatever is less conscious we tend to experience as external to us, happening “to us,” rather than in and through us.
* With Pluto also in the mix, the “sense of fate” is an integral part of our experience right now. We tend to mistakenly debate within ourselves, in our heads, about how much free-will we have versus how much fate’s hand is controlling everything. Pluto’s perspective, the underworld perspective, calls us to consider everything from the vantage point of the soul, which is death. As long as we stay fixed to the image of birth, as long as we associate our lives with birth, we tend to live regressively and therefore the future is constantly something we are trying to take back with us into the womb. We demand that the future be entirely open, indeterminate, and entirely dependent upon our choices or will power, as though we live in a permanent and potential state of gestation.
But death isn’t a choice. Death is a necessity. All things die. And when we live toward the soul’s meaning, we live toward its inevitability. The question shifts from “what will I create with all these endless possibilities?” to “how will I choose to experience all these inevitabilities?” Pluto teaches us the value of living our lives with a view on the future that is moving toward death and the endless mystery of the soul.
Failure, misery, inevitability, impermanence, and pain, these are not the friends of a radically indeterminate future, rooted in the image of birth. But both perspectives are co-present in our consciousness. It’s not a matter of which one is right, it’s the basic fact that they both exist in consciousness that matters. I think for example of the recent film, “The Arrival,” which plays on the themes of precognition and death. Developing pre-cognitive ability is something rooted in birth. It starts with the open possibilities of the future and our genesis, the divinatory or ritual starting moment we might say….but as we learn to see into the inevitabilities of the future, our consciousness narrows or focuses on it, like a keyhole, which in turn leads us back to the present and puts a question to us: how will you choose to live and experience this inevitability? A circle come round on itself. A keyhole vision of the future that is also the key itself. And this is why the aliens in the film used non-linear scripts…sentences that read from both ends toward the center at once.
That might seem like some far out philosophy, but if you sit long enough with all that’s happening you will recognize the one within yourself who has seen this, known this, and sensed these inevitable events all along. The question we are all faced with right now, in the honesty of this inevitable moment is, “how will I walk through this valley?” “What forces and qualities of consciousness will I call upon to walk with me?”
Prayer: Your rod and staff, they protect and comfort us.
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