At the Jupiter-Pluto Square, asteroid Aletheia (Truth) Opposes Pluto, creating a Jupiter T-Square, or a Challenge to Face the Truth about whatever it is you’ve been trying to sweep under the rug. There are however three Bridges to mitigate the Challenge. Most important, the Grace of Self-Love will eliminate a lot of Difficulty (asteroid Sappho makes a Trine Bridge across the T-Square). Curiosity will also be Powerful…
- I Wonder what inhibits my Self-Sovereignty (Lilith makes a Quincunx Bridge)
- I Wonder what Habits I can Change and how I might Change them (asteroid Atropos also makes a Quincunx Bridge)
It’s important to Remember that these are not questions for the Dualistic mind, they’re PIAVAs for the multidimensional Intuition, and must be followed by Changing the Subject. If the mind tries to Answer them, you can write it down as a possibility, thank the mind for contributing, then Change the Subject more vigorously so you can forget what you PIAVAed. If you can’t do that, your current thought Patterns will discard whatever your Intuition wants to contribute.
An exception – often the mind will dismiss as politically unacceptable an immediate Intuition. So it’s always useful to check to see if the Intuition you seek was just Rejected by the mind. Still, write it down as a possibility, Change the Subject again, and once you’ve forgotten your PIAVA you can come back and Pay Attention to see if another Intuition popped up while you were washing dishes, or the TV program you used to Change the Subject just illuminated you, or if the possibilities you jotted down previously seem like paths worth pursuing.
Note that we use “mind” to refer to the “Left Brain” or intellectual, Logical, Dualistic, thinking mind. Many traditions use “mind” in a larger sense, to include Intuition. Of course dividing our Head into Left and Right “Brains” is a Dualism as well. Different people have different sources for their Intuition – for some it’s the Heart, for others the Belly, or the Third Eye, or the Crown Chakra, and for you it could be the Faery who lives in the Salmonberry bush outside your kitchen window. And from the Perspective of Energy Medicine, your thoughts don’t emanate from your Head at all, but from your Solar Plexus.
Let’s take an example. Suppose you PIAVA “I Wonder what inhibits my Self-Sovereignty” and the thought “My Spouse” or “My boss immediately pops up. Well, even if that’s actually an Intuition (ie, that thought had never occurred to you before), it’s not the Intuition you seek because it Gives Away your Power. You Create your Reality, not your Spouse or your Boss. (Of course if you’re Soulmates who aren’t fully Self-Loving, you’ll always Project onto one another the parts of yourselves that you don’t Love yet.) Change the Subject, K?
If you’re unable to Change the Subject, you’re Obsessing, and you may need to PIAVA that you Learn not to Obsess. Wouldn’t it be funny if your Obsessiveness Inhibited your Self-Sovereignty, or if it was a Pattern that you would want to Change. Voila, an Intuition.
There is a third Quintile Bridge – to Asbolus, which symbolizes Intuition itself, reinforcing our need to invoke Intuition to meet the Challenge of Facing Up to the Truth about whatever it is we’ve been trying to Blame on the Cat. Or at least to Wonder if we can Invite a deeper level of Intuition to arise more often, and if we can Invite the Filters embedded in our thought Patterns and Beliefs to block them less often.
The gold lines on the chart show a Mjölnir or Hammer of Thor, pointing to dwarf planet OR10 from the Jupiter-Aletheia Square. Mjölnirs are about Lightning Insights and Epiphanies, in this case coming from all of the historical and Herstorical Vignettes we’ve been Experiencing.
The purple lines show a Quintile Yod – meaning Pay Attention to Learning This! – pointing to the North Node from Chiron (Healing) and Pluto (Trance Reformation), implying that we’ll be Learning a lot about our Mission in the Lifetime from all these Adventures.
Finally, the three heavy green lines show two interlocking Fingers of God or Yods (also collectively known as a Sextile Fez), pointing at Pluto and Asbolus. That tells us that Trance Reformation (Pluto) and Intuition (Asbolus) should be primary objects of our Attention (the Yods), and that maintaining Curiosity and Eschewing Certainty about Trance Reformation and Intuition will help us short-circuit the Challenges we’re likely to Encounter around Conflicts between our Egoic Attachments to Limiting Beliefs on the one hand, and our Self-Love on the other (the Square from Atropos/Endings to Sappho/Self-Love).
The Aletheia-Jupiter Square is also Waning, and that Cycle began in December 2009 at 22 Aquarius, “A rug on the floor of a nursery allows children to play in comfort and warmth.” So as we move into the Void phase of this Cycle then, we might Expect some Austerity. But wait. We roll our own, don’t we.
Astrology tells us where we’re likely to go if we follow our Fate. But our Fate is bound up in our Unconscious Beliefs and the Archetypes to which we’ve been Hypnotized. To break free of our Fate we need only bring these Beliefs and Archetypes into Consciousness where they can be Changed. That’s the sense in which we are denizens of “Free Will.”
Astrology tells us about what’s going on in the Unconscious. But the Unconscious is Non-Dual. So Astrology tells us Dimensions – in this case our Degree of “Comfort and Warmth” (and by the way, Warm is Love and Cool is Fear, just as the Absence of Warmth is Coolth). So, if we’re Conscious, we supply the Direction – more Comfort and Warmth, or less Comfort and Warmth. Yes, we’re moving toward Sustenance, but that’s about Giving Up what is Unnecessary, not about Giving Up what we Enjoy.
By entering the Void phase, we know that, as far as Truth (Aletheia) and Expansion (Jupiter) go, we may no longer be able to “play in comfort and warmth.” Ah, that’s the missing piece isn’t it. As Jupiter-Pluto Asks us to Reform our Trances around the places where we’re Out of Truth, we’ll be Experiencing some Discomfort and Fear as we Adjust.
So we need a PIAVA that will let us Have our Pudding and Eat it too. Maybe something like, “Ganeshi My Love, Please Remove All Obstacles to my Enjoying enough Comfort and Warmth while my Trances around my Relationship to Truth are being Reformed, that I’m not Tempted to Abandon my Genius Project.”