Plutonox Footnote

It’s pretty technical, but a “side effect” of the 26 September Pluto Station is another step up in the Planet’s Consciousness of the Feminine.  There are two takeaways from this.

First, Respect for All Things will become more prominent in the Planetary mindscape.  By “All Things” we mean All Sentient Beings, but we include literally All Entities in the category of Sentient Beings.  And by Entity we mean anything the mind can split off into a separate Thing.  So we mean not just a Critter, but a Plant, a Rock, Gravel, a Dust Mote.  The Universe is Consciousness; Matter is a minor side effect, and Identity is an artifice.

Second, here’s a quote from Sir William Golding, a British poet…

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.  Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.  If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby.  If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home.  If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal.  If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart.  She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.  So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!”

Very relevant to our Respect for Mother Earth, Mother Nature, and the other Goddess Entities.

Pluto is one shoulder of a “Tricolor Kite” – a Tricolor Configuration with a fourth planet at the Near Midpoint of the Trine side of the Tricolor.

The Tricolor is Mercury-Hopi Square Asbolus Quincunx Stationary Pluto Trine Mercury-Hopi, meaning that…

Any Yes-Buts you encounter around Respect for All Things, PIAVA “I Wonder how that will unfold.”  With Pluto involved, you know it will unfold, so we may as well just go through the exercise of converting our Yes-Buts to Yes-Ands now, so we’ll be better prepared when it does unfold.

This (27-28 September) is actually a Hopi-Mercury Confidence-Builder; the Exposition was 20 September, and the Can-Opening Hopi-Mercury Initiation took place 29-30 July at 30 Leo, a Degree which means that…

“Our” Thoughts, like “our” Feelings, are Fields.  It’s not as if we had a Thought or a Feeling, we Sensed it out of the immense Background Noise surrounding us.  Think Radio Waves and Weather – we’re bathed in Radio Waves constantly.  Stars emit them, they come from TV stations, radio stations, short wave radios, cellphone towers, the passing police car, your neighbors’ wi-fi, your microwave oven, your cellphone and portable phone, your remotes, and your wireless mouse, just to name the most obvious Intentional sources.  We, via our gadgets, tune to a particular Frequency if we want to tune in to their specific vibe.

We also tune in, Consciously or otherwise and Intentionally or otherwise, to many Frequencies, without bothering to use gadgets.  Our Physical-Energy-Spirit Bodies – our very Mitochondria – are antennas.  Without the gadget to translate, the Intended Meaning of the information often doesn’t make a lot of sense.  Training as an Intuitive helps, but since the Potential is Unlimited, we’re always Selecting, usually Unconsciously.

That’s how our Abandonment works, just as an example.  When our Significant Adults Abandoned us while we did not yet have any Survival Tools of our own, it Sensitized our Antenna to Abandonment Thoughts and Emotions.  The Frequency and Scope of our Abandonment Training determined the shape, directionality, and sensitivity of our Abandonment Antenna.  

Not to overemphasize Abandonment – we could just as well be dealing with our Suffocation (when someone Overfocuses on us or Expects something from us that we aren’t eager to provide) or our Avarice.

So we’re literally drowning in this Sea of Radio Noise.  Not to mention all of the other Frequencies, and that’s just EMF; how about all of the other Dimensions that our Scienterrific friends don’t know how to measure yet?  Thought waves and fields and their complementary Emotion waves and fields are probably out in those as-yet unidentified Dimensions.  As a species we haven’t even got to kindergarten yet.  It’s remarkable that many of us can still shut most of it out.  I know too many people whose Energy Body is thrown all akilter by it.

And we see how each of us has an Unconscious tuner to adjust our antenna.  We tune to the Abandonment channel one minute (Thoughts and Emotions both; they operate in a closed loop till we Cancel-Neutralize-Upgrade or Tap them Out or Recognize and Self-Empathize or …), the Suffocation channel the next, then the Competition channel, the Fear channel, the Anger channel, the Acquisition channel, the Violence channel, etc etc, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.

Then there’s the Weather element.  High pressure and storms this week on the Violence channel in North Carolina and Oklahoma.  A permanent high pressure system on the Abandonment channel parked over the Middle East, and a permanent disturbance on the Exploitation channel over Texas. Someone down the block has a Death in the family, and your neighborhood forecast includes showers as the Grief channel amps up.

Phew.  Didn’t know a single Degree could be so complex, did you.  But we’re actually looking at Hopi-Mercury in that Degree Square Asbolus (Intuition) – which, recall, was Stationary a week ago, and is still within an arcminute of the Station.  It’s our Intuition that interprets what we do pick out of the Noise.

Now, how do our women-friends fit in?  The Juno-Lilith Conjunction is at the Midpoint between Hopi-Mercury and the Stationary Pluto.  Juno-Lilith, which was Exact on 11 September, means that…

More of our Yindependence and Yintuition are coming into Consciousness.  This has been going on for a while.

Juno-Lilith sits at the focus of the Tricolor Kite, the arrowhead if we see the Kite as a drawn bow ready to fire an arrow.  The secondary impact is the Finger of God pointing at Asbolus, on the base of the Sextile from Juno-Lilith to Pluto, which says Pay Attention to your Intuition.

There’s a little extra kicker thrown in here by newly-Leoed Varuna at the Midpoint of the Square between Hopi-Mercury and Asbolus.  The implication is that these Changes and Realizations are taking place at the level of our Cells.

Venus, Mars, and Yintegrity

Venus is dancing with the 4 June New Moon, Mars is very busy, and of course Yintegrity is the bottom line here as we approach the 9 June Eris-Uranus Initiation.  If you haven’t been dancing with Rebirth of your Sexuality and Sensuality (Venus and Mars) yet, to bring it more in line with your Yintegrity, you’re probably overdue.  The Royal Star Regulus is still lit up, so be mindful that Revenge (Mars) may backfire.

Mars, after turning Retrograde at the Ides of April, reached it’s astrological Opposition to the Sun on 22 May, backed into Scorpio on 27 May, reached it’s cosmological Opposition to the Sun (closest approach to Earth in a decade) on 29 May, and turns Direct again on 29 June.  If you’re feeling or encountering a lot of bitchiness (as one reader calls it) or lack of Satisfaction (as Mick would call it), you can probably blame Mars.  Of course, if you’re being Victimized by Mars, we’d interpret that as a Denial of ______ [you’ll have to PIAVA how to fill in the blank; it’d be different for everyone].

Mars’s Shadow Period (span of Retrogradation) covers 24 Scorpio to 9 Sagittarius, the last two and-a-half Duads of Scorpio (adjustments to the Ego to Balance new Learnings) and the first three and-a-half Duads of Sagittarius (testing our New Ego in social settings).  Scorpio is about Fearlessly Digging Deep, and Sagittarius is about Letting  Go.  Mars entered its Shadow Period February 18.  So…

Whatever business it is that we haven’t finished and which we danced with in the last half of February, after we tried and failed to Let It Go over the last three months, it’s back.  YooHoo.  So now we have to immerse ourselves in it.  Locate it in our Body and just Be in that spot for a month.  Dr. Kim must have a good astrologer or good Intuition, because as it often is, her current message is right on…

http://drkimderamo.com/ever-feel-like-youre-going-backwards/

The New Moon is very busy…

It’s in Gemini, Conjunct Venus, and it’s one corner of a Grand Cross with Saturn, Jupiter-North Node, and Neptune-South Node.  It’s also the head of a Kite, on a Saturn-Hopi-Mnemosyne Fire Grand Trine.  The Neptune-South Node corner of the Grand Cross is the head of a second Kite, on a Pluto-Jupiter/North Node-Aletheia Earth Grand Trine.  The Kites are connected by two Yods, to Hopi/Leo from Pluto-Neptune, and to Pluto/Capricorn from Hopi and the New Moon.

Stressful, but the Rewards for Surrendering Control and PIAVAing what you lack should be fabulous.  If they aren’t, PIAVA the next step – you may also need something else, you may need to go Deeper, or your mind may just be leading you into one of those blind Either/Or alleys.  You may need to Wonder what to PIAVA.  It could just be Patience.  We’re in the Soup till 9 June.  That doesn’t mean we have to Suffer, but it also means that perfect Comfort is likely to escape us.

The second, Jupiter-Neptune axis of the Grand Cross is malformed, as Jupiter does not really Oppose Neptune.  Jupiter recently backed up to within a Degree and-a-half of completing the Opposition, then changed its mind and went back the other way.  The real Opposition took place last September.  That Opposition was the Blooming of the very momentous Neptune-Jupiter and simultaneous Chiron-Jupiter Initiation, in May 2009, a prelude to the 2010 Neptune-Chiron Initiation.  All three of these Initiations occurred in 27 Aquarius, “An ancient pottery bowl filled with fresh violets.”  If you have the time, you might want to review “Chiron-Neptune” in the list of Categories at right.

These Fresh Violets are a Symbol we recognize, as the theme for the initially-alternate economy that is being formed as the dregs of the Industrial-Age economy limp into the Digital Age.  And we recognize the Chironean Despair that surrounded the recent Derivative Crisis (advertised by the corporate media as a “Subprime Loan” Crisis; this theme of making the Victims into Criminals is a trend that’s just starting).  

The Industrial-Age economic infrastructure that died in 2010 isn’t fixable; it will have to be replaced with “Fresh Violets,” but the bankers are stretching it out as long as they can because they’re getting rich off if it and hoping to make it into the 1% before it’s too late, and because the 1% haven’t figured out yet how to checkmate China and the other contenders (including us) as they plan their own new infrastructure. 

Eventually the alternate economy will go mainstream as the seed of the first Digital Age Survival strategy for the Analog portion of the 99%.  It’s about growing our own Food, trying to protect ourselves from the political corruption and poisoned Earth that Predatory Capitalism leaves almost everywhere on the Planet, creating local Community, adapting the portions of new technology that are accessible to us (such as 3D printing), and growing Resilience.  

We can probably safely assume that for most of us the future will look more like present-day Libya or Syria or the Palestinian dilemma, than the Sound of Music or the Gatsby.  One of the best handbooks for the alternate economy is probably Permaculture Magazine, and its new Western-Hemisphere spinoff.  The ancient Popular Mechanics is also surprisingly useful.

The fact that the Jupiter-Neptune axis of the Grand Cross does not complete suggests that…

This New Moon and its Grand Cross may unleash a lot of Paper Tigers – bundles of Fear that look like Monsters from our Karmic past.  If this is true, then there will likely be an economic feint (or faint) in June – the long-promised demise of the current economic shell game will appear to be happening, while its actual demise may be delayed until after the US elections.  The appearance of demise will probably be enough to bring us all face to face with our Survival Fears.

Other than knowing that we’re in the Void phase of the final Jupiter-Saturn Cycle of the Industrial Age, and that there will most likely be a Cultural component to this Eris-Uranus Revelation of Denial business (think Global Balming, Poverty, Predatory Capitalism, for-profit medicine), I haven’t looked at the rest of the year and decade yet astrologically.  I will soon.

The unfortunate Truth is that the 1% have become expert at “Crisis Investing,” which means taking maximum advantage of the Victims of any Crisis, the way W and his cronies did after Hurricane Katrina or 9/11 (see Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine or John Perkins’s New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man if you want to learn how that’s done – or just watch The Donald).  So whatever occurs on the Cultural or Global scale, we need to PIAVA that Huperity has reached a Tripping Point, and that Miracles are available to the Planet.  There is ample potential for that.

The New Moon is also the head of a Kite, on a Saturn-Hopi-Mnemosyne Fire Grand Trine.  The Neptune-South Node corner of the Grand Cross is the head of a second Kite, on a Pluto-Jupiter/North Node-Aletheia Earth Grand Trine.  The Kites are connected by two Yods, to Hopi/Leo from Pluto-Neptune, Hopi meaning Respect for All Things, and to Pluto/Capricorn from Hopi and the New Moon.  Fire and Earth form a potent Alchemical combination.

The New Moon is also Trioctile (Rebalancing) to the recent Lilith-Juno Initiation (“Around a campfire a group of young people sit in spiritual communion” – bringing Yindependence to the Edges of our Consciousness), which Initiation is in turn at the head of a Quintile Yod from Vesta and Chiron.

Our Choice Points are really whether to be in Despair about how our Unconscious Beliefs in Limitation have us shackled, or to be Willing to move toward Miracles by PIAVAing what we don’t believe is attainable – or perhaps that we don’t believe it’s attainable – and by Empathizing with what’s really going on.  “You poor Sweetheart, you’re really swimming in Self-Rejection here, aren’t you” for instance.  PIAVAs about trying to Heal our Despair by Changing External Reality will probably not work as well here; it’s an inside job.

The mindstuff that forms the content of our Anxieties is what needs to be jettisoned as soon as possible, so we can instead use our scarce Attention Resources to either focus directly on our Anxiety itself (for instance Tapping Out “Even though I feel very Worried, I deeply and completely Love and Accept myself”), or to go Deeper and begin to get Comfortable with the Real Feelings that our Anxiety is trying to hide from us (“I Wonder what Real Emotions are underneath my Anxiety, and how I might Heal their Source”).

This is the Gift of the Neptune-South Node Kite.

We’ll look at the Uranus-Eris portion of the New Moon chart in the next installment.

 

Waning II

Our Chief Asteroid Officer noticed a couple of additional things going on in the 26 May Jupiter-Saturn Square chart that we missed.

Not only has OR10 recently Initiated Pallas, but today Nessus does the same, at 6 Pisces, “A parade of army officers in full dress.”  And, Lilith is Conjunct Juno at the head of the Quintile Yod from Chiron and the Venus-Vesta-Sun Stellium.  The Lilith-Juno Initiation occurred last September, in 4 Libra, “Around a campfire a group of young people sit in spiritual communion.”  The current Juno-Lilith Conjunction, complete 29 May, is an Exposition.

Earlier we said, about the Juno QYod, that “it’s time to Learn to bring our Bummers up into Consciousness and deal with them as Masks rather than bottom-line Truths.  Seeing it now as a Juno-Lilith QYod, we can also say, it’s time to Learn to bring our Yangtegrity – our own collaboration with the Patriarchy – up into Consciousness and deal with it as a Mask rather than as a bottom-line Truth.

The asteroid Astraea, Innocence, was with Venus one foot of the Pluto Mjolnir.  We discovered that it was being Initiated by Orcus, who Punished Oath-Breakers for a living, and being Opposed by Pallas (Boundaries).  It turns out that Pallas is also being Initiated, as we speak, by dwarf planet Nessus.  Nessus symbolizes Privilege and Abuse, so a new Pallas-Nessus Cycle will always be welcome if it strengthens our Boundaries against Abuse.  

This new Cycle will be about army officers in dress uniform.  Armies don’t have the best reputation for controlling abuse, but at least the dress uniforms imply that they aren’t in killing mode.  I’m not sure there’s anything on the planet more strictly hierarchical than an army.  So the Patriarchy theme comes up again, this time suggesting Lightning-like Insights about our Boundaries around Yintegrity-killing Discipline.  

How might we sum up all this information?  Let’s start with a tally…

• Overlighting theme is Dropping more Masks (impending Eris-Uranus Configuration, Eris-Uranus Quintile Yod)
• Strong foreground is about Challenge and Mastery over Introversion and Extroversion (Jupiter-Saturn)
• Preparation for Change in the economic structure is also prominent (Jupiter-Saturn, Chiron-Neptune)
• Consciousness about Gender Balance grows (Juno-Lilith Quintile Yod)
• Grace is available for Changing our Karma (South Node Kite)
• Don’t be surprised by Sudden Big Epiphanies around your Transformation (Pluto Mjolnir)
• Boundary issues are Lit Up (Pallas Initiations by OR10 and Nessus)
• In this Transformation we may be able to Recover access to our Abandoned Genius (Ixion Grand Trine)

I guess if we had to put it in one sentence, it might be that we’re seeing another sledgehammer blow (or Lightning strike) to the foundation that holds up the Patriarchy.

21.5.16 Full Moon

The Full Moon is bang on Mars, and the Opposing Sun Conjoins Vesta.

Keep an eye out over the next several weeks for anything that makes you Angry.  It’s a doorway into Letting Go of a Limiting Belief.

The Full Moon is Squared by a Stationary OR10, which Conjoins Pallas and Nessus.  Nessus Initiates Pallas on 26 May at 6 Pisces, “A parade of army officers in full dress.”  Stationary Orcus, which turns Direct on 19 May, completes the Grand Cross, though it’s five Degrees off the Full Moon.  Orcus Opposes Nessus by less than a Degree.

One of the things likely to Anger you is War, or any other form of Abuse or Privilege.  The key is to connect with your own historical or Past-Life experiences of War or Abuse – they’re likely to be “in your face,” even if you don’t recognize them as yours.  Whatever you encounter – in your own Emotional bank, in movies, in the news, in other people – pretend that the experience was yours.

You made an Oath never to do that again over your own equivalent of that experience.  The Oath still Limits your current Life, in ways you may not suspect.  Be Loving and Gentle with yourself, but Let Go of that Oath.  You can “Revert!” (taking an Oath is really the equivalent of putting a Curse on yourself), Tap it Out, or just Ask Ganeshi to Lovingly and Gently Remove All Obstacles between you and Letting Go of the Oath, whatever it was (you don’t need to know the details; it’s enough to know that you have upsetting memories).

Sun-Vesta is the focus of a Finger of God from the Sextile between Juno-Lilith and Lachesis-Hylonome.

There is a Limit to Grief, and its beginning is reached by resolving to Let Go of the Archetype that binds us to Grief.  How many times in our Karmic history has War or other Violence taken our Soulmate, or our Children, or our Land from us?  Random Chance would probably “gift” us with this experience in more than half of our Lifetimes as Hupers.  

Looking back, we might find that we Cherish those as our “lucky” Lifetimes, when we were able to Enjoy Love or Family or Independence, at least till we lost it.  How many other Lives brought us none of those satisfactions?  We forget that Change comes to All things, good or bad, and we Vow not to Experience those Emotions ever again.  In vain; we can’t abandon Any Emotion without squeezing all of the others.  Each episode is an invitation to Take Our Power back.  We’re being Asked here to re-establish our Self-Sovereignty.

Makemake makes a Trine Bridge across the Full-Moon Opposition, forming a Sun/Vesta-Square-OR10-Quincunx-Makemake-Trine-Sun/Vesta Major Tricolor and a Moon/Mars-Square-OR10-Quincunx-Makemake-Sextile-Moon/Mars Minor Tricolor.

Permaculture looks beyond Sustainability towards Resilience – the ability to meet any Crisis with multiple Responses.  Our greatest tool for increasing Resilience is Curiosity.  “I Wonder how I can make Lemonade out of these Emotional intrusions.”  Don’t forget to Change the Subject; you want to get the mind and its YesButs and ThatWon’tWorks onto some other issue, so your natural Survival Instincts and Brilliant Intuitions have an Open Space to rise into.

Uranus inches ever closer to Eris; they’re now just over half a Degree apart.  Closely related, by Degrees, are Chiron (Unx), Sedna’s recent Initiation of Venus (Unx), Chaos’s impending Initiation of asteroid Karma (Sextile), Ixion (Trine), and Haumea (Opposition).

The Sedna-Venus Initiation occurs the day before the Full Moon, in 26 Taurus, “A Spanish galant serenades his beloved.”  The Chaos-Karma Initiation occurs 24 May, in 21 Gemini, “A tumultuous labor demonstration.”  

Whatever is happening in our Young Lives – and I know some of us are enduring torment – it’s roots probably lie in the Masks we retain.  There are still things we admit to no one, and still things we don’t admit to ourself.  No one is proposing that we expose ourselves to Shame, but it would behoove to Ask what triggers Shame for us, then Lovingly Embrace it.  We’ll never get to the bottom of these puzzles without Curiosity and Intuition – if we could get there by other means, we would have done so long ago.

For some of us, Matter is bottom-line, for others of us, Energy.  Our Perspective on Life and Difficulty depends a lot on this Duality.  But it’s not Either/Or, it’s Both/And.  Spirit, Matter, Mind, Emotion, Soul – these aren’t discrete “levels” or compartments of Reality, they’re Perspectives on Reality.  Reality itself is Unitary and Multifarious.  There is Power in shifting Perspective.  

If you’re struggling with a Physical issue, try Asking the Universe to show you pictures of it in the languages of Emotion, Thought, Spirit, and/or Soul.  If you’re struggling with an Emotional issue, try Asking the Universe to show you pictures of it in the languages of Soul, Spirit, Thought, and Body.  If you’re in the middle of a Spiritual Crisis, Ask to be shown what it looks like from the Emotional or Physical point of view.

If the result is Confusion, you’ve arrived.  Your only task is to sit with the Confusion, without trying to “fix” it by seeking Certainty.  Certainty is a method, not a result.  You Ask, “What if I did Know?” when you’re stuck in Duality.  Then you examine the consequences of that Knowing.  But you don’t want to assume you have the “right” answer – the Universe is much too complex for that.  We might move in the “right” direction for a little while, but I guarantee that soon enough this direction will lead us astray.

Pluto Trine-Bridges the Nodes, and Jupiter makes a Waning Square to Saturn as Jupiter prepares to Initiate the North Node at the end of June.  The Can-Opener of the Jupiter-Saturn Waning Square occurred in early August of last year; this one (exact 26 May) is an Exposition.  This Waning Jupiter-Saturn Square marks the final Swan Song of the Industrial Age.  Expect economic malaise until the Digital Age reboots in 2020.

Even though it’s not pleasant, Trust that we’re moving in the direction we need to go.  Resilience will be particularly important for the next four years, and Trusting our own Truth increases Resilience markedly.  

The Great Work of Our Time III

Heart-Shaped Eyes ( https://heartshapedeyes.wordpress.com/ ), with a bow of Thanks, leads us to another Perspective on the Great Work of Our Time – toppling Greed and the Patriarchy.  Permaculture can only help us assure that we can eat next year, it won’t burn the shingles to maximize quarterly profits.  Here’s a fabulous anthem for this view of The Work…

https://heartshapedeyes.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/dont-date-a-mystic-by-allison-nappi/ 

Which is the perfect metaphor for our Sun-Juno-Lilith-Makemake-Rahu Stellium and multiple Initiations on the cusp of Libra, aka the Northern Autumn and Southern Spring Equinox, and with both Chaos and Pluto Standing Still.  Not to mention that other Stellium that’s Square to this one.

Rahu is the Hindu name for the North Node or Dragon’s Head; Ketu for the South Node or Dragon’s Tail.

In case you’ve never noticed, Mother Nature is a Mystic.  She’s also a Scorpio.  Scorpio will give you a lot of rope – many chances to show that your lack of Integrity and Responsibility were just oversights not to be repeated – but then, once the rope runs out, Scorpio has no more for you, and there is no turning back.  The end of the rope isn’t tied to the mast.  That was “for a World whose time is over.”  Humans have been dating Mother Nature and thinking of Her as an ATM for a long time now.