Just so’s you’re in the loop with all this planetary change stuff ……

These last few weeks have been quite fraught what with no fewer than 3 eclipses – 2 Lunar – and 1 Solar – the last of which is on 25th May, at 4h30 GMT, with the Earth eclipsing the Moon at 4 degrees of Sagittarius, so anyone with a birthday at the end of November may notice some energy shifts – particularly around higher learning, religion and legal matters. People often marry around this kind of event, which I suspect will ensure that the marriage itself will contain some of these matters as a theme to their married life.

Also, this last week we have also experienced the fourth repeat of the Uranus/Pluto square – this hard aspect between the planetary energies of revolution and transformation – the force majeure event that makes society i.e. you and me and everyone else, go through changes that we would rather not go through. We all want things to remain the same and they won’t let us do that any more – change is endemic – we must get used to it. Especially as we have already had four events of this relationship of challenge and subversion – and look what’s happened out there! And yes, we have another 3 to go up to 2017. We are being asked/demanded by the Universe to let go of how we expect our world to be and just watch it all unfold before our eyes.

When I was teaching my group last Thursday, I realised that while we talk about the “last time these two guys were doing this was in 1931” and we leave it at that. I explained to my eager students that then in 1931 Pluto was on the long side of his very elliptical orbit ( think riding school lessons with short ends and long sides – if you’re into horses!) and was going through Cancer for something like 27 years i.e. very slowly. Uranus was going through Aries at his normal rate of 7 years per sign. Thus they only made one hit, as Uranus leapt ahead – and boy did it change everything!

They both came together (a conjunction – i.e. in the same sign) like a marriage of energies, in the Sixties (end ’62 to end ’69) and brought about many society shifting events – Flower Power, New Age ideas, development of Psychotherapy, alternative lifestyles and healing methods, etc. Also revolution in China and the Vietnam war, etc.

Now with Pluto on the very narrow end of his orbit through Capricorn, his orbit is more or less matching Uranus’ 7 year passage through Aries, hence the square repeating over and over through quite a number of years.

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And now for something completely different – the Solar Principle of Selfhood and Love.

I have been reading quite a number of books – and have mentioned them over the years on this blog. The latest is “Dying to be me” by Anita Moorjani, about a young woman who suffers from terminal cancer and to all intents and purposes dies of her illness. She then undergoes a very similar experience to that of Eben Alexander in his “Proof of Heaven”. See below for references.

These writers suggest that the Universe is made of Love, pure, unadulterated, Unconditional Love. They both underwent a huge shift in their beliefs about Life after Death and they returned to life and wrote their stories for us all to learn.

This got me to thinking about the whole idea of Universal and Unconditional Love – if what these good people have written is true, and why would it not be? – then there must be an astrological signature for it.

I was always taught that Venus was the planet of Love – but as she also rules attraction, relationships and values, money etc – I begin to think maybe not Venus for this task. Venus is conditional upon what agreements we make with the object of our love – so not quite what I’m talking about here.

Given that the orbits of the planets and the Moon around our Earth can be seen by the naked eye – except for Uranus, Neptune and Pluto – then what is it that makes them visible to us? It is their brightness, their reflection of the Sun’s light making them shine so that we can see them and trace their orbits. By the way, the difference between a planet and a star is that a star twinkles and a planet does not. All the stars are Suns to their own solar systems out there in deepest space.

I am reminded of Hafez’s poem:

“Even after all this time,

The Sun never says to the Earth,

‘You owe me.’

Look what happens with a Love like that –

It lights the whole world.”

So, do we have to look at the Sun as the indicator of Unconditional Love? I think we do – the Sun represents the Self within us – our droplet of God. The sign in which our Sun is placed will indicate the manner of our Loving – so in Gemini, we will show our love through our communicating and bringing people together in an airy and light way; in Cancer, we will show it in the way we nurture others and take care of them and ourselves; in Leo we will shine like the Sun itself and will embrace everyone with our warmth, generosity and loyalty – just as the Sun doesn’t wander off to another system to illuminate; in Scorpio we will show our love through our attention and desire to heal the pain of others.

I needn’t go on – I’m sure you get my drift. Just apply the highest qualities of your particular Sun sign and ask yourself “Am I doing that? And if not, why not yet? What can I do to make it so?” And watch your life change…….

The ancients worshipped the Sun as a God, particularly the Egyptians. They also saw Astrologers as holders of Ancient Wisdom, and held them in high regard. How different it is now.

And if God is Love, then they were right. Our own personal take on this depends on the condition of our natal Sun and what planets are in relationship to it. This can make for a rocky road towards Selfhood – and yet, if we chose our life before we came into being, then it is part of this life’s journey to get to Illumination and Love, no matter how strenuous the journey. And then we can bathe in the Light of Unconditional Love as those writers above describe.

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Books:

Love Poems from God – twelve sacred voices from the East and West – by Daniel Ladinsky. Published by Penguin Compass.

Proof of Heaven: a Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife – by Eben Alexander, published by Piatkus

Dying to be Me: my Journey from Cancer; to Near Death to True Healing – by Anita Moorjani published by Hay House

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