Neptune’s Child

I don’t know my soul
But I seek it everywhere
I go into the light
And then float about in the darkness
Sin shrouds me and then divinity

Scorpio Moon’s Dance Card is Full‏

Stern Grief extends an imperative hand
But I tell him I am engaged
I’d rather dance this one with gentle Sorrow
Than submit to Grief’s bleak demands.

I stop for a break, for a drink
To stand alone in a dark balcony
One with the cool evening breeze
And I remember the many dances I’ve danced.

Pluto square Pluto by Transit

There are some posts you almost don’t write because you’re not ready yet to write such things. But you’re in the process of getting there, so you take your The Book of Pluto by Steven Forrest and Predictive Astrology Bernadette Brady and create a DIY post you hope will be helpful to those reading it.

This post is the promised sequel to my February post: Pluto in Libra Generation: Living Happily Ever After. In this post, I’m going to focus specifically on the Pluto square this generation is experiencing since Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn in January, 2008. The mills of God and Pluto grind slow but grind exceedingly small. Pluto stays in Capricorn till March, 2023. And during this period of 15 years, it will have squared itself in the charts of everyone who was born with Pluto in Libra.

Steven Forrest says that a well-lived Pluto in your chart gives you the great gift of feeling your life to be meaningful. But if you do not work with your Pluto, do not honor its call, do not pay its price; the bleakness of life will get you. You will be enfolded by that worst feeling of all: the feeling of your life being without meaning. It’s a great insight and I have found it to be true. He’s a great teacher and you really must get that book I mentioned earlier if you are working with Pluto or trying to understand it in charts.

Steve talks about Pluto’s square to itself by transit as a time when your beliefs are questioned.  When things you have always taken for granted come up for examination vis-à-vis their meaningfulness in life.  This examination may cause you to change your beliefs. And that is a deep thing because our beliefs are what determine our choices and actions and it is these choices and actions that form our life. So basically, when you’re faced with this square, you’re in the process of transforming your life.

The transformation is going to come whether you like it or not. And since it is a square, you probably aren’t going to like it very much. I see the Pluto square activating when you find yourself face down in the carpet weeping, “Why me?” When you hold on to what is not been working for you, not wanting thing to change and appealing to God saying, “Please help me. Please fix this.”

Can’t Get Away from Polarity

Polarities Matter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can’t think of one without the other
Can’t have Pisces without talking about Virgo

If Aries is me, I have to think of you
And you is Libra

If  Taurus is the sensory, we have to think of Scorpio
Of the psychological too

If Gemini is information
We have to think of principals, of Sagittarius

The home is in Cancer, but we have to go out into the world
of Capricorn to earn that bread

Your selfhood is aglow in Leo
But the group matters, too, teaches Aquarius

Pisces might be all about the soul
But your body is matter, politely points out Virgo.

They told us that the cardinal T-Square would be tough. It was. We know this because we lived through 2010 and 2011. But I quite like 2012. It could be Neptune’s ingress into Pisces: surrender to a higher power. Or it could be just psychological exhaustion: Yeah, I’m beat and I’m lying here, face down in the carpet. I accept, I accept. Funny thing about acceptance, it makes happiness sneak around and sit in your lap again. I don’t mean giving up on things without a fight. I mean an intelligent surrender to forces bigger than you, to reality, to what cannot be changed.

So, I like this Neptune ingress into the sign of the Fish. One of its meanings could be recognizing higher powers that are around us. A divine design if you will. And connecting to it. I think that’s important. It gives meaning to suffering, patience to endurance and it is the triumph of sacrifice. Neptune rules addiction and I heard Steven Forrest say in a recorded lecture that addiction is born because of a feeling of separateness. It’s a wanting to connect, a longing for the divine home where you will always be safe, always loved.

Pluto in Libra Generation: Living Happily Ever After

Togetherness: Eeyore and Rabbit

Disclaimer: I need to research this more: re-read Steven Forrest and Jeff Greene’s books on Pluto and go through Dr. Tarnas’ Cosmo and Psyche. And it would help to get data on divorce rates. But I thought I’d just put down a few of my thoughts about my cohort: The Pluto in Libra generation.  These are just my thoughts and speculations.

Do you have Pluto in Libra: Pluto moved into Libra on 6 Oct 1971 and stayed there till 5 Nov 1983. But it retrograded into Virgo from 18 April 1972 till 30 July 1972.

Saturn in Libra: The last two years have been, um, interesting for this generation. Saturn moved into Libra on 30 Oct 2009 and has been on a slow and excruciating transit through the sign of marriage. With our Pluto there, this is not an easy transit to ignore. I’m sure we all have stories to tell. And now Saturn is almost gone, almost done but not quite. It stationed on the last degree of Libra and is retrograde again. In an interesting synchronicity, I got a phone call just as I started writing this. It was from a friend who’s into astrology and whose marriage has become intolerable. I told her that the current retrograde is a time of revision and when it stations and goes direct, decisions will be made. Relationships may end or you may decide to not end them: either ways, this is a time for choices.

A Question of Degree

The 29th degee with the 0 degree. Photo from http://www.divinedolphin.com/

I don’t know much about degrees. I know very little. I have heard of and read about critical and anaretic degrees but that’s all. It was a comment my friend Carl Karas made on my one of my Facebook statuses recently that got me thinking about them. He mentioned how wistful I sound and he referred to my anaretic degrees. I have Mars at 29 50’ Taurus and Uranus at 28 59’ Libra. :: sotto voce:: I want to whine about this quinqunx but I’ll leave that out for now.

So anyways, what Carl said got me thinking about the 29^th degree. Astrologers I respect think it is in fact a significant degree. I’ll add a link at the bottom of this post and you can check it out there.  But you read so many varying things about it: it’s the penultimate degree of a sign so the expression is strong; it is almost into the other sign, so the expression is weak; it can’t make up its mind and then it plunges into some rash action.

What I think is that unless you were born with a planet there that is Rx or about to go Rx, that planet is going to progress very soon into the next sign. Especially if it is the fast-moving bodies we’re talking about. Picture this: You’re born with the Sun at 29 Scorpio and at Age 1 your progressed Sun moves to 0 Sag. Or you’re born with Venus at 10 Sag and at around Age 20, it progresses into Cap. You’re going to feel and remember that one, if your romantic and relationship style and needs undergo a change when you’re a young adult.

Before Synastry: A Very Basic Look at Charts

Touching someone's heart or looking into their soul is sacred. Do it with care and reverence.

Because I’m awfully lucky, I have a copy of Richard Idemon’s Through the Looking Glass: A Search for the Self in the Mirror of Relationships. The book is a transcript of a week-long seminar that Richard did and it has been edited into a book by another person I love to read, Howard Sasportas. In fact, it is the transcripts of seminars that Howard Sasportas and Liz Greene did that I really love more than the books either one of them wrote individually. Astrologers, all three of them, but also psychologists. And great minds. We owe them a lot.

There is so much treasure in Through a Looking Glass. The chapter on love where Richard talks about the four concepts of love that the Greek knew is something we all need to read and understand. Don’t they say that to understand all is to forgive all? Well, I think understanding also leads to the beginning of self-healing and I’d recommend this book just for that.

When I started my relationships’ classes with Dawn, one of the first things she taught was to look at the missing element or modality in a person’s chart because they will be strongly drawn to people who have what they are missing. Any good astrologer will tell you that before you do either prediction or synastry, you should look at the person’s chart and understand it well. Transits, progressions and synastry don’t happen in a discrete units, they interact with the chart and you have to read them like that. Which is why I don’t do readings: it’s too much work.

To get back to the point, Richard says the same thing: look at the chart, look at the dominant function, the inferior function, the singletons and which aspects predominate. By function he meant: element, modality, signs, house orientation and yin-yang balance. Look at that you’ll have a fairly good idea of the areas where someone over-compensates, represses and projects onto the other. Projects and draws them into their ambit.