Post by Michael Hawkins on Oct 30, 2009 18:48:53 GMT -5
Yesterday (October 29) Saturn entered the sign of Libra for the first time in some 28 years. We discussed this astrological signature here. Saturn in Libra follows Saturn in Virgo, moving the world from issues of health, healing and right livelihood into issues of social justice, relationship dynamics and openness to new ideas. We are moving beyond the struggle for a basic social safety-net into a struggle for a better, more sustainable living environment for all beings on Earth.
While Saturn journeys through Libra, it will simultaneously maintain a strong angular relationship with Pluto. We've been feeling the effects of this transit for a while now, but on November 11 these planets will click into an exact squared aspect. On August 20, 2010, they will repeat this exact square, and on August 1, 2011 they will part ways until the next Saturn cycle returns in about 30 years.
So, if Saturn in Libra is opening our collective consciousness to new ideas, expanding our desire for social justice and highlighting the value of relationships (romantic, family, business and otherwise), Saturn squaring Pluto will ensure that whatever healing we collectively experience will be deep, transformative and authentic. The changes confronting us will not be of the nature of applying a bandage or popping an aspirin. No, the coming changes will be more of the nature of life and death – or, more accurately, death and rebirth.
Throughout this event we will be forced to confront the darkness and rawness of the most avoided aspects of our being. Whatever we've managed to bury from an uncomfortable past circumstance – sexual wounding, unfortunate treatment of or by a trusted person, seemingly negative details about ourselves that we'd hoped were safely tucked away into the foggy darkness of willful forgetting – we will be impelled to move directly through these things.
Any attempt to step around this intiatory process will only ensure that the transition will be that much more drastic, that much more intense... and, in many cases, that much more painful and difficult.
Saturn is the structure of our bodies, beliefs, emotions and attitudes. It is the structure of society with its institutions, laws and traditions. It is also the physical structure of our towns and cities, the buildings we live and work in. Saturn is the System in its totality, providing the overall environment in which all beings on Earth work out there existence. Aspecting Pluto as we're describing here, everything that Saturn symbolizes is up for total and complete change.
Pluto – the Dark Mother archetype – is the principle of death, creation, depth healing, the unconscious, the Underworld. In our wounded patriarchy (reaching back some 5,000 years), the Dark Mother is the witch burning at the stake, her natural powers a direct and impulsive threat to a masculine mentality that honestly believes that it owns the world. When fully integrated and embodied, the Dark Mother is healthy sexuality, a proud and strong expression of the deepest, most intense and vibrant beauty imaginable. She is a primordial reminder of a long-neglected aspect of our human heritage, onto which the wounded patriarchy has projected all its fears and inadequacies over the centuries. Thus, she challenges us to drop our cultural conditioning in order to embrace this repressed half of our being, so that we may achieve the elusive individuation that Carl Jung recognized as essential for true healing.
The coiled serpent known as “kundalini” is a symbolic representation of the healing process around which the Dark Mother guides us. The serpent arises from the depths of our repressed unconscious; as mentioned above, it brings forth the darkness and rawness of the most avoided aspects of our being, the material that we've managed to bury from an uncomfortable past circumstance – sexual wounding, unfortunate treatment of or by a trusted person, seemingly negative details about ourselves that we'd hoped were safely tucked away into the foggy darkness of willful forgetting.
When the time comes for us to confront this most elemental process of transformation (a prime symbolic representation being Saturn-square-Pluto), the serpent begins a classic upward movement (for some the manifestation is not so classic, but the illustration remains intact) through the spiritual centers along the spine known as chakras. As each chakra is infused with this nectar from the depths, we are given an opportunity to release from blockages and limitations that have prevented us from knowing wholeness and full expression in the world. When we resist this opportunity to release – when we cling to our comfort zones in fear of what may happen in the unknown beyond – the kundalini builds in intensity at the blockage, the consequences of which may be found in the physical being as well as in the contents of our daily life.
The more we try to avoid the imperative to be cleansed and cleared, the more difficulty we encounter as the pressure and intensity increase. The more we surrender to and honor this divine upwelling, the more harmonious the unfoldment becomes... and we find that we are better able to let go of our limitations in life, even when we'd previously convinced ourselves that we could not possibly live without them.
And so, planet Earth with all its living beings, its natural biospheres and psychic structures, is moving into a collective version of the kundalini rising along the sacred centers of universal consciousness.
There is no avoiding it, no stepping around it, no pretending that the impending transformation will effect some distant realms having nothing to do with our life in the here and now.
We as individuals and as planetary citizens will be asked to let go of the trappings of our comfort zones. Limiting beliefs and attitudes won't shelter us from what's coming. Old hatred and anger and resentment will be consumed one way or another, depending on our willingness to allow this natural healing process to do its thing. We can do it the hard way or the easy way... but there's no halfway when Pluto gets together with Saturn.
On October 6, 2012, Saturn leaves Libra and enters Scorpio (the sign ruled by Pluto, thus another expression of the Dark Mother archetype). At that time we will have been blessed by this earlier opportunity to be transformed – assuming that we make the choice now to allow the grindingly thorough Intelligence of Pluto free reign to do with us what She deems appropriate. Understanding that She is already a very real aspect of each of our individual beings, we may rest assured that She knows what most needs to be changed in us, even when we'd rather close our eyes and skip this essential procedure of our soul.
She is our shepherd through the Underworld, and she is capable of making the journey a blissful and rewarding one. Our challenge is to surrender fully to Her guidance.
While Saturn journeys through Libra, it will simultaneously maintain a strong angular relationship with Pluto. We've been feeling the effects of this transit for a while now, but on November 11 these planets will click into an exact squared aspect. On August 20, 2010, they will repeat this exact square, and on August 1, 2011 they will part ways until the next Saturn cycle returns in about 30 years.
So, if Saturn in Libra is opening our collective consciousness to new ideas, expanding our desire for social justice and highlighting the value of relationships (romantic, family, business and otherwise), Saturn squaring Pluto will ensure that whatever healing we collectively experience will be deep, transformative and authentic. The changes confronting us will not be of the nature of applying a bandage or popping an aspirin. No, the coming changes will be more of the nature of life and death – or, more accurately, death and rebirth.
Throughout this event we will be forced to confront the darkness and rawness of the most avoided aspects of our being. Whatever we've managed to bury from an uncomfortable past circumstance – sexual wounding, unfortunate treatment of or by a trusted person, seemingly negative details about ourselves that we'd hoped were safely tucked away into the foggy darkness of willful forgetting – we will be impelled to move directly through these things.
Any attempt to step around this intiatory process will only ensure that the transition will be that much more drastic, that much more intense... and, in many cases, that much more painful and difficult.
Saturn is the structure of our bodies, beliefs, emotions and attitudes. It is the structure of society with its institutions, laws and traditions. It is also the physical structure of our towns and cities, the buildings we live and work in. Saturn is the System in its totality, providing the overall environment in which all beings on Earth work out there existence. Aspecting Pluto as we're describing here, everything that Saturn symbolizes is up for total and complete change.
Pluto – the Dark Mother archetype – is the principle of death, creation, depth healing, the unconscious, the Underworld. In our wounded patriarchy (reaching back some 5,000 years), the Dark Mother is the witch burning at the stake, her natural powers a direct and impulsive threat to a masculine mentality that honestly believes that it owns the world. When fully integrated and embodied, the Dark Mother is healthy sexuality, a proud and strong expression of the deepest, most intense and vibrant beauty imaginable. She is a primordial reminder of a long-neglected aspect of our human heritage, onto which the wounded patriarchy has projected all its fears and inadequacies over the centuries. Thus, she challenges us to drop our cultural conditioning in order to embrace this repressed half of our being, so that we may achieve the elusive individuation that Carl Jung recognized as essential for true healing.
The coiled serpent known as “kundalini” is a symbolic representation of the healing process around which the Dark Mother guides us. The serpent arises from the depths of our repressed unconscious; as mentioned above, it brings forth the darkness and rawness of the most avoided aspects of our being, the material that we've managed to bury from an uncomfortable past circumstance – sexual wounding, unfortunate treatment of or by a trusted person, seemingly negative details about ourselves that we'd hoped were safely tucked away into the foggy darkness of willful forgetting.
When the time comes for us to confront this most elemental process of transformation (a prime symbolic representation being Saturn-square-Pluto), the serpent begins a classic upward movement (for some the manifestation is not so classic, but the illustration remains intact) through the spiritual centers along the spine known as chakras. As each chakra is infused with this nectar from the depths, we are given an opportunity to release from blockages and limitations that have prevented us from knowing wholeness and full expression in the world. When we resist this opportunity to release – when we cling to our comfort zones in fear of what may happen in the unknown beyond – the kundalini builds in intensity at the blockage, the consequences of which may be found in the physical being as well as in the contents of our daily life.
The more we try to avoid the imperative to be cleansed and cleared, the more difficulty we encounter as the pressure and intensity increase. The more we surrender to and honor this divine upwelling, the more harmonious the unfoldment becomes... and we find that we are better able to let go of our limitations in life, even when we'd previously convinced ourselves that we could not possibly live without them.
And so, planet Earth with all its living beings, its natural biospheres and psychic structures, is moving into a collective version of the kundalini rising along the sacred centers of universal consciousness.
There is no avoiding it, no stepping around it, no pretending that the impending transformation will effect some distant realms having nothing to do with our life in the here and now.
We as individuals and as planetary citizens will be asked to let go of the trappings of our comfort zones. Limiting beliefs and attitudes won't shelter us from what's coming. Old hatred and anger and resentment will be consumed one way or another, depending on our willingness to allow this natural healing process to do its thing. We can do it the hard way or the easy way... but there's no halfway when Pluto gets together with Saturn.
On October 6, 2012, Saturn leaves Libra and enters Scorpio (the sign ruled by Pluto, thus another expression of the Dark Mother archetype). At that time we will have been blessed by this earlier opportunity to be transformed – assuming that we make the choice now to allow the grindingly thorough Intelligence of Pluto free reign to do with us what She deems appropriate. Understanding that She is already a very real aspect of each of our individual beings, we may rest assured that She knows what most needs to be changed in us, even when we'd rather close our eyes and skip this essential procedure of our soul.
She is our shepherd through the Underworld, and she is capable of making the journey a blissful and rewarding one. Our challenge is to surrender fully to Her guidance.
