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Parallel Worlds
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 (CST) by Thoth
 We have just lived through the year that was a decade. It was a 14-month year, from November 2, 2004 through December 31, 2005, but with enough changes and developments to fill the average decade.
Among the better-known events, those 14 months encompassed a second stolen presidential election, the Asian tsunami disaster, a series of hurricanes that were devastating to the Southeastern US as well as Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America, and an earthquake centered in the Kashmir area between India and Pakistan. It was another deadly year in Iraq and a time of mounting political chaos in both Congress and the Executive Branch.
There was good news, in a backhanded kind of way. In the midst of it all, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was indicted for crimes relating to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
And, when
nobody was really looking, 2005 turned out to be the year that climate
change went from an imagined, allegedly controversial possibility, to
something that we—everyone—has to deal with.
Astrologically, 2005 was a
transitional year between two significantly different energetic
landscapes. The main developments included:
1. The ingress of Saturn to
Leo in mid-July. In my articles about this change (which can be easily
found on PlanetWaves.net), I documented that Saturn in Leo (which lasts
for about three years out of every 29) is associated with the
phenomenon of dams and levees bursting. Within weeks of Saturn changing
signs, we were faced with one of the most famous, if not the most
famous, levee breaks in US history.
2. Chiron changing signs
from Capricorn to Aquarius. Chiron in Capricorn was the essence of the
"post 9/11 world," beginning within days of the Enron bankruptcy in
late 2001. On the collective level, Capricorn is the sign of
corporations, governments, laws, and structures of all kinds. And we
have certainly had our fill of news from these entities.
Chiron in Aquarius shifts
the awareness from institution to community. Here is a pretty good
example from the last cycle. Half a century ago, within weeks of the
prior transit from Cap to Aquarius, Allen Ginsberg organized the first
garage poetry readings that spawned the Beat Generation. Then through
the late 1950s, we saw the uprising of a national Civil Rights Movement
in the United States, and many examples of the dawning of collective
consciousness—though at the time, it looked mainly like change and
turmoil that was frightening to many.
3. Two other Centaur
planets changed signs. For those who follow astrology, the Centaurs are
today what Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto were in previous decades:
something new, interesting, provocative, and also something we don't
collectively understand so well in the astrology community. Those
Centaurs are Pholus (small cause, big effect) moving into Sagittarius
and Nessus (the buck stops here) moving into Aquarius, along with
Chiron. They all dipped into their new signs early in the year and took
up residence in the autumn.
4. Mars retrograde in
Taurus. The exact retrograde spanned three months, from mid-October
through mid-December. Mars was in Taurus for several months on either
side. Like Saturn in Leo, this is a once-per-three-decade kind of
event, and not surprisingly it's associated with all the kinds of
things we've seen in the second half of 2005—natural disasters,
fluctuations in the price of oil, and politics of a stormy, fiery
nature.
So what's next?
Well, remembering that 2005 was largely a setup for what is coming in 2006, here is the rundown.
Chiron conjunct Nessus in
Aquarius. In 2006 we will experience the second of two exact passes of
this aspect, and a third, which is a near miss. The first exact one was
May 13, 2005. The second will be January 10, 2005. The third (the near
miss) is October 10, 2006. This is an aspect that will be igniting the
Aquarius energy of what you might call "awareness to the people,"
setting a pattern that will last for many years. Aquarius is about
communities, culture, the Internet, group responsibilities, and group
agreements. It is about the politics of the tribe and where the
individual fits in. We all bear wounds involving fitting in, and now is
the time to address them by name, and to go beyond them.
The Parallel Worlds
Alignment. In the first week of February, around the time of the Pagan
holiday Imbolc, there is an unusual alignment between the Sun, Venus,
Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. It involves aspects by longitude (what
sign the planets are in, exact by degree) and by declination (their
distance north or south of the celestial equator). Hence, there are
both aspects and parallels among this group of planets; what some would
call a superaspect, which is one form of a cosmic trigger. As with
Chiron conjunct Nessus, there is strongly implied the choice of where
to put out consciousness, the choice of what we want to be aware of.
Pluto Crossing the Galactic
Core. Though this is not exact until the last week of 2006, there is an
exceptionally close alignment between Pluto and the Galactic Core (in
late Sagittarius) during the first week of spring. This comes
simultaneously with a solar eclipse, as well as the progressions in the
Presidential Inauguration chart going off (part two—part one was the
last week of October). This group of events, clustered together, will
be the stunning sequel of what brought us the Scooter Libby indictment,
only I think it's reasonable to expect something a little more
satisfying. Pluto on the Galactic Core will be humanity's biggest push
in a long, long while in the direction of, well, being humanitarian.
The GC, as an astrological
point, teaches giving up our judgments, seeing the big picture, and
learning lesson one taught by the Core: as within, so without. Or, as
the Course in Miracles would put it, God/Goddess is not outside
yourself. Pluto crossing this point is one of the last vital thresholds
of the Pluto in Sagittarius era, which takes us back to the early 1990s
when the world started to move in the undeniable direction of Jihad, be
it Christian or Muslim.
Saturn opposite Neptune.
This is the aspect beginning in August, but which has been vibrating
around since last summer (and which continues well into 2007) that
you're most likely to read about when cruising the Internet or a
commercial astrological publication. It is the meeting of Saturn in Leo
opposite Neptune in Aquarius. Saturn in Leo (of "when the levee breaks"
fame) opposite Neptune in Aquarius ("let's get fooled again and again
and again and slowly, gradually wake up") means: something comes to a
head. It is a face-to-face meeting between two very different energies:
the solid nature of Saturn in Leo and the watery, ideologically foggy
nature of Neptune in Aquarius.
There is political as well
as individual information in this aspect. Mass consciousness becomes
aware of something particular. That something begins to respond to the
pressure. It is compelling that the first pass of this three-part
aspect occurs on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall.
There, we had one of many examples of land meets sea; of idea meets
reality; of some overwhelming presence inundating something that would
not move; and mainly of a turning point in history.
Oppositions are the full
expression of a conjunction; the opposition of 2006 was preceded by a
conjunction at the time the Berlin Wall came down and with it the Iron
Curtain, the Cold War, and the nuclear arms race. One logical
expression of this aspect would be some turn of history that compelled
many people to give up on the idea of state aggression as a way of life.
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Re: Parallel Worlds
by fox20000 on Friday, January 13, 2006 (CST)
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The writer (Eric) believes everything is to be blamed on George W. Bush. His thoughts are blurred by Liberal ideas. Don't bother reading it. |
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