March 9-17
This entire week Pluto will be
stationary Direct still, but on March 20 Pluto will
turn around (as it were) and retrogade back in the
zodiac, from 17+ Sagittarius currently, to 14.54
Sagittarius August 25 this year. Then it will move
forward again to reach this same 17+ Sagittarius
degree of right now only in December again.
We are in the middle of an enormous
turn-around in the cycle of "Power and
Organization". In Holland this is becoming quite
clear in view of the local elections held last week,
but in fact, it is an energy which can be felt
distinctively in the personal lives of each single
one of us. The cycle started early in the 80'ies when
Pluto and Saturn were conjunct -- and because of the
"Full Moon" position of this cycle right
now (Pluto and Saturn in opposition), it is
culminating and turning around 180 degrees.
Confrontation, power and feelings of powerlessness
are themes influencing our emotional lives
tremendously. Everybody who has been 'damaged' during
a Pluto transit in the past two decades can attest to
that, but does everybody understand that the 'damage'
is on the level of ego? Because that is what Pluto
'damages' indeed. Being confronted with sickening
processes where people misuse their power in personal
relationships, in one's workplace, in organizations
and their boardmembers, in politics, poisoning the
entire environment, time and time again bring forth
our deepest negative emotions and are tests for each
single one of us. But beyond such occurrences being
true tests in one's life, the question might well be
asked: why do we ALLOW other people to take us on
THEIR path of negativity so often? Why are we so
untrained in dealing with such processes? Why are we
not clear about what is right and what is not? Why
are we in reality afraid that our own own position
will be undermined, so that we act against our own
better knowing (or rather - don't act) and continue
with the stream of events "in the hope that it
will pass?" . Pluto-Saturn in fact confronts
many of us with this notion that things will NOT
pass, that the time has come to ACT. That the time
has come to stop damaging yourself, because in fact,
that is what in such cases as described above happens
in reality. In all those cases where we give away
power, and are, to be honest, quite opportunistic
ourselves for fear of our own position, and
consequently lose touch with our own inner Selves. We
become weak, and in fact, damage ourselves in those
poisonous social processes where one person acts as
the Pluto catalyser poisoning the system, and all
that we are really confronted with, is our own
inadequacy to do something about it. If that is al
true, then what is the true violence here? Is it
coming from all those people who seduce us into their
schemes and then create havock? Or is it coming
because in reality we violate our own inner selves?
Whatever the case may be, I suddenly
realized that those of us who have struggled in the
past 2 decennia and almost became 'victims' of
negative Pluto persons or processes on their path,
probably are feeling within, that a true turn-around
is happening on the occasion of the current
Pluto-Saturn culmination and turn-around point in the
cycle. The whole cycle is reversing! Potentially it
is possible to become liberated from all these
negative processes by no longer buying into the
schemes of others who promise us outer security of
our positions and where we know we are violating our
own principles. We should become a lot more clear on
things (Pluto and Saturn are in the mental signs of
Sagittarius and Gemini) and should stop violating our
very own souls!
And then pray that the 'victims' of the
first half of the cycle will not eventually become
the 'persecutors' in the second half:-))
So keep things and keep your power where
you truly have it: with yourself. Do no longer accept
the fact that other people just poison the
environment in your life, do not play their games, do
not be so open for seductions of powerpositions
(Saturn/Pluto) that others promise: these positions
are crumbling in many cases right now, aren't they?
This current Pluto-Saturn transformation could well
be a true turning point in your life and bring you
back to a true point of security within, rather than
without. You know within exactly what feels right and
what does not. Listen to that voice and become
centered and clear.
It is never so, that liberation comes
for the 'whole world' at once at such a turning point
in a cycle, because the world will ever 'turn around
as it always did'. But its energy reverses 180
degrees, People in outer power exchange this right
now for inner power, but... the other half of the
world will do the reverse and will get outer power in
exchange for inner power. They will get into the
maelstrom of outer organization and management, and
will be tested henceforth.
Thursday March 14 it is New Moon at
23.19 Pisces. Mercury by that time also entered the
sign of Pisces. Beyond clarity vis-a-vis your own
reactions in the Pluto-Saturn business, this New Moon
also asks for compassion. But Pisces is an entirely
"inner" signature, not an outer one. The
compassion should be within, clear action should be
on the outside. This New Moon is on a degree where
the Mandala (Rudhyar) states that it is good to
accept one's limitations and return to the basis of
your life. Center yourself, so that a full life
starts on the inside rather than a full life on the
outside and emptiness on the inside. Become clear,
refocus yourself, and have a great New Moon cycle!
Last weekend I attended a very
inspiring retreat with one of the Brahmacharini's
from Paramahansa Yogananda's Self-Realization
Fellowship (Los Angeles) here in Holland. it was a
truly divine gift and inspired me to update the
literature which this organization publishes on the
following page: http://www.astrologie.ws/yoganan.htm - if
you have never read any of Yogananda's works, than
start with his "Autobiogaphy
of a Yogi"!
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