Astrology: Climate Vs. Weather
Before committing to awakedness this morning, the following unfolded in my mind:
Understanding the planets and signs, and how planets work through signs, is a way to understand our collective unfoldment as life on earth. The solar system in which we find ourselves is a giant clock, and those of us who can learn to tell the time of life on earth open doors to understand how to seize opportunities to assist in the evolution of the human soul and life on earth.
Each individual lives out a personal history of astrological weather, and that is the context for individual readings/consultations. But we as a collective experience the movement of the planets as a backdrop to our collective experience, a kind of climate informing our lives, even as we live with our own regional, personal weather.
An astrologer called Dane Rudhyar wrote that a person is born as an answer to a question, or problem, posed by the universe. If we look at the universe as an evolution of life that unfolds in the posing of questions to be answered, we can use a knowledge of astrology to bring to conscious awareness the questions the universe is asking, and become better able to participate meaningfully and consciously in how life is unfolding here and now in answer to them.
It’s the foundation for a mini-course a friend of mine and I discussed yesterday. She is a real-deal, full-of-love-for-all-beings medium and teacher, and facilitates a group on Meetup.com for psychic mediumship development. She expressed an interest in understanding current astro events as the backdrop of what we’re all experiencing, to, as I understood it, add to her conscious relating to the moment at hand. I became inspired to develop a mini-course to help anyone understand how to read the clock that’s telling the time of life on earth.
This brought up for me a resparking of my love for exploring the possibilities that exist for members of generations to identify and offer their gifts. Each person born bears the imprint of the times in which he or she is born. When my focus is on counseling individuals, I frame this in terms of the time in which a person is born offers the right mix of elements and influences, opportunities and sparks for those opportunities, to explore and advance along his or her individual karmic journey. At the generational level, then, we’re talking for example about all the Pluto-Uranus in Virgo people born in the 1960s sharing a collective Pluto-Uranus-in-Virgo karmic dealio that, while manifesting differently in different individuals for a host of reasons, shares a common thematic, vibrational thread. What we can do with this notion on the collective level is to understand the opportunity for collective contribution of the people born in that generation, based on that thematic, vibrational thread.
Which offers an amazing opportunity to address collective needs, in fact, something I see a lot of people itching to do. For those in the Pluto-Uranus-in-Virgo group, for example, there can manifest a spirit of activism (whether it’s brought out or not, and either for any number of reasons). And yet the most obvious arena for that, national politics, seems to many interested in contributing to real change to offer more barbs of absurdly debilitating compromise than opportunities to effect real change. But if you understand what intentions underlie this generational desire to creat and assist change, other avenues for expression that don’t involve fearing that you’ll be found out to have in your youth experimented with drugs (or men or women - or whatever) will become apparent.
Another side of this kind of thinking that inspires me is understanding the progression of concerns, passions, needs, desires, intentions and fears of each generation as an answer to the concerns, etc., of the previous generation. Use Pluto in each sign to define generations, and understand how each sign in the zodiac is a reaction to the one coming before it. Watch how the issues of Gemini lead to Cancer as a reaction, and Leo as a reaction to Cancer, and then Virgo as reaction to Leo, Libra to Virgo, Scorpio to Libra - and while the Pluto in Sagittarius generation is still rather young, if you build this picture of each generation taking a turn away from the previous generation’s focus in line with the methods and motivations of each sign, you’ll even be able in your mind to fill in some blanks that the Pluto-in-Sagittarius kids of today haven’t yet had a chance to create on a broad, social level.
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October 4, 2007 By Tom Jacobs