Three Aquarian Age Dealios as Uranus Goes Retro

If you’re highly Uranian in some way (and not numbed out from food/drugs/meds/booze/porn/TV/video games/etc. or combos of some or all of these), you might feel like you’re on a bullet train into some radical, exciting and somehow unimaginable future. In my circles, admittedly fully Southern Californian and progressive in nature, a lot of us feel this way.

Uranus is stationing retrograde today, so I’m thinking about the kinds of Uranian change we each have the opportunity to see over the next 5 months as it appears to travel backward in Pisces. And since the age of Pisces always leads to the age of Aquarius, it seems a good day to get these comments out to you.

Regardless of whether you think the Age of Aquarius is here already or not (but FYI, it’s not), here are some notes about what’s taking root in the collective consciousness these days that will serve to enable what’s coming.

Aquarian Age Dealio #1: Self-knowledge and self-reliance are key. Individuals must learn to listen to themselves, to trust their inner voices even as they will differ from the normative reality in which they find themselves, or precisely because they differ.

Contrast this with the Piscean dealio that’s about mass control. Pisces is about going with the flow, and works to include the all of everything in whatever it does. The monotheistic religion thing we’ve been doing for a few thousand years is about control and controlling people into the fearing of the asking of questions, because doing that can lead to individuation, what they can’t afford we do.

Aquarian Age Dealio #2: Self-care is paramount. Taking care of the self first enables us to offer what we’d like to offer others and the world. That everyone else needs fixing first is a misconception, a red herring we use to keep ourselves from self-responsibility.

Contrast this with the prevalence of misdirection when it comes to what care is currently surrounding us. Many relationships between humans can use a dose of “I take back my crap and give you back your crap,” and more and more people are waking up to taking responsibility for themselves.

Aquarian Age Dealio #3: Coming together to work with others is about shared perspectives and goals.

I think this one is sometimes a little misunderstood, as people think that in the Aquarian age, we’ll all want the same things and we’ll all get along. There will be no strife, and everyone will be wandering around with glassy, happied-over eyes.

Not that we won’t get along, but that the point of being with other people in a Uranian/Aquarian fashion is that the choice of people needs to be about getting in with people who agree with you about what the future should look like. Aquarius is the sign of “friends, groups and wishes” in that you need to ally with like-minded people to create the kind of future you want to see - no one can do it alone.

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What you get to see over the next 5 months during the retro might not seem to fit any of these. Yet the opportunities for the retro are in understanding what Uranian individuation relative to Piscean assumptions and conditioning you carry and don’t act on most certainly is - it’s just some zodiacal semantics, people.

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June 26, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

News Items for Pluto’s Current Retro into Sagittarius

Marriage redefined in California…more financial industry dirt coming to the surface…high food and gas prices forcing lifestyle changes…

Each of these news items relates to Pluto’s January entrance in Capricorn: The underlying structures of our world, policies and lives come to light. Pluto when it enters a new sign stirs up a flurry of issues related to that sign, and the issues being kicked up now have to do with the current structure of our society.

And in case you’re wondering: No, it couldn’t be any less noisy or significant. Pluto’s directive is to turn over existing soil to find out what’s underneath. How do our banks and monetary & stock markets work? What should be the definition of marriage and (more importantly) who gets to decide it? How does our goods-to-consumer infrastructure, designed for something like $12-15 per barrel for oil hold up when oil selling at ten times that price?

So, that’s the Cap business. Last week Pluto retroed into Sagittarius, the previous sign, where it hung out from 1995 to early 2008. Sagittarius relates to putting an intuitive finger on what might be true, and in the natural zodiac is followed by Capricorn, which aims to bring into manifestation whatever is perceived to be true (for more on this, see my other “Pluto in Capricorn” posts here).

When anything retrogrades from Capricorn to Sagittarius, it’s time to revisit the beliefs we’ve been fashioning during the Capricorn time relative to the planet retrograding. As an example, take the marriage business in California. Two questions come to mind to go with this transit, ones we would serve ourselves well by being open to asking:

Is a belief that society is held together by defining marriage as a man-woman thing more important than the fact that people are people, that we all love and want to spend our lives with someone we love? Is the truth of who we are less important how this word has been defined? 

There’s a dose of reality waiting for us in each of the three situations mentioned above, of which we’ve gotten a taste since Pluto entered Capricorn in January. Will we choose to examine our beliefs from now to late November, when Pluto re-enters Capricorn until 2024? Or will we blow our tops because we don’t want to change, and don’t even want to know where we could change?

Pluto’s questions as it transits are about addressing what doesn’t work, what isn’t serving us anymore, what’s outdated that we’re clinging to, and how we can be more truthful about who we and what we want.  It wants to know what’s hiding under the surface that might be a truer reflection of who we really are. Being willing to look into ourselves and at our beliefs during this period brings the opportunity to empower ourselves by choosing to change, instead of feeling it forced on us with no way out, the feeling that most of us experience with Pluto transits - it doesn’t have to be that way.

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June 20, 2008 By Tom Jacobs

Lilith: Myth vs. Archetype

I’m spending a lot of time these days with Adam, Lilith & Eve, digging into the mythos to understand more about why the natural feminine is perceived to be so dangerous.

We hear that Lilith represents the demonic feminine and that she’s to be feared. Yet when you actually read the myth, you’ll find that you don’t know anyone who’s done the heinous things attributed to her.

There’s a gigantic gulf between how we’re taught to think of Lilith and how we live her story. This is because the story of Lilith is essentially the myth of the patriarchy, and the feminine expressed is, from its perspective, the most dangerous possibility. There’s a lot to work with here, but the underlying message I have for you today is to keep in mind this gulf between the theory we teach our children and the way that they will in actuality live the story.

Look up the myth anywhere and read it. As you do, remember that it’s a control mechanism designed to make people feel bad about having an instinctive side that can’t be controlled by the mind. Essentially, we’re supposed to feel bad about ourselves because we are biological beings, and not mere computer minds.

The fact that we still live her story, despite the attempts to demonize her, is a perpetual thorn in the side of those charged with maintaining our culture as it is. This natural part of us can’t be stomped out, no matter how much it might seem to serve the aims of the particular kind of society we’ve created.

Our task now is to re-interpret Lilith based in how we actually live her story, the archetype, as we leave behind the feminine-negating mythos that villifies Lilith, Adam’s other half, and elevates in her place the bland, milquetoast, watered-down, opinionless submissive who is Eve.

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June 11, 2008 By Tom Jacobs