Naked Astrology

11/14/11 Insight of the Day: On TruthVille, the amps all go to 11:11

2011-11-14T07:39:00.000-08:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see my naked friends today. Those that are more mathematically inclined may enjoy todays insight. If you are not so much, you may want to take out your handy dandy
notebooks, or if you are naked and without a notebook, find a friend with a marker and he or she can connect the dots on your body in order to help you ground intuitively into the mathematics of which we speak. When the body takes on certain yoga poses, forming curves and circles, it is easier to see it as a microcosm of the universe itself... distance between vital parts is relative not only to the distance between cosmic bodies, but also the time it takes for each of us to reach particular aspects of our unconscious self. Space and time are an abstraction of mind, a mind that has crystallized into the illusion of space and time, which are merely tools from which we move from one differentiated aspect of self to another.

Astrology is a science of relativity. Today I will use the phenomenon of 11:11 and its relativity
to the planet Neptune. Let us take the 24 hour cycle of the day and relate it to the 360 degree
cycle...reflected in the 365 days of the year and on a greater scale, 360 years. Keep in mind
that in astrology, a day equals a year equals a degree...each in themselves are monadic units of
measure which can be related to each other in terms of times of transformations. 11 hours and 11 minutes is 46 percent of a day, and the 165 years and change of Neptunes orbit around the Sun is 46 percent of a greater cycle of 360 years. Ironically, Neptune was discovered exactly 165 years and change ago, so you receive this insight on a significant return in its own cycle. What does this mean? Well, Neptune represents the ONENESS, reflected in the singular number itself, but also Neptune represents an escape from the mundane reality, a portal that we can enter and find redemption from our past, reincarnating this very past in order to heal ourselves and our planet. Being taken in by aliens or trancending to a different dimension or whatever is spoken of about the 11:11, this comes from the imagination as a symbol of the opportunity that is offered here on this planet. I will have more to say regarding this tomorrow, and I hope you join me and we can tap in to the power of 11. Until then, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

11/13/11 Insight of the Day: Saturn and Neptune

2011-11-13T08:24:00.001-08:00

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If your naked and you know it and you really want to show it if you naked and you know it.....
Ah, hello my naked friends. The Naked Astrologer has been traveling to many many lands of late to spread the truth behind the physical experience. There are many worlds in which physicality is experienced, most just happen to exist in a different dimension of time and frequency. You will meet these aspects of your greater self when the time is appropriate. For now, let us discuss the workings of Saturn and Neptune.

There two planets are considered opposite to most conventional astrologers. Saturn creates
borderlines of distinction, and Neptune removes all boundaries. Saturn could be likened to stone, and Neptune to the powerful ocean. Through Neptune, we continuously tap into the sea of creativity. Redemption from past trials is offered through Neptune. However, with any path you choose, there is methodology that must follow the physical laws of this world. Saturn is where you must learn and become responsible for what it is that you want. You can have anything that you want in this world, but there is a cost. Saturn will bring that cost to your threshold, and often you will find that this cost is the pain and fears that resonate deep within from previous trials of experience. These must always be moved through and healed if you are to move forward in self awareness, self mastery, and with the ability to responsibly manifest the way you were born to.

It will be my pleasure to stay here for awhile and once again bring these insights to you on a
daily basis. I have missed you all and love you all. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and
Astrology!

10/31/2011 Naked Insight of the Day: Happy Halloween

2011-10-31T07:30:00.000-07:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see all my naked earth friends. I have been on a tour of your galaxy
spreading the messages of Truth, Love, Awareness, and Astrology. Such a tour requires not only a shift in space, but a shift in time and vibrational frequency. There are many dimensions that you must expand into in order to perceive life outside of your own planet. For now, you are
assimilating your own inner life differentiations.
This brings us to Halloween and its appropriate expression during the Sun's journey through the
sign of Scorpio. The shadow self looms within all of us, calling us to act upon its expression of
consciousness which is usually in polarity to the ego. If we answer the call, is it a trick, or
will it be a treat? If you find that it is a trick, you are hedging your bets. Whatever you are
dressing up at, whether it be a naked vampire, or a shreaking banshee in the nude, or a sexy witch with her body fully exposed, or maybe you are a couple dressing as the Naked Astrologer and his lover, your dress is the shadow seeking to integrate with you. Think of the hideous
monster that is the shadow as the part of you that has taken a beating through lifetimes as you
sacrifice its truth for the validation and acceptance from others and society. Doing this cages
the self within. Let the shadow out everyday, not just on Halloween, and you will find that this
beast and the lover with whom you cuddle by the fire and feed fruit to is one and the same. The
shadow integrated. Conscious and unconscious acting as one. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth,
Awareness, and Astrology!

10/16/2011 Naked Insight of the Day: South Lunar Node

2011-10-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there my naked and cuddly friends. Did you enjoy your journey to TruthVille this week?
If you ever want to go back, all roads lead there, and from TruthVille, the complexity of roadsleads to complete diversity and differentiation. I see you found your way back to the diverse anddifferentiated reality you live in right now. Currently in the lunation cycle, the moon has reached Gemini, but it has also reached the South Lunar Node, which means that the Moons path reaches the point today where the Moons cyclical path and the Suns cyclical path cross. The South Node as opposed to the North Node is symbolic of returning to where you have been with the new lessons that you have learned in the present. Now that you have been Occupying TruthVille and become part of the 0.00426 percent, experiencing such oneness with your brothers and sisters, what are you going to do now that you have returned to the illusion of separation? With Jupiter opposing Venus and Mercury in Scorpio, it is likely that you will want to return to the value of yourself as a unique individual. This is a wonderful thing, because you are unique and special and should be recognized for this. Just remember that this is like a costume party, and we are celebrating diversity of creative consciousness. You will not be able to hold on to this illusory phase of your diversity, and you shouldnt want to, for we will be waiting at home in TruthVille for you to come cuddle with us by the fireplace and drink magic coffee with us. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness and Astrology!

Naked Horoscopes for Full Moon 10/11/2011: OCCUPY TRUTHVILLE!

2011-10-11T15:35:00.001-07:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see all my naked earth friends as well as my earth friends that are two
repressed to enjoy being naked with us, as well as my earth friends that find comfort in their
clothes for whatever reason. If you earth people weren't so strangely sensitive to having your ego particularly excluded even when its something as trivial as a freaking horoscope column, I wouldnt have to join your politically correct ways in order to demonstrate the consideration that we on TruthVille were born with. However, I have learned that in order to get your message across, it is best to cater somewhat to your fragile egos so that you wont stop listening to me. You are all here because this is Occupy TruthVille week. This is a big part of the lesson for this Full Moon in Aries. Each of us needs to be heard, and yet we are limited as to how we are heard if we do not hear others. When you Occupy TruthVille, you embody all that you are and no longer fear that your brothers or sisters are going to take anything away from you. If I did offend anyones fragile ego, consider yourself held for hours while we lie together in front of a fireplace as I feed you chocolate chip cookie dough with my toes. Enjoy todays horoscope, and until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

Aries - So you find yourself visiting downtown TruthVille and cant be fully content for some
reason. You see the coffee shop with the homegrown marijuana brewed into the coffee, and the
fireplace with the firedancers outside beckoning for all to come cuddle by the fire. These are
all ideas that you have had, and your ego feels torn that you find it already created and do not
feel the credit projected upon you. That is because you created this long ago, and have now
incarnated in this world under a strange human disguise. Enjoy the experience of what you are.
You did create this and we are thankful.

Taurus - It finally dawned on you the day that you gave your StarWars action figure collection to your son, and he lost your most valuable figure the first day, and torched Princess Lea until her plastic buttcheeks melted together. The lesson is that you demonstrate value with your heart, not with your things. You decide to take your son to Truthville, where you walk into a coffeeshop where people are cuddling by the fire feeding cookie dough to each other and sipping a special kind of coffee that makes you really relaxed. Your son looks over at the bar, and is shocked to see Princess Lea sitting there with Greedo and two of the other bounty hunters that few remember but the purists. You all sit and have coffee and chat about Star Wars for hours, and you see your son appreciate the importance that your StarWars collection has for you not from the things, but from this special experience.

Gemini - You find yourself in TruthVille craving the famous cookie dough you have heard so much about. You seem unsure about what you have heard regarding people feeding each other with their feet, but you decide to check it out. You walk in and see what looks almost exactly like yourself, cuddling with the Naked Astrologer and feeding him cookie dough with your toes. What really freaks you out is the appearance of the feet, which look just like hands. Your twin sees you and looks shocked, and says "im not sure if I want you to feed me cookie dough with those things". As you approach each other, you notice that your twins feet are identical to your hands, and your feet are identical to your twins hands. The point is that we are all brothers and
sisters, and often the illusion of duality confuses us, but we are walking with our feet upon a
path of understanding our diversity, and when we get there we find the part of ourselves that was already there.

Cancer - You found your dream job at the TruthVille coffeeshop. You love working with the special plants and brewing their magic into the coffee. You love all of your customers, and enjoy taking your turn cuddling with many of them by the fireplace. The difficulty for you is that you love them all and feel they lose something when they arent getting served your coffee or they arent eating cookie dough from your hands by the fire. Although all roads lead to the same home, and the same mother, each of us has our own journey, and the person we choose to serve us our trip on a particular visit mirrors the differentiated source of that particular need. You only relate to the source of all things, but it is not your place to be the source of all things. Weave the illusion you wish for your patrons and children to experience with your magic plants and coffee, honor those that seek your magic out, and release those that do not

Leo - Have you ever drank a delicious glass of orange juice, and then chased that with the best
chocolate shake ever, only the taste of the orange juice messed up the taste of the shake? You
added some magic plant into the chocolate chip cookie dough mix so that the patrons of the
TruthVille coffeeshop could experience the world as you see it. It bothers you that when you feed it to your customers, they get an initial look on their face that they arent quite sure about the reality in which they find themselves. I mean, that reality is THE reality according to you, and they should feel the same about it right? This is why you love dogs so much. They mirror the reality that you feed them, and thats about it. Humans make transformations that are not as
smooth, and you need to realize that only you were meant to experience exactly what you are
experiencing. Others will take what they want from you and make it their own.

Virgo - A monk walked into the Truthville coffeeshop and sampled your magic coffee. His
experience was literally out of the world, and so you miticulously have made sure over a good
length of time that the flowering cycle of your magic plants be set at 9.6 weeks exactly, and that
cookie dough not be mixed with the bat guano feedings during the second to last week of the
flowering phase, but only from the 6th to the 2nd to last day of the cycle for the perfect flavor
and the perfect trip. But what is the perfect trip Virgo? Is it just because a person you look
up to experienced it, so it must be of higher quality? Everyone in TruthVille has their own trip
regardless of how exact specifications of your gardening. Let go a little bit and enjoy the
fruits of your labors, for you will see what I mean much more clearly.

Libra - I saw you for awhile by the fire at TruthVille Coffee practically forcefeeding your lover
magic coffee and cookie dough while telling them how much you love them. Then I saw you with someone new, and that person was forcefeeding it to you out of love. Last time you started to learn the art of compromise, but it made me sick to watch you feed your lover and ask every 10 minutes "what are you feeling now?" and have them do the same every other 10, meaning that instead of blazing forward you stop every 5 minutes to analyze the quality of the ride and your work through the experience of your partner. Libra, shut up and enjoy your experience. He or she will enjoy theirs alot more if you do.

Scorpio - As a resident of TruthVille for some time now, you are among the favorite baristas at
the coffeshop. Each character relates to you. You realize the truth when the father walks in
with his son that torched the Princess Lea actionfigures buttcheeks together (see horoscope for
Taurus), and you realize the fear based reason that you moved through in past lives. You see
Greedo and Lea equally as one because you realize that Greedo is Lea on the inside, and Lea is
Greedo on the inside, their appearances a front. Whatever Greedo wants to put in Lea's butt will
inject the inner beauty and make them one, and although Lea isnt ready for it, as the boy
unconsciously knows through his actions upon the action figures, you see them as one and know that they are in TruthVille to merge, cuddle, and feed each other cookie dough. On earth they call that type of love rear entry.

Sagittarius - Youve been put in charge of the marketing plan for TruthVille coffeehouse, and you trust that the masters have put you in charge because your desire to serve a clientele of higher awareness is what they truly want. You are more comfortable tripping out monks with your magic coffee than getting spit on by the likes of Greedo. However, what you do not realize is that the masters only feel that your perception will balance the energies of the coffeeshop, and that any confrontation between the likes of Greedo and the monks will create the proper balance to bring a higher degree of harmony to TruthVille, which is always harmonious, however it is your job to lure those that are ready to find the Truth, and that is a Truth that you are not entirely conscious of yet.

Capricorn - You are amazed to find that TruthVille is paying 25 an hour to work in the TruthVille coffeehouse. After your first week, you are expecting a paycheck of nearly $1000. The head master seems amused when you ask for payment. "What is it that you want?" he says "Every hour you have worked you have served 25 patrons. You recieved 25 per hour. "WTF??, How is that getting paid??" you ask. The master chuckles and asks again, what is it that you want? "I want to buy a nice place to live, I want to buy my food, I need to pay my bills!!" you explain. The master realizes that he is speaking to a child from earth, and delicately explains...."Look over there at the resident quarters you liked so much when you came here. Your customers built it and are making all repairs. Your customers that gave you your food from the market, they grew all that food themselves. All that you have received is yours in exchange for your services. If this place is not everything that you want, then you should go find a city that resonates with your wants." Ask yourself this week what it is that you really want. Money doesnt mean anything by itself.

Aquarius - Your job at TruthVille Coffeeshop is to prepare the special mushrooms that are often added to the magic coffee for special customers. People come to TruthVille because they know they will experience the naked truth...well, that and get cuddled by the fire and fed chocolate chip cookie dough, but the point is that you love to shake up the Truth by tripping people out when they dont expect it. You are here to remind us with what you bring to the table that Truth is always changing. What was true today is not necessarily true tomorrow. We can release, deny, and change what is the underlying truth and create temporal truth, and even temporal truth within temporal truth. What is your truth this week that you wish to share, and where does it fall on the spectrum of Truth/temporal truth. How many magic mushrooms and magic coffee have you consumed today?

Pisces - You wake up from a strange dream where you were Greedo from StarWars and you came to TruthVille because you wanted people to see that your aggression was merely a projection, and really you were just a cuddly creature that wanted to cuddle by the fireplace at the TruthVille coffeeshop and be fed cookie dough. You are able to see Greedo in a different light, as you talk with him everyday at the coffeeshop. As soon as you see a young boy walk in the shop with an action figure of you that he torched the buttcheeks closed, you wake up from that dream and find yourself back in your body as the Naked Astrologer. You look at yourself in the mirror and cant help but to be confused due to how orgasmic you feel looking at yourself, when suddenly you wake up from that dream and come back to your reality as head barista at TruthVille Coffeehouse. Pisces, you dream this reality, and every reality you find yourself in is like a bar that falls from the clouds and is heading towards the ocean. Once the bar submerges it finds itself in a different reality. Only from the time the bar makes itself seen leaving the clouds to its fall to the waters edge does it exist as it appears. Every veil uncovered contains the illusion that this is finally reality, only to find that you are still dreaming and wake up in yet another. Come join us by the fire and try to enjoy your dream!

10/9/2011 Naked Insight: Aries

2011-10-09T07:31:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there my companions in naked truthology. The full moon is approaching, and it would
perhaps be a good time to discuss the nature of Aries energy. As some of you are aware, Mars is
considered most often the planet ruling the sign of Aries. Mars blazes a trail and makes its
paradigm known, but more aggressively so. The polarity of Aries and Libra takes the form of
dominance and submission when we deal with the current expression of Mars and Venus as energetic rulers. However, it is the planet Mercury that is the esoteric ruler of Aries. What this means is that as a soul evolves, they find that at first communication, and then resolution of duality and cooperation is a better way in which to forge an idea and have it bear fruit. After this is achieved, humans are able to tap into the archetype of Hermes and produce magic. You are capable of intuitively drawing to yourself and being drawn to your soul family that is here to help co-create your idea with you. There was never a need for force or dominance in the form of war.
Thank you for joining me on another exciting astrological insight, and until tomorrow, Love,
Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

10/7/2011 Naked Insight: What is heaven or hell like after we die?

2011-10-07T07:47:00.000-07:00

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Ah, good timing as always. I just finished astral traveling to all the lovers I have ever had
during my journey as a soul, and consciously or not, attempted to bring them all to orgasm at the same moment in order to raise the collective vibration.
Unfortunately for earth people, it is often easier to achieve this when not physically present.
Insecurities, cross projection, and illusion mask what under the surface is nothing but pure love. When a person has passed away, or made transition as we call it on Truthville, it is often one side of their human duality that they are remembered for. When mass killers pass away, people project that aspect of themselves onto the deceased, as if creating a fantasy or illusion that they represented something that we each don't embody. When the great thinkers and innovators pass, their message becomes more clear and vivid. Some people do so much good throughout their lives, and all of a sudden they die and then they want to talk about it. It is as if the integration of the ego/personality and the divinity hold part of the message back, symbolized by the balance of Libra, and once the ego is released at death, society makes its judgement as to whether a person served on the level of the soul or the level of the ego.

What will they say of your life when you pass away? The moon in Aquarius moving into Pisces right now shifts the balance of the souls journey onto the gifts of the soul, on the unique gifts that each of you have, and on your ability to make a difference through service. The Piscean needs are often best reached through fantasy and projection onto the deceased or symbols of the holistic self such as Christ, Krishna, Buddha, and those which the individual identifies as resonating with divinity. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

Naked Horoscopes of the Week: 10/4/2011

2011-10-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there my naked friends. I see some of you are still wearing your clothes, and that is
quite ok. We all express and hold what we value. Some value the ego so they hold onto it, until
the time comes when it no longer serves its purpose. Those of you who enjoy ice cream may
particularly enjoy todays horoscopes. The moon has reached a square to the Sun from Capricorn, challenging us to build deeper security in our service. This service starts for many with the self, but there is no permanant security in the ego. We only find security when we serve all of humanity. Venus and Saturn in Libra force us to balance how we serve others in our relationships, with Neptune making a trine from Aquarius providing an opportunity to transform and recreate ourselves in relationship. Also, the Mars Jupiter square from Leo to Taurus energizes us to act upon the imbalances revealed by the success or failures of our children, forcing us to see how the distribution of resources restricts the growth and fulfillment of so many of our children on earth. Remember that this is a dream world, and I honor all of the roles each of you play in order to teach humanity to live more spiritually. Enjoy todays Horoscope, and until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

Aries - Your father is one of the best clothing salesman in the country, and he has raised you
with the expectation that you will take over the family business and pass it on to your children.
Recently, he finally opens up with the secret of his success, and tells you that people need his
business because they feel insecure without their clothing. Ironically, you just started dating a
nudist activist. Your father, disapproving, tells you that if you are going to be with this
woman, you need to find your own way to success. The lesson for you Aries is that you need to
find your own way to success. The lesson for you fathers is that your service must transform to
meet the changing needs of our world, your customers, and your children. You hold the vision for them. It was never just for you.

Taurus - You find yourself meditating on a beach trying to figure out whats next. You find that
you have been unconsciously holding in your hand some smooth stones that have been heated from the sun, and the combination of their texture and temperature has been very relaxing. Before long, a group of nudists runs onto the beach, and one of them asks if you will rub some lotion on her back. When you do, she comments on how wonderful your warm hands feel, and you offer for her to feel the stone on her back. As you place the stone upon her naked back and begin to use it as a massage tool, you look up and notice you have a line of people wanting to feel the pleasure that this woman is feeling. Some of them leave afterwards and bring more back, and people begin to ask you how much you charge for these amazing massages. You are on your way to becoming the massage king/queen of the county. The lesson for you Taurus is that they arent paying you for your neat little rocks, because anybody can access them. They are paying you for your gifts. Put me on for next Thursday at 3.

Gemini - This week you meet partner of your dreams. That doesnt mean that they are everything that your ego has always wanted, because last week you dreamed that the two of you were wrestling in a muddy swamp and each of you was trying to hold the other ones face down and force each other to consume the nasty algae-type substance that was there. Last year at this time you dreamed that they were giving you a relaxing hot-stone massage by the fireplace, but 6 years prior to that you dreamed you were tied at a stake and they were pulling hot stones out of the fireplace to stone you with. Your lesson for the week Gemini is that the partner of your dreams has always mirrored what you do not currently consciously embody, and that self love is as much a part of your psyche as self loathing and insecurity. Submit to your other half and eat the algae. This in turn will invite them to eat the algae, and before you know it that nasty swamp will become a kinky hotbed of sensual wrestling delight, and you may even find a few massage stones in the mix

Cancer - You dream this week that you are driving around New York City, tuning in to the mix of activity going on in the community. As you drive into Central Park, you notice a series of ice
cream trucks ringing their bells and drawing the young children in. You get a craving for ice
cream yourself, but cant help but get a disturbing feeling watching the trucks continue to drive
around while the kids run after them. Are they going to stop to sell them ice cream? They drive
into a grove of trees, where a group of teenagers has built some really neat treehouses. The
truck stops and the vendors finally get out, putting loads of ice cream treats into buckets the
adolescents have lowered from their perch. When the children arrive, they lower their buckets and yell down "put your money in the bucket and youll get your ice cream". The trusting children do so willingly, only in the end to have the last bite of ice cream from the big kids in the trees spit upon their heads, followed by laughter. You awaken in tears, only to find yourself in New York City in the middle of a riot. On one side, you see the protesters representing the 99%, and on the other you see the adolescents who have grown into the elitists. The lesson Cancer is that you embody both sides. Now go with love and bring me back a fudgecicle

Leo - You are building a really cool house for your dog! However, you find this week that once it is built, your dog seems scared to go inside. After some investigation, you notice that your
doghouse has become a coop home for neighborhood strays. It seems that from time to time a new dog will make use of it, and then a stronger dog will come around and bully that dog and take over. At first you are overcome with compassion for your pet and feel that you failed in building a home that he can enjoy. Your lesson is to ask yourself what is housed in the world that you have built for yourself? Do you make yourself the recipient of the energy and effort that you put out into the world? Do you unconsciously house resentment when the world doesnt mirror your generosity, in turn transforming you into a stray dog? Take care of yourself first this week Leo.

Virgo - You've been telling yourself your going to stop smoking cigarettes for years. Youve been telling yourself that your going to start taking tai chi for years. Youve been telling yourself
that your going to walk away from your abusive partner. This week, you catch your child smoking cigarettes, and it all finally hits you. Your lesson this week is that your source of energy is your child's source of energy. Even if you do not have a physical child, but you have an
inspirational idea that you are giving birth to, if you are abusing yourself then your idea will
be born from a damaged source. Do you believe in a God that smokes, sits on his butt waiting for Jesus to bring him a ham sandwich, and steals ice cream from kids? Thankfully this isnt the case, or there would be no hope within you to transform to something greater.

Libra - Struggling for work, but not really wanting to, you go on an application spree by
applying to 72 different places of employment this week. You will bitch when you dont get one of the jobs, but deep down you know that you didnt want any of those jobs anyway. It gave you
justification in your belief in the struggle you go through, and you have those close to you
completely convinced. You do the same in your love life, and in the end when it doesnt work out, you can demonstrate the effort you put in to making it work. The lesson for you Libra is to make a decision for at least once in your life, and figure out what it is that you want out of this
life. Be willing to work for what it is that you want. You must be willing to lose a part of
yourself in this work! Only then will you resonate with a willingness to lose yourself in
another, one in which you will never be able to come out the other side with ego still intact...and
you shouldnt want to.

Scorpio - This week you make your partner breakfast in bed, only to find that they dont quite like what you made. You go out and buy sexy underwear and model it for your partner, but they express that you look better in other things. The question for you Scorpio is, why do you feel the need to find validation and love through some material object? The reason you are meeting with this frustration is to remind you of where the true value lies. Do something for your partner that comes from the heart. Write him or her a poem, or sing them a song you made up about them, or just give them some good lovin. You dont have to buy anything to make anybody appreciate who you are.

Sagittarius - You dream that you and a friend are bow hunting in the woods. You take aim at what you think is a deer and release the bow, only to hear a loud scream. Behind your ego's intended target was an icecream truck driver making a round of deliveries. You look down the road and see some older people waving $100 bills pushing small children to the side holding out pennies that they are hoping can buy them something. Youve killed the driver, but the crowd doesnt seem to realize what happened. They only see you and you are now the ice cream truck driver, and the dilemma as to who gets the limited supply of ice cream is up to you. Your lesson this week Sagittarius is to figure it out.

Capricorn - You dream that you are an ice cream truck driver driving down a dirt road towards a mountain. Children hold out pennies on the side of the road and older people hold out $100 bills trying to get an ice cream treat. Being the logical business person that you are, you bring your customers aboard and collect those that can pay the most, collecting a nice stack of $100 bills. You finally reach the top of the mountain, where the road seems to go nowhere. A canyon sits between you and another mountain with a summit that goes beyond the clouds. "Thats where you want to go, but youll have to build a bridge across to that mountain, and I dont need the money bad enough" says one passenger after another. You drive back down the mountain, only to find that the younger people dont have the nourishment or the knowledge to build the bridge. Your lesson this week, Capricorn, is that your business is an investment in the future, not in immediate profits. If you dont make what the ego perceives to be a sacrifice in profits, it wont matter in the end. There will be no road to your destination and noone to help you build it

Aquarius - You wake up this week with your ex lover. No, you didnt drink and make a big mistake last night. You have a chance for redemption. You have an opportunity to balance the dynamics within you that helped to co-create a failed relationship. You have a chance to communicate to him or her already knowing the dynamics that they brought to the table that co-created the old patterns.

Pisces - You dream this week that you live in a society of divided classes, and yours is the peasant that cannot partake in the pleasures of such luxurys as hot oil stone massages. One day
you dress up like an upperclassman, and after you receive your massage a group of the elite
collective spot you for who you are. They start picking up their stones and throwing them at you, and for some reason it feels like a wonderful waterfall type massage as they pummel your body. When they are done, all their stones are reduced to small pebbles from the impact against your powerful body. They claim that they are going to kill you, and you run in fear. Suddenly a group of elitist onlookers join in on the chase, causing you to be more fearful, however you soon
realize that this group thinks you are of their class, and they are chasing their own class down
because it is against their laws for peasants to cause harm to the elite. The message of your
dream is this, Pisces. You have the ability to change form, which in turn changes the projection
that others place upon you. This will enable others to embrace a side that they will not allow
themselves to normally see.

10/3/2011 Naked Astrology Insight: Find Your SelfWorth on Desert Moon

2011-10-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there. I was just listening to a new CD a bought from the ascended masters collection.
They recently compiled a CD of music that was channeled by earth people in order to bring humanity to a higher vibration of love. I particularly love this one called Desert Moon, because
TruthVille has a moon that we call desert moon, although we don't need a train to get there, we
just astral travel to it, but it is so beautiful.
So the masters put together an infomercial, and they say that if you were to buy each individual
song on the compilation, it would cost 465 dollars, but for only 19 dollars, i can have all these
songs compiled by the ascended masters. we don't have money where i come from, but my logical mind tells me that is one heck of a bargain.
People on this planet create bargains in order to shift your perception of what is valuable. i am
here to tell you that you are valuable, and nothing else needs to be added to that. you don't need
to paint it green, you don't need to make it bigger, you don't need to use unnatural means in order to mass produce it, and then make it organic in order to make it more valuable than the previous attempt to make it more valuable. Thank the ascended masters for Pluto, who is going to obliterate everything you think is valuable except yourselves. You will be left naked and forced to embrace the value within. also, the ascended masters are running a special. This wont cost you 465 dollars, not even 19 dollars. its free, and it always has been. Until tomorrow, Love, truth, awareness, and astrology!

10/1/2011 Naked Astrology Insight of the Day: Moon in Sagittarius

2011-10-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see you my friend. Your timing was perfect as usual, as I just came out of meditation. For today's insight, we will talk about the Moon in the sign of Sagittarius.
When the moon leaves Scorpio for the sign of Sagittarius, the ego/personality needs are transformed to the needs of something greater. Nobody can continue to walk in self gratification. The Moon in Sagittarius has a need to be associated with a higher cause for humanity. Often times, humans with the moon in Sagittarius want respect and acknowledgement for that which they have not achieved yet, as if what they are aiming for is already a part of them. This is part of the process of transformation. It is the imitation or alignment to higher ideals. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology

9/29/2011 Naked Insight of the Day: Moon in Scorpio

2011-09-29T07:33:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there my clothed friends. I have encountered many kinds of entities in my travels among the stars and through time, but this is the first time I have ever come across a group that adds so many accessories to their naked bodies, at least not accessories that you cant even eat!

The Moons position is always of importance, but it is only a position of relativity to that of the Sun. To say the moon is at a particular degree of Scorpio, as it is today, gives the Sol/lunar cycle of manifestation a quality of need indicative of this position along its greater cycle. At Scorpio, conditioning is rooted in the matrix of shared resources and reality that is formed out of relationships, including sexual consequences as well as karma from inheritance. At Scorpio, the lunar need is to HOLD ONTO the individuality before ultimately yielding to the inevitable force of life, that our life is lived for the benefit of the group, humanity as a whole. Scorpio faces the truth that our energy is not ours alone, and that distribution of the life force will ultimately lead to a disintegration of the earthly body. Given that the moon brings energy of the past and Scorpio’s need to preserve the self, a soul fights for this self through its sexual experiences, through the birth and death of everything that it creates. The matrix of shared resources becomes a learning ground for the fact that all resources and energy are ultimately shared by one great body, and that we are in this together. Through intensive self knowledge and depth, Scorpio learns this and learns to release the self as it embraces the universal laws of oneness which is Sagittarius. The need naturally transforms from the Scorpio motif to the Sagittarius motif.

Come back tomorrow for another insight of the day. Until then, Love, Truth, Awareness and Astrology!

Naked Horoscope for the Week 9/27/2011: New Moon in Libra meets Pluto

2011-09-26T10:25:00.000-07:00

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Ah, happy New Moon! New seeds are being planted into the consciousness of humanity. These are seeds from previous harvests. There is opportunity to transform what will become part of the future seeds structure. Each moon cycle allows us to work with the past as we create the future unfolding.

The New Moon in Libra will be in strenuous aspect to Pluto in Capricorn. Capricorn is where the physical structures that serve humanity exist. Capricorn is the externalization of security. Herein lies the laws of our land to make us feel protected and secure. Herein lies our system of economics in order to provide a means of supporting what we value and a benchmark for the value of our service. Herein lies the archetype of the Father. Naturally, through the perception of ego, fear has entered the equation. Earthly fathers can fear for their children and plant boundaries and means of protection within our laws and our structures. Earthly fathers can hold onto the role of father, the middle man between his child and the way to success. Competition and symbolic castration can enter the equation as many of our physical economic structures are upheld in order to provide security for the few that are afraid to allow the children to grow into their teacher, afraid to relinquish the structures that they painstakingly build as they forgot that they built it for their children and their customers from the beginning. Humans are afraid to relinquish any resource control that they have gained because they fear that they will no longer be needed, as if the material that they have acquired is the only reason they are needed or valued. True value and security is internal and eternal.
With the New Moon seeking a balance between ego and the higher soul in Libra colliding with a restructuring of economic structure through Pluto, the system of value will be balanced and restructured. Control of something temporal is of course, only temporal. In the mean time, there may be war, violence and protest, for humans on this planet perceive that survival means protecting the ego. Remember, your energy never dies, you only continue to change form. Remember that you all must become one and face your own fear and well as your brother's before there is true security; before you make your way home. To me, its all just drama, illusion, just as I am, however just as my purpose is to teach you and expand your awareness, the same is true for the drama of your physical reality. For today's new moon, I am pleased to present the first Naked Horoscope of the Week. Come back tomorrow for another naked insight, and come see me next week at half moon for the next installment of Naked Horoscopes. Until then, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

ARIES - This week your energy will be inspiring as you are filled with innovative ideas and drive. The question you need to be asking yourself is this: Is this wonderful feeling worth destroying any possibility of your idea becoming permanent, only so that you can return to this state of endless potential again? Your ideas have a chance to be received by others as transformative and restructuring, or they can be considered impractical and selfserving. It has nothing to do with the quality of the idea as to how it will be received. It has to do with the answer to that question you need to be asking yourself.

TAURUS - You walk over to your neighbors house this week to borrow his soap, not only because he makes his own and adds essential oils that you love, but because his wife always sends you home with a homemade marionberry pie. Although the car is in the driveway and the lights are on, nobody answers the door this week. You drive over to your sister's house to see if she can loan you an extra $100 because you are low on funds as you have been at the end of the last couple of months, and you suspect that she is growing wise to it and is avoiding you. What is the lesson for you here? It is your turn, Taurus, to make yourself more resourceful. It is your turn to make sure your inner cup runneth over enough so that you can be there for others as they have been for you. Go to the neighbor on the other side and borrow a recipe book and bake them some homemade pie. If you are able to make this adjustment, you will find that these resources will return exponentially.

GEMINI - Your ability to play Devil's Advocate is on fire this week. Its always been a skill of Gemini. However, this week we do not need you to rip our idea apart in order to display your open mindedness and superior intelligence. In the past, you may have found this brings about a balance of perspective, but polarity in your world has reached its maximum. The challenge you put to others is really a challenge to yourself. Are you capable of moving forward with one perspective without breaking it down with the opposing one? There is nothing wrong with appreciating the beauty and genius of your competitors, in fact this is gift you have that can bring us together as one rather than oppositional forces. Take one of your brilliant ideas and go with it, then spend the evening at your competitors place of business and indulge completely in their service. Their curiosity will bring them into your center, their guilt will lead them to sample your paradigm, and your charm will lead them to work with you and not against you.

CANCER - A new business opens up in your neighborhood offering Organic Gluten-free edible underwear. You are moved and inspired by the innovators of this new and exciting product. However, at the same time you feel deeply for the mom and pop store down the street that has been selling fine underwear for 40 years, for you recognize the shift in consumer consciousness will mean a loss for these fine people. For this reason, your emotions will potentially be swayed this week. Inside you Cancer, you long for the change that will bring about true collective security, but you relate to the feelings of insecurity that come with this change for those that are still fighting it. Each of these are external nodes on a greater wheel. You relate because the spokes of this wheel all meet in the center, and that is where you are. For this week, be still and allow the overall process to build. Cancer must stay focused on its current path, stick with the underwear you typically buy for now, and not allow itself to over empathize with either end of the wheel.

LEO - The fruit of your leadership abilities will begin to blossom this week. This fruit can be sweet and delicious or it can be bitter and rotten. Our children, our beloved, our employees, even our animals all reflect the strength of our creative ability in their happiness and their success. If they are unhappy or unsuccessful, it could be because your own fears and insecurities are draining them, for they depend on you for their strength and you know this! Let this week be a barometer for what kind of leader that you are. Don't take negative results too hard. You must lead by example, and for you that means that your happiness and success are in direct correlation to those that look to your leadership

VIRGO - Your neighbor starts growing a vegetable garden in his yard this week, which has a direct link to your increased clarity. You see, the activity around you will dramatize and mirror the values that you have held inside. You've been working on perfecting the techniques of organic gardening in order to produce the greatest quality fruit, but there is something to be said for just doing something instead of thinking it to death. Do not judge yourself for not starting the new trend, for there is still plenty of time to add your innovations if you can act. The actions of your neighbors is giving you permission to be more authentically yourself. In turn, your counsel will be sought by those acting out your vicarious desires, because they will sense that their actions are in your heart.

LIBRA - Happy Birthday to you, Libra from the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn! All are visiting your sign, so what does that mean for your birthday month? You have a tendency to enter relationships and social situations as a means of escaping one in which balance is lost. You may have submitted yourself completely to one and seek to find another that you can control. This is not going to work for you, Libra. While relationships are good for you to enter in order to practice the balance of ego and soul, enter all social situations with caution. Let your partner know each day what it is that you need, and ask your partner each day what he or she needs. If you can do this without losing yourself or having your partner lost in you, this relationship might last beyond next weeks horoscopes.

SCORPIO - You may find yourself buying a treat that is a favorite of your significant other. Your timing being purposeful and directed as usual, your partner comes home to your grinning face just as you eat the last bite. It is time to reflect on this passive aggressive behaviour Scorpio.
What you just did is place something you know that they love inside of you because you want to feel them love what is inside of you. This week is about the struggle to bring about that balance, shifting your partners values from the external to the internal. Start by loving what is inside of
them. Everyone values love, and that love is coming from inside of you.

SAGITTARIUS - For the pet lovers, pay attention to your animals this week. Is your dog pulling you more on your walks? Is your pet not as affectionate as it once was? Is it acting more or less needy? Your pet is a reflection of your animal nature, something which you are normally
skilled at having control over. This week your animals are communicating to you that you have sacrificed some basic biological needs to what you perceive to be a higher cause. Animals are much smarter than humans, so listen to them and meditate on what it is that you need.

CAPRICORN - Gross sales of your widgets dropped 25% last month. This week, you can try to rearrange them in the window of your shop. You can offer red widgets, put the yellow ones on sale, buy a green widget and get a blue one free. If none of that works, perhaps you need to remember that business is about servicing your customers. Widgets are going out of style, and as a dynamic soul you must transform yourself in order to meet the needs of the collective. Giving up the widget business you spent years building is quite a challenge, but you are not a Widget! You are a dynamic soul and the needs of your customers are a reflection of needs inside of you, needs inside of all of us. If it must be Widgets, why not try Bio-Widgets, Organic Widgets, or Gluten-free Widgets in order to meet the need of a greener trending world. If that idea takes off, don't forget where you got it. (The Naked Astrologer accepts donations via cash, money order or PayPal)

AQUARIUS - I went to your Quantum Metaphysics Blog today and noticed you haven't been posting. I went by the mission where you normally serve me a free meal but you were nowhere to be found. I checked the freezer today and for the first time you must have forgotten to freeze the chocolate and stock the fridge with Schaefer Light. We need you and you are being selfish by withdrawing into your own world. I didn't say that, you said that to yourself, and that is your guilt talking. This week, program that voice in your head to say thank you Aquarius, for your selfishness is the very service we need. What good is your service if people don't learn how to serve themselves and others from your example. Isn't that why you do it? Enjoy your week returning to the quiet source within you, where you are coming up with brilliant ideas that you cant reach when surrounded by clingons and parasites.

PISCES - You dream this week that you are swimming out to sea with a boat of lifeguards coming after you, yelling for you to stop. Suddenly you find yourself drowning! Once the lifeguards get there and jump in after you, they find the water too strong to overcome and they begin to drown themselves. Pisces, you tend to forget that your drowning is an act, and you uphold it because it is the only way others can relate to you. They are unable to swim to the depths that you reached, but your purpose was to bring them there, to push the boundaries of our comfort level in exploring the oceanic depths of our unconscious. We need you this week, and this moon cycle especially, to drop the mirror that reflects us drowning. The world is ready to see an example of how deep we are capable of going. Do what you must to get us there, but be ready to reverse your role and reveal your true self once we reach our destination

Naked Insight for 9/26/11: Pluto! You can run but you cant hide

2011-09-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there my special cuddly friends; at least cuddly compared to the entities I just encountered on my latest astral trip.

Today's insight is to remind you that you are not separate from any living entity in this world. You may have hundreds of different varieties of relationships. Some are your lovers, some are your cuddle partners, some are your competitors, some are your enemies, some are your teachers, some are your students. There are many many ways in which we can see ourselves reflected. The truth is that you must integrate all of them into your sphere on your journey home. Home is where we are all one. The concept of a permanent hell that some religions preach to exist is completely false. Nothing is permanent in this universe. Even the Deitys that some of you pray to for guidance, they are not permanent. The universe itself will once again enter a period called Pralaya, or latency which can be made analogous to your sleep.

As much as some want to believe so deeply in the power of their own ego, this is the truth. We are nothing without our assignment to a higher purpose, which is never self-serving. We are nothing without others to perceive that we exist. We are all one great integrated body. Saturn energy deals with the illusion of crystallization into a monadic structure. Through Jupiter, humans find common purpose with others and expand their body to include those that resonate easily with their energy. The energy of Pluto always forces us to integrate oppositional or unconscious energy. Pluto is the planet that governs true transformation. It is the shedding of the skin of the serpent, as we move from life to life perceiving ourselves as separate. Our skin sheds because we can no longer hold on to the perception of the ego personality.

When Pluto is in heavy influence, we are met with a crisis of the ego. Our old Saturnine structures are broken down, and we find through Jupiter we are able to expand ever further because we now encompass more of the great oneness than we did before. We must integrate each other before we return home. Until that day, we will continue to reincarnate, each time with a new body and a new set of circumstances. Eventually we will remember, and we will love all and be transformed. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

Naked Insight for 9/25/11: Sun/Uranus opposition

2011-09-25T06:59:00.000-07:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see all your naked faces. After today's insight, I would love for some of you to join me and my hottie on a trip to sample some of the natural hot springs of the united states west coast. I have a car load of freshly picked grapes and blackberries that I just got done picking. You are welcome to ride along and partake in the physical pleasures of this world you have here.

Today, I would like to talk with you about the Sun in Libra reaching an opposition to Uranus in Aries, a sign in which it has powerful esoteric influence. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury, and given this is deals with powerful synchronicities and sudden meetings of a divided mind or consciousness. Typically this occurs on a collective dimension unconscious to the individual. When Uranus entered Aries, there was a great increase in the intensive weather patterns of the planet earth. Think of the earth as the living entity that she is. Intense weather often destroys whatever we have done to compromise its original state, or perhaps even its future intended state for itself! The earth herself lives with a Libran balance between the desires and needs of those which inhabit her, and her own need for renewal, replenishment, and return.

How does this compare to yourself? Experiences of Uranus will bring patterns of change that bring you back to a state that has become unconscious, and this state is always revealing of the authentic self. Through the Sun in Libra, we balance the needs of the self and the needs of our soulgroup through compromise. We are rarely in prefect balance here, as the lessons of Libra and Aries are often rooted in domination and submission, followed by independence and compromise.

It is ironic that Uranus, a planet that brings such rebellion and change is also a planet of service, for this planet functions on a higher level of awareness in which we are all one. The compromise enacted in Libra is not always for the good of the group. In fact, in your world, there are many groups that are held together by selfish and fear based motives. It takes the Uranian individuals of this planet to bring about reform that is at first rebellion before it becomes restructured for the good of the group consciousness.

The opposition of the Sun in Libra and Uranus in Aries gives us all of this. At best, Uranus provides a renewal of original source in which each of us is of equal creative importance, and the Libran compromise can help produce systems and structures that become a platform for more group consciousness. A great example is your current protests on wall street expressing the need to change an economy structured only to serve a small percentage of people. The economy is meant to serve the collective consciousness, not some small group of humans. If humans are not ready to integrate this polarity, then the opposition of the Sun and Uranus can bring about war in which one party will eventually be forced to submit to the dominance of the other. Your world is moving away from one of fear and control into one with a greater respect and love for all of life. I hope that I can be of some assistance to that end. The blog has a link providing more information on the protests mentioned here and how you can help bring about balance to the situation.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/24/occupy-wall-street-is-voice-of-generation-if-you-choose-to-hear-it-pics-video

Until tomorrow, Love, Awareness, Truth, and Astrology!!

Happy First Day of Fall!

2011-09-23T08:49:00.000-07:00

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Ah, I must have fallen. The emptiness around me represents my unconscious. I have made a transformation into a dimension that is completely new. On the first day of fall, I have fallen. My soul birthed a new body, this new body, and now I must find myself again through the matrix of this unconscious reality.

Hello there!

Ah, hello! I am the Naked Astrologer. Who are you?

I am your mother in this new reality. I desire to give life to everything that you wanted in your previous incarnation, before the Fall into this one. I embody all of this desire by the way that I care for you. As a soul, how strongly do you desire to create the idea that you chose to create? Where are you on the stage of this creation? Is your soul destroying previous desires and ideas in order to make way for the new ones, or are you clear and ready to channel your creativity? My nurturing attributes resonate with your needs to accomplish your souls task at hand.

Ah, and because I am a soul in a new identity, I only become conscious of the attributes of my soul through the relationships I develop in this life?

Hello son, that is correct. I am your father, the embodiment of the way. I share with you the structured method of how to get where you want to go. However, over time you will learn that I embody much of the ways you went about creating in the past. I will teach you in this lifetime the fears that you have had, and through me you must face them and reform your own conception of the way. When you do this, your father in your next incarnation will embody these.

And you will have a mother that resonates with this renewed energy. We are here to teach you about who you are because we are you.

Ah, yes, I am becoming more conscious. The insight for the first day of Fall is this. When you plant your seed in relationship, you become surrounded by all that you are, including the many facets of the self which are unconscious. Our relationships provide as valuable insights into our self awareness as deep contemplation and meditation. Do both everyday, and you will be on the path to full awareness as to who you are. Until tomorrow, Love, Awareness, Truth, and Astrology!

Its the Last Day of Summer!

2011-09-22T06:26:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello there. As you probably know, today is the last day of Summer. The Sun crosses the vernal equinox at precisely 4:06 am central time tomorrow morning. If you have not listened to yesterdays insight on the symbolism of fall, then the time is now to do so.

People, very much like trees, reach the physical apex of outward growth and expression through the summer. They bear the fruit of their creativity, the quality of the fruit only to themselves being the intuitive test of whether you are creatively aligned with your path. By now, you should have cleansed yourself of all the residual programming that robs you of your creative expression.
Monsanto Corporation is attempting to metaphysically poison your inner creative fruits, and they must be stopped. they must be stripped naked and exposed to be inadequately fit to serve, and forced back to the drawing board of life. they have nothing to offer.

Tomorrow, on the first day of fall, it is all about what you have to offer. Today, I will find a beautiful tree and sit with my baby, my hottie with the sexy body, and feed her the fruits that I picked from the trees of TruthVille, and the fruits in my heart that represent my creative seed.

Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

Closing in on Fall Equinox

2011-09-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

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Ah, so wonderful to see you all here. Today I would like to share a bit about the symbolism of the coming Fall, and how Spring and Summer are preparatory times for this.
Many lifetimes ago when the Naked Astrologer was incarnate on earth, I was enjoying an organic fruit salad with my hottie on September 22nd under the shade of a great oak tree. As we fed each other grapes and nibbled each others earlobes, we talked for hours on the significance of Fall. As we meditated on this significance, suddenly a baby squirill dropped to the ground from one of the limbs of the tree. The mother was quickly after the baby, who was killed instantly from the fall, and she scampered off to bury her offspring that never developed further in that particular incarnation. At Virgo, a crisis before the transference at the Fall Equinox occurs once again, just as it did in Pisces before the Spring Equinox.

The squirill fell out of the tree as a seed, a seed from the mother that scurried to bury her fallen offspring. Death is not necessarily literal, as the death of the offspring represents a transference of the energy from the self to the soul, which continues to transfrom and reincarnate through the power of our creative desire. The crisis of Virgo is that we reap what we sow. The personality reaches an apex of development in which it is fully aware of itself as a creator of the reality within which he lives, and that he is giving birth to the future just as the Spirit gave birth to him at Spring Equinox.
Do you see the law of karma at work here? Look at the symbol of the Sun behind me. The dot in the center is You, surrounded by a reflection of all that you are. The quality of your service is reflected in your relationships and in your environment. This is the fall, or put another way, it is the transference.

Just before the Fall, in Virgo whcih is the final sign of subjective awareness, you must make adjustments. Are you fully fulfilled or are you happy? If you are not, your issues will become born in the Fall, and you will find yourself not only having to heal yourself, but heal your children and your friends of these issues. Follow your bliss and Be who you want to be surrounded by! Until tomorrow, Love, Awareness, Truth, and Astrology!

Neptune: Where you can lose yourself or find redemption

2011-09-20T09:55:00.000-07:00

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People ask me what of the creations of earth people inspire me, if anything. I would have to say the smooth music of the late 70s and early 80s. Artists such as Christopher Cross, Micheal McDonald, and Lionel Richie to name a few, did much to raise the collective vibration with their music.
Music taps into a sea of creative energy that can bring us to a particular place and time within our own spectrum of experience. While the Sun primarily is thought of as the energy of the creative force, and the moon the objective manifestation of that creative potential, it is the planet Neptune which is at the heart of the Solar creativity.

The planet Neptune brings us to the ocean of all that has been created and ever will be. Neptune brings us beyond the Saturnine boundaries of time. On the darker side, we can drown in the sea of past potential lost, and vibrate with music and creativity that holds the vibration of fear and loss. The truth is that everytime we draw a vibration out of the sea and hold it, it is ours to transform. On the brighter side, Neptune is considered to be the planet of redemption. Everyday we reclaim our creative control over our own destiny, the past merely a benchmark between where we have been or where we are, and where it is we want to go. Also, what we recreate is stored in the etheric realm and is what we call Akasha. Through this, you add to the living library of all that has been experienced, and you yourself raise the collective vibration just as Dennis DeYoung and Kenny Rogers once did with their music! Now, would anyone like to join me on an astral trip to Neptune today? Ill see you tomorrow for another naked insight, and until then, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Astrology!

What is Astrology?

2011-09-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

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Astrology is perhaps the most powerful tool for this kind of deepened self awareness. Astrology is the study of life cycles, which includes not only the cycles of the outer planets and the earth, but the cycles of the inner psyche which effect your subjective perspective, the relationships you choose, your emotional state, and your peak experiences of transformation. Astrology uses these cycles to tell us when unconscious aspects of ourselves will be triggered and become manifest in our lives. For this reason, Astrology has become the primary tool for the field of unconscious psychology. It was the works of depth psychologist Carl G. Jung that demonstrated Astrology's power in terms of giving significance to synchronicity, transformative or life altering experiences, or changes in behavior as a reflection of unconscious factors.

Astrology is a spiritual art because it brings us into awareness of our unconscious. Through our own cycles of experience, we are able to see our own duality at work, face our own shadow, unveil our unconscious motivations as well as understand the karma at work in our lives. Again, this is the first step towards loving and embracing all of humanity. We are all souls in motion around the great wheel of experience, and we all must experience each stop along the way. In each lifetime, we re experience each stop through our relationships with one another, thus renewing our relationship with our own previous incarnations and perspectives. Astrology proves this with absolute certainty because cyclical transformations of our psyche change our chemistry from one set of relationships to another. We experience this as humans through the chemistry felt when we fall in or out of love, or even through incredible synchronicities of developing an interest and then suddenly meeting many people that share that interest and are able to help you develop it. For these reasons, astrology is a tool for forgiveness, for deeper love, for greater discernment regarding experiences that you need to let go of, and affirmation regarding those that you need to embrace.

Please visit www.nakedastrology.com for more information on services, classes and workshops. Until tomorrow, Love, Truth, Awareness, and Nudity!

Introducing the Naked Astrologer

2011-09-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello everyone. I am the Naked Astrologer, and I have come to you from TruthVille with gifts of Love, Truth and insights into the science of Astrology!

Actually, it would be also true to say that you have come to Truthville to visit me. You see, I am you. The handsome naked form you see before you is an archetype of your unconscious. This is the only form in which you can fully except me as an aspect of yourself.

TruthVille is a archetypal location within you, space and time itself being only an illusion. In Truthville, only the naked truth can exist. Propaganda and information based on an attempt to profit or a fear of loss cannot exist here, for it does not vibrate at a frequency capable of breaking the protective egg in which you now find yourself.

Why am I here? Or why are we here together? The Naked Astrologer's presence in our lives at this time is evidence that we, collective humanity, are ready to embrace a deeper truth. It is time that we become self aware. It is time for each of us to embrace ALL that we find through our deepened self awareness, and forgive and love ourselves completely. This is the only way we will embrace each other and love each other as one. This is the only way home, because we are all one integrated lifeforce, and we must come together in love before we are able to completely shift from the ego/personality centered way of life to that of the Soul.

Naked Astrologer Insight of the Day Sept 16th, 2011

2011-09-15T21:17:00.000-07:00

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Ah, hello again. I could feel you guys staring at me while i was resting, and i must say, some of you have some very kinky thoughts regarding my naked body. I do not take offense at all, but i am not used to being around energy fields with as much sexual disfunction as you earth people have. But that lesson is for another time. Today, lets talk about the planet Saturn.

The planet Saturn has the reputation for being perhaps the most difficult planetary influences to deal with. I am here to shed a little more light into what Saturn influence truly is.

First, let us examine the fact that Saturns orbit is 29 and one half years around the Sun. Ironically, the Sun and Moon make a complete cycle in 29 and one half days. So when the earth makes a circle around the axis which is its own center 29 and one half times, we have a complete Lunar cycle. When the earth makes a circle around the axis in which the Sun is the center, we have a complete Saturn cycle.

Here in lies the mystery of Saturn. The Sun represents the energy which vitalizes the future unfolding. The Moon gives form to this energy, but utilizes the Past as a basis for the formation. Everyone must come full circle and come face to face with the past in order to move forward with progressive future creation. If you fail to face the past, you will continue to repeat your cycles, whether it be your relationship cycles or your financial cycles or your service cycles, there is a vulnerability in your life that is rooted in past lives. Saturn is what we call The Guardian of the Threshold, and to move past him means to overcome fear and limitation not based on him, but based on past life conditioning from which you were formed. Once this is done, the light of the Sun creates without inhibition, and self mastery is achieved. While it can be quite challenging, the Naked Astrologer is always here to help you through it. If you ever need a personal reading, you may email me at naked astrologer@gmail.com. also there are some earth people building a website for me that you can visit soon. you will find me at www.nakedastrology.com. i hope to hear from some of you. Until tomorrow. Love, astrology, truth, and nudity!

Easter Eggs, the Body of Christ, and the sign of Taurus

2011-04-23T09:51:00.000-07:00

I will start by revealing an esoteric truth not commonly known among people that acknowledge the one they call Christ. Psychologist Carl Jung depicted Christ as a symbolical man representing the Holistic Self, which encompasses the embodiment of ALL living beings. Given this, the tale of the crucifixion retold and celebrated on Easter Sunday has a deeper meaning, and that being that the Cross itself is symbolic of the Fall of Spirit into Matter, or God into Human Form, and the identification of the masses with this symbol representing the assimilation of the "universal" from the mind of the "particular" and their projection upon this "Physical Holism" as a Man. Their were 3 crosses in the story, which symbolize the 3 Crosses of Incarnation out of the archetypal matrix of the Zodiac, the zodiac reflecting not just the cycle of life but 12 distinct energies that pour into the many bodies of our solar system, including our own. Each Cross represents a polarity of the inner psyche, and each polarity necessitates a cross polarity which becomes the "matrix" or the result of the initial division into polarity.
Taurus is the energy of receptivity and illumination. It is where we draw in light, and on the highest level of expression is depicted by the Bull whose horns are pointed towards the heavens with the Third Eye illuminated by light (as opposed to the Ram in Aries whose downward facing horns serve as blinders to the Third Eye). We call the stars of our galaxy the Milky Way, and there is much esoteric symbolism behind this, as in some cultures the sacredness of the cow is tied into the churning of the milk and curds which spread throughout the matrix of mother space, providing the "stuff" through which spirit is drawn into matter. Each of these curds is birthed in Mother Space from the unknown (Immaculate Conception) and begins as an Egg. When you hunt for Easter Eggs this season, try to meditate on the symbolic nature of the act. You are hunting the sea of Cosmos for the Light which illuminates you, your "horns" turned upwards in receptivity to the "Golden Egg" which represents the full illumination of your soul. The egg that glitters the brightest is not necessarily the Golden Egg that fully brings your soul desire to fruition, for this world provides much glitter that distracts us, and the journey to the "Light of OUR World" is not an easy one.
Given the affinity to our light, the keynote to understanding Taurus on the deepest level is the phrase "What Turns you On?" Yes, on the lowest level this represents the serpent power of our sexuality, as well as our fetishes and all desires of the physical. It primarily represents all dissociated desire. If you are inspired by becoming a zoologist, or owning an RV and travelling the country, or becoming a lawyer or a doctor, or buying that 72 inch TV from Circuit City next week....if any of these things MOVE you, then they stimulate the light within you, turning you on and providing illumination. It is when our desire has become so physical and displaced, so far removed from the purpose of our spirit, that we have lost the desire nature. At this point, the Bull of Taurus has become the ugly Minotaur of the Labyrinth with seemingly a near impossible road back. This lower desire nature goes to die in Scorpio, the polarity of Taurus. In Scorpio, we find our unconscious in others whom display the resentment for displacing the desire towards such inhumane forms. Think of the woman whose man is in front of the TV at night drinking his beer and watching his sports....the woman longing for the deeper connection or sexual union they once had. Here the light of Taurus permeates our relationships, as we identify with those that mirror our inner light and with them enter the battlefield to once again bring each other back to the awareness that WE ARE the Light of the World, not the stuff that we have held onto and lost our way with.

So kids, remember when you are hording all of those eggs, that when an egg is coveted that you are not able bring to light, that it becomes rotten and gives off a foul smell. Seek the egg that is reflectant of your inner light, the ones that call you, for you are the mother of this light that can bring it to birth in the realm of matter...it was meant for you and only you to be displayed as the glory of all that you are. It is the clay that you mold as a reflection of what is already inside you, which is where the true value is.

Happy Hunting and Happy Easter!!

Life with a 12th House Saturn

2009-03-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

I'm not completely sure why it is so difficult for me to gather the energy to write on these subjects. As I write and swim through the interchange between my conscious and unconscious self, I am sure the answers will come. Many times the answers come to me when I least expect it...when my mind is most relaxed to "allow" them to come. When I sit and try to call upon them they evade me, taunting me and practically laughing at me. After a moment, even my photographic memory cannot recall the gem that entered into my field of vision for just a moment.

The years of working on this book has been a search for these gems and an attempt to piece them together like a puzzle.... only I am left to my own assumptions and imagination, or perhaps intuition, as to what these evasive gems of consciousness are that seem to hold a key to who I am, who we are, where we came from and where we are going...... the very questions that much of the science of astrology seek to answer.

Dr. Carl G. Jung held that everything emerges into consciousness from the unconscious, thus it is ultimately the greatest SOURCE of our motivations as humans. Humankind, in their conscious state, has created religions based on higher principles of consciousness that truly motivate us. The archetypes of our religions are examples of figures that have sacrificed their egos for the service of mankind, motivated by a higher spiritual "love" that human devotees aspire to, yet hold so very far from their conscious capability. These archetypes represent the closest that our conscious mind is able to conjure that reflects the SOURCE of LIFE, a life that we vaguely understand unites us all as one body. The sacrifice that these archetypal personifications make is merely a symbol the trickles into our consciousness from the collective unconsciousness that reveal humanity as one body...our individual bodies truly in service to a greater body, the body of LIFE that is all of us.
These symbols and archetypal images make themselves known to our consciousness in dreams and psychic experiences that are a glimpse into this collective unconscious. Carl Jung defines the collective unconscious as follows:
It is a part of the psyche which can be negatively distinguished from the personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and consequently is not a personal acquisition. While the personal unconscious is made up essentially of contents which have at one time been conscious but which have disappeared from consciousness through having been forgotten or repressed, the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness, and therefore have never been individually acquired, but owe their existence exclusively to heredity. Whereas the personal unconscious consists for the most part of complexes, the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of archetypes
I would correct the wording of Jung's definition a bit by claiming that contents of the collective unconscious can in fact enter the consciousness. The creation of these contents can not make its origin in any one human, for they belong to ALL HUMANS. As Jung made clear, these contents make themselves conscious in the form of archetypes (conscious not being synonymous with intellectual awareness. A client may be aware that they are being haunted by a young boy, but they are not intellectually aware that this IS an archetype that is making itself known to them due to their personal relationship with this particular motif of collective humanity.) Insights into this ocean of psychic energy which comprises so much of the source of our motivations and fears, hold much of the key as to who we are, where we came from, and what we are evolving into.

Saturn in the 12th House must face the SOURCE and re-orient himself with his/ her unconscious motivations in order to integrate true wholeness of SELF.
Initially, natives of the 12th house Saturn have a powerful mistrust in the source, and there are different "forms" of the source which become the focal point. This is dependant on Saturn's sign as well as other factors in the birth chart which will be made clearer as we continue.

For myself, with Saturn in the 12th house in the sign of Gemini (ruled by Mercury, the planet of the mind, communication, and ruling the lungs and the breath), generally I have a great distrust of for the source of information. It is not so much that I feel that people are purposefully untruthful, only that I do not trust peoples intelligence enough to give them credit for having channeled or interpreted their information from a pure enough source to carry any adequate authenticity. In other words, I feel that our collective is littered with toxic information and propaganda from a number of motivations going in many different directions. Think of all the commercials on television, billboards, and advertising everywhere that tell us what products we need to define who we are. Think of all the religious zealots telling us why we should show loyalty to their church and the way that they define God. Think of how the expansion of capitalism within the industrial age has created a playground in which each unit of humanity seeks to expand and secure their ego, battling for the resources of our planet in order to do so. The collective result of this not only muddying and toxifying our conscious source of information, but slowly destroying the only tangible thing left on this planet that truly reflects the unconscious source; the forests and oceans of our earth.

I learned that as a young child, my grandmother on my father's side would babysit me. Around the age of one, I became sick off and on, and displayed great sensitivity to toxins in the environment. I was allergic to everything!! Among the things that gave me the greatest problems was second hand cigarette smoke. My grandmother was a smoker and refused my mothers request to not smoke around my when I was young, choosing her nasty vice over the health of her grandchild.
Interestingly enough, my ex-wife's mother was a smoker who had a hard time refraining from smoking around my children. I made sure my wife understood how sensitive I was to this subject, I did not want my children subjected to these toxins, and had their grandmother promise that she would take the smoking outdoors. She struggled to keep her promise, and this irritated me greatly. One day she lit one up while talking with my son who was 7 at the time. My body began to shake as my mind attempted to filter my true thoughts with tact, asking as nicely as I could if she would please live up to her promise and not smoke around my child. She was as fed up and irritated as I was, and cut my words off as she aggressively defended her actions. I completely erupted with anger, slamming my plate of food down as I got up determined to explain it to her in a way that it would NEVER happen again, and F Bombs and threats to "stick that cancer stick up your ass" came pouring out, as did her F Bombs to my face. There was no violence, and I have no regrets from this day because although she never spoke to me again till the day she died (of lung cancer two years later), she never smoked around my children again. The purpose of going into this story is that at the time of this incident, I was unaware of the experiences I had as an infant, and so the intense anger for this particular thing was buried in the personal unconscious. The fact that this kind of thing triggers such anger and emotional response in me gave me deeper awareness into my karma with Saturn in the 12th house in Gemini.

Needless to say, I grew up with a great distrust of the SOURCE, creating an inner complex that the air I breath is toxic and impure, whether it be cigarette smoke, car exhaust, allergens, toxic building materials in the home, etc. The source of information I was to gather from my teachers, parents, priests and even my peers was, to me, just as toxic and impure because they are not only the products of the toxic world I have grown up to know, but all of these people seem to feed the beast with their TRUST and BLIND SERVITUDE of a system that seems to be built to defeat the majority of us. If the statement "What comes in goes out" can be said to be true, then it is difficult for me to garner much respect for the knowledge and information passed along for truth in our conscious reality.

One of the greatest sensitivities of a 12th House Saturn is in the power to heal ourselves. Society in many ways has taken this power out of the hands of the individual, and has institutionalized it in the forms of different healing arts; among the most unfortunate of these being what we normally call "Western Medicine" with its emphasis on removing symptoms by suppressing the body's ability to heal with chemical drugs. There are so many things I can say right here that is fucked about the world health crisis, but in order to stay the course I will just say that the biggest problem is that most of us no longer truly have the information at our disposal as to where to turn and how to heal ourselves. Oftentimes we are forced to play trial and error with our own bodies, and to contribute to this problem, the very people we seek to help us with our healing are either lying to us in order to keep us dependant on their way of doing things, or they have been trained in these methods and essentially brainwashed, passing this misinformation on to the collective with conviction.

In the life, there are periods in which a planetary motif is brought to the surface of our consciousness, and astrology in studying the cycles of these planets, can reveal when these periods will occur. We learn the most about what a certain planet means in its placement in the birth chart by what we learn and draw to ourselves during these "peak experiences". During the most recent transits that have brought my 12th house Saturn's energy to a "peak", I finally became fed up with my mother and her inability to listen and respect how important it is to me to filter out the misinformation within the collective, and raise my children with more natural methods of healing and diet. I distanced myself and my children from her to eliminate my children's exposure to her until she is willing to at least show a degree of respect and willingness to embrace MY truth when it comes to my children. I strongly believe that what we eat is vital to our health and well being. I am aware of what growing up eating a diet high in sugar, dairy injected with hormones, unfiltered water with metals and other impurity's, etc has done to my overall health and am working hard to heal this and regain optimal health. My mother thinks that I am way too overboard and crazy about this, but I see her as completely in blind acceptance of whatever society accepts as an appropriate source of nutrition and healing. In fact, she has been a nurse and working in and out of hospitals for the majority of her adult life!

From the parent to the collective, during this recent transit of Saturn I learned about the criminal institution that is the ADA (American Dental Association). I learned about the effects of mercury poisoning, as well as the connection between many metals that are placed as fillings inside the mouth and contribute to serious destruction to the immune system, as well as neurological and cardiovascular systems. I would encourage anyone reading this that is curious to pick up any of Dr. Hal Huggins books, including "Its all in Your Head" and "Solving the MS Mystery". In the latter book, MS is linked to dental poisoning as well as from root canals that trap anaerobic bacteria inside a dead tooth that often attack weak organs in the body after many years. The frustrating thing for myself is that I am ignorant to exactly what the best steps to take towards proper oral hygiene are. We as a collective are forced to trust the people that supposedly have studied this their whole lives. When we find that we have been lied to, we are forced to find the source of real information and refine and filtrate the collective consciousness for this truth. I was so fascinated by Dr Hal Huggins findings and work. Reading his journey of discovery reminded me of myself during my journey to self discovery in astrology. Astrology is no exception as to the sources of information that I trust. I have had to learn many things the hard way either from having experienced them myself, or counseling a client that can act as a second hand living example. I have NEVER read a passage from even the most widely respected astrologers and embraced it as my own truth. The lack of trust in the source of information leads the native of Saturn in the 12th on a very deep and difficult journey of self discovery.

The issue here is holding others, and especially ourselves, to an INTEGRITY of MOTIVATION. If we are driven as a collective to heal others in the medical community, then it is important to have the integrity to check the motivation of that healing and make sure that our methods truly work. Sometimes the receipt of other needs, such as money or the illusion of love can make someone blind to the truth. Truth tends to be a great equalizer because when the truth is known and people are truly in service to the greater spiritual body, each human is further empowered and become interdependent along with others in the body, no longer DEpendant on the collective institutions. The problem is that the way of life and the source of income for these institutions would break down if the truth would be revealed. There is a great duality within the collective to protect these institutions so that the reality we live within and know does not crumble and force us to face the unknown; the UNCONSCIOUS, and on the flip side there is motivation from the unconscious to empower ourselves and each other and evolve the greater body.

This duality has always come across to me to reveal great hypocrisy in action. My teachers and parents always tried to teach me certain values, but the way they ate and the institutions that they upheld demonstrated that they must not truly know HOW to reach these values. The truth is that these dualities exist in ALL OF US, and it is the responsibility of the 12th House Saturn native to go deeply within and check the unconscious motivation. To touch the unconscious and bring a greater purity of motivation and integrity into conscious reality! It is to detach from the collective consciousness enough to hold oneself in check to ones own standards, and ultimately to find the PURE SOURCE, to FIND THE TRUTH, to KNOW THYSELF!

The mirror of the 12th House in astrology is the 6th House, which deals with purification and refinement of the BODY. The 12th House reflects this need on a collective level, and it is my responsibility as a 12th house native to sift through the sea of paradigm that our world has to offer and filtrate and refine it all to the point where the illusions and fear are removed from the motivation, and the spiritual TRUTH remains from the essence of expression.

My study of astrology has been quite a difficult one, for this outlook has been projected out unto the collective of astrologers, not fully trusting that any one of them is tuned into the PURITY of the source enough to have found the answers to questions that are holistic in nature, answers that are so evasive such as one to the question "What does it mean to have Saturn in the 12th House?"
On the surface, I realise that this question alone is so difficult to answer because everyone with Saturn in the 12th house has a different set of variables alongside it that adds to the greater picture. For example, I have Jupiter in Saturn's ruling sign of Capricorn, as well as Saturn squaring the Midheaven/ Nadir axis and forming a Grand Trine in the air signs with the Moon in Aquarius and the Sun/Uranus conjunction in Libra. Any person with Saturn in the 12th is going to have different variables which bring added significance and details to the "story"....so many that eventually it begins to feel like information overload.....Toxic levels of information which drown the initial gem that once revealed itself in much simpler terms.

This is how I feel, and this is perhaps at the core of the nature of the 12th house.....feeling that it is I that is the Gem buried within the collective consciousness that is so overloaded with superficial information that I cannot be found. The collective consciousness, a major SOURCE of the individual consciousness, with so many toxins that it tends to lose itself, and no longer know where to turn within the collective for reflection and reminder of who they are.....except perhaps INWARD.
The collective itself seeks to refine and purefy itself and its people, not necessarily in a way that supports the individual in question, but at the least....refines what attempts to be a SOURCE for the individuals within the collective, whether this source conspires to control the individuals within it for its own objective , or attempts to heal and lift to greater heights in order to build a stronger evolving society.

The truth is the latter is a duality that exists within our collective society, as well as within the individuals living within it!
One of the greatest examples of this, and the 12th House in general came from a book/movie called the "Green Mile" The story interestingly enough is written as a more modern Crucifixion, as it centers around a wrongly accused healer on death row with the purposeful initials of J.C.
However, at the core of the story is the message that both the healer and the killer
are aspects of consciousness that our society locks away outside of its own refinement
filters because both expressions in pure form not only fall outside the spectrum of
expression that is acceptable in the eyes of the collective consciousness, but tend
to also make the individual feel further isolated from anything other than a mystical
source....isolating itself from the environmental source of the collective that they either
seek to lash out against (the killer), or heal and transform.
The Green Mile in the book is the walk along the green tiled corridors of the prison to
the electric chair. However, it is written as an obvious analogy to the walk of life, and
in the story the walk of the straight and narrow moves in between the extremes of the
killer and the healer, who in the story are locked up on opposite ends of the hallway...
representing aspects of self that are closed off on either side as we walk the walk of
life.

The height of the 12th house Saturn is at the search for the pure, authentic self....finding
it in its bits and pieces reflected in our collective society, and TRUSTING its reflection
within the sea of what we cannot see. It is difficult to trust THIS divine source in the
face of a toxic collective source. For the 12th house native, the aspects of self expression that society tells us to lock away call to us, because they are integral and important parts of our wholeness. While it is true that the nature of Saturn is crystallization, the source of formlessness must be remembered and used to refresh the self, the crystal not scene as a static rock, but as a dynamic BECOMING. If I were to decide to take a road trip to the coast for a week with my daughter, I would pack all of the things I thought I needed for the trip. When I got there, I would not forget that I had a home with other possessions and longevity of life after the week was over. Through the journey of our soul, when we choose to live out a life, most of us forget the "Home" from which we came. We forget that we came for a reason and that motivation is still within us, and it is not necessarily that we should suddenly remember "Oh yea, I am here to rediscover some deep astrological truths to help others make sense out of the cycles in their lives and to be of service to my fellow man", but we should embrace that life is a process of BECOMING. Remember that Saturn has a 29.5 year cycle around the sun, and this is an exact mirror of the 29.5 day cycle of the Sun and Moon. The Sun and Moon are a continuum of dynamic becoming, awareness moving in phases and cycles. We are not ever going to be conscious of all the we are at any given time. However, we can refine and recenter our motivations with integrity. Saturn in the 12th forces us to reorient our trust to a greater source, the unconscious, to ultimately come into self mastery and an ultimate trust in the self. Through this complete trust in the self and in the source, service can be imparted to our fellow humans that swim lost through this sea of paradigm. We can serve them with authentic healing, with pure love with no ulterior motive, or with information that is channeled straight from the source.

In most cases when it comes to Saturn, the learning process of the same motif is usually expressed from one extreme to the other. The native either isolates him/herself as they search for truth or they trust too much and become greatly disappointed when they find that the person, group, or institution that they trusted had self serving motivations.
In the case of trusting too much, here in lies one of the conventional definitions of the 12th house, the "House of Hidden Enemies". It must be understood that the native is drawing to themselves the exprerience of intense let down in order to become dissatisfied enough to find the true answer. I personally have gone through this many times. There is an INTENSE desire to find authenticity whether it be information, love, healing, etc. We are only human and if we cant find it we are going to project it from the unconscious archetypes to something in the collective that seeks to mirror it.
The other extreme is to trust so little that the individual closes themselves off from the collective almost entirely. The experience of isolation is necessary to allow the native to face the unconscious. The experience of this can be voluntary, or in some cases be forced due to imprisonment or hospitalization. Just as the individual must refine the consciousness by first projecting or seeing the toxicity everywhere and realizing that it is the native that must refine the inner self in order to face the truth and move forward with integrity, the collective as a group makes refinements themselves, refining and shaping society in accordance with the laws of consciousness within that society at the time (9th house). Unfortunately often the individual and collective can be at war here as the individual may find themselves on the cutting edge of consciousness, living by a different dimension of law so that they find themselves being refined by the collective and caged along the side as in the example of the Green Mile. The collective itself in this way becomes both the healer and the killer, imprisoning and destorying some and attempting to heal those whose health has deteriorated.
In some ways this forces the individual to fall into a degree of TRUST to the collective consciousness as some form of SOURCE, and in doing so perhaps he is enlightened enough to
work with this source, realizing that healing cannot come purely from the self, nor
can it purely come from the collective....the key not in realizing that the collective
can be trusted, but to trust that it is a process of BECOMING...just like we are as
individuals, and that individual and collective work together to ultimately reinact
that which brings about success. Success in this way is defined as that which makes
ALL of us flourish....the trail and error of success brings so many situations in which
a group thrives or is successful to the detriment of another group, or perhaps even
another species or even the planet itself. Ultimately we will become aware that all of
these forms of expression have their correct placement in the greater body....and that
each body within the body, in trying to fight and find a place within that greater body..
to in a sence put themselves in position at the nipple of the greater body in order
to recieve the nourishment in fear that they will be cast out....we realize that these
individual bodies wear a mask that may create illusion as to their true form, and seem
to toxify the informational environment.

However, we are challenged by this as we must see ourselves AS A SOURCE. I am a source
of information and love, energy, trust to my children...to the people that I love, and
what they recieve from me shapes what they project into the collective....everyones
expression together cocreating the shape of the collective consciousness....shifting
the expression.
During this current major progression of Saturn in my own life and chart, I realize how
these energies began with such a mistrust of the source, and the source especially being
mistrusted from the MOTHER...leading also to an extreme mistrust of WOMEN in general.
I even have come to the realization that mistrust of the FATHER in many of us is transfered to the MOTHER for choosing to except the seed of such a man that lacks trustworthiness. And now here I find myself during this transit, living as a single father to a woman and future
SOURCE OF SUPPORT to a grandchild of mine. It is imperative that I refine myself, and
realize and embrace what may be toxic of my own consciousness!
On another dimension, my daughter is an outer manifestation of the feminine principle within myself, and regardless of the complete mistrust I have for my mother and the women of my family and life, through the process of my relationship with my daughter, I seek to gain authority over the feminine principle within me....to nuture it. I am challenged of course to be the VERY SOURCE of something that I have difficulty finding within myself everyday, as if the gem of this feminine principle evades me, but it stares at me everyday through her eyes, reminding me that it is all in the process of becoming, and that her existance gives me the strength to channel that energy from a source I DO trust.

For many of us with Saturn in the 12th, self destruction and frustration becomes a vicious cycle. We have reached the point now to understand that the battle between the self and the collective, the isolation that seems to separate the two is reflected internally. The conscious self and the unconscious self are not fully in sync. The 12th house is said to be the house of unfinished business, of success and failure and dealing with the fears of what has been tryed and failed in the past. We must embrace ourselves with the realization that we are ready to become more aligned with group consciousness...that motivations that are ego driven will not lead to success because we are not allowed to have success in what is in a sense a lie. It may seem unfair to see organizations like the ADA line thier pockets with gold knowing full well that if we tryed such a scam that we would land ourselves in prison or far, far worse. Karma works much more quickly for us because we are ready to face the authentic self and move forward with integrity. We are ready for the journey into the unconscious and to bring to the conscious self a more solid structure of the mind, a clarity of conciousness.

Saturn in the 12th forces us to give form to some degree to that which evades for much
of the life....for it lies only in aspects of expression throughout the collective, rarely
in forms pure enough for us to fully see it. We must find it within us and even then it
is difficult to trust it. Here, the process of success and becoming is a long one, and
so many roads may seem to lead to dissolvement of the "gem", of the "self" just as in
the collective it may seem that "GOD HIMSELF" has dissolved and has no authentic form within
the collective psyche. It is the responsibility of the native to keep hold of this
inner gem, and in the refinement process not lose touch with the totality of self, but
refine the self to a point of being able to help the collective by projecting upon it
that in which it is in the purest form, and only by doing this can it help create a vision
for what the collective can be

I asked one of my closest friends if, upon acheiving success, could he handle it coming with absolutely no recognition. I believed it would be a huge disappointment for him if he is not viewed by others as a SOURCE, a paternal figure, given his 1st house Saturn placement in strain with the Sun and Neptune. For myself, I acknowledge that I want so badly to be recognized, because I feel that for all of the gifts I know that I have, I have been able to truly reach few, if any, and show them ALL that I am. With this book, I give all that I am, and just as I asked my friend....regardless of the fact that in writing this book, I have clarifyed and made sense of the source and mapped out clearly in a language that I can understand a system that gives me greater clarity. It is my need, with the Libra Sun and Aquarian Moon focalizing towards the rising sign of Cancer, it is my need to be able to impart upon you as well as the rest of the collective some of this information that has been channeled and imparted from the purety of a source that is a part of all of us, filtered through the lenses of my own experiences, tested against case studies of other beings within the collective, and fused together with my mind to bring you a perspective that can help you to understand the complexity of your own life experiences and how they fit in to a bigger picture...how you fit into a greater body of which we are all a part.

I desperately need to know that it has helped you, for that service is what truly motivates me...however much of my imprisonment is the acknowledgement that my service lies in putting the information out there and letting it be a process of BECOMING...that perhaps it will go misproved and rejected by many of whos opinions I dearly value. Perhaps as the energy that now lies within the collective unconscious becomes conscious, someone will pick up this book and find that it leads to the heart of what they were seeking to know. The seed has been planted, and no matter how long it takes, whatever impact it has will be fused with the consciousness of each individual, transformed by their own experiences and made real, perhaps no longer looking like the original...and certianly not meaning to.

The cycle of Saturn and Uranus

2009-02-09T23:30:00.000-08:00

In early November of 2008, and just this week on the 5th of February again, Saturn and Uranus were in opposition to one another. This is a cycle that takes nearly 42 years to complete, so this opposition has not occurred since the mid 1960s.
Interestingly, Saturn and Uranus are two planets that according to conventional astrology are complete opposites. Saturn represents limitations, fear, discipline, controls, and densification of reality...consciousness becoming concrete. In truth, Neptune is closer to the opposite of Saturn, as Neptune represents the removal of borderlines of distinction, the sea from which we all came and all return, dissolution and illusion. All of these things are exact opposite of the above definition of Saturn.
The experience of Uranus can seem to come from nowhere. Just like Neptune, it can seem otherworldly. Truly, Uranus represents a reminder of the soul beyond the chosen limitations of this life. It represents freedom, new ideas and innovations. It is the planet of the INDIVIDUAL. Where as Saturn represents the form and confines of the individual entity, Uranus represents the INDIVIDUATION of that individual. It represents each of us "in the raw"...what we are in pure form. In using the word "pure", I don't necessarily mean innocent. Uranus is a planet which reflects higher levels of knowledge and understanding..it is brilliance, it is the light that shines forth within us. You can consider yourself an innovation of the ONE SPIRIT..this means that you are a unique soul with unique gifts. With this purity comes thought that is more in tune with group consciousness rather than personal consciousness. The realm of Uranus is aware that we are all one body, and governs social change and causes which seek to structure reality in support of all souls rather than fear based, elitist group protecting structures. The incarnation on this earth plane, the limitations of body, mind and perspective is SATURN. The unique spark within us that makes you purely you is URANUS.

Let me take a moment to clarify the irony between the two planets. Saturn is the planet of the individual, yet the individual in the Saturn state is more concerned with ego gratification, and thus shares a behavior with most of the people in the collective....appearing on the surface to perhaps be more attuned to group consciousness. However, the need for others in this dimension is very much tied up in fear. Uranus is the planet of Independence, and yet the independent individual can attune themselves more to group consciousness. Think of great leaders such as Jesus, Gandhi or Buddha.....humans that would stand out and certainly don't conform to the group consciousness, but are in fact in greater support of group consciousness than anyone in the group.

Obviously we have friction between these two concepts. However, I want to clarify the difference between this cycle and the previously discussed Saturn/ Neptune cycle. In both cases, we deal with creating a structure or a world model that must make way for change. The cycle of Saturn and Uranus provides a means for fresh, new and innovative energy to break down current structures of thought, eventually becoming the new structures of consciousness. Now if we are to take a birds eye view of this concept, and see that whenever new structures of thought become CONSENSUS, that within the unconscious of the masses...conscious to a minority, the tradition of old structures still lives within the sea of all that is, was and will be. These realities will perhaps be used or innovated in the future once again. The concept that these realities are a part of that greater sea is NEPTUNE. URANUS is like the lightening from above. It is not something that lies hidden under the surface. Uranus seeks to stand out and be heard above the consensus reality. With Saturn and Neptune, there is often a fear of loss of control...a fear of crumbling into an energetic abyss...that sea in which the ego goes to dissolve. Saturn and Neptune deals with the individuals success or failure (karma) of aligning their individualism with the consciousness of the sea without becoming possessed by it. The friction between Saturn and Uranus is right there in your face. If there is fear, it is the fear of change. A good image for this is the battle of the older generation with its traditions trying to hold on to the values that it grew up appreciating, and the younger generation with its new perspective for a way of life.

At the conjunction, natives stand strong in their need to express their creativity and their unique ideas and ideals. It is likely that they were raised to understand that respect for their individual creativity must be earned. Parents likely held a mindset that encouraged freedom, which is important to the individual, but that it takes hard work and commitment to something in order to have freedom. Natives feel driven to do their duty, but they do not want to be so tied up with responsibility that they are not able to creatively express themselves. They perhaps feel a calling to do or be something that requires their unique perspective and talents in order to accomplish. They realize that they go about getting things done differently, and they feel that this difference must be demonstrated to the masses in order to implement change...a change they feel is for the better. Natives must be careful to not be too dogmatic in their idealism. In being too much of a dictator or tyrant, they are becoming the Saturn energy that is not allowing the free flow of ideas from others. A father that was unique in career and perspective is likely. Depending on other planets involved, the relationship with the father in this way becomes very important. Usually natives of this aspect, as stated above, are encouraged to work hard for their freedom. However, we each define freedom in different ways. Perhaps part of the karma here is that the father eventually sees himself in his child if the child does in fact rebel from the foundation of his teachings. The father may spend early years trying to create a foundation to protect the child from his/ her own impulses that may rock the foundation. If the father is in fact Uranian enough, there may be friction at first, however each party learns to further appreciate and RESPECT each other for their individual uniqueness and accomplishments. They are able to see their differences as similarities. Saturn/ Uranus natives are great at leading social causes. They not only have the spark of Uranian electricity and moxie, but they can ground into a charted course to get things done...to see an unconventional project through. This is a common aspect in great inventors and especially innovators who take something old and find new practical uses for it.

At the square aspect, patience becomes an issue. Natives can feel impatient with a world that may not fully embrace their uniqueness. They are forced to learn and deal with the PROCESS OF CHANGE. Notice both of those key words of process and change. Saturn doesn't like the change, and Uranus doesn't like the process. At the square, natives must face that they have to WORK in order to be truly FREE. Mundane day to day obligations may be frustrating to the native and feel like it ties him/her down from the full spectrum of creative expression. However, they must learn that not grounding into this will allow no structure to permit this very expression, and this would feel like an even worse prison for the native.
If Saturn is more dominant in the chart, meaning Uranus by rulership is weak, a person may experience sudden events that force them to implement or use creativity that they were perhaps scared to express. Life may force them to RECREATE themselves, bringing to the surface their true self. Often initially, the fear of asserting one's Uranian nature is a fear that they will not be supported and be forced into an unknown reality. Perhaps they may feel that their family will disown them if they express their hearts true yearning. They have a difficult time breaking childhood conditioning because of this fear.
If in this aspect, Uranus is the stronger planet, natives will ultimately find that overly radical behavior will only cast them further to the side. They may have to learn to conform to a degree in order to be first accepted, and then seen for the unique soul that they are. There may be difficulty if the family did not allow them to express their creativity freely.
Some natives can even be radical about maintaining tradition..choosing to stick with old fashioned values in the face of change. Saturn/ Uranus people, especially in the square aspect, can be UNCOMPROMISING in their view or feel that others are uncompromising for the freedom of their own expression. Fear of not being appreciated as unique and important, or of not being respected as having a valid and practical view, can be the cause. If the native had a father that was tyrannical and controlling, even if he was revolutionary in his fight for his ideals, then oftentimes the child overcompensates at adulthood by becoming tyrannical about their unique views. Obviously this high tension does not do much to build a practical means for longevity for creative expression. Ultimately, Saturn and Uranus must work together in order to build towards anything that expresses the genuine self. Just as well, you owe it to the planet to be your genuine self in order to help produce the necessary changes of your time. Hard Saturn/ Uranus contacts can be revolutionary periods, periods where individuals can be inspired to challenge heavy rulership and authority. Advances in technology, innovations, and political and economic restructuring are common during these periods.

At the opposition, we initially have a competition of paradigm. Once again we can picture youth versus old age in this competition. At the square, in order to move forward in life successfully, a native had to assimilate the nature of Saturn and Uranus. One of the key differences at the opposition is that circumstances in the life, home or world give opportunity for these polarities to work together to come to a solution. Initially, there is an issue of relating to each other.
Natives here have the opportunity to come fully into authority over themselves, however, they must learn to honor and respect those that have given them support, including the traditional ways they grew up in as well as the youth that will look up to. They must realize that ultimately this support gives them the means to have freedom and express themselves creatively. Wisdom must be acquired through a respect for tradition and a realization that it too was established by a Uranian spark and desire to be expressed. When respect is gained, natives must be careful to be so uncompromising in their authority and stance, otherwise they may draw a Uranian uprising from those that seek their respect and consideration. Just the same, revolting against authority is not the way to get the voice heard.
There is a childself that needs to be expressed and heard in this aspect. However, the childself needs to experience feeling needed growing up for the wave of new energy they come to produce...with ideas unfiltered by the fear of how the idea may be perceived by the current establishments. If this can be the case, then the older soul will be able to maintain a hold of that childself...making mature choices and decisions with a flare of creativity and a pure love that seeks to include the group because the group is not feared.
The Saturn/ Uranus opposition provides an opportunity for the new regime to gain a foothold into how things are done, as well as for the old to experience the need to integrate the new by circumstances that may force the issue...perhaps seeing the limitations of their own Saturnine traditions.
In the 1960s, the countercultures that developed in contrast to the military-industrial regime is an example of the manifestation of the Saturn/ Uranus opposition during that time. During this time, we are welcoming our first black president, who comes into office at a time where the old regime obviously screwed up enough to be forced to yield to the new ideas. In truth it is time, that is ruled by Saturn, that had alot to do with this as George Bush's time was done due to the structure our country has created with a maximum of two 4 year terms. However, this "democratic" process on the surface has a bit of Uranian understanding built into it. Our nation is an Aquarian nation believe it our not, and the revolutionary period it was started under coincided with the very discovery of the planet Uranus.

Interesting that Uranus is considered to be the planet most associated with Astrology. This makes sense since astrology is an awareness and understanding of something beyond ourselves that mirrors the innerself. However, Saturn is required to give structure to this understanding. In my own chart, I have Uranus in conjunction with the Sun making a strain free trine to Saturn. I have a healthy respect for the tradition of this science and use the foundation of the past to BACK my research...however in Uranian fashion, I always place first in any assessment I do, my own intuitive impulses. When I look at a chart if I get an impulse or vision, I go with that long before I go with anything I would read or another astrologer would say about it. This is because I have a healthy trust for my conscious connection to the greater body, and I feel that people that would be drawn to have me read would resonate with a vibration that they feel I would be in tune with at that given time....the very coming together of astrologer and client being a synchronicity within itself. The strain free trine aspect for me also allows me to reflect upon any difficult aspects I have with these planets and gather the discipline to deal with them appropriately rather than have too much of the lesson from these outer planets shake the foundation of my world from without.

In my own chart, I have Saturn in the 12th house, and the current opposition of Saturn and Uranus moving across my Midheaven/ Nadir axis, each forming a hard square to my natal Saturn. I realize on a deeper level that insufficient grounding and impatience is a cause for failure of much of the ideas I tried to apply growing up. Buying a new house (Saturn on the Nadir) and grounding into a new city may limit my ability for travel and freedom on the surface, but will give me greater freedom to express my own creativity through my work (Uranus on the 10th house cusp) through making me more visible to my clients via perceived stability. This is one of the many lessons I am learning during this heavy and key transitory time in my life.

As mentioned, the strain free trine aspect gives natives the ability to capitalize on the fullness of their potential by applying self discipline towards building a life that allows their unique and creative expression to be applied. At the sextile, there is an awareness that knowledge is the key to freedom. Natives of these aspects make good teachers, especially for children where they can give a proper amount of discipline and guidance without squashing the Uranian creativity of the child.

At the inconjunction, natives may be preparing for the coming of change outside of the self without realizing that they need to take full control of their lives in order to have a say in how their lives will change. There can also be a fear that the coming changes will force out their way of life and they feel the need to protect it. The native must learn to take responsibility to do their duty, learning when to help implement change and when to allow for change
What does it say that Barack Obama was born under the inconjunction of Saturn and Uranus while being sworn in under the opposition? He has put himself in a position of a great responsibility during a time when structures are forced to change....failing economy and a failing system to take care of all the people. It will be a challenge for him to stay grounded as a vessel for change rather than an individual controlling the change. Control in the hands of one individual, one party, one group of people is dangerous. He has a drive to protect a way of life dear to him, but change will take a little longer than many may think it would given the initial contrast between his party and the previous one. Mistakes he will make need to be seen as an opportunity for all consensus people to take authority of their own leadership rather than always seeking the answer through some Uranian seeming vessel. The answer is and always has been in the people, and regardless of the individual that is placed in a role of leadership, this self authority must be reeled in from projection onto anyone.

Through the cycle of Saturn and Uranus, we are given an opportunity to attune ourselves to structures that today may seem intangible, but in fact are real as we learn more and more that our body does not end with our physical bodies...we ARE ALL ONE BODY. Knowledge from this perspectives breaks down structures built in fear to protect one group, for it embraces and includes all groups. Responsibility begins by being true to oneself. Only through the authentic nature of each soul can the new structures reflect one voice in harmony.

The cycle of Saturn and Neptune

2009-02-03T13:00:00.001-08:00

The other day I took my soon to be 5 year old daughter to see the new movie, Inkheart. (Perhaps the only Brendan Frasor movie ever made that didn't completely suck). I bring this up because I feel the movie is a great example of the relationship of Saturn and Neptune.

Brendan Frasor plays a man that has a special gift. When he reads stories, and in this case mostly old fantasy and fairy tales, the creatures and images of the story come to real life. He has the power to manifest instantly from the land of fantasy to the realm of reality. However, given this manifestation, something from this realm always goes to the fantasy realm as well, meaning that there is an unknown sacrifice. In this movie that sacrifice was his wife and mother of his newborn child. The majority of the movie takes place when his daughter is 12 and believes her mother is dead. One day they are confronted with the characters from the fantasy realm, and the truth is revealed to her. Among these truths is the fear that her father has of his gift, for he never learned to use it appropriately. In the end, they eventually come to the realization that the daughter has the gift as well (bringing in this example the concept of karma), and along with the gift of writing, can write her own fantasy tales and reverse the effects (including getting her mother back) through imagining and writing a new reality.

I'm not sure I can come up with a better overall story to illustrate the power of the Saturn/ Neptune cycle. With the planet Neptune, we have the principle of dissolution...the removal of borderlines of distinction. Saturn deals with these borderlines, it is the principle of crystallization. We have the solid form, or in another case the ego (Saturn) versus the very pool or sea from which it came...the collective consciousness (Neptune). With Saturn, we deal with the crystallization of fantasy...the illusions of our dreams becoming real....realizing that this IS the dream world. With Saturn, we usually deal with the father because the father represents the realization of dreams....the masculine drive to achieve through effort which begins with a dream that comes from fantasy. How are the tools given to the individual different than the dream? What do the tools represent within the dream? Or the lack of certain tools? What does this perhaps say about the karma of the soul?

The relationship between these two planets, and any two outer planets for that matter, manifests itself on many different levels and effects individuals and collectives quite differently. We are dealing with somewhat of a generational aspect that, for example in the case of a conjunction, can move back and forth (through retrograde process), and maintain this relationship for an entire year. So, here we are dealing with a karma shared by your peers, if you were born under major aspects between these planets, perhaps even the majority of people you went to school with in your class and that you were close friends with. It is through these aspects that we can really relate to our peers and help each other work out our karma.

Using the example I gave from the movie, ultimately what can come out of the Saturn/ Neptune relationship is the realization that we are masters of our destiny....that we create our own reality. Out of the sea of the undifferentiated come the tools with which we weave the tapestry of our lives.

At the conjunction we find people with great charisma. They are able to draw upon the appropriate archetypes in order to relate to an individual....so they also have the ability to easily exploit. They are also sensitive psychically. They have a need to stay grounded so that they do not suddenly lose control of their reality through what they are able to tap into psychically....but they are sensitive to what is hidden underneath the surface, and because of this can make excellent investigators or private eyes. A scientist, such as a chemist, is another great field for the native.
Given that we are dealing with the crystallization of substance from that which as of yet has no substance (but at one time perhaps did), we are dealing with CAUSE AND EFFECT...and from this we have karma. Karma is a word that encompasses a greater energetic truth, but what we will focus on here is the concept of RESPONSIBILITY. We must be responsible for what we choose to draw into our lives. The solid form that we have crystallized into, our egos in this life, we are responsible for expressing who and what we are in relation to the sea of all that is. When we take this responsibility, we also sacrifice something that we COULD BE. We close off the vastness of potential that lies within the sea to some degree, so that we may focus on the task at hand that is our karma in this life. If we do not do this, we will become "watered down" with confusion and images that will break down our sense of control over our bodies and our minds.

We also realize that we are greater than just ourselves, that we are all connected to the sea of all that is. With Saturn, we deal with the creation of boundaries....the boundaries that define the I AM apart from the SEA FROM WHICH I CAME. In this case, with Neptune being our relationship to that sea, there can be perhaps an element hidden behind the boundary....beyond the solid self, but because the self is connected to this collective pool, it is still effected by it.

This may sound rather obscure, so I will give an example. In periods of heavy Saturn Neptune contact, awareness of ecological issues that may cause a drought in one area of the world, or famine in another, comes to the surface. If a tribe is so focused on the Saturnine reality in which they live, they are concerned with the mundane upkeep and provisions of what is needed to survive for their tribe. How this effects the earth as a whole around them....how they go about getting their means effects the ecosystem and their environment, and perhaps remains hidden to them...the results happening under the surface. The results of this come to awareness with Saturn and Neptune.
Contacts with these planets can involve illness or fall from control of ones reality. Illness can be due to ignoring the effects that the hidden reality can have, eventually wearing on the body until one day it becomes sick. Revelation of poisons in the groundwater or gas leaks in the home, or whatever it is that has remained hidden and representative of the Neptunian realm, can come from Saturn Neptune contacts. Interesting to note here that Homeopathic medicine was discovered under a Saturn Neptune conjunction. The principle of this method is diluting tiny particles of whatever hidden substance has become the irritant within the native. It has found that even after diluting the substance completely, that a "memory" of the substance remains within the body water and eventually becomes assimilated as part of the whole. This is proof that whatever aspects of self are sacrificed to the pool of Neptune still exist and can be drawn upon at appropriate times (the limitation of time itself being governed by Saturn)

You can see from these examples that we are dealing very heavily with karma and responsibility of our actions. The question is are we to take responsibility? Or cower in failure and leave the responsibility to the next generation? Will we try to convince the next generation that we did the best we could and are not responsible for the state of our earth? In doing so, we would be a good example of the illusions that can be woven through the cycle of Saturn and Neptune, ourselves hiding the truth behind the borders of the distinct reality we wish to impart to our children.

So can you immerse an object in water without the water being effected? No
(see our example above on homeopathic medicine) Here the water reflects Neptune, and the immersing of the object which is solid (Saturn) into the water is a way of expressing contact between the planets, and the experience of the native in conjunction with them.

On a positive note, the native can draw upon the pool of life where great things have been done and written upon the walls of Akasha. Great charisma and leadership can be the result, and a shift in structures of law and how things are done politically and socially can be the driving force behind the native. Wars for national boundaries, civil wars, and especially control of the ocean itself has been taken over most often during Saturn/ Neptune contacts.
Now that TRUTH has been exposed, or the native, through sensitivity, washed themselves within the sea of truth, how are they going to recreate structure in order to encompass a greater degree of awareness so that less is hidden? That is the cause of the evolved native. In the example I gave of famine hitting during transits of these planets, I personally believe that the message here is that one body (one person, or Saturn) is not capable of embodying all that is, all that one needs. We need others, and the one person is the same as one segment of land. That segment of land cannot provide over time all that the tribe needs. The tribe needs cooperation from other tribes that are connected with other areas of land which provide other crops, or are perhaps not experiencing drought conditions and thus are able to help the area of the greater body (a part of the world with its tribe members) that are experiencing "drought" (infirmary)

On the negative side, the native can be dissolved and lost within the waters of Neptune. This can represent the great undoing of the self, and can manifest itself in the form of sickness, alcoholism and drug use, and always escape from responsibility.

With the cycle of Saturn and Neptune, we have the exaltation or dissolution of the father imago. We inherit the successes or failures of our father, and what we learn from how our father handled his responsibility, we in turn face the truth of what we have to work with in this life. We either build with the tools that we have, ever weaving that beautiful tapestry of our reality that is life, or we ourselves fall into disillusionment, running from our karma and out of fear of the responsibility we carry. With Saturn and Neptune, we realize we are responsible for more than just ourselves...everything that we are and everything we do becomes a part of all that is. It has been passed down to us from our parents and will be passed on to our children. The father is the figure that ultimately teaches responsibility to this truth. Also, because of this connection to all that is, and the responsibility to live up to something that does reflect something karmic, something greater than ourselves....FAILURE, or the temporal perception that one fails to live up to the archetypes that they are in tune with...archetypes that live up to their charismatic promises and reflect immortality, can lead not only to escape into drugs, alcohol or illness, but centers around the motif of GUILT. In the example I gave of the movie, Brendan Frasor's character feels terribly guilty for what happened to the mother, and instead of taking responsibility for his gift and understanding it, he chooses for several years to hide from it.

There can exist a fear of inadequacy in comparison to a charismatic or successful father....a fear of taking the reigns of karma and failing to measure up. However, it is usually the karma to ultimately see the vulnerability and fears of the father himself, who has perhaps hidden under the surface this fear in order to hopefully give the native more of a chance for success; to not allow the native to feel that the karmic load is so great that buckling underneath the weight of it, and eventually being crushed, is inevitable. Oftentimes, the revelation of the vulnerability of the father itself can create a fear in the native. On a positive note, the native can become inspired and somewhat possessed by religious archetypes that have the strength to cope with anything that comes their way. Negatively, the attempt to embody these archetypes to mask vulnerability can open up those necessary boundaries between the Saturn realm and the Neptune realm a little too much. It can cause the native to become disillusioned as to who they are, and their vulnerabilities may become hidden within. Taking on TOO MUCH responsibility can certainly lead to downfall, failure and illness. Much of the karma of these planets is to learn to restructure our environment so that each individual can work more effectively for the greater whole. No individual can do it all, and the collective cannot move forward if it spends too much time taking care of fallen individuals...who fell as a result of a failed system and who are catered to due to COLLECTIVE GUILT.

At the square, there is a crisis in point of REFERENCE. From the vantage point of Saturn, Neptune appears as continual change...the point of differentiation moving into the undifferentiated. We cannot find what is hidden within a given reality if we have no grounded reference point within Saturn or Neptune...no CONSISTENCY. My adopted son was born under a heavy Saturn Neptune square (also involving the Sun and Mars). His biological father left him when he was 13 months old. His grandfather was unable to really give him any reference point for manhood, and so the father imago was projected upon him, and then any relationship his mother had. I married her when he was 4 years old, and have done my best to maintain a solid reference point as a father for him...but a pattern and karma began long before I arrived. The father figure he had before me, a good family friend who he spent all his time with when his mother was working, died shortly before he turned 4. His mother and I separated 4 years later, and now she is with another man. My son trades off living with me on the West coast and her on the East coast. He is given all the love in the world from both sides but it is clear that given the circumstances I shared, it is hard to crystallize or formulate any consistency of reality given these circumstances. Every move and every new man in a sense reflects a return to the undifferentiated...my son awakening into a new reality at every turn..not able to truly ground. How can one uncover what is hidden when they are constantly in motion? Perhaps the motion itself in the case of this soul helps us to uncover the answer. Truly there is a great need to formulate a solid sense of self. Certainly this much uncertainty however, brings him deep into his imagination and into his fantasies..where he may create realities that are more real (Saturnine) then the realities we tell him to believe are real. It is HERE that he can form the framework of creating his own reality, and through fantasy and fiction, find the man that he wants to become (Neptune) and channel it through his consciousness and into the realm of becoming (the differentiated or Saturn). First, however, the native of the square must overcome an overwhelming fear of inadequacy...a fear that partially comes from the lack of control, or the perceived lack of control, over his/ her reality.

At the opposition, there is a need to fully become aware of ones responsibilities. Given the example of the movie I gave above, we can think of the character of the daughter in this case, who realized that the responsibility was hers to take what was passed on from the father, add her own perspective and energy to it, and use this to fulfill her own life and help heal her father and others in return. This is the highest hope for the opposition. However, as is the case with most oppositions, the soul faces one of the two archetypes with the other remaining hidden for sometime.

At the opposition, the assimilation of awareness is multifold. Natives, as with most oppositions, usually must assimilate realities from opposite realms, one Saturnine and one Neptunian (this sounds obvious given that it is an opposition between the planets), but this can be experienced in different ways:
Often natives have a Western parent and an Eastern parent. One parents reality may rule the "sea" of the family...it is their reality that immediately dictates what happens. What the native is seeking is the sacrifice of one reality over another...the perception that one reality MUST be sacrificed over the other. At the conjunction, we dealt more with the issue of learning to curtail ones personal focus, creating a boundary in order to build towards a specific cause. The other causes and aspects of self are always there however, beyond the veil of Saturn.
At the opposition, often life begins with the parents reflecting these two motifs...one the sea captain and the other the servant. This does not necessarily mean that the captain is a strong leader. The father as is usually the case, is often passive and feels a lack of control over his own karma and destiny. If he becomes aloof, falls into alcoholism, or becomes very ill, this is a form of control and escape at the same time. Through Saturn and Neptune, we all must learn to pick up our fallen family and friends that co-inhabit the earth. They are falling because a part of them perhaps felt that the burden to live up to their own responsibilities of karma was too great...that there was too much on their shoulders. Now they feel others, such as the native in this case, take up the slack...and now it is on the shoulders on the native of the opposition. The native must assimilate the realities desired by both mother and father, and attempt to rewrite the story of the family line. They perhaps feel that destiny of a family or a tribe is on their shoulders. Oftentimes in trying to become what the father is not, a solid rock of a man, the native becomes disillusioned as to his/ her destiny that needs to be fulfilled. Funny that in this way, the ailing or irresponsible behavior of the father and the rock of the individual seems to be Saturn (the rock) versus Neptune (the haze between a solid life and a return to the undifferentiated...the haze of reality that drug use or alchohol or even illness can bring (Neptune), but this vulnerable reality is in itself Saturn, and the illusion that the individual can embody by trying to seem invincible to perhaps their children or their peers is in itself illusion which is the realm of Neptune. The need is to balance the two here appropriately. Ground into the full nature of the human, both the Neptunain realm and the Saturn realm. Realize that like ocean waves going ashore, differentiation or crystallization (formation of the individual wave (Saturn))outside of the full sea (Neptune)...is temporary (Saturn), having its place within the grander scheme (Neptune) of time (an illusion made possible through Saturn for temporal grounding of reality).

Natives of this aspect often draw relationships that go to extremes of nurturing and kindness to extremely harsh to where they feel completely picked apart. They draw this so that nothing lies hidden as to the spectrum of who they are. If they do not maintain a high degree of self discipline, they will draw relationships that will pick them apart and judge them for it.

The opposition is an opportunity for truth to be brought to the surface regarding the individual, or nation, and how the current structure fits into the greater picture or how it fits the picture of idealism that it holds. It seeks to reign in projection, to create idealism within with an awareness that that which is hidden from the self is hidden due to fear of realizing that the vulnerable individual fails to provide all that is needed (a complex of the father...the need to be the provider) and cannot embody complete idealism nor is the temporary incarnation to be IMMORTALIZED. We will live and we will die, going back into the collective...the body breaking down..and during that time it is important that we reveal and live out our complete truth.

In the worst case, the native will crumble in fear of taking responsibility for anything....a fear of being revealed as a failure. Ultimately they may feel that there is no point in creating form, it will all eventually fall anyway. We must learn to appreciate what form brings, even though it is temporal. Politically, the cycle of these two planets tends to bring conflict that arises as a result of the desire to manifest an ideal (Neptune) against the established order of Saturn. This cycle can also manifest in the exposure of governmental (Saturn) corruptive and deceptive behavior (Neptune).

Natives of the strain free aspects such as the sextile and trine have great charisma and self discipline. They are leaders of the new realities to come and of cause. They know that they must sacrifice much of their ego to create a greater structure for the greater good. Many of these natives become monks, priests, or some form of religious leader.

Natives of the inconjunction are struggling to maintain a solid enough reference point in order to assimilate inevitable change. In this way they can be shapeshifters, constantly having to adjust and have their reality completely shifted. In order to have some control over this, they will solidify a solid reality. However when they feel the hidden coming from underneath the surface, the fear of failing to maintain this reality causes them to make the choice to create a different reality. Issues surrounding the need to have a solid reference point from the family, especially the father, is at hand here.

It is important to note that whatever reality we choose, we must always make awareness that as the wheels of life turn, there is always something hidden around the corner about to make its way into the surface of our reality. When this happens, there is always something in our reality that falls back temporarily into the forgotten, hidden realms. We must make continual adjustments for change without fearing that it will mean the death of us (not necessarily physical death, but death of a reference point of reality)...we must not fear that this means we are losing control. Deception and manipulation is often used to protect that which is feared to be vulnerable. It is important that we all acknowledge our vulnerability....acknowledge that all of our consciousness lies somewhere close to that line where solid rock boundaries meets the oceans expanse..the unknown which from this perspective feels as if our awareness will only get lost forever, completely falling apart.

Through the cycle of Saturn and Neptune, we realize that all is not what it seems, that beneath the surface of all of our structure lies continued potential for creating change...that creative change is a part of the structure of reality. Nothing lies stagnant. It is up to all of us to use our tools and continually write our ever unfolding story, using the structures of today as a foundation for the new structures that we imagine into being tommorrow. These structures that we create cannot survive if they are only built to protect and secure the future of the self, or just the family. Saturn and Neptune teaches us that all energetic structure is connected, and ultimately we are all in this together on a karmic level.

The cycle of Venus and Uranus

2009-01-29T14:15:00.000-08:00

I mentioned in a previous blog that I went a bit out of order by coupling Venus with Neptune and Pluto before Uranus. First, I would like to explain this.
We can couple Jupiter and Saturn as collective planets. Jupiter represents our motivation to expand into the collective consciousness and leave our seeds. Saturn represents the extent to which this is possible, or the physical factors that are available to make expansion possible, thus also representing the limitation of growth within a given life. It is what you have to work with basically. The planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are called "transpersonal" planets. However, I would place Uranus in a category by itself because in doing so it will help you to understand the nature of Uranus. You see, it wants to be by itself...it is the very essence of "standing out". With Neptune and Pluto, we are touched by archetypes of humanity, stretching the boundaries of who we are into what is, was and what always has been. We touch planes of consciousness in which we "lose ourselves", and when we reach Pluto, truly begin to lose ourselves by joining energetic forces with another, or a group, for which the ego dies and is reborn into a collective body.

On one dimension of thought, you can view Uranus as the opposite of Pluto. The reasons for this thought which can be demonstrated mathematically is for another blog, but for now, we remember that Pluto is the death and rebirth of the ego through collision with another soul or group of souls. Uranus is breaking away from all that is not the "SELF",and fully feeling the power of INDIVIDUATION. Uranus reflects what makes our soul truly unique. It is who we truly are. As we walk in life, much of our values (Venus) that we carry are circumstantial. We may value a car in this life because we have no other way to get to work. We may value our relationship with our boss even though we think he/she is a real sack of shit because we are afraid of not being able to meet our own needs without the job. As we brought up with Venus and Saturn, sometimes we learn to "love the one we are with", be it material or personal relationship, because given the limitation of Saturn, we may perceive that is all there is for us, and that we would not be able to have the provisions otherwise to carry on with our lives...to at least have someone that gives us a value or something that we can project our value upon.

The cycle of the planets Venus and Uranus give us the opportunity to say I AM..I AM valuable because I am ALIVE...it seeks to break free of all limitation of the purity of the souls expression, shedding all of the illusions and falsehood in the life so that life can be enjoyed to the fullest, and ultimately the self worth be truly reflected. In relationships, there is a need for space and freedom, making "open relationships" more likely for the native of heavy aspects. The concept of compromise can be very difficult because the motif is about fully being in SELFHOOD, and thus a successful partner must be able to fully embrace the all encompassing individual of the native. They themselves must be unique enough and open minded to be able to appreciate and understand the freedom loving Venus/ Uranus person.
Natives have a great detest for people who put out false fronts in order to gain popularity or affection. They view these psychological games that people play as a detriment to the honest expression of pure selfhood, and because of this, they value honesty and truth. It is commonly written of Venus/ Uranus natives that their choice of values, be it partnerships, social causes, or possessions, are much for shock value. What is truly important in this case is that they stand out and are REMEMBERED for who they are....for what makes them unique. Natives are very sensitive to humanitarian issues, and to Saturnine regimes that seek to censor any freedom of expression of individuals, social groups, or society at large. Because of this, they can be drawn to intense social movements that rebel against the norm and make sure that the way of being supported has the freedom to express themselves.
One well known astrologer wrote that Venus/ Uranus natives are extremely sensitive to rejection, acting detached or aloof as a defense mechanism. Of course, much of this will depend on the placement and aspects of other planets in the chart, but they seek to expose the truth of their soul. They seek experiences that will allow the full light of individuation to shine forth. Rejection of this light will of course be a blow to the ego of the native.

Initially, at the conjunction of these planets, there is a "fuck it" attitude that seeks to give in to impulse. Why deny yourself an opportunity for an experience that may hold a glimpse of something that truly mirrors your souls calling? For this reason, natives of this conjunction seem to have alot of "guts" in that they draw to themselves relationships and situations that from the perspective of those in the mainstream, will seem unusual or on the cutting edge of thought. They also have a difficult time holding any type of relationship for any extended period of time...and if they do it must be with a very "Uranian" type person as well. They may perhaps become involved in social movements that attempt to tear down the Saturnine standards of our way of life. Natives of this conjunction have a great deal of magnetism because they are different. They can easily become bored of a current situation and shift their tastes and values very quickly. Again, remember that through trial of the many types of people and material trappings that exists...the cause of the change that rebellion and freedom attempts to bring is the revealing of the truest values of the soul....to ultimately find the self through the values...through pleasure and relationship.

When we reach the square of Venus and Uranus, lessons are learned the hard way in regards to loss of possession or relationship that, with the initial spark of Uranus, may reflect something special and show potential. However, often things of value (such as relationships) tend to suddenly come into the life like lightening, and just as quickly leave the life.....due much to the nature of the natives inability to commit to anything. At the square the realities outlined above in general description and with the conjunction become more of a crisis. The feeling of rejection and insecurity due to loss mentioned earlier becomes more real, when in fact it is the native that is creating loss and rejection.
This experience is not limited to relationship. Lets give for example, a native of this square living in relative poverty with no car for transportation. They visit a casino and suddenly hit a jackpot, a surprising and different experience to say the least. There is an initial bolt of excitement for the wide variety of things the native can now do with their new found wealth. They may even buy a car and feel the freedom of being able to get around and experience more things. However, there may be something inside the native that says "I don't want to NEED money in order to be happy...I'm too strong and independent of a soul to be like those other sheeps in society that need such things" Well, it wont take long before the native finds a way to lose the money. Maybe they gamble it all back, maybe it gets stolen. Either way, they do not take responsibility for the reality of having the possession, so they create the reality that frees them from the possession. Initially the return to having nothing may feel just as free and exciting as having hit the jackpot. The native may say "Nice, I really valued the simplicity of walking and tuning more into nature and meditation....being free of possessions.." Of course, it wont be long before this reality becomes restricting to some part of the soul that wants to break free from the poverty that gives them less opportunities to HAVE experiences.
This is the dilemma of the square of Venus/ Uranus. If the square is waning, the dilemma becomes less subjective, effecting perhaps an established family and relationships of more permanence. Perhaps a family has to deal with where they fit in the value system of the native with the experience of the native waxing and waning his affections from them.
Natives of these aspects do not always seek new and exciting experiences as is commonly written. They seek the freedom to experience whatever reflects the soul in the moment. They may look back on past relationships with fond memories about what it was in that experience that reflected a particular part of their soul and wish to touch this again. They may put themselves into a career where they have a degree of freedom, like a truck driver for example, that has time to explore the self away from his/ her family, yet during that time may miss what having their family around reflects. When they are with the family, the day to day obligations may cause them to miss the freedom of the road. It is important for the natives not to burn through a relationship, or burn bridges due to the desire to free themselves from a particular moment. If they do they may find their ability to touch the past that reflects them more difficult, memories of these aspects of self ending in rejection and turmoil. Don't be surprised if a native of this aspect surprises you and walks back into your life after several years as they try to reconnect with a part of themselves through you.

At the opposition, we find that the spirit of competition can help the native bring out the best of themselves..to have the fullest and purest form of their efforts and values expressed and displayed. Through this competition, they must learn to value and appreciate the differences in others as well...in those with whom they compete.
Natives of the opposition have a need to express something that perhaps has had to lie dormant or repressed for a period of time in order to maintain a relationship or something of value in the life. (Something that a native of the conjunction consciously detests). The native can experience this in two different ways. First, they may be the party that feels restricted in a relationship and have a need to experience fulfillment that they perceive they will need freedom, space, or another relationship in order to experience. There may be a fear of loss of the relationship if this need is expressed, or the need itself may lie repressed for sometime, which can have tragic results as often when something is repressed, the subconscious will draw the truth into the life from outside the self. Second, the native can be the "victim" of a partner that seeks to express a part of themselves outside the relationship and doesn't feel that they can fulfill it through the native. More often than not, the latter will be manifested because it will be true both ways, and this will provide the framework for needed communication and compromise. The native must learn to give some space and freedom as well as ask for it. They must learn to COMPROMISE in order to maintain any important relationship or reflection of value.

Experiences in this compromise may go to extremes at first, such as working for a 9 month period and then taking a 3 month vacation where the native blows off steam. The danger we can imagine is when the need to experience the latter for so long causes the native to blow more resources than they can afford...and like the lessons in the square.....losing everything they earned during the 9 month period in order to more fully experience less restriction in the 3 month period. This may put them in a position of having to work harder when they return to the former reality, and this may in turn put them in a more restricted position that will cause them the need to blow off steam even harder the next time they feel freed.

Natives of the strain free sextile and trine aspects are able to compromise well enough to have the unique sense of self fully expressed and appreciated, and are able to draw this out in others by showing appreciation for what makes others unique. The trine natives especially takes joy in being one that supports the sense of uniqueness in others, creating a system of support for their own Uranian expression.
Natives of the inconjunction often feel that they have to sacrifice their own values in order to make way for a partners freedom of expression (such as one partner watching the kids full time while the other goes to school to learn a unique and exciting trade). This goes the other way too when they need to free an aspect of self. Their is an adjustment that is needed in compromise and communication.

In order to achieve fulfillment, ultimately in the self, compromise is necessary. We must learn to walk with a more balanced sense of self, appreciating what is being expressed IN THE MOMENT, realizing that it can never encompass the full spectrum of our expression. We must look forward to the changes of the season within, not with fear that the current reality suppresses them, but allows each to have its season...its time to loudly proclaim its existence. Let us embrace STRUCTURE as merely a framework to fully enjoy the moment that is now before us, for only in its fullest expression is it truly FREE.

Through the cycle of Venus and Uranus, we learn to value and celebrate our diversity. We honor the freedom for each soul to fully express what makes it unique, and in turn become fully individuated within ourselves, in touch with the full spectrum of our own unique sense of self, and thus, what it is that we need in order to express this. We learn to honor the change and need for freedom in others, appreciating that there is more than meets the eye in everyone we meet. If we have a love of trees, but only in the summer time when it is bearing fruit, then we fail to appreciate the value it gives during its other phases. Only in our permanent relationships where freedom is allowed, are we present throughout enough of the cycle to appreciate the full light of their soul. Only in these permanent relationships where our freedom is allowed, do we allow others to see us in all of our phases. Only then are we fully known by those that we love rather than scattered about, only partially known and appreciated by many.

The cycle of Venus and Pluto

2009-01-23T06:43:00.000-08:00

You can hang out here naked with me in the wilderness if you wish, but all I have left for food
at this time is the rest of these squirrels I captured and cooked up. I am not in a sharing mood. Find your own fucking animals if your hungry. Why the fuck are you projecting the responsibility onto me?? OK, look, lets just chill out, look at some stars and talk some astrology....anything else and I'm liable to get pissed off.

First, let us revisit the Venetian principle (that which makes our lives easier and more pleasurable, be it material or relationships) in which our wants and our values are projected and reflected.
As it touches Jupiter, it seeks to expand and scatter affections and receive love on grand scales. It loudly proclaims the value system joyously, appreciating and receiving appreciation for its merits. It is in a growth stage
It then touches Saturn, and has had to learn to make a choice as to what is important to value, for if anything is to be truly manifest in this life, one must set boundaries as to what and whom it is to build with. Affection is not so easily expressed or drawn, and the native must learn to truly love the self in order to find what it is that it truly loves, and then work for it...becoming fully grounded into the partnership and endure the journey with all its highs and lows. It is a grounded building stage.
It then touches Uranus, which we have not discussed in this blog in depth, but here we reach not necessarily a growth or a grounding stage, but what we will call an enlightening stage. Where we had to learn to endure and build through relationships with Saturn, now the values of soul yearn to shake free the shackles of restriction and be propelled into motion once again. At Uranus, we learn that the soul eventually moves out of any set of values as we all move in a constant state of evolution...for life itself IS expansion, contraction, and as a new pod of reality is built out of these two (Jupiter/ Saturn), continual motion. With Uranus, we are given insight of the soul.....the relationship needs beyond that of the egos that we experience on the level of Jupiter and Saturn.
We then reach Neptune, where we reach attunement to what we can become...and to the archetypes of what we are becoming with the karma that we create through our actions. Here, we shy away from the confrontations of relationship as we wish not to face the realities of what we are as mere singular beings, instead choosing to associate ourselves with archetypes and heroes of lore. It is at Neptune where we realize that all of these archetypes are reflections of ourselves...some ideal, and some not so....it gives us a vision as to what we have created and written on the walls of Akasha, and reminds us to attune to what we aspire to build as a species.

Now we come to Pluto, the topic of this blog! Pluto can in one way be said to combine the principle of expansion and contraction (Jupiter/ Saturn), however, it truly combines all of these planets by adding MOTION....expanding through Uranus and grounding into the realms of Neptune to REDEFINE and TRANSFORM values and thus relationship and karma.
The Karma of Venus/ Pluto itself represents a crisis point within this overall journey. The native has perhaps lived many lifetimes and has experienced the karma of Venus in cycle with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The native very much understands that the physical world is in some ways a great war of paradigm. It understands the manipulations and how the nature of pure Venus can be used to further and foster the values and needs of any ego. It also understands how much some of these values are on the Ego-level, and having touched Uranus and Neptune, feels a connection to the higher realm of freedom for the ego (Uranus) and attunement to idealism (Neptune). However, this is a crisis because we are dealing with the earth plane, and so initially the way to combat the above is through being the manipulator yourself, under the pretense that control dramas for resources and value sets are a given in any human exchange, so the native of the Venus/ Pluto aspects feels THEY might as well be the one with the upper hand. There is a great compassion for humanity, but also a under the surface feeling of superiority..initially.

Remember what a great teacher the Venus/ Jupiter person can be....couple that with the grounded sense of value and integrity that the Saturn person learns to have, and you have a great leader capable of creating social reform within the value set he/she chooses.

As we begin the cycle at the conjunction, the term OBSESSION comes to mind. We see natives possessed by the desire to experience the deepest of experiences in relationships. The native is driven by the desire for power through expression of sexuality, money, and control dramas in relationships. Because of the intensity of the needs of this native, they seek committed relationships that are prepared to go "All the way"...not only meaning "till death do us part", but also to break down all of the barriers and walls within the relationship and ultimately become ONE. However, the native has control issues of its own, and obsession and compulsion outside of this relationship likely will exist. Their is a double standard here of having another become "One' with the native, but the native becoming"one" with many others as well. Because of this, the native has the charm and ability to make others feel like they are the most important person in the world...yet they at the same time make their other relationships feel that way as well.
The best example I can give of the "double standard" would be using the mob as an example. The mob is a case study in the Venus/ Pluto motif. The members of the mob have an ethics and a code that they do not sway from within the relationships of the group itself. They expect the relationships they have within the core to be honest with each other, yet the very nature of organized crime is to take from others that are on the outside. So, you can see this justification of the double standard come out clearly in the structuring of this. Venus/ Pluto natives create this double standard in their own love lives, often justifying that moving outside the relationship is the only way that they can grow more deeply and intensely within their capacity to experience the ultimate fulfillment in love. However, to communicate that would risk losing and having to let go of the original relationship....of having to relinquish control, quite an issue for the Venus/ Pluto native.

As we move to the square of these planets, we come to a great relationship crisis. Love has guided the native to choose relationships that will be permanent, but in each one the issues that may keep the relationship from reaching the ultimate heights as seen by the native become a breaking point. Here we see a situation similar to a cross between the Venus/ Saturn and Venus/ Neptune square. The native perhaps has drawn a relationship in permanence that they can fully control, yet in being fully in control, they do not have the appropriate mirror perhaps...they are not being challenged on their level. The challenge comes when and if their is a break of having to LET GO of the relationship, watching the partner walk away. Ultimately, there is a TRANSFORMATION of VALUES. Having to let go forces the native to develop within aspects of their consciousness outside of the obsession. Values may be forced to move from the material to the physical, from the physical to the spiritual, and even from the spiritual to the material if the crisis leads to the perception that "God" has wronged the native. The aspiration of the natives of this square is that relationship can be just as intense and powerful without one side having full control over the other. The power is through the exchange of love itself. It is also common for the native to die for the relationship and be the one that has given full control (that in and of itself can be control.....saying "look what I have done and given up for you, now I need you to do this...."). Ultimately, the native has to learn that taking and giving up full control....that dying for another or having them die for you (when I say die, I mean surrendering the ego for the good of the relationship) is not the path necessary to fulfilling relationships. The truth is that BOTH parties need to make the necessary adjustments and sacrifices for each other.

At the opposition, the natives usually transfer that intensive desire for the fullest of relationship into another obsession, or project that love onto someone that they cannot have for some reason, such as a long distance relationship or a person that is unattainable due to sexual orientation (becoming a fantasy). These are excuses of the inability to ultimately have a singular fulfilling relationship. The native has not fully taken the responsibility to do so, maintaining the obsession or the desire without fully reigning it into reality. These natives have intense desires and high standards in their tastes in both relationships and possessions. Even those they have been forced to let go of, they want to hold onto the possibility that they can have that if they ultimately wanted to take responsibility for it, clinging to these people or making sure that there is a link maintained between them and past partners....a link based on needing each other. For those that they decide to let go they do not take these steps, because their ego has justified that those particular relationships are not what their soul needs to have any fulfillment and ultimately any transformation. The value system of those you wish to be committed to must be examined carefully in order to insure that it can endure. Your nature to be intensely attracted to someone can bite you when that person doesn't live up to the idealism ultimately, or cannot practically match your intensity in other areas that are important to you (as experienced in the crisis of the square). If in the above case, fulfilling relationships are not actualized, it is not because they are not intensely desired. The native has put them at arms length to learn about control and desire, and to control the desire. The experiences of the past have caused great sensitivity and FEAR. Ultimately, the objective of the Venus/ Pluto opposition is to absorb or be absorbed by that in which it values, starting at the level of personal relationships and ultimately reaching the "group or collective" level. It is to feel and perceive the deepest value by truly belonging....of ultimately becoming ONE..of transforming the reluctant ego within the individual and becoming greater than what you are by combining energy. This can begin on the level of sex and power, and ends on the highest of spiritual planes.
At the opposition, the crisis of the square has led to a middle ground of fear of the commitment necessary to truly make this happen. The native still wants and seeks out the most real and intense of experiences possible, but is not fully ready to complete the process of AT-ONENESS.

At the highest form of expression with the opposition, the native is a great leader of cause, dying for their paradigm and having fully immersed themselves into the collective consciousness of their particular group, is ready to intensely bear witness and gather those that fit the energetic mold, carrying them forward to the greatest heights that their collective expression will allow.

Natives of the strain-free aspects of Venus and Pluto, such as the sextile and trine,have an inborn understanding of the adjustments that must be made in order to make a successful loving relationship work. With Pluto, the title of the Pat Benetar song"Love is a Battlefield" comes to mind. The strenuous aspects must do the battling before they come to terms with the death and eventual rebirth of the ego through relationships. The strain free aspects have the ability to make the compromises which open themselves to the most fulfilling of relationships.

The inconjunction of these planets, as with all inconjunctions, means a need to make an adjustment in order to facilitate the flow of energies. The native tends to be TOO giving or "killing themselves" and their own ego for the sake of relationship, allowing themselves to be taken advantage of, or they are not yielding enough and expect the other party to do the work first before they do out of fear.

I remember a movie that depicts a good example of the principles of Venus and Pluto at work called "Bridges of Madison County". Initially I found this incredibly ironic because once again, I site a Clint Eastwood movie as an example. So, you can only guess what my next step was......yes, you guessed it...I had to find the astrological chart for Mr. Eastwood, and lo' and behold, he was born with the planet Venus under absolute siege....Venus conjunct Pluto, opposition to Saturn, and square to Uranus (forming what is called a T-square). I cannot remember the details of the storyline since it has been awhile since I have seen the movie, but following a life that gives you the freedom of loving deeply and intensely...ultimately not finding complete fulfillment beforehand is the key here. Meryl Strept called him out on his lifestyle ultimately, and what made the relationship Plutonic in nature was the level of intensity and its potential to bring the two to an At-Oneness. Their was a line a seem to remember along the lines of moving from love to love or reality to reality, as if it was all a journey to the heart of Meryl Strept's character. This gives us the image of the snake shedding its skin through experiences over and over again as it moves and transforms itself through relationships (THIS IS THE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR VENUS/ PLUTO)....ultimately, as we brought out in the square aspect above, the two were transformed but also had to "let go" due to circumstances. (This hard reality really demonstrates the Saturn dimension of Pluto's experience as well).

Through the cycle of Venus and Pluto, we are placed on the battle ground of egos, having lived many lives and experienced many relationships. We realize that the battle is really the expression of our ego consciousness and its desire for true love...its desire to be truly valued and to be a part of something greater than what we are as singular beings. It is here where we experience the most complete spectrum of relationship experiences. Letting go of powerful relationships that we merge with is a part of this experience, because ultimately one of the key lessons is that once we are one, we are always connected....the concept of "ownership" or having power over another is merely an illusion and comes about out of fear.

Through the complete dance of relationship...love, war, acceptance, rejection, trial and error, we merge with our fellow brothers and sisters. We become one life, one body, one mind.

The cycle of Venus and Neptune

2009-01-20T12:25:00.000-08:00

You notice a trend? We are moving through the different cycles of Venus, starting with the outer planets and moving out...although we seemed to skip Uranus, but I did that on purpose since Uranus exists much on its own. Jupiter and Saturn are somewhat of a pair, and Neptune and Pluto are as well. We will finish the discussion of these first after I finish this two day old organic chicken breast and get some fucking clothes on...I'm freezing, plus the helicopters have been circling around this field so we may need to walk and find a new place to set up camp....we will discuss some astrology along the way....

When we die, where do we go? Energy never dies, it only changes form, and so prior to changing form, do we go back to a collective pool of undifferentiated energy? If we reincarnate into another form, what comes of our work in previous lives? What becomes of our value system that our soul has built, and does this effect the choices our soul makes as to the parents we choose in the next life? or the set of circumstances that we are born into? Are these a reflection of our values? of the very relationships that we need to continue to learn and grow from as a continuum from the previous life?
The answer to this is yes, and because of this, there always seems to be something "otherworldly" about the relationships and circumstances in the Venus/ Neptune person.

However, there is something quite "otherworldly" about the native of intensive Venus/ Neptune aspects....

Seemingly having a foot in both worlds, Venus/ Neptune natives are extremely creative and gifted souls. They are perhaps brilliant musicians, writers, or artists. They are extremely sensitive souls, and because of their connection to this other plane, see "God" in practically everyone. If they themselves fully embody the archetype, they may be talented people filled with love but channeling that love to humanity rather than one person through their work (music, art, writing, etc)...thus not truly ever entering into any intensive one on one relationships. If they do, their great sensitivity can make it challenging, as they may project onto others archetypes or their pure selves rather than the reality that they truly exist in. Because of this, Venus/ Neptune people can be seemingly in some kind of fantasy world, and lack touch with reality.

On the other end of the spectrum, they themselves can be victims of projection of these archetypes from other people. We see this all the time as people tend to project onto artists and movie stars. They place them on pedestals and live vicariously through them...projecting sometimes a different set of standards..of VALUES that although they may be incapable of living by, the object of their projections or affections should be able to live by them.

The cycle of Venus and Neptune provides an opportunity to work out karma through a renewed sense of idealism and attunement to the creative plane. Along the cycles path, it holds checks and balances for the conflict between idealism or fantasy and reality. Through heightened sensitivity, the native can provide a universal medium of communication that brings compassion and understanding to all matters of relationship, or they can attune themselves to these communications and through this, realize that no matter where they are in their own cycle of relationship or values, that within the collective consciousness lies the vibration of their highest aspirations, of their highest romantic idealism....and because it always exists there as a flash or tone from the akashic records....they are never alone for everything within them that they love exists everywhere.

Given this, the true purpose of this cycle is to embody the highest ideal within ourselves...to find the ideal self...to appreciate the self for what it is worth on higher, metaphysical levels.....as a great healer, a great lover, a channel for Universal Light that we all are.

At the conjunction of these planets at the highest level, natives begin to see that the patterns of circumstances in relationship that they find themselves has a mirror in archetypes; in the stories of mythology and fairytales, they find played out the dramas of their own lives. They may recognize that there are 1000 songs that sing about precisely the patterns of their own relationship...they find authors from psychology to fantasy that write in such a way where they feel understood only through these mediums. They themselves have the ability to express themselves through music, art, or writing. They are sensitive and have a much easier time expressing in this way then in face to face confrontations, which they avoid. The cycle begins with the recognition that we are truly not alone in our karma, for our pattern of karma is universal.

At the collective level, the native can feel somewhat like a stranger in a strange land of deceptive souls that just don't live up to their high level of romantic idealism. Others see a somewhat innocent, pure and spiritual soul that can be swooned and even taken advantage of, however depending on the other aspects, this "charm" can be turned on purposefully in order to manipulate. If this is the case, the natives will forever be disappointed in the nature of "earthly" relationships. They have an opportunity to realize they have a gift of sensitivity, perhaps some psychic ability, and they can use this to inject hope into the world and be the person that they value in the realm of fantasy, and not use these talents to deceive.

At the square, the native reaches a crisis point in which he/she needs to be held in check as to not become possessed by the idealism or archetypes, and by this becoming disillusioned within the self. For example, a native can feel that their other worldliness and values sets them apart from others...like a lonely spiritual hermit, but this is only a defense mechanism to protect themselves from seeing themselves reflected in others...this is a truth this native does not want to see. They cannot take the fact that perhaps they are just like everybody else and have alot of work to do to reach idealism. SELF HONESTY is the keyword here. The native has perhaps manipulated themselves into thinking that they are the men and women of their fairytales.
This can also go completely the other way, as others are seen to embody this, and thus the native draws relationships that are not what they seem. In this way, they have the ability to be taken by scams that promise them something grand, especially if it is for a "good" or "humane" cause. In time, the native is to learn something about karma...about the fact that their own disillusionment within draws it to themselves without. This is not an easy path to self enlightenment.

When the two planets reach opposition, the height of achievement is to create an expression, perhaps through music, writing or the arts, that allows a free flow of your otherworldly insights and values to come into form. The native can learn much about him/herself by how others are made to feel and are transformed by their work. Eventually it is the native themselves that needs to meditate on the symbols and messages in their own work. This allows them to more deeply understand the type of person they want to embody, and they can work towards their truths rather than being possessed by an extreme example of their truth in archetype form that is impossible to live up to. Incredibly talented and sensitive, Venus/ Neptune opposition natives have the ability to channel an archetype through themselves, using this as a teaching tool for others.
The worst of the opposition is when the native has not assimilated one of the planetary influences, either Venus or Neptune, and embodies one or the other, drawing relationships that may embody the other planet. In this, they perhaps become the kept woman who marries a man in which they fall for all of his idealism, when in reality he is married to multiple women and she becomes a mere pawn in this man's play. This is an embodiment of the Venetian archetype in OPPOSITION to the Neptune archetype. The opposite of this would be the deceptive one of the two. A person possessed by many desires and does not have any idea who they really are. They may be the one that marries multiple partners and sells each of his/her "pawns" on idealistic fantasies that he of course could never deliver on.

Overall, the opposition of these planets is a setup to learn the TRUTH about the SELF by seeing what can happen when one is not fully grounded in themselves and their own sense of values. In this plane of reality, we often either walk with self deception or allow deception to enter our lives because we want so very much to believe in the VALUES that some of our heroic archetypes embody. As humans, we have to embrace fully where we may fall short of these, own up to this and do our best to walk with these values by grounding into our own honesty and integrity.

The strain free aspects such as the sextile and trine of these two planets bring about great creative inspiration and the ability to use this to solve problems, for both the self and humanity at large. The natives are comfortable with being projected upon, for they understand how to take that projection as an opportunity to inspire and encourage higher forms of idealism and expression in others.
The inconjunction must make adjustments between these insights and reality to avoid going to far off the deep end and losing touch with reality, thus drawing deception and or heavy expectations by allowing projection from others to go on too long.

Through the cycle of Venus and Neptune, we maintain a foot inside the living library of all that is was and will be....the records where the archetypes of all of our values and expressions lie. By tapping into these, we are able to understand on a deeper level the patterns that possess us, and through our love and creativity, continue to draw our own image upon the akashic records from which we draw inspiration. What is it that we wish to draw? What we draw will be the values and relationships that our children will draw from in their dreams...finding its way into their writings...their artwork....their fairytales.

Venus/ Saturn revisited and Gran Torino

2009-01-20T11:50:00.000-08:00

While laying here naked in the backwoods of Oregon trying to find the stars through the thick fucking trees while eating a bowl of cherrios with chocolate hemp milk, I began to think back on yesterdays blog on Venus and Saturn, and realized I may have been a bit extreme in my interpretation, and wanted to add a bit to it.

The beautiful thing about the Venus and Saturn relationship, and those that are natives of the intensive aspects of this, is their capacity to love and endure in loving relationships through all. I stated in the article that due to early childhood development, a feeling of being unloved and under appreciated can develop. The native feels he/she must EARN love through following through with what can be perceived to be EXPECTATIONS.

The process of dealing with the above can go one of two directions. Either the person can withdraw into a feeling of being unloved, or they can give love unconditionally to those that they do care about..usually a select few, and often in doing so put themselves in a position of being taken advantage of.

Both of these expressions seem to be opposing dramas, but seek to have the same effect...and that is to somehow ultimately draw that loving relationship to the self. The psychological profile of the latter example holds on ultimately to the value that they know how to love and endure anything through their capacity of love. They are ultimately learning how recapture the self worth through these efforts...by ultimately learning do drop their fear and choose those that are truly worthy of their love. They are PROVING to themselves THROUGH others that they have great VALUE.
The former, or aloof withdrawal, has grown exhausted of the perception of ephemeral love and may even believe that it doesn't exist. They seek to have others PROVE TO THEM that they are worth valuing by finding value in them.
I wrote in the former article of the feeling that love comes and goes, that the purpose of relationships outlive their course and this can be frightening to the native of Venus and Saturn. The truth is that their are alot of relationships that do come and go, and where are the Venus/ Jupiter native gets great pleasure out of this, Venus/ Saturn natives are more concerned with those that have longevity, that can endure the tests of hardships and time. There is trial and error through the lifetime in lessons of relationship, and in the way of the above example, they are often one sided with one person on either side doing all of the loving or receiving all of the love....embodying the Venus and Saturn archetype respectively. It is from here that the concept of paying for love gets tied in, whether this be the extreme of prostitution or doing great work in order to please the boss, or doing the chores in order to please the father....in all of these cases the value is defined in the short term on both sides of the equation.

In the end, through great endurance and in TIME, Venus/ Saturn will draw and find the souls that they feel match them in integrity, endurance and value...where energy exchanges more evenly without the feeling of being taken or having to take in fear. These relationships will have been truly earned, and better yet, they will be greatly worth it.

Yesterday I went to see the new Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino". I found Clint's character to be a great example of the Venus/ Saturn in strenuous aspects. His character in the movie is an old school war vet who has withdrawn into his own world, clearly demonstrating that he feels that the worlds value system is changing for the worst, leaving him as an island unto himself. As the movie progresses, we see a softer Venetian side to his character through pictures of his deceased wife and his stories of things that were worth fighting for....we see that capacity to love...it may not be easy or very many that he expressed this love to, but when he found someone who he could share his values with and who could appreciate them, the love was a solid one. In the movie, along came a young troubled boy who although tried to steal from Clint, was a "tabula rosa" that ultimately Clint saw needed help, and circumstance led to him helping him. He took on the role of the strict Saturnine father, giving him discipline as his way of expressing friendship, yet the relationship took on a whole new level when the young boy looked him in the eye and told him how much he APPRECIATED what Clint was doing. The irony in the movie was that even relationships that had lasted a long time such as Clint's family, didn't hold this place in his heart because of the separation of the value system. Clint himself instilled in the boy a value system that he could appreciate, and in the end, ultimately sacrificed his very life for his new friend.

The cycle of Venus and Saturn

2009-01-18T17:10:00.001-08:00

As I lay here in this Oregon field naked (and freezing my ass off, but at least not getting rained on), I look up at the stars and contemplate the nature of the cycle of Venus with the next planet in line...Saturn. Come lay with me naked, share some stale cinnamon Life cereal with me, and let's talk for a bit on the nature of these two planets and their cycle.

Once again we are dealing with the planet Venus, which represents that which makes our lives
more valuable and pleasurable, including material possessions as well as relationships and the
expression of love and appreciation. Today we are coupling this planet with Saturn, which
represents the principle of contraction. Saturn grounds us into reality and forces us to face the truth as well as our fears. Unlike Jupiter, which allows for expansion and abundance of intention, Saturn forces us to be aware of our intention, to be responsible for it, and if it is truly our desire, to earn it.

Through the nature of the cycle of Venus and Saturn, we must face issues of self worth. We must face necessary controls and adjustments on how we spend our TIME, this being a measuring tool for what we value. We must continually make adjustments and come to a point of a balanced sense of values, and ultimately a healthy and well grounded self worth. This is primarily done through lessons in relationships.

Venus/Saturn tends to place a defined and exact value upon each relationship, unlike the Jupiter combination where value was extracted for the pure pleasure of it, and ultimately scattered out out of addiction to this pleasure. The saying "You cant buy love" may not sit well with the native of this planetary karma. They would ask "Why not? All love is really just grounded into a practical exchange of resource....a you scratch my back, Ill scratch yours type of exchange".
It is interesting that this aspect is often found in men that frequent prostitutes, as well as many prostitutes themselves. It is logical however, given the fact that there is a defined exchange of goods and resources for exchange of affection or the perception of love. This is especially true with the world of BDSM and domination, as the natives have found a way to equate pleasure with restriction and discipline.

So what is really at play with this above exchange? What leads a soul to feel that he/she must pay, or trade a good or service for love and affection. Certainly the example of prostitution is extreme, but it is appropriate and a most pure expression of this dilemma. Venus/ Saturn natives have issues with understanding that they are valuable; that they are loved.

This always goes back to the experiences of early childhood, and usually always involves the father. The father in key points in the cycle of these planets was often seen as cold, distant, unloving, or at the very least, himself struggling with self worth enough to damage the child's receipt of this. The father also could have placed unbelievable demands on the child. Either way, the child is put in a position of having to PROVE his/her value in order to acquire affection. Perhaps in most cases, some sort of reward/ discipline system of punishment was set up, and usually as is the case with this native, the expectations were high. The child learned that he/she must do X before positive reinforcement is given. This is similar to a monetary exchange for goods. What must truly be understood is that usually, the father or parent in question is at a crisis point in his own values. He may be struggling to express his values into the world at large in order to produce money for his family, and in doing so is not appropriately balancing the distribution of his attention and affections towards his family. Often the case in this aspect is that the native is truly loved, but he/ she does not feel fully loved and appreciated. Even if there was a good degree of love, the value system in the home may be dominated by troubled parents trying to balance and create their own values, leaving the new values that the child came into this world with unnurtured.

Because of this lack of balance, there comes a belief in the observation that love and affection is ephemeral; that it comes and goes in cycles. There is anticipation in it coming but fear of the period when it wanes and is not there in abundance. Not only is this true for relationships, but also spills over into the realm of resources. Venus/Saturn natives must work extremely hard for material comforts, and there is a fear that there will not be enough at times. Resources often become substitutes for relationships, and when they become substitutes, the loss of resource once again forces the native to adjust its value system and learn that you cannot put too much value into material things. The problem with Venus/ Saturn natives is they can carry the belief that you cannot put too much value into ANYthing or ANYone (they never felt that they were valued for who they are enough).

With these the two planets in conjunction, there comes the opportunity or TIME to demonstrate VALUE.... to show others and the collective at large what you as a soul have come to express. The "packaging" of this expression becomes a factor of importance, for others may not be open to what makes you "valuable" as a person if the package doesn't sit well with them. Commonly we may think of how someone dresses, but it also can deal with prejudice such as not being fully heard because of race or sex. Imagine a homeless man that hasn't showered for weeks trying hard to demonstrate his value (Venus) to the world by trying to get work (Saturn), and ultimately once again establish some sort of social status (again Venus).

The issue here is, unlike the Venus/Jupiter conjunction, where appreciation was shown and drawn easily, value must be PROVED...and with this a real feeling that love and affection are truly conditional in this world rather than a birthright. Natives of this aspect may find that they are under appreciated in the work place, and may draw bosses that reflect that father as they spend their career trying to impress him and get noticed. There is a tendency as well to be attracted to older men in the case of women. Security is extremely important, and finding an older man who represents this security also provides an opportunity to regain the self worth that may have been damaged early from a cold or detached father.

Although there is a fear regarding security (manifestation of not having enough in the way of material is a reflection of not having enough in the way of love and affection...and the former can also compensate for the other in this aspect), there is a great opportunity to learn on a deeper level what it is that makes each of us valuable. As we learn what we value, what others value, and what makes us valuable, we can ground into a cooperative focus in order to build towards our dreams and visions through serious partnerships. In the meantime, more often than not, the native of the conjunction either contracts within the self and builds a protective wall to protect themselves from relationship, or they tend to give everything in order to please the other's values while seemingly having no value system of their own, as if they have learned that they are not as important.

At the square of these two planets, we come to a crisis point where becoming an "island amongst yourself" will no longer suffice. The energy of relating to others and being related to reaches a point of tension of much so that the native can put a wall up shutting people out..because they also feel that others have shut themselves out from relating to them...again a byproduct of not feeling appreciated for VALUE at a young age. Sexually, natives of the square tension of these planets often experience impotency, or the inability to let go and have an orgasm. They may fully shower a partner with affection and give love but shut themselves off from receiving it
Understanding that a relationship takes time to fully develop...these aspects are about moving slowly through the process of building and forming a successful relationship by allowing others to know us..allowing them in.

The tension of this square thus causes experiences in which the native puts all his energy into the security of his work, feeling like he is doing all he can to please a hard to please boss, and in the end is fired...losing everything he feels he has. This experience can happen in relationships as well as material possessions we value. Loss teaches us to adjust our values. Think of the people that lost their homes in the hurricanes in the gulf..everything they owned gone. We can just hear about it and realize how they would look at each other differently, showing appreciation and value for the simplest things in life that they took for granted. It took this kind of CRISIS to being them back to balance. The square of Venus and Saturn can create this kind of balance.

Venus/ Saturn people can be extremely loyal with a great deal of integrity. The value system of our world can undergo a great deal of scrutiny by the natives of these aspects. They have a great disdain for people who don't value what they perceive as important, loving family values. Can you see as well that some of this is a projection of pain in which they themselves experienced as a child?

At the opposition, we face the father head on in the world at large. At the square, we either have fully grounded into our self value and found a practical application for this value in a relationship and career where others can appreciate it and see it applied, or the native truly feels ignored and practically useless...everywhere a projection of the cold and unloving father. Ultimately, the father needs to be understood as a person that was trying to build up his own sense of lost values. It is difficult for a child to be in a position to have to build up the father's self image with unconditional love, but the Venus/ Saturn child, or even father himself, has the opportunity for this experience. Competition for parental affection at an early age can lead to external compensation for value in adulthood....a person perpetually projecting value into another or avoiding relationships all together and instead finding value in something material...building a business and becoming successful but shutting out love all together (in this way either embodying the Venus archetype or the Saturn archetype)

Through the energies of Venus and Saturn, we have the opportunity to break down the walls of protection from relationship by finding and demonstrating our value. It is through great trial and often pain that we finally come to terms with this value and fully love the self. Remember that we have no value without others that are valuable, for none of us live in a vacuum. As the father is generally regarded as the first person to provide us with a set of values in the world, to guide us and help give us an integrity and work ethic, thus learning how the world will respond to our value. If he is absent emotionally or even physically, then we must find that archetype by holding true to who and what we are...by maintaining a high degree of self integrity.

The Venus/ Saturn natives are strong souls with a great deal of integrity and love inside of them. They are strong enough to take the hard lessons of criticism, and the perspectives of a often cold, unloving world and transform it in such a way as to eventually love the self more, and in turn love and forgive others. Being "devalued" is a way to put the back against the wall and force the soul to have a voice, to compete for value in order to value and be valued. Perceiving that one does not have enough air will only force them to breathe more deeply. The same goes for those that feel unloved. Ultimately they will dig deeper and deeper, and realize that it was all around them, and within them all along.

The cycle of Venus and Jupiter

2009-01-16T11:38:00.000-08:00

The planet Venus represents that which we draw in order to make our lives easier and more pleasurable. This includes both material possessions that help automate our lives, as well as relationships with people that reflect a joy of living and give physical reality true meaning. We chose to incarnate on earth for a reason. Venus represents that reason as pleasure and enjoyment.

Jupiter represents the principle of expansion. It is motivation to grow and prosper. It represents the capacity for whatever reality it touches to expand into truth or law as the natives "truth" ripples throughout humanity. All spirits live in their own reality, and often there are others that share this reality. The relationship between Venus and Jupiter dictates the cycles of one's truth and its relationship with others that either share this truth or are in some form of polarity to it. The nature of these planets is usually very positive, and when Venus and Jupiter come together, the chances of an idea or thought taking hold and expanding into a reality of a more stable truth is greater.

The cycle of the above two planets then, at the highest form of expression, would make for great teachers and communicators that are capable of sharing what it is that they value, drawing relationships that share the joy and appreciation for this value, and through "spreading" the seeds of this joy, eventually hope and maintain motivation that this value will become a forever part of the value system within the universal whole....that it will become a part of truth. Jupiter deals with universal law, philosophy and the realms of higher learning. The Venetian principle adds a love for this and a value, as well as a charm and gift for sharing it.

However, in our day and age, the purity of planetary expression is rarely the collective consensus. As we begin the cycle of Venus and Jupiter with a conjunction, we find most natives of this aspect to be quite self indulgent and their values driven to acquiring material comforts. These material comforts allow them to "automate" their mundane lives so that they never have to miss out on the abundance of social and pleasurable opportunities. There is a great charm and social grace as well as an outstanding ability to communicate. Natives of this aspect or most aspects of these planets make great teachers, directors of social causes, or in the field of travel. They are easily taken advantage of because of their generous and giving nature. However, they are this way partially because they have a great need to feel valued and appreciated as much as they seem to value and appreciate others...however scattered this energy may be. Most all relationships that this native enters begins with the "sky's the limit"feeling, all part of usually an unconscious desire to procreate the value system, religious belief, and ultimately the self. These natives make great "Witness bearers" to any religious institution they value, however they will do so with grace and tact and show appreciation for what it is that you value if your differ from theirs...but this is much of the trait that enables them to draw so many that will love and appreciate what they have to offer. Ultimately they love the love, in mass quantities and large doses from each that they touch...the logical nature of adjoining Venus and Jupiter.
As the cycle continues, these two planets will ultimately come to what we call the square aspect. For natives, what started out as a grandiose beginning....be it a personal or material value, or a relationship with that"sky's the limit" potential....now sits in the position of "To Be or Not to Be". The square indicates the natives "responsibility" to follow through with the grandiose plan..to "practice what he preaches" or to ultimately realize that roots cannot grow long and the tree cannot grow high under the shade of so many other plants that represent scattered promises, distractions and desires. This is a good analogy for this aspect, as it reminds me of the potential one has in growing a garden in a greenhouse. The house is large representing a large capacity to love, and for natives of these planets, anything they plant bears fruit easily and flourishes with little to no struggle. However, they must choose whether to grow 100 plants (each plant yielding only a little fruit which is frustrating to the large scale way of the Jupiter aspect that wants everything he touches to be GODLIKE) or grow 6 plants by supercropping methods and have each one truly grow large. Both ways are a large scale value and process, but distinctly different approaches, as the small number of plants also may not sit well with the Jupiter native. There is conflict here.

Before we truly reach the point in which this choice is made, it must be understood that the affection, generosity and passions are scattered. Self indulgence and carelessness yield a complete lack of true responsibility. This is especially the danger in any material possession or even religious belief or value that automates something that originally we took responsibility for. Our lives in this day and age are so automated sometimes that we often forget the value that our products provide for us, taking them for granted. In religion for example, the belief in an all loving God that dies for our sins or that takes our confession can become a way to avoid the responsibility of what was the original truth. The conflict goes both ways as the native, in having such a people pleasing and giving nature carrying over from the conjunction, has alot of people that now project grandiose expectations upon him and he is unable to be "responsible" for all that he set out to do. Often this results in being generous on the surface or only when it satisfies an ulterior motive, the generosity being withdrawn at a later time. This is not because the native doesn't want to help everyone and give love to all. It is simply facing a crisis in body that they cannot please everyone, but they still show people this high level of pleasing charm because they do not know how to do otherwise. Under the surface they may withhold generosity only as a way to try and reign in a scattered sense of values. The native of this aspect must first discipline himself in the values he chooses before seeking indulgences. Ultimately, the native..much like the conjunction, is in love with love and appreciation and is desperate for the attention of others and will do just about anything to receive it. Because they not only are able to truly nurture all that they want to put out, as well as truly receive what they expect from relationships, they have a tendency to overly indulge themselves in order to compensate, and thus have problems with obesity.
On the closing square (Venus waning back towards Jupiter), values seeking to launch into the collective often meets another culture. Depending on some other aspects (Neptune especially), the expansion of values here must be resolved within relationship with another culture or religious group...with the native often expanding the family seed into an eastern or western culture as the case may be....upsetting the family paradigm in the process. This is the way the universe diversifies further, by becoming one..marriage must occur between east and west...between Christian and Muslim or Buddhist. In this way we have new systems of beliefs that begin as the values of today, and become the paradigms and belief structures of tomorrow. This all goes back to the original and pure nature of the two planets. In the mundane world, this translates into "love being the universal language" and feeding off the appreciation of diversity. It is the responsibility of the native with the strenuous aspects between the planets to cultivate the grand potential of the new creation that can come about these marriages rather than projecting or scattering seeds of love and generosity into a situation which it views as impossible to truly bear fruit due to an uncooperative environment or family structure.

So what happens now? What becomes of the native if they continue to scatter their love and affection with desperation to receive it without cultivating anything by choice that can truly grow large and ripple throughout humanity? When the two planets make opposition, fulfillment in relationship ultimately remains in "polarity". Because of the nature of these planets, generosity and grandiose idealism still exists, but one may draw relationships in which the archetype of Jupiter is embodied in the other person but is not received or that they remain at odds with. Examples of this would be a woman who marries into money, but marries a man incapable of seeing her through all that money..incapable of giving her true love. Another is of a man that marries a gold digger with a great hole in her pocket and a heart for charities galore. She will spend and give of his resources in his place, scattering them into a number of values that may not be fully known to him..himself not the recipient of the generosity or love that he values. The drama behind all of this can be exaggerated greatly by the native. What the native must learn is to fully and truly love and value the SELF. Again here, we may find overweight bleeding hearts that overindulge themselves as compensation for that desire to have appreciation and love shown in so many ways. If they ever truly learn to value and love themselves for the true VALUES that they have, remembering that which sought to automate itself in the beginning of the cycles (often past lives in the case of the native with the opposition), then they will draw a relationship that can truly give them everything their heart desires because it is a refection of their own heart truly loving the self. In the case that, at the square, full responsibility was taken, then the aspect of the opposition can indicate a great leader or teacher. Priests, leaders of great social or religious reform and movements are included in this, great teachers of young people..planting the seeds of value and knowledge to many with EACH the ability to grow endlessly (a true resolve to the above dilemma in the greenhouse example)! The native of the opposition can manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives. In the world of business and philosophy, the native greets the reality that other choices and values exist in the world that are not their own. They seem to enjoy the competition with others in what essentially amounts to a "paradigm war". Warriors and leaders of men who seek to spread their belief and values and can easily manipulate others easily and win their hearts and minds in order to further his objectives.
The native who did not take responsibility in past lives at the square of planets does not have the grounded value and objective at hand, and so they either carry a bitterness towards opposing views that may be winning the war of paradigm, or they isolate themselves through feeling unloved and appreciated, overindulging the self and seeking love and affection wherever they can find it, being taken advantage of continuously as the generous martyr in the process.

The other strain free aspects in this cycle such as the sextile and trine bring about easy going, affectionate and generous natives that have the ability to draw people out and make people feel good about themselves. The trine is a bit more grounded in the choice of values that he seeks to give appreciation to.
The inconjunction of these planets brings about the need of adjustment in giving too much or expecting too much from one source of relationship. Remember that we get what we give, but we cannot expect others, no matter how much we may give of ourselves, to respond by healing a wounded need to receive love or appreciation that has been previously automated or not fully given to the self.

Through the energy of the planets Venus and Jupiter is reflected our capacity to appreciate and love our diversity as Gods/Goddesses incarnate. Through this appreciation, we feel a great love for everyone and feel that love returned on a grand scale. This is not possible to feel unless we fully love ourselves, and fully value the unique perspective that we have come to share with the world. We are all great teachers, all communicating our truth through simply being true to ourselves. We have molded the matter of this plane in order to help us facilitate the expression of these truths...to allow us to love more deeply and fully...not meant to be a replacement for it.

To Be Thyself is to Love Thyself, and to Love Thyself is to Be Loved a Thousand Fold