The Outer Planets Dance begins a Hero's Journey

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell 

This is a big week.  This is a week that will bring in a lot of power.  You can use this power to make changes toward the kind of life that will be more rewarding and interesting.  This is the hero's turf. Don't let it scare you, use it.
This Cardinal Grand Cross is there to transform the world, as it does that it will transform each individual life.  You don't have to do it all at once, you couldn't.  But the process is started and this week really adds to it in several intense waves.  Surf those waves, ride them toward your goals.  If you try to stay safe, you will end up in the muck and that will slow you down and muddy you up.  You want to use this energy.  This time is your hero's journey. 
Monday, July 26 is quite a day in the sky!  Lots of goings on here, Most of them under the influence of the Cardinal grand Cross.  And then there is Neptune getting into the middle making it more of a muddle.  But the big one is a final passage that has been affecting us for a couple of years now, Saturn's last opposition with Uranus.
This one is a little different.  All of the previous passes of these two have been in Virgo and Pisces, mutable, water and earth signs.  This one in Libra and Aries is in Cardinal Fire and Air.  It is a much more active energy.  This could culminate in something more significant, a new beginning whose way has been prepared with a lot of nudges.  These two are powerful energies and quite opposite in nature.
Saturn is structure, security.  Uranus likes to move quickly to challenge and change. As an outer planet, it is always transformational.  Outer planet energy usually prevails and it is prevailing in a fiery energy that doesn't mind breaking some eggs.  While Saturn is all stability in a sign of balance that prefers the process to getting to the point.
If we weren't having enough fun yet, Mars is applying to Saturn just two degrees away, close enough to influence, certainly.  And Mars likes action!   By the 29th, they are all in the same degree.  Things could get pretty explosive on a wider, cultural level.  
In personal charts any planet at 0 degrees will be influenced most.  And with the power of this one, I would be pretty comfortable taking it out five degrees in either direction.  25 degrees to 5 degrees, that would include a lot of us in our charts.
This alone would make it a big day, but we are not done yet.
Today Neptune is opposing Mercury. This makes quite am opposition between the planet of thinking and logic and the planet of instinct and intuitions.  It will be hard to sort out what you are thinking. It will still be in effect on the 26th, when all the Saturn, Mars, Uranus energy is with us.  It will be hard to figure out what to think, and to make it more interesting Mars is quincunxing  Neptune tomorrow.
The quincunx is tricky because it puts it in two signs and energies that don't really understand each other.  And these two planet's energies don't get along either.  They won't know what to do.  Mars is direct energy, Neptune is anything but, it is mist.
That should be enough major transits for one day....but no.  Jupiter, Which is only three degrees from the Uranus, Saturn, Mars, energy is trining the Sun.  Now that one is cheery.  These two get along.  And they are positive, strong energies.They could color all of this much more positively.
Then the final planet in this mix finds Pluto quincunxing the Sun and squaring Jupiter.  Pluto transforms.  It is what it does, it does it deeply, and it does it with a lot of power.  
Anyone with a lot of planets 25 degrees to 5 degrees is going to have all this energy coming at them this week.It is a good time to concentrate on what changes you are looking for in your life in a positive way.  Neptune's energy can be very positive if you meditate, that can help clear out the Neppie energy.
Uranus requires going with the flow.  But watch out for the kind of accidents that come from moving too fast without thinking about it.  Steady your board.
Pluto will take you to new levels, it requires that you release some of the things you are holding on to so that it can give you space to create your new life.   But do not call out your devils by saying "I will not give ---------  up, because---------- is exactly what it will go for.
The force will be strong this week.  It has already begun and the end is not in sight.  The journey is ahead.
This kind of energy is the space for heroes.  It requires a lot of you, but the adventure is what makes life interesting and exciting.  It can take you to wonderful places.  It will require challenges.  But if you can imagine the kind of life you would most like to create and hold that vision, this extreme time can move you there faster than you can imagine.

Neptune Revisited

After last night's blog, I thought perhaps I should just review Neptune energy.  Since it is so prominent in my chart just now and I'll be dealing with it again for some time.

Neptune is the energy of connection with the limitless state of the universal mind. Neptune eats away at ego perception. It defies logic and rational approaches. Neptune operates on a very subtle level. It is beneath the place where we keep our conscious awareness, beneath the area where we have words.

Neptune is often called a higher vibration of Venus. It is love beyond relationship, unconditional. Neptune doesn’t recognize conditions. It is inspiration as opposed to creativity.

Neptune always brings confusion to the rational process. There is no order to it. It works with the creative forces without a rational filter. When you think about it, you don’t have any idea where inspiration came from, it just came.

Musicians have strong Neptune placements. So do addicts.

Rudhyar says, "Every force which denies limitations and tends to make us whole, which saps the strength of a particular viewpoint and injects into it the fluid of unearthly desires; every agency which dissolves crystallization's and puts the lens of the ego out of focus, which stirs us with divine longings through days of second puberty and enravishes us away from family and home into the snow white peace of convents or to the living fermentation of the jungle, all belong to the Neptune symbol."

It is clear that the Neptune symbol is not the favorite energy of the social order or the rational mind. It is completely transcendent and while in Neptune's energy these things are insignificant and the individual floats above them.

In order to embrace Neptune energy, you must give yourself permission not to know. The position of the person seeking a vision quest is, I know nothing". So it is with Neptune.

When Neptune cycles come up in a person deeply rooted to a Saturn world, (social structure, rules, laws, rational order) It is the confusion that is most unsettling. When so much energy is based in structure and left brain activities, the right brain making known a larger awareness is not often welcomed.

Illumination is received holistically and as it tries to enter the perceptions which are carefully guarded by logic, the senses seem to be deceptive.

The relevance of Neptune effects are often discarded because it is not possible to apply them to the rational mind. Still under the surface of the most closely guarded ego, Neptune is working its wordless alchemy both in the highest connections of the soul and in the part of the brain so deep, it has no words. Change will happen. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, change will find its way into the rational mind.

During this process the rational mind will only find confusion and illusion. Still, it knows that something is changing, something over which it has no control, cannot describe. this can be very unsettling.

It is often a point when a person with a dim perception that it is time to open the limitations, will get involved with drugs. Drugs can give the illusion that barriers in the mind are broken. This thought is deceptive and can lead to addiction.

Under addictions, the perceptions might change, the limitations might be challenged but the holographic perceptions of a larger reality cannot be perceived. This is the reality Neptune would have you seek.

It is a strange land and cannot be seen through the filter of the known. It dissolves ego, to remove limitations and introduce the soul to a higher order of perception.

The effect being accomplished is a higher connection to the collective unconscious. With cooperation (allowing yourself not to know) it can become the connection with the God source.

Transcendent is the key word. The transcendence is beyond the personal, beyond the social, beyond anything the mind has perceived, out into the space where every quark is made of unconditional love and dimensional space does not exist and time is a whole new ball game.

Getting All Neptuny Tonight

Saturn and Mars are creeping up to my Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus are opposing it, Pluto is squaring it. So I'm going to get all Neptuny tonight.  I can tell when things get all Neptuny for me because the Pleadians reappear.  And sure enough today they were everywhere.  Turns out, Pleadians like Facebook.
If this sounds like Sci fi or Fantasy to you, you didn't have them living in your house for years.  I'm awfully glad to see them because I really missed their sweet energy.  But more importantly, they have very interesting things to say.
They described my last several years very well in their missive today, and they described the last two weeks pretty well too.  I know it when I see it.
But the most important thing that they had to say was that we are in the last passage toward the dimensional shift, so it is important that we leave our warrior aspects behind and look toward manifesting.  The fight is fought, the ones who want to stay in three dimensions have created what they wanted and we are free to create our own.
We can leave the fear and douse the anger now and work from power, which is always love.
We have been battered and bruised but we made it through.  Now we need some healing, and a lot of creativity.  So stop worrying about the structures that are seeming to bind us, we are free of those the minute we release them.  Let the anger melt away and ease your tired muscles.
Our time now is best used in creating our future as beautifully as we can imagine.  No doubts, no judgement on the things we can't effect.  Move into our future and watch the veil start to melt.
We made it.  We are not getting there, we are there.

The US Chart at the Eclipse.

The first thing I notice when I pull up the USA chart, is that most of the planets are in water and air.  With Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in Cancer, water is our most comfortable energy.  The Cardinal Grand Cross begins to put a lot of stress there.  Especially on Venus and Jupiter.
it is interesting that this occurs just as we are having the the biggest pollution event in the Gulf of Mexico. Neptune is on the US Moon in Aquarius during this time too, more water energy in an air sign.  perhaps that is where we look for the pollutants that are in the air there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dk-matai/gulf-of-mexico-danger-of_b_619095.html
"The escape of other poisonous gases associated with an underground methane bubble -- such as hydrogen sulfide, benzene and methylene chloride -- have also been found. Recently, the EPA measured hydrogen sulfide at more than 1,000 parts per billion (ppb) -- well above the normal 5 to 10 ppb. Some benzene levels were measured near the Gulf of Mexico in the range of 3,000 to 4,000 ppb -- up from the normal 0 to 4 ppb. Benzene gas is water soluble and is a carcinogen at levels of 1,000 ppb according to the EPA. Upon using a GPS and depth finder system, experts have discovered a large gas bubble, 15 to 20 miles wide and tens of feet high, under the ocean floor. These bubbles are common. Some even believe that the rapid release of similar bubbles may have caused the sinking of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle."

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It is interesting that on the day there is also Mercury on Mars and transiting Mars is squaring the US Uranus just as a General's spouting off against civilian leadership was being published. Which caused me to take a look at Obama's chart and see Mars on his Natal Pluto.He'll fire the guy. This is about civilian control and respect for the office of the President, kind of Plutonian energy. Saturn has been up against his mars since the election and it is off now.  He is feeling freer.


Obama himself might have a problem with a woman in his life this next week, with his Venus hitting the whole energy of this eclipse.  

The US chart is showing a lot of energy on the lunar eclipse.  This whole period in the next few years all the way to the Pluto return in the 2020's.is ripe with transformation.  

Transformation can often begin with dissatisfaction with the present energies.  That is, no doubt what Uranus and Jupiter will begin to provide. at the moment.

I was surprised to see that the progressed US chart shows most planets in air and water again.  They are mostly out of the way of the energies of the Cardinal Cross.  This is good, we don't need that.  It will also show me whether the transiting or the progressed charts show me more about political world.

Now the next Lunar eclipse is half a degree from the Capricorn ingress December 21. There is a big stellium right with it, split between Sagittarius and Capricorn. The eclipse is on the US Saturn return widely squaring it., another element indicating a big transition. And it squares the US Sun to give it all a bit more oomph.  Do we NEED more oomph?  Then the Solar eclipse on January 4 gets us a T-square, opposing US Sun with a Saturn return at the point.  

The USofA is going through quite a time.  This is how we change and grow. And growth and change are ultimately good, but they require a lot of energy.  And you can be sure that they wil be opposed by the people in power now, especially in the banks and corporations.