The Remembering

On July 7th Uranus enters Gemini, igniting the mini triangle of Saturn/Neptune, Uranus and Pluto for the first time in 500 years.   Interestingly, Uranus was in Gemini at the point of the planet’s discovery in 1781.  Neptune would be the next of the outer planets to be discovered in 1846, whilst Pluto was not on our radar until 1930.  Uranus’ role within these three outer planets, that are symbolic of the collective, is to disrupt and, through that disruption, to awaken – his modus operandi being surprise and shock tactics.  And sometimes that’s the only way we change our behaviours, particularly in current times, where we mostly seem to see, I feel, stupor within the masses, which appears to lift slightly only when the next pleasure distraction appears.

By November of this year Saturn, Neptune and Uranus will have gone back into their previous signs of Pisces and Taurus for a while, having revealed a taster of what the experience of the mini triangle ‘music’ might be like.  In fact, Neptune has already turned retrograde on July 4th.  In April next year this potentially opportunistic triangular aspect of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto re-ignites without any further retrogrades to come, the configuration lasting more or less until the end of the decade, depending upon the amount of tolerance you give to the degree ratios; certainly though for the next two years

Uranus transits bring disruption and revolution through a basic desire for freedom and change, very often via technological inventions that in themselves bring awakening on some level.   Uranus is unpredictable and in Gemini is even more unpredictable – Mercury, Gemini’s ruler, is the trickster.   What we will see the most, I feel, is an exponential speeding up of whatever Uranus in Gemini will represent, which hopefully we will get a feel for soon.  Taurus, Uranus’ previous sign, is a slow, stubborn, ploddy sign, very unsuited to Uranus’ energy.  Taurus represents values and money whilst Uranus is very connected to technology.  And what have we seen?  A greater tendency towards cryptocurrency and to digital currency, and digital identity to go alongside it.  Gemini, however, likes speed and, with Gemini’s tendency towards adaptability and change, Uranus will feel so much more comfortable in this Air sign, rather than the fixed, dense Earth energy of Taurus.   No longer will Uranus be walking through treacle.  Changes will be lightning fast, outdated even as they occur.  Gemini energy tends to be symbolic of communication, connection and general networking.  So, we should prepare for disruptive energy in these areas – an obvious candidate here being AI.  

When the mini triangle ignites, Neptune – and at first remember it’s not just Neptune, it’s Saturn and Neptune together – will be at the midpoint between Pluto and Uranus.  This happens once every 500 years and augurs a societal/civilisation change.  The last occurrence was in the early 1500’s, a period in the UK which marked the Reformation of the Christian Church in the West and the advent of the printing press, which meant that information was preserved and disseminated much more easily.  That may not feel like much to us in this day and age, but then it was life changing.  This was an era when the Church was extremely powerful, figuring at the centre of people’s lives.  And this time around the effect is likely to be even more palpable.  Why?  Because Neptune (and Saturn) will be positioned on the world axis and all the planets involved will be at early degrees of their signs, signifying change – even highly likely a new paradigm.  I can’t stress enough what a big deal this is.  It wasn’t the case in the 1500s and yet the effect on people’s lives was still huge, reverberating down the ensuing centuries.

The midpoint – which until Spring 2027 involves both Saturn and Neptune, and after that just Neptune - is where we must find the answer to blending the energies of Pluto and Uranus at either end.  This will be the time to discover what is beyond (Neptune) our reality (Saturn), as our boundaries (Saturn) have the potential to be dissolved (Neptune).  Pluto/Uranus is the process of huge and disruptive transformation – the collapse of the old order of things and the construction of the new, very often via revolution (Uranus) and possibly subversive activities (Pluto).  If the aspect between Pluto and Uranus was a square or an opposition, I tend to think it would be felt on an even more violent level – such as it was during the 2011 Arab Spring period when the two planets were in square.  Now we have a trine, which is more harmonious in action – it all happens and will be difficult, but perhaps with less opposition to the actions, possibly because the ground is already primed and laid ready for future events, although I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not!    Perhaps it will feel like a final tipping up of everything we have ever known, coupled with turmoil that will be felt as though a tablecloth is being whipped out from underneath everything that is laid upon it.  For a brief moment all the crockery, cutlery and glasses float in mid-air, and then they crash down on the table.  Some shatter, some crack and some survive without breaking.  So, yes it is a violent and very difficult aspect but, as I say, a lot of the ground is already fully prepared.  Or the ‘powers that be’ think everything is ready and in place for the changes they want to impose.

Saturn and Neptune are very different, competing energies, Saturn loving firm boundaries and Neptune not wanting any.  The material reality is easy to understand and explain – the transcendent side of Neptune, however, is not.  First, we have to truly understand our reality (Saturn) and separate it from illusion (Neptune).  This may prove difficult in today’s world, where everything we consider to be our reality may, in fact, be illusion, and illusions and lies are considered to be fact.   At the midpoint between Pluto and Uranus we may see a striving for new things, accompanied by foolhardiness.  Neptune requires a sympathetic understanding of people and a knowledge of human nature, but this may come alongside insecurity, uncertainty and unfulfilled wishes, bringing fatigue and anxieties.   Saturn brings self-will, issues of the ego and huge pressure by others, which may bring some kind of separation and breaking down.[1]

Neptune’s activities are very often veiled and, therefore, invisible, which is why he has a reputation for deceit and underhandedness.  How in reality (Saturn) can we see what cannot be seen (Neptune)?  The 64 million dollar question.  Mass media for instance is very Neptunian in nature, but the manipulation of the masses by it is very Plutonian, as the masses follow a corporate and financially driven world view led by a ‘pied piper’.  The key is that all three outer planets must be integrated within the psyche, each requiring very different energies.  Neptune integrates through the unconscious and through connecting with the divine and the higher self.   Venus is the higher octave of Neptune and, therefore, we must find Neptune through love.  Neptune’s compassion and creativity can take us beyond our egos to places our minds haven’t gone to before, places where we can embrace thinking without limits.  Uranus type awakenings bring events and non-conformist people into our lives that enable us to see inside ‘Pandora’s box’.  Uranus is often regarded as a higher octave of Mercury, so we need to ensure that we are critically thinking and analysing.  Uranus is the maverick, which is an energy often difficult to own in a society that wants us to all fit in.  We must not fear standing out just because we are different in some way.  And finally, we need the transformational results that Pluto can bring, but we have to be prepared to do the inner work that he demands; we must face the shadow of the traumas and difficulties that we have buried within our psyches, rather than dealing with their ongoing issues. 

Neptune gives us a sugar-coated worldview and Uranus a more scientific world view.  Somehow both need to be embedded.  Uranus gives us a logical view and Neptune one that is more abstract, as reason became hidden behind a veil, and we became hypnotised by propaganda.  Neptune connects to an invisible world outside - while Pluto and Saturn confront us with harsh realities especially if we don’t listen.  Pluto shows us the underworld, the shadow where we must purge what has been caused by the mass culture and mass propaganda.  We are living in a system that is hypnotising us and preventing us from seeing the reality - it is this very system that we trust that is destroying us.  Just as in the film the Matrix – the system uses the drug of its propaganda to keep the people asleep.  Waking up means people owning their power, whilst having to face the darkness of shadows and traumas that have been buried (Pluto) before we in the developed world lose our minds.   

In Gemini, Uranus will disrupt our thinking, so we must be prepared to look at our relationship with our own minds.  Gemini represents the duality of twins and opposites.  Our way of thinking will force us to either awaken or allow us to just go to sleep.  Neptune is highly ideological, and Aries is the hero, so how will we idealise our hero figures?  Perhaps there will be some kind of spiritual rebirth, alongside new visions and new creativity.  But we need to get better at the choices we make, because Neptune will always veil, deceive, idealise, lie and create illusions.

In my blog ‘The Knowing’ (https://www.joycelambertastrology.com/blog/the-knowing) I highlighted the wisdom held and woven within the very fabric of the universe that we have lost.   To move forward positively for the future, we must allow Uranus to awaken us so that we can re-connect with this wisdom and remember the instincts and intuitive abilities that we have lost.  Mabe this is the role of our Pineal gland as I mentioned in a previous blog ‘The Seat of the Soul (https://www.joycelambertastrology.com/blog/the-seat-of-the-soul).   

Pluto in Aquarius requires much greater self-awareness as the old order of civilisation of society breaks down and a new order enters.  We have buried the shadows of previous civilisations’ difficulties – all the traumas and pains – and we deny death.   We do much to actually cause death, but we deny the death process as something to revere.  As the world population increases, it becomes more and more vital for those who have put themselves into leadership positions to ensure the masses are ‘dumbified’ so that they are passive and manipulable.  That’s always been the way.  Those who lead have to do this because they are few and could easily be overwhelmed by the masses – but the masses don’t realise this.  Instead, they think they are powerless and tend to shrug their shoulders apathetically.  We must remember our innate wisdom and own our individual ‘power’ so that the unconscious side of the three outer planets can finally become consciously felt within us.  We should also look back to non-violent uprisings such as the ‘secessions of the plebs’, a series of conflicts in ancient Rome where the common citizens (the plebeians) merely withdrew from Rome, refusing to participate in the city’s affairs, thereby effectively ghosting the city.  The first of these secessions took place around 494 BCE.  The elites were left helpless with no labour, no army and no support. 

Neptune is big on illusions – the illusion for instance that every country is individually governed, when in fact all have been infiltrated and are working together in lockstep to a global agenda.   With Saturn and Neptune together, we have the materialist side and the ideological side together as one.  How can we hold the two very different energies of Saturn and Neptune – realism and dreams, boundaries and freedom, the transcendent and the immanent - in balance within us?   The answer is that we can’t without some very deep inner work on really understanding who we are and what makes us tick.   We must embrace the ‘knowing’ so that we can move forward to the ‘remembering.   And then we must act in a non-violent fashion.   There is no saviour.  This starts with us!!

 


[1] The Combinations of Stellar Influences, Reinhold Ebertin, American Federation of Astrologers, 1940

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