Metaphysically Speaking

Astrologers all over the world are writing articles and articles about the conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune at 26 of Aquarius and Uranus at 26 Pisces. And lets not forget Chiron right there with them, what could we do without the wounded healer in the mix. What conjuntions!  And rightly so, for the conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter, in any sign, is a significant moment in the cycles astrologers love to analyze. Consider a couple of these–September 1945, World War Two ends, also, January 1984, the first Apple computer is created.

But for my purposes here let’s look at the last time this conjunction took place in Aquarius was in 1843 when hypnotism and  psychology was beginning to open the depth of the unconscious mind.  Chemistry was advancing, photography was really getting launched. Steam was changing shipping. Surgery was changed by the use of ether to perform painless procedures.  The industrial sewing machine started to change how our clothes were pieced together.  Psychologists started thinking more specifically about dreams. Utopian ideas grew out of the thin air, Dorthy Dix started a movement for the reform of asylums and prisons.  While slavery was still around, part of the deepening drive for reform strengthened the antislavery sentiment and the battle over new states being free or slave holding was starting to get very heated in congress.

Needless the say many will say that Neptune Jupiter conjunctions happen every 13 years.  Well not in Aquarius, again, remember the last was 1843!  Obviously we have to turn our eye to social reform and efforts to bring historical problems into a better perspective.

Since I am also a palmist let me say this.  What makes astrology such a wonderful craft is that it takes in the whole history of man, whereas palmistry is always about the individual. A palmist will not be able to write about historical tends from the lines on the hand.  However when it comes to interpreting individual character palmistry can more than hold its own.

But what about Uranus?  It is at 26 of Pisces.  What might that mean?  Well it means a lot, Uranus is still in its dance of opposition with Saturn and this further indicates change to established ways of thinking and fundamentals.  Symbolic of this is that the first exact opposition of Uranus and Saturn was the November 4, 2008 and the election of the first Afro-American president in American history! Is not that indicative of a change in historical and fundamental ways of thinking.  Uranus brings change, inventiveness, revolutionary ideas, social reform, and a spike in the process of national individuation.  Saturn has to reorganize its structural parameters, the boundaries of the possible and the necessary.

In shorthand, Jupiter (expansiveness) Neptune (vision)  Uranus (change) are going into a synergy of energy which promise to really broaden the coming decades.  There are many scholarly articles and books which you can find on Google to study further if you wish.

In the moment of all this twenty-six degree analysis let me point out that what I want to focus on is the new moon at one degree of Cancer on June 22, 2009. You will get the big thrust of the twenty-six degree and so much more.
JUNE 22 09  NEW MOON

I predict that this new moon will be the most powerful one in years.  It is not an eclipse, but that does not diminish the power at work here. This is a mega new moon. The sun, moon and asteroid Vesta are all together at one degree of Cancer being opposed by Pluto at two degrees of Capricorn.  The north and south nodes both form an inconjunct with this configuration.  Here in Los Angeles, the ascendant will be twenty-six of Virgo directly opposite Uranus.  The extra sweetness in this mix is an exact trine of Saturn in Virgo with Mars and Venus in Taurus at sixteen degrees.  What an incredible configuration!

Every planet is in aspect to something except Mercury, which makes this singleton very important, in Gemini,  communication is the only answer.

I often tire of long drawn out delineations of planetary configurations.  What I want to express here is that the time of this new moon is the best meditative moment in the whole year of 2009.

Everyone who reads this blog should make plans to meditate during this time. Personally I will be getting together with some seasoned practitioners of meditation to seek a personal direction as we enter into the deeper astrological events to follow.  It is a time to seek the release of old visions, old structures, old thought forms and to purify the inner being with the powers of not only the outer planets but of the personal as well.  The heart, the soul, the core of self is going to be tested as we go forth from this new moon.   And Mercury as the sole unaspected planet is key in the sense that it is dignified and, on the west coast, in the ninth house.

But the important thing is that this solistace point will be a watershed of some kind. We must start counting these moments as the clock starts to tick down to 2012. The upcoming Cardnal Cross of 2010 lurks ahead, as does the conclusion of the Saturn Uranus conjunction in September of 2009.

T.S. Eliot once wrote that there are moments which are the touchstones of an age, points which define a generation.  Eliot wrote the poem, “The Wasteland” as the expression of the despair of the first half of the twentieth century and the two world great wars–which I might add ended not with a whimper, but with the bang of an atomic bomb.

The question that I pose is, “What is going to be the touchstone of the opening of the twenty-first century?” September 11 was the true beginning of a century that may well get completely out of control. Humanity will be tested as never before. We must pass this test if the younger generation is even to have a planet to inherit!
Still, it is my belief that for each of us who meditates, that during the new moon of June 22, 2009, there will begin a depth of insight and vision, and there will be something magical to this point in time–a time where there will be a wave of vibration, a vibration so important that to miss this wave will be like the poor surfer who missed the greatest set of waves in a generation, simply because he was not in the ocean that day.

Be sure you get into the magical moment of June 22, 2009!