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Astrology Notes: Astrology, Healing and the Evolution of Consciousness
Jupiter & the Dream
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In previous issues (see archives), we spoke about the Chiron/Saturn transit (opposition) that is a feature of 2004. The (retrograde) midpoint of this transit occurs this month (August) and is exact on the 15th.
As mentioned in previous articles, this transit brings up wounds and issues around authority, control, responsibility, discipline, harshness, being cared for versus taking care of ourselves, love and tough love, and other themes. Not many of us look forward to having to deal with such themes! However, amongst the planetary angles in mid-August lies a welcome helper with an optimistic outlook-a guide with a shining light to guide us through the otherwise dark transit of Saturn and Chiron. This guide is Jupiter (Jupiter trines Chiron and sextiles Saturn during this time). Let us look at what Jupiter's themes, meaning, and messages are for us, not just during the month of August, but in our lives generally.
The Dream in the Child's Heart
Do you still remember, as a child, the start of summer vacations? Do you remember the feeling of freedom? The feeling of adventure? The wide expanse of time spread out before you, weeks and months disappearing into the future? Do you remember the extraordinary and amazing plans you made for yourself and for the world? Do you remember the projects you set out to achieve-to re-route a creek, to build a tree-house, to build a miniature family household within the family household, to become the greatest this or that, or to save the children of the world from this or that peril? Do you remember waking up early in the morning and leaping out of bed, throwing the curtains open to find a sun-filled day of excitement and promise waiting for you? Do you remember the feeling in your heart that anything was possible, that there were no limits, that the universe was a magic, mysterious, and beckoning place-a stage upon which all your dreams could be enacted?
Without exception, we have all had these moments in our childhood, whether we remember them or not. Remembered or not, these memories-these moments of a connection to a higher purpose-are still there, buried in our hearts.
Very few people retain their childhood dreams and then follow them into adulthood, allowing them to shape their lives. Such people we often call geniuses. Such people are the movers and shakers of the world at large.
For the rest of us, why do we lose contact with these dreams? When and how do we lose trust in them? Why do they get lost in our growing-up? The fire seems to die along the way, and we begin to believe that our dreams-and the feelings that the universe is a magical place, full of opportunity and promise-were just childish fantasies.
Astrologically speaking, it is Jupiter who whispers in your child's ear, showing you the miracle of life, enticing you to explore, to learn, to expand your horizons, to acknowledge the mystery and magic of the universe. As we grow up, though, Jupiter's message gradually becomes muffled, until, in many cases, it cannot be heard at all.
Jupiter's message to you is that all your dreams, fantasies, plans, projects, and so on are still within your heart. Moreover, they are all still possible.
· Whatever you can dream, you can achieve; otherwise, you could not dream it.
The Calling
Each of us is born with a calling-a dream or mission. Your calling, residing in your heart of hearts, is the thing you would most love to do and be, more than anything else in the world. When acknowledged, is feels exactly like the feelings you had as a child, when everything seemed possible. The difficulty is that you may have lost trust in this dream/calling, or in your ability or worthiness to bring it into fruition. The healing journey consists of reconnecting with the dream and with reawakening the trust in yourself and in the universe to manifest this dream. Not only this, but this is why we are all here-i.e. to discover, acknowledge, accept, embrace, and finally love our calling, and to begin to manifest it.
Whether we are aware of it or not, the dream or calling in our hearts sustains us through thick and thin. We may think that it is dead within us, but it is actually alive and keeping us ticking. When the dream or calling truly dies, then we die. In the meantime, we keep cyclically building up and tearing down our lives. This is an unconscious effort to find the right form for ourselves-a form that can express and live our dream and calling. If the current form of our lives is not serving our highest purpose-our calling, the dream-then we cannot help self-destructing ourselves. In doing so, the universe is giving us the opportunity to find a new form that can honor that purpose better.
Jupiter's Place in the Cosmos
Looking at the larger picture of the solar system, we find that Jupiter stands at the limits of our ordinary, earthbound lives. If the solar system is a holographic mirror of our potential journey of growth and evolution, then the inner planets-Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and the Sun-represent the affairs of our earthly lives.
In brief, the Moon is our emotional protective patterns, developed in the first years of life. Venus is the further development of our feeling nature, giving us a striving for harmony, inner peace, beauty, and balance in our lives through the exertion of the principles of attraction and repulsion. Mars is about getting into the body, asserting ourselves as individuals, and exercising our ability to choose; it is about the struggle between action versus reaction, and between automatic processes and intention. Mercury is about the mind and sets the scene for the associative connecting of our lives through mental understanding; it is about beginning to connect the dots of our lives and of ourselves into a larger picture. The Sun is about integrating feeling, body, and thinking-mirrored in Moon, Venus, Mars, and Mercury-into self-will and self-expression.
The affairs of the inner planets make up all the ingredients needed for life to continue as it is. The inner and outer drive for evolution, however-the drive for growth of consciousness, for healing, for reconnection to our divine origins-does not rest. Jupiter calls us from across the asteroid belt-calls us toward our ultimate potential. It calls us to expand our consciousness to correspond with each of the outer planets in turn. It whispers to us that the journey is worth it, that the universe is waiting for us, that our potential is more extraordinary, more miraculous than we had ever previously imagined.
· Jupiter speaks directly to our Child's Heart-to that place in our heart of hearts that knows that our dreams and calling are possible.
From Jupiter, we launch out into the outer solar system. When we reach Saturn, it is time for us to grow up. It is time to take responsibility for our lives and to cease blaming the outside world and circumstances for our ailments and failures.
After Saturn, we reach the newly discovered planetoid/comet, Chiron. The consciously intended healing journey begins here. Chiron represents the point in the solar system where the collective consciousness of humanity resides at this time in history. We are collectively poised for a quantum leap of consciousness. This quantum leap will bring (and is already bringing) a new understanding of the cosmos and a new understanding of ourselves in relation to healing and to our evolutionary journey.
Chiron represents a bridge to the higher orbits of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto/Charon. Holographically, Uranus represents the divine plan, Neptune represents the reconnection to divinity, oneness, and love, and Pluto represents the keys to our own self-transformation-to our destiny as truly conscious beings living truly conscious lives. Until we are ready to embark upon such a journey, though, the influences of these outer planets constitute the mass movements of fate.
Jupiter's place in this picture is to entice us along this fantastic journey of discovery-a journey of awakening to the divine plan, to the truth of love, and to the interconnectedness of all things, a journey upon which we will ultimately become the masters of our lives.
The Incarnation Process
Why do we lose touch with or lose faith in our dreams and calling as we grow up? In short, it is due to the incarnation process. Incarnation is not simply a matter of being born and then we are incarnate. Incarnation begins before birth, at the quickening (the 16th week of embryological development). It continues after birth until the midpoint of our lives (around age 36), where we are the most 'solid', so to speak. From this point, we are 'on our way out' again-i.e. our physical form begins to break down in preparation for the return to spirit.
Incarnation itself is the journey from unity into duality, from oneness into fragmentation, from truth into illusion, from love into many emotions, and from light into relative darkness. For example, the consciousness of a newborn baby is far more unified than we are as adults. However, infant consciousness is relatively undifferentiated and impotent from the point of view of will. Moreover, it is unawakened consciousness-the consciousness of an innocent angel, so to speak.
We can only begin to know ourselves by contrast and by reflection. This is the purpose of incarnation. Incarnation is a mirror reflecting us back at ourselves. The world around us is nothing less than a perfect mirror of all that we love about ourselves (all that we see, accept, embrace, honor, and love) and all that we do not yet love about ourselves (all that we judge, deny, reject, avoid, repress, ignore, and hide).
When we incarnate, our lower nature perceives the world in terms of duality-black and white, good and bad, right and wrong, yes and no, happy and sad, pain and pleasure, and so forth. The lower nature's perception (rooted in the nature of the body and its senses) causes us to seek perceived pleasure and run from perceived pain. We seek that which we think is missing, and/or that which we think needs fixing, correcting, setting right, or healing.
This is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, because it takes us on a journey. On the journey, we become who we are divinely designed to be. Such is the hidden perfection of the world and of our lives.
It is all a matter of perception, though (notice that I previously said 'perceived pleasure' and 'perceived' pain). And these perceptions are an illusion! When, on our evolutionary journey, we truly find the thing we seek, we may realize that, in truth, it was never missing! Similarly, the journey of fixing, correcting, setting right, and healing will ultimately bring us to realize that there was never anything to fix, correct, or set right. Moreover, the healing journey was awakening to this fact!
With respect to each issue/wound in our lives, when we realize that nothing was/is missing, and when we see that there was/is nothing to fix, correct, or set right, the illusion of the duality dissolves; the illusions of paradox and separation are transcended. This state is unconditional love (with respect to the given issue/wound).
Unconditional love is the state of grace from which we were born, before incarnations. There is an important difference, however, between our pre-incarnation state and that which comes on our healing/evolutionary journey: where the former was an undifferentiated and impotent consciousness, the latter entails the conscious mastery of our lives (with respect to the given issue/wound). In short, as we heal/evolve, we come closer to being co-creators of our lives. Then, as always, we move on to the next issue/wound. Our journey never ends.
From a larger perspective, our cycles of incarnation and evolution are nothing less than the gradual, conscious awakening of love for everything in our lives and in ourselves. Losing touch with our dream/calling is part of this divine plan. The illusion of duality-the mirror of life, or what the eastern philosophies called maya-gives us the opportunity to awaken to all that we are. It is a kind of hide-and-seek game with ourselves.
Rediscovering our dream/calling-our journey of awakening-produces our divine design, i.e. that which we are here to do, be, and have. When we see this-when we realize that every one of our issues/wounds was a driving force toward our divine design and helped shape who we are today-we cannot help but be filled with gratitude and awe. As Chiron says, there is a gift in every wound-a service to us, others, and the universe.
Jupiter in your Horoscope
Jupiter, in the natal horoscope, points to the place where your potential for joy, wonder, and awe lie-your potential for experiencing and trusting in the magic and mystery of universe. How this joy and trust in the universe are expressed or repressed in our lives can also be seen in the horoscope. Generally, these feelings-feelings we had as children, but may not immediately remember-are uncovered by the healing journey. This is the journey from Jupiter to Saturn to Chiron, aforementioned.
The Saturn journey is about accepting personal responsibility for your wounds, blockages, and unresolved issues. Chiron is about healing these things. The path of healing ends when there is gratitude for the original wound, event, circumstance, and/or person that 'caused' you (perceived) pain-when there is the open-hearted acknowledgement that what you perceived erroneously through the perceptions of your lower nature as an imbalance, injustice, or mistake took you on the journey of becoming who you are. Furthermore, it is the realization and acknowledgment that, at the moment of the original wounding, even then perfect balance existed in the universe. All else was an illusion, albeit an illusion that served you on your journey.
To believe that your dreams, your calling, and the magical, mysterious universe somehow disappeared, were ever missing, or were never really there is the illusion. It is a lie. The dreams and the calling are alive and waiting within your heart. The magic and miraculous universe is waiting for you to reopen your child's heart, and to acknowledge the calling and dreams that live in you.
Using Jupiter on Your Journey
Given the aforementioned, how might you connect with Jupiter during August's challenging Chiron/Saturn transit and for your evolutionary/healing journey? It is quite simple, really. It does not take years of study, a degree, knowledge of astrology, or an apprenticeship with some being from a higher plane! It simply takes a moment of silence-a moment sitting with eyes closed…
With eyes closed, allow your body to settle in your chair, and bring your attention to your breath, noticing how it comes in and goes out. After a moment, bring your attention to your solar plexus (the area just below the sternum-the center bone of the front of the rib cage), and begin recalling childhood moments. Ask yourself, "What were my dreams, imaginings, fantasies, projects, and plans for my future?" Let these memories bubble up. Indulge in them for a moment.
Do not fret if such memories do not come straight away. Repeat the process daily. It is only a matter of time before you reconnect. If such memories come forth, but are then followed by other memories of the ways in which you feel your dreams were held back, squashed, repressed, destroyed, and so forth, let these memories come, too, but then let them go. Focus on the place where these dreams still live. Focus on your solar plexus, and, as you breathe deeply, allow the feelings to rise into your heart and expand into love.
Once identified, with pen and paper, start to make a plan about how you will bring your dreams to fruition. Know that it will not happen overnight. Be realistic. Nevertheless, make a step-by-step plan, with baby steps that can be accomplished one day at a time. If, at any point, you feel overwhelmed, chunk it down more. As they say, by the mile it's a pile, but by the inch, it's a cinch!
Persist with this exercise, on a daily basis, putting aside the naysayer voices within that would turn you away from your dreams. You have the choice to discover, acknowledge, embrace, love, and finally manifest your deepest dreams, your deepest calling. And nothing and nobody can stand in your way.
· That dream and the calling in your heart is all that you are! The rest is just illusions.
In your Child's Heart
a dream is locked away,
never fading, never tarnishing,
waiting for you to rediscover
its Joy, its Promise, its Light.
Know that anything you can dream
can be created.
The dream in your Child's Heart
is your Divine Design
waiting to be acknowledged,
waiting to be embraced,
waiting to Shine.
Indulge your dream a little…
(Jupiter)
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Martin Lass,
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Martin Lass
Professional Practising and Research Astrologer
Research Member of AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)
Member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research)
Certified practitioner of "The Collapse Process"(TM) of Dr. John Demartini (The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, Houston TX).
Martin Lass specializes in Chiron Astrology--the astrology of Healing--as well as actively researching the origins of astrology and astrology's wider metaphysical connections to every possible area of human endeavor and expression.
He writes for various trade journals, has authored numerous books (see below) and presents lectures/seminars/workshops worldwide on a variety of topics from astrology to healing to the connections between mythology, physics and metaphysics, to name a few.
Author of the three-volume book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing" and of "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
See:
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Author of spiritually-based fiction and poetry
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