This is the climax of the Grand
Alignment of Water for 2013, now come into this week of its perfected fullness.
Here is what I wrote about this in my General Forecast:
...Jupiter
in Cancer serves to restore and renew your feelings of security that originate
in your most intimate and profound experience that you are connected or part of
something greater than just yourself. As you grow and develop, in life after
life, you will find your own true center by being and belonging with one
another. It will usually begin in your affections and bonds experienced in your
immediate family group, and it will slowly and increasingly extend itself in
any life, (and over many lifetimes, in life after life), into your
ever-unfolding expansion of consciousness and spiritual connectedness.
This
sense of belonging, of rootedness and security, expands from your immediate
family outward to your village, and then perhaps it may move out further to a
local area of several communities. Then it continues to grow outward even
further in your belonging to some grouping perhaps grounded in your identity
with an ethnic group, and then perhaps into some greater grouping of many
ethnicities. Eventually you find an even larger sense of identity and meaning
within an ever more complex culture and society, until you finally experience
your profound familiarity with all who journey in the family known as
"human".
This
fundamental spiritual truth of connectedness will finally blossom forth, as you
reach the "promised land", the profound spiritual epiphany of understanding
that all life is one, all beings are one with one another, that everything in
this cosmos is a spark of the one Great Spirit in whom we live and love and
find our true being.
...Yes,
it is from Jupiter's meanings as modulated by the Sign of Cancer that you can
find the first of three offerings to help you navigate the year ahead. But
there is much to be hoped for here, because Jupiter is but one part of a gift
of inspiration and meaning that comes within a three-fold blessing from your
Starry companions this year. For what Jupiter is anchoring and carrying forward
to you in August is the meaning and message of the other great alignment this
year, and which will most thankfully still be in force during Jupiter's August
alignments with Uranus and Pluto...it is the radiant beauty of the year, the
Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune.
The Grand Water Trine, Jupiter, Saturn
and Neptune July 17-19, 2013
We
can forget as we go about our busy lives "down here", we can forget
how magical and how full of meaning were the patterns discerned by our
ancestors. How they marveled at what stood revealed in this great pageantry
that sweeps before us every day and night by our Starry company, those constant
companions who dance and form beautiful, intricate and meaningful patterns all
around us. Yes, we can miss the signs and portents because we do not see them
or even look for them anymore, but they are there...these Guardians of Life
continue their wondrous weaving, helping us to understand our great unfolding
journey through the spaces of space, our walk among stars.
Sometimes
these planetary patterns are harder to discern, and their true significance and
meaning even more hidden from you. But this mid-summer alignment of Jupiter,
Saturn and Neptune will, even if not seen, be felt by many...it will be
beautiful to behold and its message is sweet and deep.
The
aspects between planets, formed by their angular separation from one another,
can be understood by dividing the Circle of Life by a particular number. The
division of the Circle, which is 360 degrees in circumference, by the number 2
creates the opposition of 180 degrees. The division by the number 4 creates the
square aspect of 90 degrees. And for our purposes this July, the division of
the Circle of Life by the number 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees.
Whenever
three planets line up equally spaced from one another, it is called a Grand
Trine because the pattern is formed by dividing the circle of space around you
into three equal portions, and finding that at each dividing point there stands
a planet equally distant from the other two along the circle. This division by
three resonates with a harmonic that represents a poised balance of energies
that are being focused through three distinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter
in Cancer and Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July
is all about the Meaning and Power of the element of Water. It is through these
three Avatars in Water that you will receive inspiration to help you walk your
path of destiny in this time of great and transformational change.
Having
already observed the contribution of Jupiter, let us turn our attention to the
other two Lords, and then turn and see how all three avatars will combine and
contribute to a greater influence too.
The
message of Saturn in Scorpio resonates with the strength, power and depth of feeling
that abides in the experience of Union. For as much as Jupiter in Cancer
upholds the truth of finding your connection to one another by looking to the
past, to what you and all around you have come through and from, Saturn in
Scorpio holds out the necessity of dealing with your ever-resurgent need, your
yearning necessity to cross the divide that seemingly separates you from one
another and so find your greater strength in joining together in your sacred
unions. For when two or more are gathered together, united in a common purpose
for which each has made a rightful sacrifice, it is from such acts that the
magic and power of spiritual growth is in fact realized and released. For it is
not enough to remember and honor from where you came, it is equally important
to work together, to forge deeper understandings, to share in the joys and
burdens of life and so continue to walk this spiritual path of your
self-becoming, self-unfoldment...together.
The
message of Neptune in Pisces, like bells pealing in a dew kissed morning,
thrill with the third and final form of Water-Feeling, which is that numinous
force that resides within each particle of this creation, providing the impetus
that inspirits the lives of all who journey within this cosmos. The creative force
that is behind all of the phenomena in this universe is known by many names.
For many it is called Faith, some would say it is their Dreams or the power of
the Imagination, but none can truly capture the mystery behind what flows
through each and every being, that leads them out from within, as they unfold
as the sparks of the Divine, these self-becomings who ever strive to grow, to
become something more.
For
it is this feeling that binds all as one and one to the All, and that leads all
out so as to grow beyond what they have so far created, to walk the pathways of
light and love outward into the spaces of space, out upon their wondrous,
spiraling journey. It is this Great Journey which will eventually bring them
back to return as something more, having become so much more than what they
were, when they return home again.
For
as much as Jupiter in Cancer will provide you with your foundation of feeling,
and Saturn in Scorpio will teach you about the courage you have within you to
reach out and join with one another, it is Neptune in Pisces who completes your
circle of life, Neptune brings it all together by singing to you of your
ever-renascent power, forged in your beginning by your nature as a spark of the
Divine and that holds you as one of countless creators who need but dream of a
better world...and it will be so.
For
this is how the Universe came to be and continues to become, because your
Spirit is the very essence of it all, the power behind your Imagination, Dreams
and Faith...The Power of your Becoming, The Power of your Self.
Together
these three, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune can show you once again that you are
the maker, you are the Creator of what you face now. That you can feel more
truly the roots that hold you all together, that you can feel the greater joy
that comes from joining with one another, and that you can love and create a
better world by believing and dreaming for one another.
Yes,
this will be a year to remember, and quite a summer indeed. The energies
delineated above will be building in towards the end of June, growing through
July and climaxing in August. The continuing challenge laid down to you by
Uranus and Pluto may be somewhat eased by these spiritual emanations that come
from this grand alignment of Planetary Lords, and equally and most challenging
activated by the T-Square formed by Jupiter too.
There
is much to be hoped for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that
perhaps the things which divide the many from one another will be surpassed by
this greater understanding of our mutual need to sacrifice for the greater good
of one another.
Let
us hope, may we dream...and it shall be...
But there is more to today than just
this fulfillment of the Watery Ways you are bound by and to one another...there
is another song being sung within this grand chorus of your Starry Company now,
and it is, of course, just what is you need so that you may stay more closely
upon the middle path, that noble path of Wisdom, Love and Purpose...
So please turn to the next entry, "Uranus Turns Retrograde" and marvel
at the wonder of this Polyphonic Melody, the Song of Spirit, that is offered to
you by these Universal Energies of which you are made and in which you abide...
