The Rocks The Old Now

2009

The most important for us to do here is to reframe the many discussions of the Saturn-Uranus opposition. I haven’t seen any that use Rudhyar’s approach, and it’s really important here. Here’s the bottom line, first cryptically, then in more detail.

1. Any opposition represents a partial fruition of the preceding conjunction of the same two planets.

2. The preceding conjunction for the current Saturn-Uranus opposition was the Harmonic Convergence in 1988.

3. Our beliefs have a big impact on what we see and what we manifest.

4. So it’s important to realize that what’s happening now is a partial manifestation of the potential inherent in the Harmonic Convergence.

Before we go into depth about what the Harmonic Convergence meant, for those of you who’ve forgotten (or who never even had one), let’s explicate those four propositions.

1. Any opposition (when two planets or “lights” – Sun or Moon – are on opposite sides of the sky) represents a partial fruition of the preceding conjunction (when two planets are together in the sky). The planets all move at different speeds, so they’re always going through their cycles of conjoining then opposing one another, then conjoining again etc. The moment of greatest potential is the conjunction. By the time we get to the opposition, most of the potential has manifested into form. There is a countercycle, but we’ll talk about that later.

2. The Harmonic Convergence was complex, way too complex to go into here, and actually spanned 1985-1993. The Saturn-Uranus conjunction was a fundamental part of it. Think of Uranus as the Well of the Individual Soul (ie, yours), and Saturn as the bucket of the Ego. At the Saturn-Uranus conjunction, the Ego goes to the Well for a drink, the impact of which does not manifest fully till around the time of the opposition – about 20 years later. We’re all born at different phases of the Saturn-Uranus cycle, but in general you can think of “maturity,” “mid-life crisis,” “retirement,” or maiden-mother-crone – those are all approximately 20-year processes, amply illustrating the serious impact of Saturn-Uranus cycles.

3. Dang near all of us are full of negative “thoughts” and emotions, most of which we aren’t even conscious of. As above, so below; as within, so without. The more we armor ourself against them, the stronger they become. If we go around reading about how Saturn stands for limitation and Uranus represents disruption, then that’ll spawn or magnify all kinda negative krap. Yes, you can cast Saturn as limitation, because Saturn is about focusing on what’s most important, so it often limits what isn’t as important. And yes, you can cast Uranus as disruption – disruption of that which the Soul no longer needs! So focusing on what’s most important and on the path which the Soul would direct us to, is hardly negative.

4. The Saturn-Uranus portion of the Harmonic Convergence – other than being a drink from the Well of the Soul – was basically about Accepting Grace. Now, if our attention is on limitation and disruption, we ain’t gonna be noticing Grace, are we. Dunno if you’ve noticed that several folks have been reminding us to reach for Gratitude – those are just platitudes, aren’t they. But, like all platitudes, sometimes they’re real and relevant. Now is a Gratitude time.

This Saturn-Uranus cycle is going on for the whole Planet. It’s going on for all of us, and for some of us it’s really getting personal, but mostly it ain’t really personal stuff. A few of you will remember my original print newsletter – the Saturn-Uranus conjunction was my motivation for starting it, twenty-one years ago January, because so much impersonal Planet-wide energy was then descending upon the Planet that I wanted to introduce folks to the concept of impersonal material so they wouldn’t try to personalize it all. But of course we always personalize it – if we didn’t personalize it we wouldn’t even notice it! But again, knowing it’s not really personal, it’s easier to detach a little.

Are we personalizing limitation these days? How could we not! Are we personalizing disruption these days? You bet we are. So what’s our assignment here?

Detach our attention from limitation and disruption, and personalize Grace.

I don’t need to preach about Gratitude, cuz plenty of others are doing it. What I will preach about is that it’s time to listen to those who are preaching Gratitude.

That’s the essence of 2009. If we do nothing during 2009 but detach from limitation and disruption, and focus on Grace and Gratitude, we’ll sail through famously. We can, and will, go into more detail, but for now we wanna just mention a few things.

Detachment is tricky. Positive thinking isn’t enough. We have to be present and loving with the negativity that’s really there. If we don’t, we just drive it deeper into unconsciousness. There are a lot of methods for being present and loving with our negativity. One nicely multidimensional method can be found at http://www.emofree.com/downloadeftmanual.asp.

Obama will start more slowly than you expect. Let it be. Focus on the Grace. What he’ll be modeling for us is Learning. Not gaining information, but growing the Ego. Our impatience just mirrors the intolerance which so limits our life and disrupts our serenity.

The reason we’ve been experiencing difficulty, is so we develop a body memory of depersonalizing limitation and disruption, and personalizing Grace and Gratitude. We can think about it all we want, and memorize all manner of mantras and platitudes, but a body memory will work for us on a far deeper level. When I say body memory, I don’t just mean physical body.

We’ll continue to feel quite emotional about these heuristic difficulties. Whenever you notice the emotional tug of limitation or disruption, make the effort to balance it with enough attention to Grace that you feel Gratitude emotionally. In case you don’t usually think in such terms, Gratitude as an emotion is somewhere between Peace and Excitement.

It’s an excellent time to remember the Serenity Prayer – Grant me the power to change what I can, the serenity to accept what I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.

December 27, 2008