Rubber Meets the Road in the House Where Saturn Goes

The Plan well that’s just the thing now, isn’t it – The Plan. Thing is that I don't have a plan right now kind of the whole thing is no plan and trying to roll with the whole no plan thing against all advice.

The plan is everything. Hemingway defined hopeless as having no plans.

That Narrative of ourselves that we weave with such care and yet abandon as we change like a river is a different thing around every single bend … the narrative, the story of ourselves that we speak into existence that we tell ourselves in our own heads all along.

There’s a plan there somewhere always is think Pluto get down into it. Go down deep into this one and bring up a plan from the very depths of the soul. Come up with a plan then and execute it with all the aplomb you can finesse – no judgment.

The good and bad of it all is that the plan is so fluid solid as it may feel to be to us at the time but since it is only part of the story we are telling of ourselves, we can change the plan and the story literally whenever we desire (Venus) to change ourselves, our behaviors, decisions, actions even (Mars)

What exactly IS our free will here and now in life and what exactly do we want to do here and now with our free will these are helpful questions along with the single most helpful question that we can ask ourselves truly, “What do I love”. Neptune the higher octave of Venus can be unconditional love at its more harmonious vibrations see Venus to Neptune in our own natal and progressed charts especially for advice then at relationship between Venus and Neptune. Venus is what we value, and Neptune is what we love and we tend to but not always love what we value in life.

The Plan, the plan is always about love (Neptune in Pisces) and for myself a man woman love that I speak of myself as Life Partner. Mars for me in Sagittarius with Sun, Jupiter and Mercury as well Juno all in the 4th house, this is a Soldier in the Kitchen energy, it is said. House and Home are my thing like a Cancer and I am a Cancer Moon. Pluto by transit opposite natal Cancer Moon now is rubbing in the Cancer energy emotionally especially and I am more Cancer that Sagittarius these days with a need to fire some of the Sagittarius back up or else. It is commonly believed that if we do not reasonably well express our Sun signs over time we increase our risk for physical illness. I am definitely at that point and at 62 having faced big set backs physically it is either all up from here or all down, rubber meets the road where Saturn Goes. The plan is to have a good and productive old age bottom line it's pretty straight forward throw in this amazing Love and God willing maybe a view of the ocean and that’s a wrap for me. Gracias

The Viral Reality

No not THAT Virus, the meme virus aka "Reality" injected into innocent children. Being informed that anger makes your face ugly so stop it right now leading to detachment from self and life long issues with anger. Being informed always that you cannot trust your own intuition or even your mind leading to moral dependance upon an outside force. Being informed that sex and your own sexuality is something dirty and shameful needing to be carefully hidden away from others leading to detachment from the solar plexus. Being informed in no uncertain terms that the thing you are naturally needs to be constantly suspected, controlled and managed or else you will be summarily banished from family, school and society at large. Becoming a thing that is convinced at a level far below words that you are existentially dependent upon something OUTSIDE of yourself.

Being made before the age of reason to pledge allegiance to a flag - to a goddamn flag for the love God, man, a flag. This is the kind of society that we are subjected to, one and all, like it or not.

Ghouls in the Machine - Short Story

(The Last Blogger:)

No it’s not a rock band, friends – but yes sounds like it, doesn’t it?

“Ghouls in the Machine”.

That would be kind of cool but this – no this is not cool at all, man.

November 3rd 2034 less than one year ago now, the World Union declared in their infinite and definitive wisdom that uploading consciousness is a requirement for World Citizenship with its benefits of basics like the right to travel – not to mention the right to buy food and necessities. You had your vaccines up to date, your social score is within the window of acceptance, your record is clean as a whistle and you are thinking that OK now I am in compliance and at least can be left in some kind of peace for a minute and just breathe … but no because The Singularity is upon us.

With religious compunctions removed from exception now, there is no place to hide for the vast majority of us who wish to reside in the civilized world. What is this but a new religion for our times? You can have eternal Virtual Life in The Machine or even in a new bio-robotic body, if you can afford it, by to uploading your consciousness. Low low interest payment plans are readily available worldwide with even a growing demand upon Elon’s Consciousness Forever program to make the service free to those around the world with no hope of ever being able to afford Eternal Life. Within the confines of this madness, the argument being made that if this is a requirement, then it needs to be made available to all people possesses its own internal logic, give it that.

Nevertheless, I personally will choose to die taking my consciousness and my own dear soul to the grave with me, Thank You Very Much Elon et all.

Title: "Case # 45921"

A white, morbidly obese male in late fifties originally admitted in catatonic state by a neighbor and family friend has now returned to conscious state for 8 weeks. Making steady progress in treatment presenting sever paranoia and PTSD of unknown origins.

Recommendation for movement to group facility with increase in medication is not approved at this time as patient persists in cover memory for some personal traumatic event yet undiscovered.

Note: Group Home Special Consideration

There is a Cover memory regarding some satanic ritual of the patient participating in insisting that it entailed the abduction and ritualistic sacrifice of a prepubescent child for the purposes of extracting pineal fluid to be used as a kind of recreational drug by a Satanic cell. Patient insists as well as an intention to "steal the child's soul at the moment of its soul's departure from its tiny, child's body". Group Therapy is not recommended until medications are stabilized hopefully in the near future for obvious reasons.

Note:

This "Theft of soul" aspect of his dissociation is disturbingly graphic, violent and blasphemous and is repeatedly shared by the patient when in the presence of others and often when alone characterized by severe mania, delusion and paranoia. He does not make habit of lowering his voice and if an increase in medication does not bring this under control, then a group home setting may have to be removed from consideration altogether.

Doctor Baker

The Machine

Finer than the finest spiders thread

The Machine that we have become

Weaves its lies through and through

If you squint and look up just so

You may see a glint of it overhead

Rising subtler than a suburban hedge

Manicured lawn, white picket fence,

Whole Families struggle wordlessly

In social structures woven from webs

Neither spoken of nor ever to be read

Bright and insidious metallic arms

Glisten in the the hard light of day

Adorned with armies of flagging flags

This most obvious part of The Machine

Raises up our pride but not our hackles

The Rubes & The Machine - by The New Creature

Every four years the rubes get to "vote" for a Savior and by god do they relish this ritual. If their savior wins, they each feel great, personal sense of vindication for sins real and imagined and, I think, most crucially for the long term maintenance of the Fear Death Cult masquerading as a Representative Republic, they experience a release of built up tensions and fears - tensions and fears created by the Fear-Death Cult itself, of course. It is a delicate balance but the Reptilians have experience with many sentient life forms on other slave/farm planets like earth where they "grow" their life sustenance: negative emotions.

So the elections are a relief valve for pressure built up within The Machine that serves to keep the Machine from coming apart at the seams which is a constant concern of the Fear-Death-Cult. Who exactly is, "elected" is wholly irrelevant to the people's predicament which never changes in any real and meaningful manner no matter who they "elect" but this fact is masked by a near constant collective turmoil that is the very heart of the Fear-Death-Cult such that few realize that the system does not change over time no matter which of the two "choices" are "elected."

Never forget that Fear is potato chips for Reptilians and War is a Buffet.

Transit Pluto Opposite Natal Moon Interpretation - Personal Astrology by David Sky

So think about this a a natal position one of the most challenging to have in a chart with oppositions being notoriously difficult to resolve and in natal this can almost be a bi-polar energy emotionally with the emphasis upon emotions - very intense emotions think of sitting on a see saw across from a scary clown.

One thing when it comes to transits that I constantly remind myself of for interpretation is that the transit triggers the natal energies that it impacts by planet, sign and aspect so that here, for instance, my natal Moon in Cancer that is trine my South Node at 29 Pisces in the 7th and sextile the North Node at 29 Virgo in the 1st by only two degrees and a loose but significant trine to my IC at 3 degrees Sagittarius where Mercury, my Chart ruler as a Virgo Rising is conjunct at 5 degrees Sagittarius so this whole natal complex is triggered.

Really, the nature of the triggering by transit is a bit more complex since this natal chart is a static snapshot of the energies at the time of our birth, this Starmap of a Life's Purpose/s for incarnation. But this map is not the ground, we are - our life is the ground and this points to the very nature of transits which are the ongoing movements of the planets in the sky during our lives that constantly impact these natal positions of our chart very much demonstrating the nature of growth and change in the living of our lives over which we have impact based upon our decisions over time.

The progressed chart and other predictive charts can give advice on transits that can be very helpful to us in getting a handle on what we are seeing and for me most notably not to go fully down the rabbit hole that would take a book, Mars and Venus are both within less than one degree conjunct to 27 degrees 44 minutes Capricorn that constitutes the exact opposition point to my moon telling me that I am fully invested in this transit at a very personal level and in a balance way, divine masculine to divine feminine.

On let's say the positive side, I have a very strong access to my emotional life and a very strong ability to communicate about it more so than is comfortable for many during my life with whom I have been intimately involved such that one of my lessons is simply coming to understand and accept that not every wants to, needs to or really should have to delve so deeply into their emotional life. This is seen in the loose trine to the IC and Mercury there and the harmonious aspects to the nodal axis speaks to this all being a fated dynamic such that for me delving into my emotions is exactly what my soul is doing to some large degree in this life. This is my work.

Let's call it, The Negative here, is a quincunx from this natal Moon in Cancer to my Natal Sun in Sagittarius at 25 degrees so a quincunx of a 2 degree orb that is perhaps the most challenging single aspect in my chart ergo within my consciousness. Comes into this complex - and astrology is complex in my opinion not simple - is also what is called in Evolutionary Astrology a "Skipped Step", here my natal Sun square the Nodes of the Moon. So this gives a not yet complete by any means but more complete look at what may seem at first to be simply a "Pluto transit opposite natal Moon".

Part of my point here in writing this is to say that simply to look at interpretations of a given transit masterful interpretations as they may well be, is not even close to enough to understand something as profound as an outer planet transit to a personal planet in our natal charts for speaks to the most subtle machinations of our soul's journey in this incarnation and could not be more meaningful and important to our lives.

With the Moon in natal, we are always dealing at some level with the mother in our lives. Pluto opposite or square is going to always be some emotional (and possible physical) trauma in our early childhood relationship with our mother and if we are spiritually inclined then with our soul's very disposition so karmic and past life issues both seen in natal around our Moon and Pluto so any aspect to the two will involve this kind of dynamic, one way or another. A given transit then is triggering not the natal aspects but exactly triggering what we ourselves have made of these natal aspects over time, something that makes working with people with astrology difficult in the extreme, at least for me, and something that I cannot do without interviewing them in depth and getting a feel for them, asking pointed questions and getting to know them as a person.

So for me, what is being triggered over a really two year Pluto Transit here is physical and proximity or emotional abandonment by my mother during early childhood development, something that I have literally spent a lifetime dealing with now. I could not begin to go into all that I have come to grasp during this difficult transit that is far from over yet but at the heart of it Pluto absolutely is demanding that I gain control over my emotions. (remember that Pluto is the higher octave of Mars in Scorpio and about power and control as well as deep psychology) For me, emotions are not merely emotions but the very medium through which I experience the world so when someone says something like, "Come on, Dave, it's just an emotion, it's not real" that is an incomprehensible statement to me, factual as it may actually be. To me, emotions are everything and you see this with four planets in natal in my Chart in the fourth house, ruled by the Moon.

Interestingly, I think, what inspired me to write this was simply me this morning saying to myself out loud with a sigh as I have found myself doing for a while now O a million times, "Let it go, Dave. Just let it go, man". I am my best friend, thankfully, and have well prepared for this transit over the last 62 years of life though it doesn't "feel" as if this makes it any easier.

USA "Battle of Lexington" Mundane Chart on Solar Eclipse, November 8th 2022

So this chart is from April 19th 1775 when the American subversives first battled the British Empire - interesting for having an Aries ascendant as well as an Aries Sun at 29 degrees and 7 minutes with also Mercury and Chiron in Aries. So this shows a great deal of pressure, pain and clearly a Warrior Spirit extraordinaire. The feeling of this is clearly of existential threat that these people have their backs to the wall and are prepared to fight for their lives - these are not people who are going to surrender but people who are committed to fighting until death or victory one.

By the time the declaration of independence is signed a little over a year later on July 4th 1776, the progressed Sun is in Taurus, of course, showing that this energy has gelled moving from a wild band of warriors to a fixed nation state that is digging in its heels and making it clear now that it is not going to submit or take one step back.

I thought this chart relevant as per the Pluto Return because I feel that is it just this very spirit itself that is being recalled now - a sense of existential threat such as has not be felt by Americans in my lifetime save perhaps during the Cuban missile crisis with the then Soviet Union now 60 years ago. I feel as if at some point likely soon that during this Pluto Return there will again be war on American soil likely a civil war. My feeling is that it will not be democrats and republicans battling it out in their neighborhoods but states pushing back against the edicts of the federal government with the US military national guards having to choose sides between their commander and chief in Washington and their respective governor and state.

Pluto here is a mere 21 minutes from its third conjunct now direct with this Mundane Pluto at 26 degrees 41 minutes of Capricorn. It will be exact on the 27th of November. This points again to a contentious mid term that is not resolved until late in November, I feel. The eclipse itself in this chart happens in the 2nd and 8th Houses and this to me among other things speaks about existential threats. The 8th House to me is like if the chart were a cell where energy exchange happens, where the cell transpires, with the 2nd being the most solid core. In the July 4th 1776 Chart, Scorpio is the 12th house so we have an emphasis upon the 8th and the 12th between the two of these with Uranus and NN in the 2nd here and the 6th in the July 4th 1776 Chart so look for what is solid (Earth Houses and Earth Signs in this Lexington Chart) to be shaken up by Uranus in some random manner that likely will defy prediction.

The bottom line is that the Status Quo (think also the long standing Uranus Saturn Square here) is being violently or suddenly and profoundly changed by this energy. This is the end of the Saturn Uranus square as Saturn is getting up now moving on in this chart to hit the South Node by February and in the 1776 chart, as I said before, to hit the Moon, or the people. Change is literally in the air.

I feel this all here speaks as well to what I have suggested with this Mars Retrograde some conflict within the US military itself more pointedly perhaps a conflict between the military and the civilian leadership of the government. Perhaps the energy of these rebels so clear in this chart will be transferred during this Pluto Return some 250 years later from the British Overlords to the ruling elite constituting the Status Quo of the United States? I hope so, to be honest. I think of what the war hero from WWII and General-President Eisenhower said in 1959 just before leaving office after two terms, "Beware the Military Industrial Complex".

"Ralph and The Singularity" Short Fictional Story of the Near Future

 

Ralph watches on his tube news on this Singularity Bill that had passed the house and senate and been signed into law by President Nelson pondering it a bit seeing below a link to a site that can send to you your own download kit free of charge.

Elon Musk's new singularity company had designed this kit to be easy, quick and quite reasonably priced and sold them to the government at a discount price, wanting to to his part for humanity. Do it right through your home network. Easy Peasy. Every American, the news is saying, now has the civil right of electing to live forever by storing their consciousness in one of the new three dimensional AI's.

Ralph recalls in graduate school studying America's war with the little nation of, Vietnam. In the midst of a heated firefight between two forces of light infantry, a full Captain out for his one mission during his six month deployment necessary to qualify him for an combat badge found himself caught in the field during what was supposed to be a “walk in the park” mission.

He yells at a private sitting next to him over the din, “Here, take this grenade and go throw it into that machine gun nest, Son!”

The private peaks out from behind their cover only to draw .50 caliber rounds his way that explode into the stone fence they are behind sending out metal and rock shrapnel in all directions. He says over his shoulder not even looking at the Captain, shaking his head, “that's just ain't gonna happen, sir”. The private most definitely means it.

That just seemed so crazy and showed such great spirit and awareness to Ralph that he for the first time looked back on his ancestors as something other than dangerous fools. But that is how he felt now about their Singularity Legislation - “that's just ain't gonna happen, Sir. Thank you but no thank”.

I'd rather be dead with a soul than a living ghoul, Ralph declares aloud to no one.

Fall 2022 Prose Poem by David Sky

Through days like stone and nights like forgotten waters, I walk across this sacred bridge made from my ancestors smooth, white bones. The bridge dissolves behind as the void of the abyss nips at my heels with each step forward. It is as if Source Itself draws me irrevocably toward some unfathomable destination. The Thing that I am become is hollow - bell metal - meant to be rung. Rung, my vibrations obliterate flesh and blood leaving only the deep, solid resonance of this hollow, metal bell itself ringing and ringing and ringing ...

US Pluto Return Update, November 19th 2022 - Retrograde Mars Squares Retrograde Neptune

In the US Mundane chart, Pisces rules the 4th House also ruled by the Moon so this is about the common people, we citizens – who are always the very last thought, it seems, with Neptune Ruling Pisces here, the fourth house is weak and in a personal chart often indicates someone who had parents absent if not physically then emotionally. This is where Neptune has been transiting since 2011 and now is in retrograde squaring for the 2nd time recently Mars in retrograde in the US mundane 7th House on the nineteenth only eleven days after the upcoming mid terms elections in the US. Mars representing all things martial by the 19th is well into its retrograde energy marching back through the house of foreign affairs and open enemies in the midst of what can be said to be perhaps the most tense time internationally since the Cuban Nuclear Crisis with then Soviet Russia some 70 years ago now. To note, in the mundane chart of the US, Neptune in 10th House of the government forms a close square to the 7th House Mars. I believe this energy directly represents the government always, recently and here on the 19th most particularly, massively deceiving the citizens of the United States of America. This, in fact, is such a part of the American psyche that many people even today would say, “Well, of course the government and the military cannot tell us what is actually going on and that is only for our own good”.

Not to forget Saturn by transit now direct in the US 3rd House of Aquarius and most relevantly here of communications for it is the mouthpiece of the government aka propaganda from my point of view not being a Patriot. Conspiracy theorists are merely those of us who dare question the veracity of historical liars which the US government most certainly is. Saturn is approaching a quincunx to the US mundane Mercury that is the planet of again most relevantly here communication, although transportation and commerce Mercury’s other meanings could be relevant at this time as well. To me this energy here will represent the people finding the propaganda at this point has a hollow ring to it – the government lies will be found to be particularly suspect at this time due to this quincunx between Saturn in Aquarius (Aquarius can be said to be the sign of The People) and Mercury in Cancer that always is seen trying to ease the minds of the people with its words.

The lunar eclipse in Scorpio will happen virtually on top of the US mid term elections that I believe will be fraught with difficulties and very most likely will not be resolved with a day or so as is usual. This eclipse happens in the US 12th House of self sabotage and hidden enemies – here go ahead and read internal enemies, those within the US government itself. This eclipse is also square to that transit Saturn in Aquarius and this will be the pressure that begins to chip away at the propaganda that the US government has been engaged in over this last year to epic proportions such that I have never witnessed in my life. Some staged event by the US government happening anytime between now as this is published and this mid term election is not only possible but I would say likely. This event itself may be what gets called into question by the normally complacent US public, I believe.

Now to consider Pluto on the 19th direct and within a one degree orb of its final exact conjunction to the Mundane Pluto at 27 degrees 33 minutes Capricorn in the US Mundane chart’s 2nd house. So in terms of this very big and profound energy of the US Pluto Return, we are at a critical phase that will surely speak to later events in 2023 destined to be the trigger year for this Pluto Return energy that will see the US transformed in some significant manner as Pluto again returns to within a degree of relevance to its Mundane position. Whatever happens around and after these mid term elections, likely in relation to the Ukraine conflict with Russia but not to rule out the hostilities now with China over Taiwan, I feel it is important to note that this will only be the beginning, perhaps to say a foreshadowing, of events to culminate in 2023 even going into 2024 around this Pluto Return energy for the US. The smoke, as it were, may not clear until sometime in 2025 when we get a real look at what this all will really mean.

Mars and Neptune make a final square just about as Mars clears it’s post shadow about the middle of March 2023 with both of them then direct and this is I will admit a bit of optimism on my part, even wishful thinking, but I think by this time the truth of things will be revealed in some significant manner and the truth of it is that the United States of America has long and still continues to cause most of the war and strife in this world and this time now of the Pluto Return for the US corresponding to a time in history when the US empire is in fall, as all empires do, constitutes one of the most dangerous periods in the history of humanity not due to China or Russia but sadly, sadly to me who once loved this country, because of our own government. While we the citizens are not responsible for this but victims, we will bare the consequences. I see the Pluto Return for the US as a Karmic Time and Karma is coming as it does without remorse, restraint or measure.

Trip Report Gila Wilderness, New Mexico - Four Grams dried psilocybin mushrooms

April 2008

Once I spoke to Eternity personified as a female Goddess possessing or expressing an infinite seeming love characterized by a kind of patience that I don't exactly know how to describe like some perfect or archetypal mother. At this time, I was under the impression that our Gaian Mother was my mother and this notion was quite dear to my heart, very important to me. In this experience under the influence of a high dose of psilocybin alone deep in a million acre New Mexico wilderness, came Eternity and I still can recall her voice - compelling. I was trying to pull away and she would say ever so gently but compellingly, "David, come back here, now, listen to me now" tapping simultaneously her nails upon something hard - I could not see her then in an altered state of reality physically unconscious but when I "looked up" at the direction I heard her voice coming from, I could see a classical white, Greek pillar behind which shone a bright light that if this pillar were not blocking, I felt surely would kill me. This light seemed to be her, Eternity, who spoke so gently, so insistently to me.

"David, you need to listen, I need to tell you something now" Eternity insists, tap tap tap tap, to get my attention.

"Yes?" I finally managed blinking looking at this pillar above me and the blinding white light behind it.

"She is not your mother, Honey. Do you understand".

I do understand, I understand it all even before she says and I begin to sob and I think likely actually began to sob, now in mid morning sun in the middle of an empty field, alone, next to the Gila River. My heart is broken like never before as if some final insult to my most dearly held delusion was just then stripped away leaving me as naked emotionally and spiritually as I was in reality there in that field. Of course, I thought, of course how did I not see this? I didn't want to see it. I couldn't see it. A child abandoned by by his father and his mother who had found the Great Gaian Mother of us All and clung to her thigh as would any abandoned child. When she put her hand gently upon my head and comforted me, that saved my life - literally. My love for her is the love of a child for his mother.

"David I am so sorry," Eternity is saying while I am still lost in convulsive grief, "but you must accept this if you want to continue your journey, you must," and I thought listening to her that I do accept it, I see the truth of it, feeling through my grief some odd sense of shame for not having seen it sooner, how foolish and childish I had been in my delusion. As if to comfort me, Eternity, also a mother, is saying, "She is the Mother of your body, David. The Earth Mother she gave you this physical vessel in which to invest yourself while in this physical incarnation so in that sense she is then the mother of your body but your eternal spirit as you know was never born so you have no mother or father those are mere constructs of this incarnation, this reality here, same as time, pain, loss, abandonment all those feelings and all the delusions of your flesh and blood life that She, yes, the Gaian Mother of your body, has made possible for the singular edification of your eternal spirit."

I "woke" then finding myself on my knees, naked, in the middle of a small clearing, having disrobed and apparently crawled out 30 feet or so from my camp under the pines, my face, neck, chest and belly covered in sand made wet with my tears and some got in my eyes and I am sitting on my knees and had been for I don't know how long. I try to stand but my legs are asleep and I pitch forward, face planting into the sandy earth. After some indeterminate length of time, just lying there feeling the warm sandy, earth against the side of my face, I stand up seeing my backpacking camp a few yards away under a Ponderosa Pine finding it vaguely reassuring, making some note that I am not, after all, completely naked in the wilderness. I have everything i need right there to survive and comfort myself even and in fact having been out this now the fifth day having in all that time not seen another soul. I stumble then forward about 20 yards to the Gila River here merely a large creek maybe 20 feet wide and three feet deep at the center and I plunge into the water and it is freezing cold and shocking and I wash the sand from my face, out of my hair, out of my eyes, my body and stumble back up onto the bank and sit shivering in the hot, noon day sun.

I remember the Voice of Eternity and look around in awe at the beauty of the Gila Wilderness, the canyon country I am in, grateful to be alone so that no one thinks me insane and grateful to the Great Gaian Mother of our bodies for giving me what I now call this DNA Body Machine, knowing that in only a few short years I will give this body back up to her for from dust we are made and to dust we shall return. All things in this reality begin and end - a fantastic and utterly novel experience for an Eternal Being. One that apparently we need to experience in order to negotiate the hallowed halls of eternity itself.

Jupiter Retrograde 2022 - Personal Astrology by David Sky

 

Today Jupiter retrogrades back to 29 degrees Pisces, the last degree of the last sign. This happens right about exactly as Mars retrogrades at 25 degrees Gemini. Collectively, there is some general sense of completing a cycle, of perhaps some culmination or perhaps an eclipse, not to forget this is happening in the midst of this Scorpionic eclipse season.

Jupiter the largest planet, the Great Benefic, the energy of expansion, optimism, inclusive not exclusive, open minded and lucky is also Zeus the King of the Gods who threw down lightening bolts from Mount Olympus striking humans who dared test his will - in Vedic Jupiter in Retrograde is said to bring Karma. I have my Sun in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, along with Jupiter itself at home there by sign, and Mars and Mercury. I also have my Sagittarius Sun square the nodes of the moon at 29 degrees Virgo and Pisces, perhaps my most challenging natal aspect.

Jupiter first hit 29 degrees 27 minutes of Pisces, my SN on May 8th and this was about the time when I gave up on my YouTube channel that had meant so much to me for nearly two years. At that time, I gave up on a lot and for better or worse laid down into what seems a transformative process over which I feel no control and, in fact, have begun to suspect that this is the very purpose of what I am experiencing now with Pluto transit opposite Natal Moon while not the only challenge playing into this, the most profound. I take note that Jupiter will hit my SN again and finally just before it races through Aries early next year just days before my birthday on December 17th. I think that I am waiting for some kind of mouth to mouth resuscitation from the Universe and my best guess is that this last hit may bring it because the retrograde hit is only days away on November 4th and at this point just cannot yet imagine any kind of rejuvenation.

Simultaneously, Neptune that will be within orb of influence for all of us by transit as to Jupiter as it retrogrades back into Pisces is square my natal Sun that today is exactly opposed by Mars stationing retrograde. Saturn opposes Uranus for me this year as it conjuncts Chiron in its retrograde. The Nov 8th eclipse hits exactly my Progressed Moon now transiting Scorpio, not to forget progressed energy in any of this. My progressed Sun forms an exact semi-sextile to this Jupiter South Node conjunction so for me this must represent a profound karmic ending. My progressed Sun will enter Pisces in July of 2023 and I feel this will represent a profound change for me that will see me now at the age of 62 over 30 years likely to my end here on this earth.

But honestly, I feel now numb like maybe a random piece of wood on the ground. I barely have the physical energy to breathe, it seems. In some strange way, I feel as if I do not actually exist now. I am out of time and out of space. I no longer have the will to meditate and even prayer is almost negated. Oddly, I feel though that this is exactly as it should be and I feel little desire to fight back. Instead of struggling to stand up as I have done so often in the past, thinking much of this autoimmune attack in 2008 and how I was told that I would be dead within a year and how I shook that off and stood up and walked again and how now I instead just remain on the ground looking up passively at the clouds passing overhead with barely the will to think.

This eclipse on the 8th will also be on a Progressed Moon that is separating my four degrees from my natal Venus in Scorpio that was severely challenged last year by a Saturn Square culminating as a long Uranus opposition cleared, a real one two punch for our Gurl Venus. My love life and relationship stood up well to this outer planet scissor effect so what it was about was my own, internal relationship energies that speak as well to a SN at 29 degrees Pisces, my 7th House of relationship. This is something to keep in mind in terms of especially a challenging Uranus transit to ones Venus or the 7th House, that this does not necessarily mean the end of a relationship. It will have to do with Venus energies and relationship in general but think of it always first as a transit that actives natal (and progressed energies) and perhaps in the case or Uranus (or Saturn or Pluto for that matter) as a stress test such as an engineer might do on a bridge to determine the condition of its structural integrity.

Anyway, Uncle Universe. Uncle God. I got nothing. I got nothing but I am in here somewhere still alive.

Mars Retrograde in Gemini 2022/23

This incredible Mars transit through Gemini hitting my 10th house driving me back into study while Pluto steady searches my soul in opposition to my Cancer Moon. It often feels that I am dying physically so, I mean, primarily, and yet I live. What is not killing me is in some literal process of making me stronger.

So long as I live, I vow to drive this crude sword deeper and deeper into the Heart-of-All-Things.

This body and ego self is a ridiculous thing as hapless as any little bird but my true self is indomitable, never born so never to die and I must remind all these planets, kindly but firmly, and even our Sun itself that while all of you will wink out of existence in only a few billion years, the Thing I Am is eternal. None of you are the master of me.

The Pathology of The Machine

It is more than simply approaching childbirth as if it were a disease to be treated by medical intervention. There is a fatalism that is a nihilistic perception of life as being some state of dying staved at any moment only by our next breath. This subtle but pervasive, underlying assumption most common to modernity, it seems to me, lends itself to such things as False Flag attacks like 9-11 and the Covid Hoax because our most basic human dignity of being in and of ourselves is subverted by outer and non human systems turning human beings naturally occurring as any creatures under the sun into slave-victims of The Machine.

Mars Transit to 7th House of Gemini in Mundane Chart of USA

Astrology by David Sky

So using the Sibly chart not to get all into that but this is the most accepted chart and my thought after all is said and done, since July 4th is such a national holiday in America and has been for so long now, I feel like this is where the energy is concentrated.

The coming Mars retrograde especially, but the whole 7th month long Mars transit to Gemini in the 7th house of the USA feels in my bones like the core of the overarching energy of the USA's Pluto Return. What I am looking for in the Pluto Return is both some insight into how so it may play out in our reality as well as trigger points and this Mars through the 7th retrograding just before the mid term elections seems of great, perhaps not hyperbolic to say, even grave import.

While there are many trigger points during this multi year Pluto Return for the USA, given the martial nature of the US since its inception and its present insistence upon aggression virtually worldwide now, I feel we must consider with this transit outside influences having an impact upon the Pluto Return that I see primarily as an internal affair. Pluto in the 2nd is said to indicate finances of the country and certainly that is at play but most of all in a late degree of Capricorn representing the Government, Pluto has been doing its thing of shadow work in this government sign since 2008, going into the hidden, secret and dark places leading up to what most would consider is set to be at least some kind of fundamental transformation.

The 2nd house to me is also fixed earth, an earth house, the ground, so it feels to me that the impact could be more than a transformation in the financial sector. The Square of Saturn to Uranus is huge in this Pluto Return also forming a last hurrah near the time that Mars Retrogrades. Uranus is in the 6th house so two earth houses in this square and squares are always pressure, Saturn to Uranus a tension and pressure between the government and the people in the broadest sense, I think most could agree. I see things unapologetically through the lens of a so called Conspiracy Theorist which I well imagine is how Pluto may be seeing things, come down to it, having been rooting around in those classified basements for almost fifteen years now.

Mars is of course Martial especially in a mundane chart of a country and since the 7th house here is the house of foreign countries and open enemies, it certainly feels like Mars is a potential threat. In this transit just considering two conjunctions, there seems to be a clear martial aspect. First, Mars hits Uranus and anyone who has had significant Uranus to Mars transits especially or Uranus to Mars in synastry knows that this is a powerful combination given to volatile, erratic and rash energies with a strong dose of Who-Knows-What. I have to go back through the timeline and look at everything else during these long seven months because obviously there is a lot going on. Mercury soon will be retrograding over the Midheaven here another government pressure point and surely something will come up and likely around whatever Pluto has dug up from the basement.

Mars Return in the midst of this Mars Retrograde and in the 7th house and much like Uranus points very much to martial energy but with Uranus seems like well could be an outside force acting upon the US perhaps in some unexpected way (screams cyber attack) this Mars Return feels internal to me and my clairaudience, just to be honest here, said when I first laid eyes on it, "Internal Conflict" that I interpretated first as civil war possibly but then thinking about it, perhaps this Mars Return represents a point when the US military stands in some martial fashion at odds somehow with the civilian leadership of the government and given present circumstances worldwide, perhaps in regards to aggression to or from a foreign power.

My disadvantage now is that for reasons of successfully negotiating my own once in a lifetime Pluto transit, I have divorced myself from the information flow of current events. Just include my notes here hoping someone else can contribute and develop this further and I will be going back to this as my energy, much maligned now, allows.

Pluto Transit Opposite Natal Moon: "Unbreakable"

Childhood "Issues" primarily of abandonment, proximity abandonment and physical and emotional neglect along with just being exposed to a highly toxic environment throughout childhood. I thought going into this, naively, "How bad can it be, my whole life has been a Pluto transit to the Moon, metaphorically speaking - this is my bailiwick. I got this". I had some sense that it would be about breaking the family curses, maybe like some advanced degree in breaking family curses.

I think that I mostly had it right only there is always that gulf between theory, no matter how good the theory may be, and reality. So here I am. Transits always stimulate what we have made over time of our natal energies, I remind myself. Pluto on the AC squaring Mercury and Mars for me and the likelihood that I would break someone's face again is extraordinarily low and has been for quite some time because I worked on that energy. But, alas, I am not Mother Theresa here. I just wiped three family members from my life and feel about a million percent better for it. No need to confront them, just a need to find peace within myself which is the core lesson of this transit, I am finding - a powerful and real self acceptance and peaceful core that will be if I survive it, unbreakable.

It comes at a cost and going back to the core of the Pluto energy that this transit addresses energetically, Pluto on the IC is ruthless self preservation: The Survivor.

Not much for bubble gum, rainbows and light astrology and am becoming comfortable with that as well. A lot of what is passing for New Age wisdom is old ass mental illness and projection of unresolved trauma from childhood abuse, the epidemic of epidemics. I do not wish to be a part of anything that is not genuine bone to soul. Sometimes Pluto portends death, horrible death possibly. This is part of life, unfortunately. I have seen it too many times. Astrology is just life, all of life, the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Spiritual in the Carnal World

Orgasm's as spiritual as prayer,

a smile as brilliant as the sun,

a simple gift from the heart,

as exalted as any church litany -

spiritual is right here and now

permeating this carnal world:

One thing does not have to die

so that another thing may live!

Pluto as the Key Evolutionary Astrology: Tool My Mother's Death Seen In My Chart

So looking at Pluto for myself since I am experiencing a Pluto opposition to natal moon this year its most intensive hits and thought to look at when it had hit my 4th house cusp. To illustrate for those who might be beginners, an easy way is to use the Cafe Astrology Ephemeris that is very user friendly, I think. To get in the ballpark if you do not have more advanced software, say using Astro, simply google when did Pluto enter whatever sign you are dealing with and estimate and then use the ephemeris to nail exact aspects. This little exercise alone gives us a great sense of how slow Pluto really is and perhaps this also helps us to get a real big picture overview of soul's purpose always keeping in mind that our natal chart is no accident but a starmap of our Soul's reason/s for incarnation.

Depending of course with Pluto where it is in natal and your age now, in terms of Evolutionary Astrology, almost a first step after examining the ramifications of that natal position is to then look first at all of the significant transits that Pluto has made during our life first by conjunction to angles then personal planets and Sun and Moon, of course.

Pluto is kind of the Sun of our Soul in Evolutionary Astrology in a way so if it does not make a conjunction, then it will make significant major aspect to those angles, luminaries and planets and interpretations can be had via google or youtube that can aid in intuiting what we are seeing. It is not so daunting as it may seem and you can spend as much time or as little as you want in this exercise that in guaranteed to reap great reward in personal insight into our soul's processes, I feel.

I had some general sense that Pluto had hit my IC around the time that my mother had passed in 1997 but was a bit surprised that at the exact time of her passing Pluto was 2 degrees past the IC and exactly within only minutes of orb on my Sagittarius Mercury that is in my 4th house and a two degree orb conjunct the IC and forming a 1 degree orb square to both Pluto in natal and my AC as Pluto is in the 12th for me only minutes off my AC.

Of course, much else to consider but it is all there in whatever transit chart of significance that we may be looking at - pay close attention to the other outer planets especially any aspect to natal or transit Pluto in this exercise and especially consider the house ramifications of it all. But the fact that my mother's death is dead on my chart ruler such as it is at the very time is among many things a real comformation of the power and significance of astrology in our lives.

Evolutionary Astrology lends itself well to more generalized observations that can yield profound insights relying as it does upon archetypes, using wide orbs with an emphasis upon house and sign placements. From this we can drill down endlessly into more and more detail bringing in the personal planets and their kinetic relationship to say Pluto transit to natal moon that can go on for years.