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2011 Astrology Preview, Part 2

VerDarLuz
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Read Part One here. 

URANUS Square PLUTO: Upheaval and Innovation

Between 2011 and 2015, all of the astrological transits and the coinciding world events should be viewed in the light of the catalytic and revolutionary merger of two archetypal behemoths--Uranus and Pluto, who will be exactly squaring an unprecedented seven times in four years, and in 2011 come within one degree of an exact square.  The square is an aspect of friction, tension, and dynamic change.

In a sense, the first 5 years of the 2010s, each individual and all aspects of culture and social structure are being pummeled, remolded, and transfigured by the powerful and relentless Uranus-Pluto force.

Uranus was the first planet discovered with a telescope.  Its discovery occurred in 1781, amidst the revolutionary surges for both French and U.S. Independence.  Industrialization also began around this time, signifying the next level of technological advancement.  In 2011, Uranus begins a new phase of its evolution in our collective psyche, as it moves from the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces, to the first sign Aries. Simultaneously, Uranus begins its intense and cathartic square to Pluto, which will last through 2015.  

Uranus is the great awakener, the paradigm shifter, the revolutionary genius -- a rebellious Prometheus stealing fire from the gods to liberate humanity.  Pluto is Lord of the Underworld, the harbinger of cathartic and profound evolutionary shift, through relentless transformation, regeneration, death, and rebirth.

The two in the dynamic square aspect promise a totalizing effect that catalyzes a radical shapeshift in culture, stripping us of what is no longer essential and what has outlived its usefulness.  Consistent themes of Uranus-Pluto as expressed in Richard Tarnas' thorough and fascinating research into planetary cycles, Cosmos and Psyche

-Widespread radical social and political change

-Often destructive upheaval

-Massive empowerment of revolutionary and rebellious impulse

-Intensified artistic and intellectual creativity

-Extremely rapid technological advancement

-An underlying spirit of restless experiment

-Drive for innovation

-Urge for freedom resulting in a revolt against oppression

-Embrace of radical political philosophies

-Intensified collective will to bring forth a new world

-Massive demographic shifts

-Fervent, often violent intensity

-Excitement of moving rapidly toward new horizons

 

It will be up to the artists, healers, and lightworkers to vibrate at a frequency so high as to magnetize others in our collective ascension to a more enlightened species. Every thought, vision, and action is a step towards this.  Every gathering, every intimate encounter, every conversation is an opportunity to answer the evolutionary call.

 

URANUS in ARIES: Call to Freedom

Uranus steps boldly into Aries beginning April of 2011 -- the warrior, freedom-fighter, pioneer, and competitive reactionary -- during its square to Pluto in Capricorn.  Whatever slumber some of us have been in, fascinated with the distractions of our gizmos, keeping up with our online profiles, or drowning in the dramas of the Piscean seas, Uranus in Aries will now demand that we manifest those Piscean dreams in the world, as he asserts a forceful call to action and a thrust towards greater freedom.

Last summer's volcano over iceland coupled with the hottest summer on record throughout the earth demonstrate the ferocious heat of Uranus in Aries, as Uranus slid into the youthful spark of the zodiac all last summer.

Uranus in Aries forges into territory never thought possible before.  The risk-taker dares us to not only think, but ACT outside of the box.  Keep talking about that sustainable community or retreat center you want to build, or class you want to teach or education you're dying to know?  It's time to experiment, as Aries learns by doing.   The acceleration of the coming decade cannot be overestimated.  Our ability to remain adaptable is a major test and new knowledge is streaming in.  As we chase the flame of our evolution, we may find ourselves taking two steps forward and one step back, and we have to learn to accept and adjust.

With Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn, the sudden explosion of changes in our lives demands that we at last embrace the lessons of impermanence. To honor impermanence is to give each moment its gratitude. 

We repeatedly hear the phrase, "We are the ones we have been waiting for."  But, it is Gandhi's phrase "Be the change you want to see in the world," which then motivates us to access the avatar -- the chosen one -- within.  To "be the change" is not a passive state of being, but an active and passionate ‘doing.'

Gandhi's salt march occurred during Uranus transit in Aries in 1930, when it last squared Pluto.  Martin Luther King Jr. was born during this same transit, just two years before the salt march.  King led his own protest march during the following connection between Uranus and Pluto throughout the decade of the 60's.   One quote

Both King and Gandhi preached and practiced non-violent resistance, influenced by another Uranus in Aries and Uranus-Pluto figure: Henry David Thoreau, whose On Civil Disobedience stated:  "That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."

The inexpediency and irrelevancy of governments today has ignited the civil unrest erupting all over the world as citizens recognize their governments as puppets to corporations who only think of people as sources of money.  Just as in the 60's, the fire is sparked most by University students.  2010 riots on the U.C. campus because of tuition hikes demonstrate the extreme discontent.  And in December 2010, students protesting tuition costs in London shouted "Off with his head!!," as they assaulted Prince Charles' car. One wonders how willing high school and college aged youth will be to attend schools that continue to not honor their individuality, their generation's needs, or the freedom to learn without being enslaved to debt.  Many may decide to learn through the internet and mentoring or apprenticeship programs and spend the majority of their time cultivating their creativity.

We should ask how can we take the militant fervor we feel within and cultivate courage in the face of our personal and collective fears. As MLK Jr. stated, "Militancy means persistence, to be demanding, to be insistent..."

 

Resource Based Economy

People are now insisting on a new system altogether, inspired by visions such as the resource-based economy, as described in Zeitgeist Addendum and the new Zeitgeist film released this January 25th, Moving Forward.  The Zeitgeist movement (zeitgeistmovie.com) is a worldwide revolution occurring with planetary activists everywhere, supporting many ideas espoused by the Venus Project, especially the implementation of an economy that moves beyond money and its capitalist, consumerist model of competition and scarcity.

While this movement has been active for a few years, Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn is the archetypal juice necessary to fire up the world.

An interesting surprise occurred while I was researching the Venus Project to share with my readers, something which hints at a major theme emerging in the coming years of the Uranus-Pluto square -- net neutrality and infowars.  When I typed in The Venus Project and Resource Based Economy Google reported this to be an "Attack page," which had supposedly been putting viruses onto some computers.  This appeared very suspicious to me specifically because of the very revolutionary content espoused on the Venus Project's website.  Since Google is a multibillion dollar company who indeed like money and have lobbied their fair share of politicians in congress, could it be that Google created this warning as a way to detract visitors from the powerful ideas and information on the Venus Project's website?

Imagine if Karl Marx and Frederich Engels lived today, and they wrote their Communist Manifesto and put it on the internet.  And say a lot of people were starting to appreciate the ideals set forth.  Whoever had a vested interested in retaining capitalist ideals, even a search engine like Google, may take the initiative to try and shut down the portal into that information. In the emerging Aquarian age, information is the weapon.

The Zeitgeist movement and the Venus Project have a texture similar to that of the Communist Manifesto, which was written while Uranus was in Aries, squaring Pluto, and while Neptune was in Pisces.  This is the position of these planets in the 2010's, so we would expect this movement to gain great momentum around the world in the coming years, likely threatening the corporations and governments of the world.

There is much much more to be said about this fascinating, exciting, and overwhelming cycle we are all entering with Uranus in Aries and Uranus square Pluto.  I will continue to be writing about it throughout the year, and apply it to the context of the inflowing Aquarian Age.

I wanted to leave you with some further research and a poem to help us as we increasingly become more aware of our responsibilities as multidimensional beings.

 

Earthships as evolutionary sustainable buildings which contain:

-Thermal/Solar Heating & Cooling

-Solar & Wind Electricity

-Contained Sewage Treatment

-Building with Natural & Recycled Materials

-Water Harvesting

-Food Production

-see the inspiring work in Haiti and more.

See also economist Bernard Lietaer's fascinating discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck on the inherently flawed economic system and exciting alternatives such as Community Currencies and currencies which penalize you for accumulation.

 

Light-Hearted

I confess:

I am a multidimensional vibration. 

But How do I contain that?

I am being and becoming

And I am lost and found in the between

All-Ways

 

But I don't know how to reach the other parts of me,

stretched like melted plastic taffy through wormholes of possibility.

 

I am the thirteenth rose, de-thorned, but pricked by the dozen other red mirrors.

The roses were white, but stained the blood of my zodiacal reflection.

 

Archetypes battle in me, and I seek my courage in conjuring miracles: the hymns necessary to sustain peace between the gods of war.

 

All gods

are gods of war.

 

And I've been caught stealing

Thunder

I've been caught thieving

Fire

 

The eagle pecks at my flesh

The swan serenades my soul beyond death

The vulture carries the carrion of my heart across the Milky river Styx

 

I am the orphan in exile, and I am the hybrid trying to hide in stars

And my centaur's arrow points back, like an oroborous tail,

Straight into my mouth

I am both Prometheus and the Wounded Healer who spares his Flame from its famine

I am the Artist-Shaman who sacrifices his heart upon the altar

So that humanity may feast upon dawn for but one more day

I am the Sacred Face of the Sun

Reaching to kiss you with my Solar Flare lips

I know my embrace is deadly

But the Light will ascend you

And the Heat will resurrect you

Just stare at me and remember

You are not separate

Climb into the Light

Return the Many to the One

and Fold the distance

Into Wholeness

 

Image courtesy of NASA.

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To your poem I answer this...

Submitted by Peter Deane on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 12:25.
Sunday’s Sermon -- Grace is Righteousness, the sign read at the entrance into the parking lot of Mountain View Church of Christ in Tucson. I found a parking spot easily as a sporadic showing of vehicles left many empty spaces. The only reason for this showing was that I must be early. And I was by a half hour. A fat lady with long hair in a long pink dress greeted me from a plastic chair as I opened the glass door in my blue jeans, green cotton dress shirt, and new white gym shoes. “Welcome,” she said. “You new here?” “Just coming for a visit,’ I answered. “Welcome,” she again said. It’s been over five years since I had been to a Sunday service. I had at one time made a commitment to myself to never return to any building that was a part of any institutionalized religion. I’ve had share of burdens within these institutions, and the biggest kick in the pants for me to stay away was when I slowly watched over the course of years the massive cover-up of the abuse of children in the Catholic Church. These type of places just seem to swarm with a system full of middle managers that keep the gears of society in line while judging us from books and brain tweaking the truth of who the Spirit that dwells within us truly belongs to. I’ve been to many places like this and even though the beliefs may change their purpose doesn’t. In the end they work for the powerful and make sure we all see that it’s not anyone’s fault when bad things happen to someone in the course of a day. We have a Devil or a Shatan or Karma to blame it on when all things go astray. It’s all laid on some entity somewhere but never on our own actions which may have played a part in it all. And when things like the incident in Tucson happen we are never quick to judge ourselves but allow the finger pointing to begin first into our books of law and then at all others. The question why is reserved for them and not what dwells in our hearts, minds, and spirits. But this Sunday, the day after the Tucson shootings in Tucson, I was the first to take a pew in a small church called Mountain Avenue. It was clean and modern. The building couldn’t have been more than twenty too thirty years old. And as buildings go, since we’ve been building them, that’s pretty young. And as I sat alone and read the banner on the altar; This Do in Rememberence of Me, I wondered what it was like to see this building threw Dorwin’s eyes. What he truly thought of the whole system of religion and society and the people that came here to worship. The half hour went by quick and I noticed that in every pew there was more than one person sitting in them. I wondered if it was just me with my go-tee, and long hair, that may have scared some away from filling in the empty space between me too the other side of the long wooden empty bench. But that couldn’t be right because right in front of me sat a man and his wife. One couldn’t get any closer. They were an older couple. He looked European with short gray hair, and she was Latino with dark hair that covered her shoulders. I watched in vane as her hand caressed his back thinking of how lucky the man was to have a woman that wanted to feel close to him. And then I saw another man like me with long hair. And he found company in his pew. Like cymbals ringing through the sound of an orchestra tuning their instruments, a group of children bounced up the aisle, and were led to the first pew. People that were still standing and talking to each other, now, began to find their seating for the Sunday service. I was still sitting alone in my pew as a man approached the microphone and asked the people to open up their hymnals to the song; We will Rise Up. I stood and listened to the people sing and they sang in the old fashioned way of the Sacred Harp singers, a way in which the voices blend and rise and fall in unison to a single one/two rhythm. The song lifted my Spirits and cut into my emotions. I cried for a moment listening to them singing this type of loud and balanced harmony. Once they ended that song another song arose; There’s a Stirring. And as heard this song I was caught by where we are today in America, the melting pot, about to be stirred together, no one Spirit greater than any other. A song to stir, to become truly one, must be out there somewhere even in the form of Sacred Harp singers. That is what this is all about == The great stirring… the final judgment into ourselves in heart and mind and Spirit. As the song ended, a tall thin man in a black suit, polished black dress shoes, grey collared shirt, and red tie, approached the children and began to sing the song, “Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are sacred in his site. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” He then went into the same song and began it with Jesus died for all the children. He ended his song beginning with Jesus rose for all the children. He then told them all to raise their hand and wiggle a finger as he was doing. Some children in the front did what he said, others steered with a dull look, and others just looked around to see what was happening behind them. The man then began singing while wiggling his finger and bobbing up and down; “There was a fuzzy catapiller stuck up in a tree, he wiggled once, he wiggled twice, and then wiggled right at me. I put him in a yellow box and said don’t you away, instead he turned into a butter… and I don’t know the rest of the song.” The church erupted in laughter as the man briefly laughed at himself. He was lost for words but not finished and he carried out the song by singing, “Only God in heaven can make a butterfly.” Placing his hands on his hips he then looked down at the children and said, “And who makes butterflies?” “Caterpillars do,” one children remarked. The church stirred for a moment as the man fidgety around for words, and then said, “No, no, no… God makes the butterflies.” “No.” The child said, “Caterpillars do.” The man waved his hand at the child and said, “You’re right! You’re right! But who makes the caterpillar?” This was getting interesting to me. A man dressed as a sales man talking theology stumped for a moment by a child on who makes a butterfly. That was already resolved and he lost that battle of wits. And I watched as the child in her pretty little dress, and her hands on her lap, looked at the man deeply searching for a truthful answer. And into her eyes the man did stay with the true subject of how we are made. “That’s right!” he said, “God does.” If she would have only known that two butterflies make a caterpillar she would have walked away crowned. I was sure of it. The children were then led away and the man approached the microphone and informed the congregation that the sermon about grace and righteousness would be postponed and that the service would now be one of devotion. A prayer was read, and then a piece of scripture. He then asked us all to stand and greet each other in peace. The man in front of me turned around and reached out his hand. He had blue eyes. “Hi, I’m Ben,” he said politely and then introduced me to his wife Maria. She smiled and I nodded my head and smiled back as she moved out into the aisle and began talking with another woman. Ben continued, “What’s your name?” I answered, “Pete.” “Where ya from, Pete?” “Originally from Chicago but lived in Cincinnati for the last twenty some-odd-years. That’s where I came here from.” “Bad time to come to Tucson.” “Well looks like there’s a lot of opportunity for me to learn something.” “I’d say so. Been here long?” “Just a week,” I said then asked the man about Dorwin. “Did you know the man that was killed yesterday?” “Yeah. Good guy. Really liked by everyone.” “That’s why I’m here today. I want to know something of this man. What he saw. Who he knew. And grieve with the people.” “Ok. Your welcome to stay.” “I heard he was a preacher here.” “No, he wasn’t a preacher. He would just help people.” “Like minister in acts of compassion?” “Yeah. I guess you can say that.” Ben waved to someone across the room and then looked back at me and said, “I have to talk to someone. And nice meeting you.” We shock hands, and as he walked away I sat back down in my empty pew and watched the people mill about until another preacher came up to the lectern to speak. He had grey hair, a grey beard, and was dressed in a polished grey suit. He looked short from where I was sitting. And as everyone saw him on the stage he called out for another song to be sung in Sacred Harp fashion. The people went back to their pews and sang the song that the preacher asked for; God is a River, Glorious. Straw brown baskets were then passed around, and I pulled out my wallet, and grabbed a couple dollars, and some change, and dropped it in. And once the song was over the preacher began talking about Jesus and the Last Supper. He then read out of the bible the story of the Last Supper. Silver trays were then carried out and on the trays were white wafers of bread, which were small and round and they look like after diner mints. I ate one and then from the other silver tray I grabbed a small thimble sized plastic cup of grapefruit juice. I drank it and placed the empty cup back on the silver tray. When I did this, I thought about my days being raised Catholic and at the same time I didn’t want to eat this bread or drink out of the cup, but I did, not because I believed that this was the body and blood of Christ or even in remembrance of Christ. I did in remembrance of Dorwin. It was his church and his peoples and to respect the memory of who he was, around the people he cherished, I celebrated life as he would have, and left it at that. As the ceremony ended the preacher in the grey suit was replaced by the skinny preacher in the black suit with the red tie who sand the caterpillar song. He stood behind the lectern and began to preach and he spoke about Dorwin and how Dorwin’s wife wanted to go see Gabrielle Gifford speak and tell the congresswoman what she thought about a certain issue that was on her mind. When they went and the bullets started flying Dorwin pulled his wife down to the ground and covered over her. She was shot in the leg and he was shot in the head. The preacher then said, “The press asked me, what did you feel when you heard about this? And I hate that question because I felt like I fallen into a hole. And they asked us what you going to do for services? I said, I don’t know, I have never been affected like this before in my life. All day yesterday I watched the news, and it feels like when the twin towers were blown up. We couldn’t believe it. We couldn’t pull away from it. But this morning I don’t have a magic pill. I don’t have an answer. I don’t have the right scripture. I have nothing for you. And I’m going to assure the news media that this is not going to be a political circus. A man was taken from our reigns and I don’t ask God why. How dare I ask him why? Because God would say, why do you live the life that you live Michael?" Why? That word stayed with me throughout the rest of his sermon. When he talked about the row of marks high on the back wall that were put there by a falling ladder that Dorwin was on at the time, I questioned why and thought about the fall of world religions. And when he spoke about the impact that Dorwin and his wife had across the United States before Dorwin was killed, and how he didn’t know that they were out there helping others, I questioned why, and found that a private matter between a man and his works of charity is his alone. Why did Dorwin jump on his wife to save her? Because of instinct to protect a loved one or because he believed in Jesus. And when the preacher blamed this incident on the Devil, and not on how this society has become one to blame things on all others as bullets fly from our tanks and airplanes into the lives of many more innocent human beings around the world. I question why. Why the preacher doesn’t question why to himself so deep to where his God dwells. Maybe it’s the life he’s living and he can’t see that the answer is waiting for him if he could only be trusted to judge himself truthfully enough and with great cherishment. And after his sermon was over we sang; I’ll Fly Away. During this last song I rose from my lonely pew and walked a few steps towards the door past the ladder marks on the wall and wondered, why fly? Why fly when life waiting for me is only a step away. That night, I stepped back into my bedroom and searched around the internet for a song that was sung in Sacred Harp style – Looking for one that would be inclusive and have the ability to question everyone’s judgment for themselves. And I found one, and as I listened to the words of these Americans singing, I thought to myself, why. Why do we allow others to judge us and we lower ourselves to their standards and demons. Politics of greed win when we don’t even know how to rightfully judge ourselves, because the truth we seek in sound judgment is given to us from those with self interest who use laws from confusing as hell books. Verse From A Sacred Harp Song And am I born to die? To lay this body down? And must my trembling spirit fly? Into a world unknown? A land of deepest shade? Unpierced by human thought? The dreary regions of the dead? Where all things are forgot? Soon as from earth I go What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe? Must then my portion be? Waked by the trumpet sound? I from my grave shall rise! And see the Judge with glory crowned! And see the flaming skies! Judge yourselves before you allow others to judge you and what you are really in need of… Be crowned with thorns or feathers or glory or a floppy blue hat with a yellow band around it to block the flaming sky from blinfding your eyes? Why do I ask this? Because the choice is all yours. I like the floppy blue hat and like to see a blue sky if there's flame in it or not. Right now, that's the truth of how I wear my glory. Who knows? Grace is knowing the difference between wrong and right… Maybe a feather one day… why maybe a thorny crown… who knows? But right about now I'd choose the feather. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_QFvkPJvw&feature=player_embedded

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Submitted by Open minded on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 13:49.
Peter, this is a section to comment on the article, not to right your own article. Your comment/article has nothing to do with this facinating article. I read your comment/article and it's great that you had this experience in church, but what is your point here? No offense, just stating the obvious.

Facinating article

Submitted by Open minded on Mon, 01/31/2011 - 14:00.
VerDarLuz, I loved this article. Especially about the section on Resource Based Economy and the Zeitgeist movement. After I read it, I researched and read about The Zeitgeist movement and saw the movie. I also read about the Venus Project and their purpose. I loved listening to Jacque Fresco on YouTube and all his ideas. He is a very smart man and he definetly has some great ideas for humanity. I loved Peter Joseph too. I would recommend the Zeitgeistmovie.com to everyone. I am glad you brought this information to reality sandwich otherwise I would not have been aware of it. Thanks for enlightening me VerDarLuz.

stories of the stars....

Submitted by Five on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 21:18.

Yet another beautifully written and very informative preview of the near future ....some of which is manifesting at this very time.

Along with the more and more powerful Solar winds, that are now blowing and carrying nourishing, photonic , and magnetic energies that are bathing Earth from our Sun...we are graciously being given opportunities for our ascent into areas of greater and higher transformation.

http://issuesoncall.blogspot.com/2011/01/solar-wind-will-hit-earth-early...

poetry

Submitted by felinalunekavi on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 16:27.
Your poem was beautiful!

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi

V.O.I.C.E.

(Venusian Octave Inspired Collective Enlightenment) 

Images of exact Uranus-Pluto square aspects

Submitted by Peter Meyer on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 11:33.

VerDarLuz is correct in saying that in the next few years Uranus and Pluto will form an exact square aspect seven times in four years. They came within seven degrees of exact square (for between two and seven months) once in each of 2008, 2009 and 2010, but the squares never became exact (the third one came within 3 degrees on July 31, 2010, with the Deepwater Horizon blowout still uncontrolled).

Uranus and Pluto will be within seven degrees of exact square continuously for over five years from March 18, 2011, to June 15, 2016. During this period they will form an exact square on the following seven dates (click on them to see the planetary alignments on these dates; time is 12:00 GMT; red lines show square aspects):

June 24, 2012
September 19, 2012
May 20, 2013
November 1, 2013
April 21, 2014
December 15, 2014
March 17, 2015

These seven PNG images may be downloaded together in the zip file uranus-pluto-squares.zip.

The square of April 21, 2014, is especially interesting since it is part of a grand cross formed by Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, with all four squares and both oppositions being within one degree of exact.

In the two years following mid-2016 Uranus and Pluto twice come within seven degrees of exact square, reaching 3°2' on February 5, 2017, and 5°6' on February 5, 2018.

Thereafter these two planets form a succession of trine aspects, with exact trines occurring several times during 2025-2029.

These results can be confirmed by using the Planetary Aspects and Transits software.

completely-cosmic

Submitted by Five on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 12:53.

We are in the midst of great change, as can be seen by current events.

The three outer slow-moving planets form the backdrop for these times.

These planets are Pluto, Lord of the Underworld (Consciousness), Neptune, a higher, and more spiritual vibration of Venus, and the brilliant and explosive Uranus, father of (r)-evolution....

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