Image: NASA Jupiter
I must admit I’ve been depressed, distressed, discouraged, appalled, and mightily frustrated to name just a few adjectives for what I’m feeling about the state of existence right now. Most of all, I can’t take the incessant lying. What about you? Everywhere you look there are recordings of people staring directly into the camera and lying right to your face and you know they’re lying! Truth decay is rampant with clever (or not) twisted words and messages meant to persuade you. You know, the ones that are simply not true and NOT based on facts.
What are the rampant celestial conditions? Is it Neptune having reached the 29th degree for the first time? This is the very last degree of the natural Zodiac cycle, indicative of a huge shift into a new era while processing monumental past impressions. Note: I wrote a piece about this a few weeks ago and you can still access it. My free writing is available for 8 weeks before it morphs into the archives (then available only for paid subscribers). BTW, you can subscribe for merely $5 per month. And there’s a special rate right now “Cause it’s my First Anniversary here!
But I digress (a phrase often used by JoJo from Jerz whose posts I enjoy)…
Back to Neptune…The 29th degree of any sign is quixotic and magical while also indicating a pivotal shift in the evolution of consciousness. We’re preparing to focus attention on different areas of life or issues. Of course, not everyone will respond the same way to the prompts of evolution. We find ourselves in the fun house – blind and around every corner, something demands our attention and often in outrageous, shocking, disturbing ways. Neptune is tricky – if there is something that captures attention because it somehow fits with a feeling or sentiment we harbor, then we’re more likely to be drawn in. However, Neptune requires strong filters and boundaries because it innately disperses (spreads like a virus) until it is met with a boundary. It will take everything you’ve got to prevent ensnarement in its web. A strong spiritual base of incontrovertible values will help you discern when someone is attempting to bamboozle or mislead you. Will you willingly be led astray? It’s easier to give in but what are you giving up? Neptune can be lazy and laissez-faire and that is its trickery. This is no time to be lazy and allow yourself to be beguiled by those who want to take advantage of you for their own benefit with little regard for you. Consider what’s at stake? The democracy, the freedoms you thought would be there forever? Quality of life requires support, attention, nurturance, justice, fairness, and maintenance.
Is the problem Pluto moving back (from early degrees Aquarius) toward 29 degrees Capricorn for the last time in 248 years and coming to meet Neptune @ 29 by sextile (60 degrees) for a few days around 9/3-4/24? Is that the problem? Pluto expresses the sentiments of the majority and in Capricorn that is trust. We have lost trust in our institutions/government and what, we get to be apathetic because of that? Again, that’s just plain laziness. Stand up for what you believe. Pluto is morphing persistently into Aquarius (completely by end of November 2024), the sign of big picture understanding, perspective, truth, camaraderie, and group consciousness. Choose your truth but it requires that it equally benefits the collective not just individual predilections or greed.
Is Saturn currently in Pisces the problem? Are we so jaded that we refuse to recognize what is in front of our eyes? Are we minimizing the threat? Would we rather ignore or avoid what we know deep within is antithetical to the soul of being alive? Living with soul is empathy, authenticity, faith that the higher path is the better way and believing that all have the right to the abundance of life on earth. With Saturn in Pisces, we can commit to our dream or determine it is too much work. Striving for the ideal is the journey not the destination. Have faith.
No wait…maybe the issue is that Jupiter is entering Gemini on 5/24/24 for a year’s stay. (More on that in another writing.) We will be inundated with words like you wouldn’t believe. But what are the words conveying? Words are powerful. They’re supposed to have meaning, aren’t they? Whose words do you trust?
What about Uranus, still in earthy Taurus wanting to claim its place. The Truth (Uranus) in Taurus is physical (we feel it kinesthetically) – land, ownership, abundance, money, and the sensual pleasures of having and enjoying what we want. This too can make us lazy when values conflict with others and we are required to take a stand when we’d rather not. Is the effort too great? Maybe but what is the alternative to not standing up for fairness and basic human values?
Summing up, it’s easier with these planetary conditions to feel disconnected, unmoored, pessimistic, even confused, wanting to avoid unpleasantness. The challenge before us is to discern and discriminate the wheat from the chaff (so to speak). I say to you… refuse to be confused. Remember the values that drive you and those that you respect and honor. There is no replacement for honor, respect, and integrity. Make your judgments accordingly and refuse to get lost in the fog. Stay fluid, bend and understand. But, when it comes down to it – you know what’s right and wrong, don’t you?