The current mayhem around the spread of the corona virus may seem out of line or overly excessive but when bearing in mind the current transits of Mars in approach to a Saturn Pluto conjunction (occurring earlier in the year) that accompanied the spread of bush fires here in Australia it makes sense…When we fear a threat or being overpowered by something challenging behaviour results.. There is a scramble to protect oneself from some from a threat that feels real… the force of protection and fear relates to Saturn and the terror or finding ourselves overpowered by a larger force, and larger collective forces relate to three of the transpersonal planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. When Saturn and Pluto meet these fears becomes super intense, affecting the psyche of the collective through contagion in powerful ways.. For example the rise of Plutonian forces of destruction was powerfully channelled by Hitler during the late 1930’s to mid 1940s. And the Saturn opposition to Pluto occurring in 2001 saw the destruction of 9/11 and defensive reactions which lead to the invasion of Iraq.
I am going through my own fear at the moment and having challenging lessons with anger, fear, boundaries, faith and belief. I cannot talk to many people about my situation right now, pressure is being put on me and I am being slammed with judgements and as I look at it, it’s all a God given exercise in boundary building and not taking on what is unfair. That said, if I am in fact accusing or doubting someone unjustly, that also is down to my own fears and lack of trust, but at the moment there is a bigger issue here and that is the right to set my on boundary regardless or not of whether the other person likes it, or whether I have all the right information. I do not deserve to be judged for setting a boundary… and at the moment I feel I gave so much in the past, I am at the point of the most massive ‘NO’. Then the thought comes, ‘what if I am actually meant to help this person and they were put into my life to show me my Saturn defences and fears?’, my therapist seems to feel that may be an inner voice that, as usual, negates my own natural instincts and boundaries.
The quote I shared about stars colliding in a post yesterday and in that way leads to a formation of new stuff or universes of experience and expression rings true here, inter personal and intra personal conflict is the birthing place of a more clearly defined sense of self, or stage in self expression. That said some spiritual teachers say we are here to collapse our boundaries to care for and incorporate others, that the sense of Self is just a construct or illusion. However, Jung believed the spiritual self was a real energy that needed to be honoured and that dovetails with what near death experiencer, Anita Moorjhani has shared… that she ended up becoming ill with terminal lymphoma due to the fact her sense of self was erased or negated in the Indian culture she grew up in as a woman who was considered inferior.
There is something about the soul or self that wont be negated without an illness or psychic of physical imbalance resulting… I have just been listening to the book show where these themes were being discussed in relation to Nigerian writer Abi Dare’s latest novel, The Girl With The Louding Voice.. It grabbed my attention as I thought of Pluto, that overwhelming force of abuse and control that existing in the parent or society from unintegrated ‘stuff’ can overwhelm the sensitive child and try to erase parts of it’s identity, as well as the struggle for us to find and be true to our own authentic voice, will and desires…
I was having a conversation along a related line with my friend today, Noel, he has been recently watching a series on SBS, our multi-cultural station here in Oz, on the attempt to eradicate the aboriginality of our native indigenous peoples, sadly the rich gifts of our native people were never acknowledged and they were over-run by white colonialist forces and forceably removed, raped, stolen as children or treated with other terrible forms of abuse.. all designed to shatter their sense of identity. An interesting conversation when I think of how Noel as an Aries is probably being hit with the current transit of Chiron, planet of wounding and healing in the sign of Aries to his Sun and both energies (Aries and the Sun) which rules inner power, sense of self and identity and is also being triggered right now by Mars, Saturn and Pluto.
Luckily as a person with astrological language and knowing I find I can make sense of the way humans behave at times.. the instinct is often to laugh at others or dismiss reactions, when certain behaviours seem out of control or crazy and yet, to my mind, something deeper is also going on in all of us as we struggle with these forces of fear, desire, power, agency, sense of self, as well as desires to connect, be known and have control. Each of us struggle individually to find ways to experience love, happiness, peace, a sense of power, understanding and freedom within the tumultuous swell of so many forces which surround us from within and without. For me current behaviour makes sense in the light of current transits.
Emerging From The Dark Night 