Pluto Square Uranus #3, 20May13

It happened yesterday at 11 degrees of Capricorn-Aries, asking us to break free in authentic ways from what binds us. Some of that will be where we have allowed others to make our decisions for whatever reason whether we’re not sure we’re qualified or would just rather not do it.

Squares present tension and this tension between outer planets will ideally show us the need in our own little universes to break free from what we’ve allowed to constrict us and take charge of our lives. What that looks like for different people will vary mostly due to the patterns they have allowed to form in their lives that keep them from feeling in charge of themselves.

A common phrase for this is “giving away our power.” When it comes down to it it’s about being responsible for our lives and answering to ourselves. This is best done without apology and without clinging to things chosen in the past that appear to be mistakes. The intense realism Pluto in Capricorn calls for needs to taken in in the spirit of grounded compassion for the fact that we are each in a long-term learning process as humans.

Your job now is to set yourself free and take responsibility for yourself and your life while giving yourself room to change without heavy-handed expectations of perfection. The energy of Uranus in Aries in the mix says that clarity of perception and efficiency of action are to be rooted in following instinct without editing it because it seems to promise boldness. Be bold – do the thing that sets you free and decide to be unapologetic about meeting your needs and moving on with your life.

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Mars in Aries, 12Mar-20Apr13

Ah, Mars in Aries. The planet of action, desire, passion, and aggression returns to home territory, the sign of immediate, unmediated response and acting without thought. There are so many wonderful opportunities here as well as pitfalls and my aim here is to set them out for you. If you can sit still long enough to read it is another story.

Mars in transit can serve to wake us up to what needs doing and reacting to. It asks us to evolve our understanding of self-interested action and stirs us to respond to situations around us without thinking about it too much. We’ve been dealing with a Pisces pileup for a few weeks and Mercury is retrograding in that sign, indicating that a more languid, slow, relaxed approach has been the ticket lately.

Mars being the first inner planet to enter the sign of Aries this season means that we will be inspired to act before we’ve had much time to think about what we’re doing, before we’ve had the opportunity to obsessively plan and strategize what might get done. The effect can be of injecting vim and vigor so that we feel as though mainlining the vibration of the athlete, warrior,  defender, and/or god of desire, passion, and sex. › Continue reading

Moon Conjunct Pluto in Capricorn Today

At 11:15 am Pacific time today Moon makes an exact conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn.

To make the best use of this aspect, feel into what lies under the surface. Let yourself become aware of how you feel about how things are going in your world.

The message with Pluto in Capricorn is that we have to dig deep in order to find the part of us that is willing to take charge of our lives and be our own authority. Pluto here (since early 2008) has been revealing slowly and intensely where we have ceded and surrendered our power to the apparent authority of others. We’re to take it back, yes, but to do it right we absolutely must not blame those others. We must take responsibility for how we have given in to an image of ourselves as less strong than others.

Pluto in Capricorn also calls on us to re-evaluate our perceptions and conceptions of what power and strength are and who gets to have them when. Saturn transiting through Scorpio echoes these themes.

I invite you to see yourself as a powerful, Divine being learning about what that means and requires. Look at others to whom you have given your willingness to be strong as teachers who have shown up to reflect to you what you perceive strength and power are and who gets to have them when. The fact is that each of us gets to have them but we can do so only if we give ourselves permission to be strong while we revamp what we think strength is. The almost 2-hour Saturn in Scorpio MP3 will help you work through this process.

The conjunction will sextile rx Mercury-Venus-Chiron in Pisces, adding to the story a need to bring compassion and giving self and other the benefit of the doubt. This configuration is about opening the heart but in an intentional way that gets to the bottom of what is really going on, not simply gushing and then needing to figure out how to mop up the mess later. Speaking what comes up could be important ensure that if it happens, be clear about what is worth communicating. I mean that make sure you are owning what you are feeling and not blaming others for your experience.

The best strategy is to be willing to feel what is under the surface and treat yourself and others with conscious, compassionate awareness. If you can create the opportunity to express those feelings then do it but the primary point is that you honor what you are feeling and don’t shy away from hearing from deeper parts of yourself.

Tom Jacobs is an Evolutionary Astrologer, Medium, and Channel helping you understand what your soul is here to do and how to make it happen with grace, ease, and joy. Book your private consultation, get a Soul’s Journey Soundbite, and explore intuitive coaching and astrology tutoring by visiting tdjacobs.com. Jacobs offers 12 books including the new The Soul’s Journey II: Emotional Archaeology.  The Soul’s Journey radio show airs live each Thursday at 6 pm Pacific on Contact Talk Radio.

Karmic Profile: Pope Benedict XVI

The Pope is stepping down citing issues with age, so I thought I’d take a look at this news maker and his karmic trip.

My intention is to shed light on some of the multilife dynamics that this soul has its humans running through in order to learn what it means, costs, and requires to live life as a human. For the full story on this approach see The Soul’s Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel and The Soul’s Journey II: Emotional Archaeology and listen to my radio show The Soul’s Journey Thursdays at 6 pm Pacific.

What catches my eye is the South Node (SN) in Capricorn in the 10th house, indicating lifetimes of being well-known for one thing or another. This describes the conditioning environments the soul chooses for its humans across the Earth time line. Because of this it is comfortable for him to gravitate toward developing and identifying with a place in the world. For many this is a job or career but it can also be a role in the community. Being pope is less a career than a calling, I’m sure most popes would say, and so it fits with the 10th house here.

Square to the nodal axis represent karmic confusion, or issues that can vex us. We need to learn to make new choices in a given life and not rely on assumptions or habits with the energies in this position. Mercury in Pisces and Uranus-Eris in Aries are square the nodes from the 1st house, indicating that his style of leadership needs to be aligned with truth (Mercury in Pisces) but also original (Uranus) and willing to stir up some controversy through honesty (Eris in Aries). In the 1st house, this about his choices and his willingness to act as an individual.

Also square the nodes is the true Black Moon Lilith in Libra/7th. This is about fairness in relationship and honoring instinct and body wisdom when dealing with other people. One key thing about Lilith is that she connects us to our lower chakras and when we’re doing it right we have a sense of the wisdom of the natural world and the Earth itself within our bodies. The full story on this is in Lilith: Healing the Wild.

But these energies are square the nodes. Doing Uranus-Eris in Aries square the nodes right is in NOT being conservative. it is not in upholding a tradition and maintaining the status quo. (Before donning the big hat one monicker was “God’s rottweiler” because of his strictness when it came to religious teachings.) It is in being willing to go one’s own way, invent the self to be whatever inspires, and to make some noise. Doing Lilith square the nodes involves learning through relationship in ways that can involve some fire and some learning about boundaries through trial and error.

My read on him is that he holds back in many lives including this one in order to maintain the social status available to him, which makes that Capricorn/10th house SN feel comfortable. An institution such as the church provides the perfect cover for avoiding the pressure of independent, free-spirited thought (Aries/1st house stuff) at the same time as avoiding digging through the depths of intimate relationships in order to learn about passion, boundaries, instinct, and sex with all it teaches us about self and other (Lilith in Libra/7th).

The SN ruler Saturn is retrograde in Sagittarius/9th. The SN for any of us is about our role in many lives. The SN itself is about how he will see the world – and thereby how he will create it into existence around him – and its ruler by sign is about his role in that context. What special skills and interests does he have? To what roles will others want to appoint him because of those skills and interests? He shows up in the 9th house, interested in belief and in some way a seeker for truth. In Sagittarius we know that he is focused intently on whatever it is that is believed. That Saturn is retrograde says that in a bunch of lives he might not be sure what to believe (the energy of a retro is to be focused and often it takes time to find the right thing to do with it) and so he’ll try on for size other people’s ways of doing things. Sometimes Saturn retrograde needs to go through a Uranian process of not being compliant and agreeable and conformist in order to find the right way to be and express the energy of the planet. With his square to the nodes of Uranus there is karmic confusion about the right way to do this and he might be in a holding pattern for a few lifetimes and put off making decisions to do it.

Venus in Taurus/2nd opposes the SN ruler Saturn, indicating that relationships seem in many lives far away from him – Venus is as far away from the SN ruler, his role, as possible. Sensuality is part of this, too. Some people with this karmic signature would be hell- bent on embracing sensuality in a given life because they carry memories of it being far away from them and knowing in their bones that it is natural and good. This is a signature of craving the touch and caress of another living being, which those involved with the church as he has been for most of his life do not typically experience. At least, I should say, it’s not built in to the life they’re supposed to live. With this set up the Pope in some lives is longing for contact and in other lives is keeping it away. The focus on belief and sticking with it (Saturn in Sagittarius/9th) will in many lives have him keeping it far from him.

Recently I noticed that American politicians Dan Quayle and Mitt Romney share a signature that this profile reminds me of. It’s natal Uranus in the 1st house conjunct the Gemini North Node. It is evolutionary pressure to set themselves apart and not follow in their families’ footsteps, to go their own way and set themselves free from tradition. I don’t believe either has done this in the least, which isn’t a criticism as much as it is an observation that sticking with their SNs – in the 7th house it’s about meeting the expectations of others and giving others what they want – is comfortable as it is for any human. We always prefer our SNs because we’re familiar with them.

With this Pope, the Uranus-Eris in Aries/1st seems the lynch pin in his entire karmic journey. The SN in Capricorn/10th says that he’s comfortable being in public and being a symbol of something for others. The SN ruler in Sagittarius/9th tells us that the role will have something to do with belief whether that comes through law, philosophy, or religion. But this Uranus-Eris in the 1st says that growth as a human will not occur unless he chooses to boldly free himself from convention and embrace a highly original nature that doesn’t compromise his personal integrity.

So has he done it? Like Quayle and Romney he has stuck with the past and found a high level of success in the world doing what is comfortable, what is already found to be a happy place. The soul learns no matter what he chooses because human choices and the results are what teach the soul. But somewhere else on the timeline the soul born this time around as Joseph Ratzinger is an unapologetic iconoclast telling everyone around him who will listen (and even some who wont!) what’s wrong with the system and why they should dump it. But that version of him learns through that the cost of alienating those in charge, those who have a vested interested in continuing 9th and 10th house traditions. It’s not fun being out in the cold and that is why this man leans toward the conservative possibilities of this chart. In some lives he gets himself into trouble through Uranus-Eris inspired trouble making and though telling the truth is empowering, it’s comforting to know where your next meal is coming from.

Becoming pope is a marker of success in the world of the church. Just about everyone on the planet knows about his role and, likely, thinks he is that role. There’s a lot of work and pressure to be in that space but as far as success as a human with this chart, more trial and error regarding individuation is called for. I don’t write this with the intention to be critical but I’m seeing that with my own SN in the 10th with Uranus-Mars square the nodes from the 1st (and rx Saturn in the 9th by the way), I know there is a deep emotional and energetic cost that comes from denying the impulse to free the self. I remember my own past lives of continuing tradition as well as bucking it and in this life I’m working on finding a balance.

So, is he successful? In material terms he could not be more successful: he’s the leader or figure head of one of the most powerful organizations on the planet. But how does he feel? Does he choose to see himself as a product of his tradition? Does he look in the mirror every morning and have a sense of who he is outside the title and the hat (4th house NN)?

He’s the only one who can answer that. And either way, his soul is learning what it keeps coming here to learn: how to make choices and deal with the results.

Without the role to fulfill, I expect him to go through a process of deepening 4th-house self-understanding. It’s inevitable that when we cease working (10th house) we are left with who we are without that work (4th house). His instinct to step down is from my perspective great because it can open the door to his self-awareness to take new turns. He can, of course, not do it. But I think that at least to some degree he will find it happening. He is after all the first pope since the Middle Ages to step down! It happens so rarely. But obviously he’s felt the inner pull to do that and I think that it will result in some of the self-reflection anyone would need to engage in after a lifetime of living out the expectations of a beloved institution.

So here’s to the Pope remembering the reality of Joseph Ratzinger and, ideally, in a new way.

Tom Jacobs is an Evolutionary Astrologer, Medium, and Channel helping you understand what your soul is here to do and how to make it happen with grace, ease, and joy. Book your private consultation, get a Soul’s Journey Soundbite, and explore intuitive coaching and astrology tutoring by visiting tdjacobs.com. Jacobs offers 12 books including the new The Soul’s Journey II: Emotional Archaeology.  The Soul’s Journey radio show airs live each Thursday at 6 pm Pacific on Contact Talk Radio.

Live Thursday on The Soul’s Journey: Babies: Where do they come from? What do they want?

Live Thursday at 6 pm Pacific on The Soul’s Journey I’ll talk about how we can understand the souls and journeys of all those tiny humans running and crawling around out there.

Where do they come from? What do they want? I’ll share insights into the time of life they are in now, how karma and past-life imprints show up in little ones, and how to be the right kinds of stewards for them given that they come in with fully-formed stories and personalities that astrology can help explain. How parents and other caregivers and family members experience children can be enriched and deepened with some basic perspectives on their soul-level journeys.

I’ll touch on Pluto in Capricorn as a generational influence and how to understand the bottom-line empowerment journey today’s babies and infants share in common when it comes to the sign of respectability, morality, seriousness, authority, and developing and executing a long-term plan. I’ll also touch on Pluto’s ongoing squares with Uranus in Aries (2012-2015) as describing something critical and juicy about their karmic journeys.

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This week on The Soul’s Journey I’ll talk about how we can understand the souls and journeys of all those new, tiny humans running and crawling around out there.

Where do they come from? What do they want? I’ll share insights into the time of life they are in now and how karma and past-life imprints show up in little ones. How parents and other caregivers and family members experience them can be enriched and deepened with some basic perspectives on their soul-level journeys.

I’ll touch on Pluto in Capricorn as a generational influence and how to understand the bottom-line empowerment journey today’s babies and infants share in common when it comes to the sign of respectability, morality, authority, and developing a long-term plan. I’ll also touch on Pluto’s ongoing squares with Uranus in Aries (2012-2015) as describing something critical and juicy about their karmic journeys.

Thoughts on the Winter Solstice and the End of the Mayan Calendar: The Rebirth of Vision

Sent to my e-mail list this morning.

My dear people,

Today is the Winter Solstice – the Sun is now in Capricorn. It is also the famed day that is widely believed to be the end of the Mayan Calendar. The Solstice is seen as a beginning of a new year – the rebirth of the Sun or solar principle – and the end of the MC has been long expected to be a truly significant ending.

As I wrote to you a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been working for a few years to understand the meanings of our times. The more I’ve learned through meditation and being guided by various unseen friends, the more I am confident that the only thing we need to fear about life on Earth right now is the normal human tendency to give away our power. It makes us feel less than strong and opens us to any energies that happen to be swirling around us. At this time we are surrounded by questions concerning the validity of our fears: should we be afraid? Are we safe? What will happen to us next? What does living on Earth at the end of 2012 mean?

While this day is not special for reasons that parts of us tending to interpret our lives as transcripts of powerlessness might expect, it is in fact special. Each year the rebirth of the solar principle invites us to sense within us layers of inner reality that can, in time, stir us to productive action. But the ingress of the Sun to Capricorn is also about vision. Capricorn is seen as a sign of hard work, realism, productivity, responsibility, and maturity but to get anything of value done there must be vision. Don’t assume that only Sagittarius and Aquarius have room for vision! Don’t assume that Pisces is the only sign about dreaming the future into existence.

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Tom Jacobs is an Evolutionary Astrologer, Medium, and Channel helping you understand what your soul is here to do and how to make it happen with grace, ease, and joy. Book your private consultation, get a Soul’s Journey Soundbite, and explore intuitive coaching and astrology tutoring by visiting tdjacobs.com. Jacobs offers 12 books including the new The Soul’s Journey II: Emotional Archaeology.  The Soul’s Journey radio show airs live each Thursday at 6 pm Pacific.

Mars Meets Pluto in Capricorn Sextile Saturn in Scorpio: Projections, Power, and The Sword of Compassionate Truth

First, keep your head.

Second, don’t assume the worst.

Third, don’t warn everyone you meet about avoiding dark alleys and rough parts of town.

Now that those are out of the way, we can get into what this meeting in the sky is all about.

Pluto and Saturn sextile in mutual reception heightens the need to get to the bottom of power dynamics. From my perspective it presents the invitation to take back projections from others about their strength and authority relative to ours.

The question is not if we have given away our power but in what directions and for what reasons we have done so.

But if you’re going to get into this, make sure you’re working with a definition of power that leads you in the direction of energetic/consciousness/spiritual evolution.

In all the ways that others seem to have power over you, you can now make the decision to give yourself permission to take it back. This is about being strong not in material terms – most of us tie strength to material reality and when material circumstances change we feel a loss of strength – but in terms of the choice to be whole.

If you know all parts of yourself and accept them, you are strong in a way that no one and nothing else can shake.

The Saturn-Pluto dialogue in sextile and mutual reception right now is all about getting to know, admitting into consciousness, and inviting to the table parts of you that cover the full range of feeling and emotion. Doing spiritual work we want to call the good parts to the table but here you must in addition call the bad(-seeming) and the ugly(-seeming) parts – all of you must be welcome to participate in your life.

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Aries Full Moon 9/29 Conjunct Uranus and Square Pluto

This happens Saturday 9/29 at 8:19 pm Pacific time. It’s a power-packed lunation because it gets on board with and calls in the tension, pressure, and need to change described by the square from Uranus to Pluto in Aries-Capricorn.

The FM will be conjunct Uranus and square Pluto rather tightly. All the invitations to shed old limiting power dynamics and set ourselves free to live in the present moment have had us confronting the past and how we have carried it forward. It has challenged us to step into the present tense in our lives by freeing ourselves from what we think should be happening (that we have created through believing it’s good, right, or appropriate) and get clear on what actually should be happening given how we are wired, what we need, and who we are and are becoming.

This is all happening around 7 degrees Libra-Aries-Capricorn. Needless to say, if you have placements in the first half of Cardinal signs you will be affected directly.

The FM invitation is to let your Aries need for freedom (conjunct Uranus) of self definition and self care rise to the surface and throw down the gauntlet in the face of historical pressures and the opinions of others re how you should live. The Sun in Libra will shine a light on how we have been shaped (willingly or not) by the expectations, requirements, dictates, and reflections of others. It’s important to realize the scope of the mechanisms of Libran communications here. It’s not just when someone has told you something that has shaped your willingness to be or not be who you are. It’s also in looks, gestures, using something against you later as fodder for criticism, and oblique, civilized-seeming references to your (perceived) flaws and shortcomings even years later that affect and shape your Libran sensibilities.

When we do Libra we listen to the other and body language and subtle hints and not-so-subtle references count. This FM is about emphasizing the emotional reality that that stuff hurts yes, but stopping there would be the easy way out. If you want to use this energetic powerhouse FM to full advantage, decide to be free of all historical reflections others have offered you that have kept you feeling not free and – here it is – choosing to feel small, weak, timid, and afraid in the face of life.

Each of us has an Aries self even if we lack placements in this sign. Each of us has a need to set the self free, too. There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t have the very real ability to act on instinct, intuition, and impulse in inspiring, freeing ways that honor his or her warrior self.

Saturday I am hosting a very special event for the Full Moon to help you harness its power. The Consciousness Upgrade Clinic is your chance to create and a “software upgrade” of consciousness level through inviting Ascended Master Djehuty to upgrade yours. In order to channel him (a.k.a. Thoth, St. Germain, and Merlin) I’ve received numerous upgrades from him over the last 7 or so years. I’ve had to in order to be able to see his side of things, work with karma and heal across time, and be able to communicate his views and vision to others effectively.

We’re scheduling this opportunity for you to get your consciousness raised to the next level. Mine have seemed haphazard and random and I’ve had to learn how to adjust to my consciousness being radically altered. For you, we are scheduling the upgrade and I will be sharing with you how to adjust to what happens, so you will be benefiting from my 7 years of education about consciousness gained first-hand. A major opportunity will be to call back fragments of you across time who can help you with an issue in your life that is confusing or vexing. It’s a unique form of what might be called soul retrieval that Djehuty has taught me and shown me how to teach others to do. I’ve been looking for the right forum to teach and do the process with a group (I’ve done it many dozens of times for individuals and myself) and this event is it.

Here is the video (20 mins.) announcing and explaining the event:

And the flier is here with all the details for the event.

Note: If you cannot make the event you can get the recording and benefit just as callers do. Djehuty’s consciousness exists across and outside time and if you get in the right space with him (that he will lead us into during the event) and ask him to do the work for you, it will happen. This recording can also be used again in the future to go through another round of raising awareness level, so I encourage you to join the event if you can or get the recording.

If you can’t make it but want to experience it, register for the event via PayPal or contact me to pay with a credit card or check.

I haven’t event mentioned that I’ve dropped the price from $50 to $41. And for a limited time, the recording after the event will remain at the lower price so I encourage you to take advantage of this amazing opportunity at this great price.

I’m really happy to be able to offer this event to support your evolution. I’ve done a ton of work for clients and live-event audiences on smaller scales and shorter durations, but this 2.5 hours with the Ascended Master gives us time to do a very deep and profound level of work on your consciousness.

Now, you have to come to the event willing to shed the past and free yourself – you have to open the door to receiving an upgrade. I can tell you that all of the upgrades I’ve experienced have been worth it – I am much more able to find peace when stressed, come back to being loving after finding myself in fear, and I am able to see the truth of why things happen even as I experience them directly. I’m also able to deal with fears as they come to the surface in more conscious, grounded ways, making down time because of processing intense past-life fears, trauma, and pain much shorter.

It’s about evolution, and if there could be a Full Moon offering the promise of change for the better, it’s this one in Aries conjunct Uranus and square Pluto.

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The 2nd Pluto-Uranus Square is now

Blog posts on the 1st square:
the square explained
the tension builds
the tension is, um, still building

The 2nd of the 7 squares happens today in about, as of this writing, right now. About 3:33 pm Pacific time.

If you have placements in early Cardinal signs you’ve been feeling things get ramped and warped and amped and stoked and boiled up for a while. The active degrees over the 3-year period of these 7 squares is just under 7 degrees (today at 6 degrees 57 minutes) to over 15 degrees of Capricorn-Aries in 2015.

The posts linked to above contain a lot of what I have to say on the issue, and there is an e-book through my site or Kindle that goes into further detail about the confrontation and conflict these two powerhouse outer planets in Cardinal signs are engaged in within our psyches and hearts now.

Whatever it is that’s up for you, it’s about power vs. freedom and the apparent squashing of one when the other is pursued or upheld. The apparent need to squash one to have the other.

It can be intense. Transformative.

Frustrating. Infuriating.

And, perhaps, exhilarating if you thrive on challenge and change and all that go with them.

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After the First Pluto-Uranus Square and the Capricorn Full Moon

Full Moons tend to be times of heightened emotion, and we’re coming off the intensity of the first of the seven squares between Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Aries.

Whatever that’s been coming up for you with the Pluto-Uranus square, you’re being asked to make firm decisions to change in the direction of deeper authenticity and to free yourself from what constricts and confines you.

On the other hand the Capricorn Full Moon (read my post The Capricorn Full Moon: The Shape of Love) at 11:51 am Pacific time yesterday has revealed to you what attachments to the past and ideas of who you are that were shaped by earlier experience needed to be let go of in order to care for yourself more appropriately as the person you have become today. It also showed you the need to do something productive for yourself now that furthers who you are headed to becoming.

The combination can lead to a lot of energy swirling. As always, I encourage you to get grounded because swirling emotions lead us to think in ways that are not always straight. Our minds can spin out while attempting to make sense of the feelings we are dealing with, and just for the record, our minds often do not know what to do with them! Getting grounded and staying in our bodies pulls in more parts of us that can in fact be capable of working through swirling, intense, or deep emotions effectively. Go to my homepage and download a free 13-minute meditation MP3 to get grounded from the right-hand side of the page if you would like to explore this. › Continue reading