As 2019 commences, the transits seem to be those of making tapioca pudding. The process of perfect tapioca requires constant attention, constant stirring and gentle, easy heat for the most delicious pudding. The next two weeks reflect this image in spades.
This year on 3 January Earth schedules her annual rendezvous with the Sun at the closest point in the orbit - perihelion. Here Earth moves the fastest and receives solar intensity through the shortest distance and thus, maximum intensity. So what if you didn’t make resolutions for the New Year. Take today and tomorrow and outline some realistic goals to which you assign challenging and realistic completion objectives.
The Universe will hear those objectives if they are properly petitioned. In fact, on 10 January, the Universe asks if you meant it. Here the Sun aligns with Pluto in Capricorn. The bottom line: Apply only if you offer unswerving focus and unlimited, passionate dedication to the tasks at hand. Put up and stay on it. No whining. No complaining when hiccups occur. Come up with a practical work-around, then get on it.
In January 13th, Mercury aligns with Saturn in Capricorn. This is about plotting, planning, scheduling and launching. Saturn loves a good plan and Mercury loves to articulate. Remember though, we are coming off Sun-Pluto and the essence of cosmic forces asks that you really mean it. Affirmations without action grow no corn. Planning and clocking on the calendar without execution, well, they whiff in the wind.
Also on the 13th an amazing major transit culminates. Jupiter in Sagittarius - a sign he rules - and Neptune in Pisces - a sign he rules - form an exact square. As two gaseous giants in rulership and aspect with one another might be inclined to proclaim, “Wait! There’s more!”
Yes, this quadrature takes place with Jupiter directly aligned with the Great Attractor (14 Sag 16) and Neptune in quadrature to it. The Great Attractor? That sounds big... like something Jupiter would love. Correct. Consider that the Sun is the steering mechanism for the Earth, the Galactic Center is the steering device for the Sun, the Super-Galactic Center steers our galaxy, and the Great Attractor acts as traffic cop way beyond that, keeping 60 mega-parsecs of galactic stuff in line on either side of its core.
Take a moment with that. We’ll get back to it.
Now, prior to the discovery of Neptune, Jupiter ruled Pisces. Now Neptune holds virtual dominion, though Jupiter never hesitates to offer an opinion on religion and spirituality, criticize creativity, determine if one’s path is correct, or assign attitude to human behaviors. Any aspect between Jupiter and Neptune strives to sort out if ones spiritual beliefs are those that can be reconciled with religion - and with the square such emphasis is intensified - and with Jupiter, hyperbolized.
Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto (and to correct the missing piece of my last post... a small amount of his cremated remains travel on the New Horizons space probe), read the entire Bible at a very young age. As a scientist, he expressed annoyance at dogma and blind faith. Particularly, he was concerned about religious prohibition on birth control. Anyway, one day he was debating with a classmate while on a visit home to Kansas. While discussing the physical evolution of the Earth, Tombaugh brought up fossils and all that the existence of fossils physically implied. The friend contended that God placed the fossils on Earth to test the faith of humans. To which Tombaugh replied, “Is God to be a deceiver, like Satan?” Well, there was no record of the conversation after that.
So, how’s it going with reconciling beliefs and the physical conditions and evidence of life on Earth? Everything good with your nature and your spiritual claims? If not, are you willing to modify, adjust, improve, enhance in the interest of progress and evolution? Of course you are. Present, accounted for and bursting with excitement.
Now the Great Attractor stands out as one of the most significant universal forces of gravity known. It is so intense it bends light such that what lies behind it can be seen. Not only is it irresistible and unavoidable, it is transparent.
The Great Attractor emanates in all known frequencies. Nothing is excluded; all is included. It’s like the Great Attractor is the antidote for any perception of isolationism felt courtesy of Eris, and it reconciles those disruptive urges of Uranus, especially if the urges further no causes in life.
Simply, as this year begins, you cannot escape yourself. You might as well meditate to envision your spirit anchoring in your body, and visualize updating the inner soul code that drives daily activity. Jupiter brings the optimism of Sag; Neptune brings the idealism of Pisces. The Great Attractor offers the ultimate in the compelling corners of consciousness, such that they are brought center-spectrum, as an internal guiding beacon.
Linger not. Line up with your spiritual centerline. Balance vision and belief. Fuel creativity. Feel the inspiration and let it resonate within and throughout.
Then, remember: Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto now scour Capricorn. Clarity, consciousness, creativity and action applied yield good fortune. Since Pluto offers such potent underscoring, let me go back to Clyde Tombaugh. To find Pluto, he worked insane hours, under extreme conditions and hardship, battling an astronomical sense of impossibility... and he discovered Pluto in spite of it all.
Said Tombaugh: “Life has always been worth living... all those hours - as tedious as they were, I have never regretted them.”
Somehow his words go down nicely with a Jupiterian spoonful of perfectly stirred tapioca as Neptune’s sensibilities can cook up and a sprinkling of Capricorn transits on top.