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| | | | | | Hi Friend,
There is a golden rule in Soul Astrology… that what the personality (or ego) generally thinks of as a 'bad' thing (sudden change, loss, upheaval) is always beneficial to our Soul's growth on a deeper level. So what might appear to be 'negative' conditions in conventional astrology, are always positive in Soul Astrology. This is because ultimately we are moving towards living in wholeness and unity consciousness, which eventually means letting go of this illusion/ delusion of being a separate ego. And to the ego, letting go can be painful.
The planets of transformation are a case in point. By nature they make life difficult for the ego. Look on the internet on any given day and you will see people lamenting 'transits' of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. When they travel through (transit) a particular area of our chart (which represents of an area of our real life) they really stir things up. I mean, they really, REALLY, stir things up!
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"from the ego's point of view spiritual progress
is one insult after another"
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
OK so I'm getting ahead of myself here… before we get into 'transits' let's take a few steps back and see what I'm actually talking about!
Slow moving planets are generational in nature, for example most people born between 1939 and 1957 had Pluto in Leo, so that tells us something about what that generation is here to do as a Soul Group. To see where they have a more personal impact on your life, you can look to see where they are in your natal chart, meaning in which house. We call this the natal position. But it doesn't end there… as the planets continue on their orbit they make transits through your chart and as they do so they transform your life in the areas symbolized by those 'houses' in your chart.
What is a transit?
Let's say you were born in 1970. Pluto would have been in the sign of Virgo when you were born. We call this your 'natal Pluto'. In other words this is the position of Pluto in your natal chart. However right now, at the present time, Pluto is in Capricorn. It has moved on a bit since 1970 …but not much. It has only moved through 4 signs (Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius and now Capricorn). So we say that Pluto has 'transited', in other words 'traveled through' those signs. Now let's say that Pluto was just at the beginning of your 7th house (the cusp) when you were born. By now Pluto would have also transited (traveled through) 4 houses in your chart and would currently be in the process of transiting your 10th or 11th house.
The slowest moving planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto* have been called the planets of transformation because of the powerful impact they have in our chart, by natal position and by transit. Because they move so slowly they spend a long time in one area of our chart ( meaning they have a prolonged effect in one area of our life) and they cannot possibly cross our whole chart in one lifetime (except for a few individuals who are blessed to live to be 84 years or older, so they experience a 'Uranus Return'). So looking at the specific areas of our lives where they do transit, throughout our whole life, can tell us much about what we are here to change, learn, heal, and transform in our lifetime.
They help us to see our role in the world as part of our generation and Soul Group (by which sign they are in), and to understand our individual Soul's development more clearly (by which houses they occupy in our natal chart and by which houses they transit throughout our life)! ...and they help us to understand why we have some of the challenges that we do at the level of our personality!
Because they are so powerfully transformative in their effects we will spend some time over the coming weeks looking at the nature and effects of the planets of transformation in more depth… hold onto your hat!
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That's all for now see you next time, and in the meantime... happy exploring!
Best Wishes,
Ruth
*Chiron is slightly different so we'll talk about Chiron another time.
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