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ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSEsoteric Astrology as news for week September 4 – 12, 2024
Inner Revolution/Revelations – Uranus Retrograde
When planets retrograde, shift and change signs, we change too. Our time references shift, new possibilities and opportunities occur, revolutions come and go, we begin to see and speak differently, our focus switches, things are either revealed or they go into hiding. Retrogrades are revelatory times. We have been and are in tumultuous times and this will continue. We are in between two ages (2,500 years long), leaving one age (Pisces), entering another (Aquarius). Things have to change now. And the planets and stars are the timing mechanisms for those changes. Understanding this mechanism is what astrology study is all about.
Retrogrades are a time of restructuring the old, making room for the new. We assess the past and begin to create new plans and visions, seek new archetypes and new rhythms. Uranus, planet that Aquarius flows through is retrograding in Taurus. It is preparing us for the new era. Uranus retrogrades (back spins) for 147 days (September 1, 2024 – January 25, 2025), moving four degrees in reverse – from 27 to 23 degrees Taurus. Where are these degrees in everyone’s chart? In that area of life we are most affected by the Uranus retrograde.
Uranus retrograde invites humanity to ponder upon the new order of things, new rhythms, new archetypes, new revelations. We experience this as an inner revolution. Our heads are turned around, facing both the past (old realities) and the future (new ideas). Taurus makes sure we stand in the middle, in the very absolute present, with ideas grounded, practical, sensible, reasonable, rational and most of all, comforting. Uranus retrograde offers us a higher awareness, insights, original inventions and innovations.
Most interesting is that 27 Taurus is the giant star Atlas, visible at times in the dark skies. Atlas was a Titan in Greek mythology, condemned to hold up the world (earth and the revolving celestial spheres) for eternity. Atlas is the father of the Pleiades. In the Labors of Hercules, while searching for the golden apples of the Sun, Hercules comes upon Atlas holding up the world. In great compassion for his suffering, Hercules forgets his search and takes the world off the shoulders of Atlas, assuming the weight himself.
This was the great test for Hercules – forgetting the (personality) self in the care, tending and saving of others (Hercules represents humanity and humanity’s test). Hercules, as humanity, as the world disciple, is to save the world.
When humanity understands its real origins, purpose and task on earth, everyone becomes liberated and free. It’s through truth, intelligence, knowledge and love that this happens.
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