| Every time I pick up an astrological journal or | | | | could have ratchetted up the power of the |
| even an ordinary newspaper, I read doom and | | | | established Church, he was instrumental in the |
| gloom articles that seem designed to send us | | | | process of Henry VIII's divorce of Catherine of |
| even deeper into a slough of despond. The | | | | Aragon. In other words, the Reformation was |
| recession, the major shifts in corporate power, | | | | started during this period - which astrologers of |
| modern slavery - all coming as the inevitable | | | | the time would not have predicted. As an aside, I |
| result of Pluto entering Capricorn. | | | | suggest that the Saturn Uranus opposition of |
| I tend to look at life somewhat differently - in | | | | Cranmer's Sun reflects his relationship with his |
| that I see it as a process of developing and | | | | unpredictable Royal master. |
| shifting social and technological mores and values. I | | | | The Indigo Children |
| also work with the Law of Attraction, which has | | | | This generation of children who were born under |
| taught me that nothing simply happens without it | | | | the very demanding combined energies of Saturn, |
| being attracted in some way or another. By which | | | | Uranus and Neptune (1988-1991 and beyond, |
| I mean that as we focus on our fears of | | | | because it wasn't until 1996 that Uranus left |
| recession, bankruptcy, and loss of individual power | | | | Neptune alone in Capricorn) are sometimes |
| that is exactly what we are likely to experience. | | | | referred to as "Indigo Children". A name that |
| Conscious Entities | | | | seems to suggest their vibrations are at the |
| If on the other hand, we look at what the | | | | opposite end of the spectrum to the red/warrior |
| process this upcoming energy brought into being | | | | types. If we simply take the symbolism of the |
| around 20 years ago, we can begin to understand | | | | three planets in turn we get Saturn structure, |
| how things are likely to work out differently. If | | | | Uranus breaking through and Neptune spiritualising |
| we agree that life is a process, and not sliced like | | | | and refining. So to make a coherent image, I see |
| cheese, then we can accept also that the planets | | | | this as the type of mentality and way of |
| in their orbits reflect that process. They are | | | | functioning in the world that offers ways to break |
| weaving around the Zodiac, always inter-relating | | | | through old forms and refine and idealise human |
| and inter-acting. An ancient view of the planets | | | | behaviour. |
| understood them to be conscious entities, and | | | | Many of these children are able to process and |
| therefore conscious of each other. In other | | | | organise information very differently, even |
| words, as conscious beings they know exactly | | | | digitally, and are naturally frustrated by teachers |
| where each planet is in relation to the others. So, | | | | who were trained in the old-fashioned analogue |
| in their orbiting and spiralling around the Sun they | | | | systems. Their behaviour has been labelled as |
| will all visit and revisit the same areas of the | | | | dysfunctional - ADHD, Aspergers syndrome and |
| Zodiac ad infinitum and communicate this to each | | | | dyslexia. And it may not be true. An interesting |
| other. | | | | question to ask is: who was getting things wrong |
| From the moment of the Big Bang, that was the | | | | for whom and who was punished for it? As they |
| birth of the Universe, these conscious entities | | | | are now reaching their late teens and early |
| "knew" where and more importantly for us, when | | | | twenties, many of them are "suddenly" emerging |
| they would "arrive" at a particular point of the | | | | as normal, ordinary people- those that weren't |
| Zodiac at any given point. Therefore, instead of | | | | drugged into submission by over-zealous medics, |
| looking at the ingress of Pluto into Capricorn with | | | | that is. |
| trepidation, we should look (possibly) at the state | | | | Growing up is hard to do |
| of Capricorn as it is at present. In other words, | | | | James Hillman suggests in his book "The Soul's |
| when we enter a room, we can always tell if | | | | Code" that children who have difficult behaviour |
| someone's been there before us by the state | | | | patterns in their earliest years, do so as a |
| that the room is in. Any mother knows that! | | | | reaction to their "knowing" that their adult lives will |
| At the end of the 80s and the beginning of the | | | | be challenging. He says that the weight of their |
| 90s we had an extraordinary astronomical event | | | | destiny is hard for their small selves to carry. And |
| occurring: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune came | | | | surely as astrologers, we can understand that - |
| together in conjunction at the very last degrees | | | | the effort of carrying major outer planet |
| of Sagittarius and the first degrees of Capricorn. | | | | influences to personal planets must be exhausting |
| The last time these 3 planets met up like this was | | | | and frightening, to say the least, for a baby of 18 |
| in 1307 and at that time Saturn's involvement was | | | | months or so. I would posit a link between Hillman |
| a single event - in other words, Saturn passed | | | | and the ideas of those who talk about "Indigo |
| over Uranus and Neptune and went on his way | | | | children". To find out more - simply Google Indigo |
| beyond them, quite quickly, into Aquarius. This | | | | Children -there's lots of information. |
| recent meeting was a triple event with the | | | | So, how to break the grip of our present |
| conjunction taking a few years to dissipate, due | | | | encroaching new ice age of Pluto in Capricorn and |
| to the retrogradation of Saturn in Capricorn. | | | | circumnavigate the increasing power of large |
| Life always offers solutions | | | | corporations, oligarchs and international mafia? The |
| From moment to moment in time no matter | | | | internet is the medium of the triple conjunction |
| what the condition of the planets and signs, babies | | | | children - it was being developed during their |
| are born, obviously. Those babies that are born | | | | earliest years and they grew along with it. I |
| under special skies embody special energies - and | | | | recently read a newspaper article saying that |
| they do this for a reason. Life always offers | | | | many of the young rock/pop bands are refusing |
| solutions to the ills that our planet and our society, | | | | to sign up with Sony and other multi-national |
| and even our bodies, will suffer. And these | | | | recording companies, and are doing their own |
| children are our solution. The degrees of this last | | | | promotion and marketing over the internet. |
| triple conjunction are the same degrees that Pluto | | | | Similarly with writers, many are making small |
| crosses over through the next few years - and | | | | fortunes publishing ebooks. This 'do-it-yourself' |
| indeed has been crossing the last couple of years | | | | approach to marketing will certainly offer |
| as well. In other words, life's need produces its | | | | alternatives to the more traditional ways of doing |
| cures. | | | | things, and may leech some of the power away |
| On an historical note, the last times that Pluto | | | | from the big corporations. |
| entered Capricorn for 16-7 years in recent times | | | | We adults can now have no idea what these |
| were: 1516-1532 and 1762-1778. During the years | | | | young people and their children, and those children |
| leading up to these Pluto transits, there were no | | | | already stepping into the education systems now |
| other slow moving planets occupying Capricorn. | | | | will follow as careers - the technology hasn't even |
| However, just to give one example of my | | | | been born yet that will offer new ways of travel, |
| thinking here, in 1489 Thomas Cranmer was born | | | | education, food provision to name but a few. You |
| under a conjunction of Saturn and Uranus in | | | | can bet, however, that the children who will |
| Capricorn opposite his Sun in Cancer. During the | | | | create them have - they are already here. |
| subsequent Pluto occupation of Capricorn, which | | | | Exciting, isn't it? |