ASTROTABLETALK: December 2019

Sunday, December 22, 2019

HOW URANUS-PLUTO HAS CHANGED WHO WE ARE

Uranus-Pluto brings political extremes and polarisation in its wake. We saw this in the 30s with the rise of the far right in Europe. In the UK, we are more moderate, but we have nevertheless had our own moves to the right and left in the aftermath of the recent square. I wouldn't go so far as to call them extremes, though that hasn't stopped people calling each other Fascists or Stalinists. And I think it has served a purpose.

Within the Tory Party, the disproportionate influence of the right wing catalysed the EU referendum, which turned out to reflect the mood of at least half the nation. And within the Labour Party, the disproportionate influence of the left - inasmuch as their leader Corbyn was from that end of the spectrum, against the wishes of the party's MPs - revealed a thirst for idealism among the young.

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We are now returning to something more moderate and British, with the socially liberal Johnson reigning unchallenged over the Tories, and possibly a more centrist and electable leader in the offing for the Labour Party. But those voices from further out in the spectrum, love them or hate them, have had a chance to speak, and they have changed who we are. And that seems to be a function of Uranus-Pluto.

Barry Goddard

Welcome to my blog. Divination, I think, is the real nature of our craft. We are vehicles for the intuition, for the sky spirits, for the gods. The tradition itself, valuable as it is, is a launch pad, an orientation, an egregore: it has its own power that has built through the millennia. But eventually we need to move from Capricorn – mastery of what has come before – to Aquarius, where we earn the right to reinvent the tradition, to create the future. Without this constant reinvention, a tradition dies. It often requires courage, and it usually requires years of getting to know the gods – and our demons. Astrology is a different kind of knowledge to science: it is knowledge of consciousness, essentially, rather than knowledge of things. Our craft makes no sense from the point of view of the specialised remit of science. We use all 4 Elements – Fire, Earth, Air and Water – to gain knowledge. Science, by contrast, emphasises just Earth (data) and Air (theory). We are therefore part of a broader tradition of gnosis, within which science finds its place. Nor do we need to feel over-beholden to the astrological tradition itself: it needs to be worn lightly, so that the gods have room to speak. If you'd like a reading, email me at BWGoddard1@aol.co.uk

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Sunday, December 22, 2019

HOW URANUS-PLUTO HAS CHANGED WHO WE ARE

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