Neptune-Chiron conjunct Pisces/Aquarius cusp Trine Moon Scorpio/Libra Cusp, sextil Pluto Capricorn sextil Neptune-Chiron.
This is a time for daydreaming about scary things. This is a time about testing boundaries, courting the mystery of our own power and daring to look it in the eyes and seize it. Mystic introspection with an intense focus, owning the desires of our hearts and embracing our spirit fully.
In alchemy it was said that the greatest goal was to transmute lead- the lowest state of metal to gold, the highest. What is often over-looked is that in addition to (and more importantly than) the physical process was a central spiritual one. The material goal of the alchemist was a small allusion to the spiritual goal, that being the great goal of all mystics: to some it is called Enlightenment.
In this process every metal was related to a planet (in those terms the Sun and Moon are included as a planet). Each Planet then governed a "sphere" and each sphere was set above or below another. The highest sphere was associated with the Sun and the metal gold, the second Silver and the Moon etc etc. The lowest among these of course was base lead resonating with Saturn and symbolizing a state of imprisonment to temporal and material concerns. The goal therefore of the mystic practice of Alchemy was to free themselves from the prison of materiality, to free themselves from the limitations of terrestrial power and time.
Here's where it gets interesting. Rather than seeing this hierarchy of metals vibrations and planets as polar, with a distinct middle and end, there was seen to be another place that connected the very top (Gold) to the very bottom (Lead) which was another material, vibration and sphere of its own. This material known as the "Philosophers stone" was the doorway between the very high and the very low, and was in many ways a universal skeleton key.
One of the processes (and often the easiest process) to raise lead to gold (or in fact anything to gold) was to follow the natural terrestrial tendency to degrade and eventually "shoot the loop" back to gold. In this case I encourage the reader to understand that what we speak of is a very similar concept to the mulching of mystical and material matter. From feces and rot comes great fertility. Old thoughts and ways of being, things we no longer need, things of dark nature that give us fear, may be thrown in pile, and become fit to grow golden fruit! This Procedure was referred to as "putrefaction".
The story of putrefaction is in so many ways the central mystery of Alchemy, of Earth-centered spirituality and indeed is the story of death and resurrection, of the Christ, Dionysius, Osirus etc etc. Putrefaction and ascension are truly the oldest story ever told, and were so long before any story was told. It is the mystery that the blood goes into the ground red, transforms and rises green. It is the mystery that in the dark of winter the seeds of Spring and summer are planted.
The process of putrefaction is one of Water, and no three elements of astrology speak to this subject as clearly and deeply as Pluto, power and transformation and dark places we fear where we hide our power, the Moon, the mystery of sensitivities madness and emotion, and Neptune great solvent of lines and depth of mystery of spirit and ender of worlds and the year. Here, therefore, with a center of Pluto in Capricorn, with Neptune on the cusp of its own house of Pisces, and the Moon in Pluto's intense house of Scorpio we find a great opportunity to delve the mulch of our lives and hearts, the mulch of history and our rotting institutions and come back with the sacred mushrooms of deep vision, the heart of ascension and mystery itself!
"I dance in shadows and rise with the sun! Low the dead are not gone! Low the past is not over! Great riches lie in the contemplation of Darkness past! I enter in to face fear embrace wholeness and rise green with the sun!"
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