Hermit's Bazaar - Astrology: Juno alignments with Galactic Centre

We are emerging, since Jupiter turned direct on September 8th from an intense period of deep cleansing, purification and the release of all (or as many as possible) of our unbalanced relationship patterns that we may have been carrying for lifetimes. Neptune retrograde has, quite literally, been showing us our illusions and washing them all away!

So now, we can realign with our deep soul memory of Right Relationship with All that Is, as Juno once again receives the Divine impulse from the Galactic Centre. Then step forward into the New, refreshed and cleansed, and be ready to do it right, when Neptune turns direct on 2nd November (06.39 GMT/UT).

Then we will gradually emerge from this challenging time of the Darkening of the Light, to embrace the Universal Healing frequencies of Chiron and Neptune, when they align fully in February 2010.

This will herald a Collective Healing and a gradual release from the corruption and collective deceptions that are now so obvious that they can no longer be ignored - Chiron last conjuncted Neptune at the end of World War II - so we can expect a similar massive shift in Collective awareness.

And on October 30th, Juno and Pluto became exactly conjunct, aligning our soul-body with our spiritual-will body and anchoring these energies into the fire within the Earth, through a trine aspect to Great Mother Ceres in Leo.

Ceres, in turn connects (by square aspect) to the Moon in Scorpio, challenging us to carry these frequencies deep into our emotional energy-structure, and to use them to align with our spiritual purpose (Moon’s Node) by calling in the frequencies of Unconditional Love to heal us at the deepest level (Chiron approaching Neptune), and drawing on the resources of our rational mind (Mercury in Libra) and our intuitive mind (Pallas in Gemini), which form a Grand Trine with the Node, Neptune and Chiron.

Asteroid Pallas is also the pivotal point of a Grand Cross pattern, and a Projection Figure or “Finger of God”. So, the intuitive mind will act as a pivotal key in the integration of these three interlaced patterns: The creativity of the Grand Trine, will balance the more challenging energies of the Grand Cross. Here, we have a Venus/Pallas opposition and a Saturn/Uranus opposition. Venus in Sagittarius will bring the urge to explore new possibilities and horizons in our relationships, whilst Pallas will bring the voice of our intuitive knowing to prevent this exploration from going too far. At the same time, Pallas being retrograde, we should not fall into the trap of not acting out of fear, or past memory of painful experience, and convincing ourselves that this fear is our intuitive knowing at work – so we need discernment, in order to identify from where, in ourselves, our inner “knowing” is actually coming from.

Similarly, Uranus in Pisces will be urging us to break free from past limitations, fears and inhibitions that have been engendered in us over the last 2000 years of the Piscean Age, whereas Saturn in Virgo should be able to keep us grounded and acting in ways that are well-considered and practical, using our spiritual discernment in the choices that we make.

Finally, the “Finger of God” pattern will enable us to express our intuitive knowing (Pallas) through balancing the spiritual overview offered by Jupiter and the Right Action of Mars. This is our testing ground – if we are getting it right, then the Universe will respond ten-fold, and if not, nothing will happen, or things will go out of balance very quickly, so we can stop and take stock before we continue in a slightly different direction.

The whole pattern looks like a spinning top pivoting on Pallas Athene, so as long as we can remain centred, clear and balanced in our perceptions, then we can express all of the above qualities in their most positive aspects.

Juno is primarily concerned with Right Soul Relationship and the fulfilment of “Soul Contracts”. Whereas Venus is concerned with our relationship needs, requirements, hopes and aspirations at the ego/personality level, Juno can bring an understanding and appreciation of our deeper soul-relationship patterns, karmic attachments, soul-connections and “soul-contracts” from past lives with others.

At its core, Juno can re-connect us to our primal soul-memory of what it means to be in Right Relationship with Divine Spirit, with ourselves and with others. Buried deep beneath the accumulated patterns, energy-imprints and memories of every relationship our soul has ever encountered throughout its many lifetimes, there lies a pure memory and yearning to re-experience the simple, unconditional and all-embracing love, such as we experienced before our soul began its journey into incarnation and its apparent separation from Divine Source.

We tend to project this memory as a need to find such unconditional love from another, in our search for relationship. It is the re-stimulation of this soul-memory that occurs when we fall in love, and for a while, whilst the energy of the new connection can support us in this place, we may believe that at last we have found a love that accords with our primal soul-memory...that is until the unresolved patterns of the personality, and the unintegrated or misaligned aspects of our (and the other’s) soul karma begin to kick in, and the spell of being utterly surrounded by love is dissolved, as we plummet back to Earth!

And no wonder, because we have re-stimulated our soul’s accumulated memory of every relationship, good and bad, blissful and painful, that we have ever experienced throughout our many lifetimes, and we will have to move through these patterns, memories, fears, anxieties, hopes, expectations and inner resistances before we can return fully and permanently to that blissful state of being unconditionally in love. This is always a possibility – it just depends on how willing and able we are to peel away the layers in order to reach to the essence of that blissful state, which is our birthright.

So as Juno makes her three conjunctions with the Galactic Centre this year, there is a real possibility for many people to realise this yearning for a deep, fulfilling and complete return into Right Relationship with ourselves first, and in many areas of our lives and to be able to fully express and receive unconditional love...easy!!!

The Galactic Centre (GC) is the means through which the energies of Divine Source manifest into our Galaxy. It is the creative source within the centre of the Galaxy that both creates new stars and re-absorbs them back into itself through the supermassive black hole at its core – it expresses both Brahma and Shiva.

Energetically and symbolically, when planets or major asteroids align with this point in space (i.e. 26º 57’ Sagittarius, moving to 26º 58’ in June 2008), they offer us the opportunity to re-connect their planetary qualities right back to the Divine Source.

Throughout 2007, Pluto was aligned with the GC, challenging us to align our personal will with our spiritual will and individual divine purpose – now we are being challenged to carry that understanding out into all of our relationships in the world – to live from a place of Right Relationship. This means understanding the core patterns within our relationships, and resolving to address any unresolved issues and karmic ties that hold us back from fully and lovingly expressing the truth of who we are, within all our relations. It is about understanding our “soul contracts” with others – those agreements that we made before our incarnation, about what we would be and do for others in order to further ourselves and them along our respective spiritual paths.

Always, the essence of fulfilling these contracts is that we remain true to ourselves at the deepest level of our spiritual understanding – our service to others depends upon our ability to serve the truth within our being, and to respond to the needs of others from that central place of inner balance, calm detachment and loving compassion. Where we can get “caught” is when we believe that we owe others some sort of “karmic debt”, which will inevitably have at least a thread of good old guilt woven into it. Whenever this is present, then we simply keep perpetuating the karmic attachment, whilst kidding ourselves that we are “working out our karma”, or saying “it’s a karmic relationship, I have to endure it”, and so on. Karma is resolved through love and forgiveness...primarily of ourselves, and the patterns within us which hold us in negative attachments or relationships. That is the greatest service that we can do for another – forgive ourselves and release the energy-attachment to the other so that we and they can then be spiritually free to follow our own paths.

Background

Following on from three Pluto conjunctions with the Galactic Centre (GC) in 2007 and the Jupiter conjunction with the GC on 5th December, Venus moved up into position and exactly aligned with the Galactic Centre on the 21st January this year.

Although this Venus alignment occurs roughly every 2 years, it was significant in that it is following after the three very rare Pluto alignments (every 248 years), and the infrequent Jupiter alignment with the GC (every 12 years):

Venus is concerned with relationship and assimilation - so it can give an understanding of how we may begin to assimilate the experiences of the Pluto / GC conjunctions of last year, and their implications for us.

The challenge of the three Pluto / GC conjunctions was to align us more fully with our true spiritual will and spiritual purpose: In this process, much may have been stripped away from us, which was not a clear expression of who we are at the core level of our being. For many, this was a challenging, difficult and sometimes painful process, particularly if the ego-self was resistant, through fear or from not understanding what was happening.

Then, along came Jupiter to bring in the Vision of how we might live and create from that new place within us. However, it also seemed to amplify any remnants of what needed to be let go of, so that we could see really clearly and graphically how and where we might still be stuck in old ways of thinking and feeling, that did not align with our core energy – it seemed that Jupiter simply amplified everything, good and bad, easy and dificult, so that we were left in no doubt about our current state of being! That was its gift to us.

The dust having settled from Jupiter's transit over the Galactic Centre, Venus approached in January. Bearing in mind that at the heart of the Galactic Centre lies a supermassive Black Hole, and that therefore there may be some very deep "Unknowns" that could emerge, Venus should have begun to allow us to integrate and assimilate the changes brought by Pluto, which were anchored into our Will-Body, and the Vision brought by Jupiter, which was anchored into our Higher Mental Body. Venus started the process of anchoring these energies and high-level spiritual frequencies into our Astral / Emotional Body, which should (!!!) have been able to bring a growing sense of inner peace and deeper understanding and integration of the process that went on for us throughout 2007.

This integration into the Emotional Body set the foundation for the three alignments of asteroid Juno with Galactic Centre this year. This will assist us in learning how to use the insights and experiences of 2007 to become more fully and consciously in Right Relationship with ourself, with others and with the Earth, from our new perspective that has been imprinted by Pluto and Jupiter.