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The Nature of Crisis: An Interview to Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto
Patrizia Trotta
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, otherwise known as the outer
planets, have been described as "Gods of Change" by an enlightened
astrologer - how did they get this honor? The most obvious explanation is that
when they activate a person's chart by transit (or progression of any kind),
more often than not great changes take place within that person's psyche, which
lead to changes in their outer life as well. Does it mean that these planets
CAUSE changes? Do they simply reflect what's going on inside? Do they represent
appointments with Fate? Let's see if we can find an answer to these difficult
questions.
It is my belief that our growth and psychological development are guided by a
divine force within us generally referred to as Higher Self. It seems that this
wise guidance within, which is in constant contact with us via our intuition,
monitors and encourages our growth and, provided we take care of our more
spiritual needs, as well as the more practical ones, in a conscious way, our
growth processes are definitely made smoother and easier. On the contrary, years
of observation and experience have taught me that if we resist, the lessons and
times of crisis presented to us tend to be much more traumatic in order to
attract our attention and stimulate our growth.
Psychology teaches us that we all have many sub-personalities, and the gift of
astrology is that it helps us shed light on our unconscious and learn more about
them. Metaphysics, instead, teaches us that the various situations and people
that "happen" in our lives are certainly not coincidences, but they
all have something important to teach us - often they reflect our own
unconscious traits and/or phase of development. It follows then that learning to
become more observant of ourselves and our lives and listening to (and
following!) the voice of our intuition could lead to an increase in awareness
and a better quality of life.
Going back to the outer planets, what is their purpose? Can we predict what will
happen when they activate our charts? What we certainly CAN predict is the kind
of energy that will be felt and what area of our life is being activated
(career, relationships, home, etc.). The final outcome depends, of course, on
many factors, not the least of which our free will. One thing is certain:
increased awareness brings about more choices. By this I mean that if we decide
to ignore the need to make necessary changes in our lives, during and after the
transits of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto, we often find ourselves in painful and
difficult situations, at times apparently caused by other people, which may
leave us very little choice and force us to grow. It appears that change
is the only constant in life but we, being human and creatures of habit, tend to
accept change only on our own terms. Unfortunately, life does not work like that
and, if we think about it, if the ultimate control were in the hands of our
conscious everyday self, with all its fears, uncertainties and security needs,
all too often we would certainly reach stalemate and block our development and
growth. Which is why our Higher Self "runs the show" and periodically
seems to manifest what we call crisis.
I remember reading somewhere that in the ancient Chinese language the word
crisis was formed by two words: "wei-chi". These words have very
interesting meanings: wei means danger and chi means opportunity. This means
that a crisis can be perceived in two different ways - as a catastrophe to avoid
at all costs or as a turning point, an important phase of our development and a
chance to transform our lives. Ultimately, I think we all agree that it is only
human to reject painful situations brought about by a crisis and to wish that
things could go back to the way they were before. In fact, some people take this
tendency to the extreme and actually do all they can to go back to the old path.
As we all know, this is futile, but it doesn't stop some people from trying - in
this way only postponing and precipitating a worse crisis as a result. If
instead we consciously decide to use these periods as an opportunity to review
our lives and have a close look at ourselves, we will be able to make space for
something new (and necessary) to take shape and to enrich our existence. After
all, "if you don't risk, you don't gain" either! The question in a
crisis, therefore, should not revolve around avoiding changes, which are
unavoidable anyway. Perhaps we would be wiser if we could ask ourselves how we
can understand and use these periods in our lives in the most constructive and
even creative way. If we accept this challenge, we will be able to live life
fully, accepting light and darkness, joy and pain as a necessary part of our
existence. Why necessary? - you may ask. Because apparently, at least in this
phase of our evolution, we human beings still tend to learn and open our heart
through painful situations. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned to grow with
joy and ecstasy, but I like to think that slowly we will get to that point as we
learn to embrace our emotions more and courageously face our fears.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that until we do get there, crisis and so-called
Fate will still guide our steps and have the upper hand.
Back to our outer planets, it is certainly interesting to note that these
periods of crisis almost always coincide with the transits and progressions of
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to our charts. It is almost as if these planets act as
Cosmic Clocks activating the parts of our psyche most ready to be brought to
light and grow. Whoever gave us the gift of astrology way back in the ancient
past was certainly generous and wise - by providing us with a cosmic mirror for
our psychological development, they have enabled us to understand and co-operate
with the will of our Higher Self (or the will of God) and therefore to make a
conscious contribution to our own growth, too.
After this introduction, I would like to understand together with you, the
reader, in which way these cosmic energies symbolize our development. What is
the ultimate message of these Gods of Change? Can we get to see and understand
their energies more closely? I thought I might try to get some answers by
imagining to interview these "celebrities" and I would like to share
with you what my intuition and imagination have enabled me to discover. You will
notice that the tone will change according to which planet is being
"interviewed" - Uranus' is impatient and quick to the point, Neptune's
is full of Universal Love and Pluto's is predictably intense, but also full of
Love. Perhaps by listening to and analyzing their message and by co-operating
with the inevitable, we will learn to attract and manifest change in our lives
with little trauma and perhaps even with joy, why not? Translating what follows
into words was a very interesting exercise for me and certainly a fascinating
process. Having the outer planets strongly emphasized in my natal chart, I hope
I have been a worthy spokesperson... I have certainly done my best. May the
"Gods" bring inspiration, abundance and growth to all of us humans,
who endeavor to become more aware and enlightened in our search for ourselves
and for the truth.
URANUS
URANUS - I understand you are trying to comprehend our energies and life in
general through the study of astrology, among other things.
ME - Well, at least I am trying...
URANUS - You do know that astrology is a science under my rulership, as are
computers, gadgets and anything that is futuristic and innovative.
ME - Yes, I am aware of that.
URANUS - I am given to understand that you'd like information on the essence
of what I am trying to teach.
ME - I'd be most grateful indeed if you could help us understand the energy you
represent and what your deeper message is for us humans...
URANUS - You humans are far too attached to false security and you've lost
your sense of fun and adventure. After the Middle Ages and the increasing loss
of credibility and spiritual guidance on the part of religions, you have placed
a lot of faith in scientific research to provide answers. This tendency, however
positive, has led you to believe that you can control and manipulate Earth's
resources indefinitely. You have developed considerable technology which helps
you, among other things, to live in some ways more comfortably on your beautiful
planet. The problem is that you got obsessed with the need to control for
the wrong reason - FEAR!! Fears and uncertainties dominate your life and they
encourage you to slow down and, at times, even crystallize your growth. You have
forgotten that you are souls who temporarily inhabit a human body to take part
in the adventure called life and to co-create in unison with the Divine
Intelligence, of which you are part...
ME - Yes, I understand your point of view, but there ARE practical problems to
face in everyday life. Often life seems very fragile and we do need to create a
few certainties for ourselves, after all!
URANUS - Yes, yes - I hear what you are saying. You just don't seem to
understand that in creating what you call "security", you do not leave
enough space for personal growth and change! You have lost your sense of
adventure, do you hear? Inside each of you there is an urge towards constant
progress and, as a consequence, your needs shift continuously. Consider this:
how easily does the average human change his/her personal circumstances to
accommodate psychological growth and changing needs? What stops you from growing
and going with the flow? Isn't fear the operative word?
ME - Actually, to be honest, sometimes we do tend to wait till we're pushed with
our backs against the wall before we act on the need for changes. It isn't that
easy...
URANUS - The truth is that globally you fear scarcity - that's why you
do not share your resources on the planet and many still starve. You fear failure
- that's why you don't even try. You fear loneliness, which is why you
stay stuck in relationships and situations that diminish you and leave you
unhappy and empty! Well, I have news for you. If you loved yourselves more and
learned to depend on Cosmic energy for your emotional nourishment first of all,
everything else would be much easier. This Divine Energy is limitless and you
can never lose it. Have the courage to get out of your ruts and embrace real
progress! You are basing your existence on false morality and obsolete
principles that deny your spiritual growth, which should really be your main
goal, considering it's the very reason why you incarnated on Earth in the first
place.
ME - It seems to me you do have a point. Would you now kindly summarize your
message for us earthlings, please?
URANUS - I bring AWAKENING and COURAGE. I slowly build people up to such a
level of exasperation and impatience towards their current circumstances which
block their progress, that they are pushed to ACT or to react! However stressful
this is, I often also need to add a dose of INTOLERANCE and INDIVIDUALITY to the
energy I "bring" to really encourage an individual to rebel and
materialize changes that are badly needed and often long overdue. I represent
PROGRESS, especially of the human potential. I have no time for hypocrisy and
so-called morality.
What makes me smile is that you astrologers claim that the changes I represent
are "sudden" and unexpected. No way, babe. Forget it! Circumstances
and events in a person's life may well seem sudden on the outside, but the inner
process that leads to the 'sudden event' always lasts a lot longer than it
seems. The point is that you humans can be so thick that, without considerable
psychological pressure and frustration, you just don't seem to make a move.
That's why when you finally change it all seems so sudden - because you
can't stand any more pressure.
ME - Thanks a lot for this explanation. In conclusion, why do you think your
energies are so important for us humans?
URANUS - Babe, I've told you! You need to modify your life structures and
WAKE UP! There are so many horizons and alternative realities still
unexplored...
NEPTUNE
NEPTUNE - Oh, how lovely! One of my beloved humans trying to make a
connection...
ME - With all due respect, Mr. Neptune, I am aware that it might be hard to get
clear and logical answers in this conversation with you. As you know, I am using
intuition now, which is really your language. Could I please ask in exchange
that you meet me halfway and try to provide answers that are as clear as
possible in this interview?
NEPTUNE - I know that I am regarded as elusive and intangible, but I don't
think I'm being understood... I represent all that is intuitive and so-called
irrational. I talk to you through dreams, premonitions and intuition...
ME - It is generally understood that you encourage escapism in people. Is it
true? How do you perceive this?
NEPTUNE - I encourage people to value emotions, creativity and to seek union
with the Infinite. In your world, logic and intellect reign supreme, to the
detriment of all that is "yin", feminine and creative. Logic without
intuition makes you dry and incomplete. With your need to know and control, you
have lost the sense of MYSTERY THAT PERMEATES LIFE and I am simply trying to
give it back to you. After all, if so many people use alcohol and drugs to
deaden their realities, it can only mean one thing - your Earth reality the way
it currently is makes them feel empty and incomplete. I am an enigma and a
challenge to science because I represent all that is MYSTICAL and SPIRITUAL.
Do you have any idea how far you can go in life just by following your
intuition?
ME - Well, apparently we still have a long way to go, but we are getting there,
I feel. If I am not mistaken, there is also a connection between you and Beauty
in all its forms.
NEPTUNE - You are not mistaken, my beloved child. By sensitizing you to the
beauty that surrounds you, as well as that created by all the artists I
constantly inspire, I help you to get back in touch with the energies that
surround you, which one day you will all be able to see. Everything is energy in
your physical world, and this energy is actually Cosmic Love. My purpose is to
bring you in contact with LOVE and COMPASSION. If you open your heart and learn
to feed on the Cosmic energy at your disposal, you will finally realize that you
are connected to everything and vibrate with All-That-Is. Once you reach this
understanding, you will see that everything in your Earth reality is made up of
pure energy - your reality is much more flexible than it seems and it is shaped
according to your way of thinking. This knowledge is not new...
ME - Why do you have the reputation of confusing people and often their personal
circumstances?
NEPTUNE - Because there is an imbalance between logic and intuition on your
planet. Often, it is only by confusing your sense of logic and your reality,
thereby creating dissatisfaction, that I can push you to search for and
integrate a more cosmic awareness into your lives. I represent, among other
things, MEDITATION, and EXTRA SENSORY PERCEPTIONS. I am the veil that separates
many worlds and different realities which, globally, you have not yet learned to
explore. One day you'll get there.
ME - Any advice?
NEPTUNE - Learn to know within your hearts Unconditional Love. It is a
gradual process which starts with the ability to appreciate inner and outer
beauty. As a consequence, you will be encouraged to learn to love yourselves and
to look for the union of opposites inside yourselves to begin with. Listen to
your dreams, observe the so-called coincidences in your lives, as well as the
messages that people you "coincidentally" meet have for you. It is
your Higher Self speaking to you through them! Gradually, you will start feeling
a strong connection to Cosmic Love that you'll learn to feed on. These energies
will bring you considerable psychic and psychological development. In time, when
enough people engage in this spiritual way of life, there will be more
compassion, universal brotherhood, co-operation and mystical union with
All-That-Is.
ME - Thank you for being unusually clear! I know you rule clairvoyance among
other things. I do hope this splendid vision for the future of humanity will
come true before very long, even if I am aware that time is relative... Would
you like to add anything else?
NEPTUNE - Yes. You live with the illusion that you can and need to control
the world with logic and technology, but you do this without love. You feel dry
and empty inside, but I hear your souls crying. Please be kind and loving to
yourselves and listen to your intuition. Follow the voice of your Higher Self!
In this way, you will finally "go back home" because you will be part
of the natural flow of evolution, of which Love is an integral part...
PLUTO
PLUTO - Welcome to my world that is so unpopular and my compliments for your
courage! I am aware that I don't enjoy such a good reputation and that too often
my destructive side is highly emphasized, to the detriment of the REBIRTH that
actually follows.
ME - Speaking of which, why do people feel so much pain during their
"plutonian times"?
PLUTO - Simply because "what you resist, persists"! Because you
humans tend to hold on to your unhealthy behavior even when it causes you
repeated disappointments and hurts. What I am trying to do is expose and
transform this behavior. Often, the attitudes and defenses you adopt as children
for survival reasons are carried on into your adult lives in situations that
call for more openness to be productive. I expose your unconscious DEFENSE
MECHANISMS and POWER GAMES. All this must be brought to the light of
consciousness to teach you to live in a healthier way and to become better human
beings.
I BRING LIGHT to the dark corridors of your unconscious because I stand for
TRANSFORMATION. Together with my brother Neptune, I endeavor to put you in touch
with Divine energies. I do that by teaching you that your power, without
spiritual awareness, is limited and often elusive. Real power is in the
hands of your Higher Self. If you learn to listen to its loving guidance, you
will find that the need to compete, manipulate and control others to feed off
their energies will gradually diminish. Cosmic energy exists in abundance - you
must learn to tap it! I make you aware of your insecurities and possessiveness -
the more you insist on controlling and manipulating other people, the more you
alienate them, and, as a consequence, they abandon you (the worst of your
nightmares!).
ME - All this is pretty intense. That must be the reason why Plutonian
Transformations are lengthy and so often painful. Would you like to pass on any
more advice?
PLUTO - Gladly! Learn to look inside and expose your unconscious and
destructive mechanisms. Get rid of fears and complexes you accumulated in
childhood. FORGIVE yourselves and those who hurt you, especially authority
figures (even if you don't think they deserve it!!). Please learn to forgive
- if you think about it, it is the ultimate act of hedonism because what the
process really does is make YOU feel better.
Observe your life and that of the people around you. You will often see in them
what you least like about yourselves and that you often criticize. Honestly
expose your unconscious behavior that blocks your own growth, not to mention the
growth of other people... PURIFY yourselves with courage and LOVE YOURSELVES!
This is the only way to love others, form healthy relationships and promote
everybody's development. Above all, try not to be possessive - remember that if
you really love someone, you can only want the best for them, even if it means
setting them free to go their own way. Please also remember that revenge is
futile - leave justice in the hands of the Gods, who are wiser and more
powerful and compassionate than you are!
ME - Is it true that you also bring into consciousness pain and trauma buried
from the distant past? Why is that?
PLUTO - Because the key word is PURIFICATION and, to do that, you need to
re-live old traumas and resentments, stored-up anger and pain, which you humans
like to repress. Your technological progress has taken place at the expense of
your emotional growth - nobody has really taken care of your emotional
education. On the contrary! You are so logical and civilized that you are
terrified of anger and rage and any other strong emotions that you constantly
repress. You are scared of LONELINESS and particularly of therapeutic
isolation, in your distant past encouraged and understood. It is in
loneliness that your soul communicates the most clearly and gives you
nourishment and guidance! You have been taught that repression is a sign of
strength and courage. Nothing could be further from the truth. Real COURAGE
entails looking inside, getting to know yourselves, healing your wounds and
LOVING YOURSELVES.
ME - Yes, I'd say all this makes sense. You look like you have something else to
say.
PLUTO - Yes, if I may. I would like to offer you a prayer to ponder on, the
Serenity Prayer:
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change,
the courage to change the things I can and
the wisdom to know the difference".
Children of Light, have faith in a higher guidance, which
is much wiser than you can imagine. Please remember that all that happens in
life has the purpose to lead you closer to the Divine Source of Light, of which
you are part. May "The Force" be with you!
Patrizia Trotta has been a student of astrology for almost 20 years and
qualified in England and the States. She now lives in Italy, works as a free
lance teacher and writes regularly for astrology magazines. Her training
includes counselling and several holistic therapies, soon to be integrated by a
degree in psychology.
