Astrodharma Transit Report: September 2019

By Hunter Reynolds, on August 31st, 2019

MYSTIC IN THE MATRIX

SEPTEMBER is fantastically functional and forward-moving. It begins with half the zodiac conjunct in the sign of Virgo, forming a T-square to Neptune and Jupiter.

Normally a tense configuration, the pressure of this ongoing T-square receives an auspicious “release valve” through Trines to visionary Uranus and disciplined Saturn. Then, over the course of the month, six to eight planets take turns inhabiting earth signs. Bottom line: September gives a green light to organizing and initiating all projects– both mundane and creative/spiritual.

It’s also an opportune time to transition into more soul-infused work. Need a kick in the but?

Note for fridge:

It is my Virgo duty to follow my Pisces calling.

Opportunities continue to fall into our lap until the 20th when Saturn begins its square to Mercury and Venus. Time to say goodbye to possibility-killing beliefs, dead routines and relationships that distract from your true work. Disruptive? No worries. The window for forward movement continues on until mid-October when the Mercury retrograde pre-shadow period begins.

Worldly opportunity is great. But the most enduring gifts of this month are spiritual.

Mystic in the Matrix
The Mar/Jupiter/Neptune T-Square

Life is a barrage of egoic plot twists that long to unfold in an atmosphere of magical-realism. We are “dream animals,” after all, and becoming a “mystic in the matrix” is the #1 purpose of our life!

How does a ethereal creature function smoothly in a materialistic, time-bound society? September knows.

Ego tends to bang back and forth between “dense personality” and “pixilated presence” until, by grace, the fruit of meditative practice or sheer exhaustion, life releases us back into our true position: the ‘include and transcend’ world of awareness, itself.

Grace Period

However! During certain auspicious intervals (like this month) we get blessed with a season when it’s easier to slow down and notice:

When the dream turns solid I feel a subtle trauma response. I subliminally harden and dissociate.

And rightly so! We have amputated one of our psychic limbs. Lost in the ethers or lost in some grimly responsible role play, we are a hobbling amputee!

Consider the chart for the Aug 30th New Moon, below. Notice the 5 planets bunched together in the sign of Virgo on the right, opposing Neptune, ruler of Pisces. This Virgo/Pisces polarity repeats in various different ways throughout the entire month.

The Colon and the Toes

Virgo rules the walls of the colon: the discriminating, yes/no response to healthy and unhealthy foods as they pass by the walls of the intestines. Pisces, on the other hand, rules the timeless trance of toes pedaling beneath us. All day, every day, these field-sensing flippers make executive, otherworldly decisions that steer us clear of a screaming, stubbed toe.

What happens when Virgo and Pisces hold hands and skip down the street? Here’s five possibilities:

Space with a face
Blip with a lip
Boundlessness with a bark
Chatty Savior
Nether Brat

How does “Space with a Face” communicate? God only knows, but here’s one of many possibilities: periods of inward-leaning self-reflection followed by playful, collaborative self-inquiry.

What happens when ego brutally bangs between the poles of Virgo and Pisces? Well, then you get the lower octave expression of each sign.

Lower octave Virgo is fixated on what is flawed and improvable, offers unsolicited critique and is slave to a unrealistically tidy, earthbound understanding of “enlightenment” through service, efficiency, diet, health and nutrition.

Lower octave Pisces fixates on the soul’s untainted purity (no matter how tragic or perpetrative its expression), confuses love with enabling, plays victim to the world’s harshness and descends into “enlightenment through brain chemistry tweaking” (drugs).

Karma Yoga Fixes

Feeling tense, critical and work-ravaged? Forget about “trying to relax.” Instead, add more Pisces. Ask:

How might I inject my life with an ashram-like atmosphere such that previously stressful, detail work plays out as a sacrament performed in sacred space: a discipline drenched with devotion?

Feeling adrift, dreamy and over-adaptive? Skip the guilt. Add more Virgo. Passionately (but inwardly) negate, criticize and tear down everything and everyone that bothers and bores you. Sometimes all we have is our “no’s!” Eventually, only a few things will be left standing. Then ask:

How can I more deeply honor and protect these few things– and what they symbolize in my life?

Viola! A promising, new life direction.

A Soulful Vision of the Future

We are all swept up in this epidemic of digital parchedness. Behind most of those savvy, successful smiles: a high-functioning depressive.

As a counselor, it’s heartbreaking. The shame-for-feeling-isolated virus is making millions for the dispensers of happy pills. Alas, there are no meds for the belief in a interpersonally sterile and atomized future! What is needed is a redemptive re-frame for the entire digital age.

This T-Square challenges us to dream boldly, intelligently and out-of-the-box. Here’s my version:

What if all those internet cafe’s where no one talks to each other anymore are the collective pause before folks lift their heads again to engage in a more nuanced, communion-rich language? What if “screen addiction” is clearing the decks for the psychic equivalent of a lighting fast connection speed? What if the world needed the death of “trading me-stories” to get us to “meditative relating?”

Skeptical? Consider this:

If human reaction time is 200-300 milliseconds and the interactive speed of 5G is one millisecond, how likely is it that future generations will find normal, time-bound human interaction satisfying?

If this unapologetically idealistic Jupiter/Neptune vision of the future seems even remotely possible, why not be the Mars leader who paves the way for the spread of a soul-seeing language and the “meditative relating” skills we’re all so secretly starving for? See: Styles of Awakening Training.