MYSTERY IS NOURISHING: SATURN & NEPTUNE IN ARIES

Some notes on Saturn and Neptune in Aries, which will both be illuminated by the Sun this week. There are a number of things in the works at the moment at HQ, one of which is the return of Moon Oracle in August. You can join the waitlist and read all about it over here. 

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Hey, I hope you are very excellent. I have something a little different today. It's tethered to astrology, but something that I've been thinking about a lot and you know, it forms just part of my own studies and thinking and research, which is the mythic. The mythic world. This sense of, you know, in a lot of myth we have the village or the castle, which is representative most of the time of the known, let's say, human culture. The human world. On a psychological level it would be consciousness, and then. It's relationship with the unknown or often representative by the forest. You know, there's always a castle or a village that edges onto this wilderness, the forest, the unknown, where there's always some kind of guide and creatures, to simplify good and bad. It represents the unconscious, it represents the mystery, it represents the bounty and the beauty of all that is not known or not focused upon. And that's what I want to discuss today. And my proposition is that. We're way too in the village, and with Satin and Neptune now living in Aries for quite some time, it's bringing in an opportunity for us to reorient our focus away from. The dopamine addiction, the short term rush, that insatiable need for something in the foreground versus a sort of longing, a relationship with. A longer sense of time and experience than what we've been in over recent years. For me personally in a, in a very literal sense, I live surrounded by a sea of mountains. They look completely impenetrable. Like there's spots here in the mountains where I live where you can look out, and it's just the vastness of a never ending mountain scape. There's something incredibly beautiful and powerful about that. And they overpower and vastly outnumber the villages that are marked along the ridge lines that go over the mountains. And to me, there's something that, it feels like the right balance. I grew up here and then, you know, I bailed for 20 years in search of the urgency and the adrenaline and the electricity and the culture of the city's, lots of them, and that experience, the rush. Of that experience, which I think is important in youth, for many of us. And, but upon retreating back here, I just feel sharper and grounded as too obvious of a word, but it, it sit, it, it fits. To sit amongst this to be outnumbered by nature, for me, in this period of my life, is a brilliant thing. Too much of this human culture. Too much of the village is a deadening of the vastness that we live amongst and on and with. You know, it's like our focus has been trained to towards so many goddamned details about every nuance of. Being alive. Yet there's no juice in so much of that information. It's a dehydration caused from all of the things that we quote, unquote know. You know, it's like this imbibing of so much that is so lifeless. There's a uselessness and a superficiality to the data that we are. I would say being fed or even having a hand in creating and this dehydrated form of knowledge is really very expertly held up as being socially valuable. Yet it has no roots. There's no nourishment on a deeper soulful. And we could say mythic level, we're all in the village. We know all about our attachment styles, the the level of behavioral analysis that we have all been trained in. You know, like let's take relationships for an example or dating for an example. If you are like anything like me, then you have been inundated with information about so much of the psychology of. Romance dating male female, that it's weird or it's very telling that at the same time as our, awareness of romance and union and attraction and attachment has increased to a level that most people never would've had before. Our capacity to be in relationship has almost as equally, left us. I don't know if you've seen the statistics of the amount of people who are single now and are like, are choosing to be in that situation, like are not actively looking. It's really very, very amazing. And even amongst like younger people who should just be, you know, kind of copulating everywhere and getting their heart broken. It's important. So it's, so, it's just so strange. I do use navigation. I do have the internet, so I'm a part of it. We have all of these satellites, which can very easily map every single part of Earth. So it's like visually on, on one very superficial level, the earth is known. The Earth is fully known or discovered, but then never have we been more separate from the majestic, mythic, intangible or, or I would say even, animal points of view or. Earthly points of view. Everything is human focused and it's like the more we're mapping things, it seems that simultaneously, the more that we can no longer fully locate ourselves within this time and place, this is how it feels for me. I'm sure it feels this way for a lot of you. There's so much that we are being fed or trained to put our focus towards that doesn't have roots, that isn't nourishing. So what is the mythic? On one hand, if you contemplate. How you have journeyed through your own wilderness or your own wildness and the initiations that you've had in those territories. I would argue that those experiences are far more valuable than your degree, let's say, or whatever it is, whatever structural, societal. Um, rootless thing, uh, you've encountered. Uh, you know, to me it's like the loves, the losses, the breaks in mind and heart, the obsessions and the clawing back to a grounded mind. You know, they are incredible experiences to traverse. Not that I would idealize any of those things, but the juice that comes from them is what really is what creates the roots of who we are in terms of our own experience of self. But then in terms of our own experience of place, you know, something that Martin Shaw says, like, I mean, everything he says is just excellently said. Is life is a contact sport and the way it's being set up, the way it is set up on many levels is very contactless. You know, it's very polite. It's very socially acceptable. It's very cold and removed from the bigness and the breaks and the juice. Like I would just refer to it as the juice Satin has a lot to do in Aries with really retraining. Our will and where, what it is focused towards and how it is operating. I'll give you an example. We live in a time where I'm sure many of you have watched Love story, the, you know, Carolyn Bessette, JFK story. I watched that first episode and I was hooked. Bought the book, listened to the Spotify playlist, lived in that world, read firsthand accounts of Carolyn or working at Calvin Klein in the nineties from people who were there, had a level of nostalgia for the nineties, somehow a level of nostalgia for minimalism, even though I was very much in the realm of grunge at that time and a teenager. But it's like I consumed. That whole world and it felt like this sort of obsessional cloud that I went into. It was titillating on some level. It was interesting and exciting and a new thing to put my energy towards. And then just as quickly as it. As it, popped into the zeitgeist, it was, it was gone, and now we're on the next thing. Culturally, we see this all the time, like the speed at which things are, are culturally, coming into view out of you, interview out of you, like the new thing, the next thing all of the time is so rapid that again, it just, it leads to a level of dehydration. It's it, there's a superficiality to it that just leaves you. Want, like not wanting more, but it, it's like what is the why behind this? And what I would say here is like the distortion of my own focus is something that I'm responsible for reorientating, and that's a very cian endeavor, self-responsibility, practical application here in the realm. Of a sign, Aries, which can be wildly impulsive, that can be so desire led, but the desire is so short term. It's like whatever's within view right now that it's constantly starting and stopping. It needs that charge of the new and that first flush of the new experience of the thing to get it to be alive. Neptune living in this territory for which will be for a long time, really brings in, I would say, something that is more mythic together. They create a level of, it's like a longing, something that we don't spend a lot of time with anymore. I am here. I'm just catching my thoughts. Neptune is, we could say spirit, we could say it's creativity, mysticism, everything, ephemeral, everything beyond time and space. It's this like visioning capacity that takes form within our imagination and then we bring it to life. And I think part of what it will do over the next decade is hopefully draw our attention more and more towards the intangible, the mythic things that are deeply nourishing, that go beyond. An impulsive must have. Let me give you an example of, there's so much that lives within the, how would you say it, within the tension between the village and the forest, you know? and again, it's, it's where a lot of my own focus is, has been going for the last while. I mean, astrology is based on astrology, utilizes myth and story to explain the planet's. The Zodiac, their, representative energies and teachings and, evolutionary journeys that is all wrapped in story. And to talk about that, like the tension between the forest. The vast mystery, the unknown, and the village, the known. I think astrology is a really great example. I feel very comfortable. I, I need a lot of the forest energy. I'm also, I also have a voracious appetite for the village as well. But to use astrology as an example, we have been mapping, cause like the cause and effect, of something happens on a particular eclipse in this area, then all of these backyard wizards, record how it plays out here on earth. All of these things for for many thousands of years were, yeah, written down, gathered together or, or spoken orally. And then they were brought, so many of them were brought to the Great Library at Alexandria, and this is where Claudia Tmy wrote one of the first known books on astrology and astronomy. They were always very deeply entwined. So for many, many, many thousands of years, astrology has b. Let's skip that bit. What's, what I find incredibly interesting about it, right? And I teach it and I've read for, well, well, well over a thousand people. And charts is, there is such a vast mystery to this language. It feels incredibly alive. And we're able to know it through its expression, like it is so incredibly specific in its application. When we are looking at somebody's chart, unbelievably specific, your nature, your nurture, anything that you wanna look at, we're able to, to utilize the, the, the lens of your chart, your astrology, to get so precisely. Into that, into it, into that part of you. And at the same time, this feels like such a mysterious weaving of unknowableness. That is brilliant. You know, for any of you who've ever had a reading, I remember when I first had a, a reading. When I was in my late twenties, like, it, it blew my head off. I couldn't believe that I was able to be so deeply articulated in a way that I'd never once experienced in my life through this map of glyphs in, in this circle. Like it was, it was, it gave me so much, comfortability and, and it felt like, this sounds daggy, but it really felt like part of that comfort was a return to the magic of the great vast mysteries of this time and place. I guess that's what I'm loosely curating here in this conversation. What is the mythic to you? I have some work coming out around this. For the next set of eclipses, I'm going to be running my moon oracle course again, which is really all about your, the development, the amplification, the validation, the playing with the experiencing of your intuition. I think it's worth really contemplating what these moments in your life are. And it's not about romanticizing the moments, but Roman like. Uh, being aware of the moments in your life that really kind of tested the limits that took you into your own underworld or took you up into more of a mystic, immortal space and point of view, and then you came back down here and were able to locate yourself and know yourself in a way, know your, your landscape in a way. That was much more visceral and rooted and nourishing. You know, for me, I spoke here, I think it was before, just before summer, of my desire to go camping and then it got too hot and you couldn't light fires. And even though I've just been talking about the beauty of the outdoor world, I'm a little bit scared of snakes. But now as it's starting to get cooler, I'm so excited to go out with my family, go out with friends and camp, lie on the earth. Well, on a feathery mattress is in a very, on a, in a very good looking tent and sleeping bag and mattress. But to have that organic experience to listen more to the wilderness, to listen more to points of view that, you know. Non-human, like the animal, the animal world, the, the mineral world, the earthly world. There's something about that that just feels so incredibly necessary to be outside of this construction of time and space. You know, to sit around a fire and to hear more of what is real. So I guess I. I would love to throw that to you and for that to be something to contemplate, like what does that look like to you? What are the, what are the, talismans, the connections, the experiences that you have to the forest, to the mystery that. Really nourish your lived experience within the village. I hope you have a great week.