Uranus Square Pluto #5, the Cardinal Cross, and the Power of Shakti

One of the world's most ancient symbols, the cross has had many meanings for different people at different times in human history.  For the Rosicrucians, a philosophical secret society founded in the late medieval period, it is the "Rosy Cross.  At its center is a rose.   -- a long-time symbol of both Venus and Mary --  which represents the  unfolding consciousness that the dynamic energy of the cross expands .

One of the world’s most ancient symbols, the cross has had many meanings at different times in human history. For the Rosicrucians, a secret philosophical society founded in the late medieval period, it is the “Rosy Cross,”  with a rose at its center. Long associated with both Venus and Mary, the rose at the center of the Rosicrucian cross represents unfolding consciousness at the intersection of matter and spirit —  which the dynamic energy of this week’s cardinal cross seeks to expand .

Within you, and around you, a rare and dynamic energy pattern — an exact Grand Cross at 13 degrees of the cardinal signs– is now at maximum potency.  Today, the 5th of the 7 world-changing squares of Uranus and Pluto will unfold within this cross.  Since the Uranus-Pluto squares began in June 2012,  each of us — and all of us — have been zones for the evolution of consciousness, and thus of life.  This energy is intense, high-frequency, and high-pressure. It’s pushing us all out of comfort zones and into our evolutionary zones

While we’ll understand much more about what that means when this week is over, one thing is already certain.  Whatever happens in the days ahead will shift reality, on the personal and also the collective level.

At every turn in our world, profound shift is already unfolding at an accelerating rate.  Much of it is taking place at the deepest levels of our lives. While more and more of us are aware of this, it can be still hard to name and, sometimes, to connect the dots. For the most powerful dimensions of this great energetic seachange don’t fit our culture’s perceptual categories. That’s no accident. This cross, and all of its elements, is infused with the transformative power of the Cosmic Feminine. If we try and observe it — much less act on it — from an already outworn paradigm, the results are likely to backfire.

Energetic Markers of a “Shakti Infusion”

The infusion into this week’s tumultuous skies of the powerful Cosmic Feminine energy the ancient Vedas described as “shakti” is profound, subtle, and multi-valent:

It’s not even that every player in the cross, as well as the numerous supporting characters — a total of 7 planets altogether — has a direct energetic linkage to the Cosmic Feminine:

  • Mars is deep into a 12-week retrograde in Libra, Venus’ sign of  love and relatedness,
  • Jupiter is in the Moon’s sign of Cancer, where he is exalted,
  • Pluto, the co-ruler with Persephone of the invisible realm of transformative power, is collaborating with Venus  (Persephone’s ancestor who, as Inanna, blazed the first trail into the underworld) in the creative pattern known as a sextile.
  • Uranus, the ancient god of the fertile chaos of the sky, whose passion for our beautiful Gaia brought the world into being, is Venus’ father,
  • the Sun has just moved into Taurus, the sign of the fertile, abundant Earth, and the second that Venus rules.
  • the Moon is in Capricorn, moving into the Cardinal Cross as the day begins and ending it on the  Moon’s North Bending of the Moon’s North Node. This is a point in the sky typically associated with very fortunate developments.
  • Venus is in Pisces, the sign of her exaltation.
  • Saturn is in Scorpio, the energy associated with the Underworld where Venus, Persephone, and Pluto share deep connections.

It’s all of those, and more.

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One Way Out:  The Quantum Leap

As many astrologers have noted, the Uranus-Pluto squares are evolutionary in intent and effect. Their nature is to force deep, radical change, and they occur at a time when multiple forces — economic, natural, political, and spiritual —  are backing us into a corner, where there seems to be no way out.  Except one — a quantum leap.

The good news, our lives, like all life on Earth,  only exist because of a long history of quantum leaps.  This is precisely the trajectory of the evolutionary process.  It’s not linear.  It’s discontinuous, novel, and surprising. And it rarely happens because there is a choice. It almost always occurs because there isn’t.

Shift of the kind this extraordinary pattern is inviting isn’t going to come from doing what we already know how to do, only better.  It’s going to emerge from the deepest and most creative place within us.  The Goddess wants us to evolve.  This sky is asking us to allow ourselves to be surprised– to deeply surprise ourselves.