The pre­vail­ing major aspect of this past year has been this wan­ing square of Sat­urn to Nep­tune. Their first square in this cycle was in Novem­ber 2015, the sec­ond in June of 2016, and the final square will be on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2016.

When we are con­sid­er­ing these out­er plan­et align­ments, one should cer­tain­ly look at the entire peri­od of their exact aspects, as well as some­what before until some while after, as being inclu­sive of their par­tic­u­lar ener­gy-for­m/mes­sage for you. The whole peri­od from September/October 2015 through Octo­ber 2016 can be char­ac­ter­ized by this align­ment of the plan­et of Form/Reality (Sat­urn) and Dream/Illusion (Nep­tune).

More­over, it is equal­ly impor­tant to con­sid­er their entire rela­tion­ship or cycle, typ­i­cal­ly exam­ined from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion, to under­stand the broad­er mes­sage offered through the Four major phas­es of any plan­e­tary pair. For this par­tic­u­lar plan­e­tary rela­tion­ship, that would mean that the mean­ing and mes­sages of this cycle were ini­ti­at­ed in 1989 at the Con­junc­tion; they reached a crit­i­cal turn­ing or piv­ot point at the wax­ing Square in 1998; they arrived at the cli­max of their cycle in the Oppo­si­tion of revelation/confrontation of 2006-07; to final­ly meet in this moment of Crisis/Opportunity of the wan­ing Square in 2015–16. (Sat­urn and Nep­tune will inau­gu­rate a new cycle of rela­tion­ship at their next Con­junc­tion in 2026).

With regards to this par­tic­u­lar cycle (or any cycle for that mat­ter), we can see its influ­ence on the many dimen­sions of our exis­tence, the var­i­ous phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal and spir­i­tu­al planes. The cycle of Sat­urn and Nep­tune con­cerns the inte­gral rela­tion­ship between the estab­lish­ment of Real­i­ty and Order (Sat­urn) and its for­ma­tion­al cor­re­spon­dence with Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion (Nep­tune). When fused with right under­stand­ing, it is how we imag­ine a better/greater real­i­ty and then pro­ceed to bring it into actu­al man­i­fes­ta­tion. When either ele­ment is mis­con­strued or approached with anx­i­ety, doubt or fear then we will see the regres­sion of these poten­tials as evi­denced by a cling­ing to old and out­worn forms sup­port­ed by false­ly framed fan­tasies or delu­sions, often result­ing in a divorce of Real­i­ty and Imag­i­na­tion. Rather than a rea­son­able and strong cor­re­spon­dence between Dream­ing and Mak­ing, there occurs a descent into a world of “smoke and mir­rors”, the result often being a dystopi­an world of Delu­sion, Decep­tion and Victimization.

Through­out the series of Saturn/Neptune align­ments, one can dis­cern the rhyth­mic waves of New Dreams becom­ing New Real­i­ties, those Real­i­ties becom­ing ever more Crys­tal­lized, lead­ing to even­tu­al Dis­il­lu­sion­ments with that Real­i­ty, which pro­duces increas­ing degrees of Con­fu­sion and Misunderstanding…and this loss of faith and con­fu­sion actu­al­ly pre­pares the way for the New Illuminations/Dreams that will be even­tu­al­ly be formed into New, and we can hope, bet­ter Realities.

Thus, the road to Illu­mi­na­tion, to the Greater Under­stand­ing and Real­i­ty in which you jour­ney, is paved with this rhyth­mic puls­ing of Dreams to Real­i­ty to Crys­tal­liza­tion to Con­fu­sion (which cre­ates the con­di­tions for let­ting go of that more lim­it­ed Real­i­ty Par­a­digm), lead­ing to Inspi­ra­tions and a New Dream-Real­i­ty brought into being. The jour­ney from unself-con­scious spark of the Divine to ful­ly awak­ened co-Cre­ator of Cre­ation is this spi­ral path of Dream­ing-Real­i­ty that has no “begin­ning” and no “end”.

The Con­junc­tions of the last cen­tu­ry (1917, 1952–53, 1989), cor­re­spond quite remark­ably for instance with the birth of the USSR, the onset of the Cold War, and the dis­so­lu­tion of the USSR, (and of com­mu­nist states of East­ern Europe). More­over, the inter­ven­ing beats of their cycle, wax­ing square-oppo­si­tion-wan­ing square, also can pro­vide insight into the under­ly­ing influ­ences and lessons of these and oth­er his­tor­i­cal developments.

But this is mere­ly one exam­ple, a par­tic­u­lar man­i­fes­ta­tion of this ener­gy-form artic­u­lat­ed with­in the realm of political/social real­i­ties. What is most impor­tant is to under­stand that this cycle is one of the key plan­e­tary pairs help­ing to dri­ve the emer­gence of the Greater Aware­ness and a more ful­fill­ing Real­i­ty for you.

For this par­tic­u­lar cycle and your expe­ri­ence with­in it we should con­sid­er the 1989 Con­junc­tion as the seed­ing of a New Par­a­digm of Dream/Reality for Earth. For any one per­son, this might be the start of a new life or phase of life, and for a com­mu­ni­ty or cul­ture it would more broad­ly define the hope for the future and the begin­nings of the struc­tures to bring that into being. What and how the pre­vi­ous cycle end­ed gives birth to the New, both in terms of Dreams and Hopes, but lim­i­ta­tions and fear as well.

The first or wax­ing Square of 1998–99 would be a cross­roads, a piv­ot point, a choice requir­ing a com­mit­ment to a def­i­nite Dream/Reality struc­ture and the turn­ing away from and let­ting go of any oth­er. Here is where the new Dream/Reality encoun­ters its first “test”. If for an indi­vid­ual or soci­ety there is an align­ment or cor­re­spon­dence of dream to real­i­ty, we would see a re-ded­i­ca­tion of pur­pose and focus to expand that Dream-Real­i­ty. If this turn­ing entailed greater dis­so­nance or dis­ap­point­ment, it would be an oppor­tu­ni­ty to adjust the tra­jec­to­ry and sub­stance of this unfold­ing Dream-Real­i­ty, per­haps choos­ing a dif­fer­ent Dream or for­ma­tion of Reality.

The oppo­si­tion of 2006-07 would be the moment of rev­e­la­tion, where the inher­ent truth or false­hood of this par­tic­u­lar cycle would be encoun­tered. For var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and groups, it is a moment of tri­umph and fulfillment…the Dream has come True. For oth­ers how­ev­er it could be a shat­ter­ing moment filled with dis­ap­point­ments and defeat. What has been revealed is either the unbridge­able gap between the promis­es and the results, between the Dream and Real­i­ty, and/or the real­iza­tion that the Dream itself was Illu­sion­ary or a False-Hope, that it was found­ed upon Delu­sion, Decep­tion and most cer­tain­ly Self-Deception.

Here is where the Indi­vid­ual and the soci­ety would face their great­est test and oppor­tu­ni­ty. For as much as this Oppo­si­tion is an “End­ing”, it also marks the begin­ning of the sec­ond half of the Cycle, and so a new chance to apply the lessons learned, to adjust the Dream and Real­i­ty, and bring about a redemp­tion in the sec­ond half of the cycle.

The final major turn­ing point of any cycle is the wan­ing Square which can be a moment of even fur­ther growth in under­stand­ing and con­scious­ness, a rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and res­o­lu­tion of the tri­umphs and tragedies of the oppo­si­tion­al phase. Yet it may equal­ly con­tain or be per­vad­ed by a sense of cri­sis and despair as the yawn­ing gap between Dream and Real­i­ty seems unbridge­able, and hopes and dreams are seem­ing­ly beyond reach at this time.

So we find our­selves now at this moment of choice, but you need to under­stand that a Wan­ing Square is not like Wax­ing Square, that the type of choice for 2015–16 is not the same as 1998–9. The Wax­ing Square is much more of out­ward, phys­i­cal choice between forms and paths that you will take as you attempt to ful­fill your Dream-Real­i­ty mak­ing. A Wan­ing Square like 2015–16 is much more of an “inner choice”, it is a piv­ot-point in Con­scious­ness, a chal­lenge to make a bet­ter choice about how you see your­self and your world-view, to com­pare and con­trast the dif­fer­ing assump­tions about the Real­i­ty you are in (and have helped to make). It is more a time of “let­ting go” of the old, out­worn assump­tions that got you to here (Real­i­ty), but can­not get you to there (Your Dream).

You have been offered this peri­od to see which of your Prin­ci­ples, Beliefs and Sci­ences or Truths have (and still do) serve you well in explain­ing your expe­ri­ence and guid­ing your intentions/actions. Equal­ly, this Wan­ing Square calls upon you to see to what extent your Beliefs/Truths cor­re­spond with those with whom you jour­ney. For with­in any group, sub-cul­ture and soci­ety, there will many Truths held in com­mon, but also many that only cor­re­spond to some por­tion of this. To dis­cern Truth from Fic­tion, Illu­mi­na­tion from Illu­sion, well that is what you are here for!

If there is no over-arch­ing agree­ment as to the nature of “Real­i­ty”, if dif­fer­ent groups align with vary­ing inter­pre­ta­tions of what is “Sci­en­tif­ic”, or what is “Truth”, well then they will cer­tain­ly be unable to find a com­mon def­i­n­i­tion of “Real­i­ty”. They will also be unable to agree on what are the “right-actions” to live with­in that Real­i­ty, and cer­tain­ly not agree as to how to move towards a bet­ter or more inclu­sive Reality/Belief paradigm.

This Spi­ral Jour­ney of Under­stand­ing, of weav­ing togeth­er the Greater Real­i­ty around one­self with the mental/spiritual map­ping-mir­ror­ing of one’s own Thought-Forms of Beliefs/Truths, well that is your nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of Con­scious­ness indeed. Slow­ly Humans are mov­ing up and out­wards from unself-con­scious­ness to ful­ly awak­ened con­scious co-cre­ators of this Cre­ation. Time and time again, the Belief/Paradigm of a group, soci­ety and cul­ture, which served to guide and inform their lives for a time, will even­tu­al­ly begin to break­down and ulti­mate­ly fall apart as Real­i­ty changes and/or Thought-forms evolve. Some­times these shifts are grad­ual and even easy; some­times they are not and the break­ing apart and ref­or­ma­tion of the Reality/Belief sys­tem is fraught with con­fu­sion, dis­cord and disillusionment.

Here in 2015–16, as indi­cat­ed by the Saturn/Neptune Square, we are most cer­tain­ly expe­ri­enc­ing a rather strong cri­sis in our Reality/Belief par­a­digm. Per­son­al­ly, social­ly, nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly this divi­sion between Truth and False­hood, between Dreams and Illu­sions is omnipresent, and it seems that we are unable to find those com­mon threads to bind togeth­er our hearts and minds with one anoth­er. The rad­i­cal frac­tur­ing of both left and right polit­i­cal­ly, the dis­cords between Faith and Rea­son, the inces­sant stream of infor­ma­tion devoid of con­text or ground­ing in com­mon under­stand­ing, has led many indi­vid­u­als and groups to stum­ble into con­fu­sion, dis­il­lu­sion­ment and despair.

Where, where can one look for some cen­ter that can hold us togeth­er in the Greater Truth that we are on this Cir­cuitous Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing togeth­er? How can we under­stand that this expe­ri­ence right now is some­thing we have met and mas­tered time and time again…and so we should have a heart-felt faith that we will find “The Way” once again?

The answer to your prayer for both a bet­ter Under­stand­ing and a Greater Real­i­ty is to remem­ber that we each need to harken to the “still, qui­et, calm­ing” voice of our High­er Self who is always there to remind us of who and what we are, so that we find inspi­ra­tion in our fun­da­men­tal essence, our Lov­ing Nature. That we will under­stand that who­ev­er or whomev­er is before us is anoth­er just like us. We need one anoth­er to help remove our mis­un­der­stand­ings, doubts and fears. We need to lis­ten to one anoth­er, explain to one anoth­er, com­pare and con­trast for one anoth­er and so shine a more inclu­sive light for one another…To be a light for one anoth­er so that we can see what we alone could not see.

Yet equal­ly, to help lift our hearts and minds, we should fol­low the inte­gral path­way of Wis­dom, which blends your inner voice (and the inti­ma­tions of oth­ers), but seeks to align these whis­pers of wis­dom with the great exam­ples and Wis­dom-Teach­ings that have stood the test of time. For what you are faced with has been encoun­tered time and time again. Innu­mer­able souls and cul­tures have faced these tests of Truth/Reality and resolved to lift their Hearts and Minds out of shad­ows and into the Light. There are truths…and then there are Truths. Some idea-forms will hold for a time…and some, well some are Time­less. Seek for Wis­dom with­in and without…and you will know it when they are the same.

Lis­ten to your Heart…

Share with one another…

Hon­or the Wis­dom of those who came this way before…

And you will find “The Way”.