Anoth­er of my com­ments for 2011 regard­ing Oba­ma’s Plu­to transit:

Plu­to was a great chal­lenge to Oba­ma in 2010, but what a dif­fer­ence a year makes. For 2011 and much of 2012 he will be under a most favor­able trine of his Plu­to by Plu­to. And this at a time when the USA is under­go­ing the Plu­to oppo­si­tion to Jupiter could pro­vide one of the means by which the US is able to make the most of that opposition.

Plu­to rules the willpow­er, which is the true source of our abil­i­ty to bring about self-change inter­nal­ly, and which also cre­ates our abil­i­ty to help bring about changes exter­nal­ly. While the US grap­ples with Plu­to oppos­ing its Jupiter, Oba­ma will be able to har­ness his own will pow­er, and by exten­sion, the will pow­er of the posi­tion his wields, the Pres­i­den­cy, to help bring about, what could be sig­nif­i­cant trans­for­ma­tions in the socio-eco­nom­ic-polit­i­cal order with­in our nation, and exter­nal­ly with oth­er nations. This is espe­cial­ly indi­cat­ed by the fact that Oba­ma’s Plu­to is in his 7th House of rela­tion­ships, and the tran­sit­ing Plu­to is mov­ing through his 11th House of social ideals.

What this might indi­cate is that Oba­ma’s abil­i­ty to be a re-builder, re-new­er, re-gen­er­a­tor of our forms of rela­tion­ship (Plu­to in the 7th house), will play out and be seen in 11th house mat­ters, which in a mun­dane analy­sis would be the nation’s ideals and dreams about the future as well as the Leg­isla­tive branch of government.

With a “divid­ed” gov­ern­ment, Oba­ma as chief exec­u­tive should be able to help bring about some con­crete actions to address some of the prob­lems the US is faced with now. With his Plu­to in Vir­go, and the tran­sit­ing Plu­to in Capri­corn, we are talk­ing about real, prac­ti­cal work­able solu­tions. Each side will have to sac­ri­fice part of its “agen­da” and dog­ma to get things done. Our con­sti­tu­tion, after all, is so arranged that coop­er­a­tion and mutu­al agree­ment are inte­gral to the polit­i­cal process, per­haps this year we will see it at work.

Pluto/Jupiter for the USA — Pluto/Pluto for Oba­ma
With the USA at the same time expe­ri­enc­ing the Plu­to oppo­si­tion Jupiter, Oba­ma’s tran­sit of Plu­to to Plu­to takes on much greater sig­nif­i­cance. The USA is prob­a­bly fac­ing a great strug­gle over prin­ci­ples this year; the strug­gle is over our prin­ci­ples of rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er inter­nal­ly and to oth­er nations exter­nal­ly; it is those prin­ci­ples that end up being enshrined in our laws and our treaties. Oba­ma’s tran­sit can pro­vide a coun­ter­point to the dichoto­my and strug­gle in the USA chart by the prac­ti­cal and respon­si­ble exer­cise of his lead­er­ship role. He can be a bridge between oppos­ing fac­tions and steer them toward some com­pro­mise over our rules of con­duct with one anoth­er, as he also helps to bring about new poli­cies in our inter­na­tion­al relationships.

Will he be able to keep the oppos­ing sides work­ing towards con­sen­sus and con­crete action? Plu­to would say yes. But to know that ful­ly we must look to the oth­er influ­ences mov­ing through his chart this year to see what else is in play on our stage of history.

Oba­ma’s Tran­sits

You are unique…you are special…there is only one of you…

Now you need to express some of that excep­tion­al essence. The Sun rules your “self”; it is your pure poten­tial wait­ing to be man­i­fest­ed. Uranus rules your indi­vid­u­al­i­ty; it is your capac­i­ty to express your­self in incom­pa­ra­ble ways. Their com­bi­na­tion urges you to move beyond the ordi­nary and stretch; let your sparkle show today.

The rou­tine, accept­ed, every­day way will not make it today; try some­thing new, dis­cov­er a dif­fer­ent approach and renew your appre­ci­a­tion for the world around you. Then turn that around and acknowl­edge some­thing spe­cial in some­one else too…and repeat.

Amaze oth­ers, sur­prise yourself.

Well, you had bet­ter have roman­tic plans for today! When the God­dess of Love meets with the God of Desire, well let’s just say this Uni­verse exists because it too desired to meet its beloved.

Venus rules val­ue. The mea­sure of val­ue in the world for you is to be found with­in your­self in your hier­ar­chy of val­ues. This hier­ar­chy is based upon and cre­at­ed by that one spe­cial val­ue, the core val­ue known as your self-worth, the val­ue you have of your­self. And, this is fun­da­men­tal­ly and quite sim­ply cre­at­ed by one truth, from your love of your “self”, the first beloved. That love is there and uncon­di­tion­al because at the core of your “self” is a spark of the divine, which makes you and all of cre­ation part of one great Life-Consciousness-Spirit. 

This is the true source of all val­ue and love in this uni­verse; that all of cre­ation springs from one Spir­i­tu­al source, and so all are held togeth­er in this expe­ri­ence of being one of the count­less man­i­fes­ta­tions of that one Great Spir­it. You, and I and all of cre­ation are sparks of this one great Divine Light. We are all relat­ed, all held togeth­er by our love which springs from our being ones of the One.

Mars rules Desire. You and I and all of cre­ation “are” because Spir­it desired to be, it wished to become man­i­fest. From the one Spark of the Divine, the count­less sparks went forth to evolve into and through this Uni­verse. Through all the ages, through all the forms of man­i­fes­ta­tion, you and I encounter one anoth­er and experience…recognition. We smile, we draw close and expe­ri­ence that we are ones of the One. You love one anoth­er because you are one another.

So cel­e­brate today when what you want is there for you. Today Love meets Desire and mag­ic will hap­pen. Love your­self, love another…and smile.

Dream­ing dreams, slip­ping through the bound­aries with­in and with­out; this is most cer­tain­ly not a time of cer­tain­ty! But it is a won­drous time for Creativity!

The Sun rules your­self; it is the source of all your poten­tial­i­ties. Nep­tune rules your dreams; it is the pow­er that dis­solves your real­i­ty in order to show you a greater one. With the Sun mov­ing through the log­i­cal, rea­son­able and ratio­nal sign of Gem­i­ni, Nep­tune’s Square from the mys­ti­cal sign of Pisces is a chal­lenge. That is what squares are for; you have to find a way to inte­grate two seem­ing­ly dis­parate energies.

While the Sun is in Gem­i­ni, rea­son rules the day. You seek to under­stand what­ev­er is before you and place it into a log­i­cal struc­ture of thought. You need to name, cat­e­go­rize and build your world of facts. It is so com­fort­ing to know your world.

Now along comes Nep­tune singing her siren song, of mys­te­ri­ous depths, of cas­tles in the sky, of wheels with­in wheels.…what is real­ly real any­way, she sings, and you real­ize that things are not as they seemed. You become uncer­tain, confused…which is exact­ly what you need.

Cer­tain­ty is over-rat­ed; cer­tain­ty is an illu­sion. Nep­tune shows you that there are many real­i­ties, many lay­ers to your world, and would­n’t you like to play in a more won­drous world? Of course you would, but leaps of faith are, well they are leaps.

Nep­tune reminds you that the core of your spir­it, of your nev­er-end­ing growth is your dream­ing mind. You are becom­ing more than you were, you are unfold­ing your poten­tials from with­in your­self, and the key to this is your imagination.

So, do not wor­ry about your confusion…it is only a pas­sage, a means to the way to your greater spir­i­tu­al awak­en­ing. You are becom­ing more than you can imagine…now leap!

First came Aries, you expe­ri­enced “I AM”.

Then came Tau­rus, you expe­ri­enced “I HAVE”.

Now, as you dance through Gem­i­ni you are to focus on the expe­ri­ence “I THINK”, (there­fore “I AM”).

For the next 30 days the core spir­i­tu­al les­son is upon the devel­op­ment of your mind as it seeks to relate to the world with­in and with­out. Gem­i­ni is all about net­work­ing; it rules your ner­vous sys­tem, your intel­lec­tu­al fac­ul­ties, your com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills…it rules inter-con­nec­tiv­i­ty. You have moved from Fire in Aries, to Earth in Tau­rus, and now you extend your­self through the first of the Air Signs.

The ele­ment of Air is all about Mind, Intel­lect, Ideas…it is about the devel­op­ment of Self-Con­scious­ness. Self-aware­ness is prob­a­bly one of the most dis­tin­guish­ing fea­tures of your evolv­ing Spir­it. The pow­er of your mind is not to be mea­sured by its stor­age capac­i­ty, (it is not how much you know, how many megabytes of stor­age you have), rather, it is how well you “think”, (it is about your proces­sor!). One of the prin­ci­ple gifts of your mind is the abil­i­ty to exam­ine what­ev­er is before you in such a man­ner that you come to per­ceive it from as many dif­fer­ent “angles” as possible.

Each angle or point of view is like a facet of a prism or lens through which you look out upon the world around you. When you bring your aware­ness to bear through one such lens it is as if you are shin­ing a very bright light upon the object of your aware­ness. It is illuminated.…but there are also shad­ows, and dark spaces that remain unlit. So, you need to shift your per­spec­tive, make new assump­tions and so cre­ate anoth­er lens to see with. By doing this you can even­tu­al­ly cre­ate a more com­plete under­stand­ing of what is before you.

This is one of the prin­ci­ple gifts of Gem­i­ni, the gift of men­tal adapt­abil­i­ty. It is the source of your inge­nu­ity and prob­lem solv­ing, your tool-mak­ing pow­ers and crit­i­cal aware­ness. Ulti­mate­ly, it is your means towards the devel­op­ment of knowledge…and that knowl­edge can be passed on. This gift of Gem­i­ni is the foun­tain-source for the devel­op­ment of Civ­i­liza­tion. The foun­da­tion for it all is this process of build­ing a net­work of asso­ci­at­ed expe­ri­ences, of see­ing the whole world as a net­work of rela­tion­ships between you and the world around you.

Cel­e­brate this next step in the jour­ney of life-con­scious­ness-spir­it; mov­ing ever onward you reach for the under­stand­ing of who, what, when, where and how. You seek to know, by going out and going in, and then you repeat.

Remem­ber always, in every step, and at every stage in your jour­ney, there is but one injunction:

Know Thy­self!