posted February 11, 2019 06:24 PM            

Pluto has the longest, slowest, deepest action. Often its harder transits can feel as if life is saying 'no' to us -- even jerking something away from us -- but we don't know why.

It is important during difficult period to understand its process (transits to the natal chart). It sets the context for the process that is attempting to empower you. Often this means being willing to let go of things, people, situations that we've held onto too tightly.

Neptune in its stronger transits can feel like we need to say 'yes' to something, but we're not sure to what exactly and are fuzzy as to what to expect. Sometimes that uncertainty can keep us holding back a while until our understanding clarifies.

Its transits can be important to navigate with an open mind and open eyes so that we aren't developing (or projecting) idealisms mid-stream that will not actually get us where we really want to go. It offers opportunities for spiritual and creative growth, but often on a conceptual level that needs to partner with more practical understanding of the actual application.

Uranus in its stronger transits can either break open our lives into new patterns to get away from the nagging mundane life or feel like it is disrupting the very patterns we relied on to feel safe and secure.

There's a certain amount of disruption and what can feel like chaos that needs to be allowed at times. This is how we keep growing so that our lives don't mildew into stagnancy. Uranus's influence can be liberating like a breath of fresh air, or it rattle us. Feeling rattled is usually just our insecurities getting revealed, and discovering we need to gain greater confidence in our ability to handle change (when it is unexpected).

Saturn teaches in a more direct way and practical way. It is instructive and often feels like the disciplinary parent saying 'no' -- until we learn to parent ourselves and preemptively say no or limit what we've learned by experience is not truly productive or beneficial.

If we are open to the practical ways in which things are completed, fully realized -- then we are more open to the 'no' or the 'not quite' that Saturn's voice seems to bring most of the time in its harder transits. Those stronger transits require being willing to let go of something to free up our time and efforts for a better priority.

Some of its transits can encourage pessimism more easily than others by a tunnel vision effect in which we focus more on the problem rather than the constructive solution. But that is not the transit itself, but what we are doing with the energies that urge us to solve the problem. Our pattern with that is usually rooted in fear-based upbringing, a feeling of inadequacy or 'not good enough' that amplifies the negative we can feel with strong Saturn transits. Address issues, solve problems, yes -- but no need to fall into feelings of failure or pessimism.

Jupiter brings 'yes' back into our lives with the confidence to try things with the expectation of success or growth. This is the much loved feeling of expansion and energy that can quite literally improve the circulation and oxygenation of our bodies in certain transits (to Asc, Mars, Sun, etc).

Some of its stronger transits can encourage indulgence through a feeling nothing can go wrong (naive optimism) -- such as Jupiter square Moon, Asc, Sun, etc. It is good to have positive, constructive objectives during these transits and set them up in positive fashion rather than allowing it to degrade into escapism or simple self-indulgence.

Expansion principle -- its best growth is to move us outwards not merely in knowledge or more experiences, but to greater social understanding, community, group strength.

Obviously, these can occur in combinations that can seem like the universe is contradicting itself yes ... no ... yes ... no ... yes. We cannot necessarily navigate by cognitive, rational directing. Intuition plays a big part (and you don't necessarily need astrology for that if you're already on a good course for the moment).

This is where an overall good transit assessment can be beneficial. Otherwise, it is simpler to keep track of when Saturn is dominating and there are practical lessons to learn, and when Jupiter is dominating so you can move forward freer and with more confidence.

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"Drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of." -- Alan Watts