Meditation, Uranus-Neptune-Pluto

Meditation is an increasingly popular practice in the Western world. Although it has been recognised in the West for some time, its origins lie mainly in Eastern and Asian cultures.

Meditation has been a common practice in these regions for around 4,000 years.

Yet meditation has always been a part of life, evolving with us, deepening in our individual and unique ways and expanding towards the universal.

The word 'evolution' is often mentioned on this blog and deserves a closer look. Evolution here is a personal idea of humanity. The power of life, from the sign of Aries to the sign of Pisces, pushes us from birth to the last breath to experience descents and ascents that could be called involution-evolution. When the different cycles of life push us towards an involution or a degradation of our archetypes, life tries to enable us to go beyond our entrenchments. By courageously going through this cycle, there comes a moment when the cycle is transformed into evolution and we experience a renewal of consciousness. However, the direct path that will enable us to touch our profoundly spiritual nature is not a question of evolution but of disidentification from the veil of our representations, and the only way to perceive this is to live our lives openly, with no more detours than our threshold of consciousness can assimilate. 

The transpersonal astrological vision of meditation speaks of Neptune in particular, but also of Uranus and Pluto, the Middle Black Moon.

The Middle Black Moon corresponds to our essence, our deepest nature. The sign and house in which it is found will be the experiences and colours we give it to touch our essential desire.

The corrected Black Moon corresponds to the process of confronting our deepest fears, those that have been put in place by the intense feeling of having been deprived and denied of what our essential desire represents and which is inscribed in the position of the Middle Black Moon. However, to avoid being absorbed by our fears, our feelings of hatred, anger and anxiety, we will first try to address them in external situations, in meditation and/or in our dreams. In other words, it is not advisable to provoke a face-to-face encounter with our deepest fears, because the risk of being invaded and dismembered by them is greater and more powerful than our current state of consciousness. In his work, Luc Bigé tells us that the Corrected Black Moon is representative of Medusa in Greek mythology. Medusa was a beautiful young woman transformed into a monster with long, sharp teeth, snakes whirling around her head and bulging eyes that pierced anyone who dared look at her, all because she had been raped by Poseidon. She is the embodiment of the hatred of having been violated. Symbolically, Medusa (the corrected Black Moon) represents our deepest and most ancestral resentments, as well as the violence we have suffered because we were forced to go through an experience we didn't ask for. And it was Perseus who cut off her head, using the reflection of his mirror-polished shield so that, without looking her in the face, Perseus could see where Medusa was and managed to cut off her head. From a symbolic point of view, cutting off Medusa's head represents that with the help of external experience and in our meditation, accessible to our threshold of assimilation, we progress by learning not to remain glued to our negative thoughts, to our tendency to add to them, to think about what's happening to us. To cut off your head is to cut off the labyrinth of the mind. So it's not a question of being interested in the shadow, but of letting it pass through us like a dream, like an image, so that it can be transformed.

The idea is to go to Uranus in our chart and use it as a mirror of detachment. In other words, living our life without identifying with it, without thinking about what's happening to us. It happens to us without adding a mental image. All we need is a little compassion for ourselves, a little love for the being inside us that is suffocated by our worries and our fear of tomorrow. Remain the observer who gently detaches himself and perceives from the top of the hill the tumult of the mind, emotions, feelings, instincts and so on.

So it's not a question of contemplating or concentrating, but like a luminous Neptune, letting ourself live by accepting what comes without provoking it. Provocation only becomes useful when we're undergoing our lives, so we provoke this or that to get things done so that we feel we exist.

So we become very busy people and when that's not enough, we look for distractions of all kinds: television, internet, ads, work, hobbies, meditation seminars, etc. We're very good at finding substitutes that take us away from our essential nature. This is how, most of the time, we are distanced from our essence, numbed by our illusions.

One or the luminous version of Pluto in our astrological chart would show us where courage should take its place, giving us a boost of depth, determination and spontaneity. Pluto helps us to let go of what is no longer necessary to our state of consciousness so that something new can emerge.

To begin with, we need to make a commitment to free ourselves from our addictions, our habits and our tendency to add to them. With Saturn we learn that spiritual discipline is a necessity; nothing falls from the sky without us having a thirst to glimpse the source. Although we will have to remain without expectation, hearing the spiritual call that precedes our thirst is, in my opinion, indispensable.

Meditation 

Sitting or lying down, with the intention of opening up and letting go, we close our eyes and enter into ourselves, our home, with love and kindness for everything that makes up our being and our personality.

We can help ourselves with a few breaths and/or the OM sound.

The trick is not to say anything to each other, not to ask for anything and not to interfere. Wherever we find ourselves, let what is happening happen without intervening, and if there are one or more interventions, let them become what they are. At a certain moment or on a certain days or months, consciousness becomes detached from thoughts and we become the observer on the hill watching what is happening in the valley. It is no longer the mind that dictates the meditative process, but the consciousness that observes the functioning of the mind that dictates the meditative process. In fact, it's not the thoughts that are the problem, but the identification with them. Let's not confuse the observer with the witness. Observation does not need to be provoked because whatever happens the witness is always there. It is at this point that we begin to disidentify ourselves from what our mind, through addictions, inculcations and fears, has inserted into our behavioural habits.

SatyamAstro