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American Federation of Astrologers Convention 2006
Three-part Lecture:
Spiritual Revolution Meets Scientific Revolution
Pluto’s transit of the Galactic Center
and What This Means for the World Today
By Martin Lass ©2006
Today, we’re going to be dealing with many in-depth intellectual ideas, esoteric concepts, and challenging perspectives, to say the least. It’ll be a full-on hour and a half and only the first of three sessions. For this reason and with your permission, I’m going to begin by offering a short ten-minute meditation process designed to awaken our “organs” of perception, so to speak, other than the “organ” of the intellect. As a tool, the intellect is wonderful, but, like any tool, it has its specific area of utility, outside of which it has its limitations. You wouldn’t use a chain saw to perform brain surgery; neither would you use a pair of tweezers to move a mountain. This meditation process will also encapsulate experientially the essence of what we’ll be exploring in the next three sessions. The simplicity and directness of an experience is often better than a thousand words.
(Meditation process)
Depending on time, we’ll begin each of the other two sessions, tomorrow and the following day, with this same short meditation process.
By the way, you’re welcome to make use of the preceding meditation process, but please give credit when doing so. The process has already been copyrighted and trademarked.
Just to let you know, too, this entire lecture—all three sessions, including diagrams and references—will be available on my website at the conclusion of my last session. The lecture is also being videoed. Given this, and as we’ll be moving at quite a pace today, I suggest that it would be better to simply listen rather than taking copious notes. However, it’s up to you.
The weblink for the lecture will be www.martinlass.com/afa2006lecture.htm, but this link won’t be active until after my last session.
Introduction
We’re living in a time of unprecedented global progress, change, upheaval, and interaction. It’s a time of individual and collective transformation of consciousness of the planet. We’re in the midst of the birth pangs of a new paradigm, holographically mirrored in major deaths, transformations, rebirths, and new births in all areas of the human psyche—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and touching all “houses” of human experience and activity—physical, familial, social, financial, mental, vocational, and spiritual.
The areas we’ll discuss in the next three days—areas that are all completely interrelated in the wake of this major transit—include astronomy, astrophysics, quantum physics, metaphysics, religions and other spiritual pursuits, psychology, mythology, astrology (obviously!), sociology, ecology, energy and natural resources, consciousness, global conflicts, politics (God forbid!), earth changes, pandemic diseases, global finance, and more. Sounds like a fun day! We’ll deal with the ideological aspects first, and then later, we’ll look at the practical implications of the transit in terms of specific global issues and events.
It’s my contention that there’s nothing in our earthly or heavenly existence that will not be affected one way or another by this transit. As we explore each area in turn and interrelate each to each, a larger picture will emerge, pointing inevitably to a metafluctuation—a “phase shift,” an evolution—of human consciousness through which the world has already begun to travel.
The shift of consciousness—personally and collectively—is being, and will be, catalyzed by Pluto in the breakdown of old paradigms that have served us in the past in preparation for a quantum leap into new paradigms that are closer to Universal Truth, represented by the Galactic Center. In short, we’re in the process of shedding skins—shedding illusions about ourselves, our lives, and our place in the cosmos; illusions about where we come from, who we are, why we’re here, and where we’re going.
In place of these old paradigms—in total, constituting the current consensus reality—will be born new paradigms encompassing expanded views of reality. We’ll become aware of previously unseen connections and interrelations, and we’ll witness the meeting and reconciliation of previously opposing perspectives.
Such previously opposing perspectives that will gradually succumb to synthesis over the next thousand years and more include apparent polarities such as science and religion/spirituality, physics and metaphysics, astronomy and astrology, physiology and psychology, ancient, Native, and modern knowledge, the material and energetic/spiritual paradigms, and more. We’re seeing the beginning of this in some areas already.
The so-called New Age movement is just a minor precursor to what’s in store, and a somewhat one-sided precursor at that, as we’ll see in what follows.
Having said this, not everyone will be happy about the coming changes. Pluto sets the bar high in terms of challenging us to acknowledge, accept, embrace, love, and work with, major changes in our lives, both internally and psychologically, and externally and practically. There will necessarily be a parting of the ways.
Those who are prepared for the changes and are willing to work with them for the future will become a part of the next phase of the evolution of human consciousness—maybe even a part of the birth of the next human species, a topic I’ll cover a little later. Conversely, those who aren’t prepared and/or who are unwilling to work with the changes will suffer a different fate, the likes and details of which I leave to Pluto to mete out each according to his or her current state of consciousness.
The tectonic shift of consciousness to which we’ve been referring is akin to puberty in the human organism, where, suddenly, within the space of a few years, the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of the human being are forcibly brought together and jolted into the first real moments of self-awareness by the transforming power of sexuality. Anybody here the parents of teenagers? (I suggest that Pluto’s role in this process is self-evident.) The shift is also akin to the transition phase of childbirth, where the soon-to-be-mother temporarily all but loses her grip on her rational faculties and the checks and balances of social conditioning. I have the bruises to prove it, being the father of three! In short, in both cases, all hell breaks loose for a time, apparent chaos and seemingly destructive forces being the harbingers of a new and emergent order.
In metaphysical terms, something must die for something new to be born. This is Pluto’s way. In the case of the global shift of consciousness that we all face, our previous illusions, lies, half-truths, ignorance, biases, stances, contradictions, partisan and partial viewpoints, judgments, blame, fundamentalism, and illogic must die for greater to Truths to be revealed. Such metaphysical deaths are invariably and holographically mirrored in external events and circumstances, such as the growing global conflicts and conflagrations that we’re seeing in recent times.
Among the illusions that must die is the illusion that there’s anything in existence—anything within ourselves, within our lives, or in the life of greater humanity—that’s unconnected or unrelated to everything else.
In short, Pluto transiting the GC will try to show us the essential Unity of all things existing, encapsulated in the words, “You are me, and I am you, and we all are on a journey of awakening to our common origin in the primordial, celestial Light.”
In what follows, if it appears for a moment (or more!) that I’ve digressed from the topic at hand—digressed from the Pluto/GC event or from astrology per se—please bear with me. I will return to the main thrust, having elaborated the seemingly far outlines of the bigger picture that I wish to lay before you.
Please also bear with me if I seem to be presenting things in a haphazard manner, jumping from one thing to another. Keep in mind that Truth is like a jigsaw puzzle: the puzzle is solved randomly it seems, a piece at a time. But as the pieces come together, gradually a bigger picture—a larger Truth, in a way—appears before our eyes.
Also, bear in mind that we’re looking at a dynamic picture, not a single, static event within a linear chain of other events. The transit of Pluto and the GC, whose embryonic effects are already being felt, should be considered a “seed event” that will unfold over a substantial period. When we look at a person’s natal chart, we don’t expect that the patterns within it will all magically manifest at the moment of birth; otherwise, we’d all come out of the womb already educated, with a job, a spouse, kids, and a mortgage! Why would it be any different for the astrological event in question? We need to put such events into the larger context of their potential lives.
Part of the new paradigm augured by this transit is that our lives—terrestrially and celestially, scientifically and spiritually—are dynamic, living processes and are, as such, cycles within larger cycles within larger cycles of ongoing creation and evolution, intimately connected, even to the GC itself. I hope this will become increasingly clear today.
Lastly, you may have questions in the midst of my ramblings. Try to pick an appropriate pause in the material to interject. If the answers to such questions are contained in what I have yet to share, I may ask you to bear with me. If your question has not been answered by the end of the lecture, hopefully there’ll be time then to address such questions.
I’ll be presenting the main body of this lecture in three parts and over three days, but, for all intents and purposes, it’s one lecture. I’ll briefly recap where we’re up to at the beginning of the second day and again at the beginning of third day, in particular, for those who might be joining us for the first time.
First, I’ll present the main thrust of the argument—the overarching themes that are mirrored in the transit event. Second, I’ll present the evidence, ideas, and theories behind the actual event and behind the new paradigms that the event represents. And third, I’ll present how the world is being, and will be, affected by the event and by the emerging new paradigm—actual events and circumstances as well as possible outcomes in the real world.
The Main Thrust
Scientific Revolution Meets Spiritual Revolution
In everything that follows, keep in mind that, in this transiting conjunction, Pluto is the catalyst, Sagittarius is the stage, the GC represents our far aim, and the Sun, for reasons given in what follows, is our guiding Light, individually and collectively.
I propose that the most visible manifestation of the transit of Pluto and the GC is, and will be, the meeting and intermingling of two modern revolutions: the scientific revolution and the spiritual revolution.
The scientific revolution is more visible and has a longer history in modern times; there’s no doubt that it’s revolutionized the world in both practical and ideological ways.
In contrast, the spiritual revolution is still in embryonic form, having its recent origins in the so-called New Age movement. However, the New Age movement, in my opinion, has been merely a resurrection of ancient and Native spiritual knowledge and practices, combined with all manner of fictions and fantasies—a fitting tribute to Neptune’s part in the confluence of outer planet aspects in the 1960s that contributed to the birth of the New Age. I suggest that we’ve not yet seen the real spiritual revolution that’s taking form amidst the chaos and conflict in and between traditional religions and amidst the less defined and mistier arena of the New Age movement.
Polarized Perspectives
On the surface, science and spirituality represent two polarized perspectives—two entirely different ways of looking at the world, our lives, and ourselves. Moreover, within each side of this greater polarity are internal polarized perspectives.
In broad terms and at the risk of generalizing, science tends to occupy itself with what can be measured, with the tangible world, with logic and the intellect, with dissection, particularization, specification, and definition. Spirituality, on the other hand, tends to occupy itself with intangibles, what cannot necessarily be measured, with feeling and the heart, with holism, generalization, and merging.
Science tends to be concerned with life on planet Earth, whereas spirituality tends to be more concerned with life beyond planet Earth. Science tends to be more practical, whereas spirituality tends to be more idealistic. Science tends to look at things quantitatively, whereas spirituality tends to look at things qualitatively. Science tends to be object oriented, whereas spirituality tends to be relational.
Science has yet fully to acknowledge the interconnectedness of everything in existence, although it’s been making progress on this front in the last so many years. Whereas, spirituality has yet fully to acknowledge the full value and larger purpose of our everyday, material lives in relation to its lofty spiritual aims.
Science tends to reject, ignore, pass off, and/or mistrust the world of spirituality. I admit that this is somewhat of a generalization, because there are very many religious scientists, of which Albert Einstein was just one, who see science as a way of getting to know God and God’s Plan. Conversely, spirituality tends to reject, ignore, pass off, mistrust, or minimize our day-to-day material lives. Again, I admit that this may be somewhat of a generalization, as quite a few religions and spiritual groups give guidelines for practical living that are in line with their spiritual aims. Judaism is one example. However, there’s generally a strong bias toward the intangible spiritual life as against the material life, particularly in the so-called New Age movement. In extreme cases, adherents live entirely for the sake of a projected afterlife, extremist Muslims being examples of this.
Science tends to be mechanistic, whereas spirituality tends to be more animistic. Science tends to look at history from the perspective of “time’s arrow,” i.e. linearly and from the point of view of cause and effect, although quantum physics is now challenging this perspective. Whereas spirituality tends to look at history from the perspective of “time’s cycle,” i.e. in terms of repeating processes within repeating processes. If spirituality tends to see causes and effects, it’s more likely from the point of view of being influenced by, or aligning oneself with, divine beings of opposing inclinations, such as God and the Devil.
In geographical terms, the Eastern hemisphere has tended over history to focus on spiritual matters while minimizing material matters. On the other hand, the Western hemisphere has tended over history to focus on scientific/material matters—at least, in the last thousand years. However, this polarity has been changing in the last hundred years.
Given the preceding, Pluto’s transit of the GC and all that this transit entails is very much about bringing these two sides together into a higher synthesis that includes both sides in a broader, more inclusive understanding of the world, our lives, and ourselves.
Two Fronts: Astronomy and Quantum Physics, Linked by the Physics of Light.
Initially, we’re going to examine the meeting of these two revolutions from two fronts: astronomy and quantum physics, linked by the physics of Light.
The scientific side of the astronomy front includes astronomy itself, its “I wannabe scientific” partner, astrology, and astrophysics. I’ll refer to this trio as the “astro-ologies.”
Then, we’ll examine the spiritual side of the astronomy front, that being how the “astro-ologies” we’ve laid out mirror our spiritual journey through the cosmos. This is metaphysics. The linking factor between the “astro-ologies” and our spiritual journey is Light, as we’ll see.
The scientific side of the second front from which we’ll be approaching this topic of scientific revolution meets spiritual revolution is quantum physics, which, as science has realized in the last hundred years, is intimately connected to the macro-world of astrophysics.
Then, we’ll examine the spiritual side of quantum physics, seeing how quantum physics mirrors our psychological make-up and how it relates to our spiritual journey through the cosmos. The linking factor between quantum physics, our psychological make-up, and our spiritual journey is, again, Light with a capital “L.”
Moreover, the linking factor between the two fronts themselves—between the “astro-ologies”/spiritual journey pair and the quantum physics/psychology/spiritual journey pair—is also Light, taken in the broadest sense.
By “Light,” I mean not just the visible light spectrum, but the entire spectrum of electromagnetic energies, from radio waves to high-energy gamma rays and above. Science agrees with the use of this word in this way. However, I’ll be expanding this definition of Light—Light with a capital “L”—to include the entire spectrum of the four fundamental forces of nature: electromagnetic energy, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and gravity (although, strictly speaking, gravity is not a force but a curvature of spacetime, a dimension). In the wake of science’s efforts to unify these four fundamental forces into a Grand Unified Theory of existence, it’s reasonable and natural to expand the definition of Light in this way. There’s also another reason for doing this, which we’ll cover in what follows.
The Cosmic Hologram
As we proceed, we’ll gradually become aware, hopefully, that we’re not dealing with a collection of separate topics in different fields of study, knowledge, and experience, but with one Big Picture whose linking factor is Light, again taken in the broadest sense. I’m going to call this Big Picture the cosmic hologram.
In short, and without going into details that we’ll elaborate in what follows, the micro-world and macro-world of science mirror each other, the most obvious example being quantum physics and astrophysics; they are holograms of each other. For example, the inner “Sun” of an atom is its nucleus, and an atom’s “planets” are its shells of electrons. As above, so below.
Furthermore, the “astro-ologies” are a hologram of our spiritual journey through the cosmos. And quantum physics is a hologram of our psychological make-up.
Theoretical scientists have recently conjectured that our entire universe might just be a giant hologram. Given this, with respect to our questions about existence, whether spiritual or scientific, wherever we look, we’ll find the same answers, if we know what we’re looking for and if we have the key to unlocking the Mysteries of the hologram.
I suggest that the transit of Pluto and the GC in Sagittarius offers just such a key. In what follows, I’ll use this key to trace the outlines of the cosmic hologram. Moreover, I’ll project what the transiting conjunction itself, as a “seed event,” will mean for humanity over the next two thousand years and more.
Our Primordial Origin Mirrored in the Galactic Center (GC)
Before getting into the details, though, let’s set the stage.
Given the idea of a cosmic hologram, let me suggest that the Source (with a capital “S”) of our existence is akin to the pre-Big Bang singularity “point” theorized by science as being the primordial origin of the universe. Personally, I don’t subscribe to the Big Bang theory per se, as there are glaring inconsistencies, contradictions, and holes in the theory wide enough to drive a Mack truck through.[1] I list some of these in the endnotes, or you can research it yourself on the Internet.
Suffice to say, the Big Bang theory is a workable metaphor for our purposes if we take it not as a linear Alpha/Omega scenario, but as an eternally renewing process of creation and evolution in an eternal universe. Theoretical physicists, some involved in string theory, have already suggested such a scenario among a bevy of more bizarre possibilities.
So, the Source—the Absolute cosmic hologram—was a timeless, spaceless, omnipresent, pluripotential singularity of ultimate Light.
This singularity point is holographically mirrored at the heart of every young, mid-term, and aging galaxy—in their central quasars and/or black holes. It’s further holographically mirrored in the center of every star in the universe, including our Sun. It’s further holographically mirrored—and I’ll present evidence for this—in each one of us.
Again, the linking factor is Light, taken in its broadest sense, as we’ll soon see.
The creation of the universe from this singularity point, through the hearts of galaxies, through stars such as the Sun, through the planets, and through life on the planets, is a “descent” of Light from the primordial Source—a diffusion, a scattering, a fragmentation, a decay, a dispersion of Light. I’ll elaborate on this in a moment.
The relevant point is that the astronomical creation of the universe and our spiritual journey, from the Source to where we are in this room right now, are one and the same. We are truly astronomical beings of Light—Light meaning energy and Light meaning Spirit.
Return to GC via the Sun.
Given the preceding—i.e. the creation of the universe and ourselves as the “descent” of Light from the primordial Source—the opposite universal motion is evolution. Not just evolution of species, but evolution of mass/matter back into energy in an “ascent” of Light back to the Source/singularity.
Science is only just beginning to explore this part of the equation and to break down its infatuation with entropy. Entropy says that the universe is like a wind-up clock, ever winding down. Entropy, if carried to its seemingly logical conclusion, can only lead to the end of the universe in what’s been dubbed “The Cosmic Whimper.” Again, there are numerous flaws in this otherwise depressing scenario, not the least of which is that it’s based on the equally flawed Big Bang theory.
Evolution, is its broadest sense, is anti-entropy. When we talk about evolution, we’re not just talking about the evolution of species or the evolution of mass/matter back into energy/unified Light, but we’re also talking about the evolution of consciousness back to the Unity of the Source. Again, and I can’t stress it enough, the linking factor is Light, taken in the broadest sense.
We’ll explore the religious connotations of this latter theme later, when we talk about Pluto in Sagittarius.
So, given the above, the evolution of mass/matter back into unified energy is mirrored in processes that happen in the centers of stars and black holes—fusion of matter back into energy. In stars, this process simultaneously evolves the elements from hydrogen to helium and on up the periodic table. In black holes, this process completely transforms matter and energy back into relative singularity.[2]
This is mirrored in the metaphysical evolution of our material consciousness back into the unity of energetic or spiritual consciousness, this being our Return to the Oneness of the Source.
I suggest that our ascending journey of spiritual evolution, catalyzed by Pluto during this defining transit, is a process of the literal fusion of our Light, of our consciousness, in our spiritual Hearts.
The path takes us from our Hearts, through the hologram of the Sun, upward and out of the solar system, and eventually back to the heart of the galaxy—the GC. This is the esoteric meaning of so many mythologies throughout history, not the least of which was the Greek myth of Chiron, who, at the end of the story, is immortalized in the constellation of Sagittarius. I’ll come back to mythology later.
Notice the place of the Sun on this journey. The Sun is truly our Guiding Light in more ways than one. More on this later, too…
Pluto as Catalyst
Pluto’s part in this astro-spiritual drama will be as always: as a catalyst for breaking down old and outmoded paradigms that have outlived their usefulness. This breakdown is necessary preparation for the birth of new paradigms that are not only closer to ultimate Truth—the GC’s main theme—but that are more appropriate to the general level of consciousness of the planet as it stands in the 21st century and beyond.
Key Words: Energy and Fusion
Getting into the details of our exploration now, let me define two keywords that, I believe, encapsulate the main themes of this transit event:
Energy and fusion. And I take these words both physically and metaphysically. Keep these words in mind as we proceed: energy and fusion.
Regarding energy, which is synonymous in this new paradigm with Light, with Spirit, and with consciousness, Pluto is all about the transformation of energy and the transformation of consciousness—the movement from lower, more polarized quantums of energy/consciousness into higher, more unified quantums of energy/consciousness.
Transformation processes, though, often release astronomical quantities of chaotic energy, such as in supernovas and in nuclear bombs. Other times, though, the transformation and resultant energy output is steady, continuous, and ordered, such as in the output of the Sun’s solar fusion or in controlled fusion experiments.
Regarding fusion, such as happens in the centers of stars, in the centers of galaxies, in black holes, and, metaphysically, within the human organism during the evolution of consciousness, this is the main theme of the Galactic Center, holographically mirrored in the Sun, holographically mirrored in human fusion experiments, and I’m not talking about spontaneous human combustion! and, as we’ll see in what follows, holographically mirrored in our energetic/spiritual Hearts.
In the brightness of the Light created by fusion, we might be dazzled by the glare and so miss or ignore the evolution that’s going on inside the process, for example, the evolution of elements up the periodic table in stars. It’s even more difficult, perhaps, to see how seemingly destructive forces such as black holes and supernovas could possibly represent simultaneous evolution; psychologically, this is Pluto’s challenge during this transit event. At any rate, there’s growing scientific evidence to support the idea of evolution within outwardly destructive processes.
Similarly, the evolution of consciousness—also a fusion process, as we’ll see—is often hidden from unseeing eyes—eyes that are otherwise dazzled by the flashing lights of modern entertainment or by the empty lights of public figures who have risen upon the global stage.
Energy and fusion… keep these words in mind as we explore the meeting of scientific revolution and spiritual revolution and their linking factor, Light, taken in its broadest physical, energetic, and metaphysical senses.
The Evidence, Ideas, and Theories Behind Pluto’s transit conjunction of the GC
Dates of The Event
The dates of the transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC in Sagittarius are as follows:
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Dec 29-30 2006 (GMT) – GC 26Sag55 57, Pluto 26Sag55 03 – 26Sag57
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Exact: Dec 29 9:49am (GMT) (direct)
· July 17-18 2007 (GMT) – GC 26Sag56 25, Pluto 26Sag57 15 – 26Sag55 54 Exact: July 17 2:39pm (GMT) (retrograde)
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Oct 26-27 2007 (GMT) – GC 26Sag56 39, Pluto 26Sag54 35 – 26Sag56
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Exact: Oct 27 2007 9:41am (GMT) (direct)
I’ll leave you to work out the stations.
The average declination of Pluto for these three meetings is -16 38 (-16 32, -16 27, -16 56)
The declination of the GC in each case is about -28 56, this being outside the 23.5-degree band of the zodiac.
My calculations are based on information readily available at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/convcoord/convcoord.pl
So, given the above, we’re talking about a conjunction of Pluto and the GC, but not a parallel of declination or an occultation.[3] By the end of this lecture series, you might be tempted to say, “just as well!”
When considering these dates, remember that they represent “seed events,” representing potentials that will unfold and manifest over a long period, with the manifested themes having an even longer lifetime.
The last time Pluto transited the GC was in 1759. Those of you who are interested in the events and themes of this previous conjunction can research it at their leisure. However, I suggest that you won’t find anything particularly Earth-shattering. One reason for this, and what’s most important here, is that the current transiting conjunction is the first one that has occurred since Pluto was discovered in 1930.[4] And the first one since modern astronomers have had conceptions of galaxies, quasars, and black holes.
As always, such astronomical discoveries and breakthroughs go hand in hand with humanity’s evolution of consciousness in all areas. Since Pluto’s discovery in 1930, the pace of new discoveries that have directly affected how we see ourselves and the world around us has accelerated exponentially. Not the least of these discoveries, and one that has a direct bearing on our topic today, was the discovery in the late 1930s that the fusion of hydrogen nuclei to form deuterium releases energy. This paved a way to an understanding of the processes that happen at the heart of stars, which, in turn, birthed the idea of maybe using thermonuclear fusion as an energy source.[5] We’ll explore the spiritual parallels to this in what follows.
As part of Pluto’s challenge to expand our conception of the universe, our lives, and ourselves, I believe we need to expand our conception of astrology beyond just planets, zodiac signs, and houses. Moreover, we need also to expand our area of study, research, and conjecture outside astrology. Again, this is what this transiting conjunction offers us and is what we’re dealing with today.
What Does Pluto Mean?
So, what does Pluto mean? Among other things, Pluto is the planet of death, transformation, and rebirth. A fitting symbol for Pluto is the phoenix that sets itself alight, burns to ashes, and is then reborn from the ashes. The one word or concept that includes all three of these themes is evolution. For evolution to take place, something must die as something else is being born. I’ll add to this that transformation in relation to evolution—including the evolution of consciousness—always involves some kind of fusion. I’ll elaborate on this in what follows.
Pluto’s other themes include sexuality, which, in itself, also involves a kind of fusion, the most obvious example being the fusion of a sperm and ovum and the resultant birth of a child. The death involved in this fusion is less obvious. To understand what this death is and where it occurs, we need to understand the nature of sperm and ova as end products of a certain octave of evolution within the human organism and how this relates to our potential for the evolution of consciousness. However, this topic goes beyond the scope of our discussions today.
Suffice to say that, in the act of sex, whatever the form, and in the acts of childbirth, childbearing, and child-rearing, there’s a definite loss of potential evolution of consciousness. So, parents, you’re right… kids ruin your lives and certainly take more than they give! Fortunately, nature has organized it that the “factory” of the human organism will continue to manufacture, process, and renew both the energetic and physical substances required for the evolution of consciousness within us. What we do or don’t do with these substances is another question—a question I’ll leave for the National Enquirer to answer!
If Pluto is about transformation and evolution, then Pluto must also be about energy. Because transformation and evolution, taken in the broadest sense, are about raising frequencies—ultimately, about returning matter to energy, which is, again, a fusion process.
The effect of Pluto on the collective consciousness is twofold. It forces a parting of the ways. For those who are ready to let go of old forms and outmoded paradigms, transformation, fusion, and new birth become possible. However, the process of letting go may appear to others as destructiveness, bridge-burning, tunnel-vision, and/or extremism, among other things. Pluto has no compassion when the word is used to mean sympathy, tolerance, and/or compromise.
Conversely, those who are not ready for the transformation Pluto so forcefully brings to us and are not ready to let go of old forms and paradigms—to let them die—the results can be resistance, stubbornness, anger, conflict, violence, fundamentalism, and inflexibility, among other things—all the elements of war. Such wars can be either internal within the individual or external between people. Moreover, Pluto more often than not takes no account of people’s resistance or readiness, meting out its just rewards with the delicacy and compassion of a drill sergeant.
Either way, ready or not, Pluto reminds us that we’re just pawns in a larger game—in a larger movement of consciousness. Even global rulers who think they hold the reins of populations and steer the globe are still but minions and puppets to the larger forces of creation and evolution.
Despite this—or, rather, as part of this larger picture—we each have a choice. We each have the capacity to choose how we’ll react—how we’ll work with or against the larger movements of the collective consciousness. Pluto challenges us to transcend the current consensus reality; it challenges us to see wider perspectives, to detach from small concerns and comforts, to detach from forms, and to cast off the chains of our conditioning, habits, and lower emotions; it challenges us to step closer to the Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness represented by the GC.
So, for the purposes of our exploration, we have six keywords for Pluto: death, transformation, evolution, fusion, energy, and rebirth.
What Does The GC Mean?
The main themes of the GC are fusion, Truth with a capital “T,” Light with a capital “L,” Oneness with a capital “O,” and, dare I suggest, “Love” with a capital “L.”
Energy is naturally a theme, too, as is evolution, given that the fusion that occurs in the centers of galaxies—in their central black holes—is the ultimate evolution of matter back into energy, in accordance with Einstein’s famous equation e=mc2.
As far as Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness being themes of the GC, I’ll give supporting evidence for this in what follows—evidence from mythology, astrophysics, and metaphysics. Suffice to say at this point, it’s no accident that the zodiac sign of Sagittarius lies across the GC and that Sagittarius’s main themes include truth, inspiration, spirituality and religions, and the expansion of consciousness through education and philosophy.
What Does Sagittarius Mean?
Apart from encompassing these themes, Sagittarius is also about broad vision, enthusiasm, optimism, seeking goals, adventure, and foreign countries, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of tact, bombast, unrealistic goals, extremism, fundamentalism, intolerance, philosophical and religious arrogance, hyperbole, exaggeration, naïve or blind optimism, and so forth.
Put Pluto into Sagittarius and we only have to look at the world around us to see evidence of these themes, particularly the negative ones.
What Does the Transit Conjunction Mean?
Keeping the preceding themes and keywords in mind, and coming back to where we began today, the transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC in Sagittarius is about a metafluctuation—a global shift—of human consciousness. It’s about the death of the current consensus reality—the death of existing separatist paradigms of mechanistic science and animistic spirituality and all the social, political, religious, moral, ethical, physical, emotional, and intellectual values associated with these paradigms. And it’s about the birth of a new consensus reality, the nature of which we’ll now explore.
Given Pluto’s influence and the influence of the transiting conjunction, what, practically speaking—events and circumstances in the real world—could possibly induce such a global shift? We’ll cover this in detail a little later.
The astrological charts of the three “hits” of this transiting conjunction probably hold a great deal of valuable and interesting information. However, I’m going to leave this for others to explore. Today, I’m primarily concerned with the transit itself, its metaphysical meaning, and its possible effects on the planet as a “seed event” auguring a global shift of consciousness.
The Creation And Maintenance Of The Solar System.
Let’s now further set the stage by exploring the astronomical creation and maintenance of the solar system. This will help us understand the place and context of both the GC and Pluto.
Drawing on existing scientific evidence and theories, both mainstream and speculative, ancient metaphysics, and my own synthesis of these, the solar system was created from a quasar event that was the primordial “seed” of the galaxy. The creation-maintenance-destruction cycle of all galaxies—the Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva cosmogonic cycle, to use an ancient Vedic/Hindu conception—is encompassed in a galactic quasar-black hole cycle. Here’s a diagram:
Diagram 1.
The first thing we might notice is that we’re looking at a waveform. Everything in existence is energy manifesting as waves, whether it be oscillating sub-quark strings, electromagnetic energy, or ripples on a lake. Our galaxy currently lies about halfway between its quasar origin and its black hole demise.
Part of the diagram might appear unfamiliar, even to those of you who have studied astrophysics and theories of galaxy formation. This diagram is based on what has been unceremoniously dubbed “The Cosmic Commode” theory.
In short, galaxies begin their lives as quasars that seem to appear out of the nothingness of space, spewing out high-frequency energy, mostly in the form of gamma radiation, which gradually coalesces as matter in star formation. In this way, a galaxy comes into being. Over time, star formation peaks as the central quasar dies out. The densely-packed stars near the GC run their own cycles, ending up as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. All this matter and energy gradually migrates into the center of the galaxy, eventually forming a giant black hole. Over time, this black hole swallows the entire galaxy, a piece at a time, until it all virtually disappears down the cosmic commode without so much as a gurgle! In reality, it’s probably not as neat as that, but we won’t expand our metaphor any further in this direction. Suffice to say, from the visible light perspective, it looks as though the whole thing just fizzles out and dies.
As far as what lies beyond the black hole or what preceded the quasar, let’s just say that when science finally figures this out, they’ll simultaneously answer the long standing question of why the quantity of matter in our universe appears to vastly outstrip the quantity of anti-matter.
In short, in the galaxy stage in which we find ourselves, matter is dominant and anti-matter is recessive. Through the black hole, an anti-quasar is forming that will become an anti-galaxy in an anti-matter universe where the quantity of anti-matter far outstrips the quantity of matter—that is, in the anti-matter universe, anti-matter is dominant and matter is recessive.
As the anti-matter galaxy decays, the anti-quasar dies out, and it forms an anti-black hole. Through the looking glass, so to speak—or, in accordance with the name of the theory, out of the commode like in some B-grade horror movie!—comes a new quasar in our matter-dominated universe. And so the cycle repeats. Total balance is maintained. The first law of thermodynamics is preserved, and the second law of thermodynamics—entropy—is shown to be only half of a larger cycle. It also solves the CP violation problem, for those of you who are into atomic physics.
And to make matters more bizarre, the matter universe and the anti-matter universe are actually happening concurrently, because one is traveling forward in time and the other is traveling backward in time. And at the nodal points—quasar/anti-black hole and anti-quasar/black hole—time and space as we know it cease to exist.
The Cosmic Hologram
Let’s rearrange the elements of this diagram differently…
Diagram 2.
As we can see, the “direction” of the process is the same, but the diagram now quite clearly indicates that the process is eternally cycling, forming an infinity loop. If we wanted to be entirely accurate, though, we would superimpose the lower loop upon the upper loop, but this would be a little more confusing as a diagram.
Let’s now focus on the lower part of the diagram, because this is the part of the process that’s visible to us, more or less, and the part that’s most relevant to our topic today.
Diagram 3.
This diagram amounts to what’s been known since antiquity as the cosmogonic cycle. What we need to be aware of is that this macroscopic cycle is a hologram of a larger hologram and, as such, also contains innumerable holograms within it—cycles within cycles. Indulge me while I lay out some of the more important internal holograms—ones that are completely relevant to our exploration of the transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC, as we’ll see.
Diagram 4.
Diagram 5.
Diagram 6.
Diagram 7.
And as the songs goes, “And this brings us back to doh.” The creation and destruction of matter and antimatter in the microcosm of sub-atomic particles holographically mirrors the creation and destruction of matter and antimatter on a galactic level. Notice in this last diagram, though, that we don’t see the anti-matter side of the equation. This is happening simultaneously in the “top” part of our original infinity loop diagram.
We don’t see this side of things in our everyday lives. This last point is worth remembering, because it relates directly to the psychology of the new paradigm that we’ll be exploring in a minute. In short, half of our life is initially hidden from us.
Now, when we overlay all these diagrams, we get the cosmic hologram.
The Metaphysical Elements of the Cosmic Hologram
If we overlay all these diagrams and then extract the common elements, we get the metaphysical skeleton key of creation and evolution that’s been known from antiquity as the cosmogonic cycle of the One and the Many. Here’s the diagram:
Diagram 8.
Now, if we take the entire cosmic hologram, from the macrocosm to microcosm, and lay it out linearly, as a descending journey of Light, as we perceive it from our time- and space-limited perspective, we get the following diagram:
The Cosmic Hologram as a journey of Light
Diagram 9.
Please remember that this scenario’s an approximation, but is nevertheless adequate for our purposes.
Tracing the diagram, we see that the unified, pluri-potential, timeless, spaceless, omnipresent Light of the Source—that is, the primordial singularity point, as theorized by science—manifests innumerable quasar-black hole “seeds” within the nascent cosmic “nebula,” these “seeds” being the starting points for every galaxy. One of these “seeds”—our Milky Way galaxy core consciousness—then manifests innumerable solar system “seeds” within the nascent galactic nebula, these “seeds” being the starting points for solar systems such as ours. Then, the solar system “seed” of our particular solar system manifests a number of planet “seeds” within the nascent planetary nebula, these being the starting points for the planets we know. These planet “seeds” manifest the “seeds” of organic life, including what will later become humans, within the “nebula” of their nascent orbits. The “seeds” of what will eventually become humans on our planet Earth manifest the “seeds” of the fragmentation of consciousness—that is, innumerable psychological “personas,” so to speak.
Put more simply, the “descending” journey of Light/consciousness from the primordial Source was from singularity to galaxy to solar system to planet to organic life to human life to human personality. We are truly the descendents of the primordial Light.
The Big Bang theory is not so different from the preceding scenario except that it says that the Creation was crystallized out of the cooling embers of a primeval explosion of sorts, but with the same result in terms of the fragmentation and breakdown of unified or photonic Light into fragmented or fermionic Light. We’ll explore the physics of Light in a moment.
Despite the attractiveness, logic, and reasoning behind such linear presentations, and quite aside from the inconsistencies, contradictions, and holes in the Big Bang theory, when we take into account the creation and destruction of time and space itself—as happens in the centers of stars to a minor degree and in the centers of black holes to a great degree—and carry these to their logical conclusions,
we begin to realize that any linear explanation is only a metaphor, an approximation of what is, in Truth, a giant hologram, eternally being born, dying, and being renewed on all levels of the hologram simultaneously, cycles within cycles within cycles.
Within the hologram, and being conceived before the creation of time and space in the primordial singularity, the “seeds” or energetic nodal points on each holographic “level” are not only linked, but co-exist non-locally and eternally, beyond time and space as we know it.
As the whole of the manifested cosmos begins to evolve from these “seeds”—from these nodal points—the “seeds” in themselves also become manifest as the hubs of their respective domains, consisting of quasar-black hole on the galactic level, the Sun on the solar level, and the spiritual Heart on the human level, among others such hubs. From this perspective, each of us is potentially and simultaneously, human consciousness, solar consciousness, galactic consciousness, and the consciousness of the Absolute.
This one idea—that we are energetically, non-locally, and eternally linked in our spiritual/energetic Hearts to the Galactic Center via the Sun—makes this whole discussion relevant to our main topic of the Pluto/GC transit. It makes possible the evolution of consciousness. The place of Pluto and the other planets in relation to the Sun in this holographic picture will become clearer as we proceed.
Energy/Mass and Spirit/Matter
Now, if it looks like I’ve made an unjustified leap from energetic physics-based processes to a consciousness-based, even spiritual-metaphysical process, the new paradigm doesn’t make a distinction between these two sides and views them holographically as one and the same. But for the sake of clarity, and to justify my position, let me backtrack for a moment.
What’s energy?
It’s the thing that makes things move, or heat up, or change state. OK… So, what’s that thing? Encyclopedia Britannica tells us that energy is “the capacity for doing work.” OK… So, what’s “capacity,” taken on its own?
If we look at the roots of the word “energy,” we get en, meaning “in,”, “within,” “of itself,” or “Being,” plus erg, meaning “work” or “force.” Taken together, we get a force that is contained within, that is innate, that is. Within what? Innate in what? Things that move, heat up, or change state. But what makes them move, heat up, or change state? Energy.
If you get the feeling that we’re running around in circles, you’re not alone. Let me explode a common myth: no one, not even scientists when pressed on the point, knows what energy is in itself. We all know what it does and how it acts in relation to the material world around us. We call this kinetic energy. Its essence is movement. We even have a name for energy when it’s within a thing, but where the thing doesn’t necessarily move, heat up, or change state: potential energy. Its essence is stillness. But having a name for a thing doesn’t mean we actually know what it is.
Energy is intangible, ultimately indefinable, and describes some kind of innate moving force or potential in a certain direction or with certain potentially expressible attributes. In a sense, energy is the unmoving mover, the hidden source of all that exists in our everyday material world. Science would agree, providing the terminology doesn’t get too metaphysical or religious.
There are different orders of energy—different levels, frequencies, and potentials. The energy of the primordial Source/singularity was the be-all and end-all of potential energy. In contrast, each aspect of the Creation around us, including each one of us, represents a piece—a kinetic expression—of that primordial, potential energy.
Now ask a religious person to define Spirit. Interestingly, you’ll get pretty much the same answers, but stated in spiritual and metaphysical terminology—from the omnipresent, unknowable, ineffable, unmoving mover of the Source/God to the hierarchy of Spirit to the God-spark that resides in all things, including each one of us.
Moreover, science and spirituality/religion have a common aim: spirituality/religion is looking for, and looking to, the spiritual Source of Creation, such as a theologized God, where science is looking for, and looking to, the energetic Source of the Universe, such as a theorized pre-Big Bang singularity. Different terminology; same thing.
Interestingly, science and spirituality/religion also use the same word, “Light.” The Light of Spirit; the Light of energy. Scientific use of the word Light with a capital “L” means, effectively, all energy in the universe, from the lowest to the highest frequencies.
When pointing out these parallels, I have spiritual/religious people say to me that it somehow diminishes the conception of God and Spirit; and I have scientific people say to me that it’s certainly not what they mean when they say “singularity,” “energy,” or “Light.” As far as I’m concerned, though, it neither diminishes either side nor encroaches upon either side’s sacred ground. Quite the opposite, it expands our conception of existence by bringing together science and spirituality/religion. It does nothing to destroy the essential Mystery of existence that neither science nor spirituality/religion can touch.
Now… What’s matter?
Coming back to our trusty Encyclopedia Britannica, we find the definition: Matter – the substance of which a physical object is composed : material substance that occupies space, has mass, and is composed predominantly of atoms consisting of protons, neutrons, and electrons, that constitutes the observable universe, and that is interconvertible with energy.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons? Or, for that matter, any other sub-atomic particles of which atoms are composed? On one side of the coin, science calls them “particles,” because, when observed in a certain way, they act like macroscopic objects such as bullets. But on the other side of the coin, the same “particles” are regarded as intangible “waves” of energy, because, when observed in a different way, they act like macroscopic “waves” such as the waves on an ocean.
String theory goes one step further. It says that all sub-atomic particle/waves are actually vibrating strings. Strings of what? Strings of energy. Kinetic energy.
Who or what is making the strings vibrate? Don’t know. Neither do scientists.
Cutting to the chase, after Einstein released his famous equation, e=mc2, which says that matter can be converted into energy and energy can be converted into matter, and after really examining the implications of the Big Bang theory, despite its flaws, and the nature of the manifested universe, science admits that matter is, in fact, a form of kinetic energy, energy slower in frequency than what we generally regard as pure energy.
It’s a kind of “frozen” or “condensed” energy”—“frozen” or “condensed” Light.
Given the preceding, is it unreasonable to pronounce the following statements?
1) The energy or Light with a capital “L” of science is the same thing as the Spirit and Light of spirituality/religion. Light/energy is the linking factor. Everything is Light, whether material mass or energy, whether metaphysical Matter or Spirit. Light is the linking factor, physically and metaphysically.
2) The scientific creation of the universe, meaning the ultimate potential energy singularity breaking down or “descending” into a hierarchy of frequencies of kinetic energy, some of which we call matter, is the same thing as the spiritual/religious Creation of the world, meaning the Light of the Absolute Source/God descending into a hierarchy of Spirit and the material (natural) world around us. Again, Light/energy is the linking factor.
I realize that there are going to be some people who are going to be really pissed at these statements. How dare science intrude upon spirituality/religion’s sacred ground! And how dare spirituality/religion presume to take science’s words and concepts and use them to support their unscientific premises! (Forgetting, of course, the revisionism that occurred at the beginning of the so-called Age of Reason!)
In this one issue, we can perhaps begin to see the potential volatility of the transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC in Sagittarius, particularly when it’s acted out on a global stage.
Light and Consciousness
So, what about consciousness? I’ve used the word many times already within the context of the creation and evolution of the universe. Encyclopedia Britannica states that consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of something within oneself or external to oneself. Alternatively, the “state of being” characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought.
Without getting into a long metaphysical discussion here, it’s fair to say that consciousness is one of those concepts, like energy, that we understand very little about. We know what it feels like, we can see the results of it through brain-scans or in the actions and reactions of living creatures, and we insist that we possess it, but when it comes to the crunch, we have little idea of what consciousness is in itself.
Permit me to make a leap here: consciousness is energy. Consciousness is Light. Consciousness is Spirit. Consciousness acts upon the world and causes the world to move.
The Creation of the universe was the descent of consciousness as Light/energy from total Consciousness with a capital “C” to fragments of consciousness that we call matter, including each one of us. Certain physicists would agree with this, David Bohm being one. Evolution of the universe is the ascent of consciousness as Light/energy from fragmentary matter back to the total Consciousness of the singularity/Source/Absolute, as in our diagrams of galactic creation, maintenance, and destruction/evolution.
As Light is hierarchical in terms of frequency or vibration—it covers a spectrum from low to high frequencies—and energy is hierarchical in terms of frequency, so consciousness is hierarchical in terms of frequency. Greater frequency equals greater consciousness; lesser frequency equals lesser consciousness. From this perspective, rocks are less conscious than humans are, and the Sun is more conscious than humans are. Think back to our previous diagrams and discussions.
The Living Picture
Given the preceding, the entire universe as Light/energy/consciousness—the whole shebang… galaxy, solar system, Sun, planets, Earth, humans, animals, inanimate matter—is living. In this context—in this new paradigm—everything, whether traditionally animate or inanimate, is alive by the fact that everything contains, is made up of, and is moved by, energy/Light/Spirit/consciousness. Without energy/Light/Spirit/consciousness, nothing would exist.
Energy, Light, Spirit, and consciousness are all synonymous with each other. They are different faces of the same thing—different faces of the indefinable Mystery of existence.
Given everything we’ve discussed now, we can make the broad statement that our journey through the cosmos, individually and collectively, is a living journey of energy/Light/Spirit/consciousness through the cosmic hologram.
Astronomical Evolution of Light in the Sun and in the GC
We’ve used the word “evolution” now many times, but need to clarify it more. If the “descending” journey of Light/consciousness—in total, the Creation—is a journey of fragmentation, of diffusion, of multiplication from the primordial Unity and Oneness into Manyness, a process that I’ll elaborate further when we explore the physics of Light in a moment, then the reverse journey—the ascent, the Return, evolution—must be the reverse process, that is, the process of the Many returning to the One.
Where can we see such processes? Well, in the GC and in the Sun, to name two places. Going back to some of our previous diagrams, we’ll notice that, in the “upward” evolutionary sweep of the galaxy’s cosmogonic cycle, stars and all the matter of the galaxy are gradually “digested” and become increasingly unified within the black hole of the GC, increasing in potential energy—as opposed to kinetic energy—to virtual infinity at the center.
Similarly, in the “upward” evolutionary sweep of the solar system, the planets and all the matter of the solar system are gradually “digested” in the Sun. In the process, the Sun eventually becomes so massive and dense, that separate atoms of matter literally collapse into neutrons, the many sub-atomic particles becoming ever more unified as they attempt to return to the primordial Source/Unity.
Similarly, we can see evolution—the evolution of Light/consciousness—taking place in the human spiritual Heart. I’ll elaborate on this shortly.
We might have noticed that the lines between what we call “destruction” and “evolution” are somewhat blurred. The fact is, during the evolution of energy/Light/Spirit/consciousness, matter is destroyed.
If this bothers some of us, consider where the evolution of the human species appears to be leading us, particularly since the birth of the Electronics and Information Ages. We’re increasingly moving from a physical way of life to an electronic way of life; we’re becoming more energy-oriented.
And what’s information? According to physics, information is the ordering of energy. In computers, we seek to put ever more information—ever more order—into smaller spaces, and we’re now even looking at how we can store as much information as possible within atomic states… atomic states of energy, such as those that lie within atoms and photons.
In short, as we move from the physical world into the energetic world, we’re required to pack more energy—more order and more information—into smaller, higher frequencies spaces. Moreover, we’re actually trying to put our consciousness into electronic format. The natural evolution of consciousness of the human species will be to move away from physical forms, into electronic forms, into quantum forms, and so forth. Eventually, we’ll give away our bodies and exist as pure energetic consciousness. Such possibilities are explored by such physicists as Fred Hoyle, Freeman Dyson, and William Tiller.
Given what we’ve said about scientific energy/Light and spiritual/religious Spirit/Light being one and the same, isn’t this what religions say, too? That we’re destined to leave behind the life of the natural body and ascend into a spiritual body?
Of course, the body is afraid of dying, and we tend to identify with the body and our material existence first and foremost. So, the destruction of matter seems like a terrifying prospect. However, the destruction of matter can be chaotic, or it can be ordered. Take the preceding example of putting human consciousness into electronic/energetic form as an example of the latter.
Where the destruction of matter is chaotic, the whole process recycles in cosmogonic cycles within larger cosmogonic cycles—“reincarnation,” in a manner of speaking. Where the destruction of matter is ordered—that is, toward greater unity and consciousness—we have the process of evolution through new birth into a higher quantum of existence, into a higher frequency or vibration of energy/Light/Spirit/consciousness.
A stellar supernova event is a perfect example of this. When a star has “spent” all it fuel and “digested” all of the matter in its solar system, including the planets, it collapses upon itself. The resulting explosion casts off a great amount of debris—disordered destruction. This debris eventually gets recycled in future star formation. What’s not cast off from the supernova becomes tightly packed into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole—ordered destruction/evolution of matter and low-frequency energy into higher-frequency, highly ordered energy.
Metaphysical Evolution of Light/consciousness in the Heart, Sun, and GC
The evolution or ascent of Light/consciousness—i.e. the ordered destruction of matter, mirroring the raising of consciousness—takes place via what were initially the “seeds” of each holographic level of the cosmic hologram. As previously indicated, these “seeds” or “nodes” become the hubs of their respective holographic domains of creation, manifesting, among other things as the black hole GC and the Sun. One of the other “hubs” mentioned is the human spiritual Heart.
The evolution or ascent of human Light/consciousness occurs by bringing our fragmented “personas”—i.e. the material stuff of our emotional/mental lives, which is holographically mirrored by the planets of the solar system—into greater unity in the fusion vessel of the human organism.
That fusion vessel is the spiritual Heart, which perfectly and holographically mirrors the fusion point in the Sun and, further up the hologram, the fusion point in the GC.
The psychological process of bringing our fragmented “personas” into greater unity consists of none other than the resolution, dissolution, reconciliation, and transformation—collectively called the “collapsing,” which is a physics term—of the issues, themes, and traits represented by the planets. In this, we can see the true meaning and power of astrology.
Recall that the “seeds”/nodes/hubs of each holographic level of the cosmic hologram are eternally and non-locally connected, beyond time and space as we know it.
Given this, as we “collapse” the human hologram of issues, themes, and traits, and, in this way, focus our Light/consciousness in the spiritual Heart, we are holographically and non-locally connecting to the focused Light/consciousness of the Sun, the focused Light/consciousness of the GC, and the focused Light/consciousness of the Source/Absolute.
I’ll elaborate on the physics and metaphysics of this psychological process in a moment.
Love
By the way, there’s another name for this kind of focused energetic consciousness and that’s “Love” with a capital “L,” in the unconditional sense of the word, as opposed to the conditional love represented by fragmented material Light/consciousness. I’ll support this assertion in what follows.
Truth
Another attribute of this kind of focused consciousness brings the bacon home in terms of the relevance of the upcoming transiting conjunction.
That attribute is Truth with a capital “T,” as opposed to the half-truth, illusions, misperceptions, lies, judgments, blame, and other one-sided emotional states associated with fragmented materially oriented Light/consciousness. Again, I’ll support this broad assertion in a moment when we look at psychology in relation to the physics of Light.
Bringing it Back to the Transiting Conjunction of Pluto and the GC
As a whole, the evolution of Light/consciousness within the preceding hubs or nodal points of focus results in greater Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness, closer to the Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness of the GC and, further up the hologram, of the primordial Source/Absolute.
Given this, if Pluto is the planet of transformation and evolution of consciousness, and the GC is about Truth and greater Unity, and we’re interested in the evolution of consciousness, in Truth, Light, Love, and Oneness, then we should be very interested in the transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC, which is our main theme today.
The Place of Extreme Planets Such as Pluto
Before moving on to our next topic, which is the quantum physics of Light and how this is psychologically mirrored in each one of us, let’s take a closer look at Pluto and its place in the larger astronomical and metaphysical picture.
The solar system was formed from a Ray of Light spiraling out of the quasar-center of the galaxy, which eventually coalesced as the planets and Sun. The next series of diagrams shows the process, illustrates the important aspects of the process, and shows how this all results in specific planetary attributes.
Diagram 10.
Diagram 11.
Diagram 12.
Diagram 13.
Diagram 14.
Diagram 15.
(Copyright © and courtesy of Dr. John Demartini)
Note: the Ray of Creation spirals in from the outside to the center, via Saturn, then spirals out from the center to the outside, via the Sun, re-collecting the pieces (the planets) on the way, and returning to the Unity of the GC.
Diagram 16.
Diagram 17.
Considering the preceding diagrams, I suggest the following:
1) Each planet’s orbit is colored by the main star constellations through which its originating Ray passes, giving each planet its basic themes.
2) The wider the orbit of a planet, the more diffused, fragmented, or polarized is the Light of the originating Ray, and, in the mirror, so to speak, so is the planet’s consciousness, its issues, and its themes.
3) The more elliptical a planet’s orbit is, the more extreme are the expressions of its basic themes.
4) The more tipped to the plane of the ecliptic a planet’s orbit is, again, the more extreme are the expressions of its basic themes. Moreover, the more likely it is that the planet’s perspectives originate outside the main Ray of our solar system, thereby offering alternative and useful perspectives on the solar system’s journey of evolution of consciousness.
Given the preceding, Pluto and Chiron—representing outer planets and comets, respectively—represent the solar system’s most extreme expressions as well as potentially offering us extremely broad (extra-solar) perspectives.
Considering the way the Ray of Creation spirals in on the descending journey and spirals out on the ascending journey (as in diagram 15.), the outer planets offer the greatest challenges. They challenge us to “collapse”—i.e. resolve, dissolve, heal, and transform—not only their own themes, issues, and polarities, but those of all the inner planets that lies within their wide orbits.
Moreover, the outer planets, such as Chiron and Pluto, encompass expanded time frames—ever larger perspectives—not only because of their orbital periods, as we know from traditional astrology, but because of the “collapsing” of time and space required to work through their themes and issues and come into the central focus of the relatively timeless and spaceless Sun (which is holographically mirrored in the greater timelessness and spacelessness of the solar magnetopause—the boundary of the solar system—and, further “up” the hologram, of the GC).
In this way, Pluto challenges us to bring together increasingly wide tracts of time and space—past, present, and future, here, near, and far—and to see the larger picture, the greater Truth, the greater Oneness, that contains our lives. It short, Pluto is challenging us to see the larger hologram of which the solar system and our lives are but a reflection. The next largest hologram is the hologram of the galaxy, centered in the black hole GC.
So, again, we come back to the importance of our main topic. The transiting conjunction of Pluto and the GC will necessary amplify the power, effect, and urgency of our evolutionary journey of consciousness.
The Quantum Physics of Light and Psychology
To further support our case and to enable us to understand further the themes at hand, let’s look at the physics of Light, after which we’ll see how this directly relates to the psychology of our possible evolution of consciousness, as catalyzed by Pluto during this transiting conjunction.
We’re told that Light is electromagnetic energy in the form of waves propagating through space. We’re also told that Light can act either as particles or as waves, depending on how we choose to observe it. The particle paradigm is initially most useful to our understanding.
The basic particle of Light is a photon, which is a part of a class of particles called bosons. Bosons are considered “force particles. They are “particles” of potential energy, unpolarized, undivided, chargeless, massless, spaceless, timeless, and, in effect, occupying both sides of the matter and anti-matter world simultaneously. They travel at the speed of light, although their frequencies can vary.
Putting this into more or less practical terms that we can more easily imagine, if we were to accelerate ourselves to the speed of light and become a photon, which, according to Einstein’s famous equation e=mc2, would mean converting the entire mass of the universe into energy, we would find ourselves simultaneously occupying every point in the universe and every point in time. We would be omnipresent, relatively speaking. We would also find ourselves simultaneously in the matter universe and the anti-matter universe. In addition, we would be at One with every other particle in existence.
This would be the state of the singularity/Source/Absolute. In spiritual terms, we’re talking about total enlightenment. Notice the word “en-lighten-ment.” This is no accident.
Now, in particle physics, when a photon of Light collides with a pre-existing electromagnetic field or, in the particle paradigm, with another particle, it can split or, to use the physics word, decay, into secondary particles. For example, a photon can split into an electron and a positron.
Such secondary particles are collectively called fermions. Unlike bosons (such as photons), fermions are particles of kinetic energy, polarized, divided, having charge and mass, occupying space and time, and, in effect, occupying one or the other side of the matter and anti-matter worlds. For example, in the case of an electron and a positron decayed from a photon, the electron occupies our visible matter universe, whereas the positron occupies the invisible anti-matter universe.
Here’s a diagram showing what we’ve just learned:
Diagram 18.
As we can see from the diagram, this process and its continuation in further levels of decay (tertiary, quaternary, etc.) is the basis for the creation of the visible material universe.
Here’s the metaphysical correlation:
Diagram 19.
And here’s the psychological correlation:
Diagram 20.
Basically, the fragments of human consciousness—personas, consisting of visible and expressed polarized emotions, thoughts, judgments, half-truths, lies, illusions, beliefs, biases, resentments, infatuations, elations, depressions, conditions, and expectations—are all fermion particles of matter/Light.
But for every visible and expressed persona, there exists a hidden and repressed, complementary opposite anti-persona within our subconscious. These anti-personas—fermion particles of anti-Matter/Light—represent the balancing sides of our visible and expressed personas. They represent the other side of coin, the other pieces of the puzzle, the other parts of the Bigger Picture.
Although I don’t have time today to elaborate this particular topic, let me say that this is not a mere analogy between psychology and the physics of Light. Our psychology is the physics of Light.
The reverse process is called the “collapse,” where fermions, such as a positron (which is anti-matter) and an electron (which is matter), collide. When they collide, they annihilate each other, and, in a flash of energy, they birth a new uncharged particle: a boson, such as a photon, for example. Here’s the diagram:
Diagram 21.
Here’s the hologram of this on the solar system level:
Diagram 22.