Reciprocal Co-Evolution
Dear Rivers: Your deep energy session with me on February 11 was one of several significant realignments during the movement from Capricorn into Aquarius. The hour and a half you spent with me could be likened to one harp tuning another. The following three days I had few obligations, so could attend fully to subtle feelings emerging and observe my thinking and habit lives clarify and strengthen. I am so grateful that you reached out to me when "your angel tapped your shoulder."
A six-month series of group conversations with Jonathan Hilton on his Astrosophy course ended late January (https://www.astrosophy.com). That collaborative study group eased me into another stratum from which to view human and earth developments. True, I was conversant with the Zodiac and cosmic Intelligences from my studies, and had long had affinity with archetypal psychology. But Astrosophy is astrology plus Anthroposophy. My assimilation was just starting to click around the same time you contacted me to arrange a treatment.
What I learned enabled me to ascertain my pre-natal epoch, create the chart, and to see and celebrate for the first time the planetary and stellar signature of my "life body" or "etheric" body. The most pertinent discovery is two Grand Trines -- Saturn-Neptune-Mercury and Uranus-Neptune-Mercury -- both with a kite to Pluto. The dominance of the three outer planets in my pre-natal epoch affirms my outer and inner work for the last thirty years. Jonathan Hilton treats Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in Lessons 17-20 drawing on Rudolf Steiner, Elizabeth Vreede, and Willi Sucher. These planets were discovered in the last few hundred years and have to do with new faculties of human nature. To put it in Anthroposophical terms, the outer spheres may be tuned by individuals and groups -- using the metaphor of musical tuning -- to Trinitarian or Logos qualities of the Christ I Am that work to create the Universal Human. Since these outer planets move very slowly, everyone in each generation is under the same macro influences, distributed around the planet in differing combinations.
A third synchronicity this month was the launching of a documentary series tracing the manifestations particularly of Uranus and Pluto in the last three hundred years: The Changing of the Gods (changingofthegods.com). The series was inspired by Cosmos and Psyche, the 2006 book by Richard Tarnas, whose work I have been following for decades. On February 18 Tarnas presented his "State of the Cosmos 2022" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Tdh5XKnig).
I
was struck by the correlation between the related archetypal
phenomena and polarities of Uranus-Pluto-Saturn -- the astrological
highlights of the last few years spelled out in the documentary -- and
contemporary dilemmas: political, cultural polarities, lies and deception,
mis-information, "othering", scapegoating. For example, Rebel Wisdom
made a video aired around 20 January: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48G1kiMe3Y] "The Religious Wars of
the Pandemic, Endgame." The polarities that have arisen around the pandemic and particularly vaccinations could be explicated further by the archetypal astrological dimension. I
wonder if co-founders of Rebel Wisdom, Alexander Beiner, a fan of Jung, or David Fuller, will schedule a
follow-up with Richard Tarnas, with whom Fuller spoke about Jordan Peterson a
few years ago.
The Changing of the Gods was written and directed by Kenny Ausubel, founder of Bioneers. Not by coincidence, I was part of Bioneers in Pittsburgh for several years. In the photo above, taken at the Three Rivers Bioneers conference in 2010, I am displaying a pastel drawing from my series Peacedays Pittsburgh 2007 [https://sites.google.com/site/socialsculptureusa/home] rendering actual social gatherings in artistic form. Hundreds, probably thousands of cohorts like Transition Towns, Bioneers, Global Eco-Village Network, like-minded people working for regenerative economics, free creative culture, and equity are in action today.
More are learning that inner work -- what Tarnas might equate with the Jungian individuation process -- is essential to maintaining one's equilibrium and being effective in action. Paul Levy's antidote to Wetiko also rests on integrating the shadow along Jungian lines. More and more I hear the question: how can I remain strong amidst adversity, failed systems, sickness, evil? Bayo Akomolafe's fugitivity is one creative response. Healing Centered Education as applied by Shawn Ginwright is another. Capacity-building while unveiling Wetiko in self and world is the task many groups I am following are taking up. Individuation isn't the end, but the ongoing accompaniment to a next step: group spiritual capacity-building. This is what Harlan Gilbert of Threefold Education Center called for February 15, in the concluding talk of his series "The Karma of Covid:" "...we need to act together in new ways. Probably spiritual paths are the only way to lift up beyond immediate self interest."
February 20 I attended an online forum hosted by the Garrison Fellowship with Angel Acosta and Thomas Hubl in conversation about "the relational field formed and activated by contemplative leaders and compassionate scholars." Forty-seven were then guided in meditation by Hubl in the Zoom room.
Going in to it I had a flashback to a spring morning in the early 90s. I was at a retreat center in western Maryland for a Jungian dream group. I saw an invitation in the common kitchen and decided to attend a sweat lodge that was being prepared by another group. This was the one and only sweat lodge I have ever experienced; I am so grateful for having gone through this life-changing "door" to spiritual nourishment among total strangers, all our relations, and ancestors. The container Thomas Hubl guided the group into rang and vibrated powerfully. Many of the participants described getting to a next step of strength and confidence. Personally, I felt a new synchrony take place within: what I will call a heightened Imaginative plane.
Because of the session with you, Rivers, earlier this month, coupled with the revelations of my pre-natal epoch chart with Uranus Neptune Mercury and Saturn Neptune Mercury Grand Trines, I understand ever so much more clearly my driving passion to attune with others around me working in Reciprocal Co-Evolution. I first heard this phrase used by Angel Acosta on 20 February: the latest added to the long list I posted and updated here (Social Field Vocabulary, January 2021).
Will larger numbers of human beings, ever transforming in wider and deeper scope, willing to further evolution of consciousness, make a difference in the unfolding of life and death situations on the ground? Has livened awareness broken the spell of Wetiko for a critical mass?
I will keep working with my review of recent groups and watch for what is emerging. Let me know what comes up for you as we move into spring 2022.
Much love, Rosemary
