The Shifting Sands of Identity, Gender & Sexuality

The Shifting Sands of Identity, Gender & Sexuality

under a PISCES SOLAR ECLIPSE

 FEBRUARY 2017

We are constantly embedded in a complex mix of energies and how those energies impact us or motivate our thoughts, feelings and expressions is dependent too on a complex mix of energies -where we are located, the context or environment in which we find ourselves, the time that the energies are in effect, who we inherently are - what aspects of us can be aroused....

So the available energy at any time - existent and embedded in us - is capable of wearing many different -but related - faces or morphing into variant forms - depending upon the type of and degree of resonance with each individual

Selecting universal themes from the signature of any significant energy event -like an eclipse - involves selecting from a range of related possibilities/probabilities which are consistent with contemporary themes impacting humanity.

In 2017 there is again in the world a widening divide at the same time as a merging together -conflicting and contradictory forces which are creating deep divisions in communities, within nations and in global politics.

Many can detect elements of prior extreme historical periods when brutal and repressive forces led in the worst cases to the outright slaughter of great numbers of people who were depicted as deficient, defective, threatening, impure, unholy - attitudes that are based not in a rational mind but stem from a far more instinctual panic residing in the ancient part of the human brain.

2017 is occurring at a time of expanded social awareness where one sector of humanity is predisposed towards inclusion and so this is some protection against a potential outright contagion of instinctual panic and a return to widespread repression of our species' progression towards greater expression of true humanity.

Sometimes it feels like there is not just one human species but two - at war - with completely different consciousness - and in truth this consciousness difference is real because without love, compassion and inclusion and without embracing an expanded view of human potentials and variations our humanness remains very primitive.

The Pisces solar eclipse of late February 2017 sees compassionate energies from the sun and moon merging in conjunction = a new beginning, elevating for many their capacity to feel empathy and support for others, wanting to help and understand those who are suffering, mistreated, excluded.

Mercury and Neptune also in Pisces at the time of the eclipse add further emphasis to this refining influence..enabling many to resolve to "become a better person".

Along with this surge comes a big dose of "confidence to be different" - from the Mars and Uranus combination in Aries - and with Jupiter in Libra linked in - social confidence, joy and pleasure have certainly been delivered to many by this eclipse.

Many will feel predisposed to assert who they truly are

With a 6 month effective process an eclipse is usually a life-changing influence

A very appropriate example of the eclipse effect was on display in Auckland on Feb 25 - the pride parade celebrating gender diversity.

A colourful and high energy community event supported by thousands of observers, this LGBTI event typifies the spirit of inclusion, diversity, fun, - essentially with the message that being different is actually the underlying human condition - we are all essentially "different" -though for many that difference has been repressed in so many contexts.

ln fact the age of labels must surely be close to ending within this context of the fluidity of identity and of gender and sexual preference being so much spoken of -and when young children are independently self asserting their preferences we truly are living in a new age of expanded social dynamics.

The essential message of this eclipse was earlier posted as follows:

The best of February 2017

could be discovered in the context of the Pisces solar eclipse energies of the 26th.
After the Fire comes a lot of Deep Water.

An outpouring of compassion or a sense of one-ness and connectedness is possible in mass gatherings that address the fundamental relating issues facing humanity.
On a personal level the same opportunities are on offer:

How can we co-exist in a better, more harmonious, compassionate way?

How can I access my strength, bravery and confidence in order to enhance my enjoyment of others in social interactions?

A nation that feels inherently secure does not need to banish broad swathes of humanity but until the end of 2017 a pronounced fear of the foreign has more opportunity to take root where that fear is encouraged.

On an elemental level -torrents of water are the likely outcome in many global locations

EXTRACT FROM 2017 ASTROLOGY

Astrology - Millennial and Baby Boomer Generations

Having failed to find clear defining dates for identifying Generation Y, the Millennial Group, social research exposes a clear knowledge gap: the lack of appreciation of energy cycles. These are what identify the traits of any identified generation

The strongest prevailing energy within the loosely defined 1980's-1990's period for Millennial group births is the passage of Pluto through Scorpio from November 1983-November 1995.

To understand the traits described as identifying Millennials and how they could relate to the qualities derived from a planet in a particular zodiac sign requires some acceptance that everything is energy, that energy has qualities, that energy has cyclic patterns. Every change of experience is the result of perceiving a different "feel" in the energy. We are energy, embedded in energy and that energy is literally on a universal scale, inescapable. It's the fabric of our existence.

When you're born as a separate being your operating system [mind] is imprinted with the prevailing energies at that time, the pattern and qualities of which are presented visually as an astrological birth chart showing where the Sun Moon planets were located and what connections or synergies were happening amongst those forces.

Millennial traits identify significant generational aspects of personality - but not the full personality because human complexity allows for contradiction and modulating factors as well as individuality. So it's not like a generation produces a breed of clone-minds but instead more like some very similar DNA.

4 often-identified aspects of the millennial personality

involve how they relate to others, how they relate to themselves, how they deal with materialism & money.

These areas comprise the Survival Skills of Millennials

1. oriented to networking, teamwork & friendships
2. entitlement and narcissism - Me Me Me
3. big spenders especially in technology & experiential costs
4. re-inventing sexual behaviour - different sexual expectations, styles and for some less interest entirely


The astrological correspondences are strong when the impact of Pluto in Scorpio is fully examined.
Scorpio belongs to the fixed energy group: Scorpio, Taurus, Leo, Aquarius.
The holistic multi-dimensional nature of energy [its quantum aspect] means that no single energy exists: all energy is multi-faceted -at the very least quadrupolar, consisting of 4 poles operating magnetically.
This aspect of physics applied very readily to the grouping of astrological energies into sets of four.
This means that irrespective of which single sign is involved in a planetary transit - as in Pluto in Scorpio -that all four are activated
This is the same with any individual born under a Sun sign - so all Scorpios will also have traits of Leo, Taurus and Aquarius, all Sagittarians will also have Gemini, pisces and Virgo traits, all Capricorns will display Cancer, Libra and Aries traits - whichever of the 3 energy groups you belong to means you are very linked in expression to the other 3 members of your group.

When Pluto was in Scorpio in the time frame November 1983-November 1995 the effect of Pluto's transiting energy was to radically transform the significant expressions, attitudes and experiences of all those born then.
The specific aspects of transformation fit strongly with the energies of the Scorpio-Taurus-Leo-Aquarius grouping, where each has a distinctive style but all are DNA programmed towards Survivalism.
In the Millennial mind

• Scorpio's domains are power, uses of power, power abuse, sex, domination, the metaphysical 
• Taurus is about physical survival - what things or conditions of life are considered essential
• Leo is the Ego, the root of narcissism and entitlement, the born-to-rule-and-be-attended-to philosophy
• Aquarius is the love of technology, networking, friendships, teamwork

The last time Pluto activated all 4 of these energies was in fact the Baby Boomer era - when Pluto transited Leo. 

Again social researchers cannot find agreement but June 1939-June 1958 [ with some months excepted] was the period when Pluto was in Leo. 
So this period also saw Leo, Aquarius , Taurus and Scorpio strongly activated for this generational sector, many of whom have parented the Pluto in Scorpio millennials - but the expressions were not so extreme.
In the baby boomer generation the 4 expressions were all explored but with different emphasis.
Yes the baby boomers were into sexual indulgence [ Scorpio ] materialism and money [ Taurus ] changing society [Aquarius ] and very creative forms of self expression [Leo ]  - overall more self satisfying intentions although many movements for social change were inherited by those born at the later stage or perpetuated by those born earliest in this generation- and it seems all these drives motivating the baby boomers have been modified and customised to fit a vastly different global mood. The visions of hope and prosperity held by baby boomers have been overwhelmed in the millennial mind with angst, anxiety, insecurity, hopelessness - the knowing too much [information] that has not been soothed by the building of inner resilience.
Both generations were born with survivalist instincts but baby boomers did not have to face unconquerable challenges.
The survival threat has gone up several notches.