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Good morning ladies and gentlemen and Happy New Year, Happy 2022.

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Yet another year in the progress of humanity.

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Let's take it further now.

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We are talking about planets.

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We finished Satva, Rajas and Tamas in the last three podcasts.

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Now I am going to blend it with what more is considered in the western astrology,

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not so much in Vedic.

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And you got to understand a little bit of background of this, the way I understand it.

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The Vedic Astrology does not consider the outer planets, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto.

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Simply because at that time when these Vedic Sciences were propounded and expounded to the world,

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it was more of a small society, it was more of small tribes and small kingdoms living in isolation.

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There was no such concept as one world or world was not such a small place.

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Cultures did not even know the existence of one another at that time.

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So all that was needed for the times that it was given is only the personal planets.

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Because the personal planets, right and extending up to transpersonal planets like up to Saturn

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was considered the last in astrological terms.

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There is nothing beyond Saturn.

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Nothing needed beyond Saturn.

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So Saturn was considered as the last karmic point of resolution

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because everything at that time was based upon karma.

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As in a lessons to be learned in lifetimes after lifetimes and resolve it in the next one.

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So it was a fixed path to be followed going from one lifetime to the next.

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That was the only extent of learning which was given by the ancients.

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There was nothing more to it.

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There was no concept of the collective.

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There was no concept of the world as such as we know today.

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And therefore it was not necessary to be propounded in that manner.

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Now here we are in 2022 and through many many years now

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the western astrology has considered the aspect of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

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and I have found a great deal of truth in that which can be useful for us to consider as astrologers

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and as people who are interested in esoteric and evolutionary astrology

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which is what this podcast is all about is the evolution and going further beyond karma.

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We are trying to go beyond karma here.

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So we are first trying to understand the sciences and then go beyond it.

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We are not it started the beyond process yet.

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We are still trying to get to the root of what it is that we are trying to understand about the planets.

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About the aspects and so many different details about the astrological science itself.

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Later we will do the evolutionary bit but for now let's stick to outer planets and how they can be used

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and what their energies are in regard to Vedic astrology.

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Now remember I am trying to get to the point where this three outer planets

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Neptune Uranus and Pluto can be used within Vedic astrology itself

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because very astrology remember it's a sidereal time plot and it can be used pretty effectively

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but you have to understand the planetary energies first.

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So in this one we are going to discuss about the planetary energies of each one

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and how they kind of relate energetically to the already established planets which we spoke of Satvarajas and Tamas.

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Okay so let's begin. Let's first begin with Uranus the higher mind.

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I call it the higher mind.

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Uranus what are the energies of Uranus?

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First of all the lower aspect of the lower dimension of Uranus would be Mercury and Rahu the north node of the moon.

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Lower aspect think about this.

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It's like the Mercury and Rahu's higher aspect is Uranus.

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The higher mind.

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Okay so the higher aspect of Mercury becomes Uranus.

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The intellect when it graduates it becomes the higher mind.

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So what are the energies of Uranus?

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Uranus is about instigation.

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It's about individuation.

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Instigation and individuation.

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It stirs up the pot.

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Okay Uranus is basically the guy who stirs up the pot.

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So Uranus wants social change and causes.

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It works for social change and causes.

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That's why in Vedic Astrology although the ruler of Aquarius who's all about social world and social life, the other, the community at large

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in Vedic Sciences Aquarius Lord of the first house is ruled by Saturn and Rahu combined.

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They had to combine Saturn and Rahu to get the energy of an Aquarius.

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Well Western Astrology has put in Uranus there which is really very effective.

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It's very true.

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I agree with that completely.

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So I would put Saturn, Rahu and Uranus as the co-ruler of Aquarius ascendants.

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Never mind getting back to Uranus.

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So what else is Uranus about?

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It's about ingenuity and innovation.

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Uranus wherever it rules it can create innovation and ingenuity in that house in the chart.

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It's the uniqueness the person or the soul brings to the particular chart.

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Remember we are trying to be progressive here.

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Okay so individuation.

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It's about ingenuity and innovation.

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The uniqueness that the soul brings from the higher mind is felt in the chart in the particular house where Uranus is residing.

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There will be felt innovation for that person.

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The drive for the person to go in for innovating that aspect will be felt by Uranus in the chart and in that house.

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It's about rebellion and reformation.

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Uranus is about rebellion.

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It does not want to accept the norms.

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It's about reformation.

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What does it want to do with it?

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It doesn't want to accept.

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Well it wants to reform and it wants to take it to another level altogether.

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It's about individuation.

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It's a humanitarian aspect.

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You'd consider about the larger community.

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It's not about I, Me, Myself anymore.

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Uranus is about community.

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That's the higher mind.

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That's how we transcend the ego.

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We go to the higher aspects of it.

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We talk about the others not the self.

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It's a maverick planet.

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That means it does things in a very unconventional manner.

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Uranus is all about unconventional stuff.

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It is sociable and it is outgoing.

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Why? Because it's all about the aspects of the 11th house.

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11th house is about community at large.

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The greater social media, the social networks, the community outside of my door.

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It's not what's within the door anymore.

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Now we are talking when we talk of outer planets.

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All three of them we are talking about the stretch of ego.

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Beyond the boundaries of the self.

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So wherever Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are placed in a chart,

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they will drive the person towards those aspects as planets mature.

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We talked about the maturity of the planets in my YouTube channel.

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You can go have a look at age and maturity series.

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So as the planets mature, as a person matures,

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this will go more and more towards the outer side.

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So you are breaking the boundaries of personalized ego

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and your ego structures to something which is bigger than yourself.

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That's the higher mind to begin with.

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So now we take the next one.

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Neptune. Neptune stands for the higher heart.

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We talked about the mind, we talked about the heart.

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These are the two main operating modes that we humans have.

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We have the mind and we have the heart.

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We can call Uranus even the higher intellect.

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Neptune is the higher heart.

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The lower aspect of Neptune would be Venus and Ketu.

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Ketu, why Ketu? The south node of the moon.

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Venus gives the sense of beauty to us.

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Venus is the one who senses beauty.

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It's the sensing point of beauty in our lives,

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in our individual personality, in our psyche.

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So Ketu, or the south node of the moon, remember,

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is the dissolving aspect.

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You can look up to Thomasic planets where we discuss more of Ketu.

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It's the dissolving aspect.

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So Neptune, wherever it sits in the chart, it tends to dissolve.

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It has got a dissolving energy about it.

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It creates dreaminess.

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It creates detachment from material aspects.

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Let's see the aspects of Neptune.

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First, then it will become clear as we go along.

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Neptune is about inspiration and compassion.

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The higher heart is about inspiration.

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is driven to inspire in that area.

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So what are the other aspects of Neptune?

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It gives intuition.

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It gives psychic receptivity to a person.

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It's about intuition people.

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Intuition is where your higher heart comes from.

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All intuition comes from the heart and the brain translates it.

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This is the mechanism of intuition.

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Brain can translate only into linear aspects.

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The intellect only knows linear aspects.

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The higher heart, Neptune knows what is psychic receptivity.

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It's about glamour.

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It's about enchantment.

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What about those aspects where we look towards glamour as human beings?

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The glamorous one, the enchanted.

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Where are you enchanted?

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All creative art forms which have happened in the world

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and will continue to are all about Neptune's receptivity towards them.

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So detachment and break from the regular materialistic world.

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What is detachment?

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The sense of detachment is getting out of our own individual sense of materialism.

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What I want from this world, that's what we are getting out of typically.

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Material realms, getting out of the material into the more ethereal,

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into the more spiritual world.

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That's the higher heart.

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The higher heart is about others and detachment from what I gain and lose from it.

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The concept of gain and loss is very, very 3D.

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It's not very 5D.

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It's not a graduation into higher realms.

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So Neptune helps us break from that particular aspect of us.

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Material gains, it's break from material gains.

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It's break from structure because structure, who wants structure?

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Somebody who wants to see it in linear terms.

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Somebody who wants material gains, wants structure, building, brick and concrete, metal.

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All of these things are about structure.

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So Neptune wants to break away from that.

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It's about, Neptune is about culture, beauty and benevolence.

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It brings us benevolence.

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This is the higher heart aspect of Neptune.

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The last one of the outer planets, Pluto, is what I would call the higher self.

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Now the higher self, you have to understand, has nothing to do with the lower one.

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Well, jumping ahead of ourselves.

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Lower aspect of Pluto is Mars and Ketu, the Mars, the soldier, Mars, the guy who takes action

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and gets things done, gets it done, energy, Mars and Ketu, the saap lord of the moon.

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Now which sign, if you remember, has this both the energies of Mars and Ketu.

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It's the Scorpio energy, the south node and Mars rule, Scorpio.

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So the lower aspect is that Mars wants to get things done.

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Pluto, well, the higher self wants to get things done on an individual and the collective level.

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It's the slowest moving planet in the system.

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So it takes its own time, gives a lot of time for a person to make changes,

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a lot of time for the collective humanity to make changes.

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Pluto is about renewal and revival.

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It's about permanent transformation, letting go the death of the ego, is what Pluto stands for.

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Ego individually, ego collectively, individually where it figures in the chart.

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That will be the plutonic generation.

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It creates a pivotal and unearthing.

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Pluto wants to dig deep, going deep into aspects of psyche, of self,

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where the negative or the shadow aspects of the self are buried.

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Pluto will go dig it up, bring it to the forefront to be seen and observed and gotten rid of.

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The only way we can get rid of shadow within ourselves and the collective is first to see it.

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That's the toughest part of the shadow.

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Pluto is about subconscious, collective unconscious.

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It's about regeneration and rebirth through death.

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It's about dissolution of the ego and the collective ego, personal ego and the collective ego.

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When this transforms, essentially, we transform as a collective and also as an individual in our lives.

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Pluto is all about creating transformation and more transformation.

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It is not interested in keeping things stable.

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As Pluto is in the chart, in the snapshot of your birth chart, which is basically a snapshot of the zodiac

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and as it moves transition from one house to another, it will create transformations in that area of life.

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Now I have seen this very powerfully in different charts.

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It's really true. This is the way it works.

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So we will discuss more about outer planets also as blended into Vedic astrology in the podcast to come.

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Because this is a story that needs to be told.

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It really is. It's a very neglected aspect.

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And typically astrologers in India do not tend to consider this.

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They are too traditionally stuck as the last point in astrology being Saturn and nothing beyond that.

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No, there's a lot beyond that. Saturn only works up till personal karma.

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We are talking about the collective unconscious, the collective transformation.

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That's what evolutionary astrology is really about.

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So we will take more of this into account as we go along.

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Okay. So that's it for me today folks.

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Catch you up more on tomorrow's podcast and what else can we add?

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We will take different aspects. Probably I will do one on the myths and the aspects of combustion of planets.

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We will see. In the meanwhile, take care. Have a nice new year. Make some good resolutions.

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Please take care of yourself, your family, your friends, your health.

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Celebrate life. That's what it's about dear friends. Celebrate life.

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Take care and have a nice day.