Good morning ladies and gentlemen and Happy New Year, Happy 2022.
Yet another year in the progress of humanity.
Let's take it further now.
We are talking about planets.
We finished Satva, Rajas and Tamas in the last three podcasts.
Now I am going to blend it with what more is considered in the western astrology,
not so much in Vedic.
And you got to understand a little bit of background of this, the way I understand it.
The Vedic Astrology does not consider the outer planets, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto.
Simply because at that time when these Vedic Sciences were propounded and expounded to the world,
it was more of a small society, it was more of small tribes and small kingdoms living in isolation.
There was no such concept as one world or world was not such a small place.
Cultures did not even know the existence of one another at that time.
So all that was needed for the times that it was given is only the personal planets.
Because the personal planets, right and extending up to transpersonal planets like up to Saturn
was considered the last in astrological terms.
There is nothing beyond Saturn.
Nothing needed beyond Saturn.
So Saturn was considered as the last karmic point of resolution
because everything at that time was based upon karma.
As in a lessons to be learned in lifetimes after lifetimes and resolve it in the next one.
So it was a fixed path to be followed going from one lifetime to the next.
That was the only extent of learning which was given by the ancients.
There was nothing more to it.
There was no concept of the collective.
There was no concept of the world as such as we know today.
And therefore it was not necessary to be propounded in that manner.
Now here we are in 2022 and through many many years now
the western astrology has considered the aspect of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
and I have found a great deal of truth in that which can be useful for us to consider as astrologers
and as people who are interested in esoteric and evolutionary astrology
which is what this podcast is all about is the evolution and going further beyond karma.
We are trying to go beyond karma here.
So we are first trying to understand the sciences and then go beyond it.
We are not it started the beyond process yet.
We are still trying to get to the root of what it is that we are trying to understand about the planets.
About the aspects and so many different details about the astrological science itself.
Later we will do the evolutionary bit but for now let's stick to outer planets and how they can be used
and what their energies are in regard to Vedic astrology.
Now remember I am trying to get to the point where this three outer planets
Neptune Uranus and Pluto can be used within Vedic astrology itself
because very astrology remember it's a sidereal time plot and it can be used pretty effectively
but you have to understand the planetary energies first.
So in this one we are going to discuss about the planetary energies of each one
and how they kind of relate energetically to the already established planets which we spoke of Satvarajas and Tamas.
Okay so let's begin. Let's first begin with Uranus the higher mind.
I call it the higher mind.
Uranus what are the energies of Uranus?
First of all the lower aspect of the lower dimension of Uranus would be Mercury and Rahu the north node of the moon.
Lower aspect think about this.
It's like the Mercury and Rahu's higher aspect is Uranus.
The higher mind.
Okay so the higher aspect of Mercury becomes Uranus.
The intellect when it graduates it becomes the higher mind.
So what are the energies of Uranus?
Uranus is about instigation.
It's about individuation.
Instigation and individuation.
It stirs up the pot.
Okay Uranus is basically the guy who stirs up the pot.
So Uranus wants social change and causes.
It works for social change and causes.
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
in Vedic Sciences Aquarius Lord of the first house is ruled by Saturn and Rahu combined.
They had to combine Saturn and Rahu to get the energy of an Aquarius.
Well Western Astrology has put in Uranus there which is really very effective.
It's very true.
I agree with that completely.
So I would put Saturn, Rahu and Uranus as the co-ruler of Aquarius ascendants.
Never mind getting back to Uranus.
So what else is Uranus about?
It's about ingenuity and innovation.
Uranus wherever it rules it can create innovation and ingenuity in that house in the chart.
It's the uniqueness the person or the soul brings to the particular chart.
Remember we are trying to be progressive here.
Okay so individuation.
It's about ingenuity and innovation.
The uniqueness that the soul brings from the higher mind is felt in the chart in the particular house where Uranus is residing.
There will be felt innovation for that person.
The drive for the person to go in for innovating that aspect will be felt by Uranus in the chart and in that house.
It's about rebellion and reformation.
Uranus is about rebellion.
It does not want to accept the norms.
It's about reformation.
What does it want to do with it?
It doesn't want to accept.
Well it wants to reform and it wants to take it to another level altogether.
It's about individuation.
It's a humanitarian aspect.
You'd consider about the larger community.
It's not about I, Me, Myself anymore.
Uranus is about community.
That's the higher mind.
That's how we transcend the ego.
We go to the higher aspects of it.
We talk about the others not the self.
It's a maverick planet.
That means it does things in a very unconventional manner.
Uranus is all about unconventional stuff.
It is adventurous.
It is sociable and it is outgoing.
Why? Because it's all about the aspects of the 11th house.
11th house is about community at large.
The greater social media, the social networks, the community outside of my door.
It's not what's within the door anymore.
Now we are talking when we talk of outer planets.
All three of them we are talking about the stretch of ego.
Beyond the boundaries of the self.
So wherever Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are placed in a chart,
they will drive the person towards those aspects as planets mature.
We talked about the maturity of the planets in my YouTube channel.
You can go have a look at age and maturity series.
So as the planets mature, as a person matures,
this will go more and more towards the outer side.
So you are breaking the boundaries of personalized ego
and your ego structures to something which is bigger than yourself.
That's the higher mind to begin with.
So now we take the next one.
Neptune. Neptune stands for the higher heart.
We talked about the mind, we talked about the heart.
These are the two main operating modes that we humans have.
We have the mind and we have the heart.
We can call Uranus even the higher intellect.
Neptune is the higher heart.
The lower aspect of Neptune would be Venus and Ketu.
Ketu, why Ketu? The south node of the moon.
Venus gives the sense of beauty to us.
Venus is the one who senses beauty.
It's the sensing point of beauty in our lives,
in our individual personality, in our psyche.
So Ketu, or the south node of the moon, remember,
is the dissolving aspect.
You can look up to Thomasic planets where we discuss more of Ketu.
It's the dissolving aspect.
So Neptune, wherever it sits in the chart, it tends to dissolve.
It has got a dissolving energy about it.
It creates dreaminess.
It creates detachment from material aspects.
Let's see the aspects of Neptune.
First, then it will become clear as we go along.
Neptune is about inspiration and compassion.
The higher heart is about inspiration.
A person, wherever they have Neptune in the chart,
is driven to inspire in that area.
Okay?
So what are the other aspects of Neptune?
It gives intuition.
It gives psychic receptivity to a person.
It's about intuition people.
Intuition is where your higher heart comes from.
All intuition comes from the heart and the brain translates it.
This is the mechanism of intuition.
Brain can translate only into linear aspects.
The intellect only knows linear aspects.
The higher heart, Neptune knows what is psychic receptivity.
It's about glamour.
It's about enchantment.
What about those aspects where we look towards glamour as human beings?
The glamorous one, the enchanted.
Where are you enchanted?
All creative art forms which have happened in the world
and will continue to are all about Neptune's receptivity towards them.
Okay?
So detachment and break from the regular materialistic world.
What is detachment?
The sense of detachment is getting out of our own individual sense of materialism.
What I want from this world, that's what we are getting out of typically.
Okay?
Material realms, getting out of the material into the more ethereal,
into the more spiritual world.
That's the higher heart.
The higher heart is about others and detachment from what I gain and lose from it.
The concept of gain and loss is very, very 3D.
It's not very 5D.
It's not a graduation into higher realms.
So Neptune helps us break from that particular aspect of us.
Material gains, it's break from material gains.
It's break from structure because structure, who wants structure?
Somebody who wants to see it in linear terms.
Somebody who wants material gains, wants structure, building, brick and concrete, metal.
All of these things are about structure.
So Neptune wants to break away from that.
It's about, Neptune is about culture, beauty and benevolence.
It brings us benevolence.
This is the higher heart aspect of Neptune.
The last one of the outer planets, Pluto, is what I would call the higher self.
Now the higher self, you have to understand, has nothing to do with the lower one.
Well, jumping ahead of ourselves.
Lower aspect of Pluto is Mars and Ketu, the Mars, the soldier, Mars, the guy who takes action
and gets things done, gets it done, energy, Mars and Ketu, the saap lord of the moon.
Now which sign, if you remember, has this both the energies of Mars and Ketu.
It's the Scorpio energy, the south node and Mars rule, Scorpio.
So the lower aspect is that Mars wants to get things done.
Pluto, well, the higher self wants to get things done on an individual and the collective level.
It's the slowest moving planet in the system.
So it takes its own time, gives a lot of time for a person to make changes,
a lot of time for the collective humanity to make changes.
Pluto is about renewal and revival.
It's about permanent transformation, letting go the death of the ego, is what Pluto stands for.
Ego individually, ego collectively, individually where it figures in the chart.
That will be the plutonic generation.
It creates a pivotal and unearthing.
Pluto wants to dig deep, going deep into aspects of psyche, of self,
where the negative or the shadow aspects of the self are buried.
Pluto will go dig it up, bring it to the forefront to be seen and observed and gotten rid of.
The only way we can get rid of shadow within ourselves and the collective is first to see it.
That's the toughest part of the shadow.
Pluto is about subconscious, collective unconscious.
It's about regeneration and rebirth through death.
It's about dissolution of the ego and the collective ego, personal ego and the collective ego.
When this transforms, essentially, we transform as a collective and also as an individual in our lives.
Pluto is all about creating transformation and more transformation.
It is not interested in keeping things stable.
As Pluto is in the chart, in the snapshot of your birth chart, which is basically a snapshot of the zodiac
and as it moves transition from one house to another, it will create transformations in that area of life.
Now I have seen this very powerfully in different charts.
It's really true. This is the way it works.
So we will discuss more about outer planets also as blended into Vedic astrology in the podcast to come.
Because this is a story that needs to be told.
It really is. It's a very neglected aspect.
And typically astrologers in India do not tend to consider this.
They are too traditionally stuck as the last point in astrology being Saturn and nothing beyond that.
No, there's a lot beyond that. Saturn only works up till personal karma.
We are talking about the collective unconscious, the collective transformation.
That's what evolutionary astrology is really about.
So we will take more of this into account as we go along.
Okay. So that's it for me today folks.
Catch you up more on tomorrow's podcast and what else can we add?
We will take different aspects. Probably I will do one on the myths and the aspects of combustion of planets.
We will see. In the meanwhile, take care. Have a nice new year. Make some good resolutions.
Please take care of yourself, your family, your friends, your health.
Celebrate life. That's what it's about dear friends. Celebrate life.
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