“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.”
— Margaret Mead
We have another round of changes on tap in the sky beginning this weekend and going into next week. On the whole, the impending celestial modulations evoke what would and would not be your best choices for proactively making some meaningful change in the world.
The first thing to remember is that waiting for the world to change is the equivalent of withdrawing from participation. In general, if you want to have the privilege of negotiating the nature of modifications being made, you must first be participating in making them.
The next essential to keep in mind is a key word in the captioned Margaret Mead quote: “thoughtful.” Being thoughtless will not win the type friends or influence the type of people you need to have in support.
In addition, it helps to be in the right (not necessarily on the right) if you wish to enlist allies in their right minds with their hearts in the right place. Those who use the threat of violent force up front pretty much exclude themselves from the category of those who are in the right. The recent episode of armed vigilantes seeking to annex public land in rural Oregon is but one example. Most of the local residents were not big fans of the U.S. federal government in the first place. Even so, a group of would-be cowboys who came in brandishing weapons and spouting belligerence did not exactly inspire widespread love and devotion outside of their own previously convinced political clique.
What’s more, most of us are not going to make much progress changing the world on our own. In addition to being proactive, thoughtful and non-violent, it is essential to work with a commitment to cooperation, mutual respect and harmony with others in order to both inspire and achieve modifications that everybody concerned can live with.
Finally, all change must begin inside the individual. You have to begin with the attachments and conditioning that adhere you to what your conscience recognizes as wrong and pernicious. It is not an easy undertaking to change yourself, but it is often an essential prerequisite to making change in the world as a whole.
Interestingly, the astrology over the next week or so contains many a symbolic reference to the long and involved process that represents a road to meaningful change. Unlike what some are inclined to do, the sky does not wait. There is no stasis above. Changes are constantly made as a matter of due course.
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Foremost among the astrological changes coming up are several objects about to change sign: Mercury (the thoughtful), Venus (values) and the Sun (emblematic of consciousness). Interestingly, all three are inside of Earth’s orbit, thus representing the requisite internal changes that must come first.
Both Mercury and Venus are currently in Capricorn (the sign of institutions) and on their way into Aquarius (the sign of groups in general, and your groups of choice in particular). Mercury makes its second ingress (post-retrograde) to Aquarius tomorrow. Venus follows on Tuesday.
The Sun, for its part, is on the way out of Aquarius and heading for Pisces — where the ironic separation invoked by disparate groups is transcended to be proactively ‘one with’ — on Friday (or Thursday, depending on time zone).
In the meantime, the rest of the solar system other than the Moon is moving slowly — too slow to wait. That’s how things stack up for the next week or so, and if you are looking for a sign you have one. Look to get your own life into an order that no longer reflects the external order you no longer identify with. Then, begin making plans to cast your lot with others who want something besides a different person behind the gun.
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Thanks for your perspective on upcoming astrological events Len. You are right, “Changes are constantly made as a matter of due course” and one is better off seeing them in advance. I saw an interesting program on PBS during the wee hours this AM about the major events that have changed the course of mankind. There was a part telling about how the China Silk Roads were the result of conflict happening along the usual routes of trade. I couldn’t help but realize how much Mercury determines outcomes.
With my newly refreshed concept of Mercury’s meanings including (once again) the little trickster’s role as god of commerce and trade, I realized how, despite his size, he greatly influences the course of history. Having spent about a week at the beginning degrees of Aquarius due to his station retrograde, quite unlike his typical flight through the zodiac, and now about to return to those first degrees in Aquarius, I’m getting the feeling Mercury is trying to draw our attention to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction taking place there in December 2020.
If so, does it have something to do with trade and commerce, along with communication? Has something changed during the course of his return to Capricorn and the subsequent re-entry on to that sensitive spot in Aquarius, something that has to do with trade, commerce and communication, and does it have to do as well with groups and the future? Are we looking at a new silk road coming out of China? Maybe there’s a clue in the Sun’s entry into the “one with” sign of Pisces.
And yes we do want something more than just a new person behind the gun. As always, grateful for your timely offering Len.
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Thanks so much for this wonderful and inspiring piece, dear Len. Gives me the faith and strength to persevere with a project, that often feels like I’ll never manage to get off the ground.
Wise and grounding, Len — thanks . Here’s a wax-on, wax-off quote to go with it:
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
~ from Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
That’s a wonderful quote, Jude. Very helpful. Many thanks.