More about YODS
The coming weekend of oppositions — Full Moon AND Saturn-Uranus opposition– creates a rectangle whose ends trine and sextile each other. This is called a MYSTIC RECTANGLE. I included a Full Moon chart, just showing the Mystic Rectangle, in the post on this week’s astrology, July 19 – 25. In that post I mentioned the YOD to Neptune and Chiron (from Mars-Saturn on one side, and from the Sun on the other as it leaves Cancer and enters Leo). Yet this aspects gives focus to all the other transiting aspects. This YOD represents pinpointed energy going to Neptune and Chiron. Regardless of our beliefs, we all quest for meaning, or face a meaningless existence. We are looking for the “right way.”
Neptune is the planet of direct spiritual, religious experience. It’s direct because it needs no middleman. It’s considered confusing because Neptune can give us a direct experience of something that is beyond the world we can touch. Yet, Neptune represents the sea, the collective unconscious, the source of all life, the divine. Yet, instead of embracing the energy of the divine, we run from it, as it threatens to overwhelm us with emotion.
Yet, the less respect we give the unconscious, the more overwhelming it becomes. Approaching the unconscious with an attitude that it is beneath you or just plain silly will reflect that kind of flippant attitude back to you– and that evasion can result in missing a MAJOR clue!
Yet, there is YOD to Neptune during a Full Moon, along with the fifth and final opposition of Saturn and Uranus.
If you have a YOD in your natal chart, you may already feel a sense of destiny about your life. You may not feel you really have a choice in what you do or how much you do it– regardless of the results. You may feel like you walk a thin razor point line between sanity and insanity. And this YOD to Neptune and Chiron shows a profound moment of destiny, a collective contact with the “numinous”, the spiritual, or the divine that lies beyond (surrounding?) the world of reason.
So how does this affect effect us? If you have a strong ego, you can bend with the creative flow of the unconscious. If you think you have a strong ego because you are always 100% correct and think of yourself as the source of all knowledge, your ego may be a lot more fragile than you realize. And this YOD can find you going through what feels like madness. Sure, you can easily pawn it off on someone else who you can point the finger at as insane or stupid, or whatever shows they are far beneath you. Yet, there that only diffuses and confuses. It may not seem significant, yet believing only in the power of your ego can throw your life off course. Like the teeny iceberg that is really vast below the surface, what flows through the unconscious can take down the most powerful. Like the ocean it represents, Neptune exposes a lifeforce that goes beyond our individual awareness. We sense a presence that really is beyond our individual control, we see it in our dreams, and that if we have respect for that force, we can swim WITH it instead of fighting it everywhere and in everyone.
We just may be at a deciding moment.
There are those among us who are called on to do more. There is a fine line between madness and genius. When you are possessed by genius, you have a way to bring what you discover back to civilization. Not everyone has this option, or exercises it. And of those who do bring back it’s images and messages, many are overtaken by their talent. Most of us don’t want to see what’s beyond the veil of existence, it’s just too overwhelming. It really can carry us into greater confusion and even madness, throwing us between the opposites of “alienation and inflation, courage and cowardice, strength and weakness, black and white, good and evil, the bounded land and the boundless sea, height and depth, the universal and the particular, Christian and pagan, primitive and civilized, the outer world and the inner soul, spirit and matter, destiny and free will, love and hate, calm and turbulence, delight and woe, orthodox and heretic, reason and madness, God and man.” [1]
[1] [Edward F. Edinger, pg 24, "Melville's Moby Dick, a Jungian Commentary" ©1975, A New Directions Book, and thanks to the NYPL]
In “Melville’s Mody-Dick: A Jungian Commentary,” Edward F. Edinger perfectly describes a YOD formation when he says: “The word of the Lord is an inner imperative call from the Self to fulfill one’s vocation. …. To be a fugitive of God means psychologically that one is attempting to avoid the demands of his own development and destiny. Such demands stem from the Self–the non-ego center of the psyche– and carry a transcendent or Godlike imperative. When crucial inner development is involved, there can be no freedom of choice, one must choose the necessary and inevitable; failure to choose amounts to a regression, with perhaps fatal psychic consequences.” [pg 38]
Yet, this YOD to Neptune, planet of the collective unconscious, gives us hints and suggestions on how to reconcile oppositions. It can offer acceptance of our inner world and show us how to navigate its deep waters. It can answer our needs and prayers for inner meaning, providing us with sanctuary and peace within. Yet, we can’t stay in our own inner world and expect to make friends and influence people! That would lead to distortion of our inner Self, and more isolation from society because there may be “bad” or insensitive people out there. This is a call to our emotions. To be responsible for how we use our emotions– we can use vulnerability as a tool for manipulation, or as a tool for growth. It can take time and practice, but the timing of this YOD is a call to examine our expectations and disappointments as products of our own beliefs and attitudes. If you choose it, this could be the time you start to truly merge with the all-in-all. One love!
Here’s an astrology chart for the Full Moon, only showing the inconjuncts (light green) and sextiles (light blue) so you can see the YOD to Neptune and Chiron:
astrology chart - YOD to Neptune and Chiron
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