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Written by Stephanie Azaria with Shelly Leal

The actual significance of Jupiter and Saturn has been apparent since the discovery of the solar system. Before astronomers could see beyond Saturn, these two archetypes were the outermost planets we knew. With the discoveries of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn were reassigned to the middle of the solar system. In 1992 the Kuiper Belt was discovered, expanding our neighborhood to 10 times its original size. Yet Jupiter and Saturn still dominate; they remain the 2 largest planets, making them undeniably important.

These two planets represent the inner/outer function of every consciousness. Because they are located in the middle of the solar system, they refer to  the relationship between the individual self and the universal Oneness we all share. Even more significantly, they reflect our own personal experience of this relationship.  

There is an expansive quality to Jupiter, and a “contractive” quality to Saturn. Jupiter’s gravity actually holds the solar system together, whereas  Saturn’s rings make us aware of its beautiful definition and also its boundaries.

Jupiter and Saturn are our social identifiers.  Jupiter’s archetype expands what we perceive about our Selves whenever we interact with the outside world. We gain wisdom as we come to understand what is ‘out there’ and how we relate to it.  Saturn’s energies are more focused on defining the Self according to what we perceive ‘out there’, until we begin to realize that our fear-based judgments and comparisons are ultimately Self-limiting. Together these two planets have a cycle that is known as the Grand Conjunction. They come together once every 20 years to form a new cycle. That cycle defines the new generation in many ways. This 20 year repetition is associated with a much larger cycle, in that the conjunctions occur in the same element for 800 years, and then move on to the next. We are in the middle of that changeover right now, moving from earth to air. 

In Truth, what is ‘out there’ is the exact reflection of what is within us. Everything is Self, and as others are drawn to our frequencies, they reflect back at us who we are. That is the true meaning and purpose of all relationship. Jupiter and Saturn are ‘gigantic’ reminders that the interactive part of life on Earth is the main theme and the real reason for being here.

Once we begin to realize our Selves and we begin to understand that everything ‘out there’ is our reflection or projection, we ultimately come to realize that there is nothing in the world that isn’t coming from our own consciousness. If it isn’t in our awareness in the first place, we won’t perceive it at all.

Jupiter and Saturn signify the way we connect our individuality to the collective whole, through the development of our objectivity, which is a social process. Objectivity means that we can be aware of the way others perceive us, and we can observe the effects that our actions may have on others. Becoming objective about the individual Self is a major step toward becoming the Great Observer, a state of consciousness that is vital to attain if we are going to achieve a 5D level of awareness.  

Together Jupiter and Saturn function to bring our connection with others to our awareness in two distinct but polarized ways. Jupiter represents our desire to achieve personal freedom and liberation, as we interact with the outer world and explore the opportunities that result in the expansion of consciousness. 

Through Saturn, we learn about relationships through boundaries, perceived restrictions and limitations, and the need to deal maturely and responsibly with any challenging circumstance. Saturn, as the Great Teacher, often brings us back to the experience of fear-based reaction, which always stems from the belief in separation.  

The state of physicality is what causes us to believe we are separate from each other. In 3D consciousness, there is me and there is you, and we perceive ourselves to be disconnected. We don’t particularly recognize the ways in which we are the same. Saturn offers us the greatest lessons we will ever learn about overcoming the concept of the separated self and stepping into the authentic Self.

The way Jupiter and Saturn relate to each other in our birth chart (energy field), describes the way we have set up our social identity. If they form any kind of an aspect to each other, then social consciousness is important to us. The more emphasized these planets are in the chart by placement, the more focal the social experience becomes.

Through these two planets, we come to realize our lives in terms of a bigger picture, and subsequently gain the perspective we need to comprehend the fact that a Higher Power is at work in our lives.

Written by Stephanie Azaria with Shelly Leal

Discovered on November 1, 1977, Chiron appeared in the solar system between Saturn and Uranus. Chiron is often referred to as the ‘wounded healer,’ but upon closer inspection of his story, he can actually be seen to be a master healer teacher. His love for humanity moved him to take on the human condition him Self, complete with mortality and suffering.  In this way he was able to teach the Truth about well being and healing: that in order to be fully functional and whole, we must be completely willing to take on our physicality.

Once we consciously inhabit our body, a state so many of us are hesitant to take on, we can attain personal mastery, and undertake the journey from the lower self to the higher Self. It is for this reason that Chiron has become known as the Rainbow Bridge, the connection between Saturn, representing the outer edge of the physical (3D) realm and Uranus, the archetype that awakens us to our higher (5D) Self.

Metaphysically speaking, the pineal gland, which sits behind the third eye, connects to and interacts with the hypothalamus gland, which is located at the base of the brain. This connection becomes active with conscious application, and when it does, we gain access to our higher Self. Chiron, therefore, is the reflection of this process, which began to show itself in human experience in the late 1970’s. The journey from the pineal gland to the hypothalamus is the journey across the Rainbow Bridge.

Chiron is classified as a Centaur planet, a new kind of celestial body, according to astronomers.  Many other Centaurs have been discovered in the last decade, but Chiron’s role is so important at this particular time in human evolution that he is being included in this list of major archetypal energies (planets). As a creature that is half animal and half man, Chiron personifies the process of bringing our four lower bodies (mind, heart, body and spirit) into alignment, and facilitates the connection between our higher and lower Selves.

In his role as the Wounded Healer, Chiron represents our deepest misalignments, as well as the greatest level of self-empowerment needed to remember that we have always been fully functional and whole. Through the experience of healing our own wounds, we ultimately help others do the same, by demonstrating the personal transformation that results from this ‘wholing’ process.  

Mythologically, Chiron is a wise teacher and master healer who helps us to rediscover our soul’s purpose, which is Self-Realization. As his glyph symbolizes, Chiron is considered to be the key that unlocks our conscious experience of the outer planets, which helps us to connect with and move fully into our higher Self.

Cosmic Consciousness: The Moon’s Nodes in your Birth Chart are the Blueprint of your Soul’s Evolution… and the Gateway to Transcending Time and Separation Consciousness.

Written by Stephanie Azaria with Christine Clemmer

From the very start, astrologers have recognized the powerful significance of the Moon’s Nodes and their relevance to the soul’s purpose through an incarnation. The Moon’s South Node represents karma, or the sum total of circumstances that ties you to the Earth. The Karmic Node in the birth chart holds specific lessons and experiences that each individual is required to break through and resolve during the course of a lifetime. The North Node, or dharma, is always in an exact polarity to the South Node, and it has long been perceived as the doorway to evolution, allowing for access to higher wisdom to complete an incarnation. From the 3D perspective (the perspective of separation consciousness and linear time), the connection between the Moon’s nodes has been perceived as a polarity, meaning that because these points are in direct opposition to each other, the individual’s journey has been to move away from karmic experience and towards the ultimate destination of one’s dharma.

But by accessing the observer’s (5D) perspective of the Nodes (the perspective of unity consciousness and the realization that everything is energy) it becomes clear that the duality we have long experienced is actually a bridge that connects the two points eternally. The energies between these two points are actually continuously spiraling freely in both directions. When there is any kind of energy block present in this bridge the spiral is met with resistance and disrupted. The debris must then be cleared in order to experience the full range of consciousness that is bestowed by the kundalini forces that move through us at all times. When we recognize this new relationship between karma and dharma limitless revelations abound, and the implications are stunning.

The Moon’s Nodes are points that are found in your birth chart. They are actually the places where the Moon’s orbit around the Earth meets the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, and are extremely important “doorways” within the birth chart of each and every human being. Every system of astrology places great emphasis on them. But we have never truly understood them, and there’s good reason for that: they are the places within our earthly existence where the 5D Self interfaces with the 3D self. We could not perceive this before we reached a 5D perspective. Like so many things that were “invisible” to the 3D naked eye, the true meaning of the Nodes was imperceptible to us. The Nodes travel backwards through the zodiac and complete one orbit every 19 years. Nothing else, except for an occasional retrograde planet (and that is temporary), moves in a clock wise direction around the chart. This fact in itself has incredible significance.

Cosmic Consciousness maintains that the clockwise motion is the way to Source. That is, the new astrology puts forth that all of life is built upon the golden ratio which generates the Fibonacci spiral. That spiral is the basis of all life. Each of us exists as a spark of light that is eternal and evolving on its own spiral. The evidence of that is in our DNA. That spiral can be traveled two ways: counter clockwise, or downward, toward the physical realm and separation consciousness, or clockwise, upward toward the higher dimensions of Source and unity consciousness. If you look at it this way, it is easy to understand that at the highest point of that spiral we merge with Source. We are One with Source…ALL of us.

If you were to slice the spiral horizontally, to represent the road map of this particular incarnation, you could look at it straight on and see your birth chart, right there in your DNA. That is, you would see your energy field, with its 12 mansions (sectors), populated with the entire Solar System, and expanded to include all the new planets (aka our new consciousness) that we have awakened to in the past decade.

If you consciously choose to move around that chart, (now seen as a clock), clockwise, you are moving toward Source, and all the attendant consciousness that goes with that movement will naturally emerge. This is the basis of Cosmic Consciousness and more specifically of the Cosmic Path of Initiations, which is a ‘wholing’ modality that takes you around your own energy field and shows you how to stay tuned to your higher Self, all the while clearing out the density (karmic debris) that litters your quantum space. This cycle of movement around your birth chart is always occurring, whether you’re conscious of it or not. The Cosmic Path of Initiations is designed to bring your consciousness to this pattern, allowing for Right Action (which comes from the heart), to interrupt the unconscious fear based responses that keep recreating your karmic patterns. All the karma your soul has ever accrued exists right here in your energy field and is contained in the cellular memory of your physical body and in your DNA.

The Moon’s Nodes move clockwise naturally and they represent the part of you that exists beyond this physical incarnation. The Nodes represent the DNA that is your genetic connection to this lifetime and this body. They represent your individual karma and your Soul’s specific urge toward evolution. And with our newly elevated perspective what we have suspected all along is finally clear…that our karma is not separate from our family’s karma…and that healing (which in the new consciousness can be seen as ‘wholing’, or becoming unified) your own karmic situation can heal (evolve) your family’s karma for many generations backward and forward.

From the observer’s (5D) perspective it is revealed that the Moon’s Nodes are directly connected to the double helix spiral of our DNA, representing the yin and yang, becoming an intrinsic part of the system of energy centers known as chakras. In fact, the South and North Nodes actually are the Earth Star and Soul Star chakras. They reveal the path of human transformation, soul evolution and unity consciousness within each soul. This is the key to transcending our own physicality, clearing ancient karmic debris from our own energy field and extending that clearing even to our past and future ancestral lineage. It ultimately produces an understanding of our chakra system as it relates to the planets, activating an unprecedented intergalactic relationship with all that is, that is highly evolved, expansive, and infinitely multidimensional.

THIS is exciting groundbreaking news on so many levels.

The Nodes represent the whole of our evolutionary process, they are the merging between 3D and 5D that has always been there, we just didn’t perceive it before. The Nodes generate a bridge in each of our lives, with the South Node representing the doorway through which we enter this lifetime and our connection to Earth, and the North Node representing the doorway we evolve toward and will ultimately exit this incarnation through, returning back to Source. We go back and forth, or at least it used to appear that way, and these two points are arguably (and have always been) the two most important and sensitive points in the birth chart.

From the 5D perspective, these highly charged entry/exit points are always in play, and our life force energy is always moving toward one and away from the other, simultaneously. With this new higher consciousness, we can now transcend the whole process that causes us to care about which direction we are moving toward. It is not true that one is better or more important than the other. That our energy is free to flow between them is what matters, and letting go of judgment allows us the chance to experience what’s really going on.

When we let go of the preconceived notion that dharma is better than karma, or that the journey “should” be linear and moving away from the past (aka our darkness), we can see how important it is to lift our focus to include our karma while accessing our dharma so that it doesn’t become an either/or situation, which leads back to separation and fragmentation (3D consciousness). There tends to be a collective resistance to owning our darkness by illumination, meaning there’s a tendency to resist reentering darkness (our past karma) once we reach the light (our dharma).

If we perceive the darkness to exist outside of us, we must also realize that it exists within, and from the 5D perspective it is all embraced with unconditional Love. Wholeness comes from the whole circle, or the whole birth chart…multidimensionally…not a flat ring on a linear surface or a sheet of paper. As long as we have a physical body, we can thread 5D consciousness into the dense, shadowy lower vibrations of physicality. Our journey to wholeness becomes an upward clockwise spiral, not a line that facilitates separation and an endless journey around a circle.

5D isn’t separate from 3D, it transcends and includes it. We cannot detach from 3D to reach 5D, we reach 5D by embracing 3D unconditionally…Likewise we can’t reach our dharma by separating from our karma. We evolve into our dharma by loving, allowing and transcending our karma. If we try to separate from 3D, to actively disconnect from fear or judgment, we fragment internally, which creates inflammation, resistance, and inner chaos…and this in turn gets added to the original 3D experience we were trying to “not” be caught up in. It’s a form of bypass that doesn’t work in 5D. The primary focus is not about eliminating the fear, the focus is on loving the Self unconditionally, through the fear, and as that occurs, the fear begins to subside, and the new operating system emerges.

This revelation about the Nodes is a huge breakthrough to Cosmic Consciousness and it has major implications for all of humanity. When we come to understand that the South Node is actually the Earth Star Chakra and the North Node is literally the Soul Star Chakra, we can begin to fully realize the physical body for the divine vehicle that it is. There is so much to explore.