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by Terry Lamb

After all the challenges and anticipation of 2012, 2013 opens on a more normal note. Yes, Uranus and Pluto are still doing their thing out there, and they aren’t going away for a few years yet. However, the number of contacts and the way in which they connect fall more in the range of what we might call “normal” in frequency, timing, and intensity. It’s almost like life has returned to normal too.

But not quite. Of course, the long-term changes that we have been focused on must continue. We are still deep into several big cyclic transitions, the largest 26,000 years marked by the solstice, one wobble of Earth on her axis, called the Great Year. Imagine that you are clearing 26,000 years’ worth of garbage out of your backyard. That’s what we’re doing with our psyches: emotions, mental constructs, karmic baggage, spiritual blueprint. And there’s plenty of actual garbage to clear as well, as we rectify our relationship with Planet Earth.

The Uranus-Pluto cycle of roughly 120 years, and the Chiron-Neptune cycle of about 65 years are both at turning points as well. These all represent factors that take a long time to develop and whose resulting conditions won’t disappear overnight. It helps to know that what happens related to the Great Year has been with us for at least 200 years already; the seeds of the Uranus-Pluto process were sown in the mid-1960s.

We’re not getting out of the situations tied to these cycles anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the conditions won’t change—change is guaranteed. What we can expect in January is that they won’t be in our face so much. We might experience something close to a normal pace, with a sparser stream of events drawing us away from our plans.

Conversely, we may get more accomplished since we will have fewer interruptions, few events to throw us out of balance, more stability to wrap around ourselves. This is one benefit of the Cradle Configuration that we are experiencing intermittently now that Saturn has moved into Scorpio, where it is harmonically balanced with most of the other movers and shakers in the solar system.

The Cradle is formed when there are at least four planets making sextiles and trines to each other. Although right now the Moon makes up the fourth several times a month, the core planets in the pattern give us the space to create a truly strong foundation for our new projects. A Saturn sextile to Pluto and a trine to Neptune-Chiron endure throughout the year, a fertile and stable place to grow our garden of dreams.

Without even being aware of it, this helps us establish a rhythm of activity that leads to productivity. There are two other factors that do the same. The first is the regular process, occurring every year for five to six months, whereby the lunations happen at the same degrees each month. If you have planets at those degrees, you will experience a progression of events that affects you in the house(s) where those planets are found, flavored by how those planets work in your nature.

The strongest of these are the New and Full Moons, but the First and Last Quarter Moons also lend their flavor. These degrees are 8° (Full Moon); 15° (Last Quarter); 22° (New); 29° (First Quarter). This is most noticeable for the Full Moon degree, this year for two reasons. The first is of course the power that the Moon has in how things play out in our lives. The second reason is that there is a significant cluster of planets around this degree—the slow-moving ones that shape us through their steady drip-drip into our awareness and experiences: Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, and Pluto. When the personal planets hit the 7°–8° zone, it’s like hitting the jackpot. There are lots of lights flashing and plenty of balls to keep in the air as several hook-ups happen at the same time.

Finally, the personal planets (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars) are traveling in a pack, with Mars leading and Venus trailing. This will reverse itself over the first six months of the year, with a new Venus-Mars cycle in the offing in early April. In January, Venus trails the others through Capricorn, finally connecting with the big guns just in time to seed the New Moon with the power of love.

This means that relationships are on the front burner for everyone in January, especially for Cardinal types (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) and Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn). Unresolved relationship situations are legion right now, but we’ll start to turn this trend around in January, as we can finally turn to this vital aspect of our personal happiness quotient. It took a while for us to dig the hole we’re in, so we won’t have this resolved overnight; however, we’ll establish the pathways for peace and harmony that will be developed throughout the year.

Several planets (Neptune, Chiron, and Uranus) are completing their yearly cycles now, and we are completing the projects and processes we took on February–March last year. These carry a healing focus (Neptune-Chiron) and a directive to wake up to something that we must handle in a completely new way (Uranus).

Jupiter’s cycle has just culminated, and it is nearing the end of its retrograde (January 30) after a rolling culmination as the personal planets triggered it October 28 and December 2, 17, and 22. Situations that got complicated in June and September-October will move forward at that time, with signs of improvement before then. This participates in a deep clearing process that was initiated by Venus and the eclipses in early June. Fortunately, we have been working hard on clearing what stands in our way (even if we don’t realize it yet), and we will be on our way to new freedom by January’s end.

Pluto’s new yearly cycle of transformation started December 30 with more access to calmer energies than in recent years. That doesn’t mean we’ll automatically be more at peace, but we will have easier access to inner peace if we choose it. This is the most creative part of the cycle, so set your intention for what you want to transform (or more likely, can’t avoid transforming) in the coming year.

The time of the Wolf, the shadow “beast” we each carry inside us, is over for now. The collective form of this shadow has been revealed and its effigy burned at the altar of the True Self. The beast is tamed and trained, not destroyed. As we crossed the threshold into our new Great Year, the old shadow was released. It will return to be shaped in a brand new mold, however we (as in all of consciousness, one individual at a time) want to shape it. Let the healing continue!

We can’t say that our past is gone, but our understanding of it is substantially altered. Look at where you were a year—two years—ago. We remember what has happened, but we see it through new eyes, the eyes of the soul, to which we awaken more fully every day.

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