[0:06]Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today there is a solar eclipse taking place in the sign of Aquarius. You're probably listening to this just after it's already happened, happened real early this morning. So, uh, but as we are in the wake of it, we are going to continue exploring its symbolism and meaning. We're going to take a look at it from the evolutionary point of view. If you don't know what I mean by that, there's a couple of different ways of thinking about the evolutionary perspective. Uh, one is that there is a school of evolutionary astrology and they have a particular way of doing astrology and approaching astrology, and they pay a lot of attention to Pluto and the nodes of the moon in particular. And they have a take on what it means from within that tradition, kind of a modern astrological tradition. Uh, they have a take from within that tradition on what the North node in Aquarius means in terms of the direction of the soul, its current evolutionary moment or phase of unfolding. And you can think of that moment with Pluto and the North node not just personally, but also collectively. Uh, and so, that's one way of thinking about evolutionary astrology. I started my career as an evolutionary astrologer. And though I'm now, I guess more identified as a hellenistic astrologer, um, it still informs a lot of the way that I think about astrology and broadly speaking an evolutionary perspective can just be understood as something that a lot of different astrology schools embrace, which is that the astrology reflects something of the unfolding or evolutionary direction of the spirit soul, regardless of the specific techniques, um, or uses of the nodes or Pluto or what have you. So, I think that this way of covering it today is important, regardless of, of, you know, whether you practice evolutionary astrology or not, to consider, what does it mean that the North node this year is going to move into Aquarius? This is our first solar eclipse in that sign of Aquarius that we're getting and Pluto's in Aquarius at the same time. What, what direction does this indicate for the soul right now and not just for the soul of us personally, but, you know, collectively as well? So, we're going to look at that today and I'm going to share some insights that I hope will be useful and contribute to your experience of the eclipse that, that just took place. Before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe, share your comments and your reflections, your stories. How's that eclipse landing for you right now? I'd really love to hear, um, you know, how it's showing up already. Transcripts of any of these daily talks can be found on my website. 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Let's get the, uh, real time clock up and let's remember where we are at. So, you can see February 17th, the moon just separating this morning from the sun, that's a solar eclipse in late Aquarius, square to Uranus in Taurus. We did horoscopes yesterday on this, so, uh, if you missed those and you want a deeper exploration of the whole sign house, the topics likely being activated. I also did a talk on some of the deeper meaning of a solar eclipse in Aquarius, uh, a week or so, two ago now, I guess. Um, so there's been a bunch of, if you look back on the channel in the past couple weeks, there's been a number of videos that we've done on this eclipse, you can dive into those if you're newer to the channel and haven't seen them yet. Uh, now, in terms of what we're going to do today. The evolutionary perspective is a perspective that again, I think all astrologers really share in some way, which is just a concern for how the astrology of the moment tells a story about where we're at in the unfolding of our, of our spirit soul. And the, the journey of the spirit soul that it's making according to ancient philosophers and mystics who practice astrology across many lifetimes, that journey of enlightenment, however you want to conceptualize it, takes place in a life that has to be lived and experienced. And that is like a curriculum. Uh, from that standpoint, um, it's really important to kind of have a sense of, well, what does that curriculum look like? What does that phase or stage of learning and experiencing look like right now in a life, that's what we look at a birth chart for. Now, the evolutionary school of astrology has whole paradigms with the nodes of the moon and the position of Pluto and the Pluto polarity point and all sorts of things. Last year I had, uh, Ari Mosha Wolf, a friend and colleague of mine come on and we talked about the similarities and differences between techniques and philosophies. But we really share more than we are different, I think. Anyway, that's a whole school of astrology, but more broadly speaking, I think again, most psychological, archetypal astrologers, uh, even hellenistic astrologers share the perspective of the soul's evolution as as a thing that astrologers care about in general. So what I want to do today is look at what does it mean when both Pluto and the North node are sort of pointing, like this is the road map. This is where the soul's evolutionary unfolding is happening right now in this time and space. What might that mean given the nature of the sign of Aquarius and a little bit on the polarity of Leo.
[7:07]North node though, that tends to be about unexplored, unfulfilled desires, ambitions, sense of direction or purpose, all to be explored, like everything else. We get entangled with it, we have to disentangle with it, but still that encounter is meaningful for the soul right now. And Pluto, similarly, Pluto collectively is pointing to a period of time, you know, for another whole decade plus that we're going to be as collectively looking at this as well as personally. So, you can really interpret anything that I'm saying today in terms of collective significance or personal significance and extrapolate as you will. So, the core psychological signature and all of this, I should say, is like, I'm like, I'm like a remix artist, guys, when it comes to, you know, representing the thoughts of evolutionary astrologers on these subjects. Like, I started there, my first three, four years of astrology were there, so I'm very familiar with it, but, you know, I, I just consider myself like a good cover artist. So, none of this is, you know, all of this is what I learned when I started my career about Aquarius from the evolutionary perspective. You know, remixed in my own language through the process of my own career. Anyway, just to like, tip my hat to people like Jeffrey Wolf Green, people like Ari, who do this full-time, uh, Stephen Forest, another, um, you know, just elder in our field that I really respect. So, core psychological signature of Pluto, the North node in Aquarius is personal, collective feeling of being different or other.
[9:56]And this can, it, if you just take that sense of psychological otherness or alienation or dissociation or questions of belonging and you just see that at the center of a jewel. And then know, just take that for a second, and then just look at the world. Look at everything that's happening in the world and how it reflects from on the level of Pluto or the North node in the next year and a half, a kind of explosion of activity around the center of that question. What is in and what is out socially? Who belongs and who's marginalized socially? Where, what social categories or identity constructs fit me, uh, or what ideologies or beliefs fit me? And which don't, which cannot possibly contain me, which are the right ones and the wrong ones. You see how it, it can just, it just goes in so many different directions. So, there are three primary evolutionary responses to difference, three broad response patterns to this evolutionary core that we're discussing of what does it mean to belong versus what feels like that that sense of otherness and all the different ways in which that tension can constellate. There are three different responses and these I'm summarizing, uh, from Jeffrey Wolf Green's Pluto, Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, classic text, but these are the ones he talks about, and I'm going to articulate them in my own language, but they're just, just so you know where they're coming from. Um, I've always found that this summary of Aquarius is spot on. That could be because I was born with the South node in Aquarius, North node in Leo. Well, I don't know. Uh, so, the first typical response to the feeling of being different and the tension between individual identity and collective cultural group political affiliations and identity, there is a kind of radical, uh, polarizing tendency towards non-conformity. Okay, so, this would be to say, I am different and so I must rebel. And so, I must experiment or I must innovate. Now think about those as somewhat uranian, a solar eclipse happening with the square to Uranus, of course, modern astrologers give Uranus a dual rulership in Aquarius. I don't personally, but there's something about Aquarius that's like this, whether you give it to Uranus or Saturn, it doesn't really matter.
[12:48]I will come to recognize and solidify something that makes me different through an act of rebellion or through an act of experimentation or through an act of innovation. Or I might have to reject a tradition, but maybe do so in a way that is a bit polarizing. I may have to reject certain norms, inherited structures or traditions that come from my own background, my own upbringing or my own place in the world socially, collectively, et cetera. This can take place in the workplace, this can take place within a marriage, can take place really anywhere. But collectively, we'll go through these things as well, sort of collectively, it's like a storyline you can see moving through history. These will often be sometimes seen by other people, these, um, non-conformist responses as weird or bizarre or threatening, and it's very normal, the harder that one pushes their non-conformity. I am rejecting this or I'm experimenting with this, look at me go, I'm innovating in this direction, look at me go, that there will be a pushback that will be experienced as a condition of social conflict. Um, if it's threatening, then I'm going to fight you or denounce you or try to drag you on Twitter or whatever. If it's radical, if it's bizarre and if it's revolutionary, then there will be some simultaneous feeling of taking a risk and a feeling marginalized because you took the risk. These are all very Aquarian dynamics. Um, you may find that you suddenly are withdrawing from certain social conditions. Like, people always think of Aquarius as super social, but what you don't realize it's a Saturn ruled sign that often belong to inventors sitting in weird little cabins in the woods, like inventing shit. I'm, I'm, that's like a caricature, of course, it's an exaggeration, but what I'm saying is that Saturn has always been associated with people who live on the fringes. It's the hut at the edge of the village. It is not, Aquarius is not always super interested in social identification, as much as it can be interested in dissociation from cultural conditioning and from social norms and categories and buckets and, you know, fads and trends and you're on this side or you're on that side. One of the things that is like, so there can be some sense of anti-social, uh, withdrawal, um, that is part of the non-conformity. And there can be shadows with all, any of these things, there can be shadows. Like you could be doing any of these things for the for reactive egotistical reasons or for genuine authentic reasons that feel aligned, right? There's not one that's like right or wrong, it's about seeing the archetypal field of possibilities in this particular response to the Aquarian archetype and understanding that alignment is crucial. And knowing that one of the, not always, but one of the general symptoms of being out of alignment is the degree of power struggle and conflict that we create for ourselves, um, and that we end up engaging in in in cycles of, um, of, of violence and and, uh, and stress really on our on ourselves. In other words, radical non-conformity can be peaceful. When you say, I'm not going to do this, I'm not going to do that, I reject this, I project that, I'm going to rebel or experiment or innovate. You know, I'm going to withdraw, I'm going to take distance, that it's never done, when it when you find that it's being done in a spirit of anger and polarization, that's usually when the karma's going to keep cycling and you're going to keep, you're going to get dragged into dynamics that will illustrate that maybe you had the right idea, but, you know, not quite the right way of of, um, enacting that that idea. Sometimes, for example, you know, I'll see people, and this is just a stupid example, like I don't mean I'm not picking on anyone, it's just very human of us, right? All of us, where it's like, I make a big proclamation, you know, that I'm done with Facebook. I can't handle this toxic place anymore. I'll see you guys in five days. I'll be back, but I hate you for now, right? That, you get what I'm saying, it's like you're just, it's just a cycle. So, so, um, all of us, that's that's you, that's me. I think we've all been there, so I'm not making fun of anyone but myself. Anyway, there can be a level of withdrawal that's problematic, a level of rebellion that's destructive, um, an attempt to tear something down without constructive replacements. Those, those are some of the shadows for sure, but this would be a kind of non-conformist response that tends to come up because the Aquarian archetype brings up the feeling that this doesn't fit me. I don't belong here. This is not right. This is not working. Let me give you a few examples of how you can see this and it's likely to play out socially in my own like little prophetic. I don't, I have no idea how evolution works, guys, right? Spiritually speaking, just what the Vedas have said, just in our tradition, that's important to understand, but like, let's just say though that we're heading over many lifetimes to like gradually doing something like what Thick Not Han did for his lifetime, basically just breathing in peace. Well, none of us are probably listening to this are close to that evolutionary stage, right? But let's just assume that eventually, we're all going to be happy monks, uh, gradually, you know, absorbing the peaceful rays of Buddha consciousness until we leave our bodies and emerge with the Buddha mind. I, I don't even know, right? Let's just say that was the case.
[19:09]It might be that there are certain lifetimes in which withdrawal from the world, from constant polarization in the world is an evolutionary necessity. But in another lifetime, maybe on the same path, two souls that are next lifetime, they're going to be in the, uh, in Plum Village, you know. But the other person may have to seek out in this lifetime, rather than disengaging, they may have to seek out like-minded individuals and find little subcultures and do that careful work of balancing distance and difference with engagement. So people's souls can be in such different spaces. One soul may need to disengage. One may need to find meaningful participation and engagement. And the point is, we can do so much good for each other when we do not judge one another. When we say, look, how you are solving this dilemma of how to be so utterly individual, while meaningfully engaged, might look like a bit of withdrawal compared to me that's feeling such an impetus to engage and be involved. When we judge one better than another, we're playing God, and it, like, not only that, but the betas actually warned us that we're entangling ourselves with bad karma to judge another soul and where they are at and their path, what they ought to be doing. You can have opinions, you can have reactions, me too. I look at the world, and I have thoughts about what I think other people should be doing that they're not or how they should be behaving or acting or whatever, but these wisdom traditions really do tell us over and over, very explicitly, focus on listening to where that alignment is for you right now. Does that look like moving into a more fringy space, a little bit of withdrawal, or does it mean, no, this is the time to find that meaningful level of participation. It may require a bit of social revision or imagination or risk-taking. What's the subculture you could really find yourself at home in, so that you're not disengaging out of fear and sadness and escapism, but you're engaging from a place of bravery. But the other person, the brave act may be to to step back, to step out. Some individuals drop out, others become isolated, ostracized or rejected by groups and need other groups and humans to help heal that, right? It's such a vast evolutionary landscape that us souls are moving through. Um, another thing is that to, one of the beautiful blessings of the Aquarian archetype on an evolutionary level is to be able to see ourself clearly as a spirit soul, apart from identification with roles, ideologies, categories of identity, group identities, that those are all real, they play a role, but Aquarian seasons are really good ones to say, yeah, but can I detach? Can I have a little bit of objectivity? That objectivity is not your enemy. It doesn't cancel or, uh, it doesn't delegitimize those identity categories, but it helps you carry them a little bit more loosely. And when you carry them a little bit more loosely, and they're less hyperdefended, you can actually inhabit them and learn and get receive the gifts that they have to give you at a deeper level. But this ability to see these things a little bit more objectively and get a little bit more space is making room for the soul within them. It's normal that confrontations around identity, criticism, rejection, uh, these kinds of things come up as we're exploring all of this.
[23:50]Um, but look, how you locate yourself in these conversations around, you know, a vast archetypal field like Aquarius, um, I want you to know that you're supported in that. From me, my channel, I don't, I don't sit here thinking about what people, how people ought to be evolving. Right, instead, I try to provide a meaningful space so that people can discover what that direction looks like authentically in a grounded, safe way. And provide the archetypal landscape and just be like, you apply it with your conscience, with your heart, with your soul, and with some meditation if you need it. If the meditation is every morning, um, every morning you can come and sit with us. And use that, is look, if you like this content, it comes from a daily sauna. I have had for 16 years and beyond my astrology career. Daily spiritual practice has been a weirdly consistent part of my life. I don't, I'm not, uh, whatever, it's just that it's there. It's where the content comes from, and I know in my heart that it's the, the value that I place on this content comes from the value I place on those practices. I don't know how I'd be engaging with these things in my own personal heart of hearts if I didn't have that in my life. And I don't know how I'd be making content that could possibly address all of the different ways that all of you might be experiencing it if I didn't have contemplative space to sit with these things in. So, I invite you, if you want, come join us for the meditation. Go to the events tab on the website, you'll see the silent Sundays, it's really silent every days at this point, so, uh, but join us. I hope to see you there. I hope you're having a great day, uh, and that this contributes to your understanding and work with this eclipse. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.
