Cosmic Rain and Rainbows — More to Watch for with the Grand Water Trines!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today, we're going to take another look at the Grand Water Trine. I made a list of 10 things to watch for. We took a look at five of them yesterday. We're going to take a look at the second five today.

All of these are designed to give you some deeper ways of reflecting upon so much astrological water as a symbol in the sky. Between now and early December, I will review the timeline and the specifics of the Grand Water Trine before getting into it today.

There is no need for you to watch part one prior to watching this, although, if you wanted the full list, you could watch yesterday and today together, but they're in no particular order, all just things that I think will be useful for us reflecting on the meaning of so much again, so much water in the sky.

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So that Grand Water Trine is forming today from the Moon in Scorpio. We started looking at this yesterday, you'll see that Mercury and Mars in late Scorpio are starting to form a trine with Jupiter, and then they'll be forming the trine with Saturn. It's not an exact Grand Water Trine, but it is close enough.

The astrology is just It's raining, it's pouring. So we want to look at water and get a feeling for how to read and understand the element of water as a primary symbol through which we're experiencing things right now.

The other thing to keep in mind is that This Grand Water Trine will continue to take place if we see Mercury coming through, the trine to Jupiter by tomorrow, Friday, and then hitting Saturn by Sunday, and then Mars will go through next week, the Grand Water Trine.

So the end of October is just super, super watery. We've got a new moon forming in Scorpio that will also be activating everything. So then this reiterates mid November and then early December.

So all in all, we have multiple occurrences of the Grand Water Trine between right now and early December, and you probably won't even really notice the separations between the most intense periods. You're just going to notice the overall watery effect, but there will be these peak moments that we'll continue to unpack and come back to as each one rolls through this one being the first one.

So what I did was I came up with a list of 10 things to watch for, and I've broken them into two sections. Traditions. Yesterday, we went through the first five. They're in no particular order. So again, if you missed it, go back and watch. It's not like you have have to have seen that to see this.

What I want to do today is keep exploring another five things to watch for with respect to water and how to think about water from the ancient philosophical and religious perspectives of so many different traditions that are all applicable for This Grand Water Trine.

All right, so number one, very, very simple in Buddhism, water is one of the primary images associated with impermanence. Impermanence is sort of like a core doc Trine of Buddhist teaching. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing is ever remaining the same.

And in a way, trying to describe some kind of underlying essence or sameness or stability is like trying to hold water in your hands. It just falls right through. It's not that water is nothing, but it's not something that you can point to as solid and lasting and enduring. It moves, and it's fluid.

And so while there is something called life, its core feature is that it can't, like hold on to it. It's always moving. So one of the things that water can bring up for us is this core philosophical reminder that's really at the heart of all mystical traditions.

I can't think of one mystical tradition I've studied, from Taoism to yoga philosophy to Buddhism to ancient Western forms of esotericism that doesn't have in common the idea that the only constant is change when we are in touch with this through meditation, let's say quiet time regularly.

What's the benefit? Well, there are many, but one of the benefits is that one of the ways that we constantly try to create happiness for ourselves is to hold on to things, to control things, and we to the degree that we live with the illusion of certainty or control, or even the degree to which we can be attached to something is often the degree to which we temporarily experience the illusion of happiness.

But then what happens? And this is where the mystical life begins, impermanence, death, change, suffering, letting go, having to surrender, feeling overwhelmed. These things happen. You lose control. You can't maintain an attachment. You can't maintain the same level of certainty. Your thoughts, feelings and control are overwhelmed.

When that happens, we come often. We come back into a primordial awareness of something very, very simple, something as basic as water, yet as incapable of grasping or holding on to as water. This is one of the primary spiritual and sort of philosophical benefits of Grand Water. Trine, whatever happens, however it happens, wherever it shows up.

You can think that it may involve impermanence and change and flux. And when we are reminded of that, we often come back to the most basic, simple truths, one of which, by the way, is love. Love is free. Love is flowing. Love is fluid, the way we connect to life ourselves, other beings without attachment, but not without care or connection.

You know that fluid way of staying connected, concerned but also unproblematically attached? That's how many people have talked about love. Grand Water, Trine offers, offers us an opportunity to remember, oh yeah. Change is everywhere. Change is constant.

Number two, water is often talked about in modern psychological astrology as intuitive. Now there's some debate about intuition and instinct around water and fire and astrology, and that's all really interesting, but let's just talk whether it's instinct or intuition.

I want you to think for a moment about like a dog. We have two mastiffs which have Guardian tendencies in them, right? They're like a guardian breed. So when they hear something coming in the driveway, my my English Mastiff, she'll sit up and she'll start like, you know, like, I'm concerned, like honey Corso.

He's still a puppy, and so he'll start growling when she does. But otherwise, you know, he's he's sort of a tool. He doesn't know anything. He has no skills yet, but he'll start growling when she does, you know. And then she goes and she checks it out that when we see a dog doing that, and we haven't even heard the person yet.

Is their senses are different. You know that they have different hearing than than we do. But intuition is a little bit like that, almost like as like an analogy, where, if we drop into our bodies, if we listen, if something pops out doesn't quite something doesn't quite. Feel right, and you sink into it a little bit, and you listen, there's a lot of wisdom that can start coming to the surface.

I don't necessarily think that means you're psychic, or you're a medium or anything. It doesn't have to be anything you know, glamorous, and it doesn't have to be anything that puffs up our egos, right? It's just we all have intuitive, instinctual awareness, like the body is wise. The body knows things. Our psyches know things.

If you sit and listen, if you take the time to listen during a Grand Water Trine, you may find that there's a lot of knowing there. There's a lot of intuition, that there's a receptivity and an awareness that extends farther than you might think, in the same way your dog can hear someone coming down the driveway. So think of this as a window of heightened intuition.

Now it was, it was in ancient Greek philosophy, Heraclitus, who I love to quote, believed that water was both chaotic and orderly. The reason for this is that Heraclitus believed that because everything was in constant flux. There it is, again, that water represents constant change, and therefore is sort of an enemy of structure.

Seleucia in alchemy is very similar, where structures often dissolve during an alchemical water stage, however, and that's also, by the way, very common in psychedelic experiences or states of great grief or loss, where everything, all the structures, just kind of fall away, and there's a lot of overwhelm.

In this sense, water, Heraclitus said, could be very chaotic. However they chaos and structure for Heraclitus, were complementary aspects of the same cosmic rhythm. So the flood that comes in and washes over thing every over everything, like the tides pulls away again and then reveals a new form on the beach.

The beach is constantly changing, but it's there. Its forms aren't non existent. They're there, but they're just always changing because of the tide coming in and out. So think of a Grand Water Trine as something sweeping through life, bringing in the water that that washes away the structure, but then as it recedes, a new one emerges.

It's a different way of thinking about the Seleucia that Heraclitus had, very similar, though I don't know if Jung was influenced or if the alchemists were influenced by Heraclitus is thinking or not, I wouldn't be surprising. And I'm sure he wasn't. Heraclitus probably wasn't the first thing, first person to observe this either, as it's just like these things are just sort of like symbolic facts of nature. Anyway.

Number four, water is considered fertile and life giving, and is associated with all goddesses of fertility in like all across the planet. And so one basic way of thinking about a Grand Water Trine super fertile. Shit grows where there's water, there's life, growing, gestating. So it's a very creative thing to see a Grand Water Trine coming through. And one very basic way of thinking about it is just, wow, this is a super fertile force that's expressing itself. So keep that in mind.

And then number five is water is memory. We talked about water yesterday as being a reflective medium that can connect us to origins, roots, ancestors. We can reflect on emotions and see something of a higher understanding if we reflect upon them, you can see the sky reflected in the water. The air and the water are connected.

You can understand emotions if you take a little bit of time to reflect on them, not that you want to overanalyze or rationalize either. But similar and yet different is that because water is reflective like the moon, it was associated with water and the moon with memory.

Memory is a kind of replica or a replay of an original and so because water is reflective, it allows us to do a lot of very meaningful memory work. That's why it's also connected to ancestral work. But just therapeutically speaking, getting clear about something that happened or how I felt about something that happened in the past, this can be a great blessing of water.

So memory work, therapeutic memory work. What wisdom do memories hold? What wisdom and what memories are coming to the surface right now that maybe you haven't visited for a while, these would also be very wouldn't be surprising, I should say, to see memories come up as the water rises.

So that's it for today. That's my list. Stick around. I'm going to tell you more about what to expect from our year one program, which is coming up. Something that I've been saying lately, I've been saying one thing about the program that I find makes it like what makes this program worth taking?

To me that is the idea that community is key to learning. For some people, they have to take this in correspondence fashion, or they take it at their own pace, which is totally fine. The program is built for that. But if you are someone who benefits from being with other people most of the time, year by year, as conferences occur, Nightlight students are gathering together.

We have a ton of community like once you enter into the Nightlight world. Of classes, there's just a lot, a lot of community that's built in. And a lot of the time carrying astrology alone is hard, so carrying it in community for many people is a way to deepen and make it so much more relevant and powerful in your life.

To share it with others in a deeper, more meaningful, consistent way is huge when it comes to taking astrology to the next level. So anyway, on that note, I hope you're having a good day. We'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.