Six Planets Flooding the Sky — A Grand Water Trine and What to Watch For

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

Today we are going to take a look at the Grand Water Trine that is forming in the sky as the moon moves through the later degrees of Scorpio, and as Mercury and Mars in the later degrees of Scorpio are also approaching the same configuration.

I've got a list of 10 things to watch for today, but we're going to break it into two parts. I'm going to give you five today and five tomorrow. I think that'll make things a little bit more manageable, but I've spent a lot of time and put a lot of care into giving you some of the most useful ways to think about water.

Water is about to be our teacher. Water is about to be the symbolic element through which we see and experience a lot of things between now and the beginning of December. And so I hope that this approach will be useful and will really give you some solid ways of engaging with your experiences, reflecting upon them as you're in them, which is always the goal with astrology.

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They're separating from their conjunction. We've been exploring that a lot lately. That means Mercury is about to hit Jupiter at 24 degrees, and then Saturn at 26 and Neptune at 29 and Mars is going to do the same thing. This is our Grand Water Trine forming. What is so special about today is that the moon is going to activate this and start opening the grand Trine portal.

You could say, I don't love the word portal, but I used it there. You can, you can, you can make a note of it. He used the word portal. He didn't feel too much shame. So there's the Moon in Scorpio, the moon in SCOR. Making a trine to Jupiter, making a trine to Saturn, making a trine to Neptune, all doing so today and tomorrow.

And then what makes that again kind of like opening the door, opening the flood gates, whatever image comes to mind is that by Friday, Mercury will then be entering the Grand Water Trine, connecting in a trine to Jupiter. And then on Saturday, October 25 we will see Mercury moving through the trine to Saturn and Neptune. And that then Mars starts the same process.

And we can see that Mars will go through that process then between now and the end of the month. And so really, it's this moon and Scorpio period that launches us into the end of October, where every day there's a lot of water in the sky, so to speak. Not only that, but then as we go through the month of November, we're going to see that this repeats once the sun gets into the range of the Grand Water Trine about mid November, we're going to see that a new moon forms, and that new moon forms in late Scorpio, as Mercury is retrograding back into Scorpio, and as Venus is also coming through Scorpio, so the Grand Water Trine is reiterated, and then we're going to See the exact same thing happen in late November and early December through Mercury and Venus coming through the last portion of Scorpio as well.

So again, Grand Water, Trine, repeats, repeats, repeats. What I have for you today are five things to watch where I actually have 10, but I'm breaking them into two parts, and this list is really, in some ways, it's bigger than astrology. It's really a variety of ways of thinking about the symbolism of water in many different ancient spiritual religious traditions from all over the planet, modern and ancient, actually.

And I think approaching it from this way is going to give us, like a toolkit, symbolically, as we move through a very watery space, it's good to have a lot of different ways of conceptualizing, oh, there's water. Oh, wait, here it is. It's not I mean, if all we said was oh, it's going to be really emotional. I mean, that's not wrong.

Water definitely connected to emotion in astrology. But water has so many interesting correlates, and so the idea behind this talk is to give you a lot of different ways of looking for water. So let's get into it. All right, number one in ancient Egypt, although, although Ancient Egypt, by the way, does have some actual connections to Hellenistic astrology.

A lot of the early philosophy of Hellenistic astrology was actually thought to be tied to Egypt through things like Platonism and Pythagorean ism, which were influenced by Egyptian mysticism. But either way, coming from the Egyptian religious view water was tied to the souls journey through this lifetime and also through the afterlife.

The Nile River, not that I'm some great Egyptologist or anything like that, but this is pretty basic. I'm sure most many of you may be already familiar with this. The Nile River was not just thought of as a river, but as a conduit of the realm of the gods, the realm of the Divine. And the way that that realm was connected to this earthly realm was through the medium of water that the Nile was an embodiment of.

And so the Nile River was thought of as the water of life, the generative force of the gods, or the cosmos itself, the source of life, and the soul itself as a medium for it, as a medium that carries things into this world, from a divine world, and out of this world back to the divine world. Water was thought of in that way.

Now the reason that I want to say that I'm pointing to this is because, broadly speaking, I don't, I don't think it's like, there's one day that's like, more filled with death or birth than another. You know, most days across the, you know, take most days of the of the year. I'm sure that there's some kind of average number of births and deaths, or something like that.

What I want you to think about instead of, oh, there's going to be a lot more birth so there's going to be a lot more deaths. Is that the portals through which souls travel in and out of bodies or realms or dimensions, worlds, psychic worlds, as well as literal physical worlds, or lifetime to lifetime, are often associated with water.

And so I when there's a huge formation of Grand Water Trine, not just this one, but several between now and December. One way of thinking about it is that you're going to see souls leaving this world and souls coming into this world. And maybe it's not so much that there's more or less. Of it as much as it is that your perception of it is heightened.

I think of the moment when my kids were born, there was this feeling of stepping into the river of life itself. Oh, I am participating in something that my wife is giving birth. But 30,000 years ago, a woman was in a river doing this, you know, and I felt connected to that. And so one of the beautiful things that water can do is when births and deaths occur, when souls are leaving their bodies and coming into their bodies, which often, by the way, funeral rites were associated with water and purification of the body, cleansing of the body, birth, obviously coming out of the waters of the mother.

The idea here is that there's a there's a sense of being connected to the rivers of life and to the channels through which life flows death being just one of the transitions that are really all connected through the medium of water. And so just being aware of life and death and how they're flowing and transitions that are occurring through a channel like a Grand Water Trine, I think that becomes a very valuable way of thinking about it.

I would not be surprised if there were, for example, when you see big arrangements of elements, there are often natural disasters that occur relative to the element, like floods or typhoons or, what about hurricanes? You know, that kind of thing would not be uncommon in a Grand Water Trine configuration. Now, I can't remember, like, what hurricane season is, or when it is, or whatever.

I'm not sure if that even fits, and I'm not, certainly not predicting anything specific, right? But more so that there's, you know, it's like, it's like in Star Wars. Remember when they they blow up Princess leia's planet? And I think it was Obi Wan, or said he sensed the disturbance in the force as if 1000 voices all cry out, cried out at once, and then were silent.

I think that the increased awareness of souls coming and going of life and our connection to this vast history of birth and death that is planet Earth, and maybe not even just ours, but the planet other species. One thing that water is said to be connected to is empathy and so becoming aware of the substance of the soul, the transitions and passages of the soul, the movements of life coming into bodies and out of bodies, and the the awareness of transmigration and of the collective dimension of life in the cosmos, I think all of that gets heightened again, not that there's necessarily more or less births or deaths, but more so that our awareness of birth and death as channels of transition heightens Somehow, and we become more aware of the collective dimensions of of birth and death that we all share in.

So that's one way of thinking about it that really comes from ancient Egypt and the Nile and the river of life and the channels through which souls flow. So I thought that would be, you know, a valuable way for all of you to perhaps think about these Grand Water Trine. Certainly it is for me. Number two is the unconscious.

So coming back into, say, the modern era and Jungian psychology, Carl Jung viewed water as a symbol of the unconscious mind, which is to say that there are these vast depths of the psyche. The psyche is a word. By the way, psyche is a word for soul. They're the same word. And so the sense that, like Heraclitus said, The soul is explored forever to a depth beyond report, the sense that I am a very deep, deep living being.

I am mysterious, parts of me come out and show themselves, but it's like a game of hide and seek. I'm there, and then I'm gone again. I think water, a big, grand water, Trine configuration, can allow a space for the soul to sort of come forth from its hiding places. I like to think about the soul, and I've said this before, kind of told this story before, like deer.

When I was in graduate school, I was living in a little cottage, and in the morning in this little cottage on my grandfather's land, there would be deer that would come out into the yard and eat and if I was really, really careful and quiet, I could move and sit on the window ledge, like the bay window, and watch them while I drank my tea.

But I would have to be very quiet, even going to the kitchen and making my tea, all that stuff. And if I was very, very quiet, they would remain. But if I was at all, let's call it heavy footed, unconscious, fast on. Aware they would bolt. The soul is like that too, in the Jungian tradition, in the tradition of depth psychology, the soul is something that for it to be seen and for its life to be understood and valued and taken care of, requires a kind of subtlety.

It requires things that help us to remain aware of things running below the surface that we're not always consciously aware of. So water's ever fluid, changing nature mirrors the way that there is, like this hidden level at which our soul is alive and flowing along subtly beneath the surface, dreams, synchronicities, chance encounters, experiences that we have under a Grand Water Trine.

It's as though everything is conspiring for the soul, that subtle, deep, invisible, watery space of identity, of selfhood, to sort of come to the surface and be seen, a powerful moment of recognizing, oh, there's the soul. It's often hiding, but now it's here that doesn't I think we often want that to get we want that to lead to some kind of takeaway.

This is what I got from seeing the soul or it came up and it gave me this information, it gave me an instruction, you know, gave me a heroic purpose. It inflated my ego. It gave me more confidence, or something like that. But honestly, the soul doesn't really work like that. It when the soul is seen and recognized and valued, it's more like it's, it's, it's more like that subtle dance of finding a sweet spot when you're playing an instrument or doing art or connecting with a lover, to be in touch with our own soul requires a soft, gentle touch and the allowing for something to be elusive rather than definitive.

So thinking about the unconscious right now, it's like something that we don't always get to see, because of how subtle it is, could become its presence being amplified is special and important. We also have to be careful, because when it comes up, it's just let it speak. Don't try to take something from it, you know, all right, okay.

Number three is waterways. Water as channels. Many indigenous cultures, such as Native American, African South American, see water as a bridge to the spiritual world, the world that creates this world, because water was thought of as generative of life, and so waters, rivers, lakes, oceans, are thought of as spaces through which the transcendental plane can be accessed, the plane that somehow from which creation rains.

You know, it's like the spiritual sky from which the material, cosmos itself, originally rained down and and the so the bodies of water are thought of as places that reflect the sky. The you can see the sky reflected in the lake, and the sky is the place from which the water comes. It rains down. And the material cosmos itself is thought in some traditions to have rained down from a transcendental plane, and so water becomes a reflective space to get back to something original.

That's why the water is the the medium through which the ancestors are often contacted and worshiped in bodies of water, for example. But anything that allows us to get to that transcendental plane, that allows us to become reflective of something higher. It's amazing how you know we we tend to just be so narrow, like water is emotions, but if we think a little bit more deeply about what, what is an emotion?

And one thing, I don't think there's just one thing an emotion is, but one thing an emotion is, or can be, is like the moon a reflective dish. Emotions, as they come up, are teeming with reflective images, and so to when a Grand Water Trine forms, it's as though there's this big body of water that can help us reflect on things, the gods, the ancestors, that can help us reflect on a higher understanding of something, as the emotions appear in the mirror of the body.

If we take a little time to be quiet, this is why, one of the reasons why I love silence so much, I've always had meditation practices, but our silent Sundays like, what's the value of silence? Because as the emotions come up and you sit with them and allow them to move, it's like you're looking into the lake, and then you can see things reflected in the emotions.

And the things reflected in the emotions are often there's a. Lot of wisdom there. The wisdom of the ancestors comes through water. The wisdom of the gods comes through water. The wisdom of our origins comes through water. The wisdom of the origin of an emotion that we're feeling comes through water. Understanding origins doesn't mean that we solve something, it means we relate to something at a deeper level, we can find more compassion, empathy, understanding, sensitivity, wisdom, that's that's felt, that's embodied.

So think about the appearance of this big, Grand Water Trine as this channel, this reflective medium through which you can find other things. You can find access to origins. You can find access to Gods, ancestors, feelings, etc. So number four is in alchemy, water is understood as the stage of Seleucia. And we've talked about this.

We talked about this maybe a month ago now, where there is a stage that where something needs to be purified and released, purged emotionally, like grief or big feeling. In our house, we talk to our kids about big feelings, right, like Mr. Rogers, so where there is a huge amount of water, there is a huge opportunity for purification, healing, release, processing of emotions, and for things that have been hard or rigid to become softened and smooth and for boundaries to open up so that new things can form in place of old, rigid, practical, dry, earthy things the earth gets, becomes like clay.

Now you can mold it, reshape it, and that often also allows for stagnation to be healed, cleansed, for toxins to even be flowing out. So the Seleucia and alchemy is another way of thinking of an approaching Grand Water Trine, one that if you want to learn more about you go back in my videos and find the talk on alchemy in the Grand Water Trine number five.

Okay, well, let's just get right down to it classically, one of the things that water can represent are both desire and emotions. So one of the things that I find really interesting is that in Vedic philosophy, yoga philosophy, emotions and desire are really intimately connected. A lot of our emotions that we experience are fundamentally connected to what we desire and what we're attached to.

So if I'm sad, it's might be because I didn't get something that I was hoping for, or something was taken away from me that I loved so desire and attachment, aversion and fear, what I want, what I don't want, what I'm attached to, what I push away. These are so closely connected to emotions that when a Grand Water Trine comes up, our emotions can teach us about our desires.

Our desires can teach us about our emotions, and we can refine our desires in our emotional responses. It's not bad to have emotions. In my opinion, it's not bad to have desires. In the Vedic tradition, even though we're seeking enlightenment and moksha, which is, in a sense, a kind of letting go or releasing of attachments and entanglements.

Still, it's human, and you can't bypass having desires or emotions. That's definitely not the point of yoga. And in fact, one of the most annoying things you'll ever find is when you go to yoga studios, or if meet people who are into yoga, and they pretend as if they're they're so balanced and even keeled that they don't have emotions, they don't have desires, they don't have attachments, it's like, yeah, you're not level 10.

Come on, that's an act which will be provoked at some point. And the, you know, the the jig will be up, or however they say that. So the point is, we don't want to be without desire or emotion when we're, you know, at probably most of us, at our level of evolution, are not going to be monks.

You know, still, I always say astrology is for monastic types who are still living in the city. Desire and emotions can be refined, and they can mature, and they can get more sophisticated. I can learn how to modulate my desires. Want something, but also be able to let go of it if it doesn't happen, love something, be attached to it, but also be secure enough to let it have space to breathe that can have a tremendously beneficial impact on my emotions relative to my attachments, desires, aversions, fears, etc.

I can be scared of something, and I can know how to modulate my emotional response relative to that fear. These Grand Water Trine is a profound opportunity for us to explore the connection between attachments, desires, aversions and emotional responses. So how can we just get a little bit more emotionally secure, emotionally intelligent? That's a big part of this, I think.

All right, that is it for today. Tomorrow, we'll do part two, where I'll give you five more things to watch for. Given this big watery signature in the sky, remember the water is coming through today, tomorrow, with the Moon in Scorpio, then it keeps evolving as Mercury hits all of the Trine and then Mars. So we'll say that all again tomorrow.

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