Entering Dreamtime — Jupiter Squares Neptune

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

Today we are going to take a look at Jupiter in Cancer squaring Neptune in the sign of Aries. This is another major outer planetary configuration that's taking place this week, and it's a really good one to understand the nuances of both historically and in terms of the square that's happening right now today.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you some tips for tracking the historic cycles of Jupiter and Neptune. I'm going to give you some tips in terms of what to watch for and how to track. And then I'm going to give you the dates of the entirety of the last cycle, as well as the first portions of this cycle.

Then what we're going to do tomorrow is isolate Jupiter-Neptune in terms of the archetypal configuration itself. These two episodes are therefore designed to help you get the most out of the tracking of this Jupiter-Neptune dynamic, and then we can meaningfully place it alongside of the fact that Saturn and Neptune are combining right now, which makes the dynamic between Jupiter and Saturn and Jupiter and Neptune really dynamic and interesting.

The best way, in my opinion, to approach that is to break it into parts and then put it all back together. So today, the historic cycles of Jupiter and Neptune, what to watch for, how to track them, and then we'll kind of talk a little bit more about Jupiter and Neptune.

And then it's my hope that we can meaningfully put all three together as we go forward and we watch this dance between Saturn and Neptune and Jupiter continue over the next couple of weeks. So anyway, that's the goal for today, and as always, before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe.

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So alright, on that note, let us turn our attention to the real-time clock, and I am going to show you the transit at hand first. So what we are working with today, Wednesday, June 18, is the applying square between Jupiter in Cancer and Neptune in the sign of Aries.

Now if we follow this transit just a little bit further—oops, I'm going to go by hours here—we'll see that the transit is perfect down to the minute. This is right around 9:30 to 10:30 PM Central Time tonight. So that's June 18.

The square between these two planets is historic, which means we can interpret it in a vacuum, sure, and I'll give you those significations and combinations. The "what to watch for" list tomorrow.

Today, what I want to do is teach you how the cycle works—what to watch for cyclically—and the dates of all of the important points of the last cycle, as well as the first few stages of this new cycle.

This is our opening square. We're going to start with the conjunction in Pisces in 2022 and bring us through all of the critical moments of this new cycle that began in '22. But I'm also going to take you back to the cycle that began some time ago, which takes us all the way back to 2009.

So we're going to go from the cycle that ran from 2009 up to 2022, and I'm going to teach you how to track that. And for some of you, that will be great fun, optional sort of homework you can do that will also carry over in terms of understanding what to watch for with this current square and the current cycle that we're in.

So that's the agenda. So again, tomorrow: Jupiter in Cancer, Neptune in Aries—I'm going to break it down, put it in a kind of archetypal vacuum, spin the jewel, tell you all the particulars to watch for, and hopefully with this larger cyclical tracking context, you can then get the most out of it.

So on that note, let us here are the things to watch for within the cycle of these two planets in general. By that, what I mean is, whenever these two planets get together throughout all of the parts of their cycle, there are some very broad things that we track and that we can observe over the course of our lives.

Remember, I've been talking a lot about Jupiter within the context of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle. Jupiter's meaning broadly relates to that word "teleology"—the purpose or direction for which something is born or designed, like the blueprint of an oak tree that's contained in the acorn.

I recommended a book recently that maps all of the history of Jupiter out really nicely by Liz Greene that came out recently called *By Jupiter*. A lot of people think about Jupiter, they think about abundance and expansion and the bestower of blessings and benefits, and you're going to get a raise and like, you know, we have—there's a lot of things that Jupiter can be, a very benefic planet and sort of wish-granter in some ways.

But there's a lot more to Jupiter. And one of the things that Jupiter most importantly represents is the evolution of our felt, instinctual sense of faith and direction and purpose, and to some extent, our evolving understanding of purpose, our life philosophy, our beliefs, and the evolution of our understanding.

Especially to the extent that that understanding informs how we structure portions of our lives that therefore become reflections of our beliefs and our sense of purpose, direction, and faith in our personal lives, but also in a sort of larger macrocosmic sense—our understanding of the purpose of life, the purpose of the universe itself.

These are all things we've broken down recently—excuse me, somewhat recently—with the Jupiter-Saturn dynamic. All of these same things still apply for Jupiter and Neptune within the Jupiter-Neptune dynamic.

Cyclically, historically, we are still talking about the evolution of understanding, faith, wisdom, purpose, direction, meaning—the teleology, the felt sense of something's purpose or end that it is designed for.

Now, those things are changing and evolving and shifting all of the time because we learn and grow, and the focus of our life changes. Especially even within different areas of our life, the purpose and focus changes—our understanding grows and changes within relationships or parenting or job or health or internally, selfhood.

There's so many different specific arenas within which our understanding, philosophy, is unfolding. This becomes really important when tracking the cycles of Jupiter with other outer planets, because each outer planetary cycle with Jupiter reflects a different flavor of that understanding, and often within different whole-sign houses.

Throughout the cycle, different areas of life become very targeted and specific. So whatever I'm about to say today about the cycles of Jupiter and Neptune, I highly recommend that you track out the whole-sign house locations of these transits that I'm going to take you through today, because that will always give you topical grounding within your natal chart.

This is, of course, assuming a whole-sign house paradigm, but you could apply it to whatever house system you use.

Now, what to watch for within the Jupiter-Neptune dynamic is really interesting because all of the same things about faith, direction, purpose, meaning, understanding, philosophy unfold within the Jupiter-Neptune cycle.

However, with the combination of Jupiter and Neptune, one of the key things that happens is direction, purpose, faith, meaning—are evolving along the lines of what inspires us, that spiritual fire within us that gets passionate and excited and charismatic and emotionally sort of stirred by something that calls to us.

Like a longing or a fantasy or a dream or a wish, an aspiration, an inspiration. Jupiter-Neptune is typically about the way in which we are evolving along the lines of what inspires us, what calls to us, what beckons us.

There's a real romantic pulse to the Jupiter-Neptune dynamic—the inspiration, the keyword "imagination" comes to mind for this cycle. So when you track this cycle today, and I give you all the dates to track, think about what was inspiring you, or what new things were calling to you, what new things were exciting you.

Where were your dreams, your hopes? Those are very Jupiter-Neptune-like themes to watch for.

Number two is the reaching toward ideals. Neptune with Jupiter tends to hold out something like a fantasy or an ideal—something like Eden or paradise, even if it's within a specific area of our life.

It's like an image of how wonderful something could be, or the thing that calls to us as it's like glittery and beautiful and shimmering. Now sometimes those are mirages, or the reality can't—it's like it over-promises and under-delivers. That's a hallmark of Jupiter-Neptune.

Nonetheless, the dream, the vision, will still pull us along a life path, and it usually does deliver something of the quality of the wish or hope that we place on things. But there may be projections that have to be pulled back a little bit—that's definitely a part of the Jupiter-Neptune dynamic.

Which is why we also have Jupiter-Saturn, right? So that cycle has a little bit more of these hard-limit checks that come with them. So it's interesting that you put the two together right now. We'll talk about that later.

Finally, even though it sounds like that's the job of Jupiter-Saturn, the very fact that Jupiter and Neptune align and realign our hopes, visions, dreams, fantasies—they do so along the same timelines that certain hard realities are being faced, limitations are being dealt with, and maybe even old dreams or wishes are sort of dissolving.

That's a natural juxtaposition that's built into Jupiter-Neptune that doesn't even necessarily need Saturn to do the reality-checking. Neptune has this funny way of giving us Saturnian reality checks simply because the juxtaposition between reality and fantasy with Neptune can be very strong regardless of Saturn's presence.

Not kind of—I think it's not unrelated that when Neptune was discovered, it was discovered in a conjunction with Saturn. It's as though there's something about Neptune that has Saturn sort of baked into it because of the natural juxtaposition between what we hope or wish for and the sort of limits of the world that we live in, within which we hope and desire for things that are sort of otherworldly.

So all of that is just to say that even though we have Saturn and Neptune sort of together right now, any stage of the Jupiter-Neptune dynamic can reflect our evolving inspiration, wishes, fantasies, dreams, longings that are informing our sense of purpose and philosophy and meaning in life as it's unfolding.

But those can sometimes come along the lines of things like disillusionment or reality checks. I mean, I can't tell you how many Neptune transits where Saturn's nowhere to be found in terms of the major transit picture in a person's chart will show them the limits of their—let's say, their marriage or their job.

Their Neptune fills them with a longing for something that looks totally different because they're feeling disillusioned with or bored or something in their life is feeling sort of dried up comparatively. So that juxtaposition is baked into Neptune again, regardless of Saturn's presence.

Now with those three things in mind—again, inspiration, imagination, and how those things are informing our sense of purpose and direction and anchor—you can think of that very broadly in terms of your whole life, or you can think of that very specifically in terms of the topics of the houses that Jupiter and Neptune are contacting each other in as they work through their cycles.

So you can do that tracking on either level. Just a reminder: reaching toward what dreams, what ideals. And by contrast, where is the disillusionment or the feeling of limit that usually is a part of or informing the dream, the fantasy, the hope?

Alright. So on that note, what I want to do next is take you through the last cycle so that you have a full cycle to track in your journal if you choose to. You now know what to look for, and then I'm going to take you through the current cycle so that we can bring this square into the context of the recent cycle that started in 2022.

So that's our okay. So—so I had to get my screen ready. There—we're going to take this back to the start of the last Jupiter-Neptune cycle. This takes us back to May of 2009 when Jupiter and Neptune conjoined in the sign of Aquarius.

Now what I'm going to do is show you how you can track this. And I just realized that I have a lot of spirit showing, and I want to—well, I just want to get rid of that really quick. Oh God. Okay, hold on. Okay, sorry about that.

So Jupiter conjoined Neptune to start the last Jupiter-Neptune cycle in May of 2009. This is May 27, 2009. You can see the two planets exactly conjoined at the 26 degree of Aquarius.

Now, in terms of unpacking this cycle, a few tips: use the whole-sign houses, if that matters to you. Anchor the cycle in the house that Neptune starts in because it's a slower-moving planet. In a sense, it's like the orbital anchor for the cycle.

So if it helps you to sort of anchor the evolution of what's inspiring you and tracking that in the whole-sign house of Aquarius, that's one way to do it. You can also look at both houses as they are going along through the cycle in terms of the topics.

Or you can kind of chuck the house topics and just chart the path of inspiration, dreams, aspirations, hopes, wishes, and how they're shaping the plotline of life just overall. You don't even have to use the house locations if you don't want to. So you have options.

Anyhow, I'm going to show you—I'm going to say a few brief things about how I track this in my own chart so that you have a template to work with. Jupiter and Neptune conjoined in May of 2009. They also conjoined in July of 2009.

So 2009 really becomes a kind of flashpoint for the start of this new cycle. And it's interesting that the conjunction between these two planets really plays out in several different moments throughout 2009.

So here you can see—I'm tracking them, and let's see—they conjoin at around the 26 degree again by about July 10. So in late May and then early July, the two planets are really sort of dancing together during that period of time.

Now, if we go forward just a little bit more, we're going to see that by December of 2009, the two planets come together one more time, and they come together now at the 24th degree of Aquarius.

So that cycle—now the conjunction has taken place at three separate occasions, spread out pretty much throughout all of 2009—May, July, December. Okay, so that year, with those two planets in my career house (Aquarius is my 10th), what I noticed was that this was the period of time where I got my book deal.

I got my book deal during that year, and I was also—during that period of time, I was dating someone who started her own business and was not only teaching me how to start a business but really encouraging me to consider using the publicity and the book launch—the launch of my book—to start my own career.

I was studying astrology but did not yet have the confidence to start a career, even though someone in my life who was a model for starting their own business—which was doing very well—they started their own LLC, and they were teaching classes on nutrition and really sort of gave me a template for what I could do and were encouraging me to do my own thing with astrology.

But I didn't quite yet have the confidence, but a dream and a vision was certainly taking place. It was all rooted in the publication of my book about ayahuasca and this growing desire to kind of go in my own direction professionally, with the knowledge that I had a book that would be coming out in 2010 that there would be a publicity and book tour, radio spots, and that it might make for a good time to start something of my own professionally.

So between the May, July, and December conjunctions, I was getting my book deal and watching the person I was dating at the time start their own company, which was rooted in teaching and like a teaching platform and so forth. So that major period of inspiration would seed really the beginning of my career as an astrologer.

Fascinating, right? So that was in my 10th house—makes sense. But you can track those wherever Aquarius lands in your chart. What was the inspiration? What was the seeding of a new vision? What were your hopes and wishes?

What was the ideal image that was somehow fueling the development of your life story? I think it can be a really useful thing to spend some time thinking about the arc of that year—in this case, 2009.

The next thing that happens after the two planets separate—Jupiter being the faster-moving planet who is going to do the separating—is the two planets will reach their opening sextile.

This is a lot like a lunar cycle, right, where you have the Sun moving slower, the Moon moving faster and hitting aspects to the Sun as it moves out in front of the Sun in a lunar cycle.

So when we look at the sextile from these two planets, the first sextile really between these two planets occurs in June of 2011. We see a sextile from Taurus to Neptune—Jupiter in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces.

So the sextiles from Taurus to Pisces now under a sextile. Typically, what's happening is a next stage of unfolding, a critical form of development is happening, and one that often includes the harmonization of the original dreams, aspirations, and hopes with material or resources or developments or people that are coming together to aid and support the development of some of those wishes and dreams and hopes.

That's the most generous interpretation you could say of a sextile within the cycle—the opening sextile, which is about building the dream.

So the two planets come into sextile in June of 2011. This was my first date with my wife, Ashley. I had broken up with the person that I had been dating during the opening part of the cycle.

I had started my own business with their—really their support. I see this person as divinely placed in my life and consider them still someone that I care about as another human being very deeply because I think we both probably played important roles in each other's lives.

Certainly, the seeding of that cycle had a lot to do with the inspiration of starting my own business, right? And I had a template and someone who kind of showed me the ropes.

Jupiter and Neptune getting together here in June—I had just, just a month ago prior to this, done a retreat where I taught astrology at a yoga retreat that my wife was leading. She invited me to come along after having had a reading with me.

And so I went and collaborated and worked with her. And then we went out, essentially for dinner for the first time that month. And the idea of coming together and bringing our work together from that retreat was talked about—what else could we do?

So just another resource, right, coming together. Now, by the end of 2011, we started a yoga studio together in a home with herbs, yoga, and astrology as our offering—that we brought those things together.

But this was the first time that we met to discuss—to start collaborating, you might say. So that was June of 2011. Now, for you guys, track that—what was happening? And you could be a little generous with the swath of time you use.

Is it just before June of 2011? Is it later in the summer? What happens from the meeting of these two planets in June throughout the rest of 2011? You know, be creative. Don't be super limited and strict with the way that you look at it.

But also be honest—what was the line of inspiration? What was harmonizing to build and develop dreams, wishes, aspirations that had their roots in that 2009 moment?

Alright, moving forward, we go to June of 2012 to see the first quarter square. Now the square between these two planets is a moment where it's a little bit of a crucible. There's a lot of work, there's a lot of effort.

There are some maybe contrasting or conflicting ideals, or even divergent opinions about how to best achieve the dreams, the desires, the goals, or maybe even a period of adjustment of expectations, a little bit of a reality check, but hopefully not a dream killer, right?

So June of 2012—we see the square from Gemini to Pisces. What is interesting is that during this period of time—this is now 11th house to second house in my chart—this is the period of time in which I encouraged Ashley to develop and launch her own herbal courses.

Because she was teaching herbs a lot, I said, "Why don't you just formalize some of the classes you teach into a kind of online training program?" And then we also launched a yoga teacher training program. And then I formalized a few more courses at Nightlight.

That all happened in June of 2012. So at this time, it was a period of enormous work and development around some of the original career aspirations. Again, locating the start of the cycle in my 10th house, but this had to do with building an online training platform for all of our courses, building curriculum for yoga teacher training programs and so on.

During this time, this was a period of tremendous work and development relative to our dreams and goals. So you can see it again. Now when you're tracking this, look at what was the tension, what was the stress? What was the work?

What kind of crossroads were you at with respect to the building and developing of aspirations, hopes, wishes, dreams? Think about it like that.

Next, we go to July of 2013. Now I'm going to take this forward here by a year, and I want to show you what's happening then. In July of 2013, we have a grand water trine—or a grand water trine? There might have been one.

We have a water trine, I should say. And the water trine is between Jupiter in Cancer and Neptune in Pisces that is taking place in July of 2013. This is the trine now—like the sextile, but after the square, we're back to a period of rapid growth, development, harmonization, and really building and developing things.

So what happened during this time was we were coming up against the end of our lease at the place that we had our yoga studio. It was a home that we rented that they were generous enough to allow us to have a home-based yoga studio.

We started realizing that we probably wanted to get married. We were pretty close to deciding that we were on the marriage path and that we needed to have a designated place for the yoga studio, for the herbs, the astrology, and a separate place for home, because we were starting to think very seriously about getting married and having a family together.

And so the natural desire to kind of differentiate our home and living space from the yoga studio space occurred, and this summer, we signed a lease at a yoga studio that was a new space, and we rented a house that was our own space.

And that divergence of home, family life, and professional life occurred very naturally, very seamlessly. We were very excited about it, and by the end of 2013—in the wake of that decision—we were engaged to be married, and we had a separate yoga studio space.

But during this time, we also greatly developed what was really a very homey yoga studio vibe but in a new location and then kind of separated some things out. Now that trine from Cancer to Pisces in July of 2013—a broad way of thinking about it, as you're tracking it, is just what was in the process of developing, building momentum.

And also from the square, maybe what had differentiated. That's another way of thinking about the trine coming off from the square—what's integrating after a differentiation period?

So that busy, busy, busy work period of the square, for example, was a big part of what led us to saying we need a separate place for home, family, and a separate place for work. And that so began a psychic differentiation process as well as a literal one, and this was the integration that came after.

So what was flowing together? What elements of life were conspiring to support the original seeding of the dreams, the visions, the hopes that began back in 2009?

Finally, we get to the full moon of the cycle, which was in 2015. In 2015, it was May—or it was September, excuse me. Here we go. So September—you can see now that Jupiter in Virgo is opposed to Neptune in Pisces.

Now, when an opposition comes along, what you are generally tracking is sort of like the full moon of the cycle. Everything that the seeding of the cycle began with is now reaching its blossom on the tree.

There is also sometimes a very clear polarization between things that are taking place. That is because, as the cycle evolves and you reach the full moon, you are now going to begin a process of sloughing off that vision, realizing its fruits, and beginning the seeding of new and different visions with the next cycle.

So this is a point of departure from an old way, and that will—a full moon is of a cycle which will often bring things to a sense of resolution, completion, a fullness and a blossoming, but then the polarization can begin a process of further differentiation that eventually leads the sloughing off of this vision and the creation of a new one.

So 2015, September—we moved, we bought our first home. We were married. Ashley was pregnant and giving birth in December, and this was the point at which really the blossom of our—we had a second new yoga studio that we had that we were in the process of moving into by the early part of 2016.

So we were searching for a new yoga studio that could accommodate the growth that we had experienced as a studio. And we were married and had our first child on the way. And so the further differentiation between home and family and our sort of married couple life and the business that we had together was further differentiating.

The polarization was growing stronger because we're about to have a child, and you know what happens—we have, you throw kids in the mix, everything gets really busy. And then there was a fullness—we were at the peak of our growth as a yoga studio community, such that we had to get a bigger studio, which took place by the end of 2015, very early part of 2016.

So that's the full moon in this cycle for me. When you're tracking it, what I want you to think about is what was reaching a point of sort of maximal tension, expression, realization, fullness, and what polarizations were starting to announce themselves that are really the beginning of the end of the cycle.

We still have a whole waning part of the cycle to go through, but this says now we're waning now—from this point forward, we're ending a cycle. We're in the process of realizing its fruits and then gradually releasing the cycle itself.

So now we turn to the waning side—December of 2017. We go through the waning part of the cycle. I'm going to take you up to that time. So in December of 2017, we have a disseminating trine between Jupiter in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces.

You can still anchor things in that whole-sign house of Pisces if you've been doing that as you've gone along here, but you can also take a close look at Jupiter in Scorpio.

So as this trine was coming through, we had literally just found out this month that Ashley was pregnant with our second daughter, who would be born in the summer of 2018. So as this trine happened—and this is happening between my 11th house (community) and my seventh house (marriage)—Ashley is starting to realize that she is probably going to need to pull back her work because she wants more time for motherhood.

And so she's starting around this time when she found out she was pregnant—a whole conversation begins about what does our work look like, given the growth and expansion of our family? And this was a time of just shifting views and shifting hopes and dreams and wishes and what's motivating us and things like that.

So the dream is changing. We started handing the duties and responsibilities over to staff for management so that we could have more time for parenting, right? So it was a natural shift that was happening.

And that trine also coincided, for me, with the beginning of my involvement in the bhakti yoga world, and my wife's too, to a certain extent—she was never quite as into it as I was, but we were sharing that interest to a certain extent.

So that trine also came in as I was getting deeper and deeper into bhakti yoga. I think that's interesting because it was kind of a very mystical, charismatic, sort of faith-based community that was playing a strong role in my life at the time.

May of 2018—the trine recurs. This is happening for me just after I came back from India for the first time, which I think is really interesting, and just prior to the birth of our second daughter.

But this trine occurs between the two planets in May of 2018. So you can further track the development along these lines. So same basic themes for me.

And then in August of 2018, the final trine between the two planets occurs, and you can essentially see that taking place right here. Again. This is August of 2018—it's the final trine between the two planets.

This is a disseminating trine. Well, it's a lot of the fruits of the cycle being realized as you're also really starting to—the process of taking everything the cycle gave and beginning to let it go.

It was around this time that Ashley had just given birth to our second daughter. It was very clear that things were not going to go on as normal because parenting and family life was becoming so much more a part of our own needs and desires and wishes and aspirations—like it takes a lot, you know.

So you can't do both at the same level, or you'll be burnt out, right? So these kinds of realizations were really beautiful, part of the trine. And just reprioritizing things again—hiring more help at the studio was a big part of this period.

What was happening for you during all of these trines? December 2017, May 2018, August 2018—it's a process of realizing the fruits of the cycle and then maybe starting to reorient and shift visions or views as the cycle is starting to wane.

Then we get to January of 2019. In January of 2019—here we go. Whoops, May. Okay, I'll go back to January. We have the square between Jupiter in Sagittarius and Neptune in the sign of Pisces.

This square recurs in also in June of 2019. So January 2019, and then we take it forward to June, and we can see the square is there again. Those two squares from January of 2019 to June of 2019 are now really providing the crossroads of our faith, vision, imagination, inspiration, hope, longing.

That will be about the relinquishment of the old ideal and the seeding of the new cycle. This is the last quarter square, like a moon cycle. So very important kind of crossroads.

It was during this period that we decided to close the yoga studio and shift to entirely online offerings, which is interesting because the first quarter square of the cycle was when we developed those offerings and started also the process of diverging home and family from work.

Under the last quarter of the cycle, the studio has reached a flourishing peak, but home and family and the precedent of those concerns has moved us to a space of reorienting our lives to only feature the online training programs that we offered, and to close down the brick-and-mortar space, and to do that so that we could accommodate a vision of family and home that really wasn't going to be possible trying to do both, just because of how involved it was.

So some people maybe could do it. We just wasn't our priority, you know. So now for you—what are you doing between January and June of 2019? What crossroads are you at? How is the faith, vision changing, releasing?

What are you letting go of that because of a new vision that's gradually being seeded in? This last quarter is like a moment of harvest and release.

So then we move to February of 2020. This is the sextile that features a fallen Jupiter in Capricorn—Saturn's sign—at the very kind of dark point of a cycle.

One of the things that I would really emphasize would be disillusionment. This is a place where faith, vision, hope, inspiration are changing, continuing to change, as the general cycle of waning and releasing is happening on this half of the Jupiter-Neptune cycle.

But with a fall in Jupiter, it's also about disappointments or disillusionments. You could say things that are falling apart that are also harmoniously happening as a new vision is coming in.

So what was happening at this time was—as these two planets were sextile to one another, obviously COVID was about to happen. But for us, we had closed the studio, and we were starting to realize that for the vision of home and family life that we wanted, Maryland itself, where we were living, was not likely to be a fit.

This was also due in part to the fact that in these months just following the sextile, my wife's family—her parents—went through a divorce, which largely left us without a strong family connection.

And then the natural thing that happened under the next part of the sextile in July took place. So this sextile—this kind of dissolving sextile with a fallen Jupiter in Saturn's sign—continues in July of 2020.

So here in July of 2020, you see the two planets sextile again. This is the very dark part of their cycle, you could say. So it's about dreams, visions, wishes, but specifically as the very last part of a cycle is coming forth, and we've got a fall in Jupiter.

So by July of 2020, her parents were divorced, and the studio was closed, we were all online. And so we decided that we were going to move home to Minnesota, which is home for both of us.

Ashley has a lot of family here. I have a lot of connections and roots here. And so this was really the orientation of the family had come in even more strongly by the end of the cycle, you know.

So this is a moment of letting go of not only the yoga studio but then Maryland itself and moving back to Minnesota. I find that just super, super fascinating.

Finally, there was one more sextile in October of 2020, and that sextile—again, a disseminating, dissolving sextile. This sextile coincided with having just moved to Minnesota between—what was it, July? We moved in late August.

So the final sextile took place as we were getting settled into Minnesota. And at that time, that was also the time that Ashley decided to pull back completely from teaching for a little bit. She just wanted a break.

So then I took on the full-time, you know, provider responsibilities for a little bit. Now that's the entirety of the last cycle. I think it is absolutely fantastic if you can take some time to track that out, watch the ebb and flow of your wishes and your dreams and your hopes and how they're shaping the storyline.

What did you want? What did you desire? What was the amazing fantasy guiding your path? And it worked out or not. You know, a lot of times they don't work out exactly as we think they will, but we are dreamers, especially people who are into astrology.

Right now, let's start the new cycle. This new cycle that we are in is still really, really young and new. Let's take a look at April of 2022. Now we can track the cycle that we are in the midst of.

And so we're going to see that it is right here in April of 2022—the two planets conjoined in Pisces. So their seeding took place in April of 2022.

Now that was still, you know, pretty recent—like most of us should, I think, be able to track that with some ease. One of the things that I noticed when I went back and looked at that was—it was that very month that I made a decision to pull out of a bhakti yoga community project because I was really starting to question whether or not the bhakti yoga faith tradition and religious community was the right fit for me.

And so that month, rather than commit to a community-based sort of project that I was going to be a part of, I pulled out of it. I had a different idea for building community here in Minnesota and through Nightlight and through what we were doing—kind of a different direction.

I think it's really interesting because it just shows me that sometimes the conjunctions don't necessarily show you exactly what the dream or vision is, but they give you, at the very least, a starting point.

So that month, I quite literally decided, "I'm not going to continue on this bhakti yoga path." Well, within six months, I had left the bhakti yoga world entirely.

There's a conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune in my 11th house that's starting to give me the feeling idea of a different type of community, different type of religious, spiritual community that's not in alignment with the bhakti yoga world I had been in.

Simple. What was happening for you in the spring of 2022? Over the summer of 2022, the square that we're going through now is connected to that starting point.

Let's move forward to the sextile. So the sextile—the opening sextile, again, a harmonization—starts taking place in 2024. This is May of 2024 that we're going to see the two planets come together in a sextile here in Taurus and in Pisces.

Remember what I find so interesting about—remember, if I go back to the last cycle, when these two planets met in their sextile, they were in the same signs. And this is when, you know, I mentioned—you guys, I met my wife.

This opening period last May interestingly coincided with—this was Ashley's return to work, so she began teaching her herbal courses again for the first time since she had left, which was under the closing sextile.

So under the closing sextile the previous cycle, she took a break from teaching to just focus on being a mom. Under the opening sextile of the new cycle, she returned to work. Fun, isn't that so interesting?

I just think it's fascinating. It was around this time that I also, through attendance of Quaker meetings and Al-Anon and stuff like that, began formulating some of the vision for quiet meditation group meetups, which, not surprisingly, this month under the square I plan to be fulfilling and opening.

So this was also the period of time where I started conceptualizing a new kind of community space that I could hold outside of my work for, you know, for spiritual community here in Minneapolis, and also online and stuff like that.

So I thought that was really kind of cool. But again, the question that we ask ourselves under a sextile is, what new dream vision that kind of got started in the spring/summer of '22 is now formulating, building resources, finding harmony, and being kind of starting to build something that takes us up to this current square?

The current square is thus the moment of energy and initiation and work. Remember, in the first quarter square of the last cycle, for example, we were building all of this curriculum, developing all these programs that would become mainstays for the rest of the cycle and are still here today.

The vision now that began in 2022 requires effort and work and pouring ourselves into something. So that square is another crossroads of vision, dream, aspiration, hope that will require the energizing action and effort of a first quarter square.

So look at that right now. Now it's interesting that Saturn's in the mix because that reality-check principle is very strong within this particular Jupiter-Neptune dynamic.

What is and isn't possible, what is the realistic fulfillment of dreams, hopes, and wishes might be a little stronger due to Saturn's presence, but there it is.

And then, just to play this out so you can see where it's going, the next contact between these two planets will then be when Jupiter gets into Leo. And this is 2026 in July.

In July, the two planets will trine one another about a year from right now. So we'll go from square and building to integrating, harmonizing after the differentiation occurs.

Really, really cool way of tracking cycles. What to watch for again along these lines: inspiration, imagination, reaching toward ideals and dreams, alongside of the natural way in which we can only do so much in this world—in this world of impermanence and change and flux.

Our expectations and our hopes and our wishes have to come into alignment with what is actually possible. That's always part of a Neptune conversation, but nonetheless, dreaming, wishing, hoping is part of what makes our lives beautiful and human.

And if we don't do so, I don't know how happy we are if we don't ever do so just because who knows if it'll work out or it hasn't worked out before.

There's lots of things—if I look along the last timeline, that didn't work out that were part of the dream and vision, but there were so many things that did.

And if you follow the path, you also realize there's less that I have to control than I typically think there is. If I show up, if I do my best, if I follow the calling, life has a natural way of providing feedback and support and context that moves the story along.

So on that note, come study with us. I have an informational video tagged on after you sign off here about the Year One program. It starts this weekend. You only have a few days left to register.

If you like this kind of stuff, if you think that you are someone who could bring this love of astrology into other people's lives, you probably can. You might even be underestimating your capacity to do so.

Or if you just want to study this and become more of your own astrologer, I think the program is ideal for people on either trajectory. So check it out. I hope to see you in class soon, and I hope more than anything this was useful for you.

All right, take it easy, everyone. Bye.