Mars, Saturn and Uranus Lessons: Part Three

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Hi everyone this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology and today we are taking a look at Mars is upcoming square with Uranus. Now this is part of a three part series that I've been doing on the Mars Saturn Uranus t square which is perfecting this week, I want to show it to you on the real time clock first give you a sense of the timing and then today we're going to break down Mars and Uranus in particular, we've already looked at the whole combination. We've looked at Mars, Saturn, and now we want to take a look at Mars and Uranus. So before I do that, let me go ahead and pop this up on the real time clock give you a look at it. So here is Mars at about 10 degrees Leo coming into an opposition with Saturn at 12 Aquarius, and a square with Uranus at 13 Taurus. So how does this How is this situation going to evolve? Well, we're going to see Saturn pass through the opposition to or Mars pass through the opposition to Saturn by Thursday, July 1. And then we're going to see Mars pass through the square to Uranus, really between the third and the fourth of July. So July 3, July 4, you see the square from Mars to Uranus perfecting you could even extend this a little bit and say by Monday of next week, about the next week will be a really strong expression of these particular dynamics. So that is a look at the actual forecast. What we're going to do today is focus in particular at Mars is square with Uranus. Now Mars is square with Uranus comes after Mars is opposition with Saturn. So I really recommend going back and listening to all three parts of this series for coverage on the Saturn. Mars opposition which will come by Thursday of this week. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you've got the Mars Uranus dynamic coming in right in time for the Fourth of July. In fact, Mars Uranus is very much like the Fourth of July. And we're going to talk about that in a second here. Why because you have the god of war, Mars, the God of action, courage. You have a God that is associated with, you know, perseverance and strength and machismo as well as action and assertiveness. Mars is a planet that makes us face our fears. And Mars is a planet that deals with things like dominance and power struggles, competition, and so forth. Now, when you put it in combination with Uranus, you're talking about God of revolution, sudden unexpected changes, originality and inventiveness, brilliance and sort of the need for sudden rapid breakthroughs, the need for individuality and freedom. So when you put Mars and Uranus together, the French and American Revolutions come to mind where you have the idea of a new form of government asserting itself, perhaps leading to bloodshed in the name of independence, and freedom and revolution, and so forth. So the Mars Uranus combination very much like whether it's a coup, or a mutiny, or a revolution of some kind. Just that kind of defiant, revolutionary energy with a real, like martial push behind it. That's Mars, Uranus. So in thinking about Mars, Uranus this week, along with Mars, Saturn, and again, we kind of combined all three in the first video in this series, there's a number of lessons that came to my mind that I thought would be worth talking about. And these are specific to Mars and Uranus. So that's what we're going to talk about next. When you combine these two planets, one of the things you have to be really careful of is the the feeling, especially Mars, and Leo, in particular, is the feeling that something has, you're like taking something very personally. And when we take something super personally, it limits what things are and what things could give or share with us. So for example, let's just say that, you know, I'm dealing with something in my personal life, and it offends me. Now, some people you know, are going to, immediately when I say this, they're gonna say, Well, you know, we have we get we do get offended people do offend us, and we shouldn't ignore it or deny that it happens. So let's just say right away. This teaching is not about saying that we can't get offended or shouldn't be offended because we're going to get offended. It's part of life, people are going to offend us because people can be jerks, and we can be jerks and offend someone else. So it does happen. It's not about denying its existence, but if something can be offensive to us, and we can also sort of open up our hands and say, what else is this? What else is it aside from offensive, I know it's offensive, I feel it's offensive, I could probably easily explain why it's offensive, very rational. And my response on that level is understandable. And you know, we're not trying to invalidate anything. And that because it's not nice, you know, it's not fun to if you know, if someone offends you to try to tell yourself, Well, that wasn't really offensive, you're just being offended, you're choosing to be offended. Like, how annoying is that? No, things are offensive sometimes, right? But, but this teaching comes from the bhakti yoga tradition. It comes from lots of different spiritual traditions will tell us that when we have a sense that there is a deeper cosmic order, and flow and intelligence behind all things, then there are many things present in any given event or experience. One of them might be the level at which someone offended us, someone might have done something that was kind of crappy. And we can acknowledge that acknowledge our feelings. And we can also when we're ready, we can sit down and kind of open our hands and say, what else was this? Why else was this here? Why else did this happen? What else is there for me to learn in this? Or not even necessarily to learn? But just what more? Can this experience give me? What other kinds of insights can it give me? Mars, Uranus is sometimes too fast for that, it'll get offended or it will offend. And then it'll kind of not take the time to see what else is there to see what else is being given or what other insights might be naturally arising not just about the situation or why it happened, but about life, or the cosmos, or other things that are completely unrelated. It's as though every experience if we sit with it, and allow it to come in, it's like a gift. And it's like, you know, we were visiting family, this weekend, we went to the beach, and up in Duluth, Lake Superior, and thankfully, the water was actually warm. And we were up there, and my wife's aunt had these nesting dolls and our girls were playing with them. And, you know, was just funny, because you could see the look on my little three year old face being like, does it go on forever? You know? Does it just keep going because she's taking them apart, there's another doll, and then there's another doll inside of that one. So and that's kind of that's kind of how experience itself is, is that if we sit with an experience, and we kind of just sit with it, really, and just ponder it and reflect on it and don't come to a conclusion. I mean, we may have some part of our psyche that's already come to a conclusion about and that's fine. But we can also continue to sit with an experience, and like nesting dolls that will keep unpacking more and more dimensions of the experience. And that's how we grow wise. We stay curious with the nature of experiences. And that doesn't mean we just sit there and kind of like, Okay, well what was the lesson I know, there was a lesson I know, there was a reason I caused this, that's not what I'm talking about. It's too linear. What I'm talking about is just letting experience be more than one thing. And Mars and Leo square Uranus and Taurus could be a little to proud for that at times, maybe there's more that can be said or understood, or maybe there's more that an experience can point us to, and Mars Uranus will sometimes react very strongly out of a sense of pride.

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Similarly, reactions, this is number two, reactions can limit what things become. So if we react really quickly, or really strongly out of a sense of worry, or fear, or anger, or some really strong emotion. And again, is there a place in time for those things? Yeah, there's the season for everything. But you know, if we sit with something and let it just stayed a little bit longer, it's amazing if we allow something to evolve just a little bit, just give it a few more hours breathing room, even before we react. It's amazing what an experience can become reactions often limit what something can become in the flow of time. And that's not actually the definition of freedom. If we want something to be an experience that gives us more freedom than we have to allow for experiences to be free to express themselves because experiences are like living entities that we're having a relationship with. The reaction is oftentimes something that puts an experience in a box and then limits what it can become. So again, our reactions bad No, are they inevitable? Of course they are. Right? But then there's this other truth to remember.

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So number three, pushing things through. If you just push, push, push, push, push, I need something to happen like this right now. pushing things through, tends to rip and tear At the fabric of the experience itself, it doesn't allow for an experience to shape us and shape a situation. For example, I, I'm going to refer to birth a few times, because when I was writing this, the number of things that came to my mind had to do with my wife's labour experiences. And, you know, I was obviously there for them and helping her along with the midwife as best as I could. One of the things that, you know, they were talking about a lot was how to make sure that that women do not tear when a baby is coming out. And this was something that we went through prior to labour, and obviously, you know, during the labour itself, and the midwife kept saying, you know, allow for your labour to be what it wants to be. And then she would say things like, if you allow this labour to be whatever it wants to be, and help guide it, you know, kind of, you're helping, but it's your body's doing its own thing, the baby's doing its own thing, this birth is doing its own thing. You like me are a midwife, she kept saying that to my wife, I thought it was great advice. And she said, If you push and try to get it out, or shape it or own it, it won't give you everything that it wants to give you. And I just thought, Wow, I felt like I was in like a Zen classroom listening to our midwife. I mean, props, the midwives out there, and doulas and, you know, of all kinds to especially, you know, also people who deal with death. There's death doulas. So at any rate, pushing things through tends to rip and tear the fabric of space time somehow. That's my observation from my wife's births where, that was the advice that kept coming through. And it just felt so true. For me anyway, it was such a primal, you know, demonstration of this. Now, obviously, women have birth in many different ways. So I'm not at all saying that there's only one right way to have a birth. That's absurd. But you get the metaphor, hopefully.

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At any rate, number four, if we use our will, as a midwife, then what is the will doing the will is not just pushing something toward a goal or toward in a realisation of intention. We're not manifesting something as a word that drives me bonkers, sometimes, the will uses patience, as well as assertion, as well as relaxing and not asserting, that's all the will. So that we sometimes think that the will is assertion but the will is as much pulling back as it is about pushing forward, it's as much about waiting as it is about knowing when to do something. So the will is complicated. And a lot of the times we think of the will as just the asserting part. But it's also something that has to do with contraction, there's a little bit of Saturn in there, right now, you can feel it. So using the will, as a midwife, the will becomes an instrument of not just assertion, but patients and assertion, pushing back and pulling forward in different combinations and permutations. and developing a will like this means being free. That's a Mars Uranus insight.

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Number five, just to flip the flip things around on their head a little bit. We're also told that don't, don't push through something, just be gentle with yourself. And there's also a time where this may not be the greatest advice. Because sometimes we don't push through something because we believe that we have to be ready. Or we have to be dominant in order to go through an experience. For example, I can't tell you how many people in a yoga studio that we own for 10 years would come in and say, or that we would say, you know, why don't you come and do yoga, and they would be like my, I have to get my life in order. Before I feel like I can come and do yoga regularly. Or I don't feel like I'm in a position where I can meditate regularly, I have to get myself to that place first. And actually, what works better, most of the time is sitting down and meditating. And sitting in you know, doing getting on the mat and doing your yoga, or whatever the case might be. Because it is the showing up and doing that exercise or activity that helps you get your life in order, not the other way around. So there's also something to be said for sometimes doing things when you don't want to do them. You don't feel like you can do them. You don't feel like maybe sometimes you should do them. Because you're like, well, what if it's rough or hard or difficult or, what if I don't feel ready for it? Or what if I don't feel 100%? Or what if I don't feel entirely in control or on top of the experience? If we always have to be on top of our experiences and feel totally good about them, then, you know that reality either puts us on top of everything or feeling exhausted, depleted down on the bottom of everything. And you know what that leads to, it leads to some really warped ideas about self care. I'll just say that right now. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. So instead, if we learn to just show up consistently, whether we feel like it or not with things that are good for us, but difficult, they serve us a lot more than if we feel good about difficult things before or as we're doing them. So it's kind of like I don't want to clean the garage, I want to make sure that I feel really good and I'm just whistling Dixie when I go to clean out the garage. Well, actually, the garage can clean me out if I don't feel good, but I go and clean it out instead. And that's kind of the part of the magic of Mars, Uranus as well, if that makes sense. So, you know, kind of a balance between those two things pushing through not pushing through, there's reasons to do both and timing for both. And so there's there's kind of a Mars intelligence that we can learn through a Mars Uranus transit knowing Is it time to push through? Or am I pushing too much, and I need to allow me to like use a different approach to my will. Being discerning about that is not easy, but these transits will really teach us the difference through how we handle things and the kinds of karmic reactions that come up around us.

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Okay, so number six, your will is not the measure of your freedom. So sometimes, again, this kind of comes back to this idea that your will is just assertion. And your will is also about when we carefully choose submission. When do we carefully choose service or surrender, and when do we use those things as an exercise of our will, that that the more intelligent we become about the use of the will in submission, surrender or service, all words that people love to think of as negative or evil, that if we, if we can learn that it makes it also makes us strong to carefully use our will to submit surrender or serve, then we become really strong, weak, because our, our definition of strength becomes diversified, differentiated, it starts to have like a plumage, it starts to grow all sorts of colours around it.

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Number seven, we are often told, I've noticed this is just an observation of mine, take it or leave it. But we're often told by empowerment culture, I'm calling it I don't even know what this is, I'm just making it up. It's just a phrase empowerment culture. This is stuff I see on social media all the time for 10 years, and being in the you know, kind of new age, self help culture for a long time. I've experienced it, I've consumed it, I've been a part of it, I get frustrated with it. So I'm not trying to get on some high horse about this. But we're often told that expressing yourself speaking your truth that that's what makes you strong, happier, powerful, the declarations about your life or what you're doing or changing about yourself online will somehow grant you the validation that you're looking for. And sometimes, you know, that can be fun and and necessary. But learning to do things that we feel pride in, that nobody else sees, that don't require a large or public statement or validation that are done consistently over a long period of time, just within ourselves, will build an inner sense of freedom and ease within ourselves where the will feel strong in what it is not in what it does. Because to live with a sense of strength internally, that doesn't need to be used, but could be used. That's often where a real sense of contentment and comfort comes from. Well, I know what I could do I know what I'm capable. I don't necessarily have to do it. That's all internal stuff. And how do we get there, if the only way we think about will is in terms of, you know, these external forms of validation or self expression? I'm not saying self expression isn't important, or the validation by others for the strong things we're doing or big changes we're making, like telling someone Hey, I'm getting sober, and everyone clears you on or cheers you on or says, Hey, you know, I'm, I'm gonna do this. I'm taking you know, I'm taking I'm making a life change. And yeah, good for you, you know, to get some friends and stuff like that. That's great. But if we are always about like, Look, everyone tonight, I'm just getting a whole bucket of Haagen dazs because it's me time. All right, and everyone's like you do it, you know? Like, okay, so the point, the simple point is that learning to build a sense of pride and strength and dignity. And freedom within is often something that happens in private through consistent things that we can build and feel proud of ourselves for that no one else is necessarily seeing or validating, in a sense that it's just God in your heart that seeing and validating and that's how we really start to, there's like a little effulgence that starts to grow around us people can see that and feel it and they go, Yeah, like, what are you doing? What are what are you? What do you do? Like what you've seen so called people will say that they'll go they'll compliment you. You seem so calmer. You seem happier. You seem like you feel good. What are you doing? What's your secret? And maybe you'll say like, Yeah, well, you know, I work really hard on meditating every day or like, whatever the case might be, you might have a place to share it doesn't like sharing is bad. But it feels amazing to build strengthen ourselves in things that we do, where no one else can see where there aren't these, you know, kind of puritanical declarations, and so forth. So just something to watch for with Mars, Uranus, because I feel it come up in me all the time.

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Number eight, injured pride handled with dignity is the first signs of new life. It's like a little butterfly that starting to poke out of the the chrysalis or the cocoon. So what does that mean? Well, let's say you get your pride injured somehow. But let's say that in that moment, you kind of well played universe. Like, I bow, thank you. And you just handle your injured pride with dignity. If you can respond, even if you don't respond that way, initially, but you pick yourself back up, and you kind of say thank you to the universe, on some level, it doesn't have to be in an Instagram post, you can just say, thank you, I get them I got some that was that was hard. But thank you. And if you can handle an injured pride with dignity, if you can imagine that, in the moments you do that there is a new, more mature, happier, more settled content, wiser version of you that starting to poke out of the cocoon. Think of it that way. Because it's exciting, when that happens when you get your pride a little bit injured. And you know, you have an opportunity to respond with dignity, it means that you have an opportunity to respond with an even healthier ego than you had before an even deeper sense of your true self starting to come through. So celebrate those moments, even as you also feel injured or you know, a little bit wounded by them. You can do both. We are creatures that can hold space for complex experiences, there can be multiple layers or levels to experiences at once.

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Okay, number nine, being purposely shocking or defiant tends to only amplify an underlying feeling of being misunderstood. This is something that I want to tell you a story about with my kids I've learned so much about about life, like, parenting is like, you know, it's like Taoist training. And its constant. I mean, as soon as I walk down stairs, after I'm done doing all of this, I will walk into a minefield of very particular situations, emotions, feelings, thoughts, requests, attempts to negotiate and barter, you know, like, there will be all sorts of shenanigans going on when I go downstairs. So what I've learned about parenting, though, is that, like, when my daughter is purposely tries to shock me or my wife, in defiance, or whatever, most of the time, like, 90% of the time, that is coming from the feeling that she that the feeling that she is frustrated, because we misunderstood her somehow, or that we we didn't quite judge the situation correctly. And so what most of my wife and I are, are learning to do more and more in these situations is to kind of go, what's behind this? You know, are you feeling misunderstood? Did we misunderstand something? And because what happens is, if she acts, let's say, my older daughter acts out in a way that's just purposely shocking or defiant. And I just end up saying, Well, why the heck did you do that? That doesn't make any sense. Why would you do that? It only amplifies and intensifies the degree to which my daughter will become more increasingly, you know, purposely shocking or defiant. And it only increases the feeling within her that she's misunderstood and not seen for who or what she is or not appreciated for who or what she is. I was like thinking about this when I was a teenager, and you know, some different stages in my life and realising that one of the signs of maturity that in my own life for just for me, personally. I remember when I first came back from drinking, I was going I was, you know, trying to talk to people about it. And people were had a lot of assumptions and you know, oh my god, you've gone and drill and drill, like joined a drug cult, like you're crazy, you know, stuff like that. And I at times, I would become more purposefully shocking or defiant in people's faces about it because I was feeling misunderstood. I realised that that only amplified the feeling of being misunderstood and eventually I had a ceremony where the medicine itself told me the more that these medicine teachings are integrated into your mind and body, the more that you will feel patience for people who don't understand it, and the more that you will find constructive ways of getting people to be curious and interested in it without having to go so full on and trying to convince them or show them or tell them or teach them, make them interested. And a sign of maturity for you. This is kind of the medicine talking to me, I'm just making this up. Because it's hard to explain how these realisations come in these ceremonies. But the gist of it was, don't try to be so shocking. The more that you integrate this, and just be yourself, the more naturally people will be interested in the very far out nature of these experiences. There's nothing to prove here. You have nothing, I don't need you this do or say anything on behalf of me. You know, the medicine says. So, similarly, like, there's a lot of you know, whether it's astrology or yoga, or there's a lot of things that are really quirky about the way I live my life, you know, I've got purple walls, I talk on YouTube, I can't just go to the store and people are like, what do you do? And I'm like, Well, you know, I'm an astrologer, Yogi, they're like, you make a living doing this? So I'm used to that for a long time. But what I've found is that over time, the more comfortable I've got in doing these things, the less that I need to be in people's face about them. And the more that opportunities naturally arise for people to actually find out what I do and, and take interest in some of these subjects naturally, which is great, because I think these subjects are very healing and interesting. So anyway, the simple lesson is that the more comfortable we get with things that are really quirky and interesting, and that might be you know, provoking in some ways, thought provoking, mind provoking, spirit provoking, the more that we get comfortable with them, the less that we need to rain down on people, these these passionate, like, speeches. So anyway, I think you get what I'm saying.

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Alright, so I'm going to number 10. Last but not least, as the I ching tells us, a sudden cloudburst will always eventually come in a stagnant or stuck situation. So stick with it, just sticking with things. If you stick with things long enough, a little bit more Saturn, again, a breakthrough will come. Now, this is a really important piece that the I ching also teaches us which is that try not to act crazy when the breakthrough does come. A sign of someone who acts crazy when the breakthrough comes is a sign of someone who went crazy during the waiting period. And you may not show it during the waiting period. But if if a breakthrough comes and suddenly you're just completely dancing around completely bonkers, that's, that's not a good omen. And how does the I ching teach us this? Well, let's just think of a breakthrough in your life in a place where it's truly been, there's been pent up energy, no denying that there's been pent up energy and then a breakthrough comes. So in this moment, the breakthrough you can think of it as the planting of the seed of a new cycle. So it's very important that even though there's a big rush of energy, and there's this new energy that's being released that you remember, it's still a very young and tender space. So if you lose composure, during that space, you can feel joy, you can feel excitement, but you can't lose composure during those spaces entirely, not entirely, at least, maybe a little bit of composure you can lose, like, Don't lose it entirely. Why? Because if you don't pay attention to details, if you get high on yourself, if you get proud, if you get cocky during such moments of breakthrough, even though that new energy will carry you, and it might be a rush and good things might come from it, it might be truly exhilarating. And it might be a truly big breakthrough. The likelihood is that those that the way that you reacted and let go of some quality of dignity and modesty within and humbleness within that breakthrough will play out in terms of the eventual fruits of the new cycle. So it's really important that when there's a breakthrough, like don't go bananas, let me give you an example. So this is again from the world of parenting.

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So my girls were really jacked up. I mean, just enthused out of their minds about a popsicle that was coming if they ate their dinner. So and at long last the thundercloud burst, they had eaten enough bites, they had completed enough terrible chews of broccoli or whatever, whatever the case was. And then the popsicle came. Now they were completely losing their minds. And I was like, this isn't good. They need to calm down before they start eating their popsicles otherwise That frenzy of activity is going to result in someone getting hurt someone screaming, someone dropping a popsicle in the dirt, I mean, something is going to happen. And that's exactly what happened. Because my wife and I were sort of just like, a little overwhelmed. So we kind of were like, okay, yes you can have your popsicle, and you know, you can dance like a mad hatter all the way to Paris if you want, you know, so they're like, so the girls are going completely nuts with their popsicles. And one of them, one of my younger girl dropped hers and the other one, you know, eventually slammed into the other one, and there was fighting that emerged and blah, blah, blah. So we had to settle all of that down and go back to Yes, it's exciting. And let's be sane while we eat our popsicles. So you can think of it like it maybe the universe is about to rain popsicles on you. Just don't be a fool, because you could drop it. Don't be a fool, because in your in your mad popsicle, frenzied twirling, you could smash into a wall, and that wouldn't be a good ending. So all of a sudden, cloudburst will always eventually come, but try to live within the waiting periods in life content with the fact that it might never come and try to really develop contentment with that, not because a breakthrough won't eventually come, of course it will. Because when it comes, you want to be able to receive it like a thankful, measured, joyful, and you can let loose a little bit, but you don't want to lose the humility that could tilt that breakthrough in the wrong direction. Because it's a very vulnerable and volatile energy when a breakthrough first comes.

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For example, there was a book or a study or something like that, that I heard about. And it was it was talking about the downward spiral that came when people won the lottery. And when they win the lottery, the way that their lives changed because of the you know, kind of spasms of joy and and crazy unharnessed spending and loaning and you know, kind of this just boom, just blows up like that. So, you know, it's truly an archetypal moment where we could fall prey to something like that. So just something to be aware of. That's what I've got for today. 10 insights about Mars, Uranus. I hope that they were helpful for all of you. If you live with Mars, Uranus energy, if you're very familiar with it, please feel free to leave your stories in the chat box. Always like reading what you guys have to say. And we will be back for lots more content later this week. Okay, take it easy, everyone. Bye.