More on Aliens & Aquarius

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take another look at Pluto's upcoming entrance into Aquarius, alongside the topic of aliens, alien life forms, and UFOs. It is obviously a topic that a lot of people are talking about right now, which I find absolutely fascinating from an archetypal perspective. 

Earlier this week, I did a talk on Pluto's entrance into Aquarius and why it is likely with that planetary ingress that people would be talking about the subject of aliens. So if you haven't listened to that, you might want to go back and start with that video. Not that you would miss anything from this one, but it might give a little bit more context for this talk. 

In that talk, I mentioned that when the great conjunction was happening between Jupiter and Saturn several years ago in the early degrees of Aquarius, I gave a kind of fun, entertaining talk on the connection between the sign of Aquarius and aliens, alien abduction cases, interest in UFOs, things like that. So I've dug up that talk and decided that I would replay it today just because it just feels really relevant right now and a subject that a lot of people are DMing me and asking me questions about, and I got a ton of messages after doing the video on Pluto and Aquarius with the subject of aliens.

So I just thought this would be fun for you guys to look back at this video. This was when I was going by the name of Acyuta at that time, and just it's interesting to look back on those videos like I rewatched it, and I was like, wow just, I just feel like it was a completely different person just because we all change but anyway, so I hope that you will enjoy it before we get into it. 

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Hi everyone. This is the Acyuta-Bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today I'm doing a little fun zany encore presentation in my great conjunction series on Jupiter and Saturn's upcoming conjunction in Aquarius. Just by chance, I had a friend who told me about the fact that HBO had done this series on the Heaven's Gate cult from the 1990s. And he said you know, is there anything connected that you can see connected with upcoming Aquarius, the planets moving into Aquarius? And especially Pluto coming into Aquarius in 2023? Do you think there's going to be an upsurge in cults? And I was like, Yeah, I mean, that actually had come up in my mind as I was planning the series, and I sort of didn't want to touch it. I don't know. 

You know, you start talking. Sometimes you start talking about certain subjects, and you just attract the weirdness that surrounds the subject. So you're like, Nah, maybe I won't go near that. But I thought you know what, after I actually took a look at the first episode of the Heaven's Gate documentary that just came out, I think it was on HBO. And I watched the first episode just to see what it was like, and it spurred all of this research that I ended up doing over the course of the past few days just kind of for fun and thinking I might throw together a video looking at two different interesting topics that definitely have a correlation with the sign of Aquarius.

Which are the topics of UFOs, alien abductions, and sort of story cults. So that's what we're going to do today. This is just for fun. And just kind of to show you how zany and weird the sign of Aquarius can be, sometimes. In all the best ways and sometimes in really kind of crazy ways. So and why is that? Why is Aquarius sometimes associated with cults? Obviously, not all cults are, are a bad thing either. Let's talk about that a little bit as well today. 

Let's dive into this very bizarre topic that I have for today. So cult, where does the word come from? A particular form or system of worship. That's the definition and etymology from Latin Cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated, as a part of that as well. And also, it can have this connotation of there being certain rites or rituals that are performed as a part of a religious or spiritual group or community, the occult, another word that is really important, a secret not divulged, or something hidden, concealed, or secretive. Both of these words in the history of, you know, human religion and spirituality don't necessarily have a negative connotation. 

They do, maybe through some of the popularization of, you know, the more destructive or infamous cults, cults of personality that, you know, maybe some of the ones we're going to talk about today where people, you know, took their own lives or all sorts of things. Throughout history, people have used the word cult and occult really to just signify religious sects or groups, maybe the occult being religious sects or groups that contain certain kinds of hidden or more esoteric teachings or dimensions. 

So, by no means do I want to say that Aquarius association with the occult or with cult matters is like some kind of dark, heavy charge against people who have Aquarius energy in their charts, right? Like, I have an Aquarian midheaven in my birth chart, in my 10th house. And, you know, I grew up in a church I grew up in as a youth minister in all sorts of different religious and spiritual organizations. I was part of several different groups, Ayahuasca communities; now I'm part of a bhakti community. And I think, you know, all of those, all of the things that I'm going to talk about with Aquarius today can easily be applied to things that are generally speaking healthy and good and normal that we all participate in. 

So I want to say that first so that everyone knows this is not a like dump on Aquarians for being like weird and culty in a really negative sense. So, it just struck me as a really fun and kind of zany topic to dive into, but there's a real correlation with it, which is why I think it's so totally fascinating. 

Okay, just let's refresh on why Aquarius may have something to do with these weird topics that I'm going to talk about today, for what I'm going to talk about is alien UFO and alien abduction stories. I'm going to talk about cults and famous cults and cult leaders. And then I'm just generally I'm going to mention a variety of different people in both positive and maybe more weird ways that have some association with either Jupiter or Saturn in Aquarius, again, all for fun today. 

So one thing that I think is really interesting is one of the most famous alien abduction stories, sometimes called the Hill abduction story, and I just learned about this from Barney and Betty Hill, which was an interracial couple in the 60s and on September 19, and 20th of 1961 they claimed that they were abducted by aliens. 

Now, one of the reasons that this story is cited so regularly is because it sort of starts to popularize the alien abduction experience, or it starts to become more noticed or recognized in popular culture from this moment forward. And what I find really interesting about it is that on this day, it's just so to me when I saw this, I was like, wow, I mean, maybe just a coincidence, but you know, again, kind of a zany fun, weird one, so why not? Alright, so We're going to do we're going to go back in time really quickly here, and I want to show you what was happening on the day that the days I should say plural, they claim to have been abducted. So we're gonna go to September. See September 19, 1960. 

So now I'm going to show you what was happening. Maybe you won't be as mind blown as I was, but I thought this was just crazy. So, first of all, on September 19, 1961, I want you to notice which two planets were in the same sign together. Oh, look, there's Jupiter and Saturn and Capricorn together again. Right? Jupiter is just about to ingress into the sign of Aquarius. And on the day that this all happened, September 19, and 20th, The Moon was also in the sign of Aquarius and passed over that Saturn Jupiter conjunction went into the sign of Aquarius. 

This is, again, one of the iconic cultural moments around the modern history of the story of alien abductions, right? I just think that that was like, wow, you know, that's a very interesting coincidence. To find that sequence of events was happening, then, and it's happening again. Now, the reason I say this, of course, is one of the points that I'd like to make over and over again today is that if we see the same kinds of recurring stories, themes, or patterns, it shouldn't be totally surprising. 

In April 2020, let's just show you this one. This past year, in April 2020. Let's go back now. And probably a lot of you guys already know this, but right as Saturn and Mars together were ingressing into the sign of Aquarius, surprise, surprise, the Pentagon released this information to the public about UFO sightings. So there you have Saturn entering Aquarius ingressing. And suddenly, there is this, you know, this big story in the news about the Pentagon releasing previously classified information if I understand this correctly. If someone else out there knows more about this, please share the details in the chat box. But they released information about all these different UFO sightings. I think a number of these were already known, or the footage from some of these was already out there. But I think that's not a coincidence again. 

So another interesting moment in the history of aliens and UFOs that's relevant to what's going on right now. So there's this connection there with this otherworldly alien UFO thing. Carl Sagan, I don't know if you guys know who Carl Sagan was. He was he had Saturn in the sign of Aquarius. Now. One thing that is interesting is that Cosmos, the show that started popularizing space travel and, you know, astrophysics and black holes and all sorts of kind of almost sci-fi physics information or ideas. That show came out in 1980, right as the new Jupiter Saturn, conjunction in air signs was beginning; it's like this iconic show that couldn't be spacey or an area right, and that's happening as the new Jupiter Saturn conjunctions in air signs are happening. And I didn't put that together at first, even though I had in a previous talk; you might have heard me mention him as a Saturn in Aquarius figure. So that's interesting. This literally just popped into my head, and I was like, oh, you know, of course, it was released around this time. 

So Carl Sagan had a very famous he had a very famous movie that came out based on his work called Contact. And this was about contact with aliens and starred Jodie Foster, who I believe has Saturn or Jupiter in Aquarius as well. And Jupiter and Uranus were conjoined in 1997 in Aquarius, Jupiter, and Uranus, excuse me, were conjoined in Aquarius, that year co-present with one another when Contact was released. That 1997 date is going to come up again a bunch in this presentation. So just you know, bear with me here, but so there's that airy spacey quality. In fact, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute or whatever it's called, that came about, I want to show you this state that came about SETI came about in. Let's see here, November 20, 1984. Let's go there for a second on November 20, 1984. And check this out. Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute. SETI. Very interesting that the day that it came out, they found the LLC paperwork that afternoon. Isn't it interesting that the Moon was going into a conjunction with Pluto in Scorpio and squaring Mars, who had just ingressed into Aquarius? Isn't that fascinating? 

You can't make this stuff up that there continue to be these really important connections with Aquarius, surrounding important milestones or iconic moments, historically, around aliens, the search for a structure extraterrestrial lives, you know, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, there's so many and the alien abduction story that I mentioned earlier. And this theme repeats and repeats and repeats; I tried to narrow my focus just to make the point. And if you guys find more connections, interesting dates, or birth charts, or, you know, founding corporation charts like this one, this is really fun stuff to just, you know, it's just fun stuff to do. Occasionally, if you find anything else, please put it in the comment section. Because today, I'm just sort of, you know, I slap this together, and I'm sort of winging it. 

So let's ask the question why would Aquarius be associated with alien abduction stories, UFOs, and things like that? Well, it goes back to this idea of let's just for the sake of making it a little simple. Let's just talk about Ganymede again, the water pourer. This is the bright shining example of humankind who is abducted by a higher being, a god. So Zeus, this higher, you know, God slash demigod, abducts a human being because they're fascinated by them. You know, Zeus is fascinated by Ganymede, and there's a lust, desire, a coveting, and remember covet. We talked about the etymology of that word in a previous part of this series. Covet means, also, to want something, perhaps at the detriment of that being's rights. I think that's really interesting because there's this weird way in both alien abduction stories where a person seems to lose their rights like they're taken against their own will. Or there's also this sense of whether or not the alien life is hospitable to the safety or concern of the individual. 

For example, in the movie Contact, if you guys ever saw that movie, the aliens appear in a form that won't scare or that will be peaceful to Jodie Foster. I think that's really super interesting. So this question about hospitable foreign life, and things like that. 

Interestingly, one of the things that psychiatrists claimed that their explanation for why Barney and Betty Hill had this alien abduction experience, whether they had it or not, I don't know. But one of the things that they said was it, well, it must have been the pressure of being this kind of alienated interracial couple in the early 60s when the civil rights movement was, you know, starting to really, it was building such a ton of momentum around that time. 

So there is this theme of alienation of abduction, of coveting or desiring something that's beautiful, but taking it and also the special or chosen one that has some connection to the stars or the gods. These are all themes that sort of permeate Aquarius in general on an archetypal mythological and even pop-cultural level. 

So let's talk about cults and cult leaders that have that kind of starry, and these are sort of dark examples that I'm going to go through, but I will redeem it at the end by going through light examples that show us that, you know, it's not all crazy sauce and Aquarius. Cults and cult leaders Bonnie Nettles was an Aquarius rising. She is the one who teamed up with Marshall Applewhite to form the Heaven's Gate group. And those are the ones that they, if I'm not mistaken, I didn't watch the whole documentary. I just watched the first episode, and honestly, I don't think I can watch the whole thing. I just, you know, I don't know, I'm just, I'm not a big TV person in general. 

Bonnie Nettles was an Aquarius rising, and she was thought to be the one that really kind of harnessed Marshall Apple White's bizarre personality in order to form the Heaven's Gate group; she kind of empowered him in his delusions. So, delusions of grandeur. 

There are a lot of other interesting dimensions to the timeline. For example, on March 26, 1997, let's check, let me show you this again. Remember, this is going back to right around the time that Contact was released. This is the day that they found the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members who had taken their lives in hopes of catching a spaceship to the next level to heaven. And what do you know, there's a cameo in all of these from Scorpio, by the way, but the Moon is in Scorpio that day, squaring Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius, and remember, this is right around the same time that iconic Carl Sagan movie Contact comes out. 

Isn't that fascinating? I mean, just an interesting and it's, it's obviously a tragic story, but an interesting connection nonetheless. So Moon was in Scorpio, squaring Jupiter and Uranus that day. So squaring Jupiter and Uranus. Charles Manson, another famous co-leader, had the Moon and Saturn in Aquarius, as well as squaring planets in Scorpio; that Scorpio combination seems to be part of it. And I think that that might be a little bit more of the occult nature that might add some of the hidden darker and more violent aspects of those dynamics. 

Like, I've noticed that when you plug in the square from Aquarius to Scorpio, you often get that. I've actually had sessions with people in my ten-year career who have been who were actually part of some really famous cults. And one pattern that I've noticed has been the square between the sign of Aquarius and Scorpio, where the sense of something angelic, otherworldly, special, divine, chosen, that Ganymede myth, that water pourer myth, and sort of celestial meet something that might be a little bit darker or more malicious. And that's the kind of Marzy, watery Mars influence of Scorpio. 

Again these signs is there anything wrong with these signs? And oh, if you have these signs or something wrong with you? No, not at all. We're just we're highlighting one of the weirder dimensions of Aquarius, and you'll notice that Scorpio comes up in a lot of these two. There's one that I throw this in, not because it fits the same bill as the rest of them. But the Rastafarians, for example, Bob Marley, born with the sun and Aquarius in the Moon in Scorpio. And he was, of course, involved in the, you know, the Rastafarian cult, and that is a religious cult. So I say cult respectfully. You know, it's not like, again, it's not like necessarily an evil word. But that was, you know, definitely like, if you've ever looked into what Rastafarians believed, like they had some really unique beliefs. Obviously, some of them are really sort of peace-loving, and others are really weird. Like, I don't know if you've ever really looked into it, and no disrespect, because, you know, I don't know, my own religious community, the bhakti community, has a really bizarre past as well. 

And actually, the founder of the Hari Krishna movement, when it was brought to the United States, he was just a monk who came over and got it going. He had an Aquarius rising, right? It was, by and large, for a lot of people around the 60s, for many people considered it a cult, and it's had to evolve and grow into, you know, kind of carrying the mantle of being like a responsible religious community and had to it's had to weed out certain elements of fanaticism over the years and stuff like that. 

So you'll see that Aquarian thing in a lot of different religious and spiritual groups and organizations in general, and not all of them are necessarily bad. A lot of them are, by and large, that you might see a lot of themes of pacifism and peace; it's not all murderous; it doesn't all end in suicide. Do you know what I mean?

Another one that comes from the 90s that has this weird history is David Koresh. You guys remember the Waco, Texas compound. David Koresh had the Moon in Aquarius, and while Saturn was in Aquarius in the early 90s, they were his at the Branch Dravidians or whatever they were called. They were found dead after a blaze in their Waco, Texas, compound. All of that started to be triggered. I think it was pretty close to Aquarius season. It was like in February of what, 92, I can't remember, But at any rate, when they found everyone dead in the compound, that was a Saturn in Aquarius moment in the early 90s. 

There are some interesting connections with the Jim Jones timeline and the Jim Jones cult; if you know about that one but not his birth chart per se, I'm not going to go into those because they're a little scattered. There's another guy named Joseph De Mambo. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly. He was the leader of the Order of the Solar Temple. He had an Aquarius mid-heaven and rose to power while Saturn was in his mid-heaven prior to another, you know, suicide murder spree that ended that cult. 

L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, was born just as like, literally as you know, Mars and Uranus were ingressing into Aquarius. I think that's interesting. I pay a lot of attention to planetary ingresses at the time of birth, so even if a person isn't born with planets in Aquarius, if they were born as planets just about to enter Aquarius, I will tend to read that chart is that the Aquarian themes and that those planets in the Aquarian themes will rise to prominence as the life goes on. I think that's really interesting. 

Not only that but on May 9, 1950. On the day that Dianetics was published, the Moon had regressed into Aquarius. Dianetics becomes the book that ends up launching the entire Church of Scientology. Not only that, but you can see, for example, Tom Cruise big into Scientology Saturn in Aquarius. 

Okay, so that's just, you know, again, a scattershot of interesting parallels. And what are those cults have in common? Oh, a lot of them involve trips to the stars. A lot of them involve the sense of a special kind of chosen Messiah-like figure, which Ganymede is definitely associated with. It's not really the Christ motif, which I personally tend to when people say that Jesus has a lot to do with Pisces or Aries; those signs, especially Aries, seem to me to be a really good one for Jesus and that I could do a different talk on that sometimes because people are always like Aries why, but there are some really interesting reasons for that. Anyway, that's an aside. 

The Ganymede is more like this special that it has a messianic quality to it. But there's also this kind of starry, airy, ascending to Olympus quality that's very otherworldly. It's not like the consecration of a martyr, which is connected to the word Mars. And that's why I tend to like Aries for Jesus, kind of a shepherd figure which is connected with Aries too. 

But at any rate, these are kind of like otherworldly; there's a sense of otherworldly savior or Messiah, you know, hop on the spaceship. You know, and again, depending on what it's combining within the chart, it's not usually just that Aquarian quality, but there's something maybe connected with it. 

And again, like if I look at, you know, my own life, I have an Aquarius midheaven, and I had a really charismatic father who was a preacher. My life changed dramatically when I had the position of the president of a youth organization in high school, I was this kind of charismatic leader, and I was a kind of charismatic youth pastor and then met really charismatic shamans in the Amazon drinking crazy potions, you know, and, of course, now I'm into bhakti, yoga, and astrology, and I've had really interesting, charismatic, kind of otherworldly teachers in my life and a lot of that has fit with transits to Aquarius in my 10th house. 

When Neptune ingressed into Aquarius in my 10th house, I met some of the most important and otherworldly philosophy teachers in my life who just inspired me to be thinking about things in very esoteric and multi-dimensional ways. I had my first Eastern philosophy teacher when Neptune ingressed into Aquarius in the 10th. I got really into the underlying Taoist philosophy of Star Wars when Neptune ingressed into Aquarius in the 10th. So you'll see that that Aquarian nature is pretty broad, but there's often this kind of spacey otherworldly messianic quality to it. 

I consider those things to tone my work. If you listen to my channel, you'll notice that I'm always talking about this kind of the need for this kind of otherworldly spiritual focus. So I think that all of those things can express themselves in a range of ways, and it's not always going to be, you know, David Koresh or, you know, the Heaven's Gate people or whatever. Again, just to redeem some of the Aquarius for Aquarians who are listening to this, you know.

Let's talk a little bit about Jupiter and Aquarius. You've got Albert Einstein. There's a gifted genius space child, right? If Barack Obama was seen as this kind of cultural icon, Diana, Princess of Wales, and you do have dark examples as well, like Joseph Stalin, you have Helena Blavatsky, who is really a leader, a luminary in the Theosophical Society, and that is also another one of this really interesting kind of spiritual, esoteric cults that has this kind of story dimension to it. You have dark figures, though, like Pablo Escobar and Fidel Castro, and you have playboys that have a weird cult following, like Hugh Hefner. You have the chosen child of Michael Phelps, this like Olympian athlete, and there's a real there's a weird way in which he has this kind of Ganymede status. He's one of the most decorated phenoms of all time as a swimmer. 

You have Dave Chappelle, who was also, to me is he was a wunderkind when he first came out, right? And you also have people who are kind of the weird alien otherness like Dennis Rodman, Boy George, HP Lovecraft, Miles Davis, and yeah. How about Alan Watts as a philosopher, right, so really interesting figures with Jupiter in Aquarius and Saturn in Aquarius, you know, I already went over some of these, but Tom Cruise and Charles Manson. 

Interestingly, Saturn and Aquarius Michael Jordan, if there has ever been a cult surrounding a sports figure, it might be Michael Jordan. In fact, they were saying that the Air Jordan logo was, at one point, the most recognized symbol in the world next to the cross links. Just think about that for a second. 

Then there was, you know, there's Nietzsche, there's Salvador Dali, there's Aleister Crowley. These are all Saturn and Aquarius figures, Carl Jung, who are also, by the way, and no one ever wants to say this, but the Jungian world is a cult, and I'm not saying that in a negative sense. I'm just saying he was a cult leader. Now he was a cult leader, again, that I would say is on the side of being really interesting, really intelligent, and very progressive. Revolutionizing astrology, again, kind of bringing astrology back. 

But he also he's into some really weird shit, too, just to be totally honest. Like, you know, think about the Red Book, or just think about the Red Book for a while; if you've ever read it. I mean, you know what I mean? 

So, Carl Jung, he's a cult, and he's got a fascination. He develops a cult following a school that comes out in his name, a whole style of work that comes about in his, you know, in his own mode. So, again, no, I don't mean that negatively. But people like to paint Carl Jung as this kind of pioneering intellectual who's like well respected and academic in the academic canonical sense. No, no, he, he has, he's like, he has this dimension to him that's well respected academically and intellectually, but he's also he's into the I-Ching. He's into astrology; he's into esoteric things. He's into the realm of the unconscious and going into these bizarre altered states. And he develops, in some ways, a crowd around him that is, you know, that worships Him. 

And one of the things I loved about James Hillman, who was one of his students, was that James Hillman said there's a cult of people around Carl Jung that are following him, like, he's the letter of the law coming down from the mountain with Moses. And actually, what we should be doing is taking the best ideas but living the way he lived; he led a psychological life. He didn't want us to be clones of him; he wanted us to think and learn and live with psychological depth and meaning and keep going. But you also have this phenomenon where a lot of people, you know, a lot of the times what happens with great teachers, as we know, overtime is that rather than emulating the way they lived and doing it in our own way, we end up doing exactly what they do and sort of becoming clones of someone. 

And that also gets into this weird dimension of Aquarius that has to do with like teachings, but then they can get kind of robotic and mechanical, and they can start to get like cloned and hard, and that's kind of part of the Saturnine dimension of Aquarius, where there's a rigidity around something that is very beautiful and almost like ethereal and then somehow it becomes like mechanical and sort of artificial. So you have to watch for that a little bit as well. At any rate, these are just the ramblings of a zany Friday show about starry cults, aliens, abductions, and other fun Aquarius stuff. 

So I hope that you enjoyed this today. So I hope you guys are having a great Friday. I hope you have a great weekend here. And thank you, guys, again for your support. And I hope you enjoyed this little encore Jupiter Saturn talk. Alright, take it easy, everyone. Bye.