Previewing Pluto into Aquarius – Part I: What is Kenosis?

Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to reflect upon the fact that Saturn is moving into its final square with the planet Uranus. After it does this, Saturn is going to station later in October, turn direct after being retrograde for quite some time, and then is on a pathway to finally leave Aquarius. At the same time that Saturn leaves Aquarius, Pluto will be entering Aquarius. So we're going to talk a little bit and start to invite reflection into our lives upon this transformation that's upcoming. So that is our goal for today.

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Until then, what I really am excited about doing in that we have so many things to talk about between now and the start of that course. By the way, we've got eclipse season coming up. We have Saturn turning direct and moving on its final trajectory out of Aquarius, and also Pluto moving into the sign of Aquarius in the next six months or so here. So a lot of big astrology is coming up now as we're turning toward the end of 2022 and into 2023. And I'm really excited to discuss, in particular, that movement of Saturn today. So what I want to do is just going to pull up the real-time clock and show you what I'm looking at and then share some thoughts with you on a little bit of a deeper meditation today on the sign of Aquarius. The significance of Saturn moving out of that sign and Pluto moving into it. This will be the first of probably many reflections that will start to do on Pluto's entrance into Aquarius, which is going to be a very big topic for a lot of astrology content creators in the next in the months ahead.

Anyway, let's go ahead and move this along. So what I want to point out is later in October. The occasion for this is some of the ways in which I've been experiencing this transit personally and reflecting on it personally, which I won't go so much into, but I will sort of distill some of my reflections on this transit in light of what Saturn is about to do. So. Here's what Saturn is doing. By around October 23, Saturn is stationing and turning direct. Now in the meantime, as it's doing so, it is finishing up its final square to Uranus. Now that square is not perfecting exactly, but it's very close. So you know we might as well be we're right now we are in the midst of you know one last Saturn Uranus square you could say.

Now after Saturn turns direct toward the end of October, you got Mars Retrograde coming up to the end of October; an eclipse is at the end of October and the beginning of November. So it's a pretty powerful turn at the very end of the year here. Now we go forward a little bit. And when we go, you're going to see Saturn is culminating now in Aquarius, and this is happening toward the very beginning of March. Here's Saturn, the 29th degree of Aquarius, and it is going to, just days afterward, we're gonna see Saturn change into Pisces, this is about March 7.

Now go forward just a little bit more. And let's watch what Pluto is doing. Notice Pluto in Capricorn, where it has been for a very long time. So we're gonna see Pluto moving into Aquarius. This is about March 23. So the month of March, just as Saturn leaves Aquarius, Pluto enters. Now Pluto is gonna stay there just for a little bit before retrograding out, and then it is back and forth ingress into the sign of Aquarius takes a little while. You're gonna see that back and forth throughout the rest of 2023 and into 2024. So, as that is happening, we are seeing it as though Saturn is paving the way for an even more profound and long-term emphasis on the sign of Aquarius. I think that's fascinating. You've got Pluto in Aquarius from 2023 all the way into 2042. It's still there. So you know about 20 years worth of Pluto spending time in the sign of Aquarius.

And I've you know, I've had the occasion recently to reflect quite a bit on the sign of Aquarius, Saturn's rulership in that sign. And one of the reasons is that Saturn and Uranus in their square have both been hitting my ascendant ruler, which is Venus in Leo. So I've had a really personal transformative experience with those two planets recently. And I want to share with you some of the reflections that I've had on the sign of Aquarius and what we might expect, almost from the standpoint of an archetypal, spiritual experience, like what is the spiritual experience of Aquarius, or one of the quintessential spiritual experiences associated with the sign? And in order to do that, I mean, first of all, like I said, it comes from the direct experiences that I've had of Saturn opposing my ascendant ruler recently, and just the opportunity to reflect on Saturn and Aquarius at a much deeper level. But then, starting to ask the question, well, what does it mean that you know Pluto is about to enter this sign and spend a long time there as well?

So I want to offer you just three basic reflections that are starting to help me gain an understanding of where things have been, what kinds of things I've been learning what kinds of things maybe we've all been learning from Saturn and Aquarius, what kind of things we might be able to expect from Pluto entering Aquarius? First of all, let's talk about this question. How does Saturn see the sun? I think it's a good question to ask because the two planets were polar opposites in ancient astrology. So in the ancient Thema Mundi, the signs of Saturn are opposite the luminaries, you have Aquarius, the sign of Saturn, opposite Leo, the sign of the sun, and you have Saturn, sign of Capricorn, opposite Cancer, the sign of the moon. So for ancient astrologers, Saturn was associated with the opposition aspect.

And Saturn was also the natural antithesis of the lights. Saturn is also naturally opposed to the sun in the dignity scheme of the exultations. So Saturn is exalted in Libra, where the sun is in its fall. And Saturn is in its fall in Aries, where the sun is in its exultation. So these two and this is presented really nicely in, Rhetorius the Egyptians text; I have James Holden's translation in case you're interested. Rhetorius lays out the reasoning behind this, and he says that the sun is the, you know, the storehouse of light, and Saturn is related to darkness. And he goes on and says some other things. But it sort of begs the question, how does Saturn see the sun, and this is one way that you can think about it.

Saturn sits as the dimmest and most distant planet on the edge of the known of the solar system, the last dim, distant planet between the realm of the gods and the numinous beyond. That was Saturn's place in ancient cosmology. And so Saturn was a watcher between worlds. Saturn was a gateway between worlds, and Saturn sat distant from everything, almost like looking from the top of a hill and looking in the distance and seeing the city, you know, it's far, Saturn is far into the wilds of the deep space. And so when Saturn sees the sun, it's an interesting experience. Well, because how does the sun see itself? Well, Sun doesn't really see itself. It doesn't have the ability to see itself because it's just radiating light, and all it sees is its own light if you want to think about it like that. So from the sun's point of view, the sun is just self-indulgent and radiating in its own nature. And in that sense, it really can't see anything else but itself because it is blinded by its own light, it is consumed by its own light, it is self-same undifferentiated, and an extensive. So a handy way of thinking about the sun.

So from the sun's point of view, you know, the sun has a hard time seeing Saturn if that makes sense. Saturn, on the other hand, sitting out, a watcher at the edge of the world; when it looks in on the sun, what does it see? It says, look, there's a ball of light has a very objective perspective; it says, look, there's a shiny ball of light. And in that sense, Saturn cannot be consumed by the light because Saturn sits in a sense beyond the reach of the light. But it still has; there's enough light so that Saturn can perceive and look and say, you know, I can see you objectively, you're the sun. And, you know, it's like this very, in a sense, a sort of a detached, distant, objective perspective, and it looks like that at the sun.

So, for this reason, you know, if you think about the sun in relation to the way that ancient astrologers thought about the sun, one of the ways they thought about it was that we have, we each have a sense of calling in life, a series of images that the soul gets possessed by, that drive or propel the plotline of our story forward, I want to be an astrologer, I want to be a husband, I want to be a father, whatever I want to be intelligent, I want to, you know, all of the things that anyone might, I'm just thinking of some of the things that I've you know, the pursuits of my own path, right. And insofar as we become captured by those images, they're like lights that we become captured by, and then like the arc of the sun, we become identified with them.

In this way, some modern psychological astrologers will say that the sun is related to the ego, but it's only related to the ego insofar as our sense of self becomes consumed by some sense of purpose or passion or activity that we take on and try to move toward, like an acorn becoming an oak tree. And that's part of what defines the ego, right as the passions that it becomes consumed by. That it's, we're blinded by our own ambitions, and not necessarily in a bad way. When Saturn comes along and has an aspect to your son in your natal chart, it is as though there is a mirror being held up to you. And it says, you know, look, you're just a dude. And you know, all of these heroic images and storylines that you are possessed by, you know, you're still just, you're just you, you're just a person, you know, or they might, they might have a way of making you Saturn sometimes when it hits the sun makes a person feel sort of detached from their own life or their life story or disillusioned or bored or exhausted by their own passions, uninterested in the things they used to be interested in, and they go like, Well, what happened.

So Saturn sees the sun and says, like, it's just the sun. And in a sense, that objective, detached perspective that Saturn has its view of the sun, it takes us out of the absorption. So it's like Saturn is Saturn's perspective is always pulling us out of the absorption, which can feel dissociative, detached, depressed, exhausted, empty, and so forth.

So this is one thing to remember is that one of the things that Saturn does in Aquarius is, you know, it's a, it's kind of a king killer, insofar as the king is the sun and insofar as the sun represents things that we get deeply absorbed with and identified to the extent that we sometimes are blinded, or we can't see. And so Saturn comes along and pulls us out of that perspective into Saturn's perspective, where we feel detached from that which is light. And that could mean that we feel exhausted. It could mean we feel lonely. It could mean we feel alienated; it could mean we feel separate or apart. That but Saturn's affording us that perspective as well, because there's something ultimately refreshing about being emptied.

So that leads us to reflection number two, what is the water pourer of Aquarius or the cupbearer? What is the water pourer emptying from the pitcher? Well, it really depends, as we were just saying about the sun, what are you absorbed in? We could be absorbed in ideas about ourselves, depending on a house position of the sun, ideas about love or career, ideas about our family or ideas about our wealth or our socio-economic identity, ideas about our sexuality, and so on and so forth. And we get absorbed into dramas everywhere. And that's the passion play of life. It's amazing, right? There's nothing wrong with that.

But Saturn comes along. And Saturn takes the fullness of whatever we are absorbed in and pours it out. And that's, in a sense, that's sort of what the water pourer represents is this. It's a kind of a mood of emptying. See, the thing about getting possessed by the sun, as Vettius Valens said, is that the sun is the noetic light, and the sun is called daimon, which means that there's a way in which the sun is possessing us with spiritual currents of intensity. You know, it's, it's as if to say that, when we're in a solar mindset, we are, we're possessed by a spirit; by a god. And we are, we are completely blinded and have to be in order for that archetype to play out as wonderfully as it does.

But there are, there are times in life really important times that we have to return to being just human, right that we recognize, I am not a god, I've been possessed by a god. And I'm not a god. But I am oftentimes a host to these divine archetypes playing out on the stage of my life. So how do you get that separation to return to your humanness? Right, rather than being the constant playground of the gods absorbed in them and then potentially getting inflated by those very archetypes, getting a god complex, so to speak, which is always the danger of Leo and the sun. You have to be emptied. You have to return to your just this, just that, just so you have to return to your humanness. The water pourer was called a humane sign, a human sign. And the water pourer is also emblematic of the cupbearer of the gods, the servant of the gods, but also of one who is emptying something out. The image shows a pitcher of water being emptied. There's something about this image that is deep in the human psyche. What is the water pourer emptying? You could say ego. You could say the water pourer is emptying identification with an archetype or God. You could say that the water pourer empties out whatever is full in order that we might gain the healthy perspective of returning to emptiness, and emptiness is not. You know, it's hard to talk about emptiness. The Taoists say that. So many different religious traditions say that emptiness is still something of some kind. But emptiness might be also something that brings us back somehow to the simple fact of being a human being, being a soul, and being utterly individual and unique, and that is, what has been and what will always be prior to and after any of the archetypal possessions that we come under, you know, any journey we go on any quest we go on, at the end of the day, it's still just me. You know, there's still some fundamental unchanged part of us that we can't speak about, you know, it's there, but it's invisible. It's mysterious. It resists being described or contained, or confined. So we're a vessel, you know, we're like a vessel, an empty vessel, we fill ourselves up with things a lifetime, a lover, a career and ambition. And then, but spiritually speaking, we go through periods where we have to be poured out, and in doing so, we often recognize, we come back to a very profound acceptance for our humanness, at least in this earthbound drama. Aquarius is a great reference to our humaneness and coming back to it.

Now, there are a lot of other archetypes that are not identical, that also belong to Aquarius, that belong to Saturn. But I think this is one of the profound archetypes of the moment because there's something about this emptying that has been taking place. I reflect on it in my own life, and I've reflected on it in the lives of my clients over the past several years. And I believe that it's probably at least one of the archetypal components of what Pluto and Aquarius will bring as well. This state of being emptied. And, you know, there's a word for this emptying in ancient theology. It's a Greek word that's referred to as kenosis.

So my third reflection is what is a kenotic life looks like. I want to read you just a few passages. This is from I mentioned this book some time ago; it's made a big impact on my life in the last year. It's called Religious but not Religious. Living a Symbolic Life. Written by Jason Smith, who has a wonderful podcast called the Digital.Jung that I really like as well. Emptiness and kenosis. This psychological experience of an empty center finds resonance in virtually every religious tradition, if not always within a religion's mainstream expression, then certainly through the contemplative or mystical aspect of that tradition. In this regard, we find the concept of sunyata in Buddhism, the void in Taoism, yurgonnabromont in Hinduism, I in in mystical Judaism, and the aspect of Allah as Al baatein, the hidden one in Islam. Each of these symbols is an expression of nothingness or emptiness, which is not to be stood understood here as a negation. Rather, it should be regarded as the source and fullness of all things that yet cannot be known or named within the field of consciousness.

The Christian tradition to has its expressions of emptiness in the form of the theological idea of kenosis, which is derived from the phrase and Paul's letter to the Philippians, where he states that Christ emptied himself of his divinity in order to become a human being. Kenosis is worth looking at here in more detail as it provides an archetypally grounded image of a living essence that becomes more fully realized and that act of giving itself up or of going beyond itself. A quick survey of the qualities used to describe kenosis will show some of the contours of this important and symbolic idea. Kenosis is described as a self-emptying, a humbling, and a pouring out. It is said to proceed through self-limitation rather than self-interest, letting go rather than clinging and giving away rather than possessing. At the same time, this self-surrender is also a self-realization, a letting go of a false self so that a true self can emerge.

The paradoxical nature of kenosis is nicely articulated by Alan Watts, who offers an essential insight into the kenotic dimensions of Christianity when he says, quote, the basic theme of the Christ story is that this express image of God becomes the source of life in the very act of being destroyed. This is the paradox spoken by Jesus and Jesus Himself to His disciples when he taught them that quote, Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. In the symbol of kenosis, then we have an image of the self-presentation of the Divine that simultaneously points away from itself.

In other words, kenosis in particular and emptiness more generally, as expressed in all religious traditions, can be understood as the archetypal background of what is conveyed in the phrase religious but not religious. The religious attitude is properly empty, kenotic. It maintains an awareness of the ultimate mystery of life and does not cling to the forms through which that mystery is sensed. It understands that although we need structures with which we can meet the contingencies of life and through which we can gain some understanding of its depths, ultimately, what we call truth or knowledge or reality, or God, exceeds what those names and structures are able to contain. We cannot do without our structures, language, image, theory, symbol, and story. All these are points of orientation without which we would be lost in the chaos of the infinite stimuli of living. A chaos we only reinforced through our current preoccupation with the proliferation of data and information.

Nevertheless, we must be willing to let our structures go, or else they can become barriers to the individual adventure of being alive. Jung was acutely aware that all our structures, be a religious symbols or psychological concepts, were, in the end, but quote, "human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable, the best that human beings could do in the face of the transcendent mystery of life," Jung felt was to quote "paint the world with divine colors." We find ourselves in a position, in other words, in which we must learn what I would call the art of knowing but not knowing. We must find ways to know and be in relationship with what cannot be known, a possession of the mind. Ultimately, it is not what we know that matters but what we live. Our concepts and ideas with our psychological or spiritual, scientific or religious are like mirrors in which the reflection of truth can be glimpsed, though not fully known as in a face-to-face encounter.

At best, they are partial and incomplete expressions of the experiences they are attempting to describe. This means it is not so important that we are in possession of an ultimate and final truth, as that will always remain beyond our grasp. What is important is that we are able to experience a truth that brings us more alive, one that awakens the heart to love, the soul to beauty, and the mind to the wonder of life.

In the Bhagavad Gita, the final instruction of Krishna to ArJuna, this is text 66 from the 18th chapter says, "Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śharaṇaṁ Vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ Sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣhayiṣhyāmi mā śhuchaḥ." Excuse my Sanskrit; it's not very good. Abandon all varieties of religion, and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions; do not fear Sarva Dharma and all varieties of Dharma of duty, and you could say structures that are rooted in a sense of like righteousness. Surrender them; I'll take care of you.

When I think of Pluto entering Aquarius as Saturn is leaving, I think Saturn has done the hard work of putting us in touch with, you know, Saturn has maybe begun the emptying process, but it's done so through, you know, Saturn is hard, you know, and when, when Saturn starts to empty us, I think that there's sometimes a sense of boredom, exhaustion, impatience, frustration. We attempt to keep something going beyond its expiration date. And there's a sense of something that's just not working any longer. And this is the kenotic process of the water pourer, emptying us. And Saturn's way of doing that has a real like, strong oppositional tension to the sun. It can hurt, it can be exhausting, it can be a feeling of, there can be abandonment in it, there can be a feeling of not knowing what's real or where we're going.

But that, that kenosis is so important to be poured out to be emptied occasionally. I mean, whether it's, you know, at the end of the day, and you take some time to be quiet, read, reflect, talk with a lover or a friend. And we say we're venting. But often what we're doing to in our venting is kenotic we're pouring ourselves out, and what do you feel after you've done that, you know, you come back, at least I do. I come back to a feeling of like; it's just me. You know, it's just, it's just me, I'm just a little spirit soul. And, and it's okay.

For anything new to come, it's as though quite frequently there has to be an emptying of everything we've known or become obsessed or possessed by. And, in that, there's always, one of the ways that that can go, we can resist the emptying by futuring. But we can resist the emptying by rather than just really being emptied out. Maybe that means being disappointed. Maybe that means getting, you know, getting comfortable in a position of boredom, or getting, you know, feeling okay with the fact that there's just a dead of winter. One of the ways that we start to try to deal with that almost like as a reaction is we future, oh, well, you know, everything feels so dead, but the utopia is in the future somewhere.

So Aquarius, a sign that's always related with futurism, a part of that is also just a response to not being able to sit with the kenotic blessing of Aquarius, the fact that we're being poured out, that the gods we've been possessed by are dying, that they're being poured out of us. There's a film that came out recently called The Changing of the Gods. There's a changing of the gods in our lives, it's gonna be like a changing of the guard, and an easy thing to get obsessed or possessed by in the moment that we're being emptied of our archetypal obsessions and possessions is to start futuring. Well, let me think of all of the brave new things in the future that will, you know, bring me back to life, and some of that's good, and some of that's healthy. Some of it is not allowing for a true kenotic moment to take place, a true emptying out to occur, so I have to be very careful of that. I had a moment recently that brought me to these realizations that I'm sharing today, or these reflections, I should say. So I recently had LASIK surgery done, and it's amazing. I can see without contacts or sunglasses. You know technology's amazing. I misplaced my prescription eye drops.

And so I was, you know, naturally, I was looking around for them, and I couldn't find them, so I got frustrated to the point where like alright, screw you water bottle I like you can't hide from me, I'm going to cast the horary. So I cast the horary chart and the signifier of the missing prescription eyedrops, which are in a little bottle with Saturn and Aquarius. You can imagine the image of me holding these things up and dropping them into my eyes, like a little jug that was emptying the water into my eyes. And I had some very powerful dreams right after this eye surgery that made me realize that the eye surgery, even though, in a sense, it was just like something I'd wanted to do for a long time, was symbolic of a change, a shift in envision and perspective.

Of course, physical eyes, but inner eyes type of thing. And it was several very profound dreams. And I won't, I won't go into what that shift in perception is, but it's, you know, I think it's just a part of my ongoing personal work as a soul, you know, and I was feeling just really, really thankful for this. And now, remember, this surgery happened as Saturn was opposing my ascendant ruler, Venus, and Leo. So Venus in Leo, the sign of the sun, Saturn and Aquarius, the water pourer. So the missing water drops showed up as Saturn in Aquarius. And they showed up in the chart, through the techniques that we use in horary and so forth in my living room somewhere. So that okay, Air sign in the living room, maybe up on a shelf somewhere.

So I started looking around, and lo and behold, there it is, we have on the sort of edge of our living room, then there is like a wet bar, and we don't drink; we're a sober family, but we have a little refrigerator with like Perriers and stuff like that. And we have up on top is like a little granite countertop with a sink, and then there's a tea kettle, that's like a pitcher. And then there are all of these beautiful goblets that we got from our wedding. And so I look in there, and sure enough, it's sitting right on top of the sort of sitting right on top of the little refrigerator holding the Perriers right next to the tea kettle. It's like a pitcher and right below a series of goblets. And it was such a powerful moment for me because apparently, the heavens care about something as insignificant or can speak to something as insignificant as my missing eyedrops. But not just, they didn't do so in a way that was just here's where they are, you know, and isn't the symbolism nice and wow, magic. But in a way that affirmed and put into place several nights' worth of dreams that I had been having about how this external shift in my vision was also happening as an internal shift of vision was occurring.

And it just blew me away because suddenly I understood that the shift of vision that I was having was an emptying that it was kenotic. And it was the first time I ever really perceived Saturn in Aquarius as an archetype that is related to kenosis, emptying. That verse from the Bible, whether you're Christian or not, just even from an archetypal standpoint, is beautiful. Jesus in an avatar, one who descends God in human form, or something like that, and there are many traditions that have avatars, right?

In order to become human, I, you know, Christ emptied himself. That's the phrase and Philippians if I'm remembering it correctly that emptying; that purposeful emptying of one's own god nature; for us as humans, it's as though our lives are the playgrounds of the gods. And who we think we are is usually nothing more than a, you know, a temporary method act that we have going on that's beautiful and powerful, and we learned so much from, and it delights the soul. But occasionally those you know, the lights go down, the third act has finished, and the gods leave the stage. And there's an emptying, and in that emptying, we can fight it in so many ways. We can try to stay busy; we can future we can be upset that something isn't as good as it used to be. And these are some of the curses of Aquarius.

Or we can just allow ourselves to be emptied. And when we really allow ourselves to be emptied, a shift of vision occurs, and we start on a new path. And this is the transition happening in the middle of winter. That Aquarius represents some preparation, a paving of the way for something new. But there's a very deep emptying that happens. And the emptying can make us feel alien and dissociated from ourselves. And this is exactly how I had been feeling. For a long time, actually, a year and a half since Saturn really started getting into it with my ascendant ruler, Venus, and Leo, its as though Saturn was holding up the perspective of me and saying, Look at what you are absorbed in, look at what you know, look at the light of the gods that you're absorbed in, that forms your sense of self and ambition and look at the method act you've been playing and let's empty that out. And it's holding up a mirror Saturn is to me and just saying, it's just you, it's just you. So to me, when Smith says, I'll reread just one little part of that passage I read, when he says that living a symbolic life, living a life with a religious attitude, but not necessarily religious identification is kenotic. What does he mean? The religious attitude is properly empty, kenotic. It maintains an awareness of the ultimate mystery of life and does not cling to the forms through which that mystery is sensed. It understands that although we need structures with which we can meet the contingencies of life and through which we can gain some understanding of its depth, ultimately, what we call truth or knowledge or reality, or God, exceeds what those names and structures are able to contain. We must be willing to let go of our structures, or else they can become barriers to the individual adventure of being alive. The best that human beings could do in the face of the transcendent mystery of life Jung felt was "to paint the world with divine colors." I really love that.

And what it makes me realize is not that, again, I don't understand kenosis to be the idea that, you know, we negate things, or that we're just a void or something like that. But there's a way in which we have to empty things out. I was talking to a client recently, and she was saying, what do you do with like x astrological anxiety, like, Oh, my God, Mars is transiting my 10th house, it's gonna turn retrograde in my 10th house. I'm a Virgo rising; will I lose my job? You know, I said, you know, imagine that, and I just had these experiences. And I thought about this. Imagine that. Your anxiety is like a full cup of water. And you know, my daughter when she gets a full cup of water and go, you know, or something. And she's like, going to go and sit down and watch. I don't know a cartoon. It's like, I'm watching her walk. And I'm like, I'm always like, sweetie, why don't you just empty it a little bit, just empty it out a little bit, and then it'll be easier to carry.

Whether it's our hopes, our dreams, ambitions or joy, or our desires, or fears or anxieties, we tend, I don't know, it just I noticed I observed within myself and my clients and everything that we tend to carry whatever we're carrying, with the water exactly at the top. And sometimes, then, we approach spirituality. And we say, well, see, the problem is the full glass, and you need to empty it all out. I don't think that is what kenosis means. But I told her, I said, if you're having astrological anxiety about a transit, it's as though you're walking around with this really full cup.

We have to find ways unique to every individual; every individual's religious psychology of just pouring like a third of that out maybe half, you know, emptying ourselves a little bit because when you empty yourself, then you make room for the gods to come in and fill you and surprise your fill your cup and surprise you. Which there's no room for if your cup is full. And that goes really for, you know, any state we get into. When we get so full of something. And we have no room, no emptiness, no portion of emptiness available; then there's nothing that can be filled. And that's ultimately what makes astrology and relationship with the gods so satisfying, is saying well, well, for example, how do you create emptiness if you're worried that Mars Retrograde in your 10th house will take your job away? Have an altar in your home? Make a vision board or find an item to lay at the altar with a prayer saying Here's my job; I'm worried you're going to take it. But you know what, preemptively, I'll offer it in case it is something that you want. See that kind of openness; I don't want you to take my job. But if you want it, here it is. That openness is the equivalent of taking the full cup and emptying half of it out.

And then there's room for the transit to come in and, and, and work with us. If we become so identified with the gods, so identified with an emotion, or complex or an idea or an ambition or whatever, then usually we experience Saturn, we experience the water pourer as someone that pours us out. And you know, it ends up feeling horrible. It's like, so we need kenosis as a way of life because the deliberate emptying of ourselves creates room for the gods to come in and have a relationship. I think that we are so all or nothing, you know, at least I see myself that way. It's empty because emptiness is the safe, right thing to do, or it's totally full of any emotion or state or whatever. And I think living kenotic life is about just allowing ourselves to have shifts in perspective. A shift in perspective can be an emptying of some of the water. I have a perspective, and it's just brimming over well. A shift in perspective can mean that you're just emptying some of that out to leave room for another perspective. So there's so many ways to be kenotic.

I suspect that as Pluto enters Aquarius, that one of the things that's going to happen that Saturn has been paving the way for is whether it's societal SOCIETY, whether it's societal or whether it's personal, whether it's taking place within institutions or organizations that we belong to, or communities that were a part of, or our personal lives and relationships, our philosophy, convictions, and beliefs. I think we are going to see that there is an emptying out, and with that emptying out, there can come a great clash of, you know, reactive tendencies; as things are being emptied out, there's something to blame well used to be better in the past now it's getting bored and where things are being emptied. And that's because we got away from that thing in the past or things are being emptied out; we say, Oh God, it's not working; here's the brave new future here, let's go to the brave new future. You know the things are being emptied out, and we feel dissociated. And we and then we feel so hurt and alone and alienated we go into depression. Now these options are there, or as Pluto moves into Aquarius, we can learn that can kenosis is seasonal; archetypally, we're gonna go through a 20-year period of kenosis. Spiritually psychically societally, well get into the practice now personally, so that as we're doing so, we can understand that this water that we're being emptied, but also there's a medicinal eyedrops, right coming from heaven. That this is a change of vision, and it can't happen until you realize how blinded you've been by something and allowing yourself to be emptied in the process.

There's lots more to say. But these are just the beginning of some of my reflections on Pluto's entrance into Aquarius as Saturn prepares to leave, and we're coming up upon this as Saturn turns direct, and then its forward motion will carry it into Pisces, and there is lots of say about Saturn in Pisces, too. I think there's gonna be some beautiful reflections upon that archetypal combination that I look forward to getting into anyway. If you have a story to share or a reflection, use the hashtag grabbed or email us grabbed @nightlightastrology.com. I love hearing your stories. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Really appreciate it when you guys do that. And that's what I've got for today. Take it easy, everyone. Bye