Rewind | Saturn Square Uranus: The March of Time

Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take a look back at several of the videos that I made when Uranus and Saturn were just entering their configuration with one another. This was the end of 2020 into 2021. Saturn entering the sign of Aquarius, started to move into a square with Uranus and Taurus. We've dealt with several exact Squares Between the two planets. And right now, in the month of September 2022. And into October, the two planets are coming back together again, one last time into a square. It's not perfect, but it's very close. 

So, in order to rewind and refresh on this archetypal combination, I thought I would we would take a look back at some of those episodes; there were several of them, and I think we might publish one of them or all of them over the course of the next few days as bonus episodes over the weekend. And the reason for this is that when the two planets have gone through such a dance with one another, it's really nice to just refresh on, you know, kind of throwback and look at what we were anticipating from these planets over the past couple of years, and where they brought us all the way up until today. So I hope that you will enjoy this rewind episode. 

But before I get into it, I'm going to do a few things. I'm going to show you the real-time clock and just say a few things about the configuration; then, I'll open up into that previous rewind episode, but don't forget to like and subscribe before we get into it. Leave a comment tell us how your journey was Saturn Uranus has been of the past couple of years. You can find transcripts of any of my daily talks on my website nightlightastrology.com; where if you visit, you will also find that my new class, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic, my first-year program begins again on November 12. We have a new cohort that is starting up on the 12th. You can click on the first-year course under the Courses page to learn more about it. It's 30 classes on the year. We have 12 guest lectures outside of that. Plus, we have breakout study sessions led by my staff. We also have staffed a staffed forum discussion room; you can ask questions throughout the year. So lots of support and help for you. There are a lot of outside-of-class reading and optional assessments and quizzes and flashcards and things that are meant to help support your learning in whatever way you know you learn best. The 30 live webinars meet on Saturdays starting November 12. And they typically meet two to three hours at a time. And then all of the classes are recorded. So you could be live in the webinars, or you can kind of go at your own pace. If you prefer to take your time, you will find registration information at the bottom of the page; the early bird rate saves you about $500 off, so take advantage of that while it's there. And then don't forget that we do have payment plans. We also have tuition assistance. So if you are someone who would love to study, but you're on a tight budget or you know, you've been affected adversely by everything that's going on in the World, the past couple of years when it comes to your finances, check out the need-based tuition. 

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So first of all, you'll notice here that there's Saturn, and here is Uranus. Now let's watch what happens as the two planets over, say, the next month. The two planets are moving about a degree apart from one another right now in a square. As that goes on, we're going to see gradually that the two planets get together really close to a square, but they don't actually perfect. So here is now you're gonna see Saturn at moving into the 18th degree. We keep advancing it; here we go. So now they're on the 18th degree together, but Saturn is going to station. You can always tell Saturn is going to station by the way when you see the Sun starting to make a trine to Saturn, either the trine that is coming from the Sun is coming around to conjoin Saturn again, or the one that the set of Sun is most recently separated from will tell you of Saturn stationing to turn retrograde or direct in this case because the Sun is coming back to the synodic conjunction with Saturn. Saturn is turning direct right after or around the trine, and so the This is a moment where Saturn looks like it's about to catch the slower moving Uranus in a square, but Saturn is going to refrain from doing so. A refranation would mean that you know, something that's about to happen doesn't actually end up happening of an aspect that's forming doesn't actually end up forming. Saturn is slowing down and turning directions. So take this forward; there it is, around October 24. You see Saturn turning direct. Uranus, of course, is continuing to move on. And so the square doesn't happen. 

But they are very close within a degree. And so one of the questions we have to ask ourselves for this month of September is, how do how are we working with Saturn and Uranus, who are coming back together very closely one last time? Even though the square isn't perfect, it's still really important to take a look at this. And so that is our agenda for today. And then I will probably rewind the same basic; I think there were two or three of them; I have to dig around in my files a little bit. I know there were two. So we're going to rewind at least two of the episodes that I did several years ago when this aspect first started coming into shape. 

Now I have to say that I chose to do this week in place of a grabbed episode, which I needed a little bit more time to perfect. I really like to spend time with those picking out all the stories that I think will nicely work together. So if you were waiting on a grabbed episode, I think I said earlier this week that there would be one there will be one next week so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you'll it's really cool to look back and see like what were we saying several years ago about Saturn Uranus and how has it played out now. So hope you guys enjoy this rewind episode. And we will see you again soon.

Transcript:

Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take a look at Saturn square with Uranus, which is perfecting this week, right around Christmas time. If you're celebrating Christmas, you'll get the company of Venus through its retrograde conjoining with Pluto as well as Saturn's square to Uranus. So this is just a massive combination of planetary transits happening at the same time. We're going to start taking a look at it today; we're gonna meditate a little bit on the archetypal combination of Saturn Uranus day by taking a look at an I Ching hexagram, an excerpt from the Upanishads. We're going to also bring in some excerpts from one of my favorite essays called the Wreck of Time by Annie Dillard and just meditate a little bit on what this process has been in the past year of Saturn square Uranus. And also some ways that we can think about this combination this week. And in the next couple of weeks as this archetypal transit is still in the air. So that's what we'll do today. 

So here is the real-time clock. And what I want you to notice is Saturn at 10:49 right now and Uranus at 11:08. So what we are essentially saying is that if we advanced this just a couple of days, this is Thursday, December 23. into Friday, December 24, Saturn will move through the square with Uranus. Of course, it's present within a degree all the way to, you know, the first week of January. At the same time, this week, Venus will retrograde through its conjunction with Pluto, and that will happen on December 25, on Christmas Day, so it is most definitely a powerful week. Powerful signature for the holidays. So I'm like every time I think about it, I'm imagining like Christmas boxes flying across the room in like open warfare under the Christmas tree lights; you know, like someone's spiked the eggnog Uncle Jimmy is like you know, in the corner talking to Jesus with his eggnog spiked, everyone is battling. I'm hoping it goes well for everybody. But it's a pretty intense energy. And what I want to do first of all is just talk about this from a philosophical point of view and then ask some guiding questions for us. That came out of the meditation I did this morning on this transit.

So Saturn and Uranus can speak to two very different realities. Let's talk about Saturn first. Saturn can be described as the march of time. Okay, so when you think about Saturn, people say, what's the Lord of Karma? It's time. It's like, what do you mean by that? Right? What do you mean by that? In the Vedic philosophical tradition, time is actually a quality of God; it's like a dimension or aspect of God. And time is also talked about as a weapon of God, as a way that God has of enlightening wandering souls, as well as a way that God has of annihilating things of constantly creating and destroying things, both creation and destruction through time, the weapon of enlightenment through time also, as a quality of reality, that is itself said to be anadhi, which means without beginning, so time itself is described as beginningless. Now, time can come to an end, in so far as Vishnu may inhale all the galaxies back into Vishnus body, and then exhale and back out and temporarily; the time-bound World is gone. But then Vishnu will breed them back out, and time moves again. And when it moves, it's always been moving.

It's a strange thing to think about. It's almost like imagining a fire that's always been, and yet this fire is like breathing. It's as though, you know, the fire is kind of pulsing in and out. And you can also imagine time. Plato said time is the moving image of eternity, that there's something about time that reflects the nature of something timeless, and that the way things happen in time reflects something of timelessness. So you can almost imagine that time is like a river that's moving in both directions at once, as well. 

Time is described by ancient mystics as circular, eternal, without beginning, like a river moving in a circle, and moving there are currents moving in both directions in the circle simultaneously at different levels or different depths or something like that. So when you think about time, it's important to first give it some body and give it some dimensionality because when we think of time, and we attribute that to Saturn, often we're thinking in a very linear manner, we're thinking about a kind of time that moves forward along a linear straight line from the past into the future. But when ancient astrologers thought about time, that's not the way they thought about it. It thought about cycles and seasons, seasons of time, and they thought about the soul, the eternal, immortal soul, as at its worst, trapped in time, trapped in this circular multi-dimensional multi-leveled, backward and forward-flowing dimension of God's enlightenment weapon. It's a little heavy, but pretty beautiful and interesting to think about too.

One of my favorite mantras from the Sri Isopanisad says the wise have explained to us that one result is derived from the culture of Vidya, which means like illumination or knowledge. And it is said that a different result is obtained from the culture of Vidya, which is like darkness or illusion. Then, in the next mantra says, Only the person who can learn the processes of illusion and darkness, and those of illumination or transcendental knowledge, side by side, can transcend the influence of repeated birth and death, which is also time and enjoy the full blessings of immortality, which is also a way of saying enlightenment, or Vidya, and elimination. So that's a beautiful verse. 

Now, interestingly, Saturn in ancient astrology was not only associated with time and the time-bound, and this weird river, like an eternal cycle of dominoes that are knocking each other over, but then as they knock each other over, new ones get up. So it's like this crazy, eternal domino sequence. And we think we're getting somewhere, well, I'm going to do something to be happy, we're going to do something to avoid pain. But as long as we're playing around in the rivers of time, the sequences will keep moving. And it's not going to be easy to get comfortable or to feel like we've arrived anywhere. 

This is why so many people end up slapping a meme on their wall at some point that says It's the journey, not the destination because, after a while, we start scratching our heads and going like, Hey, you notice that this thing like just keeps going? How did we get here? So that's the situation we find ourselves in. But Saturn was also the ruler of contemplatives. People who sat long and hard and thought about things. And they thought about things from a distance, they were like, Hey, have you ever noticed that there's this crazy domino circle just keeps going and going and going, they reflect upon the nature of things. And as they live their lives moving through the time-bound World, they start simultaneously recognizing its nature and starting to have other kinds of insights that, in a sense, start to illuminate the way that they see the World starts to illuminate their mind and give them the gives a perspective, that even though we're within time, it's as though we're arising out of it. We're experiencing something about who we are as timeless, eternal beings within the time-bound. So the Upanishads are pointing this out 1000s of years ago. 

Now, if we don't cultivate that perspective, which is, you could say, the Uranian perspective within the Saturnine. I mean, you don't even really need Uranus necessarily; contained within Saturn's ancient significations was the idea that you could be stuck in the prison of time or you could be a contemplative. You could be a melancholic and or malcontent. Or you could be someone who has some kind of transcendental perspective. You're seeing beyond the limitations of this beginningless merry-go-round. But Uranus Square Saturn is the presence of illumination in relation to the time-bound. You could say that it is the spark that lights the soul up or lights our consciousness up and says, Oh, I'm aware, within these cycles and circles, within the constraints of the time-bound World, I'm, I'm a little spark, I'm a little atman, I'm a little spark of God, I'm a little jiva, I'm aware, I'm awake. And then, because the two get together like that, it can, it can create the need, or the desire to reframe our lives, in terms of a perspective that transcends the ordinary or previously held beliefs that were limited or ways of living our lives that were, you know, habitual, and that we were stuck in thinking, you know, what was that thing was Einstein or I don't remember who said it, but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So, you know, Uranus comes along and says, Don't do that, let's change, let's try something different. It can be this way, also of the understanding that time is an ally for those who understand that it is eternal. If you think you're going somewhere in time that you'll get somewhere, eventually, that it won't just keep cycling and circling, you know, you're in trouble. But if you see, you see it for what it is, just an eternal dimension of reality. It's always moving through cycles and circles; you see it like that, then all of a sudden, you're free within it, just precisely what the Upanishads are telling us when they say only the person who understands the nature and processes of the realm of shadows alongside cultivating, understanding awareness and transcendental knowledge can really be free.

So you could say Saturn Uranus is just the lightning strike that we need to help us move out of some conditioned state, some darkened state, into a more enlightened one. That's the ideal, right? What is the World look like when it's just the march of time, when it's nothing more than the march of time, and we're lost in it? There are some excerpts from an essay that I want to read you by Annie Dillard called the Wreck of Time. It's a brilliant essay. I think you'll appreciate it.

Ted Bundy, the serial killer after his arrest, could not fathom the fuss. What was the big deal? David Trail quotes an exasperated Bundy in his essay called Among the Lowest of the Dead. Ted Bundy says I mean; there are so many people. On April 30, 1991, on that one day, 138,000 people drowned in Bangladesh. At dinner, I mentioned it to my daughter, who is seven years old, that it was hard to imagine 138,000 people drowning. No, it's easy. My seven-year-old said lots and lots of dots and blue water. Ten years ago, we thought there were two galaxies for each of us alive. Lately, since the Hubble Space Telescope, we've revised our figures. There are nine galaxies for each of us. Each galaxy harbors an average of 100 billion suns. In our galaxy, the Milky Way, there are 69 suns for each person alive. The Hubble says a report that a universe quote is at least 15 billion years old. The universe, our universe, two galaxies, nine galaxies, 69 suns, 100 billion suns; these astronomers are nickel and diming us to death. 

What were you doing on April 30, 1991? When a series of waves drowned 138,000 people, What were you? Where were you when you first heard the astounding heartbreaking news? Who told you what were your sensations? Did you weep? Did it last days or weeks? All my life, I've loved this site, a standing wave in a boat's wake shaped like a thorn. I've seen it rise from many oceans. I saw it rise from the Sea of Galilee. It was a peak about a foot high. The standing wave broke at its peak, and foam slid down its glossy hollow. I watched the foaming wave on the port side. At every instant, we were bringing this boat's motor this motion into new water, the stir as if of life impelled each patch of water to pinch and inhabit the same crest. Each crest tumbled upon itself and release the slide of white foam. The foams bubbles popped and dropped into the general sea while they were still sliding down the dark wave. They trailed away always, and always new waters peaked, broke, foamed, and replenished. What I saw was the constant intersection of two wave systems.

Lord Kelvin first described them. Transverse waves rise above the stern and stream away perpendicular to the boat's direction of travel. Diverging waves course out in a V shape behind the boat, where the waves converge, two lines of standing crests persist at an unchanging angle to the direction of the boat's motion. We think of these as the boat's wake. I was studying the highest standing wave, the one nearest the boat; it rose from the trough behind the stern and spilled foam. The curled wave crusted the clear water and tumbled down; all its bubbles broke 1000s a second; unendingly, I could watch the present; I could see time on a short, 8000 waves break a day. James Trefil, a professor of physics, provides these facts at any one time, the foam breaking from waves covers three and 4% of the Earth's surface. This acreage of foam is equal to the entire continent of North America. 

God rises up out of the sea like a treasure in the waves, wrote Thomas Merton. We see generations of waves rise from the sea that made them billions of individuals at a time; we see them dwindle and vanish. If this doesn't astound you, what will or what will move you to pity or compassion? 

1/10 of the land on Earth is tundra. At any time, it's raining on only 5% of the planet's surface. Lightning strikes the planet about 100 times every second. The insects outweigh us. Our chickens outnumber us four to one. 1/5 of us are Muslims. 1/5 of us live in China. Every seventh person is a Chinese peasant. Almost 1/10 of us live within range of an active volcano. More than 2% of us were born with a handicap. We, humans, drink tea over a billion cups a day. Among us, we speak 10,000 languages. 

We are a civilized generation number 500 or so, counting from 10,000 years ago. Every 110 hours, a million more humans arrive on the planet than die into the planet. One hundred million of us are children who live on the streets; over 100 million of us live in countries where we hold no citizenship. Twenty-three million of us are refugees. Sixteen million of us live in Cairo. Twelve million fish for a living from small boats. One million of us are crew on freezer trawlers. Nearly 1000 of us a day. Take our own lives. Head-spinning numbers cause the mind to go slack. But our minds cannot go slack. How can we think straight? If our minds go slack? We agree that we want to think straight. 2 million children die every year from diarrhea. 800,000 from the measles. Do we blink? Stalin starved 7 million Ukrainians in one year. Pol Pot killed a million Cambodians. The flu epidemic of 1918 killed 21 or 22 million people. Shall this go on? Or do you suffer as Teilhard de Chardin? Did the sense of being an atom lost in the universe? Or do you not suffer from the sense? How about what journalists call compassion fatigue? Reality fatigue? At what limit for you do other individuals blur? Vanish? How old are you? I love this essay so much. It goes on and on. And it's a brilliant essay, but I just wanted to give you a feel for it.

Because if we live in a world that's just bound to time, especially when we think it's linear, and we think that we're getting somewhere in it. We think that there's somewhere in the future that won't eventually fall apart, just like the waves are rising in the wake she describes and disintegrating simultaneously. 

This World is like, in a sense, even though it doesn't feel like it, even though we have to deliberately take time for meditation or contemplation to see it. This World is like a concrete essence of waves that hit each other and break simultaneously over and over. It doesn't feel like it unless we sit down and take notice of it. If we take no notice of it and we become objectified by it, eventually, we will be just one of those numbers. One of the things that the Vedic Tradition says very clearly the yogic tradition yoga philosophy tradition is that most souls at the hour of death are confronted by, you know, not so much. Oh, all the bad things I did. But the trivial nature of what I did, the trivial, the triviality of the way I spent my life. 

In other words, you'll be struck by the way that you fall into the most mundane and superficial aspects that then the constant number clicking of Saturn, is that what we want when we die, we want to have come to our life and go Well, you know, I really lived well, you know, and I really I wanted that living constituted. Constituted a lot of capitalistic freedom, you know, the freedom to consume, do what I want, you know. But no, most of us will come to death. And we'll come to death realizing if we have not lived a soulful life, if we have not invested in a transcend to a transcendental perspective if we've not grown, that within our heart and soul will come to death and realize that we're nothing more than another little bubble breaking at the end of the day. 

It's not that that's not sacred. It's not that, you know, bubbles breaking aren't beautiful, that the bubbles breaking, the rising and falling of all things. That coming to be in passing away of all things isn't, in its own way, just spectacular. I mean, sometimes you can just look at it. You don't need to assign any greater meaning to it. You can just appreciate, wow, this is what's happening. But from the standpoint of the ancient mystics who practiced astrology, the problem is that you're an eternal being. And for eternal beings who are recycling in new forms and new bodies. The problem is that one of the reasons that we recycle new forms and new bodies is that we think that well, this next new lifetime, this next new endeavor, this next new ambition, this next new project, this next new relationship, this New Year, these new these resolutions, these ambitions, these projects, we think that it will somehow address a longing that we have, that can't be addressed as long as the waves are hitting each other and spilling out. Again, our bodies will eventually be a part of that wave hitting and spilling out. So we're not. It's not like we're looking in the wrong place. That's the idea behind the mysticism in the ancient astrological tradition; we're looking in the wrong place. So where do we look for it? 

Well, let's consider these things. These would be the markers of a real, real revolution. And I like to think I drew a hexagram from the I-Ching. This morning, number 37. Called family duties. And there's a hexagram line in it that says she's the jewel of the home, good fortune. And it's, of course, talking about if sort of like it's an ancient way of saying if Mama's not happy, ain't nobody happy in a family unit. But it's also a way of talking about the centrality of Yin. And the idea that we're always watering something. We're always giving our attention, something where attention goes, energy flows. Everyone's heard that saying before, and what we foster as the most desirable, the most beautiful. 

There is a goddess in the center of all of our lives that, put better, there's an altar or a shrine. And it's a beautiful shrine. It's decorated with all sorts of things. There are deities; there are flowers. There's incense. It's a beautiful room. And all of us are tending to that in one way or another. And that room, really what it is, is the desire for divinity. The desire for soulfulness. Soulfulness isn't just some kind of, you know, monotheistic, single-pointed or monistic goal. It's not just some kind of pure white light that we're just hoping to go home to because isn't this World just so? Such a curse? Isn't time such a curse? No. We like the variegation of this World. We like the infinite multitudes of this World. The soul likes it. But it just it's looking for the eternal and divine experience of those things versus eternal last ramblings and wanderings banging its head on the wall in time, the prisons of time shackled, trying to get a different result doing the same things over and over, not recognizing I'm a spirit soul. But the soul itself and the need to address it. That's the goddess at the center of us.

And so with Venus also retrograding in conjunction with Pluto as Saturn squares Uranus, it's like there's an opportunity to look at what we are watering at the center. This hexagram in the I_ching number 37 says she is the jewel of the home great good fortune. And again, it's talking about that soulful center that holds a family together. It could be the fire in the middle of the home. But it's also knowing that there was a there's a saying, you know, that my grandma said and I heard it lots of places to which something like this, which is whatever a woman waters grows. So women water, the right water, the right things in your family, like water, the good things that you want to grow, and you'll see them grow. And it was sort of a way of saying like, that what a woman cares for and nurtures in a home or family will flourish and grow. Now you can take that or leave that as a literal thing. I don't, you know, it's not really to me; it's just metaphorical because I'd take that also as something that's very important for myself. There are a lot of goals that I have and a lot of ambitions, but what I care for, what I nurture, what I pay attention to with like there's a little matriarch in the center of my heart and what she waters inside of me that's what's going to grow. So I have to be very careful about it because she has a lot of power. But if I'm not awake to what I'm watering within, then good things won't grow. 

So I think Venus Pluto, with its retrograde at the same time of Saturn Uranus, is saying are you nurturing the right things? Are you caring for the right things? Are you that feminine energy of what we are attracted to, what we give our attention to, what we water, what we nurture, what we care for, what we love? Does it need to shift or change somehow because if we're to awaken from the dead, you know, the numerical weightiness of life that getting dragged along by mundane numbers, the astrophysicists nickel and diming us to death like Annie Dillard says, right? 

If we're to get out of that, then it requires two things. It requires, you know, some kind of spiritual illumination, a transcendental perspective, and that's fine to get all Promethean and excited about that, you know, but more practically, that means that every day we have to nurture something different. We have to nurture soulfulness, the real, relational, caring, feminine component of the soul. That takes away that that makes reality a living relationship that the cosmos becomes a living being filled with interdependent relationships that need to be tended and cared for so that something can grow and flourish that we call soulfulness. And that soulfulness is what outweighs the insects and the chickens, and the humans. It strikes faster than all the lightning hitting the Earth simultaneously. And it fills those waves hitting each other, cresting and breaking 24/7 meaninglessly; otherwise, it fills them with sparklies. You know what I mean? It makes the whole world sparkle with beauty and wonder and joy and divinity. But it all boils down to what do we care for? What do we love? What do we give our time and attention to and a reorientation of our desires to be attracted to something that is more valuable for the soul? 

Consider this. So use that little analogy, that what you water grows, and that at the center of our of all of our lives is an altar. Here's how you can tell what your altar actually looks like. What do you spend the most time doing? That's probably the altar at the middle of your psychic home. Not no judgments. I'm just it's just a way of getting in touch with what our altar is, and maybe a shift that can be made. What do you spend the most time doing? That's probably where the altar is or what the altar looks like. What do you spend the most time thinking about? That is probably at least one of or maybe a few of the deities that are on that altar. What do you spend the most time feeling? What kinds of feelings do you entertain or take in, or what kinds of emotional states do you have? Those are like the flowers on that altar? What do you spend the most time talking about? That's like the incense wafting through the room. What do you spend the most time concerned with? Now concern could be a good thing or maybe not a good thing. Worried or concerned? We'll call it that. That's the way that you attend to the altar. What do you spend the most time doing with your body? Every day? That becomes the scent, the physical feeling of the room. What do you spend the most time looking at with your eyes every day? That becomes the posture of your meditation. The seat that you're on, maybe? Who do you surround yourself with every day? The people? Those are the religious or spiritual devotees in the room with you. Those are your fellow worshipers. And what do you read most of the time? Or maybe you don't read? But if you do, what do you take in information-wise? What kind of information do you take in that's your Sacred Scripture. 

Now, I'm not by saying all this suggesting, hey, look, just you know, you need to overhaul your whole life instantly and make sure all of those are perfect. Revolution comes incrementally, especially with Saturn Uranus, because we slowly shift what we are doing, what we're thinking about, what we're feeling and what we're talking about, what we're worried about, what we're doing with our bodies, what we're reading or looking at, who we are surrounding ourselves with. And most of the time, that change doesn't happen because we start by going let me eliminate the bad things or the unhealthy things that don't constitute soulfulness. But instead, the changes start to happen. Because in each of those different areas, we add little things that are just a little bit healthier or more soulful.

For example, we spend a little bit more time doing something that produces peace, contentment, and reflection that nurtures our inner life; we spend a little bit more time thinking about the things and people we're grateful for. We spend deliberately; we spend a little bit more time feeling satisfied. We have to choose it. But we can feel satisfied. We can spend a little bit more time feeling thankful, or we can spend a little bit more time in with any emotion, directing that emotion back to divinity and saying thank you for it. We can spend a little bit more time talking about our inner life, what we're growing, how we're growing, or what we're learning with other people. We can spend more time worried about the safety, health, beauty, care, compassion, empathy; we can start spending more time worried about people around us that we love, and not in a clinging crazy way. But we can if we're going to spend time worried about anything, then let's worry about the people we love. 

We can spend; I'm just giving a suggestion, but what we spend the most time doing with our body will we can spend a little bit more time meditating, taking care of our body, exercising, eating a little bit, just even a little bit better food, or a little less food. What we spend the most time looking at while we can turn off the TV or the screens, or at least find some spiritual content on them. Who we surround ourselves with, at least once or twice a month, make sure you take a little bit of time to spend time with that friend who's one of the only ones you can have that deeper conversation with. If you're not reading anything, you feel like you should pick up something spiritual or enlightening illuminating. So we do little things like this incrementally. They make really big changes to our lives, and we go from the feeling of impersonal objectifying the weight of time and numbers to a soulful reality where time becomes the moving image of eternity. It's not just reduce or get rid of toxic things, but slowly add soulful things, then the objectifying things drop off. 

And as the Gita tells us, as all of the yogic literature tells us, we come to the hour of death. And what we realize in the hour of death is that we lived a soulful life that we cared for and watered and nurtured good things and good people. And in that moment, that is said to be the thing that sends the soul eventually to completely different worlds that are not bound by time. But the until we are, remember this place isn't evil or bad. In the ancient mystical traditions, the ones that I appreciate, this World is a place of learning. So what was World is a place where we can gradually learn that eventually, the truth is that we're worn down by the gears of time. If we keep trying to get some results out of it, that's not possible. It just grinds us down. 

We don't need to get ground down so much, do we in 2022? People are like, Oh, I'm so 2020 and 2021. We're so hard. What's next? Like it's more hard. It's more hard. It's always more hard. 2020 to 2023-2024, the next 15 years are going to be hard. It doesn't get better. It doesn't get better. The same kinds of seasons of challenge and darkness and disease and sickness are have always been a major part of this reality. Those think back about some of those numbers that Annie Dillard gave, right? So it doesn't change; we change, right? The consciousness changes in relation to time.

So I hope that this has been a useful way of thinking about Saturn Uranus and that it gives you some way of surveying your life and going like, where do I need like a strong gardener, you know, I think of like a goddess roaming the gardens of my heart just being like this needs more water over here. This needs more water, and I listen to her; things go well for my soul. You know what I mean? So I hope you can find that figure. However, you may personify that figure, you know, but I hope that you may find that figure in your heart in these next couple of weeks, especially over the holidays here. It's a good time of year to live soulfully and have a moment where a lot of people's hearts are a little bit more open right now if you're celebrating holidays. So anyway, that's what I've got for today. Hope you guys have a good one. Don't forget Kickstarter; we're still needing 526 backers. If you love this channel, if you love these sermons from the stars, please pitch in. I really appreciate it, and we'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.