Outer planet chat
He began with a take on Uranus that I had never heard — transits of Uranus to itself can result in a person specializing. Principally they will specialize in being themselves, but he added that such transits (Uranus opposite Uranus at age 40 or so, for example) will be the time a butcher decides to specialize in lamb and the green grocer specializes in grapes. Finally, we get to hang up a big sign that says, “I am me.”
He made a point that I found truly worth repeating — at these moments, this process of being oneself must resonate in some way with the collective; that is, it’s not Being Me in a self-serving way but rather in a way that works for the community as well. You must maintain your objectivity, or in losing (or failing to gain) it, you run the risk of becoming evil. This is not an overstatement: that objectivity, which I would describe as the ability to see oneself and the other fairly, is what makes it safe to have creative power. I don’t think there is true objectivity but what I think he means is the ability to be witness to yourself; and through that, gradually learn a kind of impartiality.
