Skipped Steps

[Trace]

Hi, just started following this thread. Thank you for the information presented so far. Many blessings.

[Skywalker]

Hi Rad,

Thank you for writing about the current square between Saturn and the Nodal Axis.

All the best

[Helena]

Hi Rad,
I've been reflecting on what you shared about the current transit of saturn square the nodes and factual knowledge vs belief, which i understand the way you put it.

So my question is, integrating it to my own context right now going through a strong uranus transit (hope this is a general topic also for the MB), the repetitive messages that uranus brings are, as jWG taught, and i can comprove by my own experience, not what you can call knowledge based on a fact, as they seem to represent such new directions from many sources such as dreams, odd synchronicities, etc. The way i feel it it is like more of an honest leap of faith, total vulnerability, as the new directions, messages, etc., bring such new scenarios. At the some point it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between what is real, what is a message, and what is a belief or delusion even by trying to exercise basic common sense...

I also noticed that saturn is also conjunct uranus south node (and for many pluto in libra generation, also conjunct natal Neptune), so what can that be adding at this moment in time? More pressing on the new structures or otherwise the natural cataclysmic consequences? Strong focus on facing longtime spiritual delusions?

Hope you can share your thoughts on this.

All the best,

Helena

[Rad]

Hi Helena,

"So my question is, integrating it to my own context right now going through a strong uranus transit (hope this is a general topic also for the MB), the repetitive messages that uranus brings are, as jWG taught, and i can comprove by my own experience, not what you can call knowledge based on a fact, as they seem to represent such new directions from many sources such as dreams, odd synchronicities, etc. The way i feel it it is like more of an honest leap of faith, total vulnerability, as the new directions, messages, etc., bring such new scenarios. At the some point it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between what is real, what is a message, and what is a belief or delusion even by trying to exercise basic common sense..."

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This thread is about skipped steps, and what I posted is also about skipped steps. What you are asking about is not about skipped steps. You are asking about the Uranus archetype as it applies to generating messages from the Soul about the possible evolution forwards for it by way of the repeating messages that peculate up into the conscious, egocentric, awareness of the individual. This has nothing to do with skipped steps. It is entirely different. We had started a thread on this, a Uranus thread, that was focused on PTSD sometime ago.

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"I also noticed that saturn is also conjunct uranus south node (and for many pluto in libra generation, also conjunct natal Neptune), so what can that be adding at this moment in time? More pressing on the new structures or otherwise the natural cataclysmic consequences? Strong focus on facing longtime spiritual delusions?"

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Again, this is a different issue than what this thread is intended to be: skipped steps. The Saturn transit on all or our S.Nodes of Uranus correlates the very nature of the various 'beliefs' that any given Soul has had in their prior lives that have been brought forwards into the current life that permeate the individuated unconscious of any given Soul, and how they still affect how any given Soul is interpreting actual reality in every dimensions of it's life. The interpretation of any given event of fact of it's life is then 'projected' upon that event or fact.

Collectively, this same transit correlates to the same thing but at a collective level. In essence, the man made projections of beliefs, religions, philosophies upon all that is Natural: Natural Laws. And, because of this, the past, present, and future traumas and cataclysms that occur in all kinds of ways because of the perversion to those natural laws that affect us all including the Natural  Laws that govern the Earth itself. These made up religions etc have, do, and will determine how the collective consciousness, Neptune, is organized and structured that serve as the basis of how people organize themselves individually and collectively in every way. Thus, what is actually delusional versus what is real. The sad 'fact' is that which is actually delusional is considered as fact by so many. The very nature of what is occurring on our Earth, in every country, speaks to this sad TRUTH.

God Bless, Rad

[Helena]

Hi again Rad,
thank you for clarifying that up and sorry for the mixed topics.

I guess i brought up this uranus questions because uranus itself is transiting my own skipped step, hence the personal confusion, but i see that is another question

Thank you a looking forward to the thread.

All the Best,
Helena

[Rad]

All,

We will continue on Wednesday, the 15th. Again, we will be starting very, very simply so that those who are not that familiar with EA can understand the principles involved. We will progressively become ever more detailed so that a comprehensive understanding by all of us can take place. We will simply start with 'what is a skipped step in EA, and how to see it in the birth chart. As we progress we will discuss how to resolve those skipped steps, the EA of it, with a progressive understanding of all the dynamics with an individual's birth chart that have contributed to the skipped steps.

In this thread we will also talk about how to see, understand, and resolve the skipped steps that may have taken place in the relationships with others in our lives, and our lives in theirs: the synastry charts between any two people. What those skipped steps have been, why, and how to resolve. We will also view this from the point of view of composite charts because if there are skipped steps in a synastry chart between two people that will be of course reflected in their composite chart. The composite chart will then correlate to how  they, together, resolve those skipped steps, and how each individual, together, relate too and respond to those skipped steps.

Along the way we will of course have examples, and we will allow for those who are actually participating in this thread to share, if they want too, their own stories about the skipped steps in their own lives, birth charts, so that we may learn in the most comprehensive way we can about skipped steps.

God Bless, Rad

[dollydaydream]

Rad, thank you for starting out simply on the skipped steps topic.  I notice I am not the only newbie here.  Thanks also to everyone else who regularly contributes to the MB.  It's much appreciated.

[Rad]

Hi dollydaydream,

Your welcome.

God Bless, Rad

[Rad]

Hi All,

We will continue now by starting very simply. When any planet squares the Lunar Nodal Axis in the birth chart this is called a 'skipped step' in Evolutionary Astrology. What this means is that the Soul has been flip flopping back and forth between fully actualizing all the archetypal dynamics that are symbolized in the houses and signs they are within. For evolution to proceed for the Soul these skipped steps must be resolved.

As we develop further this thread will will explore the causes and reasons that any given Soul has had to create this evolutionary and karmic conditions for themselves. Right now we just need to understand the basic issue of what skipped steps are, and how to see them in the birth chart.

Attached are two charts that illustrate the archetype of skipped steps using Pluto squaring the Nodes to do so.

With Pluto square the nodal axis, the individual is in a unique evolutionary situation. The individual is equally torn between issues pertaining to the past and issues pertaining to the future. This division exists in each moment in the individual's life. This karmic/evolutionary condition indicates that the individual has neither succeeded in totally resolving or learning the issues pertaining to his or her evolutionary past (desires), nor the issues reflected through the North Node. Because Pluto is square both Nodes the issues pertaining to each have been acted upon prior to this life. Yet neither has been totally developed, understood, resolved, or integrated. The individual is upon an extremely important evolutionary threshold. The choices that the individual makes relative to his or her desires are extremely critical, as they concern the evolutionary journey and progression.
           
The individual is simultaneously attracted and repulsed by the issues, orientations and lessons of both Nodes. The skipped steps apply in both areas. Until the individual consciously understands the lessons and how to approach and develop them, the behavior will alternately express the orientations implied by the South and North Nodes.  

The polarity point of Pluto applies in this situation. Remember in EA the evolutionary journey of the Soul in the birth chart starts with an understanding of it's natal position by house and sign, and the polarity point for it by it's own house and sign. This is always the bottom line in all birth charts. This polarity point must be activated to begin the integration and resolution of this evolutionary condition of skipped steps. The factors to check for are these:

(1) If Pluto applies to the South Node, then the polarity point of Pluto and the North Node, with its planetary ruler, must be integrated through the South Node. The individual will have a consistent "˜bottom line' upon which the evolutionary intentions described by Pluto's polarity point and the North Node and its planetary ruler, can be continually referred. Thus the South Node, and its planetary ruler, will transmute into new levels of expression.            

(2) When Pluto applies to the North Node, then the polarity point of Pluto and the South Node with its planetary ruler must be integrated through the North Node, with its ruling planet facilitating the process. In the same way, the individual will have a bottom line upon which the evolutionary intentions described by Pluto's polarity point, and the South Node and its planetary ruler, can be continually referred. The North Node, and its planetary ruler, can then evolve into new levels of expression.

Due to the retrograde motion of the Nodes IT IS THE NODE THAT LAST FORMED A CONJUNCTION TO A PLANET SQUARING THE NODES THAT IS THE NODE THAT SERVES AS THE BASIS TO CONSISTENTLY INTEGRATE the skipped steps symbolized by a planet squaring the Lunar Nodes. In our example now we are using the planet Pluto to illustrate this.

If you have any questions please ask them of me now.

God Bless, Rad

To enlarge the charts simply click on the 'jpg' for each of them

[Bhaskara]

Hi Rad and Everyone,

How I have been determining what node is the resolution node is by imagining myself standing on the planet squaring the nodes facing toward the center of the chart, then it will always be the node to my left? I think I read that technique on this MB, is that correct?

Rad also everything that you stated above in your last post on skipped steps applies to any planet squaring the nodes not just Pluto? Is that correct?

One other question and I'm not sure if I'm going ahead here but is there any special notation or circumstance when the planet squaring the nodes is the resolution nodes ruler?

I'm not new to EA have studied for many years but I am having an extremely hard time assimilating all the archetypes... So I hope it's ok for me to clarify this way...

Thank you for doing this thread it's very fascinating to me as well as I feel it to be so pivotal to Soul Healing...

Heather

[Emily]

Hi,

I've just started following this thread and look forward to reading along.

Blessings,
Emily

[Rad]

Hi Heather,

"How I have been determining what node is the resolution node is by imagining myself standing on the planet squaring the nodes facing toward the center of the chart, then it will always be the node to my left? I think I read that technique on this MB, is that correct?"

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Yes

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"Rad also everything that you stated above in your last post on skipped steps applies to any planet squaring the nodes not just Pluto? Is that correct?"

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Yes

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"One other question and I'm not sure if I'm going ahead here but is there any special notation or circumstance when the planet squaring the nodes is the resolution nodes ruler?"

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Yes, but that is getting ahead just now. Here is a link though to a thread we did a long time ago on skipped steps that answers all kinds of questions like you have just asked: https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,653.0.html

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"I'm not new to EA have studied for many years but I am having an extremely hard time assimilating all the archetypes... So I hope it's ok for me to clarify this way..."

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Sure Heather .... it is just fine.

God Bless, Rad

[Bhaskara]

Ok thank you Rad

Heather

[Rad]

All,

We will continue on next Tuesday on September 20th.

God Bless, Rad

[Rad]

All,

Ok, so we will continue on. And, again, this next step will be very, very simple because of those who are coming here to learn about EA, and are relatively new to it. We will progressively become ever more comprehensive and detailed as we move along. So for those who are relatively new please ask questions if you have them. And for those who are more advanced in EA please bear with us as we move through this step by step.

So right now let's create a simple example of skipped steps in a birth chart. We will use a simple example by putting Venus in the 7th, the S.Node in the 4th, and the N.North Node in the 10th.

With the S.Node in the 4th ONE of the core evolutionary desires of such a Soul is to learn how to become secure, emotionally secure, from within itself so that external dependencies can be eliminated.

With the N.Node in the 10th this then correlates with a Soul who is desiring to become emotionally mature, and an adult who is responsible for it's own actions versus being emotionally immature, 4th house, thus blaming others for that which is is responsible for. Within this to integrate into the world, the society of birth, not only as an adult, but with a work function or career in place that symbolizes and reflects that the Soul has indeed become an adult: to walk out the door on it's own two feet.

With Venus being in the 7th house relative to the S.Node in the 4th this would correlate to a Soul in prior lives who in fact was projecting those 4th House emotional dynamics to feel secure from within upon partners: the partners becoming expected defacto or displaced parents who provide the emotional security of the child when the child is a child.

In so doing such partners would inevitably leave such a Soul because of the unending emotional demands by such a Soul: the giving of the 7th house in this way would never be enough. Such partners would cyclically withdraw their emotions, their own reality, from this Soul because this Soul has designed for itself to learn how to become secure from within itself: to become an adult. Thus, this Soul is responsible for creating such relationships dynamics: the N.Node in the 10th. In essence, when the partners withdraw from this Soul the intent is to force the Soul back in upon itself.

This then creates the skipped steps with the partners created in this way, and the skipped steps of needing to become secure from within itself. Coming into the current life is thus symbolized by the Venus in the 7th, squaring the Nodes in the 4th and 10th.

These dynamics keep repeating UNTIL the Soul finally 'gets' it. The resolution Node here is the S.Node in the 4th House: the Node that last formed a conjunction  with Venus. When the Soul then finally learns how to supply it's own emotional needs from with itself, to supply it's own needs in general through itself, then they will stop projecting such dynamics upon their partners. When this happens the repeating of the key relationships with former partners will finally evolve: they will be able to move forwards in their relationships. In the end, this Soul will evolve to a place in which it's orientation and attitude towards partners becomes one of 'I want to be with you simply because I do, not because I need too'.

If you have any questions please ask them of me now.

God Bless, Rad