Evolution, Throwback, or Perspective?

No other astrologer in history has adequately discussed the concept of time in anyway close to the revelatory writing of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, and while her time has come, and very much with us in the here and now, her name and work continues to fall under the radar. Much of astrology is about fighting over ant hills, and whose approach is more superior to someone else's approach. Her work is based on the extraordinarily vast and spiritually rich work of Sri Aurobindo, but I have not yet shared much regarding my involvement even though I've been studying her work since 1998. In fact, I began studying The Gnostic Circle before I began to formally study astrology.

If you are like most people, when you endeavor to learn something new you invariably hit a wall. I hit my wall somewhere around 2002. I'd been dabbling in metaphysical arts, astrology, tarot, and healing practices for about 10 years, but hadn't gone in full-time because I had mouths to feed. It was always astonishing to me to meet someone who was a full-time practitioner. But there were typically good reasons, either they didn't have dependents, or they had a patron of some sort, a spouse or benefactor, or inheritance, that enabled them to build their business by allowing them to fully immerse themselves in their studies. As a result, my practice has had an extremely gradual slope upwards. It is a shame that there are a great many apprentices who might, with better tools and resources, accelerate their learning despite holding down jobs and raising families. [Bookmark this comment. We will come back to it]

Jefferey Wolf Green wrote a book called** Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul**. There are two volumes, and volume one was first published in 1986. Green launched Evolutionary astrology which embraces the concepts of karma and past lives which might explain the book's popularity and continuous interest among seekers. Curious, I pulled a copy off the bookshelf and opened it to page 171. "In general, then, individuals with Pluto in the Ninth House or Sagittarius have had the evolutionary desire to expand their horizons of personal awareness. They have needed to identify themselves with abstract principles that allow the development of a cosmological belief system that explains their relationship to the world and universe. Their emotional security is linked to these belief systems. The natural evolutionary condition of an individual, and the South Node with its planetary ruler, will relate to how this desire and need has been fulfilled in the past."

That is some inspired writing right there. I never met Jeff but those who have described a mystically attuned spirit, and not the disruptive soul we might expect as a child of Kronos and Rhea. But this work, as poetic and inspired as it might be, leans too far in the direction of James Hillman from my point of view. And for me this is significant because I have Pluto in the ninth house. I think much of the evolutionary work and throwback to karmic interpretations opened the door for a revival of Hellenistic astrology. To be sure, there is a big part of me that resonates with the past life perspective, except for the small part that knows much of it is made up. Therefore, we can only conjecture as to whether the descriptions are on point or ponder if the definitions that we are "reading into" are simply projections of our own bias toward. I recommend Jeff Green's work wholeheartedly, and am a huge fan, but I don't use his approach in my practice because I lean more toward humanistic astrology, in the same vein as Noel Tyl. But Tyl tipped his hat to Jeff, as he did to all astrologers, irrespective of their personal style and approach.

Consider Noel's description of Pluto in Sagittarius (1995-2008): "Transformation of world views, travel, and global perspectives." Add to this his description of Pluto in the ninth house taken from his epic Professional Astrology Manual called Synthesis and Counseling in Astrology. He wrote on page 192 that people "with Pluto in the 9th in Leo, anxiety or pressure of any kind on personality development will often bring forth a defense that pits the individual against the world, a kind of stand-alone complex to emphasize self-sufficiency, knowing-it-all. Personal perspective is involved with the perspective of society teaching and accumulated experience (Pluto ruling the 12th)"

The **Time Measures ** introduced by Noel in this section of **SCA *puts the orientation of personal development within the context of that individual's generational cohort (Pluto by Sign) and the general background (Pluto by house) along future potential, circumscribed by Pluto in transit, can provide within a blink of an eye the individual's perspective for growth.

As much as the transit of Pluto signifies change, the natal position signifies resistance to change. The perspective is extremely difficult to adjust, it is permanent and pervasive, as mentioned in the previous article. An illogical fallacy! Building awareness of Pluto as Perspective in the chart and understanding the condition of the third house, Mindset, is essential to challenge any FIXED sensibility, or DETERMINSITIC viewpoint. Independent of what the astrologer might say the chart means, people can learn to accept individual potential as something that develops over time, and that CHANGE is possible. We can learn, and we can learn to love learning. We are not limited to what some other human thinks our potential is based only on the chart.