Neptune square Varda
- Alan
- Apr 7
- 5 min read
Mercury is finally stationary direct today as we begin to see our way clear of this long period of reassessment that we've been in. Venus has just one more week of retrograde and she will turn direct this coming weekend. She is currently closely conjunct Saturn and sextile Uranus, so your values and responsibilities are working together and this is being assisted by your intuitive consciousness.
Saturn will move out of orb with Venus over these next days, but the sextile to Uranus will be within a 1 degree orb right through the station with the final exact sextile on the 21st April. This suggests that being open to your intuitive understanding over the next two weeks will help you re-align any relationship or values issues you are adjusting following your Venus reassessment.
I hope your dreams have also been empowered this past week with Neptune's dive into Aries. Neptune is closely square Varda, our inspiration consciousness, currently in the last few minutes of Sagittarius. So our developing spiritual consciousness is challenging us to shine our light and lead the way by being inspiring and hopeful.
In the mythology of the Lord of the Rings, Varda is on the receiving end of a battle to be controlled by an overlord, and as with the other creation myths, there are themes of sudden and massive collapse and death of the old way. However she inspired her people with light and hope when the Dark Lord took over the Middle Earth, and she led them away from danger and through a transition to a new safer home.
We can see the square between Varda and Neptune in the rise of dark lords in the world at this time, lords who want control the media and the populace. One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
At the unconscious level Varda highlights our need to get out of the toxicity and stagnancy of visions gone sour, so we can regenerate and build new ones that have stability. This is the reality that is currently being brought home to us by the actions of these dark lords.
As you develop spiritually, Varda enables you to navigate any 'dark night of the soul' that you find yourself in. And she supports you to walk away from previous betrayals and associations and encourages you to look towards new horizons and start afresh elsewhere. So this is the spiritual challenge we are facing in these days.
How shall we do this? Let's look at occult teacher and writer, Alice Bailey, who lived with this square, to see how she worked with it in her life. Alice had Varda conjunct her Ascendant square her Neptune in the 10th house. The conjunction unites her ability to shine her light with her self expression, and the square challenged her to develop her spiritual practice and play a leading spiritual role in society.
She grew up in a wealthy middle class British family and received an Anglican education, becoming a devoted missionary worker and Sunday school teacher. When she was 35 she joined the Theosophical Society and began to study Blavatsky's Secret Doctrines. A few years later she met a spirit guide who identified himself as a Tibetan master called Djwhal Khul.
She then wrote a series of ‘ageless wisdom books’ which she described as his teachings, and through which she became known as a writer of the occult and as the mother of the New Age movement. We see her Neptune in the 10th house manifesting in this spiritual life-journey.
We also see it in the establishment of her "Arcane School for the education and development of spiritual disciplines and techniques". In order to offer the school activities and courses free of charge, she established the Lucis Trust, a publishing company and funding organization.
And we see her Varda on the Ascendent in the trust's publication of her Great Invocation Prayer, which became very popular, and also in the 24 other works in 50 languages that it published. And today, her writings continue to be a strong influence on "new agers" and those interested in the occult or deeper spiritual mysteries.
In the Externalization of the Hierarchy (1957), she wrote of spiritual energy:
“The inflow of this energy has brought many hundreds of people into a new and deeper spiritual realization. It has opened a door through which many will pass before long and take their second initiation, and it has let a flood of light into the world. A light which will go on increasing... bringing assurance of immortality and a fresh revelation of the divine potencies in the human being. Thus is the New Age dawning.
Access to levels of inspiration, hitherto untouched, has been facilitated. The stimulation of the higher faculties (and this on a large scale) is now possible, and the coordination of the personality with the soul and the right use of energy can go forward with renewed understanding and enterprise. Ever the race is to the strong, and always the many are called and the few chosen. This is the occult law.”
So you may be feeling a calling to shine your light in these weeks with the current square between Varda and Neptune, and while many are called, we self-select by choosing whether we rise to that call.
Varda Early Scholarship
When you see the power of hopefulness in your life, it strengthens your trust in this future-proofing ability. You are able to see this in the Varda course by studying her placement and transits in your chart and I have a handful of Early Scholarships to encourage you to jump into this opportunity.
And remember this course has our new 'choice of Zoom time', and our new 'Tutor support program', which provides small group tutorials to help those students who need assistance to complete the assignments. Wherever you are with your understanding of astrology, our tutors can help you participate.
Join us if you can on Varda and thanks for your work embracing these new aspects of consciousness.
Love and laughter
Alan
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