Astrological Repair Manual

the negative interpretations of astrological factors to excuse their negative behavior—
”Sure I do that. It's because I'm a (fill in the blank).”...
One of Uranus’ functions is to bring us the shattering truth when we’ve been
either purposefully or unknowingly clinging to half- or partial-truths. This can be painful
or shocking but, when we get to the other side of any crisis, we can usually see the
wisdom of the “unnecessary” strife. And, even if we still can’t make sense of what’s
happened, there are the functions of Neptune and Pluto out there (in here) to help us
dissolve the clinging falsehoods and bring them to a state of regenerative wholeness.
Yes, I’m a hopeless optimist! But my experience of life has included a great
quantity of shock and pain and dissolution and, thank God, necessary regeneration. What
I’m left with after all this inner work is the ineradicable conviction that life has many tests
and trials, we all must face some of them, and we all have the sacred duty to maintain our
faith and hopefulness that we will see the truth, we will find the dream, and we will
experience rebirth into ever-higher understanding and meaningfulness. If not... there’s
hell to pay!
Transpersonal Awareness
In the words of the most important person during my early education in astrology,
my purpose is “to transform the search for a static kind of security-by-avoidance into a
search for a dynamic kind of security that can be achieved only through understanding the
place and meaning of the cathartic and transformative in human life.” That was said by
Dane Rudhyar and this chapter is intended to give you some damn good reasons to
believe it.
Our world has been and is full of some very oppressive and negative people and
institutions. Our world has also been evolving toward being, slowly and steadily, a freer
and more creative place. If you doubt that last statement, I urge you to look further than
you have and to take a small but important piece of advice: what may look bad on the
surface or at the beginning can be the most powerful indication of something good. One
example that may be close to home for some of you: A child at two years old is always
getting into trouble. They’re almost totally unruly by ten and their teen years are full of
crime and filth. Then, they hit their personal brick wall, they come up short on luck, and
end up behind bars. True, many people like this stay bad and end their lives still in jail or
dead in the street. For most of humanity’s existence this has been the general rule.
“Lately”, though, there have been more and more examples of folks starting out headed
down, coming to a radical turning point, and being given some help at that point that turns
their lives around and permits them to grow to become exemplary citizens.
Why is this happening more now than ever before? What could be happening that
has such power to turn lives around? I feel it’s the steady growth in society of the
awareness that we are not just passive cogs in the wheel or just a bunch of angry
individuals. We are both individuals and social beings and we have a need to nurture both
sides of our being. This is where a knowledge of the cycles of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto,
and their symbolic meanings, can be of immense aid in speeding the development of a