2021: Outgrowing current reality

We made it through 2020! Well done us!

It’s been so tough for a lot of people, and the birthing pangs of the Pluto-Uranus initiation are subsiding, but we do have a few bumps in the road to go before we start rebuilding. And, like all transitions, these last stages may bring the greatest change.

Saturn and Jupiter have passed through the needle, and are now in Aquarius. This is the beginning of a new epoch, the first real on-the-ground steps towards the changes of 2027.

The most important thing to remember is this – we have outgrown where we live now. Our systems are breaking down because we have grown beyond them.

The Aquarian Gates

January and February 2021 is all about the Aquarian gates.

The Human Design chart has 64 gates, and each one sits within an astrological sign. As Saturn and Jupiter shift through these Aquarian gates we will taste the flavour of revolution, engage with the deep cultural shifts that reveal a new kind of future. Aquarius is the place where Uranus shatters the old Saturnian forms.

Read: Uranus in the Gate of Returning

It’s these Aquarian gates that should have all our attention in January and February of 2021, particularly these three channels.

Clinging to the Despots

In particular we are working on this crazy conspiracy theory wave that has swept the world. When Pluto went into Gate 61 everyone was all like – that’s not the truth! I know the truth! I feel it in my bones! But much of that so-called truth was (is) trauma projected outwards – the children being kidnapped and sexually abused, evil cabals and mysterious dark lords.

This is the place where we learnt to construct meaning from ‘on high’. We were taught what and how to think, and how to make sense of things. These are the last days of the despots, the Old King, the punishing Old Testament Lord. Unthinking obedience to the ‘head’ will not be a ‘thing’ for much longer.

Our experiences in 2021 and into 2022, will help humanity experience personal truth and reality on an individual level.

Psychotherapist Alice Miller wrote extensively on how and why people responded as they did to despots like Hitler and Stalin, and how these men were able to manipulate people to their own ends. We are coming to the end of that period of human development now.

In the careers of despots such as Hitler and Stalin, their suppressed fantasies of revenge can lead to indescribable atrocities. This phenomenon doesn’t exist anywhere in the entire animal kingdom, for no animal is trained by its parents to deny its nature completely in order to become a “well-behaved” animal 

https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/alice_miller/adolf_hitler.html

The early part of 2021 will be a slow process of fast change. It will call for you to ‘grow beyond’ your clinging to the despots, your habits of obedience. We are learning it is safe not to split and dissociate, to know the truth, to experience profound joy in understanding the meaning of our own experience.

Here are a few particular points in time that hold, if you like, the structure of what is occurring.

Important Dates

You can click on any of the charts to access the full interactive versions in Taraka.io.

13 January New Moon – Sun, Moon and Pluto in the Gate of Universal Truth

The Earth (62) is in a channel with Chiron (17). Pluto and Chiron have been interacting in this indirect way since January 2020, connecting us to the flow of events in such a way that spirit moves into the world through us.

This New Moon is teaching us we find a new kind of personal power anchored in our own truth. We find safety not in doing what authority or status figures tell us, but in releasing ourselves into the powerful flow of life, soul, spirit, connectedness. It’s a challenge to our ego but we find it’s worth it! Gate 17 is Flow, the home of synchronicity, a term coined by Carl Jung after experiencing the wonder of the I Ching. It means coincidences that have personal meaning for you, where the outer world meets your inner symbolic reality. This is our guide, not external rules, and the new way of being is why the Quantum Ring-Pass-Not is so important.

Read: Pluto in the Gate of Universal Truth

28 January 2021 Full Moon – Venus, Mars and Pluto in the Gate of Universal Truth.

Saturn and Mercury are in the Channel of Recognition (that’s the one that runs from the Root Centre up to the Solar Plexus). Mercury is in the Gate of the Clinging Fire – what we cling to gives us shape. When we let go of grasping at the wrong experiences we can make choices that create a perfectly simple external life which supports a rich inner world.

The Sun is in the Gate of Approach in a line that says – you are reawakening, coming back to yourself. The spirit liberated now belongs with you like parts of a previously separated whole. It will stimulate and inspire you. Jupiter and the Sun are both in the same line, you don’t get better fortune than that!

Just a side note – Lilith is also there in Gate 19 line 2. And centaur Crantor is in Gate 49 line 2 (Radical Change). Lilith says hell no! I’m not giving up parts of myself to play your game! And Crantor is all about the sanctity and precious nature of life. Say no! I will not waste another moment in this old way of being. (Crantor can bring sudden shifts, and he is in the Aquarian gate of sudden radical change, so there’s that!)

11 February 2021 New Moon – Sun, Moon, Pallas and Crantor in the Gate of Radical Change

Did I mention Hekate is there too? In that Gate of Radical Change? Hekate gives us three choices – go back, continue on, or change. But there is no real alternative. To quote iconic astrologer Dane Rudhyar, talking about the radical quality of Uranus

There is no death and no hell, save for him who refuses to become transformed.

http://khaldea.com/rudhyar/nmnm/nmnm_uranus.php

If you’re feeling a bit nervous, there’s this – almost every important transitional event in early 2021 is accompanied by Venus. She says – you’ve done the work, you’ve envisioned the change, now let the universe do it’s bit. Venus is travelling with Jupiter, so we can have faith in good outcomes if we turn up. Remember, this change is happening because we have called it forth, we have grown beyond our current structures.

17th February 2021 – Saturn square Uranus

Remember Aquarius is about Uranus transforming the old Saturn energy. This meeting of Saturn and Uranus in February is a big deal. In astrology a square creates tension, and forces us to find a new kind of partnership between two energies that have previously been at odds.

The tension here is that by releasing our grip on our current reality and giving up something, we can gain more nourishment.

Saturn in the Gate of Decrease

Gate 41 – Decrease – requires a sacrifice. It’s like when you go through your closets and throw out those old clothes you don’t wear anymore, to make room for a new wardrobe.

The Sun in the Gate of Clarity suggests we not get bogged down in the skirmishes, even though that keeps us in touch with our companions who don’t have the vision to see beyond them. We have to find the courage and capacity to walk alone, to identify and focus on the root causes. When we work from this core everything falls into place.

This is part of the work that Venus and Jupiter are supporting. It’s emotional work, to recognise where you have been making incorrect choices, what’s really true for you now, and who you are if you accept these insights. If you try to hold on to old ideas of yourself (keep wearing those old boring clothes!), or keep things safely in potential to avoid real life, you will miss the moment. (That’s Decaulion in 43.6 meeting Mars in 23.4). Don’t seek ‘positive’ outcomes, that’s probably going to create a strange attractor that draws you back in the old reality. Focus instead on realising the truth.

Uranus in the Gate of Nourishment

Uranus has been in and out of this gate since April 2019. The difference now is that he is joined by dwarf planet Haumea, who is in Gate 50. This is nothing short of a radical shift in the way we care for each other.

Haumea is all about creating new regenerative structures for the future of human life on earth. She teaches us the power of living in the quantum realm, where we are no longer individual objects, but flowing process in communication with universal intelligence and earthly delight.

Haumea opens us to new levels of conscious connection. Uranus is our higher mind. Together they give birth to emergent peer-to-peer networks, where everything is our peer. This is, after all, a participatory universe.

Read: Uranus, Haumea and the Quantum Ring-Pass-Not

The simple message in Gate 27 line 6 is this – be nourished by what came before, but don’t be limited to the past. Use it to create something new. Saturn, the builder, gives us the key to HOW we do that – by looking at what we have and pruning away what is no longer vital and alive, no longer nourishing us. This restores our connection with life, with consciousness, with personal clarity and with each other.

This time will be short and sharp and may ask to you step into the unknown, to release your grip on your known self, on what’s kept you safe and comfortable.

To quote the North Node activation (in 35 line 6) – Tap into your strongest motivation and deal with your troubles later. You may not have a clear idea of how to direct your energy but hold fast to a single central goal, something specific and within your realm. Put thinking, common sense and even your fears on the back-burner, you can return to them when this is done.

Some Galactic Input

It’s intriguing to me that the South Node is hovering over the Great Attractor at this time (in Gate 5).

Read: Galactic Centres in Human Design

The Great Attractor bends space and time, giving a simultaneous view of the past, present and future.  It appears to be receding from us and approaching us at the same time, and heading in both directions at an almost impossibly fast pace.

When the Great Attractor is activated, a choice occurs. Curiosity pulls you towards accepting an intriguing invitation to engage with something that captures your interest and draws your attention.  Once you connect, you are inexorably drawn into a journey of exploration which begins on a specific frequency.  However, a single idea soon leads into an understanding of the vastness of what we have connected with.

This leads me back to where we began, with Pluto in the Gate of Inner Mystery. Our attention is being captured and manipulated, what we pay attention to matters. What we cling to creates the structure of our reality. We must simplify our lives so we can make conscious choices about what we pay attention to, and so we can begin to ‘hear’ that unique frequency being broadcast to us from the Great Attractor.

The Changing Nature of Reality

In the first half of 2021, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus all change gates.

Pluto shifts into Gate 60 in March 2021. Neptune shifts into Gate 36 in May 2021. Uranus shifts into Gate 2 in June 2021.

When these outer planets shift gates, the sub-structure of our reality changes. When all three shift within a few months, it can feel like we are suddenly living in a different world. As we move through 2021, after February, it will be a time of inner work, of listening, moving carefully, re-arranging and reconnecting. We are learning how to be available to co-creative relationship, to own the power and responsibility of that.