20200423-Dr. Michael Lennox-2020 Astrology Predictions

Michael Sandler interviewed Dr. Michael Lennox at Inspire Nation

Interview title: Be Prepared!!! What you need to know about 2020 Astrology Predictions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPuNCQhUnrw&t=396s

This interview took place in mid-December 2019

-Sandler:  What is astrologically going on as having this darkness going on this time?

-It is all about Pluto.  Pluto represents the power of shadow in terms of psychological consciousness.   Shadow is about “I am in the process of denying, object or disowning.  That’s the power of pluto.

-What is different that is making the pluto journey more intense now?    Because we are in the sign of Capricorn.   Capricorn is the sign where we invested social structures, financial markets, governments, laws, institutions….   All of the structure that we call life on earth was invented by the archetype of Capricorn.

-In 2007 and 2008 Pluto entered Capricorn, the last time that happened was 250 years ago.  

As soon as it did, things start to break down.  The housing market and banking started to crash in 2008.  

-Pluto is the planet that brings change and transformation at the cellular level as it moved into Capricorn that creates social structures.   (5:51)   Hence you get - planet of death + the sign of social structure = destruction of social structure in the last 10 years or so.

-Rebirth will follow after death but to human, the rebirth is abstract and death is real.

-Saturn is the teacher.   When Pluto and Saturn get together, Pluto will destroy the way it is and Saturn will say: “ are you learning from the past?   Are you recognizing what you have to put into place to deal with the world on its own term at this time?”

-2019 and 2020 is the two year period where change and death and karmic lessons are dancing with each other (8:27).   These planets (Pluto n Saturn) and sign (Capricorn) haven’t gotten together like this for 500 years.  

-The wave and change and reckoning will be peaking in the next 6 weeks, since only in January Pluto and Saturn have been absolutely in the same place.

-[Reckoning] (清算) is the powerful word for this year.  It may bring clarity to some of us who are facing reckoning, because Saturn and Pluto are together.

-We have an added dimension for 2020, since Jupiter is also moving into Capricorn 4 weeks ago.   Jupiter is a beneficent planet.  It means expansive, abundance, plentiful.  

-But since Pluto is ruling, Jupiter’s abundance will manifest its [bigness] in big destruction and transformation.

-Sandler:  Money is an amplifier.  It will amplify whatever you bring to the table.   It is like Jupiter because it’s an amplifier to whatever is coming.

-There is a no such thing as a bad Jupiter transit, except, thru amplification Jupiter can bring a bigness that isn’t organic and authentic.   When I do my daily astro alerts and Jupiter’s in the mix in a challenging way, I will often say: “ don’t value something by its face today.   Something feels important now may not seem important tomorrow because of the amplification piece.”

-Right now is Mid-Dec 2019, don’t ask what is gonna happen, because it’s already happening.  (Wendy:  so true with the Coronavirus.   It was already happening in Dec and then it got amplified big time as time progressed! )

-Sandler:  How do we proceed for the New Year?

-What is happening in the collective is also happening for all of us as individuals.   Our job as individuals is to be able to identify what structure must die in order for me to be…….?    Happier?  More on purpose?  Free of trauma?   What do I have to be willing to let go of at the level of death?  

-Because Saturn is coming along and joining that process - the process of the preparing for 2020 on an individual level.   The process of “am I willing and ready to do the work required to have those changes occur at the deepest level possible?  ” Because if I am not, Saturn, the teacher, is going to make sure that I am kicked to the curb to learn the lesson!

-So now it becomes just an individual question -  what’s changing?  What needs to change?  and are you ready to step up to the discipline responsibility needed for you to make those changes in your consciousness?

-Sandler:  Is there an energy that allows us to really grasp the concept of 『it’s in the planet!   it’s in the stars!   I have to let go in order to make it thru this wave of energy that is coming?』

-Absolutely, surrender is key!   Willingness to go through the deaths, to allow changes to come without resisting and objecting.   We are always growing and changes but we always use excuses like 『 I am not ready to do that work,；』『I am not ready to heal that wound;』….

-So work on your own pace.   Saturn and Pluto together is not going to give us wiggle room.   If you are doing things not organically and is not serving you any longer, Saturn will really kick your butt if you are not doing the work! 

-I don’t think anybody is going thru 2020 NOT KNOWING WHAT THE LESSON IS!

-The lesson is going to slap each of us in the face!   Both personally and globally.

-So be ready, be willing, be open, be in shape!  Because you are going to run a big marathon next year!   What does 『in shape』mean?  Is your practice in good shape?    Are you meditating?  Are you learning?   Are you having the deep and difficult conversations with yourself and with others? 

-Also know that some of your dreams might be killed off because they are not in alignment with this energy of death and transformation.

-There are rooms for creating powerful expressions in the world next year but your dreams have to be align properly with your karmic lesson.

-Venus retrograde:  Venus is the planet that rules money, love, intimacy, the emotional body, our experience of giving and receiving love.  It goes retrograde every 2-3 years.  A retrograde process for any planet is like a visit to the unconscious.   The planet appears to be moving backwards.   You can think of it as we are dwelling more in what the unconscious is offering about what that planet’s consciousness is.

-In Venus retrograde is the giving and receiving of love.  So retrograde is bumping.  They often create difficulty.   For example, a Mercury retrograde is most difficult because it’s how we navigate our world.    If the navigator is in the unconscious, then he is not looking where he is going, and he can bump into a lot of furniture.

-In Venus retrograde, it is not so much our confusion over movement.   It’s more about matters of love and intimacy, interactions with others, and your own relationship to your emotional body.   These will undergo a process of shift and a change.  

-The more aware you are of this process before it happens, the more valuable the actual retrograde will be, because you are paying attention.

-Any retrograde has 3 acts: 

1.  The retrograde shadow - when the planet is covering the territory that it is gonna go back over.   Venus is saying here I am in this territory and we are going to come back here.   That’s the period of time to be really aware of what is going on in your relationships, in your intimacy and how you process emotional info.  

-Venus retrograde shadow will be 4/9-5/12.   That is the period where Venus is moving forward so that backward journey hasn’t started.   That’s the period to be paying attention.

2.  Venus will turns around from 5/12-6/24.   That is going to be clunky.  You can expect old lovers to come back to your attention – that happens a lot.   BTW, if that happens, that rarely is to get back together. 

3.  The wrap up is 6/24-7/27.   Now is the direct shadow period where Venus is going to cover the area that she has been over twice before.   In order to do the deep dive well, you just to have to be paying attention during the preparation.

-Venus will do this in the sign of Gemini.  So it’s going to be very much about your thoughts, love and intimacy.   Your belief systems around what love looks like and what it doesn’t look like -  that is what Gemini invented.    Just in terms of fun and flirtiness, Venus in Gemini is a blast and so one might experience an enormous amount of rotations and enjoyable interactions at the level of intimacy.  So Venus retrograde is not all bad either.

-Hopefully by going thru that process, all of us become better givers and receivers of love.

-Sandler:  How we get to personally navigate this year?

-Pay attention to Mercury Retrograde.  Mercury is all mind, so it plays out in what are thinking and what are we saying?    What’s the most important is the THREE WEEKS BEFORE mercury retrograde.

-Mercury will retrograde in 2/17, 6/18, 10/14.   These are the start dates of Mercury’s 21-day backward journey.

-But you need to pay attention to the three weeks before it occurs because it is the prep time and it allows the retrograde to be less bumpy and more valuable to you.

-During that period, if you have any confusion,  say problem with your boss or a project you are trying to work on, you can bet you’ve got a lesson, a process or a continuation of that issue.   So to be prepare is to pay attention.

-You have to get ready for the sideways ways that you get information, the synchronicities, the billboard, the song on the radio, the happenstance conversation that happens during Mercury retrograde.   We are more likely to learn things from that sideways way that Mercury sometimes to operate rather than the direct way.