Astrology is not about me, at all.

(Or, the strange insight for one with Uranus transiting his Sun)

That's a reason why, perhaps, the revelation of astrology in a person's life can feel so extraordinary and liberating, as it did for me. An awe and befuddlement about how astrology could even possibly be a thing and how it could work. Once I had discovered it does indeed "work", for a while I was in the grip of thinking about how - what is the mechanism behind it? - but that question rather dissolved, as I think it does for many astrologers.

Astrology is often described as beneficial because it strengthens a knowing of who you really are, understanding yourself, self-compassion, and so on. There was an amazing journey of that for me, years of amazing discoveries and aha-moments. Oh, I have Pluto in Scorpio rising...that's why I'm so paranoid and obsessed! Basic sun-sign astrology is about knowing yourself in a more light-hearted way - oh yes, that's me! And then you become a more serious astrologer, so you can take yourself even more seriously.

The revelation of astrology for me has totally coincided with strong Uranus transits, and it's served the purpose of breaking apart what was known as reality.

The strongest reality, so it appears, is the feeling that I exist, that there is a me in here that somehow has the power to guide events, what we call free-will. That power could be personal me, or for the more spiritual person, a mixture of personal and divine, the God-self, the "higher" self, and so on. Or for the hardcore spiritual seeker, totally divine, total consciousness, Oneness, seeing the personal me as illusory. The basic state of me, spiritual or not, is one of seeking, not yet enough, more to come, meaning fundamental dissatisfaction.

I've long been interested in the transpersonal and archetypal implications of astrology, and rather than enforcing or describing "Me" as a separate, distinct entity, the true revelation is that it says obviously there is no me! There is just this, just this archetypal soup of energy which we see as a particular self-expression. The birth chart is an expression of the whole, and there is no individual necessary for this to happen. No intervention of a personal consciousness, and therefore no free will.

Is there really a you that does your life, or has it always just happened regardless? There is just this immediate aliveness, and astrology describes very well what kind of shape and texture this aliveness takes.

There's nowhere to get to, no self to develop, only wholeness and completeness. This is it.

And if that sounds radical and totally unacceptable, it may have something to say about Uranus transiting a natal Sun.

Thank you Tony Parsons https://www.theopensecret.com/ and all subsequent carriers of this stunning message.