Saturdays, June 29 to August 10, 2024, at 9pm (GMT)
9pm in London, 10pm in Europe, 1pm in LA, 4pm in Toronto, 8am on Sunday in Sydney and 10am on Sunday in Auckland.
This course will explore Makemake in your personal chart and the charts of the other class members.
Makemake is a spiritual trickster who allows us to experiment with the area of life signified by his position in our chart. He drives spirit into our lives and opens us to the new richness of sacred consciousness. When we are in tune with this sacred consciousness, we understand that we are each a speck in the vast universe, and yet the spirit energies can find us and nourish us when we are devoted and in the natural rhythm.
He encourages us to see ourselves as an organic whole. We are not just the sum of our disparate parts, we are a living being in which the parts work together to bring us to life. And he encourages us to look at our community in the same way and understand the role we are playing in the larger organic wholes that we are part of. The first of these is normally our family, and then our school, or work and all the other teams of which we are a member.
The members of a team work together and, through participation and understanding the teamwork process, we learn how to be sensitive and tune in to our fellow team members. Through this participation we see how we are affected by our social context. And this greater understanding of the context ensures we are able to be in the right place at the right time to play our part.
We can look at Makemake as the higher octave of Uranus, which is traditionally the higher octave of Mercury. Makemake gives Uranus’s intuitive impulses meaning and context which transforms our understanding of his unexpected ways. And Uranus’s lateral web gives Mercury’s detail an energetic network to organize and connect his information.
Makemake is keen to learn, he shares Mercury’s curiosity, but he is looking at the bigger picture, rather than the detail. He talks about freedom, expansiveness, and keen vision. And he encourages us to develop a richer awareness. To take old ideas and play with them experimentally to liberate the active components.
We know that Uranus brings us intuitive insights, and we have to honor them for the valuable insights that they are, or risk whatever it is manifesting in our lives in a more real way. With Makemake we need to embrace the rich culture that is created through all these insights. There is an inherent fractal structure in the rich detail of our lives, so that any part of the structure actually references all other parts.
Makemake reveals this structure, which is the model that we build of our world from Uranus’s intuitive flashes. There is no real world, there is just phenomena which we interpret based on our experience. And based on that interpretation we react and so shape our reality through those responses.
So, we create our world by how we perceive it and interact with it. And until now, this has largely been an unconscious process. But as we embrace this new energy, we begin to understand the creative power of our personal view of reality. This is the power that ‘great minds’ have to shape the consensus view.
However, when we are at inner planet consciousness, we likely have a more limited, short-term view, which encourages us to cut corners where we see that we can. At this level Makemake can also encourage us to be reckless, and our irreverence to traditional ideas can lead us to engage in double talk and be manipulative with our communication.
At this level we might lose sight of the bigger picture and as a result we may not want to play by the rules or cooperate with others. We could indulge in practices such as backbiting and rivalry, which undermine our own position. Or we could try to hog the limelight, rather than humbly play our part, sabotaging the collective success.
We could also take flight to avoid the consequences of our actions or develop an ability to hide in plain sight as a coping skill. Makemake gives us the understanding of the context of each moment, and at this level we may use that understanding to blend into the background. We become like one of those characters in TV ads who are wearing clothes that are patterned like the wallpaper, so we can only see them when they move.
As we develop a more spiritual approach however, we learn to work together and honor our relationships with what we call our resources. At this level we can find the devotional focus to understand the rich tapestry of our lives that each moment holds. This contact with the bountifulness of cosmic consciousness allows us to joyfully participate in our lives because we feel the profoundness in each experience.
At this level we are able to break down existing ideas alchemically into their component parts and put them back together in new configurations. We understand the context behind the ideas, and this enables us to be playful in this process. As we formulate our new ideas, we become inspired to put them into reality by winnowing them down into usable applications.
And at the spiritually evolved level we can see the big picture and integrate this with our personal devotional focus at such a deep level that it likely will be called genius. And as we deepen this understanding, we experience the world as an organic whole, which allows us to participate as fully as possible.
Price Buster - by May 1st: NZ$180 (about US$120) - Earlybird - by June 1st: NZ$225 (about US$150) - Full Course Fee: NZ$270 (about US$180)
Course Format;
This course mixes webinars, blog-posted assignments and live Zoom Q&As, timed so you can attend from anywhere in the world.
We start with a live Welcome Q&A and we will explore Makemake's House position in the first fortnight, his aspects in the second fortnight and transits in the third. Each fortnight will include an instructional webinar, an investigative assignment based on your personal chart and a live 2 hour Zoom Q&A session.
Assignments will be posted on a private forum so we can learn from and comment on posts from our fellow course members. And the Q&A sessions will be recorded so you can pick up classes you miss.
The students on this course range from beginners to experienced astrologers, and it is this range that is the source of the vibrant class culture. What students love is the community sharing, through blog-posted assignments and live Zoom Q&As, which gives a good picture of how these new planets act similarly, and yet diversely, in each of our lives.