We are nearing the conjunction of Jupiter (expansion and meaning) and Uranus (radical change and disruption of the status quo). The two will make their exact alignment on April 20th, but for the next few weeks we are likely to see an increase of innovative and perhaps groundbreaking changes.
My friend astrologer Ray Grasse is one of the foremost thought leaders on the intersection between astrology and meaning. He wrote a wonderful mind-expanding essay which is perfect to prepare our minds for the increased awareness that is possible under the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction and I’ve quoted a portion below. You can read the entire essay here, or purchase his book on the subject here.
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Coincidence is just the tip of a far greater iceberg of meaning, the most visible feature of a pervasive framework of design and relationships that undergirds all experience. In a sense, the entire world is a vast matrix of “acausal connections” extending to every aspect of one’s experience, from one’s body and thoughts to every event and object in the environment. Said another way, everything is a “coincidence,” insofar as everything co-incides!
In order for the diverse events of our lives to be interwoven as intricately and artfully as synchronicity implies, and as systems like astrology empirically demonstrate, there seems to be a regulating intelligence underlying our world, a central principle organizing all of its elements like notes in a grand symphony of meaning.
One needn’t think of this as involving a bearded, anthropomorphic deity on a heavenly throne somewhere, of course. As we saw earlier, the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus referred to this transcendent principle simply as ‘the One,’ while the Buddhists speak of ‘Big Mind,’ and the mystic geometers of old described a circle whose ‘center was everywhere but whose circumference was nowhere.’
Whatever labels or terms one prefers, the phenomenon of synchronicity hints at a coordinating agency of unimaginable scope and subtlety whereby all the coincidences and correspondences of the world coalesce as if threads in a grand design, and within which our lives are holoscopically nested. Seen in this way, the synchronistic event can be seen as affording us a passing sideways glance, as if through a glass darkly, into the mind of God.”
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