The Bargain

...On the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction

Prometheus stealing fire and gifting it to a bunch of stoned modern humans in a true Dali style imagined by DALL-E

"We must steal from the Mother to give to our life; death is our debt."

-Martin Prechtel

We are but a few days away from the conjunction.  If you aren't aware of it, it's the alignment between Jupiter and Uranus (Taurus).  It happens every 14 years, and this round it's in Taurus (last one: 2010/11 in Aries/Pisces).  What does it mean? Does it have meaning? And why does it matter? All these questions and more will be answered by continuing on to the next paragraph, then leaping to the next, and so on.

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One of the most common themes to track with the Jupiter/Uranus cycle is around technological innovation.  You can see it in the craze before Y2k and the dot.com boom in 97' (Cap/Aquarius), you can spy a few tell-tale signs in 2010 once social media began to experience mass adoption and everyone began to possess a smartphone, and you can see it now, clear as the black mirror in front of you, with AI.  There comes with it a frothy excitement coupled with the Fool one foot already over the edge (likely wearing a VR headset).  It's a collective mania. It’s a hype cycle.  It feels progressive.  And it has many great features and bugs embedded in the software of the Grand Sextile it creates throughout time.

On a personal level, a lot of these mundane ideas can be copied & pasted into ourselves, but—of course—there are databases filled with nuance to consider.  Overall, wherever Taurus is in our chart, whatever planets we have there, will be impacted not just by this conjunction, but by the entire cycle (14 years).  So we can ask the obvious question: what is my current relationship to technological innovation? Do I remain a Luddite or is my net worth in Nvidia, Tesla, and Bitcoin?  The not-so-obvious inquiries emerge around personal growth and psycho-spiritual innovations.  So we could ask: What tool or practice is going to help us reach the next level?  Where will we find that Promethean gift in this area of our lives? Will it be safe to handle?  And so, if the Jupiter/Uranus complex intimates growth, it's important to consider that not all growth is progress or seen as "good."  Just ask SBF or Nero or Jabba the Hut...

Martin Prechtel has this idea he shares with us from the Maya he calls the "bargain."  The premise is within the quote that opened up this piece.  In essence, we take and we take some more and the way we are forced to pay it back is through our death.  But there are ways to make payments all along the way.  We do this with offerings.  We do this by creating beauty.  We do it by being kind, open, and understanding. In his eyes—and in Mayan ones it seems as well—we are just pretty little earrings on the Earth; yes, we enhance it, but we are non-essential.  In other words, it's best we learn how to give back.

Now, being that this conjunction happens in Taurus (21º), these Earth Day-friendly ideas are perfectly at home here.  The way in which we live on this planet is debatable.  The main theme though, as we speed up into this exponential curve of growth is what it means to stay human.  How much have we already bargained off in that Faustian manner? Is it too late? Have we missed the chance? Never!  If we have a body and there are still plants reaching for a star, we have time; if the birds are still singing, there is plenty of time.  It's just good to be aware of such a titanic cycle starting anew that seems to point to the heart of such matters.

I also find it interesting that the alignment occurs near 3 other eventful days: Passover, the Bitcoin halving, and—I know it's silly—but 4.20!  With Passover (22nd), I've already commented enough on the subject since December, but it's important to remember that it occurs on Israel's Sun in the 8th house; with the Bitcoin halving, it's the programmatic issuance to miners that gets cut in half every 4 years (essentially, it creates scarcity and the value goes up); and with 4.20, something only stoners care about, it's interesting because the dynamic between Jupiter/Uranus actually fits the profile: "far out ideas," "no way man," "feeling so high,” and, well, " I'm so f*cked." You get the idea.

If we think of Uranus as having a Promethean bent like Tarnas would have us believe, then there is some gift from the heavens that is to be given to us—as a species and in our own lives as well.  That fire got us to this point lighting the way, but it's also summoned MAD (mutually assured destruction); another Promethean gift, which is language, has got us to this point of cleverness, but we also find ourselves in a Tower of Babel moment; in fact, all the gifts from the gods come with a cost it seems.  This is how we contemplate the bargain. There are no solutions, only trade-offs for growth and innovation. The conjunction isn't good or bad, it's simply an opportunity to see with all eyes open (3rd eye winks).

Wherever the conjunction happens for us, may we find ourselves charged and ready with our minds changed, our hearts wide open, and our feet making deals with the wood-wide web connecting all the dots beneath our toes.

*If you'd like to have a reading with this as our central focus, I'm here for you.  Links below.

Facts:

Jupiter conjunct Uranus; 21º49' Taurus; April 20/21st 2024

Eudaimonia,

Adam

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