AP: Thunder, Lightning and the Biopsychic Script

Some things in life are fairly certain: we all start out as kids, grow taller, maybe wiser, turn gray and then take our final bows. This familiar developmental skeleton is fleshed out by a small, powerful class of astrological “passages” that happen to everyone at about the same ages. We are talking about Saturn returns, lunar returns, the Uranian opposition, and several others. Understanding them makes our comprehension of each one of life’s chapters much more precise. At the simple level, we would not give career advice to a four year old, nor dating tips to a centenarian. But knowledge of the “biopsychic script” takes us far deeper than such obvious statements, adding clarity and detail. As always in evolutionary astrology, these kinds of insights go far beyond mere description. There are also certain perceptions, certain changes of orientation, and certain understandings that must arise intentionally at each stage of life. If they do not, then people get lost. They continue behaving in outmoded ways that no longer feed their souls. They are like high schoolers in the bodies of fifty year olds. Our task as astrological counselors is to help people avoid those traps. In this meeting of the Apprenticeship Program we explore the biopsychic script in detail, but we will go further. Each person’s Saturn Returns, for example, are unique. That is not only because of the specific context of the birthchart, but also because of the rest of the “astrological weather” unfolding at the same time. If, say, Neptune is transiting over a person’s Moon during the first Saturn Return, then that Neptunian quality “locks in” as they move into life’s middle cycle. To understand that particular Saturn Return, we must integrate our Saturn understanding with the Neptune-Moon event. The purpose of this class will be to master the biopsychic script in the practical, real world context of living astrology. We draw names from the “Sorting Hat,” working in the living, integrated context of transits, progressions, and solar arcs. Recorded at Blue Sky Ranch, Alpine, CA, May 2010. 21 hours 9 min. Includes handouts.