Dear Friends,

I was called out of town while writing the NMB Newsletter on Pluto. I have
added the footnotes and made a few additions in the later part of the paper
under the headings "Tantric Sex and Relationships" "The Tunnel and the
Bridge" and "Pluto-Scorpio Liberation."

We are attaching the revised version which will also be available on the
autoresponder.

Many blessings,

Gururattan Kaur

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PLUTO --SOUL GROWTH AND SOUL LESSONS




Number 27, October 19th, 2000

By Gururattan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D.



CHANGE

Change can happen either through evolutionary growth or through sudden
cataclysmic growth. But change will happen because change is built into the
nature of the universe and into the evolutionary necessity of our souls.
When we resist change, evolutionary forces build up and we are obliged to
change through shocks, accidents and various rug-pulling activities by the
universe. When we embrace change, the process can be gentler and smoother.

It is the evolutionary intent of our soul to grow, to transform and to
evolve. Pluto is the planet that is assigned to the task of making sure
that our souls evolve. Pluto makes sure that we will change one way or
another. To change we must first understand our past. For it is our past
which determines our behavior patterns, our belief structures and
philosophical orientations. And it is the latter that anchor us into to our
set ways of seeing ourselves, others and the world. "The way we are" gives
us our deepest source of unconscious emotional security. (*1) At the same
time it is these past patterns that limit and block us and must be
metamorphosed if we are to grow and evolve.

Pluto obliges us to see the limitations we have created in our current and
past lives that must be transcended or eliminated so that we can free
ourselves from our own mental and emotional chains. Pluto defines our soul
lessons and the experiences that we must encounter in order to complete the
evolutionary necessities of our soul this lifetime. Pluto is the catalytic
agent that propels our desire to return to Source. In order to do so, we
must systematically eliminate all desires, thoughts, beliefs and
circumstances that keep us separate from Source. Pluto is the vigilante who
makes sure that we whittle away all separating factors.


PLUTO - SECURITY AND POLARITY POINT

Jeff Green in "Pluto - the Evolutionary Journey of the Soul," offers the
most brilliant and penetrating explanation of how Pluto works and how Pluto
soul growth can be facilitated. The sign and house placement of Pluto
represent our evolutionary past. Psychologically Pluto correlates to our
deepest emotional security patterns. (*2) The past is what is familiar to
us. The past is what is known and comfortable. Our security patterns are
unconscious. We naturally embrace them as our path of least resistance.

The natal position and sign of Pluto is an area where we naturally gravitate
for security and for power. We identify with our Pluto because it is a
compelling force, which makes us feel comfortable and powerful. If,
however, we become too identified with our Pluto, we can create obsessions,
which block our evolutionary development. Over identification with our
Pluto can lead us to "feel stagnated, frustrated or wonder why the same
lessons, the same mistakes, the same kind of relationships, the same
problems occur over and over again." (*3)

The key to breaking the pattern of obsessive behavior and overcoming our
stumbling blocks lies in what Jeff Green calls the polarity point of Pluto,
which is the house and sign opposite our natal Pluto. Our natal Pluto helps
us become aware of and define "the problems, motivations, needs, desires,
attitudes and security issues" that dictate our experiences. (*4) The
opposite sign and house indicates the path to creating the changes that
foster resolution and transformation. As we embrace the path of the
opposite sign and house, change automatically begins to occur and we
experience "automatic redefinition, evolution and re-expression" in our
natal Pluto. With the insights and experiences of the opposite sign and
house, we are able to approach our natal Pluto differently. In the process
we are "reborn at a new level through death of the old behavior patterns."
(*5) Our inner and outer transformation occurs through an expansion of
consciousness awareness.

The catch 22 is that our polarity point (the opposite house and sign)
represents uncharted and unknown territory. Embracing our polarity point
challenges not only what we are familiar with at a personality level but our
deepest level of soul security. The alternative of remaining stuck in our
old ways or to the past for security reasons is however eventually
overridden by the urge of our soul to evolve and the unbearable pain that we
experience in repeating our dramas over and over. The strength of our
resistance to embracing the unknown will determine the magnitude of the
inner conflict and the problems that we create, which in the end oblige us
to change. When we finally let loose, we are reborn into an expanded
awareness of who we are. We experience a deep relief, freedom and power
that makes our previously cherished resistance looks ridiculous and our
excuses seem exaggerated.
In sum, our natal Pluto is where we naturally gravitate for emotional
security. Our polarity point is what we "must develop to effect a
metamorphosis of these pre-existing patterns in identity." (*6)
Development of our polarity point is a necessity for soul growth. We are at
choice to either cooperate or to resist. It is wise, however, to keep in
mind that the evolutionary impulse of the soul is to grow. We might as well
embrace the inevitable rather than to resist it. Of course, this is easy to
say. Few of us whole heatedly embrace change. What we can do is identify
ways in which we are willing to change and ways that we resist change and
incrementally work with ourselves to expand our ability to welcome the
unknown into our lives. Pluto specializes in evolutionary change if we are
at least willing to work with the program.


FOUR MODES OF CREATING CHANGE

Green sets out four ways in which Pluto instigates the evolutionary change
process.

1. EMOTIONAL SHOCKS -- One is by "producing emotional shocks in which some
behavioral pattern, life situation or relationship is forcefully removed
from our lives. This process is associated with cataclysmic change and
produces an evolutionary 'leap'. This situation always occurs when we have
resisted the cumulative evolutionary forces to the extent that this effect
must occur in order to enforce the required growth." (*7) Examples could
be the unexpected loss of a job, lover or accident. Shocks force us to make
wrenching psychological adjustments.

2. FORMING A NEW RELATIONSHIP -- Another is "by creating a situation in
which we form a relationship to something that we perceive we need." (*8)
This could be a job, a lover, a friend, a possession, a spiritual path or
new body of knowledge. The idea that we need something implies that we do
not have something or are limited in some way. In the process of fully
engaging in the new relationship, we become or identify with what we think
we need. In the process we learn something that we did not know before
about ourselves and life. "The relationships that we form in this way help
us transmute, metamorphose, grow and evolve beyond those existing
limitations into new levels of awareness and self-definition. This process
is associated with non-cataclysmic change; slow yet progressive evolution."
(*9)

3. INDENTIFYING AND REMOVING LIMITATIONS -- Pluto also produces or creates
situations where "we become aware of some external or internal source of
stagnation or limitation blocking further growth." (*10) There is a crisis
involved because we are not aware of what the block is and we need to find
out the source of the block. We evolve as we identify and are able to
remove the block.

4. AWARENESS OF NEW CAPACITIES -- Pluto also acts as a catalyst to produce
situations where we become "aware of a new capacity or capability that has
been latent or dormant." Pluto triggers conditions "that give birth to
some new impulse, idea, thought or desire. The process of actualizing or
developing the new capacity creates an evolutionary or growth effect." This
form of evolutionary change requires perseverance and will to internalize
and actualize the new capability. (*11)



PLUTO'S RULES

1. Pluto presents us with choices. Our choices are determined by our
desires. "Desires reflect our evolutionary state of condition, and the
reasons for that state or condition. The responsibility for these
conditions is our own. There are no 'victims.' (*12) Our life situations
and experiences reflect our own individual evolutionary needs, conditions
and lessons. Pluto helps us understand how and why we have chosen
particular environments, relationships and situations and helps us use them
the grow.

2. About "eighty percent of our behavior is conditioned by unconscious
forces that are tied to past patterns in identity association.... These past
patterns (are) linked to our unconscious emotional security needs because of
the familiarity that they represent; we automatically gravitate to those old
patterns because they are what we already are." (*13) Our reliance on old
patterns creates stagnation and blocks to further growth. "The evolutionary
force of the soul induces pressure to eliminate and transform these old
patterns into new patterns. The old patterns represent security - the new
patterns, insecurity. This transitional process between the old and the new
explains many of the apparently negative behavioral characteristics
associated with Pluto." (*14)

3. Pluto requires us to die and be reborn many times. In the process we are
transformed and regenerated. The impetus for change is a combination of
limitations and stagnation rooted in old emotional security patterns based
in the past, which condition our present and place limitations on our
future. When the unconscious past forces prevent us from evolving, Pluto
steps in. Plutonic change creates an evolutionary leap in consciousness, an
expansion in awareness, a new perspective and radically altered approaches
to life.

4. Pluto's ultimate goal is to connect us back to Source and to our Soul.
"Pluto instigates evolution... through a relationship to something higher or
more evolved than ourselves." (*15)

5. The co-existence of dualistic desires are all linked to the basic desire
of the soul to evolve - "attraction and repulsion, resistance and
non-resistance, security and insecurity, death and rebirth."
The psychological challenges associated with Pluto -- "anger, fear,
compulsion, guilt, jealousy, defensiveness, possession, compulsion,
obsession, vindictiveness, manipulation, suspicion" and the positive
attributes of Pluto "regeneration, rebirth, positive will power, positive
motivation of self and others, non-defensiveness, changing as necessary" are
both an integral part of the evolutionary process of Plutonian soul growth.
(*16)

6. Pluto key words include -- catalyst, catharsis, introspection, emotional
shocks, penetrating introspection, internal conflict, death, rebirth and
regeneration.


THE PLUTO HEALING DYNAMIC

In this issue I will cover the Pluto healing dynamic for two signs - Cancer
and Scorpio. They are related because they are both water signs. And the
Scorpio healing helps facilitate the Cancer healing. Pluto rules Scorpio so
this is an appropriate dynamic for all of us to investigate while the Sun is
in Scorpio from October 22 through November 20th. Although your Pluto will
most probably be in another sign, these lessons relate to all of us in some
way.

FOURTH HOUSE OR CANCER

CANCER'S EVOLUTIONARY LESSON IS INNER SECURITY AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

When Pluto is in Cancer or the fourth house, one must learn the following
lessons:

1. How to create a sense of inner security within oneself that is not
dependent upon external circumstances or other human beings.

2. How to get in touch with the nature and causes of one's feelings,
emotions and moods.

3. To know and understand our basic emotional nature.

4. To know and trust self first and then others.


CATALYTIC LIFE EXPERIENCES

Pluto in Cancer will precipitate some of the following life experiences,
which oblige us to turn to ourselves for security and nurturing.

1. Emotional shocks that bring suppressed emotions to the surface, which in
turn oblige us to engage in deep analysis of our issues and force us back
upon ourselves.

2. Emotional needs that are not recognized or meet by parents or later by
partners.

3. Experiences that make us feel unappreciated, unnurtured and
misunderstood.

4. "The rug of emotional dependency will always be pulled out from beneath
(us) when the degree of dependency creates a non-growth situation." (*17)

5. Emotional suffocation, nonfulfillment, suppression and denial.


NEGATIVE MENTAL/EMOTIONAL STATE

The Pluto-Cancer life experiences create negative mental/emotional states,
which include the following:

Inherent insecurity.
Intense, undefined emotional needs.
Emotionally intense, demanding and manipulative behavior patterns.
Sensitive and touchy emotions, defensiveness, feeling easily threatened.
Denial of emotional sensitivity and vulnerability.
Deep inexplicable moods, emotions and feelings.
A bottomless pit of emotional nurturing needed to feel secure.
Intense unconscious expectations projected on others to meet one's
unfulfilled emotional needs.
Intrinsic sensitivity, vulnerability and "needing to be touched on an
emotional level by at least one other." (*18)
Intense emotions that can paralyze the person and make them unable to take
action for themselves.


MATURE EMOTIONAL STATE

The Pluto-Cancer goal is, of course, to create a mature stable emotional
state. As we learn our Pluto-Cancer lessons we develop an ability to
integrate masculine and feminine traits. We are able to identify our
personal goals and actualize them through self-determination. We become
empathetic, nurturing, caring, loyal and sympathetic toward self and others.
This all happens as we take charge of our emotional states, personal space
and environment.


HOW CANCER-PLUTO LESSONS ARE LEARNED

The above diagnosis of our Pluto-Cancer lessons appears to be overwhelming.
And indeed that is how Pluto gets our attention and forces our commitment to
change. Fortunately there is a formula that can help us define what we must
do to evolve into emotional security.

Our basic lesson is to learn how to be the source of our own internal
security, "and to emotionally mature through actualizing and establishing
(our) own individuality through (our) own efforts." We must learn how to
minimize or eliminate external dependencies. We must stop relying on others
to have our needs met. We must quit making our security dependent upon
external situations. (*19)

To achieve the above daunting goals we must get in touch with our inner
emotional states. We must experience our emotions "because they are the
source of self-knowledge and the path to inner security. The challenge is
to become aware of the trigger or stimulus producing the
emotions/mood/feeling, rather than just living it through without reflecting
upon the origin or cause" (*20)

To experience our emotions and the causes that triggered them, it is
necessary to withdraw, to be left alone and to be silent. Once the
awareness has surfaced from the subconscious to the conscious mind, the
emotion must be processed, acted out or otherwise expressed. This
alternating cycle between deep personal reflection and expression is a
natural process that we and close to us understand and respect.

The only antidote to emotional rejection and nonresponsiveness is to know
and trust oneself, i.e. to understand at a very deep level the nature and
basis of our emotional responses and to quit trying to find security from
others, relationships or external situations. (*21)

There is one sure way to identify our Cancer-Pluto patterns and tests. When
we in anyway try to get our emotional needs met by another or develop an
emotional dependency upon another, we automatically create that person
becoming unavailable or taken away from us. We create rejection and
abandonment because we have rejected and abandoned connection with
ourselves. Disconnecting from ourselves and attaching ourselves to another
is a sure formula for some form of termination of a relationship.

The only way to remedy this situation is to become vigilant in identifying
when we disconnect from our own inner space and train ourselves to turn
inward instead of outward for attention, relief and nurture. When we are
tempted to try to get attention from another or in any other way get our
emotional needs satisfied by connecting with another, we must first connect
with ourselves. In this way, we can reverse the abandonment dynamic.

The other good news is that the more we focus on ourselves, the more we
build up our charismatic power. In this way we attract to us who and what
we need through our own magnetism. The Cancer-Pluto lesson is to master the
art of attraction and to release going after something or somebody because
we are inherently needy.


AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES

The Pluto-Cancer lessons are some of the most difficult to accept and to
learn. To avoid these lessons, we develop avoidance strategies. One of the
most common is the manipulation of others to try to emotionally get our
needs met. We also try to get our needs meet through demanding childlike
attention or by creating others being dependent upon us.

We may try to control and dominate others by identifying and focusing on
their weak points and in the process make ourselves indispensable to them.
In this way we protect our own vulnerability and emotional insecurity. We
learn to dominate situations in an attempt to feel secure and to get our
dependency needs fulfilled. But our needs cannot be fulfilled in these ways
because those we draw to ourselves are unable to meet our needs. Denial and
dependence produce neither security nor resolution.


COMPLEMENTARY STRATEGY and RESOLUTION -- CAPRICORN

Fortunately, the opposite sign to Cancer, Capricorn, can help facilitate our
emotional healing. Capricorn teaches us that self-determination and
accepting responsibility for our own actions and life situation leads to
emotional maturity. Learning to financially take care of ourselves is a
requirement for becoming an adult. Capricorn teaches us that as we learn to
integrate our own individuality and personal authority in the world through
career and work, we can achieve the personal satisfaction that we are
searching for.

The Cancer-Pluto strategy must include the attainment of financial security
and the ability to support oneself. There is no more basic way to reduce
dependencies and create a basis of inner security than to be financially
viable and independent. This is a very basic earthly path that has profound
emotional and spiritual rewards. We naturally trust ourselves. We stop
blaming others for our situations and problems. We are able to identify how
we have created our life situation. The context of our work offers us a
living mirror, which helps us get in touch with the sources and causes of
our deepest emotions and feelings. As we gain awareness of our feelings, we
are more and more able to develop a relationship with them. As the causes
of our emotional reactions become known to us, we become more comfortable
with our emotional states and use them to our advantage and as information
instead of being controlled and swept away by them.
(*22)


EIGHTH HOUSE OR SCORPIO

EVOLUTIONARY LESSON - TRANSFORMATION BY TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS THROUGH
DIRECT EXPERIENCE


LESSONS TO BE LEARNED -

Pluto and Scorpio teach us several very important lessons:

1. To face and understand our limitations and to accept the parameters of
who we are, as opposed to who we are not or cannot be. To experience our
uniqueness and the dynamics of our soul as expressed through our
personality.

2. To experience our limitations or powerlessness and then to transcend
these limitations. In the process to experience an innate sense of power.
Our sense of powerlessness comes from sensing what we have not yet become or
not yet known or experienced. (*23) The sense of power comes from
integrating a new awareness and energy into our mental, emotional, physical
and spiritual make-up.

3. To transform our personal limitations by developing direct relationships
with people, things or symbols and energies that embody what we want or need
in order to evolve beyond our personal limitations. (*24)


HOW TO CULTIVATE TRANSFORMATION

The transformation takes place because we become aware of universal forces
that exist beyond our limited experiences. Initially we perceive these
forces to be outside ourselves. The Pluto-Scorpio lesson is to directly
experience these forces, to integrate them into our consciousness and make
them a part of our conscious energetic being. This is far from a mere
intellectual process! We must actually energetically merge with "other
sources of power in order to effect metamorphosis beyond" our perceived
personal limitations. (*25) We must learn how to actually absorb the energy
of symbols of power by cultivating a direct personal relationship with them.
In doing so, we become what we have developed a relationship with.

Pluto-Scorpio power symbols include icons, images of spiritual masters and
deities, yantras, various religious and spiritual pictures, power animals
and angels. The powers that they represent and embody are cultivated
through rituals, magic, sex, meditation, yoga, the martial arts and other
practices. These practices are enhanced by the use of mandalas, mantras,
symbolic diagrams, artwork, music, gemstones and objects that represent
power such as money and status, books that contain a system for
transcendence or a body of knowledge.

The critical factor is that the person must unite him or herself with the
energy of the symbol, sound, person or thing in order to produce "an
alchemical fusion that permits transmutation of an existing limitation."
(*26)


PITFALLS AND PROBLEMS

There are several intrinsic challenges in the Scorpio-Pluto path to
transformation. One is the tendency toward compulsive behavior, which can
manifest as a compulsive fascination with death and experiences considered
taboo. This can be an expression of an unconscious, or even conscious,
death wish. Another is that one is tempted to flirt with negative energies
and misses the point that these experiences are to liberate him or her from
karma, not to create more karma. One can also become addicted to the
symbols or objects. The idea is to integrate their power into oneself to
overcome limitation, not to create one more limitation. The goal is not to
become dependent upon them for power or to use them as a substitute for
personal identity, but to become energetically more powerful within oneself.

Sexuality is a Pluto-Scorpio tool. The pitfall here is that sex can be used
to manipulate and control others and to try to get energy from others, which
in turn creates attachment and dependency upon the other person or object.
When relating to another person sexually, the purpose is not to take power
from the partner but to connect more intimately and fully with one's own
soul. Basically the power we are seeking is already within ourselves. The
symbols, persons, situations we use are tools to facilitate our awakening
process. When sexuality is used in a spiritual way, we can raise our energy
up our spine and consciously unity with the Divine. In the process, we
transcend our ego boundaries and death itself. Again the goal is not
dependence upon a partner or on sex itself, but inner self-reliance and
direct connection to Source and our divine nature.

The Pluto-Scorpio path is a difficult one because it continually promotes
and provokes confrontation. Cycles of power, powerlessness and conflict are
endemic to the territory where the primal impulse is to identify, transform
and eliminate all limitations within oneself. Continual death and rebirth,
experience and awareness is the name of the game. The basic need it to
eliminate all barriers and desires that prevent us from a direct and
continual experience of the Infinite.

There will also always be a dynamic tension between the two conflicting
desires for separateness and for unity. Each soul needs to stabilize itself
and define its boundaries so that it can consolidate its growth at each
stage of evolution. Simultaneously with this desire for separation, the
soul desires to return to the Source by eliminating all boundaries. To
release the limitations that keep it from merging with the Infinite, it must
be willing to destabilize itself. (P-147)

Internal and external conflicts arise when we become aware that the
boundaries that we have created, instead of serving to consolidate our power
are now blocking further growth. The intensity of the conflict is in direct
proportion to our resistance to change. We resist because we feel that our
security patterns are threatened, as indeed they are. We are experiencing a
boundary or a definition of self that is no longer an adequate expression of
who we are becoming. Our soul is obliging us to expand our experience of
Self. Our emotional anguish, mental conflict, physical discomfort and even
illness and spiritual challenges oblige us to pursue our personal process of
growth. Whether we like it or not (and we usually don't), whether we
cooperate or not (and we often don't), our soul runs the show. Our soul
dictates that we will be challenged until we acquiesce to remove one by one
all limitations that prevent us from total union with the Divine.


UNDERSTANDING WHY

Scorpio and Pluto major in psychoanalysis. They insist that we understand
WHY? They help us delve into the depths of the human psyche. They want us
to know why we are the way we are. They help explain personal and
transpersonal truths. They oblige us to understand our motivations,
desires, intentions, emotional patterns, stages of evolution, archetypes and
symbols. They help us penetrate to the core of our emotional, mental and
spiritual being. They push us to understand the problems that we create and
the blocks that we construct so that we can eliminate and transcend them.


DIRECT EXPERIENCE

Pluto and Scorpio demand direct experience of whatever symbol, form or
source of power we are using to transform ourselves. A deep penetrating
understanding of the issues at hand are of critical importance, but they are
only a prerequisite for the real thing. The real thing for Pluto and
Scorpio is the actual in-the-body sensation. Pluto and Scorpio require us
to "see, feel, taste, touch, smell or hear directly the object of the
transformative symbols" that we form relationship with. They invite us to
"merge, penetrate and unite with the symbol that represents the source of
power or object of (our) desire." They teach us that it is only through
direct experience we can "merge with the transformative symbol and become
the symbol itself." (*28)

Direct power can, of course, be used negatively or positively. In the
negative case, an individual will attempt to manipulate and control the
energy for egotistic purposes. In the positive case, the individual allows
the energy to enter his or her being. The effortless merging creates "an
alchemical fusion (metamorphosis) that takes place of its own accord." (*29)

There are many ways to create this alchemical fusion. Yoga, meditation,
prayer, tantric sex, the internal martial arts, Tai-Chi and various other
spiritual practices and rituals were all created to create a direct
experience with Divine energy. The level and depth of transformation is
influenced by an individual's attitude, commitment, focus, motivation, karma
and evolutionary state.

Scorpio and Pluto oblige us to make wise choices about who and what paths we
involve ourselves with. Commitment determines our level of experience.
Pluto demands commitment. Therefore, we must choose paths and partners who
resonate with our own evolutionary needs and soul desires. Pluto obliges us
to make appropriate choices. We must have the wisdom to not only choose
wisely, we must have the will to exclude who and what does not work for us.
Selection of the appropriate partner and path are of essence for Pluto.

The catch 22 is that we will select a relationship or a path, which embodies
an energy that we need to awaken, that we perceive as a need that is not
met. The trick is to not fall prey to the temptation to try to manipulate
or to become dependent upon the person or path that is our transformative
power and to be able to release it when it no longer serves us.


TANTRIC SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS

Tantric sex is sexual union used to transform power and cultivate union with
the Divine. Libra is associated with legal and practical marriage. Scorpio
and Pluto are associated with the marriage of merging of two souls.

The basic problem generated by Pluto-Scorpio is using or manipulating others
to get one's needs met. Also one's needs keep changing. Therefore,
relationships are logically maintained only as long as they meet one's
needs. There is, of course, an inherent dilemma in this situation. Scorpio
needs commitment on the one hand and on the other hand Pluto demands growth
and evolution. So, what to do? The need for change manifests in secret
desires and attractions to other people and situations. Temptation
symbolizes the need for transformation and evolution. Where there is
stagnation, there are demons that manifest in direct proportion to our
unwillingness to confront the current limitations in ourselves, our partners
and in our relationships. (*30)

Green outlines three strategies to deal with this inherent dilemma.

1. The first is what he calls the "black widow" archetype, where an
individual manipulates and maintains a relationship for as long as it serves
his or her needs and then moves on.

2. The second he calls the "diehard" archetype, where an individual
maintains a situation to the bitter end. He or she resists change even at
the price of sanity and peace.

Of course, neither of the above are clear cut or easy options. One may have
karma to pay off and need to remain in a totally dysfunctional relationship.
The choice may also be between foregoing commitment and moving on or being
destroyed by the relationship.

3. Optimally, we would be able to choose relationships where both partners
are able and willing to evolve and change. The price we would pay for
giving up some level of "for life" security would be the commitment to
helping liberate each other. Fortunately the growth of each individual is
usually accompanied by the growth of the relationship. One of the goals of
the relationship becomes the spiritual growth of the partners. Problems and
issues have to be faced instead of denied, which is never really easy. The
good news is that growth and expansion are promoted. (*31) Instead of
silently breeding and building negativity through unexamined, unexpressed
and unresolved conflicts, .the energy is unleashed and experienced as
freedom and empowerment

In the later case, which I call a tantric relationship, personal security is
found in direct connection to Source, not from the presence of the partner.
Lining up with the Infinite is the game and the goal of the relationship.
Building a connection with subtle universal energies is the focus. The
commitment is to an on-going process of establishing a deeper and more
meaningful relationship with the Divine.

Programming that impedes our pure connection will definitely have to be
faced and worked through. It is necessary to identify what breeds
negativity, pushes our reactive buttons, fosters denial, generates
resistance and activates old wounds that need healing. At the same time we
are able to identify behaviors and attitudes that release resistance, create
connection and promote relaxation. The work is worth it because with each
step our alignment with the Divine becomes stronger and more compelling.

When our goal is connection to Source, our energies merge not to create
co-dependence but as a third force from which we can co-create and make a
powerful contribution to the world.


TAURUS - POLARITY FOR SCORPIO

The polarity point for Scorpio is Taurus and the Second House. Taurus
teaches us to become totally self-reliant. Taurus teaches us how to
identify our own needs, our internal values and to use our own resources to
take care of ourselves. In this way, we minimize our compulsive dependence
upon others. We look within ourselves for our own symbol of personal
transformation! In the process we become emotionally, mentally, physically
and spiritually self-sufficient. As we become self-sustaining, we attract
partners who are also self-sustaining. Together two self-sustaining
individuals are able to "participate in a committed, growth-oriented
relationship in a nondependent, non-compulsive way." (*32)

Self-reliant individuals do not need to manipulate each other because they
are not dependent upon each other. Self-motivated individuals inspire and
encourage each other to fully realize themselves. Dancing together we enjoy
discovering the mysteries of life.


THE TUNNEL AND THE BRIDGE - MANTRA MEDITATION

Scorpio-Pluto teaches us that union with the Divine is not a matter of faith
or belief. Empty rituals and rote routines do not make the direct
connection happen. Pluto-Scorpio teaches us that we must patiently
cultivate the subtle connection with our emotions and then use sound, music,
the breath, sensation or movement as a bridge to connect to infinite
awareness.

Cancer gets us in touch with our emotional body. Scorpio facilitates our
direct experience to the infinite by linking the slower vibrations of the
emotions with the higher infinite vibrations. Pisces stabilizes us in the
absolute - the sound and space that is always there.

Mantras are one method that can be used to soothe, elevate, integrate and
stabilize the emotions so that we can move to the higher frequencies.
Mantras clear old subconscious patterns, clear the mind and purify the
emotional body so that we can become emotionally self-sufficient. We are
able to maintain the connection with the Divine and our Soul when we are
emotionally stable, self-contained and independent.

Scorpio is the tunnel and the bridge to the other side. Scorpio is the
tunnel because he exposes the deep reasons why we are blocked and what we
have to do to liberate ourselves. Scorpio teaches us that we must expose
and re-experience the original cause of our problems in order to release the
energy and move on. Once the source of the pattern has been identified, we
can free ourselves from unconsciously re-enacting it.

Scorpio is the bridge because the various symbols and techniques that he
offers link and connect our emotions and personality to our soul. The
music, mantra, breath, rhythm and various other symbols and techniques that
Scorpio offers connect the densest and lightest energies in a way that we
can hold them in our consciousness and in our bodies.

Any mantra will do. There are different mantras, music, pranayamas and
techniques that are appropriate for different situations and needs. Pick
one based on your gut feeling and practice sensing the energy in your body
and spine. Let the mantra soothe your emotions. As you feel calmer, bring
your attention to the cosmic sound that you can hear if you listen within
and the cosmic space that you can see and sense if you feel and see within.
Notice that as you calm yourself down with your chanting that it becomes
easier and easier to maintain your connection with the infinite vibration
and to simultaneously feel calmly present in your physical and emotional
bodies. This will take some practice. All mastery does. Pluto and Scorpio
invite you use this month to move beyond your perceived limitations and
expand one step further into the awareness of your soul.



PLUTO-SCORPIO LIBERATION

Meditating this morning I experienced that what I normally perceive as
limitations - my body, my emotions and who I am -- became a source of
pleasure, comfort, security and power. It felt good to be in my body. My
emotions gave me a sense of power. It was comforting to simply be present
to myself. I felt cozy with myself. I realized that our body and our
emotions are how we stay present and "be here now." It is by experiencing
our body and emotions that we connect to the infinite in the physical form.

In sum, the resolution of Scorpio's conflict and duality is in the
realization and experience that what we have experienced as limitations -
our body, emotions and who we are - are our sources of power, not our
problems. I experience this realization as an incredible relief and
release!

Scorpio offers us so many techniques, which if practiced with gentle
awareness, allow us to relax into who and what we are. Scorpio offers us
the opportunity to cultivate and enjoy many forms and levels of energy.
Scorpio tempts us to experience our soul. Scorpio teaches us to attach
ourselves to our own energy, to allow the dance of energies to pulse though
us and to consciously embody what is, was and always will be. Our direct
experience helps us transcend our conflicts and removes our resignation. We
begin to appreciate and enjoy our on-going experience of existence itself.
This experience creates inner peace, acceptance, detachment and a liberating
sense of power.

Scorpio teaches us that liberation in the human form may not be as
complicated or as inaccessible as we made it out to be. We simply have to
learn to hold, enjoy and play with the energy in our bodies. And there are
so many choices of techniques and modalities that activate, excite, engage
and soothe our energy bodies. Life is happening in, around and through us
at every moment. All we have to do is to take advantage of and tune into
what is.

Here I am still sitting on my yoga mat. I haven't gone any place. But
something in me has changed forever. "Where ever I go, here I am" has taken
on a new depth of meaning. I rejoice in my aliveness. I relax into my
beingness. I celebrate who I am. As my phoenix soul rises, it winks at the
ashes of my limited ego perceptions of who I am and what life is about. I
acknowledge the gift of feeling good simply being me.



REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES

All the footnotes are from Pluto - the Evolutionary Journey of the Soul,
Jeff Green, Llewellyn, St. Paul, MN, 1993.

1. p. xxix
2. p. 7
3. p. 7
4. p. 8
5. p. 8
6. p. 40
7. p. 27
8. p. 27
9. p. 28
10. p. 28
11. p. 29
12. p. 29
13. p. 31
14. p. 31
15. p. 33
16. p. 38
17. p. 88
18. p. 88
19. p. 87
20. p. 90
21. p. 92
22. p. 94-5
23. p. 145
24. p. 145
25. p. 145
26. p. 146
27. p. 147
28. p. 153
29. p. 153
30. p. 155
31. p. 155-6
32. p. 157

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