Seeking Renewal

Uranus, one of the outer transpersonal planets, known for its relationship with intuitive consciousness and truth, is conjunct the sun today, supporting us to tune into our intuition as we discern what is true.

I am encouraged, because, according to the Hindu cosmological concept of the Yuga Cycle, we have just emerged from the time of forgetting, the Kali Yuga, that, if I understand correctly, began in 3102 BC.

In this cyclical view of time, four ages or epochs are described, each one representing a moral, physical and spiritual state of human development. The cycle moves from creation, declining through preservation to destruction, then ascending back to creation.

The life, to death to rebirth pattern feels familiar.

During the age of forgetting or deterioration, it is said that our prior emphasis on spiritual practices and dharma or righteousness give way to a focus on material possessions and worldly pleasure. Legalistic religion replaces Vedic or natural law. The way in which we were attuned with and honoured the earth and sky and our ability to recognise our interconnectedness is forgotten. And rather than taking personal responsibility and acting from our own inner authority, we submit to the rules and doctrines of external hierarchies.

Weaving knowledge of the Yuga Cycle together with an understanding of the Precessional Cycle, the turning of the astrological ages, our understanding can be enriched. From Taurus – a time when sacred feminine and masculine wisdom were integrated and peoples lived peaceably, to Aries – the beginning of the patriarchal age with its power-over dynamics and attempts to control, to Pisces – where great spiritual teachers came to speak of deeper truths, to support us to reclaim our wholeness and reconnect with natural law, it is thought that Pluto’s recent ingress into Aquarius, marks the long anticipated entry into the “new age” of collaboration, humanitarian ideals, equity and collective well-being.

Heather Ensworth and Bibhu Dev Misra[ii] demonstrate how the Kali Yuga corresponds with the patriarchal era. It began when the trauma of cataclysmic weather events resulted in a fear-based mindset. Subsequently, fear of death created the urge to control, and the subsequent power-over dynamics have prevailed ever since. With this, the wisdom of the sacred feminine – the wisdom of the life-death-rebirth cycle and of right-brain, intuitive ways of knowing were feared, demonised, and repressed.

It’s as if, all those years ago, a thumb was firmly pressed into the collective third eye, blinding it and roughly shoving it away. All who carried such wisdom were rejected.

Many believe that having reached its lowest point, the Kali Yuga came to an end in March 2025. In the great turning, we have entered the ascending Dwapara Yuga, a time of remembering founded upon the two pillars of Compassion and Truthfulness.

This rings true for me!

It just makes perfect sense. Somehow, I can feel it in my bones, in my gut, in my heart. A resounding Yes! rises through me. My body knows this to be so!

And I know that I can trust my body’s beautiful strengths based (rather than fear based) intuitive wisdom.

Now is the time to begin to re-member, re-claim and re-use the long repressed sacred feminine attributes, to celebrate the wisdom of the life-death-rebirth cycle and to include our body’s knowledge as we discern how to act from compassion and truthfulness.

But, like all great wisdom voices, sacred feminine wisdom will not impose itself. We need to invite it in, actively work with it then emanate it to see its fruit.