Alan Clay

5 New Planets – Embracing Authenticity, Playing with the Divine, and Dealing with Crisis through Soul Growth and Spiritual Fulfillment.

A one-day workshop with Alan Clay, the founder of Dwarf Planet University, exploring the astrological meaning of 5 of the new planets: Ixion (seeker consciousness) Makemake (systems consciousness), Haumea (unity consciousness), Eris (diversity consciousness) and Sedna (soul consciousness).

The outer planets represent aspects of consciousness, so we are on a consciousness adventure as we embrace these new trans-Neptunian planets. We start with Pluto’s lawless brother, Ixion, who encourages us to ask the question: Are the rules we are playing by the right ones?

Ixion opens us to seeker consciousness, urging us to push the boundaries and ask for forgiveness afterwards, rather than permission before. As we develop a spiritual approach, we enable our moral compass and learn to honor the ‘bad’ girl or ‘bad’ boy energy inside us and follow our heart. At this level, Ixion encourages us to be authentically ourselves following Pluto’s action to dissolve our ego center. We are one with the universe, but still exist as an individual, and that dichotomy is bridged by being authentically ourselves in our contact with the divine.

The next two planets, Haumea and Makemake remind us that divine matters are best approached in a playful way. Playfulness helps to remove the fear of failure in our consciousness adventure. There is no failure because all the data is valuable. It’s only a failure when we don’t integrate the experience, which means that the ‘bad’ outcome will happen again.

Haumea connects us to the psychic unity that exists across space and time, with the oneness of our existence. She does this in each moment by simply reigniting in us the magic of being alive. Haumea is the higher octave of Neptune, turning his psychic opening into real psychic connection. As we develop spiritually, she gives us a direct link with the soul level and, as we deepen this connection to Source, we learn to facilitate a constant renewal in our own lives and in the lives of those around us.

Makemake gives us a worldview built from our experience, and a view of our place in that world. He enables us to innovate and opens us to the new richness of systems consciousness. He is a spiritual trickster, allowing us to play with the area of life signified by his position in our chart. And he gives us a devotional focus that borders on genius, encouraging us to see ourselves as an organic whole, as well as a member of a team. We can look at him as the higher octave of Uranus, lifting Uranus’ intuition into a rich understanding.

As we travel out from Neptune, the planets become more and more spiritual, and Eris and Sedna are the two furthest out, with the most extreme orbits. Eris cuts through the ecliptic the strongest at 44 degrees, and Sedna has a comet shaped orbit of over 11,000 years, so these extremes talk about the crises we might encounter which morph our inner-Neptunian consciousness.

Eris is our diversity consciousness, where we learn to value everything and everyone for who they are. At the personal planet level, she encourages us to engage in discord and strife, so we learn to stop fooling ourselves, or stop being fooled. As we adopt a more spiritual approach, we understand that our strife can be dealt with simply by accepting opposing points of view. And at the highest level, she is a spirit-guide, transmuting life into love, and bringing sacred wisdom into our lives. Eris is the higher octave of Pluto, lifting his transformative energy into a fierce grace. This gives us a female power which is gentle in contact, but which rises to meet the needs of any challenge.

Sedna is our soul consciousness and her placement in our chart tells us what our soul really wants to do in this life. She is always trying to get us onto the spiritual path, and when we are unconscious of her energy, she sends us transcendent crises to help us let go of our old consciousness framework and transcend to a new one. As we step up to do the soul-based work that we are here to do, we move through a fated transcendence to a more transpersonal consciousness. We learn to embrace our spiritual destiny and joyfully do what our soul wants to do, and this brings us transcendent peace and the ability to nurture abundance.

You are invited to submit your birth data if you would like your chart used as a live example. These live examples really help to connect the information on these new planets to the participants in a way that everyone can relate to. By submitting your data, you will also get a printout of your chart with all the dwarf planets.

Alan will also have copies of his new book, New Stars for a New Era: A Consciousness Workbook for our 10 New Planets, available at cost price, US$20 (US$49 in the shops). This book gives you astrological interpretations for each of the 10 planets, and house interpretations with well know examples to bring them to life.