The Spiritual Triad: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

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by  Barry Hopewell

The Spiritual Triad: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

By Louise Huber

Transcribed and edited by Joyce Hopewell
from a talk given by Louise Huber
at an Astrological Association Conference
Published by Astrological Psychology Association
www.astrologicalpsychology.org
The Spiritual Triad: Uranus, (cid:158) (cid:168) (cid:159)

Neptune, Pluto
by Louise Huber

This is a transcript of a talk given by Louise Huber at an Astrological
Association Conference
I ought to tell you that my English is not so spiritual dimension. It is knowing about this
good because my mother tongue is German, evolutionary process, otherwise life would
and I beg you first to tune into my be meaningless, and you would not
pronunciation, please, to understand what I understand what is going on with you in this
say! This is a handicap - the languages from life. You have to expand your consciousness,
all over the world - and to speak a foreign include this greater knowing, this whole,
language is something which is not so easy. I yearning, long process. It is a great and a big
hope you understand when I sometimes make picture of life. And from there, you can
a mistake or am looking for words. I tell you, understand everything, and you can get rid of
it took courage for me to come here and tensions; with understanding you can know
speak before you about this very big and what it is all about.
great subject - about the Spiritual Triad.
Evolutionary process
We need to include the spiritual and the It is important in astrological counselling to
expansion of the consciousness in include this knowledge of evolutionary
astrological concepts in this higher spiritual process. Of every human being as part of the
realm. Most of the motivation of our work whole of humanity. Just to give you an idea
comes from being with the Arcane School for in the one and half hours of this talk, a small
many years in Geneva, from working with picture about what I am reading and referring
Roberto Assagioli in Florence, and from to, I will show you a picture of the
going through all the books of Alice Bailey, involutionary and the evolutionary process of
who dealt with this transformation of the humanity, which comes from “The Secret
Ageless Wisdom into modern language. Doctrine” by Helena Blavatsky. [See
Bruno and I have been dedicated to transform diagram on next page]. This comes from
this Ageless Wisdom into astrology. I can tell Theosophical knowledge, and maybe some
you, it was not so easy. But on the other of you will already know about this?
hand, in our age and at the beginning of the
new age, and especially with all the young I would like to explain something about
people who are interested in knowing about involution, through which the soul of the
themselves, it is necessary. It is a kind of a human being comes into form: going through
task for us to bring forward this dimension of the mineral kingdom, then through the
spiritual knowing about your own inner animal kingdom, and then the so-called
being, about the soul, and also about the turning point is reached where the
spiritual triad. evolutionary process starts. And in our days,
the whole of humanity is standing at this
Expansion of consciousness point.
To understand this great concept, I beg you to
expand your consciousness to include into Going upwards, the evolutionary process
this concept the idea of an evolutionary means that at every step we take upwards
process in which we are all involved. The is along this path, there is a crisis of
the main meaning of the inclusion of the transformation and of consciousness into the
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spiritual triad. This is the subject of my talk three spiritual planets Uranus, Neptune and
today, and it is here at this point that many of Pluto, and this is something which you can
you already stand, and you have made this immediately work with and which I want to
important turning here at this point, and are show to you. But first I want to give you a
going up the ladder of the expansion of your small introduction into the Huber Method
consciousness and becoming aware of more because it always includes this spiritual
meaningful inner motivations of life. centre in every human being.

Ladder of evolution Overview of Huber Method
What do I mean by the ladder of evolution? Some of you already know about the
This is also a very important point in importance we give to the drawing of the
counselling to understand, especially when chart. We draw all the aspects very
you deal with a person in crisis. It is useful to thoroughly, so that the aspect structure is
know which step of the ladder this person visual, and then you can look at it with your
stands on in their own evolution. Here I try to eyes. With looking perceptively you get a
describe this in the three-fold and the seven- different inner experience. This happens
fold steps on the ladder. [Refers to diagram] when you look at this picture without
thinking about it.
I combined this all with the theory of
initiation of Alice Bailey, the first, second Looking and using vision which takes you to
and third initiations. Knowing about your inner self means that at this moment
initiations is very old. Some of you will know you can become aware of the whole person
that in old mystery schools there is a knowing with different senses. Not with the mind, not
about the different steps about growing into
the spiritual triad.

The first initiation is to do with Saturn, the
second with the Moon and the third with the
Sun. The fourth is Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
The first (Saturn) has to do with action, the
second (Moon) crisis has to do with the
feeling nature and Sun has to do with the
crisis of thinking. Uranus has to do with the
higher intellect, the creative intelligence, and
so on.

This conception of evolution is very
important in understanding the human being
as a whole, and to understand what crises you
are going through. In this transformation of with the complete mind, the intellect, with
your consciousness you need to let go those your knowing. When you look at the chart,
things which have been important for you and you must first give up the knowing, and at
to grow out of a period of stability into a that moment, the chart speaks to you. You
period of new learning. This letting go, or leave the space to allow the whole of the
giving up of the old, means a kind of crisis person’s being to come in. And at that
for everyone. There are little crises and there moment, the intuition starts to work.
are big crises of the spiritual growth process.
Intuition is a higher instrument for getting
The little crises are involved in the affairs of knowledge about you yourself, and about
daily life; the great crises are to do with the other people and the whole world. We have
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to grow from the intellect to the intuition. We psychology, we always first include this
have to grow into the kind of awareness from spiritual happening. And you know,
which intuition is possible, and from this psychosynthesis and transpersonal
point of view and from this realm of psychology are dealing with this process of
consciousness, you become aware of development. Assagioli, with whom we
something else in others. You will become trained for three years, brought to
aware of the soul of others. psychosynthesis special methods of
becoming aware of the inner realm of being -
We have even given a place in our charts for not only of a human being but of the whole
the soul. It is this circle in the middle which universal consciousness.
we always leave open, and through which no
aspects are drawn, because there is the soul It is always consciousness which has to
centre, the core of the human being. And expand and include the macrocosmic to
through the soul consciousness you will understand himself from the microcosmic
always know about evolution. You will point of view of the whole. Only when these
always be linked to eternity. In this inner two possibilities of awareness are linked
centre, you are a unit of the whole, you are with each other, can psychosynthesis then
part of the whole, and only from this centre happen.
can you develop an understanding of the
macrocosmic happenings of evolution. Only We struggle and strive towards more
from this inner centre will you be able to consciousness, towards more awareness of
understand somebody from the soul level. the energies of the spiritual triad

As we know from Alice Bailey, Helen But the way and the path to grow is full of
Blavatsky and Roberto Assagioli, that this problems and of crises. It is not so easy to
state, the Fifth Kingdom, the kingdom of the reach the continuity of consciousness of all
soul, is in the process of manifestation. This of this all the time, in daily life. You have in
is part of the new age. It is a great happening. one moment this kind of vision - through
It is parallel to the new age. In our days soul meditation or prayer - and you enter into this
consciousness, intuition, or the Buddhic level realm. And then you go back into your daily
as it is called in Theosophical knowledge, life and work and you forget it, and you are
will manifest. This means that we, with our immediately full of problems and dealing
consciousness, now have the chance to grow with all those things which bother you or
into these realms. At the half-way point, they which you cannot get rid of. This is also a
meet. We struggle and strive towards more reality. It is not only the being and the inner
consciousness, towards more awareness of self which is a reality; it is the outer world
the energies of the spiritual triad. At the same and the problems and all the pressures that
time, the Kingdom of the Soul is manifesting come from the outer world into your inner
and when they meet each other in your heart, being. That is also a reality.
or in your conception of astrology, or when
you deal with somebody in counselling or The interrelation between inner and outer is
helping them, at this moment, love will be the horizontal line of learning, of
manifest. consciousness, and the vertical line is the one
that I was describing before when I told you
Love about the evolutionary processes, where you
It is the deep love of the soul, of the have to include the macrocosmic and the
understanding of inclusiveness - it is this microcosmic consciousness. But the
quality that we first have to develop before horizontal way is also true, and you cannot
we can understand all the new age stuff. go just one way and deny the other, as many
Therefore in our school and in astrological young people are doing. Real
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psychosynthesis and the real wholeness of three-fold world. We have a physical level in
being human is when you can become the the whole planetary set up, and we have a
crossing of the two lines of awareness. physical level in your personality set up. It is
your body, your physical body, which you
The cross is the symbol of astrology - you can touch, which you can see. It is the
know the basis of astrology is this cross of physical world which has everything
the meridian and the AC/DC line. We have structured. This is physical because it has a
this cross in every chart. We have all the structure, it is material, you can touch it. The
knowledge of the Ageless Wisdom in the material world is the physical world and this
chart. If you realise this, it’s not new, and is the level where Saturn is the
(cid:166)
everything we tell you is not completely new; ruler. Saturn is to do with form,
it has always been there. Only our with barriers, and with protection.
understanding is awakening, is enlarging, and When you are in the physical body
can include more knowing and this is surrounded with the skin; without the
understandings on the psychological level skin - a kind of barrier - you would not have
and on the spiritual level. In our times we a form which is healthy.
have so many possibilities to understand what
is going on. The next level, the second level, is the
feeling nature. It’s the feeling body, or the
Visual perception is the first approach astral body according to Alice Bailey, and
towards the chart to become aware of the this feeling nature is a reality for us as
whole person. You can only become aware of human beings as it is the physical world.
the whole when you forget your intellectual You cannot live without your feelings! If you
knowledge. Forget all the rules, all the suppress all your feelings you would only be
methods and just look. And from this inner an intelligent robot, because the feeling
attitude we go on and understand more about nature is able to express love. The Moon is
the rules and about the methods. Then we the planet which rules the emotional or
will accept all the other methods, from this feeling body in a human being. And the
point of view because in this inner centre Moon is the ego on this level, which
there is a great inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is (cid:161) only recognises itself through

an attitude of divine love. From this point of contact. Without contact, without
view all the differences and the fighting are relationships, your Moon cannot say
not important. There is a great tolerance and a “I exist”. The physical body can say
love and understanding. it exists because you feel it all the time, you
see your physical appearance, but the Moon
To deal with the crises of the spiritual path, experience on this level can only say to
we need this kind of understanding, otherwise himself “I exist when somebody is in contact
we cannot deal with anybody. We cannot with me….when somebody loves me”. And
understand what’s going on with him. without love, we would only be intelligent
robots. Love is so important, and the Moon
Three-fold personality has an important task.
We come from this larger view into the more
detailed conception of a human being. This I will speak about all the crises which we
means something else, and we’ll look now have to go through on these three levels, to
with the Three-fold personality, which is also become aware of the transpersonal planets,
a concept of Assagioli and of Alice Bailey. the spiritual triad, later on.
The Three-fold personality, just to enlarge
your consciousness a little, is not a separation But the next layer on the three-fold world is
of a human being; it is a connection with the the Sun. It is the mental body, according to
whole planetary being. We are living in a Alice Bailey, and it is the consciousness of
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your own ability to think. If the Sun is you, if physical level. You have to overcome
the Sun is your self-consciousness materialism, security drives in order to grow
(cid:160)
on this mental level, the Sun is the into the next stage of higher possibilities, to
“I” which can say “I am because I the spiritual triad.
think”. This is the saying of
Descartes, the French philosopher: “I think, (cid:158) (cid:168) (cid:159)
therefore I am”. And we are very aware
nowadays on that level. We are very

conscious of this level because on the
thinking level we are held in esteem by
society because there intelligence prevails. If

you can judge objectively, if you can have an

objectivity about the world, you can gather
(cid:166) (cid:161) (cid:160)

knowledge about the world and then you can

justify. And this is all controlled by the Sun.
When you are very intelligent, very clever,
very aware, very able to discern between The Ego Planets and the Spiritual Triad
good and bad and when you know what is
Above Saturn, you have Uranus; above the
right and what is wrong on that level then
Moon you see Neptune, and above the Sun
people hold you in esteem.
you see Pluto. And these three spiritual

planets are organs of transpersonal calibre.
The Sun, therefore, is the symbol of self-
The three planets, Saturn, Moon and Sun are
consciousness and also of what other people
to do with the three-fold personality,
think about you. Are you a person who is
therefore we call them the ego planets. First
intelligent, clever, who can make judgements,
you have to get a clear awareness in yourself
and who can be trusted because your
about these three levels. You have to judge
judgement is right? Then you are someone in
the status and standing of these three planets
whom people will have confidence. If you do
in the chart otherwise you will not get a clear
not have this ability, and you are only
picture about your integrated or disintegrated
controlled by emotions, then people say
personality. This is the main aim and
“Today he’s happy, tomorrow he’s sad”, so it
purpose for becoming conscious of these
is not a reliable real level because with
three. At the moment when you become
emotions it is the Moon that is controlling. As
conscious of these planets in your personal
you know, the Moon has a very mutable
life, integration of them becomes more
quality - today it’s happy and tomorrow it’s
possible.
desperate - you know this kind of thing. From

the mental level, the Sun level, you have the
Psychoanalysis deals with this in reality - it
ability to always be the same because you are
deals with all these unconscious parts in you.
linked with things as they are.
At the moment you become conscious of

them, they can no longer conquer or
It’s very important to know something about
dominate you. Determination is also to do
your own Three-fold personality, otherwise
with this; on the level of the unconscious
you cannot grow into the spiritual realm. In
when you are unable to realise or
the psychosynthesis of Assagioli it is the
discriminate between your critical and
basis of the whole conception of man. First of
emotional and mental abilities in your
all you have to become a fully conscious
personality, you are determined by
personality on those three levels. You have to
everything. You are determined by the outer
know about your physical needs, then you
world, by happenings and events, by
have to accept the physical needs and then go
transits…..you are determined by them.
through the transformation crisis of the
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The purpose - and this is the aim of out of the structures of society, what happens
psychosynthesis - is to be rid of this to you? Society and the established world
determination……..and attain soul will be shooting at you. It needs courage to
consciousness. And it is as simple as I say - get rid of the old, to get on into the future. It
freedom! Become free from all this! But needs courage, and courage needs
when you watch reality in your life you will motivation. All the three planets of the
only be determined by things of which you higher triad are about transformation, a
have no knowing. In an instant you have the changing of motivation - as simple as that!
know-how: how to do it, how to work with it, To change your motivation you first have to
how to handle it - and you are free to handle know that it is possible to do so. First you
it or let it be. It is so simple. have to know that motivation is the basis of
every attitude, of every habit.
Because it is so simple we all of us - you and
me - are in a reality struggle to gain more People around you have motivated you to
freedom, for ourselves and in relation to the live the way you do - they have given you
rest of the world. And this is a great and the rules and the structure. At the time it was
happy realisation, because it is not so right, but in our time it is to be changed, and
difficult. It only needs the right knowing and therefore this psychology of motivation
to cultivate the right attitude. Then you can means that now, in our time, we have to
immediately handle it and you do, in fact, become aware that this is possible. We can
handle it throughout life anyway, in my live this out and change the motivation of
opinion. It is not new to you - maybe you had life: what are you living?
not realised that this is the freedom that all
the philosophers speak of! With Saturn, the motivation is to get as much
security as possible - security on every level;
It needs courage to get rid of the old, to get and also on the physical level through a lot
on into the future. of money etc., and you will have a
materialistic motivation. Saturn will also
Freud and Jung have both spoken about it, work on the emotional level and the mental
that at the moment we become aware of our level because we live in the three-fold world.
unconsciousness, or when we shift into The truth of every delineation of a chart is to
consciousness, then it no longer has power delineate it on the three levels. So, it is true
over us, because we can handle it. This is not for you on the physical level, then on the
new to you, I hope. And from this point of second level of the emotions and then on the
view, the transformation of consciousness is third level of the mind. This is a key for
also not so difficult when you know what it correct delineation of the chart.
all about. But first of all, we struggle like
hell! And that is because of this unknown Everything in the chart is also three-
stuff. dimensional, but first you have to become
aware that we live in a three-dimensional
The shift from Saturn to Uranus world. You have to accept it first that reality
We struggle a lot when we shift our is the truth - and you must not accept it
consciousness from Saturn to Uranus. Uranus because I say so, you have to accept it
is associated with chaos. In one way or because when you grow inwardly, into your
another, you can read in books that Uranus is inner self, then you will realise and
about the new age, about growing out of the experience by yourself that this is the truth.
structures of society. Uranus is the power Only when you realise that this is the truth
which takes you forward. It is progressive, it yourself - not because I am telling you, or
looks towards the future. Why is this so? because it is in The Secret Doctrine, or
What is the crisis all about? When you grow because Alice Bailey or Assagioli has said
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it - you, yourself have to experience this. emotional condition. The reason why, in
many cases, was because these people were
In our school [API] we also do meditation for on the spiritual path, and were in the states of
this purpose - to experience in yourself this transformation from Saturn to Uranus, from
three-fold personality. Moon to Neptune and so on.

Well…...the transformation from Saturn to Saturn/Uranus crises and initiation
Uranus means small crises of recognition, of This is the reason Assagioloi was so
overcoming the fear that materialistic security important in our times. People who go
is not all. And always and on every step you go through such crises are often thought to be
into initiation, you will confronted by your own insane. Even when you deal with astrology
Dweller on the Threshold. Do you know what sometimes, the surroundings say you are
this is? The sum of everything is crystallised in crazy! (laughter) When you deal with
Saturn here - the summing up of all the astrology you are on the Uranian expansion
experiences. You have to confront the of consciousness, and Uranian crises have to
Saturnian aspect at every step of do with you having the courage to stand up
transformation, and then the Dweller is for the things you have recognised to be the
standing before you and you will be frightened truth for yourself, in spite of all the fighting
like hell, because you will have to give up your of the Saturnian surroundings. By Saturnian
security and all that you have gathered around surroundings I mean the people who are
you. conservative, who are sticking with the old,
and who want to hold you back. All these
The Spiritual Path people are the Dweller.
When the Spiritual Triad is working on you,
this is a two-way process. Assagioli was always You have to go through periods of
telling us that that the moment you start to put loneliness, and this is also Saturnian. In the
your foot on the spiritual path and take the first old, classical astrology you read that
step, at that same moment the Spiritual Triad is sometimes when you have a transit of Saturn
coming towards you. It is a meeting of the two, you have to go through periods of loneliness.
and it is a mirroring thing, too. The more you When something is transformed, it becomes
step forward, the more it comes and at a certain stronger through loneliness, through standing
moment when you have activated this higher alone. This is a proofing, a test you have to
motivation of life, the spirit will work on you! go through. And the test is nothing less than
And you cannot go back. You have to go on having your grasp on things and your vision
along this path - this is the evolutionary process challenged - say in a Uranian transformation
in which you take part from the moment you through which you have to re-orient your
set your foot on the path. life - you want to grow and you will grow. It
doesn’t matter what happens to you. The
It is called the way of initiations, it is called the inner will to grow and develop must be so
probationary path and it is also described in strong that you leave behind all the things
many words in literature, and in transpersonal that bothered you. But sometimes, it bothers
psychology it’s the same thing. You have to you so much that you cannot take more. This
deal with the crises of transformation in human is always the point of crisis where you think
beings. And why Bruno and I are always you will give up everything. You give up to
speaking about this is because Assagioli was adjust again to the established consciousness,
dealing, as a psychiatrist, with these crises. He or to the established demands.
found out that many people were in a
psychological crisis, in a psychic crisis, even You have to go through these tests many
insane crises, pathological crises, and that the times, and a lot of you have already gone
source of it was not a physical condition or an through this. But, for instance, let’s say that
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astrology is a means for this - astrology can because we have been taught that it is love.
become such a thing for you. You cannot Women have been taught to think that if a
give it up and it has taken you over, in spite man does not love you anymore, you are
of everything people say to you. And this is nothing anymore.
the crisis where Uranus will work on you,
and then you have the possibility to become a For two thousand years we have been
searcher into a new world, a searcher into a educated - especially women - that without a
new dimension. The first thing here is man we are only a half person. Without men,
Uranus, and this has to do with the first without the confirmation that we are married
initiation because you know there is or whatever, we are nobody. And it was like
something more than only materialistic that in ancient times! It was like that.
security - there must be something more Women without men did not exist; in Roman
behind life. This is Uranian power which times they were saying that women had no
brings you forward into something new. soul - I don’t know if you know about that?

Moon/Neptune crises and purification In our days, women realise that they are no
The second one is the Moon crisis. The Moon longer only the Moon, the feeling nature
is to do with love, and through love many which has to fulfil all the wishes and desires
women nowadays are being tested. They have of the man. Women grew out of this infantile
to go through a lot of suffering about love, state, and became aware that they are also
about relationships. Also men, of course, human beings, and men grew out of the
have to go through this, but women attitude of patriarchic demands on women.
especially in these times, for many reasons, You know what is happening nowadays -
one of them being the evolutionary process now partnerships are going through the
that women have to go through. It has to do crises of purification of this illusion to
with the process of a very ancient and old become more aware that each one of the
karma. I don’t know if you know about The partners has the same soul which is in
Secret Doctrine? About this deep thing incarnation and wants to grow.
behind the whole crisis which women have to
go through? But I cannot go into this now. The Moon is to do with love, and through
love many women nowadays are being
The Moon crises also have very interesting tested.
and very vivid experiences. Everybody
knows about it, and everybody goes through We know that on the second level we have to
it - men too - these processes of egocentric grow out of the egotistic, egocentric, the
demands of love, being loved, making rules glamorised and educated attitude towards
about how they want to be loved, bringing to something new, and this is Neptunian love.
the relationships their own projection, their Neptune is a spiritual planet, and Neptune is
own ideas and bringing to the other partner about Christ-like love. But on the emotional
this kind of pressure of how they want to be level, Neptune is deluding, glamorising this
loved. This is an egocentric, Moon-like attitude towards love. In the books you read,
manipulation of the relationship. It’s like a because the books of classical astrology are
child in reality. dealing with the symptoms, you read that
Neptunian power is veiling, it’s glamorising,
The Moon’s emotional ego means, “please it’s nebulising, it’s fogging the concept of
confirm that I exist”. They try everything to love…...you know what I mean. And then
get the other person to confirm this existence. you have to go through all these tests which
But this is a kind of love which is very bring disillusion and crises. I tell you, this is
egocentric, but which has a nice, rosy- hell! (laughter)…..especially for a woman’s
coloured glow around it. We think it is love heart, because we are so illusionary and we
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