NCGR Leleākūhonua Research Project

Alan Clay

Many astrologers believe that new planets are discovered when we are ready to incorporate the new consciousness represented by that planet into our existing consciousness. We’ve noticed this with the discovery of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto over the last two hundred years. Now, with the discovery of many more outer planets, we’re entering a period of rapid consciousness development.
Our personal consciousness develops within the collective consciousness around us, and we see this mapped out in the personal planets in our chart. These are the planets out to Saturn that are visible to the naked eye, and they address facets of our personality that are important in living day to day.
The inner planets represent aspects of personality, and the outer planets represent aspects of consciousness. So, as each new outer planet is discovered, it represents a new aspect of consciousness that is becoming available to us. Over the last 200 years, we’ve discovered three new outer planets. The discovery of Uranus brought us intuitive consciousness, the discovery of Neptune, spiritual consciousness, and the discovery of Pluto, psychological consciousness.
Then, since the turn of the 21st century, we’ve discovered another ten planets. The discovery of so many new outer planets at one time represents a feast of new consciousness that is now available to us. The enlightenment that until now was only available to select gurus and priests after years of devout work, is now open to everyone.
Because these outer planets talk of consciousness, how they manifest in our lives depends on our own current level of consciousness. Most people on the planet experience the outer planets as unconscious influences. At this level, these esoteric new energies are only perceived when they barge into our lives in a confrontational way, because we haven’t been sensitive and adaptable in the lead up.
As we develop spiritually and we consciously on-board these new energies, they become guides into new territory, offering us special skills or challenges, depending on the aspects in our chart. At this level, rather than unconscious influences, the outer planets become like a new super-consciousness.
We discover the meaning of these new planets by looking at a range of factors which includes the myth behind the name and the orbital characteristics, as well as the Sabian Symbol for the discovery degree, events around the discovery date, and the chart for the discovery.
Then we look at the new planet in charts to see how it manifests in people’s lives. All the planets have been acting in our lives throughout our evolution as a species, we have just been unconscious of the outer celestial bodies. But now that we can see them in the sky, we can see their effect in the events in our lives, and also in the events in peoples’ lives throughout history.
Please join me and a small group of NCGR members to explore Leleākūhonua, our newest planetary discovery. Leleākūhonua has the longest known orbit of any planet, around 32 or 33,000 years. This is three times as long as Sedna, so Leleākūhonua is the new outer limit of our solar system. The planet was first observed on October 13, 2015, and it will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2078.
Unlike most planets in our solar system, Leleākūhonua is not named after a deity, but it has been given a Hawaiian name that compares it’s orbit to the flight of migratory birds, and evokes a yearning to be near the Earth. Birds represent spirit in myth, and while migration is a great effort and stress for birds, the life benefits outweigh the risks.
We’ll meet initially on Zoom on Monday, April 21, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time / 5 p.m. Eastern Time, and we will meet monthly following that, and share discoveries by blog post in between. You can join at any time. We’ll start gathering data within our social circles and client lists, which is an approach which I attribute to Haumea—the higher octave of Neptune—who values the wisdom of the community.
I will collate this material into a course on Leleākūhonua, which I will teach in late September at the Dwarf Planet University, and someone else in this research project, will write it up for one of the NCGR publications. Join us in this research as we push the boundaries of astrological knowledge and human consciousness.
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Alan Clay is a New Zealand writer and astrologer. He is the NCGR International Delegate for New Zealand and one of the most popular speakers in the NCGR International Webinars program. Reviewers are calling his book, New Stars for a New Era: A Consciousness Workbook for our 10 New Planets, “groundbreaking” and “highly recommended.” In 2020, he founded the Dwarf Planet University, where he teaches online classes helping students understand these new planets in their personal charts.

Andrew Krause