As a planet changes direction, towards or away from the Sun from earth's perspective, it apparently goes into slow motion and stays in one spot for a time-days or weeks depending on the distance its orbit is from the Sun. In the case today it is Mercury, and so, if one is sensitive to the planetary shifts or just willing to act on intuition, we have an opportunity to slow down our coming and goings (Mercury governs movement- thoughts and travels) in order to reflect.
My reflections concern the nature of time. As an astrologer or a cycles scientist, as I prefer to refer to myself, one uses the orbiting planets with the backdrop of the zodiac to frame time as circular, not linear. The earth is circling around the Sun year after year, coming back to one spot in the zodiac and continues to cycle. Of course all the planets are revolving around the Sun, each planet is in its own orbit, and each comes back to one spot but at different times, making it impossible to have the repetition of a particular moment in time.
President Obama made headlines yesterday with his speech on the Zimmerman verdict, relating his personal experiences being a black man in America, "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago". My attention was sparked when he illustrated a role reversal. What if Trayvon Martin had been older, carrying a gun would he have been able to stand his ground if Zimmerman were following him and been shot because Martin felt threatened? Would the outcome have been the same? In my head I said the answer as "no" it would not have been. I heard David Brooks from the NY Times say that hearing the President's speech reminded him of the old empathetic Obama during his first campaign, 2006 and 2007, this is the Obama we voted for and do not often see. But why this week?
President Obama was born on August 4th 1961 with planet Jupiter at 0 degrees of Aquarius. Jupiter is there for about a week every 12 years. Jupiter governs our belief systems, our faith, the place we expand, magnify, progress, incorporate that which is eternal, see the bigger picture and have our successes. The sign of Aquarius is the water bearer spreading ideas as he splashes the water around. Not only does Obama have Jupiter in Aquarius but he also has Aquarius rising, (as did Lincoln) so keenly understands this modality. Aquarians are concerned with humanity, with equality for all, brotherhood and the common man. Obama's strength and success lies in his maintaining and conveying the ties to the eternal values that sustain all men. The inner chord that he was born to sing woke this week with the upcoming Full Moon.
Every time another planetary body comes into contact with a planet in our birth chart, an inner chord is struck and one has an opportunity to speak our truth (or not). A planet's place at our birth moment connects us to the circular aspect of time. The Full Moon on Monday the 22nd is at 0 Aquarius, repeating Obama's natal position and reverberating forward to the next Jupiter Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees of Aquarius on December 21st 2020. Time becomes cyclical, as what is arising now this weekend is a foreshadowing of what will come up again 7 years from now, when Jupiter and Saturn begin a new 20 year political, social, cultural and economic cycle in the same place in the zodiac. Of all the successes that Obama will look back on, my guess is that he will be most proud of this one- bringing to consciousness our historical unconscious bias about race.
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