"Coming down to earth", "tackling the truth"
and "seeing a situation for what it is and not what we wanted it to be",
are some of the phrases Bernadette Brady uses in her book, "The Eagle and
The Lark" to characterize the meaning of the Solar Eclipse that occurred
September 1st. These phrases perfectly describe the election week
surprise.
There are no more potent celestial markers for life changing
moments than eclipses. The crossing of the Moon, Sun and Earth's paths in a
Solar Eclipse has a powerful effect that resonates through time; not unlike
throwing a stone across a body of water and watching it ripple. The
repercussions of the meaning of an eclipse continue on. Tuesday the 29th with the New
Moon (not an eclipse as only the Sun and Moon are connected) and for the rest
of this month we have the opportunity to come to terms with the sudden
awakening to a new reality, both in our personal and collective lives. This is
true for everybody; even President-elect Trump.
There is always more than one celestial event that synchronizes
with such an unpredictable turn of events here on the terrestrial plane; that
is to say they occur at the same time. If the eclipse in September, has the
veil over our eyes being lifted-it would suggest that we have been seeing
through rose-colored glasses.
The planets Neptune (deception) and Saturn (accountability) have
been dancing together all year. It has been hard to discern fact (Saturn)
from fiction (Neptune). What is real? A fog over our eyes, without
knowing there is one, makes it difficult to know who or what to believe. With
these two planets distancing themselves from each other, the blindfold is
coming off; we have an opportunity to see with new eyes; to see more clearly.
We are now aware, for instance, that "fake news" was floating around.
This new awareness will be true both in our collective lives and
in our personal one. An astrological interpretation of events can be used as a
guidepost to what could/should be happening in our lives. My guess is that
there is something in your personal life that has gone through a shift in the
past 3 months. The time is right to see through those new pair of glasses; to
let go of any outdated picture of reality and see your life and our life
together from a different perspective.
The gradual movement of the Moon in her orbit coming closer to
earth leading up to the Super Moon, the Full Moon on the 14th of November, would be another
contender for a contribution to the perfect storm of influences that converged
in this upsetting and surprising Trump victory. Super Moons have an effect on
us, as our bodies are 90% water, effect the tides and the Teutonic plates in the
earth. Emotions, too, run high-not a time for a reasoned decision. We act on
impulse-not consciously understood. Shifts happen. The last year that the Moon
was this close to the earth was 1948-the year that Truman beat Dewey-another
upsetting victory.
Maybe this is one reason so many people get it so wrong?
From astrologers, (one astrologer's method to predict presidential
elections has worked since 1868, but failed this year) to mass media, to
newspaper projections (only 3 papers in the country endorsed Trump including
the KKK's), to Las Vegas book makers, to social media to pollsters and pundits
(by some accounts to Trump himself); the whole world was shocked. It felt like
suddenly being caught stark naked in the middle of Main Street, and not knowing
what to do or where to go.
Studying the cycles of the planets, or using astrology, can make a
contribution towards a new perspective. Astrologers are good at playing
"connect the dots"; the planets are the dots. When a big event
occurs, we look to see where the planets are as it is happening and if/where
they are repeating a pattern from the past and in the future.
Mars changed signs and went into 0 degrees of Aquarius in the
middle of the night as Trump was gaining the upper hand. Zero degrees of Aquarius
is extremely significant as it is the degree of the next Jupiter/Saturn
conjunction December 21, 2020. This date marks the beginning of next major
cultural, economic, social and political epoch, as recorded by these
Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions. It will be a watershed moment. We are at the end
of a 20 year cycle that began May 28, 2000, the month that the tech bubble
burst, and faith in any sustained material security collapsed.
These Grand Conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, having been in
earth signs since 1802, the beginning of the Industrial Age, are now moving
into air signs (Aquarius 0 degrees). We are moving from wealth creation, land
settlements, territorial disputes and value being concentrated in material
form, into the air signs. Here our value will be centered in technological
development, social progress, intellectual development and new concepts coming
into human consciousness (there was a taste of the air modality in 1980-1). The
last time these every 200 year Grand Conjunctions occurred in air signs was
1186, then from 1226 to 1345 and in 1405. Looking back to see the list of human
achievement across the globe then will give us clues as to what the next 200 years
will be like.
So Trump's presidency is not a beginning, it is the beginning of
the end. The urgency to redistribute wealth (Aquarius) has reached such a
crisis, that the voters in the mid-west, who have not benefited from the
technological expansion the east and west coast citizens have, had the courage
to vote for such an outwardly repugnant person to be President. We are in no
less a shifting pattern than we were when we went into the Industrial Age, when
we moved from being an agrarian nation to being a manufacturing one. There was
much civic turmoil then too.
The American people are represented by the Moon in the natal chart for
the USA, which is in Aquarius; the sign of the reformer, the maverick, the
outsider, the rebel (Obama is one). Trump who owed nothing to the establishment
is such a person. The American people see him and they him; his unorthodox
approach, unscripted rallies, his lack of political backing are appealing to
all of us. (The Super Moon probably influenced enough of us to make a
difference too). In order for us to live according to our founding
values, we have to become more of a just society. The concentration of wealth
has to be re assigned, more tolerance has to be in evidence.
The mid-westerners voted for change- they saw clearly that if the
system has to be fixed that it is best to find a leader who is not of the
system. Trump with Uranus the planet of the maverick, reformer and rebel
conjunct his Sun, neither Republican nor Democratic is the one to do it,
contrary though it may seem to be. His election is necessary for us to wake up
to our founding fathers ideals and the US's spiritual destiny, as the election
result occurred with Mars moving into 0 degrees Aquarius, thus foreshadowing
the next Jupiter/Saturn conjunction.
There are no more leaders; each of us has to follow our own inner
daemon. We are in the Aquarian Age-or the dawning of it anyway. Aquarius
is about equality, about being able to relate to all kinds of people, the
brotherhood of man, social justice, tolerance, where everyone does his/her part
and all contribute their uniqueness equally. Lincoln was an Aquarian he asked
all the men who ran against him to join his cabinet. He wanted to hear
their point of view on matters. If we have a whole block of the US not joining
the party-that will not work. Those people "fed up" with the
establishment let us know it this election cycle. They want a seat at the
table. And we have to make room for them.
Meanwhile working through the unimaginable with 59 million other
people seems quite comforting.
