Last week Tom Friedman, op-ed columnist for the New York Times wrote a piece entitled "Something's Happening Here", about two books that present alternate views on the general social turbulence of the times. One author sees current events as a "Great Disruption" and the other as a "Big Shift". Paul Gilding, an Australian environmentalist, sees the world wide demonstrations as evidence that our growth obsessed capitalistic system is breaking down. "Our system of economic growth, ineffective democracy, of overloading planet earth-our system- is eating itself alive." He argues that the demonstrations that are occurring are a result of the realization that for last 30 years all economic growth has affected only the one percent of people at the top.
Two other authors, John Hagel III and John Seely Brown in their book "The Power of the Pull", see what is happening as the early stages of the "Big Shift", which merges globalization with the Information Technology Revolution. We experience this shift as the growing stress that comes as we continue to operate with institutions and systems that are increasingly dysfunctional. However, this cultural shift also brings with it a huge flow of new ideas, innovations, markets and collaborations. It is this flow of innovation that brings human potential to the forefront as both individually and collectively we have to respond to this flood of new opportunities, and we will be the better for it. I am always amazed how often Friedman has his finger on the pulse of things. I use astrology to understand, he just intuits.
Ultimately both positions are correct. The demonstrators in Lower Manhattan are evidence of the "Great Disruption" as were the young people in Tahrir Square last January, and Mohamed Bouazizi, the young man of Tunisia who set himself on fire in protest of governmental harrassment last December the 17th, which event triggered all the disruptions since. Since "Occupy Wall Street" began about a month ago, as of today, it has spead to 105 cities in this country (even our small village on eastern Long Island had a demonstration Saturday) and other European capitals.
I would guess that most of these demonstrators are part of the generation born 1984-1998, those individuals aged 13-26 (Mohamed Bouazizi was). This group has the planet Neptune in Capricorn, as Wendell Perry points out in his article in the current Mountain Astrologer magazine, "Are You Ready for the Neptune in Capricorn Generation?" Neptune is the planet of our dreams, what we idolize, our hope for the future, our visions of what utopia will be like. This generation is very idealistic about government and institutions (Capricorn) wanting them to take RESPONSIBILITY for the common good (Capricorn).
The last time Neptune was in Capricorn was 1820-1834. Those young people were just coming of age in 1848-9 when there was a wave of evolutionary upheavals in almost every capital in Europe, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Baden, Prague, Rome, Milan. The University students in Vienna forced the Austrian Emperor to dismiss his minister, Prince Metternich, who had been in power for 30 years (sound familiar?). The students (later disenfranchised workers stood with them) had to march while being fired at by the autocratic Austrian government. Each generation's job is to bring the world's attention to what they see as the defining injustice of the era. We did it with the Vietnam War.
In addition to their innate sense of wanting the best for all of society, not just the privledged , the current generation has the planet Pluto in Scorpio. Pluto rules Scorpio in part and so is very powerful. These demonstrators have a tenacity, ruthlessness and passion which will set them apart. What they choose to take on as their cause they will never give up on until it is accomplished, or they die (Mohammed Bouazizi) as it comes from the deepest part of their being.
I also see evidence of Friedman's second book, of this time being a great opportunity. I was in NYC on Friday and took a taxi. The taxi driver was quite excited with an almond bar he had dreamt up and was going to have produced. He showed me all the wrappers of the ones on the market now, that his was better than. He said he would never get rich driving a taxi but instead of complaining, used his ingenuity to come up with a product to sell to the masses. I am sure there are lots of other examples out there.
The "Big Shift" that astrologers talk about is the move into more Aquarian principles-where ideas, inventions, group collaborations, wealth and gender equality and freedom of the individual to live with dignity are among the important themes. The big shift for this astrologer is this move into a post-materialistic society. Believe it or not by the time that Saturn and Jupiter met again in early Aquarius in December of 2020 and Pluto enters Aquarius in 2023, we will be in an era where our relations with our fellow men will be valued, not the size of our bank account.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
New York City in the News Again
Following on the 14th of September's blog, where we talked about the Mars transit over the summer's eclipse affecting New York City, bringing an earthquake, hurricane and the 9/11 commemorances, we now have NYC in the news with the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations. Beginning September 17th, as Pluto (one of the planets that we talked about then) made an apparent station (meaning it is changing its orientation to the Sun from our perspective) which intensifies its effects considerably. Pluto symbolically demands that we go into the deepest recesses of our being and come up with what is true for us, and be able to stand in that truth, no matter what the consequences, just as these demonstrators are doing.
From the news reports it seems that these protesters did not have a clear sense of a goal, but were responding to their gut feeling of the powerlessness, grief and unjustice that so many homeowners and middle class are feeling as the current policies and procedures are stacked against them. Few are benefiting at the expense of the many. With the synchronicity of Pluto stationing and increasing in power as it moves forward in the zodiac, those deeply held beliefs have erupted to the surface as the sitins in Lower Manhattan have spread to Seattle, Boston, Atlanta and Los Angeles, among other cities. On Saturday seven hundred people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge in one of the largest arrests in the country of peaceful demonstrators. MOVE ON. ORG has joined the movement now and is calling for solidarity demonstrations in small cities, towns and campuses all across the country.
Just as we have seen demonstrations all over the globe this year, our country is no exception. It is not an end of war demonstration this time, but a call to end the corporate takeover of our democracy. Are we seeing a new movement being born at the time of this Pluto station?? One more in keeping with the Aquarian Age where freedom, equality and an equal distribution of wealth are promised??? Did this start in NYC with an eclipse hitting NYC's natal chart this summer??? Time will tell....
From the news reports it seems that these protesters did not have a clear sense of a goal, but were responding to their gut feeling of the powerlessness, grief and unjustice that so many homeowners and middle class are feeling as the current policies and procedures are stacked against them. Few are benefiting at the expense of the many. With the synchronicity of Pluto stationing and increasing in power as it moves forward in the zodiac, those deeply held beliefs have erupted to the surface as the sitins in Lower Manhattan have spread to Seattle, Boston, Atlanta and Los Angeles, among other cities. On Saturday seven hundred people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge in one of the largest arrests in the country of peaceful demonstrators. MOVE ON. ORG has joined the movement now and is calling for solidarity demonstrations in small cities, towns and campuses all across the country.
Just as we have seen demonstrations all over the globe this year, our country is no exception. It is not an end of war demonstration this time, but a call to end the corporate takeover of our democracy. Are we seeing a new movement being born at the time of this Pluto station?? One more in keeping with the Aquarian Age where freedom, equality and an equal distribution of wealth are promised??? Did this start in NYC with an eclipse hitting NYC's natal chart this summer??? Time will tell....
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Autumnal Equinox
So here we are at the beginning of Fall, 5:05 AM EDT on Friday the 23rd, to be exact, when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator from north to south, the length of day and night are equal. According to the Farmers Almanac, the Equinox also brings the time when the Sun's apparent position on the horizon changes at sunrise and sunset. This shift can be noticed from one day to the next if one is observant at those times. There is a noticeable change in our physical world too, as this decrease in light causes the leaves to change color. So we are in a change of season when our physical world alters its appearance.
After the Equinox happens on Friday, we have a Super New Moon on the 27th. A New Moon occurs once a month when the Sun and Moon are together (we never see them). A Super New Moon occurs when the Moon is at its closest approach to the earth strengthening the gravitational pulls on the physical earth and on our psyches. This extra pulling might pull us in a new direction. Change is in the air and seen in the world around us.
A New Moon begins a new cycle, we get to reset ourselves in the sign Libra, which will affect each of us differently according to what area of our life is ruled by Libra. Libra is the sign of the scales. It is the call for balance. As day and night are equal now, so should we be in our personal lives. In the coming month, we strive that everybody gets treated fairly. We learn to cooperate with one another. Remember the symbol for justice was blindfolded so ideally we detach ourselves from the situation to make unbias decisions.
The fireworks that will be evident starting tomorrow on the Equinox, come from the Sun at the beginning of a cardinal sign connecting with the two outer planets Uranus and Pluto, also in the beginning of two other cardinal signs. We have talked about this before, the approaching 1st quarter square between these 2 outer planets that have much to do with the collective. The approaching 90 degree angle has been felt all year and is partly responsible for the "Arab Spring", when Uranus, the call for freedom and dignity of the individual meets Pluto the transformer of large groups of people.
These 2 planets were last together 1964-65. Next June they will make the 1st of 7 exact 90 degree squares to each other through March 2015, as this year they only came to within a degree of one another, but are still close enough to each that after the Sun enters Libra , it meets Uranus on the 25th, then Pluto and Mercury on the 28th. The Sun acts like a translator of the 2 outer planets and we feel the synchronicity. These are opening squares so that the vast cultural changes we saw begun in the sixties, have an increased intensity (the square) to further those new beginnings in more of an "evolutionary imperative" as Stephanie Justin calls it in The Mountain Astrologer magazine.
Just as we see the change in where the sun is rising and setting, the trees changing from green to red, yellow, orange, so too our psyches will be altering this autumn, some more than others. The Sun's apparent movement into Libra and this New Moon connected to the planets of evolutionary progress will push us to think differently and take action. Just as planets moving into cardinal signs make changes in the natural world, so too in our inner world and personal lives, some more profoundly than others. The some include any person with planets in 5-15 degrees of the cardinal signs. This group also happens to include: the USA, France, Germany, China, the UN, EEC, the UK and USSR. All these countries will be affected in the years to come by the Uranus/Pluto square, the synchronistic effects of which we are getting an inkling of this year especially now at the change of seasons.
After the Equinox happens on Friday, we have a Super New Moon on the 27th. A New Moon occurs once a month when the Sun and Moon are together (we never see them). A Super New Moon occurs when the Moon is at its closest approach to the earth strengthening the gravitational pulls on the physical earth and on our psyches. This extra pulling might pull us in a new direction. Change is in the air and seen in the world around us.
A New Moon begins a new cycle, we get to reset ourselves in the sign Libra, which will affect each of us differently according to what area of our life is ruled by Libra. Libra is the sign of the scales. It is the call for balance. As day and night are equal now, so should we be in our personal lives. In the coming month, we strive that everybody gets treated fairly. We learn to cooperate with one another. Remember the symbol for justice was blindfolded so ideally we detach ourselves from the situation to make unbias decisions.
The fireworks that will be evident starting tomorrow on the Equinox, come from the Sun at the beginning of a cardinal sign connecting with the two outer planets Uranus and Pluto, also in the beginning of two other cardinal signs. We have talked about this before, the approaching 1st quarter square between these 2 outer planets that have much to do with the collective. The approaching 90 degree angle has been felt all year and is partly responsible for the "Arab Spring", when Uranus, the call for freedom and dignity of the individual meets Pluto the transformer of large groups of people.
These 2 planets were last together 1964-65. Next June they will make the 1st of 7 exact 90 degree squares to each other through March 2015, as this year they only came to within a degree of one another, but are still close enough to each that after the Sun enters Libra , it meets Uranus on the 25th, then Pluto and Mercury on the 28th. The Sun acts like a translator of the 2 outer planets and we feel the synchronicity. These are opening squares so that the vast cultural changes we saw begun in the sixties, have an increased intensity (the square) to further those new beginnings in more of an "evolutionary imperative" as Stephanie Justin calls it in The Mountain Astrologer magazine.
Just as we see the change in where the sun is rising and setting, the trees changing from green to red, yellow, orange, so too our psyches will be altering this autumn, some more than others. The Sun's apparent movement into Libra and this New Moon connected to the planets of evolutionary progress will push us to think differently and take action. Just as planets moving into cardinal signs make changes in the natural world, so too in our inner world and personal lives, some more profoundly than others. The some include any person with planets in 5-15 degrees of the cardinal signs. This group also happens to include: the USA, France, Germany, China, the UN, EEC, the UK and USSR. All these countries will be affected in the years to come by the Uranus/Pluto square, the synchronistic effects of which we are getting an inkling of this year especially now at the change of seasons.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
On New York City
I have been thinking about New York City and how often it has been in the news lately; an earthquake, hurricane and the events around the commemoration of September 11th is alot of activity for less than 3 weeks. I looked at the birth chart for NYC Jan 1 1898 12:01 AM. The City has 9 degrees of Libra rising with the planet of growth, expansion and success, Jupiter rising within minutes. This is a very good augury for the successful launch of any person or place. On the Midheaven is the sign Cancer at 11 degrees. There was a solar eclipse this summer at 9 degrees of Cancer on July 1st, a point on the zodiac close to both the ascendant and midheaven of New York City. This puts emphasis on the most sensitive points in NYC's (or anybody's) natal chart triggering events and notice for the year.
Eclipses are powerful Full or New Moons that have resonance not just for the month they occur. The points where they occur are sensitive for years. Even though this partial eclipse of the Sun on the 1st of July is over, the effects of an eclipse on one's Midheaven or destiny, or how you are seen in the world continues on especially when a planet like Mars passes over that point. Every 2 1/2 years Mars comes to conjunct that one point in the zodiac and he was within 2 degrees, at 13 Cancer on August 23rd, when the strongest earthquake in the East for 100 years, was felt in NYC.
Also that day we had Mars making a 90 degree angle to Saturn in Libra, crossing NYC's ascendant and also the natal placement of Saturn in the USA's natal horoscope. Saturn in the sky has returned for the 8th time since July 4th 1776 to the degree it was when we were founded. This is interesting in that this Saturn return and earthquake happening in the East affected 11 out of the original 13 colonies, as ASTROTABLETALK blog points out. We talked about the contraction that occurs when Saturn comes around as it is now for the USA. NYC and the USA share similar areas of the zodiac and so when something happens to one, it affects the other too.
Mars the planet of activity, energy, assertion, and Saturn, the planet of physical reality, the end or stoppage, were the planets, when they came in contact, that signaled the worst of happenings, accidents, falls, deaths, fires etc. for astrologers before the modern era. In other words an astrologer in London in the 1700's would see those 2 planets in relationship connected with the city's natal angles (Ascendant and Midheaven) and predict dire things.
Then 5 days later we had hurricane Irene affecting the same eastern states. Although the shoreline were saved, the inland areas were devastated. Who ever heard of a hurricane (or tropical storm) in Vermont?
This was the day of the New Moon in Virgo connected to the planet Neptune who rules the seas and earthquakes as well, in that they come from under the land.
New York City was also commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11th. This occurred on the weekend of the Full Moon. The Moon was in Pisces and as it was predicted with the New Moon and Neptune and Hurricane Irene bringing lots of water so to at this full Moon are we in grief and mourning with tears as we remembered how all our lives changed that day.
If we go back to September 11th, we can see from looking at the natal, progressed and transiting charts the effects on the city that day. It is more than I can go into here but 2 things stand out. One is Mars on that day was within 6 minutes of exactness to the progressed ascendant to NYC's chart (note the planet Mars again going over angle of a chart and how that stirs things up; and secondly that summer the solar eclipse was at 0 degrees Cancer on June 21st, on the world axis (EVERYBODY notices what happens when something occurs at 0 degrees of any sugn that starts a season) followed by the Lunar Eclipse, at yes you guessed it, at 13 degrees of Capricorn. This time that degree is opposite NYS's Midheaven and conjunct its natal Sun at 11 Capricorn.
The moral for would be astrologers-watch what happens when the planet Mars goes over a sensitive point, like an Ascendant or Midheaven that has been recently eclipsed. That person or city or country will be in the news.
Eclipses are powerful Full or New Moons that have resonance not just for the month they occur. The points where they occur are sensitive for years. Even though this partial eclipse of the Sun on the 1st of July is over, the effects of an eclipse on one's Midheaven or destiny, or how you are seen in the world continues on especially when a planet like Mars passes over that point. Every 2 1/2 years Mars comes to conjunct that one point in the zodiac and he was within 2 degrees, at 13 Cancer on August 23rd, when the strongest earthquake in the East for 100 years, was felt in NYC.
Also that day we had Mars making a 90 degree angle to Saturn in Libra, crossing NYC's ascendant and also the natal placement of Saturn in the USA's natal horoscope. Saturn in the sky has returned for the 8th time since July 4th 1776 to the degree it was when we were founded. This is interesting in that this Saturn return and earthquake happening in the East affected 11 out of the original 13 colonies, as ASTROTABLETALK blog points out. We talked about the contraction that occurs when Saturn comes around as it is now for the USA. NYC and the USA share similar areas of the zodiac and so when something happens to one, it affects the other too.
Mars the planet of activity, energy, assertion, and Saturn, the planet of physical reality, the end or stoppage, were the planets, when they came in contact, that signaled the worst of happenings, accidents, falls, deaths, fires etc. for astrologers before the modern era. In other words an astrologer in London in the 1700's would see those 2 planets in relationship connected with the city's natal angles (Ascendant and Midheaven) and predict dire things.
Then 5 days later we had hurricane Irene affecting the same eastern states. Although the shoreline were saved, the inland areas were devastated. Who ever heard of a hurricane (or tropical storm) in Vermont?
This was the day of the New Moon in Virgo connected to the planet Neptune who rules the seas and earthquakes as well, in that they come from under the land.
New York City was also commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11th. This occurred on the weekend of the Full Moon. The Moon was in Pisces and as it was predicted with the New Moon and Neptune and Hurricane Irene bringing lots of water so to at this full Moon are we in grief and mourning with tears as we remembered how all our lives changed that day.
If we go back to September 11th, we can see from looking at the natal, progressed and transiting charts the effects on the city that day. It is more than I can go into here but 2 things stand out. One is Mars on that day was within 6 minutes of exactness to the progressed ascendant to NYC's chart (note the planet Mars again going over angle of a chart and how that stirs things up; and secondly that summer the solar eclipse was at 0 degrees Cancer on June 21st, on the world axis (EVERYBODY notices what happens when something occurs at 0 degrees of any sugn that starts a season) followed by the Lunar Eclipse, at yes you guessed it, at 13 degrees of Capricorn. This time that degree is opposite NYS's Midheaven and conjunct its natal Sun at 11 Capricorn.
The moral for would be astrologers-watch what happens when the planet Mars goes over a sensitive point, like an Ascendant or Midheaven that has been recently eclipsed. That person or city or country will be in the news.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Labor Day Musings
I read alot of the Sunday paper yesterday and was taken by how much our President is being taken over the coals. It seems he cannot do anything right, even trying to pick an evening for a major speech became another newsworthy event where Obama is seen as "ineffective", "a mother-may I" president, "the nation's deferrer in chief" (Frank Bruni in Pass, Fail and Politics in the NYT) and having "a deficit of smarts""(same source) not to have forseen what the Republicans would do with his aquiescing to Boehner's refusual to give him the date he suggested for his jobs speech (first time in history).
I also read David Remnick in "The Talk of the Town" in the September 5th New Yorker. Remnick writes citing a previous article in that magazine by Ryan Lizza about how the Obama administration "maybe moving toward something resembling a doctrine". Furthermore Lizza wrote that one of his (Obama's) advisors described the President's actions in Libya as "leading from behind". The presidential candidates and conservative pundits have taken up the banner "leading from behind" as a sure fire way to pillor the President.
Lizza goes on to say that in forming this administration's foreign policy two unspoken and comparatively new tenets must be taken into account. One is that the relative power of the US is in decline and the second is that the US is hated in many parts of the world. In joining the action in Libya, and not leading it as the Republicans would have us do, Obama is displaying a new kind of leadership, the kind that builds consensus among allies first before going into interfere into another country's affairs. This kind of leadership does not go around "trumpeting" wins.
The astrology supports the conclusions in the New Yorker. America's power is in decline. Look at our chart. Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn are in retrograde motion, that is 5 out of the possible 8 planets (the Sun and Moon never go retrograde) are changing orientation to the Sun, which is our purpose. As a nation we have moved away from our center and must in time be brought back. We are no longer going forward, but have to back track, to relearn pieces we didn't get right the first time.
The leadership that Obama is displaying is in his chart, as the country follows along with its leader's natal horoscope. We have to live with and through the President's karma. Obama's natal Jupiter, the planet of expansion and opportunity is at 0 degrees of Aquarius. Aquarius is an air sign and feels more comfortable in a group. The Sun, ability to lead, is strong in August, in Leo, when it is high in the sky. (Obama is a Leo but his Sun is weakened by a square to the planet of illusion and egolessness Neptune.) Aquarius is opposite Leo, the Sun is low in the sky in February, the Sun is weak there. Obama is not looking for glory. He has a sense that America has made huge mistakes since 9/11 and our reputation as a trustworthy leader is tarnished.
We are moving into the Aquarian Age when the sign Aquarius will be stronger for good or ill (Sarah Palin. Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck are Aquarians). The next Jupiter/ Saturn conjunction will be in December 2020 at 0 degrees of Aquarius. These every 20 year conjunctions mark new stages in our cultural, political, social development. More of a one world concept will be in evidence and Obama can be seen as a herald.
As to his troubles right now, his progressed Moon is at the end of Pisces. In a month and 1/2 his Moon will move into the next sign Aries, run into Uranus and his progressed Sun. He will get fired up again and do something surprising. It will be a time of illumination as he will be entering the progressed full moon stage of his life when one gets to see the bigger picture. Pisces is not the sign to do any combat, you feel and just want to include everybody in your heart. Aries is a whole different ball game, you get back on your horse. The President's progressed Moon moving into Aries starts a new personal cycle around the wheel of life.
I also read David Remnick in "The Talk of the Town" in the September 5th New Yorker. Remnick writes citing a previous article in that magazine by Ryan Lizza about how the Obama administration "maybe moving toward something resembling a doctrine". Furthermore Lizza wrote that one of his (Obama's) advisors described the President's actions in Libya as "leading from behind". The presidential candidates and conservative pundits have taken up the banner "leading from behind" as a sure fire way to pillor the President.
Lizza goes on to say that in forming this administration's foreign policy two unspoken and comparatively new tenets must be taken into account. One is that the relative power of the US is in decline and the second is that the US is hated in many parts of the world. In joining the action in Libya, and not leading it as the Republicans would have us do, Obama is displaying a new kind of leadership, the kind that builds consensus among allies first before going into interfere into another country's affairs. This kind of leadership does not go around "trumpeting" wins.
The astrology supports the conclusions in the New Yorker. America's power is in decline. Look at our chart. Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn are in retrograde motion, that is 5 out of the possible 8 planets (the Sun and Moon never go retrograde) are changing orientation to the Sun, which is our purpose. As a nation we have moved away from our center and must in time be brought back. We are no longer going forward, but have to back track, to relearn pieces we didn't get right the first time.
The leadership that Obama is displaying is in his chart, as the country follows along with its leader's natal horoscope. We have to live with and through the President's karma. Obama's natal Jupiter, the planet of expansion and opportunity is at 0 degrees of Aquarius. Aquarius is an air sign and feels more comfortable in a group. The Sun, ability to lead, is strong in August, in Leo, when it is high in the sky. (Obama is a Leo but his Sun is weakened by a square to the planet of illusion and egolessness Neptune.) Aquarius is opposite Leo, the Sun is low in the sky in February, the Sun is weak there. Obama is not looking for glory. He has a sense that America has made huge mistakes since 9/11 and our reputation as a trustworthy leader is tarnished.
We are moving into the Aquarian Age when the sign Aquarius will be stronger for good or ill (Sarah Palin. Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck are Aquarians). The next Jupiter/ Saturn conjunction will be in December 2020 at 0 degrees of Aquarius. These every 20 year conjunctions mark new stages in our cultural, political, social development. More of a one world concept will be in evidence and Obama can be seen as a herald.
As to his troubles right now, his progressed Moon is at the end of Pisces. In a month and 1/2 his Moon will move into the next sign Aries, run into Uranus and his progressed Sun. He will get fired up again and do something surprising. It will be a time of illumination as he will be entering the progressed full moon stage of his life when one gets to see the bigger picture. Pisces is not the sign to do any combat, you feel and just want to include everybody in your heart. Aries is a whole different ball game, you get back on your horse. The President's progressed Moon moving into Aries starts a new personal cycle around the wheel of life.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Mercury Retrograde's Halfway Point
We ended last time with a mention of Mercury. As of last evening at 9:04 PM EDT Mercury made its inferior conjunction to the Sun. This is the time we have been waiting for. At the halfway point in the retrograde cycle with the inferior connection to the Sun, the information that was needed, that Mercury left its throne on Olympus to find, has made its connection to the source of life, our goals, and purpose, the Sun. If you woke up the last few days with a new thought consider that Mercury has brought you a message that is useful for your future.
Another point to be made is Mercury's larger cycle that includes the time frame from July 15th to September 9th. Although we all know that Mercury is in apparent retrograde for only about 3 weeks, there are shoulder or shadows time periods when issues first arose that will be addressed in the cycle and will finally get resolved.
If you go back to July 15th you will find that whatever was on your mind at that time, in whatever department of life (or house in your natal chart) the sign Leo governs, the issues you would be grappling with first came to the surface. These issues should see resolution around the time of Mercury's direct station on the 26th of August at 6: 05 PM EDT, as Mercury again passes 18 degrees of Leo.
The final solution of the Mercury retrograde cycle however will not be until September 9th when Mercury again passes 1 degree of Virgo (the sign after Leo). This is important to consider because when Mercury went retrograde August 2nd he did so facing the planet Neptune. Therefore this whole retrograde cycle when we are seeking new information has been clouded by the spirtual or illusionary planet Neptune.
When you think about all that has occured in these past few weeks, you realize that we were under a cloud and could not see clearly. This would be true for each of us in some area of our lives, not everything. When Mercury again passes 1 degree of Virgo on Friday September 9th-the cloud or confusion that Neptune brings to our thinking will dispearse. Neptune also connects us to the divine, to the egoless state we are in during meditation. This month should have been a terrific time for those affairs, but not so great for financial matters, where Neptune can augur loss or dissillusion.
Another point to be made is Mercury's larger cycle that includes the time frame from July 15th to September 9th. Although we all know that Mercury is in apparent retrograde for only about 3 weeks, there are shoulder or shadows time periods when issues first arose that will be addressed in the cycle and will finally get resolved.
If you go back to July 15th you will find that whatever was on your mind at that time, in whatever department of life (or house in your natal chart) the sign Leo governs, the issues you would be grappling with first came to the surface. These issues should see resolution around the time of Mercury's direct station on the 26th of August at 6: 05 PM EDT, as Mercury again passes 18 degrees of Leo.
The final solution of the Mercury retrograde cycle however will not be until September 9th when Mercury again passes 1 degree of Virgo (the sign after Leo). This is important to consider because when Mercury went retrograde August 2nd he did so facing the planet Neptune. Therefore this whole retrograde cycle when we are seeking new information has been clouded by the spirtual or illusionary planet Neptune.
When you think about all that has occured in these past few weeks, you realize that we were under a cloud and could not see clearly. This would be true for each of us in some area of our lives, not everything. When Mercury again passes 1 degree of Virgo on Friday September 9th-the cloud or confusion that Neptune brings to our thinking will dispearse. Neptune also connects us to the divine, to the egoless state we are in during meditation. This month should have been a terrific time for those affairs, but not so great for financial matters, where Neptune can augur loss or dissillusion.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
So What IS Going on in Our Country???
Alot it seems for a Mercury retrograde period. Why is that? The next two big planetary pairs to coincide with a change in consciousness, Uranus and Pluto, have entered the theater. They were last in conjunction (together in the sky) 1960-72 when all the social reforms, the Social Security Act with Medicare and Medicaid, the sexual revolution with "the pill', the women's movement (NOW), immigration reform, civil rights and the war on poverty, were enacted. Uranus and Pluto were in a closing 90 degree square late 1920's-mid 1930's, when gold was confiscated by the US government, several years of financial panic followed and the dollar devalued, among other worldwide social changes. Uranus and Pluto have been coming closer to exactness since January and the "Arab Spring". They are as close as they will get to each other this year, these weeks, late July to mid August. Next June 2012 they will begin a series of 7 exact passes through 2015, we had only 4 passes in the 30's. What we are seeing now is only the beginning of a universal human awakening of our instinct to survive -that same call that the young Egyptians responded to. Uranus the reformer who wants freedom, brings a sudden uprising or awakening and meets Pluto, who symbolizes the struggle for survival, who over turns the staus quo so that things are never the same after. (Think Egypt those young people had no idea that their protests last January would result in their leader in jail, on trial 7 months later-much less the movement spreading throughout their region). These 2 planets in early cardinal signs are affecting the USA's natal Venus (finances and values) and Jupiter (lots of). And then in a few years our natal Sun (our identity). Uranus the awakener and Pluto the reformer have been triggered by the planet Mars (action, energy and sometimes violence) these past few days as that planet entered Cancer (feelings and domestic security) so the the nastiness of the long drawn out debt ceiling debate, the market crashing, the USA's credit rating getting downgraded because we are seen as not being able to govern ourselves, the single worst days for American casualities in Afghanistan -are all events that fit the symbolism of the planetary movements. This turbulence should continue through mid August as Mars moves through Cancer triggering the planetary setup in our natal chart. This is of course in conjunction with the USA having her Saturn return when the belt must tighten as we have gotten too fat (our natural tendency with a Venus and Jupiter conjunction). Saturn returns happen every 29 1/2 years, even in our own lives and mark a time period of constriction and downsizing, when we are called upon to mature, to take responsibility, to live according to who we are. Our natal Saturn is in the 10th house of reputation, how we are seen and Saturn is there again. The last time Saturn came around the Sun to this place was in 1981-82 with Ronald Regan as president. The conservative Federalist Society was formed at that time with the express mandate to get more conservative lawyers on the Supreme Court. (They did it!!) On the previous exact Saturn return, October 22 1981, we were informed that the national debt topped 1 trillion dollars-sound familiar? Saturn makes a 90 square to our natal Sun (our identity) in our natal chart, indicating we are fearful (Saturn) of change and must be forced into it (a square). So we see that it is timely that the conservative forces are so strong, people want to talk about debt and we are experiencing a down grade to our reputation and status in the world. And then there is Mercury..... |
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