Our world is on the cusp of change, according to the Astrological markers. Right now, as of the end of July 2010 we have the following planets on the edge or going over the edge of one sign in to another: Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter and Mars.
People are often confused about the cusp of a sign. We think that we are a ‘watered down’ version of the sign if we are born on the cusp. For example, one woman I met said “Oh, I’m two signs.” “Oh really?” I pressed her for clarification, she said that since she was born on November 22nd she was both Scorpio and Sagittarius. I had to clarify for her that this isn’t really how it works. I explained to her that it is necessary to actually examine your NATAL CHART in order to know which sign you were really born under – since this changes a bit from year to year – those general guidelines you find in books aren’t really accurate. On top of this, I had to also explain to her that at the end and the beginning of each sign is when it is MOST INTENSE. There is no such thing as a watered down hybrid between the two. Other planets in your NATAL CHART may modify this – but not the Sun. The Sun for her was either intensely Scorpio orintensely Sagittarius – not both and not half of each! After speaking to her for 2 minutes it was pretty obvious to me that she was a SAGITTARIUS and not a Scorpio. She was just too bubbly and lighthearted to be an intense Scorpio type, but she was an intense Sag type.
The world is experiencing something very similar right now. With so MANY planets changing costumes, as it were, this year, we are under nothing less than an entire RE-casting of the world players in our lives. The changes are radical, they are dramatic and even though it happens gradually, like the waves changing from High tide to low tide – it is still both unstoppable and irreversible. You see, when a planet changes from one sign to the next, it often turns around and revisits the past sign again through it’s retrograde motion. Most people are familiar with Retrograde Mercury, but ALL planets turn retrograde at some point or another – except the Sun and the Moon.
Right now, Saturn is finally RETURNING to Libra, he entered Libra last year, then changed directions and went back into Virgo, and now is making his final and permanent change into the Libra energy. The other cusp planets – Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron – are or will go through something similar. These are also ALL planets that effect group and social level dynamics, including family. None of them are personal planets. What this means is that society is going through a revision. It will not be the same when we come out the other side (about 12-18 months from now).
These changes started back in 2009 – remember the stock market crash? This was just one of a series of deep-level changes that are taking place. The short version of what these changes are about and what they mean at the big picture level is that the post-modern society is changing radically. Many people still don’t see this (although I find it hard to understand HOW people can cling to illusions of the past when change is so obvious to me).
People will need to work together in groups. We are getting ready to experience disruptions to the flow of goods. Local will be better. Teams will be better (and necessary). More earth disruptions are happening. It will different in different places, but being closer to nature will be hugely important.
Specifics for each person are as individual as you are, and can’t be addressed in this article. These are just guidelines to help people think towards the future and plan for it. Individual forecasts must be looked at privately. In the meantime, be ready to make a new kind of life, and embrace a deeper level of connection to your environment and community – because this is where things are headed.
Aura
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Yes, the Election is coming up. This is true, and most people are worked up about it. The Uranus – Saturn opposition that becomes EXACT on Nov 4th – Election Day, will make sure to stir up plenty of controversy and TROUBLE. The old Guard (Saturn) is pitted against the New Guard and nobody will give an inch. More than any other aspect present at this time this one is a sign of more trouble in already troubled waters. This Election Day has transits that create LONG-TERM turbulence with the US chart – no matter who is elected. It is a dramatic time. I expect the results of this election will be very challenging and cause turmoil (Uranus) for a lot of Americans.
IT’S BASIC ECONOMICS: The current financial crises we are facing is a basic lesson in ’spend less than you make,’ but on a huge governmental scale. This crisis and the fact that world stock markets (Uranus) are continuing to crumble(Saturn) today is all related to this Saturn-Uranus opposition. Here is a very clear article that lays it out in simple economic terms:
I never took trigonometry, but Astrology actually uses plenty of this kind of math! So the same laws apply.
The election isn’t going to solve any of our problems, sorry folks. I wish it were that simple. Of course, we still need to go and vote, but the US is in for some real bashing by Saturn and Uranus over the next year, and there is just no way to avoid this.
Saturn and Uranus in Opposition also create unpredictable Human Behavior and Hate crimes.
Last night I saw a play about racism at The Actors Gang. This is Tim Robbin’s theater, and he was there. We spoke briefly about the upcoming election and he was concerned about disenfranchised voters. I mentioned that PBS had a YouTube station set up for people to video tape their voting experiences. He’s on Bill Maher tonight, and will be giving out the link, but here it is for you now
Seeing that play sure made me feel white, while at the same time reminding me that I am Jewish. I was sitting next to one of my closest friends who is Palestinian. Under different circumstances we should hate each other, but neither of us sees ourselves purely through race identity. The GIFT of Saturn combined with Uranus is the ability for us to ‘get past’ our tribal/survival thinking. Indeed thinking from a perspective of vision instead of fear and us against them survival is the ONLY remedy for Saturn opposed to Uranus woes. It’s time to remember that we’re all in this together.
Anyway, feelings about color is a major issue and concern in this presidential ‘race’. Maybe this gives is all a chance to look inwards and see where we have a victim/victimizer inner drama taking place (Saturn opposed to Uranus). One of the most powerful moments in the play was when an actress pointed out that seeing what the effects of man’s inhumanity to man really ARE, she realized that she could do this. We all could. This issue is on the surface for us to collectively address, heal and move to a new level. My intention is for this to be easy and for us to collectively move to a higher state of awareness. But I still think it’s a good idea to be prepared (but armed with courage and loving action).
Of course, the only answer to racial tension is to create a community and identity that transcends the borders of skin color – a wholeness. The only way to really do this is for us to see ourselves as all part of the whole – all connected to the one planet we share our earth walk with. Really, if we think about it, we can’t ever get away from our connection to oneness. Simply by virtue of our feet being connected to the ground through gravity, that ground connects us to every other living thing on the planet. In the truest, most real sense of it: we are all ONE. One Planet.
Saturn Opposed to Uranus wakes us up to the possibility that it could take a crisis that threatens the planet itself, Is this what it takes for us to pull together and see this?
I hope not, but looking at the Astrology for next year, I fear yes.
I am merely the thunder (Saturn) that warns of the approaching lightning (Uranus).
That same week, May 25th Chiron turns Retrogade, then on the 26th Neptune Turns Retrograde TOGETHER AT ALMOST THE SAME DEGREE in Aquarius (the sign of the masses and politics).
Then in August – just before the Democratic Convention – we have a pair of Eclpses; one Solar Eclipse and One Lunar Eclipse. Each of these things means something. But TOGETHER they paint a picture.
People keep saying that the Democratic race has race as it’s core issue. But I disagree. The conflict is NOT about Black V White, it is about Blue V White (collar that is). In other words Obama is the White candidate – he represents the white collar segment of the population. Clinton is Blue – she represents the Blue collar worker. McCain is Red – he represents the status quo and conservatism. OH, look America is red, white and blue after all. Just not all at the same time.
I personally think that if we must spend the next 4 or 8 years discussing race and reverend Wright I will have to shoot myself. If all we can talk about is race, this means we are all racist! The opposite of that conversation is not more of the same, it is something completely different and new. I want us all to get PAST the race consciousness. I may be dreaming, I know that. But still, I am tired of this.
THE BOTTOM LINE: I look at the three remaining candidates as representing different planets. This has NOTHING to do with their Horoscopes or Sun Signs. When someone becomes a public figure they represent one of the Archetypes of the human mind (these archetypes are also the planets of the solar system). These are the ones that the 3 remaining candidates represent.
McCain: The Red (collar) candidate is SATURN- he’s all about the rules, the status quo and the idea of being ‘conservative’. It remains to be seen weather he can beat the red (ink) that the current admin is leaving behind. Pro war (red) McCain wants to follow through on the Republican agenda. He’s the Daddy figure, rule maker, authority figure, expected style of candidate that Saturn loves. He is the classic, the standard and the traditional. Fighting is always a staple of the ‘red collar’ idealogy.
Obama: The White (collar) candidate is JUPITER – he’s all about philosophy, big expansive speeches and the notion of sweeping change. Can he deliver what he promises? Who knows. Jupiter sometimes makes empty promises, just how far can good intentions get us? Obama’s an unproven quantity. His popularity among college students is again a very Jupiter theme. He is about advantage, opportunity and success.
Clinton: The Blue (collar) candidate is URANUS – she is an innovation, she speaks about the needs of the masses and those who work for a living. Her core message is about unions and programs that serve large numbers of people, like health care – all of which are subjects of Uranus. Complicated, contradictory, unpredictable and revolutionary are all Uranus qualities, so we never know what to expect with her.
The August Eclipse’s WILL UPSET THE APPLECART. Get ready for a heated season because the fight is ON. Eclipse’s will reveal secrets in AUGUST and remove powerful figureheads from the picture. All of this makes for some great NEWS HEADLINES.
RIGHT NOW and into mid JUNE: Lies and manipulations of words are EVERYWHERE. News is distorted and we would be smart NOT TO BELIEVE WHAT WE’RE BEING TOLD. The picture is not clear until September.
The wild card is always the people themselves. Candidates can slit their own throats (the way that Guiluini did), the public is often manipulated by the media. These things cannot be predicted by Astrology. Free Will always exists. These are the trends, the rest remains to be seen. What do you think?
Much is being made of astrology in politics these days. Everybody and their cousin is talking about Hilary vs Obama and their Horoscopes. It is worth pointing out here that BOTH Astrology And Politics are ruled by the planet Uranus. Even the Huffington Post is running a piece called huffpollstrology. The recent news about British Intelligence using Astrology has been all over the wires for over a week. Here’s an excerpt from the ABC article:
“It seems former US President Ronald Reagan wasn’t the first to be accused of using astrology to make key foreign policy decisions.”
My point here is that the Astrologers Ronald Reagan (mostly Nancy actually) used – Jean Dixon among others, sure seemed to work for him. He DID have a brilliant political career – there is really no arguing with this point. Clearly some Astrology is better than others (for bad Astrology, just look at huffpollstrology). And one top point to remember is that a Horoscope in the local paper can do very little (if anything) to help you plan for your life.
On the other hand ABC is very lacking in their reporting on this subject. The reporter Stephanie Kennedy obviously didn’t do her research here. She has neglected to mention (or notice) that the forefathers of our country used Astrology to choose it’s July 4th Birthday. Benjamin Franklin was a master Astrologer, one who used Declinations (a technique I also use) to help choose that date for the creation of America. You will have to search long and hard to find any current Astrologers who have any idea how to use Declinations. And yet they are at least as powerful as the usual Astrology Charts.
“Astrology is one of the most ancient sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the wise and great. Formerly no prince would make war or peace, nor any general fight a battle, in short no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an astrologer.” Click here to see this quote in it’s original context.
Benjamin Franklin, 1751
Benjamin Franklin was also the publisher of a periodical called ‘The Farmer’s Almanac” which points out the best Astrological time for planting crops. And yet, here in the US we have consistently gone away from the timeless wisdom of planting with the flow, instead we genetically engineer our foods so that they have little if any nutrition left and may no longer even be good for us.
Not only that, but many of the dates used in our electoral process were chosen because they would always be energetically supportive of the USA’s best interests and well-being. This has since been messed with by a few of our more barbaric administrations. (Did they know they were messing with a good thing?). Certainly our current economic and housing crisis’ are good evidence that the great prosperity and abundance we experienced all through the 80’s and 90’s is indeed very messed up.
In the end what I can offer is that you begin to Understand and learn the real Secret to how the Universe works. I don’t mean the information that was presented in the Book/Movie. I mean the REAL secrets of the universe. If you try and use the ideas in the movie without a real understanding of them you are more likely than not to have them BACKFIRE on you. These principles have been used throughout time by those who understand them for the purpose of helping humanity or for the purpose of controlling and enslaving humanity – depending on who was in power. It is your right to understand and use the power of Astrology and the principles of the Universe. Otherwise, those in the know can and will use this knowledge against you.
URANUS was the grandfather of all the gods of Greek/Roman mythology. He was the sky god, who took power by castrating his father Kronos. As legend has it, when he did so the galaxies, stars and planets were created from the castrated organ. This story could be looked at as the Greek personification of a ‘big bang’ theory. When URANUS become the supreme god, he created the atmosphere and life on earth by mating with the Earth herself, the goddess GAIA. The two however did not get along and rivaled with each other for power, causing floods, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. This was a turbulent time and could be paralleled with the age of creation that was before and at the beginnings of life on Earth. Human existence on Earth could be paralleled with the age when JUPITER took power from his father URANUS. He did so by castrating him as URANUS had done to his father Kronos. This is sort of the epic Greek version of ‘Those who live by the sword die by the sword’.
In Astrology, the planet URANUS represents unusual and unpredictable events and people. There is something quirky and often genius-like when his energy is present. But often that unusual sparkle is misunderstood and even disliked by the purveyors of the status quo. The status quo usually doesn’t like to be disturbed, and URANUS likes nothing better than to overthrow the existing order of things and bring in radically new and improved ideas. For this reason URANUS lives in a state of constant revolution, upsetting the old order on one hand and guarding his back from the same sort of attack on the other hand. So he can be a bit paranoid, and this is why he is capable of intellectual tyranny. He rules the sky, and the sky represents thoughts and ideas. Therefore he is thought to be brilliant, easily grasping complex ideas, and using them in innovative ways. He also governs the realm of seemingly random geological phenomenon, like earthquakes, floods, meteor showers and volcanic activity.
*According to modern rulerships in Astrology* URANUS rules Aquarius, and Aquarians are really the most unusual people you’re likely to meet. Even if they seem perfectly ordinary on the surface, their minds are usually teeming with all sorts of shocking ideas, often with a hint of disdain for the ‘old’ and the ‘tried and true’ methods of doing things. Sometimes Aquarius’ can be guilty of doing and saying shocking things just for the sake of getting a reaction. They often don’t even mean it, they just like to see people’s jaws drop in astonishment. For this reason they often form alliances and groups that are somewhat outside of the mainstream of society, even on the ‘fringe’. It’s glamorous being an ‘outsider’ after all. But underneath all that rule-breaking behavior sits an almost angelic smiling face who really just wants big brother/daddy to acknowledge their brilliance. This is the archetypal rebellious child who, in their heart of hearts just wants daddy’s approval. But if daddy won’t approve, then they’ll never let him live it down, and may go to any lengths to embarrass or humiliate his stodgy old country club values.
***Please Note*** I use ancient Rulerships for the signs in my Chakra Astrology. I view Uranus as an influence that governs human GROUP ACTIVITIES more than personal archetypes. The original 7 planets govern the personal archetypes, but the outer planets are connected to group activities and human infrastructures. I would describe Uranus as being the Nerous system of society. For this reason Uranus really rules the following areas of life:
Shipping Lines
Electrical Delivery Systems
Trucking Routes
Politics/Rallies/Community Organizations
Housing Developments/Community Planning
Musical Composition
Higher Mathematics
Number Crunching
Stock Markets/Economic Systems
The placement of URANUS in your Natal Chart indicates the ways in which you are likely to think for yourself, or rebel against the values that were handed to you by your father. It also represents you way of relating and connecting to social infrastructures and the systems listed above. This planetary energy indicates the often-complex process of finding one’s own sense of individuality, usually by breaking free from the demands/expectations of the father. It also indicates the gifts that the father gave to you by sending you on this journey in the first place. For more information about URANUS in your chart you may want to have a Natal Chart Interpretation.
I am AQUARIUS: Dazzle me – Ancient Ruler Saturn, Modern Ruler Uranus
Innovative, inventive, brilliant and very unusual the AQUARIUS soul is nothing if not unique, sometimes terminally so. Our quizzical resident genius is usually the one who got dressed so quickly in the morning that his shoes are on the wrong feet and her bra is on over her shirt. Yes, the WATER-BEARER often elicits snickers from their fellow humans at they’re seeming ineptitude at normal human affairs. However, Just as often, these same smirking neighbors become stunned at the strokes of genius and innovation that the absent-minded professor-cum-mad-scientist produces.
One thing to be sure about your AQUARIAN friends, is that they don’t usually get too involved in these dynamics of human power play. They are far too busy figuring out new mathematical theorems, locked into the computer, or conceiving of ways to slice bread faster, better, and with less mess. Serving humanity is the goal of this complex thinker, and he can often forget about himself in the process, ergo that moldy sandwich sitting in the corner. ‘You brought that in on Tuesday, and today is Thursday? Hmm, that means I haven’t eaten in two days. No wonder I was feeling light headed.’ Everything gets sublimated to the ideas and thoughts that are rattling around in this person’s head.
The more complex the idea the better, she is bored with simple algorithms and will go out to seek more challenging mental stimulation. The brilliance of this mind is not to be underestimated. But just as importantly, we will all be better off it is also not wasted. You see, due to his need for such complex mentality, he will seek out trouble and troublemakers, if for no other reason than to try and understand them. After all what could be more fascinating than the incongruities of human behavior? ‘Illogical, captain,’ says Dr. Spock. And yet we somehow always get the sense that Mr. Spock is fascinated with trying to logically understand the irrational emotional machinery that makes the rest of us tick.
And then your AQUARIAN friend gets himself into an even more fevered line of analysis, sure that this time he can solve the unsolvable. And much to the surprise of all involved, even himself, sometimes he does. And it’s another leap forward for mankind.
You may have noticed how unswervingly, relentlessly, bull-doggedly attached to an idea the WATER-BEARER can become. And it is useless to argue the point with them. ‘There are absolutes in life,’ he rails. ‘Right is right and wrong is wrong.’ This person is so idealistic that one wonders sometimes how it is possible to live inside their heads. For her ideals are not something to be discussed or striven towards, they are laws, ironclad, immutable and as tangible as that rock cliff over there, and just as binding as gravity. It doesn’t matter if you don’t see things the same way they do. To the AQUARIAN there is only one way to see things. After all, his logic is impeccable, and so, like a math problem, are his conclusions. Trouble is, the human heart isn’t so cut and dried in it’s movements.
And so, the AQUARIUS learns through the concepts and qualities represented by his opposing archetype of LEO. This teaches him about the passion and fire of participation in life and the ability to stand tall and declare his own presence. Ultimately our WATER-BEARING genius discovers that by using her mental prowess to innovate the human experience she fulfills her need to simplify the complexity of the universe. And he simultaneously learns to participate in the mass experience through the strength of his own irrational drives and feelings.
If you love one of these easily distracted people, then become their best friend, pry them out of their isolation and take them to a party. Gently nudge them to pay attention to the mundane, annoyingly base needs of the human body. The AQUARIAN is kinky once you can get them in bed and she falls for a person who embodies their highest ideals. So if you can manage to become a fairy princess, a saint, or mother Theresa he will place you on a pedestal and revere you as the inspiration for all of his accomplishments.
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Innovative, inventive, brilliant and very unusual the AQUARIUS soul is nothing if not unique, sometimes terminally so. Our quizzical resident genius is usually the one who got dressed so quickly in the morning that his shoes are on the wrong feet and her bra is on over her shirt. Yes, the WATER-BEARER often elicits snickers from their fellow humans at they’re seeming ineptitude at normal human affairs. However, Just as often, these same smirking neighbors become stunned at the strokes of genius and innovation that the absent-minded professor-cum-mad-scientist produces.
