This week: At 15 minutes before midnight Eastern Time on Sunday March 22,
Saturn entered Aquarius, and will spend the majority of the rest of 2020
playing zig zag, running between the final degrees of Capricorn and the first
degrees of Aquarius, before settling in for the long haul of about the next 2 ½
years of Saturn in Aquarius, beginning in December 2020.
This is the first time
Saturn has been in Aquarius since the last time, the last time being February
1991 through the beginning of 1994, more or less, considering the retrogrades
at both the beginning and the end of that period. But this Saturn in Aquarius
differs in that it contains the conjunction of Saturn to Jupiter, the Great
Conjunction, in the sign of Aquarius for the first time since 1405. This
happens in December of this year, and the entire year is a lead-up to this
celestial portent which signals the paradigm shift, change of world leaders,
systems, and the end of the old cycle, beginning of the new. We’re in labor
folks, and we’re dilated to 10 and we’re pushing! We’re pushing!
Also Sunday Mercury, back in Pisces but finally going in the
right direction, that is to say moving forward, makes a sextile to Uranus in
Taurus, which is going to make vague information (that’s Mercury in Pisces)
more embodied (that’s Taurus) and solid, maybe in a surprising way or from
someone “different” or unique, or perhaps it’s the information itself which
comes as a surprise. Venus in Gemini sextiles Neptune and with the Moon in
Pisces conjunct Neptune, I’d worry about too much data overload confusing
everything, and the inability of those at the highest levels to see the forest
for the trees.
Monday March 23rd, Mars in Capricorn conjuncts
Pluto. Friends I’m going to try to spin this as positively as I can, but I just
can’t sugar coat it, much as I’d like to! Mars in Capricorn is big business,
Pluto in Capricorn is big power and big money. The conjunction of these two may
trigger outrage and then maybe some outright rage later in the evening when the
Moon leaves passive, too easily victimized by external circumstances Pisces and
goes roaring into Mars-ruled Aries.
The astronomical New Moon in Aries Tuesday
morning makes a conjunction to the asteroid Chiron, the Wounded Healer. You
know what I’d love to hear when that happens? “Hello, we’ve discovered a cure
for the Corona Virus!” I hope and pray that’s the call. However because of the
Mars/Pluto machinations of the previous day, what I’m the most worried about is
Wednesday’s conjunction of the Sun in Aries to Chiron in Aries. With the
Cardinal Fire sign of Aries, which remember is the Tribe of Yehuda so just
think Yehuda energy but basically unrectified because this is the world we’re
living in – The Sun illuminates the pain of this whole world, which is Chiron
in Aries. Chiron is “the wounded healer,” this asteriod’s legend and archetype
is this: a centaur who lived on Mt. Olympus as tutor to the children of the
gods, Chiron was wise, kind, and beneficent to all – maybe a little bit too
much so, for because he took pity on the human race and taught them the secret
of fire, Zeus, the king of the gods, punished his centaur / tutor by giving him
a wound which would never heal. The only relief Chiron could get for his wound
was to heal others who were also wounded. So we have Chiron in Aries, the sign
of blood, the sign of fire, the sign ruled by Mars, conjunct the Sun. I’d like
to hope this means the healing ultraviolet rays of the Sun illuminate the
consciousness of all of mankind and remove the primal woundedness from each
person through self-awareness. OR it could be a violent (that’s Aries)
manifestation of woundedness (people rioting via Zoom?) because the government
is dragging their feet around sending relief and dealing with this thing?
Rosh
Chodesh Nissan comes on Thursday and the Moon enters Venus-ruled Taurus. Now
things start to get real. We’ve moved out of Solar Pisces and even now out of
Chodesh Adar into Chodesh Nissan – the month G*d willing of REDEMPTION, for the
Jewish People and the Human Race, may it be so!
The Moon in earthy Taurus squares
practical Saturn in Capricorn on Thursday, prompting investment into solid and
concrete value – stocking up on canned goods? Toilet paper? Buying stock in
Weight Watchers because you know from all this stress-eating their stock is
going to go sky high in the summer? The Moon in Taurus also makes a conjunction
to Neptune Thursday evening, and a sextile to Pluto Friday morning. The rich
get richer and the poor get angry. Revelations of powerful elites receiving
favorable treatments and financial outcomes may stress the general public to
the breaking point. That’s on a national level. On a personal level: Emotions
are going to ping-pong all over the place, from hopelessness to empowerment,
from fear to desperation to climbing the ladder of faith all over again. That’s
a description of the New Normal but it’s also Thursday and Friday by the stars.
Saturday which is the 3rd of Nissan is Shabbat
Parshat Vayikra, Venus in her home sign of Taurus trines Jupiter in Capricorn,
and later trines Pluto in Capricorn as well. If you listen to Venus in Taurus
what she’s saying is this: take a bath. Eat some chocolate. Make love. Jupiter
and Pluto are only too happy to oblige, empower, and facilitate her requests. I
suggest you cooperate as well. We are all going to need the most de-stressing
of activities to counteract all the stresses going on all around us as the days
turn into weeks of social isolation.
