This week, as retrograde Mercury rolls back through Cancer, the year 1776 comes around to go around. That’s because Thursday is the anniversary of the USA’s Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It also because Mercury was retrograde on that historical date very much as it is now.
In 1776 Mercury was retrograde from June 28 to July 22, entirely through watery Cancer. This year, Mercury is retrograde from June 26 to July 20, entirely through watery Cancer.
The similarities do not stop there. 1776 was one of those seldom-seen years, like this year is for the first time since 1967, when all three of Mercury’s apparent reversals were entirely in water signs.
Mercury’s first retreat of 1776 was confined to Pisces from late February to mid-March. Same for this year and 1967. Mercury’s last rollback of 1776 was from late October to mid-November solely in Scorpio. Same for 1967 and 2013.
Once a fluke, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern. This year, at the very least, the astrology of Mercury’s periodicity in reversal establishes the trend, which is simply stated as: “What goes around, comes around.”
Among other things, Mercury represents the mind — your mind — and its means of grasping and communicating patterns. What astrology’s improbable repetitions are revealing for your mind to grasp now is a trend of history come around to your life and the life of every being on Earth, all together at once. It begins with what appeared to be a fluke at the time, the resolution adopted to rationalize a revolution waged by North American colonists against the British sovereign.
After what the Declaration of Independence itself explicitly reveals as “a design to reduce” its authors and their constituency to “absolute despotism,” the document goes on to itemize the historical trend “of repeated injuries and usurpation’s” for which “redress” was sought through “repeated petitions,” which only brought more of the same abuse.
Finally, with “a decent respect” they had not received in kind, and “with a firm reliance” on the traditions and belief systems that had come around to them, the Second Citizens of the United States set forth to establish a new historical pattern upon the continent they were in the process of taking away from its First Citizens. And there was the rub.
As one would expect of any document formalized during a Mercury retrograde, there was a fly in the ointment. The fatal flaw that the Declaration of Independence started in its going around has now come around to all beings at once. By referring to the First Citizens of North America as “merciless Indian savages” distinguished only by their “undistinguished destruction,” the sons of freedom took upon themselves the sins of their forebears to be ultimately revisited upon their children.
It seemed like a coincidence in 1967. That was when the only objects of “undistinguished destruction” were the disenfranchised. In 1967 it was routine to answer repeated petitions by either people of color, or people of the Caucasian persuasion acting on their conscience, with repeated injury. Most of the citizens who celebrated the Fourth of July in 1967 did not see the same coming around for them.
With the recent revelation of undistinguished abuses by the National Security Agency and its corporate contractor-masters, it is self-evident that there is no excuse to perceive coincidence anymore. The flaw has become the pattern, and the pattern is pervasive.
The very same accusations of “destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions” leveled against its First Nations have come around to become the modus operandi of the nation which smugly calls itself America. The very same history of the British Monarch cited by the colonials to “impel them of separation” has become the undisputed history of the America of this century.
Neither is the “long train of abuses and usurpation’s” systematically perpetuated by the USA confined to its own. We now know that the criminal conduct, irresponsible destruction, and reckless entitlement from which the United States sought to distinguish itself upon establishing its identity have been visited on the entire world as the 21st Century identity of the nation born on July 4, 1776.
That’s a heck of a note to hit from the bandstand on the Fourth of July, but it is the only note that rings true. Truth, as it turns out, is one of the few things we have left. Hence your place in all of this, as all manner of lives lived going back for centuries are coming around to actually be your life in this life.
Do not take upon yourself the burden of changing the world all at once. What is long in coming around is long in resolution, even in the case of revolution. Rather make it your place to know the truth and keep it alive in your mind. Make it your place also to know that the end is always written in the beginning, and that we are very close to the point where a new beginning is called for.
To make the new beginning better than the last one, your mind will have to remember what came around to you, so that those who follow will know, and do better than those who preceded. All you have to do is come around yourself, to what you came around to your place and your time to do.
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The 1967 Mercury retrograde in Cancer punctuated a Summer of Love and War.
The stage was set with opponents in the Vietnam conflict locked in a cycle of escalation. The Johnson administration employed a “policy of minimum candor” in its dealings with the media. Military information officers sought to manage media coverage by emphasizing stories that portrayed progress in the war. Over time, this policy damaged the public trust in official pronouncements. As the media’s coverage of the war and that of the Pentagon diverged, a so-called credibility gap developed.
The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, “The Setback,” or حرب ۱۹۶۷, Ḥarb 1967, “War of 1967″) began in the Middle East on June 5. Also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, it was fought by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria.
June 8 – The USS Liberty incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171.
June 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Malheur II, a search and destroy operation conducted by the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division operating as part of Task Force Oregon in Quang Ngai Province, began with air assaults. The operation continued until June 8, 1967 and mainly consisted of small-scale skirmishes that were successful in disrupting the Vietcong / North Vietnamese Army, but failed to eradicate them. The VC/NVA were moving freely in the area again by the end of the year.
June 9 – June 1967 Mercury (12 cn 15’21”) enters shadow phase
June 10 – The Six-Day War ends with Israel and Syria agreeing to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. Israel had seized the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank of the Jordan River (including East Jerusalem), and the Golan Heights. Overall, Israel’s territory grew by a factor of three, including about one million Arabs placed under Israel’s direct control in the newly captured territories. Israel’s strategic depth grew to at least 300 kilometers in the south, 60 kilometers in the east and 20 kilometers of extremely rugged terrain in the north, a security asset that would prove useful in the Yom Kippur War six years later. The political importance of the 1967 War was immense; Israel demonstrated that it was able, and willing to initiate strategic strikes that could change the regional balance. Egypt and Syria learned tactical lessons and would launch an attack in 1973 in an unsuccessful attempt to reclaim their lost territory.
June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.[4]
June 12 – Venera 4 (Russian: Венера-4 meaning Venus 14) is launched by the Soviet Union. It was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. It may also have been the first probe to land on another planet, with the fate of its predecessor Venera 3 being unclear.
June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
June 14 – The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.
June 17 – The People’s Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
June 23-25 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. The main subjects discussed between the two was the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the Soviet-US arms race.
Towards the end of the meeting, Johnson said he was willing to discuss a peace settlement regarding war in Vietnam; literally meaning dividing the country in half, one part communist another part capitalist. He assured Kosygin that the only reason for American bombing in North Vietnam was because of North Vietnamese intervention into South Vietnam. Johnson offered the Soviets to supervise the democratic election in South Vietnam in the aftermath of the war. Kosygin responded by returning to the original subject; the crisis in the Middle East. During their afternoon meeting, Kosygin told Johnson that he was recently in contact with the Prime Minister of North Vietnam, and that they had discussed the possibilities on putting an end to the war. The North Vietnamese reply came during Kosygin’s lunch with Johnson. Kosygin compared the Vietnam War with the Algerian War which ended when Charles de Gaulle’s France signed a peace treaty signifying the end of French colonisation of Algeria; he believed this would happen to the United States if the war continued. He also made it very clear that the North Vietnamese would not give up their goal of a unified Vietnam that easily.
Johnson was worried of North Vietnamese betrayal, saying he would be “crucified” politically in the United States if the North Vietnamese decided to send their troops into South Vietnam if and when the United States stopped bombing them. Kosygin said, relieving Johnson of his worries, that a North Vietnamese delegation could meet anywhere in the world to discuss a peace settlement with the Americans.
Although Johnson and Kosygin failed to reach agreement on limiting anti-ballistic missile systems, the generally amicable atmosphere of the summit was referred to as the “Spirit of Glassboro”.
June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles’ song “All You Need is Love”.
June 26 – Mercury (21 cn 58’58” Rx) stations retrograde
June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
July 1 – EEC joined with European Coal and Steel Community and European Atomic Community to form the European Communities (from the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]).
July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
July 6 – Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, following the latter’s secession May 30.
July 7 – All You Need Is Love is released in the UK.
July 12 – The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
July 12 – 1967 Newark riots: After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, lasting six days and leaving 26 dead.
July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ, riots also occur.
July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade and business are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks.
July 20 – Mercury (12 cn 15’21” Rx) stations direct
July 30 – Gallup poll reported 52% of Americans disapproved of Johnson’s handling of the war, 41% thought the U.S. made a mistake in sending troops, and over 56% thought the U.S. was losing the war or at an impasse.
August 3 – Mercury (21 cn 59’58”) shadow phase ends
Event summaries courtesy of Wikipedia.
Thank you, Len and all
Finding what is true for oneself is always a good place to start. Knowing what the bottom line is, where we place our limits on thinking, and feeling, and loving…
If the change, evolutionary-revolutionary change, doesn’t come from each and everyone of us, then where else?
I belong to the ancients not yet born
I belong to the carriers of weightless chains
I belong to the memories of claims not yet heard, restitution not made
Generations ever afraid that the desire for retribution with the seed
remains veneered beneath civility
I belong to the ancients not yet born
I belong to the carriers of weightless chains
Longing to be set free.
Plus, these are times of such intense upheaval, Egypt, Indonesia, more terrifying news from Syria – impossible not to be affected by it all.
Yes, thank you dear Len.
And thank you P Sophia for the lovely Sabian symbols and interpretations. Tough, exhausting days for this crab, too. But do have the sense of a strong clearing process taking place, the need to have faith and let it work itself through and out.
Thank you Len for the moving piece.
I am a bit disappointed about this period though. I thought Jupiter into Cancer was going to be a great, beneficial shift for us all. I was particularly looking forward to this, as Cancer is also my Sun Sign. But apparently with this Mercury Retrograde upon us not so fast or, so easy. Well, not yet anyway.
These first few days of July have been tough. Old, muddy baggage attempting to rear it’s ugly head. But i know the drill and am nipping these negative pattern thoughts in the bud, immediately.
Maybe it’s the Sun’s opposition to Pluto that’s also playing a part, trying to pull us back down to fear from trust. Just feeling exhausted and complaining a bit (but not plying the victim’ role), as we continue to be ‘worked upon’!, is how it feels.
I found the Sabian Symbols and Rudhyer’s interpretations for this opposition today/ these next few days, relative and reassuring.
DECISION: LEVEL: EMOTIONAL/CULTURAL
Sun’s position: (CANCER 10°): A LARGE DIAMOND IN THE FIRST STAGES OF THE CUTTING PROCESS.
KEYNOTE: The arduous training for perfection in order to fully manifest an ideal.
Fittingly regards the Sun, speaks about the evolution of consciousness and of personality. “…once cut to perfection, the “diamond” may fill a woman with pride.”
CRYSTALLIZATION: EMOTIONAL/CULTURAL
Pluto’s position: (CAPRICORN 10°): AN ALBATROSS FEEDING FROM THE HAND OF A SAILOR.
KEYNOTE: The overcoming of fear and its rewards.
Speaks of understanding the communion of compassion and love in diversity. “The man who radiates perfect harmlessness can call the wildest creatures to him and can establish with them a partnership based on mutual respect and understanding.”
Thanks for the US Sibly info, Len and Be–I finally just got it. Of course, Astrologically Cancer is our Sun sign.
Be: Happy Birthday and blessings to you Sun Sister!
Also, I wasn’t continuing to castigate!! I was stating what I believe the colonists thought at the time – 1776 – savages, and if you read further, I was saying that we all share the blame. The finger is pointing at all of us and it is time to make things right, as Len has suggested in this posting. There is little love for one another in the world right now.
The annual missing persons number may be closer to 250,000 – I’ll have to find the stats. FBI keeps those kinds of records. You can thank the US Border Patrol for rescuing thousands every year.
I wasn’t degrading the natives – just explaining that they hardly rise to the sainthood that so many imply. If it was up to me, the lands would all be returned. Personally, I’m sick to death of all the racial charges made by the different groups, and I don’t care to hear about it anymore. Just today there is an article at National Review where the black people are mad that the gays are getting all the attention. When will it end???
Patty, I don’t mean to cause trouble, but I find your comments unsettling. I can’t see what progress is made by reiterating a dehumanizing perspective about other human beings. The fact that “most people thought of them as animals, not humans” is, to me, weak basis for continuing to castigate an entire race. “Most people” think a Big Mac is a decent meal. Most people are idiots, taken in the aggregate.
I can appreciate the anger about slavery, and I agree that the sex slave trade is sickening; its stats horrifying. But I grew up near the Little Bighorn Battlefield, and feel like my life has been about rising above the racial intolerance ingrained in that community. In reference to Amanda’s work today, calling Indians “brutal” in this day and age feels like two steps backward. I’m sorry if this offends you, and maybe I’m missing your point, but the perspective I get from your post is upsetting.
aword: You are very welcome.
wandering_yeti: Thank you for your insights, which are of true value beyond money. Your unique combination of experience and erudition has given you an almost liminal perspective, free from illusion yet able to move. You are deeply appreciated here.
Mia: Thank you for your additional thoughts and for your support of wandering_yeti.
Miss S: Thank you for some additional cogent discretion during a Mercury retrograde when it is needed more than usual.
Chief Niwots Son: Thank you for your kind words and generous heart. Your prayer is also mine.
Patty: You are entirely correct, thank you. The purpose of today’s blog was to address subject matter explicitly written into the Declaration of Independence. History tells us that all explicit references to slavery were edited out of that document for political reasons. Nonetheless, everything you have written is very pertinent and accepted with gratitude. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln, who made the Declaration of Independence the cornerstone of his rhetorical inspiration was well aware of how important the unspoken but implicit and realistic manifestations of life informed the ideal – with him you are in good company.
But knowing the truth is nearly impossible, don’t you think? It’s also the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Battle, where nearly 50,000 American brothers were killed, maybe more. You make reference to the Indians, but it needs perspective. A lot of the Indians were brutal, most were slave owners. In fact most people thought of them as animals, not humans. My husband’s great grandmother was a captured Indian, enslaved by the Ottawa in Canada. The Ottawa were cannibals who ate their enemies. Luckily one of her captors married her. We have documentation from the Jesuits who wrote it all down. His mother’s Cherokee ancestors were slave owners, and there is much written about it. They tended to adopt the slaves later, but capturing and owning humans was normal. Not all of his ancestors were forced west, many stayed in the south, owned land and slaves. My ancestors were slaves too. Slavery has been around forever. In fact, the Irish were nearly completely wiped out by the British when they were forced into slavery. It was the goal of the British to kill the Irish. Men were rounded up and sent to America, and the surviving homeless Irish women were sent to Jamaica to breed more slaves, children who would be mixed blood, but identified as black. So much for indenture. The lifespan of an Irish female slave was short, just a few years. Currently, a woman stolen for the sex trade has a life span of about 3 years, is what I have been told. 850,000 people go missing every year in the US. Where do they go? Not that many are recovered. There are more slaves today than at any time in history, and many of them are right here in the US. Everyone wants to look down their noses at someone else, but the fingers seem to be pointing at everyone, all of us, all at once. I’m just saying that the Indians weren’t that innocent, and neither were the Africans who sold their own into slavery. Duplicity is/was everywhere. The innocent are still killed today protecting the status quo (soldiers). It’s all about the money. Even the cracker who sued Paula Deen is after the money. I doubt she cares less about the “N” word.
Len- a full buffet of astrological and historical insights. So many patterns and so much emotional energy still held within these patterns, my prayer is that the watery configurations of this year allow for more flow, release and resolution. Within and Without.
I like what Dr. West has to say about hope:
“Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there’s enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, “It doesn’t look good at all. Doesn’t look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever.” That’s hope. I’m a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.”
wandering yeti,
If you still have a problem tooth, please go back to the previous article from a week or two ago when you commented about it. There is a list of places in Portland that will treat you for free with their contact information. I hope this is no longer a problem but if it is there is help available.
Mia
“The wreck is coming and maybe we can’t do anything about it”- heard from one side of a cell phone conversation today. Welcome to the Kali Yuga.
People have been going off like firecrackers around here. People running out of money for the first time sometimes fail to notice the escape hatches in the sinking ship and panic. I panicked when I ran out and had to go surfing, then found community in the cracks in the empire’s failing facade.
I’m feeling an increase in blame flinging as more and more people move here with their cars and expectations and find things in Portland that were never on the TV show like plenty of homeless people. People speeding in their cars on park roads that were once only slow traffic, traffic spilling onto side streets…and then a tendency to blame the poor for the precarious nature of the middle class predicament.
That’s always how Empire works; somebody has to play scapegoat and hang on the cross of sacrifice to maintain the illusions of its integrity. Any critique is seen as a threat to its existence. Empire looks to me like a servant of entropy as its machinery diminishes the intelligence of the many so that we obediently trash our humanity to serve as insects in the empire’s hive. It sacrifices all the critiques it can and thereby diminishes its intelligence.
Thankfully that’s not all that’s going on.
Thank you for this poetic piece of creative-as-ever writing, Len. Your style of interleaving the story of the moment with the story/s of the past always put a new spin to an old orbit.
As for me personally, I am so moved by our currently stars – within me – that I haven’t an personal analysis handy. Revolution, however, is taking place – quiet, planned, joyful.
Thank you.
Happy Birthday, Be!
Thanks, Len.
A number of articles I’ve read would disagree with you but time will tell. As always, free will is the determining factor.
This awful weather, to my mind, represents the mental oppression we, as a collective are experiencing. Time for Seals and Croft and “Summer Breeze.” Was that 1967? Just checked. It was released in 1972. A lot can happen in five years.
Mia
Mia: Thank you. The more flexible the definition of revolution, the more likely we will. The less flexible the definition of revolution, the less the less likely it is to happen. The only ominous is within, not headed our way.
be: Happy birthday! A big hug! Beginning with the ending of your marvelous comment post – yes, change is good, but please say it ain’t so about putting the ephemeris down! Moon and Saturn in aspect does not have to mean “fade away”! We love you, treasure you and, daresay, need you. Yes, i agree, the ascendant-descendant repeating is meaningful, whether set for different locations or not. The “north node path” you speak of (and its “remarkable” potentials) are enhanced by transiting Venus and nourished by transiting Ceres (both conjunct). Yes there is reason to expect better things because that is the 9th house after all, and if anybody is going to step up and make a difference, the long and continuing struggle for equality has certainly functioned to make women strong enough to do so. Finally, thank you for your insightful and open-minded interpretation of Hybris, yest another indicator of how much we need you here to expand our consciousness.
Miss S: Many thanks to you for sharing how an occupational (at least) left-brainer is giving expression to right-brained contemplations of a profound nature. Also, thank you for helping us to see over the horizon to based on the patterns of history. While hope has gotten a bad rep among many in recent years (and for good reason). It does not have to be the pernicious narcotic with the bitter comedown. There are, and have been other ways. Hope needs our help to realize it’s potential. Just like astrology does not happen to us, rather we do (or do not) make it happen. When we human beings can be of as much (or more) help to hope itself as it can be to us, we will have found a new way.
Well said, Len. The irony is striking. So is your sense of hopefulness.
Last week, in a Smiley and West interview with ACLU president Susan Herman, Tavis Smiley wondered “what is going on in the ether” that we are coming around again to the civil liberties issues we should have moved forward from in the sixties. One would think our evolution would not be so convoluted, so ‘long in resolution.’
I wonder, as we grasp the patterns, whether the hopefulness, idealism and intensity of the seventies and sixties will be regained and reignited. A year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, in 1777, came the battle of Saratoga, the turning point in the war when a band of not-so-professional soldiers (previously known as farmers), defeated General Burgoyne. By Independence Day of 1968, we had the new and improved Civil Rights Act in place, thanks to people who risked their lives and livelihoods for what is right.
How perfect Len. I really love this offering today, partly because my own solar return starts fresh this evening and I will no longer be under the influence of a yod, 2 years running, between the sextile of Pluto and Chiron and their quincunx’s to Mercury, conjunct my own natal Mercury and the U.S.A. Sibly chart’s north node. I suspect my drive to flush out all the aspects I can find to the Sibly and/or the U.S. solar returns (which for the last 2 years have also featured that same yod, with the apex point Mercury conjunct it’s north node), are coming to an end. We are both being transitioned via our solar returns from copious amounts of communication to a new “fancy” pattern featuring a cardinal T-square of Sun, Pluto, and Uranus, along with a water grand trine between Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Change is good.
What’s more, for the USA this past year’s SR chart was a “repeat” of the 1776 natal chart’s ascendant-descendant’s degrees, even though those charts were set for 2 different cities. This also qualifies for being more than just coincidence, don’t you think? I’m hoping this past year has put the U.S. on that north node path (where SR Mercury was for 2 years) leading to remarkable growth in overcoming past karma.
In honor of this last day of soul-sistering with my beloved country, I would like to note a (very) few transits right now that will still be in effect for her new solar return (this year that will be on July 5). Today, July 2, transiting Atlantis is conjunct the U.S. Sibly Sun at 13+ Cancer, trine the north node at 13+ Scorpio and also trine Chiron at 13+ Pisces retrograde. I believe this relates to the consciousness-raising effect of Edward Snowden’s expose’ of how U.S. citizens have given up their privacy because of their reliance on technology’s gadgets and gizmos (Atlantis conjunct Sun). It’s painful (Chiron in Pisces) and it needs to be transformed (NN in Scorpio).
Transiting Venus (5+ Leo), Ceres (4+ Leo), Black Moon Lilith (2+ Leo) are now hovering over the U.S. North node (6+ Leo) and are quincunx Neptune at 5+ Pisces retrograde, and Narcissus at 3+ Capricorn retrograde. This yod puts the ladies in the lead-point and, just as the last 2 years have, keeps the U.S. on that evolutionary path to redemption. I expect this next year American Women in all walks of life will be shouldering the spotlight; if not as vocal, they will be just as dramatic (Leo).
There is one other astro body conjunct the U.S. north node in this year’s solar return. Hybris. We gravitate to hubris as the keyword, but Hybris also means hybrid. I think it has been and will continue to be representative of both of these concepts, and in the company of those feminine symbols, Venus, Ceres and Lilith, it gives US the opportunity to grow past the patriarchal arrogance of messing with Mother Nature.
As for me, the next 10 years (at least) has my progressed Moon in lock step each year with my solar return’s Saturn. I rather imagine that this is a message to focus on my home and family, leaving me less time for ardently researching the ephemeris. Change is good. As above, so below.
be
so Len,
In your opinion, are we about to have a revolution this summer? It sure feels like something ominous is headed our way.
Mia