The Capricorn Point is Crowning

Dear Friend and Reader,

The contractions are getting closer together: Eric, Anatoly and I are feeling those final birth pangs as the Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News has started to crown. Just a few more minutes now and we’ll have a beautiful newborn edition to share with our subscribers. We’re going to name her The Capricorn Point.

This week, Eric writes about the personal struggle of self-determination, and addresses some deep-seated issues that many of us have experienced ourselves, or know someone who has. He writes:

The current astrology, in the grand sense of the word (Pluto entering Capricorn and Saturn opposing Uranus) fits the scenario beautifully: profound and sweeping changes to the structure of society, and our relationship to that structure.

The primary structure of society is the family, and we are finally figuring out that the heart of the matter is how we were impacted by our family of origin, and the influence that this has on our ability to function today. The sense of betrayal many people are experiencing and projecting onto the government or massive corporations would be better directed at former caregivers who in some way betrayed them: mainly by being too self-absorbed to ever function in a healthy relationship or take care of a young child, some of whom were outright exploitative.

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Just a few more minutes now, and thanks for your patience while waiting for the Friday edition,