By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
Most of you are smart enough to avoid television news coverage, at least that’s what you tell me. I keep an eye on it because so many of my fellow Americans watch, feeding at the trough of infotainment, a 24/7 bread and circuses event that leaves us too emotionally exhausted to be outraged over the faux-outrage being displayed by this or that party. Mostly that party. This week’s pony show was, of course, brought to us by the Pubs, amping up the energy in opposing the Affordable Care Act. The sniping and stupidity displayed during this most recent round of Congressional hearings culminated in the raking of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over the coals.
I couldn’t watch; it had the same energy signature as a ritualistic blood-letting. Everyone involved with the ACA website roll-out had already apologized profusely, so a public scourging seemed pointless and pretty much proved to be. I asked Fishin’ Jim if he tuned in and he said he had, that Sebelius had preformed admirably as the opposition pounded away at her, asking the same questions over and over (and mugging for the audience back home) although, he added, he hoped she’d had that facial tick before that day. Polls today indicate that while most people are critical of the failed technology, there’s been no change in opinion over ACA itself. Pubs = zero. Sebelius = nervous condition.
Some of this non-sense makes me nuts. I’d rather watch Hoda and Kathie Lee discuss social trivialities, and believe me, I’m as eager for that as a root canal. At least they have a sense of humor, something seriously lacking in the politics of the day. There were a couple of genuine moments in this Kabuki that made me laugh though, a rarity. One involved New Jersey Dem, Frank Pallone, accusing the Pubs of trying to scare people away from enrollment. When he was rebuffed, he refused to yield the floor, calling the event a “monkey court.” Amen, brother Frank!
The other was Jon Stewart, leading another chorus of the “Fuck You” song in response to the networks amplifying his own criticism of the roll-out to add to the political fodder. Amen and Amen, brother Jon!
Obviously there were bigger stories to attend to, but most were given a quick once-over and then dropped like a hot rock in favor of the Obamacare bash-a-thon. One would even have met the Pubs tinfoil hat test, should they have been willing to give up their focus of defending “the market” as the answer to all personal problems and the real God of our Fathers. What did Obama know — about everything, turns out — and when did he know it? The list is growing, courtesy of the least-well-wrapped among us.
What did he know about Benghazi is the paranoid question that won’t die. (Will there be any truthful revelation about this event is another.) Was he aware of how fragile the ACA website was when it was introduced, and if so did he allow it to be released because the failure of the sign-up will surely lead to single payer socialism (be still my heart!) down the line? And what did he know about NSA data collections? Doesn’t he personally approve everything done in the name of U.S. citizens? Ummm … yeah, that’s right. Everything?
Well, perhaps he doesn’t know all the details, according to spy-chief James Clapper, who casually concluded that this kind of intelligence gathering can’t be a surprise to anyone. Tell that to the Chinese who, alarmed at the amount of press over this issue, now want to know what Obama knows about their gazillions of bytes of cyber-communication.
Evidently Snowden leaked a top-secret map showing 90 U.S. surveillance facilities at diplomatic missions worldwide, including those of the British and Australians, and his lawyer tells us that he’s accepting an invitation to discuss the material with the Germans (who effectively lead the European Union). U.S. intelligence professionals have said the reports are based on misinterpretation of an NSA slide Snowden leaked to the media.
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to go around on this one, of course. Many of the governments complaining today willingly surrendered information covertly, but it’s the secrets that pissed them off. Kerry has been frantically trying to soothe the knitted European brow over allegations of spying on allies, reminding them that the data in question have been gathered and shared by European agencies. We don’t get those reports on our front page: TMI, donch’a know. Keep the home crowd simmering quietly with the other frogs in the pot, focused on the sideshow.
Since Bush decided to give us a War on Terror and a gigantic bureaucracy to handle it, I’ve thought the job of decoding all this information improbable if not impossible. I wasn’t aware that Homeland Security would become a multi-billion dollar industry back in its infancy, of course. I figured the Pentagon, FBI and CIA had the security business covered. Silly me! Now, when we actually confront the realities, the numbers are staggering. In the huge and growing security industry, as many as 4 million people hold a “top secret” security clearance, as do 500,000 or so private contractors. In this instance, more is definitely not better.
Got to ask, in a conglomerate this huge and with so many entities doing their own thing, who’s minding the store? And with all a president is required to manage, which details should he be made privy to? You and I could probably agree on a number of them that presidential handlers do not consider critical. The meme that any sitting president is bubbled within his own small circle, and those that influence it, has been a common complaint over the years, but in a time of exploding communications and suspension of real journalism, it’s become more than just part of the problem. Especially true, I think, for this president, in a political climate where there is outright rebellion over his every move.
The latest “what did he know and when” has to do with a recent book that spills White House beans over some in the Obama campaign camp suggesting he pick Hillary Clinton over Biden as a 2012 VP choice. According to Press Secretary Jay Carney today, Barack was unaware of the insider squabble and happy as a clam with good ol’ Joe. I wonder when Obama will develop HIS nervous tick?
Everywhere we look, there’s a tug-o-war, evident these last days in our judicial system. For example, the stringent abortion law in Texas has shifted several times in a matter of days and the contraception mandate is again in question, as courts of appeal side with religious employers. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has rebuked nine (red) states for defying the Pentagon and federal law by refusing to issue ID cards enabling same-sex spouses of National Guard members to claim benefits. In my own hard-headed state, now that a proposed gun nullification law has been vetoed — with a proposed override failing by just one vote — another has been drawn with hopes that it will pass in ongoing defiance of federal gun law. This is as close to Civil War as we’ve come since Lincoln led the pack.
So here we are, mid-eclipse, smack in the middle of the Pluto/Uranus energy, deep in the heart of the Great Unraveling and struggling with the see-saw of political whimsy. Isn’t that great? Aren’t you glad we’re peeling back this disinformation-onion, getting to the darker realities of the flawed government machinery that — once set in motion — has taken on a life of its own? Aren’t you pleased that the pain of this moment has finally grabbed the attention of the public, creating a conversation that can no longer be ignored? Are you just gleeful that our frayed nerves have pushed our emotions to the surface, that our broken systems have made our challenges evident?
OK, not gleeful, exactly. But at least aware on levels that we hadn’t contemplated before, engaged in rethinking our course of action both personally and politically, perhaps even lifting our heads above the mundane to ponder the meaning of life both for ourselves and those who might wish to be born on the planet in the future. This is not the time, as author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson likes to say, “to play small.”
With Mars opposing the Pluto/Chiron conjunction, this feels something like a reckoning, a moment in time beyond which we cannot move until we open our hearts to the responsibility of self-healing and self-determination. A time to choose our course. And even though the flux of energies seems never-ending and crazy-making, we are capable of meeting this challenge, along with those that come next, because we’ve been preparing for them, step by step for quite some time now.
Yes, I know. In Plutonian fashion, this feels very dire and threatening — standing in the ashes without, as yet, a sign of the rising Phoenix — but as with the Death card in Tarot, this energy indicates both an ending and a beginning, appropriate to our shifting age. To quote from Len’s piece this week: “… Chiron often intervenes as a blessing disguised as a setback.” In comments, I likened that to a healing crisis and then, this week, I ran across this quote from Deena Metzger, in gratefulness.org:
“A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way.”
This appears to be our time of sacred illness, leading to our evolution as 21st century creatures, forerunners of this new age. I have confidence that we’ve already begun a healing process, even if it remains unseen. In human evolution, let’s remember that the change that grows our soul happens within us long before it projects outside of us, to manifest in matter.
If we are to change things, in our lives, in our world, we must first change ourselves. Too often that requires painful events to get our attention, and we’ve been in that process for a good long while now, haven’t we? Long enough to get our sea legs under us, long enough to realize that we can not only survive this existential challenge but carefully, mindfully create lives that add to the healing and enlightenment on the planet. And although we have not yet managed to tip the balance in the public square, in each of our own lives we have felt the possibility of aiding the collective as we individually flourish and contribute.
There are those around us that do not yet understand what’s happening, or see what is possible. In a time of conflict, our ability to offer healing energy to them is part of our bundle, as the Quakers say — a way to pay forward all that we have received. As the old paradigm unravels before our very eyes, our ability to offer not only ourselves but others tenderness and acceptance is the alchemy needed to begin a healing process from the fear that darkens minds. We heal our own concerns as we extend ourselves to others.
As Eric mentioned in Friday’s subscriber piece, we face unprecedented challenges, ones over which we seem to have little control. If we’re to find answers to these problems, we will have to bring our best game, our highest aspirations and our most mature decision-making into focus. In the quiet of meditation and prayer, in the grip of music or art or beauty, in the arms of love and fellowship and appreciation, we will find the strength to begin again.
Thank you Be. I am totally focused on business now. I am a spiritual sexuality educator, the prosaic name for who I am. The call is to join with others, a new family, to bring the conversation nationwide, louder and prouder. As long as we are talking about ME ;o) and my natal chart… I have Pluto exact conjunct midheaven, and that Uranus/Jupiter dynamic duo are trine Saturn in Scorpio, (which is returning too, 3 x in 2014, when Saturn retros.) and trine again my sun in Pisces.
You are catching the food vibe. This week I am feasting locally in restaurant heaven with a succession of houseguests, I really love food, then I am heading away to weeks of feasting in November: a retreat focused on food and sex, and then Thanksgiving with my two sons and 3 grandchildren, and magnificent daughter in law. Guess what’s happening in my neighborhood early next year: http://www.camdenconference.org/, on global food and water.
OK. Grandmama Spider says get to work.
Hi Jude. Thanks for sharing the space.
I’m smiling DivaCarla, not quite laughing at this hour! Thanks for noting how Uranus can amplify humor, and in keeping with the Uranus-Saturn thing (I think it was Bob Hope who first said “timing is everything in comedy”), a well-connected Uranus and Saturn (who rules timing) can be a real asset.
So could Uranus and Jupiter, but in a different way. You realize that your natal Uranus is conjunct the U.S. Sibly Mercury don’t you? It would seem that perhaps one of the missions of your life involves tapping into the think-and-communicate aspect of this nation; to bring insight into situations that would otherwise be missed in the dialogue. That said, your Uranus conjunct Jupiter who is having a Jupiter return now (that lasts for forever!) would open up new vistas on a personal level. One aspect of this would involve the crab’s penchant for domesticity and the thought of a community food fair came to mind. Perhaps a sampling of a variety of traditional dishes (recipes handed down through generations of families) could break down (Uranus) awkward disparities between neighbors.
Depending on what other aspects (natal and/or transiting) your Jupiter makes, it could expand your own horizons as well as possibly creating revenue for your own clan. Think big and use this period wisely!
be
Be, thanks for checking this out. My natal Jupiter is 20’0″ Cancer, so I am having a Jupiter return right now. This also happens to be cusp of 8 and 9 houses. And Conjunct natal Uranus at 23’54” Cancer, in 9th house.
Hey, I heard something today that made me think of Uranus in a new light. Talking about humor, and the how what makes humor is often the unexpected and surprise. So are we laughing yet?
Sorry, trans. Venus won’t square U.S. Venus, she will oppose it Friday AM./be
Jude and Diva, first Jude. . . .
I tell ya, it’s Mercury bouncing off so many other planets plus the fact that he’s in intimate Scorpio, but I copied something out of Michael Ondaatje’s book, Running In The Family, in his acknowledgements (he’s also the author of The English Patient) that we need to always remember:
“And if those listed above disapprove of the fictional air I apologize and can only say that in Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.” I love that line because it suggests that peace of mind may come via a well-told lie and be of more value than all the gritty truth that tortures our souls and keep us awake at nights. The fact is that Mercury is a trickster sometimes but he is one god among many gods. When there are many gods, having one god that slips from truth to fiction and back, isn’t such an awful thing, it’s just “part of life”.
However, in this age of many belief systems each with only one god, the deceptions come from mere mortals; often those mortals with belief systems different from our own. A willingness to sit down and have a real conversation has been known to break down defensiveness and result in agreements that lead to building bridges and mending fences. I’m all for it.
I learned from astrologer Boots Hart that 20+ degrees of Cancer has a reputation for (Carla take note) defensiveness, and so there sits transiting Jupiter for a good long while. That alone would not prevent conversation but Saturn vs. Uranus could. Saturn says rules is rules and you break one you are on the outside. Uranus says truth at any cost is worth it so damn the rules. Think of Sen. Diane Feinstein as Saturn and Edw. Snowden as Uranus. Each thinks the other is wrong and they don’t trust each other to tell the truth or see if from their side.
Right now transiting Saturn and Uranus are (within orb of a) quincunx (calls for flexibility) that was exact October 5th. On November 13th they will form a bi-quintile (144 degrees) aspect. This aspect has a tendency to want to improve (or transform) existing conditions and is associated with intense willpower. (That’s the aspect, before even considering the planets!) There is something very mystical about the family of quintile aspects as they are able to move above the basic elements (earth, fire, air, water) and into the element of ether, a synthesis of all the others, which transcends physical limitations.
Looking at the progressed Uranus and Saturn in the U.S. Sibly chart shows that by June-July 2015 they too will form a bi-quintile. If conversations between pundits or by members of team Feinstein and team Snowden were to begin it could be beneficial as long as the trickster was acknowledged too. It could happen.
Transiting Saturn will be semi-sextile the U.S. Saturn on November 11th. Let’s say the conversation(s) starts then. Transiting Saturn will be-quintile (conversation moves above the ordinal level) trans. Uranus on November 13th. As a bonus feature, the day after that bi-quintile, on November 14th, transiting Venus (love and peace) will square trans. Uranus(breakthrough), sextile trans. Chiron (healer) and the next day she conjuncts trans. Pluto (transform). Transiting Uranus will then sextile the U.S. Uranus on November 18th. To finalize the deal, on November 23rd trans. Venus will sextile Saturn (build it and they will come) and on November 24th trans. Jupiter (bountiful) will leave 20 Cancer (defensive), just in time for Thanksgiving week. Yeah, it could happen.
DivaCarla, tell me again where your natal Jupiter is. Does it square trans. Jupiter at 20+ Cancer? Yes, you are right, Jupiter will go into review mode on Thursday as Venus sextiles Neptune and Mercury (and squares the U.S. Sibly Venus!)
be
Jude, I am sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. Best thoughts out to you. Here is my last and final try to get this message of yesterday in appreciation to you and all you do. I hope it finds you well-
An interpretation of Pluto I read somewhere that has stuck with me is understanding it brings us face to face with our deepest fears and our highest destiny.
”…standing in the ashes without, as yet, a sign of the rising Phoenix — but as with the Death card in Tarot, this energy indicates both an ending and a beginning, appropriate to our shifting age. ”
Thank you for this moving article and interpretation of this time Jude. I appreciate it because it offers softness and comfort in it’s perspective in the union we share and find ourselves in.
I drew the Death Tarot card in my personal reading a week or so ago which seems to relate to our ‘sign of the times’, and here generally as you explore…”The great unraveling.”
The reading’s main positions start out as:
1st Position (Here/Now) the Two of Wands; a person that has the world in their hands but knows they still have something yet to do.
4th Position (What you want) The Tower; disruption, divine intervention, destruction of old ways, change.
8th Position (outcome at present course and speed) Temperance 14; reconciliation of opposites, cooperation.
10th Position (outcome philosophical approach) The Devil 15; confrontation, with inner-fear, temptation, bondage, self awareness, death.
11th Position (outcome -protective influence) Ace of Cups; portal, potential, intuitive knowing, unconditional love, blessedness, enlightenment, intimacy, individuality.
Jude, we do have a lot of conversations going at planet waves today, don’t we. I’ve read everything, yet, in the midst of ceremony, with lots of information and experience to process, so not grasping it all. Still I can’t stay away, because planetwaves feeds me, and the weekend columnists are especially deliciious ;o) time to go read Sarah’s Tarot.
Be, Jupiter has been on 20 degree Cancer for this eclipse cycle, and I feel its gears grinding to stop, and reverse, at 20:31. This has my attention because natal Jupiter is at 20 zero. I feel some pressure to get things done before Thursday, or even Wednesday. Though my feeling that Jupiter retro is review and repetition for the best effect. It’s what I make of it, yes?
Your wisdom is showing, Miss Be! “There’s a method to the madness of this healing procedure; we are forced to accept, bend, listen to the other and see it from his vantage point. That’s the nature of Love.”
That’s so heart-ening and so very true. I’m pleased today to report that, besides the ridiculous and the rambling, there is ALSO a conversation going on among the pundits about “holding a conversation,” actually listening to one another and even CONSIDERING the possibility that, for instance, Greenwald has a point that isn’t anarchist, that Snowden did the country a service, yadda.
Here’s another quote, perfect for this day, from the Rig Veda:
“There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads are in time. At every crossing of the threads, there is an individual, and every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe.”
To imagine ourselves part of this prismic blanket is to close the gap between the concept of “me” and the concept of “we,” and to begin to feel our wholeness.
P. Sophia, and DivaCarla too, I SO appreciate your comments in E’s “An eclipse and the Uranus-Pluto square” post — thank you, you lift me up!
Oh gosh, my apologies, dearhearts, for the hold-up. I confess to having stepped away from the blog entirely yesterday, as the lightning bolts hit the Pea Patch. Talk about your Pluto/Uranus/Mars expressing! Late Friday evening a friend’s relative called to say he’d passed away, sitting in his chair. Fishin’ Jim found a message, just prior, sent to voicemail. Then, pre-dawn yesterday, flashing lights through my bedroom window woke me and I discovered the trailer-house down the lane was on fire, flames dancing in the air in a 20 mph wind. After all the adrenalin surges, I just crashed for a while. An extra hours sleep helped! Again, mea culpa for ignoring you! I trust all is well now.
An interpretation of Pluto I read somewhere that has stuck with me is understanding it brings us face to face with our deepest fears and our highest destiny.
”— standing in the ashes without, as yet, a sign of the rising Phoenix — but as with the Death card in Tarot, this energy indicates both an ending and a beginning, appropriate to our shifting age. ”
Thank you for this moving article and interpretation of this time Jude. I appreciate it because it offers softness and comfort in it’s perspective in the union we share and find ourselves in.
I drew the Death Tarot card in my personal reading a week or so ago which seems to relate to our ‘sign of the times’, and here generally as you explore…”The great unraveling.”
The reading’s main positions start out as:
1st Position (Here/Now) the Two of Wands; a person that has the world in their hands but knows they still have something yet to do.
4th Position (What you want) The Tower; disruption, divine intervention, destruction of old ways, change.
8th Position (outcome at present course and speed) Temperance 14; reconciliation of opposites, cooperation.
10th Position (outcome philosophical approach) The Devil 15; confrontation, with inner-fear, temptation, bondage, self awareness, death.
11th Position (outcome -protective influence) Ace of Cups; portal, potential, intuitive knowing, unconditional love, blessedness, enlightenment, intimacy, individuality.
Thank you Be! I will try and post now. When I try to post I keep getting error message…”it cannot post a duplicate message?”
P.Sophia, good morning, I’m on Jude’s blog comment site and it’s working (assuming this goes through!)be
”— standing in the ashes without, as yet, a sign of the rising Phoenix — but as with the Death card in Tarot, this energy indicates both an ending and a beginning, appropriate to our shifting age. ”
Thank you for this moving article and interpretation of this time Jude. I appreciate it because it offers softness and comfort in it’s perspective in the union we share and find ourselves in.
An interpretation of Pluto I read somewhere that has stuck with me is understanding it brings us face to face with our deepest fears and our highest destiny.
I drew the Death Tarot card in my personal reading a week or so ago which seems to relate to our ‘sign of the times’, and here generally as you explore…”The great unraveling.”
The reading’s main positions start out as:
1st Position (Here/Now) the Two of Wands; a person that has the world in their hands but knows they still have something yet to do.
4th Position (What you want) The Tower; disruption, divine intervention, destruction of old ways, change.
8th Position (outcome at present course and speed) Temperance 14; reconciliation of opposites, cooperation.
10th Position (outcome philosophical approach) The Devil 15; confrontation, with inner-fear, temptation, bondage, self awareness, death.
11th Position (outcome -protective influence) Ace of Cups; portal, potential, intuitive knowing, unconditional love, blessedness, enlightenment, intimacy, individuality.
”— standing in the ashes without, as yet, a sign of the rising Phoenix — but as with the Death card in Tarot, this energy indicates both an ending and a beginning, appropriate to our shifting age.”
Thank you for this moving article and interpretation of this time Jude. I appreciate it because it offers softness and comfort in it’s perspective in the union we share and find ourselves in.
An interpretation of Pluto I read somewhere/time that has stuck with me, is understanding it brings us face to face with our deepest fears and our highest destiny.
I drew the Death Tarot card in my personal reading a week or so ago which seems to relate to our ‘sign of the times’, and here generally…”The great unraveling.”
The reading’s main positions start out as:
1st Position (Here/Now) the Two of Wands; a person that has the world in their hands but knows they still have something yet to do.
4th Position (What you want) The Tower; disruption, divine intervention, destruction of old ways, change.
8th Position (outcome at present course and speed) Temperance 14; reconciliation of opposites, cooperation.
10th Position (outcome philosophical approach) The Devil 15; confrontation, with inner-fear, temptation, bondage, self awareness, death.
11th Position (outcome -protective influence) Ace of Cups; portal, potential, intuitive knowing, unconditional love, blessedness, enlightenment, intimacy, individuality.
Knee deep, knee deep. . just another frog in the pot, or the depth of pony shit over the ACA rollout? Both. I couldn’t watch it either Jude. Did watch every replay of Frank Pallone’s “no..I WON’T yield the floor” and “monkey court” remark and each time it made my heart sing.
Thanks too to you and Deena Metzger for the “sacred illness” concept; perfect way to understand our own state of being and empathize with everyone else’s state; “. . knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way”.
Transiting Jupiter, in his stand-your-ground stop-and-station 20 degrees of Cancer, will make us all feel the pain for a total of 35 days. Here in the land of the free and home of the brave he forms a long T-square to the U.S. Sibly opposition between his queen Juno (fighter for equality) at 20+ Libra and Chiron (pay attention kind of pain) at 20+ Aries. He, Jupiter, also brings to a head the combined trine energy of the Sibly Neptune in Virgo and the Sibly Vesta in Taurus.
It works this way. In the Sibly chart U.S. Neptune is quincunx U.S. Chiron, and U.S. Juno is quincunx U.S. Vesta. Normally Neptune’s preferred mode of operation would be his trine to Vesta and even Juno finds a bit of calm with her opposition to Chiron, but transiting Jupiter is determined to stir the pot in order to get the alchemical juices working. From his present 35-day position in square to Chiron he challenges the (U.S.) Healer to adjust (quincunx) to Neptunian factors (fears in this case), while his square to Juno the Equilizer challenges her to adjust (quincunx) to Vesta’s (what do we value enough to work for here for Pete’s sake?) agenda. In his supporting sextile to both Neptune and Vesta in earth signs, Jupiter in his quest for understanding is turning on a lot of emotional spigots from his water sign and mud can be molded but dry earth not so much.
I’m also holding out a lot of hope from this mutual reception between Mars in Virgo and Mercury in Scorpio. While reading Trickster Makes This World (by Lewis Hyde) during my kittysitting hours, it’s occurred to me that Mercury (data) in Scorpio (hidden stuff) wields quite a bit of power these days and his amoral nature can even be seen in the results of Mars (anger) transiting Virgo (details). For example, all this brouhaha over “us” spying on “them” when “they” already knew it and(or) are(were) doing the same thing. See? Neptune (deception) quincunx Chiron (hurts) and Juno (we are equals) quincunx Vesta (dedication to values). Now “we” understand (Jupiter) too; we-the-people.
A FAMOUS SINGER IS PROVING HER VIRTUOSITY DURING AN OPERATIC PERFORMANCE. That’s the Sabian Symbol for Jupiter’s present degree. Dane Rudhyar says ” . .the symbol refers to THE PRICE OF SUCCESS – for the individual, as well as for the collectivity acclaiming him or her. What is success really worth? A question few people ask.”
Something else we should note about the trickster Mercury is his transiting connections. A couple of days ago he was conjunct Saturn, yesterday he sextiled Mars (AND they are in mutual reception), and he was conjunct the Sun and trine Chiron too. Today he squares Juno and conjuncts the North Node, and these are only the major aspects. Yesterday he also made a quincunx (adjust) to his higher octave Uranus (9+ Aries), who in the solar eclipse tomorrow will make stair-step connections to Chiron in Pisces, Juno in Aquarius and of course Pluto in Capricorn. They all are in the 9th degree (+ minutes) of their signs; signs that connect to each other and all but Uranus is in a sign that deals primarily with collective issues.
We as individuals are dealing with Uranus on an unconscious level but we can see it operating and feel it emotionally and witness it consciously through Mercury’s retrograde connections. Once he stations direct next Sunday the 10th, one by one, these connections will be repeated and that will hopefully lead to the tipping of the balance toward enlightenment and healing – at least in OUR country’s public squares. If not, Jupiter backs off the 20 degree mark of Cancer in retrograde and will return at the end of next May. There’s a method to the madness of this healing procedure; we are forced to accept, bend, listen to the other and see it from his vantage point. That’s the nature of Love.
be