Friends, readers — greetings from my kitchen, where I haven’t been in a few weeks.
Today the Virgo Sun moves into exact alignment with the Saturn-Uranus opposition. Saturn-Uranus is a longstanding aspect; it’s part of an approximately 35-year cycle, and once the aspect forms it lasts for about two years. Recall that it was exact first on Election Day 2008. When the Sun and Moon align with a slow-moving aspect, as they are about to do with the Virgo New Moon, this can enhance the effects of the alignment or make them become obvious. Until then it can reside in the background as an influence we don’t always notice, or whose effects are spread so far and wide they just seem like the “normal” background.
The Virgo New Moon conjunct Saturn is exact at 2:44 pm EDT on Friday, Sept. 18. Mercury will also be in Virgo for this affair, and the planets involved all align with the lunar nodes by trine/sextile. The nodes in this case can act as a resonance device, giving anything that occurs greater influence with the public.
Notice, for example, the ongoing, long and extremely boring standoff between the Obama administration and so-called conservatives over healthcare; and various splits among the Democrats as well. Again in presidential politics, notice the school districts that refused to air a speech by the president directed at school children, as if it would be an option under any other president who is not black and who is not being accused of socialist leanings because he thinks the government has some responsibility to take care of people. Notice how many people know how shockingly little about what any of this means, and are spouting off slogans such as “spread the wealth around.”