Today is the last day of the Sun’s course through Aries. Though this comment would likely start an argument on an astrology discussion board, the Sun is void-of-course until it enters Taurus tomorrow morning. The void Sun is mentioned in some old texts, and if you read enough charts you will see it in action. Maybe you’ve heard of the void-of-course Moon; that’s when the Moon has finished making aspects in a sign, but before it enters the next sign. It’s the equivalent of a foul ball in baseball. It can look fantastic but if it’s on the wrong side of the foul line, it doesn’t count.
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Therefore, the void Moon is a good time to plan something that you don’t want to go on the scoreboard. For example, let’s say you have to have a meeting, but you don’t want that meeting to happen; schedule it during a void Moon and, mysteriously, it will be as if it didn’t happen. If you have a big argument during one such a phase (void Moons occur two to three times a week) the whole thing can disappear like it never happened.
Far less attention has been paid to the void-of-course Sun. It happens less frequently, just 12 times a year, since that’s how often the Sun changes signs. We are in one of those phases now, as the Sun will be drifting across the last degree of Aries today, making no aspects to any of the major planets. In the simplest sense, this is a transitional day. A cycle is letting go of one phase and entering another. By the time the Sun reaches the end of a sign, that energy can have a tired or listless feeling to it. By the time the Sun gets to this point, it doesn’t matter so much — the next sign is in the air.
My prior ideas about the void Sun hardly seem to matter anymore. I used to observe that it was a day when unlikely events could unfold. From a news perspective, this is a moot point — under the Shock Doctrine, we have unusual things going off every day or so. There is always another crisis, another war, another disaster to sell us. Yesterday we learned that hundreds of tornadoes had ripped across the Midwest and the South over the weekend, killing 45 people. That was clearly an unusual weather event, the product of heat and energy and the correct atmospheric conditions and maybe a few lines of computer code. But it was not unusual in the sense that these things keep happening over and over, to the point where it just seems normal. And that may fit into the signature. For me the bellwether event of the void Sun was the JFK assassination. Within a few years, being an outspoken liberal leader meant that your turn could be next. Political assassination for those with left-leaning views was ‘made normal’.
One thing that was unusual a year ago but is now literally part of the landscape — the BP platform blowout and subsequent 87-day undersea gusher — happened with the Sun in the first degree of Taurus. Even though there’s a big difference between the Sun being at the end of one sign and the beginning of another, it fits the description of that which was unusual being part of the way things now are. The Sun was in Taurus and Chiron had just entered Pisces, and we did seem to begin a new phase of the Era of Consequences with that event. (Here is a flashback to that coverage. We will post others this week.)