By Len Wallick
Late last week, Venus moved into Capricorn, a sign ruled by Saturn. For some time, the Ringed One has been in Libra, a sign ruled by Venus. This sort of relationship is called mutual reception — when two planets are in each other’s signs of rulership. For the better part of this century, some, but not all astrologers have been interpreting Uranus and Neptune to be in the same sort of arrangement. These pairings, along with a telling aspect for Venus tomorrow, will be the subject of today’s blog.
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When mutual reception takes place, there are a couple of common interpretations. One is that the planets involved may take on some of each other’s characteristics. Another is that the objects may reinforce or otherwise assist each other. Today’s comparisons suggest that it may not be so simple as that. The basic principles of astrology, like everything else right now, are up for revision or validation as part and parcel of the cardinal point aspects of the outer planets.
Currently, Uranus is winding up its seven year tenure in Pisces before moving on to Aries. There it will resume a long series of cardinal squares with Pluto. If history is any indication, the aspects between those two planets — immovable object meeting irresistible force — will herald both personal and political transitions on a scale not often seen. As a part of human history, astrology is as subject to that process as anything else. Neptune, for its part, is entering the early stages of its own sign-changing process after being in Aquarius since 1998.
For the thousands of years before the invention of telescopes and calculus, Jupiter was the traditional ruler of Pisces with Saturn the same for Aquarius. Just over two hundred years ago, things started to change. Our ability to observe things very far away suddenly improved. Concurrent with that came an enhanced ability to make sense of those observations and even predict them, through the use of higher mathematics. The discoveries that came about led to an increase in information, leading in turn to more discoveries in an ever-accelerating cycle that continues to this day.