By Len Wallick
By the time you read this, old Sol will have both feet in Libra and the full opposition of the luminaries will have passed. This places us solidly into the transitional phase of what we have repeatedly referred to as the cardinal T-square. This is not to say that the astrology has changed overnight.
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Gradually, however, some components of a long standing pattern have been changing their relationship to the rest. We are now at a point where we can begin referring to at least one of those elements in the past tense.
Go back to our little drill of drawing a circle, divided into four equal segments by a cross. Remember that? The cross in the circle is a simplified zodiac. Each line in the cross represents the beginning of a cardinal sign, a new season. Thus the circle is divided into four parts, one for each season. One line for the beginning of Aries, one for Cancer, one for Libra and one for Capricorn.
Our simplified diagram illustrated the relationship between cardinal signs. Each of the four points where the cross intersects the circle are either opposed to or at right angle to any of the other three. For a long time now we have envisioned four planets occupying three of those points.
Hence the shape of the letter “T” lent its name to the interpretation of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto relative to each other. This has been our template through which we have filtered and interpreted the cycles of our solar system and the relationship of those cycles to events in our individual and collective lives.
How far away from one of those three cardinal points must a planet move before the template of the “T” is no longer considered useful? That’s a good question. As is usually the case with astrology, the answer is a matter of individual interpretation. Your faithful servant feels that for Saturn the time has now come. The reasoning is based on three observations.