By Len Wallick
If you are reading this, you have survived the weekend with its unique Full Moon and the re-exacting of the Saturn-Pluto square. Please feel free to enrich us all by sharing the insights you gained in the comments section.
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This week we step onto new ground astrologically, but in the fashion of last week’s blogs, it may do well to start off looking at the big picture. Of course, the square between Saturn and Pluto continues. Given that these are outer planets of slow apparent motion and not forgetting the fact that this is a cardinal point phenomenon, this aspect is operative over a period of years, forming a background.
One other astrological relationship has been around so long we seem to have taken it for granted – the mutual reception between Neptune (in Aquarius) and Uranus (in Pisces). Now that we are nearing the end of that collaboration, we will take another look at it later in the week along with Jupiter’s applying sextile to Pluto.
Continuing the longer view, the long-time-coming conjunction between Chiron and Neptune will be exact on the 17th, although we have been feeling it for quite a while. Finally, this is the week when Imbolc, Candlemas and/or Groundhog Day, depending on your cultural orientation are observed in the Northern Hemisphere. In both hemispheres the mid-point between seasons is exact this coming Thursday.
Today, Jupiter opposes Vesta and Venus conjoins Nessus. Those two aspects are part of and flow into the bigger picture, so let’s start with Imbolc and come back to them.