By Len Wallick
If you are reading this, congratulations. You made it to the first Monday in 2011.
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After a New Year’s weekend appropriately contained by a Sagittarius Moon, we awaken to Luna in Capricorn. That alone indicates that today will probably be real enough. With that in mind, we are going to depart from the usual protocol of focusing on one or two astrological events in depth. Rather we will touch on many things lightly with the objective of getting oriented.
The big news this week will be two conjunctions taking place overnight or some time tomorrow, depending on where you are. The first one is the New Moon, which is also a partial solar eclipse that will be visible from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia. We will review that today. The other event will be the last of a series of three conjunctions between Jupiter and Uranus. This one is taking place in the 28th degree of Pisces. We will leave that for tomorrow’s blog. Before we scratch either surface, however, please kindly allow us to get perspective. First, an anchor to the departed year.
The subject of our blog last Thursday was Mercury’s direct station. Since that time, all the major planets have been in direct motion. We had a taste of that between December 5 and 11. Now we get the whole meal. The trend will continue until the end of January when it is Saturn’s turn to backpedal. Consider the possibility that this period of direct motion may have a certain quality of experience. The kind that goes along with the term “of course”, muttered to yourself when you realize something that should have been plain and clear all along.