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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nThe Virgo New Moon conjunct Saturn is exact at 2:44 pm EDT on Friday, Sept. 18. Mercury will also be in Virgo for this affair, and the planets involved all align with the lunar nodes by trine\/sextile. The nodes in this case can act as a resonance device, giving anything that occurs greater influence with the public.<\/p>\n
Notice, for example, the ongoing, long and extremely boring standoff between the Obama administration and so-called conservatives over healthcare; and various splits among the Democrats as well. Again in presidential politics, notice the school districts that refused to air a speech by the president directed at school children, as if it would be an option under any other president who is not black and who is not being accused of socialist leanings because he thinks the government has some responsibility to take care of people. Notice how many people know how shockingly little about what any of this means, and are spouting off slogans such as “spread the wealth around.”<\/p>\n
Last year in the run-up to the election, we talked a lot about the tension between the progressive and regressive forces that this opposition aspect represents. Saturn and Uranus often manifest as radically different energies, with Uranus representing progress and Saturn representing the status quo. The whole mess seems intractable. Nobody wants to budge; the progressive cause, the one that says that every American should have the freedom to get medical care, needs to persist — and with that energy coming from Uranus in Pisces, you can be sure that it is indeed persisting and making progress.<\/p>\n
A strong factor in Pisces will often have an invisible influence, until that influence becomes obvious. We may get a glimpse of that this weekend and next week, as the energy ripples out from Friday’s New Moon in Virgo.<\/p>\n
We will get another taste when Saturn shifts from Virgo to Libra on Oct. 29 and makes its first square to Pluto in mid-November. Then, with two strong forces in cardinal signs, sitting on the Aries Point, we will get a feeling for what is really going on behind this conversation; but we’re a little ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n
At the moment, what we’re about to experience is the full effect of Saturn-Uranus across two mutable signs, which is a probable source of all the mental tension we’re feeling at the moment: not just the healthcare standoff, but the mystery over whether the banks will stand up to the economic crisis. Many believe we have not seen the end of this, and some 80 banks have failed so far this year. Here is a list<\/strong><\/a> that will inspire you to keep your money invested in macaroni and canned fish. This gets personal; you can watch this TV and suspect that it’s all a heap of lies, until one day you observe how concerned you really are.<\/p>\n
Has anybody noticed how morbid the domestic news has been this year? We’re not quite talking the summer of ’69, with the Manson clan being uncovered, but still — I keep seeing images of a lot of cops digging in backyards.<\/p>\n
I have a theory about that, which is that it involves suppressing awareness of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are not dealing with this, but below the surface it has our nation deeply divided. I don’t think anyone knows what to do or what to say. We all know it’s among the many fleurs de mal<\/em> of Dick Cheney and the Neocons, and presumably too much for us to handle as individuals. What we haven’t figured out, as they finally did in the Sixties after a while, is that it feels good, is healthy and is productive to express our anger and concern about a global issue.<\/p>\n
Saturn-Uranus is still a work in progress. There are two more exact oppositions: one on April 26, 2010 in Virgo-Pisces and finally July 26, 2010 in Aries-Libra, making an exact T-square with Pluto. That aspect, by the way, is a full serving of 2012 astrology — what we are leading up to is precisely the cardinal t-square of these three planets. At the moment, we are gradually experiencing this come into focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friends, readers — greetings from my kitchen, where I haven’t been in a few weeks. Today the Virgo Sun moves into exact alignment with the Saturn-Uranus opposition. Saturn-Uranus is a longstanding aspect; it’s part of an approximately 35-year cycle, and once the aspect forms it lasts for about two years. Recall that it was exact … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}