10 September 2007
– 16 September 2007
The Week beginning September 10th, 2007
Week as a Whole:
Solar eclipses, like all new moon charts, are essentially interior events. Something has ended and deep within something new has been seeded. This solar eclipse connects with Mars in Gemini, Uranus in Pisces, and Jupiter and Pluto in Sagittarius. Astrologers will easily see the link between generals reporting war-status information, a new direction in the Iraq war and the current planetary placements. Also implicit in this New Moon is the violent potential of Mars and Uranus.
The symbol for the 19th degree of Virgo, Tuesday’s Solar Eclipse point, is “A colorful gallery on the warm summer day; in the clear blue water a swimming race nears its decision.” We’re near the end of the “race” and we’re watching, powerless as spectators. The citizens of the U.S. are not involved in the Iraq struggle; there’s no draft, no shortages, no sacrifices. We watch the war on TV, bulletins between football games, comfortable in our living rooms. We can cheer or boo but it has no real impact on the race’s outcome. Osama sends us videos from the bleachers on the other side.
In a more general sense, this eclipse is about a changed reality. The signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are all about adjusting or setting up a new reality. Seven of the ten astrological planets are in these signs. And most of them form right angles or oppositions that signify tension and stress. All the indications point to a sudden violent shift in reality rather than a graceful adjustment to changes. To us as individuals, this may come as a flash of realization. Some inner state has rumbled to the surface and we’ve changed our attitude and direction. Viewed from the outside, it may seem sudden and capricious; from the inside it will be recognized as long in the coming.
Oddly and ironically, this eclipse chart is an echo of the 9/11 attack chart. I’ve placed them together here. The inner wheel is the 9/11 attack, the outer wheel is this week’s eclipse. Frankly, I don’t know what this echo means. I doubt the U.S. will undergo another devastating attack, rather it may symbolize moving beyond the “9/11” aftermath into a less reactive attitude. Considerably more Americans and an order of magnitude more Iraqis have died since in an ill-conceived war whose consequences may reach on to our grandchildren.
The eclipse is closely connected with both Uranus and Neptune. These two planets have been breaking up the 20th century stereotypes for several years now. They have marked the diffusion of technology through internet and cell-phone. They have brought the global climate change home to all of us via tsunamis, Katrina, forest fires, floods, drought, and spreading disease vectors. No one can pretend we’re still living the same old same old life. Perhaps this eclipse is when more of us accept this and begin to make life choices accordingly.
Virgo is about food and purity. Recent product issues with Chinese goods have made us all aware of the need for global controls in a global market. Big corporations will poison our children to make an extra buck unless we stop them. The awareness that we are on our own in the global marketplace would be a shocking but healthy expression of this eclipse change. Maybe we’ll figure out how to stop the bees from dying.
I don’t expect much on the surface this week. But a new attitude and change energy is rumbling up and out into manifestation, most likely next week when the Sun squares Mars and the Pluto. With all the stress shown in this eclipse chart by a square of planets pulling us from all sides, we need to remember to take time to cool down, relax, and not get buzzed out by small matters. After next week’s Sun connections, conditions cool down for several weeks. Hang in there. Take small steps and deep breaths.
Daily Forecasts:
Monday 10 September 2007
A day of preparation for change. Work is good under the Virgo Moon.
Tuesday 11 September 2007
The eclipse comes at 5:44am/8:44am as the Moon moves through hard contacts to Uranus, Mars, and Pluto this day. Expect to see the need for change, even if change isn’t thrust upon you. Don’t cling to what has come to its end.
Wednesday 12 September 2007
The Moon has entered Libra at 4:31am/7:31am ending her Void period. We’ll feel the Venus – Neptune opposition while the Moon is in Libra. High expectations are not always fulfilled. Remember you’re seeing people as you’d like them to be, not exactly as they are.
Thursday 13 September 2007
Something clicked on our heads overnight and our thinking is clearer today. The future seems possible and not so dark.
Friday 14 September 2007
The Moon is Void all day form 9:10am/12:10pm until she enters Scorpio at 4:37pm/7:37pm. There’s much to continue working. Take new directions late if you must change course today.
Saturday 15 September 2007
A day of feelings, even passions, but little action. No lunar or planetary contacts.
Sunday 16 September 2007
We’re restless and testy as the Sun approaches his square to Mars and the Scorpio Moon makes a T-square with Venus and Neptune. What we want we really want, but maybe we have to wait just now.
Long Range Forecast:
September 11th, 2007 – Solar Eclipse falls opposite Uranus and square to Mars. The next two weeks may hold events that express the violence of Mars and Uranus. We can hope it will be contained to a “shocking” media event with little loss of life. In any case the world will need to adjust to an altered reality. Severe weather is a strong possibility.
Long-Long Range Forecast:
Nov 3, 2008 – Saturn makes an opposition to Uranus that echoes the Saturn
– Uranus/Pluto opposition of March 6, 1966.
Ex-hippies take note. On March 4th,
John Lennon was quoted as saying "We're more popular than Jesus now." The revival of Sixties cultural themes begins
now and builds slowly toward the Uranus – Pluto squares beginning in 2012.
November 15, 2009 – March 21,
2010 - Saturn makes a series of squares to
Pluto newly in Capricorn. The end of business-as-usual politics. The nationalistic dinosaurs will enter their
twilight times. The transition to
organic regional government will not be smooth…the result may be some corporate
feudal mixture. (Thanks to Rob Ryan for
catching a typo in the date.)
September 24, 2012 – April 17,
2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his first major
hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they were aligned in the second
half of the 1960’s. Hippie dreams may come
true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based economies fail. Plan to live where there is food and water
and you don’t need a car. Plan to live
where you’ll know your neighbors…maybe even love them. What a thought! We may have to choose between
eating grain on a commune or growing very thin in the
city.
Notices for Los Angeles area readers:
Lectures:
September 23rd –
10:00am/11:00am A talk on the Full Moon in Aquarius
followed by a lecture entitled “Libra: Nice or Not So Nice”. Call
the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Boulevard, 310-395-4346
or me, 818-316-0702, for details.
Ongoing Classes:
10:30am Saturday Class in
Astrological Methods - A class focusing on family relationships and dynamics
using composite charts and synastry methods. Call the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center,
1139 Lincoln Boulevard, 310-395-4346 or me, 818-316-0702, for details.
Visit the Celestial Weather
Web Site at http://www.celestialweather.com
Copyright 2007 Rich Humbert