6 November 2006
– 12 November 2006
The Week beginning November 6th, 2006
Week as a Whole:
Two weeks ago at the New Moon late in Libra, all the personal, day-to-day planets gathered together in a tight group: that was the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. This group then entered Scorpio together and was moving toward Jupiter on yesterday’s Full Moon. Since they all move at roughly similar rates of speed, they will continue as a group to make tight bunches of contacts on their journey through Scorpio to emerge into Sagittarius late this month. This week, Venus, Mercury (retrograde), and then the Sun each make a square angle to Neptune. This brings the magic and illusion of Neptune into our lives. Sometimes we experience Neptune as simple confusion, sometimes as lies and deception, and sometimes as an awareness of a deeper reality. Sometimes it’s all the above. With this preponderance of Neptune coming surrounding the U.S. elections, we can expect the results to be less than crystal clear. Some races may be disputed until November 22nd or 23rd when the Sun and then Jupiter enter Sagittarius.
The impact of these Neptune connections will vary depending on how they relate to our personal horoscopes. Certainly people whose birthdays come early this week will be affected. Neptune can raise us to the heights of mystic illumination, he can fill us with the universal love spirit that connects us all one to another. He can show us perfection or an ideal that can lead us onward on our journey. He can dissolve the usual boundaries that separate us into hermetically sealed emotional units. These effects can come at any time and not always when we’re ready. So it’s important if you feel a little strange or reactive to chose your environment carefully and protect yourself from negative or violent influences.
This exaltation/confusion comes when Mercury is retrograde and focused introspectively and when he is exactly aligned with the Sun. Those of us who can spend this time in meditation or contemplation of some beauty are indeed fortunate. But those of us in the marketplace may find that we need to concentrate especially hard to remain grounded. These are conditions when it easy to hear what you want to hear, to believe one’s own PR and ignore the possible problems in our plans. Neptune smoothes over the rough spots…sometimes too smoothly for our own good.
It’s concerning that the U.S. elections take place in the middle of this Mercury retrograde/Neptune surge. Clear are decisive results may be delayed, if not impossible in some cases.
On Wednesday, after Mercury squares Neptune, Mars connects with Uranus. These two combine in energy that wants to storm the castle walls or blow down the gates. Its sparks turn into flames of outrage at perceived injustice. This energy may be charging the emotions of voters at the U.S. polls. Any results that seem an echo of the 2000 debacle will evoke extreme reactions. Post election comments and reactions will be conditioned by the emotional intensity of Scorpio and the enflamed imagination of the Sun in square to Neptune.
Tempers will continue to flare into the weekend with Mercury backing into alignment with Mars on Saturday. This is verbal shoot from the hip energy, and in Scorpio we’re all armed with extra high-powered ammunition designed to penetrate and poison. We see deeply into each other now; we see each other’s secret desires and needs. It’s a difficult time for liars and a terrible time for equivocators. Remember there are no neutral spaces in Scorpioland.
We’re in the midst of a profound political sea change. When Venus makes the first of a series of Saturn squares next Sunday, it will signal the first lifting of the Neptune fog. All the other planets in this historic group will follow Venus over the next three weeks and the outcome will become clearer with each Saturn square made. At the same time, we will begin to realize the impact of this sea-change on our personal lives. We’re at a corner in time. These turning points don’t occur frequently, but when they do it’s sometimes possible to feel and understand the energies that magically guide us into our collective and personal futures.
Daily Forecasts:
Monday 6 November 2006
The Moon is Void until 8:46am/11:46am when she enters Mercury’s home sign Gemini. Expect a blizzard of communications during the Moon’s passage through Gemini when Mercury is retrograde and square to Neptune. Bring along your mental shovel but keep alert for the little mystical gems that will be mixed in carrying special messages to each of us.
Tuesday 7 November 2006
If you’re voting in the U.S. elections today, double and triple check your choices before making them final. It’s been reported that some computer voting machines function incorrectly, even creating negative totals of votes. So be wary and precise.
Wednesday 8 November 2006
The Moon was Void overnight and enters Cancer at 11:46am/2:46pm on a day with the potential for sudden mood swings and outbursts. Be very polite on the highway. With six of ten planets, including the Sun and Moon in water signs, cool detachment will be very difficult. If you look to your local Aquarian for this, you may be dismayed to discover that he or she is leading the mob with Uranus in Pisces and linked with Mars.
Thursday 9 November 2006
Musicians and dreamers should be flying high on this week’s energy and perhaps today is the peak time for them. The Moon makes a momentum building water triangle with Uranus, Mars, and then later with Mercury and the Sun. Good feelings soar and bad feelings are the pits. No pastels.
Friday 10 November 2006
Water flow continues until 12:59pm/3:59pm when the Moon goes Void. She enters Leo and we can start to dry out a bit at 6:34pm/9:34pm.
Saturday 11 November 2006
Leos tends to take things personally, as if they were important enough to be the target of everything. We are each the center of our universe and today it helps to remember there are 6 billion centers walking around on the Earth.
Sunday 12 November 2006
Venus squares Saturn today and some of us have to accept some hard news and loss. Letting go is a normal growth process and can be a liberation. Saturn teaches us to “grow up” and put away childish notions.
Long Range Forecast:
November 8 – In the middle of Mercury retrograde (10/29 through 11/18) Mercury aligns exactly with the Sun in an “eclipse of Mercury”. The last time this happened was May 2003. Remember “Mission Accomplished?” I’m concerned about major Mercury aspects occurring near Election Day in the U.S. The 2000 election occurred on the day Mercury changed direction. The anticipated widespread use of electronic voting machines and validity of their results may be an issue. (Thanks to reader John Dawson for alerting me to this event.)
November 23rd – Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in his home sign of Sagittarius. Less spying and secret courts, more transparency and more light. A new cycle of foreign affairs, jurisprudence, and religious thinking begins.
Long-Long Range Forecast:
April 14, 2009 – October 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.
June 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:
Ongoing Classes:
10:30am Weekly Class in Astrological Methods - Heroes and Villains. Using the charts of well-known people, good guys and bad guys, the effects of progressions, transits, solar returns, and other techniques will be taught and explored. The class is open to people who know the basics of astrology. Call the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Boulevard, 310-395-4346 or me, 818-316-0702, for details.
Lectures:
Sunday December 10th - A discussion of the Full Moon in Gemini followed by a talk entitled "Seeing the Forest AND the Trees". At the New Age Center
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Copyright 2006 Rich Humbert