Celestial Weather

20 November 2006 – 26 November 2006

The Week beginning November 20th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

This is a week of endings and beginnings that starts with a New Moon late in Scorpio, followed by the Sun aligning with Jupiter on Tuesday and entering Sagittarius on Wednesday. Jupiter follows the Sun into Sagittarius on Thursday. Note that every New Moon ends a cycle and begins a new one. The Sun is ending his month in Scorpio and beginning a month in the Archer’s sign. Jupiter is ending a year in Scorpio and beginning a year in his home sign. So above all, this is a week of transitions – endings and beginnings.

The change from Scorpio into Sagittarius is prototypically emerging from darkness into light. The “dark night of the soul” is a Scorpio experience in which we come face-to-face with our deep desires and darker aspects. It is where we lose our delusions of perfection and invulnerability. But after this immersion comes release and light. All the fire signs in astrology are born in water signs. New life springs from the loss of boundaries and dissolving of ego. All the water signs come with a loss of control and independent action since we find ourselves bound to others in the water of family, partner, or humanity. Jupiter symbolizes our ability to envision our future, to take the long overview of life, to make public decisions and judgments that follow social standards, and to set policy for the future. Our political life has been clouded for some time with no way out of many current predicaments visible. This is ending.

Another sign of returning health to the body politic is Saturn slowing up to make his annual retrograde move when he’s in a harmonious contact with Pluto. It’s worth noting that this connection is never completely made this fall. Saturn and Pluto combine to mature us and step beyond outgrown behaviors and attitudes. If you’re feeling this pressure to change, remember the motto of the Borg, “Resistance is futile.” Saturn and Pluto are inexorable in bringing us change and renewal at the deepest levels. But what may appear as solutions and transformations in the next weeks may be delayed until late next summer when Saturn and Pluto finally make perfect this angular contact.

The New Moon Monday afternoon (PST) comes on the 29^th degree of Scorpio. Sometimes the degree symbols are spookily on target. The symbol for this degree is a squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children. This is the feminine principle seeking an end to the death of young men. This is the question that’s in all our minds, especially here in the U.S. As the cycle that begins deep within on this New Moon expands out over the next two weeks, the squaw’s pleas will grow louder and louder. Death in war is madness enough, death in pointless war is beyond. We can expect serious thought about change. The public mood will grow very impatient with more sons and daughters in boxes. Expect the change to come over the Thanksgiving holiday as the Sun and Jupiter complete their shift into Sagittarius to join Venus.

Notice in the New Moon chart the tight group of planets just below 3 o’clock. That’s the same group that’s been traveling together for a month, moving through Scorpio and now into Sagittarius. As they make this motion they all make a square to Saturn in Leo and test and get tested in the struggle between the Leo ego and the need to cooperate and admit the more dire consequences of our actions. These square angles also represent a struggle to break free of the past and establish a new basis for forward motion. Finally, this location in the chart for the U.S., is an area in the horoscope that deals with adjusting to the outside world in a healthy way. It’s about curbing one’s ego to fit in and be ready to form relationships. It’s a Virgo-type location and has a symbolic association with the military, the “service.”

The weekend, under an Aquarian Moon, has Venus in square to Uranus and so the week ends on a Uranian note just as it began the day after Uranus stood still. The week is framed by energy that encourages new thought and perspectives. We can expect the unexpected this week, some good and some not so good. Uranus may continue to unsettle the weather as he often does; he will definitely unsettle those whose horoscopes he currently contacts. Aquarians are busy, busy, busy being a little freaky and making space for the rest of us to expand into.

We’re coming to the end of the tunnel.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 20 November 2006

The New Moon comes close to Jupiter this afternoon at 2:18pm/5:18pm. The urge to act is strong but the expansive motion may be in or minds. The Moon goes Void at 3:54pm/6:54pm and enters Sagittarius at 5:15pm/8:15pm. The mood lightens.

Tuesday 21 November 2006

The restlessness you feel is the Moon activating Venus and Uranus moving into their square and the Sun aligning with Jupiter. Avoid confining people and situations if you can. Be in motion in all ways, take time to step back and think long thoughts. Not a day for precise detail work.

Wednesday 22 November 2006

Mercury connects with Uranus and the Sun moves into Sagittarius today continuing the theme of mental simulation and new ideas. The Moon goes Void at 5:19pm/8:19pm energizing the Saturn – Pluto evolutionary contact discussed above. Another wave in the political sea-change is breaking today.

Thursday 23 November 2006

Overnight the Moon has entered Capricorn and we have some grounded earth energy for a change. But the enthusiasm of Jupiter continues as he enters Sagittarius this evening. Even though it’s a holiday for the U.S., serious matters and decisions are being made today.

Friday 24 November 2006

The Capricorn Moon continues today when there’s no major activity for the first time this week. Time for a rest after the Moon goes Void at 5:43pm/8:43pm.

Saturday 25 November 2006

The Moon ends her Void period this morning when she enters Aquarius at 7:41am/10:41am. Everyone’s a bit twitchy with Venus square Uranus and the Moon channeling that energy into us. Expect some odd reactions of your own and from others. With the right attitude this could be a zany and fun day.

Sunday 26 November 2006

More of the same but some media event may bring many of us together when the Moon aligns with Neptune this afternoon at 2:11pm/5:11pm.

Long Range Forecast:

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.

December 8th to 10th and December 18th to 20th – Six planets are in Sagittarius. Time for the big picture, time to look ahead, time to see clearly. And maybe time to overlook some important details.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 – November 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 Class 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:

December 10th – A talk at 11:00am entitled “Seeing the Forest AND the Trees.” At the New Age Center.

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