What is that blessing/curse - "may you live in interesting times". Well, we do ...
I feel the need to stress the unprecedented (and look at the word I have used) nature of the current astrology because I think I haven't done this enough.
IT IS BIG.
We have Mars and Jupiter at the South Node as Venus and Mercury station direct within hours of each other
(the double station, maybe hasn't happened in 150 years - I got the 150 years part from a random guy at the coffee shop who says he has looked. I don't have the program to look myself or the patience, but know I haven't written about in the 13 years I have been writing about astrology, so we will go with him - he did have serious eyeglasses which he kept adjusting up his nose with his middle finger and looked kind of trustworthy, of course this also gave him the appearance of flipping me the bird for 10 minutes straight. so there's that, too ...).
We have the Sun in Scorpio and Saturn and Neptune in Aries all answering to Mars. We have Uranus in Gemini answering to Mercury and trining Pluto in Aquarius who is answering to him. Jupiter will catch up with the South Node AGAIN in February and April ...
TRADITIONAL ASTROLOGY INTERPRETATION -
Lilly’s rule is that the Tail (of the dragon/South Node) takes on the nature of Saturn and Mars. A benefic there loses some of its benefit and a malefic there gains in malice. So Mars at the Tail is worse for the tail, and Jupiter’s generosity is drained rather than expanded.
In laymen's terms - Mars gets worse and Jupiter gets drained.
Mars’s bounds - 25-degrees Leo is in Mars’s terms (Egyptian/Ptolemaic) and in his face. Jupiter is hosted by Mars here, so the benefic is working on Mars’s terms.
Dispositor - The Sun rules all three, and he is in Scorpio, Mars’s own sign. Until he enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, Sun and Mars are in mutual reception by domicile. The Sun then squares Jupiter and Mars on the 18th and 19th, so the dispositor challenges the whole cluster.
(the Sun is effectively challenging the very configuration he has been helping to sustain. This is an example of how a dispositor can tell us not only what gives a planet his/her capacity to act, but also where the consequences of that action eventually lead!)
Venus and Mercury - Venus stations direct in her own sign, the most dignified planet in the picture, and she is within orb of a sextile to Jupiter. Both inner planets are also rising before the Sun after their inferior conjunctions. Traditionally that gives them a martial tinge, which links them to the Leo cluster. Mercury, ruled by Mars, turns direct in Mars’s sign.
EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGY
Leo South Node with Aquarius North Node is the past-habit and growth-edge axis. LEO- the ego built around being seen, applauded and special, versus AQUARIUS - the collective and the detached view.
(note the South Node also contains the accumulated gifts of Leo - creativity, courage, leadership, self-expression, generosity and the capacity to inspire)
Jupiter and Mars on the South Node make that pattern as big and as willful as it gets before it has to be released. Jupiter inflates the story of who we’ve been and Mars supplies the anger and drive to defend it.
The direct stations then arrive as a hinge between those two contacts.
Mercury in Scorpio is the mind finishing its review of what was buried, and it sits in a tight square to Pluto at 3-degrees Aquarius, the polarity point of the axis and conjunct Juno. Venus in Libra is the review of our values - what we’ve been worth to others and what we’ve priced ourselves at.
Both turn forward just before Mars delivers the fire.
My sense is that we will have the information and the self-assessment we need to see the Leo pattern clearly, right as the impulse to act on it, and to act grandly, PEAKS.
BOTTOM LINE - the danger is that the old self/ego gets a big, well-funded, confident surge exactly when clarity has just arrived and the surge can 'drown' the clarity
(and we literally have Poseidon on the Scorpio New Moon for this cycle).
The Venus/Jupiter sextile (Nov 28th-29th, this is also the Uranus/Pluto trine) is the corrective. It rewards generosity and shared credit over personal acclaim. The challenge may be to avoid using newly recovered information to justify an old reaction.
Now, here is where I pull Trump into this because he is almost literally the physical manifestation of all of this. And we will pull in the U.S. Constitution chart which I have been using more lately for the United States (in addition to the Sibley).
I just realized within the last couple days that Trump's Jupiter (the king of the gods) is EXACT on the Constitution chart's 6th house Neptune. His Jupiter (expansion, magnification, appetite) lands on the nation’s Neptune (diffusion, illusion, idealization, collective illness) in the country's 6th house of day-to-day, habits and health. That fits with what we have all watched - the constant media presence of Trump in people’s daily lives, the public split/swings between devotion and revulsion and a pandemic breaking out on his watch. Also, Trump has a Juno/Chiron EXACT conjunction at 14 Libra. And Juno's story (Jupiter's wife) with Pluto (death/transformation) is a big part of the story now, too. There really is just too much for me to write/think about :(
The cluster now hits the Constitution’s Saturn (via a tight opposition) and Trump’s Mars/Apollo/Ascendent at once, so the same pressure lands on the founding structure of the United States and the physical man at its center. Note - Trump's Leo stuff opposes the Constitution's Saturn (structure) which is on the Sibley chart's Moon (the people). The Jupiter/Neptune link is a vulnerable point that amplifies. The first pass is the loudest part. That is NOW. This time period. Jupiter returns to the South Node in February and April 2027, so November is about opening a chapter, not closing one. I am going to look ahead to February and April next, but keep in mind this is happening for all of us.
Blessings. Curses. Fallen kings. Risen kings. As we try one more time in our nation's history for NO MORE KINGS. We have a very powerful Leo activation, but the evolutionary destination is Aquarius. Maybe the lesson isn't that we must stop being kings and queens of our own lives. It's that we must stop needing everyone else to be our subjects ... let me see what we can learn from February and April.
xo all - back with part II
Keep in mind, the best way for us to move things in a better direction nationally is to use our own energies personally. I am not talking about marches or really even voting, but using the circumstances of our own life to SEE what has been uncovered by Mercury FOR YOU, to FEEL what has been revealed by Venus FOR YOU and to use our gifts/creativity/love/generosity as best we can now without too much ego. We don't want to stuff anger, but we also don't need to unleash it on others. I wrote about some of this personally by sign HERE.
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