I used to enjoy brainstorming with
my university classes around the slippery concept of “Power:”
the results were always very revealing because that central concept manifests in both material and immaterial ways, and on multiple levels and dimensions. For starters, are we looking at power “over” or power “to?”
the results were always very revealing because that central concept manifests in both material and immaterial ways, and on multiple levels and dimensions. For starters, are we looking at power “over” or power “to?”
Is power a more reciprocal,
transactional exchange—“you scratch my back, I scratch yours?”—or a distributed
force wielded by multiple players for creative purposes? Or maybe it’s the life
force itself, sustaining all energy-dependent systems? Or the force that
gradually erodes, corrupts and diminishes those systems, as climate change and
the Trump administration are doing?
Are we looking at power in its most
raw, elemental form, as energy that
we switch on and off in our homes, that we use to fuel our vehicles, and—for
want of a better word—to “power” our
lives? Or power as authority
(legitimate or not), as the ability (or responsibility,
some might add) to influence the actions of others for a specific purpose. Or power as resistance—“power-over” cuts both ways.
Needless to say, these brainstorms always provoke considerable discussion and exploration. We know what power is in our bones, but its complexity—and the stakes involved in its wise use—easily elude us.
The stakes are profound, indeed, and to my astrologer’s mind, they are the
lens through which we need to consider Uranus moving into Taurus on May 18th.
For the coming 7+ years, we’ll have
front row seats for the powerfully fruitful, electro-magnetic
“dance” of manifestation—a perfect “Tango” of Energy and Matter, Uranus
and Venus
(ruling Taurus). The imagery is more apt than it might sound. Consider this
from Wikipedia:
“Tango canyengue uses body dissociation for the
leading, walking with firm ground contact, and a permanent combination of on-
and off-beat rhythm. Its main characteristics are its musicality and
playfulness. Its rhythm is described as ‘incisive, exciting, provocative’.”
Sounds like Uranus and Venus
to me, especially in earthy Taurus!
So, what should we expect from this
“dance” that will manifest on several different levels: physical,
technological, societal, politically—both within and beyond our borders? Importantly, this Venus-influenced Uranus
will rule the new Jupiter-Saturn cycle that launches in December 2020 at 0°+Aquarius, a development
that we’ll consider more deeply ahead.
Before we try to envision how this earth-centered revolution launching in Aquarius (an air sign, making it a mutation conjunction[1]) is likely to play out, however, let’s briefly consider a little basic information about the astrological Uranus, and some historical context for its new passage in Taurus.
Before we try to envision how this earth-centered revolution launching in Aquarius (an air sign, making it a mutation conjunction[1]) is likely to play out, however, let’s briefly consider a little basic information about the astrological Uranus, and some historical context for its new passage in Taurus.
What
goes around…?
Uranus is thought by medical
astrologers to rule the body’s nervous systems (with co-ruler Mercury)
and rhythmic processes—in fact, Jane Ridder Patrick describes how there simply
is “no life without Uranus:” From her Handbook of Medical Astrology[2]:
“Everything that is alive pulsates. The pulsation of the
heart is obvious, as is the rhythmic process of breathing. What is not so
obvious is that every living cell pulsates because of its membrane potential.
Smooth muscle tone is maintained by rhythmic pulsation. The whole digestive
tract moves in co-ordinated pulsations… Uranus rules all the rhythmic processes
of the body…Uranus is concerned with the co-operation between individual units
and systems, so that the whole can function in a co-ordinated fashion.”
Ridder-Patrick goes on to explain
how the electrical principle of polarity applies
in bodily processes—Uranus also rules electricity, as it happens, and through
electrical charges and potentials, it impacts our critical electrolyte balances.
Once those are disrupted, our physical systems become spasmodic (also Uranus)
and dysfunctional.
Dysfunctional, as our Body Politic
is operating right now: disrupted, spasmodic and dysfunctional. As it turns
out, there’s historical precedent for this state of affairs hidden in Uranus’s
own rhythms.
An
84-year cycle
Uranus requires approximately 84
years to orbit the Sun. In that same period plus another 4.5 years, Saturn
makes three full orbits and Jupiter
makes seven complete rounds.
These social planets figure heavily into how Uranian energies manifest
in society and the collective, so it’s worth keeping the rhythmic dance between these three planets in mind. At times it’s a
smooth-as-silk fox trot, and at other times it looks like the “dancers” are
tripping over their own feet, oblivious to what the others are doing!
We seem to be experiencing something
like the latter right now in our politics and public life, but things may
stabilize a bit when Uranus moves into fixed sign,
Taurus. At least dispositor Venus knows her right “foot” from
her left, and she might be able to get them to move together!
The coordinating force we need to mobilize
our societal “right” and “left” for the sake of progress and functionality may
come at a price, however. The historical precedents for this Uranus
transit are sobering: June 6, 1934 and July 8, 1850. Let’s consider a
few quick highlights about each 7-year Uranus in Taurus period we’ve
experienced as the American nation. Starting with the most recent first:
-
June, 1934-August,
1941. After a retrograde passage back into Taurus for several months, Uranus
turned direct again in May, 1942— and continued in Gemini for the duration.
Highlights of this period include the rise of Fascism in Spain, Italy and
Germany, of imperialism in Japan, and (on the other side of the Pond), the
presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which ended up supporting the fight
against those fascist regimes in the Spanish Civil War and WWII.
It’s instructive to note that the powerful
final third of Uranus’s time in Taurus here was dedicated by the U.S. and the
Soviet Union to consolidating (Taurus) their coming super-power status and
spheres of influence. One side needed to play off the other in the course of
the so-called Cold War that followed, of course—that polarizing energy was facilitated by Uranus’s subsequent
passage in 2-sided Gemini (beginning in August, 1941).
Relatively whole entities were split in two
during Uranus’s Taurus and Gemini years: Spain fought a heinous civil war; Korea
became North and South Korea; Vietnam became North
and South Vietnam; Germany became
East and West Germany, and Europe itself was fractured into East and West. As if an egg had been cracked open and the
contents were hastily glopped into two bowls, the global order was effectively
divvied up by these super-powers into East
and West ideological camps, as well. East = Communist; West = Democratic.
There were exceptions in the Balkans, where
Hitler and the Axis powers consolidated support in Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia
and elsewhere—countries which experienced ideological whiplash after the war,
from supporting fascism to being placed in the U.S.S.R.’s communist sphere of
influence.
Everyone thought Fascism had been defeated by the end of WWII—but as we’ve recently
discovered, a post-globalism variety of the toxic old nationalist extremism has
surfaced with a vengeance—in some of the typically vulnerable European places,
but in some unusual ones, as well,
like the United States.
Of course, these three “isms,” or forms of
government are basically Aquarian systems (in so far as Uranus and Saturn
rule systems in general) for distributing, coordinating and exercising power in pursuit of national needs, and as we know, there is a lot at stake in which system prevails.
Chart
#1: Uranus in
Taurus-1930s, June 6, 1934, 10:35:19 a.m. ST, Washington, D.C. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
Neptune’s more subtle, but
nonetheless powerful influence is never far away in matters involving political
systems, either. However, while mundane astrology has traditionally taught that
left-leaning ideologies are ruled by Neptune and right-leaning ideologies
are ruled by Uranus, I would respectfully suggest that we revisit this
broad-brushed division. In fact, since it entered Pisces in 2011, Neptune
has helped promote the radical right-wing/nationalist turn in American
and European politics we’ve been seeing.
It’s clear astrologically that this
extremist impulse harks back to the 1930s Uranus passage in Taurus (see Chart
#1 above). Neptune was a critical player in that historical period,
trining Uranus from Virgo, square our Sibly Uranus (Gemini).
Neptune had also “returned” to its
Sibly position at 22°+Virgo
in the months before our entrance into WWII: our Greatest Generation was
energized and renewed in its dedication to democratic ideals (Mom, apple pie
and all). For their troubles and sacrifice, they inspired the post-War GI Bill—this generation widely
enjoyed the American ideal of middle class living (that proverbial “chicken in
every pot”) and suburban home ownership!
This is not to minimize Uranus’s
role in the 1930s or in
today’s politics and society. Uranus
has influenced the upheavals
we’ve seen lately during its long square with Capricorn Pluto and
conjunction with Eris. These passages shook the secure foundations of the global
economic order, and the American economy was caught in the crosshairs. This
spawned an “Us v. Them” mentality that American society is paying dearly for
today. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on where this hard-edged, rightward
drift is taking us.
Bottom line, there’s just no easy
ideological division of labor between Uranus and Neptune. In fact, the
U.S. entered WWII (12/8/1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor)
with Saturn
conjunct Uranus (both in Taurus), trine Neptune in Virgo. Anti-Nazi
idealism (Neptune) played an important role in the collective war effort
and in our eventual victory.
- July 8,
1850-June, 1858. This period constituted the prelude to the U.S. Civil War,
so here we see Uranus’s fingerprints on the run-up to that conflict, especially
in the way our extreme pro-slavery/anti-slavery polarities exploded, defying
peaceful resolution. If peace was the imperative, it didn’t help that Uranus
conjoined Pluto at the fiery point of 29°+Aries,
for the start of their new cycle (see inner wheel, Triwheel #1 below).
Then,
on August 7th of that tinder-dry summer, a total solar eclipse
occurred at 14°+Leo, a
“dragon’s head” eclipse, conjunct within minutes of the North Node, fanning the
fiery sentiments tearing the country apart.
Ironically, the so-called “Compromise of 1850”
was being debated that summer, as well: it was an ambitious attempt at a
legislative solution in Congress to the many hot issues of the time, but it ultimately
fell apart as financial interests clashed over whether new western states and
territories (Taurus) being annexed to the Union would be slave states or free
states.
We probably can’t exaggerate how volatile
those times were—the passages we see here (see Triwheel #1 below) were
clearly setting the nation up for tragedy.
Triwheel
#1: (inner wheel) Uranus-Pluto
conjunction, June 25, 1850, 9:46 p.m. LMT, Washington, D.C.; (middle wheel) Ura in
Taurus-pre-Civil War, July 8, 1850, 10:21:34 a.m. LMT, Washington, D.C.;
(outer wheel) Solar Eclipse, August 7, 1850, 4:24:44 p.m. LMT,
Washington, D.C.. Tropical Equal Houses,
True Node.
Feverish gold-seekers were still mining
California rivers and mountains during this period: the so-called Gold Rush
lasted until 1855 and stimulated considerable westward expansion, which then grew
even more dramatically under the 1862 Homestead Act (Uranus in Gemini). Significant
Indian territories were confiscated by white settlers during the Taurus period,
although the American Indian Wars lit up even more severely during and after
the Civil War, with Uranus in Gemini. In late 1861, Saturn and Jupiter
launched a new 20-year cycle in earthy Virgo, t-squared this air-bound Uranus: homestead-driven settlement
(a lot of it aimed at establishing farms and ranches) spread like the wind.
The ideological divide driving the fragile
young nation into civil war was equally widespread, of course, and fueled by a
familiar blend of mob mentality and distortion (at least they didn’t have to
contend with Facebook). Not
incidentally, Neptune was transiting its home sign Pisces then, as it is now, which manifested in the early zeal both sides had for the fight, and the disenchantment that set in very quickly.
In 1850, slavery had been abolished in most of Europe, Britain and Canada nearly two decades earlier, and there were both compassionate humanitarian (Neptune’s lighter side) and “industrial progress” arguments (Uranus in Taurus) for abolishing it here, as well.
In 1850, slavery had been abolished in most of Europe, Britain and Canada nearly two decades earlier, and there were both compassionate humanitarian (Neptune’s lighter side) and “industrial progress” arguments (Uranus in Taurus) for abolishing it here, as well.
Incompatible North and South mind-sets,
cultures, economic interests and visions of the future finally reached a point
of no return, and the Civil War exploded in April 1861, as southern states
seceded from the Union, triggering a blood-bath from which we still haven’t
fully recovered. It happened once; could a similar ideologically polarized “mob
spirit” sever the nation in two again?
Fast-forward to 2018
So Uranus plays a key role
in American history, and its Taurus transits have always been
instrumental in consolidating power around material priorities. This happens,
of course, after the upsets Uranus
promotes during its preceding Aries transits. I would argue that, in the end, America’s
internal divisions can be reliably summed up as a tug-of-war over the freedom (Uranus
disposes our national Sibly Moon in Aquarius) to pursue regional
economic goals—rural vs. urban, extractive vs. sustainable (environmental
policies) and the freedom to pursue hot button trade and technology issues.
The rest of our ever-present issues
(civil rights, labor and immigration policies, gun rights/regulations,
infrastructure, security and foreign policy, etc.) are then hammered out by the
current “powers-that-be” (usually corporate/legislative alliances), around their economic priorities. This is no revelation, of course: follow the money seems to be our
national mantra these days!
So, we’re fast-forwarding to the
2018 ingress of Uranus in Taurus, on May 15th – a
matter of days, now. Let’s consider the chart for that first step onto the
dance floor for this duo’s earthy “tango.”
Chart
#2: Uranus enters Taurus, May 15, 2018, 11:13 a.m. DST, Washington, D.C. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
Sun-Moon in New Moon phase (Taurus), trine
Pluto-Mars (widely conjunct in Capricorn) and semi-sextile Venus-Pallas
(Gemini). A fresh new Uranus ingress launching in New Moon
phase suggests great potential, standing in the wings, awaiting the chance to
express. Between the gathering in Taurus and Mars-Pluto in Capricorn
(along with Saturn and Vesta…more
on them below), ambitious Earth energy dominates this chart; the quest to
consolidate resources for some material priorities is gaining strength,
beginning to control the narrative (Mercury) and biding its time.
Will we see a new focus on
infrastructure building? The building of that famous border Wall that obsesses
Trump? This New Moon conjoins his Taurus MC (24°+), suggesting that his material goals may be
supported by this ingress, at least in the short-term.
Uranus conjoins Mercury (Taurus) and T-squares
Nodal Axis and ASC-DSC (Leo-Aquarius). It’s significant here that this
nodal axis overlays the Sibly nodal axis (6°+Leo-Aq),
not to mention Trump’s Leo Pluto position (10°+) as well, making this
ingress (and his administration) an important inflection point in our history
and evolution. The transiting nodes say something about how societies around
the world are developing, and the visible trend is towards more authoritarian
(Leo) forms of government at this time.
The narrative (Mercury) supporting this
drift these days seems to be that “strong man” governments are more
accommodating for corporations to deal with—implying, of course, that the
companies or CEOs/oligarchs see their place as currying favor with the “Big
Guy” at the top. There’s a reason Trump values loyalty above all: it’s keeping him and his vision for a corporate-style government in power.
This idea that governments should be
run like corporations has been catching more wind in its sails for decades: we
see the results today in how Trump has been allowed to cross all kinds of
ethical lines by conflating his personal business and government interests.
Unfortunately, fascism is, fundamentally, merely an extreme version of the
style of government Trump is already practicing: a toxic “strong-man” blend of
extreme nationalism, with an uninhibited flow of resources between government
and corporate hands.
Why shouldn’t EPA head Scott Pruitt
be able to accept low-cost lodgings from a corporate lobbyist? Why shouldn’t Cabinet members accept
appointments with lobbyists according to the amount of money they’ve donated? In
the corporate world, these activities would barely raise an eyebrow. Once the
ethical lines we’ve traditionally enjoyed between government and corporate
practices are eroded (as they have been), anything goes, and democracy dies in
the process.
Unfortunately, under this Taurus
passage, material priorities are likely to dominate, which could concentrate
more and more wealth in fewer hands (already a serious issue), and do nothing
to strengthen those ethical lines between government and corporations. An airy Gemini Venus disposes Uranus-Mercury
and the Sun-Moon here: will she have the backbone to resist a corrupt
trend? Falling conjunct Trump’s natal Sun-Node-Uranus (Gemini), I would
hope so, but that’s being optimistic.
It may help that Saturn
will remain in Capricorn for the first couple years
of this new Uranus passage, however—more on that ahead.
Uranus-Mercury also falls sextile
Sibly Venus and Jupiter (Cancer). It will be very
interesting to see what the trade agreements that Trump has been negotiating (with
our NAFTA partners, China, So. Korea, etc.) will look like in the end. There
could actually be a viable peace agreement in the works with North Korea
(something more concrete than a few hopeful photo ops at the DMZ), but that is
probably a development “whose time has come” in the end. Kim seems to be
signaling that he knows it’s time to build his country’s economy, which would
be supported with the dominant earth energy ahead.
For more on the astrology of this
Korean situation, click here.
If Kim is truly prepared to
denuclearize in order to build a better future for his people, good for him.
Unfortunately, that’s a big “if,” and
IMHO, things have proceeded a little too smoothly with Trump’s big meeting there to be credible. The administration
seems to be in a big rush to get the Korean issue out of the way.
We’ve heard Trump
take credit for achieving a coup in Korea already: this is considered by
many to be seriously premature and based on flawed assumptions about how weak
or strong Kim’s bargaining position is. Trump is also eager, it seems, to pull
U.S. troops out of South Korea: his new national security adviser John Bolton
begs to differ. Clearly, we’ll be hearing much more about this.
So, should Trump be awarded a Nobel
Peace Prize for calling Kim Jong-Un “little Rocket Man” and threatening “fire
and fury?” I’d love to be in the room when that’s
discussed at the Foundation!
Next up, the Iran deal
Meanwhile, Trump’s rattling his sabers in regards to the Iran nuclear deal, and we can probably expect that he
will support Israel’s opinion on the matter in the end, despite entreaties from
all our
European allies to renew the deal. Israel is a Taurus Sun nation (its Sun
conjoins Trump’s MC, with four strong Leo points (Moon, Pluto, Saturn, Mars)
that tie into Trump’s natal Mars and Pluto, so the resonance
is real.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s natal Mars[5]
also conjoins Trump’s Mars, and his natal Jupiter
(Capricorn) opposes Trump’s Venus-Saturn conjunction (Cancer) at
the same time it conjoins our Sibly Pluto (Capricorn), so their
worldviews on security issues and our corporate sector’s ambitions are likely
to be closely aligned.
Politico is reporting today that Iran is warning that the U.S. will
regret ditching the nuclear agreement; with Pluto also transiting
into its return to Sibly Pluto (Capricorn) these days, we
should probably take such warnings seriously.
Uranus-Mercury fall in 9th house,
trine Vesta-Saturn (Capricorn). This suggests an outward focus (i.e.,
relations abroad) that is directed at material acquisition and at building
something constructive in the process. The trine suggests that American
households (Vesta) will gain from satisfying obligations. Unfortunately,
Trump’s reluctance to honor obligations (or to extend any kind of compassionate
refuge) is reflected in his natal Mercury being opposed by this transiting Saturn-Vesta.
As I write this, CNN
is reporting that Trump is “floating the idea of closing down the country.”
This apparently transpired while he
was criticizing Dems for holding out on money for his border wall and blasting
them for wanting “open borders,” like welcoming
those who need refuge is a dirty word. Maybe Trump is taking his "germophobia" just a bit too far?
In fact, his administration has just ended another
temporary protection order for immigrant populations from specific nations: this time, for thousands of Hondurans who have been here since
crisis wracked their country 20+ years ago. This action will fracture more and
more families (Vesta), as U.S. citizen children are left here and immigrant parents
are forced to leave. His desire to demonize both legal and illegal immigration—and
the whole long tradition of nations giving refuge to those fleeing oppression—seems
to have no bounds.
From the Washington
Post:
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s widely
anticipated decision not to renew temporary protected status for Hondurans
means an estimated 428,000 people from several countries face rolling deadlines
beginning late this year to leave or obtain legal residency in other ways.”
Not surprisingly, this is all
happening with Neptune transiting Pisces, a sign that, ironically, is deeply
compassionate and caring when expressed well. In truth, these “better angels” are hard at work—they
just don’t make as many headlines as those caught up in the more troubling tendencies
of Pisces: fear- and conspiracy-mongering, distortion and lies, a victimization
mindset, and a panic-driven mob mentality. We’ll have to see if a pragmatic,
earthy Uranus will be able to talk some sense into our body politic
over this issue.
It’s worth pointing out that Uranus’s
transit through Taurus begins in (and the Uranus-Mercury falls in)
the Sibly 5th house: this may point to disruption in the nation’s
schools and to our young people (the Parkland teens will keep demonstrating for
sane gun regulations), some wild swings in the birth rate, etc., and it may
also indicate turbulent times in Congress (11th house).
Other branches of government,
including the military, may be impacted by this as well: Mercury rules the Gemini
11th and squares Mars (out of mode in late Capricorn),
so we can expect something newsworthy from there. If the saber-rattling and bellicose
pretext-building going on about Iran these days persists, it could be the next military
“hot-spot.” The latest national budget
includes a big boost to defense spending: it’s an election year with corporate
monies flowing into campaign funds, so it’s not hard to connect the dots here.
A few ideas to consider...
A few ideas to consider...
Thankfully, there are other, less
cynical developments to look forward to under Uranus in Taurus. The “lightning”
of inspiration is “grounded” in Taurus (there’s that “tango” again!), and
manifests in a myriad of material ways. This will be particularly fruitful once
Jupiter
and Saturn
begin their new cycle in Aquarius in December, 2020.
Here are some possible avenues for
expressing Taurus energy in these Aquarian/Uranian times:
- Rebuilding our crumbling or out-dated
infrastructures (roads, bridges, etc.) with sustainable materials that can
withstand earthquakes, prevent sinkholes, etc. We know that we’re faced with
more intense storms every year—witness the mess Puerto Rico is still in from
last year’s Hurricane
Maria, with the next hurricane
season already on the horizon! Where’s the new generation of products that can
help us deal with these challenges?
- Producing new technologies that improve resource
stocks (energy, land/soil, drinking water, clean air, bandwidth) and their
efficient use. (Our electric grid—Aquarius—is in dire need of updating. China
is slated to have 20 million electric cars on the road by 2020—what are we waiting
for?).
- Producing technologies and infrastructures that
help prevent and predict, rather than cause
environmental disasters, epidemics, and cyber-terrorism, and that help us
respond more effectively when such things happen. When earth energies are dominant, we need to
work with the earth, not against it,
so technologies related to earth sciences take center stage. For example,
scientists have found that rocks
from Oman absorb an enormous load of carbon emissions from the atmosphere,
producing stone from them in the process.
Could this knowledge be turned into
technologies that will help extract such emissions and put them to productive
use somehow? Carbon “sinks” capable of capturing emissions for recycling or
storage are sorely needed: Nature provides solutions when we liberate
scientists to find them!
- Educating the next generation of Americans (we
have an Aquarius Sibly Moon) to be “makers, not takers,”[6]
creating the jobs they need to thrive and the support systems they need to have
a voice (a new re-imagined era of labor unions?).
- Redefining our GDP to promote this list of priorities over
technologies that simply overwhelm our landfills and churn “free market”
dollars. Easy choice, right?
Social
engineering
If we needed reminding that power
relations are the “wool” out of which societies are spun, not to mention the energy that fuels societies, we’re about to be schooled by Uranus to that effect. Needless to say, “We the People” need to pay
attention when Uranus enters Taurus later this month and the opening bars of
this Uranus-Venus
“tango” begin to play.
Many of our democratic institutions
are under fire these days: will those who want to consolidate power at the top
win out and succeed at re-engineering our system into a corporate plutocracy of
sorts? Will we even recognize this nation after Uranus’s 7+ years in
Taurus this time around? I’m sure
that sincere Americans debating the “Compromise of 1850” wondered the same
during those pre-Civil War days, as did those watching all of Europe shudder
under the threat of Fascism in the 1930s. The answers aren’t already “written,”
however: we need to create them!
IMHO, there are better uses for this
Taurus “tango,” and they are within our reach if we tune-in to the real issues, instead of allowing
ourselves to be played like a piano with scandals and fear-mongering Twitter
feeds. We'll have plenty more to consider about the upcoming November election (Uranus will be in Taurus) in future posts. Neptune being what it is
in Pisces, focus will be a challenge going forward, but constructive possibilities await: let
the music begin!
Raye
Robertson is a practicing astrologer, writer and former educator. A graduate of
the Faculty of Astrological Studies (U.K.), Raye focuses on mundane,
collective-oriented astrology, with a particular interest in current affairs,
culture and media, the astrology of generations, and public concerns such as
education and health. Several of her articles on these topics have been
featured in The Mountain Astrologer and other publications over the years.
She is
also available to read individual charts—contact her at: robertsonraye@gmail.com.
© Raye Robertson 2018. All
rights reserved.
[1] A “mutation conjunction”
is defined on p. 185 of Mundane Astrology
(1st ed.) by authors Baigent, Campion and Harvey as being the “transition
of the [Jupiter-Saturn] conjunction from one element to another.” The Aquarius
conjunction of December, 2020 will be the first such cycle in air since the
Libra conjunction of 1981, an anomalous break from a long series of cycles in
earth signs. Mundane Astrology called
this anomaly a “maverick cycle.”
[2] Jane Ridder-Patrick, A Handbook of Medical Astrology, 1st
ed., Arkana, London, pp. 41-42.
[3] U.S. Sibly chart data:
July 4, 1776, 5:10 p.m. LMT, Philadelphia, PA. Nicholas Campion, Book of World Horoscopes, Chart #370,
pp. 363-66.
[5] Born October, 21, 1949,
10:15 a.m. DST, Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: Astrodatabank,
Rated C: rectified from approx. time.
[6] Rana Faroohar, Maker and Takers: The Rise of Finance and
the Fall of American Business, Crown Business, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Takers-Finance-American-Business/dp/0553447238.
9/19/2016.
