Showing posts with label Uranus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uranus. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2009

A Dangerous Time

Well summer has ended and Pluto has turned direct. Saturn and Uranus have gone to opposition and will return on and off until next year. Soon the beginning of Fall will arrive on the 22nd and we are in for a difficult time. I have been looking closely at President Obama's chart. Public rancor has increased and I have feared for Mr. Obama's safety. This leads me to examine his chart. Since we have an accurate birth time for him (contrary to what some might say) we can have some confidence in the forecast.

I see a grave threat building so caution and vigilance is needed for those who protect our president. Thankfully, we have the best protection service in the world in the U.S. Secret Service so I am hopeful any problem will be neutralized quickly and effectively.

But here is what I see developing in the chart: From November the 8th to November 21st, transiting Pluto will go opposite Mr. Obama's natal Venus with transiting Saturn squaring this opposition. His natal Venus rules his 4th House of endings and Pluto indicates transformation and forced change. Saturn rule his first house of the physical body and Saturn is transiting the 8th house of death. Saturn is also stressing the progressed Sun which rules the house open enemies the 7th. Furthermore Saturn is conjunct his progressed IC again endings are emphasized. The Nodes are active as well the North Node is active over Natal Saturn and Progressed Saturn along with the Natal North Node progressed to near partile conjunction with Natal Uranus. These suggest a time of personal destiny being fulfilled or what you were born to do. Mars will conjunct his natal Sun on November 11th and 12th these are critical days -- it suggests force or anger at this critical time. Could it be someone’s temper will boiled over to the point that they feel like they must act?

While I will not go as far as predicting the worse I will say caution is warranted. Of course this could also translate into a failure of Health Care Reform on a less critical level. Neither prospect seems favorable in November.

So can we glean any insight from Vice President Biden chart? More on that to come...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Uranus, Defender of Gay Rights and Same Sex Marriage

Back in 2003 after the Lawrence v. Texas case was decided I noticed that Uranus had moved into a new sign, which it is still in, that of Pisces. The case was argued before the Supreme Court on March 26, 2003 Uranus had just moved to 0 degrees Pisces on March 11. The decision to invalidate all sodomy laws in the U.S. was handed down on June 26, 2003 just after Uranus had turned retrograde. Well, what uproar among conservatives after that decision!

Uranus is the planet whose symbol is freedom and equality. It was discovered March 31, 1781 at the time between the American and French Revolutions. How appropriate! So it is natural that Pisces ruling confined spaces (think closet) and the oppressed spirit should be given freedom to soar.

As with other civil rights movement from women’s suffrage to the long struggle of African Americans for full equality, Uranus has been front and center in its movement through the signs. Uranus moved into Pisces on April 1, 1919 just before the State began voting to ratify the 14th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The ratification was completed on August 18, 1920. And of course the last state to ratify the Amendment was Mississippi in 1984.

Interestingly Uranus was in the last degrees of Gemini before going into Cancer when on July 26, 1948 Executive Order 9981 eliminated racial discrimination in the U.S. military. Uranus moved through Cancer (the traditional symbolic sign of the African peoples) during the great strides in legal fights of the Civil Rights movement (Brown v. Board of Education and calls for civil rights legislation). The adverse reaction started when Uranus moved into Leo in 1956 (Little Rock) but turned around again when it entered Virgo in 1962 about a year before the beginning of debate that lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

So as we have seen there is always a period of leaps in civil rights advancement that Uranus sparks followed by a backlash that the revolution is getting out of hand. The California referendum that is sure to come in November 2010 will have Uranus retrograde in the final degrees of Pisces so I expect to see a win for Marriage Equality in California before Uranus finally goes into Aries in 2011. This should cause quite a dust up in the years Uranus is in Aries with a vigorous fight over Supreme Court Justices. But Gay Rights and Same Sex Marriage will get to full equality after Uranus travels through Aries after the backlash from the hold out states (think South) until it enters Taurus in May 2018. I predict full marriage equality will be handed down by the Supreme Court that June!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Astrology of Swine Flu

I’ve been looking into flu pandemics and astrologic combinations since the recent flu outbreak was announced. As far back as 1580 when the first flu pandemic was recognized Saturn and Uranus have been in contact in most cases. Saturn delights in the 12th and 6th houses (Pisces and Virgo by sign) so confinement and disease/public health are located in those houses/signs. Uranus ruler of Aquarius involves humanity and group interaction and some say influenza specifically -- not to mention surprise epidemics.

So that said, in 1829 before the pandemic of 1830-33 Saturn was in Leo opposite Uranus at 10 Aquarius. During the Hong Kong Flu outbreak in July of 1968 Saturn at 25 Aries was inconjunct Uranus at 25 Virgo. The Swine Flu scare of 1976 we had Saturn at 3 Leo squaring Uranus at 3 Scorpio. But the more important and deadly pandemic was in 1918 when in October, Saturn was at 24 Leo opposite Uranus at 24 Leo. The last week of October 1918 saw the peak in deaths in several major cities around the world.

Well, what is the potential for this Swine Flu? Interestingly enough Saturn at 20 Virgo was opposite Uranus at 20 Pisces in February of this year. The Mexican health authorities have pinpointed the initial outbreak to this February. Unfortunately these two planet go into opposition one more time in September at 24Virgo/24 Pisces at sensitive degrees for epidemics and an echo of the 1918 outbreak.

Will it be as bad as 1918? Probably not in terms of percentages but there will be a death toll that might approach 1918. I think the U.S. is in good shape. Uranus rules invention and we have come a long way in preventing disease and creating new treatments. There are similarities between this flu and the 1918 flu. I fear we will know soon enough.