Less talk, more rock
As the Sun exits Pisces
and enters Aries the annual astrological cycle is completed and a new one
begins, making this the birth chart of the new cycle, a snapshot of the whole
year, or at least the new season. The Spring Equinox marks
the transition from submersion in the Piscean mystical waters to the
rebirth into the manifesting energies of Aries; the renewal of Spring,
marking the end of the zodiacal initiatory cycle and the beginning of a new
cycle of experience and transformation.
Since the Winter
Solstice, which introduced a formidable Pluto/Uranus/Jupiter T-Square,
the Lunar Eclipse of February 10 brought a very harmonious Sun/Moon/Uranus/Jupiter
Mystic Rectangle and the Solar Eclipse of February 26
featured a beneficial Saturn / Mercury / Jupiter Minor Grand Trine as a Mars/Uranus
conjunction spiced things up.
The T-Square as
such will fade before the Summer, although all three aspects remain in
play variously until the Winter, which will bring a different energy. I
see three major hot spots on this chart, all very connected to the T-Square:
Sullen, Strong Saturn
The Moon/Saturn
Conjunction is a pretty austere aspect, bringing feelings of isolation, pessimism
and emotional blockage. Moreover, the Sun Square Moon/Saturn aspect
means repressed tensions can surface and various conflicts arise. This is
offset by the continued Saturn Trine Uranus aspect that brings a
methodical sense of change and the Mars Trine Saturn aspect brings
concentration, stamina and perseverance and should give plenty of Spring Mars energy even though Mars is in Detriment in Taurus, and not in Aries, where it rules.
Powerful, Pushy Pluto
The Sun Sextile Pluto
aspect brings positive, intense experiences, alleviating the difficult Sun
Square Saturn/Moon aspects, but can also strengthen the conservative status
quo energy of Pluto in
Capricorn. Note also the Chiron/Sun Conjunction that brings self-esteem and healing energies.
Intense, Social,
Creative Mercury and Venus
The Mercury/Venus
Conjunction brings a capacity to appreciate and communicate feelings and
beauty, which favors artistic and financial endeavors. At the same time, this
aspect is Square to Pluto and in Opposition to Jupiter, and slightly
out-of-orb with a Uranus Conjunction creating a second T-Square. This can
bring energies of intense relationships, over-optimism, over-indulgence and
obsessive ideas.
The more Jupiterean
faults are emphasized as Jupiter has no easy aspects to stabilize its
action compared to Uranus and Pluto. Moreover, Venus is
retrograde in Aries, causing more friction and questioning in
relationships
The first half of this
powerful Pluto/Jupiter/Uranus T-Square (formed around the Winter
Solstice) has benefitted from various harmonious aspects giving this energy
of change, conflict, and power struggles some beneficial waves of diplomacy and
order to better coordinate the propensities for debate and discussion. With the
Spring Equinox, although relatively well-balanced, we enter a more complicated second phase where things are more cowboy as
the Plutonian status quo repression, the Uranian freewheeling
revolution and Jupiterian open, optimistic rhetoric energies become more
intent on asserting their particular agendas and are less willing to cooperate
or compromise. Moreover, it seems that discussions could be less productive,
less realistic as well as more intense and challenging.
If the Winter
was spent constructively building bridges and working for change, then the Spring
can be a great period of action and implementation; if not, then the danger is that
with these aspects, one can get overwhelmed with powerful forces of change
which bring a lot of resistance. Moreover, it seems that certain relationships
could reach a kind of crisis point. This could be the most intense season of
the year. I think it’s a question of using adaptation skills to assure that
various changes work out in a positive manner. The positive energy of the
two eclipses should help things and the positive transformative energy of the Sun Sextile Pluto in Conjuction with Chiron is a factor to be reckoned. Happy Spring to one and all.
“This is spirit's
progress, and it may be said to be a process of regeneration, shortly typified
by crucifixion and resurrection. The old man dies, the new man rises from his
grave. The old man, with his lusts, is crucified; the new man is raised up to
live a spiritual and holy life. It is regeneration of spirit that is the
culmination of bodily life, and the process is crucifixion of self, a daily
death, as Paul was wont to say.
In the life of spiritual progress there should
be no stagnation, no paralysis. It should be a growth and a daily adaptation of
knowledge; a mortification of the earthly and sensual, and a corresponding
development of the spiritual and heavenly. In other words, it is a growth in
grace and in knowledge of the Christ; the purest type of human life presented
to your imitation. It is a clearing away of the material, and a development of
the spiritual--a purging as by fire, the fire of a consuming zeal; of a lifelong
struggle with self, and all that self includes; of an ever-widening grasp of
Divine truth.”
Spirit Teachings,
Section 30, William Stainton Moses
References:
Robert Hand, Planets
in Transit
for more on the Pluto/Uranus/Jupiter T-Square see:
https://theosophyproject.blogspot.ca/2016/12/astrology-winter-solstice-wednesday.html
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