Earth,
Water, Fire
One
striking thing about the Spring Equinox chart, coming just three days after the new moon, is that there are no planets in
air signs; Venus and Mercury are in impulsive, blunt Aries,
with Mercury going retrograde on March 22. Therefore, it
could be that communication will be difficult or choppy (or minimal) in this
period. Moreover, this chart has seven planets in two signs: four (Uranus,
Venus, Mercury, Sun) in fiery Aries and three (Pluto, Saturn,
Mars) in earthy Capricorn and all four Aries planets are in
difficult (square) aspects to one of the three in Capricorn, which provides the
tension in this chart.
Dark Aries-Capricorn
Face-Off
Highly
charged Mars is still on the energized cusp of Capricorn, having
arrived on the New Moon of March 17 and is in exaltation,
bringing some dynamic Spring energy, and its passage through Capricorn
as it joins Saturn and Pluto should fire up that already
well-furnished house. The Sun squares a wide Mars/Saturn conjunction,
bringing depressive, frustrated, harsh, rigid tendencies with some volatile and
impulsive energy as well. There is also a Venus/Mercury/Uranus conjunction
squaring Mars/Saturn/Pluto in a powerful face-off. I see this as a rather frustrated,
clouded, unstable, resentful, vengeful, conflictual impulse that basically
serves to amplify the powerful long-standing Pluto/Uranus square. This
is probably one of the last big rebellious, revolutionary Uranian offensives (bolstered
by a Mars/Uranus trine) before Uranus moves into Taurus in
May. According to Bill Herbst: The Uranus–Pluto alignment is far and away the most important astrological factor for the entire decade of the 2010s— .” He briefly describes it as:” the Uranian impulse toward sudden and revolutionary change is combined with the Plutonian tendency toward radical, ruthless, and extreme use of power.”
Bright
Moon and Jupiter Sextiles
The Moon
and Jupiter, situated in the Taurus-Scorpio axis respectively,
bookends the other planets in a six-house hemisphere with some easy trines
and sextiles. The sensitive, serene Moon earth trines to Mars
and Saturn should help temper the fiery Aries/Capricorn squares and
the confident, ambitious Jupiter/Pluto sextile should do the
same. Moreover, there is a dreamy, imaginative Moon/Neptune sextile
which should enhance the mystical Piscean energy.
Positive
Jupiter Trines with Sun/Chiron/Neptune
A key
aspect is the Sun/Chiron conjunction trine to Jupiter. Chiron’s
lengthy stay near the equinoctial axis continues to provide intriguing
Christ-on-the-cross, Easter death/resurrection connections. Sun conjunct
Chiron can deepen one’s sense of identity and purpose. In general, Spring
symbolizes the rebirth of nature and the beginning of the period of victory of
light over darkness and so on a personal level overcoming one’s insecurities
and healing the wounds that the spear-like Mars/Saturn-Chiron square is
driving home, Mars here serving to briefly revive the Chiron/Saturn
square covered in last year’s posts. Some themes of Chiron square Saturn are: “Avoiding
responsibility, agonizing over old hurts, letting resentment brew,
self-punishing behavior, over-sensitivity, escapism to avoid pain, martyrdom.“ Some
themes of Jupiter trine Chiron are: “Recognizing the need to heal,
no-nonsense attitudes toward self-care, letting go of the past, taking
appropriate responsibility, taking an objective view of one’s challenges,
volunteering, mentoring”(Dena DeCastro).
The Sun/Chiron
- Jupiter trine should help cut through the dark clouds in Aries and
Capricorn and galvanise the solar-powered spring renewal process. Robert
Hand writes of the Sun/Jupiter trine:
This is one of the most positive transits. Unless there is some powerful
negative influence operating at the same time, this transit assures a day of
good feeling, peace and harmony with other. But you should try to use this
energy to accomplish something good and useful for yourself… The enthusiasm,
optimism and buoyancy associated with this transit will enable you to project
energies into the environment that will help your affairs work out as you want…
You should used this ability to see your life as a whole and to take stock of
what you are doing and to see how it fits your real needs. Because you are in a
positive frame of mind, you can make changes in any area of your life without
feeling a great sense of loss. So often in our unhappiness, we cling to
something we really don’t need because we feel insecure. (Planets in Transit
73-74)
Jupiter’s
retrograde motion
in Scorpio could help one to dig deeper to connect with one’s inner
being setting up a strong archetypal configuration for a fruitful spiritual
regeneration. As H. P. Blavatsky writes: “Christ — the true esoteric SAVIOR —
is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every
human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his
own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the "sepulcher" of
his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary,
he has the risen Christ in him. The "Son of Man" is no child
of the bond-woman — flesh, but verily of the free-woman — Spirit,
the child of man's own deeds, and the fruit of his own spiritual labor. "
(The Esoteric Character of the Gospels, part I, Lucifer, Nov. 1887)
As noted in
the previous astrology post, the Winter Solstice ushered in a less
conflictual planetary configuration but the winter season experienced it’s share
of turmoil, especially with the two rather powerful eclipses, (January 31/
February 15 – a 5-planet conjunction in difficult aspects with 5 other planets)
marked by the tragic February 14 Florida high-school shooting. This was
possibly partially due to residual energies remaining from previous eclipses
and consequences of many prior difficult aspects, so we should witness a
certain stabilization after Uranus leaves Aries setting us up for
a six-month period of fairly smooth sailing with the Jupiter/Pluto sextile
and Jupiter/Neptune trine. With Jupiter
now in Scorpio, Jupiter and Scorpio are both ambitious and intense; this
could give a deep, generous altruism with possible harsh reprisals and a
certain freakiness, the most obvious manifestation being the recent and
numerous revelations (Jupiter extraversion) of the plague that is sexual
harassment (Scorpio passion). Jupiter sextile Pluto gives a very
dynamic, ambitious, self-confident outlook (with domineering tendencies). Jupiter
/ Neptune trine, a water (emotion) aspect, brings good intuitive,
optimistic, idealistic, humanitarian and spiritual energy (with a tendency for
over-optimism and risky gambling). Saturn in Capricorn is all
about realism, responsibility, hard work, and conventional, conservative
values.
In the
previous phase, I observed that it could be a good period to consolidate all
the changes and upheavals that previous phases of dissolution brought and begin
to roll up one’s sleeves and work at building new structures and projects for
the new directions that have hopefully emerged. This cycle would then be a good period to solidify and clarify the
rebuilding, renewal projects begun in the previous cycle and raise the sails
for the new life directions that circumstances have indicated, which could
flourish in a nicely productive summer period.
http://www.denadecastro.com/single-post/2017/01/13/The-Saturn-Chiron-Square-of-2017
No comments:
Post a Comment