Before wrapping up tjhis fortnight, I should mention that there were two - not one, but two! - technology meltdowns within a week of each other. I wrote about the laptop at work above. Then, a few days ago, I awoke to finding my phone wouldn't unlock OR restart or shutdown. The screen was responsive (e.g., I could snooze and turn off alarms or answer calls), but it wouldn't unlock, restart, or power off. It seemed to be working fine otherwise in the sense that I could track it with the Find Your Phone option through a web page and could connect it to my computer and access various features (but neither of these options let me restart it).
After trying various things, I called the carrier and had one of the worst support experiences ever, in that (communication difficulties with her aside), she made a suggestion; I asked her explicitly, "Doesn't that wipe the phone completely?" to which she responded, "No, it's just a way to force it to restart, it won't wipe the phone"; I did the process; and then I stared as my phone wiped itself completely.
So I spent an entire day getting it more or less back to full operation, everything installed, the Windows layer put atop it, work resources reconnected, and individually configuring over a hundred apps on it.
Computer AND phone: "Tech meltdown" marks the most obvious features of a demi-lunar with a Mercury-Pluto conjunction on Zenith!
In fact, this would have been easier to read correctly (right general direction) if I'd treated it like a 1940s Fagan and Bradley model more or less - no natal in the middle, old school way of reading foreground that more resembles angular houses. I'd have seen a Mercury-Pluto conjunction in the 10th house with Mercury also in moderate mundane square to Uranus in the 1st house. That would have been the chart, and would have been pretty descriptive!
After that, the old school approach would have observed a middleground, mostly unaspected Sun (nothing much to read there, and its 11th house placement didn't seem to add anything) - unless you want to count the moderate Sun-Uranus square (surprise!). More descriptive was the background Moon (6th house) opposite Neptune (the description in
Solar and Lunar Returns catches the tone pretty well. But none of these are big things.
In any case, I'm not suggesting we switch back to a 1940s retro mode on reading these. I just found it interesting that "forget the natals for a moment" gave a much sharper look despite the fact that I had FOUR natal planets within 0°26' of an angle. The natal Neptune 0°00' was fitting enough, but nowhere as dead-on as the transiting planets alone - even with wider orbs of aspects and angularities. The overall aspect view was transiting Mercury-Pluto to natal Jupiter-Uranus, but I don't exactly know what the natal Jupiter-Uranus was about. It seems thin to interpret it as , "Everything came out OK, right?" Some individual aspects are meaningful, including for sure the 0°04' Mercury transiting square to natal Neptune and the
tech aspect of transiting opposite natal Uranus (2°), but I'm not sure what to make of transiting Pluto to natal Jupiter-Uranus, Mercury opposite natal Jupiter (2°20'), and the rest. All of these were closer than the 2°34' transiting Mercury-Pluto conjunction. (Even adding the eyelid inflammation, none of these seem on target.)
And, of course, the concurrent Saturn transits to natal Venus-Pluto and local MC. These were detailed elsewhere.
I suppose I'm rambling because, despite the things this chart got right, I'd expect something sharper and clearer from a return that had so many things THIS close.
r Neptune on Dsc 0°00'
t Pluto on Z +0°05'
r Jupiter on N +0°09'
r Sun on WP +0°11'
r Uranus on N +0°26'
t Mercury sq r Neptune 0°04'
t Pluto op r Jupiter 0°14'
t Pluto op r Uranus 0°31'
