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US forecast Dec 27, 2019 - Jan 15, 2020

Post by Jim Eshelman » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:34 pm

USA Mundane Forecast
for the period DECEMBER 27, 2019 to JANUARY 15, 2020
from the new Caplunar until the end of the current Capsolar

If you are unfamiliar with the methods and interpretations of Sidereal mundane astrology, please see my free book Sidereal Mundane Astrology. (A link to the current edition can be found near the top of the Publications sub-forum.) For standard interpretations, see Chapter 8 of the current (16th) Edition.

LONG-TERM (Solar Ingress) PATTERNS
For the United States, the 12 months that began January 15, 2019 have been dominated by Uranus on IC square Sun on Eastpoint. Sun-Uranus signals startling events such as surprise attacks, sudden changes in leadership, and technology breakthroughs.

URANUS forecasts explosions (literal or metaphorical), sudden rupture or eruption, shock, surprise, overflowing normal bounds, and revelations. SUN concentrates attention on the government (especially the head of state) with heightened perception of government’s presence in people’s lives. Sun's aspects to Uranus and Pluto infer rebellion against present leadership and rejection of prevailing political views. Sun-Pluto brings disrespect for the law or those that create or enforce it (which sometimes means removing those in power).

MERCURY CONJOINS SATURN in the foreground. As expected, the year has seen restrictions, delays, failures, or calamity in transportation and communication, efforts to interrupt or ration Information flow, and increased vulnerability in data integrity: cybersecurity remains a higher priority than cyber-expansion. Economic narrowing has not occurred as anticipated, but commerce has been impeded (even blocked) by reciprocal tariffs. More newspapers and retail have closed their doors: For example, this may be the last Christmas anyone remembers Sears.

MARS SQUARE JUPITER, which exists only mundanely in Washington, has brought further government shutdowns and wild-ride economic roller-coasters. Resources have been squandered, stretched past capacity (and other resources in nature have become more vulnerable to exploitation, if not outright raped). Belief-driven aggression has accelerated. Bigots have had louder voices. Nature and humans both have had more stormy weather.

MERCURY CONJUNCT PLUTO rightly anticipated collisions of information, communication, and ideas. Investigations have dominated much of the year, drilling deeply into untapped data to disclose information that has reframed how people think. Cyber attacks have increased and become more threatening.

With Saturn in Sagittarius all year, immigration, aviation, elitism, hierarchical economic separation, and nationalism (anti-internationalism) have dominated the public discussion.

Libsolar (Oct 18)
Sun square Pluto dominates the Libsolar, which lasts through January 15. Sun on MC squares Pluto on EP. This has been especially about impeachment: Sun-Pluto motifs routinely include removing or at least assailing those in power plus an element of disrespecting and disobeying the law. More widely, Sun-Pluto is common for bombs, wars, high-impact national disasters, and anything that circumvents the odds to upend expectations, especially with themes of operating outside the bounds of conventional behavior or law.

Additionally, Moon opposes Jupiter (0°34'), a different voice than the Sun-Pluto. It has reflected overall upward trends in markets and a few more diplomatic successes. Within the U.S. political landscape, I forecast cronyism, wherein elitism offers protection and advantage to the few. (Moon-Jupiter's most common themes are "our people first!")


MEDIUM-TERM PATTERNS (The Bridge)
  • Pluto conjoins Capsolar EP until the Capsolar expires January 15. Its distinct effects will be reflected in its combinations.
  • Jupiter conjoins Capsolar Ascendant until December 30, overlapping Pluto. For these few days, events challenge or assault existing value systems, ideologies, and the political and other power systems that support them, leveling what has been built over time. The courts may be a venue of much of this.
  • Saturn conjoins Capsolar Eastpoint along with Pluto December 30 until the Capsolar expires January 15, building to the SATURN-PLUTO conjunction January 12. Saturn-Pluto signifies apocalyptic feelings - a great, irrevocable loss or separation from which there is no going back to what was before. Sometimes it forms harsh, dramatic tragedies or hardship, catastrophic disasters laying waste to a landscape. Great cities and even nations have fallen under this combined influence, never to rise again - though that, of course, would be an extreme and (thankfully) less likely outcome.
To summarize, the Bridge zones are:
  • Dec 27-29. Pluto Jupiter.
  • Dec 30. Pluto Saturn Jupiter.
  • Dec 31-Jan 15. Pluto Saturn (conj. exact Jan 12).
NOTE: Mars remains in Scorpio for the entire period.


SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingress) PATTERNS

Caplunar (Dec 27)
The Caplunar, covering December 27 to January 23, is dormant. The December 20 Liblunar flows through:
20191220 LiLun.jpg
Mercury-Neptune sets the tone in the December 20 Liblunar (covering Dec 20 to Jan 4): Both planets are closely angular and they are square (1°31'). While Mercury-Neptune broadly connotes confusion, disorientation, and bad (confused) choices, its strongest characteristic is uncertainty in the form of wondering, “What’s next?” or, “What happens now?” Its appearance usually means that something significant has happened which suspends people's certainty about the near future. (Other Mercury-Neptune themes include impairment of transportation and communication.)

There is a sense of tragedy (or a foreshadow of pending tragedy): Moon forms close mundane squares with Pluto (0°14') and Saturn (1°30'). It seems people do not know what to make of a loss.

On 12/29, CapQ MC opposes ingress Mars - Be careful out there!. On New Year's Day, MC squares Saturn with Sun on EP (and on 1/4 Sun-Saturn cross EP), which may be a continuation of the Mars event or a negative recentering on the White House.

Arilunar (Jan 4)
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The Arilunar covers January 4-17 (due to a dormant Canlunar). Moon (Dsc 1°56') and Uranus (WP 0°53') are the most angular planets. More widely foreground, Saturn conjoins Pluto (0°43') with Moon square Pluto (2°31').

This chart covers the peak of Saturn conjunct Pluto in space and on the out-going Capsolar's Eastpoint. This aspect clearly is the token of the time. As already stated, it marks hardship, cold-heartedness, a sense of loss, isolation, and even desolation, all with a "you can't go back to before" irrevocability. Severe natural disasters, warring, and human cruelty are its legacy in history.

Something is different in this chart, though. Moon and Uranus demand their say. Circumstances are shifting, requiring new adaptation. Moon foreground represents powerful response by the people (the collective masses) feeling strongly about an event: the herd’s collective will, surging upward powerfully from mass mind, and manifesting as collective populist embracing of a focus or issue. (Sometimes this takes the form of events occurring in public spaces where the "herd" commonly gathers.) We expect events that move us, collectively and deeply, often centering on children. Uranus says that it strikes suddenly and takes us by surprise.

As this fortnight brings the new Capsolar, one thing we know the Arilunar's symbolism means is that we are on the cusp of change.

The strongest Saturn-Pluto emphasis is a line from central Michigan straight south through Atlanta to the Florida panhandle, plus a curve that roughly matches the Appalachian Mountains also terminating on Florida's upper west coast: Among other things, anticipate severe winter weather.

On 1/4, a Sun-Saturn conjunction is on CapQ EP, a tone of hardship or the burden on leadership. 1/5-7 may reverse the tone, though, as two different Jupiters cross CanQ angles (but in the company of Neptune: watch this day and take notes).

Canlunar (Jan 10)
The Canlunar covers January 10-17 and is dormant. Nonetheless, it has severe Moon aspects that affect the entire world: Moon opposes Saturn-Pluto (their conjunction being 0°08' wide for the world, 0°04' wide in mundo in Washington).

These are two of the three most common Moon aspects for disasters overall, especially where lives are lost. Their effect is ravaging - for example, both are common for volcanoes and wars (and, for what it's worth, for significant events involving Britain's royal family). For Washington, I will rest on the interpretation of the Arilunar with the added note that Saturn-Pluto elements are brought to a crisis level.

Venus flows down much of the West Coast including passing through Los Angeles. Mars anticipates trouble on a line from eastern Montana straight south through Denver to New Mexico. Also, Mars squares Ascendant roughly along on the east edge of the Rockies in contrast to Venus square MC a bit west of the range. Neptune sets at about the borders of six pairs of states, from the North Dakota-Minnesota border to the Texas-Louisiana border, and also cuts from Minneapolis due south to central Louisiana.

CapQ MC squares Saturn-Pluto 1/10: one piece of the anticipated tragedy likely will break that day (or, as with all quotidian crossings, within a day or two day either side).
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Trump Watch

Post by Jim Eshelman » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:35 pm

PROGRESSIONS & TRANSITS
Long-term progressions continue all month: p Mars sextile r Pluto, the contentious p Mars semi-square r Mars, protective p Sun aspects to p Venus and r Jupiter, and p Mercury sextile r Jupiter, which is optimistic for negotiation and cutting a deal.

Difficult emotional portents are in play: Transiting Pluto and Saturn aspect progressed Moon all month. Though all reasoning observers of the impeachment process currently anticipate that the Republican-led Senate will quickly exonerate him at trial, these aspects are emotionally devastating.

Trump has one positive mark that might see him through: Beginning January 10, transiting Jupiter opposes natal Mercury. Broadly speaking, this is a winning aspect primarily because it means his ideas and words are valued and bring him luck. (It is exact January 14 on the eve of the Capsolar and in the immediate aftermath of Saturn conjunct Pluto. It may not be so positive: it could, for example, merely mean he is in court. However, it tends to be a positive, winning aspect.)

Earlier in the period, transiting Jupiter squares his Neptune (Dec 28 - Jan 5). I anticipate a mix of embarrassment, song and dance, and successful deception.

SIDEREAL LUNAR RETURN (Dec 25)
Trump 20191225 SLR.jpg
Transiting Venus squares Ascendant: May we wish him a Merry Christmas? It joins transiting Uranus (2° past Descendant) and natal Pluto (2° before MC) in the foreground, so the answer to that question is mixed.

For an ordinary person, this could indeed be a pattern of holiday cheer (t Venus-Uranus) from which he withdraws into privacy (r Pluto). For the president, the picture is necessarily more complicated because his life is more complicated. The larger picture seems disruptive: Uranus and Venus, albeit widely (each about 4°), aspect natal Pluto, suggesting seismic shifts in his life situation, key relationship decisions, and other turning points.

In the middleground, transiting Mars squares natal Mars (0°19' in mundo), so adversarial combat continues. Perhaps most intriguing, transiting Mercury opposite natal Sun is a mere 0°01' wide: This aspect is mostly neutral, busy, information-saturated, but a distinctive characteristic is that others seek (require?) information from him.

This SLR seems outwardly pleasant but equally confrontational and life-shifting.

SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Jan 8)
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Transiting Mars sets (0°25' before Descendant). Natal Pluto is on IC (1°42' past). Transiting Mars squares natal Pluto (2°07' in mundo). That's the chart in a nutshell.

Current estimates and astrological symbolism concur: This is likely the fortnight of his impeachment trial. He is under attack (Mars). He wants to flee, feels alone and cut-off from others, his actions exposed (Pluto). This is, however, no fleeing: He must move through this phase to get to the other side. (Mars on Descendant is as classic a symbol of "legal battles" as one can imagine.)

Conventional thinking is that he surely will be exonerated by the Republican majority of the Senate, but it will not be an easy escape. Under Mars-Pluto, people are held accountable. The flavor of this aspect was expressed well by Cyril Fagan (though we shouldn't take the exact details seriously):
Cyril Fagan wrote:When Mars in transit configurates the natal Pluto from the foreground, the native may get such a shock that he may take to instant flight. Sometimes treated as if he was a malefactor, he is visited by law-enforcement officers and questioned to his consternation. Or his most innocent acts are construed as being something sinister. During the stress of this transit the native should be careful of all his actions and do nothing to arouse suspicion. A segregating transit, the native may find himself alone, separated from former attachments.
Several partile aspects not in the foreground fill in some background details. The best aspects are Jupiter opposite his Mercury (0°13' in mundo), which suggests that his words succeed, and Sun square his Jupiter (0°32'), which usually draws out one's best and gives cause for celebration. (Both can mean simply that there is a legal matter, and the Sun-Jupiter is quite background; still, they are most likely protective.) Most severe is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that touches everything during this time (0°17' in mundo), and is part of a five-planet 8th House stellium for those who credit such things.

But the closest aspect of all is Mercury square Neptune, middleground and only 0°04' wide in mundo. Key Mercury-Neptune phrases surely will mark the fortnight: reason vs. unreason (or fact vs. fiction), enthrallment, and deception. Expect a whirlwind of confusion and misdirection, words that can't be trusted, media enthrallment, and no shortage of embarrassing blurtings.

But Mars-Pluto is the keynote of these two weeks for him. Everything else is filler.
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Re: Trump Watch

Post by Jim Eshelman » Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:25 am

(Ahem.) Today's news says the plan is to get the impeachment trial going "as soon as next week." That's the week of the 13th, the day after the Saturn-Pluto conjunction on Washington's (old) Capsolar EP and two days before the new Capsolar. Aside from the solid prediction of such an event from the new Capsolar, please note the highlighted text below. (Ahem.)
Jim Eshelman wrote:
Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:35 pm
SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Jan 8)20200108 Trump DSLR.jpg
Transiting Mars sets (0°25' before Descendant). Natal Pluto is on IC (1°42' past). Transiting Mars squares natal Pluto (2°07' in mundo). That's the chart in a nutshell.

Current estimates and astrological symbolism concur: This is likely the fortnight of his impeachment trial. He is under attack (Mars). He wants to flee, feels alone and cut-off from others, his actions exposed (Pluto). This is, however, no fleeing: He must move through this phase to get to the other side. (Mars on Descendant is as classic a symbol of "legal battles" as one can imagine.)

Conventional thinking is that he surely will be exonerated by the Republican majority of the Senate, but it will not be an easy escape. Under Mars-Pluto, people are held accountable. The flavor of this aspect was expressed well by Cyril Fagan (though we shouldn't take the exact details seriously):
Cyril Fagan wrote:When Mars in transit configurates the natal Pluto from the foreground, the native may get such a shock that he may take to instant flight. Sometimes treated as if he was a malefactor, he is visited by law-enforcement officers and questioned to his consternation. Or his most innocent acts are construed as being something sinister. During the stress of this transit the native should be careful of all his actions and do nothing to arouse suspicion. A segregating transit, the native may find himself alone, separated from former attachments.
Several partile aspects not in the foreground fill in some background details. The best aspects are Jupiter opposite his Mercury (0°13' in mundo), which suggests that his words succeed, and Sun square his Jupiter (0°32'), which usually draws out one's best and gives cause for celebration. (Both can mean simply that there is a legal matter, and the Sun-Jupiter is quite background; still, they are most likely protective.) Most severe is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that touches everything during this time (0°17' in mundo), and is part of a five-planet 8th House stellium for those who credit such things.

But the closest aspect of all is Mercury square Neptune, middleground and only 0°04' wide in mundo. Key Mercury-Neptune phrases surely will mark the fortnight: reason vs. unreason (or fact vs. fiction), enthrallment, and deception. Expect a whirlwind of confusion and misdirection, words that can't be trusted, media enthrallment, and no shortage of embarrassing blurtings.

But Mars-Pluto is the keynote of these two weeks for him. Everything else is filler.
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Re: US forecast Dec 27, 2019 - Jan 15, 2020

Post by SteveS » Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:40 am

Jim wrote:
But Mars-Pluto is the keynote of these two weeks for him. Everything else is filler.
Donald Bradley on Mars-Pluto:
Swift meting of justice is the surest token of strong aspects between Mars and Pluto. Suspense, as tense as a fictional serial chapter-ending, clutches the natives senses sometime during the period covered by the chart. A crises which calls for the native's taking the initiative and responsibility is in the offing, for a keyword of Mars-Pluto is the "blame." The combination is essentially criminogenic, and the native may actually perpetrate misdeeds for which retribution follows swiftly and mercilessly.

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