for the four weeks beginning OCTOBER 13, 2021
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USA Mundane Forecast §§§ The Biden Report §§§ Other Locations §§§ Ingress Summaries §§§ Transits to Capsolar Planets §§§ Outer Planet Sign Transits
LONG-TERM (Solar Ingresses)
Capsolar effective Jan 14, 2021 to Jan 14, 2022. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Jan 13-Feb 9 forecast.)
- More severe than 2020, but a year of action instead of paralysis.
- Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn continues to define conditions, emphasizing autonomous survival and solitary self-sufficiency.
- MARS square SATURN (0°34', exactly angular). Harsh, hateful, hurtful, destructive hardship, e.g., deadly violence, fires, explosions, financial crises. Fosters hate + conflict arising from feeling powerless, shamed, diminished: Primitives competing for basic survival amidst widespread hardship.
- JUPITER square URANUS (0°42'). Recovery and salvation through scientific advances and social revolution. Collective optimism anticipating good change. Broadly, boldly liberal government or political activism: Ideological rebellion, remapping the larger social contract, liberal social agendas (demanding wider horizons, expanded and diversified opportunity, civil liberties). Invention, futurism, new tech (or tech vision), and “good science” engage imagination. (Uncommon for disasters except floods.)
- Activity and activism, rarely gentle or well-behaved.
- Mars-Uranus. Explosive: physical or psychological "bombshells," surprise attack, sudden action, "lightning war" (blitzkrieg). Moon-Uranus. Swiftly changing circumstances requiring rapid adaptation and response. Moon-Mars. A broad sense of emergency: Violence, fire, disaster, damage, assassination (or other severe crisis for leaders).
- Economic difficulties: Economic crisis and threatened markets (Jupiter to Mars-Saturn). Shifting conditions in banking and economic management (Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter in Capricorn). The upside: We surely need to consume significant resources for economic recovery.
- Structural investment. Rebuilding economic foundations and physical infrastructure.
- Spinning up the wheels of industry, economic expansion: Greater industry and productivity (from the same aspects).
- Mars-Jupiter is stormy (including destructive weather). Forward momentum, expansive, with an enterprising spirit useful to recovery. Post-pandemic era of opportunity for new entrepreneurs, renewed entrepreneurial spirit, readily available capital investment.
Effective Oct 18 to Jan 15. Throughout 2021, national and personal charts have shown great threats - including mortal threats - to President Biden. While it is possible these are legal or political threats, they more closely resemble the astrological patterns for the eight presidents who have died in office, especially those who died from assassination. In mid-October, we enter a time when the convergence of Sun, malefics, and Pluto on angles and in aspect that characterize deaths of president (though, of course, other outcomes are possible).
The same aspects could signify an assault on the body and spiritual heart of the nation. Charts for 2021 would make more sense if we were at war - a big war! - though, as I write this in December 2020, it seems unrealistic that a world emerging from a terrible worldwide pandemic would turn to war. Natural disasters could strike in the fashion of a Category 5 hurricane. A lesser possibility (I think it less likely) is that a new winter brings a new pandemic wave.
Pluto is 0°43' from Westpoint, suggesting high impact events. Saturn, 2° from Descendant, suggests loss, unhappiness, burden, and death: Life conditions are extraordinarily dreary. Most importantly, Sun is 3° from IC in ecliptical square to Pluto (0°42') and mundane square to Saturn (0°52). Mars conjoins Sun and squares Pluto. This assault on Sun (meaning: people and things signified by Sun) is severe.
Pluto (square Mars) sets through New Orleans and along a curve northwest into Montana. Mars is on IC on Florida's west coast and due north to about Detroit, with Pluto angular through Miami.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
ALL MONTH: Pluto Uranus. Transiting Pluto squares Cansolar Moon. Transiting Uranus squares Capsolar Ascendant. Big changes are in motion. If we have substantially contained the pandemic, these are the weeks when a "new normal" is forged in action by people returning to jobs, schools, and open connection under new social, economic, and practical circumstances. At best, a sense of freedom and discovery prevails: The masses feel unleashed as if from prison. New conditions are exempt from precedent or prior custom or convention. Revolution may be in the wind as we survey how much of the past has been dismantled already and make way for a new, remapped future.
MOST DAYS OF THIS MONTH, Mars joins Uranus-Pluto. Transiting Mars squares Cansolar MC until Oct 18 and crosses Capsolar IC Oct 31-Nov 6, days when fiery, startling, perhaps explosive Mars-Uranus events erupt especially in the United States. Mars conjoins Cansolar or CanQ Moon Oct 21-30 (except for the 25th), days when the world at large feels Mars-Pluto's wrath. Simply put, there will be more violence, more fires, more hurtful events in general, and more of a sense of emergency or alarm. Police (or possibly military) engagements increase. Accidents and other injuries hold the headlines expressed through aggression, attempts at domination and control, opposition, independence, and defense.
Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Caplunar (Oct 13)
Effective Oct 13 to Nov 9, especially the first week, Oct 13-20. Suggesting a difficult month when struggle for survival is foremost and warring violence is strongly possible, the Caplunar has Saturn 2° from IC and Moon-Sun in partile mundane square. Both luminaries closely aspect Mars square Pluto.
These themes resemble the Libsolar but more general. Saturn angular near New York City always suggests a bad period for the stock market (though Saturn on IC is a little closer to Philadelphia).
Arilunar (Oct 20)
Effective Oct 20-27. For the second week in a row, Moon closely aspects Sun, Mars, and Pluto suggesting that the crisis - likely a violent, eruptive, perhaps explosive crisis - centers on this week. Besides these prime vertical aspects, Moon, Sun, and Mars are PVP square the rising Mercury. describing (at the very least) fiery wars of words and, perhaps wars of other types that require aggressive mobilization and strategic deployment.
Canlunar (Oct 27)
Effective Oct 27 to Nov 3. Saturn is 0°08' from Midheaven, 0°09' from exact PVP square with Mars. Uranus is 1° from Eastpoint. Moon, of course, opposes Pluto (0°37'). This is the most terrible week of a difficult month.
When this strong (as here and in this year's Capsolar), Mars-Saturn aspects are harsh, hateful, and hurtful. The aspect doesn't specialize in any one type of event but, rather, incites destruction and hardship wherever it occurs, whether by declared wars, undeclared warring, murderous shootings, disease spread, explosions, fires and other fiery disasters, and financial panic, among many other possibilities.
Saturn (exactly square Mars) is (1) exactly angular in the Capsolar for the year, (2) closely angular in the new Libsolar for the quarter, (3) on IC for the Caplunar, and (4) exactly culminating (square Mars) in the Canlunar. This strikes every level except for the day. (Saturn crossed CapQ MC four days earlier, on 10/23.) Transiting Saturn remains in orb of Libsolar Descendant and square LibQ Midheaven 10/27.
Liblunar (Nov 3)
Nov 3-9. Saturn's grip continues with the Liblunar: The new week likely will resemble the old except, perhaps, for scale. Sun is exactly on Midheaven and Saturn on EP, though they are no longer in aspect. Sun opposes Uranus and, mundanely, Uranus squares Pluto. (Moon, of course, squares Pluto within 1°.)
It seems the nation continues to be battered and the president, in particular, is on the receiving end. Something is shaking the walls and foundations of government. Biden is especially in the crosshairs, perhaps with a national call for new leadership. (Miami has Saturn exactly angular.)
