for the four weeks beginning DECEMBER 6, 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. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Oct 13 - Nov 19 forecast.)
- Pluto (WP 0°43') suggests high impact events. Saturn (Dsc 2°) suggests loss, unhappiness, burden, and death. Life conditions are extraordinarily dreary. Sun is (IC 3°) square to Pluto (0°42') and Saturn (0°52 mundo). Mars aspects Sun-Pluto.
- Great threat to the president. 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.
- 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 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 (sq. Mars) sets through New Orleans (and along a curve northwest to 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, transiting Uranus squares Capsolar Ascendant. Pluto squares Cansolar Moon until 12/25. For weeks, big changes have been in motion as people collectively forging a "new normal" for the future on a landscape where much has been dismantled already.
BEGINNING DEC 15, transiting Saturn crosses Capsolar Descendant again. This is sorry news because such Saturn transits always show a time when many more people experience loss and grief than usual. This time, though, will differ from the deadly Saturn periods earlier in the year: There is amelioration for the holidays as transiting Jupiter conjoins CapQ Moon worldwide 12/22 through 1/4, as if voluntarily abating the hardship, just for the holidays, with generosity, kindness, and sympathy.
DECEMBER 10-13: Pluto Uranus Mars. Transiting Mars squares CapQ Moon. Fiery, startling, and perhaps explosive events concentrate in these few days, with more violence, more fires, more hurtful events, and more of a sense of emergency or alarm much like similar Mars-Uranus-Pluto patterns during the last two months.
Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Caplunar (Dec 6)
Effective Dec 6 to Jan 3, especially the first week, Dec 6-13. Mars is 0°52' from IC and Jupiter squares MC 0°16', making Mars square Jupiter (0°36') the most obviously important aspect for the month: Aggressive spending continues to mark this holiday season, probably cranking up economic expansion as people and corporations are more willing to take on debt and push their limits. Meanwhile, politics are more evangelical and behavior (as well as the weather) becomes thunderously stormy as people boisterously unleash themselves. It should be a raucous holiday season.
Something else is in the mix, though - something represented by Venus conjunct Pluto. Not only does Moon conjoin Venus and Pluto (within 1°), but Venus and Pluto are both near due west, conjunct in azimuth within 0°03'. These two aspects may operate separately or overlap somehow; if the latter, it suggests some tragedy such as a deadly fire or injury and death caused by over-exuberance and great carelessness. In principle, Venus-Pluto also can be a symbol of profound peace and communion, though we rarely get that lucky in mundane astrology. Under Mars-Jupiter plus Venus-Pluto, the nation may inaugurate a great wave of baby-making in December. - Notice that Venus-Pluto is a prominent feature of every weekly ingress this month.
Arilunar (Dec 13)
Effective Dec 13-21. An emotionally difficult week intercedes. With an unaspected Mercury the only planet closely angular (Dsc 2°), Moon not only squares the 0°21' Venus-Pluto worldwide but - in Washington - is square Saturn (1°46' mundo). This bespeaks emotional loss and separation somehow expressive of basic Mercury themes such as transportation, communication, commerce, or simply media saturation. (Mercury's placement in Sagittarius gives a slight edge to an aviation or other long-distance transit event.)
Mars and Saturn intersect near Santa Fe, making that area vulnerable to accidents and other hurt. Venus-Uranus-Pluto conspire in California's central valley causing the strange condition of suggesting Fresno will be the wildest party capital of the nation. Something positive, helpful, and inspiring comes from the Sun-Jupiter intersection south of Chicago (toward Champaign, or someplace within 150 miles or so of that spot).
Canlunar (Dec 21)
Effective Dec 21-28. Christmas week continues the patterns of the week prior except without the sense of emotional loss. Mercury again is the only planet closely angular, though Sun rises (a bit more widely). Moon closely opposes a partile Venus-Pluto conjunction. I think this means that the nation is simply back to celebrating Christmas fully for the first time since the pandemic. Events are deeply personal. Moving, warming stories fill the media's coverage.
Liblunar (Dec 28)
Dec 28 to Jan 10. As we round the corner toward a new year (with a two-week Liblunar), Sun is rising - always a hopeful symbol coming from hardening times. The sense of a "new dawn" and "the light finally returning" that people sought in 2021's opening will be realistic prospects as 2022 opens.
Otherwise, we again have Venus conjunct Pluto squaring Moon exactly, this time with Mercury in the mix. Social exchange seems to be flourishing. A peaceful, regenerative time is taken out for the holidays. I think all these factors mean simply that people are content to interact with each other freely and celebrate memorable good times together without excessive drama.
Atlanta is somehow a hub of activity and attention with Moon (with all her aspects) on MC and Sun rising. Folks in Maine should anticipate a brutally cold bit of winter when they make their plans.