for the four weeks beginning MAY 20, 2022
If you are unfamiliar with the methods and interpretations of Sidereal mundane astrology, please see my free book Sidereal Mundane Astrology. (A link can be found near the top of the Publications sub-forum.) For standard interpretations, see Chapter 8 of the current (17th) Edition.
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 15, 2022 to Jan 15, 2023. (Summarized from my Jan 15-30 forecast.)
- An accounting cycle for the Biden administration. Republican gains seem certain in the midterm elections.
- Sun conjunct Pluto (1°21'): Unprecedented conditions, irrevocable shifts, rebellion against prevailing conditions, assault on or removal of those in power, and disrespect for law (greater lawlessness). People demand freedom from arbitrary control or leadership they feel is failing them. More people think of themselves as "a law unto oneself" or "exception to the rules." Diverse themes from severe natural disasters to political confrontation.
- Moon-Mars-Neptune: Crime is up. Neighborhoods feel more dangerous. Ferocious civil unrest. What was once called "civilization" rips open with unaddressed grievance while struggling to settle into new patterns in which people feel greater safety and security.
- Sun-Pluto with Moon-Mars-Neptune: Increased physical threat to the president or the Federal government as a whole (perhaps through heightened domestic terrorism).
- Moon opposite Mars (affecting the world as a whole): A state of alarm. Typical expressions: violence, blood, fire, earthquakes, accidents, other destruction; often significant loss of life. Other expressions: war, bombings and explosions, other attacks, deaths of leaders. Moon square Neptune (local to Washington): Waves of emotional reaction, fervor, herd-mind arousal, or panic accompanied by confusion, disorientation, uncertainty, and an undermined sense of security. Mars-Neptune: Panic or feeling the ground fall from under one’s feet - surging adrenaline with heightened aroused emotion - increasing the risk of treachery, sabotage, other betrayal, poisoned relationships, and scandal.
- Sun/Mercury = IC: Broadly intensifies and highlights Mercury themes, including transportation, commerce, and science. Mercury square Uranus: Scientific and technological advances continue (no turning from technology). Freedom and flexibility in communication and travel are big break-out themes, including significant expansion and redesign in social media's impact. Science continues to have direct, relevant influence on people's changing lives.
- Mercury-Uranus impacts social trends: With growing urgency of antisocial independence and autonomous self-sufficiency, with people feeling exempt from precedents and historic social standards, "independent thinking" becomes a rallying cry (though probably more of a fantasy than a reality: herd-mind passions surge the cry for "independent" opinion). Passion-fed rejection of expert opinion, reliance on crowd opinion, other challenges to convention or authority. “Don’t tell me how to think” takes on new, widespread life.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
ALL MONTH: Pluto sq. Capsolar Asc, Neptune sq. Capsolar Moon, forging a NEPTUNE-PLUTO ZONE. Collective (massing) populist voices rise due to a sense of pervasive anxiety, of "never knowing when the other shoe will drop." Waves of heightened emotional reaction, fervor, and herd-mind arousal are accompanied by confusion, uncertainty, and an undermined sense of security. This could be a reflection of the election cycle or the passionate civil unrest forecast from the Capsolar for the year.
Until June 8: Jupiter cross Cansolar MC in addition to the Neptune and Pluto influences. Mostly, this gives a positive spin to the Neptune-Pluto energies this month and directs them in Jupiter channels such as rousing civil rights and labor rights movements; progressive social idealism or intents to reconstruct the social order; greater focus on economic and judicial matters; religious or spiritual movements dominating the news; and outlandish weather, especially flooding and late season tornadoes.
May 22-31 is the most threatening, hurtful period. Mars squares CanQ Moon (5/22-24) for the world, then conjoins Cansolar MC (5/25-31) for the U.S. For the first transit, a tone of harmfulness and heightened state of emergency or alarm appears around the world. Usually this takes individual forms unique to individual locations (increased fires, deadly accidents or weather events, human violence), though it also threatens war.
When Mars then moves to conjoin Jupiter on the U.S. Cansolar MC (May 25-31), these events center more on this country than the world in general and appear as characteristic Mars-Jupiter events. Under the anxious Pluto and Neptune transits, these are mostly negative expressions such as economic crisis, military enthusiasm amidst fueled nationalism, ideological evangelism and other belief-driven enthusiasm and aggression, and destructive storms.
Saturn is newly in Aquarius for a month. Neptune enters Pisces for three and a half months May 20, previewing his later, longer stay 2023-2036. At the same time, it opposes Neptune in the U.S. birth chart. Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Caplunar (May 20)
Effective May 20 to Jun 16, especially the first week, May 20-26. Moon and Pluto are conjoined (0°14' mundo) less than a degree from Ascendant. Saturn is on EP. This will be a sad, difficult month. Closeness of the orbs suggest that events will be significant with more impactful long-term consequences.
Moon-Pluto, though no longer in close orb ecliptically, gains unusual power by its very tight orb and angularity and its concentration on the U.S. capital. Therefore, for this country, events will more resemble the emotional impact of the last three years worldwide, including irrevocable shifts involving unprecedented conditions. Saturn's angularity says these will be sad events and conditions involving significant loss, whether in economic costs or lives taken. (With hurricane season underway, the entire Atlantic seaboard and the Florida gulf coast are most vulnerable.)
Mercury squares the angular Saturn, adding details: Part of the theme involves restrictions, delays, failures, and frustrations involving transportation and communication. For example, gas prices may still be high, shipping of goods still logjammed, and people continuing not to listen to each other. The intense tone of the chart, though, suggests something harsher and more "deer in the headlights" attention-fixing than those now-familiar conditions.
Arilunar (May 26)
Effective May 26-Jun 3. This is the first of two consecutive ingresses with a powerful Venus-Pluto energy, and the second of two with a powerful Moon-Pluto. Last week's trend continues of events with unusually strong, intense emotional impact, now with the added note of striking our most tender and vulnerable hardest - perhaps, as well, an open assault on women or children, or on institutions of love and marriage, or reflecting other profound human emotion. (Children are commonly centerpieces of important news stories involving these planets.)
Moon, Venus, and Pluto are all within very tight orb of angles - Moon being 0°11' from Descendant, Venus 0°08' from Westpoint, and Pluto 102' from IC. The closest aspect is Venus square Pluto (0°28'): Its primary meaning is irrevocable changes in relationships. whether between nations (alliances and antipathies, including starting or ending a war) or a final, stark severing of emotional ties due to loss of loved ones or the destruction of homes and community on a scale that stuns sensibilities. Venus-Pluto also has marked events of high social impact that transform society’s collective attitudes toward love. Moon-Pluto confirms that these events will stun our sensibilities due to their intensity.
Mercury, due west on the prime vertical (i.e., on Vertex) aspects all three of these planets with its 1°04' PVP square to Pluto the strongest. This is mostly an intensifier of the other planets' indications, though the final events may have obvious Mercury themes we cannot easily anticipate in advance. The aspect suggests the kind of impact that reframes how people think. Moon-Mercury (1°31' PVP) is common when wind, air travel, media focus, and written items are central to the story, though sometimes it only highlights an event through "human interest" reporting. Moon-Mercury, though common for some kinds of extreme weather events, is rare for events of great human violence except where strategic, tactical planning is a central factor.
Canlunar (Jun 3)
Effective Jun 3-10. While Venus-Pluto recurs as the closest aspect in this week's ingress (0°31' mundane square), the underlying energy of the chart is quite different. This time, Venus is the most angular planet. Uranus (somewhat widely conjunct Venus) is the only other close angularity. The tone leans positive, though the details may be unsettling to many people: The combined Venus-Pluto and Venus-Uranus are most characteristic of events reflecting fundamental social change or social impact.
What do I mean by fundamental social change? I especially mean events that mark or trigger shifting social values. During the years of the most aggressive push (and reactive push-back) on same-sex marriage rights, these two aspects were at the heart of every important move forward AND backward (though ultimately liberalizing). In this sense, they likely mean acceleration of the nation's ongoing "culture wars." But these aspects also have marked events looked back on as pivotal times when people remember where they were such as the culture clashes and other major events of 1968, the end of prohibition, John Glenn's flight, or the Berlin Wall's fall. They have also appeared for extreme events where someone's goal was to force a permanent cultural revision.
The aspects also refer to changes in relationships, in this case usually changes in a nation's relationships with its allies. Wars have begun or ended under these aspects (one as likely as the other), treaties have been signed. With the Mercury/Venus midpoint on Canlunar Ascendant, a peace-themed treaty or other agreement ending a time of animosity is one possible expression.
There are speedbumps on the way to any agreement, though. The rising Mercury squares Saturn closely. It isn't the kind of chart where people necessarily listen to each other or every expected signature shows up at the end. I think, therefore, that the type of shift first discussed above is more likely.
Something sad and severe is likely near Salt Lake City. Something wonderful and ennobling occurs near New Orleans.
Liblunar (Jun 10)
Effective Jun 10-16. With Jupiter closely culminating, this week is fundamentally good, positive, and victorious. An unafflicted Jupiter also is consistent with successful diplomacy, heightened prosperity, economic expansion, and a spirit of abundance, and celebration. (It also brings a lot of rain.) Events that are not purely political, economic, or aristocratic often center on religion, powerful inspiration, court decisions, and visionary movements and moments.
There are no aspects between the three foreground planets, so we mostly have the planets themselves to read in order of their strength. As the mundoscope above displays, Jupiter is the dominant them. Pluto, moderately foreground, says the Jupiter events will be impactful, transformative or transitional, and probably contrary to what the bookmakers predicted. Mars, barely foreground, can be ignored - it adds a bare note of conflict or antipathy which is basic to the background noise of Washington in the best of times.
Uncanny. Especially with the horror of the Uvalde shooting, the fallout, and today waking up to the Liblunar post-prime-time Jan 6th Hearing session.