for the four weeks beginning FEBRUARY 27, 2022
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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 15, 2022 to Jan 15, 2023. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Jan 15-30 forecast.)
- An accounting cycle for the Biden administration. Republican gains seem certain in the midterm elections.
- Sun conjunct Pluto (1°21'). Invites unprecedented conditions and irrevocable shifts of circumstances. Rebellion against prevailing conditions, assault on or removal of those in power, disrespect for law (greater lawlessness). People demand freedom from arbitrary control or leadership they feel is failing them. More people think of themselves as sovereign, "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 some new pattern 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.
ALL MONTH, Pluto squares Capsolar MC. All Pluto themes mentioned above are amplified. The first two weeks are highlighted by concurrent Mars transits, signifying greater aggression, violence, and ferocity in events and behavior, disrespect of law, the consequences of cumulative stress, and the usual range of Mars events (fires, violence, the wrath of nature). Blood likely will be shed.
This intensified Mars-Pluto period is February 27 to March 12 due to partially overlapping Mars transits to Cansolar and CanQ Moons (affecting the whole world) and to Capsolar angles (concentrating volatility on the United States):
- Worldwide, Mars squares Cansolar Moon Feb 25-28 and progressed Cansolar Moon Mar 9-12.
- For the U.S., Mars transits Capsolar angles Feb 28 to Mar 11.
- February 28 overlaps Mars to Cansolar Moon and Capsolar Ascendant plus Mars on CanQ Ascendant for Washington (plus or minus a day).
- March 9-11 overlaps Mars to Capsolar IC and square CanQ Moon.
Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Liblunar (Feb 20)
Effective Feb 20 to Mar 13. In this three-week Liblunar period, Neptune is closely angular with Jupiter square Neptune (2°51' PVP), resembling last month. Besides the predictable Moon-Pluto square (2°31'), Moon squares Venus (1°44') and Mars (2°17') mundanely.
Passions flare. Besides overt sexual themes, we find emotions strongly stirred especially from social restlessness - perhaps especially on matters of social justice.
Jupiter continues to shine its benefits through the central part of the country, setting from New Orleans to Minneapolis. An intersection of Saturn and Uranus near Santa Barbara is a formula for earthquake (or similarly themed social disturbances).
Caplunar (Feb 27)
The Caplunar is silent. Moon aspects with Mars (0°08'), Pluto, and Venus are felt worldwide. - Moon-Mars-Pluto concentrates itself through Alabama and Mississippi (supported by Saturn in Mississippi) and along the western edge of Appalachia.
Arilunar (Mar 5)
The Arilunar is silent. - A spectacular Sun-Jupiter conjunction sets through New England. A passionate Venus-Mars conjunction is angular at the longitude of Las Vegas. Saturn adds to the burdens of the Plains and western Midwest.
Canlunar (Mar 13)
Effective Mar 13-20. With the nation's concentration of Mars transits now past, the Canlunar brings clarity and perhaps refreshment or a sense of renewal (i.e., something new): Uranus on Nadir promises surprises, revelations, and a rapid change of current conditions.
Passions continue to run high: In addition to Moon's close (0°23') Pluto opposition, she opposes a 1° Venus-Mars conjunction. Venus also conjoins Pluto. Alliances fray, wounded relationships strain, and simmering squabbles boil over. Internationally, Moscow seems the place of the boil-over, either in terms of other nations or with internal, domestic affairs, with churning uncertainty (over identity and leadership) in Pyongyang (or, of course, just the usual madness).
Liblunar (Mar 20)
Effective Mar 20-26. This ingress deserves notice because it is the first weekly ingress in many years not to have a close Moon-Pluto aspect! We may not quite notice that in the U.S., though, since, for Washington, its one feature is an angular Pluto.
Nonetheless, on the world scale, this week marks a sense that a years-long crisis is moving behind us. We will get a few more Moon-Pluto ingresses mid-year before they vanish altogether, and the nation has plenty of Sun-Pluto this year, but a worldwide sense of relief likely will be felt as we move out of week after week of events of such intensity and irregularity that they stun our minds into silence - which we've had for the last several years.
Pluto was within 3° of 0°00' Capricorn February to July 2019, then from December 2019 (the month Covid-19 first emerged) until now. It will return for the last half of 2022 and a couple of months in the fall of 2023. Along the way will be an occasional mundane aspect that isn't present ecliptically. Generally, though (and especially in the way that affects the entire world), the years-long persisting sense of crisis now abates.
For the current ingress, leaders in Washington will find themselves needing to manage emergencies elsewhere in the country. Given the orb and the one-week duration of the chart, I do not expect more than a hard smack. Much of the country has positive, encouraging planetary lines for the week.