for the four weeks beginning JULY 23, 2021
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.
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 Apr 14 to Oct 18. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Apr 5-May 2 forecast.)
- Jupiter on Dsc (0°38'), sq. Moon (1°37'). The best six months of the year. Increased prosperity overall: Return to work, a stabilizing economy, increased optimism and sense of well-being. Communities feel stronger, more secure. More good news than bad across the six months.
- Saturn on WP (1°17). Survival challenges continue concurrent with emerging good news. Seriously rough times overlap the sense that things are improving. "Getting better" is gradual.
- Saturn-Uranus square. Independence vs. restriction and liberal vs. conservative polarization. Long in restrictive lockdown conditions, people want to get out, to get back to their prior lives despite (or defying) the risks. Freedom vs. safety, the "old way" and "new way." Political opposition and gridlock threaten when we can least afford them.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
Saturn on Capsolar Descendant expires a few days into this month, on 7/27, ending what are likely the four roughest months of 2021 for the U.S. (Next month, we enter the strongest stretch of outright recovery.)
Jul 28 to END: Pluto Sun. The 2021 Cansolar (dormant for Washington) has a partile Moon-Sun-Pluto T-square that creates worldwide transiting Pluto square Cansolar Moon plus CanQ Moon square ingress Sun-Pluto beginning July 17. From 7/28, these operate without the overlay of Saturn-Uranus transits. A dramatic configuration, Moon-Sun-Pluto shows upheaval, confrontation of the people with their government, assailing those in power and the ruling institutions, and defiant lawlessness around the world.
Pluto re-enters Sagittarius August 9 to wrap up unfinished business before returning to its 18-year term in Capricorn later this year. -- Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Liblunar (Jul 17)
Effective July 17-30. The Cansolar, half an hour earlier, has Moon square Sun-Pluto - all partile, but only widely foreground. In this Liblunar, the same three planets fall within 2° of angles in Washington. All aspects are within about half a degree: Sun square Moon is 0°01'. Moon-Sun aspects and angular Pluto show radical "phase shifts" that alter existing conditions. Moon-Sun especially shines a spotlight on government in general and the Chief Executive in particular. Adding a close mundane Moon-Saturn square and the July 18-22 Bridge, President Biden's safety and well-being are at risk. Moon-Sun aspects this powerful have also historically ignited major, impactful shifts in rhythmic or phase-like phenomena, like the stock market.
With ingress Mars (square Saturn) exactly angular in the Capsolar Quotidian for Washington July 17, the Secret Service is advised to be at their best. Also, the longitude shared by San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle is under fire for these two weeks (perhaps literally), with Seattle getting the worst of it.
Caplunar (Jul 23)
The Caplunar is dormant. (The West Coast gets a much-needed reprieve, with Venus and Jupiter lines instead of recent recurring malefic lines.)
Arilunar (Jul 30)
Effective July 30 to August 13. Hopefully the darkness of these two weeks will be the deep darkness that foreshadows dawn: Next month we begin to see promises of recovery and healing. Nonetheless, this Arilunar describes a dreadful fortnight. Sun, Moon, and Saturn are closely angular (Sun foremost) in mundane T-square. Closest aspects are Moon ecliptically square Pluto (0°14') and mundanely square Sun (0°14'). The Sun/Saturn midpoint is 0°22' from the horizon.
I am sorry to have to keep mentioning serious threats to President Biden's health and well-being. This ingress, with Sun-Saturn dominant, overlaps the concentrated Moon-Sun-Pluto aspects of the Bridge. Moon-Sun + Pluto emphasizes significant changes - literally phase changes in the greater pattern of things - and especial focus on solar figures, such as the Chief Executive. Besides threats to the life or standing of solar figures, Sun-Saturn anticipates sad events and arduous, demanding conditions. Another possibility is government gridlock or heavy lockdown, restriction, and control. This general spirit of hardship seems to be referring to specific events, not just widespread malaise. Moon-Saturn marks hardship, sacrifice, loss, and (again) sadness.
A high-impact natural disaster is well within the range of possibility for these aspects. For example, Pluto sets near New Orleans and coastal Mississippi.
Canlunar (Aug 6)
The Canlunar is dormant. For worldwide impact, Moon opposite Pluto is only 0°03' wide, suggesting that the most intensive aspects under the Arilunar occur in this second week.
Liblunar (Aug 13)
Effective Aug 13-19. Moon square Pluto (0°06') is the whole of this chart for the U.S. (Pluto is 0°29' from IC, Moon 0°41' from square MC.) The least this tells us is that this will be a high-impact week striking mass mind in the U.S. Under strong Moon-Pluto influences, events stun our sensibilities and halt the mind with their intensity. Marking unprecedented conditions and irrevocable shifts, the nature of these events makes them difficult to predict. Major examples from the past include deaths and departures of presidents and kings; uprisings and revolts; populist challenges to prevailing authority; and other staggeringly intense events, pleasant and unpleasant, that hold unflinching attention, from vast, destructive dismantling by hurricanes and other natural disasters to similar devastation and death caused by war, slaughter, and disease.