for roughly two weeks beginning JANUARY 3, 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 14, 2021 to Jan 14, 2022. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Jan 13-Feb 9, 2020 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)
During this entire period, transiting Uranus squares and transiting Saturn conjoins Capsolar Ascendant, reflecting tension between the old and the new, perhaps political gridlock and, especially, the tug-of-war between collectively forging a "new normal" for the future and recent restricting circumstances. Saturn transits always show a time of increased loss, grief, and narrowing.
Through January 4, we still experience amelioration for the holidays: Transiting Jupiter conjoins CapQ Moon worldwide 12/22 through 1/4, as if voluntarily abating the hardship with two weeks of generosity, kindness, and sympathy.
Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
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 forth from hardening times. The sense of a "new dawn" and "the light finally returning" that people sought in 2021's opening will be realistic as 2022 begins.
Otherwise, we have more Venus conjunct Pluto squaring Moon exactly, this time with Mercury in the mix. Social exchange seems to be flourishing. A peaceful, regenerative time has been forged for the holidays. 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.
Caplunar (Jan 3)
The Caplunar is dormant. (Expect turbulent, stormy conditions near Boston.)
Arilunar (Jan 10)
Effective Jan 10-17. The roll-over week of the Sidereal year seems to start off pretty happy. Venus is half a degree from IC, closely conjunct Sun on the ecliptic and square Moon-Uranus in azimuth. The tone is upbeat, comfortable, even celebrating.
The chart above is in azimuth to highlight the most important features. Moon conjoins Uranus on the Vertex, both square angular Venus, with the Venus-Uranus PVP square only 0°22' wide. Much of this upbeat spirit involves unusual entertainments, novel pleasures, and a sense of being free and able to pursue a life of liberty (if not a libertine life).