Vernal Equinox 2022

[Jim Eshelman]

According to Solar Fire, the (northern hemisphere) vernal equinox chart occurs March 20, 2022, 11:33:14 EDT, Washington, DC. (TMSA gives Sun 0°00'01" for that time, so it's probably a few seconds different.)

This is the kind of chart that righteously would have worried the great mundane astrologers of the '30s and '40s. - In the past, I've found these equinox and solstice charts to be valid charts (they represent valid astronomical events), but not as strong as Sidereal ingresses. I thought I'd throw it into the mix anyway.

For Washington, DC, the chart is what (if it were a Sidereal ingress) we'd call dormant or silent. Nothing is with narrow orbs of angles. Moon aspects are quite critical, though: Worldwide, Moon squares Pluto 1°41'. For Washington, Moon squares Mars 0°05' in mundo.

Worldwide (ignoring angles), the chart screams that there are stresses in foreign relations and rearrangements in alliances and antagonisms. Flip the chart to a 90° dial and, besides the Moon-Pluto combination, you immediately see a tight Venus-Mars-Uranus combination that shows this. The one possible grace is Mercury conjunct Jupiter, which is partile worldwide and only 0°04' mundo in Washington. This is a mixed bag: Optimistically, it is an aspect rightly noted for successful diplomacy. OTOH it's one distinctive mark of genocide (which usually follows a successful military undertaking) and, in general, tends to mark events where one side has a decisive, no-room-to-quibble victory over the other.

So, of course, I'm especially curious about where in the world that Mercury-Jupiter is angular.

Looking elsewhere
Moscow is in the driver's seat. The chart that is dormant for Washington has Sun exactly setting in Moscow. Neptune is also foreground (which brings no solace, since it might mean a madman), with a whisper of Jupiter. It's a far stronger chart than the U.S. has.

Kiev gets the Neptune, a degree and a half from Descendant. With Moscow strongly solar, Kiev strongly Neptunian, and the U.S. chart dormant, we do see, all to clearly, one regrettable scenario that could unfold.

The Mercury-Jupiter lines are most interesting in Europe. The conjunction sets through the heart of Germany, with Jupiter exactly angular in Berlin. This is good! The aspect touches much of Europe (much of the EU) including he Scandinavian countries then south from central Germany through Greece. (Interestingly, they are also on IC near Beijing. Not sure what that means, but, if this chart is to be trusted, they seem to get a payoff out of this.)

In other good news, Venus-Mars-Uranus isn't angular anyplace currently considered a crisis spot.

[Jim Eshelman]

In conclusion, I don't know how much voice this chart will have. The vernal equinox chart was the mainstay of excellent mundane astrological work for generations, but in side-by-side testing the equinox and solstice charts pale compared to Sidereal ingresses. I thought it worth mentioning but, in another month or two, we may conclude that it wasn't very important.

Or, of course, that it was.

[Danica]

Do you think this is to be considered as an annual chart, or a quarterly?

As quarterly, it’s only about 3 weeks ahead of time from the AriSolar - within the CapSolar that has the Moon-Mars-Neptune worldwide - so even in the window of time from 3/20 - 4/14, we couldn’t credit unequivocally events of the “open-focalized-expression/eruption of madness” kind to it.

The upcoming AriSolar for Washington, Moscow, Kiev and Beijing, side by side, for comparison:

WASHINGTON
Me DC 36’
Node WP-a 1*45’
Ur DC 4*24’
Sa IC 7*45’

Ju cnj Ne 28’ E

MOSCOW
Ve EP-a 1*19’
Ur ND 1*49’
Pl AC 2*55’
Sa AC 2*58’
(AC=Sa/Pl)
Ma AC 4*50’
Ne AC 9*31’
Ju AC 9*32’
(Ne cnj Ju 01’ M)

Mo opp Su 1*51’ M

KIEV
Ur ND 2*12’
Pl IC 3*25’
Sa AC 5*10’
Ma AC 7*41’

BEIJING
Ma MC 48’
Ne ZN 23’
Ju ZN 51’
(Ju cnj Ne 28’ E)
Se EP 1*21’

The Moscow and Beijing chart are clearly the most “heated”, with Moscow having the Sun-Moon aspect, so we can easily predict the public attention of the world is on them, and this in the context of angularity: there’s the process of radical steps of separation (with unfriendly, belligerent tone), in regards to the geopolitical entity’s foreign relations; what may come out of Beijing with the combination of Ma-Ne-Ju-Se is hard to predict, one can only hope it’s something that is ultimately of a healing nature, but given that this is Mars with what, from the mundane perspective, we can no doubt practically consider as two malefics, together with Jupiter for *large in scope/size* effect, the specific events through which the “ultimately healing/balancing process” will get to unfold are likely to be something bringing what's poisonous to the surface to in some way get expressed/erupt.


(The tides shift re where’s the most intense and focalized activity, then, and of what specific kind, during the next two quarters, i.e. the CanSolar and the LibSolar periods, but the next CapSolar has the Moon with Sun and Pluto, worldwide, so if we take the Equinox chart to be the annual indicator, again, it would be hard to know, in this context, how much of what’s going on can be “credited” to it.)

[Jim Eshelman]

FWIW, my previously posted forecast from Washington, DC Arisolar:

Effective Apr 14 to Oct 18 (due to a dormant Cansolar). This is a boring chart that likely will have little independent impact. Its one close angularity is Mercury (Dsc: 0°40'). While highlighting obvious Mercury themes (communication, transportation, technology), and perhaps showing newsworthy developments in these areas - and perhaps in the news media itself - this is remarkably little to say about the chart that dominates nearly the entire period of the mid-term election cycle. I think primarily it yields to the Capsolar (which has plenty to say about the elections). Given the unusual mildness of October's Libsolar, this may be the mildest, gentlest election cycle in over a decade - which would be a startling result!

[Danica]

[...] Given the unusual mildness of October's Libsolar, this may be the mildest, gentlest election cycle in over a decade - which would be a startling result!

I don’t think the upcoming LibSolar will be mild for the U.S.; it seems to be the most intense quarter of the year; the Washington chart has:

Pl IC 14’
Ve AC 42’
Er DC 1*53’
Su AC 2*10’
Mo MC 7*57’

With aspect-structures:
Ve sq Pl 28’ M
Ve opp Er 33’ E
Su sq Pl 1*05’ E
Su opp Er 36’ E
Su cnj Ve 1*09’ E
Su sq Mo 5*47’ M

[Jim Eshelman]

Do you think this is to be considered as an annual chart, or a quarterly?

Probably quarterly.

The Kiev chart is dormant. The others are indeed interesting. That for Moscow shows horror and perhaps humanity - if you'd told me it applied to Nazi Germany during the holocaust, I couldn't have blinked before accepting it. One does wonder, though, which way the 0°01' Saturn/Pluto midpoint to Asc will work (inwardly or outwardly): It would seem to be an aspect of mortifying defeat, in the sense of the end of an empire (and they are the most powerful planets in the chart, Pluto 2°59' above and Saturn 2°54' below Asc). The Venus is brutally aspected.

Beijing having Mars and Neptune so precisely angular and a mundane Moon-Pluto square looks like they don't fare well - perhaps are subject to betrayal. Something else with Beijing: Mars, 0°42' from MC, is 1°22' square Uranus in azimuth (a Mars-Uranus PVP square), suggesting they are subject to something explosive such as a surprise attack. I'm, not sure what to make of the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in this one: The chart could be related to things other than the Ukraine situation (e.g., internal riots, labor strikes, a coup) or, if connected to the wider geopolitical picture, a wider showing of betrayal by an ally (misplaced trust).

Of course, this is all off-topic from the equinox chart except, as you say, we only have three weeks to see it operate independently of the incoming Arisolar.

[Jim Eshelman]

[...] Given the unusual mildness of October's Libsolar, this may be the mildest, gentlest election cycle in over a decade - which would be a startling result!

I don’t think the upcoming LibSolar will be mild for the U.S.; it seems to be the most intense quarter of the year

On the other hand, it's the mildest Libsolar we've had in years. While the rising Venus-Pluto conjunction is itself consistent with unstable foreign relations, it does nonetheless have a partile angular Venus and strong Sun-Venus conjunction. At this point, "strained relations" is its most likely negative outcome (something not as foreseeable when the forecast was written) but, still, after several outright explosive, threatening, assaulting, dismantling Libsolars recently, here is the whole picture for the upcoming one:

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Pl Longitude   Lat   Speed    RA    Decl    Azi     Alt     PVL    Ang G
Pl 01Cp05'00" 02S12 + 0'17" 298°35' 23S05 359°32' -74°12'  90°08' 100% F
Ve 28Vi51'36" 01N10 + 1°15' 202°34' 08S12 100°04' - 0°36'   0°37' 100% F
Su 00Li00'00" 00N00 + 1°00' 203°13' 09S42 100°49' - 2°03'   2°05'  99% F
Mo 08Cn10'01" 05N10 +11°55' 126°50' 24N28 151°23' +73°55' 277°52'  84% F
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Ve sq Pl 00°29'100% M                                                   
Su sq Pl 01°05' 98%                                                     
Su co Ve 01°08' 94%