for the four weeks beginning OCTOBER 3, 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 conditions, assault or removal of those in power, and disrespect for law (greater lawlessness). People demand freedom from control or leadership they feel is failing them. Solar figures are challenged and held accountable. More people think of themselves as "a law unto oneself" or exception to the rules. Many possibilities, from natural disasters to political confrontation.
- Since May 22, Sun-Pluto has progressed to within 1°00'. This progression lasts until January. We are in the part of 2022 when the above Sun-Pluto phenomena come into their own.
- 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 safer and more secure.
- 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.
Effective Oct 18, 2022 to April 15, 2023. Because the next Capsolar and the last Cansolar are both dormant for Washington, this Libsolar takes on unusual importance. It persists for six months and, come mid-January, for three months it will be Washington's only active solar ingress. Matters begun now will have unusual impact and continuity through the first part of 2023.
In recent years, we have had startlingly powerful, volatile Libsolars. This year is no exception. Even though it has more benefic than malefic symbolism, the new Libsolar's benefics are shaken and challenged.
Pluto is 0°08' from IC square a nearly partile Sun-Venus conjunction. Venus-Pluto is only 0°29' wide in mundo. Because the Libsolar repeats the strong Sun-Pluto of the Capsolar, this is the quarter when the Year Chart's promise ripens. Even though, as I write this, odds have seemed to turn Democrats' way for the midterm elections, and even though the year has already erupted in the precedent shattering reversal of Roe, I will stick with my Sun-Pluto forecast from the Capsolar: The Biden administration faces an accounting cycle and Republican gains seem certain. We face unprecedented conditions, irrevocable shifts, rebellion against conditions, assault or removal of those in power, and disrespect for law. People demand freedom from control or leadership they feel is failing them. Solar figures are challenged and held accountable.
However, with Venus half a degree from Ascendant and about 1° from conjunct Sun, this may be the most benign (even happy) Libsolar in years. By itself, Sun-Venus is common for events that resolve conflict and bring peace. Certainly Venus issues will be at the forefront - it seems certain that abortion rights will be the primary issue impacting the balloting - but one wonders if this chart might forecast a peaceful resolution to existing conflict and threats.
The main feature of Venus square Pluto is an irrevocable change in relationships. While this has local expression (e.g., in natural disasters) and social impact (as in matters of marriage and reproductive rights), between nations it refers to significant shifts in alliances and antipathies including such things as the starting or ending of a war. I am certain this will be its fundamental theme and stand hopeful that the predominantly peaceful tone of the chart will prevail.
Internationally, no location is more critical than Kyiv, where Saturn (square Uranus) precisely squares Midheaven and a Moon-Saturn opposition (2°) forms mundanely. Ukraine's situation is indeed dire. And yet, Moscow also has an angular Saturn, with the mundane Moon-Saturn only 0°04' wide. Mars-Neptune is angular in Kabul, anticipating increased terror-fueling violence in Afghanistan. Mars, Neptune, and Pluto closely angular in Berlin (plus the Moon-Saturn opposition most of Europe has) shows the Deutschland the most bellicose nation in Europe. Western and central Europe overall has a hard winter with deprivations, losses, and death, though conditions are kinder farther west.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
Pluto continues to transit Capsolar anles and, most of the month, Jupiter transits critical angles and Moons. These two dominate. Neptune returns mid-month. Several of these shifts occur almost exactly at the Libsolar October 18, so that chart will be the controlling voice. Mars is unusually active throughout the month, interweaving with the other main Bridge factors, so it will be a feisty, energetic month heading into the elections.
- START to Oct 5: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Jupiter on Cansolar angles & sq CapQ Moon. Mars sq CanQ Moon.
- Oct 6-10: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Jupiter on Cansolar angles. Mars sq CanQ Moon.
- Oct 11-13: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Jupiter on Cansolar angles.
- Oct 14-16: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Jupiter on Cansolar angles. Mars co Capsolar Moon.
- Oct 17: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Neptune co CanQ Moon. Jupiter on Cansolar angles. Mars co Capsolar Moon.
- Oct 18 to END: Pluto sq Capsolar Asc. Neptune co CanQ Moon. Mars co Capsolar Moon [peaking Oct 19].
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Canlunar (Sep 20)
Effective Sep 20-Oct 10. The Canlunar's loudest message is that we are all eagerly awaiting answers about something and (dang it!) the answers keep just out of reach. Neptune (0°16' from Descendant) opposes Sun (3° from Ascendant). Yet, this isn't a strong chart so it doesn't warrant much anxiety when I say Sun-Neptune usually stirs chaotic, disorienting events with a spinning, spiral-confusion pattern. We may have anxiety about the president, whose personal chart is Mercury-Neptune dominated: Something probably has happened where the White House has not yet been able to get enough information to act decisively or tell us what's really going on, so we have to wait a while.
I think the main outcome will be heightened emotions amidst uncertainty and unclarity. Sun-Neptune is joined by Venus square Mars (mundo). People aren't overly worried (seem mostly at peace) since the Sun/Venus is midpoint 0°11' from an angle.
Caplunar (Oct 4)
The Caplunar is silent for Washington. (There is no "month" chart for the U.S. this month. The Canlunar persists as the most recent live Week chart.) Since Moon mundanely squares Mercury-Neptune, the sense of confusion and swirling uncertainty continues.
Across the nation, one worrisome line is Saturn on MC at the longitude of Jacksonville, passing through most of Florida, the Georgia coast, all of South Carolina, inland North Carolina, and on north. Another Saturn line reaches from the Texas gulf coast across the western plains into Montana. Mars rises near New York City and across all of New York state, so that region will be unusually volatile and fiery. Mercury-Neptune's swirl and confusion spreads through New England.
Arilunar (Oct 10)
Effective Oct 10-17. Moon conjoins Pluto (within about 1°) with both closely angular. We've lived with this aspect most of the last three years or so. The main message, in a Week chart, is that high-impact events will occur with characteristics described by other charts in the stack, primarily the Caplunar.
Perhaps the Arilunar's strongest impact will be the it resolves the hanging uncertainty and anxiety of the three-week Canlunar term that now expires. Uncertainty is replaced by inescapable confrontation with naked reality.
Though most of the country has unusually benign, happy lines, Los Angeles (and much of California) gets Mars-Neptune lines that echo its Capsolar. Perhaps this will be limited to the annual terrors of wildfire season, though the tone of Mars-Neptune threat, fear, and destruction is strong. A lovely Jupiter line falls exactly at the longitude shared by the New Mexico-Arizona and Colorado-Utah borders, while Venus flows in a gentle curve from Houston to Minneapolis. A shakeup may center on the Florida-Georgia border where Moon and Pluto intersect.
Canlunar (Oct 17)
Effective Oct 10-24. Occurring one day before the Libsolar sets up, this Canlunar gives us our first taste of the new six-month chart, though not the kindest first impression.
Moon, Saturn, and Pluto dominate the angles. Their arrangement is Saturn (0°55') on its own plus the high impact tone of Moon-Pluto. These are hard planets, reminding us of the very worst months of the Covid-19 pandemic and - well, since it's October again - we're likely in for a bad surprise in health news.
Of course, there is plenty more going on. We're a few weeks from a critical election. Saturn square Uranus emphasizes partisan polarization. Moon is much closer to the angle than it looks, being only 0°30' below Descendant, so the herd mind is surging in mass response, early voting numbers are likely high, and - to put it simply - The People are on the march. Moon's aspects to Sun, Venus, and Pluto match the Sun-Venus-Pluto focus of the concurrent Libsolar, so everything forecast above for the Libra ingress is emphasized. Women's health issues are loud and dramatically in the forefront. Other events draw strong public sympathy for those that Saturn-Pluto is especially harming. The news from Ukraine may be particularly dire this week and we may be (though briefly) returning to another late October like that of 1962 when the world was kept on edge. Volatile world events come to a head around October 19-20.
Liblunar (Oct 24)
Effective Oct 24-Nov 7. Though Election Day is still two weeks away, the climax of this year's election saga is likely to hit under this new two-week chart. It may well be a form of October Surprise, though it isn't clear which side delivers the surprise. This extraordinarily complex Liblunar would be consistent with almost breathtaking diplomacy. It also hides a trickster in the bushes, poised to overturn the game table. Finally, it speaks strongly of revolt against the current state of things.
Moon and Mercury conjoined are most angular. Besides saying the news media will be out in unusual force (one doesn't need astrology to predict that!), we expect events involving flight, wind, swiftness, uncountable pieces of paper (or their digital equivalent), transportation in general, and - especially - anything relying heavily on strategic, tactical planning and coordinated mobilization.
Venus is next most angular (and in closer mundane conjunction with Moon than you can see in the accompanying chart, and of course closely conjunct Sun). The Venus/Uranus and Sun/Uranus midpoints are along the horizon, a common signal of changing foreign relations. Together, these normally signals peace (perhaps a resolution of the tensions of the prior week).
Of greatest interest, though, is Uranus and Pluto returned to their mundane square. It's also hard to ignore that Uranus is rising conjunct Eris, another planet that has shown it can overturn expectations and make us the butt of its joke.
Bottom line, Uranus-Pluto is like a last-second reversal in a football game that completely flips the outcome. It is destabilizing, revolutionary, revising, remapping, anti-establishment, and often anti-government, bringing new conditions unbound by precedent, custom, convention, or authority. It does its best to dismantle current systems and tear down existing, iconic structures. That's what we can expect for these two weeks and, perhaps, for this election cycle as a whole.