for the four weeks beginning AUGUST 17, 2024
CAPSOLAR (Jan 15)
Effective Jan 15, 2024 to Jan 14, 2025. For the full interpretation of the 2024 "year chart," click here.
ARISOLAR (Apr 14)
Effective Apr 14 to Oct 17. For a full interpretation of the 2024 six-month Arisolar, click here.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
- START-8/22: Pluto Uranus Mercury
- 8/23-8/26: Pluto Uranus Mars Mercury
- 8/27: Pluto Uranus Mercury
- 8/28-9/6: Uranus Mercury
- 9/7: Uranus Mars Mercury
- 9/8-9/11: Uranus Mars
- 9/12-END: Uranus
Concurrently, the USA natal chart continues progressed Moon aspecting natal Mars-Neptune, with progressed Moon opposite natal Neptune exact on Aug 19. This is volatile and historically has put the life and well-being of the president at risk. It fuels emotional volatility and many kinds of threat. Compounding this, transiting Mars squares the Moon-Neptune Aug 28-29 followed by a transiting Mars-Neptune square Sep 3. It seems Mars-Neptune (in various forms) is a major sub-theme of this four-week period.
- Aug 19: USA p Moon op r Neptune
- Aug 19: Jupiter-Saturn sq 22°22' Tau-Aqu
- Aug 24: t Mars sq USA p Sun, co r Mars
- Aug 27: Mars enters GEMINI
- Aug 28: t Mars sq USA r Neptune
- Aug 29: t Mars sq USA p Moon
- Sep 1: Uranus stationary 2°10' Tau
- Sep 3: Mars-Neptune sq 3°55' Gem-Pis
CAPLUNAR (Aug 17) Effective Aug 17-Sep 13
Transiting Neptune (2° from Dsc) is the only truly foreground planet. Neptune is in PVP aspect to Saturn: One way to show this is the azimuth wheel above showing them conjunct on Vertex (though an undisplayable Saturn-Neptune PVP square 0°32' is closer than this conjunction).
Neptune dominates this month that is centered on the presidential election. In fact, this first week overlaps the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Aug 19-22. Neptune (especially afflicted Neptune) doesn't match the tone we currently expect from this month, which suggests we are about to see changes.
First, the easy part: Political campaigns have familiar Neptunian elements including theatricality, crowd-rousing, and less than full honesty from many quarters (maybe even a juicy scandal). We should expect at least as much of this as usual - perhaps more.
But this Saturn-Neptune is a darker aspect. At best, it means malaise and loss of energy. It often means mourning or dark, brooding, anxious, fear-fueled emotions. This is surprising, given the tone of the prior weeks leading to this. Given the U.S. chart's progressed Moon to natal Mars-Neptune (ignited by transiting Mars Aug 28-29), we have several forms of negative Neptune playing to the worst side of our imagination and vulnerabilities. - The best outcome would be if some incredibly dark, scary horror movie emerges to own the box office for a month.
Most of this week, though, national attention will be focused on Chicago and the DNC. As I finish writing this analysis, the DNC is expected to be unusually positive and celebratory. However, that's not what the Caplunar says. Mars (MC 3°14') and Saturn (WP-a 3°14') are closest to angles, reliable indicators of difficulties including combative conflict and other kinds of harm. There's a good chance it's all politics, with Jupiter square Saturn the closest aspect; but Mars square Saturn is also partile. The Saturn/Neptune midpoint is 0°04' from Descendant (mundo, of course), seeming to draw the Saturn-Neptune themes of the Washington chart to Chicago. - Of course, there are many mixed aspects, including Venus' aspects with both Jupiter and Saturn and a boisterous Mars-Jupiter. Expect Mars-Saturn (within Jupiter-Saturn) to set the tone.
ARILUNAR (Aug 23) -- CANLUNAR (Aug 30)
The Arilunar and Canlunar are dormant. The Caplunar continues as the sole active lunar ingress.
LIBLUNAR (Sep 6) Effective Sep 6-13
With other Mars-Neptune indications already primed for this month, the Liblunar places Neptune 0°16' from Washington's Nadir, Mars 2°10' from Descendant, and Mars-Neptune still square. With a Harris-Trump debate (perhaps their only debate?) scheduled for the middle of this week, we can expect histrionic aggressions, terror tactics, and siege mentality in the debate typical of Mars-Neptune.
Mars-Neptune near ingress angles most commonly match times of panic (including economic panic) and terror: events that combine surging adrenaline and heightened aroused emotion (positive or negative), with increased risks of treachery, sabotage, other betrayal, poisoned relationships, and scandal. People feel the ground fall out from under their feet. Fires, earthquakes, other violent natural events, bombs and explosions, leader deaths or crises, and populist uprisings, mobs, and the response they draw are more common. It being September, fire season begins in earnest in the west, though the Mars-Descendant line almost exactly defining the entire eastern coast sounds more like a setup for a large, long-traveling hurricane.