for the four weeks beginning DECEMBER 31, 2024
2024 CAPSOLAR (Jan 15)
Effective Jan 15, 2024 to Jan 14, 2025. For a full interpretation of the 2024 "year chart," click here.
2024 LIBSOLAR (Oct 17)
Effective Oct 17 to Jan 14. For a full interpretation of the current Quarter chart, click here.
2025 CAPSOLAR (Jan 14) Effective Jan 14, 2025 to Jan 14, 2026. The 2025 Capsolar for the United States is remarkably neutral and benign. For the most part, it has a single angularity: Moon, dignified in her home constellation of Cancer, is 0°27' from Eastpoint in right ascension. (Uranus is also barely angular, 2°21' from Zenith.)
Moon foreground signifies "the voice of the people" powerfully expressing its collective will. That is, in mundane astrology Moon signifies the herd mind, the pooled subconsciousness of the masses surging in a single voice responsive to persisting conditions or emerging events. In unsettled times (as in charts across the Arab world during the 2010-11 "Arab Spring"), it has coincided with uprisings of the masses against solar forms of government (with a weakly angular Uranus, we will see some of that this year). In more settled times, it shows a powerful shared response by the masses to emerging events that move us deeply.
Children are often a central element of those events. Although signs have not proven themselves too important in solar ingresses, seeing that Moon shining brightly in the early evening sky against the faint stars of Cancer stirs ideas of maternity - of matters affecting mothers and their children. Beyond that, Cancer's archetypal themes center on containment, enclosure, and protection which we likely will observe in the major news stories (if the sign placements of an angular Moon have anything to say.)
With so little to go on, one wants to dig deeper. The major outer planet aspect of the season, Jupiter square Saturn, primarily shows the changing of the political guard, which we know is coming. Outer planet sign transits are likely to have unusual voice this year, especially Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces. Uranus, briefly retrograded into autocratic Aries, seems to have the world holding its breath until it enters Taurus in April for the long-haul. Saturn enters Pisces in April also and then spends the summer inseparable from Neptune; but that is a story to tell later in the year.
Sun opposite Mars falls across the horizon on a curve rising through the middle of Mexico and then the border towns in southwest Texas, through New Mexico, Utah, Idaho and into the Columbia Valley in western Washington. (It continues up Canada's west coast and through Alaska.) We can expect increasing violence and raging through Mexico impacting the most southern of these areas, a year of unusually intense fires in Idaho and eastern Washington, and other obvious martial manifestations through all of these areas for the year. Another Sun-Mars area (they square Midheaven) reaches due north-south straddling the longitude of Oklahoma and Kansas eastern borders: About 200 miles either side of that will feel martial ferocity in its weather, confrontations with authority, fires, and violence. (It is also likely to be a year of unusual strength and heroic prowess for the Kansas City Chiefs.)
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
CapQ Moon sq s Mars 1/1-1/14
[What follows in this section isn't rewritten at all. It is still content from a prior month.]
- START-Nov 11: Uranus
- Nov 12-16: Uranus Mars
- Nov 17-20: Uranus, dbl. Mars
- Nov 21-23: dbl. Mars
- Nov 24-End: Mars
Meanwhile, Uranus backs into Aries and the nation sits under a confusing, deluding progressed Moon-Neptune opposition stirring disorientation and strong emotions all month. A summary of all outer planet sign transits can be found here.
- Nov 7: t Mars op USA r Pluto
- Nov 11: USA p Moon-Neptune op
- Nov 15: Saturn stationary 17°36' Aqu
- Nov 20: Uranus enters ARIES
- Dec 30: t Pluto co USA r Pluto
- Jan 3: t Mars-Pluto op 6°03' Can-Cap [also op USA r Pluto]
- jan 9: t Jupiter co USA r Uranus
- Jan 11: Eris STATIONARY 29°18' Pisces
- Jan 12: t Mars co USA r Mercury
- Jan 18: t Mars enters GEMINI
- Jan 20: t Mars-Eris sq 29°18' Gem-Pis
- Jan 30: Uranus STATIONARY 28°10' Ari
CAPLUNAR (Dec 31) Effective Dec 31-Jan 28 @ [9:05:53 PM]
Venus WP 0°06'
Uranus more widely angular
-- Venus-Uranus sq 0°35' M
Moon-Eris sq 0°41'
ARILUNAR (Jan 7) Effective Jan 7-13 @ [8:50:17 AM]
Pluto Asc 2°47'
Mars Dsc 3°05'
-- Mars-Pluto op 0°18' M
-- Venus-Pluto sq 1°57' p
-- Venus-Mars sq 2°07' p
Moon-Eris co 0°42'
CANLUNAR (Jan 13) Effective Jan 13-21 @ [7:24:02 PM]
Uranus Z 1°18'
Moon-Eris sq 0°42'
Moon-Sun op 1°01'
Moon-Mars co 1°54' M
LIBLUNAR (Jan 21) Effective Jan 21-28 @ [1:21:21 AM]
Uranus WP-a 1°48'
Moon-Pluto sq 0°05' M
Moon-Eris op 0°42'
Moon-Mars sq 0°55'
Moon-Sun sq 1°29'
[see the whole chart for what is happening with all these Moon-aspected planets]