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 neutral and benign. It has a single strong 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. 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 sign placements have not proven themselves important in solar ingresses, seeing 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 may observe in the major news stories (if the sign placement 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 will 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 U.S. areas, a year of unusually intense fires in Idaho and eastern Washington, and other obvious martial manifestations through all of these areas all year. Sun-Mars squares Midheaven 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)
- Jan 1-14: Mars
Progressed Moon-Mars is not limited to the U.S. - it has worldwide reach. Historically, it has coincided with a heightened sense of alarm and such events as violence, blood, fire, bombs, earthquakes, accidents, and other destruction, including loss of life. Ongoing wars will gain new fury with no chance for peace unless it arises from complete military triumph through newly unleashed fury. Bombing, shootings, and other attacks pool and concentrate in such times. Leaders face crisis. - This is exacerbated the closer we get to January 3 when Mars exactly opposes Pluto in space.
- 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 Despite the approaching threat of meteorological and political storms, the citizens of Washington, DC begin the Sidereal month - and New Year's Eve - happy and ready to celebrate. This could, of course, stem from most of the politicians being out of town and the political war engines are a little more quiet than usual. The town is planning for its quadrennial inauguration festivities and people are amazingly at peace.
This is due to Venus being the most angular planet, 0°06' from exact square to MC. The one foreground aspect is an exact Venus-Uranus mundane square, so we also know that friendships and other alliances are shifting. Whether domestically or in America's international reach, we see coalitions rearranging along different lines: The old rules of polarity don't quite apply anymore, so new choices (and new friendships or alliances) are made.
This seems independent of the Capsolar's progressed Moon-Mars energies the first half of the month.
ARILUNAR (Jan 7) Effective Jan 7-13 This is the most worrisome week of the month. With a Moon-Mars progression in the Capsolar and a transiting Mars-Pluto opposition hanging around, Mars opposite Pluto stretches across the Arilunar horizon bringing it forefront for the United States. Mundanely, Mars opposition Pluto is only 0°18' wide.
It seems inconceivable that there will not be major erupting violence dominating the week. Nor are Mars-Pluto alone, since Venus - due east on the horizon (i.e., on the Antivertex) is in mundane square to them. This is not pacifying; rather, it deepens the human cost of events. Venus-Mars-Pluto are the "war trio" of planets, most commonly entwined when war breaks out. In less extreme manifestations, the aspects individually work as follows:
- Mars-Pluto (0°18'): Violent, ferocious, even explosive unleashing of force. Broadly disrespectful of law. Consequences of cumulative stresses.
- Venus-Pluto (1°57'): Irrevocable changes in relationships (both alliances and antipathies). More locally, a final, stark severing of emotional ties (loss of loved ones, the destruction of homes and community). Events of high social impact.
- Venus-Mars (2°07'): Inflamed passions prevail over reason. Restlessness, short tempers. Selfish desires win out over greater social mindfulness. Strains and frays international relations, likely wounding alliances. More broadly, a secondary form of a “mournful tragedies and emotional pain,” earning this afflicted Venus the occasional nickname “widow-maker”).
Otherwise, Uranus and Mars mark the time. Uranus is 1°18' from Zenith and Mars is 2° from conjunct Moon. The incoming administration is expected to bring strong uranian and martial energies, with no shortage surprises, knocking tables over, igniting rage and power-plays, and even military mobilization. It will be a crazy time. (With Moon exactly aspecting Eris, as it will be for a while, there will also be no shortage of chaos where we have become accustomed to order.)
LIBLUNAR (Jan 21) Effective Jan 21-28 In the aftermath of the inauguration, we get much the same as in the Caplunar. Uranus is the only angular planet (on Westpoint in RA). With a 0°15' Sun-Pluto conjunction, Moon squares Sun, Mars, and Pluto, with both the Mars and Pluto aspects being partile (and Moon-Pluto 0°05' mundo); and, of course, the ubiquitous partile Moon-Eris opposition as the chaotic planet hovers long-term near 0° Aries.
As said last week for the Canlunar, with attention concentrated on the chief executive we can expect strong uranian and martial energies with no shortage surprises, knocking tables over, igniting rage and power-plays, and even military mobilization. It will continue to be a crazy time.