for the four weeks beginning JANUARY 28, 2025
2025 CAPSOLAR (Jan 14)
Effective Jan 14, 2025 to Jan 14, 2026. For a full interpretation of the 2024 "year chart," click here.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
The only Bridge factor this month is transiting Mars conjunct Cansolar Nadir February 21-26. It turns direct at 21°55' Gemini 2/23 before fully reaching the 19°58' Gemini Nadir, but it inches within the 2° orb that has proven significant. In any case, this Feb 23 Mars station will be of great importance to the United States because it squares to the minute U.S. Ascendant 21°55' Virgo and conjoins natal Sun 21°31' Gemini. (Just before and after the station, it crosses U.S. MC 24°00' Gemini and squares natal Saturn 23°11' Virgo.)
Mars' periodic passes through the Sun-Saturn-Angles zone of the Declaration of Independence chart has corresponded to numerous crises, often involving war and other violence and also often involving the welfare of the U.S. president. For the broad period Mars is in 1° orb of all four of these points (Feb 5 to March 15), and especially around the station and the exact transit hits, we should anticipate greater hostility, volatility, antagonism, and conflict in this country, especially centered around the president.
Historically, Mars in Gemini while Trump was president has been most marked by trade wars. We might have a repeat of that now, perhaps centered on the threatened unleashing of new tariffs.
- Jan 30: Uranus STATIONARY 28°10' Aries
- Feb 4: Jupiter STATIONARY 16°11' Taurus
- Feb 5: t Mars co USA Midheaven
- Feb 9: t Mars sq USA Saturn
- Feb 23: Mars STATIONARY 21°55' Gemini
CAPLUNAR (Jan 28) Effective Jan 28 - Feb 24
Sun, Mercury, and Pluto all conjoin Eastpoint either in RA or longitude, and they all mundanely conjoin each other. (Pluto is 0°13' from the angle.) Moon (also mundanely) conjoin Mercury and Pluto and opposes Mars. The chain-linked overlapping of these aspects is shown best by their mundoscope positions (mundane distances from the horizon):
Pluto is strongest. Mercury-Pluto is the most pivotal aspect. Mercury strong and aspecting both Pluto and Mars anticipates adverse and disruptive Mercury events (such as transportation catastrophes or aggressive breaches of data stores), though the complexity and intensity of the chart suggests larger events.
Angular Sun-Mercury conjunctions signal important speeches or pronouncements by the head of state. Pluto exactly angular points to disruption, often completely reversing gears, usually crossing thresholds that cannot be uncrossed. Sun-Mercury also spotlights transportation and commerce incidents.
However, Mercury-Pluto is probably the heart of it: Consequences of this month's events stun and interrupt the intellect, reframing how people think about things. It signals major collisions, whether of information, communication, or vehicles.
On top of this, Mercury opposes Mars (mundanely 3°38', much closer than ecliptically). Moon's aspects, all mundane, are to Mercury, Mars, and Pluto (in order of closeness). Sharp words fly like javelins and, again, we see that it isn't the safest month for air travel. Ordinary business seems to roll out with the precision and advanced planning of a major military operation.
All this may just be the continuing saga of Trump 2.0 rolling out, of course.
Elsewhere in the country, Saturn is on IC for the shared longitude of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. (Regrettably, it's getting easier to be right by interpreting Saturn as climate destabilization events. Earthquake is possible. Any other major Saturn events are possible.) another Saturn line crosses Colorado and the upper Plains. Jupiter and Venus intersect near San Diego, which will have the happiest cluster of events, then Jupiter setting continues on a curve that includes Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Tempers flare and violence may erupt on a Mars line just west of the Mississippi running through central Louisiana; eastern Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; and western Wisconsin.
ARILUNAR (Feb 3)
The Arilunar is dormant for Washington. The Caplunar continues as the Week chart for the nation. Saturn on Midheaven through New York City means many adversities (financial and otherwise), and often specifically means a bad week on Wall Street. Saturn squares Ascendant through New Orleans and across the Plains, with terrible weather being the easiest thing to predict. In contrast, most of Texas has an excellent, prospering week under Jupiter rising (though they could just have enormous rainfall). Something wonderful and happy occurs in South Carolina where Jupiter and Venus intersect. In the aftermath of recent tragic fires, the area south and east of Los Angeles may feel Pluto on MC more impactfully than usual.
CANLUNAR (Feb 10) Effective Feb 10-17
Venus in the immediate foreground marks this as the kindest week of the month. Against the backdrop of Mars' threatening transits to the U.S. natal chart, the stress backs off for a week or two. Venus squares Jupiter (mundo) near angles suggesting celebration, victory, festivities, and spread happiness. Venus joined by a foreground Jupiter-Neptune mundane square means hopefulness and an optimism or faith that allows us to relax a bit and think that perhaps things aren't quite so bad.
Other possible Venus + Jupiter-Neptune expressions include idealism, social cohesiveness, the conviction that we thrive better together than apart, and all sorts of collective behavior (union action, civil rights wins, humanitarian acts, successful diplomacy). And, of course, entertainment thrives: Something likely will hit the box office or streaming services this week that is the happy talk of the nation.
One possible negative note is Jupiter-Neptune's impact on weather. This is the wrong time of year for tornadoes (the typical weather effect of Jupiter-Neptune), but odds are much higher for equivalent storms, and especially flooding, near where this effect is strongest (Ohio). Meanwhile, the same longitude (just west of the Mississippi, from Louisiana to Wisconsin) that has Mars strong in the Caplunar, has Saturn on IC this week. Saturn square Ascendant also scrapes the East Coast with unusual precision from Florida to Main which likely suggests freezing wintery blasts with resulting hardship. (In other times of the year it would suggest a major hurricane.) San Diego has plenty of Sun.
LIBLUNAR (Feb 17) Effective Feb 17-Mar 2
Venus effects persist for two more weeks, but with an encroaching uneasiness that it won't last. As transiting Mars continues in its aspects to U.S. Sun, Saturn, and angles, this Liblunar (which lasts two weeks because the next Caplunar is dormant) brings a closely angular Moon in strong aspect to Venus.
That aspect is hard to see: It's in a different mundane circle than astrologers usually check. Venus in the weak mid-12th House, is exactly on the Antivertex; that is, it is exactly on the prime vertical, due east. You can't even see how close this is by looking at the longitude of the Antivertex (shown on the chart above) because of Venus' 5° North latitude. The easy way to see this contact is to check Venus' azimuth, which is 90°40' (90° is due east), 0°40' from the Antivertex mundanely.
Any planet on the prime vertical (Vx-Av) squares any planet on the horizon (Asc-Dsc) because all parts of the horizon are exactly 90° from all parts of the prime vertical and meridian. That means Venus on the PV squares the Moon on the horizon. Their orb (measured along the meridian circle) is 0°44' (close!).
Angular Moon means that the voice and spirit of the people - the masses, or collective herd - are strong and find loud expression. With Sun background, the "voice of the people" rings much louder for two weeks than the voice of the nation's leaders. People collectively feel and respond more powerfully about things. Human-interest stories grip our attention and move the public emotionally. Maternal instincts surge in a high-tide wave of mass mind. With Moon square Venus, this commonly brings peace, celebration, and other forms of public happiness, as well as nurturing, protective, and soothing behavior. Alliances appeal to us more than antipathies.
At the same time, Mars is also angular. It's not closely angular (7°) but it has a voice. This is the "encroaching uneasiness" mentioned above. In a positive expression, it is the passion that fuels the surge of public emotion. I suspect, though, that it anticipates the separate set of energies from Mars' transits to U.S. Sun, Saturn, and angles during this time.
