Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

SteveS wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:47 am Jim, I am seeing things I have never seen before from very street-wise African-American people. They are preparing in a knowing manner for urban unrest in their low income neighborhoods.

...and what kind of preparations are they making?

We are already in something resembling a new American civil war, at least with respect to culture. This chart portrays a nation hurled more deeply into that divided reality in 2020, perhaps closer to the spirit of a new American revolution. With Pluto at the end of Sagittarius, every solar or lunar cardinal ingress of the next two or three years, for every part of the world, will have Sun or Moon closely conjunct, opposite, or square Pluto.

SteveS wrote: Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:33 am Nevertheless, they are protests, symbolizing the Venus-Mars (Social Unrest) paran in the SMA Arisolar.

Foremost, the aspect means passion in every respect. People feel powerfully about things... More broadly, great restlessness sweeps the land, tempers burn short, and selfish wants win out over any greater social mindfulness. Venus-Mars also frays international relations: It commonly signals wounded alliances and even military attacks. Even though deadly times do not usually lead to expanding family sizes, with couples sequestered at home for months with this aspect we probably can expect a 2021 baby boom.

I am reading DC's 2020 Arisolar (April 14) with its Venus-Mars Paran:
Venus 0,31 ASC
Mars 1,33 MC
as a high(er) probability for social (Venus) unrest (Mars).

Sidereal ingresses have been pegging the national waves of violence, as outlined in my forecast for this month. Amidst the larger disease-oriented tragedies, this month really stood but as something more. (As often happens, the charts did a better job speaking for themselves than I did speaking for them: I haven't found a way to list every major indication of key planets every time they appear, though the tone is obvious from the chart.)

Below are two charts: The May 12 Caplunar (Moon's Sidereal Capricorn ingress) as a mundoscope and the May 26 Canlunar (Cancer ingress) as a horoscope, both for Washington.

In the Caplunar (month chart), Mars rises. I said it would be "a contentious, aggressive, combative month of competing voices vying to force circumstances, with no little pain," but obviously it's even more intense than that. I mentioned "a raft of other (generally hurtful) things such as fires, violence, and general damage" in addition to the disease scourge ("Mars' penchant for fever and inflammation").

Four Moon aspects supplement this, of which the closest (not visible in the mundoscope) is Moon conjunct Pluto (0°06'). Of greatest interest to me is that (almost to the minute) this Moon rises almost to the minute of arc through Minneapolis: Angular Moon, especially with Pluto or Uranus, is the distinctive mark of mass popular uprisings and mass reaction.

From the Canlunar, I called this week "the roughest week of the month." In an already martial time, Saturn especially joins the fray. "The story of the week," I wrote, "seems centered on Uranus square Midheaven (0°12') and Saturn square Ascendant (0°46')." Aside from other ongoing themes (especially people getting antsy, fed up with social isolation restrictions and wanting to GET OUT), "we encounter surprise losses, economic constriction, collapsing frameworks, and inescapable harsh realities." That could mean a lot of things, of course, but, in a Mars-heavy month, the Saturn- and Uranus-heavy week is potentially tragic.

Additionally, as the forecast pointed out, transiting Mars squares the Washington Cansolar Ascendant (one of the two primary solar ingresses of the year) May 25-31. Capturing the tone correctly but not going nearly far enough, I wrote, "Expect a new level of struggle and perhaps of threat (and probably a lot of restlessness and rebellion as people push boundaries for the Memorial Day weekend)." - The restlessness and rebellion are for a lot more than that.

Finally, the daily quotidians are clicking off a series of unusually bad days for the nation. With a one-to-two-day orb on either side (up to 2°), this week's crossings for Washington include Moon and Uranus May 27, Saturn May 28, Uranus May 29, Neptune May 30, and Mars bringing it to a head May 31.

SteveS wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:40 am AriQ Mars 15,42 Cap
AriQ MC 15,19 Lib

t. Mars 04, 43 Aries
AriQ Moon 04,10 Cap

AriQ ASC 22,06 Sag
t. Sun 21,36 Sag

This one has everything: A double dose of violence, inflamed people, and the president at the center of it all.

This prompted me to check the LibQ - and it came through, too, in a smaller but precise way:
4°04' Can - LibQ Asc
4°52' Ari - t Mars