Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

USA Mundane Forecast
for the four weeks beginning DECEMBER 6, 2021
If you are unfamiliar with the methods and interpretations of Sidereal mundane astrology, please see my free book Sidereal Mundane Astrology. (A link can be found near the top of the Publications sub-forum.) For standard interpretations, see Chapter 8 of the current (17th) Edition.

USA Mundane Forecast §§§ The Biden Report §§§ Other Locations §§§ Ingress Summaries §§§ Transits to Capsolar Planets §§§ Outer Planet Sign Transits


LONG-TERM (Solar Ingresses)
Capsolar effective Jan 14, 2021 to Jan 14, 2022. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Jan 13-Feb 9 forecast.)

• More severe than 2020, but a year of action instead of paralysis.
• Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn continues to define conditions, emphasizing autonomous survival and solitary self-sufficiency.
• MARS square SATURN (0°34', exactly angular). Harsh, hateful, hurtful, destructive hardship, e.g., deadly violence, fires, explosions, financial crises. Fosters hate + conflict arising from feeling powerless, shamed, diminished: Primitives competing for basic survival amidst widespread hardship.
• JUPITER square URANUS (0°42'). Recovery and salvation through scientific advances and social revolution. Collective optimism anticipating good change. Broadly, boldly liberal government or political activism: Ideological rebellion, remapping the larger social contract, liberal social agendas (demanding wider horizons, expanded and diversified opportunity, civil liberties). Invention, futurism, new tech (or tech vision), and “good science” engage imagination. (Uncommon for disasters except floods.)
• Activity and activism, rarely gentle or well-behaved.
• Mars-Uranus. Explosive: physical or psychological "bombshells," surprise attack, sudden action, "lightning war" (blitzkrieg). Moon-Uranus. Swiftly changing circumstances requiring rapid adaptation and response. Moon-Mars. A broad sense of emergency: Violence, fire, disaster, damage, assassination (or other severe crisis for leaders).
• Economic difficulties: Economic crisis and threatened markets (Jupiter to Mars-Saturn). Shifting conditions in banking and economic management (Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter in Capricorn). The upside: We surely need to consume significant resources for economic recovery.
• Structural investment. Rebuilding economic foundations and physical infrastructure.
• Spinning up the wheels of industry, economic expansion: Greater industry and productivity (from the same aspects).
• Mars-Jupiter is stormy (including destructive weather). Forward momentum, expansive, with an enterprising spirit useful to recovery. Post-pandemic era of opportunity for new entrepreneurs, renewed entrepreneurial spirit, readily available capital investment.

Libsolar (Oct 18)
Effective Oct 18 to Jan 15. (Summarized from my original interpretation in the Oct 13 - Nov 19 forecast.)

• Pluto (WP 0°43') suggests high impact events. Saturn (Dsc 2°) suggests loss, unhappiness, burden, and death. Life conditions are extraordinarily dreary. Sun is (IC 3°) square to Pluto (0°42') and Saturn (0°52 mundo). Mars aspects Sun-Pluto.
• Great threat to the president. While it is possible these are legal or political threats, they more closely resemble the astrological patterns for the eight presidents who have died in office, especially those who died from assassination.
• The same aspects could signify an assault on the body and spiritual heart of the nation. Charts for 2021 would make more sense if we were at war - a big war! - though it seems unrealistic that a world emerging from a terrible worldwide pandemic would turn to war.
• Natural disasters could strike in the fashion of a Category 5 hurricane. A lesser possibility (I think it less likely) is that a new winter brings a new pandemic wave.
• Pluto (sq. Mars) sets through New Orleans (and along a curve northwest to Montana). Mars is on IC on Florida's west coast and due north to about Detroit, with Pluto angular through Miami.

MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
ALL MONTH, transiting Uranus squares Capsolar Ascendant. Pluto squares Cansolar Moon until 12/25. For weeks, big changes have been in motion as people collectively forging a "new normal" for the future on a landscape where much has been dismantled already.

BEGINNING DEC 15, transiting Saturn crosses Capsolar Descendant again. This is sorry news because such Saturn transits always show a time when many more people experience loss and grief than usual. This time, though, will differ from the deadly Saturn periods earlier in the year: There is amelioration for the holidays as transiting Jupiter conjoins CapQ Moon worldwide 12/22 through 1/4, as if voluntarily abating the hardship, just for the holidays, with generosity, kindness, and sympathy.

DECEMBER 10-13: Pluto Uranus Mars. Transiting Mars squares CapQ Moon. Fiery, startling, and perhaps explosive events concentrate in these few days, with more violence, more fires, more hurtful events, and more of a sense of emergency or alarm much like similar Mars-Uranus-Pluto patterns during the last two months.

Summaries of longer-term trends from outer planet sign transits are here.

SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)

Caplunar (Dec 6)
Effective Dec 6 to Jan 3, especially the first week, Dec 6-13. Mars is 0°52' from IC and Jupiter squares MC 0°16', making Mars square Jupiter (0°36') the most obviously important aspect for the month: Aggressive spending continues to mark this holiday season, probably cranking up economic expansion as people and corporations are more willing to take on debt and push their limits. Meanwhile, politics are more evangelical and behavior (as well as the weather) becomes thunderously stormy as people boisterously unleash themselves. It should be a raucous holiday season.

Something else is in the mix, though - something represented by Venus conjunct Pluto. Not only does Moon conjoin Venus and Pluto (within 1°), but Venus and Pluto are both near due west, conjunct in azimuth within 0°03'. These two aspects may operate separately or overlap somehow; if the latter, it suggests some tragedy such as a deadly fire or injury and death caused by over-exuberance and great carelessness. In principle, Venus-Pluto also can be a symbol of profound peace and communion, though we rarely get that lucky in mundane astrology. Under Mars-Jupiter plus Venus-Pluto, the nation may inaugurate a great wave of baby-making in December. - Notice that Venus-Pluto is a prominent feature of every weekly ingress this month.

Arilunar (Dec 13)
Effective Dec 13-21. An emotionally difficult week intercedes. With an unaspected Mercury the only planet closely angular (Dsc 2°), Moon not only squares the 0°21' Venus-Pluto worldwide but - in Washington - is square Saturn (1°46' mundo). This bespeaks emotional loss and separation somehow expressive of basic Mercury themes such as transportation, communication, commerce, or simply media saturation. (Mercury's placement in Sagittarius gives a slight edge to an aviation or other long-distance transit event.)

Mars and Saturn intersect near Santa Fe, making that area vulnerable to accidents and other hurt. Venus-Uranus-Pluto conspire in California's central valley causing the strange condition of suggesting Fresno will be the wildest party capital of the nation. Something positive, helpful, and inspiring comes from the Sun-Jupiter intersection south of Chicago (toward Champaign, or someplace within 150 miles or so of that spot).

Canlunar (Dec 21)
Effective Dec 21-28. Christmas week continues the patterns of the week prior except without the sense of emotional loss. Mercury again is the only planet closely angular, though Sun rises (a bit more widely). Moon closely opposes a partile Venus-Pluto conjunction. I think this means that the nation is simply back to celebrating Christmas fully for the first time since the pandemic. Events are deeply personal. Moving, warming stories fill the media's coverage.

Liblunar (Dec 28)
Dec 28 to Jan 10. As we round the corner toward a new year (with a two-week Liblunar), Sun is rising - always a hopeful symbol coming from hardening times. The sense of a "new dawn" and "the light finally returning" that people sought in 2021's opening will be realistic prospects as 2022 opens.

Otherwise, we again have Venus conjunct Pluto squaring Moon exactly, this time with Mercury in the mix. Social exchange seems to be flourishing. A peaceful, regenerative time is taken out for the holidays. I think all these factors mean simply that people are content to interact with each other freely and celebrate memorable good times together without excessive drama.

Atlanta is somehow a hub of activity and attention with Moon (with all her aspects) on MC and Sun rising. Folks in Maine should anticipate a brutally cold bit of winter when they make their plans.

SIDEREAL LUNAR RETURN (Dec 14)
Effective Dec 13 to Jan 10. With Sun rising (0°41') and Neptune square Ascendant, Sun square Neptune (2°) is the main theme of this lunar return. Opening on what is likely a difficult week for the country, there's a good chance that this shows executive missteps, the exactly angular Sun showing decisive leadership and being squarely in charge - while Sun-Neptune suggests the decisiveness rests on bad decisions, probably shaped by amorphous or misleading information. People about him are in a swirl: It's his (currently difficult) job to find a calm center. (VP Harris' SLR the same day also has the Sun-Neptune square right on angles, so I think it more likely that the White House is out of the information loop on something important.)

Venus-Pluto is a central theme for the world and especially the U.S. over the next few weeks. In Biden's lunar return, though middleground, he has Venus conjunct Pluto 0°00' mundo. Whatever it means for the nation, it is quite personal to him. This is actually a good sign since the Venus-Pluto opposes natal Jupiter (partile): His personal experience of the holiday seems pretty happy.

SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Dec 28)
Dec 27 to Jan 10. As the new year approaches, President Biden should watch his health. His Demi-SLR suggests he's feeling run down. While these indications could mean an emotional battering or political opposition, they most resemble a virus cutting through his defenses.

The strongest aspect is a Moon-Saturn square (0°32' mundo). This is depleting in all sorts of uncomfortable ways. Natal Mars is the most angular planet (square Asc 0°50'), a mark of aggression but also of physical overreach and discomfort. These are connected: Transiting Saturn squares natal Mars (2°) in the foreground while transiting Mars opposes natal Saturn 0°04' in the middleground.

The other theory, though, is that these are aspects of conflict. It's admittedly difficult to sort out whether he specifically or his immune system more generally is doing the battling (though Moon's involvement suggests the latter). With these aspects, he has a larger complex of aspects of which Saturn's transit to his Mars is only part: A foreground Saturn-Uranus square (0°35') falls with both planets aspecting Biden's natal Mars and Pluto. Uranus most closely splits the difference, being 2°40' from square his Pluto on one side and 2°41' from opposite his Mars on the other.

For whatever cause, he's beating his head against his limitations. Inclined to handle things on his own and to expect too much in the face of intractable conditions, he finds that something has to give. His temptation is to push harder. Instead, he probably needs a vacation! (With Jupiter and Venus transiting each other, if he doesn't plan a restful break he might be forced into one.)

Geographic areas centered on map lines have a roughly 150-200 mile leeway (3°) for strong effects. For these mappings of planetary energies, see standard interpretations in Chapter 8 of Sidereal Mundane Astrology. (A link to the free current edition can always be found near the top of the Publications sub-forum.) Readers may wish to consider all planet lines and intersections against the standard interpretations.

Caplunar (Dec 6)

Arilunar (Dec 13)

Canlunar (Dec 21)

Liblunar (Dec 28)

This section provides the raw components from which forecasts are drawn, to give a quick visual overview and make it easier to see when lunar ingresses echo patterns present in the operative solar ingresses.

SOLAR INGRESSES

CAPSOLAR (Jan 14)
Moon Mercury Mars Saturn (Jupiter Uranus).
Mo/Me Moon-Mars Moon-Uranus.
Mercury-Jupiter Mars-Jupiter Mars-Saturn Mars-Uranus Jupiter-Saturn Jupiter-Uranus.

LIBSOLAR (Oct 18)
Sun Saturn Pluto (Mars).
Sun-Mars Sun-Saturn Sun-Pluto Mars-Pluto.

LUNAR INGRESSES

CAPLUNAR (Dec 6)
Mars Jupiter.
Moon-Venus Moon-Pluto.
Mars-Jupiter Venus-Pluto.

ARILUNAR (Dec 13)
Mercury (Sun).
Moon-Venus Moon-Saturn Moon-Pluto (Sun-Neptune).

CANLUNAR (Dec 21)
Mercury (Sun).
Moon-Venus Moon-Pluto.

LIBLUNAR (Dec 28)
Sun (Venus).
Moon-Mercury Moon-Venus Moon-Pluto.
(Mercury-Venus Venus-Pluto).


PRES. BIDEN'S LUNAR RETURNS

SIDEREAL LUNAR RETURN (Dec 14)
t Sun on Asc -0°39'
t Neptune sq. Asc +1°32'
t Mercury barely foreground
-- t Sun-Neptune sq. 2°16'

SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Dec 28)
r Mars sq. Asc +0°50'
t Moon on IC +2°01'
r Moon on MC +2°41'
t Saturn on Dsc +3°14'
t Uranus on MC -5°51'
r Pluto barely foreground
-- t Moon-Saturn sq. 0°32' mundo
-- t Saturn-Uranus sq. 0°35'
-- t Saturn sq. r Moon 1°13' mundo
-- t Saturn sq. r Mars 2°07'
-- t Uranus sq. r Pluto 2°40'
-- t Uranus op. r Mars 2°41' mundo
-- t Saturn op. r Pluto 3°15'

Transits to Capsolar planets are important identifiers for locales where the 'natal' planet was angular in the Capsolar, or where it spins to a CapQ angle at the time of the aspect.

t Pluto conj. Capsolar Pluto START-Dec 23
t Pluto conj. Capsolar Sun START-Jan 4
t Uranus sq. Capsolar Mercury Dec 9-END
t Saturn conj. Capsolar Mercury START-Dec 27 (exact 12/18)

Pluto in Capricorn (2021-2038)
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Harsher, struggling, dystopian: people doubt they will regain guarantees of safety or security from violence, economic crisis, or cultural breakdown. Autonomous self-sufficiency, struggle for survival. Need to preserve and restore survivability of the planet. Shortages of land, secure living space, and privacy (territorial conflicts). Hunger and dwelling insecurity. People determining anew how they want to be governed. Control vs. being controlled. Increased social isolation and focus on survival (anticipating breakdown of society or survivability of the world with depleting stability and resources). Intensified tensions between individual survival vs. connected wider community, and between uplifted and controlling classes vs. the debased and controlled classes. Breakdown of old structures and outmoded patterns. Bedrock financial institutions are challenged and reassessed. New economies emerge, including a structural reconceiving of work, jobs, employment, and earnings. Anything father-themed comes under attack (and retaliates). Ancient grievances and resentments are renewed. Society's relationship to aging and the aged will change necessarily. Revolution in pharmacology.

Neptune in Aquarius (2009-2023)
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Suppressed or diffused social progressiveness, squashed rebellions, deranged concepts of liberty, all setting the stage for a future conflict or breakthrough after the transit is over. Imagined new vistas and possibilities without current capacity to reach or manage them. Roused socialist-leaning liberalism. Failure of universalism, futurism, or true enlightenment to flourish. Shortage of dispassionate clarity, fostered ignorance.

This transit reflects living in a time when most people feel like we are living in a science fiction wonderland, "imagining the inconceivable." Change happens so fast, technical progress accelerating far beyond any vision prior generations had to the 21st century (provided it doesn't involve transportation). One aspect of this is increased complexity with life changing faster than neurology can grasp, manage, and keep up. It has fostered technological surveillance and loss of privacy.

Uranus in Aries (2017-2025)
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A volatile time politically. Issues of economics, government, and accelerated armament. Great challenges to the stability of existing alliances: Acute polarization splits former allies (individuals, social groups, or nations) along new axes. Widespread dissatisfaction fuels repudiation of historic closely held views and values. Each such era, while people are passing through it, feels like a transitions between a concluding old cycle and an opening new cycle.

An unyielding, unremitting sense of emergency exists, then autocratic governance increases. Extraordinary autocratic power is yielded (voluntarily granted) to national leaders, who acquire increasing dominion of economic and social issues. Armament, safety, going one's way alone without the encumbrances of alliances... these win out over the demand for personal liberty and social equality. The masses seem more comfortable with an authoritarian father figure to "make everything OK." Absent a state of war, there me be a suspension of checks and balances on autocracy normal to martial law.

Increased polarization and struggle between opposing extremes - each historic period has its own example, whether it be arising fascism vs. socialism (or political elements that, if more extreme, would have emerged as overtly fascist or socialist, extremism of right vs. left), opposing views on slavery, Catholic vs. Protestant wars, etc. Economics (especially trade) are unstable, in a precarious balance. Economics policies become more nationalistic and autistic, increasingly protective, to defend against trade inequities and competition imbalances. Extreme unrest in economically hurting populations.

Saturn in Capricorn (Jan 2020 - Jan 2023)
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Individual and political struggles for survival, autonomy, and self-sufficiency. Land & space: Shortages of land and secure space, redefining boundaries; territorial acquisitions and annexations, mineral rights, mining conflicts; walls, embargoes, spatial segregation, splitting historically separate countries into autonomous nations. Earth & water crises: Ecological concerns regarding climate change; land- and water-based retaliations by the Earth against destabilizing climate change; volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, no-warning fire outbreaks; water and land rights and conservation. Hunger, food-security, and dwelling issues including crop failures and famine; further crumbling of farming as a viable livelihood; hunger may be weaponized (or may be addressed aggressively). Earth-mindful rebellion religions thrive, including renewal and empowerment of paganism. Major finance developments: Vast financial institutional restructuring and management, especially favoring capitalism. Changes in how we collectively control money and commerce including bedrock foundations, controls, and financial restructuring; institutions aimed at money security are created or strengthened; long-standing economic hardship and social disenfranchisement boil over. Fear: Focus on how we manage and respond to it. Disabilities and misfortune draw focus: "Inferiority" (so-called) more visible; disability and genetic bigotry; widespread civil liberties conflicts and civil rights resistance activism. Relief from the arts and laughter.

This is complete.

I think part of the effect of Biden's SLR is Manchin pulling the run out from under him on getting Build Back Better passed before Christmas.

Jim Eshelman wrote: Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:47 pm Canlunar (Dec 21)
Effective Dec 21-28. Christmas week continues the patterns of the week prior except without the sense of emotional loss. Mercury again is the only planet closely angular, though Sun rises (a bit more widely). Moon closely opposes a partile Venus-Pluto conjunction. I think this means that the nation is simply back to celebrating Christmas fully for the first time since the pandemic. Events are deeply personal. Moving, warming stories fill the media's coverage.

True, exactly as written. More specifically, though, Mercury as the only angular planet is consistent with the loudest story of the week: Airplane flights cancelled in great number due to runaway Covid-19 infections.

Jim Eshelman wrote: Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:47 pm Liblunar (Dec 28)
Dec 28 to Jan 10. ... Folks in Maine should anticipate a brutally cold bit of winter when they make their plans.

I think folks in Maine would agree with that right about now.

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