US forecast Jan 21 - Feb 17, 2023
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:46 pm
USA Mundane Forecast
for the four weeks beginning JANUARY 21, 2023
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 Ch 8 of the current (17th) Edition.
USA Mundane Forecast §§§ The Biden Report §§§ Ingress Summaries §§§ Outer Planet Sign Transits
LONG-TERM (Solar Ingresses)
Capsolar effective Jan 15, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024.
The Capsolar (like the current Cansolar) is silent for Washington, with no distinctive effect on the U.S. as a whole besides the worldwide Moon-Pluto square (what else is new? we've had a several year run of the unbelievable being routine). The Libsolar continues for the next three months as the only operative solar ingress for the U.S. overall. However, the Capsolar does identify patterns in specific parts of the U.S. and the world:
https://solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=7027#p51199
Libsolar (Oct 18)
Effective Oct 18, 2022 to April 15, 2023. Because the Capsolar and Cansolar are both silent for Washington, the Libsolar takes on unusual importance and persists as the one solar ingress for the U.S. until the Arisolar replaces it mid-April. Now that the election is over and the new Congress settled in, what else can we see for its new quarter?
Even with more benefic than malefic symbolism, the new Libsolar's benefics are shaken and challenged. Pluto (0°08' from IC) is square a nearly partile Sun-Venus conjunction. Venus-Pluto is only 0°29' wide. We face unprecedented conditions, irrevocable shifts, rebellion against conditions, assaults on those in power, and disrespect for law. Solar figures are challenged and held accountable (which probably includes a recent past president).
The extraordinary and unanticipated continue to be the ordinary - week after week.
However, this seems the most benign (even happy) Libsolar in years with Sun-Venus so closely rising. By itself, Sun-Venus is common for events that resolve conflict and bring peace. Certainly, Venus issues will be at the forefront (which includes abortion rights); but one wonders also if this chart might forecast a peaceful resolution to existing conflict and threats.
The main feature of Venus square Pluto is an irrevocable change in relationships. While this anticipates social impact (as in matters of marriage and reproductive rights), between nations it refers to significant shifts in alliances and antipathies including such things as the starting or ending of a war. I am certain this will be its fundamental theme and stand hopeful that the predominantly peaceful tone of the chart will prevail.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
Progressed Cansolar Moon squares Neptune until February 3, Jupiter crosses Cansolar angles until January 31, and, from February 10 on, Pluto squares Capsolar Moon. These line up in breakouts resembling last month:
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Caplunar (Jan 21)
Effective January 21 to February 17, especially the first week, January 21-27. This will be a positive, prospering month - but not a simple one. No one type of event known to me leaps out from this Caplunar, but the chief characteristics of the time seem clear.
Jupiter is 0°02' from Nadir with Mercury 1°33' from Ascendant: It will be a good month with a feeling or prosperity, victory, and well-being across most of the nation. Diplomatic victories seem especially highlighted. These planets also signal significant court action (courts being in the news to an unusual extent), so a far-reaching legal decision may be part of the mix.
Also, it will be a high impact month that deeply involves the people (popular sentiment and deep collective feelings) as a whole: Moon squares Midheaven 1°53' on one side and Pluto 1°23' on the other, their midpoint being 0°15' from the angle and their mundane conjunction only 0°01' wide. (Mundanely, Moon, Sun, and Pluto are all within 0°05' of each other.)
Therefore, we are looking for events that mix equal parts of Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, and Pluto. This probably is a mix of success and prosperity, absorption with Mercury themes (commerce, communication, transportation, technology), powerful emotional herd response, the collective voice of the masses, and high impact that (even after the last three years) stuns our senses.
As I write this, a debt ceiling crisis is approaching with new Republican House leadership committed to weaponizing it. What's expected, then, is a national money crisis with extremely negative stock market impact. However, that's not what this chart says: It speaks more of good negotiation and a collective sense of prosperity.
January is the wrong time of the year for tropical storm surges, but I need to mention that angular Jupiter (square a non-foreground Mars) and this much Pluto is consistent with traumatic weather events of the nature of a hurricane.
One more point - more of a research observation than a prediction - is that Eris is 1°33' from IC and, for Washington, 0°01' from exact mundane square with Mercury. Eris is a planet of chaos, a trickster that saturates the mind with more data points than are manageable (a kind of neurological "denial of service" attack or overwhelming the mind with chaos). In a natal chart, though, it also signals that insight comes easily and the mind grows to manage vast arrays of data points. We have little experience with this in mundane astrology. If we are on the right path regarding the nature of Eris, these themes will be involved in the main events as well.
Mars-Neptune intersect in western New Mexico which means something threatening and panic-stirring, such as an outrageous fire or (in this sparsely populated area) terrorizing violence. Neptune itself moves due north and south, roughly along the Rockies' ridge, while Mars curves from near Tucson to Fargo, ND. Mars-Jupiter intersect in the eastern Dakota', suggesting unusually severe storms. Another Mars line is a little east of the San Francisco-Portland-Seattle longitude, with Mars-Saturn intersecting at the California-Oregon border. Jupiter is on Zenith along he entire Eastern seaboard which, while mostly signifying prosperity, is usually a signal of Atlantic storm activity when the season is correct. Eastern Pennsylvania gets Jupiter-Pluto. Burlington is close to a Sun-Jupiter crossing.
Arilunar (Jan 27)
Effective Jan 27-Feb 11. As the mundoscope above shows, Neptune is 2°10' above Ascendant, Jupiter 3°35' below, and their midpoint half a degree from Ascendant.
The general positive tone of the month continues but likely muffled by uncertainty. This seems to be two weeks when people are not all too sure what's going on or what's going to happen, but also are not too worried about it. Economic unclarity leads to increased speculation. There is a greater sense of social cohesiveness and even social idealism than post-election pundits anticipated. I do not expect much important and concrete to happen this month. Attention-grabbing entertainment news may be main feature of the week.
Northern Texas (near Abilene) has a violent or destructive Mars-Saturn intersection (with Mars running up the middle of the Plains while Saturn curves across the lower Plains and upper Midwest) and another Mars line across the deeper Midwest. (This regional severity suggests severe weather, but it could be something else.) All of New England has an especially positive time. The longitude of Las Vegas experiences severe loss or hardship.
Canlunar (Feb 3)
The Canlunar is silent. Recent ingresses with similar Moon aspects to Mercury and Pluto have brought transportation delays and bottlenecks (this would be a worldwide potential). Surprises involving executive office holders spike the news, with Albany (or possibly NYC) being a particular center of surprises.
Liblunar (Feb 11)
Effective Feb 11-17. Of the ten standard planets, only Moon is foreground (a degree and a half from Midheaven). By itself, angular Moon means a powerful rousing of mass (or herd) mind, a strong popular response, and people simply feeling more strongly about what is happening. Collective populist embracing of a focus or issue is normal. Common specifics include children being more pointedly in major news events and human interest stories fueling strong popular sentiment.
Because so little is happening, I also have included Eris in the wheel: A Moon-Eris opposition dominates the chart. Unlike nearly every week of the last many years, Moon is NOT in close aspect to Pluto: At 4°, it is wider than squares normally show in these ingresses. Although the world has a Moon-Pluto square all year from the Capsolar, this Liblunar suggests that the now overly familiar sense of gripping intensity and normalization of the unlikley will not be especially obvious this week. Yet Eris - to the extent we can generalize from natal astrology - likely means stirring of chaos, a kind of disruptive mischief amidst undecided possibilities. In a way that is difference from Neptunian confusion, someone will have to manage a mad swarm this week - if we are reading this relatively new planet correctly.
Strong winter storms seem likely in Wisconsin-Minnesota, bleeding somewhat across the planes. A Saturn line crosses California's south central coast, then crosses midstate in a curve that reaches Idaho. Though nothing usually happens in Idaho, the Boise area has a Mars-Saturn intersection. New England (and, to a lesser extent, the greater NY metropolitan area has a Mercury-Pluto influence that suggests logjams and collisions of data or transportation.
for the four weeks beginning JANUARY 21, 2023
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 Ch 8 of the current (17th) Edition.
USA Mundane Forecast §§§ The Biden Report §§§ Ingress Summaries §§§ Outer Planet Sign Transits
LONG-TERM (Solar Ingresses)
Capsolar effective Jan 15, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024.
The Capsolar (like the current Cansolar) is silent for Washington, with no distinctive effect on the U.S. as a whole besides the worldwide Moon-Pluto square (what else is new? we've had a several year run of the unbelievable being routine). The Libsolar continues for the next three months as the only operative solar ingress for the U.S. overall. However, the Capsolar does identify patterns in specific parts of the U.S. and the world:
https://solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=7027#p51199
Libsolar (Oct 18)
Effective Oct 18, 2022 to April 15, 2023. Because the Capsolar and Cansolar are both silent for Washington, the Libsolar takes on unusual importance and persists as the one solar ingress for the U.S. until the Arisolar replaces it mid-April. Now that the election is over and the new Congress settled in, what else can we see for its new quarter?
Even with more benefic than malefic symbolism, the new Libsolar's benefics are shaken and challenged. Pluto (0°08' from IC) is square a nearly partile Sun-Venus conjunction. Venus-Pluto is only 0°29' wide. We face unprecedented conditions, irrevocable shifts, rebellion against conditions, assaults on those in power, and disrespect for law. Solar figures are challenged and held accountable (which probably includes a recent past president).
The extraordinary and unanticipated continue to be the ordinary - week after week.
However, this seems the most benign (even happy) Libsolar in years with Sun-Venus so closely rising. By itself, Sun-Venus is common for events that resolve conflict and bring peace. Certainly, Venus issues will be at the forefront (which includes abortion rights); but one wonders also if this chart might forecast a peaceful resolution to existing conflict and threats.
The main feature of Venus square Pluto is an irrevocable change in relationships. While this anticipates social impact (as in matters of marriage and reproductive rights), between nations it refers to significant shifts in alliances and antipathies including such things as the starting or ending of a war. I am certain this will be its fundamental theme and stand hopeful that the predominantly peaceful tone of the chart will prevail.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
Progressed Cansolar Moon squares Neptune until February 3, Jupiter crosses Cansolar angles until January 31, and, from February 10 on, Pluto squares Capsolar Moon. These line up in breakouts resembling last month:
- START to 1/31: Neptune Jupiter
- 2/1 to 2/3: Neptune
- 2/10 to END: Pluto
SHORT-TERM (Lunar Ingresses)
Caplunar (Jan 21)
Effective January 21 to February 17, especially the first week, January 21-27. This will be a positive, prospering month - but not a simple one. No one type of event known to me leaps out from this Caplunar, but the chief characteristics of the time seem clear.
Jupiter is 0°02' from Nadir with Mercury 1°33' from Ascendant: It will be a good month with a feeling or prosperity, victory, and well-being across most of the nation. Diplomatic victories seem especially highlighted. These planets also signal significant court action (courts being in the news to an unusual extent), so a far-reaching legal decision may be part of the mix.
Also, it will be a high impact month that deeply involves the people (popular sentiment and deep collective feelings) as a whole: Moon squares Midheaven 1°53' on one side and Pluto 1°23' on the other, their midpoint being 0°15' from the angle and their mundane conjunction only 0°01' wide. (Mundanely, Moon, Sun, and Pluto are all within 0°05' of each other.)
Therefore, we are looking for events that mix equal parts of Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, and Pluto. This probably is a mix of success and prosperity, absorption with Mercury themes (commerce, communication, transportation, technology), powerful emotional herd response, the collective voice of the masses, and high impact that (even after the last three years) stuns our senses.
As I write this, a debt ceiling crisis is approaching with new Republican House leadership committed to weaponizing it. What's expected, then, is a national money crisis with extremely negative stock market impact. However, that's not what this chart says: It speaks more of good negotiation and a collective sense of prosperity.
January is the wrong time of the year for tropical storm surges, but I need to mention that angular Jupiter (square a non-foreground Mars) and this much Pluto is consistent with traumatic weather events of the nature of a hurricane.
One more point - more of a research observation than a prediction - is that Eris is 1°33' from IC and, for Washington, 0°01' from exact mundane square with Mercury. Eris is a planet of chaos, a trickster that saturates the mind with more data points than are manageable (a kind of neurological "denial of service" attack or overwhelming the mind with chaos). In a natal chart, though, it also signals that insight comes easily and the mind grows to manage vast arrays of data points. We have little experience with this in mundane astrology. If we are on the right path regarding the nature of Eris, these themes will be involved in the main events as well.
Mars-Neptune intersect in western New Mexico which means something threatening and panic-stirring, such as an outrageous fire or (in this sparsely populated area) terrorizing violence. Neptune itself moves due north and south, roughly along the Rockies' ridge, while Mars curves from near Tucson to Fargo, ND. Mars-Jupiter intersect in the eastern Dakota', suggesting unusually severe storms. Another Mars line is a little east of the San Francisco-Portland-Seattle longitude, with Mars-Saturn intersecting at the California-Oregon border. Jupiter is on Zenith along he entire Eastern seaboard which, while mostly signifying prosperity, is usually a signal of Atlantic storm activity when the season is correct. Eastern Pennsylvania gets Jupiter-Pluto. Burlington is close to a Sun-Jupiter crossing.
Arilunar (Jan 27)
Effective Jan 27-Feb 11. As the mundoscope above shows, Neptune is 2°10' above Ascendant, Jupiter 3°35' below, and their midpoint half a degree from Ascendant.
The general positive tone of the month continues but likely muffled by uncertainty. This seems to be two weeks when people are not all too sure what's going on or what's going to happen, but also are not too worried about it. Economic unclarity leads to increased speculation. There is a greater sense of social cohesiveness and even social idealism than post-election pundits anticipated. I do not expect much important and concrete to happen this month. Attention-grabbing entertainment news may be main feature of the week.
Northern Texas (near Abilene) has a violent or destructive Mars-Saturn intersection (with Mars running up the middle of the Plains while Saturn curves across the lower Plains and upper Midwest) and another Mars line across the deeper Midwest. (This regional severity suggests severe weather, but it could be something else.) All of New England has an especially positive time. The longitude of Las Vegas experiences severe loss or hardship.
Canlunar (Feb 3)
The Canlunar is silent. Recent ingresses with similar Moon aspects to Mercury and Pluto have brought transportation delays and bottlenecks (this would be a worldwide potential). Surprises involving executive office holders spike the news, with Albany (or possibly NYC) being a particular center of surprises.
Liblunar (Feb 11)
Effective Feb 11-17. Of the ten standard planets, only Moon is foreground (a degree and a half from Midheaven). By itself, angular Moon means a powerful rousing of mass (or herd) mind, a strong popular response, and people simply feeling more strongly about what is happening. Collective populist embracing of a focus or issue is normal. Common specifics include children being more pointedly in major news events and human interest stories fueling strong popular sentiment.
Because so little is happening, I also have included Eris in the wheel: A Moon-Eris opposition dominates the chart. Unlike nearly every week of the last many years, Moon is NOT in close aspect to Pluto: At 4°, it is wider than squares normally show in these ingresses. Although the world has a Moon-Pluto square all year from the Capsolar, this Liblunar suggests that the now overly familiar sense of gripping intensity and normalization of the unlikley will not be especially obvious this week. Yet Eris - to the extent we can generalize from natal astrology - likely means stirring of chaos, a kind of disruptive mischief amidst undecided possibilities. In a way that is difference from Neptunian confusion, someone will have to manage a mad swarm this week - if we are reading this relatively new planet correctly.
Strong winter storms seem likely in Wisconsin-Minnesota, bleeding somewhat across the planes. A Saturn line crosses California's south central coast, then crosses midstate in a curve that reaches Idaho. Though nothing usually happens in Idaho, the Boise area has a Mars-Saturn intersection. New England (and, to a lesser extent, the greater NY metropolitan area has a Mercury-Pluto influence that suggests logjams and collisions of data or transportation.