Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

USA Mundane Forecast
for the four weeks beginning SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

• Outer Planet Sign Transits
• Pres. Biden's Lunar Returns

CAPSOLAR (Jan 15)
Effective Jan 15, 2024 to Jan 14, 2025. For a full interpretation of the 2024 "year chart," click here.

ARISOLAR (Apr 14)
Effective Apr 14 to Oct 17. For a full interpretation of the 2024 six-month Arisolar, click here.

MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)

• START-9/15: Uranus Mercury
• 9/15-9/20: Uranus Mars Mercury
• 9/21-9/22: Uranus Mars
• 9/23-9/26: Uranus
• 9/27-10/4: Uranus Mars
• 10/5-END: Uranus

Uranus crossing Capsolar Ascendant and progressed Capsolar Moon square Mercury continue the spirit of surprise, refreshment, renewing, and breaking loose we have seen already for the last two months. Pressures for change become more concentrated near 9/22. However, this month is more volatile with Mars crossing Cansolar angles much of the last half of the month. The Mercury-Mars-Uranus zone 9/15-9/20 is especially vulnerable to significant transportation accidents (not to mention unusual erupting ire in the press).

The USA chart's concentration of Moon-Mars-Neptune has faded, though transiting Neptune conjoins USA progressed Moon all month (exact on October 9). Historically, this has signaled passionate populist movements on both the left and right, such as the original Tea Party and Occupy outbreaks of two decades back. Mars' transit through the U.S. natal Sun-Saturn-angles always shows a volatile time, often with threats to our leaders: Mars makes a periodic passage through this zone in early October, with exact aspects from the 4th to the 9th.

• Oct 2: Eris enters PISCES
• Oct 4: t Mars co USA r Sun
• Oct 4: t Mars sq USA r Ascendant
• Oct 7: t Mars sq USA r Saturn
• Oct 8: Jupiter stationary 26°15' Tau
• Oct 9: t Neptune co USA p Moon
• Oct 9: t Mars co USA r MC
• Oct 11: Pluto stationary 4°33' Cap

CAPLUNAR (Sep 13) Effective Sep 13-Oct 11
Neptune closely rises with an exact Sun-Saturn opposition across the horizon. Furthermore the horizon is at the Sun/Neptune and Saturn/Neptune midpoints, so we have a three-way Sun-Saturn-Neptune configuration. [If you have been following our work with PVP aspects, this is even more fully a three-way configuration with PVP squares of Sun-Neptune 0°15' and Saturn-Neptune 0°41' in meridian longitude.]

Saturn-Neptune always brings a measure of deflation, grief, and sadness, often inflating to fear or panic (sometimes voluntary: sacrifice or renunciation). What is strange is that - while Saturn-Neptune describes the broad tone of the next four weeks - each individual week (beginning next week) is dominated by Venus. Sometimes this just means powerful feeling that may include love in the face of loss; but usually it means upbeat, happy feelings.

Sun-Saturn-Neptune is usually bad news for those in power. Whether resignation, exile, or other removal, separation of leaders from public esteem (and sometimes from office) are most common. This may include scandal or disclosed corruption. Usually, it is toxic, insidious, and paralyzing. Especially with strong Sun involved, the increased pressure is on government in general and the chief executive in particular. Government gridlock is another variation (and, as this is September, budgeting and another debt-ceiling cliff-hanger are due). Other common Sun-Saturn expressions (especially with Neptune) are financial crisis, hurricane, flood, and other events mandating government oversight and assistance (usually with FEMA in the news). If hurricanes are involved, they seem to come off the Carribean, since Sun-Saturn concentrates in Florida and the Carolinas before turning inland.

Perhaps these dark expressions concentrate in the first week of the Caplunar month since each other week has happier markers.

ARILUNAR (Sep 19) Effective Sep 19-26
Venus closely squares MC and opposes Moon. It's a Venus week - as are the three weeks following. Additionally, this week a Uranus-Pluto mundane square is moderately foreground.

Venus brings peace, love, and other causes for celebration. She directs attention to partnerships and other relationships between nations, our connections to allies and enemies.

Because Venus brings to mind those who are much loved, existing within a potentially mournful Month chart (Caplunar) may signal tragedy with intense feelings for those loved and lost. However, there's a better chance that the current Week chart will operate independent of the Month chart: Venus angular by herself is foremost a signal of the world behaving gently with little harm on the horizon.

Uranus square Pluto signals significant change, perhaps in relation to Venus matters. The aspect brings new conditions unbound by precedent, convention, or authority, i.e., people are willing to ignore how things have always been and try something new.

CANLUNAR (Sep 26) Effective Sep 26-Oct 4
Venus is closely rising so, like last week we have another Venus week with the same expectations. The widely foreground Pluto, widely opposite Moon, adds an edge of tension or disruption and perhaps a surge in public outcry or resistance despite a predominantly calm, pleasant week.

LIBLUNAR (Oct 3) Effective Oct 3-17
Venus is closely rising so, like last week we have another Venus week with the same expectations. Because the Moon-Pluto aspect is much closer than last week (and Uranus is again widely foreground) there is a stronger spirit of public outcry and demand for change.

Because the next Caplunar is dormant, this Liblunar lasts for two weeks.

SIDEREAL LUNAR RETURN (Sep 20)
Effective Sep 19-Oct 17. The lunar return has nothing strong. The only planets near angles are barely foreground and easy to ignore. Perhaps the obscure natal Moon-Mars opposition in azimuth (right on the prime vertical) shows greater boldness and aggression, though mostly the chart has little to say.

Possibly Biden won't be in Washington when this sets up. The entire chart (including background Sun opposite Neptune and Venus square his Jupiter) seems more like someone at rest, for pleasure or refreshment. If he is in Rehoboth Beach, Venus has a stronger voice and signals an undemanding, pleasurable, happy time.

The strongest force in Biden's life at the moment, then, is not this SLR but transiting Jupiter square natal Midheaven, which lasts several weeks. From this, we anticipate a significant success or two and rising esteem between now and the election.

SIDEREAL DEMI-LUNAR RETURN (Oct 4)
Effective Oct 3-17. This mixed-temperament demi-lunar, with both positive and negative indicators extremely strong, is more good than bad on balance (Jupiter, two Uranuses, and Venus foreground against two Saturns and a whisper of Neptune).

Jupiter is 0°09' from square the demi-lunar Midheaven and 0°15' from square natal MC (the return chart's angles are nearly the same as his natal angles). These strongest angularities, taken alone, mean a time of bounty, dignity, and success, a feeling of satisfaction and achievement. Natal Uranus also closely angular adds excitement and an adventurous spirit open to taking chances.

Against this, though, two Saturns (more widely foreground) have greater importance because of their aspects, none of which is easily seen in an ecliptical chart: Mundanely, Saturn squares natal Sun 0°11' and Venus 0°37'. These aspects are weakening and demoralizing. Just to spice the complex stew of influences further, Saturn squares transiting Uranus (mundanely), which in turn also aspects natal Sun-Venus. The mix is most easily seen from these mundoscope positions:

20°55' H6 - t Uranus
23°02' H12 - r Sun
23°12' H3 - t Saturn
23°49' H12 - r Venus

I take this jambalaya of influences to mean that, while positives and successes predominate (Jupiter), optimism and pessimism compete in Biden's psyche for these two weeks. This may be no more than optimism entwined with anxiety over the election outcome, though I think Saturn that closely square his Sun also shows a loss of vitality, a physical and psychological weakening. Though he perseveres, persevering is harder than it was a year ago. His current solar return has worn him down over the last ten months. Last spring, before his slowing was obvious to the world, I predicted in this column health problems that the public didn't hear about at the time. Now, the First Lady's chart has growing signs of worry increasing through the end of the year. We likely will see more signs of Pres. Biden winding down as his term of office nears its end. Saturn to natal Venus also suggests more personal (e.g., family) concerns.

This is complete.

I saw that the US postal service is getting a fleet of new vehicles. When I read about them I was struck by the thought that these vehicles will be in or the cause of more accidents due to the lack of loud combustion engines that the previous models had. For years I always thought the mail Carrier's needed new mufflers due to the loudness they emit,but I learned they were built to be loud so that people will hear them comming, new electric cars are so quiet that you dont hear them coming till they are right on top of you. I saw the above Mercury Mars Uranus aspect and wondered if this new fleet will be an expression of that.

Jim Eshelman wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 5:25 pm CAPLUNAR (Sep 13) Effective Sep 13-Oct 1120240913 CpL.png
Other common Sun-Saturn expressions (especially with Neptune) are financial crisis, hurricane, flood, and other events mandating government oversight and assistance (usually with FEMA in the news). If hurricanes are involved, they seem to come off the Carribean, since Sun-Saturn concentrates in Florida and the Carolinas before turning inland.

Sympathy for the people of in North and South Carolinas. right now 18" of rain in 12 hours is a lot! A map of the area covered by the hurricane fits the exact description of Florida and the Carolinas.

There have now been two hurricanes under this same Caplunar, with Hurricane Helene hitting Florida as well - right on the Saturn line - then moving north along it through Georgia into the inland Carolinas.

Spot on for the Caplunar Jim with its USA Saturn line.

Here is a Solar Maps link for DC’s Sept 13 Caplunar which Jim forecasted potentially bad weather (hurricane) for Gulf Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Note the white colored ASC- Saturn line covering these areas. Massive flooding occurred in western North Carolina where 18 rain fell in 3 hours.

https://ibb.co/2P96fr8

Notice that, for the month as a whole - both hurricanes - it's even better. Sun-Saturn are in close aspect in the Caplunar, so watch the Sun-Saturn lines TOGETHER straddle Florida and up through the Carolinas. This looked like destruction. I thought it would be a hurricane - including massive, destructive amounts of rain - because of something else you can't see on this particular map: Jupiter squared Ascendant right down the middle of the Sun-Saturn split. (Jupiter is nearly always on the angles of ONE lunar ingress for hurricanes because of massive rain, but not enough to overwhelm the destructive force of malefics.)

Interesting Jim. Many months ago I was doing work with the Caplunar and weekly lunars when they were predicting a swarm of tornados in the midwest and parans (forgot which ones) were predicting the towns the tornados were hitting.

On Sept. 26, 2024, at 11:10 p.m. EDT, NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured Hurricane Helene making landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the Aucilla River's mouth. With winds reaching 140 mph, the Category 4 storm ranks among the most powerful to strike the United States.
Perry, Florida is located in Florida's Nature Coast area, approximately 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The exact coordinates for Perry are 30°06′52″N 83°34′57″W.

Go to this link of Solar Maps for the State of Florida and put your cursor just a little east of Cedar Key, Florida

https://ibb.co/HzbcfY9

With your cursor held at this location note the coordinates upper left. This is almost exactly where Hurricane Helene made landfall on the coast of Florida. This is the ACG Saturn ASC line for the Sept 13 Caplunar calculated for DC, the capital of USA. I hope to show some more Ingress charts with their ACG lines demonstrating somehow a planet's ACG line embedding itself in certain surfaces of the earth, as much as part of the landscape as it is for a mundane chart or natal chart ACG lines. With Solar Maps, a tool in Solarfire you can snapshot just about any area in the World.

Yes, here (from last Friday) is the breakdown of all the relevant ingresses for the event.
https://solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8954#p62597

Hurricane Helene is now the second deadliest mainland hurricane of the last half century, second only to Katrina.

The Capsolar and Cansolar - especially taken together! - nearly tell the story by themselves. Then there is the terrible Caplunar we've been discussing and a surprisingly strong "smack'em while they're down" Canlunar. Transiting Pluto was minutes from the Perry Capsolar MC and, for the time of landfall, Mars and Neptune were on its CapQ angles. Saturn and Neptune were on its CanQ angles.

Amazing Jim!!! SMA needs to taught in all the Universities.

Is Hurricane Milton (possible Cat 5) going to track the same as Hurricane Helene with the same Sun-- Sat ACG lines for the Sept 13 Caplunar? If so, I don't believe this has ever happened in recorded history within the same monthly time period. Mercy for those in its path!