Solstice is a big deal this year. Not that it isn’t always a big deal, but this year on December 22 it is on a new moon at 0:06 Capricorn. Wow a perfect cusp. Uranus goes direct at 12:34 of Aries. and we are on our way to the big Uranus/Pluto sq, and Saturn enters Sagittarius.
What I think this indicates that we are in for a wild ride in 2015. The new moon sets the idea of a world on edge, the government on edge, the surge of Saturn also show that is some hope that some energy will shift. It will not come easy, thought, not when the ruler of Sagittarius retrograde in Leo. While the two big guys will both be in fire, the element is muted and the problems will be a struggle until Jupiter goes direct and even then faces two quincunxs to Pluto.
The battles with be heated. Obama’s chart, to me shows a guy who is tired and thinks what the hell, I am going to do what I want, no re-election politics. Just drive the Republicans crazy with a lot of extension of his power at every opportunity. Look for not only immigration rights to be on the front burner but also saving Obama his prized achievement, his legacy. The problem of the pipeline will be another, Pluto and the sludge will dominate the sceneand I think he will use his veto power several times.In the end, he will side with the environmentalists and there will not be enough votes to overturn a veto. He will be just as pesky to this congressional majority as they were to him. Obama, with Aquarius rising does not have the flash we might expect from a Leo–though he does give good speeches. He is from the community organizing side of politics.k And before I went into the Peace Corps I did some community work. The key is to let everyone in the community have their say, not to push to take over, but to work until, though working until everyone, frankly, poops out, that things start to move. Everyone beats their chest, tires and then something is agreed upon. So Obama will now wear the Republicans out. Baner has problems with his own right flank, the new congress with be a dog fight among in their kennel.
The Israeli/Palestinian situation will get very bad, the individual assaults on Jewish places of worship will continue. These personal attacks are different than suicide bombers, how to spot them? They are just an individual on bus, in the store, wherever and people can be cut. Imagine being on a bus in Jerusalem. The radical Israelis are as crazy as their enemy. I just think that how long can this radical right keep up the heat. None of those Torah students and their Rabbis even have to go into the army and they get a government stipend so they can spend their day in study. I think there is political trouble from within.
The good news I think will be in science where I think great breakthroughs will come from the Jupiter, Uranus and Saturn sharing the fire signs.
For another thing, I hope we can see a better push for news in the USA. We are fed propaganda. Se watch killings, accidents, car chases while down town and state and federal problems are not presented. Only on cable news can one get a real sense of what is going on. That and the New York Times. We re living in a time where the diversity of the web may loosen the corporate grip on media. Television itself will change as streaming continues to bash the form big three of CBS NBC and ABC. They are disparately (the network) losing a battle.
I like Saturn in Sag. to give us a better grip on relationships. The younger generation with hookups and a lack of need for singularity in coupling may introduce a more flexible concept of living and loving.
In the end, as I sit on my yoga mat, I like the flow of my breath with my body, continue to be amazed at the serenity that in inner self can give. Here in California we worry about water. I take out my flute and celebrate the flow of breath and the joy that as astrologer can have looking at the heavens and knowing that he is part of the universe looking at itself.