I have been out of town, but I do want to say a couple of things, even at this late date, about the December Lunar and the January Solar eclipses.
First, let me point out that until June of 2011 all the planets will be is a southern declination. This means that we are in for even more violent weather, as just the stuff since the December Lunar has been really troubling and record setting. All the planets in the south is difficult. It brings too much cold to the northern hemisphere and too much heat to the southern hemisphere, where heat and floods are happening.
All of this is happening since the Lunar of December which kicks off this cycle of southern declinations.
A lot of astrologers have written pages and pages about the Lunar eclipse, and granted it is a really powerful one –all that energy on the solstice has to be significant, both in the world and in the inner world.
We are going to see a lot happen.
However it is this January Solar Eclipse that has me worried. The eclipse is in Capricorn and opposes the point of the huge Cancer eclipse of July 11, 2010. The July eclipse was during the famed Cardinal Cross. And the eclipse was in a water sign, a cardinal water sign, the sign of the mother. Meanwhile, the Cardinal Cross is really releasing energy energy, like the after shocks of a big earth quake, which those of us in LA experienced in 1994 can be frightful.
Now, as the big opposition, Jupiter and Saturn opposing in Aries, Jupiter squaring Pluto this Feb. The continued turbulence of huge changes and trauma on the Earth Plane are going go on. Economic trouble looms. Prices, 5$ gas, large weather shifts prompting large migrations of the poor to the boarders of the have nations. In Africa, Asia and Islands like Haiti, there will be growing suffering.
I digress, and some people have worried about the negative quality of my speeches to astrological groups lately. We, frankly I am pessimistic.
Which leads up to this January eclipse. The impact will be felt heavy more in February when Jupiter squares the eclipse point. And the “bending” in July will tell a sad tale.
The economic good news will probably shift to distress as rising gas and other essential services, food, heating, will rise and threaten those living on fixed incomes. The housing market will make a second dip. The effects of the Tea Party on politics will hamper any immediate response to this crisis. Spots like Korea and Iran will fester into real conflicts of armed conflict.
Cancer the area of the home, will be under assault by the evaluative qualities of Capricorn ‘s Saturn ruler in Libra is who will bring a judgment on all these areas.
I read all the newsletters of famous and truly great astrologers who write better than I do and speak easily about the disjointed transformation of society to a more global, new age, world village energy–all this emerging. And I agree.
However what is being swept under the rug is the depth of the pain and suffering that will hit the poor in all countries a especially the third world. The wealthy will survive with their power through corporations and financial manipulations.
Still this is a time of growing chaos. Real stuff. $4 gas by summer will be a shock. The awareness of the wounded oceans will be more and more apparent. Like I say, the last fish will be cooked by the fisherman who caught it and the logger who cut down the last tree to cook it.
The simple life is the answer. Minimal is the key. And the demands of the budget will have some effect on prices, but the real answer is to learn to get by with less.
Another important point is to read wisdom literature, meditate and get involved with groups that are trying to help in an area where you can contribute. Basics is the shelter that provides survival.