On the Mundane (outlook for world and national events) Front: This year looks like it will involve a lot of disruption. The international outlook will be dependent on what happens after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even after the war has concluded, there will be the difficulty of maintaining any kind of peace. The potential problem is Putin’s drive to control how he deals with many problems for Russia and the sanctions put on it. Putin ( Libra Sun, Scorpio rising and Moon in Gemini) will be on psychological pressure that may make him more unstable (what stable man starts a war?} He has already caused economic problems for the world community. The shockwaves of this will not go away for some time. So don’t look for this situation to have a silver lining. The price of oil with cause a world inflation that has not been seen in quite a quite a while. (More on this later)

The United Sates will have a difficult time (I do not intend to sound like a grumpy Gus) because of the Pluto return that is going on in the chart of the United States. What is the Pluto return all about? It is the time when transiting Pluto returns to where it was when the declaration of Independence the United State rebelled against England and wanted to create a free republic. The last return was it 1856 a time where conflict between north and south states about the question of slavery was starting to get hot. There were small conflicts between neighboring militia. Sounds familiar?

Back to the concept of the idea of the Pluto return. To give an example of the potential of this Pluto return is to think about the Saturn Return a person’s chart, a time of difficulty. Well the Pluto return is like trouble on steroids. The power is so great.

The first thing in the background astrology is that there was the Saturn conjunct Pluto in 2020 in Capricorn. Something that hadn’t happened since October in the sixteenth century, which saw the beginning of the reformation. Religions rebelled and the world shifted At the time of 2020 it brought the pandemic, as well as race uprisings, which cause wide spread problems. And the beginning of the even wider divisions of the population.

The one of the biggest problems this year is the price of oil. Inflation rides on the price of oil from the tractor cost to farmer to plant and harvest to the trucks that move all of our products use gas. The food to grocery stores gets there by gas. People commute to jobs. Etc., You get the picture. Everyone will feel the pinch. It will be like a tumble of dominos.

This inflation will be the primary underlying problem of the election, which will be chaotic and full of outrageous political conflicts and the vote will be contested. The Solar eclipse in October 25 to the Lunar eclipse ON ELECTION DAY the race up to the election and its outcome will present so many grave problems in the republic and a test to democracy.

The Pluto has three hits in 2022 in its return. More later as we continue to follow the action as the months build up to a crescendo. The joke in my group of friends is “Perhaps the UFOs will come down and save us.”

Just when we thought we could take a break and enjoy the freedom and potential peace of the vaccinated, Pluto has to be considered as a crasher to the party. We just got over the Saturn conjunct Pluto, which brought the covid virus. Then we had to deal with Saturn and Uranus going at it. We have had riots and marches, elections contested; everybody thinks everybody else is crazy. Wasn’t that enough, Pluto? But no, the planet Pluto now is giving us the emotional trauma of a return to where it was when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence 248 years ago. This is called as Pluto Return and in all the history books this has been trough times.
Let me explain. Whenever a person, place or thing has Pluto in it chart’s placement that is a point for a possible Pluto Return. But no one lives long enough. And it is a dangerous aspect. Why so important to us? Because Pluto is now to have a return for the United States and this will truly be a huge historical event. It will last roughly two years from February 19th 2022 to November 11th 2023.
Pluto aspects are grinders, they do not come all at once, it comes in like a natural slow earthquake rumbling and bumbling along. Pluto is the planet of transformation, a polite word for an ongoing energy that brings hard changes; it will bring to the surface and then chip away on anything that is problematic for growth. Even if it is the destruction of the old and the emergence of something new and different, it may bring a kind of chaos that seeks new order. And the United States with democracy threatened and autocratic ideas gaining strength, this becomes serious.
Oh, I forgot to mention Climate Change which is raising its head and we are seeing the weather changing and both flowing weather and drought move through the world. How will crops grow? How will we feed this world, how to give it the water it needs for people to drink and to water our agriculture
These are the concerns of the Pluto return for the United States. It starts and ends in the second house of the Sibley Chart. Let me say how I see this placement. The second house is the house is the home of our deepest values. Usually for most people and governments this means money. So lets start with that. In the chart the second house is ruled by Capricorn, an earth sign that has a great concern for monetary power. But lets say two years at crossing over one point is only one side of the concept of power. Power can first relate to monetary systems, which brings in the economic energy of political systems. But there are other kinds of power, there are systems: social systems, cultural, as well as the needs of the masses. So lets just say that Pluto in the second house ruled by Saturn transiting through in Aquarius ruled by transiting Uranus means there is also the power of change for the individual, humanity, also the potential of disturbing energy force in that the systems that need evolutional change to grow, but in this case may well be a revolutions, or revolution’s energy, the need for change in so many infrastructures. In this way, Pluto in the second house will touch all our lives in dramatic ways that may be disconcerting and upsetting. Life on the planet and the US is in for shake up.
We must look at that further and we will, in coming articles. Change is coming.

In 2021 Saturn and Uranus Continue Their Duel – Jupiter Scouts the Integration. This is a view for the future. Saturn is the planet of definition, of defining things. Saturn is happy with there is order and structure, when fundamental principles are in play. Often depicted as a mean old who always spoils the party, there is a lot of good things at play here. Nothing lasts long with out some rules to guide us, a blue print on what is meant to be a working plan, or even a plan at all is what we all need if the future is going to succeed.

The problem comes when Saturn is challenged by change. The old boy is fond of a working status quo, even when it seems to need change. Enter Uranus, the ole god of rebellion, change, sudden events, thinking out side the box, thinking when there might be no box at all, just kick the box out. Uranus likes humanitarian causes, the rights of the individual, the strength of new ideas and new ways of doing things.

2021 has three Saturn Square Uranus parenthetically between February and December so look for there to be conflicts and disagreements on the best way to do things or how to view the world and our place and how we live in it. The big deal is covid 19 and the vaccine distribution and the best way to make sure it is done properly. The second problem is how we start to work back to a “normal” way to life. This problem goes deeper that to wear masks, it goes to the heart of what is needed. It includes economics and greater social reform.

There is a lot of financial, environmental and infrastructure issues to be dealt with. There are still lots of people unemployed, behind or can’t pay the rent or mortgages, educations issues when will still be in need of innovation and how to play catch us.
These issues will need to be figured out and do not expect 2021 to be a big bail out. It won’t be 2020 (thank god) but the wrestling match between Uranus and Saturn will continue all year long. Another lurking problem is rebuilding the infrastructure of our nation. Any traveler will know that our roads, air ports, train depot and lots of other ideas like green energy will have to be ironed out.

Where is the hope in all this? Look to Jupiter who will be busy searching ways to blend our problems into an intergraded future. The key is when Jupiter in the spring and early summer slips into Pisces. Pisces is the spiritual work, the world of visions, or imagination. Jupiter will bring back into where it will spend six more months in Aquarius. This is where the progress is starting to play out. Out of this continued blender of problems, Jupiter will be the one with the energy and drive to push the world into a new structure to replace the chaos of the pandemic as well the economic problems that came with it. This is a big-ticket item. The energy of the biggest planet is needed here to show us how to build on the reality that emerges from the Saturn Uranus square. It will be a bumpy ride, but the road will get better with passing time.

The Big Conjunction Will set the Theme for 2021

Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction happens the same day as the the Winter Solstice 2020 and this sets a grand theme. Change and help are on the way. Yet the way will be a bumpy ride. The Solstice is the ingress of the Sun to Capricorn, at zero degrees . Just when Jupiter-Saturn at zero 32 of Aquarius This will mean December 21 2020 will have these two events, the Solstice and conjunction, on THE SAME DAY, which is a giant semisextile, to say the least. The last time this happened was in the year 1226. We are also experiencing a change of elements in this conjunction ( earth-air)which is another event going back in history. Giant cycle shifts are at work.

In 2020 Jupiter Saturn were together in Capricorn conjunct Pluto at various times. This hadn’t happened since 1518, So obviously we are dealing with big cycles here. With this ingress solstice conjunction harbingers back to 1226.So good bye Capricorn conjunction of 2020 Hello to the Airy sign of Aquarius. Lets take a look at what this means. Change, certainly, but how.

Lets call it a paradigm shift. The whole energy field that we are dealing with in the large orb conjunction of the big three planets now become residents in the sign of Uranus, who is hanging out in Taurus. Things will be different and new habits and solutions will have multiple responses.

Aquarius is a sign known for these key words: independent, inventive, individualistic, progressive artistic scientific logical, humane altruistic. However there are some negatives: unpredictable, temperamental, bored by detail, cold, fixed in opinions, sky, eccentric, radical, impersonal, rebellious. So this is quite different from the practical and pragmatic Capricorn.

This is a dance of three in 2021. We have Jupiter and Saturn in Uranus’ home sign, so everything that Jupiter and Saturn do will have an Uranus flavor to it. The key thing to note about this starting of the year begins with Jupiter and Saturn squaring Uranus in Taurus, which means the two fixed signs will be struggling to deal with their stubborn natures. There will be fireworks. Throw Mars into the mix and Mercury as well and what a start to the year, and that is just the introduction

Lets look. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the intellectual air sign, making it full of new ideas, improvising concepts, efforts to solve old problems and new ones as well in innovative ways, then Uranus in Taurus, an earth sign which wed to old ways and change will seem like earthquakes. This is not to say that Uranus in Taurus will resist change, just that it will not be easy. Uranus is having a tough time in Taurus because it wants to innovate in a sign that resists innovation. So the squares will add up to a train wreck of conflicts of timing, ideas, and implementation.

The problems will be many: the economy, the homeless, unemployed, mortgage and rent crisis. And a thing called hunger, or eating challenges (for god’s sake a weird way to say it). PLUS there is the huge problem on the covid vaccine roll out and how that is to be handled in getting the vaccine and the fair way to get it to the people.
Not to mention the political climate which still will be bordering on the unstable and stressful. The two party system will face times of crisis.

Another thing that will be unusual aspect to 2021 is that there will be an abundance of out of bounds planets. Mercury, the moon, Venus and Mars will all go out of bounds this year and sometimes three at a time. This means that there will be more thinking out of the box and this will get loopy at times. 2021 will have rollercoaster feeling. There will be times when the whole nation will be gripped with changes that are difficult, because the solutions needed to aright the ship of state might make some seasick. Buckle ups you cowboys and girls. This won’t be a merry-go-round, or smooth sailing. But it won’t be 2020 thank god and there will be light at the end of the tunnel, new buds on the tree and the red robin will announce the end of a long time of cold weather.

There are a lot of ways to look for an answer to the 64 trillion dollar question. I have looked at this issue from a lot of angles and have decided that I would have to say starting in January 1 2021 is when we can see longer term answers to long term problems. This is not to say that there won’t be some kinds of attempts to reopen society. There most certainly will, but these efforts will be on a hit and miss basis. The greater overview and lasting response will come to be only after Saturn and Jupiter are both in Aquarius. Their conjunction at the 19th of December will mark when all these energies will be in the air sign of innovation for good. Jupiter for approx a year, Saturn for two and a half. These Aquarius energies will give ample time to get some serious work done.

Pluto, for sure will be still in Capricorn and his serious need to hack away at the older out style forms of energy will be one of the issues. What will be the future of oil after it has gone to being worth a negative zero. What will the world think when we have all seen how clean the world became after the pandemic shutdown and the skies were bluer, the air cleaner and the oceans and rivers clearer. I think that there will be a real push to get more environmental issues cleaned up. The question is: will there be the social will to do so. I would like to say yes and I firmly believe some advancement will happen, but the way people suddenly rush to open beaches with no eye to the environment makes one worry. Is there something that can really be done about the traffic, about fossil fuel. How much attention will the Green New Deal actually get??

I suggest that the way to see this is to look to Pluto in Capricorn, Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, and Neptune in Pisces. Pluto is in the problems of Earth, Saturn and Jupiter in the sign of air, analysis and thinking, of innovation, and Neptune is in the water sign of spirit and inspiration. These are the things necessary to approach, think through, and inspire a concept or concepts that will bring honest change, change that will be difficult but a true turning point.

The Green New Deal will have to get more attention. The younger generation needs to step up. They have inherited a lot of serious problems on the planet–not to mention climate change, which must be addressed with some sort of united effort. Will mankind’s devotion to the flight or fight basis of the Lizard brain finally be controlled by the frontal cortex and new thinking overcome old animal territorial issues. For when will we get to the whole true issue in the core foundation of human beings on this planet. As W H Auden put it in his famous poem, 1939. “We must love on another or die.” Not to get New Age mushy, but the truth is the planet is dying, man is destroying it and using it as a war game. Suffering is still what most people get from an abundance which is not shared equally.

Let me say this, 2020 is the year of Shiva, the destroyer. Can 2021 be the year of the Phoenix, rising from the ashes into a new set of wings that will make the human spirit soar.