Important Points of Reference (for astrologers):
The Full Moon is at 20 degrees of Aries Oct. 13 and the New Moon is in 4 degrees Scorpio on the 28th; Mercury goes into Scorpio Oct. 2nd, is sextile Saturn on the 14th, is trine Neptune on the 15th, is sextile Pluto on the 19th and goes retrograde on the 31st. Mars goes into Libra Oct. 4th through Nov. 18th, is inconjunct Uranus Oct. 11th, is square Saturn the 27th and is inconjunct Neptune on the 28th. Pluto goes direct at 20 degrees Capricorn Oct 2nd.
Libra – Venus – and the Aquarian Age
Since the Copernican Revolution from the Age of Enlightenment through the Industrial Revolution on to the Digital Internet Revolution, science and technology have unleashed innovations that have made the lives of those fortunate enough economically to have a standard of living undreamed of since humans first walked the earth. We have surveyed outer and inner space from the behavior of subatomic particles to the surface of planets at the edge of the solar system and devised machines to do our work for us on a scale never before imagined. In the process, our civilization has damaged the global climate, poisoned and killed off multiple species of plants and animals, and is bringing human life itself to the edge of extinction.
There are a substantial number of highly intelligent persons who actually think that the robots we are creating may be “superior” to us and may actually, so to speak, “inherit the earth”, or what is left of it. Many of these people are processing their thoughts in a digital world framed by algorithms – a world of “dots” or “sound bytes”. This, along with a philosophy that revers a cold “objectivity” – seeing a universe filled with “separation” of things that are distinguishable from one another and even in competition with one another, i.e. one cannot survive unless one extinguishes the other or, the predator/prey world that sees only “winners and losers”. The logical outgrowth is the production of bigger and bigger buildings, giant wealth engulfing corporations, enormous output of fossil fuels to power more industries, and larger weapons of mass destruction –, because it is okay” to dominate nature and be a “winner” in this cold objective unforgiving universe. This is the Age of Aquarius gone amok indeed!
Along comes Libra:
Libra is an astrological “sign” ruled by the planet Venus who represents the ideal of love, marriage, societal covenants such as the law and justice, and an appreciation of the beauty of the natural world. In short, Venus represents the notion of a “meaning” in everything, a striving for “balance” in nature and human affairs. Libra would forge a connection between and among all things, an investment in one another leading to the notion of “united we stand, divided we fall”. It is capable of seeing patterns and cohesively moving forms within the context of the evolution of life.
The position of Saturn in the birth chart of the U.S. is in the sign of Libra. Hence, our constitution provides for a “separation of powers” a reverence for the rule of law, and equal power for the executive, legislative, and judicial divisions of government.
What Now?
On September 24, 2019 at 5:05 PM EDT in Washington, D.C., Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially announced an “impeachment inquiry” with regard to Pres. Trump’s conversation with the president of the Ukraine in an attempt to “get dirt” on former Vice President Joe Biden’s son doing business in this country, supposedly due to Biden’s influence in the Obama years. Independent agencies say there is no truth to this.
Earlier this year, The Mueller Report pointed to election interference by Russia in an attempt to get Trump elected and probable obstruction of justice by Trump and his allies. However, Mueller pointed out that he had no authority to indict a sitting president. Trump has refused to cooperate in any way, including a mandate to submit his tax returns that were requested by the congress. He has tried to divert funds from essential military installations around the world to build “the wall” between the U.S, and Mexico, subverting the congress who holds the purse strings in government. The Congress recently voted to block this effort. Those surrounding Trump have refused to testify before congress with regard to the Mueller Report and have repeatedly expressed overt contempt for the legislature. Trump, as usual, calls the whole process a “witch hunt” in his tweet storms He has repeatedly lied, “shape shifted” and avoided real confrontations with the truth so many times, the nation has been “numbed down” with respect to anything he says. The transits in Scorpio through the end of this year pose serious conflicts and revelations in Trump’s astrological chart. This nation’s government is not founded on a dictatorship and it is the duty of the legislature to investigate in a checks and balances system. The looming question is: Will justice be done? The chart I constructed on this “announcement” indicates momentum will continue on through July/August of 2020 when the political conventions for the presidential election take place.
The looming question is whether this nation is allowing a wannabe dictator, who subverts the rule of law, to take power, bypassing checks and balances, and, effectively ending any semblance of democracy. The transits in Libra and Scorpio this month will reveal far more than many people are prepared to fully face.
The Economy:
With Libra planets square both Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn this month and a Mercury (communication) transiting Scorpio, going retrograde the 31st of this month and not going direct until November 20th, we are in for a wild and bumpy ride, including major “corrections” in financial markets. Everyone, including the Feds will rush to try to prop the markets up. Interest rates have been heading downward to near zero levels that would remind us of what created the Zombie banks of Japan. The vain hope that China will make a deal with Pres. Trump with respect to tariffs will simply not happen. Most of this stock market bubble consists of the stock buybacks by corporations executed when they got the “billionaires tax cut” instituted by the Republicans in 2017. The reverse yield curve, the massive amounts of government and private debt, and the emergence of the “real economy” all will not play well on Wall Street. Jupiter reaching the end of Sagittarius and entering Capricorn in late November, early December, has coincided with market corrections through the years.
Hold onto your hats!
Science & Technology:
Posted online on “Marker” September 24th, is an article entitled “Tesla May Have Invented a Million-Mile Car Battery”. Crazy genius Elon Musk, in spite of some past illegal maneuverings, has developed technology for vehicles to last 76 years. The article reports: “The carmaker has filed patents for a battery system that could last one million miles, enough for 76 years of driving for the average American motorist.” The article goes on to say: “Leading battery researchers in the United States and Europe, while uncertain about the cost of the Tesla system, say a new academic paper describing the million -mile battery is rigorous and convincing.” There is also an indication that this could all evolve into a future fleet of driverless automated taxis. This development will take a lot of time because it would take a dramatic shift in the entire highway infrastructure throughout the country, eliminating the “mixture” of human operated vehicles with automated ones.
I have written many times on my newsletters and in my books that two of the grandest inventions for the 21st Century will be nuclear fusion and the near “perfect” battery. We are on our way to both becoming a reality.
The “dark side” of the technological genius of the Age of Aquarius is also presenting itself to us at this point in time. An article by Sigal Samuel on vox.com posted August 30, 2019, issues a warning to us framed in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984” published in 1949. The article reports: “Over the past few weeks, Facebook and Elon Musk’s Neuralink have announced that they’re building tech to read your mind – literally. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is funding research on brain-computer interfaced (BCIs)O that can pick up thoughts directly from your neurons and translate them into words. The researchers say they they’ve already built an algorithm that can decode words from brain activity in real time. And Musk’s company has created flexible ‘threads’ tha can be implanted into a brain and could one day allow you to control your smartphone or computer with just your thoughts. Musk wants to start testing in humans by the end of next year.”
How would we kike to have our brains “hacked”? Will we allow this to take place? This, among many other questions about mad science and technology, are ones we should be asking.
Nature and the Environment:
The courageous and compelling leadership and speeches of 16 year old Greta Thunberg at the UN last month is launching a global initiative by young people around the world to reverse corporate backed fossil fuel production, poisoning the environment with plastic and chemicals, and invading natural habitats; all of which is propelling all life on earth toward extinction. Mars in Libra hits squares with Saturn and Pluto between the 20th of October and the 10th of November and will likely bring home to all of us how fierce the hurricanes both in strength and number, are upon us. The global temperature has risen this year to the highest in recorded history.
Pres. Trump has called global climate change “a hoax” in an attempt to support his corporate oligarch friends in the fossil fuel business, and is trying to undo every significant piece of environmental legislation to clean up our water, air, and earth that multiple presidents and parties have put into place. He will fight with state legislatures this month who wish to continue the progress they have made, and all this may even go into the courts. A coalition of 17 states are suing the Trump Administration for its rollback of the Endangered Species Act that would protect imperiled plants and animals.
Other Nations:
Island nations around the world are experiencing more frequent and larger hurricanes and the rising of sea waters Coastal waters are eroding beaches and moving inland. Last month, the Bahamas were all but demolished by a hurricane that reminded us of the one that previously hit Puerto Rico and Houston, Texas. Global climate scientists are appalled by the rapid melting of glaciers at the North Pole and the rising of temperatures there beyond record levels.
Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel: These nations are headed toward a possible military conflict as the U.S. abolishment of the nuclear treaty with Iran, our sanctioning their oil trades and our recent stationing of military forces in the region looks ominous. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu’s party lost their majority last month, weakening his coalition and policies. As I have said in the past, I am afraid we are headed into a war in the region that nobody wants.
Russia and Vladimir Putin: The current and ongoing impeachment process of Pres. Trump with regard to bribing the Pres. Of the Ukraine to get dirt on his possible opponent, Biden, fits right into the Putin playbook. Putin’s directed interference in the 2016 elections to help Trump was intended to exploit racial, religious, and ethnic hatreds and economic insecurities and create chaos as a backlash to the U.S.’s part in breaking up the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 90s. Putin is a Libra with Scorpio rising whose chart is strongly activated this month and through the end of this year.
Final Thoughts:
Life on our beautiful planet is in a struggle for its existence. The planetary pictures tell us that we are experiencing endings and beginnings – an entrance into a new age that could represent either an extinction or propel us into a new birth of something beyond our present understanding of what it means to exist and be alive.
As I look around our nation, I see far too many people nestled in a fogbank of self-absorption – a “denial” of the rising emergencies – a refusal to engage in or commit themselves to the issues of our times. There are those, however, who are passionately engaged either as scientists, inventors, social activists, spiritual leaders, or just simply reaching out with kindness and concern for their friends and neighbors in an attempt to make a difference. There are no unimportant people.
The universe contains within itself all the information and inspiration we need. We only need to open our hearts and minds to receive it. I will testify to this as the wonderful embracing blue light presented itself to me a short while ago when I had reached a low point and was wandering around in the dim and the dark recesses of my soul. This great gift is here for each and every one of us who simply call out for help as eternity opens the door. We need only to walk through together.
