Mars in Aries square Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn through December 2020.
THE RACE CAR HITS THE WALL:
The transit of Mars in Aries began June 28th and will be in this sign (because it retrogrades) until Jan. 6th 2021. Mars is moving through its “own sign” — highlighting its inherent qualities of youthful enthusiasm, aggressiveness, willingness to fight to compete, military involvements, and sometimes extremely immature selfish behavior. The Pluto/Saturn conjunction in Capricorn points to authority, power, and societies’ governmental infrastructure that includes its science, its laws and its regulations. In short, we will be witnessing the race car hitting the wall – or selfish short-sighted people suffering the consequences of violating the laws of man and nature.
- THE COVID Pandemic (connected to the Pluto/Saturn conjunction in Capricorn opposite the Jan. Lunar Eclipse in Cancer)has, quite simply, lit a fuse, and many people will no longer be able to contain themselves. The Black Lives Matter Movement erupting into national and global demonstrations to change the tides of history is one of the many dimensions of discontent opening up a whole range of economic, political, and psychological injustices and pathological behaviors that have haunted humanity for thousands of years. Now, we are presented with Mars in Aries that retrogrades and stays in the sign through the first week of Jan. 2021. The transit of Uranus in Aries (March 2011 through May 2018) resulted in populist revolutions throughout the world, especially in the Middle East, often replacing old dictators with new dictators. Democracy has taken a “hit” in so many nations and is being replaced with armed governments taking control of “the people.” This includes China shutting down democracy in Hong Kong.
- ALL THIS would lead us to examine what these planetary pictures are presenting to humanity – what Gordian Knots we need to untangle in order to free ourselves from ancient demons with modern consequences.
- CAPRICORN (earth) and ARIES (fire) are at odds with each other during this most volatile time. This would suggest fires breaking out and forests burning. Recently, pictures have been released showing fires breaking out in Northern Siberia near the Arctic Circle where the temperatures have soared beyond anything measured in human history. The melting of the glaciers and permafrost have opened up deposits of oil and coal that have caught fire producing flames that cannot be put out. This is pumping more greenhouse gases into the air, increasing the heat and melt, escalating the whole situation into a spiraling catastrophe. I expect that forest fires may break out in the Western US. There may also be earthquakes and volcanic activity in regions most prone to these events.
- ECONOMIES around the world will be in trouble this month as, after August 9th, Mars will be square Pluto, Jupiter, and Saturn whose disruptions will continue through the end of this year. The COVID pandemic will no longer be neatly separated from Wall Street and financial markets in general. Businesses that were open will have to close again. Governments will try to pump more money into the economy, but the problem will simply be to big to fix. By the end of this year, going into 2021, we will be in a “greater” recession. The Great Recession of 2008 was based on bad real estate loans and banking disasters. This one will be based on the collapse of businesses, large and small, who will no longer be viable after the pandemic and who are in debt up to their eyeballs. Devaluation of currencies due to massive amounts of debt incurred by governments, private capital, and banks will likely balloon. The dollar is in danger of collapse and the US does not have enough gold backing to save it, whereas, China is better positioned being the leader in the world in gold reserves. It will be governments that will have to come up with the money to pay the pharmaceuticals for the vaccines they are developing and the anti-virus medicines they are researching. The best investments for the next several years will be in metals (gold and silver) and real estate (things that are “real.) The US and many other nations will consider converting to a digital currency within the next four years and there will be talk of a “jubilee” or mass debt forgiveness.
- POOR COUNTRIES throughout the world will suffer the most, particularly in Africa, Central and South America, and the Middle East where civil wars are still raging. If there are no outlets for people to express themselves as they generally do in a democracy, there will be mass rebellions and violence. People will want to throw out their present leaders, but few will have any constructive ideas as to who will replace them. In the most recent Aug./Sept. 2020 issue of The Mountain Astrologer, Bill Meridian points to the horoscopes of India and Pakistan and how they connect in crisis mode with the Pluto/Saturn conjunction and the December Solar Eclipse. He thinks this is a powder keg that could go off this year. These nations both have nuclear arsenals.
- I NEED to call our attention in advance to ELECTION DAY, November 3rd – a terrible day to hold an election with Mercury going direct square Saturn. This would suggest we will not know who won, although Trump will likely “declare victory”. Trump is already calling the election, especially mail in ballots a “fraud”. The votes will not be properly counted, and likely held up, disputed, etc. In addition, there will likely be a big hurricane moving up the East Coast at that specific time. The COVID pandemic, the terrible storm, and so many polls not working at all, mail in ballots coming in late – all conspire to possibly involve the Federal Courts to determine the fate of the candidates. We all remember the 2000 Bush/Gore fiasco where the Supreme Court ordered that the Florida recount be stopped and Bush declared the winner. This is similar, and in some ways, worse. I would advise the political operatives get their act together and concentrate on mail- in ballots including absentee ballots, hiring reliable people to oversee the polls, making sure the machinery works, and cleaning up the election system in advance!
- MOVING into 2021, the Saturn in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (June through December 2021) will likely coincide with another outbreak, possibly of a flu virus and more new vaccines will have to be developed and distributed, further taxing our financial and medical systems. This configuration also would suggest threats to the solvency of the dollar (Taurus), as I discussed above. There may be a big invasion or “hack” into the internet and danger to our nation’s electrical matrix. The optimistic side of this is that medical discoveries and breakthroughs will accelerate. The process of developing new drugs and vaccines will move much faster, leading to the medicines getting to the public much sooner. I am targeting Feb. 20th 2021 when Mercury goes direct in Aquarius and effectively moving to vaccinate through the middle of May. We will develop, out of necessity, newer and more effective cyber security systems. There is a high probability, as I said above, of the emergence of a national or international block chain digital currency. We will move closer to nuclear fusion and the perfect battery becoming a reality, as I have discussed in previous newsletters.
- An article on phys.org was posted last month entitled: “CERN experiment reports first evidence for ultra-rare process that could lead to new physics.” This article points out that the Standard Model which describes the fundamental forces and building blocks on the universe does not explain Dark Matter or the origins of matter and anti-matter in the universe. The article goes on to report “experimental evidence for the ultra-rare decay of the charged kaon into a charged pion and 2 neutrinos.” For all of us who are not experts in physics, these discoveries will revolutionize our knowledge of the physical universe and explain what we have been unable to understand about “dark matter” that scientists have said makes up the largest part of the universe.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
I have given a lot of personal thought concerning where I am going and what I am doing or not doing as I participate in this most critical time in human history. As an astrologer and a writer, I cannot “look the other way” and live in some kind of fantasy that all this does not exist; that the virus is a “hoax”, that the economy will easily recover, that climate change is not a reality. I cannot pretend that our current leadership is not exhibiting disturbing behaviors and possibly engaging in criminal activities.
Interestingly, we watched comet Neowise move through our skies last month whose name could be translated as “new wisdom”. In addition, two school girls in India discovered a new asteroid near Mars that will be headed for Earth in about a million years. As an astrologer, I have observed that the discovery of new celestial bodies corresponds to new discoveries and breakthroughs in human societies. The critical realities and events we are experiencing now, if properly faced and examined, could lead us into a new wisdom, without which we are headed down a dark tunnel of destruction. Immersing ourselves in “conspiracy theories” leads to a generalized atmosphere of fear and hate. The recognition that we are all living on Earth together leads to the fact that it is in our mutual interest to engage in a civilized debate, to be willing to work together to create an economy that works for all of us, to feel empathy for our fellow humans and all the miraculous life on this planet.
I am thankful that I can access a spiritual realm – its genius, its light, and its infinite love to guide my thoughts and actions in whatever time I have left in this lifetime. This is what really counts – what creates and sustains a life filled with meaning and purpose – what will help me to leave something of importance for my children and grandchildren long after I have departed from this tumultuous world.
Blessings to all ,
Linda
Important Points of Reference (for Astrologers):
Full Moon at 11 degrees Aquarius on Aug. 3rd square Uranus, New Moon at 26 degrees Leo on Aug. 19th, trine Mars and inconjunct Saturn, Mercury is opposition Saturn on Aug. 3rd, Venus is inconjunct Saturn on August 4th, Mercury is inconjunct Saturn on Aug. 18th, Venus is sextile Uranus on Aug. 18th, Mars is square Pluto August 12th and is square Saturn Aug. 23rd through Aug. 26th, Mars is trine and sextile the Nodes 6th, Venus is opposition Pluto on Aug. 30th.
NOTE:
I would like to recommend a new book by my friend and former publisher, Linda Lane entitled “Laser Lady Meets the Light Junkies”:
As a young woman during the 1970’s, she was a pioneer in the technology of holography, creating her own enterprise introducing holography into film making, and having a roaring good time with the rich, the talented and the famous. This is a truly great read!
