Astrological Gossip: Leo

Posted on August 13, 2023 by ohioastrology

Gemini: Did you all see the cover of the September/October 2023 issue of Archaeology? The top story is When Lions Ruled the World. No surprise this focus on lions came out in August, the month of Leo “the lion.” If he were here, he’d be loving this.

Aries: Are you jealous?

Gemini: Of course not. Twins feature in many creation myths and also make archaeology magazine covers – think the Hero Twins and Romulus and Remus. In the minds of archaeologists, twins are the duality of creation, the sun and the moon.

Pisces: Even though lions are on the cover of the issue that came out in August, archaeologists are as unconscious as any other person. The collective unconscious associates the northern hemisphere heat of August with jungles and deserts, hence, lions.

Libra: Not to argue, but archeologists confuse duality and polarity, so they are not thinking “astrology” Gemini. You’re reading too much into it.

Gemini: Everyone accuses me of over-thinking until the facts reveal themselves. Then they forget I ever mentioned it.

Virgo: I like your perspective Gemini. I just wish it were more practical. Who cares if Leo, I mean lions, were put on the cover of a magazine? It doesn’t change anything. No one will suddenly think “Oh, magazine editors use astrology.”

Scorpio: And politicians. Yes, some of us see beneath the surface and think just that. The asteroid that will fly by the earth in 2029 is named Apophis, not Charles Manson. Like Pisces said, there is mythology deep in our subconscious that responds to mythological names and images.

Taurus: Which issue of Archaeology is this? I put all my magazine subscriptions in the magazine rack until I finish the last issue. I’m a few issues behind because I was building Cancer a house.

Cancer: Thank you Taurus for the house. It’s really nice. Maybe after I settle in, I’ll read this issue everyone is talking about. But first I have a stack of National Geographics to get through.

Taurus: This one shouldn’t have a leaky roof. Yeah, I get National Geographic  too.

Aries: I already finished the issue Gemini is talking about; sounds like I finished first. Let me know when you’re all finished and then we can finish this conversation. I’ve got other things to do. Not everything is about Leo.

Aquarius: Don’t wait for me. I don’t read the conventional “wisdom” of any popular magazine. All you will get is the prevailing knowledge with some pretty pictures.

Sagittarius: Tell me about it! Every time you get a new archaeology magazine, Egypt is on the cover. Egypt sells, that’s for sure, although there hasn’t been anything new in that area for about a hundred years. Build a lion statue and people talk about it for two thousand years.

Taurus: Bull statues make the magazines, but not always the cover.

Aquarius: I’ve been to Egypt. Fascinating vibes.

Sagittarius: Me too! I have four crystal pyramids around my apartment to channel off negative energy.

Taurus: Are you still renting?

Sagittarius. I travel a lot, why have a house?

Capricorn: Sorry to interrupt, but I did a dig in Egypt for my PhD thesis so know all about Egypt. It’s easy to discount the current, academic knowledge of a subject and think it’s all crystals and magic. But what you know about Egypt comes from archaeology and a host of people dusting off artifacts and publishing the results for the last hundred years.

Sagittarius: Ever hear of intuition?

Pisces: And imagination?

Aquarius: And challenging authority?

Capricorn: Facts are facts. Imagination is a subjective, private affair. Aquarius, yes, you challenge authority when you have new facts that add information to historical facts.

Virgo: Agree.

Taurus: Agree.

Pisces: Imagination is what sells magazines and movies and all the stuff that keeps you captivated by your hand-held devices.

Scorpio: Think of the iceberg – you see a little on top, much lies below that will wreck your ocean liner.

Cancer: I agree with Pisces and Scorpio – much emotion is displayed as fact. I mean, who can tell if Tutankhamen loved his mother?

Libra: Let’s not argue; you’re all correct. It’s balance – facts and imagination. What are archaeological magazines but potential stories built from underlying facts? It’s factual and imaginative and interpretative.

[The door opens and Leo enters]

Leo: Hey, did you all see the recent issue of Archaeology magazine? I’m on the cover once again. There’s a section on Leo, I mean lions, in various cultures. Listen to this cool quote from Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud:

I am king, I am lord, I am praiseworthy, I am exalted, I am important, I am magnificent, I am foremost, I am a hero, I am a warrior, I am a lion, and I am virile . . .

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Earth Stories: After the End of the End

Posted on August 6, 2023 by ohioastrology

The story is a classic now – the earth, after the “end of the end,” one of the many times in earth history that humans thought the world would “end.” It’s true, even after the “end of the end,” that some people on the planet still believed in linear time even though there was ample evidence of cyclical time: the changing seasons, the annual holiday celebrations, the daily deaths of millions of people and plants and insects, the daily birth of millions of people and plants and insects, the rising and setting sun and all else natural. Even for those cultures most embracing of cyclical time, the year 2026 was still a metaphysical leap year with a whole new way of looking at life.

As usual, Pluto wants to have the first word about those times and no other planet is willing to suffer the consequences of challenging Pluto.

Pluto: Suffer? I don’t make people suffer. I simply remove all that’s unnecessary from their lives, which is about 95 percent of how they are living. Yes, it feels like force because people hang on to every little thing. But I played nicely in 2026. I was in air-sign Aquarius getting along well with Uranus in air-sign Gemini and Neptune in fire-sign Aries. While I truly appreciate all that earth and water signs do, they aren’t always a lot of fun, as you know from the year 2020 when Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and I were in earth sign Capricorn, Uranus was in earth-sign Taurus and Neptune was in water-sign Pisces.

Neptune: I was much happier in Pisces, the sign I rule, from 2011 – 2025, than I was in 2026 in Aries. Fire signs (and air signs) are always chasing the external – a party, gadgets, fast-moving objects, hair stuff and any new technology. Peace and harmony come from the inside and in 2020 the earth signs helped me force people physically indoors so that they could then go emotionally and spiritually “inside.”

Saturn: Neptune, I helped you in 2020 by contracting Aquarius air energy which forced people to avoid large groups. I assisted again in 2026 by contracting Aries energy. When you were in Aries, people sure did idolize war and self-assertion. If I hadn’t been in Aries, the earth people would have been overrun by gangs. I’m always helping, pushing rocks uphill but no one seems to appreciate it.

Uranus: Sorry, Saturn, but I had just moved to Gemini in 2026 and was finally done with Taurus, which everyone knows is too slow for my tastes. Now Gemini, man, that was fun! I could finally follow my own routines, which aren’t really routines, without hearing that I needed to go to bed early, eat flax for breakfast, spend the day doing boring activity and fall asleep early to repeat the next day. It was a wonderful time to explore, have new experiences, eat different food, and learn a couple new languages.

Saturn: Yes, I remember 2026 and 2027 – the years without rules as I like to think of it. Too much “government” for everyone but where did that lead? Chaos. And lots of languages, some new ones too as though earth needed more languages.

Mars: Is there is fight? Man, I loved early 2026. I rarely get along with Neptune but when Neptune was in Aries we could finally relate. There is a time to get off your ass and fight the man. Neptune “gets” that now, I hope.

Neptune: I rule hope.

Mars: And do you rule the last word?

Jupiter: Alright, let’s agree to disagree. I enjoyed some of 2026. I was first in Cancer and then in Leo. It was more fun in Leo, gotta admit, since I was able to get along with Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto more easily. You all remember how when I was in Cancer there was a “back to the homestead” movement? Didn’t last long, because when the energies are fire and air, movements pass more quickly.

Mars: Yes, we experienced the “homestead” in 2020 and look what it did to people. They came out of their dwellings inebriated, angry and ready to topple the government. So who wanted that again in 2026?

Jupiter: The community meals while I was in Cancer were nice, though. Too bad that had to pass. Leo likes a good dinner party but doesn’t want to stay home a cook.

Pluto: What I liked most about those times in the late 2020s and early 2030s was how we made it to the next level of the Age of Enlightenment that began in the 1700s. In the 18th century, every technology was “new” and adopted. In the 2020s and 2030s there was more awareness of technology serving man rather than man serving technology.

Uranus: That’s because I freed them from constant thoughts of want in Taurus to thoughts of exploration and enjoyment of life, which when you boil it down involves other people. Remember that hoarding of the early 2020s?

Saturn: I remember it, since I remember things in the order they occurred, unlike Uranus and the air signs which remember things in some strange geometric shape I’ll never understand.

Uranus: You’re not supposed to understand non-linear thinking, Saturn. Just continue to do what you do without adding the big martyr complex.

Saturn: Maybe Pluto will take out the electricity again and you’ll see how much fun life is without your precious technology, Uranus.

Pluto: I didn’t take out the electricity for fun; I don’t do things for “fun.” While I was in Aquarius, I simply wanted to provide contrasts of digital group consciousness versus in-person group consciousness. There’s a big difference, we saw, between what people will do and say digitally and what they will do and say in person. And that great love and distressing fear of AI went away with the electricity.

Neptune: I helped with that when I was in Aries. What could be more in-person, in-your-face, direct confrontation than Aries?

Uranus: I’m back from getting an ice cream from the ice cream truck. What did I miss?

Venus (waking): Did someone say there was ice cream? I wrote a poem about ice cream once for a dinner party where I made homemade ice cream in ten flavors from ten different cultures.

Uranus: What’s a “culture?”

Mercury: Cultures were loosely aligned with countries and were group behaviors associated with geography and proximity, in most cases, but not all. Today cultures are based on aligned beliefs, so it’s difficult to imagine a time when mountains and rivers defined culture.

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Earth Stories: The End of the End

Posted on July 29, 2023 by ohioastrology

The year was 2020, the month January. New stories were circling the globe that there was a deadly, virulent illness spreading. Its symptoms were flu-like but much more dangerous with people finding themselves in the hospital on ventilators, many dying, and quickly. News spread that this illness came from the Asian section of the earth and that authorities there knew about it but did not want the population to know, to be scared, to respond with panic. Like the illness itself, the reactions increased, and governments enacted restrictions to limit the spread of the disease.

Tonight we’ll hear directly from the planets themselves about those dark and trying days.

Pluto: Well, I was still in Capricorn if you remember, although I’ve noticed memory is what was most affected by this illness. I came to Capricorn in 2007 and I thought I made it clear by creating a global financial crisis right away that I meant business. Your Capricorn structures were no longer effective. I’d like to be gentler, but that doesn’t seem to work, especially because Saturn seems to like all structures. You have to destroy them to get Saturn to change.

Saturn: I resent being made the “heavy,” here. Pluto, I joined you in Capricorn for a couple years. I know how humans are – change things too quickly and they freak out. I was just trying to slow the pace, let them believe for a little while that things would go back to “normal.” I left you alone in March 2020 when I went to Aquarius to show people how to connect socially without leaving home.

Jupiter: You showed people how to connect socially, Saturn? Speaking of short memories, I was joining you and Pluto in Capricorn for a year. I was the one who helped people from having Saturn pessimism and depression due to isolation and brought creative responses. You and Pluto are like cops to the house party.

Saturn: I’m always called the “cop” and “the task master” and “maker of rules” like that’s a bad thing. Yes, there are bad cops. But remember when the electricity goes out what it’s like driving without traffic lights. That’s what life would be like without me.

Mars: Is there a fight going on? I love a good fight, although it sounds like the same fight I hear from Saturn and Pluto all the time, doesn’t matter what sign – Pluto wants to rip everything apart and Saturn wants everything to be “normal.” I was visiting Sagittarius in January 2020 but didn’t stay long – I only visit a sign for about a couple months. But at least with Sagittarius there’s some talk about foreign places as Sagittarius loves to travel, loves the different experience. But I was forced into Capricorn in February. Next time you spend a month in a sign with Saturn and Pluto, let me know if you don’t come out angry and ready to spin wheelies in the middle of suburban streets.

Mercury: Hey, what’s everyone talking about? Oh, January 2020. Yes, I was visiting Capricorn and stuck in the middle of Pluto and Saturn as well. Pluto insisted I tell the world “We’re changed forever!” although I knew the world would get distracted soon enough. I shouldn’t admit it, but I get a lot of amusement out of earth people who one minute are in dire fear of dying and the next totally absorbed in some silly sitcom.

Saturn and Mars at the same time: Admit it, Mercury! You create it! You’re always laying crumbs in different directions; no wonder humans can’t even change a lightbulb together let alone solve global problems.

Venus: Am I allowed to contribute? Sometimes I wish I could go to a different solar system, somewhere where the planets know how to relax. We’re on this beautiful planet with blue skies, green grass, golden deserts, snow-peaked mountains, glowing birds, lush forests, glistening snow,

Mars: Are you done yet, Venus? We don’t have all day.

Venus: We do have all day, actually. My point is if we’d relax and enjoy the earth maybe Pluto would chill out and leave us alone. I was in Aquarius and Pisces in January 2020. I like Pisces because it’s soothing and compassionate. If you weren’t around, Mars, we could have comforted each other instead of fighting.

Mars: I didn’t start a fight.

Neptune: Let’s not fight. I thought traveling through Pisces would help us see that we are all one, you hurt others, you hurt yourselves. You destroy the planet, you destroy yourselves. I put a spotlight on Mr. Rogers because he is the voice of Neptune and Pisces.

Mars: Neptune, what the heck are you talking about? No one ever understands you.

Neptune: Yes, I feel ignored or misunderstood most of the time. Venus, you’ll understand. Earth people are actually more peaceful than they appear but Mercury lets Mars dominate the news.

Mercury: I just tell it like it is. But what “is” changes every minute of every day.

Saturn: Neptune, you’re ignored because you’re not the real world. In this world we had illness so when I moved to Aquarius in March 2020 (I just moved to Pisces in January 2023) I helped keep the world at home, separated and safe.

Neptune: Don’t I know it! I’m ignored yet when there’s discomfort, call Neptune! By the time people call me, they are ready to escape into media and substances. If they called earlier, I could offer more long-term solutions for peace and harmony.

Saturn, you may think separate is safe but earth beings are wired to be connected emotionally. If you cut that off, I have no choice but to provide the experience through media images and heightened sensation through substances.

Jupiter: I can help with that, Neptune. I can expand that and make it bigger and better.

Uranus: Hey, are you all having a conversation? I heard Saturn say something about moving to Aquarius. Yeah, I remember that because I was side swiped. I was in the middle of helping people understand their bodies and global supply chains, and how consumerism affects the earth. Then suddenly everyone is ripping products off store shelves in mad panic and act like all that plastic suddenly cleaned itself from the oceans.

Mercury: Your problem, Uranus, is that you’re not consistent. One minute it’s toilet paper, the next peanut butter.

Uranus: It’s all related if you’d let me explain. I have a chart – where did I put it? – of the global supply chain, all the inputs and outputs, how one small change affects the whole and how quantum physics affects it from the perspective of perception and manifestation.

Mercury: Uranus, you’re worse than Neptune. No one understands either of you.

Uranus: You will when you go to the store this week.

Mercury: Even if you each had your own way, you’d just move to new signs and then repeat the cycle over and over. It never ends.  

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American Elements

Posted on June 11, 2023 by ohioastrology

While sitting on my deck the other night gazing at stars, I noticed a sprinkle coming from the clear sky. Could it be rain?

Rain it was not. I was being “watered” by the neighbor hosing her garden. Maybe I will grow!

The sprinkle reminded me that I intended to write about the elements – their astrological and natural state and how American consumer culture has transformed our relation to the elements.

Natural State

Western astrology is based on four elements and three “modes” which make up the 12 signs of the zodiac. The four elements are: fire, earth, air, and water.

Fire, earth, air, and water – the stuff of life.

Each element has three modes – cardinal (initiating), fixed (sustaining) and mutable (changing).

The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC is focused not on the history of Native American decimation but on living Native Americans and their respect for the earth upon which we live. Native Americans continue their efforts to encourage living in harmony with the elements. The museum is about the past only in the sense that our culture has lost our sensory connection to earth due to the focus on mind distractions and constant indoor living.

Our Tech Gods are busy looking for ways to mimic the natural world including producing meat that doesn’t come from living entities. As Joseph Campbell pointed out, life feeds on life so how will the body respond to feeding on matter that was never alive?

We’ll see.

The scariest disconnection from environment is research into the dimming of the sun’s rays. It’s like we’re a person in the throes of an addiction where we want to try everything to fix ourselves except removing the addiction.

But back to astrology.

American Elements

The American economic system is based on consumerism which is why no vote-loving politician will touch the root cause of our earth/climate issues. We Americans are trapped in a system of our own making and both our livelihoods and retirements depend upon it continuing.

The four elements of American culture are not the basic fire, earth, air and water of the Native American experience. The transformation appears to me like this:

Fire – astrological fire represents the spirit, enthusiasm, self-assertion, and self-expression. Sitting in front of screens all day doesn’t feed the spirit so our replacement is sports. Sports are how we manifest our urge to live in the spirit, to rise to challenges, and to fight enemies. Ancient cultures such as Mayan and Byzantine also had strong focus on sports. As Neptune moves into fire-sign Aries in a couple years, I expect the current vigilantism and violent group activity to increase but will certainly be balanced by the “peaceful warrior” or “spiritual warrior” types. But I also expect lots of confusion about which is which. As I see another explosion on the news, I’ll add “more explosions.”

Earth – astrological earth represents the body, stability, adjusting in the third dimension including following rules, focus on diet and work and traditional ideas of “success.” The Puritan work ethic that keeps Americans busy fosters earth energy and accumulation of goods including large living dwellings. Houses seem to best represent this element. Shelter, of course, is critical for survival on earth yet American homes are some of the biggest in the world, with space for many more than the occupants in living in it. While outdoor living degrades, indoor living continues to improve.

Air – astrological air represents communication, society, interaction, thinking and new experience. Air also moves quickly. Cars seem to best represent our relation to air although fire is also involved with the sense of spirit and power that a car provides. Cars provide identity as well – identity is a strong focus of air signs. Visiting friends and family, shopping and traveling are all made much easier with cars! Victorian-era novels can remind us that socializing was a much slower affair before cars. And bringing home lots of stuff from the store was more difficult as well.

Water – astrological water represents emotional connection (versus air social connection) so is the emotional and imaginative life, inner life, and escapism because one needs to feel unhappy in order to want to escape (air rationalizes away unhappiness; earth ignores it; and fire tries to overcome it). Water also likes everything liquid including stimulants such as coffee and tea and intoxicants such as alcohol. Food and beverage seem to best represent our relationship to water. Notice how much of a convenience store is dedicated to beverages. Food is both earth and water but I’ve assigned it water here because of the American dysfunction with food – it’s rare to see simple enjoyment of food without guilt reactions of some sort. Food is emotional.

Dimming the sun?

Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten supposedly moved to “monotheism” from “polytheism.” Personally, I believe Akhenaten wasn’t promoting traditional religion of either sort but moving his people toward the source of our energy – the sun – and away from distracting ritual.

Astrology teaches about cycles, polarity and most importantly balance.

Altering the fire element will create imbalance in the other elements (air currents, rain cycles, growing cycles). But I’m guessing that someone out there wants to create a program that aligns the four elements and earn lots of earth energy in the process.

It will be interesting to see who owns the sun dimmer machine.

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Pluto to Earth – I’m leaving Capricorn but taking your financial system with me!

Posted on March 18, 2023 by ohioastrology

Have you ever had a family member, friend or guest who had the compulsion when visiting your home to take something of yours with them when they left? They look around at your stuff, open the fridge, take a can of soda for the ten-minute ride home. You would offer it anyway, if they asked, but you wonder why they had to take your nail clippers when they are a small-ticket item found anywhere.

The astrological Pluto is a bit like that person, although rather than taking your nail clippers he would bend them into a new shape. Pluto must transform what it touches, taking it to the next level. Not only would the nail clippers be unrecognizable shapes of steel, Pluto might also have ripped out the vanity and mirror to get to the nail clippers.

Pluto is like this.

Pluto has been in Capricorn, in my house as it were, and is ready to move to Aquarius. This will happen in just a few days.

Pluto’s eyes were scanning my house, planning, looking for something. Knowing that Pluto is very strong, compulsive, and intense, I confronted him straight on. With Pluto, only total honesty will be effective as he will see through all, and I mean all, facades.

“Pluto,” I said, “is there anything you’d like to take with you as a remembrance?” I was trying to play it light and amiable.

“I want your financial system,” he replied.

“It’s kind of heavy,” I said to dissuade him. “You have a long trip home,” maybe you’d like something lighter like Facebook or Twitter?”

Staring at me with dark, Plutonian eyes, he replied, “I really wanted your healthcare system, but it’s way too heavy for my luggage. The financial system will do. And your nail clippers.”

Pluto in Capricorn

Pluto entered Capricorn in January 2008, the beginning of a global financial crisis. As Pluto leaves Capricorn, we’re back where we started – bank failures.

Pluto forces, it doesn’t ask. When we are intimate with others, we allow them to cross our physical, emotional, and mental boundaries. When we aren’t intimate, those similar activities can be crimes.

In 2008, Pluto forced a reckoning on a financial system that was not sustainable. In response, governments across the world plugged the sinking ship. The disliked, corrupt, and self-protective government made sure entire populations in developed countries weren’t standing in bread lines. A system “too big to fail,” is in effect a national system.

More recently, in 2020, when Jupiter, Saturn and Mars joined Pluto in Capricorn, government all but took over the globe. In the US, folks were told they could not work and waited for a check from the government – even those who are not socialists . . .

Capricorn transformation wasn’t less government, but more solid government as solution to problems that have become too large and complex for groups of individuals. And individuals are encouraged to fight which lessens the ability to tackle large problems.

Pluto is leaving Capricorn but only temporarily. Pluto will enter Aquarius on March 23 but will go retrograde (apparent backward motion) in May and be back in Capricorn in September. Pluto won’t return to Aquarius until January 2024.

That means we’ll feel comfortable that Pluto’s lessons on global infrastructure (banking and everything else such as government, healthcare, etc.) are over. We’ll have a summer of new energy until the fall when Pluto will probably remind us, again, that we haven’t pulled out the roots of the problem.

Pluto in Aquarius

Aquarius is group ideals, collective identity, idealism, brother/sister hood and futuristic and technological thinking.

When Uranus and Neptune went through Aquarius in the 1990s-2000s much technology was developed and loved, leading to collective use which then created new standards of business and social interaction.

Uranus brings the ideas, the inspirations. Neptune brings idealization and glamorization – the developers of technology are our new heroes and many a young person dreams of creating the next new tech that will change the world, or at least their corner of it.

Saturn entered Aquarius in March 2020 and almost at the point of the transit the globe went on a collective “lockdown” forcing people to stay away from each other. Saturn which contracts certainly contracted all things Aquarian. But at the same time, it forced dependency on technology for any interaction.

Now comes Pluto.

When Pluto is done taking the Earth’s financial system to the outer bounds of the solar system, what will he do when he comes back? What will he take?

In the early days of Internet and technology, a door was opened into a wider world. Today that door is used much differently, as a portal in rather than a view out. Our almost constant use of technology has fed information about what we want to see when we look out the door so now that is all that we will see, a reflection of our minds.

Maybe that’s what looking out has always been. Possibly this is Pluto’s lesson.

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Pluto in Aquarius: The Right to Assembly – But Where?

Posted on February 18, 2023 by ohioastrology

My local Starbucks was closed for maintenance for a couple days and returning I noticed that an area of seating had been removed.

This is no surprise – little by little the “neighborhood gathering place” has been evolving into a drive-thru focus with seating areas unavailable or reduced. And should you choose to gather at Starbucks, the loud music will drive you off. Understanding the profit motive, it’s reasonable. The pandemic lockdown taught a lot of businesses that they could make the same (or more maybe?) amount of money without the expense of too much physical infrastructure.

Paul Kingsnorth amongst others has written about the removal of public space. The local newspaper produced for the homeless community to sell often talks about how public spaces are blocked or made inconvenient for the homeless (such as benches with arm handles to block anyone lying down).

Starbucks isn’t public but like the old-fashioned café or coffee shop is a place to meet and sit for long periods with others to share conversation.

If both private “gathering places” and public spaces are eradicated, where do folks meet?

Pluto in Aquarius

Pluto will soon move from Capricorn to Aquarius, its first ingress. As Pluto is far away from us, it will appear to move back into Capricorn for a while (retrograde) before staying in Aquarius for the next couple decades.

The 1960s song “The Age of Aquarius” by the 5th Dimension promised peace, love and brotherhood with Aquarius. Brotherhood, yes, as Aquarius is known for this because it’s a relationship based on personal values, not the values one is born into.

Love? That’s more a Piscean trait, the Age before Aquarius and the one that brought us the religions we practice today which focus on love and compassion.

Peace? Peace is an agreement, a cooperation amongst individuals. Aquarius strives for that when it’s not rebelling against the crowd, against conformity. Peace is possible but Aquarius, like the fraternity or sorority based on its principles, may not be accommodating of those not sharing the ideals.

Aquarius is an air sign, not a water sign although it is represented by the water bearer. The water bearer is intuition – bringing the knowledge of the spirit into the third-dimensional experience. Aquarius is also known as the sign of genius because its intuitive insights can be “ahead of the times.”

The “isms” of the 20th century were Aquarian in nature. Did they work?

The “isms” seem to begin Aquarian pure which is why the average person trying to make it through life offers support. They fail because the old Capricorn nature of reality – hierarchy and control – ultimately prevails spoiling the energy.

Right to Assembly

The transits of Uranus and Neptune through Aquarius in the 1990s and early 2000s brought us technology. The pandemic lockdowns changed technology from an aid to interaction to a standard of interaction. If I were a conspiracy theorist, and I swear I’m not, I’d even wonder if it was a test of keeping people separated.

While technology can greatly aid in connecting people for both positive and negative purposes, there is always an invited guest – the technology itself which is owned by others and can be hacked by others.

The United State constitution protects the right of assembly. But what if there is nowhere to assemble? What if we can only assemble digitally?

Physical assembly or digital assembly can both be infiltrated yet digital experiences are not just more prone to manipulation, it sometimes seems that is their entire purpose. In the 1957 movie A Face in the Crowd we see a man learn the power of radio and television to manipulate others, laughing as a community of people take his advice to harass a local politician. And the movie includes the journalist who sees what’s occurring but has no power to influence.

That movie represents most of what occurs today. The voices who are sincerely trying to provide information are being drowned through digital distraction and manipulation.

The Screen or the Assembly?

Uranus and Neptune transiting Aquarius in the 1990s and 2000s brought us hand-held screens. Prior, we had a screen in the living room (and maybe bedroom and some other rooms) and could go to the “big screen.” Now we are all engaged with screens all the time.

On the other side of the screen are folks who want us to believe or buy things so they will constantly try to get messages across these screens. The best way to do this is understand exactly what we want to see and show us only that.

More and more, then, the screen reflects our own thoughts – the inside of our heads is now visible to others – and to us! Observing what’s occurring, it appears there is a lot we don’t say to each other.

As Pluto transits Aquarius, we may see more desire to assemble, or re-assemble, to experience the energy-generating experience of meeting with others in corporeal form. What happens in our heads – and on-screen – changes during the actual, physical interaction with others.

The astrologer and analyst in me is fascinated to see what comes next as other parts of me miss the people who no longer want to come out and play.

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Saturn in Pisces – Dry January and Beyond

Posted on February 4, 2023 by ohioastrology

Upon being invited to a “wine tasting” at the beginning of Uranus in Pisces in the early 2000s, I expected the California Sonoma County experience – small portions of wine – white then red – spittoons, and sommelier small talk.

While waiting in line at the event for one of my three reds (having finished the two half-full glasses of white), I fully understood that wine “tasting” in this town meant wine “drinking.”

People drinking isn’t new. In a town with love of college sports, people gathering at sports bars to watch a game and have a few isn’t new. College kids drinking isn’t new.

What was new was the added cultural gloss on a very common activity. We weren’t drinkers, we were discerning “tasters.” The cultural uplift of wine “tasting” was followed by the cultural uplift of “craft” alcohol. If I wake in the morning and drink whisky, you might think I have a problem. If I wake in the morning to go on a whisky “tour,” then it’s cultural and cool.

Uranus was in Pisces from 2003 – 2010. Then as Uranus left Pisces, Neptune entered Pisces and is there still but will change in a couple years (to Aries).

And now Saturn will move into Pisces in March 2023. Since 2003 we’ve had learned much about Pisces – awareness (Uranus), glamorization (Neptune) and now contraction (Saturn).

What does Pisces represent?

Pisces

Isabel Hickey was a uniquely insightful astrologer. To understand three social/outer planets travelling back-to-back in this sign, her unique view is needed. Pisces is the mutable water sign and last sign of the zodiac.

Snippets from Astrology: A Cosmic Science, Pisces:

  • is the last sign of the zodiac and the inner self is preparing to retreat from the world
  • is the most sensitive sign of the zodiac and emotions are strong and deep
  • is represented by the glyph of the two fish tied together: one fish swims downstream representing the personality; the other fish swims upstream representing the soul – either the soul captures the personality and it becomes the servant or the soul is bound and made captive by the personality
  • is moody and introspective and hard to understand
  • needs to be alone and retreat from the world to retain equilibrium
  • is the prey of obsessing entities from the lower psychic levels due to psychic sensitivity
  • can be self-indulgent and wallow in the senses
  • has great musical ability

Most importantly:

  • the world is not their habitat and the need to escape from it is very great
  • when Pisceans are connected to the inner source of their Being, they are capable of great achievements
  • when not connected to the inner source of their Being, the way of escape is often through alcohol and drugs
  • the only true freedom comes from spiritual orientation

March of the Planets

Much of Pisces energy isn’t seen from the outside. Uranus in Pisces brought spiritual awareness and “mindfulness” is now a colloquial term. Inner growth isn’t always visible although the tools of spiritual growth may produce revenue – learning materials, meditation mats, health products, and books.

The negative side of Pisces is much more evident. As Hickey notes, drugs and alcohol are the most common forms of escapism. As a water sign, Pisces prefers alcohol. The Digital Life didn’t exist in Hickey’s day; had it she might have added excessive media to the list.

Uranus didn’t make us aware of wine and beer; it made us aware of the wide range of varieties that exist. It made us aware that we could change the branding of how we drink to make excess more acceptable, as certain segments had done for quite a while. For the producers, it gave awareness of ways to expand the market. According to this A Gallup poll from 2013 shows the shift from beer to wine and liquor.

Bring on Neptune which idealizes and glamorizes. This was the rise of the opioid epidemic, a repeat of the previous Neptune in Pisces transit when we had Opium Wars. At the end of this Neptune-in-Pisces transit we’re exploring the use of psychedelics! Tell the children of the 1960s! (The moral of the story here is our Pluto in Capricorn transit – if it comes from a corporation, it’s good! If it comes from your neighbor down the street, it’s bad).

Not surprisingly, transits of Uranus and Neptune caused much indulgence of alcohol. It’s now sold in delightful little bottles right by the grocery checkout (“Baby bottles of booze” Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert). Those little bottles are difficult to resist.

Now comes Saturn in Pisces – the brakes.

Dry January and Beyond

Hearing about Dry January, I was reminded that Saturn in Pisces was around the corner. January is the sign of Capricorn, ruled by Saturn. Good preparation for the upcoming transit. Saturn will move into Pisces a bit before St. Patrick’s Day which in the United States is a drinking holiday.

Hickey calls Saturn the “tester”:

Saturn’s goal is perfection. Through the chastening process of testing, sorrow, delay, disappointment, limitation and privation, man learns the purpose of life is not pleasure but to gain experience, patience, humility, wisdom and compassion.

Hickey adds a chart of qualities basic, positive, and negative. Dry January is represented by:

Basic: restraint

Positive: self-discipline

Negative: suppression

Limiting alcohol can provide health benefits. When we “suppress” as with Prohibition, it doesn’t solve the root problem and creates more problems (crime, dangerous manufacture). Restraint and self-discipline are the positive qualities where we may drink but understand where we cross a line and are fooling ourselves with cultural gloss.

But how does spiritual restraint work?

Spiritual bypassing is a term used to describe spirituality as a means of avoidance or escape from the pressing problems one doesn’t want to or know how to solve. In a way, the entire earth seems to be doing this by refusing to acknowledge we aren’t treating our home well.

For those on spiritual paths, there is a bunch of Saturn to encounter before true growth begins. “Be here, now” is something heard in the Buddhist tradition. Here and now means addressing what is occurring here and now, not rationalizing it away.

Remembering I had Liz Greene’s Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, I checked out her take on Saturn in Pisces. One sentence I had underlined I’ll share here as it’s to me the ultimate of Saturn responsibility:

There is nothing we hate so much as accepting responsibility for our actions and our fate, although man wants so desperately to believe that he is free.

We hear today that Exxon Mobil knew about the effects of oil use climate change back in the 1980s. We’d like to blame Exxon but I believe we all knew, we just accepted the lie. This same pattern repeats endlessly – argue away the issue today and later when it’s understood to be true, it’s too late to do anything and it’s unclear who is responsible.

A corporate executive I knew once said, “when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible” which is where we find ourselves today.

Drier Times

By the end of Saturn in Pisces (2.5 years), I’ll expect some drier climate conditions. As Saturn leaves Pisces for Aries a couple years from now, Neptune will also be moving to Aries. Water changes to fire. The next 2.5 years are the bridge.

Water issues are another area of everyone responsible-no one responsible. We are running out of fresh water on earth for many reasons and so many of the earth’s inhabitants do not have fresh drinking water. Blue Gold is the book you’ll want to read to catch up on that.

In early 2020 as Saturn entered Aquarius, the world went on physical lockdown. Our digital growth allowed non-physical interactions to replace physical interaction. I believe there’s an emotional cost to humans not being allowed to interact were this to be a new social model. At my age, I don’t believe that digital and physical are equivalent as humans are energy-generating beings and seeing them on screen only will create dangerous emotional separations.

Pisces rules the feet so we may see – in our plethora of new diseases – focus on foot ailments.

I’ll end with some Liz Greene and what may be the core of future challenges which Saturn in Pisces will reveal as the bridge to fire and air energies arising.

Greene covers Saturn in Pisces and the 12th house of the horoscope, the house ruled by Pisces:

The twelfth house, as the last in the circle and lying hidden behind the Ascendant or outward behaviour, symbolizes both endings and beginnings. It is the end because it represents the sacrifice which must ultimately be made of the conscious personality as a separation unit. From a more abstruse point of view it represents the beginning because it refers to those causes from the past, which, operating from birth and below the level of consciousness, draw us to those situations which require that we lose ourselves and die to be reborn into group consciousness.

While I would challenge “group consciousness” as the place of rebirth, I do wonder if this is apropos here because we are moving into air and fire consciousness in the next couple decades. Pluto in Aquarius (also coming soon) is evolution of group consciousness.

Our lockdown of 2020 may have been a social test on how to control great numbers of people in the most effective way. Emotional separation combined with distractions seems to be the model at this time.

Saturn in Pisces will demonstrate the effects of this model and whether emotional connection can ever be truly replaced with digital stimulation.

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United States’ Pluto Return – Thinner and Angrier

Posted on January 16, 2023 by ohioastrology

Immediately upon entering the house after eating at a restaurant, my cat asked me if I had any leftovers for her.

“Leftovers!” I proclaimed. “You are thinking about the United States before its Pluto return. It took me 15 minutes of ‘Where’s Waldo’ to find the cranberries and pecans in my Cranberry and Pecan salad. Later I realized that the bacon bits were absent. And you want leftovers!”

“Why did America get rid of leftovers during the Pluto return?” asked my ever-inquisitive, astrologically-minded, and politically-astute feline.

The explanation, of course, was not brief. I had to explain our culture of abundance and how from the Reagan Administration greed has been sanctified as a business model which precipitated the subsequent excesses and crashes we experienced in the 1990s and 2000s. No one is “greedy” anymore; we are merely looking for a return on investment.

Around this time of the Reagan Administration, I explained, is when Americans became heavy (I showed my cat pictures from the 1960s and 1970s to show her that people were naturally thin). I went on to explain corn subsidies and the rise of the highly-addictive high-fructose corn syrup and the increased portion sizes. It’s human (and feline) nature to eat more of tasty stuff if provided, as my feline knows very well.

As most Americans are trying to lose some weight, the smaller portions are probably not a bad thing, I said, and simply a return to pre-greed normal portion sizes. And many are aware now of the addictive substances included in processed food. The price, in contrast, continues to increase. And it would be nice, of course, to have cranberries in the Cranberry Salad.

My feline listened intently, as she always does, then asked:

“When the Pluto return is over,” asked my feline, “will there be leftovers again?”

“In March Pluto will move into Aquarius. But I don’t think that will bring leftovers. It may bring technology that tells us when we are hungry, the exact amount of food we should eat and when we should expect to relieve our bodies of the waste. We may even forget how to get hungry and allow technology to remind us.”

After seeing the shock in my feline’s eyes from my dystopian science-fiction novel statement, I reassured her that I would always provide two meals a day, Pluto return or no Pluto return.

Pluto in Capricorn

As I began this blog in 2010, Pluto was at the beginning of its 20-year trek through Capricorn which represents evolution of our social consciousness, societal structures, rules, laws, discipline, and boundaries. The transit began in late 2007 with the collapse of the housing market and world financial meltdown. It’s fascinating to watch how close we can come to global infrastructure collapse yet rebound and forget due to government intervention. Yet at the same time there is a great dislike of government. Most of what governments do to prevent global collapse is esoteric and given empty monikers to further obfuscate (“quantitative easing”).

Near the end of this transit 2020 – which was near the United States’ Pluto return at 27 degrees of Capricorn – most of the governments of the world did the same thing at the same time – physical lockdown due to a global illness.

This Pluto-in-Capricorn transit has brought anger and outrage as government and large corporate power (more and more the same thing) have increased and personal power has decreased. Technology like other inventions throughout history is weaponized by governments and used for control. The historical themes have not changed, just the methods with which they can be executed.

The United States’ Pluto Return

What does it mean to have a Pluto return?

Individuals will never have a Pluto return (except Moses) due to the length of the revolution around the sun which is 246(ish) years. Countries have Pluto returns but they are difficult to identify as countries evolve and borders change. It’s difficult then to determine the country’s “birth.”

The United States is easier to track due to its youth and expansionist nature – it has expanded borders but has not lost territory (I don’t think). And its “birth” – the one I use – is the symbolic July 4, 1776, although the nuts and bolts of nationhood were not established in a day. The symbolic identity is more relevant to me personally than actual document signature dates because it is the myth we are taught and believe.

Natal Pluto in Capricorn means our evolutionary lessons are about social structure, authority, control, and boundaries. In the 1990s there was discussion about whether the United States military should be the “cops” of the world. That’s Capricorn trying to be the big boss. The United States has military bases across the globe for this reason.

While politics (and Pluto) is in the eye of the beholder, I believe my nation’s Pluto return represents a great loss of global power and control. In the first round of Pluto we had great cultural (Disney), political (force) and monetary (dollar) control. That is changing and since most don’t live an entire Pluto return, I don’t think it can be understood at a personal level. That’s what astrology can help with.

Empires rise and fall. Other empires on the globe have risen in mass culture, wealth, and political control. The United States will not be able to be the World Cop anymore. Some countries even invade other countries just to prove this point.

A nation divided is weak and it’s my personal belief our sports-minded split of two parties with winners and losers is a calculated method to keep the masses from organizing against the minority of plutocrats (yes, Pluto in the name!). Some countries use direct, open control. Some use more subtle methods like this one.

Pluto in Aquarius – the sign of fraternity, liberty and equality if I may steal the French Revolution slogan – may change that. And the plutocracy will fight back as it always will. It should be an interesting 20 years of transit for the United States and the other countries of the earth.

United States’ Pluto Return – Thinner and Angrier

We astrologers love trying to predict the future. We’re so much like economists you might call us cousins. Astrologers like economists come in the usual two flavors: optimistic and pessimistic. Life tends to move along in neither absolute direction which makes both astrologers and economists inaccurate in many predictions which lends to some mistrust of the two arts.

When I heard predictions of another civil war in the United States I laughed. Really? Miss our entertainment to take up arms against people from other states? And we are not physically fit for this either. Although as our portion sizes decrease, that may improve.

There is a war, a Pluto-in-Aquarius war of airwaves, information and ultimately mind. Our enemy’s greatest desire is that we carry their thoughts. These types of thought wars began in the early 20th century with wars based on ideologies, not simply wars to acquire land to become physically richer or more secure. These ideological wars started with idealistic aims of equality and reduction of poverty – and definitely provided that over time – but at the expense of high levels of control.

Technology has made thought wars more sophisticated and insidious because we willingly engage through what appears to be innocuous entertainment. Each technology device is a portal into your mind generating emotional responses. Marketing will tell you that negative responses such as anger are more effective in generating response and, of course, return on investment.

Like many historians, I would argue that the ideals of the United States were never fully achieved but are ideals for which we constantly strive. Ideals are in the realm of Aquarius so this Pluto-in-Aquarius transit is an evolutionary cycle to rise higher in that goal.

Independence has been sold to Americans as something personal and individual which encourages both separation and alienation. But independence is a collective goal of cooperation and agreement as hopefully Aquarius will teach us. We can choose cooperation or we can choose to have others control us to force it. We can actively participate or we can react with useless, unproductive anger.

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Prince Harry in Love

Posted on January 13, 2023 by ohioastrology

While most are enamored of technology, I’m really very happy that much of what we have today was not available in my youth. The big downside, of course, is that I had to comb through library catalog cards rather than ordering library materials online.

You know the feeling.

The major upside of lack of technology in the great balance of life is that I did not have some of my youthful embarrassing moments carried all over the social media. Years ago, while watching an adult Facebook friend post a romantic breakup on the site, I was a bit embarrassed. I wonder what the Facebook feed of a 20-year-old looks like.

In the sadder portion of the social media universe, I read about young children who are bullied at school and then experience bullying on social media. It’s 24/7 bullying and quite upsetting when children take drastic measures to escape it.

Social media allows us to bully but also to shout, write on topics no one cares about (astrology) and express all kinds of thoughts that normally would be confined to the dinner table. Or, even better, never discussed at all at dinner because of its unimportance without social media fuel to keep it aflame.

So it’s not a surprise that Prince Harry of England would embark on a media campaign of personal revelation after keeping feelings and experiences intensely private for so many years. While I haven’t read his autobiography Spare, I’ve enjoyed excerpts, his interview on 60 Minutes and several book reviews. It’s gossip heaven.

Dish on his brother, father, sister-in-law and step mother are all on tap. What I haven’t heard yet, at all, is any criticism of the wife. That’s cause Harry is in love and the wife is so different from his previous life. What Harry might want to consider in the 4EVER world of social media is that marriages over time can become, how shall we say it, less exciting than at the beginning.

The Critical Prince Harry

Virgo, the sign of Harry’s sun and Mercury is an earth sign and the most critical sign of the zodiac known for discrimination, mental ability, with focus on work, routines, habits and diets. It’s generally a picky eater with lots of allergies and tendency to nervous dissipation from excessive thinking and worry.

Moon in Taurus is also earth but much more relaxed. It’s generally slower to emotionally react so good at keeping the peace and making sure the silver is polished. However, the planet Uranus is currently transiting Taurus so all those calm Taurus’ you (used to) know are now having emotional upheavals. In my early days of astrology, I was warned that Taurus was calm until it had enough and blew up. I can confirm that is correct. Uranus is the igniter of those suppressed feelings which rise up like lava from a volcano – hot and sudden.

The Partying Prince Harry

Taurus moon is very practical but also very physical, enjoying the sensations of life. It’s common that this moon likes extreme sport because it’s so physically robust and while lesser activity can be stimulating for some, Taurus needs more intensity to penetrate from physical to emotional and mental.

Also, Harry’s natal Uranus, Mars and Neptune are in Sagittarius, a sign unlike Virgo and considered a “square” or tense relationship to it. That the worrying Virgo would turn to drugs is no surprise to the astrologer. In addition to escaping worry through drugs, Sagittarius wants heightened experience and is easily bored and depressed by the humdrum of life. Sagittarius wanders and explores. Sagittarius loves freedom and can have trouble with the dependent type of relationship.

As noted in 2011’s blog Prince Harry is Growing Up, Sagittarius loves things and experiences that are different and foreign. Sagittarius is a xenophile. It’s no surprise Prince Harry married a foreigner.

The Virgo-Sagittarius square is something we’re hearing a lot about right now from Harry. Virgo criticism with Sagittarius outspokenness; Virgo worry and anxiety with Sagittarious drive for freedom and new experiences.

Harry the Husband

While the news story – possibly for Harry himself – is that upon marriage he finally felt free of his past life and now wants to live the life of an individual not subject to royal obligations, I believe there’s a more common story beneath.

The sub-story and more important one is that Harry is doing what many have done and will do – fall in love with “different” and feel a healthy separation and freedom from the family legacy. Over time, however, Harry like others may learn how deep in the DNA one’s family emotional history resides. And Harry’s family IS history.

And if Harry’s marriage should go through challenges – which most marriages do – or falter even then Harry may find himself much freer than he would like. His Venus in Libra seeks the ideal partner who doesn’t have crooked teeth or unpleasant nose hair. After years of marriage and as age progresses, habits can become less pretty.

Although royalty seems the British everlasting gobstopper of a soap opera, the news will move onto something else in a short time. The shelf life of gossip and scandal is decreasing as fast as consumer prices are increasing.

When Harry goes to live his private life (if he does) and he and family are not in the news, where will that Virgo sun direct its criticism? And after years of marriage to these Americans with their bad tea and broken English, who will he talk to about our uncouth ways?

As Harry matures even more, he might regret putting it “all” out there on social media and not leaving a little for a private, nasty letter on personal stationery that can later be thrown into the fire and forgotten.

Related blog:

Five Astrological Tips for Dealing with a Perfect Sister-in-Law and Perfect Mother-in-Law

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Tauroctony with Uranus in Taurus

Posted on January 2, 2023 by ohioastrology

Mithras, according to the September/October 2022 issue of Minerva, is a very ancient god whose name appears in Indo-Iranian groups as early as the 14th century BC. Ancient sculptures depict Mithras slaying a bull which is academically described in Minerva as a “tauroctony.”

According the the article, Mithras is described in the ancient Vedic (Rigveda) and Iranian (Avesta) texts. On the latter:

The Avesta contains a hymn dedicated to Mithras the ‘Mihr Yasht’, that paints the portrait of a solar deity, a god of justice who rules over alliances between gods and mortals and guarantees that contracts between people are upheld. This latter role finds a direct expression in the very name of ‘Mithras’, which is the ancient Persian word for ‘contract.’

How did Mithras come to be slaying a bull?

That part is unclear in the historical records. It may have been a Roman thing because they were very good with slaying both themselves and others.

But what is Mithras achieving by slaying a bull?

In this sculpture at the British Museum Mithras slays the bull while a scorpion attacks the testicles, a snake bites the chest and a dog laps up the blood. Astrology, no surprise, has symbolism that fits nicely here, sans the gruesome slaughter:

The fixed signs are: Taurus (earth – the bull which rules the body), Leo (fire – the lion which rules the heart), Scorpio (water – the scorpion which rules the genitals) and Aquarius (air – the water bearer which rules circulation).

Taurus is being slaughtered while Scorpio takes the energy of the genitals, Leo the energy of the blood and Aquarius the energy of the breath.

Taurus is the body and physical reality. Without air, breath and blood we cease to function. Maybe rather than a sculpture of violence it is a sculpture of understanding of the life forces and how easily we can move from life to death.

Is Mithras, then, the controller of the body and the life within it?

Contracts

Mithras means “contract” in ancient Persian. Our current definition of contract is:

a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales or tenancy that is intended to be enforceable by law

In a spiritual sense I’m learning, contracts are the agreements we make for our interactions in physical form. Spiritual “laws” are like properties of physics, immutable and not subjective. Karma is the most recognizable of these “laws” and like much in the world is sometimes viewed very literally but appears to be within our soul’s contracts and not always the one-to-one (eye for an eye) that we want it to be.

Is Mithras slaying our bodies so which in turn slays our contracts?

The symbolism is there but something seems to be missing from the story that was handed down through time and which was then converted by the dominant and domineering Romans into a cult.

Uranus

Uranus the planet of sudden changes, unexpected events and enlightening strikes stays in a sign for about seven years – hence the “itch” we have after seven years of doing something.

Recently I picked up a copy of Steven Forrest’s The Changing Sky which is a wonderful book on transits. (As an aside, if you are learning astrology I highly recommend Forrest for his wonderful perspective on astrology and unique and clear way of explaining the energies.)

Uranus Forrest describes as the cycle of individuality with the aim of freedom. Individuality and freedom in the astrological (and psychological senses) are something entirely different from the political “freedom” and are not comfortable states.

To my perspective, most people share the beliefs of their culture as we are enculturated before we are conscious. Uranus involves honesty with the self, the self beneath the enculturation. Many do not examine this until a Uranus transit forces it.

To one day wake up to a Uranus transit and discover you don’t share the religious beliefs of your culture can be very disconcerting. In fact, it can be highly dangerous in many parts of the earth. Uranus leads to freedom because one becomes separate when acknowledging the inner self. How comfortable is this?

And if one is born into a culture that does not allow individual religious expression, then often there is a need to leave that culture, if possible. Forrest talks about the natural cycle of Uranus when we are 14 and 21 and have the need to define ourselves and leave home. Most parents dislike this age in children because enculturation is being challenged.

Separation – freedom – can be critical for discovering the inner self.

Uranus in Taurus

Uranus has been transiting Taurus since 2019 (with a short dip in 2018). Taurus rules the body and physical reality so you may have noticed lots of concerns in these areas from how much sovereignty we have over our bodies to supply chain disruptions that have enlightened us as to how and where our products are created.

The primary Taurus concern that has occurred with this transit is the desire to wipe out a virulent strain of illness through new technologies. The fear of dying – Mithras at our backs – is a strong and convincing motivation.

The illness involves breathing and circulation – the snake that bites the chest. This is air (Aquarius) which is represented by Saturn’s transit of Aquarius which is soon to pass. However, when Uranus leaves Taurus it will move into Gemini which is the air sign ruling the lungs. And Pluto (evolution) is soon to move into Aquarius. The energy is turning toward air so I’m expecting some leftover lung issues from all that’s occurred during this Taurus transit. Lung issues are also spiritually connected to communication and while we have many more channels of communication than any time in history, it also allows us all to talk (or shout) at once so no one is really heard.

The four fixed signs in the tauroctony are essential for life in the body. If one fixed sign is affected, the others are as well so it will be interesting to understand the effects on the genitals, heart and body structure of all that’s occurring today.

The Roman cult of Mithras saw the slaying of the bull as leading to new life. Maybe it was the “afterlife” that they were truly seeking although they didn’t realize it – a life free of the body. Life in the body has always had the challenge of illness and decay as the body does not last forever.

Mithras is at our backs with the contract for life, the body and the release from the body.

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