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Saturn and Pluto

This decade opened with a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto and will close with a square of Saturn and Pluto so let us look at other examples. Hard aspects between Saturn and Pluto are notorious for the misfortunes that befall under such a combination. Here are a few examples of various hard Saturn-Pluto aspects — conjunctions, opposition, and square — and the way the results played out in the real world.

Maine Sunk

The first example is the Spanish-American War. America went into Cuba to fight the Spanish for whom Cuba was a colony. The casus belli in this case was the explosion on board the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. As a result of the war the United States, after defeating Spain, got several colonies that had belonged to Spain, such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. In addition the United States had a strong interest in Cuba until 1959 and the Cuban Revolution. The United states “acquired” Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903 which the U.S. is still using. In this case the United States chart was strongly impacted by the Saturn Pluto opposition with Saturn on the Ascendant of the US and Pluto on the Descendant of the US. With this lineup the important action took place away from the country — the Descendant represents the other — while the home (Ascendant) was relatively calm. Most observers use the Spanish-America War as the start of the American Empire since this war allowed the US to acquire several oversea colonies. Many Americans, such as the psychologist William James (brother of novelist Henry), steel baron Andrew Carnegie, reformer Jane Addams, and author Mark Twain were strongly opposed to this imperialist action of the United States and formed the American Anti-Imperialist League.

First Tower Struck

Compare this to the chart of 9/11. This was a perilous time for the United States. The presidential election the previous year was stolen from the Democrats by a ruling of the Supreme Court, and no one seemed too upset. There were no charge of the Democrats by the Republicans that they were “election deniers”. Then in September of 2001 two planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and that event allowed the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Notice in this case that Pluto is on the Ascendant of the United States, and that is indeed where the action took place, and Saturn is on the Descendant, where the action came from. This is the reverse of the chart for the Spanish American War. I refer to these two events as the Bookends of the American Empire — that started with the Spanish American War and the events of 9/11 were the beginning of the end of that empire.

If one were to invent an astrological chart for the 9/11 event one would be hard pressed to come up with something more appropriate than the actual transits to the Sibly natal chart of the United States.

Afghanistan Invaded

Note that Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded by the United States under the Saturn Pluto opposition: the Iraq invasion, which happened a year and a half after the invasion of Afghanistan, still had Saturn opposite Pluto with an orb of less than three degrees. Note that for Iraq Pluto was right on the MC at the time of the invasion, certainly an apt symbol for what happened to that country.

Iraq Invaded

Franz Ferdinand Assassination

Here is an example of what happens when the Saturn-Pluto conjunction occurs near the Cardinal Axis. In astrology the Cardinal Axis — 0 Aries, 0 Cancer, 0 Libra, and 0 Capricorn — represents a point in common to everyone in the world, and so that Cardinal Axis represents the World. In this chart for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which is the event that putatively started the First World War, we see that Pluto is at 0 Cancer and Saturn is closing on a conjunction with it at 23 Gemini. When the war was declared one month later Saturn had moved to 27 Gemini and the conjunction was much closer.

World War One Declared

Graphical Ephemeris for World War One

From the Graphical ephemeris that covers the whole period of World War 1 we see that the exact Saturn Pluto conjunction occurs in early October 1914, after which both planets go retrograde at the same time, and the final conjunction is in May of 1915. Pluto is close to the cardinal axis for most of the war. Pluto crosses the Cardinal Axis at 0 Caner at 1.

2019-2020 Graphical Ephemeris

For an example closer to the present, let us look at the most recent Saturn Pluto conjunction of January 2020. At the time I though there would be a war with Iran since the United States had just assassinated Qasen Solemani, an Iranian Major General who was in Iraq for talks on battling the terrorist association which was blamed for the 9/11 attacks. This event happened on January 3, 2020 when Saturn and Pluto were less than one degree apart. But that war didn’t happen. Rather, two months later the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and we all know how that turned out.

Pandemic Declared

In the graphical Ephemeris above we can see that the Saturn Pluto conjunction happened in early 2020 and they remained close for most of the year. In addition, Jupiter and Saturn conjoined at the end of the year, marking the beginning of the two decade Jupiter Saturn cycle, the equivalent of a New Moon in planetary cycle terminology.

The Other 9/11

Another example of a Saturn-Pluto hard aspect also occurred on September 11 and in fact the event is often called “the other 9/11”. In 1970 a socialist — Salvador Allende — was elected President of the South American country of Chile. This infuriated US President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The US/CIA attempted a coup of the government of Chile which was unsuccessful. But the military in Chile overthrew the government in a bloody coup on September 11, 1973, creating a dictatorship in Chile that lasted decades. Notice in the chart within the US chart that Pluto was near the MC of the US. Several massive changes happened to the government of the US during this period, such as the Watergate crisis (named for the Washington, DC hotel where it took place and adding the suffix “-gate” to many other crises since) and President Nixon took the US off of the gold standard, an act which still has repercussions for the US and the world more than fifty years later. This episode of Chilean history is covered in the film Missing directed Costa-Gavras which came out in 1982 and book Chile In Their Hearts by John Dinges which was recently published.

National Security Act

The start of the (First?) Cold War is hard to date exactly. Perhaps it was when the atom bombing of Japan happened, which was not necessary to defeat Japan but served as a clear message to the Soviet Union — our partner in fighting World War II — that the United States had the super weapon that it was not afraid to use. Or it could be the “Long Telegram” from George Kennan — a US diplomat in the Soviet Union — recommending isolation of the Soviet Union, or it could be when a US President expounded the “Truman Doctrine”, but I think the best choice — right in the middle of it all — was the passing of National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA and changed the name of the Department of War to the Department of Defense. Just once Uranus cycle after that the Department of Defense name was changed back to the Department of War. For the start of the Cold War, and especially the Nation Security Act on July 26, 1947 we see that Saturn and Pluto are conjunct.

New Cold War

There was also a Saturn-Pluto conjunction in 1982; this saw the start of Regan’s war in Central America: the US supported a rogue army called the Contras in an attempt to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. There was a book by Noam Chomsky called Toward a New Cold War published in 1982 whose title highlights what was happening. There was also a war between Iraq and Iran with the United States supporting Saddam Hussein who was the leader of Iraq. The United States was selling weapons to Iran (which was under an embargo because of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 which deposed the Shah of Iran who had been inserted into Iran in 1953 when the British and the US deposed the elected leader of Iran) and using the money thus gained to supply weapons for the Contras; supplying weapons directly to the Contras was prohibited by a U.S law.

Japan Invades Manchuria

When Japan invaded Manchuria in 9-18-1931, well before World War Two officially started, there was a Saturn opposite Pluto. This is not terribly obvious from the chart above, but when we look at a graphical ephemeris (below) for the surrounding period it is obvious. The exact oppositions happened in February, July, and December 1931. This invasion resulted in such things as the “Rape of Nanjing” in which case the Nazis were the good guys. Horrible things were done to the Chinese people by the Japanese. One book that covers this is The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang which discusses this incident which took place several years after the invasion.

Graphical Ephemeris for 1931

But hard aspects don’t just include the conjunction, square, and opposition. Here is a chart (below) for when Italy invaded Ethiopia, one of the many event that heralded the start of World War Two, even thought it was several years before the official start. If we look at the chart we don’t see a hard aspect between Saturn and Pluto; here is where looking at the graphical ephemeris comes in handy. This is in the eighth harmonic graphical ephemeris, which means the when lines cross it indicate a conjunction, opposition, square, semisquare or sesquiquadrate. Here we can see a sesquiquadrate occurred twice before — in May and June of 1935 — the actual invasion and once after — in February of 1936 — so the date of the invasion was sandwiched in between.

Italy Invades Ethiopia

Harmonic Eight Graphical Ephemeris for 1935

In a decade that began with a hard Saturn Pluto aspect and ended with a hard Saturn Pluto aspect, there was also one in the middle of the decade. There was a semisquare of these two planets in May of 2024, September of 2024, and finally on January 26, 2025. Less than a week before that last semmisquare occurred the second inauguration of Donald Trump, whose first year of his second term has been filled with disruption and chaos.

Saturn Semisquare Pluto January 2025

The next hard aspect of Saturn and Pluto will be coming up in 2028 and 2029; it happens three times and the third occurrence is just hours before the Full Moon. As you can see from the chart for this third Saturn-Pluto square many planets line up. One wonders what notable event will happen under this square. Stay tuned….

Third Saturn-Pluto Square in 2029

Saturn Pluto Square Within US Chart

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Inflection Point??

On February 20, 2026 Saturn will finally conjoin Neptune, the only exact conjunction of these two planets in this cycle; this conjunction is also conjunct the IC of the United States as well as the Aries Point.

Saturn Neptune Conjunction

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction and USA

I don’t know when this triple conjunction of Saturn, Neptune, and the Aries Point happened previously, but consider that the Saturn Neptune conjunction happens every 36 years, and assume every degree gets the conjunction once, then the last time this happened was 36 X 360 or almost 13000 years ago. Perhaps the significant event at that time was what is called the “Neolithic Revolution” where humans developed agriculture and a more settled lifestyle. Of course, some people argue that everything started to go downhill for humanity after the Neolithic Revolution. But in either case, this was a major turning point for humanity.

Magnified Graphical Ephemeris Saturn Neptune Conjunction

If we examine a magnified section of a graphical ephemeris we can see just how close this conjunction is to both the Aries Point (solid horizontal black line) and the Midheaven (dashed light grey line) of the United States. It is midway between those two points which are in fact close together. So not only do we have Saturn conjunct Neptune at the Aries point, incredibly significant to the world at large (which is represented by the Aries Point since everyone in the world has the Aries Point in common) but also this conjunction is directly opposite the MC of the US — conjunct the IC — and thus the base or foundation of the United States — which is what is represented by the IC — is directly hit by this conjunction. This will certainly shake up the foundations of the United States, which will affect the whole world, but you already can see that.

Saturn-Neptune Almost Exact Conjunction

In July of 2025 the Saturn and Neptune conjunction got within a quarter of a degree of exact and both went retrograde at the same time and thus the conjunction was never exact. In the magnified view you can see how both planets turned retrograde in unison.

Saturn-Neptune Almost Exact Conjunction

Saturn-Neptune Conjunction 1989

The last time this conjunction happened was in 1989. That year the conjunction happen three times; the most interesting was the third, on November 13, when Jupiter was closely opposite the conjunction. This Jupiter-Saturn opposition marked the midpoint — Full Jupiter so to speak — of the twenty year bi-decade that is the Eighties/Nineties. The fall on the Berlin Wall, which heralded the fall of the Soviet Union and other Communist Countries in Eastern Europe, happened on November 9, 1989. This supposedly marked the end of the Cold War (that had started at the end of the Second World War) and according to some this also marked the End of History (see The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama which was published in 1992). This also involved a big change in the Western powers (see Cold War Triumphalism edited by Ellen Schrecker and published 12 years later). The United States took victory laps after this happened and President Clinton even managed to determine who the leader of the newly-born Russia was, as a cover story entitled “Yanks to the Rescue” shows. One can easily imagine the uproar if the Russian President was accused of helping an American win the Presidency!!

“Yanks to the Rescue”

Let us look at some other examples of hard aspects between Saturn and Neptune:

U.S. Off Gold Standard

An August 15, 1971 speech by United States President Richard Nixon was a big event for the world economy, but most did not realize how big for many years after. This event is considered the end of the Bretton Woods System that was established after World War II, named after the town in New Hampshire where the agreement was reached. After this statement by President Nixon, dollars were no longer convertible to gold. Among the many ramification was that money was made not through making actual things but through financial manipulation. In the long run, this decision by Nixon shifted power from industry to finance, and so what was capitalism of the Sixties and Seventies is not what capitalism is now.

Nixon Shock Speech

When we look at the chart for August 15, 1971 we don’t see anything specific. But looking at the graphical ephemeris around that date reveals something interesting.

Nixon Shock Graphical Ephemeris

Saturn and Neptune made three oppositions — indicated by 2, 3, and 4 — once before and twice after the speech whose date is indicated by the center line. In addition, the Jupiter Saturn opposition (much like the Jupiter-Saturn opposition which occurred almost twenty years later at the fall of the Berlin Wall) occurred twice before the speech and once after.

But there is also Pluto crossing the Cardinal Axis at 0 Libra — indicated by 1 — and also conjoining the MC of the United States. The period of 1972 and 1973 is known in the United States as the Watergate crisis, which ultimately saw the only resignation of a US President in history. That event is certainly appropriate for Pluto on the Midheaven of the US; at the time many expressed disbelief at what was happening to the government of the country.

The “Great Recession” was a meltdown of the financial markets in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Unlike the Great Depression of 1929, which had an exact date — Dark Thursday (October 24, 1929) — when the stock market fell greatly after booming for much of the decade, we don’t have an exact date for the Great Recession. But by looking at the graphical ephemeris for that period we can see what happened.

The Great Recession

Saturn was opposite Neptune three times right before the “Great Recession” at 2, 3, and 4. In addition Pluto crossed the Cardinal Axis as it enters Capricorn, indicated by 1. Thus Pluto is square the MC/IC axis of the United States. This is similar to the Nixon Shock, where there was also Saturn opposite Neptune and Pluto making a hard aspect to the Cardinal Axis and the US MC. The midpoint of these two events was the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune marked by the fall of the Wall.

Notice that the event of note doesn’t always happen at the time of the exact aspect. It did for the fall of the Wall, but for both the Nixon Shock and the Great Recession there was a time delay. Thus whether or not a significant event happens close to February 2026 or is delayed months is something we will see. Stay tuned….

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Uranus Bats Last

In this decade we have the three outer planets changing from negative to positive signs all within a small amount of time. In this blog I have descriptions for those three planets and what they represent in the modern world. What follows is a brief recap of how I see these planets.

Moving from the outermost planet, Pluto represents the One-Percent, the Deep State, everything with “Big” in front of its name, such as Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big Oil, etc. And of course the Military industrial Complex or the National Security State or the Power Elite or whatever term you are most comfortable with. As I’ve mentioned in a previous entry (https://500yearparty.com/2025/07/) the conflict between the Pluto Class and the Uranus Class (described below) is the major conflict of our time, playing out in many different forms, though many people (especially those in the Pluto Class or their enablers) want you to ignore this or pretend that it really doesn’t matter.

Neptune is the Virtual World (that is the World Wide Web) and also confusion and deception and disinformation. It represents everything that is not natural but artificial, such as — most notably in this current time — artificial intelligence. Many have compared the development of this virtual world to the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier. The first major item printed with movable type is called the Gutenberg Bible, printed in the 1450s under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction. But of course — since things moved much slower then — it took many years for the effects of movable type to be felt in Europe. Consider the Internet — first used in 1969 — and the World Wide Web — which made the Internet accessible to the average person — developed in 1993 under the Uranus-Neptune conjunction. The printing press had enormous ramifications for the world at large in the last 500 year; the Neptune World Wide Web will have even more profound effects on the world over the next 500 years. This shows the potency of Neptune, but along with it comes the mass confusion, lying, and gas-lighting. Perhaps Neptune will even bring forth a new spiritual mindset, since spirituality is also a manifestation of Neptune, even though it is extremely difficult to observe in most people and especially in governments. In the composition The Planets by Gustav Holst — something ever astrologer should be familiar with — the term associated with Neptune is “The Mystic”.

Uranus represents the people, those who are not in the Pluto class, the common folk, the ” salt of the earth”. In our modern world the dichotomy of Right versus Left is being replaced by the dichotomy of Up versus Down, where Up is Pluto and Down is Uranus. As the poet Shelley wrote in the Masque of Anarchy “Ye are many — they are few” which could be rephrased as “Uranus is many, Pluto is few”. This is the conflict that will be animating the upcoming years — we already see it playing out in real time — even though certain people (hint: Pluto) will try hard to get other people to not believe this conflict, or make them side with Pluto.

Outer Planet Ingresses

Here is a graphical ephemeris for the period from May 10, 2022 to the beginning of April 2027. It is in the sixth harmonic, which means the 0 Aries line — black horizontal line half way down with the red Aries sign to the left of it — represents the start of all positive signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Since Uranus goes into Gemini, Neptune goes into Aries, and Pluto goes into Aquarius all of those sign cusps are represent by that black line.

We see the first sign ingress is by Pluto (marked by the 1) in April of 2023. This indicates the rise of the Pluto Power. And looking at the real world you can see that happening on a daily basis. Pluto is finally permanently in Aquarius (at least for 250 years) in early November 2024, just in time for the United States election. Indeed the Pluto Class is riding high.

Pluto Final Ingress Into Aquarius

But for the United States we also see Pluto make a decisive turn: the Pluto Return — the first for a country since governments usually don’t last as long as one Pluto cycle before changing– which occurs in 2022 and 2023. Since this Pluto Return is unique for countries, what we are seeing now is also unique in history. Stand back and watch the Pluto Return plays out as you attempt to ignore it. Pluto first returned to its natal location in early 2022 (marked as 1) and the final brushing the natal position was late 2023.

United States Pluto Return

Then Neptune brushes with a change of sign (at 2 in Outer Planet Ingresses) in July of 2024 and then clearly moves into Aries in April of 2025, finally moving into the new sign for good (at least for 168 years) in February of 2026. And we can certainly see the signs of Neptune activity around us. Nothing is as it seems, we can not trust anything that is said or written or televised, not even your own senses. We have to check many sources. And the virtual world is getting overwhelming, with tales of people being swept up with these virtual events.

Final Neptune Ingress Into Aries

United States Neptune Demi-Return

For the United State we have a Neptune demi-return, which happens every 84 years, and in this position — opposite the natal Neptune — once every 168 years. This demi-return happens in in 2021 (at 2 above) and 2022. But there is also Neptune opposite the Midheaven of the United States and, something that will affect the world at large and not just the US, Neptune conjunct the Aries point. These happen in 2024, 2025, and 2026. So plenty of Neptunian confusion to go around.

Neptune At Aries Point and Opposite US MC

But Uranus has yet to fully change signs. That planet’s first ingress into Gemini took place in July 2025 (at 3 in Outer Planet Ingresses) but then retreats into Taurus. Uranus finally moves into its new sign in May of 2026 (at least for 84 years). Since Pluto and Neptune have been in their new signs for a time, it will take a while for the effects of Uranus to be clearly visible. There are already signs of its activities, but you have to be on the lookout to see them. Ultimately Uranus rules awakening and that is what humanity must do if it is to escape Pluto-Neptune trap that is engulfing the world.

Uranus Final Ingress Into Gemini

The United States will get heavy dose of Uranus in the second half of this decade. First we have Uranus square the Moon of the US in 2025 and 2026 (at 1 below). Then we have the Uranus Return for the United States, the third such since the birth of the country — in 2027 and 2028 (at 2). Finally we have Uranus crossing the Descendant of the United States in 2028 and 2029 (3) . Quite a bout of Uranus for the United States is coming up.

United States: Uranus Square Moon, Uranus Return, Uranus Conjunct Descendant

Notice that the final sign change of Neptune occurs just a few months before the final sign change of Uranus. Thus we will see all the Neptunian fog over the Uranian change and thus be unable to really see what is going on. Thus when the final Uranian awakening takes places it will come as a complete surprise to most people and to the mass media.

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This Decade As a Play in Three Acts

The play that is this decade can be divided into three acts astrologically. While you could also call this decade a novel with three chapters, a play with three acts is much more common than a novel with three chapters, so I’ll use the theater metaphor.

Just as in a play the first act sets up the characters that will drive the plot forward. In this case, as I’ve mentioned previously, there are three main events — Covid, Ukraine, Gaza (with the epiphenomenon of Donald J. Trump, who had appeared in the third act of a previous play) — that developed in the early years of this decade and will drive the plot of this decade forward. The third act is where the outcome is shown, the denouement (unraveling) of the play occurs. The middle act is where the plot develops and the characters/events introduced at the beginning behave in ways that will lead to the final outcomes. We are in Act Two now.

Neptune Demi-Return

The first act has as its highlights the Pluto return and the Neptune demi-return. The Pluto return has never occurred before in American history — the 250th anniversary of America is coming up in 2026 and the cycle of Pluto is approximately 250 years so you do the math. The Neptune demi-return occurred before in 1859. The previous Neptune Return was in 1940. The previous post summarized Act One in more detail.

Neptune Demi-Return 1859

Neptune Return

The second act consists of Uranus square the US Moon, Neptune opposite the U S Midheaven and also on the Aries point. As a special bonus we have Saturn conjunct Neptune when Neptune is at those points. This conjunction happened before in 1989 (without Aries Point involvement) which saw the fall of Communist countries in Europe and then the fall of the Soviet Union. This represented a major change in the Twentieth Century. Uranus made a previous opening square to the US Moon in 1941 and most Americans know what happened at that time. The previous Uranus conjunct the Moon happened in 2003 when the US attacked the country of Iraq in what is called the Second Gulf War. So the most likely scenario is a war starting, but already we have so many wars that is difficult to keep track. There is the most overt war between the United States and Russia since the end of the First World War, when President Wilson (along with many other countries) sent troops into Russia to defeat the Russian Revolution. We have a war, financed by the US, of Israel in Gaza. Other possible wars are with Iran and Venezuela. And of course there is always China. And more soon to come. This is not what were expecting by a “Peace President”.

Uranus Square US Moon

Saturn-Neptune Opposite US Midheaven

Uranus Square US Moon 1941

Uranus Conjunct US Moon 2003

During this act all three other planets change sign: Pluto goes into Aquarius (2023 and 2024) Neptune goes into Aries (2024, 2025, and 2026) and Uranus goes into Gemini (2025 and 2026).

Uranus Enters Gemini 2026

Neptune Enters Aries 2026

Pluto Enters Aquarius Late 2024

The last time these three outer planets changed into those signs was in the period 1523 through 1534, a much longer period than this time. which allowed Uranus to move into Cancer before Neptune went into Aries and Pluto into Aquarius.

Uranus Enters Gemini 1523

Neptune Enters Aries 1535

Pluto Enters Aquarius 1532

To mark the half way point in this 500 year party, we saw Pluto go into Aquarius in 1778, Uranus go into Gemini in 1774, and Neptune go into Libra — the sign opposite Aries– in 1778 and 1779. This was the height of the Enlightenment which also saw the birth of the U.S. Some people have called the period we are entering the “Endarkenment” since the lessons of 250 years ago seem to be forgotten.

Uranus Enters Gemini 1774

Neptune Enters Libra 1778

Pluto Enters Aquarius 1778

The last act is the Uranus Return and Uranus on the Descendant of the US. The previous Uranus Return was 1943, 1944, and 1945. The previous Uranus on the US Descendant was 1944, 1945, and 1946. That period, the last couple of years of the Second World War and the early postwar period saw tremendous changes to the Unites States, the United States government, and the world in general. We are still living in the world created at that time. We also have Pluto conjunct the South Node of the Moon and a trine of Uranus and Pluto, which will be dealt with separately.

US Uranus Return 2028

Uranus Conjunct Descendant 2029

US Uranus Return 1944

Uranus Conjunct Descendant 1945

At the end of the play or novel that is this decade we need to get ready for the sequel: This has been a waxing decade and the waning decade pair (after the Jupiter-Saturn opposition which take place at the end of 2029, end of April 2030, and about Thanksgiving (US) 2030) will come after. Being the second half of a Jupiter-Saturn cycle we will see things developed that were hinted at in the first decade of the cycle, much like sequels often do. For example think of the Seventies as a sequel to the Sixties or the Nineties as a sequel to the Eighties. Spoiler Alert: Even though we’ve seen plenty of Neptune so far in this decade, for the US the first three years of the next decade will see even more Neptune, with Neptune trine the Ascendant and square the Sun.

Jupiter Opposite Saturn 2030

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

I’ve previously talked about all the important astrological events taking place this decade. So far we’ve seen two of them already occur. The first item (#1) is the demi-return of Neptune to the US Neptune in 2021 and 2022. The three previous returns or demi-returns, happening about every 84 years, were in 1938 and 1939, 1857 and 1858, and 1774 and 1775. I think you can see a pattern.

This Decade

The second item was the Pluto Return 2021, 2022, 2023 (#4). This is Pluto returning to the position it had at the birth of the United States in 1776. Of note is the Pluto demi-return in 1936, 1937, and 1938, the “Roosevelt Depression” that followed the height of the New Deal as a response to the Great Depression. The opening square of Pluto corresponded to the Mexican-American War and especially the aftermath, which expanded the United States by adding California, most of Arizona and New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and some of Colorado. This was the biggest expansion of America in history, bigger than the Louisiana Purchase some forty years previously. This will be discussed further at a later time. This was a big expansion of the United States. The closing square of Pluto to its natal position was in 1982 and 1983 and the beginning onslaught of neo-liberalism under Ronald Reagan. One could see this period as the true end of the New Deal. This would change American for decades to come. Also note that there was a midpoint configuration of the three outer planets just before this Pluto square.

And we can already see the early results of this Pluto Return in the reshaping of America that we see now. In 2016 and the election of Donald Trump I described him as a farce. In the type of theater known as a farce, the main character often has a physical characteristic that sets him apart. In a farce everything is exaggerated so we can see what is really happening. Obviously in the first act of the Trump farce people did not pick up on what was happening so we have a rerun that is more farcical than ever — the farce level is turned up to 11. Donald Trump is not sui generis. He is just a continuation of Presidential actions that have gone on at least since Harry Truman right after World War II. As an example, billionaires have always run the government but they were usually wise enough to stay behind the scenes. Now we have a billionaire running the government right out in the open so all can see. All presidents, at least for several decades, have performed unconstitutional acts but they were wise enough to do so in secrecy. But now we have a president who trashes the Constitution out in the open. All government is corrupt, the higher the level the more corrupt, but now with Trump the corruption is so brazen one hardly knows where to begin pointing it out. All subtly is gone, the blatancy knows no bounds. One hopes that the audience figures out the corruption is wide-spread. A problem occurs when people think “my teams is good, they never do anything bad. Everything is the fault of the other team”.

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it

In the last decade we’ve seen the phenomenon know as Trump Derangement Syndrome – TDS. TDS 1.0 was better know as Russiagate – the belief that Donald Trump had been put into office with the nefarious schemes of Vladimer Putin, the evil dictator of Russia. After Trump’s first term there developed TDS 2.0. He was a lead insurrectionist, he was trying to overthrow the election!! He was a multiple felon. I’m sure all those charges made Team Blue members feel good but others might not be so sanguine. Now with his second term we see TDS 3.0 wherein Trump sold out the US to his boss Putin. Unfortunately this covers up the real crimes of Donald Trump. Class War has been practiced for a long time but Mister Trump has found a way to make it acceptable to other classes (not him or his associates). Now that other class believe he is fighting for them when he is actually fighting for his class. What a perfect con. In fact this is the best Presidential Con of all time.

We are also seeing another form of TDS. This is the belief among the supporters that Trump is almost perfect, he can do no wrong. In this case we have Trump Devotion Syndrome. It is if his devoted followers are a parody of the supporters of most other candidates. These followers are so devoted that whatever their leader does they will excuse it, even if it directly conflicts with what he told them before the election. He was going to drain the swamp even though it is clear he is a member of the swamp. He was going to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, even though he now says it is merely a Democrat made-up story. But still, to his supporters, Trump is the Man.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

This reminds one of the terms of President Obama. In 2009 we were impressed by the first African American president who was bringing “Hope and Change”, also known as hopium. One would hope that scenes like the following would disabuse his followers: The Secretary of State under his first term laughed when a leader of a foreign nation was homosexually raped and then killed. I guess rape is funny if it happens to someone we don’t like. Then the most prosperous nation in Africa was reduced by the action of the first AA President to having open air slave markets. And the response of people to this action: crickets. Obama was called the Deporter In Chief because he deported more people than all other presidents including Trump. Obama was going to save the middle class, but after his election he bailed out all the bankers whose rash actions caused the financial crisis of 2007-2009, while many people lost their homes as a result. But no one who voted for him got upset. No one was satisfied with the current state of healthcare so Obama put in place a health care plan that was conceived by the same organization that created Project 2025, and that had been previously used by a Republican governor, but no one seemed to care.

Strong Neptune During First Obama Term

Note the transits during the first Obama term: Neptune was conjunct (#1 below) the Moon of the United States — the people are living under illusion — and also sesquiquadrate the Sun (#2 below) of the US — the government is also suffering from illusion. Note that natally the Sun and the Moon are related by a hard aspect, a sesquiquadrate, suggesting that there is always a conflict between the government (Sun) and the People (Moon).

Eighth Harmonic Graphical Ephemeris First Obama Term

Now we have “Trump and Change” (not to be confused with Chump Change) which is seducing people. Neptune is opposite the Midheaven of the US so again Neptune is strong. Many believe that this time it will be different. People always say that when their favored candidate wins. Many think that since Donald Trump is a maverick he must be better than all those “conventional” presidents. They cheer everything he does. But Trump is basing his crimes on the crimes of previous Presidents that were never called out, but making them more obvious. Hopefully many in the United States will wake up and realize the travesty that recent Presidents have been. Trump 2.0 is a very big wake-up call. If people do not pay attention what will come after Trump will be much more deadly and gruesome.

Neptune Opposite US Midheaven First Time

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats — simply put — is that the Republicans believe that control of life should be left to the corporations while the Democrats believe the control of life should be left to the government, which is controlled by the corporations, so this is a distinction without a difference. But the two parties can appeal to different groups of people.

Neptune Opposite US Midheaven 2025, 2026

Various radical groups, such as the Black Agenda Report, have long considered the Democrats as the more effective evil. Everyone with intelligence knew the Republican were evil, but the Democrats were smart enough to hide their evilness and pretend they were “for the people”. But the roles are now reversed. Everyone should know that the Democrats support the elite classes, but the Republicans under Donald Trump hide their evilness and pretend they are now “for the people”. The Republicans are now the more effective evil and so are especially dangerous. It’s all a con and Trump now is the biggest con.

Laugh about it, shout about it, When you’ve got to choose, Every way you look at it, you lose

All presidents oversee the transfer of money to corporations who pay for the political parties but Trump has made this transfer of money upward clear for all to see with what he has called (probably lacking irony) a Big Beautiful Bill. Everyone can, or should, be able to see

But the farce of Donald Trump is just one sign that the whole world has jumped on the farce bandwagon. Take for example Israel’s war on Gaza (which still doesn’t have a fixed name). This war is clearly Trumpian. It should be obvious to any living soul that it is a genocide and many major war crimes are being committed, but many many people expend energy trying to pretend it isn’t and looking the other way. So something that is way over the top in evilness is though by many to be just business as usual. And perhaps it is. And if that is so, perhaps we need to examine what normal business really is. Maybe that is the clear lesson of this decade: Everything is being revealed; we can no longer hide from the truth of what has been happening for a long time, it is so in-your-face obvious that you really have to work to not notice it. Even though this is ugly it will prove to be a good thing: The End of Illusion that Neptune is providing. People were shocked when they saw pictures of skeletal figures after the Holocaust during World War II, but by that time it was too late to do anything. Now we see live-streamed pictures of skeletal figures and look the other way. This is progress?

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist

But what Trump intends to do is shift even more money from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class, Everyone wants to do this but Trump convinced people (the Uranus Class) that he is on their side. Another example of a big, beautiful con. And ultimately Trump wants to bring about the Pluto future I mentioned in the previous post. But he has managed to convince people he is the Deep State’s biggest enemy.

Perhaps the shouting by the TDS 3.0 group hides the true evilness of Donald J. Trump, our first billionaire President. To best describe this involves the use of Pluto and Uranus as outlined in the previous post. It appears that there are two things he really wants: To shift power and money, even more than it already is, from the Uranus Class to the Pluto Class. And ultimately to bring about the future that the Pluto Class desires. But he was very clever in convincing parts of the Uranus Class that he was really on their side. Certainly this was a Great Big Beautiful Con.

Sometimes Satan comes as a man of Peace

Note: The author of the first quotation wrote a book (or perhaps it was channeled by his wife) about the twenty-eight phases of the Moon.


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Two Possible Futures: Pluto Versus Uranus

Currently we have Neptune at the Aries Point and at the midpoint of Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini. This lasts, depending on the orb used, for all of the decade. All three planets have just entered or will soon enter positive signs. They also form two sextiles and a trine, forming a shape that resembles a teeter-totter (also known as a seesaw) with Pluto one on side and Uranus the other with the fulcrum as Neptune. As in a real life teeter-totter, this represents a conflict; in this case a conflict between a future symbolized by Pluto and one symbolized by Uranus. Neptune represents a force that can either go towards the Pluto side or towards the Uranus side. I’ve discussed before the symbolism I apply to both planets but I will illustrate them again here. The previous time Neptune was at the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto, and not in a Grand Trine, was the first decade of the Sixteenth Century. (When Pluto was in a Grand Trine with Uranus and Neptune, so that all three took turns at being at the midpoint of the other two, was during the Enlightenment — Eighteenth Century). That midpoint configuration in the 1500’s did not last as long as this one will. Now there are a lot more people on the planet than there were 500 years ago and things are moving a lot faster. So this time will see a very large change, bigger than most people expect.

Neptune = Uranus/Pluto Early Sixteenth Century

Pluto was in mythology the ruler of the Underground Kingdom. Now Pluto represents the Deep State and Plutocracy, the One Percent. Uranus, as Richard Tarnas points out, is a Promethean figure. Prometheus brought fire to the humans, betraying the gods — the “Deep State” of the times. He suffered intense punishment because of this act. Now Uranus represents the 99%, everyone else that is not Pluto

In this period Neptune is at the midpoint of those two other outer planets, and also at the Cardinal Axis. This symbolized the incredible amount of hype (also known as BS) currently in existence. For one example, examine the AI hype coming from a Company Near You. Everybody is crazy. Neptune is even more important in this period than usual and since it is on the Aries Point everyone feels it. Don’t believe anything. Though the idea has been widely criticize (more Neptune) you need to do your own research on everything. Don’t believe what the “experts” tell you.

Teeter-Totter 2025

In the end it boils down to just two classes who are forever at war, even though only one class realizes that. We have the Pluto Class and the Uranus Class. The Pluto Class is able to keep the Uranus Class divided with the dichotomy of Left versus Right. Those two “political divisions” fight amongst themselves so that don’t fight the Pluto Class. Divide and Conqueror is a well-used trusted maxim. And then there is a third group of Uranus people who support Pluto. These are the kind who in France during WWII had their heads shaved.

The 500 year party is over and so we can’t party like we did. But some people (hint: Pluto) want to party even more than they have in the past which means the rest of us can’t be allowed to party at all.

Teeter-Totter 2026

Neptune represents digital technologies — most importantly the Internet — which are extremely addictive as many case studies have shown. These digital technologies will help Pluto control the people — Uranus. On the other hand, the digital technologies will allow Uranus to organize and really see what Pluto is up to. But it is very addictive so a little goes a long way. Thus Neptune represents the forces that will allow Pluto complete control of Uranus; but on the other hand Neptune represents the forces that will allow Uranus to finally break free from Pluto. We are starting to see some cracks in the Pluto facade, for example in New York City and Glastonbury, and these will grow in the second half of this decade. A big fight is coming. Stay tuned.

The Pluto future we can see is already being planned out. AI will be used to control everything including people. You will not be allowed to think impure thoughts. The world will be run by technology and everything will be artificial including thought. The poor will live in their huddles and envy the rich who are the only ones who can travel. Again, technology will be everywhere. This future is well mapped out and you can read many treatises describing it. It is a utopia for Pluto but a dystopia for Uranus.

The name for this future is technocracy, which was created/mapped out in the 1930’s. I’m sure it is just a coincidence but the maternal grandfather of the current first buddy/first enemy and richest man on earth, Elon Musk, was one of the founders of technocracy. Technocracy is a system of government (as the “-cracy” suffix suggests) where the scientists — who are the only ones who really know what is going on — run things. But of course now “Science” has been replaced by Corporate Science, controlled by guess who.

The technology brotherhood, which is controlling this visions of the future, read science fiction as they were growing up. But the science fiction that they read is what is called “hard” science fiction, that is based on the hard sciences like physics. In this type of science fiction the future is populated by robots, computers, artificial intelligence, and trips to Mars. See for example the Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson or I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Because of these early influences, it is no wonder that the future they are birthing resembles the stories they read as youths. These young people had never read novels by George Orwell (1984), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Yevgeny Zamyatin (We) or Philip K. Dick, or if they had they thought them novels of utopia. Perhaps they even read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which describes a future world divided into two classes: the sweet Eloi and the savage Morlocks and thought that was a perfect world for themselves who obviously identified with the Eloi.

Soft, or at least softer science fiction, has been written mainly (not surprisingly) by women. Examples are books by Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, and a very good example is Still Forms on Foxfield.

The concept of left-brain and right-brain are fairly common in popular discourse. Simply put, the left brain controls linear thinking and the right brain controls holistic thinking. To put this into astrological terms, the Sun represents the left brain and the Moon represents the right brain.

Left brain thinking has become more prominent in the last 500 years, and even more so this century. A future imagined by the techbros will be even more left brain than has previously been thought possible. There is a word for this that was recently introduced: TechnoFuedalism, a stage beyond capitalism. One of the things I had imagined we will be passing out of for the next 500 is capitalism, but I did not imagine what the left brain techno-future would really be like. Perhaps I should reread those novels. Capitalism started after immense wealth began to pour into Europe following the discovery and beginning colonization of the “New World”. This growth of capitalism was certainly helped by the exportation of slaves from Africa into the New World. This first stage of capitalism+ was called “Mercantile Capitalism” and was upgraded in the Eighteenth Century by the writings of Adam Smith and other economists at about the midpoint of this 500 years.

Teeter-Totter 2027

There is one big problem with this scenario however. This is the end of the 500 year party, and there are certain physical constraints that exist no matter how much technology you throw at it. You may keep the masses down but only by leaving the earth – as many proponents of this future believe we must do — can we escape the physical constraints of the planet of our birth. However, that does little good for those who remain on this planet.

The Uranus scenario is much different. It realizes that the last 500 years has seen the growth of rationalism and a Cartesian — named after Rene Descartes a French scientist and mathematician born under a Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the late Sixteenth Century — worldview that at the time was thought to be a positive change from the mystical and religious worldview that existed before. A champion of this new worldview was Galileo.

Rene Descartes

Scientists such as William James in the early Twentieth Century and Carl Sagan later in the Twentieth Century thought Science and Spirituality must be integrated. There are a number of scientists who have done work in this area such as David Bohm and Karl Pribram. Many other people have explored these concepts.

We need a balance between the left and right brains, unlike the case of the previous periods where only one hemisphere was predominant. The Uranus future is one where left-brain, totally rational approach is balanced by a right-brain [more] “irrational” approach.

Teeter-Totter 2028

I see astrology as a prefect symbol for this left-brain/right-brain balance. Astrology involves calculation of the positions of the planets, obviously a left-brain activity, but also involves an interpretation of the meaning of those planets, symbols that are not understandable by left-brain thinking but perfectly natural to the right-brain. In this Uranian vision of the future, astrology will be more widely accepted.

Teeter-Totter 2029

The case can be made that astrology — which existed long before formal religions and especially monotheism — gave birth to science and computing, both left brain activities. The observation and interest in the positions of the planets gave rise to an interest in the natural world that led to science; computing was necessary to determine the future positions of the planets.

Graphical Ephemeris for 1543

The break from astrology as a combination of left and right brain activities to astronomy as a left brain activity can be set at the year 1543 when Nicky Copernicus’s book De Revolutionibus was published (after he died) thought the ideas in that book were put down on paper in 1514 (shortly before Martin Luther created trouble by posting his beliefs). Looking at the graphical ephemeris for that year shows Saturn square Pluto and Neptune opposite Jupiter. The Jupiter opposition suggests, among other things, a separation between the mystical of Neptune and the more practical, growth-oriented nature of Jupiter. Jupiter can be thought as ruling capitalism, something that has taken over the world. Note, however, that all the “fathers of modern science” were astrologers as well. Kepler’s theories are the basis of the computation of planetary position used in astrological computer programs.

As far as I know at least one astrology group required the ability to calculate a chart in order to get a certificate as an astrologer. I suspect this ability is rapidly receding since it is so much easier, quicker, and less error prone to have a computer calculate a chart. I’m sure that some skill or knowledge is lost when that calculation is no longer preformed.

This movement toward the left brain world has been going on for a long time. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) though this change happened when Greek philosophy went from Socrates to Plato. But the biggest change happened starting 500 years ago with the Renaissance followed by the Scientific Revolution and especially Rene Descartes. The materialist, mechanistic world view started to take over. An important change in science and its use took place during World War Two. During that period science took center stage as an important tool for winning the war. This trend was accelerated even more with the development of the atomic bomb, which is widely credited — at least in the United States — with having won the war with Japan, even though by that time Japan had been petty well beaten and the imminent invasion of Soviet Union into the War in the Pacific — scheduled for August 8, exactly three months after the end of the War in Europe — would have been the final blow. After the War Americans love of science became greater than ever before. But currently in the Twenty First Century this has gotten way out of bounds. When society is so unbalanced there should be a large warning sign, but instead the civilization is doubling down on more science. No good can come of this.

Outer Planet Grand Trine and the Rise of Science

Another problem is the health of real human beings and the lives of animals and plants on earth is deteriorating. The health of all living things is being destroyed by the output of corporations, to put it simply. A large number of statistics will show that things have gotten much worse over the last eighty years, since the end of World War II. If we have another 500 years of the technology that has been destroying out lives, while making it easier to live, human beings will not survive as anything we would recognize. Plastic pollution, pesticides in our food and water, disappearing wetlands, etc., etc. are among the many problems we can see now. The statistics can be numbing.

In the Nineteenth Century the father of sociology Mex Weber was writing about the Disenchantment of the World (a single world in his native German). That disenchantment was the increasing separation between the intellect and the spiritual, between Humans and Nature; the Natural World and the Artificial World have been growing increasingly apart. He was concerned about this division, and it has gotten so much worse in the century following his pronouncements.

While technology has made our lives easier it has also drained our vitality since we are not behaving as our bodies were designed over most of the span of human existence. This has resulted in many “diseases of civilization” that we did not have in centuries gone by. We have become alienated from the natural world. There seem to be two methods of dealing with this problem. The first is to modified and/or redesign the human body to corresponds the current conditions. This is the plan of the technology brotherhood and goes by the catchy name “transhumanism” the stage beyond human. What could go wrong? The other method is for humans to live more attuned to the natural world.

All Outer Planet Midpoints

Over the last 500 years the world has become increasingly disenchanted. It is now only cold hard facts and the latest AI that matters to anyone. As we have become disenchanted from the world, the world — the Earth, our Home — has become increasingly disenchanted from us. This needs to change, and just escaping to Mars is not a solution.

Which will we choose, or will the choice be made for us?

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Israel Attacks Iran

Just a few days ago Israel waged a preemptive attack on the country of Iran to prevent it from building nuclear weapons, much like Japan waged a preemptive attack on the American base in Pearl Harbor just 84 years ago to prevent the United States from building nuclear weapons with which to attack Japan. In this current case the United States is deeply involved with the Israeli attack.

Attack on Iran

Looking at the chart for the first strike we see Mars square Uranus with Mars in the first house. This is an astrological cliche for an accident, but more broadly it can been seen as an unexpected or sudden use of energy or military might. But if we look at the chart in respect to the Israel chart we see something even more fascinating: This was the Mars return for Israel, something that happens every two years when Mars returns to its natal position and so things are even more martial. But this also means that Uranus was squaring the natal Mars of Israel at this moment. It almost seems overdetermined that Israel would do something rash and bold and unexpected at this moment.

Israel Attacks Iran

If we look at the chart for Iran at the moment of attack nothing seems to stand out. Neptune is prominent. There is a wide conjunction of Neptune/Saturn with the Iranian Sun. The transiting Sun is opposite the Iranian Neptune. The transiting Neptune-Saturn is sesquiquadrate the Iran Ascendant. It appears that deception took place, The United states was in the process of negotiations with Iran at the time, and Iran was led to believe that they would not be attacked while negotiations were on going and so perhaps Iran did not expect anything. Notice also that Uranus is moving to conjoin the Moon of Iran. This will be more important in 2026, but as we will see with the United States Moon Uranus hard aspects often signify war. At the very least, it signifies that the populace is exited, something that the Iranian population is already doing/being.

Iran Attacked

Here is the chart of the United States, which was involved with this attack, at the time of the attack. There is a wide square of Uranus to the Moon, but the square was exact about a month earlier and transiting Mars was opposite the US Moon the day before the attack.

US at Time of Attack

And here is the chart for the attack of Pearl Harbor just one Uranus cycle before now. Instead of Saturn conjoined the outer planet Neptune we have Saturn conjoining the outer planet Uranus, and they are both square the US Moon, And of course Neptune is conjunct the MC of the US, one half Neptune Cycle before now, when Neptune is opposite the US MC.

Pearl Harbor Attack

Finally looking at the graphical ephemeris for Israel over this year we see that Pluto is opposite the Moon of Israel and there was a Mars Pluto tight aspect on the Israeli Moon is late April of this year. Earlier this year Uranus was conjunct the Israeli Sun, indicating much excitement in the government of Israel. Uranus then when on to excite the Israel Mars and as you can see the exact aspect was at about the time of the attack.

Israel This Year

In the future Pluto will continue to opposite the Israel Moon suggesting strong change in the citizens of that country, Also continuing will be Uranus squaring the Israeli Mars, suggesting further use of military means,

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Summer of 2025

This Summer will bring some important astrological formations which among other things illustrates the astrology of the decade. This decade sees the returns or demi-returns of the three outer planets. All in all it is a packed decade.

Grand Trine and More

On August 9, 2025 there will be a beautiful formation of the ten planets in both a world chart and in comparison to the US chart. While it does not suggest that anything will happen on that particular day, it does show graphically an overview of forces that are operative at the time. Of course, so many events of note are happening this year that there will certainly be some this August: it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Lets Look at them.

The Saturn-Neptune conjunction is at the Aries point. A Saturn-Neptune conjunction happens every 36 years; the last one was in 1989 which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the next years the fall of the Soviet Union and related governments; that conjunction was in the middle of Capricorn. The one before that was in 1953 at about 20 Libra. Before that in 1917 in early Leo. I don’t know when previously there was conjunction at 0 Aries but it must have been a very long time ago. If we assume that every degree in the zodiac eventually sees the conjunction, and since the cycle happens every 36 years, then the last time this conjunction happened at 0 Aries was 360 times 36 or about 13,000 years ago

There is a mini-Grand Trine – a trine and two sextiles — between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, with Neptune at the crux point which is also conjunct Saturn and the Aries point. Neptune is also at the midpoint of Uranus-Pluto. This midpoint configuration (and not part of a Grand Trine of those three planets) happens every 500 years, but the last time they formed an aspect was 2500 years ago — about 576 BCE — and that was a conjunction. Thus there is the midpoint configuration and the aspect configuration. The midpoint last longer than the aspect as can be seen in the two graphical ephemerides below.

Uranus-Neptune-Pluto Mini-Grand Trine

This graphical ephemeris is in the sixth harmonic so sextiles and trine look like conjunctions. You can see how the three planets come together in 2024 and stay together until 2029.

Neptune=Uranus/Pluto

In this graphical ephemeris the midpoint of Uranus and Pluto (slightly darker line) is plotted along with Neptune. You can see how closely the two lines stick together from 2023 through 2028 and are within a couple of degrees of each other from 2021 through 2031.

Saturn-Neptune opposite Mars along the cardinal axis. Mars is opposite that Saturn-Neptune conjunction right along the cardinal axis of 0 Aries/0 Libra. That gives more kick to the conjunction.

Uranus, Pluto, and Mars form a fairly tight Grand Trine.

Moon semisquare Saturn-Neptune and sesquiquadrate Mars. Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn-Neptune and semisquare Mars, so that that Full Moon is a diagonal to the rectangle formed by Sun, Moon, Saturn,Neptune, and Mars.

And a Mercury Pluto opposition reflecting the Mercury Pluto opposition in the natal chart of the US.

And for good measure a Full Moon.

Transits Within US Chart

When we look at this chart within the chart of the United states it gets even more interesting. We see the following:
The Saturn-Neptune is on the IC of the United States and thus opposite the Midheaven of the US. That places Mars directly on the MC of the US. Thus the “spine” of the US — the MC/IC axis — is energized by the Mars opposite Saturn Neptune.

Transits to US Chart

Pluto and Uranus trine the US Midheaven.

Jupiter conjunct the US Sun.

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A good graphical representation of how this complex of planets hits the Midheaven of the US chart is to look at a sixth harmonic chart. In the sixth harmonic trines and sextiles appear as conjunctions. If you look at the MC of the US you see quite a pile-up.

Sixth Harmonic Transits To US Chart

But earlier in the Summer there is another set of transits that pictorially are not as pretty but still important. The opening square of Jupiter and Saturn happens three times, the last time in Summer of 2025; this marks the beginning of the second half of this decade. But since Saturn is conjunct Neptune there is also a Jupiter square Neptune at almost the same time and in fact just three days separate the Jupiter Saturn and Jupiter Neptune squares.

Jupiter Square Saturn Last Time

Jupiter Square Neptune

Earlier in the Summer Uranus squares the Moon on May 15, the only time the square is exact this cycle. However on the first of February 2026 Uranus retrogrades to within a quarter degree of an exact square. These two images illustrate the exact square in 2025 and the almost exact square of 2026. Below that is a graphical ephemeris that illustrates the exact (1) and almost exact (2) squares where you can see that Uranus retrogrades and approaches the Moon but turns direct just before it squares the Moon.

Uranus Square US Moon

Uranus Square US Moon Near Miss

Uranus And US Moon

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Three Moments

Three events define the first half of this decade. Of course there were many other defining events, but these three rate special notice for several reasons, the first of which is that when the second event started the first almost disappeared from public consciousness. When the third event started the second almost disappeared from public consciousness. This exclusiveness is one thing that set these events apart. These are also the three events that will shape the way the second half of this decade plays out, with the ramification, realizations, and renouncements shaping the way the decade finally ends.

Neptune at Aries Point

As Neptune approaches the Aries Point we should pay special attention to the use and misuse of propaganda, something that is truly ruled by Neptune. Neptune got within four minutes of the Aries Point in July 2024 (1) only to turn retrograde as if the thought of a Fire Sign was too much to bear; then at the end of March 2025, a week after the Vernal Equinox, Neptune truly enters Aries (2) and then retrogrades and skates along the Aries Point from Fall of 2025 (3) through Winter of 2026 (4) before finally ensconcing into Aries in February of 2026.

There were conventional and dissident views on all three events, but the power behind the crushing of the dissident point of view was so strong in all three cases that you know there was much force behind the conventional view. It was not just “Oh so you disagree with me, that’s life” but rather if you disagree with the conventional viewpoint you are an apostate, a sinner, you stand against everything holy. The use of religious metaphors is not an accident. One is reminded of the Inquisition. The name calling by those holding the conventional view of those holding a dissident view was extreme as examples later will show.

I also want to look at these three moments in terms of the left-right paradigm. As I’ve expressed before I think this dichotomy is outdated but it is still very much used. And though those terms are used in ways that are way beyond the limits of what the words mean I will still use them without double quotes around the words to save typing, but you can imagine that double quotes are present.

Since this period includes what I call the Sixth Crisis we need to mention the Fifth Crisis which was World War II. One of the big items of the Fifth Crisis was the Nazis which we will see reflections of in this Sixth Crisis. People misunderstand what Nazis are. Perhaps because of much propaganda many believe that the Nazis were only killers of Jews. This is wrong, the Nazis were against the untermenschen — under people or subhumans — not only Jewish people but Romany, disabled, homosexuals, you name it, anybody not Aryan or ubermenschen. And so under people can be the common people, Russians, or Palestinians, those who don’t meet certain “standards”.

I’ll outline the conventional view first but, since it is conventional, I will not devote that much space to it. If you don’t know the conventional view by heart you likely were asleep for the last five years. More space will be used to discuss the dissident view but, since it is dissident, there are many variations possible. I’ll just try to limn out the basic ideas.

The first big crisis of this third decade of the Twenty-First Century was Covid-19 and the ensuing vaccine. The people who saw through this for the most part were on the right, which gave those on the left ample cause to jeer. And of course those on the left who also saw through the propaganda were now considered to be on the right.

Covid-19 Declared a Pandemic

Covid-19 was an infection that was the greatest pandemic to strike the world since the Spanish Flu of 1918. Measures such as lockdowns, masks, and avoiding large groups (“social distancing”) were necessary and enforced to keep the people safe. Nonetheless there was a huge amount of dying over the years 2020 and beyond. This crisis was finally abated by the introduction of a vaccine that was both safe and effective. These vaccines were developed under “Operation Warp Speed” (OWS) in record time, using a novel technology that had never been used in the public before. Many were forced with a government mandate to get what was called “the jab” because nobody is safe unless everybody complies . There were various technologies used to create these vaccines and the most popular in Western countries was messenger RNA — mRNA. This vaccine was introduced shortly after the previous president — who oversaw OWS — left office.

The alternate view had it that an artificially-created virus was developed in Wuhan China with American funding which spread around the world. It caused a mild respiratory distress, much like the Asian Flu of 1958-59 or the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 which is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu). Many have seen the movie of people practicing social distancing on a farm in upstate New York in the summer of 1969 while watching live music during the Hong Kong flu epidemic. This disease would have stricken few and they could have been cured by early treatment using the same substances that were found effective with an earlier corona viruses. Also adequate vitamin D in a body would have reduced infection. But none of those treatments were owned by large companies so little profit could be realized by using them. Instead early treatment was discouraged and hospital patients were treated with ventilators and an [official] drug whose nickname was “run death is near”. The death toll was elevated by bogus PCR tests and redefinition of other diseases, such as flu and cancer and even automobile accidents, as a death from Covid-19. Antibiotics were not used even though many had pneumonia, which was redefined as Covid-19 when they died. The stress engendered by lockdowns, social distancing, and other measure was so great that many succumbed to the affects of the intense stress. Early treatments were prevented so that a vaccine using a new technology could be rushed into service without the usual 10 years of testing. `

Vaccine Mandate Declared

The amount of death world-wide due to the vaccines number in the millions, with many more disabled and even more injured. Some of the diseases caused are various heart aliments and clots and an aggressive type of cancer called turbo-cancer. Most people, especially on the left, are not willing to look at the real misinformation and they will be horribly crushed when the truth comes out. All the news media have been active in covering up the excessive death and injury even though most insurance companies are aware of them. As they say, the cover up is worse than the crime. And when the cover-up unravels things will be different!

Many compared the treatment of people with experimental drugs as similar to what got a lot of Nazi doctors hanged and led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code that prohibits lack of informed consent in medical procedures. Many are calling for a Nuremberg 2.0 to take a look at the massive lack of informed consent. One outspoken dissident with real world experience is Vera Sharav, a holocaust survivor who has been vehement in her condemnation of the massive medical experiment.

There were strong terms used to condemn those who took a dissident view, such as “anti-vaxxer” or “right-wing conspiracy theorist”. Many important people appeared on the media to condemn those who held such divergent views. The left, which traditionally supported bodily autonomy (“My body my choice”) and informed consent were totally against those things in this case. The left is also aware of “regulatory capture” wherein large corporations capture the government agencies which supposedly regulate those same corporations, rending any restriction on their activities minor. But now it was big tobacco, bad; big oil, bad; but big pharma, so good we will trust it with out life (literally). Many on the left are concerned with the chemicals they take in, so pesticide-free organic food and GMO free food is important, but using the much more rapid means of ingestion which was injection is not at all suspicious. On the other hand, the right supports the behavior of corporations, thinking that corporations are truly part of the American Way. Big business is swell, they think. And no “My body, my choice’. But here they reversed themselves. One strange outcome of the Covid-19 debacle was the switching positions of the right and the left. I guess, as Emerson said, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The second event of note was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a bordering country, on February 24, 2022. The conventional stance on this issue is that the brutal leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to recreate the old Soviet Union and eventually conqueror Europe. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine was just the first step in his big plans. If we — the United States and Europe — don’t stop him in Ukraine the West will have to stop Russia in Europe or America.

The dissent view — which takes note of history — points out contributing factors. In 1990 the United States told the leader of the Soviet Union that if East and West Germany could reunite and join NATO then NATO would not expand “one inch eastward”. Since then NATO has doubled in size with a number of new countries, most of which were either part of the Soviet Union or aligned with the Soviet Union. Russia realized that the word of the West was meaningless.

Not One Inch East

Then in 2014 there was a Nazi coup in Ukraine that was supported (at the very least) by the United States. This Maidan Revolution (named for the public square in Kiev where it began) overthrew a democratically leader of the country. Then began a civil war between Ukranine and the Russians who make up the Eastern part of the country. Russia tried for years to settle these disputes to no avail and finally when a larger number of Russian were going to be killed (according to the UN) did Russia invade the country. Immediately Russia tried to end that dispute with agreements but the country was rebuffed at every turn.

Maidan Revolution

In this the name calling had the dissidents as “Putin puppets” unable to think for themselves but only following Kremlin propaganda. Obviously US and NATO propaganda was truthful.

The left and the right both supported this dissident view (to a minor extent). There was even an anti-war rally called “Rage Against the War Machine” that attracted both the left and the right. But some on the left would not attend because some evil people on the right were present, and some on the right would not attend because of the evil people on the left that were present.

Z – Special Military Operation

The third event started with the unprovoked attack on a settlement and dance party in Israel by the terrorist Hamas, an organization that politically controlled Gaza. This terrorist group must be destroyed if the citizens of Israel are to be able to live in peace. Hamas wants to create a new holocaust and is solely motivated by its hatred of Jews just like the Nazis. There were 1200 Israelis killed in the attack, which also included mass rape and the beheading of babies. No one was safe in this horrible act.

Hamas Attack

The alternative view of this third crisis was that there was a revolt from “the world’s largest open air prison” ( Human Rights Watch) which upset the government of Israel that ran the prison and that country used this revolt as an excuse to drive the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip away from that territory so that Israel could once again take over that area. Much like slave revolts in the South of America, such as those of Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey, this revolt was not nice or pretty but totally understandable.

This dissident view holds that there were no rapes during the attack and only one child was killed and by accident. Of the 1200 killed, just over 300 were military and, according to an Israeli newspaper, over 300 of those killed were killed by the Israeli military, but since no complete investigation was done we really have no idea how many were really killed by the Israeli military.

And of course the all-in-one epithet condemning Hamas and all those who made even a mild criticize of what Israel is doing as antisemitism, thus conflating Zionism — the driving force behind the creation of Israel — with Judaism, which is a spiritual belief.

The right in general were extremely supportive of the Israeli side — definitely no anti-Semites here. While the right has long bemoaned those snowflakes who got upset when someone criticized them, condemning the whole woke culture of the Left, the right was in a hurry to support the Jewish snowflakes who were upset that some were criticizing the State of Israel. Are we seeing the birth of the”Woke Right”? In a world were the terrorist organization which is an offshoot of Al Qaeda is now rebranded as a ruler of Syria since they are now woke such a change is certainly possible.

The left was more supportive of the Palestinian side since many are aware of the apartheid nature of Israel, but still many on the left support Israel, perhaps because they are ashamed that America did not allow Jewish refugees to enter the country during World War II or refused to bomb the rail lines to the death camps in Nazi Germany.

Hades-Kronos Conjunction

Uranian sidebar: Beginning in 2010 there was a conjunction between two Trans-Neptunian planets, Hades and Kronos. The name Hades — Greek name for Pluto — suggests some of the disgust engendered by the planet. For an example from real Life, on 9/11 Hades was conjunct the Natal Mars of the United States with an orb of three minutes. Kronos — the Greek equivalent of Saturn — is said to rule high things like skyscrapers, governments, other large organizations. On 9/11 Kronos was at 0 Cancer and square the MC of the US. Perhaps this conjunction is like a super Saturn-Pluto conjunction. In a personal example, as a young child I had transiting Hades opposite my Sun, and that Spring I had a number of illnesses, the worst of which was encephalitis lethargica, which put me in a coma for three weeks.

These two planets came into a conjunction about 2010 and the conjunction will continue until 2050 with the exact conjunction happening at the end of this decade. From the graphical ephemeris it can be seen the Hades (‘C’ with a cross) is closely even thought it is a fourth harmonic graphical ephemeris, both planets are really in Cancer) conjunct the US Sun from 2022 through 2025 and Kronos (cross with a lid on)from 2020 to 2024. In the 2030s both planets conjoin the US Mercury, representing the Press. There can be two quite opposite meanings, and I believe both will come to pass. In the negative realm there will be much death and widespread corruption, which of course we are already seeing. But on a positive side this conjunction could mean reaching a higher plane through disgust with the current reality. We shall see what the future brings. But for now, everything is broken.

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The United States and Israel

In astrology the birth chart of an entity such as a person or country is seen to describe the entity. To see how two entities interact it is valuable to compare the two charts. For example, if the Venus from one chart is conjoined the Venus of the second chart, one could say that the two entities have similar romantic attractions or simply it is love at first sight; they will be sympathetic towards each other.

Both the United States and Israel, having been founded in recent times, have good birth charts. When we compare those two charts we see a number of connections but I only want to talk about the few that I consider the most important. You can see how these connection play out in real life (IRL) by just paying attention to the happenings.

The Core of America at #1

The core of America is symbolized by the Venus tightly conjunct Jupiter and those two planets are loosely conjunct the Sun of the US. This triple conjunction, involving the two benefics and the essential planet the Sun, is important to America. One can imagine an astrologer of the time – -such as Ebenezer Sibly — looking at the chart and predicting very fortunate things happening to the new country.

Venus Conjoined at #1

The Israel Venus is conjunct both the Venus and Jupiter of the US and Israel’s Venus is actually on the midpoint on Venus and Jupiter. Thus Israel is strongly connected to the fundamental part (Sun, Venus, Jupiter) of the US. The US feels a strong affinity and connection to the relatively recent new country of Israel.

Israel Mars in US Chart

Most telling are the Mars (War!) connections with the Sun and Moon of the United States The tightest aspect is a semisquare between the Israel Mars and the US Sun (#1) which is almost exact. This suggests that we supply most of the weapons that Israel uses. This Mars is also opposite the Moon of the US (#2). Thus it appears that the martial quality of Israel is strongly connected with the US government (Sun) and people (Moon). To anyone who is paying attention this is strongly shown daily. America provides many weapons of war to Israel and Israel’s war aims are important for the government of United States.

There is the Important transit of Uranus square the US Moon and square the Israeli Mars for the next couple of years as illustrated below by a graphical ephemeris of both countries. The contact points to both the US Moon and the Israeli Mars are at #1, #3, and #5 during 2024, 2025, 2026. Expect action!

Transits to both US and Israel

Solid Lines – Israel; Dashed Lines -US

The USA Mars is conjunct the Uranus of Israel. This suggests that the Israeli notion of independence and freedom (that was so important to America’s colonials) feels by the US to need American military assistance to maintain the freedom and independence of Israel, which it certainly receives.

Israeli Uranus on US Mars at #1

There is a tight trine between the Israel Pluto and the Ascendant of the US shown at #2 below. For an example of what Pluto and the Ascendant can mean, recall that on 9/11 Pluto (Force Majeur) was conjunct the US Ascendant. Since this is a trine it is not overpowering but the will of Israel will be strongly reflected in the US. Natally the US has a tight semisquare with Pluto so that Pluto-Ascendants make Israel feel “part of the family”.

Israeli Pluto Tine US Ascendant, Saturn Semisquare MC

Another connection is the Saturn of Israel semisquare the MC of the US shown at #1 above. To me this suggest a sense of responsibility (a Saturn word) felt by the US towards Israel. Perhaps this comes because in June of 1939 the US turned away a ship of Jewish refugees from Germany or that during the War the United States refused to bomb railroads heading to death camps.

Israeli Mercury Opposite US Ascendant

Yet another connection: Mercury of Israel is on the Descendant of the US (#1 above) and thus the thinking and publications of Israel become very important to the US; the US identifies strongly with them and takes them as gospel. This you can see by reading or viewing just about any story about Israel in the mainstream media.

The MC/IC axis — one end the most public and the other the foundation or base — can be seen as the spine of the entity represented by the chart. This is a very important axis that does not get the recognition that it should; people often know their Ascendant sign but the Midheaven sign not so much.

Comparison of US and Israel

Mercury is conjunct the Midheaven of Israel (#3 above) so US press and other media, which is something Mercury represents, is closely aligned with the purpose and goals of Israel. But what is more important is the Mercury Pluto opposition of the United States is right along the primary axis of Israel.

The Mercury Pluto opposition of the United States represents the rules based order or more properly it can be stated as “we set the rules and you take our orders”. This potent force is combined with the spine of Israel; this show the cliche “a match made in heaven.”

Israel Sun Square US Moon

Another connection, though wide, is the square (#1) between the Israel Sun at 23 Taurus 40 and the US Moon at 27 Aquarius 10. While this square is wide at three and a half degrees (#2) it obviously plays out in real life and suggests the strong connection between the US and Israel. I’m not saying they should get married (even though some say that Israel is the 51st state) but there are strong connections. In the situation following October 7, the Israel government had a strong impact on the US, so much so that after the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu condemned student protest in the USA, colleges fell over themselves to crack down on protestors, sometimes even calling in local police to do the job.

To summarize and recapitulate there is a strong connection between the United States and Israel which we can see played out daily.