~Adaptability~
Moon in Pisces
|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week all day (until Sunday evening) ** |
There's so much to say and so little time to say it. I insist on taking Saturdays off as my weekly sabbatical so have to finish two days' work today.
I could go on and on about Brexit, but you may be full to the gills with information and opinions about that already. It is a fascinating study, astrologically.
1. I am convinced that the daily charts are the most important in understanding world events. I believe also in semi-monthly (fortnightly) and weekly charts, but they lack the sharpness and accuracy of the daily ones. That is why I continue to write these forecasts in a daily format.
2. Afterview is of course always easier, but in the kind of phenomenological experiential and experimental astrology I am doing here, afterview is as important as foreview. It leads to understanding of what has just happened. And that can be miraculous.
3. I did not predict Brexit, because I don't feel astrological positions can force a free-will decision on a person or a people. I went with the British betting-odds masters in suggesting that Remain would win, and they were wrong. (A little class error there, maybe? They deal with upper-echelon types who have plenty to spend on gambling and of course all those types were against Brexit.)
4. Nevertheless, I was queasy on Wednesday when I studied the aspects for Thursday, for they included a sharp (less than one degree) sesqui-square between Venus and Mars, which suggests anger and separation rather than harmony. They included also a tri-septile (fateful) aspect between Venus and Saturn, with Venus in Cancer, the sign of home, and Saturn in Sagittarius, the sign of internationalism. (Two degrees always allowed for this one.) This is a very unhappy aspect. It suggests grievances, and indeed the feeling of many Britons that their land, their homes, their schools, and their general medical practitioners were being taken away from them by immigrants was a key ingredient in the vote. Sometimes astrology is delightfully naive and clear. What could be simpler than "home rule" versus "international rule" in this case? That was what was happening--planets in Cancer the home sign in conflict with Saturn in Sagittarius the international sign (among other things). Venus is the love planet, and the voters were in love with their home; Saturn is the harsh disciplinary planet and in Sagittarius it shows how they felt they were being ordered around by bureaucrats in Brussels. So they chose Venus over Saturn! Nothing could have been more natural, astrologically. (That does not mean I necessarily agree with the voting; I have no opinion really, since as an American it is none of my business.)
5. The inevitable fallout, the shaking up of international currency and equity markets, is also shown astrologically, by the Yod ("finger of G*d") configuration with Mars in Scorpio at its center. On Thursday the Yod was composed of a tri-septile from Mars to Mercury on one side and a quincunx from Mars to Uranus on the other (exact both within one degree). Mars retrograde in Scorpio, the "other people's money" sign, thus afflicted, and also bi-octile (sesqui-square) Venus (luscious flowing cash), and also septile Pluto (plutocracy), with not a single "good" or smooth aspect, shows what happened: Stock prices falling drastically everywhere in the world.
6. The Part of Fortune Thursday during the vote was in the 8th house, the house of "death" most dramatically, but according to Marc Edmund Jones, while it is there it shows "the effort or need for escape from one complex of experience to another." What could be a more telling designation of Brexit?
7. The very long-lasting Grand Square is still with us--and this is quite unusual. It is intense. By less than seven degrees, Saturn is opposite Mercury, Neptune is opposite Jupiter, and all those planets are in square with each other. While I have seen, over the years, that sextiles and trines between Mercury and Jupiter show good luck financially and in business, the square between those two shows either loss or a foolish gambling streak or some other bit of bad judgment. It is fascinating that, as I reported yesterday, while the vote was going on in the British Isles I overheard a man in Seattle say accusingly to his wife, "That was bad judgment." I think quite a few, even some who voted for the exit, may be wondering how good their judgment was.
All hindview, you might say, yet the more we study such things the better foreview we may develop.
Saturday: The Grand Square is fading, because Mercury is moving ahead and no longer opposite Saturn (greater than 10 degrees) and no longer square Neptune (depending on orb; in these daily charts I am now using 7.5 degrees). But Mars is still the focus of a yod. Many investors are troubled, no doubt, about what happened Friday and on tenterhooks about Monday. The usual (until July-August) weekend |difficult third| is ameliorated by the moon's trine with Venus, exact in the afternoon, and sextile with Pluto in the evening. That could be some cheer to hold on to, for Venus is also trine Neptune by two degrees, suggesting a bit of a lark, or free easy fulfillment, or entertainment. That is the best I can do to cheer us up. Heaven knows we may be needing that. There may be secrecy and some suspicion in friendship, but you can adapt yourself to whatever comes up and "tack with the wind and tide" (Grant Lewi).
{Saturday} ~Adaptability~
Cosmic Piper
P. S. I hope to write something about Sunday later tonight after taking a break.
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