Sunday 4 November 2018: Current Long-Term Aspects!
Let's review what has been posted here over the past ten days. First, the data for Sunday:
Sunday 4 November 2018
Moon in Libra beginning at 2:02a PT | 5:02a Et | 9:02a UT
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us at its peak and will remain effective until Monday afternoon-evening
Most will be in a serious mood. Let's be patient with ourselves and one another.
Coming Weeks and Months, to New Year (not a complete forecast)
I have been writing at length about Venus opposite Uranus as accentuating differences among people. It does not have to be violence, of course, but is often revulsion or separation, momentarily.
Jupiter is a planet of religion, among other things, and is often involved in squares or oppositions when religious matters spur hatred or violence. The hard Mars-Jupiter aspects (the current square between them lasts until December 13 and will be exact in mid-November) are especially significant in that regard. The 9/11/01 attack occurred on the very first day of an opposition between Mars and Jupiter. There is no doubt that Islamic "extremism" was a principal factor. Just as of course extreme religious bigotry was responsible for last weekend's horrific synagogue tragedy. Whatever our positions on religion and politics, let us be careful to avoid exacerbating differences to an inflammatory degree over the next six weeks (or ever). (That does not mean avoiding all discussion of differences among religions, but trying to keep it civil.)
One very helpful aspect is Mars trine Venus beginning (by ten degrees) October 30. Some comfort, kindness and amicability in relationships and friendships. The aspect lasts through November 27. Then it shall re-begin before Christmas until early February, a highly unusual length because of Venus's retrogradation. Something to be pleased about.
A Slow or Dark Hermetic Epoch began October 28, continuing until December 24. Most people recognize only the three-week core of this period, which is Mercury Retrograde, but the other 2.5-week periods on each side of it are equally likely to be times of review and sometimes backwardness. On the good side it is a two-month period of spiritual progress through deeper understanding, which emerges directly from within and indirectly through what happens on the outside. It can be peaceful and enlightening (light is more visible within the darkness, as it were). It is nothing to worry about although one would be wise to slow down with utterly new plans and focus rather on carrying out old established ones.
The long-term planetary aspect we ought to consider is Venus opposite Uranus. It began August 30 and usually lasts only 20 days or less, but this time, because Venus turned retrograde in early October, it lasts until December 15, believe it or not. Very unusual and you can blame whatever is harsh or difficult in personal relations on it. (Of course I don't mean "Blame the planets," but see that the reason particular problems come out just now has to do with planetary timing; the issues are of human creation.) Because Venus is the money planet, to a large degree, this aspect has also been hard on the stock market, and perhaps on personal financial planning. It is exact at the end of October and early November, will continue, and will be exact again at the end of November and in early December.
It can be separation (Uranus) from the loved one (Venus), or learning to understand the loved one's (Venus) unusual qualities and tendencies (Uranus). Why does he or she have to be this way? is a common question. With Uranus, maybe the only answer is "That's just it; take it or leave it." And so often one does "leave it" for a while, then come back, then again wonder at the loved ones' peculiarities, then leave again for a while. Love becomes a yo-yo.
One might also be asking, "What is it about me that stands out as unusual or peculiar, and how does it affect my reputation or likability?" Yet we are notoriously unable to perceive ourselves as others do; Uranus is the planet of independent originality, of the unique. People may both like and dislike this in ourselves, at various times, and there may be little to do about it.
Of course, among the answers are tolerance, patience, and attempting to comprehend the other's and one's own odd or unique qualities and tendencies. Or one may just adopt the attitude "People are radically different; get over it and accept it happily."
What made all this worse was the accompanying square between Venus and Mars which lasted from August 26 through October 21. The Blasey-Kavanaugh dispute which happened then was only one public and noticeable manifestation of what was going on. Some women declared that there was war between the sexes. One cannot blame everything on the aspect itself, but rather the aspect was showing that that was the time for male culpability to be brought out and recognized, in many forms both public, private and individual. Astrology is formal cause, not material, efficient, or final cause (in Aristotelian terminology).
Now, good news: Though the Venus-Uranus opposition remains, Mars and Venus will be in a trine aspect, very helpful and felicitous, beginning October 30 through November 27. It will return again December 17 through February 9, while the Venus-Uranus opposition will be gone. Happy New Year!
Of course the election is coming up next week. I make no predictions. But what is going on before and after the voting is made pretty clear by what I posted a few days ago: Mars square Jupiter, building up till the middle of November and then remaining till mid-December, exacerbates religious and political differences. And all other disagreements which seem based on principles, ethics or justice. We feel we need to go on a crusade against what is wrong in the world and in people's opinions or attitudes. Fortunately the Mars trine Venus aspect, also present this whole time, will help smooth things out at least on the interpersonal level. So one might feel good about harmony among certain friends and associates, yet disquieted about others who seem wrong or unfair. Taking a stand seems inevitable, yet one wants harmony. Deal with it! Me too. Let's find answers. Love combined with principle.
Cosmic Piper
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