I
finally figured it out, how slow.. I had been wondering for ages why
the creditcrunch took place before Pluto entered Capricorn, and here I
was not even realising I had written an entire book (in Dutch) based
on the principle of how, when Saturn is just about to cross the IC in
one's birthchart, an entire personal cycle finishes, and how we are in
the dark in our life then. (Only the first time after our 30th
birthyear). From that deep and dark and lonely place a whole new cycle
gets born, our true destiny even, if all goes well but for many people
this realization of the new does not even occur until Saturn leaves
the 4th and gets into the 5th house. The deepest hour of darkness and
isolation is not WHEN Saturn crosses the IC but JUST before it, when
it empties out a previous cycle so to speak. Similarly when Saturn
crosses the Midheaven some new phase in our destiny starts and people
can also have a difficult time just before, when Saturn still is at
the end of the 9th house. However, Saturn leaves the quadrant of
relationship (house 7,8,9) then and not the quadrant of personal
discovery (house 1,2,3). Thus, this opposite phase, with Saturn
hoovering around the midheaven is not as isolated and lonely as this
one time when Saturn crosses the IC after our 30th birthday.
Bringing
over Pluto to this cycle as talked about before, and using a mundane
chart with 0 degrees of Aries rising, the deep and the dark took place
in 1912-1913 with Pluto at the end of Gemini and entering Cancer (the
mundane 4th house). Pluto is now hoovering over the midheaven,
and the creditcrunch, collectively and internationally took place with
Pluto at the end of the 9th mundane house (Sagittarius). Pluto has
crossed the midheaven now and a new phase in our collective destiny
has started. Last week, Pluto turned retrograde and makes us
re-address all these issues. Currently Saturn rules Pluto, and opposes
Uranus. The two big points in the year always are when Pluto changes
direction and in the "world" we saw the earthquakes (literally
Saturn-Uranus) in Italy. It is symbolic for a true new (Uranus)
world (Capricorn) order about to be born, these rumblings of the earth
itself. Will democracy (born after 1913) proof it can hold
office with Pluto now in the 10th (so to speak) and not misuse
power? It seems we are about to get there. For now, prospects
look good, but for the next 14 months, hold your breath, with a T
square of Pluto-Uranus-Saturn coming up as well (August 2010).
The short term prospects are good because Jupiter is about to conjunct
Neptune in Aquarius (in May only), but this combination always
provides hope. Aquarian hope, hope and dreams for something new.
Nicely in tune with a wonderful couple of springweeks.
Happy
Easter!