Ang Stoic Astrological Reports

[onawah]

SUN QUINCUNX SATURN
September 1, 2021
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/sun-quincunx-saturn/


"There’s no reason to go along with the crowd and no excuse for compromising your conviction under the impertinent assumption that, if you go as they go, they will accept you; respect you; honour you for joining them.

They will not. The herd mentality is weak, it runs on a lower frequency vibration than that generated by your chastity of heart.

However, if you choose to go your way, remember that you must continue to accept them for going their way. Let them go their way, think what they want to think, offer them your sincerest blessings; for these hapless drones, these ‘birds of a feather’ will contend that have no other choice but to stick together. They are bound together by fear, caught in the slipstream of linear time, a history and future which they do not entirely comprehend, merely at the mercy of its consequence.

And they may judge you because that’s how their statuses like to quo. You are by no means weaker or inferior for standing alone. You may just feel this way right now because the crowd has a way of wearing down your sense of autonomy and conviction, bringing you down to their level…

Stay strong. Just a little further.
There is strength and dignity in your aloneness.

#ᴀᴤᴛʀᴏʟᴏɢʏØʄɴᴏᴡ ☉ ⊼ ♄ | ♂ ☍ ♆ □ ☽ "

[Journeyman]

Posted by onawah (here)
SUN QUINCUNX SATURN
September 1, 2021
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/sun-quincunx-saturn/


"There’s no reason to go along with the crowd and no excuse for compromising your conviction under the impertinent assumption that, if you go as they go, they will accept you; respect you; honour you for joining them.

They will not. The herd mentality is weak, it runs on a lower frequency vibration than that generated by your chastity of heart.

However, if you choose to go your way, remember that you must continue to accept them for going their way. Let them go their way, think what they want to think, offer them your sincerest blessings; for these hapless drones, these ‘birds of a feather’ will contend that have no other choice but to stick together. They are bound together by fear, caught in the slipstream of linear time, a history and future which they do not entirely comprehend, merely at the mercy of its consequence.

And they may judge you because that’s how their statuses like to quo. You are by no means weaker or inferior for standing alone. You may just feel this way right now because the crowd has a way of wearing down your sense of autonomy and conviction, bringing you down to their level…

Stay strong. Just a little further.
There is strength and dignity in your aloneness.

#ᴀᴤᴛʀᴏʟᴏɢʏØʄɴᴏᴡ ☉ ⊼ ♄ | ♂ ☍ ♆ □ ☽ "

He has a gift for writing, these updates invariably have some striking phrases within.

[onawah]

A Rush of Blood to the Head: NEW MOON IN VIRGO – Tuesday, September 7 – 00:53 UTC
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/a-rush-...er-7-0053-utc/



"The New Moon, occurring at 14°38′ Virgo, presents us with a compelling opportunity to hone in on a specific area of our lives and deal with it in our own, inimitable way. Same celestial phenomenon – various points of view. Here, at the Moon synodic reset to the Sun, her unconscious, instinctive energies align with his clear, conscious, creating a confluence of mind-body impulses to move, either in a brand new way or merely reinforce an existing way.

At this moment, something urgent and profound is coming through. Though it may seem shocking and totally unexpected, you may soon come to admit that it was indeed expected, you just refused to prepare, and now it’s here…

New Moons are a coming together of primal energies. Feel into how certain pressing matters have been conspiring to summon your undivided attention lately. Observe how those matters are calling you to make a firm decision. With the synergy of Mars here, also currently in Virgo, taking action on our decisions may become an irrepressible necessity.

In this mutable earth sign, Virgo lunations accentuate the primary attributes of practicality, ensuring we keep up to speed with the necessary skills and tools to utilise and manage material concerns and financial resources more efficiently. The annual lunation in this sign embodies our interests in these things, ensuring that shrewd practicality is applied with intelligence and dexterity. We see this in our work, health, functional routine, and how we deal with anxiety, stress and problematic issues.

Virgo, the virgin/maiden – the sign of the harvest – symbolises the purification process as a preparatory step towards further development. Following on from the bombast, glory and bluster of last month’s fiery Leo lunations, Virgo focuses her efforts on the stripping down and refinement of the ego, rendering a grounding effect to any personal motives still tinged with Leo’s overt behaviour. She tames down any wild, audacious drives into something more functional, useful and ready for service.

Virgo’s preoccupation with efficiency, duty, economic restraint and her strong ethic towards continuous improvement and physical well-being are highly commendable. Yet, her perfectionism can often degenerate into an attitude of pedantry and, more negatively, an air of conceit and hypercriticism. At this lunation, the concentration of Sun, Moon, and Mars energies will undoubtedly compel us to get the job done or, given the earth trine to the obsessive Pluto, set out a plan to “complete it at any cost”. Pluto’s square to Eris adds a tinge of “get with the program or be left out in the cold” to this – a running theme for 2020-2021. As we are seeing, there are many different ways that one might take this.



Of course, we must consider each lunation in context to other planetary transits, especially those in aspect to this event. Here we see an almost precise (-0º01′) trine to Uranus. The planet Uranus symbolises an extraneous force that manifests as sudden reversals of life patterns, unexpected shifts in consciousness, flashes of pure insight, and lightning blasts of new ideas and innovative concepts. Uranus acts as a conduit through which profound forces flow into awareness with electric rapidity. Uranus also stimulates a surge of independence, rebellion, erratic and unconventional behaviour, acts of radical insurgency.

Whist the earth-trine influence of Uranus in Taurus lends this Virgo lunation’s intention for efficiency and utility the latest innovative ideas; it does not make this lunation exceptionally stable. The New Moon acts as a channel via which we can utilise innovative new tools & material resources, endowing us all with an electrified, magnetised charge. There is a spark of hope here, for if all goes well, we are left feeling illuminated.

Contrary to popular opinion, Uranus doesn’t always act destructively. It does suggest that there may be some upsets and disruptions, though, and only when there is resistance to its influence does it manifest as destructive. Still, anything wiped out suddenly (old ideas, habits, traditions, relationships, possessions etc.) was probably due for renewal anyway. This lunation promises Promethean-scale changes that will sweep through all humankind, shocking revelations that have the potential effect of reorganising (often by first disorganising) our old ways of doing things to usher in a new way.

In this strange world of pandemics and fears about survival and untimely death, those who have been living in a repressed manner, where vital elements of their inherent freedoms have been denied, neglected, or ignored, the trine from Uranus acts to speed up the moment of release, at least from the not knowing. In the lead up to this New Moon, if you have been experiencing anxious anticipation, nervously agitated, restless, excitable, or driven by an overwhelming urge for change and deliverance from the shackles of the past, then this lunation offers a chance at liberation, awakening and illumination from the linear time sequence. In any sense, it will stir up both your inner and outer experiences with such enervating intensity that things are seldom the same afterwards. And they won’t be, I promise you.



This lunation quarters up to direct T-square to Neptune a week later, where it seems, with Saturn also in the mix, that some area of current worldly experiences clashes brutally with our most profound spiritual longings. Whist the result can be utter confusion, despair and disappointment, Virgo’s faculty for acute discrimination (Virgo is opposite from woolly, woozy Neptune in Pisces) will help us to clarify for ourselves what is practical, to facilitate both our spiritual and material growth and what is merely a fantasy or delusion. So yeah, time to wake up and face the music, one might say.
Blessings, and may you have an amazing New Moon xx "

[onawah]

Survival of the “Fittest” Pluto/Eris
September 12, 2021
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/cosmic-...ree+Newsletter


"Before Saturn and Pluto turn direct in early October, we will see the most immense pressure on what is already a planet ripping down the seams. If you're feeling it, I feel you. Have faith, that...



9/11, occurring during an exact opposition of SATURN/PLUTO, an event which horrified many of us. As usual, the utter cruelty experienced during hard Saturn/Pluto transits meant that the world became easily manipulated by the powers that be into a state of mass hysteria and fear and terror.

Under the extreme panic and stress propagated relentlessly in the media, the people were easily misled into accepting 'corrective actions' of the Bush Administration (and its then allies) to wage wars upon Afghanistan, then Iraq, leading to the rise of ISIS, the Syrian civil war, which led to a flood of millions of refugees into Europe, resulting in rising nationalism and far-right extremism, which led to Brexit due to demands to control sovereign borders to stem immigrants flooding in from the middle east, Islamophobia, terrorist attacks, and the weakening of the EU.

By the end of the Bush-era, it was becoming blatantly evident that world governments had taken their people into wars in the Middle East based on false intelligence and blatant lies (about WMD's and Al Qaeda). The phoney premises cost many lives, and it was obvious that the west was incompetent and incapable of even running a tea party over on foreign lands. They had learned nothing from their failure in Vietnam. And the masses, they forget…

By 2008, the sudden global financial crisis saw many working-class folks lose their homes. Countries like Greece, Ukraine, Argentina, Jamaica were left in economic ruin, while the ordinary people of Ireland, Russia, Mexico, Hungary, and the Baltic states suffered devastating losses. Of course, the governments bailed out the banks to maintain the illusion that all was OK.

By 2019, European Union, once a great world power, became increasingly ineffectual in strength. This left the field wide open for China to take on the USA over who has the most economically progressive model for the future. USA drew a lot of power from the oil wells of Saudi, but it was evident to the Chinese that the new 'oil' was in 'data'.

Then, in 2020, came Covid.

America, barely hanging in the contest with its powerful military and tech-economy prowess, was about to be tested. In the grips of a pandemic, deepening domestic divisions, brewing since the Obama days, were now erupting into some seriously ugly scenes of civil disorder by the time Trump and his "basket of deplorable" were finished dishing it out to the elites.

ERIS had unleashed her apple of discord.

Here, in the aftermath of the pandemic and a disastrous legacy left by wars in the Middle East, the world now looks at America with ridicule and dismay. She will soon be unwelcome to any garden party.

Meanwhile, China's capacity to lock down hard, then rebound after Covid only demonstrates to envious dictators everywhere that the 'authoritarian capitalism' model is the sexiest on the planet.

Governing over a highly-controlled citizenry via the iron fist of a deep-surveillance algorithm seems like the one model being embraced and implemented by many aspiring dictators and control freaks everywhere in the western 'nations'. Here in Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK, 'puppet leaders', commandeered by billionaire biotech and infotech corporateers, are drooling with envy at China's Social Credit system of managing the masses. They are banding desperately to eliminate national identities/borders, creating quasi-economic bubbles within which they can filter the good eggs from the bad…

Since the SATURN/PLUTO conjunction in CAPRICORN (Jan 2020), the west has seen a subtle, yet increasingly comprehensive sweep of new authoritarian structures which are fast replacing the lovely 'liberal freedom' and 'economic autonomy' we enjoyed since the URANUS/NEPTUNE conjunction in CAPRICORN (1993).

Yet the cards are not all dealt out yet. The legacy of 9/11 is still fresh, and ordinary folks today are all but entirely distrustful of government and corporate elites and their fearmongering campaigns to corral humanity for their own profit. Many do not buy into the blatant insincerity propagated by their media machines, and deep down, nobody really trusts that governments have the peoples' interests about security and safety as a primary concern anymore.

Very soon, a critical mass who see that this is all about the corporations amassing total power, wealth and control over the minds and resources of their own children is about to snap, and, as the saying goes, my friends, even the worm will turn…."

[onawah]

“MOUNTAINS OUT OF MOLEHILLS” – FIRST QUARTER MOON at 21°16′ SAGITTARIUS
September 14, 2021
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/mountai...pQJz1BLyZzNZv0



"Outside, in the distant outer regions, a great drama continues to secretly unfold. The PLUTO/ERIS square tries desperately to further separate and divide the powerful from the weak, the rich from the destitute, the rightfully entitled from the underclass, the socially relevant and esteemed from the useless and troublesome. These outer, outer planets work to place the masses under the blinding spell of unyielding obedience and compliance with catchphrases like “evolve or perish”. Under such periods of heavy coercion, extreme ultimatums can be horrifying. But is the fear real, or is it something we can easily dispel?

Meanwhile, the Sun is closing in on another Equinox…

The Sun’s reign through Virgo starts to subside as he enters the last decanate through this practical, adaptable sign. His transit here shows us how to be more efficient with our service, both to others and the great divine and to use our skills to help others gain greater self-sufficiency. The earth trine from Uranus during last week’s New Moon has certainly shifted our approach to how we like to do things, radicalizing attitudes and expressions, often with some very queer, unusual revelations.

A week later, the Moon is now about to form her first quarter from the sign of Sagittarius. This lunar phase presents a crisis point since Sagittarius tends to be broad and sloppy, and the Moon here presents significant issues for the generally exacting and fastidious Virgo Sun. Some degree of tension is evident, particularly in our personal lives. Problems may arise due to unconscious tendencies to fudge over or neglect the more practical matters of our lives. Virgo’s concern with the excruciating minutiae of everyday life will feel very constricting to the free-ranging, devil-may-care side of Sagittarius, who can hardly be bothered with details and chores. There’s a likelihood to make ‘mountains out of molehills’, exaggerating our own or others’ flaws and perhaps become overly liberal with criticisms.



At times like these, the need to be critical or skeptical of others’ beliefs is of utmost necessity, especially when others show arrogance or dogma towards our own values and truth. With Neptune opposing the Sun, these issues can become highly distorted, convoluted or simply too confounding to address clearly and critically. It can be challenging to analyze and evaluate options and choices correctly, primarily if, in relationships, we focus on self-created and imaginary issues rather than actual problems. Terrible misunderstandings and feelings of being undermined by those we need to trust on health, work, service (Virgo stuff) can lead us to adopt a sacrificial martyr attitude. Hence, confrontations that go awry will impact our soul experience with such deep discontentment and psychic torment that, with the harshness of Saturn also involved, may lead to despair.



This temporary state of chaos is not as bad as it may sound, for when we go through such periods of sadness and despair, it raises red flags that something is not well in our current lives and hence must change. Lies and deception will not stand, for they provide poor foundations for any trust. We must couple the discerning power of the Virgo Sun with the empathetic nature of Neptune to see where we have been prone to excessive fantasies and wishful thinking, accept being wrong and take responsibility, rather than attempt to lay blame on the shoulders of others.

If a change must occur in our relationships, we must try to weed out the issue—escapism or defensive mechanisms do not provide acceptable forms of protection. With Venus squaring Saturn, bleak situations may have to come to an arrangement that is at least workable, but it is a sign that things may need to end.

In the lead up to next week’s Pisces Full Moon, this is an excellent time to assess and appraise messy situations, both internally and with the exterior world that we create through our relationships with people, places and things. Time to sort things out. This is a time to set out a practical plan and follow through with some degree of execution. Nothing is more satisfying than achieving a set result. Despite all the chaos and confusion, practicing our routine regularly, we slowly and methodically accomplish the outcome we wish to achieve."

[onawah]

Pisces Full Moon at 28°14' --Libra Equinox 9/22/2021
https://app.getresponse.com/view.htm...hv4&z=Eh4TVKc&



"Greetings Fellow Travellers,
As we approach the Libra Equinox (Wed, Sep 22), we see the Sun reach his cardinal culmination point, where life turns its focus from the subjective to the objective field of interests. EQUINOXES are significant moments, marking critical shifts in our awareness. Coinciding with a Full Moon, the spell of this awakening moment is magnified intensely.

After six months of personal development, we are now about to move into assessing ourselves in the context of our relationships with others. What comes into greater circumspection is the awareness of our intersubjective importance through the mirror of 'others' in our world. As such, our perceptions of the outside world become gradually amplified; things that are not us but of which we are a part come to light with an increasingly expanding range.

Over the next six months, our encounters become more widely social. Hence, everything we are becoming is eventually held to reference and defined by the 'other', whether singular or collective.

The Full Moon, occurring in the final stages of the Virgo/Pisces dichotomy, is also a culmination. Hence, we are pitted to take an extraordinarily objective, conscious approach to life and our apparent reality keynotes this. The initial impulse of things 'sensed' (internally) and experienced (externally) now reaches its zenith, providing us with an opportunity to engage with matters that have been developing with some degree of give-and-take until a settlement has been reached. Confrontation and conflict are likely where the scales of balance are tipped in favour of one side versus the other.

Issues that are not sitting well, both personally and in our outer, interpersonal universe, start to really matter. We are called to manage on finding some method of mediation to restore any imbalances. We become more involved with politics, career direction and social status, and hence, seek to find our own relative importance in this strange version of society; trying to determine our role in the scheme of life's great cosmic opera.

We are living in times where great changes are occurring. Much is happening that we simply do not understand. Outer planetary cycles, from Jupiter and Saturn, to Uranus and Neptune and as far out as Pluto and Eris are simultaneously at critical stages of their development. These concurrent crises present tremendous hurdles and jolt to our pre-existing understanding of our own intersubjective part in this cosmic dance.

One and all, the orthodox structures are starting to crumble into ruins due to humanity's inability to maintain the old illusion of order and 'normality' any longer. We see everywhere that past systems (laws, policies, religions, constitutions, etc) are filled with loopholes, inconsistencies and errors which, in a capitalistic framework, have been hijacked and manipulated by the cleverest and most fierce. Rampant profiteering has given rise to an utter disregard for basic decency and inalienable human rights and freedoms.

As these abuses and corruptions come to light, we must all prepare ourselves for an avalanche of revelations and disclosures that, over the next six months, will shift our prior conceptions about this world to a whole new level.

Over the next few weeks, harsh transits augur a period of unprecedented unease and unrest. This irritability and tension you are feeling within, now growing among one and all, is what is absolutely necessary to shift our awareness. Humanity appears stuck in a place of scarcity, materialistic greed and blind disdain for the value of one another. It will take enormous work, a miracle of sorts, to see our species move into a more unified position of responsibility, where we can see our actions (conscious or unwitting) as patently uncooperative and destructive. In many respects, we are surely setting ourselves up for a spectacular series of crises that will not cease until the next Equinox, in March 2022.

As we look around, we observe that people are behaving in the most unusual ways. We are so divided that we cannot seem to find a common thread by which to form sustainable bonds and alliances that serve us amicably without creating some collateral loss, damage or neglect. Saturn's progress through Aquarius has fragmented our interconnectivity and dissociated us from existing networks. We stand divided and seemingly incapable of reconstituting ourselves towards a common vision that benefits the entire group equally and fairly.

This key matter becomes the single most pressing observation into the next few weeks, as Mercury now in his retrograde shadow in Libra, is about to hold a sustained T-square to the Pluto/Eris square. Global corruptions come to light that cannot be denied or defended and by Oct 9, when the Sun & Mars form a conjunction to an Rx Mercury, we see 'sides' forming to take action.

At the Pisces Full Moon, we reach full awareness of where we have become disillusioned and either retreated into our fantasy or drifted aimlessly, paralyzed by the confusion we created.



If we look at recent events in our lives, we can see a theme. Instances are arising where we must make a decision about specific matters. If we have become stuck, attempting to resolve one particular issue but have lost all perspective of the greater purpose, then we must find a way to experience the whole situation and its resolution without meandering from one irrelevancy to another.

Focusing upon the peripheral or insignificant matters rather than issues of principal concern has gradually moved us away from our spirit centre, made us emotionally vulnerable, insecure and incapable of coping with our real daily responsibilities. This is why Full Moons are critical.

If you find that your life has turned inward, given to self-pity and negative thinking; if you're sensing your emotional sensitivity now eating away at your physical health and mental well-being; if you are experiencing psychosomatic disorders or are mired by some kind of spiritual paralysis; becoming addicted to drugs, tobacco, alcohol, porn, Netflix or some other escapist trick; looking to medications and other paraphernalia to 'heal' what is essentially a spiritual disease, then it's time to come to terms with those debilitating habits.

Similarly, if in your relationships you see yourself attempting to compensate for a shaky self-image by meekly submitting to the demands of others; allowing yourself to be exploited and victimized; exercising little discrimination in how to live your life, thus becoming increasingly disillusioned and bitter, critical of those you thought you trusted, then it's time to quit drowning in a sea of pitiful feelings and work to restore some order and clarity to that confusion and feelings of being cheated, mistreated and undermined.

It all starts with you drawing the line. Instead of blindly trusting others or the exterior universe to just 'fix itself', we each must assess each issue of concern realistically, choosing relationships and activities that are uplifting and enabling us to reach towards the Pisces heights of inspiration and transcendence. This is the highest possible vibration from Neptune, ruler of this nebulous, quantum field of infinite possibilities.

Opposite, the Virgo Sun helps us to determine which specific current of waves will carry us to which shore so that we surrender only to the flow that streams in accordance with our unique inner vision. We must learn to surf that wave in a way that has practical application and which enables us to manifest our highest ideals.

Hence, this Full Moon grounds us by showing us how to translate our compassion and spirituality into service. Unless we apply ourselves with diligence and dedication to even the most menial tasks - duties that benefit both ourselves and others, we are not working to serve the divine order. We must stop squandering energy into selfish pursuits. The universe is here to push us along now. There is nothing useless under the Sun. It either helps actively or prepares to soon feed the worms.

Here, in a matter of just a few days, "the worm will turn".

The Moon seeks to reconcile our dreamy, idealistic Pisces side to make a useful contribution to humanity, while the Virgo Sun directs us toward disciplining our imagination, channelling inspiration into creative work, perfecting ourselves so that we are more capable of living more practically by our ideals. This lunation ensures that we choose the right people to serve, that our assistance is warranted, not wasted and does not weaken or undermine our cause but reinforces and empowers both parties, opening our hearts even more fully to explore the divine energies within and in the cosmic field.

Many Blessings, and have an amazing Full Moon and Equinox xx"

[onawah]

FULL MOON at 27°26′ ARIES
Wednesday Oct 20, 14:58 UTC
https://angstoic.com/2021/10/end-thi...t-20-1458-utc/

(Full Moon in Aries can mean a sleepless night or two, even for insomniacs)



"It’s Full Moon time again where, at the height of the lunation cycle, emotions run high, causing all kinds of conflict. Full Moons are times of culmination. Blessed by the complete light of both Sun and Moon, these illuminated days and nights in our lunar calendar are times when we will make all important decisions. Since the luminary energies are diametrically opposite, we may choose to capitulate, dissent, or even bring an end to matters, especially if they have been particularly troubling.

When the Moon is in Aries, emotions are raw, instincts are primitive and direct, moods fiery and impulsive and forceful enough to influence our conscious will. An irrepressible hastiness or rashness permeates the collective atmosphere, and ordinary, everyday folks are prone to react without thinking. This stands in contrast to the Sun in airy Libra, who tends to overthink and never decide on any one direct action.

One might expect that a Mars-ruled Aries Moon would lead to arguments, protestations and wars, especially in conjunction to Eris, the snubbed sister of Mars who led the world into strife and discord. Yet Mars is in his sign of detriment in Libra, effectively dampened in his strike, so there is a pervading hesitancy about taking any action at all. This wait-and-see reluctance is only augmented by the Libra Sun, who in his fall, is at his most indecisive, ceding his sovereign authority by obliging or pandering to the will of others.

Most critical here, with Pluto T-squaring this lunation from the austerely judgemental Capricorn. Pluto, ruler of the underworld, seems to be holding this entire lunation under full control using his dark, subversive means. Hence any conflict we are facing under this lunation is more likely to be raging deep inside, psychologically suppressed from coming to the surface in any healthy way, which is a concern, since past traumas, abuses and destructive patterns of behaviour are likely to be triggered. For healing to occur, there must be some acknowledgement that there is a problem, and Pluto here holds everyone under his hypnotic spell of secrecy and powerful manipulation.

Deep down in the psyche, raging battles become so fierce and intense that they either crush our desires and passions or operate at the crudest levels, ready to erupt like a vol­cano, exploding into cruel and destructive be­haviours.

By the time the Aries Moon reaches the full height of culmination, these raw, reactive emotions are shoved down, banished into the pits of our unconscious. Terrified of expressing our natural, most atavistic instincts lest others judge us for not being ‘civilised’ or ‘spiritually aware’ or ‘mature’ enough, we feel trapped by a sense of guilt and shame. Social pressure is coming from everywhere, especially the Jupiter and Saturn in the group-minded Aquarius, Pluto in Capricorn’s subversive patriarchal power, partners and consults in Libra. Our own conscience tells us we can no longer stomach the hypocrisy of our being. Something is not sitting well and we become ready to explode at the slightest provocation or grievance.



As we can see, Pluto in Capricorn holds this whole lunation to ransom. The Libra/Aries polarity is about maintaining our ability to per­ceive and evaluate alternatives before acting, determining which of many possibilities is most viable, working in moderation, not in haste, considering how other people are involved and demonstrating fair­ness and a willingness to cooperate with them. Pluto squaring both Sun/Mars in Libra and the Moon/Eris in Aries is determined to accomplish his own patriarchal, state or corporate agenda.

For many years now he has been working to restructure the basic structure of society, a program now creating enormous inner turmoil for both luminaries (Sun and Moon) and their war-like siblings (Mars and Eris). As light is being shed, we both see and sense a ruthless design to satisfy Pluto’s hidden urge to survive and dominate at any cost. For the sake of social status, corporate or political power, for wealth and profit, career advancement, job prestige and execution or just plain utter greed, we be­come enslaved by un underlying sexual and material obsession that threatens to override any hope for harmony and peace.

The Libran awareness, which teaches us that we can compromise or cooperate yet still re­tain our Aries independence; that we can still engage in social activities yet still satisfy our most urgent desires, seems hijacked here. Those possessed by Pluto’s spell seem hell-bent to wreak vengeance upon those they feel may harm them—dominating and exploiting anyone who dares and cannot stand up to their power. The dark triad, now pervading the collective like some parasitic mind-virus, has hypnotised our keen perceptiveness of others to manipulate them into satisfying our most base and insidious needs for domination and supreme power.

The laws we uphold and commitments we make to each other to liberate the flow of energy, allowing a bilateral opportunity for increased motivation and freedom of action, are being overcome and held to ransom by Pluto’s dark forces. When every experience must be intense and transforming, every action motivated by a do-or-die attitude to life, we become extremists in the truest sense. We can neither accept others nor ourselves because we view the world through black and white lenses. When judgment becomes harsh and intolerant, we are at peril of breaking into psychosis.

How do we form bonds according to our deepest inclinations, where we seem more decidedly self-directed – not scattered or divided from others, but instead united by the greater Self at the centre of our being? How do we harness and channel those powerful Plutonian energies, sit at peace with the darkness that lurks at our core without allowing it to subdue or disfigure our primordial integrity?

This lunation has the potential to teach us all to live by higher laws and to form loving, enduring relationships. When we allow the demons that rage within to take over, we feel powerless in controlling ourselves. We see ourselves acting compulsively to control, exploit or shut out those who do not conform to our wishes or our percep­tions of reality. Our attempt to wield power over others must be contained, forced or compelled to undergo drastic changes. Crises happen upon us when we do not rise to the challenge ourselves.


Discovering, accessing and accepting those primal forces enables us to draw from an inexhaustible reserve of energy and personal power to cope with major crises. We can start with regenerating our depleted and discouraged selves and begin to get involved with total commitment in an activity, cause or relationship that warrants and commands our total energetic investment.

AT THIS POWERFUL MOMENT,
FEEL THE PULL TO END AN OLD, ARCHAIC CONSTRUCT.
IT IS TIME TO RELEASE FROM THE HYPNOTIC SPELL OF DARK, CORROSIVE PATRILINEAL PATTERNS,
CONTRACTS OF DOMINATION AND GOVERNANCE OVER OTHERS THAT NO LONGER SERVE

CAN YOU SEE IT?
SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS WAITING FOR YOU
IF YOU CAN LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM THE DYNAMICS OF CONTROL
AND STEP INTO LIVING DEEPLY AND INTENSELY,
ABLE TO RELAX AND ENJOY SIMPLE, QUIET PLEASURES.

You will soon die and be reborn. While this experience will tear you apart, it will also strengthen you, fusing you in­to a whole new being, empowering you, again and again, to be revitalised by the healing energies within you.

Blessings, and may you have an amazing Full Moon xx "

[onawah]

Sun in Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)
October 24, 2019
https://angstoic.com/2019/10/sun-sco...3-november-21/


"Now let’s talk a little bit about Scorpio. This sign is FIXED/WATER:

FIXED = Rigid, holding onto
WATER = Feelings, emotions

Holding on to emotions? Yep, at the root of it all, this is how stellar bodies transiting through the Scorpio constellation tend to operate. Whatever their primal energy, it gets turned into a feeling, then absolutely drowns itself in it.

A feeling. Something most of us only ever experience only in the fleeting moment.

And the Sun, our sense of individual authority, now enters a world steeped in emotion and starts to submerge himself in this, deeper and deeper, ever more passionate ways, so much so that he becomes so immersed by his emotions that we wonder whether he’s ever gonna come up for air.

The Scorpio influence on the Sun means he does not just experience feelings like the rest of us, who merely sense them as a mildly whimsical response to what is going on in our environment. Scorpio actually gets an intense ‘kick’ from feelings. In Scorpio, life becomes an abstruse pursuit for ‘deeper stimulation’, much like a pig hunting prized truffles. When they finally track down these highly cherished objects of desire – and Scorpio is extremely skillful in detecting whatever delicious emotion tickles their fancy – they lock their keen homing devices upon them (like the fixated sensation-junkies that they are) and work compulsively towards sequestering them into a quiet private corner, where they can slowly, privately devour them to death, savouring every little salacious ounce.

Fixed water. Holding those emotions.

Imagine holding onto a feeling. Could be cool, right? Like that taste of that first mouthful of triple chocolate ice-cream. Imagine holding that. Or that moment of true love’s first kiss under a balmy summer moon; or that priceless moment after everyone has left the house and you have slipped into a nice hot bath with a great book; or that golden moment when it is announced that you are the holder of the winning ticket in the annual sweepstakes; or, most of all, that exhilarating moment of orgasm – that ego-annihilating blast of sensations that jettisons your every living cell into the realms of divine bliss… (you get the picture, right?)

So suppose you could hold and store these feelings – to be able to access these sensations on demand. This is what Scorpio aspires to do.

And we are not just speaking about positive sensations either. Scorpio is just as turned on by pain as it is with pleasure. In fact, they’ll take any feeling and hold it – anything at all, as long as it gives them an emotional kick. They revel in it. They LOVE it. To death…

..that’s right, DEATH. They will pursue something that gives them a kick, even if it kills them. Well, not necessarily literally, but you get it. They will do something that serves to thrill them until there’s nothing left but the exalted feeling of having died and become reborn. No wonder this is the sign associated with sex. The orgasmic point is like a little death in itself.

Yet, to a Scorpio, any emotion is better than no emotion. Because Scorpio cannot stand emotional numbness. This is why this sign is strongly associated with ‘change’. They would sooner turn everything upside down looking for a thrill rather than become subjected to what they consider a dull, morose and predictable emotional nothingness. Even if the thrill is an intensely painful or destructive one…

We all have Scorpio somewhere in our chart. It is the side of us that stores all the powerful emotions – the dizzying highs and crushing lows of being human – the place from which we draw our deepest satisfaction (and our utmost disgust) in our quest to behold the object of our pursuit.

It is the place that moves us, not physically or mentally, but much deeper and in ways that we are often unable to describe with words. Only in feelings; feelings so intense and held so deeply that they are often hidden from even our own consciousness. Yet we know them. We know these feelings too well. They are what constitute our true psychology – our motivated response to what stimulates us in our environment. Deep down, our feelings become the motivation behind everything that feeds our desire for love, power and glory, and fuels our rage and madness when these things are denied to us.

They form the basis to all our beliefs because, based on our feelings about something, we go on to determine whether something is essentially real for us, or whether it is not.

If it is feels right, we wish to hold it, possess it.
If not, we might wish to eliminate or destroy it.

With the Sun in Scorpio for the next 30 days, it is time to look deeper into what we are holding and what must change in our world."

[gord]

Re: scorpio

Here's a litte piece of my natal chart for the curious.



Fun stuff.

[onawah]

Geminis are very curious, and I have a lot of Gemini in my chart, and I was wondering recently about a particular Avalonian, and if there are some strong Scorpio aspects in her chart because her posts have a tendency to "stir things up" a lot, that being a Scorpio trait.

See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

I quoted in that thread something from this thread (in the post above, #328), as follows:
""And we are not just speaking about positive sensations either. Scorpio is just as turned on by pain as it is with pleasure. In fact, they’ll take any feeling and hold it – anything at all, as long as it gives them an emotional kick. They revel in it. They LOVE it. To death…

..that’s right, DEATH. They will pursue something that gives them a kick, even if it kills them. Well, not necessarily literally, but you get it. They will do something that serves to thrill them until there’s nothing left but the exalted feeling of having died and become reborn. No wonder this is the sign associated with sex. The orgasmic point is like a little death in itself.

Yet, to a Scorpio, any emotion is better than no emotion. Because Scorpio cannot stand emotional numbness. This is why this sign is strongly associated with ‘change’. They would sooner turn everything upside down looking for a thrill rather than become subjected to what they consider a dull, morose and predictable emotional nothingness. Even if the thrill is an intensely painful or destructive one…

We all have Scorpio somewhere in our chart. It is the side of us that stores all the powerful emotions – the dizzying highs and crushing lows of being human – the place from which we draw our deepest satisfaction (and our utmost disgust) in our quest to behold the object of our pursuit.

It is the place that moves us, not physically or mentally, but much deeper and in ways that we are often unable to describe with words. Only in feelings; feelings so intense and held so deeply that they are often hidden from even our own consciousness. Yet we know them. We know these feelings too well. They are what constitute our true psychology – our motivated response to what stimulates us in our environment. Deep down, our feelings become the motivation behind everything that feeds our desire for love, power and glory, and fuels our rage and madness when these things are denied to us.

They form the basis to all our beliefs because, based on our feelings about something, we go on to determine whether something is essentially real for us, or whether it is not.

If it is feels right, we wish to hold it, possess it.
If not, we might wish to eliminate or destroy it.

With the Sun in Scorpio for the next 30 days, it is time to look deeper into what we are holding and what must change in our world."

***********************

Things did get rather stirred up in that thread, which was started by the Mod Gracy, and I asked her out of curiosity if she would reveal whether she has some strong Scorpio elements in her chart.

You can see her reply here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

Thanks to Gracy for that.

There is a site devoted to astrology here: https://www.astro.com/horoscope
...where everyone can get their own chart made up quickly and automatically for free and it can be quite accurate, especially if you know your time of birth (and place, of course).

Not everyone would be willing to make that kind of info public (especially Scorpios), but it's a very good way for students of astrology to better understand how to identify characteristics in people by knowing their astrological info, and that has always fascinated me.
(And I was not asking for her full chart, in any case, but am just providing the link to the astro site for anyone who could benefit from it.)

(BTW, some astrologers, reportedly, are able to figure out another person's chart just by meeting them in person, so I have never doubted that it is a true science and art, and can be very helpful for people trying to understand each other, as well as the universe in general.

Of course, not all students of astrology agree about everything, but that's to be expected...)

[mozo33]

Posted by onawah (here)
Survival of the “Fittest” Pluto/Eris
September 12, 2021
https://angstoic.com/2021/09/cosmic-...ree+Newsletter


"Before Saturn and Pluto turn direct in early October, we will see the most immense pressure on what is already a planet ripping down the seams. If you're feeling it, I feel you. Have faith, that...



9/11, occurring during an exact opposition of SATURN/PLUTO, an event which horrified many of us. As usual, the utter cruelty experienced during hard Saturn/Pluto transits meant that the world became easily manipulated by the powers that be into a state of mass hysteria and fear and terror.

Under the extreme panic and stress propagated relentlessly in the media, the people were easily misled into accepting 'corrective actions' of the Bush Administration (and its then allies) to wage wars upon Afghanistan, then Iraq, leading to the rise of ISIS, the Syrian civil war, which led to a flood of millions of refugees into Europe, resulting in rising nationalism and far-right extremism, which led to Brexit due to demands to control sovereign borders to stem immigrants flooding in from the middle east, Islamophobia, terrorist attacks, and the weakening of the EU.

By the end of the Bush-era, it was becoming blatantly evident that world governments had taken their people into wars in the Middle East based on false intelligence and blatant lies (about WMD's and Al Qaeda). The phoney premises cost many lives, and it was obvious that the west was incompetent and incapable of even running a tea party over on foreign lands. They had learned nothing from their failure in Vietnam. And the masses, they forget…

By 2008, the sudden global financial crisis saw many working-class folks lose their homes. Countries like Greece, Ukraine, Argentina, Jamaica were left in economic ruin, while the ordinary people of Ireland, Russia, Mexico, Hungary, and the Baltic states suffered devastating losses. Of course, the governments bailed out the banks to maintain the illusion that all was OK.

By 2019, European Union, once a great world power, became increasingly ineffectual in strength. This left the field wide open for China to take on the USA over who has the most economically progressive model for the future. USA drew a lot of power from the oil wells of Saudi, but it was evident to the Chinese that the new 'oil' was in 'data'.

Then, in 2020, came Covid.

America, barely hanging in the contest with its powerful military and tech-economy prowess, was about to be tested. In the grips of a pandemic, deepening domestic divisions, brewing since the Obama days, were now erupting into some seriously ugly scenes of civil disorder by the time Trump and his "basket of deplorable" were finished dishing it out to the elites.

ERIS had unleashed her apple of discord.

Here, in the aftermath of the pandemic and a disastrous legacy left by wars in the Middle East, the world now looks at America with ridicule and dismay. She will soon be unwelcome to any garden party.

Meanwhile, China's capacity to lock down hard, then rebound after Covid only demonstrates to envious dictators everywhere that the 'authoritarian capitalism' model is the sexiest on the planet.

Governing over a highly-controlled citizenry via the iron fist of a deep-surveillance algorithm seems like the one model being embraced and implemented by many aspiring dictators and control freaks everywhere in the western 'nations'. Here in Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK, 'puppet leaders', commandeered by billionaire biotech and infotech corporateers, are drooling with envy at China's Social Credit system of managing the masses. They are banding desperately to eliminate national identities/borders, creating quasi-economic bubbles within which they can filter the good eggs from the bad…

Since the SATURN/PLUTO conjunction in CAPRICORN (Jan 2020), the west has seen a subtle, yet increasingly comprehensive sweep of new authoritarian structures which are fast replacing the lovely 'liberal freedom' and 'economic autonomy' we enjoyed since the URANUS/NEPTUNE conjunction in CAPRICORN (1993).

Yet the cards are not all dealt out yet. The legacy of 9/11 is still fresh, and ordinary folks today are all but entirely distrustful of government and corporate elites and their fearmongering campaigns to corral humanity for their own profit. Many do not buy into the blatant insincerity propagated by their media machines, and deep down, nobody really trusts that governments have the peoples' interests about security and safety as a primary concern anymore.

Very soon, a critical mass who see that this is all about the corporations amassing total power, wealth and control over the minds and resources of their own children is about to snap, and, as the saying goes, my friends, even the worm will turn…."

Job believed the son of man was a worm until he turned ... a perception trod underfoot ...

[Journeyman]

Posted by onawah (here)
Geminis are very curious, and I have a lot of Gemini in my chart, and I was wondering recently about a particular Avalonian, and if there are some strong Scorpio aspects in her chart because her posts have a tendency to "stir things up" a lot, that being a Scorpio trait.

See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

I quoted in that thread something from this thread (in the post above, #328), as follows:
""And we are not just speaking about positive sensations either. Scorpio is just as turned on by pain as it is with pleasure. In fact, they’ll take any feeling and hold it – anything at all, as long as it gives them an emotional kick. They revel in it. They LOVE it. To death…

..that’s right, DEATH. They will pursue something that gives them a kick, even if it kills them. Well, not necessarily literally, but you get it. They will do something that serves to thrill them until there’s nothing left but the exalted feeling of having died and become reborn. No wonder this is the sign associated with sex. The orgasmic point is like a little death in itself.

Yet, to a Scorpio, any emotion is better than no emotion. Because Scorpio cannot stand emotional numbness. This is why this sign is strongly associated with ‘change’. They would sooner turn everything upside down looking for a thrill rather than become subjected to what they consider a dull, morose and predictable emotional nothingness. Even if the thrill is an intensely painful or destructive one…

We all have Scorpio somewhere in our chart. It is the side of us that stores all the powerful emotions – the dizzying highs and crushing lows of being human – the place from which we draw our deepest satisfaction (and our utmost disgust) in our quest to behold the object of our pursuit.

It is the place that moves us, not physically or mentally, but much deeper and in ways that we are often unable to describe with words. Only in feelings; feelings so intense and held so deeply that they are often hidden from even our own consciousness. Yet we know them. We know these feelings too well. They are what constitute our true psychology – our motivated response to what stimulates us in our environment. Deep down, our feelings become the motivation behind everything that feeds our desire for love, power and glory, and fuels our rage and madness when these things are denied to us.

They form the basis to all our beliefs because, based on our feelings about something, we go on to determine whether something is essentially real for us, or whether it is not.

If it is feels right, we wish to hold it, possess it.
If not, we might wish to eliminate or destroy it.

With the Sun in Scorpio for the next 30 days, it is time to look deeper into what we are holding and what must change in our world."

***********************

Things did get rather stirred up in that thread, which was started by the Mod Gracy, and I asked her out of curiosity if she would reveal whether she has some strong Scorpio elements in her chart.

You can see her reply here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

Thanks to Gracy for that.

There is a site devoted to astrology here: https://www.astro.com/horoscope
...where everyone can get their own chart made up quickly and automatically for free and it can be quite accurate, especially if you know your time of birth (and place, of course).

Not everyone would be willing to make that kind of info public (especially Scorpios), but it's a very good way for students of astrology to better understand how to identify characteristics in people by knowing their astrological info, and that has always fascinated me.
(And I was not asking for her full chart, in any case, but am just providing the link to the astro site for anyone who could benefit from it.)

(BTW, some astrologers, reportedly, are able to figure out another person's chart just by meeting them in person, so I have never doubted that it is a true science and art, and can be very helpful for people trying to understand each other, as well as the universe in general.

Of course, not all students of astrology agree about everything, but that's to be expected...)

Off topic apologies... Would you be willing to look at my chart Onawah? It's only recently thanks in large part to @Ian33 and @Lunesoleil that I've begun to look at astrology properly and it's been a real head turner to realise what I've been so casually disregarding is in fact pretty central to our lives here. I'm now trying to work out how to do something about the cards I got dealt. Be interested in your feedback if you wouldn't mind me sending my chart?

[Gracy]

Posted by onawah (here)
Geminis are very curious, and I have a lot of Gemini in my chart, and I was wondering recently about a particular Avalonian, and if there are some strong Scorpio aspects in her chart because her posts have a tendency to "stir things up" a lot, that being a Scorpio trait.

See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

I quoted in that thread something from this thread (in the post above, #328), as follows:
""And we are not just speaking about positive sensations either. Scorpio is just as turned on by pain as it is with pleasure. In fact, they’ll take any feeling and hold it – anything at all, as long as it gives them an emotional kick. They revel in it. They LOVE it. To death…

..that’s right, DEATH. They will pursue something that gives them a kick, even if it kills them. Well, not necessarily literally, but you get it. They will do something that serves to thrill them until there’s nothing left but the exalted feeling of having died and become reborn. No wonder this is the sign associated with sex. The orgasmic point is like a little death in itself.

Yet, to a Scorpio, any emotion is better than no emotion. Because Scorpio cannot stand emotional numbness. This is why this sign is strongly associated with ‘change’. They would sooner turn everything upside down looking for a thrill rather than become subjected to what they consider a dull, morose and predictable emotional nothingness. Even if the thrill is an intensely painful or destructive one…

We all have Scorpio somewhere in our chart. It is the side of us that stores all the powerful emotions – the dizzying highs and crushing lows of being human – the place from which we draw our deepest satisfaction (and our utmost disgust) in our quest to behold the object of our pursuit.

It is the place that moves us, not physically or mentally, but much deeper and in ways that we are often unable to describe with words. Only in feelings; feelings so intense and held so deeply that they are often hidden from even our own consciousness. Yet we know them. We know these feelings too well. They are what constitute our true psychology – our motivated response to what stimulates us in our environment. Deep down, our feelings become the motivation behind everything that feeds our desire for love, power and glory, and fuels our rage and madness when these things are denied to us.

They form the basis to all our beliefs because, based on our feelings about something, we go on to determine whether something is essentially real for us, or whether it is not.

If it is feels right, we wish to hold it, possess it.
If not, we might wish to eliminate or destroy it.

With the Sun in Scorpio for the next 30 days, it is time to look deeper into what we are holding and what must change in our world."

***********************

Things did get rather stirred up in that thread, which was started by the Mod Gracy, and I asked her out of curiosity if she would reveal whether she has some strong Scorpio elements in her chart.

You can see her reply here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1461482

Thanks to Gracy for that.

There is a site devoted to astrology here: https://www.astro.com/horoscope
...where everyone can get their own chart made up quickly and automatically for free and it can be quite accurate, especially if you know your time of birth (and place, of course).

Alrighty, so here we go. I know virtually nothing about Astrology, save for my sign, so after having the site you listed do a chart for me, I'm Capricorn/Ascendant Taurus. Beyond that I don't know how to read a chart.

So tell you what, I'll PM you the pertinent details you would need, you can chart me for yourself, and if there's some raging Scorpio in there, do tell us all about it.

[onawah]

Apologies to you both, as I am not an astrologer.
I'm certainly very interested in it, though from more of an intuitive perspective than a technical one.
Perhaps Ian33 and @Lunesoleil could help you interpret your charts.

Gracy, thanks for sharing.
I'm a Leo with Gemini Rising and Taurus Moon, but Gemini is so dominant in my whole chart that I've been told I seem more like a Gemini than a Leo.
So it's not necessarily always the Sun, Rising and Moon signs that tell us everything important about an individual, and you may have some strong Scorpio aspects raging in there somewhere.

By the way, I think I learned as much about myself through the Myers Briggs test as I did through astrology, in case you haven't done that yet.

Posted by Journeyman (here)

Off topic apologies... Would you be willing to look at my chart Onawah? It's only recently thanks in large part to @Ian33 and @Lunesoleil that I've begun to look at astrology properly and it's been a real head turner to realise what I've been so casually disregarding is in fact pretty central to our lives here. I'm now trying to work out how to do something about the cards I got dealt. Be interested in your feedback if you wouldn't mind me sending my chart?

Posted by Gracy (here)
Alrighty, so here we go. I know virtually nothing about Astrology, save for my sign, so after having the site you listed do a chart for me, I'm Capricorn/Ascendant Taurus. Beyond that I don't know how to read a chart.

So tell you what, I'll PM you the pertinent details you would need, you can chart me for yourself, and if there's some raging Scorpio in there, do tell us all about it.

update: The astro.com site will actually tell you a lot about your chart and give you updates, also will make comparisons between your chart and another person's and tell you how you are likely to interact. There are professional astrologers that contribute regularly there. It's basic services are free, but you can get more in depth info if you subscribe.

[onawah]

HUMANITY’S BLACK SWAN MOMENT
New Moon at 12°40′ Scorpio,
Thursday, November 04, 21:15 UTC
https://angstoic.com/2021/11/humanit...r-04-2115-utc/

(I'm a bit late in posting this report here, but it feels very relevant to me. Note particularly the last 2 paragraphs:
"As we head into eclipse season (Nov 19-Dec 04), we get a sense of the socioeconomic turbulence that lies ahead. Eclipses are like cosmic wildcards, blindsiding us and throwing our best-laid plans into serious disarray. The year ends with the final instalment in this year’s series of earth-shattering Saturn/Uranus squares (Dec. 25), a sure sign that any established empire doesn’t end without significant upheaval from the people.

We can feel the nervous tension and restlessness building in the air. Unless we are aware that all intentions to exercise our power will be met with some resistance and disruptiveness, we stand to go into this very unnerving two-month period with an almost oblivious sense of ignorance and denial of our own selfish desires. These are destructive and will ultimately take us down unless we rise above them.")

************************************************************
"It is New Moon again – the synodic reset between the Sun and Moon’s cyclical rhythm. At this time of the month, we have a chance to purge old, stagnant energies that accumulate in the body and begin to refresh them with new ones. The area of experience activated in our lives by each lunation is indicated in the horoscope and tells where we both consciously and instinctively wish to make a fresh start.

In the sign of Scorpio, cosmic energies are of the fixed/water modality, dealing with intense and biased emotions steeped in willful desire. Astrologers commonly regard this to be a most unfavourable placement for the Moon since our tendency to take personal affairs very seriously sometimes leads us to possessive and extremely jealous, unforgiving, resentful and vindictive behaviour in some cases.

The Scorpio Sun consciously highlights our superpower – where we tend to be most passionate, fiercely loyal, penetrating, tenacious, capable of confronting and channelling powerful emotions, regenerative and healing through our determination to eliminate inessentials.

Conversely, the Moon in this sign (of her fall) can show us where we tend to become demonically possessed by the little green monster, reacting in extremes by holding grudges and conniving to take revenge. We find it hard to forgive and let go (purge) old emotional wounds at this event since we do not easily forget personal insults and injuries. Hence, at 12°40′ Scorpio, this is the hardest lunation to manage due to the drama, unnecessary pain, and suffering accompanying any fresh start we feel we must make now.


The lunation is significantly challenged by opposition to Uranus, in ‘fall’ through Taurus, where innovations con­cerning the use of money and resources, reforms in business, economics and more humanitarian means considerably impact our personal lives especially the stability of our relationships.

In many ways, this can be a turbulent period, both personally and in the greater scheme of global events. We must avoid any tendencies towards brooding and hellbent destructiveness at all costs. Consider this lunation as a golden opportunity to restructure any failing family and domestic situations. Examine how we tend to domi­nate others through subtle means, where we trespass the prerogative of others by prying, scheming, exploiting them by using insights gained for selfish means and unsavoury agendas.

These ‘dark’, insidious energies become extremely exposed in our personal interactions and the global sociopolitical arena. They are up for renewal because we no longer have the resources to sustain or support ongoing abuses and violations. To achieve a worthwhile objective, we must be open and definite about our motives for all our actions. We are heading into a period of great transparency, where excessive attachment to personal desires is immediately exposed. Cruel, selfish or undignified conduct must be examined and dropped when revealed that honourable intentions and appropriate motivations are not present.

As we head into eclipse season (Nov 19-Dec 04), we get a sense of the socioeconomic turbulence that lies ahead. Eclipses are like cosmic wildcards, blindsiding us and throwing our best-laid plans into serious disarray. The year ends with the final instalment in this year’s series of earth-shattering Saturn/Uranus squares (Dec. 25), a sure sign that any established empire doesn’t end without significant upheaval from the people.

We can feel the nervous tension and restlessness building in the air. Unless we are aware that all intentions to exercise our power will be met with some resistance and disruptiveness, we stand to go into this very unnerving two-month period with an almost oblivious sense of ignorance and denial of our own selfish desires. These are destructive and will ultimately take us down unless we rise above them."

[mozo33]

The 12 signs of the zodiac have Hebrew names that define them as the tribes of Israel and depict the truth of the gospel that is written in the heavens, all things declare Him, we will all come to a time where we understand He fills all things presently.

light is called out of the darkness of the earthly, not of the heaven ... symbolism.

[onawah]

“UNDER SIEGE” – Fixed Planetary T-Square Nov 11-19
https://angstoic.com/2021/11/under-s...are-nov-11-19/



"It is clear that under these FIXED T-SQUARE skies, things aren’t going to end nicely.

When fixed cosmic energies imbibe through egos, folks won’t budge. We stubbornly stick to our guns, refuse to yield from our position. We would rather hold out, risk breaking one another (or be broken) than bend a little and give up any ground.

In the extreme, we would rather go down with the sinking ship than spare a thought of being captured or ‘rescued and converted’ by our adversaries. A tense siege situation develops…


I was watching a documentary about Ruby Ridge, an eleven-day siege in 1992 in Boundary County, Idaho. Authorities took on a family who decided to live in the middle of nowhere because the patriarch believed it was the end of the world. He had lost all faith in humankind, had no trust left in the government. This got me thinking about another siege inspired by this incident… the one at Waco, which occurred the following year.

During both instances, Saturn was again in Aquarius. When things got tense between those with fixed ideologies and the equally fixated government authorities, the result was an atrocious over-reaction and symbolic carnage:

“Hey chief, we’ve got a guy who lives in the middle of nowhere who doesn’t think you can trust the government.”

“Well, take an army out there and prove him wrong.”

Ebertin describes what’s about to take place in the next few days as:

☿ -♄/♅ The making of great demands upon one’s nervous energy, the ability to hit back hard under provocation, the ability to organise resistance, the act of separating oneself from others. – Necessary changes.

♂ -♄/♅ An act of violence, the occasional wrong use of extraordinary energy, undergoing great efforts and toil. – A violent or forced release from tensions or strains, the stage of challenging others for a decisive contest or fight Injury, accident, deprivation of freedom."

[onawah]

“Quality Over Quantity” LUNAR ECLIPSE at 27°14′ TAURUS
Friday, Nov 19, 08:58 UTC
https://angstoic.com/2021/11/quality...ree+Newsletter




(I've really been feeling this eclipse, and Ang's insights have been most helpful in understanding why.)

"Lunar eclipses are not your ordinary Full Moons. Their cycle extends beyond their month, influencing the tone and feel of much of our year, especially if it forms significant aspects to our natal chart. Its accompanying Solar eclipse leaves a distinct impact along themes described more succinctly by the relationship to the Moon’s Nodal Axis.

The Lunar Eclipse in Taurus is famous for enhancing psychic intuition and spiritual insight. Sacred places, the soil, the psycho-sexual body and the Earth herself are heightened in magnetic effects. This kind of sensitivity can be either healing or disturbing.

In one sense, this lunation highlights where we are inclined to be overly preoccupied with satisfying material and physical desires, indulging ourselves in the pleasures of the senses. Over the recent months, as the intensity of this eclipse builds, we will have seen where we developed con­siderable inertia, allowing the build-up of tension to become unbearable until it has begun to erupt in a powerful and often de­structive manner.

Brooding in self-pity, wallowing in low self-esteem or negativity about our interpersonal inadequacies could result in unsatisfying relationships and even degrading sexual behaviours, which leaves us feeling soul-starved and even more at the mercy of our desires.

Finding easy ways to fulfil or sublimate frustrated sexual energies can become channelled into strange compulsions, addictions, or perverted into perfunctory ways to manipulate others into conforming to our will. During this period, it would be an understatement to say that we are prone to monstrous interper­sonal conflicts because of our inability to resolve obsessive desires.



With JUPITER as the t-squared focal planet of this epic lunation, emotional excesses and impractical views thwart progress in the affairs influenced by the lunar eclipse and Jupiter, calling for emotional restraint and sound judgment.

Jupiter in Aquarius lends a blind optimism and often over-the-top moral push in his pursuit to integrate humanitarian, progressive, reformist sociopolitical elements into our lives. However, a sociologically determined belief system that is cause-oriented towards a ‘better society’ assumes too much. In reaction, it generates a radical, revolutionary, utopian, impractical, pseudo-liberal state of mind, which rather inclines many to exercise poor judg­ment and impracticality concerning future matters.

Too often, when we espouse our beliefs into big ‘hopes for the future’, we also tend to overlook immediate realities. We may talk up our utopian visions or woke ideologies, exaggerate our noblest intentions, we may even travel incessantly, not merely for business or enjoyment, but to avoid dealing with the dire existential issues now plaguing humanity and surmounting in our daily life. We focus instead on grandiose schemes and dreams that are unlikely to be accomplished since we’re effectively glossing over or ignoring the real matters at hand. These pie-in-the-sky projections come undone as the fabric of today’s society starts to tear at the seams trying to keep up with Jupiter’s inflations.

Among social lessons, this eclipse shows where we may personally be somewhat overconfident and overbearing, inclined to overextend and overcommit ourselves, be­lieving so entirely in our capacity to achieve the im­possible that we haplessly or arrogantly impinge upon the prerogatives and rights of all those around us.

Of course, the effects of any eclipse are usually months, even years in the making, and its post-residuals are long-lasting, leaving a permanent impact on our lives and our societies. This lunar eclipse is the longest of the century (its peak will last 3 hours, 28 minutes). Falling just a few degrees shy of being a total eclipse, at just over 6 hours in duration, this is the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years. This fact, in itself, is a symbolic marker of the importance of some of its themes in relative terms.

Physically, an excessive approach to anything in life results in weight gain and liver disorders. Psychologi­cally, a lack of moderation leads to becoming carried away with experiences, activities and re­lationships. If you’re noticing that you’re becoming self-indulgent, lazy and extra­vagant, choosing quantity over quality, glutting yourself on more and more pleasurable experiences until you become bloated, then do not be surprised if something comes along to burst your overinflated bubble. One can only translate these to the corporate or political world.

Likewise, if we expect too much from others, demanding that they fulfil our ongoing needs and voracious appetites, being more of a taker than a giver, often acting in compulsive, indulgent or patronising ways, seeking to boost our ego or acclaim to power or wealth, then expect to see more pricks in your balloon.

Being a self-proclaimed preachy know-it-all, professing to have the answer to every question, while philosophically or ‘legally’ extricating yourself from every predicament, you may dogmatically and self-righteously have placed yourself under the most pernicious consequences this eclipse has to dish out to all its cosmic hypocrites. A cosmic bubble is about to be burst here.

HEALING
The Scorpio Sun will help transform our unconscious Taurean inertia and pla­cidity, urging us to direct our conscious will toward discovering more profound pleasures than those of mere materialistic or hedonistic nature.

Penetrating to the very core of our psyche, Scorpio seeks to release potent regenerative energies, capable of transforming wounded mat­ter into functionality in the material world again. Whilst this happens every year around this lunation, the next couple of years will be particularly intense around this theme since the Moon’s Nodes will transit the Scorpio/Taurus axis.

In the initial eclipse of its kind, we must look to work with the lessons of the current transits. Once we have learned to express the excesses of Jupiter in Aquarius more harmoniously, our confidence to be more socially coherent will spring from an ability to see ourselves in the context of others more truthfully, without pomp and hubris. We will find the balance necessary to overcome mat­erial attachments and learn to control insatiable appetites. Here, we get in touch with our inner teacher or guide and apply the insights and lessons we gain from our recent foolishness of overreaching or overindulgence back into every area of our lives.

The power of the Scorpio Sun enables us to satisfy, conquer, or sublimate our excessive desires. As it’s light becomes obscured from the Moon’s surface for a few hours, the celestial power outage leaves us with an intense sense of loss, one which we may already recognise. Its penetrating insight allows us to experience ourselves as more than just a greedy physical body and confront energies and laws that transcend the material plane.

Many of the things which our Taurean self has unconsciously accumulated could be eliminated and regenerated by Scorpio, who forces us to refine and remake our entire value system so that we can appreciate what is essential in our lives and rid ourselves of the baggage that char­acterises a life of overindulgence and ease at the expense of the poverty or disease of others.

Our Scorpionic sense of privacy, too, must be balanced with our Taurean sense of self-preservation and self-sufficiency, ensuring that we do not divulge information that leaves us feeling overly vulnerable or at the mercy of another’s power. If the Jupiterian element has encroached itself into our private lives by its overarching laws or practices of institutional invasiveness, limiting our capacity to define ourselves – this over-reach must become curbed. The soul requires a certain degree of inner freedom to commit itself to a purpose in which it fully (wholeheartedly) believes, without manipulation, temptation or coercion from outside influence.

Hence, deep down, if you see yourself refusing to follow any path which appears in front of you blindly, it is because you intend to carefully examine each possibility, acting only on those which accord with your own inner voice. Understand that growth does not necessarily mean endless prolif­eration and development, for sometimes, like an uncontrollable cancer, it can also malignantly devour all cells within reach.

Both Taurus and Scorpio are strong-willed, deter­mined and resourceful signs; linked together, they can lead to phenomenal accomplishment. The eclipse t-square to Jupiter must be employed to deem that the quality of our involvement in each experience matters more than the number of our experiences. The Scorpio Sun can help us use our Taurean resources, and the re­sources others have and willingly share for mutual benefit.

Only by clearing away excesses described by this square can one advance the interests which will, in effect, test our integrity, moral standards and sense of decency. Our perceptiveness and ability to deal with conflict (to confront the darker side of human nature and harness its energy for higher purposes) will strengthen the force of our regenerating influence.

Here is an opportunity to take a balanced, healthy approach to life. If we are positive and opti­mistic, it is not because we are oblivious or insensitive to the suffering of others, but because we have experienced the pain within ourselves and in those around us. This potent eclipse offers us all a phenomenal awareness that even the most painful circumstances can lead us to deeper understand­ing and constructive action.

Let us now, at this Taurus lunation, ground our optimism, become open to reaching out to new experiences without overextending ourselves or making empty pro­mises, staying mindful of our own limitations and respecting those of others, yet never losing faith in the future and in the ingenuity of human nature to come together and create harmony and peace as per nature’s laws. In letting go of the excesses, we attract true wealth – spiritually, emotionally, intellect­ually and materially – as we become cosmically attuned to attract and share onwards from our own, inner wealth.

Blessings, and have an amazing lunar eclipse xx "

[onawah]

GOODBYE & FAREWELL’ – Sun on the South Node
November 23, 2021
Ang Stoic
https://angstoic.com/2021/11/goodbye...he-south-node/



"The SUN, now in Sagittarius, is transiting over the Lunar South Node. This is the point where soul entities disconnect; where people exit our lives as their role in our story has run its course.

Time comes and people go their ways, receding slowly out of reach until you see their specks dispersing in your rearview. Sometimes we don’t even know they’re leaving.

Naturally, it hurts to separate. I guess it hurts so much because our souls are intricately interconnected. Perhaps they always have been and will be. Perhaps the South Node is where we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one, and the North Node’s where we find each other again, each time being dragged apart for the same reasons.

This all too-huge world keeps vaulting us through an endless cycle of good-byes, each reminiscent of the souls we’ve met and lost over the past ten thousand years.

As we say goodbye now, let us lean forward to the next wild venture underneath the skies, ready to catch a glimpse of who and what may come our way."

[onawah]

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 12°22' SAGITTARIUS: "Are You Ready To Be Blindsided?
12/3/21


"Greetings Fellow Travellers,

On Saturday, December 4, the world will experience its second total solar eclipse in Sagittarius in less than 12 months. A total eclipse of the Sun happens when the Moon blocks 100% of the Sun's light, projecting an ominous shadow upon the earth. At 07:33, Universal Time, the day will turn to darkness for 1 minute 54 seconds. But unless you are a penguin in Antarctica, you will not witness this phenomenon, one of nature's most extraordinary experiences.

However, whilst you might miss the spectacle visually, you will most likely feel its effects. Eclipses have a powerful impact on our lives and the areas indicated in your chart specifically. We experience the eclipse's influence for months preceding the event, and the crises they activate in our lives can dramatically alter the course of our affairs for many months, even years after.

Now, given that this is a South Node Eclipse, this acts like a cosmic power-outage, challenging us by weakening our capacity to distinguish truth from dogma and exhausting our ability to argue our philosophical views. It is generally felt as a depressive period, filled with unfortunate incidents. Losing control, relapsing into addiction, unconsciousness, power­lessness: inexplicable sorrow, sullen withdrawal, fear and paranoia, hopelessness, negativity, and loss are common side effects to crises experienced as a result of matters that plague us during a South Node Solar blackout.

Interruption to the travel indus­try, flights, global postal systems, schools and educational institutions, foreign relations, and religious practices, distrust with legislation, lawmakers, political pundits, media broadcasters, and any industry associated with polling, speculation, expansionism and big developments, as well as sporting and cultural festivals, immigration and foreign travel all take a hit. In short, it sums up the current ****show to which we are all somewhat party.

This kind of melee is what happens when the Moon cuts off our Solar power for just a couple of minutes every six months. As mentioned earlier, this is the second SN Sadge eclipse since December 14, 2020. One may easily argue that current events in our lives are merely an extension of those that became aggravated a year ago. Fortunately, this will be the final eclipse in the Sagittarius/Gemini series, which began with the Lunar Eclipse (again in Sadge) on June 5 2020.



I have shared many interesting observations on how these eclipses have specifically impacted our sociopolitical experience over the past 18 months. If you're a follower of my weekly Cosmic Bus episodes, it's been no secret that these significant lunation crises are here to test our faith, not just in our 'gods', 'gurus' and 'religious ideologies' but in the sacred trust in one another. At this point, we feel nothing but the strongest aversion to anyone whose beliefs and narratives do not align with our own. Meanwhile, we become prone to feeling an enormous affront that others do not take what we think too seriously at all. Scepticism and distrust are spreading at epidemic proportions. We have departed so abstrusely from the rationality and clear thinking necessary to facilitate not just our day-to-day matters but our entire evolutionary purpose.

Even our science, the one dependable provision to our fact-based academic means of critical reasoning, seems to have become enlisted in the Sagittarian mission to pontificate mandates and narratives. Our bigger story is akin to some quasi dystopian plan to convert every human on this planet into a strange cult-like movement whose 'charismatic leader' still seems curiously unknown to us. Perhaps we may never meet him. Perhaps it's not a 'him' at all, or even a 'her'. It may just be intelligence without form or centralized location.

Those who are at least partly aware of the absurdity of our situation also see the gross perversions to our truth and justice now being carried out. It is happening at every level. We are soon about to understand that we, humanity, are in the throes of being universally governed and groomed by a deep and sinister state of authoritarian control.

Our species is currently in the grips of a psychotic mind-virus - the most sinister epidemic disease known to humanity. Originating deep within those who suffer ancestral soul-sickness, it can potentially either wipe us all out or wake us all up. It all depends on whether we can see what it reveals to us or continue to sink into the mire of illusion.

Essentially, for our mind to comprehend any concept, it has to align with a structured neural edifice called a 'frame' that makes it possible for our intelligence to contextualize, make proper sense of, and mentally 'discern' the thing in front of us. When 'truth' is repeatedly distorted, our frame of mind becomes twisted, consequently altering our understanding of the world. Our perception affects our consciousness, which is indeed what defines our character. When it becomes so frequently distorted by those human and nonhuman entities now possessed by a dark, cannibalistic life force for insidious purposes or profit, who offer nothing back in return, we find ourselves in a reality bereft of any purpose or meaning.

Eclipses produce powerful awakenings, brought about by sudden, unexpected incidents or encounters that jolt our lives into a new direction. They are often not what we expected, yet we realize that we should have expected as much and nothing less when we look back. Like the Moon's pass before the Sun, we suffer a momentary blackout, followed by an intensely bright epiphany to the very thing that has the potential to blindside our fate. As such, it becomes incumbent upon us to stop everything, unplug and deal with the most glaringly obvious matter at hand.

So let's do that!

If you don't already know what 'that' might be, or more curiously, refuse to address it because it interferes with your selfish plans, then I might suggest it's vital you look deeper. It may sound like an imposition, but it's good for your soul. Besides, you may not have much choice. The cosmos knows your pressure points...

Many blessings, and have a profoundly enlightening eclipse experience xx"