The Public Mood: ‘Kicking the can down the street’.
For most of the beginning of the first decade of the 21st Century, we have had the planet Uranus (sudden changes, unusual developments, revolutionary processes), Neptune (altered states, inspiration, illusions or delusions), and lately Chiron (wounder and healer, bridge to higher mind and cosmos) and the planet Jupiter (expansion, conflation) – all hanging around and playing tag (especially the past couple years) with the mood of the nation (aspecting the US Moon – 28 Aquarius).
We feel inspired, then disillusioned – and any thought of action moves in fits and starts, but does not get underway. In a sense, Neptune inspires – but also confounds and confuses. Inspiration is confounded by ideology. We get irrational thinking processes, and take a step backwards. We are inspired to move ahead with new ideas, and then fall back as we sense the pain that could result from new directions and what must be faced in a process of healing.
Aside from Mars making a brief foray into Leo, most of the planets have been in the earth/air/water signs of ‘winter’ for the past several months. With Mars making a long retrograde motion backwards through Leo (which will finally return to direct motion in mid-March 2010) – we are stalled emotionally and actually in a hibernation of inaction.
Pluto also seems stalled in Capricorn, as it turned in apparent retro-grade motion not long after changing signs. It rumbles deep beneath the surface of events and promises profound changes to come in the bedrock upon which we stand.
We have also had the oppositions during 2008-2009 of Saturn in Virgo (analysis of process and purity of method) representing the forces of the status quo pitted against the urge for change and dramatic developments of Uranus in Pisces (which ironically represents the old guard, or the idealization of it) – which has manifested, not as an urge for revolutionary change, but as a rear-guard action to return to a previous status quo.
With Saturn having recently entered Libra, sign of its exaltation – where it now challenges (in square aspect to) the subterranean Pluto in Capricorn, actually dispositing (overlaying the action of) Pluto, as Capricorn is the natural sign of Saturn – we will begin to sense the direction and form change will begin to manifest. These changes will begin with new alliances, co-operation and partnerships.
At the Full Moon on February 28th, 2010 (chart drawn for easternmost point in the US) the Sun and Jupiter at 9 degrees of Pisces at the mid-heaven will oppose the Moon at 9 degrees Virgo along the 4th/10th House axis. This will bring more transparency and harmony to the process of change, and more confidence that changes will strengthen our foundations. With the planets Uranus and Venus in Pisces – just preceding Sun/Jupiter through the 10th House – some unique and charismatic leaders should also emerge to inspire us.
Full Moon February 28, 2010
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Re: Full Moon February 28, 2010
Linnea wrote: We feel inspired, then disillusioned – and any thought of action moves in fits and starts, but does not get underway. In a sense, Neptune inspires – but also confounds and confuses. Inspiration is confounded by ideology. We get irrational thinking processes, and take a step backwards. We are inspired to move ahead with new ideas, and then fall back as we sense the pain that could result from new directions and what must be faced in a process of healing.
Aside from Mars making a brief foray into Leo, most of the planets have been in the earth/air/water signs of ‘winter’ for the past several months. With Mars making a long retrograde motion backwards through Leo (which will finally return to direct motion in mid-March 2010) – we are stalled emotionally and actually in a hibernation of inaction.
This really nails it, doesn't it, Linnea. After the worst winter since 1888 (funny. Started out being the worst winter in five years, then it was twenty, then it was thirty, now it's surpassed the entire 20th century), these past couple of days I've felt myself coming out of something, a burden lifting that I didn't know was there until it started to lift. Now I see the planets are helping with that.
It's been a hell of a year, particularly with respect to Earth events, and it's only March. But years like this tend to lead to good things. Positive change. My hopes are still high.
Did you ever stop to think, and then forget to start again?
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Live.
Glad you find some parallels with your own feelings in this analysis and find some relevance in it. Astrology seems to have relevance with 'epochs and ages', and the longer cycles of the planets.
I feel a 'bubbling up' of a gai'an consciousness...
...and Saturn, now in its 'exaltation' in the sign of Libra, is the cosmic harbinger of this energy.
Glad you find some parallels with your own feelings in this analysis and find some relevance in it. Astrology seems to have relevance with 'epochs and ages', and the longer cycles of the planets.
I feel a 'bubbling up' of a gai'an consciousness...
...and Saturn, now in its 'exaltation' in the sign of Libra, is the cosmic harbinger of this energy.