Three Aquarian Age Dealios as Uranus Goes Retro
If you’re highly Uranian in some way (and not numbed out from food/drugs/meds/booze/porn/TV/video games/etc. or combos of some or all of these), you might feel like you’re on a bullet train into some radical, exciting and somehow unimaginable future. In my circles, admittedly fully Southern Californian and progressive in nature, a lot of us feel this way.
Uranus is stationing retrograde today, so I’m thinking about the kinds of Uranian change we each have the opportunity to see over the next 5 months as it appears to travel backward in Pisces. And since the age of Pisces always leads to the age of Aquarius, it seems a good day to get these comments out to you.
Regardless of whether you think the Age of Aquarius is here already or not (but FYI, it’s not), here are some notes about what’s taking root in the collective consciousness these days that will serve to enable what’s coming.
Aquarian Age Dealio #1: Self-knowledge and self-reliance are key. Individuals must learn to listen to themselves, to trust their inner voices even as they will differ from the normative reality in which they find themselves, or precisely because they differ.
Contrast this with the Piscean dealio that’s about mass control. Pisces is about going with the flow, and works to include the all of everything in whatever it does. The monotheistic religion thing we’ve been doing for a few thousand years is about control and controlling people into the fearing of the asking of questions, because doing that can lead to individuation, what they can’t afford we do.
Aquarian Age Dealio #2: Self-care is paramount. Taking care of the self first enables us to offer what we’d like to offer others and the world. That everyone else needs fixing first is a misconception, a red herring we use to keep ourselves from self-responsibility.
Contrast this with the prevalence of misdirection when it comes to what care is currently surrounding us. Many relationships between humans can use a dose of “I take back my crap and give you back your crap,” and more and more people are waking up to taking responsibility for themselves.
Aquarian Age Dealio #3: Coming together to work with others is about shared perspectives and goals.
I think this one is sometimes a little misunderstood, as people think that in the Aquarian age, we’ll all want the same things and we’ll all get along. There will be no strife, and everyone will be wandering around with glassy, happied-over eyes.
Not that we won’t get along, but that the point of being with other people in a Uranian/Aquarian fashion is that the choice of people needs to be about getting in with people who agree with you about what the future should look like. Aquarius is the sign of “friends, groups and wishes” in that you need to ally with like-minded people to create the kind of future you want to see - no one can do it alone.
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What you get to see over the next 5 months during the retro might not seem to fit any of these. Yet the opportunities for the retro are in understanding what Uranian individuation relative to Piscean assumptions and conditioning you carry and don’t act on most certainly is - it’s just some zodiacal semantics, people.
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June 26, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Lilith in Real Life
I’m taking a pause after writing a natal true Black Moon Lilith report while the Sun was in Taurus. I have a sense of needing to bring my energy back in and recharge. The present Mercury retro is pretty convenient timing, isn’t it?
Here’s me debriefing myself: I learned a tremendous amount about Lilith while writing the report, with useful words coming through about what I know in my bones about Lilith. I also connected on a new level with my own experience of the archetype (it’s in everyone, not just women). For a few years I’ve been working with my clients’ Liliths, helping them see in what arena of life they’ve invited suppression for bringing out their instinctual selves, and what they can do now to release whatever they’ve taken on about others’ fear of witnessing the wildness in them.
A major part of this is in affirming for people that this part of themselves is not a bad thing to feel shameful for having. We’re told Lilith is a demon, and the word needs to get around that demonizing the wild in us is a measure of control devised by people afraid that individuals will flail around violently and injure others, and destroy groups. Yet it’s our instinct, and we need it to be healthy.
The truth is that the wild in us can be integrated into our daily lives. Sometimes it does involve flailing (but this can be enabled consciously), and it acts violently only as a result of suppression. I’m assiting people to figure out how to integrate this energy proactively, with consciousness, into their lives.
My true Black Moon is in Sagittarius in the 2nd, conjunct Neptune-Mercury-Moon in Sagittarius/2nd-3rd. An astrologer a few years ago used a phrase for this that’s stuck with me: the satellite dish. It seems I can gather intuitive information of any sort if I just choose and figure out where to aim the dish, and that’s a fun and exciting part of the work that I do. And yet with Lilith there, I’ve internalized others’ fears that I might say inappropriate things, so I’ve mostly had a big tarp draped over this amazing tool.
A few years ago I realized that a key dynamic in my family growing up was that there were two people who were terrified someone would say something important-seeming and disturb the status quo, and there were two people who couldn’t stop saying things they felt were important, precisely to disturb the status quo.
I was in the second group, and when young, it seemed to my child logic that love and acceptance from my sister and father might depend on keeping my mouth shut.
So, can you guess what I did?
Yup, threw a tarp over the dish that seems designed to bring info to shake up the status quo.
And now, here I am, being asked what astrology conferences I speak at and where are my books, and I’m learning how and why to take the tarp off this admittedly amazing piece of equipment I’m blessed to be sporting.
Everyone has a Lilith story. Understanding what your Lilith has to say, and how to bring that out with consciousness, is an integral part of wholeness, of health. You have an instinctive voice waiting to come out that offers you a chance to usher yourself into a more vibrant aliveness. Lilith represents our primal selves, which are our means of connecting with life on a more meaningful, less merely-brainy ways.
Tom is available for private consultations. See his website for more info, to book a consultation, or to order a new true Black Moon Lilith natal report, outlining your Lilith by natal house, sign and aspect and upcoming transits and progressions.
May 27, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
A Lilith Profile
Recently, I met an astrologer with Neptune in Scorpio precisely on the Midheaven (Aug. 24, 1968, 6:22 PM, Redding, CA). I asked her if she’s an antenna for Neptunian power plays, and we talked about her 8th house South Node and what the 2nd house North Node is asking her to do.
All of us are conditioned in early life, and therefore much of what we have to heal & release typically involves what we learned from our families, whether spoken outwardly in the environments of our youth or not. She told me about the dynamics in her home growing up, mostly in terms of the differing levels of support for each of the children in the family, the attitudes their parents had about each of them that carry through to the present. And it sounded a little like something beyond an 8th house Libra South Node might be at work, though there were plenty of 8th house-related power plays and dark Libran issues of relationship imbalances and buried resentment.
Something in the story told me she’d been singled out in her family system for some reason that no one understood or had any idea how to talk about, so I looked up her true Black Moon Lilith (BML), which is opposite that Neptune, precisely on the Taurus IC.
Adding Lilith to the discussion helped contextualize her experience. Lilith in a person’s chart tells us many things, but the first is what part of the person is judged by others to be dangerous, and is therefore (according to others) in need of editing or suppressing. Lilith is a wild, instinctive influence in us and doesn’t want to be corralled, edited or reshaped. Yet we might give in to this pressure because, especially when we’re young, our survival might be threatened if we were to be thrown out of the group.
Not every situation is really that dramatic, of course, but many of us are carrying emotional memories from past lives in which we didn’t survive precisely because we didn’t yield to the mandates of the groups of which we were members. And when we’re young and our families are most of our world, it can certainly seem that survival is at stake.
Her true BML is in Taurus on the IC, the beginning of the 4th house, the house of family, heritage, roots and a person’s most private self. My acquaintance seems viewed by her family as Lilith, dangerous and in need of editing or suppressing. Her natural sense of establishing a value-based approach to life (Taurus) seems dangerous to them, and gets her into trouble with them. If she’s honest with herself about where she’s rooted (4th house), and what’s truly going on inside (4th house again), she’ll find Lilith there. And even if she doesn’t, others will still see the energy in her.
With Lilith on the IC or in the 4th house, it’s also true that our family of origin (or those who raised us, whether blood relatives or not) carries Lilith’s story. Her family has, likely for many generations, experienced at least some aspects of Lilith’s story. The censure from the greater society that any family would receive for representing Lilith will be distilled into rules and directives centered on how not to draw negative attention or punishment for being in some way wild and outside the reach of a community’s or society’s censuring arm, and will then be passed down through the generations framed as information necessary for survival.
The underlying energy of such inheritance can feel/seem like this: People, we can’t afford to have anyone around here acting out of bounds. Get in line, stop complaining and get with the group program. There’s a reason for everything, and just trust that it’s for your own good.
And then you have my acquaintance, who appears as Lilith to them, threatening to start leaking uncomfortable truths that seem to threaten the stability of the family system (Taurus/4th) at any moment. Even if she never spoke truths that made them uncomfortable, she would, to them, always seem on the verge of potentially doing so. And so they do everything they can to make her feel like she shouldn’t express herself - of course they do! They’re afraid of the potential repercussions, the kind they carry emotional memories of from the karmic past (past lives).
She’s got a karmic role in her family system as someone volunteering to speak uncomfortable truths, and exploring how to develop and stick with her own value system in a filial climate that doesn’t want what she’s bringing, that’s afraid of it. A big challenge for her is to honor her own needs while not cutting herself off from her family.
Much of her healing related to Lilith involves accepting that the ways that they have treated her are reflections not of her actual value or worth as a person (Taurus/4th house), but of their fear of having the status quo of the family disturbed by uncomfortable truths (also Taurus/4th house). As she lives the story of Lilith, she can change the entire dynamic by honoring who she deeply knows she is above all the feedback from others that might be hurtful.
And in case you didn’t see this coming, this echoes and underscores the symbolism of her Aries 2nd house North Node, where she’s asking herself to learn to bravely assert and directly live (Aries) a life based in her own value system (2nd house), which will result for her in a new level of self-esteem (2nd house), putting her love for herself before the judgments/esteem of others (Libra/8th house South Node).
Tom is available for private evolutionary astrology & intuitive counseling sessions. See his website for more information, and to pre-order on his new True Black Moon Lilith natal report, available in late May.
May 19, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto in Capricorn & Gender Identity
A few weeks ago, I wrote in a post here that Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn can call up questions about what men and women are supposed to be and do.
I listened today, rapt, to an NPR radio story on a family dealing with the assertions of their child that he is not inhabiting the right sort of body.
That this radio series focuses on children is an imporant point: Our Capricornian nurturing styles, which are certain about how to classify and treat boys and girls, can be challenged to adjust to information coming from deep under the surface that doesn’t fit with our surface version of how things should be. In this case, the emotional realities of the children themselves represent the deepest sort of Plutonian self-knowing and the parents are confronted with the challenge of change.
Capricorn seeks to make symbols of individuals, at times leading people to try to embody the lowest common denominator of the collective consciousness in order to fit in or succeed. What happens when some individuals just can’t seem to fit into our predefined categories can vary, but these parents have chosen to adjust, seeing that their child’s true nature is not subject to redefinition by conventional standards based in a consensus mechanistic reality.
Not all parents who hear such paradigm-busting things from their children are so receptive and respectful of the needs of their children, of course. But perhaps Pluto’s transit through Capricorn can inspire more to rethink and refeel their stances in general, and accept the difficulty as a challenge to grow into the present, changing reality right in front of them.
May 8, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Emotional Healing with Astrology
To have the kind of life we want in the present, we must heal our memories of and attachments to the past.
Astrology offers a vocabulary for and means to heal whatever we’re carrying from the past into our lives in the present day.
Evolutionary astrology is based in the fact that people change, over the course of a life and over the courses of many lives. One of its aims is to help people heal and release the past and gain awareness of the present, so they can choose to develop the kinds of lives they’d rather be living.
No one wants to relive the pain of the past, yet we don’t often have the awareness to heal it and put it in its proper place and move in the present. We end up, then, reliving what’s comfortable, which is often painful, and wondering how to move out of these destructive patterns that keep us from enjoying life and being happy about what we’re doing here.
Some key players in the emotional healing process:
- The South Node of the Moon, the ruler of that node by sign (Venus for Taurus, Jupiter for Sagittarius, etc.) and Pluto (all three players by house, sign and aspect) offer the vocabulary for any person’s emotional imprinting from past lives. These configurations speak to our past-life conditioning and wounding. Identifying and integrating the lessons we’ve set ourselves up to learn, as told by these symbols, is a key to beginning to live in the present moment and move into the arenas of our unique syllabus of soul growth.
- The asteroid Lucifer (1930) tells us about a person’s relationship with the notion of a higher power. What’s a person’s relationship with what could be called his or her inner goodness barometer? Another side of it: Has the person learned how to develop a healthy, distinct sense of ego while serving something greater than the self?
- The true Black Moon Lilith (BML) represents the instinctive, primal & wild part of us we’ve experienced shame and punishment from others for expressing. As the empty focus of the Moon’s orbit around the earth, the true BML is a part of our emotional makeup. As a point that’s never visible from the Earth, however, it often seems an elusive part of us, usually seeming best left in the shadows of our psyches. Locating and reintegrating our hard-wired portion of Lilith energy means finding creative and constructive means to express our wildness, based on house, sign and aspect.
Tom is available for private consultations. See his website for more information and to order his new Black Moon Lilith natal report, available when the Sun enters Gemini. Pre-orders at a discount are available until the Sun leaves Taurus (May 20th, 2008).
By Tom Jacobs
Saturn in Virgo & Food
Virgo fundamentally is about choice, being the sign of working on the details to make a better bigger picture. What needs to be done when and in what order? it asks…and answers.
Virgo’s view of the body, as a machine made of many constituent parts, can take food into serious consideration. Any concern over the purity of one’s food are running Virgo in their lives. It can certainly be overdone (eating disorders) but can also be used to serve a body by making it work better (health conscious people you think must live only in California).
My approach to Virgo choice stuff, including the 6th house, has to do with increasing awareness of the body’s reactions to what’s eaten. If Virgo energy is allowed to grow itself away from whole-body awareness and only take into account the mind’s rules and concerns, there’s disconnect, and disconnect = your being becoming out of whack in one way or another.
I advise people to be aware of the reactions to what they intend to eat, and I myself choose food before purchasing based on how on board my body is about that food. My brain will say, “You can’t possibly be thinking of eating [name of food product],” yet if the rest of me votes a thumbs up, I buy it.
Saturn’s transit through Virgo means that the work of the moment (Saturn) involves figuring out what it means to be mature enough (Saturn) to take responsibility (Virgo) for how our lives work (Virgo), including our bodies. One big arena of how it works or doesn’t is in what kind of fuel we choose to give our bodies. Your energy level, moods, sleep cycle, libido and everything else are influenced by what kind of food you eat.
Saturn’s retrograde right now, and this is the perfect time to check in with what your body wants you to feed it. How does your body feel when you eat something? Does it make you feel like you want to feel? After you open the door to awareness, take this into the store with you and let your body guide your purchases.
Most of us are surrounded by easy availability of food that we know is no good for us. Saturn in Virgo is asking if you can be responsible enough for yourself to have the integrity to choose what feels right for you. I have no doubt that everyone can hear what their bodies are saying, it’s only a matter of how willing we are to listen.
Tom is available for 60- and 90-minute intuitive karmic astrology consultations. See his website for more information.
April 12, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto in Capricorn: Dis-covering Authentic Sexuality
Underneath multiple uncomfortable and discomfiting layers of conditioning lies a particular sexual animal that is uniquely you.
There, that wasn’t so hard to read, was it?
Good. But those are just words.
Pluto’s transit in Capricorn offers each of us an opportunity to get clarity on and, if need be, overturn any conditioning we carry (and each of us tends to carry a lot of it).
A blog post about sexuality from me isn’t about drawing you in to read me - and I’m not selling you anything. And this is not about sex - it’s about sexuality. An important distinction, given that we use sex to sell everything and we almost entirely misunderstand sexuality.
I’m interested in taking away the layers of conditioning any of us has so we can find out who’s really inside us. Given the Capricornian excesses we generate to cover up a natural sense of human sexuality, it was only a matter of time until my Pluto-in-Capricorn wanderings took me there.
Are you wondering what authentic sexuality is?
I don’t know how you’ll take this, but you’re the only one who can answer that question for you.
Capricorn is the normalizer of the zodiac, the denier-of-all-spice, the suppressor. We need its systematic approach and work ethic to organize ourselves into society (schools, courts, roads), no doubt. But Capricorn in essence works to distill each of into an aggregate of shoulds and should-nots, and that only works for individuals as far as it does. It’s the anti-individual sign, and I don’t know about you, but I see tons of people all the time hungering to be more individually who they really are.
Pluto’s present retro through Capricorn (it began April 2nd & lasts 5 months) offers anyone who’s willing to look insight into the depths of their social/cultural programming. Use the time to allow layers to peel themselves away, to observe your habits and preferred reactions. Learn the skill of seeing how what you do might be informed by what others think you should do - whether they’re actual presences in your life or nameless and faceless masses. And where in the timeline in your life you learned to adopt any particular stance.
Re authentic sexuality, ideas of what men do and what women do, but really what it means to be a man or a woman, are the playing field. How you’ve internalized external expectations of the expression of your most basic and natural self.
The retro period is about the idea. New action is not best initiated during retro periods because the energy is working differently than normal. But if you do begin something new, allow that revisions will be necessary and you might change your mind a lot along the way. So, it’s an idea at present. Gaining awareness of your assumptions about what is and is not involved in sexuality, in your sexuality, is the point.
For a few months, anyway.
For some people, finding out what’s really going on with tantra will be important - not what you overheard at a party or read in magazines about sexy tips and tricks, not what the guy who tries to pick you up tells you with a wink. Tantra is a way of approaching, using and engaging with energy (a way of being) that is tremendously healing for those who’ve bought into too many Capricornian injunctions against being what we truly are (the vast majority of us). You could use the next five months to explore what it means to relate to the world energetically-as-you, instead of as an aggregate of rules, shoulds and should-nots.
Whatever you do, understand that what you find in those layers peeling away are not yours - they’re ours. You’re a member of a system that’s run via inculcating its members with beliefs and expectations. You’ve taken them on as yours, as the good little member of a Capricornian group that you are.
In the notebook in my head, there are several dozen stars next to this sentence:
Resist the urge to shame yourself for whatever might come up, and be grateful to get to see the deeper layers.
Capricorn is famous for being willing to shame itself for being what it is, and your opportunity is in tapping into and running the Cap energy that takes responsibility for its directives as a collective, understanding that you don’t have to internalize anything that makes you feel less like loving yourself.
Collectively, then, a major opportunity is for us to learn to recognize that taking responsibility for how we’ve conditioned ourselves is critical. And I take this opportunity to remind you of the Uranian truth that all collective change begins with individual change.
One last thing: if when these layers are peeling away you find Lilith (or someone like her) and are not sure what to do, call me - I’ve got some notes for you.
Tom is available for intuitive evolutionary astrology consultations. See his website for more information.
April 7, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto in Capricorn: China & Human Rights Dialogue re 2008 Summer Olympics
As the dialogue about potential boycotting and sponsors pulling out develops over the coming weeks & months, consider how huge an opportunity these games are for big business to establish or deepen a footing in China.
No one wants to turn down the opportunities that a presence in China will mean, economically, in the coming decades.
And yet no one really wants to be seen supporting China’s human rights record.
The US president recently said that he will attend the Olympics this summer, stating that the games are about the athletes and not about politics. Almost smooth, pres, almost. How many of us are in the dark enough to think he would say or do anything to endanger the development of footholds of American business anywhere in the world?
One angle on Pluto in Capricorn illustrated in this ongoing conversation is the prioritization of business concerns at all costs. Capricorn represents business and Pluto wealth & power, but more importantly this combo in part represents the drive to achieve big things via business activities.
On the collective level, Pluto shows us the depths of our evolving desires. Pluto ploughs up the settled earth and shows us what’s under the surface. Sometimes we forget we need to see whatever’s down there - there’s a reason it’s buried, after all! But we need to learn just what it is, and to see how pursuing it and admitting it into consciousness can change us…so that we can decide if those desires are really getting us where we want to go.
There’s nothing wrong with business, and there’s nothing wrong with money. Yet if we use the pursuit of either to cut ourselves off from a part of ourselves, Pluto’s transit through this sign will cause us to become aware of it. We’ll have to face ourselves with new and unprecedented levels of honesty. We then have the choice about how to respond to what we’ve been doing and creating, and allowing that we might need to change is the key to smoothing out the typically-dreaded transits of Pluto.
The evolving conversation about which is more important, human rights or business, is a fantastic illustration of how we’re navigating Pluto’s recent entry into Capricorn. For cultures more or less disconnected from a feeling of being a part of life as a whole, these might not seem like real questions.
And yet more and more individuals are reconnecting to themselves, and in the process reconnecting to life as a whole. One of the opportunities of Pluto in Capricorn is changing the structures (Cap.) from the inside out (Pluto), which certainly does involve individuals affecting the concensus by shifting, and changing their minds about how to participate in the world.
And it’s possible that in your life, there’s a microcosm of this issue up for review. A scale of it that’s all about you and how you treat yourself. Where are you in the human rights vs. business conversation? What are you learning about how you prioritize things?
March 21, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto in Capricorn: Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase and The Fed
The day the news about Bear Stearns broke, I heard a surprised radio report about the surprising situation and drastic measures the Fed authorized, and I thought, “Geez, if that isn’t Pluto in Capricorn…”
Bear Stearns hit a liquidity (aka cash) crisis as a result of the shifting structures of the housing crisis stuff in the US that you can read about all over every media outlet. JPMorgan Chase offered a bailout, backed by the Fed.
I felt we needed to tease this out and take a moment to smell the aromas of the complexity of the developing scenario. Aside from what it is and means, what it is and means that the Fed stepped in and engineered the solution is huge in this.
But, then, all of a sudden we’re looking today at JPMC buying Bear Stearns at $2 per share, drastically lower than recent Bear Stearns prices.
If you allow that this situation represents that existing structures (Capricorn) need to be dramatically, irrevocably overturned (Pluto), you can understand that we need to see these how things are really working, how they’re really set up. And if you get this, you will not take this situation to mean that we are doomed, which is the vibe coming over the airwaves.
But here’s what I have to say about this whole thing: Notice if your belly is contracting.
Notice your feelings about the idea of a threat to your/our financial security.
Watch whatever feelings might be arising about this, and understand the collective, global need to see how huge banks/corporations/governments are set up so that we can consciously improve what might not be working.
I’m reminded that there is a huge invitation open to us right now as time seems to be speeding up, as we near whatever big shift we’re collectively headed for. Most of us aware of it will feel it as a constant challenge to remain connected to our feelings.
I’m recommending you don’t shut down from the fear that’s coming over the airwaves and ethernets. Also that you keep your eyes and ears open to how this develops, and see how this giant thing might hold keys to understanding the personal, smaller-scale situations in your own life relative to Pluto turning over any of your existing structures.
Some questions to ask with this transit, individually and collectively, are who’s in charge?, why?, how does this thing really work and can we say it really does work?
Tom is available for private intuitive astrology consultations. See his website for more info and contact information.
March 17, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Profile & Current Events: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
First of all, I usually stay away from analyzing the astrology of public persons who meet with dramatic turns. Mostly, I just never want to be the astrologer who says, “Oh, lookie! You can see why [name of public figure] [verbed] [horrible and tragic life circumstance]!” A fundamental truth of humans is that we have free will, and people respond to the energies being called up in their lives with choice.
Now, our choices are based in our conditioning - who we think we are, what we believe we’re supposed to do, etc. - and I’m clear that the themes of our conditioning can be seen in our charts. So of course I know I don’t have to be that kind of astrologer, but it usually doesn’t interest me on that level enough to dive into their charts.
But.
But as I listened a second time to the public statement by Eliot Spitzer following revelations that he’s been a customer of a prostitution ring, I had to go straight to his chart. Maybe I’d got used to hearing remorse or regret in the voices of politicians who are revealed to be two-timers or whatever?, yet what I heard in his voice was impatience.
An impatience to have to deal with the whole situation.
Which surprised me, so I was drawn into his chart (June 10, 1959, Bronx NY, time unknown).
First thing to see is South Node in Aries, with the ruler Mars in Leo conjunct Venus, with both of them quincunxing (inconjuncting - 150 degrees) a retrograde Saturn in Capricorn…which is square the nodes. With transiting Saturn retrograding in early Virgo trining that Saturn…and nearing a conjunction with his natal Pluto, retrograde in early Virgo…
Yeah, yeah, I know - that’s a mouthful. I’ll spell out what it said to me:
South Node in Aries: He’s coming from a karmic past full of Marsy experience. He’s used to the fight. He expects the world to be about Aries issues, and he will be drawn into them in this life in one way or another.
South Node ruler Mars in Leo, conjunct Venus: His role centers on being proud, good with people, direct, a man of action.
natal Saturn retro in Capricorn and square the nodes: The issues of work, balancing life in the public sphere, the sense of and the right sort of maturity to develop, are unresolved issues (squares to the nodes represent something we know some about but need to learn to make different choices about).
that Saturn quincunx that Mars-Venus in Leo: Whatever is misunderstood about work, life in the public sphere, and appropriate maturity development are having what feels a power struggle within him - and everything in astrology works in our external lives so that we can have opportunities to explore our internal conflicts.
transiting Saturn trining natal Saturn and conjuncting natal Pluto: Major lessons of authority (Saturn in Cap) & self-responsibility (Pluto in Virgo) are being helped along by transiting Saturn.
Oh, but then hey, the transiting North Node is right on his natal Chiron, at 27 Aquarius…
Putting all this together, I can’t help but feel that the opportunity he has is to be humbled & connect with his vulnerabilities (Tr. NN on Chiron), to choose to allow his reputation to be reframed in terms of the reality of his behavior and choices (Saturn transits). And to spend some time with himself to check in with how and why he does what he does (Saturn retro transit to conjunct natal retro Pluto).
Oh but then with the asteroid Arjunsuri (20300) natally on his Libra North Node, conjunct Pallas Athene and Juno in Libra, there’s a call to learn to listen to others (NN in Libra) who stick with him (Juno-Pallas Athene in Libra), to learn a new level of give and take (Libra NN) that works in conjunction with the parameters of his conscience (Arjunsuri) and how co-operative life with others works (Juno-Pallas Athene on Libra NN). But also to allow his conscience to guide him (Arjunsuri on the NN).
The latest news tonight was that he’s planning to spend time with his family in the short term - no word as of yet if he’ll stay in office. Developing the stuff mentioned the previous paragraph could be very much needed, and to make time and space for whatever in our lives is much needed, some of us have the knack of clearing our schedules in sometimes rather dramatic ways, just to make sure we have the opportunity.
March 10, 2008 By Tom Jacobs