Midlife Transits

Lynn Hayes, astrology blogger at Beliefnet.com posted a link to a website that lists birth dates for Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene (aka parents of ‘balloon boy’). Nothing in particular struck my attention about these dates except that both are currently experiencing sextiles from Uranus in Pisces to planets in Capricorn. Mrs. Heene is also undergoing a prolonged square from transiting Jupiter to her Neptune in Scorpio.

Balloon boy dad is getting all the press for being the mad scientist behind the alleged hoax, which he may well be, but it is Jupiter square Neptune that’s a more noticeable symbol for being off one’s rocker, at least temporarily. Jupiter square Neptune is the type of transit that can tell you — ‘hey,  you know what would be economically beneficial? A big fat lie! What could possibly go wrong? You’ll never get caught because this harebrained scheme is sure to be successful!’

Occasionally I get the feeling that these planets actually enjoy taunting mere mortals, and that they sit back in the sky, clutching their sides and ho-ho-ho-ing when one of us takes the bait.

Be that as it may, it is the Uranus sextiles that are my subject. If the birth dates on the website are correct (they may not be), then Uranus in Pisces is sextiling Mr. Heene’s Saturn in Capricorn and Mrs. Heene’s Mars in Capricorn.

Uranus has been in Pisces for a good long time now and it’s taken me what seems like forever to reluctantly acknowledge that sextiles from Uranus in Pisces seem to be a real bitch. I started suspecting this a number of years ago when people would mysteriously contact me right around the time a Uranus sextile was exact upset about something that had gone wrong.

Uranus conjunctions didn’t seem to be any better quite frankly. Now that might be understandable; Uranus conjunctions can be hard to handle. But a little sextile–the opportunity angle?

Except that with Uranus in Pisces, it seemed to signal an opportunity for something to go unexpectedly wrong. To take a sudden turn for the worse. For the house to flood, the boyfriend to call with bad news, the affair to be revealed, the check to bounce.

I’m beginning to wonder if Uranus in Pisces has done anyone any favors these past few years. Surely it has, right? I must have a skewed sample. Right?

Just because a couple of people involved in a wacky news event seem to have been undergoing Uranus sextiles doesn’t mean this normally harmless little angle is the spawn of the devil when Uranus in Pisces gets ahold of it. Does it?

If you know you’ve undergone a transit from Uranus in Pisces, leave a comment detailing the wonderful things it did for you and save the reputation of this unjustly maligned transit.

Or–leave a comment confirming that Uranus in Pisces in transit has been useless at best and at worst a sign that something is about to get all messed up.

Tell me what you think.

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