Midlife Transits

I wrote recently about the upcoming move of Neptune in Pisces, which is like a double dose of Neptune. The other day someone sent me this description of feeling lost. It’s one of the best descriptions I’ve ever read of what a Neptune transit. The sensations this person describes often occur during a midlife transit of Neptune square Neptune, although not for everyone of course. Here it is:

“To tell the truth, I am lost right now. It’s like I don’t know who I am or what I want or where I’ll be in the future. I kinda know what I’d like, but I doubt that I can get it or how I will get it. I’m in a free fall, letting myself get deluded and anesthesized by fantasy by escaping into music and T.V.: “Crossfire”, “Dog Days are Over”, Deadwood & everything with dreamy Timothy Olyphant.

I am sucked into the words and stories and don’t really want to pull away because if I pull away, there is nothing really here for me to do or to look at. I’ve surrendered to the fog and it has swept me up and thrown me off a cliff. When I hit bottom I could land safely and get up and walk away as if nothing happened or I could shatter into dozens of pieces. I kinda want to shatter….so that I can pick up each piece and really look at it, throw away some, pocket some, try to salvage the remaining.

I can’t say that I like it but I can’t say that I don’t. I’m curious and confused and at times content with the utter unknown of it. But it does try my patience. I feel isolated, albeit self inflicted. If there are answers it seems they are here somewhere inside me so if I stay put long enough they’ll come, rather than getting out and about and among others.

But is inactivity counterintuitive? Isn’t taking action the way out? Not if the inner me keeps cajoling me to  ‘stay put’. So I stay and listen to “Dog Days are Over” and Brandon Flowers’ “Crossfire” a zillion times, hanging on the words as if an answer is in the refrain, the songs a sort of anthem for my search.

I watch Deadwood over and over, vaguely thinking I’ll learn something but really just caressing my mind by being in this faraway place with Black Hills Shakespearan characters and their schemes. They may be somewhat conflicted, but their wants and actions are so clear, so doggedly executed and I am fascinated by that and how this wild town creates itself, disposing of those who aren’t of use and how it’s figuring out how to form and become civilized, how to get along with the various personages who are making their place, their way, their fortunes amidst good and evil.”

Such a profusion of Neptune feelings in the description above: lost, unknown, undecided, free fall, deluded, anesthetized, fantasy, escape, dreamy, sucked in, surrendered, fog, swept away, curious, confused, searching for answers, inactive, caressing, figuring out how to form. It’s pretty amazing how dead on this description is.

Why you ask, would the planets throw us into such a state? Well, the answer is that often such a state is the precursor to inspiration, to a new level of clarity, to opening up to possibilities romantic and artistic and spiritual. It’s a form of divine discontent and enthrallment that leads us to somewhere we never knew existed. The Neptune sea sweeps us up to exotic new destinations, new frontiers, new homes. The attachment to a celebrity or celebrities, to a story, a movie, a type of music, etc. is very common during this kind of transit. It allows for a safe exploration of feelings that real life often has little use for. And the attachment in its own way heals and allows for the processing of emotions and experiences that the daily crush of demands don’t honor. Neptune allows the imagination to become a vehicle for redemption.

If you surrender to a Neptune transit, it can be almost ecstatic. It re-sets your priorities and pulls you out of mundane worries into a land of exalted emotion. Although strange and confusing, it’s a good thing. And worth enjoying–for it won’t last forever.

P.S. Thanks to our anonymous contributor!

First, some housekeeping. I’ve started adding a brief weekly astrology overview to my Facebook page on Saturdays. So hop on over there each week if you want a quick and dirty lowdown on the week ahead, as well as occasional links to things that relate to what’s going on in the skies these days.

I’ve also started a weekly astrology radio show/podcast that will be up each Tuesday. The idea is to talk to people about not only astrology but related spiritual disciplines and how astrology and other healing modalities can be used for effective action in your everyday life. Topics are designed to be suitable for beginners and more advanced astrology students both. The first show is up now and so far it has been fascinating, at least to me.

By the synchronicity of the universe, this week’s radio podcast also happened to be a topic on one of the blogs I visit: Donna Cunningham’s Skywriter.  Donna had a whole series on the 12th house. Take a look at this Q&A post and follow the links below it to related articles if you want a whole wealth of information on this maligned and mysterious area of your chart.

My podcast focused on only one portion of the 12th house’s many meanings: NEPTUNE, THE SUBCONSCIOUS, AND SELF-UNDOING.  Specifically, we talk about the relationship between the 12th house and the subconscious ways that we shoot ourselves in the foot. We also talk about the relationship between Neptune and hypnosis and whether or not hypnotherapy can be a good remedy for 12th house problems. My guest was a hypnotherapist, Clare Taylor. You can find her on Facebook here. It was a really interesting discussion.

I also thought I’d add to the wealth of 12th house information by giving some information on how a 12th house influence can manifest in your life. I’ll take a look at Venus in the 12th house, Venus in Pisces, and Neptune in the 7th house–all of which can manifest in similar ways. (Because Neptune, the 12th house, and Pisces are all related energies and because Venus rules the 7th house of relationships.)

Of course, many of you don’t have any of these placements. But I’m including the list just to show you how one little natal placement can have such a large variety of meanings over the course of a lifetime. Think about your own Venus, 12th house, Pisces, and Neptune placements. What can you learn about your own nature from this list?

Venus in the 12th house, Venus in Pisces, and Neptune in the 7th house can manifest as:

• Difficulty feeling loved
• Hidden artistic and/or musical talents or interests
• Being too ‘nice’ as a form of self-undoing
• Placing a strong value on compassion and sympathy
• Problems with balance, hearing, or the throat (Venus rules balance and the throat)
• Attracting Piscean or Neptunian people into your life
• Hidden laziness
• Hidden sensuality
• Love of fantasy
• Love of solitude or nature
• Love of sleep as a Venus indulgence
• Lack of possessiveness
• Lack of interest in material goods or objects
• The desire for unusual or open relationships
• Dislike of relationship commitment (vague Neptune in the house of committed relationships)
• Romantic attraction to artists, alcoholics, or people with drug problems
• Romantic partners who keep secrets
• Partners with strong psychic or intuitive abilities
• Romantic attitude toward marriage
• A strong relationship with God or spirituality
• Projecting a ‘halo’ or saintly aura (12th house influences near the Ascendant)
• An empathetic or even empathic relationship toward everyone
• Hidden mystical experiences
• Difficulty relaxing unless one is alone
• Behind-the-scenes charitable acts
• Falling in love with a person in prison or with a chronic illness
• Satisfying and enjoyable work in a 12th house institution such as a hospital, hospice, mental health institution, etc.
• Feeling loved by God or the universe
• A love life or financial life that improves with time as one taps into the 12th house gifts
• A lifelong quest for love, money, or spiritual satisfaction
• Secret admirers
• A willingness to embrace a wide range of spiritual practices or beliefs
• Placing a strong value on a holistic approach to life’s problems
• Love of the ocean, sailing, or water sports
• An affinity for hypnosis and/or working with the subconscious mind
• Love of photography
• Preferring to play a ‘back-up’ or behind the scenes role rather than being front and center
• A soft voice
• Lack of discriminating taste
• Feeling one loves all things equally
• Addiction to shopping
• Spending money on spiritual or artistic pursuits
• Idealism about love or money
• Attracting a ‘soul mate’
• Money from working behind the scenes in film, dance, or an artistic field
• The desire to keep one’s relationships private
• Not being aware of who is attracted to you
• Attracting others as a downfall
• Being perceived by the public as spiritual, spacy, or artistic
• Being addicted to love
• The ability to express love through artistic means
• Associating love with sacrifice
• Becoming a victim of people who say they love you
• Saving someone you love
• Carelessness in relationships or the opposite, excessive caring
• Impracticality as a downfall
• Lack of greed
• Placing little value on common sense
• Idealizing ‘spiritual currency’ or spiritual values over worldly success
• Preferring contemplation to action
• Tendency to give in
• Desire to go with the flow
• Belief in universal values rather than individual differences
• Being ‘too flexible’ as a downfall
• Seen as being hard to define
• Glamorous image
• Deceptive image or feeling you are not seen accurately
• Being idealized by others
• Subconsciously seductive
• Having a relaxed appearance
• Appearing to be casual or relaxed about relationships
• Taking an ‘easy come, easy go’ attitude
• Immersive, all-consuming relationships
• Looking for a spiritual rather than sexual partner
• Detachment about possessions
• Spirituality as a resource
• Diffuse or muted emotions
• Carelessness with money
• Lack of concern with financial security
• Believing ‘God will provide’
• Denying oneself material comforts
• Refusal to play favorites

As it happens, I have all 3 of these placements!  In keeping with the 12th house desire for privacy, I won’t tell which of these manifestations apply to me.

“How did we get into this mess?”

That’s the question a friend asked me the other day, and it’s a question that’s generally applicable to astrology of this summer. Most of the outer planets seem to be asking, with something greater than exasperation, ‘how the bleep did we get into this mess?’ Although the Gulf oil spill is the largest and most visible symbol of the disarray in the skies, many of us have felt the energy in personal ways. Let’s take a look at what’s been happening using the BP oil leak as a guide.

On April 20, 2010 an oil rig known as the Deepwater Horizon located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. At the time, Uranus in Pisces was opposing Saturn in Virgo. Neptune was lurking about in an inconjunct with Saturn. Jupiter in Pisces was hovering near Uranus, ready to pounce. Pluto in Capricorn was stationed ominously in a wide out of sign square to both Uranus and Saturn.

In the symbolic language of astrology, the events that followed have tragically been almost literal at times.  Uranus is Mr. Explosion, especially when he’s in a bad mood with other outer planets, as he was at the time. Hem in Uranus with constricting energies from other planets and all hell breaks loose. Uranus was in the sign of oil and the sign of the sea. Oil-related explosion at sea. Pretty literal.

Saturn is Mr. Safety and Mr. Let’s Do Things Carefully. In Virgo, he was in a sign related to workers, the environment and environmental regulation. Uranus beats Saturn in a fair fight, and even in an unfair fight. Uranus’s oil-related explosion at sea annihilated Saturn’s relatively weaker efforts to safeguard workers, the environment, to champion prudence and doing things right.

Uranus also relates to speed and technology. Pisces is also the sign of chaos, uncertainty, and ‘we don’t know what the hell we are doing.’ Saturn also relates to cost-cutting, delays, slowness, old ways of doing things, and the desire for order and procedure. BP’s demands for speedy drilling, combined with cost-cutting efforts, previous delays, and new technology for deep water drilling collided to create a swirling marine nightmare of chaos, uncertainty, and environmental degradation mixed with a desperate desire to get control of the leak using Saturn’s old-fashioned methods of procedure. Saturn’s reliance on precision Virgo-like engineering efforts was no match for Uranus’s burbling, gurgling torrent of oil spilling from underground.

In the stark mathematics of the universe at the time, the raw energy of chaos beat the pants off little ant-like human efforts to contain it. BP and everyone else responding to the disaster were in over their heads, not knowing what the hell they were doing, having unleashed a Pandora’s box of forces they were unable to control.

Neptune in Aquarius, the planet also associated with the sea and oil, in an unsupportive angle to Saturn, stood off to the side and said ‘I told you so. I told you were placing too much faith (Neptune) in new technology (Aquarius) for deep water drilling.’ Jupiter, the Great Expander, also in the sign of oil and the sea, piled on to make the disaster bigger and bigger and bigger with every passing day, vowing to continue until everyone got the message that things were out of control.

Pluto in Capricorn, symbol of wealth, corporations, and the riches of the deep, anchors the situation from his square position off to the side of the disaster, saying nothing. He doesn’t have to say anything. In Pluto’s world, the rules are obvious and brutal. You reap what you sow. Screw up and pay the price.

No one can accept this really, at least not quickly. The price is too high, too unexpected, too lingering. Pluto lessons are hard to absorb, and with Uranus and Jupiter upping the emotional ante, the hubbub surrounding the chaos makes it hard to identify reality. Even the size of the leak remained elusive, slippery, uncertain.

It would be way too much of a stretch to say that each individual one of us is in the same position with the regard to the universe–battling chaos, uncertainty, misplaced faith, and forces beyond our control. Not every single individual is saying ‘how did we/I get into this mess?’ But collectively, we are in a mess. Collectively, we have gotten in over our heads.

Collectively, we don’t know what we are doing. At the time of the initial explosions, no one in the entire world actually knew how to stop that gusher in a timely manner. No one.

We had pushed beyond our Saturn limits into uncharted territory.

Uranus and Pluto and Jupiter and Neptune and Saturn don’t line themselves up for disaster just for their own amusement, although it may seem that way at the time. They align themselves these ways because the alignments simply reflect the truth. If you get in over your head, unleash forces you don’t understand how to harness, you will experience harrowing consequences. The alignments bring to our attention the times when we have to up our game.

The simple truth, I suppose, is that we got into this mess as a result of choices we made earlier. BP is paying for its choices. The government is paying for its choices. All of us are paying for our long-standing choices to favor new oil exploration and technology over boring old things like conservation and reduced consumption. And sort of like a rogue wave, Uranus’s ocean explosion is sweeping up and destroying a lot of people along the Gulf who are victims of circumstances they can’t control. These alignments are like that. They are absolutely, positively not fair.

On the other hand, these alignments also represent turning points and tipping points. Painfully and slowly, we get the message. We figure out that we have to do better. We stop putting up with problems that we should have addressed long ago. The tide turns. We go in a new direction because we have to. We stop letting Uranus in Pisces kick our collective butts and we eventually get to work, building a better system.

That’s the idea anyway. Let’s hope it happens.

Today I want to refer you to an excellent post by Donna Cunningham on Mars/Neptune and the recent deaths of 2 people (and the illnesses of many more) who participated in a “Spiritual Warrior” program run by James Arthur Ray, a man perhaps best known for his association with “The Secret.” The people died as a result of being in what was labeled a sweat lodge but what was apparently a concoction of Ray himself, one utilizing extreme heat in ways not generally used by those who organize a more traditional sweat lodge ceremony.

Cunningham talks specifically about Mars and Neptune in her post, and I have to admit ‘Neptune aspects’ was my first thought when I thought about what Ray’s birth chart might look like. It turns out that Ray’s chart (accurate birth time not known) also contains a Mars/Uranus square.

In my own personal experience, if you want to be associated with sudden, surprising and bad accidents, the Uranus/Mars square is one you want to seek out. It turns out that Ray’s previous ‘sweat lodge’ events have been associated with bad events in the past, although not on this scale.

The chart for the event itself also contains a wide Uranus/Pluto square (out of sign), and it is these wide squares that I see most commonly in events that affect many people.

But it would be foolish to say that any time these squares show up bad things will happen. Billions of people got through that day without any untoward events. While such squares may show up in after the fact analysis, they are not predictive.

The presence of Neptune aspects isn’t predictive either, although I’ll take a few words to weigh in on the planet of delusion at this point. The thing about Neptune is that he is the planet of transcending limits. In this respect, he is otherworldly, because real life (something Neptune is not fond of, real life) is full of limits.

Overly Neptunian people have a devil of a time reconciling themselves to this. They just do not want to believe it. It seems incomprehensible and illogical to them. If the mind can do many things, they reason, why can’t it do everything? Why acknowledge the existence of anything else?

These people want to live in a world of imagination, in which many of the normal limits do not apply. Sometimes they twist reality around so violently that they turn very real limits (e.g., the amount of time a body can go without being properly rehydrated) into irrelevancies in their own minds.

And then innocent people pay the price.

You could say it is the insanity of Neptune that makes Saturn so necessary. Saturn gets a bad rap because he insists on facing limits, getting grounded in reality, and understanding that suffering is a legitimate and appropriate response to many of the conditions of the real world.

The problem with Neptune is that it does not want to accept the legitimacy of ordinary human suffering. It attempts to escape it, transcend it, ignore it, deny it, and spin it into something entirely different.

Hence, we get Ray purportedly saying to his followers that the people who died attracted their deaths to themselves. No need to grieve, mourn, suffer, contemplate, acknowledge responsibility or limits. It’s a happy thing and we can all escape the legitimate sorrow that should accompany such an event by pretending that the deaths were the fault of the people who died. No one dies unless they want to. There are no tragedies, no accidents, and no evil in the Neptunian world. Just magical thoughts and magical outcomes that have no use for the reality that everyone else has to live in.

I could get real cynical at this point and say that the people who died did indeed attract their own deaths by signing up for a g*dd*mn scam by a semi-cult leader preaching bullsh*t. Their Saturns didn’t tell them to get the hell out of the tent and scram before something went horribly wrong. Or I could say that pushing responsibility for the deaths on the people who died is a strangely insidious and Neptunian form of evil. Perhaps I will get real cynical as my own personal buttons get pushed by this story.

But that would be mean, so perhaps I’ll just run a PSA from Saturn:

Hi folks, Saturn here. Remember that reality is a beautiful thing no matter how much you may not like it at any given moment. You don’t need to run around trying to think magical thoughts in order to get around its existence. You just have to respect it.

You don’t need to be attracting wealth all the time, turning your critical thinking faculties over to a guru, or believing that there’s some secret that will make life wonderful all the time if you just think the right things. Because it isn’t wonderful all the time. That’s what makes the times when it is wonderful so incredibly precious. Seriously.

So, as the official planetary sponsor of reality, I just want to remind you to be grateful for me occasionally. I may not talk as pretty as Neptune, but I am your friend. Really.

Sometimes our current president seems immune to transits. Pluto’s been punching his Venus, and yeah, his poll numbers went down, but to nothing like what our former president had to endure. He’s seemingly sailed through a number of transits since he came onto the national public scene.

He’s not immune to Neptune though. He’s a very Neptunian person, or at least he has a very Neptunian persona, full of glamor and a certain sort of charisma. Right now, Neptune is opposing his natal Uranus, and it’s showing. His attempts to explain his health care proposals have been very vague, and he cannot seem to communicate them to the American public, no matter how he tries.

That’s partly because they are vague. At least at this point in time. He left the heavy lifting to Congress and Congress can’t make up its mind. Meanwhile, Obama can’t seem to get his story straight on things like behind the scenes deals with Big Pharma. There is “ambiguity” as one news article put it. Ambiguity is Neptune’s specialty.

Deception is another Neptune specialty and it seems to be rampant these days.  That’s not too surprising. The thing about Neptune, though, is that it’s hard to tell who’s doing the lying. Is Obama lying about the effects of his proposals or are his opponents lying when they claim that all sorts of dire consequences will ensue or that strange ‘death panel’ provisions are to be written into legislation. It’s all gotten pretty bizarre–another Neptune specialty.

Maybe they’re all lying or out of their deluded minds. It wouldn’t surprise me if the entire political class–activists, Congresspeople and Administration folks had all collectively gotten on the loony tunes bus and were busy riding it furiously to nowhere.

It’s been a very Neptunian year, but things will get less Neptunian as the process wears on. Won’t they?

I saw this as a news headline somewhere–that President Obama’s ‘honeymoon’ period is over. I don’t know about Obama, but for the rest of us there’s a ring of truth to that.

Jupiter is now retrograde, as is Neptune and Chiron. These are the 3 placements that conjoined each other in May and June and half of July, giving us all a nice bump of unearned optimism and confidence. The time period has had its harrowing moments, at least partly due to energetic eclipse action, but the media’s relentless pushing of bad economic news eased up.

It was as though everyone forgot for a bit that we are in serious trouble and that our fundamental institutions need to be rebuilt.

Well now Jupiter’s zooming away from Neptune and our collective confidence is scheduled to wane. I know mine took a noticeable dip as soon as Jupiter went retrograde. If your confidence is waning a bit these days, there’s a reason for it.

And this is not necessarily a bad thing. We can all step back a bit. We can get more clear-headed with Neptune not fogging things up. We can prepare for what we need to do instead of jumping in all deluded. After all when the honeymoon’s over, the real marriage begins.

If you want to know in what areas of your life a dip in confidence or a need to step back might be indicated, look to see what house the sign of Aquarius represents in your solar chart (or natal chart if you know your rising sign). They are listed below.  You can visit my other site Practical Astrology to see what the houses mean. (Scroll down the page.)

Aries: 11th house

Taurus: 10th house

Gemini: 9th house

Cancer: 8th house

Leo: 7th house

Virgo: 6th house

Libra: 5th house

Scorpio: 4th house

Sagittarius: 3rd house

Capricorn: 2nd house

Aquarius: 1st house

Pisces: 12th house

It’s been staring me in the face for a week but I couldn’t see it.

A Neptune/Jupiter/Chiron conjunction signals massive fraud. I’ve been on the lookout for it. I’ve been warning clients about it. And when it occurs, I can’t see it. I was thinking massive fraud in the Bernie Madoff sense.

Instead, it was the Iran election. I noted the violence and missed the other half of the story. Massive fraud (Neptune) combined with idealistic (Aquarian) demands for justice (Jupiter). Aquarius happens to be the sign of democracy. Neptune is the planet of both deception and disillusionment.

The Iran election happened to take place just as Jupiter moved away from 26 degrees and toward stationing at 27 degrees. Stationing can indicate a stand-off; the planet’s not moving; it’s hard for things to get resolved.

Jupiter’s retrograde now, but it’s also back at 26 degrees. This is the same degree that Neptune’s stuck at (also retrograding) and the same degree that Uranus in Pisces is at. We’ll be in 26 degrees-land through the first week of July. Uranus will be at 26 degrees into August. Uranus is upheavals and disruptions. Pisces has religious overtones.

In other words, the Iranian powers that be picked a hell of a time to rig an election.

Here’s a link to something Mashable is promoting, a Summer of Social Good. The goal is to raise money for charities this summer through social media like Twitter.

To me, this is a prime example of the influence of the Jupiter/Neptune/Chiron conjunction in Aquarius this summer. Aquarius as a sign is often hot for social good. Furthermore, Aquarius is the sign of social networking through technology.

Put Jupiter and Neptune into this sign, throw in Chiron and mash them all together and you get something like this. Neptune provides the idealism; Jupiter provides the incentive to do good through economic means, and Chiron provides the urge to heal something grand–like society. And yes, this is a summer phenomenon, this conjunction. By the fall, we’ll have other astrological things to worry about. Like Saturn in Libra being in a bad mood with Pluto in Capricorn.

Another example of the conjunction zeitgeist, I think, is the fact that NBC is launching a show with the improbable title of “The Philanthropist” about a globe-trotting philanthropist who just wants to save the world and blow up some cars or stuff.

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My local news is all about swine flu these days. Seems like the national news is too.

The traditional astrological symbol for flu and pandemics is Neptune. For example, during the flu pandemic of 1957, Neptune in Scorpio was in a bad mood with Uranus in Leo. Deaths peaked when they were about 9 or 10 degrees from a square, which is when global events associated with outer planet squares usually hit crisis points (8-10 degrees from a square is more dangerous than the exact aspect usually).

This year, Neptune has moved into place for the triple conjunction coming up later in May. The conjunction is a global phenomenon and therefore lends itself to global events like pandemics.  I’m really not familiar with pandemics resulting from Neptune conjunctions, though, and I have to say a flu pandemic is not exactly what I wanted from this one. I was hoping for much more jolly stuff  since optimistic Jupiter will be involved. The addition of Chiron to the mix is a wild card, though, and not one that happens often enough for me to have any personal experience with it.

Maybe it will all turn out to be relatively mild if Jupiter rides in to the rescue later in May. If not, then I suppose we might have a very unusual late spring/summer spurt of illness, because Neptune will be at this degree until mid-July. Usually, illness is more likely to spread during the school year.

To me, if this a manifestation of Neptune and Chiron in cahoots, it seems a bit mean. The poor globe is already reeling from an economic downturn; this seems like the last thing we need. Give us some happy news, planets, we’ve got more than enough difficult aspects coming up.

And in celebration, early-bird horoscopes for May have been posted. Yes, you can ask questions and make comments.

By the way, in many of the sun sign horoscopes I mention a triple conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron in the sign of Aquarius. It occurs toward the end of May. I mention it because I’m all excited about it.

Whether it’s worth getting all excited about remains to be seen. Still, semi-newshound that I am I have seen flurries of activity relating to this conjunction all over the place.

These flurries of activity mostly relate to experty-type experts on various economic matters getting cautiously optimistic about the economy. In my astrological brain, they are getting cautiously optimistic because a Jupiter/Neptune conjunction just wants people to get optimistic and have hope again. Jupiter, by the way, deals with the economic matters.

So in my reading, the recent stock market upticks and whatnot are signs that Jupiter/Neptune is kicking in.

The downside is that Neptune is a notorious liar. It promises hope and then does its darndest to eventually deliver disappointment. That’s why cautious experty-type experts are keeping  a mindful eye on Pluto in Capricorn. When they keep their mindful eye on Capricorn they say things like “it’s still a long road to recovery.” Because that’s Pluto in Cap’s opinion, and Pluto is usually right.

So…I think Neptune and Jupiter are going to try to do their darndest to give us all a necessary break from gloom and doom. They’ll let us enjoy the summer, before Saturn in Libra squares off with Pluto in the fall and puts us in a bad mood with world affairs again. Sort of like that; there is some play in the dates.

Neptune’s already at the degree he will station at–26 degrees. Jupiter will hover around this degree, so will Chiron. Uranus will hover at the same degree in Pisces. If you have planets at 26 degrees figure that they will be energized, hopeful, surprised, and confused. So will the rest of us probably.