Midlife Transits

Saw a bit on 60 Minutes today about Americans and their tanking 401Ks. It occurred to me that Pluto in Capricorn (bad economy) has taken a vicious whack at the Uranus in Cancer placements of those born from around 1949 through 1956 (approximately, there’s some play in the dates). Specifically Pluto has gone and started opposing a natal placement that an entire 7 year chunk of people has.

Of course, Pluto in Sagittarius took aim at the Uranus in Gemini folks before, but he did it in a Sagittarius/Gemini way. The Capricorn/Cancer way is to gnaw away at the thing Cancer loves the most–security. And Pluto’s doing his gnawing in a Capricornian way–by forcing these people to work past the time they had hoped for a secure retirement.

No wonder Pluto gets a bad reputation sometimes.

This too will pass though. It won’t pass soon enough for most of us, but it will pass. Most of the generation will come through the crisis intact. Doesn’t seem fair though. Feel free to post your opinion as to who to blame for Pluto’s current vicious antics.

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.