February 9 2022
Neptune has been carrying considerable potency since the station direct occurred on December 1 2021 accompanied by a tight trine to Mars in Scorpio = very energized heated water molecules.
This chart from astro.com gives a different timing for the entry point into Direct for Neptune using Universal Time compared to the American Ephemeris giving 10.40am Ephemeris Time. The wide disparity is puzzling but the main issue is the planetary links.
The Sun-Neptune trine is supported by sextiles to Venus. In my past observations of severe weather Venus can be seen to feature occasionally and to a lesser degree in powerful patterns but its role is not as readily understand compared to the Mars to Pluto energies - as detailed in my dedicated Extreme Weather post on this site What is clear early in 2022 is that Neptune paired with Mars is driving a lot of patterns that involve water plus heat.
What is clear is that an initial pattern can be reinforced/sustained/extended when extra planetary energy is added into the mix.
for more read the full post here
February 1 2022
today my astro-neurons fired when I read a reference to:
the economy overheating
I pulled up a sequence of latest bulletins when I saw this was a zeitgeist:
and the players in this are immediately clear and worth noting.Economy is one of those old Capricornian concepts and Venus is the physical/material manifestations of money/cash/assets.
Venus has been in Capricorn since Nov 5 2021 [London time]
Heating has a strong association with Mars.
Mars has brought further heat into the global economy once it entered Capricorn on January 24 2022.
Overheating is a combination of Jupiter added to Mars and this occurs by sextile on February 4 2022
So it seems likely that energies are locked into this pattern by February 4 - a week after Venus reached a return to Direct -outward emphasis - and soon to be pursued by a now pumped-up Mars running at a hotter temperature - and the pair reach their exact conjunction - on February 18 2022...
but this isn't the end point - the 2 are so closely magnetically bound at a subatomic level that they maintain a very unusual long duration synergy in Capricorn for weeks...
read the full post on Profiler Astroblog
Also scroll down for some prior diary Posts which mention Venus and Pluto
January 22 2022
A longer post evolved in a role both as a cheerleader for astrology and to put astrology into a larger context:
January 20 2022
We're living through very complex times - and feeling this is backed up by evidence of the intensity of planetary interactions that are being dispersed through our local solar system.
In addition to prior entries here the early months of 2022 have even more to deliver: this entry looks at the unusually long meet-up of Venus and Mars. Both of these being energies that signify how we express ourselves in our relating/relationships - there's an equivalence in the Chinese concepts of Yin and Yang -the 2 balancing forces that exist in all dynamics and polarities - but in Western terms these tend to be given defined gender -Venus female and Mars male. We are now seeing that it's not so rigid - that we all contain a mix of both no matter what our assigned gender is.
Women in the West have clearly embraced more Mars [confident assertive initiating] energy during the decades of feminism - while still wanting to keep the best of being female. The Venus goddess look is very en vogue these days - beauty and glamour but now with grit.
Men have been a lot slower to embrace the blending but the signs are there amongst younger males that embracing female roles and pursuing the body beautiful are part of this growing process.
Where does it end? Far more androgyny is likely to emerge during a phase where extreme female and extreme male archetypes try to hold onto that far end-of-the-spectrum position: eventually that gap will close to a far greater homogeneity and the gender wars will be ancient history.
This philosophical/evolutionary musing about Venus and Mars is not the major point about the 4 weeks from February 10-March 14 period when these two planets are very very close together every day every hour between the positions 12 Capricorn to 7 Aquarius.
This is highly unusual. The 1992 Venus-Mars conjunction in Capricorn and early Aquarius was this close for only 5 days. They were in Capricorn together in 1965 -but no conjunction -always widely apart. The 2024 period of Venus in Capricorn sees Mars come within 5 degrees briefly near the end. Pfftt!
This one is worth watching then but there's little to compare it to so standard expectations are in the mix.
In personal private matchups of Mars and Venus where 2 different chemistries cause mutual sparks the Capricorn factor indicates being attracted to an older partner or love interest - who may/or may not have a stable mature or wise energy and may or may not be a high-ranking person in society - or at least a successful person in management business or politics.
Everyone fitting one or more of those criteria suddenly becomes more sought after and attractive under these influences.
Older males and females who have any of the added extra personal-inner or societal-outer attainments are endowed with extra charisma during the period outlined -and this aura grows to peak strength at the start of March surrounding the New Moon due to both Venus and Mars together catching up with Pluto - the very intense obsessive force which signifies power games.
March 2-4 will be unbelieveable for those who can reap the best of all this energy.
Because Capricorn energy signifies a range of examples of "older people who have things under control" in general that category represents the bosses and politicians in our society.
One older male politician looking very much impacted by the prevailing energies around Feb 10 is UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
The writing is definitely on the wall for him but not in the love department -as his own personal factors are telling another story: born when Jupiter and Neptune opposed from 15'44 Taurus to 15'24 Scorpio [a testimony to all of his flaws of excess exaggeration and looseness] -The end of January into early February [ sees the carrier of the scythe -Saturn - reach those degrees at a 90 degree angle from Aquarius. Boom!
Saturn is the taskmaster that places all the demands on Capricorn people and everyone symbolically Capricorn [bosses politicians high achievers] Saturn makes the final judgement as to whether the scales are even or terribly unbalanced.
Boris Johnson meets that deliberation most likely from the Saturn voice of society while Saturn transits Aquarius. Conversely the judgement of his peers -a political vote being lost.
Either way the broad consensus will be: Begone!
As for Venus and Mars - they come to the home position in Johnson's chart [IC] at nearly 13 degrees Capricorn in week 2 of February. This may be when it's packup and goodbye to 10 Downing St.
Other manifestations of the tight Venus-Mars pairing do generally surround business politicians governments so expect lots of relationship forming mergers partnerships in those contexts in February into March though Pluto can go either way -intense boding or annihilating destruction.
With multiple other factors potentially in the mix dependent upon an individual person's own energy [as the Boris Johnson example clearly shows] there is a lot of scope for things to come to a head one way or another -either productively and beneficially or leading to a falling out and breakdown in relationship.
Capricorn's ideal attainment over a lifetime is maturity stabilty wisdom and a protective paternal/maternal disposition. It literally can take a lifetime to cut through the impediments obstructing that most important inner attainment - often left until after the need for diversion into outer symbols of success have been met and satisfied.
Venus and Mars together in Capricorn asks those most affected by this pairing of energies to act responsibly with restraint caution and wisdom - and various political situations bubbling away globally have a clear need for this wherever confrontational [Mars] circumstances are in process [eg Russia-Ukraine-US]
The highest risk period will be early March with Pluto in the mix -where some power brokers may be incapable of the ideal Capricorn response even if the opportunity is there to evolve their natural instincts instead of choosing war. The urge to dominate and annihilate politically using force is strong at that time.
Another arena for all this powerful energy at the start of March is the business sector and specifically banking & finance - where the potential for meltdowns and wipeouts is worth preparing for with Capricornian risk-averse actions in advance.
2022 is not starting off quietly.
January 16 2022
Looking at January 2022 the standout factor is Uranus being virtually at a standstill for the whole month.
This lingering situation around 11 degrees Taurus affects all fixed natal and transiting positions at 11 degrees and trines all Earth signs at 11 degrees as well as while at 11 degrees Uranus is resonant with the semi & sequi positions at 26 degrees.
And it is clear that we need to flip back to December 2021 and what was happening for virtually the whole month too as Uranus retrograded back under 12 degrees heading for 11 by the time December started.
Deep processes were underway then even during late November and continue to linger in January 2022 -especially because in December the full moon at 27 Gemini locked in a close semisquare orb with Uranus 11 Taurus orb - the exact angle being 26 Gemini here. This makes the 26-27 Gemini natal house position relevant to what Uranus is shifting within you.
We know Taurus is things values money property security pleasures.
We know Uranus is sending the sort of energy that promotes changing any or all of those things.
One of my responses spontaneously carried out last week was a much bigger declutter than had already been gradually underway.
This one over several hours over several days was both decisive and indicative of a clear separation from prior attachments -stuff belonging to others not in my life [unhappy associations].
The process isn't complete and the energy remains strongly alive but exhaustion did cause me to pace myself and have a break period.
Uranus in transit house position is clearly relevant as well but not solely on its own -paired with the opposing house the issue is around resolving 2 aspects of expression or realms of activity and trying to find the right proportion or balance of focus on one or the other: this means that Uranus going through 11 has a connection to Uranus as if it were also going through the 5th. Somewhere digging through the options for both of those houses lies the correct polarity being explored - elements of collective [11th] juggled with personal [5th] or is friendship the right option -versus the greater closenesss of a 5th house connection? Time will tell.
Look at Venus too -currently manifesting matters arising through Uranus in Taurus is still Earthy in Capricorn and stays there till March 6 -around 4 months in total.
Venus was stationary retro at the December full moon mentioned earlier -and in close contact with Pluto -one degree of separation which soon closed to anexact pairing of these energies at Xmas. Intense - but likely quite suberranean stuff being processed with the impulse from a near Earth retrograde plus Pluto's favourite way of keeping stuff under control -shoving it down deeper.
The next period of note for this combo of energies has been mid January - a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific territory of the Tongan Islands in the evening of January 15 -just as Uranus [earth changes] is at its slowest -days from exact stationary Direct and slightly in advance of the Sun becoming conjunct with Pluto at 26.5 Capricorn.
Rocks rained down on roofs in local settlements and tsunami effect has been widespread far from the event location.
An aerial view of the Tonga eruption
Even for a reasonably close observer of natural forces like me...this one came as a surprise in terms of the potency - but the planets tell the story: Pluto...on the scene along with Uranus [both of these in elemental form were nuclear bomb-making materials used against Japan in WW2]
Soon after mid January... Venus in middle degrees of Capricorn is exact semisextile Saturn at around 13'40 Aquarius which in this context will likely indicate the economic hardship faced by the affected communities.
2022 -beginning of August -Uranus has a big role to play - but Neptune/Pisces water energy is very strong.
In Chinese Feng shui which is a system based on natural elemental balancing - the Year of the Tiger in effect from February 1 is a Water Tiger year - big water and though a repeated challenge look particularly at March and April where the water energy really accumulates.
Dry land will get some relief if able to absorb deluges- allowing good vegetation growth - but we know too much water is often a destructive force
The fixed signs Taurus and Aquarius held by Uranus and Saturn also activate Leo-derived = solar radiated Fire = environmental heat/combustion will also repeatedly be a challenge in 2022
January 4 2022
In the era of Pluto in Capricorn -when all of us are being pressured to mature or at least grow up in some way the Venus Pluto in Capricorn synergy from the end of week one December 2021 - then followed by Mercury Venus Pluto in the last days of 2021 stretched further into the early days of 2022 as a Venus-Mercury combo with Pluto on their midpoint.
Hands up if you went a little crazy !
By Jan 4 if you recalibrated yourself well enough the effects will be waning.
With such a strong emphasis on Capricorn the enrgy naturally spreads to the whole sign group which contains Aries Cancer and Libra as well.
These four Cardinal groyp signs are all all about relation - Aries to self Cancer to family Libra to partners or partnerships and Capricorn to society - so any one or more of those contexts are likely to have been the personal focus of the strong Capricorn energy from early December 2021.
This was one potent humdinger of intense energy -first affecting either or both of Venus' fields of influence -Libra relationships and Taurus attachments - people things money security and what you value as well as how to balance out both of those.
Then Mercury entered the mix adding way more mental stimulation - I personally [with Mercury ruled Gemini Asc ] felt close to manic in my stringing of words and ideas - but I have a natural medicine qualification so that came in handy calming the system down.
At 25 Capricorn these combos squared my Neptune and sextiled my Sun also -while transiting the 8th.
It won't have been as intense if you had nothing natal being aspected or usually easier with a trine or sextile -and less intense outside of the 8th house -but aside from that - everyone on planet Earth has had these energies in a big dose.
They carried not only Capricornian energy but also Saturn's current placement in Aquarius - so we are being asked not only to use Capricorn energy in the ideal mature/adult/parental/supportive/mentoring/guiding or even peak achievement/mastery way - all of which are keywords for a well-formed Capricorn principle - but also to apply that in response to collective and community contexts.
This is totally clear in the context of Covid where restrictive mandates ask us to act for the common good, think of others, do what serves the collective benefit, think of community instead of self interest - and most of the world is placed in this gripping situation still at the start of 2022 - and worsening in primarily the Northern Hemisphere - since it all unfolded 2 years ago.
Given such a globally significant theme it is absolutely clear how meaningful the message is for humanity - a huge collective shift is being demanded in order to rebalance the cultural trends which need a shift away from me me me me at the expense of others me at the expense of community and family or me at the expense of other species and me at the expense of our shared social and natural environments.
The planet is teaching us all these things through Covid and through the intensifying climate events. What we have trashed and abused and debased is now having its turn to take much more obvious control over our lives.
When eventually the Covid crisis has run its course in this decade the natural elements will continue to frequently manfiest their intense patterns.
My research on extreme weather shows that the 2020s will demand a lot of us in terms of adapting to and dealing with wind water fire and processes in the land.
This situation requires that we shift now to a more collective mindset - commitment to being a responsible member of a community - because that is how we will deal best with what arises. Being ready and willing to do whatever a situation demands to help others.
