Analysis: the potent February 2018 solar eclipse

The February solar eclipse at the 

mid month New Moon carries a very interconnected complex of energies – signifying on one level extra powerful forces expressing through the natural elements and atmosphere

 then symbolically related effects in the diverse spheres of human activity.

Strong to severe environmental outcomes are expected in the form of weather and events which impact not only physical aspects such as landforms and surfaces but also built structures – all with consequences for people.

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March 2018 severe weather hits US East Coast
late Feb: Europe & UK slammed by deep freeze
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In the domains of human activity a continuation of material/financial impacts is expected as this eclipse shows strong capacity to wipe out money/assets. With uncertainty impacting world markets since the February 5 losses - under the effect of a sequence of planetary influences [Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn all interacting with Venus in the first half of February - and now showing outcomes] more pressure is being applied during the timeframe of this eclipse suggesting it is highly likely that a longer period of adverse indicators is now underway..not a simple quick correction.

Everything possible is on board this eclipse pattern: the sun and moon in conjunction are the tail end of a locomotive driven by Pluto, assisted by Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury, Chiron all in the range from 20-27 degrees – a “train” of energies always indicating multiple combined forces resulting in high potency.

The powerful chain reaction capacity of such a string is assisted further by  Mars, Neptune and the lunar nodes in the range 12-15 degrees. As described many times in prior posts, the 27-12 combination of energies, especially strengthened when in an eclipse grouping, promises highly significant events in human and natural activities.

The potential for immense destructive power in vulnerable locations and conditions indicates that where strong weather is clearly building that necessary protective actions are appropriate such as evacuation, flood protection. 

Highly energised conditions in some locations: wind and water, with underlying heat are elemental factors indicated strongly for locations where environmental impacts from these are relevant. Significant snow as a frozen form of water applies in locations where this is relevant. 

Structural collapse has been a theme since the start of 2018 and remains strongly in effect due to sustained reactivating factors. Outcomes include further examples of landslips, avalanches, bridge, road or building collapses –whether as a result of extra strong weather elements or due to the deformation of land from tectonic plate movement. Ingress of sea water as a destructive force continues to be a destructive element in coastal locations when combined with abnormally strong weather elements and with seafloor earthquake events – all of which are potentials elevated within the global environment in vulnerable locations during the 6 month effective period of the February 2018 solar eclipse.

Even looking at March 2018 -very similar themes persist at the mid-month New Moon though the energies aren't quite as completely entangled as at the mid February eclipse.
In March:

• The 27-12 pattern remains in place: Sun+Moon at 27, Neptune-Venus-Mercury combining in the 11-14 range = major indicator of severe weather 
• Saturn with Venus in the approach days -week starting March 12
• Saturn in a very tight 23-8 pattern with Jupiter 
• Mars energising the lunar nodes in a 29-14 pattern
• Water continues to be the key element causing structural damage on micro to macro scales. Vulnerability to this natural force is extra high in the March to April lunar period

In combination a re-affirmation of the prevailing dramatic and energised forces impacting not only weather/external environments but also areas of human activity with the clear message of reining in excesses tightening the belt not only with all aspects of consumption - food, drink, purchases as well as general money management.

Vulnerabilities Exposed

Impacts upon people include loss of assets/financial loss due to adverse weather/environmental forces but also in other contexts due to the generalised effect of Saturn-Venus diminishing material, financial gains. The stockmarket / sharemarket conditions deteriorating are part of the picture.

Structural collapse also applies to non-physical structures -conceptual entities or heirarchies such as companies or networks. 

Anything with a structure has to identify vulnerabilities under prevailing influences as the current pressures are set to expose weaknesses.

As at Feb 12 news continues regarding the losses impacting normally high performing construction giant Fletchers in New Zealand.

The overall situation in every context from the personal to the commercial to the political is one recommending restraint, conserving, caution in regard to spending, investing, future planning regarding assets/income. Everything has a season. Current conditions in the time frames indicated represent an Autumn or Fall preparing for a Winter.

Environmental and changing financial conditions both have the potential to deliver material/monetary losses during this first half of 2018 under forecastable influences.

Lifestyles, relationships are also examples of structures vulnerable to weakness - and in some contexts the Venus energy [Venus-Saturn-Pluto] will express as relationship loss. Powerful changes are evident in the way people are relating, gender issues very high profile under the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements so expect more disclosures, more women speaking out, more abusers identified. People also choosing to end relationships for positive reasons –to reclaim personal empowerment – but also people ending relationships by means of abuse of power – violent and homicidal energy is high risk.

Others will experience loss due to “acts of God” – where people are taken in accidents, environmental or weather events. 

At the time of writing [ as the eclipse energies gather strength ] on Feb 11 a regional passenger plane has crashed near Moscow killing all on board – this type of collective death and mass mourning is higher-than-normal risk under prevailing forces.

A strengthening tropical cyclone having passed through Samoa

heading for the Tongan & Fiji Islands on Feb 12 expected to reach maximum category 5 strength has the potential to cause at least severe structural and environmental damage in addition to loss of life. 

As in all experiences the range of impacts from person to person varies from direct to indirect and therefore from maximum to minimum – each person’s vulnerability is highly personalised due to their own match with prevailing forces and the degree to which those forces pose the related challenges identified. Most people will experience the effects through reading or watching the news.

Whether it is contextualised as destiny or karma there is a process in play that customises the path of growth for each of us. Knowing more clearly what your growth-path is gives an insight into the likely tests and challenges that will arise. Analysis of the astrological indicators at birth by an experienced practitioner is the most comprehensive personalised method for identifying the strengths a person can develop as well as the impediments needing to be overcome

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How The Profiler predicts extreme weather & severe environmental events

Latest news updates

March 2018

As anticipated severe weather has been a huge story in the aftermath of the early eclipses of 2018 and their extra potent signatures

March 2 US East Coast suffered a severe North Easter storm with violent winds and surging tides. Fatalities and mass power outages occurred

Early March saw Storm Emma hit the UK over several days with life threatening conditions -worst storm in 50 years and hot on the heels of severe weather emanating out of Siberia cover Western Europe and cross over to the UK & Ireland causing freezing conditions, fatalities across Europe due to cold, blizzards, strong winds, disrupted services, fatalities in France from an avalanche... read more from BBC

photo gallery of some of the extreme freeze starting from Feb 26 in Europe & UK

Feb 21 2018 another challenge to the power hierarchy has emerged in the #NeverAgain movement that has arisen in the wake of the continual school massacres in the US

also read Generation Change -the Youth Now Ready to be Heard - on this blog

Feb 21 2018
Severe weather affecting Iceland closes main road network

Feb 21 2018

Cyclone Gita track from Feb 15-19

After barreling through the South Pacific islands targeting Tonga, Cyclone Gita swung down to New Zealand , now an ex-cyclone but still packing enough force to create considerable environmental damage through water and wind as predicted, with notable landslips, road damage, examples of structural collapse with obvious material financial losses or costs.

Due to the degraded state of news services in New Zealand, equivalent global examples have to be searched online:
Feb 20 warning issued for 24 US states re a winter storm
Feb 20 forecast of Siberian cold and snow for UK
Feb 20 Arctic freeze warning for Northern France
News from Iceland shows a strong storm forecast for Feb 21

Feb 19 2018
In Sumatra Indonesia: Mt Sinabung spectacular eruption

Feb 18 2018
Cyclone Kelvin hits Western Australia

Feb 16 2018
A lot of discussion has arisen in New Zealand this week regarding the patriarchal culture prevailing at leading law firm Russell McVeagh exposed through claims of serious sexual assault and harrassment. This has opened up the larger discussion [again]about gender politics in the workplace -despite the high profile resignation of Christchurch quake recovery CEO Roger Sutton in 2014 related to a sexual harassment claim the message has been extremely slow to get through to those corporates and businesses who ought to be leading the way by honouring their own in-house policies

Audio discussion with barrister Wendy Aldred on the power abuse rife in legal employment.


 Feb 14 2018
British charity OXFAM outed with claims of an inherent failure to act on claims of abuse within own network
This being another example of the tidal wave of exposure occurring after #MeToo & #TimesUp revelations in the US - all consistent with prevailing energies which show a sustained massive power shift is underway [Pluto, Saturn in Capricorn, Uranus in Aries] as referenced in the January eclipse report -both eclipses in effect for 6 months.

Notes on January 2018 Lunar eclipse

The January 31 total lunar eclipse is a complicated package, being empowered by its supermoon status and strengthened by the planetary connections closely entangled
Prior posts on extreme weather and significant environmental events [such as quakes, eruptions, avalanches, landslips] give the explanatory background showing what combinations consistently arise when such events have a top level probability of occurring.

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Eclipses have a 6 month effect window -beginning days before exact and capable of identified themes being retriggered multiple times in that time frame due to repeated activation by further planetary factors coming within close range of the sensitive degree positions found in the full eclipse array -not just the sun & moon - some or all of the whole set of galactic players that are entangled by degree position to the eclipse and or to other planets.

via NASA

news updates added at end of post

Standout aspects activated by the January lunar eclipse
The indicators of sustained severe to extreme weather and major environmental conditions remain strong, sustaining the pattern locked in at January 1 2018 which indicated "high heat". This effect already noted in the US [in winter] New Zealand and Australia [in summer]
The combination of dryness, heat plus wind and fire plus wind are ongoing conditions with related high level of combustibility in general contexts.
Drought intensity likely to increase.

In locations where the season is not capable of destructive heat in the natural environment, the risk shifts to fire or combustion in constructed environments. 

In addition technological and communication devices more at risk of destructive combustion
"Meltdown" energy.

With lots of entanglement [Pluto-Uranus-Chiron-Saturn-Pluto] the structural collapse theme already identified for January is sustained.

• Forces of nature being out of balance are the starting point for these outcomes in vulnerable zones. 
• Environmental examples are landslips, flooding and avalanches [excess snow is the issue generally in Feb 2018] with resulting destruction. 
• Other contexts involves physical structures such buildings, bridges. 
• On the smaller scales soil or pasture structure affected. In human affairs the structure of any system or network or way of life that is not functioning in a balanced manner is capable of some degree of breakdown or collapse.

The power shift arising during the spread of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements is sustained. This is no flash in the pan. The energy change is real, deep and powerful.

Power use/abuse, politics, accountability, responsibility all remain in the spotlight -especially with the need to replace delusion, escapism, avoidance or fantasy with cold hard facts and reality. Replace addiction with withdrawal. Exchange dissolution with new structure.

Death themes continue to be pronounced -in some cases literal death of the body, in other cases a psychological death so that other parts of the mind arise giving new strength.
Environmental death relates to plants or animals affected by the sustained elemental imbalance delivered by the forces of nature.

Significant encounters involving someone known from the past. The friendship/love spectrum has to be re-examined..is this a repeat or has something changed?
This is the Aquarius-Leo eclipse with lunar nodes and Venus. It will be most relevant for those with positions in the range 10-17 degrees of Leo-Aquarius-Taurus-Scorpio.
A creative surge is also inspired in many due to the combined Venus-Leo-Neptune energies

Many key effects are location specific as the eclipse chart is organised differently around the wheel due to location. For this reason only one location/nation is given as an example

The representative New Zealand chart based on the densest population zone Auckland shows the eclipse emphasis in the areas of communication, discussion, reading writing, publishing, education/study and mind activity in general [houses 3 and 9]
Venus and Neptune both add layers to the themes.
Love, friendship, creativity/art/theatre/performance, magical & innovative entertainment, technology, children are all themes or combinations -eg children's performance, technological art, arts education...are the sort of things arising more prominently in the half year of this eclipse

The risk accentuated around the sea/water during adventurous activity is also apparent due to Mars' position.
The force of water is significant in environmental events.
The land, agriculture and horticulture are also under threat with Saturn Pluto and Uranus [dryness, wind and heat] made more intense by the death cycle under Jupiter - affecting things related to the land/earth structure. Consequences for some also include their material, financial assets.

Haven't had time to look in depth at other locations but the chart for Washington DC will give some clues [to astrologers] as to the conditions for America

also read
Links between weather events of January 2018 and January 1935

addendum: related news
Feb 10
cyclone Gita in Samoa -flooding & landslips

Feb 4
Snow storm pounds Moscow

Another water death in NZ

Wildfires NW Italy

Feb3 top Google results for avalanche -Italy, Canada, India

February 3
two die in flooded river - NZ storm

landslips and flooding featured highly in NZ supermoon storm

UK braces for winter freeze

Feb 1
Bridge collapses in NZ storm
In New Zealand the supermoon whipped up the forces of a remnant tropical cyclone on Feb 1 bringing wind, rain and flooding bearing significant destructive force
Many kinds of structures suffered collapse/destruction as a result
Nelson coastal buildings damaged
Storm seen as "Biblical"
Stuff News headlines Feb 2

Jan 31 -Daily Mail summary of wild & unusual weather in Australia -floods, snow, cyclone
Jan 31 - the meltdown affect displayed as rail electrics fail train outage in Wellington
Jan 31
NZ weather forecast is for the typical disturbed conditions that accompany a significant lunar event

Meanwhile in Morocco:

Audio from Radio NZ re shifting energies in alpine and glacier environments

Can't Afford to Live - the rise of the New Kingdoms

While governments across the world have been sleeping a takeover of that most precious commodity, real estate, has been taking place, thanks to corporate and business interests who now constitute the New Nobility in the New Kingdoms -and these kingdoms are not just found in capital cities -but also in smaller cities and in great numbers

severely unaffordable -from CNBC article

Governments of course are conscious of the influx because they are alert to incoming finance and the in-flow to local economies -but effectively they are asleep at the wheel when it comes to preserving socio-economic conditions that enhance a balanced society.

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Can't Afford to Live as a creeping condition across the globe speaks of a gross imbalance that positions money as the only factor under consideration. Can't Afford to Live means people increasingly having to relocate out of known environments, abandoning employment, losing social and family contexts in which they have lived their lives. Masses of people unable to continue meeting ever climbing costs -not only in the real estate sector -whether buying, leasing or renting - but also including local taxes, transport costs, food costs - the overall general cost of living becoming increasingly unmanageable in proportion to income in a way that has not been seen in recent history in first world nations outside of periods of economic depression.

The consequence of such major socio-economic re-positioning is that whole sectors of society operating on low or fixed incomes - the working poor, the unemployed, the ill, disabled, many in the creative arts, temporary workers, part-time workers are pushed to the fringes, out of cities, out of sight.

This is so reminiscent of life in the Medieval Period -unsurprisingly Game of Thrones and similar era dramas are part of contemporary popular culture. The hierarchy from royals down to peasants operated similarly to a caste system [still existing in India]

sourced from Finer Times

It seems in the new millennium life is edging close and closer to the Old World model. More than 30 million people are entrapped in slavery -despite it being illegal - and it is now more profitable than ever due to the prevalence of people engaged in the sexual slavery of women and children.

Essentially it is a battle between governments and corporates that has to be fought -rather than governments being bought - if there is to be any reversal of the very ugly trends that are gaining a foothold.

As an observing astrologer the writing on the wall translates into considering the contemporary influences which correspond with energies of power and control.

The usual suspects in this category are the planets Pluto and Saturn and their corresponding zodiac expressions Scorpio and Capricorn.

Since 2008 the energy we call Pluto has been expressed in the areas of life related to the energy of Capricorn.

Pluto is a slow, deep acting force which brings about change at the most fundamental level - often through sheer annihilation - then something new has to arise from the remnants.

Pluto stays in Capricorn until 2024 -so we are past the half-way point but much more is to come before this process of Capricornian change is even clear to the everyday person.

Capricorn

The ideal function of Capricornian energy in a family is the presence of a functional adult provider-father figure, mentoring, supporting wife and family in their well-being and outer-wordly successes.

Government was formed using this template: to manage the well-being and outer-wordly success of citizens en masse through laws and regulations that allow for adequate standard of living -such as food provisions, housing and work being available or achievable - as well as being responsible for all of the critical infrastructure - roads, sanitation, banking etc - all of which enables citizens to operate happily and effectively in their environment.

Capricorn at its best is protective, supportive, responsible, careful, prudent, sensible and nurturing in that fatherly way where the task of looking after is accepted as a decent duty to society.

Somewhere along the road in recent decades Capricorn lost its way - at a fork in the road the energy split in such a way that the positive purpose of Capricorn got lost. Most likely after the loosening up period of the sixties.

Unleashed from the controlling atmosphere of societal disapproval more and more fathers became happier leaving the children of their unions for their mother to raise alone. Seeds were sown for the breakdown of the traditional structure of the family.

Economic changes then tightened the squeeze on many families so earning enough on one wage became too difficult -so even when parents remained together their absence from the home led to children growing up unraised .

The two processes of change - one within the family and one in outer society involving economic management under successive governments -  have steadily eroded the conditions in personal family life and in the degree to which nations are being managed effectively in order to support and nurture citizens in general.

Imbalance is the most relevant keyword here -families in contemporary city life are experiencing a type of imbalance in Capricorn energy - a deficit -where nurturing and support, time and engagement or connection have been replaced by either an abandonment of responsibility, a hands-off, possibly liberal or leave-them-to-it approach regarding the task of child-rearing [increasing calls for schools to do the work of parents is one example] - or swinging between the extremes -resorting to excessive control, restriction, punishment - the tough parent mode, struggling to manage a situation that has lost its focus.

Parents are not meant to be friends or jailers of their children. Their roles are providers, nurturers, guides and helpers -within a structured context of clear boundaries and consequences.

Society equally enters meltdown when governments and local authorities fail to recognise their reason for existence.

Both the private and societal domains of Capricorn lost their way due to the lure or pressure of money.

Capricorn is a worrying energy, keenly aware of security -and threats to that wellbeing. Anxiety about survival, the future, financial pressures is just as much a part of the picture leading to the double-income family as it is to the reason why the governments-as-business model of operation has become the norm ahead of government-as-social-agency.

As soon as business ethics began to permeate the operation of governments -not purely for efficiency - but eventually for cost-saving and profit the distortion of fundamental Capricornian values was underway.

Under the business model of government people are spreadsheet data.

A very cut-throat energy is inherent in this model - and accordingly social services like hospitals and welfare are readily scaled back, standards degraded, benefits reduced. This is tough-love Capricorn. User-pays. You're on your own..irrespective of your condition..survival of the fittest. 

Austerity is a key tough-love Capricornian ethic. And  protests in different nations have been sustained in recent years over harsh government policies aimed at distancing the State from the wellbeing of its citizens.

Yes we, globally, as a species, in this era, are only halfway through this process of getting back to sanity regarding the fundamentals of human existence.

At the start of 2018 another player enters the arena.

The planet Saturn..effectively the boss of Capricorn,...meaning the planet energy is the source of what is delivered through Capricorn people or representations such as government business, corporations.

Saturn is a faster mover than Pluto and has a 3 year period to do its thing in the sign that applies during its location along its orbital path.

And very late in 2017 Saturn entered Capricorn -effectively a double-whammy period till late 2020 when the best of Capricorn can arise out of the debris and destruction created by Pluto in Capricorn.

In some ways in some contexts Pluto since 2008 has wrecked families, wrecked communities and wrecked whole societies or nations. Did anyone say America ?

The dismembered parts lay all around, the ash and the artefacts...but Pluto and Saturn are both rebuilders and with Saturn now energising this drama this pair of power players can effectively work together to undo so much of the mess and annihilation.

At its best the Saturn in Capricorn era puts in place guidelines, regulations, laws which are protective which serve the common good, which pull people back into line where they have strayed off course, which support and nurture people until they learn enough self-management to be able to detach from the trainer wheels.

The same conditions are set to be applied in family life as well as in the territories of local and state governments regarding how their jurisdictions are managed to better reflect more functional and balanced communities.

Saturn fully leaves Capricorn at the end of 2020 and by then the clawing back of authority and control over business and corporate factions should be evident.

Already calls have arisen for megacorps to pay their fair share of taxes and this aspect is highly consistent with Saturn & Capricorn at work - regulating businesses in a fair and collectively beneficial manner instead of those giants being left to call the shots.

The new business "disruptors" like Airbnb and Uber have in many contexts been able to come like cowboys into the Wild West - on the one hand providing competitive services but at the same time causing many flow-on issues - like no accommodation left for locals wanting to live in Barcelona - and the huge number of infuriatingly unskilled drivers operating a taxi service. 

Not playing by the rules is one of the complaints lodged against both companies and under current influences the landscape could become more challenging for any "wild-child" companies who are in it just for the buck.

Scorpio is noted for its link to Pluto -the natural zodiac expression of Pluto's energies. During most of 2018 Scorpio -which carries Pluto's themes of power and control - will be expressed courtesy of the super-sized planet Jupiter.

With Jupiter in Scorpio until early November 2018  some people will experience a big power surge. or great sense of empowerment .

[Jupiter had just entered Scorpio and was effective for Jacinda Ardern -marking her rapid ascendancy to Prime Minister of New Zealand in October 2017 ]

This combination of Pluto Saturn and Jupiter - all about power and control -some of that in public arenas, some inside private lives - is already visible by mid January 2018-so the shift in energy has been Fast -from hidden to exposed -in great numbers in a short time frame.

The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements arose out of abuse of power and the time being right to call that out. One aspect of power is money and another is obviously sex. The physical or bodily use of power to control and assault another person sexually -often with financial/or employment -related coercion - has had global coverage -amidst some backlash from those still mentally linked to a primordial era.

Time literally is up on this type of behaviour now that these 3 planets are working in synergy to call out the behaviour, confront and disempower the abusers.

This process empowers people who may have seen themselves mainly as victims. The fact that it has historically been predominantly men abusing their power primarily over women says a lot about a collective power shift going on changing the landscape in gender politics - and this is the work of the slow moving energy of Pluto -so expect more to come.

Abusing others physically or sexually reveals a lack of clear comprehension of personal space as well as what is appropriate and what isn't. The need to learn boundaries as adults is essential for all of us who did not have that awareness instilled by proper parenting. It used to be called self-control or good manners or being polite.

Saturn and Capricorn give us the signals to learn all of these values which are fundamental to self-management -even if just by observing the heights from which we can fall when we get it terribly wrong.

So even being an abuser has links back to this Capricorn story of how families are intended to prepare us to be decent humans -and if the processes don't happen then the risk factors increase for us unformed people and whoever we try and engage with.

The lack of boundaries also permeates thinking in the corporate and business sector due to their fantasy of perpetual growth. In the body that's called cancer and it threatens to kill the host.

The gross imbalances adhered to by the big players in their pursuit of ever-increasing profits -such as the Bad Daddy conduct of hiring near slave labour in emerging economies to produce luxury goods and increase company revenue. Giving Back is the ethic that big business can adopt to restore balance.

Governments, corporates and big business can redeem themselves by completely rethinking their model of operation so that they operate in keeping with the best Capricornian principles -not simply the most self-protective and financially ambitious - adopting Good Daddy policies such as sharing the space with the whole community family - instead of pricing people out of town.

The private model is Dads who have a Den or Man Cave or Garage that's their own extra space show their dominance expressed in occupying or controlling more of the family real estate than anyone else.

Occupying real estate takes us back to the New Kingdoms which have increasingly been in development across the world's cities - occupying meaning those with control over land and values to such a degree that governments have so far been unable or too entangled with business to curb the process of transformation from much more egalitarian communities into much more elitist, privileged and wealthy residents contrasted with many more strugglers and the rise of beggars in the first world.

Under Saturn and Pluto influences particularly over the period until 2020 the opportunity arises for governments - as well as families in their private sphere - to take back control and restore balance and for corporates to reclaim their humanity.

Failing that much greater social disintegration is likely to be evident and conditions more extreme until the necessary corrections are made to reflect the essence of benign Capricorn as essential to our shared existence.

Latest: Homes with No Heart 

 A new resident compares the changing face of housing in NZ - unfavourably -with her American experience

Structural Collapse & Political Coups - January 2018

January 17 2018 is the exact New Moon in Capricorn which comes entangled with lots of power plays and extreme conditions resulting in structural collapse

Already a major quake in Peru speaks to themes of massive power and structural collapse but significant company or business failures are equally consistent as an outcome of influences in the January-February 2018 period - noted January 15 -

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Latest: political coup in South Africa

but the natural environment is only one of the theatres of activity where standout themes will unfold in the form of continued examples of extreme weather produced by powerful and greater frequency of violent natural forces acting upon all things material -  dissolving, eroding, disassembling, or violently deconstructing the earth and things it supports.

The other main scenario takes place in the realm of all contexts of a political nature -and the forces here are equally strong - annihilating force, sudden terminal action...power politics dominating the news..the high energy environment propelling enough corticosteroids to initiate an aggressive coup.

With global eyes almost continually glued on America thanks to the exceptionally bizarre conduct of President Donald Trump who continues to exceed our worst expectations with his no-holds-barred style of political rhetoric - the spotlight will surely fall brightest on him in the lunar month from 14 January and the formal process of impeachment, long discussed could at last be the outcome.

Latest news is that another vote on impeachment of the President is to be called [date not disclosed] -despite reticence from within the Democrats

Aside from America, any political environment that is ready to blow gets a huge dose of magma from beneath so this is likely to be a newsy month to gladden the hearts of political junkies.

the wheel of fortune

Personal lives are not exempt - power abuse is being called to account in waves of activity in recent years [since Pluto & Uranus began their square-off in 2012] and the current #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are reaching a level of momentum not seen for decades in the contexts of how women collectively are treated by men collectively. 

Saturn entering Capricorn has solidified the restructuring element in the power base - bringing the issues further into the mainstream, normalising the issues, to be no longer seen as the gripes of a few fringe-dwellers. And this is not a blip on a screen, this uprising by women is set to strengthen not be subdued by backlash or non-engagement. Thunderbirds are Go.

The patriarchy operating through male-dominated gender politics is a hierarchical system which is under pressure to change, adjust, to restructure, to be reborn

A separate post on extreme weather and extreme environmental conditions [quakes, eruptions, landslides, avalanches, sinkholes] details further the issues that apply strongly in the first half of 2018 as the themes were locked in when Saturn-nodes-Mars-Jupiter all synergised on New Year's Day and will be sustained by the first eclipse - Jan 31/Feb 1 by Saturn-Jupiter - and eclipse themes typically endure over a 6 month period.

The hazards are very pronounced for those living with known extreme indicators and the benefit of history shows that the coming first eclipses of 2018 match closely the energy of those at the same time in 1999 -when case studies show structural collapse was repetitive in the Alps of Switzerland, Austria, Italy when extreme weather delivered a rain/snow combination that delivered a series of fatal avalanches.

In the US

update: the brief shutdown was followed by a 2nd brief shutdown

A continual stream of photos provided via Severe Weather EU already before mid-January 2018 reveal awesome amounts of snow and ice across much of the higher latitudes

2000metres high Tignes France early January

Snow and ice of course apply - almost entirely - in the winter hemisphere. Rain, flood, wind, electrical storms can apply across the globe during periods when the originating galactic forces are highly potentised : multiple occurrences January-June inclusive in the first half of 2018 is just part of the unfolding picture. [check back for the next outlook]

Whether it is in high political office or minor company management the energy for a coup is in the air and will express itself with considerable force under prevailing influences.

The restructuring theme in human affairs and in our physical environments has multiple potential contexts in which to be played out and if not directly in your life then it is just a matter of how many degrees of separation exist between you and the events set to occur.

The luckiest amongst us will merely watch or read the relevant news.

Lunar events have at least a lunar month for potential effects to be activated. In exceptional times -such as now - themes in a lunar cycle can be continually sustained through several cycles.

updates from news events within the effective period of this forecast [New Moon January to New Moon February 2018]

will be appended in this section

Feb 15 2018
Political Coup
Right at the end of the lunar month and under prevailing influences, South African President Jacob Zuma was forced to resign, announcing this on this day.
"The ANC had told him to step down or face a vote

 of no confidence in parliament."
FEB 14 2018
Structural collapse is reflected in the business environment just as in the natural world so it comes as no surprise under prevailing influences:
Construction giant Fletchers NZ facing massive losses
Chairman resigns amid the reversal of fortune

and a similar scenario reported on this day
Myer department store has problems

Feb 13 2018
Opposition Party Leader of NZ Bill English announces resignation from Parliament less than 6 months after the General Election of 2017.
Word is this is more of a coup than a "spend more time with the family" decision. Cartoonist Hubbard tweeted by political analyst Bryce Edwards

Feb 13 roundup of some "Coup" news

Jan 23 structural collapse

M7.9 quake in Gulf of Alaska

Eruption & avalanche at ski resort Japan. Injuries noted.

Mayon volcano active in Philippines

Jan 22 avalanches being noted in Swiss-Italian-Austrian Alps of Europe -such as

Jan 19 big political power play
US government in shutdown as parties reach impasse by midnight

Power abuse & misogyny:
gang rapists jailed in Australia -teenage victim was piece of meat for wolves

Jan 18
UK UKIP leader alleges organised coup

A potential structural collapse within the US government arises yet again:
US hovers close to Shutdown as end of week approaches
Opponents of Trump calling this the #TrumpShutdown. Republicans use #SchumerShutdown

     reported Jan 19 by Reuters

January 17
Power abuse called to account:

Gymnastics coach brought to account in 2018 for decades of sex abuse 
Wiki entry on Larry Nassar pornography addiction & offending against gymnasts
Daily Mail on the first Larry Nassar trial in 2017

Parents David and Louise Turpin of Los Angeles arrested after one of their 13 children escapes from conditions of imprisonment, deprivation and abuse  in family home

Details of Turpin family life

January 15 2018 collapse of Carillion Construction Co UK -an example of collapse within the world of business
January 15 2018 -structural collapse at Jakarta stock exchange