March 2023 What Shifts?

 

update December 2025: Silicon Valley Bank relevance to 2026

Approaching mid March 2023 where many astrologers have their eyes glued -a look at prevailing influences.

Hot on the heels of environmental turbulence manifested through a longstanding Uranus in mid Taurus [since December 2022 -then energised through direct station late February 2023] - as well as the enablement of Neptune in water [Pisces] and Jupiter in fire/heat [Aries] providing the deluges transported by Uranus' cyclonic winds....whew!

Next up has arisen the sudden collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank - of red-alert significance due to timing.

This bank being heavily involved in tech sector and crypto funds has crashed within a 2 week window in advance of Big Boss Pluto nudging out of Capricorn [old world ways] and into Aquarius [future & tech ]

Pluto holds at zero Aquarius for 11.5 weeks

The first 4 weeks show the expected slowdown which  slows and hangs in advance of exact stationing retrograde on March 1 [Universal/GMT time ] Pluto holds at 0'20-0'22 for 23 days late February into March.

This long hold has extra potency due to the April 20 total solar eclipse [New Moon] which will come alive -ahead of time - in March both at the Pluto square Venus March 16-17 and in resonance relating to days surrounding the Pluto in Aquarius ingress March 23-25.

The eclipse period April 19-22 is also very notable with Pluto being at a stress angle - carrying the late cardinal issues into the exact elements and signs of the square: fixed air Aquarius and fixed earth Taurus

Fixed signs are resistant to changing their patterns. That's why when Uranus and Pluto are both fixed you know the big shifts are going to unfold forcefully deeply [Pluto] suddenly unpredictably chaotically [Uranus]

Pluto at zero Aquarius attached to the April eclipse has potential for tech sector carnage due to the old banking practices [Capricorn] which should have been long ago abandoned

Uranus

As noted earlier Uranus has held mid Taurus for an exceptional duration. This position stresses all the cardinal ingress points 0 degrees*. The impacts on atmospheric pressure wind and chaos are already recorded in the early months of 2023 but environmental consequences cannot be disconnected or separated out from human affairs. Energy has a wide range of manifestation depending upon context. This is why astrological language -keywords - are so numerous for each type of vibrational pattern [which for convenience we call planets] 

*Zero Aries [0'50] New Moon March 21 2023 UT is another strong activator of Uranus - reaching 16 Taurus by then. The manifestations of Uranus linked to zero Aries range across new seasonal changes in food production and supply as well as stormy weather disturbances and subsequent land movements/land changes -seismic & slippage events can also arise. All this has manifested early in 2023 prior to mid March due to the long-held position of Uranus. 

The association of Taurus with money possessions assets also arose for many due to storm damage so this potential manifestation is also on the list just before  Pluto enters Aquarius.

Uranus at the March New Moon therefore adds another chaotic change factor into the mix -even before Pluto officially enters Aquarius.

Powerful patterns remain covert for lengthy periods -months to years before manifesting. There is a conception gestation then birth or outbreak of the pattern into overt manifestation. Multiple factors [planetary signatures] get pulled into the creation of the eventual event. The factor(s) identified closest to the outbreak is/are only the last piece of the puzzle.

Pluto

Pluto's role in early 2023 can meaningfully be tracked back to the Nov 2008 ingress in Capricorn setting the themes of restructuring being necessary -this includes the basics of power sharing -shifting from historic patriarchally centred power to much greater diversity in power sharing - as well as institutional transformations and infrastructure renewal -across all possible contexts. The Cardinal signs Aries Libra Cancer Capricorn are fundamentally super-charged due to their relationship to seasonal patterns which are marked by solstices and equinoxes. 

Aside from slowdowns related to stations planets show evidence of being extra creative at both the end and beginning of signs

The shifts a planet can deliver are not completed at the change of sign such as out of Capricorn into Aquarius. The processes initiated under Capricorn begin gradually to be offset by the contrasting energy of the subsequent sign Aquarius even before the ingress. [this points to the deficiencies in our use of time and our approximation of periods of transit.

The Capricorn-Aquarius pairing is literally an old world-new world transition. 

Anything that hasn't worked under the old ways old models old structures of past centuries is up for replacement/renewal/refinement.

On a personal level the survival strategy is acceptance. Go with the flow. Welcome the Change. You are powerless to resist evolution. Degeneration suffering and decline are the outcomes awaiting those who try.

Under Pluto in Aquarius for two decades you the person you the people us the community have a far greater contribution to make in how our neighbourhoods cities nations function in service of humanity instead of the motivations of corporates and centralised authorities being in control. This process too has already surfaced -but the anarchic option is the shadow side and arguably more pathological than the model it aims to replace.

Sometimes evolution reactivates the best of the past

Saturn

Saturn leaving Aquarius for Pisces early March 2023 after damaging floods in many locations during February.

Floods = water  Damage = Saturn

Saturn is the fundamental Earth energy of the planet's structure and form [compared to Taurus being the topsoil layer of earth and products of earth] 

This is a very suitable example of sign fusion -where the new sign functions alongside the official sign in transit for a time before the new ingress.

Saturn restricted drinking water supply and manifested water infrastructure damage -pipes pumps during the Saturn in Aquarius transit. A clue also lies in Aquarius as "water-bearer". The zig-zag glyph said to represent water waves - but also electromagnetic waves - the "water" that invisible fields carry may now be equated with the plasma that dominates the universe -and plasma with Neptune.

Saturn and Neptune are in a dynamic interplay of special importance during our Earth life.  dedicated post here

We emerge out of the formless Neptune layer to function within the Saturn world of form. This is a challenging process. We need 9 months of transition before exposure to the structures and stimuli of this world. 

The Earth school is not totally appealing so some resist & reject what Saturn demands or struggle to integrate while others are clearly well suited. But Saturn functioning out of connection with Neptune is also very problematic

Saturn in Pisces throws up the benefits and challenges of being in the world but not of it.  Pisces the great dissolver easily erodes Saturn -landforms crumble and wash away governments and politicians fall on the basis of lies deceit fraud corruption. Forms and structures/infrastructures fail.  

All the risks of Pisces in relationship to Saturn are extra emphasised with Saturn in Pisces while Neptune too is in Pisces -until 2025. Both then shift almost together into Aries.

The benefits of Saturn in Pisces are on offer to those  who are inherently aligned strongly with Neptune and who can be assisted towards balance by anchoring structure frameworks and firm foundations.

The intention is to embody Saturn while sustaining Neptunian consciousness - at the peak think Dalai Lama - solid grounded while spiritually awake - but the everyday path is just as important - living as a responsible human while guided by the principles of Neptune.

When that degree of integration is out of reach the Saturn-Neptune combination does malfunction and express as maladaptive behaviours that harm the self and others. Limiting excessive Neptune is also an important role for Saturn in Pisces and the world of ambition and profit is fuelled by a lot of Neptune.

As I write the 95th Academy awards has lauded the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once which just cleaned up at the Oscars ceremony.  Winning in a movie with a very Neptunian title, winner Michelle Yeoh said "Dreams do come true" - 

the manifestation of dreams is also very Saturn in Pisces.

Notes & updates: 

Chart and related tweets

Update March 14

The first Pluto in Aquarius ingress chart middle of the day March 23 London time has more to say

Chart showing a representative time of 8am on the date Silicon Valley Bank was founded Oct 17 1983

Relevant Tweets posted by @astroprofiles:

Further Reading re Bank failures & rescue plan

 

UK response to SVB collapse as reported by the BBC

Signature Bank collapse in NY Times

The response in China

Market Aftershocks -via Reuters -"not a bailout"

SVB branches widespread China Denmark Germany India Israel Sweden Singapore Canada..via Bloomberg

Venus Mars Pluto -the Capricorn triple synergy at March New Moon 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 during February 2022 that they maintain a very unusual long duration synergy in Capricorn for weeks.

The force field of these two begins its build up at the very least by the point of one degree of separation - February 12 - and lasts - with tight close contact - into March - week one - when the capacity for implosion/explosion nuclear-grade fallout has high potential. This will be a bit of a shocker in various contexts - but equally intensely structural in others. Personal and collective resonances always factor into which way the energy morphs into manifestation. The Capricorn conjunction shifts from dual to triple in week one of March and that's much more manageable if you're going with the flow of late Capricorn by conjunction trine or sextile to your own energy points in Capricorn Earth or Water signs - but late Libra Aries and late Cancer have much more of a challenge to their level of unfoldment during this Earth stay.

On a collective level we know that the political restructuring of economies is still long overdue - because Pluto [long in Capricorn] has not yet executed the primary job of fundamental economic restructuring from the ground upwards. Why? Because this isn't a process that those invested in the system will welcome - so there's no overwhelming collective will amongst them or the billions who benefit from the status quo. 

But come it eventually will... and in March 2022 when Pluto approaches 28 Capricorn we know the Capricorn effects must be set in place at a structural level: it's not long till 30 degrees Capricorn manifests as 0 degrees Aquarius - that transitory point is reached in 2023 and completed in 2024. The clock is ticking loudly in the countdown so expect some more wheels to start falling off in 2022 [ assisted by the other nuclear force -Uranus in Taurus]

Whether or not a major signifier of structural economic change being underway is signalled in March  [in advance of another buildup of energy ] or outrightly occurs in March - the energy of change is clearly in process and very due for the dominoes to fall. 

Covid has clearly been part of the Capricornian reformation and begun to undermine the structure of the world as the West has known it -as well as in other non-western nations pursuing the same cancerous mantras of greed and endless growth. 

An additional global event in the same time frame - such as military conflict or a market downturn would be hugely wounding for the economic system of multiple nations. 

[update February 28 2022: Russian President Putin ordered the systemic invasion of Ukraine on February 24 under the guises of "peace-keeping" and "military operation" ]

March 2022 sees Venus quickly get to 26'29 Capricorn [March 2] - Venus is now fully "out of shadow" of the retrograde as it repeats the degree point at the December full moon when this planet went stationary retrograde. Pluto was a degree away then -at 25'32 Capricorn.

On March 3... boom! Venus Mars and Pluto all cluster in the 27th degree of Capricorn. 

This chart for London compared to New York when Venus-Mars-Pluto are in range of most intense -as well as a big buildup in Pisces and Saturn conjunct Mercury.

Note that all this occurs under the seeding energy of the Pisces New Moon [London early evening on March 2 at 12 Pisces] so Neptune has a big influence

For London: 2 fire energies - Mars and the Sun activate the main axes. Mars with the Venus-Pluto synergy and Sun has Jupiter conjunct.

Uranus is most elevated.

The Pisces bubble has some intensity too with the Sun-Moon midpoint being the same as the Jupiter-Neptune midpoint. These 4 big-hitters all sit in the 8th and have a reflex effect directly into the 2nd - money/assets

Maximum Neptune is in the room -whatever/wherever.

When Neptune is good it's very good. When its bad its very bad and this pileup has both extremes on offer: transcendental bliss the experience of spiritual connection of Oneness peace joy -great empathy compassion and service to humanity - versus mental overload confusion incoherence - whether substance-related or not the spirit in a bottle or in a mid-altering chemical can deliver very similar cognitive wipeouts. Delusion re a divine mission is another option on the table -and this misread devotion has inspired great carnage in human history as we know. 

In the London chart Venus-Mars-Pluto are triple squaring the Aries axis very tightly so Mars is doubly involved in an Aries versus Capricorn conflict. Speed and aggresion versus slow caution - both will be on offer

If Covid is a big factor in your location at the time of the March 2-March 3 New Moon the Pisces energy is enlarged in a way that corresponds to spread of contagion which will make restrictions distancing and isolation more necessary again.

If the pandemic or some other infectious outbreak is not in your location then the Neptunian energies have the capacity to morph into a different expression as indicated during this post.

For New York: Mercury and Uranus activate the main axes. If Saturn is taken for Aquarius then the 2 axis rulers are conjunct and most elevated.
Taken for the equivalent time the layout instead offers an 11th-5th house polarity for the Pisces planets but the layout is very external and public.

The US Pluto return is underway having reached exact in February 2022 at 27'33 Capricorn. 

With the Ukraine situation intensifying the potential here is military engagement unfolding with economic consequences. The Pisces energy can manifest as "divine mission" "on behalf of humanity".

update February 28 2022:

The Pisces energy has globally manifested already as "collective compassion" for the people of Ukraine being held under seige or compelled to seek refuge in neighbouring nations

update February 28 2022:

the New Moon chart for the city of Kiev Ukraine is added to show the buildup of planets in Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces - the total solar system bounded within  the axis of the moons nodes. This type of accumulation is regarded as having extreme potentials.

Impacts upon homes families and the nation state as a whole are signified by the Capricorn trio but Jupiter's protective capacity is also significant

Given the right context the intense Capricorn synergy can lead to a quadrupolar Cardinal outpouring through Capricorn Cancer Aries and Libra. expressions. 

The 9th house referencing offshore overseas places of relevance.

So too the Pisces mutable group is all potentially evoked - Virgo Gemini Sagittarius all signifiers of where the Neptunian energy may focus - work/employment/movements of people and foreign lands

There is sober-mindedness with Saturn conjuct Mercury. 

Serious communications. 

Aside from overheated markets and overheated political leaders [both with potentials for economic suppression]  with the full buildup of energies considered in March the aftermath comes late March into april when Venus passes in conjunction with Saturn in Aquarius then Mars does the same. This is when social economic deprivation has a point of intensification and by late march into April the Sun in Aries gives the Mars-Saturn Conjunction extra weight. Frustration/anger re social restrictions re contact being limited.

Pisces returns to prominence in April with the exact conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune  -again bringing that potential for extremes as noted above re Pisces expressions. 

Elementally lots of water from pots of sources in lots of places.

In terms of state of mind/consciousness -very much with the programme or off the planet in a non-coping way. 

Such a strong emphasis is likely to see mass movement = evacuation relocation of people due to the powerful flowing river and big tide energy of the mutable planets and the mass scale indications of Jupiter.

update February 28 2022:

The tide of humanity is already flowing out of Ukraine. An event causing such a mass movement was anticipated as well as military activity. Sadly Ukraine has become the location for both energies to already be expressing. Compassion - globally - is being strongly expressed

Humanity is not ready for an en masse shift in consciousness to an elevated spiritual level so only a few will be blessed to have that on offer: escaping the delusions and illusions that apply in the Saturnian dimension of earth life and being able to see clearly what is real beyond the sensory layer. 

Nice paradoxes in the engagement of Saturn-Neptune in both contexts.

Aside from the political and collective of course these energies have real life applications for individuals.

All us us will experience this buildup of 3 sets of planets and probably sequentially in 3 houses -which is a signifier of developmental energy flowing from late Capricorn through Aquarius and to late Pisces. Potentially 3 houses revealing a theme that Captures both the sign and the house energies. And with lots of scope for exciting growth ready to be plucked - if you can reach for that.

[Since I am very much under focus of the 3 sets of planets noted for early March....am expecting some outward manifestations of all the inner processes... maybe a tell-all later...]

Also scroll down in Diary Post for some prior entries which mention Venus and Pluto

Outlook 2020 Astrology MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY

The coronavirus Covid-19 global crisis with economic responses really began to take hold in March 2020 as reflected in the March 10 full moon when Uranus exactly conjuncted Venus at 4 Taurus. This position activated 19 mutable - which was the Sun moon and Neptune at that full moon = weakened economy.
Markets dropped and the price of oil slumped soon after.
But an ordinary full moon is not a sustained indicator like an eclipse -unless it has a degree match to a prior or upcoming eclipse position - then that full moon pattern takes on themes of the connected eclipse as well as its own signature. This was not the case in the March event.
Global markets took a hit but have had some degree of recovery [Dow Jones was 26,121 on March 5 then 18,590 on March 23 then up to 23,949 on April 14.
Jupiter Pluto conjuncting in Capricorn  -closures and failures and lockdowns - have severely impacted economies from the last 2 weeks of March providing the second punch.

In April Saturn delivers the third punch with some influence in week one then primarily in the period 17-27 April -  pressing up close to the Capricorn South lunar node but then Mercury Sun and Venus [using  both the most basic & the most subtle of angles in the 24th harmonic]
Coinciding with Saturn's activity with Venus around April 25-26 the nodes reach 0'21 Cancer -which happens to be the June 21 Solar Eclipse in Cancer.
June 21 has Saturn aggravating the lunar energy of that New Moon eclipse and Jupiter and Pluto putting the brakes on Mars in Pisces.
My reading of this is:
Around April 25-26 a turning point globally re controlling covid-19 but economic fallout continues its carnage.
May 2020 reinforces this position:
Neptune and Saturn both weakening for Venus. Even if from late April there is some global economic revival it remains weak.
June 2020:
Indications of virus control at both the June 5 and June 21 eclipses with Mars in Pisces being restrained by Saturn then the Jupiter+ Pluto team
June 5 still signifies limits on movements and travel for an extended period
June 21 shows impacts on housing/housing market & families for an extended period

July 2020 has a further cardinal sign eclipse
This is a very testing month: much global turbulence -atmospheric and socio-economic - at the beginning of July surrounding the eclipse on July 5.
Jupiter and Pluto again very tight together in Capricorn. Venus will resonate with that very quickly: many levers pulled to resuscitate economies. Another extension of the "movements curtailed" theme. Eclipse indicators set another period of unresolved economic crisis till end of 2020. 
Reinforced again:
With Saturn strongly opposing the July 20 New Moon and connecting to the late Gemini-Sagittarius lunar nodes the tough times aren't over for families homes housing market especially. [atmospheric turbulence bringing severe weather is again an added adversity in various locations] Winter in the Southern Hemisphere aggravates issues.

By July there is likely to be an overall feeling of success globally in managing the coronavirus but the socio-economic fallout has long term dramas to play out not only this year - sustained during 2021.

To clarify even further:

• The success level is not equivalent to eradication
• The success level will be variable across the globe with style of management being the major determinant
• strict measures of containment will still feature in many contexts from April till end of 2020

Astrology offers clear distinction between 3 approaches taken: the Capricorn/Saturn the Aquarian/Uranian & the Piscean/Neptunian

Buckle in as best you can to try and ride out 2020. Change will come but this period is a phenomenon with a lot still to unfold in its wake beyond this year


For a recently curated summary post on this site with lots of content and related links see Astrology of 2020 & Beyond

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.

latest news related to content: 
March 2018 severe weather hits US East Coast
late Feb: Europe & UK slammed by deep freeze
 and potent storms

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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

also on this blog:
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.

Bombing in Brussels - and the eclipses of March 2016

Terror in Brussels in the context of two heavy-hitting eclipses.

The astrological forecast for March 2016 -and with a period of influence over the coming 6 month period - identified significant risk factors related to terrorism activity -a combination of energy activation involving extreme dogma, aggressive forces and transport networks.

It comes as no surprise that attacks in multiple global locations in known hotspots have occurred during this month, the most significant so far in the Belgian capital Brussels on the eve of the March 23 Aries-Libra lunar eclipse.

Suicide bombers activated bombs at the international airport and a central metro station, with multiple deaths and injuries.

Brussels has literally earthed the force of the prevailing combination of eclipse energies

 - just as some people earth a lightning strike -the location of Brussels contains an energy that matches the current planetary picture. The process of resonance is how this occurs. Brussels has become a known hive of extremist Islam.

The Astrological Factors

Aside from the forecast published for March 2016, the actual prevailing energy for the city of Brussels is displayed in this chart calculated for 8am -the reported timing of the initial twin blasts on March 22

Standout energy factors are evident.

The eclipse was building so the Moon is still in Virgo -but this places the Moon within one of the extreme patterns -it sits at the midpoint of Jupiter and the north lunar node- all in Virgo in the range 16-22 degrees. These positions are tightly opposed by Venus, Chiron and the south lunar node from 12-22 Pisces. 

The danger factor from all this opposed energy comes from Saturn in Sagittarius -angled at 90 degrees to Jupiter and capturing the Moon and other factors in the opposed alignment.

With the 3 mutable signs [Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces] -related to movement and flow - all forms of transport -and related hubs are the focus of destructive energy.

Saturn sits in the death and transformation zone [8th] bringing losses and separations.

But more than this is the bigger picture of the anarchic, annihilating force delivered by Pluto at right angle to Uranus - a combination of energies that has been on the rampage in volatile zones across the globe since 2011.

This energy has delivered a swathe of political upheavals, death, destruction and intense struggles for supremacy between different idealogies.

In the Brussels chart for March 22

Pluto sits exact on the MC point of a key chart axis.

This alone indicates the occurrence of an annihilating, catastrophic event.

Pluto is always prominent in bombings, explosions.

Typically there is an array of closely connected energies, identified by their mathematical tight range. 

Pluto 17 Capricorn connects by right angle to Uranus 19 Aries - positions which then mathematically link to the Saturn-Jupiter-Moon-Chiron-Nodes-Venus - combination - the largest and tightest grouping in the range 16-22 degrees -giving an effective midpoint at 19 degrees - positions which are held by both Uranus and the Moon - both known trigger energies - the Moon in terms of timing and Uranus always set for sudden, unexpected activity.

These sort of events can be foreseen. The challenge is to know where. Though there are methods to consider the locations for the earthing of an energy pattern, the amount of mathematical analysis required is likely to be only possible using specially programmed computer software - or to work backwards assessing most likely location targets and see what time the energies are most intense - but again this is hours of work.   

Maria Sharapova aced by Pisces eclipse

A potent total solar eclipse

 in early March 2016 

has aced tennis star Maria Sharapova

Sharapova, an Aries born 19 April 1987, like the majority of people born in the 1986-1988 timeframe has a major life experience indicator related to the sign Sagittarius.

March 8  Tennis royalty Maria Sharapova responds to failed drug test, loses major sponsors. provisionally suspended pending investigation - this event signifies a person very challenged by the Pisces eclipse energies exact on March 9 2016. 

Pisces is connected to all drugs and medications.
read:  The March 2016 solar eclipse in depth 

Sharapova chart material via astro.com

Due to uncertainty re Sharapova's exact birth time, this suggested layout has several planets bunched at the Sagittarius-Capricorn crossover point, in the period around the dawn of her birthday.

Given the current crisis for her this rectified chart has a lot of value in highlighting the aspects of her life now under extreme pressure.

The March 2016 eclipse in Pisces has activated a major factor in Sharapova's birth energies -exposing weakness in her personal development and threatening to topple her career.

Like Oscar Pistorius, born November 1986 -whose well known fate is analysed in a prior astro report - Sharapova also was born with the planet Saturn in Sagittarius. 

Like Pistorius, Sharapova also has Uranus in Sagittarius - this pair of planets sits in the range 20-26 degrees of Sagittarius in her chart - much closer than for Pistorius.

2013 Pistorius in court charged with the murder of his lover Reeva Steenkamp

Saturn in Sagittarius has the potential to bring mastery in the fields of sport or recreational adventuring but there is usually a challenging physical weakness along with challenges regarding right conduct.

The price paid for the high karma blessings of success, fame, fortune is that there are major responsibilities to bear -commitments, self control, discipline, restraint, self management. It is a tightrope crossing that a person born under these influences must handle with extreme care.

Pistorius rose to high status as a disabled athlete. 

Sharapova first rose to the top of women's tennis in 2005 but has been plagued by repeated collarbone injuries.

Pistorius became reckless with firearms and motor vehicles, ultimately ending in the death of his lover -shot - and he says unidentified, through a bathroom door.

Sharapova has now self-disclosed a reckless attitude towards the drugs-in-sport controversy.

Pistorius failed the test of high responsibility and now so has Sharapova.

Uranus in Sagittarius brings about sudden changes of circumstance in respect of the sporting or recreational activities the person is involved with. 

Both Pistorius and Sharapova have this planet-sign pairing.

Pistorius has effectively lost his sporting career. 

He remains on electronic bail awaiting a second sentencing in April 2016 with a muder conviction in place.

In Sharapova's chart Saturn is in close conjunction with Uranus  [20-26 degrees] -so the two effects will occur in closer timing -the crisis and the changes. In addition, having Venus at 25 Pisces indicates the impact on her income regarding loss of sponsorships -though she won't be poor - and severed relationships.

In 2017 Sharapova experiences a life stage termed by astrologers the Saturn Return - when Saturn completes a full orbit of the birth chart and returns to the same position it was in at birth. This occurs for all of us -some at age 29, some at age 30 due to varying lengths of cycle.

When Saturn returns to its birth position a person is confronted with the sort of responsibilities, commitments and right conduct that is relevant to their position in life or prevailing circumstances.

The personal birth chart identifies what arena of life the challenges will arise in.

The four main contexts are 

• personal development
• relationship commitment -such as marriage
• commitment to family -the decision to be a parent
• career development

At least one of these is likely to arise as an opportunity for making mature life choices.

If a person fails to meet the level of maturity at the first Saturn Return, life progress can be stalled until the next opportunity - in another 30 years

For Sharapova, 2017 is her opportunity to recognise the commitments and responsibilities required to turn her life around.

This may mean she can resuscitate her tennis career -or she may take on one of the other cornerstone aspects of life as a chance to develop new responsibilities.

This report may be extended, updated

 as further material arises

March 10 Report says Sharapova warned many times re ban on meldonium.
Facing the press and accepting responsibility [Saturn] are indicators that auger well for Sharapova's redemption - so long as this is not simply a public relations exercise. If personal changes are not made now at this advance warning stage, the outcomes in 2017 are likely to be far more negative for her.