December 2017 high drama

December 2017 marks a transition time with Saturn finally ending the current cycle in Sagittarius and entering Capricorn at a time when the lunar nodes will contribute some dramatic effects

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The high profile wildfire situation in California has created extreme destruction in the fortnight prior to this post but the risk has not abated. The Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara County is centre stage and with many celebrity residents tweeting their experiences media are fully engaged.

On Dec 16 evacuated residents were allowed to return to Ventura County where the fire began.

There were periods of time when the fire was advancing at a rate of an acre a second

The forecast for December posted late November forewarned of extreme environmental hazards -and their potential to disrupt travel, transit, transport or movement. Indonesia's Mt Agung was then the highest profile event but with that subsiding attention swiftly moved to California.

Mass destruction is a feature of such intense fire events but that quality is highly and increasingly emphasised as the month of December in 2017 proceeds - leading to a special New Year alert 

For this reason the situation in California has to be seen as heading off the scale.

What is adding to the intense destruction under Jupiter in Scorpio is the tight connection to the Leo-Aquarius [fire and wind] contribution from the Moon's nodal axis.

This is all happening while Saturn reaches the end of its 3 years in Sagittarius [relief for many] and starts it' sojourn through Capricorn.

The last 10 degrees in Sagittarius have an overlay of Leo in the decanate system - and the 29th degree is the point of greatest learning/confrontation with karma - and since Saturn itself is a very strong karmic indicator when in the territory of your personal energy field [astrological chart pattern] the late December period is ramping up the intensity: karma is eyeballing a lot of people.

So the fire risk whether in California or in your backyard has to be taken very seriously -the combustibility energy is very prevalent - so this includes all forms of ignitable materials. Other extreme contexts must also be considered -explosions, bombs, destructive ignition - as risks to be avoided.

In the Southern summer hemisphere holiday period social gatherings involving fire, barbecues, fireworks are examples of where to take extra care.

The negative karma related to Saturn in Sagittarius if you lose all your possessions can be around failure to restrain excesses, extravagance, waste - or lack or moderation regarding attachment to things - versus a more humble, simple, spiritually connected existence.

Essentially it is a spiritual lesson and in December if that has not already been absorbed and responded to over the past 3 years then the last degree of Sagittarius is when Saturn will deliver the sting in the tail = a very strong confrontation with the reality of your distance from the fundamentals of life.

Saturn reached 29 degrees on December 11 carrying the themes outlined right to December 20-21 when the Sun and Saturn combine at 29 Sagittarius.

This period could deliver the most dramatic eyeballing of the lessons to be faced since the lunar nodes are triggered in tight connection to Jupiter.

High drama, death and destruction or structural collapse involving large scale events

This energy still exists as Saturn and the Sun then shift into Capricorn on the 21st-22nd.

Capricorn is the home base energy of Saturn - it is the zodiac expression of this planet. The first 10 degrees are very strong is expressing the lesson of this 3 year phase - time to absorb the most grown-up, adult, mature, responsible, reliable, disciplined, self-managing, nurturing, mentoring qualities possible to restructure your personality both for your own peace of mind but also to enhance the way your relationships function in every context - private/professional intimate/friendship/family and in your relating to humanity on a large scale.

For Capricorns, Aries, Cancer and Libra in particular [though we all have these signs somewhere in our makeup] the next 3 years are challenging if this psychological shift is not made


In environmental terms, drought is the looming issue in high heat zones with the shift into Saturn in Capricorn officially from Dec 22. 2017 for a 3 year period.

The New Year period from Dec 31 2017 is addressed in this separate post

updates
Dec 25 2017 
The 22nd day spent fighting the Thomas fire in California

Dec 19
Very pleased to have just located a webpage for respected veteran astrologer Alan Oken one of my early teachers through his early books - if you're wanting to extend your astrological knowledge it will be well worth following his newsletters

Supermoon :Travel alert for December..

Multiple indicators of extreme environmental events and extreme weather have begun to accumulate since November 4th Full Moon and then continuing to show prominence at the November 18 New Moon, then the December 3 Full Moon

latest: landslides in Philippines; numerous road transport deaths; Bus crash India; Pedestrians mowed down in Melbourne; ferry sinks in Manila; Seattle train crash at New Moon
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November 4 set the scene for extreme weather and significant environmental events.

The signature was Saturn Uranus and Neptune all triggering the potency of the 27 Sagittarius current position of the Milky Way's Galactic Centre.

This observation is covered in detail in various Profiler posts including Extreme Weather from the Galactic Centre

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The November 18 New Moon has sustained this with Sun Moon Saturn Uranus Neptune all in activating positions

The December 3 Full Moon sees the build-up intensify:

Sun Moon Jupiter Neptune all synergised and collectively activating Saturn Mercury Mars Uranus

Each lunar phase signature carries forward til the next lunar phase of that type - new to new, full to full and lunar phases begin to kick in days before the exact mathematics of conjunction or opposition to the sun
The signature is the qualities of the stand-out energies present at that phase  - especially the dominant interconnected forces acting in synergy.
December 3 is a visible Supermoon - closer than normal & with stronger potentials.

The Meaning

Extreme forces have accumulated over a period of weeks in the energy field and atmosphere of earth, with high probability of significant outcomes in weather and environmental events.

Mt Agung in Indonesia is one relevant example - the volcano began signs of renewed activity on November 21 then began erupting on November 25 

As the days progress towards the end of November then come in effective range of the December 3 full moon, the potential for a significant eruption is definitely at high alert level - if the eruption has not already occurred by the 30th of November.

The December full moon carries themes of extreme water events [could be rain/flood/inundation, mass deaths, travel restrictions or any number of problematic issues around travelling.

The Mars and Aries energies are amplified = heat and fire

All forms of transport are vulnerable -land/sea/air but international travel is most vulnerable and when masses of people are collected together.

Boat people/refugees at higher than usual risk -masses on boats in water.

If ash cloud closes a number of airports we will again see a travel log-jam as witnessed when Iceland's volcano blew in 2010 [multiple planets and moon phases activated in the critical 25-29  degree range in March- April 2010]

This is a high-risk period for certain people in certain places

Local conditions will reveal whether the extreme effects are expected to manifest as weather; quake and volcano monitoring should show any uptick in energy.

The effects are restricted to certain locations, certain people - always depending on the physics of resonance. Energies are always attracted to certain places or people.

Your astrological chart is the only way of seeing if you are a match.

Use your instincts and take precautions if your circumstances potentially place you in the path of environmental extreme events or destructive weather in the period leading up to New Year.

A further post will cover the indicators for the Dec 18 New Moon which also occurs with some significant factors on board.

next post : the New Year vacation period brings extreme conditions

Historic precedent for Mt Agung
The March 17 1963 eruption saw over 1000 people killed

The Sun and Jupiter were conjunct at 25-26 degrees
The lunar nodes were at 28 degrees
Pluto and Chiron in opposition were at 10 degrees

Mt Agung in 1963 & 2017 
The Milky Way's centre is positioned at 27 Sagittarius in the current era [new millennium]
An effective range from 25-29 degrees can be considered relevant when determining whether a solar system luminary [sun or moon] or planet holding a position in that degree range is effectively acting as a step down transformer of potent forces from the heart of our galaxy. Earth is just one body in space where effects can be monitored and regular observation consistently confirms this process is occurring, with resultant severe environmental consequences -expressed both as weather extremes with associated atmospheric disturbance and terrestrial unrest expressed as seismic/volcanic activity outcomes.
Land sea and air are all collectively impacted and particular locations always show the most obvious outcomes. The complexities of where are left for others to specialise in. The issue of when is much more easily focussed into recurrent and perpetual periods when several planetary/luminary energies combine forces in the 25-29 degree range and as typically found when the angles* in the range sitting at 10-14 degrees are also occurring synchronistically. [semisquare - 45 degrees ]
The 1963 Mt Agung event has 25-26 degrees and 10 degrees - a total of four factors all in tight synergy. The lunar nodal axis at 28 degrees tags on to the Sun at 26.

The 2017 Mt Agung context:
The December 3 Full Moon  - which begins to strengthen from the last day of November - reveals:

• Sun-Moon-Neptune-Jupiter ALL at 12 degrees
• 12 degrees is the semisquare of 27 degrees
• Uranus-Mars-Saturn-Mercury sit in the range 25-29 degrees -with a midpoint degree of 27
• this tags on 4 potent forces to the four involving the full moon = total of 8 very tightly connected
• this type of combination is high potency and high risk in any context where the fuse blows.
• indicators regarding transport risks [Saturn-Mercury conjunction in Sagittarius] are high probability
• indicators for volatile explosive activity [Uranus-Mars in opposition] are high risk in terms of volatile materials, weaponry, destructive damage including accidents/crashes
• Jupiter in Scorpio: mass deaths due to large numbers of people in the target zone when the forces are unleashed
• Neptune-Jupiter connection - water danger/death or transformational change due to contexts where rain flood inundation affect land areas or sea vessels. Large seas, big waves in some locations. Big waves of compassion re major tragedy.

Many of these themes have been sustained for several weeks but keep being activated by the same energies remaining significant. The December full moon looks to be the strongest indicator of major outcomes.

A full moon's signature themes can be expressed in days before, on full moon day or afterwards -depending on which of all the current factors acts as the trigger. Often it is the fastest one -the Moon - but not always. Each full moon can be triggered at multiple times and expressed by multiple events in the time until the next full moon.

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News items & updates of relevance

Dec 23
Philippines fatal landslides after flooding
Philippines ferry sinks
The high road fatality toll in NZ has continued to climb alarmingly in December as a result of a succession of transport crashes
Bus crash India
Melbourne vehicle rampage
Dec 18
A high speed Amtrak train has derailed while crossing a bridge en route from Seattle to Portland in Washington State USA.
This was on a newly opened freshly constructed line.
First reports indicate fatalities reported, multiple injuries expected.
The derailed carriage hit the Interstate 5 road under the bridge.

This event occurred right at New Moon with complicated bands of interconnected planets reflecting the themes related to travel warnings.
Venus,Sun Moon and Saturn all synergised at 25 Sagittarius. All in direct connection to Uranus at 24 Aries.
Mercury Jupiter and Nodes all entangled.
In summary: High risk travel energies with serious outcomes.
This energy is particularly emphasised in the 3rd week of December so still has days of viability.

Environmental stresses also exist and are covered separately in December 2017 -High Drama


Dec 8

Airline cancels flights due to fault with Rolls Royce engines and further report  further report

December 8 train strike set to cause commuter issues in Auckland

Storm Caroline cancels trains in Scottish highlands

Dec 8 -days of renewed wildfire carnage in California with mass evacuation and the road network affected by slowdowns and closures
Like driving through hell - interstate 405 near Los Angeles

December 5

after deluges in some locations....wild fires take centre stage in California as anticipated environmental events cluster around this Supermoon

New Year and first week of January 2018 looks extreme in locations facing high heat

December 1

• extreme fire risk is on the table in Summer locations with elevated temperatures

• -quake activity has picked up in the waxing phase of the  weekend's Supermoon - unsurprising -as lunar cycles can be consistently documented as having a high percentage of relevance to seismic unrest.
• Many reports of severe storm conditions in diverse locations:

Cyclone Ockhi - India

Superstorm in Australia
Storms flood parts of New Zealand
Storm warnings for US

29 November
Denpasar airport opened due to a change of wind direction pushing Mt Agung's ash cloud away. The situation is changeable.

A scheduling glitch affecting huge numbers of airline pilots needed for the US pre-Xmas holiday week Dec 17-24 meant that thousands of pilots had been allotted vacation time -when they were needed -potentially affecting the airline network and customer travel plans in a major way.
That week does in fact still feature very problematic energies with delays, cancellations difficulties all possible especially 18-21 Dec.

28 November Mass evacuation in Mt Agung zone

28 November  Severe weather forecast NZ

January 2013 destructive Pluto rages

                                         Jan 4 2013, smoke seen from above Hobart airport, Tasmania

The Australian wild fires, destructive winds, and rape are all big news in early January 2013 and the annihilating, murderous Pluto is highly activated. In transit at close to 10 degrees Capricorn, Pluto has conjuncted the sun since late December 2012 whilst also triggering the lunar nodes at close to 25 degrees Scorpio-Taurus.  Saturn also in Scorpio -but out of range of the nodes was fuelled by an exact square from Mars in Scorpio, plus a lunar conjunction in Scorpio in the middle of the day period (New Zealand D/L time (13hrs ahead of London) I certainly felt this intensity, in a rather irrational fashion at that time of the day.

But back to Pluto - in range of the nodes by semisquare ( powerful, not minor) for the whole first half of January 2013 = transformational, destructive & extreme forces of nature along with brutal, dominating human energies. These themes have connection to the zodiac sign Scorpio, which has an imperative of death & rebirth, with associated transformational life experiences, but also an underbelly of control & domination.

No wonder rape is in the global mindstream ( the accused in a New Dehli , India gang-rape are brought to court. The victim having died. Widespread national and international protests are likely to pressure the Indian government to enter the age of accountability and protect their female citizens from this most primitive of controls used by men. More cases of this kind of abuse are currently being exposed in India along with a very similar case from Fiji. In New Zealand a woman was raped and violently assaulted in an extreme manner, in a community garden, daytime on January 1 2013.