Uranus Square Pluto 2011 -- 2015

Maya del Mar on the Uranus/Pluto Squares

by Jude Cowell


Ready for another dynamic blast from the ongoing Uranus/Pluto squares?

In 2004, the wonderful and still-missed Maya del Mar wrote a column concerning America in which she looked ahead at astrological factors including the current Uranus/Pluto squares and their influences upon society. The Picture Ahead for the US is a must-read, or a must-again-read if you already have, now that the squares have begun to affect the collective.

Beginning with their Great Conjunction/s in the mid-1960s in mid-Virgo, our social fabric is now under stress at their square phase (the crisis in action stage) as the Establishment resists the Uranian changes that we all know must occur in spite of the status quo interests and determination of the 1%.


Generational Struggles

As of July 2011 and until April 2015 and for some time beyond, this dynamic and restless energy which pits generations against each other must be dealt with on various levels and in one fashion or another. Perhaps the Sabian Symbols of their conjunction degrees can yield hidden information concerning what the Uranus/Pluto duo is attempting to teach us at this actional point in their evolutionary progress:

1. October 9, 1965 @ 17Vir10
2. April 4 1966 @ 16Vir28
3. June 30, 1966 @ 16Vir06


Using the lowest to the highest degree, we have:


'16Vir' = "An Orangutan" = DEXTERITY.

positive expression: man's ability to strip himself to fundamentals and there stand proudly on his own;

negative/(unconscious/shadow side): self-justification in crudity or violence.


'17Vir' = "A Volcano in Eruption = EXPLOSION.

pos: creative passion as a rejection of superficiality and a genuine ordering of the self;

neg: petulance and tantrums.


'18Vir' = "An Ouija Board" = ACUMEN.

pos: cleverness in making use of everyday insights and intimations;

neg: a bondage to superstition and a surrender to the unknown.

(The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Marc Edmund Jones.)

Well, I can think of current-day references and intimations for them all, can't you?


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For more astrological insights on the Uranus/Pluto square, you may wish to check out the special Cardinal Crisis edition of Global Astrology by Theodore White.

Horoscope: US Solar Return 2011

On July 4, 2011, America celebrates her 235th birthday, our much-touted Independence Day. At 12:28:09 pm EDT on July 5th, the Sun returns to natal position in our nation's Sibly chart (July 4, 1776 5:10 pm LMT Philadelphia, PA) during an Hour of Saturn, with Libra and Saturn rising. Return Sun (SR) is posited in 10th house making the next 12 months a watershed year for the United States.

For as you know, Solar Returns are in effect from birthday to birthday so the following Solar Return chart extends from July 5, 2011 to July 4, 2012. (The US SR 2012 chart is chock full of planetary patterns including a Mystic Rectangle, but that's a topic for a later post.)

I have relocated the Return chart to Washington DC (from Philadelphia) which does not change houses of the planets but does slightly change house cusps by one or two degrees: Washington DC is chosen because of the dire financial circumstances our nation has been plunged into and because the 2/8 and 3/9 cusps are at critical-crisis degrees (29 Lib/Ari and 29Sco/Tau, as you see) when set for DC.

At Midheaven 3Can03 (MC), the Goal/Aspiration/Public Status point, is US natal Venus and transit Venus 1Can51, indicating that our national Venus Return will soon occur. Venus, a money planet of evaluations and relationships, is out-of-bounds of the earthly plane and is the closest planet to an Angle in the SR 2011 chart (1A12) and thus leads the action although powerful Pluto is a close second at IC (2A58), the Foundation of the Matter. Pluto does prefer those lower, hidden places.

So this puts the ongoing oppositions of transit Pluto to US Venus and Jupiter (US n Jupiter is @ MC as well) uppermost in our considerations in this post, and points out difficulties on the political, social, and financial levels for our country and for Washington DC. The precise identity of subversive Pluto is, of course, debatable yet International Bankers, Societal Puppet masters, Spying Agencies - even 'The Pope' - are certainly implicated when one thinks of the secretive, sabotaging events and calamities occurring in and against America these days.

Horoscope shown: US Solar Return July 5, 2011 Washington DC; please click to enlarge the chart and read my many notations, some of which may not be to mentioned within this text. US natal planets are penned around the outside of the chart; Inaugural Moon 2009 29Sco45 is notated at the 3rd cusp.



ASC 2Lib41 with Saturn rising indicates delays, restrictions, inhibitions, and a potential for further losses at this, a Saturn Hour. The third of our three
Saturn Returns occurs on August 28, 2011, and SR 2011 Saturn rules 4th house with Pluto and US n Pluto 27Cap33 Rx posited there so mining incidents may occur during the year along with Real Estate (4th H) problems, destructurization, and plutonian transformations continuing.

Chart-ruler Venus makes 3 applying aspects to other planets which describes how things will proceed for the coming year, In order, they are:

1. square Uranus (2A43): both planets are angular so have outlets for expression - Uranus conj Descendant of Partnerships may show disruption or break-ups in relationships, or new unusual partnerships, or sudden events caused by Open Enemies; Ebertin gives 'Uranus in Aries' as Utopians which indicates the one-world-government promoters; the Venus/Uranus square also denotes relationship break-ups, fickleness, erratic financial goings-on, impracticality, and a refusal to compromise with others in a traditional fashion.

2. trine Chiron (3A18): sacrificing relationships, devotion upon an altar, or enslavement (Clow.)

3. opposing Pluto: ah, the biggie! This aspect affects America's Public Status on the World Stage since it is spotlighted upon the MC/IC axis where its energies will play out over the next year for it's been running in the background but now takes center stage; excessive demands are made on partners; compromises are hard to make or to find; confidences will be revealed; legal affairs, joint ventures, and overspending are not favored.

As a pair, Venus/Pluto has bankruptcy implications and this seems to me to be what manipulative Pluto is attempting to engineer against America. (Hope I'm wrong!) Pluto squares the rising Saturn (Democrats) in 1st house so we'll have to wait and see. But with both planets angular, it may not be long before we find out Pluto's deepest imperatives. Plus, the Saturn/Uranus midpoint continues to be near Pluto, god of the Underworld, and will again perfect soon: it's the same 'brutality, harm through force majeure, desire to overcome difficulties, rebellion against one's lot in life' midpoint picture the world has been under since the world-shaking Cardinal Cross of 2010.

More Finances: 8th House Jupiter in Money-Loving Taurus


Jupiter 5Tau40 is in 8th H of Shared Resources, Debt, Credit, and Insurance (plus other 8th H connotations such as Corporations) but with 29Ari15 on the 8th H cusp. Asteroid Eros (piercing) conjoins the 8th cusp, too, at 29Ari04. Jupiter's powerful trine to Pluto (0A20) is nearly exact so perhaps help will come with finances though in whose favor remains to be seen (typed the Common Good/Populist leaning astrologer.)

Moneybags Jupiter, significator of the Republican Party, is being squared by Mercury 5Leo35 (in 10th H), planet of bloggers, reporters, thinkers, planners, orators, trade, commerce, transport, and communications in general. Of course, young people and those who serve are also provinces of Mercury.

This Mercury is interesting because it is apex (focal) planet of a YOD pattern (Finger of God; special task, crisis, crossroads) and Mercury is in its element since it sits at the crossroads of all travelers. Which way to go? Well, this Mercury conjoins tr asteroid Minerva (to be accomplished) and as I never fail to point out when mentioning her, The Owl of Minerva is the title of the Hegel Society's journal.

One of our problems is that the US is being assailed by acolytes of the Hegelian Dialectic, the Hegel Society. This is the Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis crowd of political philosophers whose 'dialectic' sets up the US Saturn Return #3 (August 28, 2011) as the synthesis stage of development for our accountability-responsibility issues and Saturnian lessons which any Saturn Return brings. As we know from recent events, our August 2011 Return times a very important moment in US history.

So there's speedy little messenger Mercury in the house of Public Status at the apex of the situation. And its foundation? The sextile between Pluto 6Cap01 Rx and Chiron 5Pis09 Rx (the position of President Obama's natal Chiron in Pisces, the Knight in Shining Armor placement for Chiron, embarked on a Quest for the Holy Grail (R. Nolle, Chiron.) A 5th H Chiron describes lovers of pomp and circumstance and who direct human psychology toward doing their bidding. (Note: Joseph Goebbels and Barry Goldwater were both born with 5th H Chirons.)

The YOD's Pluto sextile Chiron "creates a very pragmatic dynamic in the chart" (Clow) and shows "a vortex of transmutative power in the location house of Chiron and then shoots the energy to Pluto" which then locates the power in Pluto's house (4th = Homeland; Domestic Scene; Real Estate, etc.) Seems that Pluto, planet of the Global Crime Syndicate, has America in the crosshairs. And with the angular Uranus, planet of Technology and Computers, more cyber-hacking and Internet thievery of account and other info/intell seems safe to predict.

And it's good to remember that Hitler rose to power under a Uranus/Pluto square so let's be wary of new bosses or 'czars' who love to dictate against the will of the American people (yes, we already have them, I know. Look at dissolved governments in various states being taken over by the anti-democratic forces of Corporate Rule.)

Well, there are more factors to consider and I'd hoped to complete this post before the next thunderstorm which now rapidly approaches (please pardon annoying typos!) This post will be edited with more info soon (including more on apex Mercury, other planetary patterns, we-the-people's Moon in Virgo, Sun aspects, and prominent midpoint pictures) or a new column will be published on the topic of our US Solar Return 2011, then linked to this post as my schedule - and Thor's thunderbolts - permit.

UPDATE June 30, 2011: this US SR 2011 column is now completed and you may wish to read the rest here. jc

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For some mighty mystical reading, I recommend Kal Dani's Oracle with its amazing amount of information concerning 'The Eclipse Prince William' - 'The Shadow King' - and his occulted numbers. The info-rich site includes Numerology, Eclipses, Kate (born on the day of a Lunar Eclipse (he, the Solar Eclipse, she the Lunar), the X-Men connection, Biblical prophecy, the Queen's late night visitor, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, the Assyrian fish god, and much much more. It's astounding! jc

Horoscope: Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse 1933 (then and now)

Update Nov 25, 2016: Donald Trump has been selected for the role of US president and many people see resonance between his white-supremacy-supported rise to power and that of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. A single chart factor of note concerns the Fascism Rising Horoscope (shown below) with manipulative Pluto in late Cancer rising on the Ascendant for this degree area also spotlights the natal Saturn in Cancer of Mr. Trump. The Saturn-Pluto duo suggests violent people, mass murderers, and, when rising, martyrdom and victimization (Ebertin).

Original post begins here:

With a focus on societal conditions 1933 v 2011, let's look at a horoscope of the Solar Eclipse 5Pis29 of February 24, 1933.

(Click chart to enlarge. In green are highlighted many of America's natal placements but Germany's natal chart takes precedence in this post.)

Hour: Venus21AQ20 in 7th H; chart-ruler: Moon in eclipse w Sun and conjoining North Node (NN) 7Pi45, with Mercury 18Pis58 in 9th house of Philosophy, Religion, Higher Education, Court Systems, and other institutions of society; far-distant lands and populations are in the mix as well with this Watery eclipse in the dual sign of The Two Fishes, Pisces, one of the archetypal significators of Franklin D. Roosevelt v Adolf Hitler. Another is that power-mad Pluto is in Cancer near Fixed Stars Castor and Pollux, the light twin-dark twin dichotomy or archetype of the constellations. My thought is that those in US politics now want to paint FDR as the 'dark twin' and abolish his social improvements of the 1930s and 1940s; yet the people need them enacted again and blostered to prevent further miseries befalling the Collective. Every number they 'cut' in Washington represents real people, as they well know. I further believe that the forces guiding the austerity mongers are the same as the dark twin forces active in 1933!

Which puts the benefits-and-pension-slashing GOP and all their enablers on the side of oppression, the kind that 'new world order' promoter and futurist visionary Adolf Hitler unleashed upon a public who deserved better treatment from its government. We are mired in a similar dilemma in America, circa 2011.

With its symbolic fish swimming in opposite directions, Pisces represents the up-down principle which we see in society every day (ex: rich corporate executives v bums drinking in a garbage-filled alley...the well-scrubbed v the unwashed, yacht v pig sty.) An individual may rise or sink in the world but everyone must swim at some time or another and make a go of it. In my spiritual studies, I find that the Watery quality of Pisces, symbol of Christ, is the Saved end of the Victim-Savior polarity of the Virgo/Pisces axis. The spiritual emphasis of the events and social conditions of 1933 resonate with those of 2011 through the sharing of a generational Uranus/Pluto square (to be discussed more fully below) and which undergirds the upheavals and protests now occurring throughout the world, and made easier to organize with the tech aid of Twitter and FaceBook.

Hitler was on the 'cutting edge of technology' in his day, too. Racism and eugenics played a huge part along with more accurate equipment and weapons of war; technicians and scientists colluded with the Nazis or were forced into cooperating.

Am I regressing from my topic of the Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse of 1933?Not really

But I wish! The radix chart of Germany (Jan 1, 1871 00:00 am LMT Berlin; historical record) has idealistic, eroding Neptune in Aries (19:01; degree of the Sun's exaltation) so 1933's Uranus, planet of disruption, upheaval, and innovation, electrified Germany's national Neptune (the masses; mass movements; media; fraud and deceit) which brought sudden events affecting the Collective while destroying society's comforts (austerity measures; theft of national resources) and diverting its dreams of the future into militaristic channels and chaos-inducing endeavors.

As a message to us in 2011, 1933's Uranus to Neptune (in Aries, sign of uprisings, riots, strikes, protests, and pioneers - tr Uranus approaches the Aries Point as I type) transit typifies an era when a spiritually-inspired aspiration to fulfill high ideals is needed by the people, yet the freedom to express social, political, religious, artistic, musical, divine, and/or other ideals is suppressed, potentially disappearing altogether.

Neptunian circumstances of loss and grief were a long time coming (then as now)) as traditions and bonds of family, church, communal sense/commonwealth, marriage, partnership, etc, were slowly eroded making them easier to topple (then as now; Hitler's desire to establish a worldwide 'new world order' shows him as the military arm of a long-standing movement toward global fascism and one-world-government - as you have noticed, they're baa-a-a-ack... - never having really gone away.)

Three days after the Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse occurred, Hitler and his co-conspirators burned down the Reich stag Building of Parliament to give cover to his rise to power; eight days later, FDR was sworn in as US President for the first of his three full terms, the 4th term being uncompleted, 1933 to 1945.)

When Uranus-Pluto energies are blended or come into contact by aspect (Uranus square Pluto, then as now: frustrations, obstacles, and social improvements are explosively challenged or unpopularly implemented), we tend toward mass upheavals, riots, and strikes, as mentioned above...in a word, revolution. However, an important factor in the Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse chart which we do not see in 2011, is the triple conjunction of Neptune Rx, Mars Rx, and Jupiter Rx, all in bottled-up Virgo, sign of The Critic and The Purist (eugenics; racism and 'white supremacy'.)

Lords of the Eclipse: Jupiter and Neptune, activated by Mars Rx in Virgo in the Marseillaise marching formation

Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune are the Marseillaise Trio of planets and exerted their combined force during the French Revolution; the trio relates to violence and anarchy and signifies the volunteers who marched on and invaded the palace of the King on August 10, 1792 (as in Cairo, Feb 2011.) As we've experienced since the last New Millennium, terror raises its ugly head more visibly at certain times in history which turns the events of the 1790s and 1930s into societal object lessons for all who would profit by them in our generation and those wish for better outcomes for their loved ones' futures.

(In the US, the Reichstag Fire of 1933 resonates with the 9/11/01 WTC attacks engineered in part to cover the illegitimacy of the SCOTUS-installed Bush-Cheney regime which morphed into Financial Collapse 2008 which led us into the next phase, the Obama presidency, and the *glop we're now in.)

Transiting Chiron (the Healer-the Wounded) now stimulates the 1933 eclipse degree 5Pis29 and is on-degree of President Obama's natal Chiron. What better chance to open up to spiritual energies which will guide us if we wish better outcomes during this time around in the revolutionary Uranus/Pluto cycle? Yet for best effect, Chiron's sacred warrior energy must be utilized in non-violent ways for greater success. For success established on weak moral grounds isn't success at all, at least not of the lasting variety...in the long run, beginning with a weak base brings more harm than good - and brings negative social reforms.

Another generational transit to Germany's natal horoscope in 1933

Germany's Uranus @25Can09 received the destructuring, transformative energies of 1933's Pluto 21Can32 (near Castor and Pollux) as the Secret Hand of the god of the Underworld (in all its forms, exs: crime, sex, drugs, the occult, psychiatry, surgery, political string-yankers and warmongers) came ponderously along in natal 10th H of Public Status and Career.

This transit describes a period when individual freedom is emphasized (then as now); career status, federal jobs and programs, and all national endeavors are exploited and/or corrupted. Yes, Pluto indicates coping skills but usually those are of a self-serving nature. Here Pluto transformed the German Collective (Uranus, ruler of AQ) in home-loving, nationalistic, tribal Cancer, and underscored the generational effects of the activated Uranus-Pluto square in 1933.

Meanwhile, in the US, this eclipse's Pluto in Cancer visit was a Pluto to natal Mercury transit, quite a different thing: a persuasive message from a master manipulator, one Mr. Roosevelt by name (his cozy, soothing 'Fireside Chats' on the radio, a new techno-medium, started in 1933 as Hitler yelled his hatreds louder and louder. You may note that the 1933 eclipse's Saturn-Pluto midpoint 00Tau59 in 10th H conjoins Hitler's natal Sun position, aka, 'Hitler's trigger degree' because he became brutal when his Sun was triggered and tended to invade other people's territories; 00-1 Taurus is a degree area of violence (N. Devore); tr Sat/Plu = n Sun: dominating others through strong will and determination; leadership based on effective plans and thorough preparation; enforced changes; threat of loss; hard work; illness; sparing no pains in one's work; renunciation; privation; physical separation.)

Update 7:15 pm est: with its Mercury-Pluto propaganda tinge, you may be interested in Elsa's post today, US gov software creates fake people on social networks to promote propaganda. Surprised much?

A linchpin of our topic concerning the global power elite's take-over agenda and the above Saturn-Pluto conditions of 1933 is that transiting Uranus conjoined this midpoint of hardship and cruelty resulting in a mdpt picture:

Sat/Plu = tr Uranus: brutal efforts to start a new order; an attack, regardless of potential losses; sudden acts of violence.

Now It's 2011 and Uranus in Aries Squares Pluto in Capricorn

As you know, in 2011 we face a similar emphasis on this revolutionary aspect as seen in uprisings in Egypt and across the Middle East. In America, union-busting (Uranus-Pluto with a Saturn tone) has set off the plutonian take-control menu and the people's combative responses yet there are differences with Pluto across the Cancer-Capricorn axis now in Capricorn (government, law, and business), a Moon-Saturn polarity of emotional depression and dearth of needs for the people with its loss of home/family/employment motif.

But Moon-Saturn also relates to the ambition and strategy of Capricorn (the sign of S*tan's goat) for those in control and acting from a higher perspective or perch.

So again in 2011/12 we're mired within a square (90 degr) aspect between revolutionary Uranus and Pluto, whose current cycle began with the 1965/66 Great Conjunctions @ 17 Virgo (Civil Rights and Anti-War Protests), the position of stationary Mars on April 20, 1792 when the declaration of war upon King Louis XVI by the Girondists began the French Revolution: Uran-Plu = Mars fanaticism; the mania of destruction; a stage of bending or breaking; enormous energy; coercion.

A turbulent will of a disenfranchised populace against oppressors in high places returns as a thread running from 1792 (and prior) to 1933 and on to 2011 and beyond as the human spirit yearns to be free.



Image: 'Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse' 5Pis29 Feb 24, 1933 12:43:50 pm GMT Berlin, Germany; two interlaced YODs (Finger of God pattern = special tasks, crises, turning points, crossroads, and major adjustments.; apex Jupiter at base of a Venus-Uranus sextile; apex Venus at the base of a Jupiter-Pluto sextile); a fanatic Uranus-Pluto square is in force; Pluto-Chiron midpoint (plutocracy of oppression; disenfranchisement; primal violence; fascism; communism; militarism; totalitarianism; nationalism; racism; propagandism, etc) @ 22Gem42 conjoins the karmic 12th cusp of the 1933 eclipse (in Berlin) and also conjoins US natal Mars (military and police forces; you decide its levels of meaning since upheavals were occurring in the US as well....then as now.)

There is much more to be said of this chart and this topic, both astrologically and politically, but as usual my blogging time grows brief. So I will ask for your opinions on the matter (by Comment) and will close with discussion of the two interlaced YODs in the eclipse horoscope shown here, highlighted on the chart in orange.

Base Jupiter sextile Pluto points toward apex Venus in Aquarius which forms a mdpt picture: Jup-Plu = Venus: creative power; willingness to impress others; love of humanity; directing large enterprises that involve evaluations.

Apex Venus in a YOD formation indicates those who are out-of-touch with prevailing social values; in similar fashion to Venus Rx, relationships are viewed from a different or odd perspective with Venus's traits of jealousy, envy, and revenge directing; a sense of equality is lacking; people are driven to direct energies upon collective values; partnerships take on new meanings within encompassing social goals; refinement of skills activate bwo the YOD at a turning point or crossroads, and the welfare of the masses is affected adversely or beneficially; constant efforts toward inner adjustments and reorganization enable individuals to establish a 'new security'; the stimulation of the YOD in 1933 as highlighted by the February Solar Eclipse (a spot of stored up energy) describes adjustments in social conditions and legal affairs. The murkiness of Pisces provides a temporary mask for the era's fascists to hide behind.

Base Venus sextile Uranus points toward apex Jupiter in Virgo, part of and influenced by his compadres in the Marseillaise Trio; the mdpt picture formed is: Venus-Uranus = Jupiter: a birthing; a fortunate acceptance of new or peculiar ideas in finance, relationships, or art; innovations.

And of course, in Politics and Business, the Venus-Uranus pair describes a rising and falling treasury, a strange appreciation for financial planning, ruling bodies unable to cope with sudden infusions or lacks of financial resources; leaders with unpredictable vanity.

And Jupiter-Pluto indicates pacts with foreigners on the use of force or weapons; growth of security and spy agencies; greater powers for religious or political leaders; extreme depletion of resources; self-destructive forces stem from official corruption and moral laxity within society; tremendously potent natural disasters; criminal elements exercising great social influence; destruction of legal documents.

Well, many of the conditions of 1933 sound all too familiar in 2011, don't they?

And hopefully this dreary post concerning the Fascism Rising Solar Eclipse horoscope of 1933 gives us a peek into a history that's all too closely stalking us in 2011. One of the most important things to remember (to my Flower Power pacifist way of thinking) is that social uprisings, upheavals, and protests that resort to violence stoop to the level of fascist de-humanization tactics and it's only a non-violent path that can lead to moral high ground and success for the sake of all humanity.

Yes, harder times are coming and our development of a collective communal sense of responsibility for our fellow man will play a key role in navigating the challenges ahead for it's a make-or-break situation for America and the entire world as a spirit of Fascism attempts to take over our lives once again.

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Sources: midpoint pictures, Ebertin; Tyl; Munkasey; YOD info from Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, Bil Tierney; Venus-Uranus and Jupiter-Pluto info from Munkasey's Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets.

Chart details not given above: FDR born Jan 30, 1882 8:15 pm LMT Hyde Park, NY (astrodatabank; Adolf Hitler born Apr 20, 1889 6:30 pm Braunau am Inn, Austria, from baptismal records; Solar Eclipse 5Pis29 falls in FDR's natal 6th house, in Hitler's natal 4th house, and in the 1st house (Self; Physical Body) of President Barack Obama, born Aug 4, 1961 7:24 pm AHST Honolulu, HI, courtesy of a much-touted and oft-contested B.C.

The Sabian Symbol for '6Pis' = "Officers On Dress Parade" = DISCIPLINE...

positive expression: schooled self-assurance and absolute responsibility;

negative/unconscious/shadow side: unimaginative exercise of special privilege.

(The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Marc Edmund Jones.)

Though Adriano Carelli's The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac adds no word picture to '6Pis', it mentions that the degree relates to those who crave and hoard money which is amassed "by a reckless personal ambition aiming at only his own success" - a commanding figure with a "career of arms" and the "combative or downright aggressive" nature of a "successful soldier."

Or not, as the case may be, if ambitions outstrip careful preparations.

*Since the glop we're now in seemingly demands the further dunning of those who have little (according to political austerity fanatics) while the elite ruling class continues to hide what it gained by looting public treasuries and ripping off consumers, I fail to see how social conditions can improve to a more equal level unless and until the embezzlers, fraudsters, banksters, and political classes are held legally accountable and prosecuted for their thefts and wantoness against mankind. And that's with honest judges presiding though we have fewer of them than we had before Bush-Cheney. jc

Brightest object in the sky Feb 2011? Jupiter!

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to search the night sky for a view of planet Jupiter just after sundown and until 9:00 pm when the Great Benefic sets. The royal planet is putting on a royal show!

These days, Jupiter traverses Aries, sign of the Ram and the Warrior, and the Grand One's typical function seems to be increasing the stubbornness of the Ram and the confrontational nature of the Warrior...both here and abroad.

Tonight Jupiter 2Ari22 pauses for a moment upon an interesting Sabian Symbol degree:

'3Ari' = "A Cameo Profile of a Man in the Outline of His Country"...EXPLOITATION:

positive expression: man's capacity for giving full play to every ramification of the reality he has created for himself;

negative/unconscious/shadow side: an unimaginative conventionality which leaves him in bondage to every current stereotype of human relations. (Jones' The Sabian Symbols in Astrology; the 'unconscious/shadow side' addition by yours truly.)

We naturally think of Hosni Mubarak and the stand-off in Egypt, and of President Obama and the quandary of our democracy-spreading state apparatus which couldn't invade Iraq quickly enough in order to (allegedly) spread democracy whether the people of Iraq (who escaped our bombs) wanted it or not. Now a majority of Egyptians want it - and what does Washington really want and who does Obama really support?

But I digress. Sort of. This blog is dedicated to Political Astrology after all.

The thing about Jupiter's position in the cosmos this evening (EST) is that the Royal One is making an opportunistic sextile (60 degr) with negotiating, orating, trading Mercury (2A08), an aspect bringing a challenge to express opinions without worrying about other people's reactions. A Mercury/Jupiter sextile sounds good and has a philosophical bent yet it can also have a tendency to be condescending toward others due to intellectual pretensions; there may also be a lack of confidence and a need to keep others off balance. We see this everywhere, Washington included, but as a despotic ruler under stress, Mubarak (Jupiter) may be indicated in particular.

Next in closeness of orb is an applying square between Jupiter and Venus (2A33) which shows irresponsibility, self-indulgence, and a tendency toward making empty gestures (Mubarak again? Et tu, Obama?); this energy shows those who are difficult to deal with when things don't go their way, yet great generosity - but only when it satisfies an ulterior motive. Any tactic or deception is resorted to in order to achieve one's aims (Hosni? Is that you, Hosni? Get off the throne!)

Then there's the biggie now moving into orb (4A07): Jupiter square Pluto which has been discussed here in a recent post. A Jupiter/Pluto square is the 'wheeler dealer' aspect indicating those who rebel against existing codes of ethics and mount challenges to authority; a caution with a Jupiter/Pluto square is not to count too heavily on the assistance of others when in trouble - which sounds to me like the peaceful demonstrators in Cairo who hoped the army would come to their aid. With a few exceptions, they have not, last I heard.

Political maneuvering and large-scale enterprises which affect many people are a mark of this aspect between a heavy-weighted pair: Jupiter, the well-rewarded ruler, and Pluto, the power behind the throne and guardian of massive wealth.

As for the upcoming Uranus/Pluto square, we may not have seen rebellion across the globe until these two make their final aspect of blockage and obstacles which issue from their Great Conjunction/s of the mid-1960s in mid-Virgo. Even some non-astrologers - pundits, broadcasters, and writers - have been mentioning a feeling as they watch the upsetting yet thrilling events unfold in Egypt (since Jan 25) that they may be seeing the beginning of a World Revolution.

One thing we know: this difficult aspect between rebellious, disruptive Uranus (America's 'totem' planet of freedom and independence) and controlling, manipulative string-puller Pluto (assassin, spy, and pope that he is) has been in effect when dramatic events swept the globe. A Uranus/Pluto square was within orb from 1931 to 1934 as Hitler rose to power while many were looking elsewhere due to the Great Depression and lack of jobs. He pretended to restore order from chaos (a chaos Adolf helped create) just as the Fed and Washington have done since 2008.

So what will the upcoming Uranus/Pluto square require from those who prefer to breathe free?

Constant vigilance concerning those who wish to rise to power and the elite already in power, plus, a willingness to get off our apathetic duffs, set up or defend legal safeguards, and respond quickly to any popular movement or political development that threatens our...dare I say it?...democracy.