Autumn Equinox 2025 with a Virgo Eclipse

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

Skipping ahead to Autumn Equinox 2025, we find that a 9 New South Solar Eclipse enters the cosmic mix. This celestial circumstance will need further information added at some point but for now, I want to place a dual image of two DC Horoscopes: Autumn Equinox 2025, aka, Libra Ingress (lower left), and the 9 New South Eclipse (upper right) which will manifest the afternoon prior to the Sun clocking in @00Lib00:00 on September 22, 2025.

For as you know, the sign shift marks the beginning of Autumn 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere, so here are the two Horoscopes, Equinox and Eclipse of September 2025, with a few astro-notes sprinkled about for curious readers:

When a Solar Eclipse falls in Mercury-ruled Virgo, issues may include discrimination, circumspection, and the work ethic. On a positive level, we notice attributes such as dedication and a strong sense of duty. And since Virgo is one of the practical Earth signs, there may be physical demands, an analytical approach to problems will likely be deemed necessary, and perception and keen observation should be used for best results.

More negatively, Virgoan issues of criticism, perfectionism, and a focus on insignificant details can interfere with finding solutions. Obviously, health concerns, including chronic and/or genetic conditions, dietary matters, and the possibility of contagion are factors which must be dealt with, along with the typical implications of the Virgo-Pisces polarity (victim-savior). Additionally, agricultural issues and food supply concerns cannot be ruled out of the autumnal Virgoan picture, a time of harvest.

Plus, complicating matters are two planets opposing the Eclipse:

Saturn which indicates those who refuse to own up to their responsibilities and place blame on anyone but themselves, and Neptune (conjunct Aries Point) suggesting the tiresome stand-off between reality vs fantasy, delusion and self-delusion, and the chaos and confusion such twisted conditions activate with the aid of bad faith actors.

Naturally, our social safety net programs are denoted by the Saturn-Neptune pairing (weak-poor-ill people), as is materialism vs idealism, and/or invisible or shadow government.

Now while it's true that all the potentials of a 2025 Virgo Solar Eclipse relate to someone's first term in the White House, such an extensive topic is beyond the scope of this post at this early date. However, please check the image for a brief listing of the themes of 9 New South Eclipses.

Meanwhile, if this post entertains or informs you, dear reader, please consider buying yours truly an encouraging cup of coffee because this will help defray domain fees and supply costs and will keep Stars Over Washington moseying into its 19th year as of this October.

Thanks a Bunch! jc

For more Eclipse details see Brady's Predictive Astrology, and Rose Lineman's Your Prenatal Eclipse (AFA) #ad.

The YOD in America's Solar Return 2020 Horoscope

Is America's Great Seal Reversed?

by Jude Cowell

April 3, 2020: After writing Stars Over Washington for nearly 15 years, it turns out that I'm quite an expert at assuming that any reader who bravely ventures herein possesses a measure of astrological knowledge. And once upon a time I tended to assure those who didn't 'speak astrologese' not to fret for my posts were written in English so they had only to ignore the astrology parts.

Now I see that such a work-around probably didn't work for many readers. In fact, a reader recently tasked me with providing a key for those who don't understand all the terms and abbreviations. She may think I've forgotten but no! It's only that events have been overly time consuming, as for us all. So this I hope to write and publish here before much longer in a post all its own.

But tonight I want to mention a factor of concern - or at least it's a factor that may help explain in general terms using Astrology some of our current conditions including health matters and our enforced circumstances of 'isolation and 'social distancing'. And this is where a basic knowledge of astrological terms and principles would come in handy - if only so that this post could be on the briefer, less cumbersome side rather than blossoming into e-book form. Oh well, let's give it a go and see where we land, shall we?

US Solar Return 2020 and a YOD of crisis

Special task, crossroads, turning point, karmic opportunity--all describe potentials that may be shown by a YOD pattern when it turns up in a horoscope. But another connotation of a YOD (which visually favors a squished triangle, aka, a Finger of God) is that it can symbolize a health indicator suggesting crisis conditions which must be handled with care when the time comes. (As you know, timing is everything! And our SR 2020 chart is 'good for' one year until America's next Solar Return in 2021.)

And so a YOD (of sorts) has turned up in America's Solar Return 2020 Horoscope, our 'birthday' chart. Please note that 'SR' stands for 'Solar Return' calculated for the moment the Sun returns to its natal degree, minute, and seconds (if known) when a person or entity is born or founded--in this case, America (July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT is the chart I use, Philadelphia, Pa) with 12Sag08 Rising, Cardinal World Point 00Libr47 at Midheaven, and Moon @27AQ09 (We The People) in SR 3rd house. And if you're familiar with the US natal horoscope, you know that it contains a Thor's Hammer pattern (or, Fist of God) with a Sun-Saturn square at its base pointing toward We The People's Moon. This pattern shows that our country has had health issues (Sun-Saturn) from the start, particularly for women (Moon) aggravated or blocked by men (Sun square Saturn), plus, a midpoint picture is formed of Sun-Saturn = Moon denoting 'emotional depression due to organic troubles; fear' (which leaders use against us to direct our behavior en masse - as they do now--we're "at war" once again), and/or 'bereavement' (Ebertin). This, we've got.

So the Ascendant rising in our SR 2020 Horoscope (@27Scorpio, a health sign with regenerative power) is part of the YOD pattern and thus this is not a traditional YOD pattern for there should be planets in all three points. Plus, the apex of the 'YOD' is the North Node of the Moon at a critical-crisis 29th degree of Gemini. Why, this is not a YOD at all, exclaims astrologers! Okay, but what I'm actually trying to get at is the midpoint picture formed by the trio of Saturn-ASC-North-Node. For as a pair in the biological sphere, Saturn-ASCendant indicates potentials for certain health conditions (exs: 'skin troubles; middle ear inflammation; defective connective tissues or organs; myopia'), but also 'suffering caused by the environment; disadvantages through others; segregation or separation from others; feeling hindered or depressed; suffering from limiting or poor conditions; hindered or inhibited development; a wrong outlook on life' - or some combination which we're feeling already. Add the directional North Node and we have:

Saturn-ASC = North Node: 'secluding oneself from others; being placed in unpleasant family circumstances' (Ebertin).

'Unpleasant circumstances' is seconded by Noel Tyl.

Now let's close this dreary post (intended to inform not worsen!) with Michael Munkasey's evaluation of the difficult Saturn-ASC duo in Hegelian Dialectic form and note that you'll find the Trump 'administration' of purposefully inept kleptocrats and his dreary mishandling of our current health crisis somewhere within the following potentials--if not within them all:

Thesis: Difficulty for others to understand internal leadership or direction; policy or authority dictated or restricted by external demands; inflexibility or an inability to adapt to necessary change.

Antithesis: A replacement or a lowering in status of advisers or leaders; curtailment of programs for the disadvantaged; a disregard for checks and balances within an enterprise; repression as a function of policy.

Well, I don't know about you, dear reader, but I think Mr. Munkasey has described our tragic health calamity all too well based on astrological principles and translated into English.

A closely related post: Independence Day 2020 and a Capricorn Lunar Eclipse which will 'eclipse' our national Sun (13Can19), the leaders/s of the US government such as they have devolved.

Here's America's SR 2020 Horoscope: