Jupiter Direct Feb 4, 2025!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

On October 9, 2024, transit Jupiter, the planet of banking, politics, military, corporatism, broadcasting, and religion, turned retrograde ("Rx") @21Gem20, stationing directly upon America's 1776 Mars while squaring 1776 Neptune in Virgo. This activation of our foggy Mars-Neptune square of rationalization brought our country a period of good fortune for some folks but increased or expanded illusions for others, plus, a need for us all to avoid those promoting "the big picture" - one of too good to be true proportions. Overconfidence was a potential for overblown Jupiterian personalities followed by disappointment for those who fell for impractical schemes.

Now it's time for transit Jupiter to turn Direct which occurs on February 4, 2025 @11Gem16, the degree of Jupiter in July 2024. As you see, the Sabian Symbols for Jupiter's Rx and Direct degrees (12 Gemini and 22Gemini) are penned on the chart, below.

Then out of his own shadow at the end of April 2025 and timing the end of Mr. T's "first 100 days," Jupiter then begins moving forward with fewer encumbrances, and heads toward the Cardinal World Point of 00Cancer00, about a day after transit Mercury reaches the same Cardinal degree; on a good day the Mercury-Jupiter duo symbolizes common sense and good intellect, but may also denote fraud, boastfulness, fantasies and/or negligence.

So below are two images:

Jupiter Rx 2024 and Jupiter Direct 2025 - specifically, October 9, 2024 (lower left) and February 4, 2025 (upper right) with both charts set for Washington DC as usual:

And here are the same two horoscopes overstuffed with study notes for the curious:

Please note above that "February 5" should be February 4, 2025.

Therefore, an energy shift within Jupiterian realms (as listed, above) will be felt in society as Jupiter leaves Mercury-ruled Gemini and enters Moon-ruled Cancer, America's sign of Jupiter in 1776, and the sign of Jupiter's exaltation. Here are brief notes on the two placements of Jupiter within the massive planet's 11.6-year orbit around the tropical Zodiac:

Jupiter in airy Gemini: first, a note: Jupiter @11Gem47 is the sign and degree of Mitch McConnell's natal Jupiter = his Jupiter Return. In Gemini, Jupiter can possess broad yet superficial knowledge; skillful communications aid within fields such as politics and education. This is where Jupiter is in detriment because Gemini opposes Jupiter's natural sign of Sagittarius, yet Jupiter's money-making ability is not impaired in Gemini and often involves professional communications. That Jupiter's time in Gemini since May 2024 relates to the current crop of "tech bros" becoming prominent in politics I'll leave for you to decide, dear reader.

Jupiter in watery Cancer: This placement tends toward moral, religious, and philosophical principles which may certainly be on the upswing more than duplicitous Gemini tends to deliver for society. Generosity, charitable causes, and humanitarianism are possibilities as well, and could turn up more often in the news; real estate, agriculture, and the production of food are timely issues so we might wonder in these early days of this White House if supply chain shortages are again to afflict us due to off-kilter political policies based on utopian dreams that have no practical basis - other than to cause chaos and hardship in society. If such tendencies arise out of Washington, other planetary factors beside Jupiter in emotional, tribal, nationalistic Cancer will have to provide stability.

US Solar Return Horoscope 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Here are two images of DC Horoscopes of America's Solar Return 2025: one based on the Horoscope of America July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, the other issuing from the "US Powell Horoscope" of July 1, 1776 7:09 pm LMT (first vote; upper right):

Some basic astro-notes are penned on the dual image along with the July 5th date of US Jupiter Return 2025 (lower left corner) with 1776 Jupiter's descriptive Sabian Symbol now perfectly and eagerly expressed by the new administration of looters, thieves, embezzlers, scammers, and money-launderers: "Game Birds Feathering Their Nests."

This Symbol cosmically imprints Year 2025 (until July 2026) as highly significant for our country in the realms of the Sun-Jupiter pairing (leadership-finances/growth; freedom) with simultaneous Returns that nearly replay July 1776 as a cosmic time link.

However, Sun-Jupiter also suggests that there are legal and political conflicts with the law of the land, plus, fanaticism and one-sided views are present (and are ongoing now with Saturn and Neptune squaring US Jupiter) through the efforts of pretentious, arrogant people. Naturally, realistic Saturn's restrictive and legalistic functions, plus, deceptive Neptune's grand schemes and cultish behavior are involved, and the 9 New North Eclipse @9Aries adds intense energies and potentials for accidents and injuries.

Feb 2025 Lunations: Leo/Pisces

Dual DC Horoscopes: Feb 2025 Lunations

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

February 12, 2025 (chart with notations shown lower left) brings first a Full Moon @24Leo06 and perhaps uncovers a few inconvenient facts or scandalous secrets (as a Lunar Eclipse often does; plus, a culmination of something planned around the time of the prior New Moon of January 29 @9AQ51).

Additionally, this particular Leo Full Moon lands near the Mars Rising (26Leo) of he-who-shall-not-be-named, and squares zealous Uranus which by transit sits atop the Midheaven of his natal chart suggesting the disruption and chaos he now causes = his goal. Yes, quirky Uranus, planet of Technology, brought sudden change to his career prospects, didn't it?

Image: "Neptune Ascends"

2016 Neptune oppo 19 North Eclipse:

Deception, misunderstandings, discontent (Tyl); plus, cultism, theft, loss, fraud, corruption, lies, gaslighting, self-deception, delusions and illusions, fantasy worlds, propaganda, mass media, the masses, mass immigration, Art-Music-Poetry, creative imagination, spiritual escapism, water events, glamour, chaos, confusion, deceptive schemes, suspicion, spying, drug use (including alcohol), oil, gas, fumes, poisons and toxins, dissolution, disappointment, seduction, scandal, erosion, unreliability, disguises, dreams and visions, uncertainty, insecurity, waste, urge to merge, The Divine Source. You can think of other potentials for nebulous Neptune, I suspect.

Then on February 27, 2025 (chart shown upper right) comes a New Moon @9Pis40 which conjuncts transit Neptune Rx on September 1, 2016 during the 19 North Eclipse of realism, coming down to Earth and tackling the truth - and seeing things for what they really are (B. Brady). The 2016 opposition from deceptive Neptune undermined the truth tackling contained within the 19N eclipse enough to finagle Mr. T. into the Oval Office the first time.

Now he's back with more criming, and the secret planning at the February New Moon in Pisces will culminate or be revealed around the Lunar Eclipse @23Vir57 on March 14, 2025 - and will perfect close to US 1776 Neptune (22:25) which squares our 1776 Mars - which conjuncts his natal Gemini Sun. With a Virgo lunation, we may expect topics such as health and (un)employment to be in the news. Not that we need Astrology to tell us this.

2025 Sun-Moon Square Uranus: sudden developments; intense independence; possible breakup (Tyl); radical insights; potential for violence; stubbornness; dogmatism (Oken).

Now We the People are in worsening conditions as is much of the world, and the February 2025 New Moon in shady Pisces, similar to a disruptive "wild card" Solar Eclipse, may time current events involving deception, gaslighting, and fraud. Not that the "big lie" has ever let up!

The point is, 19 North opposed by Neptune influenced both Election 2016 and Inauguration 2017, its subversive effects linger, and these fuzzy conditions continue to be utilized against America by sinister meddlers, crooks, and wealthy manipulators.

As for the above lunation horoscopes set for DC, you'll notice that multiple planets plus Chiron stand out: Mercury conjunct Ceres (food supply; democracy) at the Full Moon, Mars is OOBs and up to who-knows-what (see lower left corner), Jupiter (traveling with gold-hoarding Midas), Neptune still floating through its own sign of Pisces, and Pluto, leader of a ruthless Locomotive shape of planets; then Pluto leads a BOWL pattern of advocacy of a cause, or having a mission. Tragically, transforming the US government into an authoritarian nightmare while destroying US society come quickly to mind.

And marked on the dual chart and highlighted in blue as the dates of the current US 1776 Chiron Return/s (3x) with the final return perfecting on February 18th - between the February 2025 Full and New Moons. Our Chiron's Sabian Symbol: "A Pugilist Entering the Ring" which can suggest multiple things these days including the belligerent, grudge-holding Mars Rising denizen of the Underworld who's spoiling for a fight.

A Natal Chart for Alexander the Great!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

From the category of Historical Horoscopes, and ancient ones at that, we can hardly do better than a natal chart for Alexander the Great, namesake of Alexandria, Egypt, and a fabled leader born July 19, 0356 BCE in Pella, Macedonia where his father, Philip II, was born. Its antiquity means that labeling the chart "speculative" is advised.

Note: Try as I might, I cannot induce my SolarFire software to accept coordinates for Pella, Macedonia so I'm using what it gives me; the correct location is listed on the chart so perhaps you can do better!

Below you see the horoscope for Alexander that I'm favoring of late although naturally you may have other ideas. Any astro-notes I have for this chart are penned on the image for you, and the Prenatal Eclipse Saros Series ("PE") into which Baby Alexander was born is not available information, as far as I can ascertain. Yet we know that the solar eclipse manifested in the sign of Taurus the Bull with all the positive and negative traits that the Venus-ruled sign may bring with it, possessiveness being one.

Now obviously, no one then was aware of power-craving Pluto which here conjuncts the Aries Point, a Cardinal World Point of Fame, Recognition, and Fortune; this is a major stand-out feature of his chart:

Recommended is Biography's mini bio of Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia - it's only 2m 51s and I selected just for you!

btw: Some sources give his birth date as July 20, 0356. jc

The True Liberation Day 1945

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Perhaps you noticed that on Inauguration Day 2025, Mr. T. in his speech referred to the occasion as "liberation day" for America, which is a typical ploy of a "thunder stealer" like he-who-shall-not-be-named-in-this-post. January 20, 2025 was also Martin Luther King Jr Day 2025, as you know, and shabbily a connection to Dr. King and what he stood for was clumsily attempted.

Yet we know that historically, the actual Liberation Day refers to January 27, 1945 when Russia's Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp along with the victims who clung to life therein. With the Army arriving at 3:00 pm that day, here's a Horoscope of Liberation Day 1945 plus, the same Horoscope surrounded by Auschwitz Liberation Day's Solar Return 2025 chart arriving this Monday:

As the charts reveal, in January 1945 a powerful Sun-Pluto opposition was in progress symbolizing people acting as agents for major transformation within a challenging environment - personal metamophosis is the key and it affected the liberators as well as the liberated. Other liberations of N*zi death camps followed. The 2025 Sun-Pluto Conjunction - Pluto of the Underworld - also relates to metamorphosis but with a streak of self-annihilation added within an evolutionary vs devolutionary challenge or atmosphere, as we have now.

Devolution suggests delegating power from a central government to people such as the fellow from South Africa whose recent salute onstage showed who and what he admires, if there was any doubt at all.

In closing, here's a previous post with a view of a related Historical Horoscope: When Hitl*r Became President.

Sun-Pluto info: Alan Oken.

USA and the Saturn-Neptune Cycle

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you know, there are multiple potentials (quite a mixed bag) that can express via the Saturn-Neptune pairing. Within their 33-to-36-year cycle, the two planets meet once again in Great Conjunction on February 20, 2026 @00Ari45, the Aries Point of World Events. Their current cycle began in 1989 with three exact conjunctions in the Zodiacal range of 10--12 degrees of Saturn-ruled Capricorn.

Their placements in Capricorn suggest possibilities such as industry, a strong will, realism, truth, self-restraint, diplomacy, endurance, one-sidedness, slow advncement, economy, egocentrism (Saturn), plus, success through crooked means, strange objectives, delving into religious problems, deep research, people with little sense of reality, secrets, subversion, liquids, fumes, gases, poisons (Neptune).

Then depending on which technique we prefer for three-fer returns and conjunctions, and because a fresh conjunction arrives next year, I'd say that we are now operating within the third phase of the pairing which began with the November 13, 1989 Conjunction @10Cap22. This chart is shown as the outermost horoscope in the following tri-wheel and it's the DC Horoscope operative until their next conjunction on February 20, 2026 at Aries Point (2026 chart shown, below):

Saturn-Neptune Meet February 20, 2026:

So here's a partial list of potential expressions of the Saturn-Neptune duo when their energies combine; any, all, or none may apply or may alternate expression:

Social safety net programs, Socialism and other forms of -isms in government, delusions among leadership, inefficient use of capable advice, policies that restrict spies, using and hiding lies and deception, false hopes that lead to nothing, secret or invisible government, weakness, depression, pessimism, and/or illness, mistaken religious leaders, uncovering or restricting fraud, continuing detrimental practices, regrets, denial of responsibility, utilizing illusion, shabby practices, neglect in society, abandoning responsibility, an illusion of respectability, breaking through existing circumstances toward "the dream", loss via dissolution, erosion, or theft, martyrdom, a sense of being wronged, losing focus, Earth and Water events - and the list goes on and on when restrictive Saturn and urge to merge Neptune act as a "team" (Oken; Ebertin; Munkasey; Tyl), their energies heightened at Conjunciton.

Then as you know, both planets are considered karmic in nature due to Saturn's orbit lasting 28--30 years, while pokey pup Neptune takes 164 years to complete an orbit. Meanwhile, inadequately addressed conditions and neglected problems pile up until they must surface. Yes, events feel as if they come from the outside, but the issues have been with us all along, often bubbling on a back burner.

Now additionally, there are basic concerns about the upcoming Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in 2026 because of the last few years and it's the fact that the planets meet during what will likely be Year Two of the second go-round of Mr.T. "manning" America's helm with finger on The Button, a convicted felon and figurehead in the US of a global Underworld network of crooks and looters (Neptune-Pluto). Concerns include delusions and illusions (Neptune) about authority figures (Saturn). And as we've seen, running the American Ship of State aground is the aim of our enemies, domestic and foreign, and they must be stopped. Yet now that the fox is in the henhouse again, it will be complicated. Some folks are calling for the impeachment of Mr. T., a valiant effort which could boost Democrats at Midterms 2026.

Of course, all of the difficulties have been the case for years now but as a new cycle of Saturn-Neptune begins, we may expect the gaslighting, lies, and fraud to increase, both here and abroad, along with a potential for societal events to manifest, perhaps some weather-related - any of which may trigger hysteria (R. Ebertin) within sections of the population.

Now here are a few general astro-notes concerning Saturn in Pisces where the lesson bringer planet of Old Age, accountability, fears and flaws hangs out until 2026. And you know how Neptune, floating through in its own sign of shady Pisces, has timed a period of contagion, confusion, mass migration and delusion - and fears and paranoia.

Then looking at soon-coming lunations as we must, here are the Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2025 (DC Horoscopes shown) including themes of both Solar Eclipses, all of which energies will run in the background of society - until influences from the 10 North Eclipse of February 2026 @29AQ take over; notably, the Saturn-Neptune Conjunction of 2026 occurs under the 10 North.

For more information see Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, Michael Munkasey #ad

Has Grover Cleveland come again?

Tomorrow's Inauguration, an attempt to legalize corruption and collapse the USA, will feel like the 2nd Inauguration of old Grover Cleveland but with different music. And with musical Neptune in late degrees of Pisces hiding Grover's natal Sun!

Update Jan 21, 2025: As turns out, Mr. T is said to have something of a crush on William McKinley the Robber Baron president. Yet one must assume that he is aware of Mr. McKinley's untimely fate.