It’s a friendly, enthusiastic and visionary fire sign. It’s ruled by generous expansive Jupiter. It’s symbol is the archer’s arrow, urging us to take aim at our dreams. It’s the sign Walt Disney was born under. And best of all, it’s finally here again! This year’s journey of the Sun through the sign of the gypsy, the student and the philosopher will see Pluto move into Capricorn, Uranus go direct and what is likely to be the most lively full moon of the entire year.
At 5:03 P.M. PST on November 26th Pluto goes into Capricorn where it will be until March 23, 2023. Pluto represents our core beliefs and ambitious Capricorn is all about pragmatic, down-to-earth problem solving. This is the beginning of a cycle in which we are nearly guaranteed sweeping and monumental reform in government, business and our other institutions. And “change” after all is what America just avidly voted for. While no one can completely predict exactly what these major and fundamental changes will look like, I can tell you what won’t fly anymore. This past week top executives from America’s 3 largest automakers went to Washington to ask the public to pay for a $25 billion bailout. The problem was that these captains of industry showed up with no specific plan nor any details as to how they intended to spend all of that taxpayer money. And to add insult to injury, or as I see it, to beg the Universe to slap them, they flew in separately to make their joint plea for the public funding on their individual
companies’ private corporate jets. They didn’t even have the decency to air-pool. Congress adjourned without so much as voting on the matter.
Pluto in Capricorn finds an American public in no mood for such outrages, much like it found the American psyche back 1762, the last time Pluto began its journey through Capricorn. Three years into that cycle, the British government enacted the
Stamp Act which many historians cite as the origin of the
American War for Independence. By the end of that Pluto in Capricorn cycle in 1778, that war was won and a nation was born. It’s sweetly fitting that this time the journey begins as many Americans pay homage to the vision and fortitude of our nation’s founders with a Thanksgiving meal.
And on Thanksgiving Day, the 27th, in the morning we have a new Sagittarius moon within a few minutes of Uranus going direct. Back in late June, as the Sun went through the sign of Cancer, innovative and unconventional Uranus was the last of four large outer planets to turn retrograde.
I recommended that we all just go with the backward flow for a little while until more favorable aspects were on hand to assist us with bigger picture plans. In early September Jupiter and Pluto went direct, on November 1st Neptune went direct and now Uranus turns direct. In the summer I mentioned that as these outer planets went direct, we would see a gradual building of momentum and progress with the more significant aspects of our lives. So now we have it, at least until December 31st when Saturn goes retrograde, all of the major outer planets moving forward. To have these huge cosmic winds at our back during the enchanted cycle of adventurous and convivial Sagittarius is yet another one of its gifts. We can dare to dream, and we can dare to dream big! Where do you want to aim your archer’s bow?
But before venturing too far into the Sagitarian realms of fairy tales and unicorns. there is one week I want to point out. It is that of the full Gemini moon on Dec 12th. According to astrology expert
Mark Husson, it’s not the full moon that will be stirring things up, although some planets will be squaring (off) on that day, it’s feisty, lusty Mars who will be instigating much of the fuss with challenging aspects on the 11th and 15th. On his Soul’s Journey
Radio show “Love Scopes” which airs on Sunday nights at 7 P.M. PST, Mark will walk us through the events leading up to this ruckus full moon and explain why its getting so much attention. As some clients have already called me to express concern about this mighty moon due to
Susan Miller’s writing, I want to gently remind everyone that astrology is a map, one that helps us see what’s ahead so that we can plan accordingly. So let’s listen in Sunday evening, because Mark’s greatest teaching, and gift in my view, is fearlessness. It’s not so much where the planets are, but what we choose to do with their influences. As this Sagittarius cycle dawns, I choose optimism, expansion and magic. It's time to believe again.
