Astrological Report
admin December 15th, 2006
November 2008 Astrology Report
By Linda Clave
This fall we have witnessed a nonstop roll-out of the last degrees of Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, in Sagittarius. November 26 will be the ingress of Pluto into Cardinal Capricorn. Last January Pluto entered Capricorn, but stationed retrograde April 2 at 1 Capricorn 09, passing backward over the last two degrees of Sagittarius. Then Jupiter on September 8, and Pluto on September 9, went direct. Shortly after the September Full Moon, shock waves began a domino effect triggering a world economic meltdown. Financial scandals reached unprecedented levels. Even former head of the Federal Reserve, Allen Greenberg, was shocked at the flaws in the free market economy. Since then we have seen a daily stock market roller coaster ride. Many retirees, or those on the verge of retirement, have lost the last ten years of gain, and recovery is doubtful.
On a lighter note, a friend shared an interesting clipping from the Wall Street Journal which stated, “Horoscopes probably are as good a charting tool as any this time around.” It mentioned that brokers are passing around astrological information (q.v., www. wsj.com/marketbeat). “It’s legit. Panic lows have historically occurred on day 27/28 of the seventh lunar cycle, this Sunday and Monday. The panics of 1857/1907/1929/1987/1997 all marked their lows on these days in October.” But today, October 28, as I write this, the market gained 900 points. What we do with these tides in the market makes a difference. It is not all fated!
At the dowsing convention last August, I attended a class given by a remarkable old-timer, Guenter Knoernschild, who has 60 years experience under his belt. He studied with Rudolf Steiner and developed remarkable abilities to dowse, from the inner planes, the Askaskic Records. His work began after seeing an article on the absence of Sun Spot activity between 1500-1700. He noticed that low activity correlated with historical epochs of stress and wars. He mentioned the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), which was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers . He felt it began with the birth of Martin Luther, November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany . Luther’s work opened the way to a divided Europe previously unified under a single faith. Guenter then dowsed the flux in cycles of cosmic energy all the way back to 40 BC and later forward to 2040 AD. Yearly on January 1 or 2 he dowses each month for the year. Last August I saw his charts for the rest of 2008 with an extreme drop for October, and now it is history. He sees November 2008 still down, a flat line in a toxically low register. His predictions for the extremely sharp drop this fall were based on an absence of Sun Spot activity and low tides of cosmic energy from celestial influences like the Milky Way. The Sun Spot activity runs on an 11-year cycle. From Wikipedia: “ The average duration of the sun spot cycle is about 11 years (about 28 cycles in the 309 years between 1699 and 2008), but cycles as short as 9 years and as long as 14 years have been observed. Significant variations in amplitude also occur.” Guenter dowsed December 2008 as a slow climb into 2009. See the diagram dowsed January 20, 2000:
Once more I have requested Peter Kubaska to enrich this report with his wisdom . Peter gives us a look at Scorpio as a soul transitional sign.
“Scorpio in esoteric astrology is ruled by Pluto/Mars, Mars and Mercury on personality, soul, and planetary levels respectively. Scorpio is all about the right use of force and instinct inherited from our animal nature. Instinct is based on fight or flight in a world where reptiles and animals devour one another as predator and prey. Presumably humans are meant to have evolved above or beyond this with our threefold reptilian, mammalian and human brain. However, human addiction to conflict and crisis in order to think has meant that for millennia human lives have been “nasty, brutish and short,” as the philosopher Hobbes observed.
Scorpio is all about the mastery of brawn by brains. It has to recognize the difference between force and energy (and eventually among rays), between brute coercion and intelligent persuasion. Scorpio’s path, the path of the spiritual disciple, leads from Mars to Mercury, from Martian war-game planning, bean-counting, water-selling and food fights, to Mercury vision and intelligent stewardship of the planet. Humanity is essentially Mercury, divine intermediary between higher and lower kingdoms in nature.
Scorpio represents the battle between self-interested Personality values and universal or selfless Soul values, between the Dweller on the Threshold (of Initiation) and the Angel of the Presence — the two aspects of Humanity, animal and divine.
When the self-interested and ambitious warrior Personality exhausts itself and makes the decisive turn in Libra toward refined Soul values, then the standard backwards progression of the personality through the Wheel of the Zodiac turns forward, and Scorpio begins to fight for universal Soul, group and planetary values. (This takes a while — to prove one’s values and principles to oneself.)
The battle of Hercules with the nine-headed Hydra symbolizes this long period of transmuting personality history (karma) and liabilities into soul and group assets. (The Nine Tests in Scorpio are: [3 physical] sex, physical comfort, money; [3 emotional] fear, hate, ambition; and [3 mental] pride, separativeness, cruelty.) That is why Scorpio is said to rule the first three “initiations of the threshold” (mastering the threefold personality), while Capricorn begins (at the third initiation) to rule the “solar initiations” of the ancient Egyptian and Masonic rites and the Twelve Labors of the Sun Gods represented by Hercules.
Mars rules drive and the entire range of idealisms (some so gross as to be virtually unrecognizable). Ideas are spiritual impulses taking form. Mercury Ideas become ideals in action and idols (or attitudes) in fossilization. The point is to pursue one’s ideals with Energy and right effort and without the use of unnecessary force. Force shatters and congeals. Force is something to be applied to objects. Force is like a crust or shell of interacting form factors resulting from the impact of Energy. It is Energy that applies to persons and relationships — and all sentient existence is in essential fluid relationship. This is a key to immortality. This poise and discernment in action and ideals (between force and energy) takes a developed mind and broad vision with a fearless courage to be inclusive and open.
Perhaps the major evolutionary change taking place in humanity on the planet today is the shift of emphasis from animal gut-brain fixed attitudes (solar plexus) to the human brain and intelligent communication (head, heart, and throat). All one has to do is examine any major planetary conflict to recognize these two factors at odds with each other — no whining and martyrdom excuses, please. Pure intelligent materialism (the definition of Evil, the outworn past) is being replaced by intelligent materialism with Love, Heart, and Wisdom.
Scorpio represents the evolution of instinct (gut-brain attitude) into intellect. When memory, attention-span and the faculty of imagination or visualization (image-in-action) are cultivated along with reflective rationality, then Scorpio supervises the evolution of intellect into pure intuition — the mind as beacon light of the Soul.
Instinct is the opposite of intuition, in the sense that the blind lower chakras of the desperate survivalist animal are the opposite of a fully awakened human mind and creative life, and the ability to see facts and envision solutions — Mars versus Mercury becomes Mars serving Mercury. THINK FAST. Make Haste Calmly.
Peter Kubaska is an esoteric astrologer who has studied Alice Bailey material for forty years. He is a past president of the Besant Lodge of the Theosophical Society, Boston, where he teaches esoteric astrology. Peter can be reached for consultations at 413 387-9208.
November 2. Neptune emerges from retrograde motion to station direct at 21 Aquarius 28 . Mars in Scorpio is applying to square stationary Neptune. November 4, Election Day, it is exact. Hidden plots and scenarios become public knowledge. Keep your cool, and separate fact from fiction. This is not a good time, for the next week, to invest.
November 3 is a tough day just before the election, with Venus at 19 Sagittarius squaring Saturn in Virgo and Uranus in Pisces. More negative economic forecasting pushes the polls up and down.
November 4, the big Election Day, has so much astrological activity it is impossible to predict the end results! In the wee hours Mars in Scorpio squares Neptune in Aquarius. Racial issues could emerge. Time to straighten out all the spin in the midst of this perplexing camouflage. Then, as the polls open, Saturn in Virgo opposes retrograde Uranus. Upsets are sure to be in the making. Mercury, late morning, leaves the last degree of Libra and enters Scorpio. Voters become determined and resolute to uncover the facts and have their vote properly counted.
November 10 is a high-spirited day . The Sun at 18 Scorpio is in an inspired trine to retrograde Uranus in Pisces. Let your creativity rule.
Full Moon at 21 Taurus on November 12 with 14 Virgo 09 rising over Washington, DC. Saturn at 19 Virgo 42 is in the First House of self or the nation in opposition to retrograde Uranus in Pisces in the Seventh House of both enemies and allies—an upsetting day and so complex, the emphasis will likely be on wrapping up loose ends from all that has happened during the election. Action is found in the angular houses and those with planets therein include: Saturn on the Ascendant, Uranus on the Descendant and Venus in the Fourth House of home, land and family, conjunct Pluto at 29Sagittarius. Romances can end, or find new fuel at deeper levels of honesty. A bright note is the ingenuity of Mercury and the Sun trine angular Uranus in the Seventh House. The Sun in the Third House conjunct Mars, and the Moon in the Ninth House are squaring Neptune in the Sixth House. Issues of leadership and communication with perhaps the higher courts drawn in can be in play. This is yet another day for caution in economic matters.
November 13. The Sun at 21 Scorpio exactly squares Neptune in Aquarius . Let your Higher Self and the Light be your beacon. Fighting clouds doesn’t get you far. Also, Venus enters Capricorn, a Saturn-ruled Cardinal Earth sign, until December 8. This is all about administrative and strategic maneuvers. Expect a lot of corporate restructuring and changes in the financial packaging of funds.
November 16. Mars leaves its watery home in Scorpio and energizes the fiery Mutable sign Sagittarius until December 27 when it enters Capricorn and moves into a conjunction with Pluto. More adventure and a quest for fresh, new horizons mark this period. The movement is outward toward the freedom of wide-open spaces after the deep, inner emotional attachments period of Mars in Scorpio.
November 19. Mercury at 21 Scorpio squares Neptune in Aquarius . Mercury wants to dig deep and uncover the facts behind hidden or unresolved mysteries. Scandals could make the news.
November 21. The Sun enters Sagittarius. From the 2007 report: Sagittarius is the third sign of the fire triplicity. Sagittarius is mutable fire or the fire of transmutation. The glyph is the centaur, a horse on the bottom with a man on top who is aiming his bow upward into the heavens. Aiming high, fueled by aspiration, this Jupiter-ruled sign is always raising and stretching the bar in all directions. The mantra for the Sagittarian experience is, “I see the goal. I reach the goal and see another.” Philosophy, religion, higher education and world travel are featured in this sign. Jupiter, its ruling planet, is transiting through the conservative Saturn-ruled Capricorn. Rules and order take precedence over free-wheeling and expansive expression. Colleges are struggling with the direly sluggish economy’s effect on the ablity of parents to pay their children’s tuition. Emphasis is on the role of government as society’s keeper.
November 23. Mercury now enters Sagittarius until December 12. As it leaves the depths of Scorpio behind, Mercury reaches outward toward goals with a fresh sense of direction.
November 26. Pluto returns to Capricorn on the eve of the New Moon on Thanksgiving Day . During this Pluto transit, economics, government and politics will need restructuring. But the big piece is the Green Movement placing priority on the awareness of planetary wholeness. Knowledge of our interrelatedness can inspire our ingenuity. The July 4, 1776 US chart has Pluto at 27 Capricorn. When correctly directed, the US, a Cancer nation, has the resources and capacity to help feed the world. This has the making of an exciting revolution. From the first Pluto ingress January 26, 2008: “ Pluto arrives on the eve of January 25. So the new trends are in Cardinal Earth. Capricorn is the most dynamic and pragmatic of signs to work out a new order. Order and step-by-step planning are imperative in order to succeed. When you are aware of how planetary shifts relate to your personal horoscope, you can take advantage of possibilities and anticipate the lessons you will meet along the way. The general pattern is for profound global change at an accelerating pace as Pluto moves through Capricorn until March, 2023. The Earth is rapidly losing its glaciers in Greenland, for instance. The world’s largest glacier is dumping slices into the ocean as the temperature rises, causing changes to the eco system. These changes harm many coldwater fish and other essential habitat-maintaining species. This is true for Glacier National Park as well. The topography of the current world will have an altered profile if these trends continue to raise sea levels. Areas of low elevation could be submerged. This, in turn, could impact world migration patterns at a level we have never seen. This is not science fiction but projected science from credible sources. Again, cardinal signs bring change and we must work with the positive possibilities in order to be part of the solution.
New Moon at 5 Sagittarius 49 with 18 Aquarius 32 rising over Washington, DC. on Thanksgiving Day. Expectations of the new US administration are apparent with this Tenth House lunation conjunct Mercury, the communicator, and Mars, the driver of the message/spin. A story is told with mystical Neptune at 21 Aquarius expressing through the window of the Ascendant. Chiron in the Twelfth House, almost on the Ascendant, suggests a healing note. Also in the Twelfth House is Venus approaching a conjunction to the ruling planet of the lunation, Jupiter, at 21 Capricorn trine Saturn at 20 Virgo 43 in the Seventh House. One can expect a return of confidence and cautious optimism for the economy within new government regulations. Yet, with Uranus in Pisces in the First House still bouncing around in opposition to Saturn in Virgo in the Seventh, a lot is up in the air as to what, when and how these changes will turn out.
Linda Clave