We have covered the two coming eclipses in the newsletter, "Tools of the Trade," and their agenda of pressures is getting stronger. You will probably notice that more close to lunations if your chart is being pushed by them. Just as a reminder, the March 20th Solar is in 29 Pisces 27 and the April 4th Lunar is in 14 Libra 24. We always get examples of the eclipse character in public events, but with the March solar leaning so heavily on The Aries Point, some of the intention of the eclipse will be more obvious than usual and should impact public opinion and the general zeitgeist.
Now: a return chart (solar or lunar) with a mid-Aries angle for early March will feature a line up of Mars, Orpheus, Venus, Uranus, Sappho and a few medical asteroids. So let's talk about this:
- Of course the asteroid, Orpheus, stands for such things as sorrow, depression, tears and death. It is also Music. So when you see it with Mars, you can think about "a young man and his music," but you can also be aware of actions that result in regret or death. And while we have the asteroid, Erigone, for suicide, sometimes a Mars-Orpheus shows up as a suicide (or violent death.) If these two are, for instance, at your return chart MC, some public event will feature their manifestation.
- Adding Venus, yeah.... that can be beautiful music. It can also be tears over a relationship. I mean, isn't an Orpheus-Venus perfect for a "lost love"? You may also hear of "an easy death" or tears of happiness.
- Incorporating the retrograde Phaethon tells us that we may hear of car accidents in which there is a loss of life. But Phaethon can also be about people and events that are reckless, that zoom out of control, that are "going too fast." Because it's retrograde, we want to remember to be aware that it may not manifest exactly as we expect. Among other things, that can mean that it doesn't manifest as a car at all; it wants to tell us that something or someone else is "out of control."
- Among the medical issues here are references to chemotherapy, heroin use, pain killers, the ketogenic diet, and either a pancreatic disease or mention of the cancer center, M.D. Anderson. So, take the medical asteroid, Wright, and think of it as "Heroin Use" for the moment. Then picture a Mars and a Venus-- maybe a young man and a girl or young woman....using heroin. Things get (Phaethon) out of control or they're in a car.... and there is (Orpheus) loss of life. On another day, this reference to drugs such as heroin will show up in connection with the (Orpheus) music industry. On yet another day, you may hear of a pain killer used in a (Mars/Uranus) surgery that brings a near-death experience!
- Then we come to Uranus. As mentioned, a Mars-Uranus can be a surgery. It can be an accident (caused by another driver thanx to the retrograde Phaethon.) It can also be a team sport, activity or arguments associated with technology, and, with Venus, sudden spending or flirtation. So yes, Uranus can bring excitement but also stress. You may have contact with (ahem) unusual people. You may see how people do things without emotion (and that includes young people linked to music or mortality.)
- Although it's a transit, Uranus won't always obey the rules and stay over that chart line in "Transit" territory. It can make you feel "wired." It can cause your adrenalin to soar (making your heart race!) So...calm down!
- Next to Uranus is Sappho and this can mean that events feature "a friend of a friend." It can also show that you're dealing with friends who manifest all these energies in this alignment.
- In parans opposition (meaning that factors are angular at the opposite angle,) are Zeus and the medical asteroid, Askalaphus. This accents the medical manifestations we've discussed above, but it adds the idea that people can have a lot of anxiety about their diagnosis or medical condition. It also means that medical concerns can feature inflammation, the blood pressure, and the heart rate.
- If these energies are angular for you, you'll also want to delineate these "oppositions." Thus: Mars\Zeus can show up as: a sharpshooter (American Sniper?) a young man with a weapon or engaged in military action. It can, another day, be you spending time (finally) getting organized! A Zeus\Orpheus can refer to deaths in a war, deaths from a fire, explosion or gunshot. It can also show up as a situation where there are attempts to incite based on a loss of life.
- Some of the manifestations of a Uranus\Zeus include: sudden military action; an accident involving a weapon; trying to control anger in a tense situation; seeing that a person can view a military situation as a kind of "revolution."
- Because of the Sappho\Askalaphus, you may have friends who are dealing with illness.
- Of course there's more to say about each of these items, and you still have to factor in your radix points who are acting on and reacting to these transits, but I hope this provides a caution and a leg up as you fill in the delineations.
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