This is the week - Saturn's first square to Pluto

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This is the week
By Eric Francis at Planet Waves
November 9, 2009

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If it’s not clear that things are coming to a head, you can check the front page of CNN or you can check the astrology.

We’re also at quite a season for anniversaries, from Sesame Street to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Nineteen sixty-nine was a watershed year: from the Moon landing to the Manson murders to Woodstock to the phrase “the personal is political” coming out of the feminist collective called Redstockings. Sixty-nine was all about the astrology, and so is this stretch of 2009-2010.

In seven short days, Saturn’s first square to Pluto is exact; the two planets are currently within 1/4 degree of exactitude; so this is the moment. You may be feeling this in your inner life, or personal life; the world is certainly going through some wild gyrations. We are in one of those moments when everything seems to happen at once – a kind of singularity point that might feel a little or a lot like an eclipse. If you’re paying attention, this will be one of those moments in time that you remember poignantly.

The Fort Hood massacre will hopefully be the last horrendous news to come out of this aspect, though this particular contact (the first of three exact squares) will have a range of activity reaching to the end of the year. I can tell you that based on both the astrology and the nature of the event, this will be considered one of the major turning points in the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, those legacies of the Cheney/Bush administration.

Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed its version of the health care bill, which by all indications is doomed in the Senate. This law would require everyone to get health insurance or face massive fines and penalties; and a last-minute amendment banned coverage of abortion, even though this is a federally guaranteed right.

We don’t make a big deal out of this now, but we also don’t generally understand or even acknowledge the ways in which political events influence our personal lives. That point of contact is the theme of the hour: Saturn and Pluto are aligned with the Aries Point, and there is a major conjunction coming in the spring: Jupiter conjunct Uranus in the first degree of Aries, the sidereal vernal point itself (the technical name of the Aries Point).

I would say, hold onto your hat, but what I really want to say is: live the day.



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