Rick DiClemente’s
Astrology Newsletter
Volume
34, October 2008
(Download a printable .DOC version here)
Isn’t WALL Street
the most Capricornian thing you can think of?
Welcome to October. Granted, it’s been weird. And so many people I’m talking to are wondering “what’s going on?” Well, many, many things actually.
Approximately 2/3 of the 50 people I’ve talked to or gauged said they experienced “unusual light-headedness or downright dizziness” during August.
Some went to the E.R. room. I feel the two eclipses triggered
that, notice, I’m careful not to say they “caused” it. Especially the eclipse on
8/16 with
was as weird as expected. I’m hoping
everyone is finding their grounding again by now.
A friend of mine wrote this to me just after that time:
“As for the month of August, and the time frame when we had the "Blue Moon" or whatever it is called, the psychiatric unit where I am a nurse was
incredibly HORRIBLE! Now you are shedding some light on what we were all experiencing. We had a full house and everyone was extremely bizarre
and strange or agitated and aggressive, and we found it necessary to use seclusion for a few which is not the norm...but necessary at times. And you are
right, things have now, very much, quieted down, thankfully!”
NEPTOON
--- Lots of October Happenings ---
A New Workshop This
Friday The Green Bough:
Now is your chance to find out what
each detail means in YOUR chart!
-THIS Friday,
October 3rd,
-Friday, October 10th,
www.mesacreativearts.com,
Astrology Workshop: “Your
Sun Sign and Your Relationships”
-Friday, October 24th,
www.theopenmind.com
We are dealing with monumental issues now: Saturn opposing Uranus will be exact THE MORNING OF THE ELECTION and Pluto will begin its final,
no-turning-back-to-Sagittarius ingress into Capricorn on
Thanksgiving Eve. I will write much more
about Saturn and Uranus next month.
For now, I want to ask you to keep in mind that the guitar string between these two planets is tightening to the breaking point. And just as expected, instead
of trying to see each other’s points of view (Saturn symbolizing the conservative “Right” and Uranus the liberal “Left”) and finding ways to work together,
we continue to play the old blame game. Imagine all of us walking around with one arm just to prove that we are “right?” To meet the huge challenges we
so obviously face, we all need BOTH arms. The issue is this simple: it’s like parents who always say no to the kids, vs. parents who always say yes. Both
ways lead to dysfunction. We need an intelligent, wise combination of both - not finger-pointing. The subject is just too yucky for me to go into at more
length right now - I’ll leave that for November’s issue. By then I’ll have more than enough stored-up kinetic energy to snap that turkey bone
into two or three pieces.
Now for the big one: Pluto in Capricorn: “The Bailout.” I’m sure many of you are sick of hearing about it, but, you’d better get used to it. After November 26,
Pluto will stay in Capricorn until 2023. What does all this mean to you? Every time I ask a group of people in an audience, “Do you feel something different
shakin?,” they all say, “YES!” Maybe it’s kind of a good thing because for once, it is abundantly apparent, even to those who have traditionally not given astrology
much credence, that astrology can be a source of serious
insight and guidance. The article I wrote for
site with fellow astrologer, Cheryl Crise, sits atop my website if you care to get the background on this epic Pluto period. It can be accessed at:
www.starself.com/polapr08.html
Basically, Capricorn, the bill collector, is
here.
This article, as are all of my articles, is not intended to target specific Sagittarians, or Capricorns (heck, I’m one)
but is intended to extrapolate on the collective energies; whether used correctly or incorrectly. Remember: we all
have varying amounts of many different signs
in our natal charts.
From 1995 to the end of 2007, Pluto accomplished a great deal in Sagittarius! The world expanded in good and bad ways and we all got cell phones and IPods!
It’s no coincidence that one of our major internet web portals and search engines is called YAHOO!, is it? Isn’t it fun!? Our religions clashed and we borrowed
and borrowed and borrowed. Every 5 pieces of mail we received contained 2 credit card offers, 2 mortgage offers, and one maybe legitimate piece of junk-mail.
AND NOW WE WONDER WHY THE DOO-DOO IS
HITTING THE FAN. Unregulate-deregulate-unregulate-deregulate.
When Pluto in Capricorn takes the baton from Pluto in Sagittarius, the OLD FORMS (Capricorn) can no longer support, or manage (Capricorn) the growth and
complexity Sagittarius has generated for us collectively. Pluto in Sag has caused us to realize that we live on one, big, beautiful, interdependent planet. But if Sag
has bounteous spirit, it doesn’t usually have a plan for making the overall social mechanism work - that’s Capricorn’s bailiwick. (Ben Franklin and Yogananda were
Capricorns - but so were Richard Nixon, Joseph Stalin and Benedict Arnold!) And boy, can you see the busy suits running around Capitol Hill, especially in the past
few weeks, trying to come up with a financial plan! You
can’t just patch the hole in the dike anymore.
Maybe our extremely naïve Cancer populace (
starting to pay more attention to things beyond our own noses, and to demand more of ourselves and our leaders. Faced with the possibility of national/global
financial collapse, we are not as interested now in Sagittarian ideals and theories, attractive as they may be. Instead, we see the necessity of working together
across ideological divisions, toward
practical solutions - The Goat is on the Mountaintop once again (last time was
1779 when the
World Order!)
So, it’s a very big story, and what do we do?
What. Do. We. Do?
I got to thinking about two things, 1) why is the contrast between Sagittarius and Capricorn so dramatic? and, 2) how can we use the strengths of the two to fix things?
(Disclaimer: As
individuals and countries, we’re all a mixture of many astrological archetypes
and energies, nothing is purely Sagittarian or purely Capricornian)
Look at these Sagittarian-Capricornian
polarities for instance:
I think you get the point. Each sign has its
strengths and weaknesses.
So, we got a bigger world during PL in Sag,
but do we have the infrastructures to handle it?
We got lots of new houses but now we can’t
pay for them.
We got lots of loans only to be defaulted.
We got Sag promises, now Capricorn must pay.
The key is we are not all Sagittarians and Capricorns. They are ENERGIES inside all of us and now is the time we must learn use them to their best potential.
How can we activate our Capricorn side to answer to all that has evolved while it was in Sagittarius for the past 13 years? (Notice: Windows ’95 came in the
same
year - a new easy way to see and surf a bigger world!)
Just some ideas:
Don’t panic and don’t start blaming.
Don’t look for government or some outside
agency to solve our problems.
Take the wonderful internet Sag gave us and
regulate it but don’t overly restrict it.
Stop running from our problems and pawning
them off on future generations
Stop borrowing and living above our means.
If you don’t have a way to afford something,
don’t buy it.
Sag has taught us faith; don’t lose faith now
because of some recent excesses.
Stop mortgaging your future for the present.
Graciously accept the new BIG world that Sag has created and stop complaining about it and embrace it - build new wider, more global,
robust structures that can handle it.
Sag has developed space; let’s not try to
control and own it for profit, and see the planet as it IS: singular.
Take the incredible networks of
communications (cell phones, satellites) that Sag created and use them
effectively.
Realize that many reasonable countries have legitimate
issues with us - they’re not all crazy.
Reach our hand out to meet and unite with other countries. Tear down the U.N. and start over. Do it right this time and re-erect it in a third-world-country.
The U.N. is prototypically the #1 type of thing that Pluto will target for demolition, i.e., structures held up by false promises, weak oaths, and smoke
and mirrors.
Etc., etc., etc., I think you see the point.
Mostly, recognize the broadening of the mind that occurred during this critical Sagittarius period and don’t crawl back into our
“that’s-the-way-we’ve-done-it-for-years” mentality. It surely won’t work.
On a much lighter note…
Librans of Interest and Astrological Musings…
The initial stroke which caused most of the
damage to Curly was in 1947
when transiting Uranus opposed the two planets in
Sagittarius exactly - “the mid-life crisis.”
10/4 Mars enters Scorpio
10/10 Venus squares Moon/Neptune - Make sure
that diamond ring he gives you is real.
10/14 Full Moon 21° ^ 51’ 4:02pm - This one should be mild, but the mounting pressure of Saturn starting into opposition to Uranus is quite the opposite.
3 weeks before the election, I can’t imagine us more polarized.
10/15 Mercury goes Direct
10/19 Moon in Cancer becomes handle of Bucket pattern - excessive moodiness abounds. Let it happen. Buy extra tissues. It most likely needs to come out.
NOT a time to
be reasonable. No one anywhere ever loved you - OMG it’s true!
10/22 Sun enters Scorpio 9:
Remember, Left and Right are the two hands of the same body.
10/28 New Moon 5° e 54’ 7:14pm - Now we really need to reach deep, consider the Great Ramifications, and consider who we really want to run our
country for the next 4 years.
10/31 Happy Halloween! Geez.
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- Rick
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