Miscellaneous Astrological Musings - October, 2017

My eclipses posts:

Among my most popular blog posts are the ones related to eclipses. I first became intensely interested in eclipses about three years ago. I looked up everything I could from various favorite astrologers of mine. As with some other areas, there wasn’t a great deal of agreement among them with regard to how to interpret eclipses. In terms of major world events, I became very impressed by what I read from Celeste Teal in her book, Eclipses, Predicting World Events & Personal Transformation. Her discussion of recent events including the September 11, 2001 attack is especially interesting.

There was a very powerful total solar eclipse at 0 Cancer on June 21, 2001. Transiting Mars was stimulating this eclipse at 1 Capricorn on September 11, 2001 when the attack on the WTC began. We went on to experience the collapse of both towers, the attack on the Pentagon building in DC, and the crash of the San Francisco bound plane in Pennsylvania. To say that it was an enormously significant day almost seems like an understatement. We would later discover that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the attack. Interestingly, his natal Moon is at 0 Cancer.

The Loss Of A Good Friend:

Last March, I discovered that a couple of my friends that I had not heard from in a long time had died. I did not know that either one of them was even sick.

One of those friends - I’ll call him Bill, although that is not his name - is an Aries with Pisces rising. I met him after I first moved to San Francisco in 1989. We became close friends very quickly. About ten years later, he moved to Palm Springs. And, I learned from another friend of mine that he had moved to Puerto Vallarta a couple of years ago, which is where he expired from liver disease.

Bill had natal Uranus on his IC (bottom of his chart - home/family) and in Gemini. Bill moved around quite a bit during his life. He lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Palm Springs, Tucson, and Puerto Vallarta during parts of his life - and, those are just the only the locations that I am aware of.

Bill’s natal Mercury is conjunct his natal Mars in Aries and his first house of personality and appearance. He LOVED to talk. He would call me on the phone and talk nonstop for two or three hours. I’d almost have to get rude to get him to say goodbye and hang up. You see, I have Saturn in the third - I don’t like to talk on the phone that much (if at all). He did not mean to capitalize or waste my time - he just LOVED to talk. And, he had a lot to say too. He also like to watch car racing events on TV. I think that’s the only sport he watched. He owned a sports car during his younger years and after completing college, and had a fairly serious accident. He recovered from that, but I think he decided that his own race car driving days were over.

Bill’s Moon is conjunct his natal Venus (both in Pisces). He had a great relationship with his mother, and he adored her.

He died from liver disease. He had Jupiter (which rules the liver) in Scorpio and in the eighth house (of death). His natal Sun in Aries is in an inconjunct aspect to his natal Jupiter.

Another younger friend of mine also has Gemini on his IC. He goes back and forth between two homes - one is on a farm away from the City, and the other one is an apartment in the City.

Trump issues:

Transiting Mars is now in the early degrees of Libra, and will activate Trump's Mercury/Neptune square. This aspect helps to explain why Trump plays fast and loose with the truth at times (probably a lot of the time). Expect him to have difficulty as a result of that during the period that this aspect is in effect - October 30, 2017 through November 7, 2017.

Special Investigator Robert Mueller has Neptune at 2 Libra and Saturn at 6 Cancer. The next several days could be eventful. As Mercury activated the August 7, 2017 eclipse, CNN announced (on October 27) that the first charges are about to be filed in the Russia investigation. According to the report, they already have been, but the names are held under seal by a federal court judge. Mueller himself was born on August 7.

The California Fires

On October 9, 2017, California fires are burning out of control - especially in Northern California in the wine country. Hundreds of homes have been burned. Many of them are in the Santa Rosa area.

When we have events such as this that affect many folks over a large geographical region, I always look to see if an eclipse has been activated. In this case, the September 16, 2016 lunar eclipse in Pisces has been activated by transiting Mars in Virgo (by opposition). Mars symbolizes fire, and it is in a square aspect to both the the Sun and the Moon in the eclipse chart. Mars is activating this eclipse now by opposing the eclipse point. Transiting Saturn (in Sagittarius) is activating this eclipse in this chart by square aspect. And, transiting Chiron (in Pisces) has been activating this eclipse by conjunction. So, we have a t-square involving this eclipse point. It’s a very intense and frightening configuration.

In the events chart for the formation of the state of California, Mars is at 11 Libra and Mercury is at 13 Libra. The Sun and transiting Mercury conjoined both in the past few days, and this is the time that many of the fires across California formed. We generally have some of these natural fires in California every year, but they don’t all expand and burn so rapidly and so out of control. Mercury has played a part in this because of the wind and how that has added to the problem. In California’s progressed chart, Mercury is at 9 Aquarius and Mars is at 12 Aquarius. On occasion, we get the effects of an eclipse prior to that eclipse. We will experience a lunar eclipse at 11 Aquarius on January 31, 2018. Progressed Mars is also conjunct the August 7, 2017 lunar eclipse in Aquarius and in opposition to the lunar node in California’s formation event chart.

Updated: For those who would like to help the California fire victims, check out this article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40479325/how-to-help-napa-fire-victims-8-things-you-can-do-for-californias-wine-country-right-now

The Las Vegas Massacre

The Las Vegas Massacre

Stephen Paddock open fired on a crowd attending a country music concert in Las Vegas at about 10:08 PM PST on October 1, 2017.

At that time transiting Mars was activating the March 8, 2016 solar eclipse. This eclipse occurred at just under nineteen degrees Pisces, and transiting Mars was at just over seventeen degrees Virgo (and, in opposition to the eclipse point). That eclipse point is located in the fifth house of entertainment (and gambling) in the eclipse chart over Washington DC. In that eclipse chart, Asteroid Paddock is located on the Ascendant.

Another mass killing occurred in Orlando, Florida at Pulse nightclub. In that event chart, the Sun had activated this same eclipse (March 8, 2016 solar eclipse) by square aspect.

In the event chart (for the Las Vegas shooting), the IC is located close to the the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse point (the Great American Eclipse). Initial reports had indicated that the shooting began at about 10:00 PM PST. And, at that time, the IC would have been (almost) right on the eclipse point. The Moon is in opposition to the lunar node in Leo (sign of entertainment and gambling) and close to the MC. Transiting Saturn is on the descendant in this chart. Mercury, the ruler of this chart is in Libra and in conjunction to the March 23, 2016 lunar eclipse. Asteroid Paddock is located in conjunction to the August 7, 2017 lunar eclipse. Transiting Jupiter is also located in the fifth house and in opposition to transiting Uranus and Eris in the eleventh house of large groups (could symbolize the chaos that ensued when the shooting began). Transiting Mars squares both the Ascendant and Descendant. Transiting Mars squares transiting Saturn (in the seventh house and ruler of the eighth house of death) and trine transiting Pluto (in the eighth house of death and transformation).   

The killer, Stephen Paddock, was born on April 9, 1953. We don't have an exact time or place of birth. However, we nevertheless do know that transiting Pluto had been conjunct his natal Chiron (in Capricorn) and in square aspect to his natal Sun (in Aries) for much of this year. And, Pluto had just turned stationary direct on September 28. His natal Neptune and Saturn are in Libra and in opposition to his natal Venus/Juno in Aries. The transiting Jupiter/Uranus opposition had activated that configuration in his natal chart at the time. It looks to me like a lot of gambling and perhaps too much drinking (and, maybe even some drugs) combined with possible relationship problems.