Enough Aquarians To Change The World

Enough Aquarians to Change the World

Author:  Donna Cunningham, MSW

　

A signature of this new administration is a combination of transiting planets in Aquarius. From January 6 through March 14 of this year (of 2009), at least three planets, and sometimes as many as five, plus the North Node were in the sign of Aquarius. Among the players have been the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune. (The cometoid, Chiron, could also be added to this list).

We could debate whether the combinations of planets have been a stellium, which is what you call a collection of planets acting on the matters of one sign or house in a chart. If the Sun or Moon is part of the combination, two more will do. If the Sun or Moon isn’t involved, then probably four planets or features are need, especially if you include extras like the Nodes, Ascendant, or Midheaven. In the world at large, headlines would reflect the nature of the stellium’s sign. In an individual chart, it would strongly emphasize the personality traits and preoccupations of the sign it inhabits. The matters of the house where the stellium is placed, would also occupy much of the person’s energy and attention.

So, what about the babies that were born with this stellium? What will they be like? They are likely to be quintessential Aquarians. Aquarius is supposedly the most visionary sign and the most oriented toward social change. It’s the sign of social and technological advances, the sign of the glitterati, and the sign of the unexpected and startling. It’s supposed to be the sign of universal brotherhood (peoplehood?) and equal opportunity. It’s a fixed air sign, often brilliant, eccentric, and devoted to changing the status quo. Many parents and grandparents write to this column , either appalled or bursting with pride at some unusual combination in a baby’s chart. It’s important to note that striking combinations like these don’t involve just one child -- we’re a global society now, and anything that happens to one, happens to all of us. Worldometers is a site that keeps a running track of births, deaths, and other statistics. We might estimate that in the course of today, some 411,000 babies will be born with the same stellium in Aquarius. And, in the sixty-eight days that the stellium is in effect, almost twenty-eight million children will be born, all with a reality different from which you and I grew up under. That’s enough Aquarians to change the world.

Is it is an unprecedented Astronomical event? When I first started studying Astrology back in the 1960’s, the pros were wondering what the children born in February 1962, with a major lineup of five to six planets in Aquarius, would be like when they grew up. The stellium included the Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and sometimes the Moon and Venus. There were similar lineups minus Jupiter in early 1965 and 1966. In world events, the 1960’s was a memorable era of social change. More windows for big stelliums of at least five planets in Aquarius occurred in early 2001, 2002, and 2004, when both Uranus and Neptune were in Aquarius, along with the faster moving planets. If you count just the children born with Aquarius stelliums like these in this millennium, that’s definitely enough Aquarians to change the world! We surely need them. We have no idea what the future will hold, but we can have hope.

This article was shortened just a bit, and I added one comment in italics above. It can be found in it’s entirety in Dell’s Horoscope Magazine (July, 2009 issue). Donna Cunningham, who does a column for the magazine, has a masters degree in social work from Colombia University and over forty years of counseling experience in settings including health care, mental health, disabilities, and addiction, as well as her private astrology practice. She is, of course, one of my favorites.