Please join me for another fun-filled hour of astrology and your questions! This Sunday we will be talking about next Tuesday's Full Moon in Capricorn which is also a Lunar Eclipse. I'll also be briefly discussing the national chart for the United States and the Fourth of Jully Solar Return forecast for the coming year.
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Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor of the state of Alaska, effectively dooming any hopes she has to run for President in 2012. This announcement came as a shock to political watchers and to conservatives whose support remained consistent despite the teen pregnancy of her daughter and ethics violations.
The resignation comes on the heels of a dramatic and very public feud between Palin and David Letterman who made some bad jokes that were in very bad taste about Palin's daughter Bristol, who bore a child out of wedlock. But this was just the culmination of a media frenzy that dogged her from the moment she was chosen by John McCain to run as his vice-presidential candidate. Some say that a new Vanity Fair article just tipped her over the edge.
You can read more about Sarah Palin's astrological chart here, and the noon chart is here. (There is a 4:40 pm birth time floating around but that has never been verified by any legitimate source. However, Leo is rising in that chart and Uranus, ruling surprise and sudden change, was transiting the progressed Midheaven of that chart at the time she was nominated last year.)
I suspect that Palin's husband Todd may have been behind her resignation. He has evidently been her greatest supporter and played an active role in the care of their children, and transiting Pluto (death, rebirth and transformation) has been in a challenging square formation to Venus (relationships) in her chart since January (it came very close last summer at the time she was nominated), and the second phase of that cycle is coming to a head now. A transit of Pluto to Venus can be very difficult for a marriage that is not in good shape, and any unsettled business is sure to come to a head under this influence.
Palin is also going through a stressful transit of Chiron over the triple conjunction of the Sun, Mars and Saturn in her chart that began back in February. She is much more sensitive than she would otherwise be, and any feelings of self-doubt and shame (Sun/Saturn) will be exacerbated now.
It will be interesting to see if Palin has a political future. She was not overly popular in her home state of Alaska, and erupted into the consciousness of the US primarily as a symbol for the fading right wing of the Republican party. Much depends on how the opposition of Saturn (convention) and Uranus (change) plays out over the next year. If a balance is struck between conservativism and liberalism in the US, there will be no need for someone like Palin who generates such extremes of emotion. But if the polarities continue to separate we will see the growing use of caricatures as political figures rather than intelligent operators who can handle the world stage.
Traditional astrologers seem to like to predict death. Because traditional astrology is based in prediction and the concept of fate, the question of when a person will die becomes a subject of inquiry and analysis in the traditional modalities, whereas modern branches of astrology and certainly what I call "transformational" 'astrology is more concerned with the evolution of the personality and the soul and our ability to transform our karma and create our destiny. (You might be interested in my earlier article on this topic as well.)
In my personal theology, the chart is the karma that we are given, and our dharma, or soul work, is to maximize the potential of the chart and integrate the individual pieces that are often in conflict. As we begin to make conscious choices rather than using reactive impulses in our day-to-day life, we are able to change our destiny and create a magnificent life. This has been my experience as someone who has Saturn conjunct the Sun, Moon conjunct Pluto squared by Venus and Jupiter, and lots of other "bad" stuff in my chart, and this is what I teach my clients and students.
Theo White is a classical astrologer who has a new article out regarding the sudden rise of celebrity deaths over the past week, with the loss of major icons of popular culture (including Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Billy Mays within a 5-day period in June).
I have talked in these pages about the association of Jupiter with death. Although I do not believe we can predict death from the birthchart (the "malefiic" planetary cycles that are said to predict death are experienced by people every day without resulting in death), we can often look back at the transits at the time of death and see what the quality of the death experience would have been for that individual. Pluto can show a violent death; Saturn can bring a difficult one. Jupiter in the death chart often shows a liberation of the soul, and when Uranus is present there can be a surprising event that causes sudden death.
Theo makes an interesting connection to the nodes of the Moon and this cluster of celebrity deaths:
These rising death rates often accompany the transits of Jupiter, and are also associated with the transiting Nodes of the Moon at this time, are along the Aquarius/Leo axis and reducing towards changing quality onto the Capricorn/Cancer axis in late August 2009.
During the month of June 2009, the Lunar Nodes are at their strongest along the 0-1 degrees along the Leo/Aquarius.
The Leo/Aquarius axis is ruled by the Sun, Saturn, and Uranus, and is often associated with congestive heart failure, and accidents. Many of the notable deaths have been reported as involving those who suffered heart attacks.
The lunar Nodes (these are actually points where the Moon's orbit intersects with the orbit of the Sun) travel at a variable rate of speed but they slowed down to a crawl in June, making an effective station (standstill) at the zero point on the Leo/Aquarius axis. The Nodes will remain at the zero point into the middle of August, coinciding with the strongest linkage of Jupiter, Chiron and Uranus.
At that point the Nodes, which always travel in retrograde motion, will change signs and move into the Cancer/Capricorn polarity which will be accompanied by a shift in attention of the global psyche.
Neptune returns this year and next to its discovery degree: 25 degrees Aquarius. Here is a lovely video about the return of Neptune. It's about ten minutes long, but worth the time.
When new planets are discovered they seem to release a new wave of consciousness into the world. When Uranus was discovered in 1781 there was a wave of rebellion and revolution that spread around the world. When Pluto was discovered in 1930 the atomic bomb was detonated and psychological concepts became widely accepted. Chiron's discovery in 1977 was highlighted by the resurgence of holistic healing and homeopathic medicine, as well as the concept of metaphysical transformation.
Neptune is a mysterious enigma, drawing us ever deeper into the transcendence that takes us beyond the boundaries of ordinary reality. At the moment Neptune and Chiron are of course traveling together, working together to deepen the experience of the soul.
The Daily Skywatch was a much loved facet of this blog, but it was extremely difficult to keep up and still write the variety and quality of other articles that my readers have come to expect and look forward to. It was clear to me that I couldn't keep it up and still have time to support myself with other ventures, so I need to monetize it in some way.
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The monthly Skywatch of course has always been, and will always be free, and your free subscription includes a translation into English that is apparently much appreciated by my lay readers. The July Skywatch is now posted and you can find the article as well as signup forms on my website here.
Here's the news from the first few days of July:
The first few days of July offers a powerful array of planetary aspects and is likely to be a fairly intense period even though it lasts only for a day or two. Venus and Mercury are both active, with Venus in a challenging square aspect to the Big Three (Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune) and a harmonious sextile to Uranus, and Mercury is in a harmonious trine to the Big Three and in a challenging square to Uranus. The combination of challenging and harmonious aspects with all of these planets involved suggest an activation and a radical turning point (Uranus) of the transformational Triple Conjunction and the way we view our relationship to our own inner world and subconscious mind (Triple Conjunction). Mercury helps us to process these experiences through the mind and intellect, and Venus brings the process into our relationships and the way we feel about ourselves and our place in the world.
This powerful influence will have subsided by the 3rd, at which point Mercury will enter the emotional sign of Cancer. Mercury can be reactive in Cancer, and for the next month or so watch for emotions to rule the mind. This will be particularly true because Mercury is moving into position to oppose Pluto on the 4th which will create additional intensity in the mental reams. This can manifest in a powerful focus that we can use in our work, or for a few days it might create a bit of fear that our emotional security (Cancer) will be compromised.
Another fast-moving but difficult cycle overlaps here with a square of Mars (aggression and drive) to the Triple Conjunction. Mars is impatient and can create irritation to nerves that are already sensitized by the occurrences of the previous few days. Between July 4th and the 7th or so, be prepared to handle the surge of energy that is likely to affect you, particularly if the Triple Conjunction is already affecting your chart. This is a good time to plan some exercise or enjoyable physical activity so that the energy can be channeled properly.
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Lynn Hayes has been a practising astrological consultant in beautiful North Carolina for over 25 years, working with clients all over the world both in person and by phone. She focuses on therapeutic and healing approaches which encourage greater empowerment and personal growth. Visit www.astrodynamics.net for more information.
The Daily Skywatch was a much loved facet of this blog, but it was extremely difficult to keep up and still write the variety and quality of other articles that my readers have come to expect and look forward to. It was clear to me that I couldn't keep it up and still have time to support myself with other ventures, so I need to monetize it in some way. 
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