Astrology Now - A Sagittarius Cluster and the End of Jupiter Trine Saturn in November-December 2008

by Robert Wilkinson

We now bid a fond farewell to Jupiter in Capricorn trine Saturn in Virgo, harmonizing anything we may have in the middle degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces, along with early Scorpio, early Aries, early Cancer and early Sagittarius. There are more sectors, but I can't possibly list them all here. Of course, the joker in the deck is that everything moving through the first degrees of Sagittarius over the next week septile Jupiter, closing out the old inner planet cycles of Jupiter and showing us, however briefly, the seeds of things to come.

As Sun, Mercury, and Mars all form various conjunctions with each other, it sets into motion their respective cycles for the next year. As you know from the recent Mars transit article this is creating major activity for anyone with planets in early Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, as well as those with planets in the middle degrees of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and Libra.

This affects different birthdays as well as generations, according to where the outer planets fall. I can't comment on all of them right now, due to time constraints. But for those with curiosity, check your local ephemeris or your chart and I'm sure you'll find correlations. And lest you think this time is only about stress, it also begins a series of conjunctions with Jupiter and Pluto that will unleash the promise building the past year, and open doors of perception and activity that will yield rewards we've been waiting for beginning early December.

Stay focused on whatever elements of "Group Performance" are showing themselves, since the party begins within the next couple of weeks. There are many noviles to Jupiter in the near future, so there should be numerous spiritual realizations to be captured as preparatory stages for some new and exciting things to come between now and late February, which marks the true point of the emergence of everything that will dominate 2009-2010.

While early December may be a bit of a gear grind due to numerous squares from Sag to Saturn in Virgo, this also is an opening to new duties and responsibilities. Be adaptable, learn what you must, and be forgiving and compassionate as you say goodbye to a rapidly fading era.

Venus heralds Aquarian things to come beginning the second week of December, so heads up. This is the front end of a time of working hard in an organized fashion to bring forth the structures of the future. These will move forward as each of the inner planets conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn, setting entirely new cycles into motion, some not known for 250 years. Aum Namah Shivaya!

© Copyright 2008 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Matt]

Robert,

Do you construe this accelerating propulsion towards new unknowns to be a result of the fact that all the planets are moving direct in December (and which ends when Saturn turns SR on New Year's Eve)? That, for the first time in some time, no planet is asking us to re-evaluate what we have learned and thus, we're being asked to synthesize for something new.
And yes, I agree: the first two weeks of December will be a grind... my schedule at work confirms!

Thank you,
Matt

[michele]

hi robert :-)

the squares can give us more focus, like being in a "track or groove" & give us more umph for this focus & to persist....right?

hopefully the track or groove has some breathing & stretching room!! LOL :-)
inmho we are kicking into high gear...for some a float like a leaf in a river; others a cannonball........:-)

[shell rae]

Such an exciting shift in time and planetary space. Bette Davis said it best, "Fasten your seatbelts its gonna be a bumpy ride."

[Robert]

Hi Matt - Well, every so often all the planets are direct, though during the present years usually at least 1 is RX. I think that when any planet is direct we experience things associated with that planet as progressing, regardless of whatever the others are doing. And of course I can see how there could be tiny windows of time where all of them direct could result in something we don't experience other times.

Hi Michele - Yes, squares often serve the same function as in carpentry - they "square" us with reality. Right now I'm feeling more like a cannonball than a leaf.

Hi Shell Rae - Probably more bumpy for some than others! Right now I'm surfing the best I can, given everything has accelerated tremendously in my own life the past several weeks to a sometimes frustrating intensity that I can only navigate, not diminish.