Aquarius Papers - Global Astrology

Threshold

by Robert Wilkinson

Imagine, if you will, that you are approaching a threshold. As you draw nearer, you intensify, quicken. Every part of you wonders, in a deep and unfathomable way, what is approaching. Yet IT is now approaching, and we are approaching it even as IT is approaching us. The quickening intensifies; we are perplexed, amused, confounded, spurred, and being moved in deep ways toward even deeper mysteries that are beyond description.

Mercury Retrograde Astrology in February-March 2007 Pt. 2 - What It Means For Each Individual Sign

by Robert Wilkinson

In part two we explore more about this phenomenon that occurs three weeks at a time three times a year. At the end of this article I have included a table so you can find which house(s) this February-March 2007 Merchtmlury retrograde period falls in relative to your Sun or rising sign. Then you can consult my article How Does Mercury Retrograde Affect Us In The Different Houses? to find how this transit will affect you personally as a result of Mercury retrograding through the houses in your chart.

Mercury Retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius in February-March 2007, Part 1 - A Look Back At New Beginnings

by Robert Wilkinson

This Mercury retrograde period starts February 13 (February 14 everywhere east of EST) and ends March 7 (March 8 east of EST). This retrograde moves from 11 Pisces back to 26 Aquarius, with the inferior conjunction between Mercury and the Sun occurring February 22 (February 23 east of EST) at 5 Pisces. This degree is one of "A Church Bazaar," symbolizing the "interchange of spirit and understanding on which groups are built." It speaks of "new self-development" and "discouragement mastered." Rudhyar says this is a degree where there is "value of giving a spiritual or transcendent sanction" to the interactions between us and others, speaking of a Divine Ritual that blesses our activities.

The Week of January 29-February 5, 2007 – The Full Moon of Aquarius-Leo, Mercury sextile Pluto, Mars sextile Uranus, Sun sextile Jupiter - Productivity Plus, as Saturn Continues to Focus the New Pulse and the Moon sets up Seesaw Patterns

by Robert Wilkinson

This week continues to help us focus on new responsibilities, purpose, and authorship acquired the past few weeks. The big news is the Full Moon on February 1, 9:45 pm PST at 13 degrees Leo-Aquarius. We're in a very productive atmosphere all week with the aspects named in the title, as well as a good run of lunar aspects until February 4 when we have a Mutable T-square opening a void in Gemini. In fact, February 2-3 will be important in showing us how to focus Saturn in our lives effectively, or how we can escape from "a narrow destiny" as promised by the Eclipses of September 2006. These days are about taming and training our powers to demonstrate them more effectively to others.

January 2007 - The Latest on Global Warming

by Robert Willkinson

At my old political blog I covered a lot of stories on different aspects of global warming as it's gotten worse year by year, since it's the major issue facing our world. In this USA Today story, we are told "Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week." As one Canadian climate scientist put it, ""This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles." Some primary points of the article follow, but please go to the news story to get the full picture.

Astrology in the New Age - "Doing Saturn" As the Time Stream Quickens

by Robert Wilkinson

A recent comment inspired me to offer this brief note on Saturn, since it is the nozzle for effective focus at this time. Saturn is said to "rule time," and its keywords all involve learning how to use time to best effect. When we totally adopt Saturn's virtues, we "do Saturn" as there is no separation between its function and our behavior. Learning all we can about how to adapt the way we express Saturn in our lives is the key to its planetary duality, "dominion and slavery." So why are things seemingly moving so quickly?

A Short Prediction for 2007 as a Whole for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces

by Robert Wilkinson

In response to a request, I was asked to make a brief statement summing up 2007 for each sign. You may also use these if you know your Ascendant, or Rising Sign. You can find them "below the fold."

Big Changes Happening or Coming for Pluto in Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio Generations in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014

by Robert Wilkinson

As I pointed out yesterday, Saturn is conjunct the Plutos of everyone on Earth over the next few years. This affects entire generations, and is revealing of changes and restructuring at the most fundamental of levels, since Pluto is our "seed power" of transpersonal transformation that reveals an aspect of our "personal immortality." Today we take a look at each generation that is affected.

Saturn Conjunct Pluto Showing Dharma At Work for Pluto in Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio from 2006-2014

by Robert Wilkinson

Due to Pluto's transpersonal transforming influence in our charts, everyone on Earth has been going through big changes in the past 4 years, or will be going through major changes in the next decade. Why? Look no farther than Saturn's transit of these times, as it has conjuncted, is conjuncting, or will conjunct the Pluto of every generation on Earth in the near past and near future.

The Week of January 22-29, 2007 – Heavy Aspects Bringing Forth Honesty, Mercury and Venus Offering Visions of A Greater Life in Motion. Saturn Focuses the New Pulse

by Robert Wilkinson

This week is the bounceback in Saturn forms of ideals glimpses thanks to Neptune. Venus and Mercury this week move the new fusions and births of Neptune started at the conjunctions into concrete forms via Saturn. As I've noted recently, Saturn is the nozzle for the energies of all the other planets, forming a "Bucket" Jones pattern that will be with us for some time to come. Saturn as the energy of expression shows us the way to focus the power of the NOW into forms appropriate to our highest evolutionary intention, even Dharma, our Ultimate Purpose or "True Function." We can get particularly focused at this time, and with the waxing Moon setting the Capricorn New Moon into motion, expect a lot of practical work to get done quickly, new self-organizations to take shape, and new ways of claiming our "authorship" in our world in ways that are creative and enjoyable.

The Capricorn New Moon of January 2007

by Robert Wilkinson

The New Moon of January 18 fell at 29 degrees Capricorn, the second month in a row we've had a "Void of Course" New Moon. However, for those of us with planets in the final degrees of a sign, the Moon is always making aspects in our charts, so "void of course" is somewhat irrelevant. Also, there are other planetary influences besides the Moon, as I pointed out in The Solar Eclipse of September 2006 In Virgo. That Solar Eclipse continues to exert a long term influence assisting us in "escaping from a narrow destiny," and though that New Moon was also Void of Course at 30 Virgo, it still has tremendous influence. So what's up with this one?

January-February-March 2007 - Saturn in Leo Is Helping Us Achieve Focus

by Robert Wilkinson

As you've probably noticed, Saturn in Leo has shown us some heart tests like we haven't known in a long time. Leo keywords include courage, strength, heart, nobility, resoluteness, autonomy, playfulness, dramatic self-expression, and leadership, whether of ourselves or others. We've been dealing with Saturn in Leo since July 2005, and will be finishing up our lessons through early September 2007, so we're in the "end game" of learning what we have to learn about this force majure, the "binding principle," that which either enslaves or liberates us from our fears, inhibitions, and obsolete rules that keep us from living fully.