Sunday, July 21, 2013

Astrology - Grand Water Trine, two different views

Sun: 29'Cancer
Moon: 18'Capricorn
1 Day to Full Moon

So.  A friend of mine emailed a group we are both part of on Wednesday (good day for mass emailings, being that that's Mercury's day) regarding a major astrological configuration coming exact this past Thursday.  Specifically, Mars + Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces, all coming to trine one another for the Grand Water Trine pattern.

Now, the Grand Trine happens fairly often - I have one in my own natal chart, across the Air signs.  But usually when it happens it involves the fast-moving Moon and only lasts for a few hours, or it'll split elements (one planet sitting in a different element than the other two when it occurs close to a cusp).  It's a lot rarer to get the much-slower social and generational planets involved across the same element: Jupiter, as the fastest of those three, still takes about a year to transit the 30 degrees of just one sign, and they stay together for a bit when it happens both prior to and after the most exact point.

I find it interesting to hear how the same aspect patterns can spark totally different takes on it.
You see, my mother and I both practice astrology.  I love my mum dearly and we both respect one another as astrologers, so I'm not saying she's wrong.  In fact, I see quite a bit of validity in what she is seeing, and thought I might point it out.

Jupiter and Neptune are the co-rulers of Pisces: Jupiter in antiquity prior to the discovery of the outer planets, and Neptune today.  (In some ways, the discovery of the outer planets really disrupted the harmony of the zodiacal wheel, but less so if one views the outer planets as "higher octaves" of the traditional seven, less the Sun and Moon.)  Saturn is nobody's favorite wet blanket, and is at his most powerful in Scorpio besides.  (I know, I have him at 29' Sco.)

But Jupiter is growth, expansion, and the motivation that goes with it, and Mars with him is a real kick in the ass to get you going.  Neptune is dreams, idealism.  This is a potent combination, fertile ground for the imagination and creativity that Water provides, but in order to bring it down to Earth and full manifestation, you need Saturn's practicality, discipline and grounding.  Trine is the most flowing and harmonious of the aspects (120'), and three of them together across the Water signs...

So perhaps I am only focusing on the positive side of it when I say that, if you want to build your dreams, do it now - BUT check your foundations, your planning, your materials beforehand, because if you are trying to build a cotton-candy house in the rose-colored clouds, Saturn's reality check will never let it fly.  Do something you are passionate about and build on that, but do not let emotions cloud your vision or your judgment.


My mother gently disagrees with me. 

Now, this whole conversation came up as a result of the observation by her husband, a business/economics double-major, that NOTHING in this current economy is making any sense or operating according to any kind of logic right now.  And he's right: it isn't.  Logic and reason are primarily an Air thing: Water is emotions.  And three heavies across the Water signs will displace a lot of that that didn't want to be displaced.  So Neptune is busy dropping acid into the pink-smoke machine, and Jupiter eggs him on while Saturn raises an eyebrow and says, "Guys, maybe this isn't such a good idea..."

You see, Neptune is at home in Pisces.  He likes being there, and in retrograde the idea of leaving is kind of like a kid plugging his ears and yelling "LALALALALALALALALA" when Mom tells him to get ready for bed.  Reality just does not really intrude on the NeptuneRx-in-Pisces world.  (The kids born under this transit will be incredible psychics, if we refrain as a culture from medicalizing and poisoning them, but they will generally have a hard time staying grounded.)

Cancer is the weakest placement that Mars can find himself in and as a result he goes underground there, becoming manipulative and ruthless about getting his way.  Mars + Jupiter in Cancer makes snap and often cold decisions, manipulating the vulnerable emotions that Neptune is exposing to the world without counting the cost, leaving that to Saturn (the ruler of Capricorn - directly opposed to Cancer - and in his strongest position in Scorpio).

So as I explore my Mum's point of view on this, it's starting to sound more like a frat party going wrong.  This is where I see the renewed, almost fanatical focus on pregnant womens' bodies, coupled with the explosive growth both in the US and overseas of extreme religious beliefs that specifically aim to restrict and threaten women.  I can see the conflict here over the use of GMO crops and bee-killing pesticides (which are both profitable to Saturn's big businesses and enormously destructive to the Earth which is Saturn's province as ruler of Cardinal Earth sign Capricorn).

It's also where I see the complete and total disregard here "at home" in the US - (a nation born under the sign of Cancer, which is being hit hard by this set of transits) of women, children, the poor, the disenfranchised, the people for whom social "safety nets" were first established to protect.  A total lack of Neptunian/Piscean compassion - expected under the Neptune Retrograde.  Food stamps and WIC are on the budgetary chopping block, college students (ruled by Jupiter) looking to build their futures (Saturn) are getting thrown under the bus on their student loans (Saturn) - and all for the sake of the big businesses that Saturn represents, because of the religious-based manipulation of the general public (Mars + Jupiter in Cancer trine Neptune in Pisces).

I can see where on a personal level, this can be a great and inspiring transit - but on the international level, it's a recipe for charisma to become widespread corruption, and it will take Scorpio to transmute it before it kills - or Pluto-in-Capricorn.

The hardest thing about watching this, for me, is going back to Neptune: people WANT to be deceived right now, and under the Neptune Retrograde it's easy to do, for those minded to do just that.  When Neptune comes out of Pisces, though, and goes into fiery Aries and starts looking for new dreams to dream... will there be anything left of the dream of democracy that is not owned by corporations?

I wonder, too, what the effects will be on the oceans.  Mars is a pretty fiery planet.  Saturn is deep below the surface, deep in the abyss, seeing what is going on that nobody wants to acknowledge - but he has ties also to heavy industry.  Is it any surprise, then, that both Exxon and BP are coming under fire now for their lack of action in regards to the financial non-payment of their two biggest disasters?  (Exxon hasn't paid the State of Alaska its fines in the 25 years since Exxon Valdez went aground.  BP is trying to get out of almost half of its fines by claiming fraud on the parts of those filing against them, and by claiming that the oil "dispersed" by Corexit - against EPA regulations - shouldn't be counted in the total amount of oil that escaped the Macondo well in the destruction of Deepwater Horizon.  Corruption again...)

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