INsight
July 2010
When you look through a telescope at the universe, you are looking into the past. In the same way astrologers examine planetary motions over time to better understand prevailing stellar conditions. How is this time similar to a time in the past? How can we utilise this energy in a new way in the present and the future?
We are creative beings living in a creative universe. While we cannot literally “see” the future, we can, and we do create it. What we create depends on our understanding of the past and our ability to act in the present.
On July 6 the creative planet Uranus stations retrograde at 0 Aries, the first point of creation in the zodiac. As it begins to backtrack towards Pisces, Uranus asks us to pause and look to the past in order to learn its lessons before we set out to create a new future.
The first of its three conjunctions with expansive Jupiter took place recently in the first sign Aries, but the next two in September and January 2011 will be in Pisces, the last sign. As Uranus starts heading back towards this watery realm for one last pass before shifting fully into Aries in March next year, we are prompted to find creative solutions to past and present problems, such as the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
July 12
Total Solar Eclipse
Visible across the South Pacific including French Polynesia, remote Easter Island and Chile, this total solar eclipse occurs at 19.24 Cancer. According to NASA this eclipse marks the longest period of totality of Saros Series 146.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2010.html#LE2010Jun26P
Eclipses occur in 18 year cycles. This total solar eclipse is linked to those in 1992, 1974, 1956, 1938, and 1919, right back to the first eclipse of the series in 1541 in Libra.
The Libran emphasis in the 1541 eclipse chart tells us that this eclipse series is primarily about relationships, including relations between nation states, corporations and the community. With Mercury retrograde in Libra in this chart, opposing Neptune, the challenge is to communicate honestly and negotiate fairly with others. Fortunately, Venus in Libra wants love, peace and harmony, Saturn in Libra wants fairness and justice, and the Sun and Moon in Libra seek harmony and balance between the sexes.
With Saturn set to move back into Libra this month we are reminded again that this sign symbolises the scales of justice. What you sow; you also reap. This is a timely reminder that we are all ultimately responsible and accountable for our actions.
Full Moon
July 26 2010
The day after this Full Moon, Saturn and Uranus are once again in exact opposition. This is the fifth and final opposition in the current series of systemic change which began on the day that Barack Obama was elected in November 2008. The prior four oppositions of Saturn and Uranus have occurred with Uranus in Pisces, and Saturn in Virgo, but now with Uranus in Aries and Saturn in Libra we are witnessing the advent of a new era of social justice.
In the wake of the largest environmental disaster in US history, Barack Obama is determined to hold BP accountable and said it was time to embrace a ''clean energy future''.
The fore-runner of BP, the Anglo-Iranian oil company was founded in 1909. The current solar eclipse at 19.24 Cancer is challenging the company’s corporate values (Venus 20.01 Aries) and identity (Sun 23.46 Aries)as well as the reckless lack of concern it has had for the environment (Uranus conjunct Ceres 21-23 Capricorn).
In 1953 a US-British coup in Iran spawned the creation of BP as a corporate entity. BP was founded in December 1954 after this CIA coup overturned the democratically elected government of Iran in order to prevent Iran controlling its own petroleum interests.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/6/history_of_bp_includes_role_in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
In the 1954 chart for British Petroleum, Jupiter and Uranus are conjunct in Cancer squaring Neptune in Libra, and opposing Chiron in Capricorn.
The lunar eclipse on June 26, 2010 at 4.46 Capricorn concentrates Pluto’s transformative power on BP’s nodal axis, suggesting a karmic link between the current devastation on America’s coast and the 1954 coup. With Jupiter and Uranus again forming a cardinal conjunction and involved in tense aspects, recent events will surely alter the company’s future.
The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by an explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig on 20 April, which was the day that wounded-healer Chiron moved into water sign Pisces. Healing this chironic wound will be the lasting legacy of this cycle.
Although Pisces/Neptune suggests that everything in the universe resonates with unseen connections, this catastrophe has dramatically highlighted the fact that oil and water simply do not mix. This is also a timely reminder that within less than a year Neptune itself shifts into its sign of modern rulership.
This Full Moon at 3.00 Aquarius sits on the Mars-Moon conjunction in the 1909 BP chart for 9am. This suggests that a fresh approach is called for, particularly the Mars-like selfish and aggressive way the company deals with the public (Moon) and wider community (Aquarius).
“We cannot consign our children to an oil-dependent future,” Mr Obama recently said. “The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now.”
